HOUSE IT GOING BY YOU?
(Sung to the tune: “Home On the Range”)
“Home, home on the range, where my dear and my little ones play,
Where seldom is heard, the following words: “can I help you clean up the house today”
Now, try this happier version:
“Home, home on the range, where the dishwasher’s whirring, the crock-pot is stirring and I’ve not lifted a finger all day!” Much better! Read on:
House Without Wires: Wise Men From the East
How many times have you wished that your house would just clean itself while you were doing more important things, like, well, reading this blog, for instance. Seems only fair, doesn’t it? After all, you pay the monthly mortgage – yikes, those scary bills at the grocer’s not to mention the price of a tank of gas just to get there – ouch – and you furnished your little palace as well, right? So, why should you have to clean it too? Okay, so your family is planning a surprise visit (probably to confirm the kind of squalor they’re convinced they’ll find you live in) and all you want is for your high-end, stainless steel appliances to come to life – like the tiny mice in “Cinderella” who made her ball gown – to program themselves to vacuum, wax the floors, wash the month-old, food-encrusted dishes piled high in the kitchen sink, and have the self-cleaning oven turn on and do its thing. Take heart. Your dream may be realized sooner than you think in the “House Without Wires. ” Yes, Dear Reader, Wise Men have come from the East – Land of the Rising Sun – to bring tidings of the “House Without Wires.”
In the ‘House Without Wires,’ Powermat’s joint venture with Denpeki, a leading Japanese developer of advanced construction products specifically designed to create a cleaner, safer, more efficient, and environmentally compatible alternative to standard construction materials, it’s no longer just a fantasy.
The ‘House Without Wires’ (the road show coming to your town soon – more about that next time so stay tuned) will have your toaster toasting, your blender blending, and your coffee pot coffee potting(?) while being powered directly through the granite countertop in your kitchen. Even those adorable little rug rats can enjoy toys that will automatically recharge when they put them away (yeah, sure, that’ll happen) in a Powermat-enabled toy chest. Kids picking up after themselves? Talk about a fantasy! Well, we haven’t figured that one out yet. Some things are beyond the reach of technology and science. Maybe one day in the future genetic engineering will address that issue.
If Walls Could Talk
Powermat and Denpeki have set a new construction and building standard by using sheetrock embedded with Powermat’s wireless technology. How smart is that! Guess what they call it, go on. Take a stab at it. It’s a no-brainer: The SmartWall!
Talk about the smartest guys in the room. These guys are building the room. If walls could talk, these walls would be singing arias!
The smartwall – like the Powermat — enables virtually any surface throughout your house to become an alternate method for power distribution. Imagine, smart walls. Not just something that separates one room from another (and that you, convincing yourself you had real style, painted eggplant purple. NOTE: it took 5 coats of white to cover it up and my kitchen NEVER quite looked clean again) or a spacial divider decorated with a picture of you and your ex whom you haven’t spoken to in 3 years (TMI?) Instead, these smart walls or as the cognoscenti call them – internal power centers – take on a new significance within your home. No one would want Mr. Gorbachav to tear down these walls!
Construction of the House Without Wires is underway and as its completion nears, we will be in touch – hello Barbara Walters. We’re in touch, so you’ll be…………in the know.
When the Cat’s Away, Appliances will Play!
Since Powermat’s proprietary Surface Enhancement Technology (SET) (see our earlier blog about SET) facilitates the safe and efficient transfer of power in a manner that is also environmentally friendly, (SAFE, GREEN, CLEAN and it does the dishes too – talk about answered prayers, Truman Capote!) just imagine that you will be able to program your appliances via Powermat technology and, voila, while you’re sleeping your house is awake and working for you. Ta-da!
Safety First, Kids!
Oh – and did I mention that the SmartWall is also an effective fire prevention tool? Well, I am mentioning it now and it is no small thing, gentle reader. SmartWalls transfer power by means of magnetic induction rather than electrical current. By doing so, they reduce the potential for electrical sparking, the major cause of fires (85-90%) within homes. The SmartWall also eliminates the use of multiple electrical outlets that can be overloaded and, as a result, mucho dangerous (BTW, am I the only one who at the tender age of 3, stuck a fork in the outlet to see what would happen and got the shock of my life?! Well, no matter…no more.)
And while we hate to name drop, Shimon Romach, Commissioner of The National Fire & Rescue Service of Israel, said “Most residential fires are rooted in an electrical cause…by introducing an alternate method for energy distribution that operates by means of a completely different infrastructure, the incidence of home-based fires will dramatically decrease.” When Shimon speaks, you betta listen, bustuh!
