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- Get an e-mail on your PDA alerting you that your kids arrived home from school
- Change the temperature from the office and come home to the perfect climate
- See what’s going on inside your house with live streaming video on your laptop
Whether you’re at the office or on vacation, your home is only a [...]

“This four channel DVR seamlessly combine the versatility of multiplexers and the power of digital recording with the stability of embedded software to achieve new levels of system integrity. Two removable disks give many months of recording, avoiding costly time-consuming backup schemes using SCSI DAT tapes. IFEX-04 can be programmed to continue recording on the [...]

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Slim Devices has redesigned their digital audio player, just in time for your holiday shopping pleasure.
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From Tech Living Blog

If you know how to send and read RS232-type serial communication with your computer or from any other electronic device, you can develop and market your own software and/or hardware for use with X10-compatible systems without having to develop your own X10 communications hardware or having to go through costly UL approval. This module is [...]

“IFDX-PLUS series digital video recorders seamlessly combine the versatility of multiplexers and the power of digital recording with the stability to achieve new levels of system integrity. Available in 16 channel and 8 channel versions, these digital video recorders are powerful enough and feature rich, to be made the basic building block of any low [...]

- IP Addressable, with built-in web server
- 10Base-T/100Base-TX Ethernet interface
- High performance PTZ with 22x optical zoom
- Easily integrated into large systems
- Up to 10 simultaneous user access
- High-quality VGA / QVGA motion range
- Max 30 frames/sec. frame rate
- Supports TCP/IP, ARP, UDP, ICMP, HTTP, FTP & telnet
- 300º Pan / 120º Tilt
- Full auto-focus [...]

“For about the same price as a dumb alarm clock you can get this amazing plug-in SMART timer. This unit has four separate timers that can turn on and off up to four groups of X10 devices twice a day at your preset times. In the security mode it will randomly vary the ON/OFF slightly [...]

If you currently considering purchasing either a Microsoft Media Center or Apple FrontRow, please wait a couple of minutes and read the follwing comments from differnet parties, it’ll help you make the decision. As for me, I’d love to own them both, next to each other, and after a month I’d have my opinion.

Om Malik [...]

Weather-Resistant - Day / Night Hi-Res Colour Camera / Housing
- Weather-resistant camera housing
- Optional shade / rain cover
- 24 hour monitor - colour day - B&W night
- 1/4” IT colour CCD
- Plus 460 TV [...]