High-Tech Spanish Apartment Controlled by Gestures

A design think tank in Madrid is developing an entire flat with touch-screen walls so that internet addicts can stay online anywhere and anytime in their home.

Published

4 months ago

Categories

Technology

Topics

Internet

Places

Spain, Madrid

Transcript

SHOTLIST: MADRID, MARCH 4, 2013. SOURCE: AFPTV/FUENTERRABIA, SPAIN, NOVEMBER 2011. SOURCE: Think Big Factory - NO RESALE for non editorial purposes SOUNDBITE 1: Ion Cuervas-Mons (man) Project's creator(Spanish, 17 secs): "This project is a real prototype smart home. We added a digital layer to a physical space to interact with digital information, through gestures, and various movements by people." SOUNDBITE 2: Ion Cuervas-Mons (man) Project's creator(Spanish, 24 secs): "There is a general interface in the living room of the house. With hands two metres away from the wall, you can move a kind of cursor that allows you to turn the light on and off, turn music on and off, launch websites, which are activated by projection on another wall." - VAR film produced by the company Big Think Factory, showing the "smart house" (source: Big Think Factory, 2011) ----------------------------