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Simply attach this device to your coventional plug socket. Then text a code from your mobile phone and- HEY PRESTO- warm bed when you walk in the door! No more ice cold winter sheets.
Can be used with to any plug-in appliance- eg hot kettle on arrival- BINGO!
Will also be turn off in a similar
fashion.
X10
http://www.x10.com/.../homeautomation.htm
Home automation? [Laughs Last, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 06 2004]
Call your bed from your cell phone.
http://www.electron...econtrolsckt5.shtml
Uses DTMF tones to "control various electrical appliances" [Klaatu, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 06 2004]
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Welcome to the HB, [alfonse] ... I dunno ... I do so enjoy warming up those sheets from frigid to snuggly warm on my own ... but this sounds like something very enjoyable! [+] |
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it should open the front door while you are on the bus home. why waste time fumbling for keys. |
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[bliss] the image of anyone tossing themselves into bed has put me off my lunch ;-( |
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I think there is a great idea here if you broadened it out a bit. How about a "remote socket" device which would plug into your wall-socket and into which another electrical device would be plugged. The "remote socket" would be like a conventional timer - which switches on the power to the plugged-in device at a specified time - however it would differ because it would be activated by the reciept of an SMS message containing a key word and the word "ON" (and off again if the extra word is "OFF"). You could dot these about your house/business and use them to activate/de-activate devices at will. You could allocate different keywords to each unit. In this way your conventional electric blanket becomes "remote-enabled" and you also come home to a kettle just on the boil, the TV warmed up and ready-to-entertain, the PC booted up ready to check the half-bakery etc. (+) |
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[dot] that requires a whole new posting, shirley? I'll await it, and croissant it when you half-bake it! |
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// Odd, can't remember the last time I walked in the door and immediately tossed myself into the bed. // |
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I thought a remtote was a carryall for your collection of remote controls |
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You left out the silent p in remptote. |
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I like it in theory, but it also just screams "fire hazard" to me. |
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Might be interesting for your pets. |
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