Grab the keys and get set to unpack your boxes. It’s time to move into the future. But before you cross the threshold and command your robot-butler to get the kettle on, take a moment to stand back and admire this feat of engineering.
Exterior
▲ Welcome to your low-energy hi-tech future home. Illustration: Janne Iivonen
First off, traditional clay bricks are out. Future houses are likely to be eco-friendly, eschewing CO²-heavy manufacturing processes. Your home might incorporate building blocks constructed from natural cement churned out by bacteria (1). Roofs, too, will be working hard. Among the innovations that could take off are super-reflective tiles for those in scorching climes and, for the rest of us, bio-solar roofs that combine habitat for pollinators with energy-generating panels (2).
Building on the well-established grime-busting properties of titanium dioxide, researchers are developing paints to keep your exteriors glistening even when scratched, scuffed or grazed (3). Taking inspirations from Dutch plans for highways constructed from plastic waste scooped from the sea (4), your drive could be heated to avoid winter snow-shoveling and have charging stations for your electric self-driving car (5).
The path to your front door, meanwhile, could be embedded with tiles like which can turn your visitors’ footsteps into electrical power (6).
The kitchen
▲ Technology in your kitchen will help you cook, and clean up after. Illustration: Janne Iivonen
One thing that’s certainly on the menu is a spare pair of hands to wield the pans – be that a fully robotic chef (1) that can, by motion tracking, replicate your impression or do the fetching and carrying. Not only can the latter turn up with a colander but it can also do the laundry and, apparently, garnish your breakfast tray with a red rose.
A smart cleaner, resembling a bull terrier with a vacuum for a head, will 3D-map the room before hoovering up the mess (2).
A Smart oven (4) will offer cooks the chance to cadge a sneaky peak on a rising cake without making the rookie error of opening the door.
Budding technologists have devised a smart coffee machine (5) that adjusts the temperature and steeping time to the leaves used.
The bedroom
▲ Bedroom tech will monitor everything you do between the sheets – and also make the bed. Illustration: Janne Iivonen
White noise generators are already available, offering the chance to drown out frisky foxes, chirpy birds and bickering kids with the comforting sound of a fan or pattering rain (1). But that’s a drop in the ocean compared to what the future could hold.
If you want to take a nice deep breath on the bed, then you’ll be glad to know that air quality is set for an upgrade too: smart monitors (2) are able to track everything from toxic gases to pollen and even volatile organic compounds.
And smart lamps (3), tuned into your body clock, could gently lull you to sleep, or wake you without a jolt.
For those seeking to monitor every biological process, you can go a step further. As well as tracking sleep patterns, (4) breathing rate, heartbeat and anything else you might get up to under the covers, the smart cover will also nudge you back to consciousness at the most opportune moment of your sleep cycle.
The bathroom
▲In the bathroom, gadgets will help you look your best while reducing your carbon footprint. Illustration: Janne Iivonen
Morning ablutions might seem a private affair, but that could all change as technology finds its way into the smallest room in the house.
Even that most benign of bathroom essentials, the humble loo, is in for an upgrade. JOMOO G5 Smart Toilets (2) have already hit the markets, containing heated seats, night lights, remote controls and voice-activated functions.
JOMOO Reou Smart Bathroom System renews your bathroom experience with considerate technologies. Claiming to measure your weight, body fat and heart rate (6), it will use an accompanying app to help you achieving health goals. Moreover, when connecting to the Wi-Fi, you will be able to enjoy music, video, movie or even game through JOMOO Reou magic mirror.
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