First we saw Rock Hudson’s bachelor pad, which could dim the lights, drop a record on the turntable and convert the couch into a bed with the flip of a single switch, in the 1959 movie Pillow Talk, writes Nathania Sawyer in HomeStyle.
Then, there was Capt. Jean Luc Picard ordering “Earl Grey, hot” from the food replicator on Star Trek: The Next Generation.
And, the Syfy Channel introduced us to S.A.R.A.H., the Self Actuated Residential Automated Habitat in the television show Eureka.
Smart home technology is quickly making this type of fiction into reality.
See Saturday’s Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for more about the many ways one can now control a home’s functions with a smart phone or computer.