Smart Homes or Smart Phones

Smart Life:
Everyone has heard of smart phones or is using one, but smart homes would make your life much easier than what you have today. How about not making a grocery list at the beginning of the month, since all the groceries will be ready on your platter? Well, all that one has to do is to pick up the groceries from the store or call for a home delivery. Just Imagine, while you are driving back home, you can access your kitchen & the microwave oven to keep your food ready to eat while you reach home and come to the dinner table just after taking a relaxing shower (I know it’s already making you think about it). If that is so, my friend this is not all, you can also keep almost everything in your home just on your fingertips; only at the control of a mobile device. SMART!

The future of the new homes built across metros will be using “Smart home technology”. For our understanding; this technology controls & helps to make all electronic devices in and around our home to act "smart" or more automated. Almost all major appliances that will be part of your home will take advantage of this technology through home networks and the internet. A smart home has to be one that is well networked, also has appliances/gadgets which will allow the smart home owner to do less or no work and it also has many more features, which provides you with more time for yourself.

Tic Toc Tic:
Various real estate companies in India have already started coming up with projects having the “Smart home technology”. Now you don’t have to worry about the relative whom you don’t want to entertain during the weekend, as you will be able to see the visitor at your door, even if you are miles away ( hmmmm...this brings smile on your face, I know as you don’t want intruders to take away your peace on weekends). Hence the weekend time would mean more time for yourself and your loved ones. And whenever they are visiting your house in future, you can also surprise them by changing the theme of your house as per your mood. Unbelievable but it’s true!

You can relax from your worries on home front while at work, because even if your old parents are staying at home alone, they can call for the ambulance with the press of a button and during the emergency you will be alerted simultaneously. Nonetheless, you can also keep a watch on your kid, who spends a lot of time playing in the nearby park. Your kitchen will equally be safe, as your smart home will be able to detect any kind of gas leakage or can raise alarm if any kind of fire breaks out. Not only this, your smart home will be safer than any ordinary home, as the security devices are so tight that you will be instantly alerted, if any suspicious activity from any unknown person is seen in the vicinity of your home.

It is observed and checked. No fad information for my folks and friends. Make your life simple but smart, because we have one life and we have to live it up!!

Eat, Pray and Love Digital

Eat, Pray and Love: Well the trend goes like Eat Digital, Pray Digital and Love Digital (yes can be celebrated as another V-day). So much so that even toddlers of hardly few months are chanting the same hymns. The other day I was waiting on the lounge of an automobile servicing center (most of the time where you have to wait quite long cause the servicing team takes you as a jobless fellow), something interesting caught my eyes. A tot, barely few months old relaxing on his dad’s lap (interestingly who was wasting time like me), was eating or was licking the blackberry, his dad reluctantly gave, to keep him engaged. It may not be interesting for many, cause its quite a natural sight for kids to do such acts, but going digital on the period of babyhood gives another outlook to it. Out of sheer nosiness, I handed over the baby my spare handset: dabba (as I refer to my cell phone), and I was not disappointed by what he did. He took my dabba (a non-android phone is often considered as dabba these days), observed it and clicked all the possible keys, had a look at the pre-existing handset and returned it with full grace and vigor, continuing to nibble the digital fruit. This gave me immense pleasure (or should I say fear, that world’s every species is turning out to be digital savvy), as it proved that the blackberry is much more ahead of my spare handset, is successfully differentiated even by the kid who hardly can have (eat properly) the same fruit.

Evolution should act like tinkerer: Yes, evolution should reflect the versatility of ‘tinkerer’, the fictional, super villain character (no offence against his baddie approach), who can invent urbane gadgets from nothing more than spare parts left over from ordinary household appliances (quite eco-friendly I tell you). Evolution is healthy and growing when it works for the species race not against it. Human beings are the only species that have evolved significantly from the caves and have slumped on digital mainframes. And the evolution has affected the tiny generations so hard, that its way to impossible to fix them on those parks. The age-old toys are getting replaced by high-end play-stations and none of them have any resemblance to bio-degrability. Play and reside to the world of digital is what the young generation believe and worship. They are pro at picking even the most complex function of those play-stations (way better than the grown-ups who they consider as dumb). In the weekends they no longer plead their parents to take them to a picnic, instead they hop to the nearest mall (sometimes even without their parents) to get hooked on those video-games and car races (which I consider as mere gambling). I think the next generation (XYZeee, whatever we name it) would even feel free to sit back home and enjoy digital schooling, wherein the teacher would appear on those web screen, while the students (in their pajamas) dawdle about on the bed (hilarious situation even to visualize). Well long live digital world as long as it gives back the usual and normal childhood of a kid because the soul of a grown-up is healed by being just with children.