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Automate Your Home. From Wired How-To Wiki It's every nerd's fantasy — a "smart house" that knows when you've left the lights on and turns them off, adjusts the heat and A/C according to the outside temperature, closes the blinds in the afternoon sun and reminds you to get milk at the store. It may sound like something out of a 1980s sci-fi movie, but it's not as far-fetched as you think. In fact, home automation is a burgeoning market with all sorts of toys available. For most part, it's a playground limited to a few lucky dot-com millionaires.

If you happen to have sold YouTube for a billion dollars, just find a contractor who specializes in this stuff, and pretty soon an automated voice will announce when the milk is low. Fortunately, the rest of us aren't completely left out of the home-automation fun. This article is a wiki. Why Automate Your Home? Aside from the nerd bragging rights, fully automated homes can be much more energy-efficient. I need a universal remote so I don't have to get up.

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