A Colorado builder is incorporating iPads into new homes.
Apple’s magical device is used regulate all the electronic systems in the house — from lights, motorized blinds, entertainment systems (music, TV etc.) to baby monitors and closed-circuit cameras. The docks are built in but the iPads can be removed.
It takes just two iPads to run a house. The base price for an iPad control system, including the devices, costs $5,000. The cost can levitate up to $60,00 for audio, video, security and other equipment.
“The iPad has brought the entry-level price point down significantly, because an 8-inch in-wall touch screen before cost upwards of $3,000 or more,” Travis Deatherage of in-home tech specialits Solstice Multimedia told The Denver Post. “Now we can get a $500 iPad and still provide most of the functionality that an in-wall touch panel can give.”
Prices for a 3,400-square- foot model house at The Overlook, a gated community in Lone Tree Colorado, with built-in iPad tech starts at around $720,000.
It’s a cool idea, but I am reminded of those 70s-intercom systems – useful but what happens when they become obsolete?
Would you want a new home with iPads built in?
Via Denver Post
Nicole Martinelli is a San Francisco freelance writer who heads up Cult of Mac Magazine, our weekly publication available on iTunes. You can find her on Twitter and Google+. If you’re doing something new, cool and Apple-related, email her.
17 responses to “Meet Your New iPad-Controlled Home”
Wow that is a beautiful kitchen.
It’s a great idea- much better price point and very programmable; If you think those 70s inter-comm systems a hard-wired for obsolescence, the current alternatives to this are worse (Crestron, Elan, etc. – high cost – not useable for anything else)
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Would I be scared to run my home off of two iPads due to their pending obsoleteness? Not really, its Apple and the devices will be supported for 2-3 years in software updates alone.
Now if I was running my home off two Xooms I would be sacred shitless, those things will be obsolete by November. Hehe
$720,000 – most expensive iPad accessory yet?
I work for a company as a programmer for this technology and it is a major game changer. Jobs that we wouldn’t have gotten even a year ago sell themselves when we demonstrate how easy it is to operate things in your house from an iPad. Once you dump all the remotes for a master one you never want to go back.
i think communication should be used by a standard
like html5 or something that will always exist
not a device that might die in 2-3 years
Would I want a new home with iPads built in?
Absolutely! The iPad platform is so incredibly versatile it’s amazing ( if not magical ).
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