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<blockquote data-quote="IronWolf" data-source="post: 5713288" data-attributes="member: 21076">Like any technology, it starts out on the cutting edge and for those with some discretionary cash and then trickles down if it passes those hurdles as the market opens and the cost becomes more affordable. The Internet, private phone lines, VCRs, DVD players, flat screen TVs all sort of worked like this.I agree with Morrus that this could very well be the first of the true voice capable devices.Yep - and now it looks like we might actually have a contender technology to make this a reality.There would be some integration that need made of course, that is true of anything. I'm not sure if it would be *that* expensive once the technology trickles down a little bit. For heating/cooling you don't need a whole new heating system, just a thermostat capable of controlling your heating or cooling over it. An Apple TV (or PC connected to the TV w/ compatible app) connected to the TV can handle nearly anything you would want to bring up on the TV. It may be the brains that actually hears your temp increase request and passes it along to the thermostat for you.There are a lot of pieces out there that Apple has at their disposal to bring some of this together. Is everyone's house going to start doing this today? Nope. Partially because we aren't *quite* there yet and there is a price component today. But prices drop, we see it all the time. The game does change on the leading edge though. That's where we will see the technology first that will eventually trickle down to the mid-market.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="IronWolf, post: 5713288, member: 21076"] Like any technology, it starts out on the cutting edge and for those with some discretionary cash and then trickles down if it passes those hurdles as the market opens and the cost becomes more affordable. The Internet, private phone lines, VCRs, DVD players, flat screen TVs all sort of worked like this. I agree with Morrus that this could very well be the first of the true voice capable devices. Yep - and now it looks like we might actually have a contender technology to make this a reality. There would be some integration that need made of course, that is true of anything. I'm not sure if it would be *that* expensive once the technology trickles down a little bit. For heating/cooling you don't need a whole new heating system, just a thermostat capable of controlling your heating or cooling over it. An Apple TV (or PC connected to the TV w/ compatible app) connected to the TV can handle nearly anything you would want to bring up on the TV. It may be the brains that actually hears your temp increase request and passes it along to the thermostat for you. There are a lot of pieces out there that Apple has at their disposal to bring some of this together. Is everyone's house going to start doing this today? Nope. Partially because we aren't *quite* there yet and there is a price component today. But prices drop, we see it all the time. The game does change on the leading edge though. That's where we will see the technology first that will eventually trickle down to the mid-market. [/QUOTE]

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