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Check this out! - www.jasonbradbury.com - 3 superb 5 minute videos on home automation technology from Channel 5's Jason Bradbury. These are really worth a watch, thanks Jason!

"To everyone at 'Automated Home.co.uk' - Jason Bradbury from Channel 5's The Gadget Show here. I thought you'd appreciate three short videos I've just uploaded to my blog covering the basics of Home Automation; Wi-Fi, X10 and Windows Media Centre. For those of you who are keen on the cutting edge there's some nice kit on show...

The BBC are reporting on some interesting research using RF ID Tags on a family living in a Smart Home...

"A family acting as human guinea pigs in a project to see how homes will be used in the future is set to move into a specially-designed house...

The BBC are running the following piece on their News site...

"Wander into your local branch of Woolworths, B&Q, Argos or Homebase and you will see boxes of CCTV systems stacked alongside more traditional homewares. Prices start at under £30 for a basic black-and-white device. Clearly, you no longer have to be a celebrity, millionaire industrialist or politician to have cameras trained on your doorstep...

Interesting article on Home Networks...

"A total technological makeover for your home may not be far off, however. According to experts in the consumer electronics and computer industries, wired and wireless home networking and home automation options are expected to proliferate in the next two years - bringing a new level of sophistication to ordinary homes.

The new networking technologies include HomePlug AV, which uses electrical outlets and wiring to send high-definition video and audio around the house; MoCA, or multimedia over coax, which does the same with the coaxial cable (cable or satellite TV) infrastructure; HomePNA 3.0, which uses the telephone wiring and coax cable infrastructure; and 802.11n, a forthcoming Wi-Fi standard.

Whereas the currently available home networking equipment is meant to move data, this next generation is meant to move "multimedia," which adds video and voice-over-Internet protocol (or VoIP) to the mix. Therefore, experts say, these latest technologies add new developments for QoS, or quality of service, which ensures that video transmissions aren't disrupted...

O'Reilly Launches MAKE Magazine for Tech Do-It-Yourselfers Magazine and Companion Web Site (makezine.com) Reveal How to Make Practical, Fun, and Wildly Creative Projects

"To be thrown upon one's own resources,
is to be cast into the very lap of fortune."
--Benjamin Franklin

Sebastopol, CA--The urge to make things is primal and unstoppable. In service of that universal urge, humans grab the tools and materials at hand--while a previous generation picked up a saw and bullnose rabbet plane, today's makers are likely to reach for a soldering iron and Cat 5 cable. MAKE, a new magazine from O'Reilly Media, celebrates and inspires those who are driven to make cool and unusual things with technology, for the pure fun of it.