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The Internet House
A leading British building and design company has just announced their plans for the home of the future. The new design,
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as the "Internet House", has five bedrooms, plenty of bathrooms and a double garage. But these are not the main selling
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, for it is the ￡25,000
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of automation that makes this house really different.
It will be
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for people who have plenty of money, but not a great
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of time; young professionals in other words. They are likely to be
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to the idea of a microwave that provides easy-to-cook
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via the Internet and cooker that switches itself on or off at a command received via e-mail.
All the electrical appliances in the house,
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the heating and lighting controls, are linked together
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means of a gadget (小装置) called a "router". Using what"s called a "Webpad", a kind of portable lap-top computer, the owners of the house tap in commands from
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they may be. The Webpad
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a signal to the router, which
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the message and then activates the necessary controls. On the way home at night, for example, the owners can switch on the lights or
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the central heating working, and so
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sure that they have a nice warm welcome when they
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into their home.