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Move over Bill Gates, we've found your match. It's a high-tech home that would make the Jetsons red with envy, and now you can buy the software that powers it.
Kevin Horn from Improving Tomorrow told us, "Right from the office computer you can log in and say 'OK I want to set my thermostat to 78 degrees,' if you want." You can also get amped up with surveillance, controlling several security cameras and motion sensors to keep watch over your house whether you are home or not.
The automated voice can remind you of errands you have to run or let you know when someone is approaching the front door. It will even search the internet for a schedule of your favorite shows and remind you when they are about to come on.
The software itself will cost you around $200 and each module runs just under $20, but at least you don't have to fork $40 billion like Mr. Microsoft to make it a high-tech reality.
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What if you
computer told you this: "You have the following reminders for today:
your Aunt Leena's birthday, take out the trash..."? 
Hook up to
just one PC and you can control your backyard lights, Christmas
tree, stereo and television. 
"If
something happens at your home you can have motion sensors here and
it continues text messages and let you know that something's
happening there," said Horn. "It takes a snapshot, and you can have
either just one camera or multiple cameras and it can rotate between
each one, and it takes a snapshot based on whatever time period you
want, and all of those images are available online." 
This system
is easy to set up, too. Check this out: to connect a lamp to the
network, just plug it into one of the modules and plug that into an
outlet. Then it will show up on the computer screen for you to play
with. 