Ah, nothing like a game of "mock the staged PR photo" to brighten up a dour Sunday. Appliancist link to today's foolhardy models who are posing for Siemens' home-automation system, Serve@Home, which seems to be implying that with a few simple taps on a wireless keyboard you can dispatch your sullen wife via a heavy monitor to the head. In actual fact, it's a network of appliances fitted with Siemens' own "System Interface", a proprietary version of powerline distribution.
Serve@Home was announced back in 2005; where is it now, do you think?
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