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Our other passion here at Automated Home is cars so you might think we'd be into this whole automated driving Google Robot vehicle thing.  We're not.  Now, call us Jeremy Clarkson sympathisers if you like, but this just looks like the beginning of the end for anyone that enjoys their driving.  We're losing the musical multi-cylinder engines for smaller, more ordinary forced induction units these days, and don't even get us started on the milk-float sound track from the Tesla.  Don't get us wrong, we love technology in cars, just not the kind that takes away our driving pleasure.  Heck it's not much of a leap from these robot cars to Skynet!  Read on for all the scary details and a video of one of these monster on the road...

A big announcment by Microsoft last night has created a bit of a stir. XBox 360 Live users will soon be able to download TV shows and Movies, using their games console with the optional harddrive to watch HiDef content...

An interesting quote from a spokesperson for ZenSys, (makers of the Z-Wave home automation system)...

"Networks that operate in the 2.4GHz band, such as that offered by Zigbee, will become congested and slow as this frequency is also used by Wi-Fi and other networks" As interest in these wireless technologies increases for the smart home users, it looks like wireless "congestion" is going to be a major issue...

"Integra BM- The Total Building Management System The Newly introduced INTEGRA BM is setting new standards in the building automation sector, using the most advanced up-to-date technologies. The INTEGRA BM system enables the management and control of all devices that are connected to the mains power supplies in modern utilities, commercial, public and residential premises.

The INTEGRA BM is able to control any of the following building systems by using any of the add-on modules connected to the master INTEGRA BM...

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.