The House of Tomorrows Future
What if everything could be
controlled with the touch of your finger? What if your phone could be the
remote to the whole house? Well that’s what is slowly happening. New things
come to the market but nothing like “The house of the future”. The ordinary
house uses high tech glass to make life easier.
The house uses ordinary surfaces
such as counters, tables, fronts of fridges, windows and many other surfaces
and transforms them into very sophisticated electronic devices. How would you
like to wake up, get out of bed and touch the window in an upward motion and
have the sun immediately shine in?
Corning is the world leader in specialty
glass and ceramics using advanced technology to make this break through a
reality. They have designed many off the edge products that are not even known
to the market. They are all about thinner, sleeker, faster and smart products
making your life even easier. Corning is a world leader in glass, they recently
came out with the gorilla glass that is being used now with almost every phone
coming out since 2012. It is now on the IPhone and the Samsung Galaxy for its
lightweight, scratch resistant and durability.
As cool as this may seem many question
the price including me. In the video the whole house is a smart phone
essentially and that makes many worried for the ones that cant afford it how
they will get a piece of this great technology. For right now they are just
partnering with other companies to use their glass but in the near future they
want to have their own line which will lead to wiping out all other companies
because we wont need them. If one product can do everything for us it will cut
down the cost because you wont be paying other bills with all the fees and
extra charges. Not only are they taking over the market they are making other
companies loose business only giving us one option and that one option is to go
with them, many customers worry about this because there will be no competition
and literally have no right to choose what they want. The younger generation is
all about this technology while the older generation is stuck in their ways and
is not ready to get more advanced saying that we are loosing our motivation to
do regular things and relying on technology to do everything.
The negative side of this technology may
have a great impact but the pros that corning has on the market place are
making people anticipate the world to come and the future to make technology
virtually smarter. The video shows that your phone that is a piece of smart
glass can help you do everything in your house like controlling lights,
windows, sounds, and even your car. Once you set your phone down on the counter
it transfers to the counter, say while your cooking. Not only can you use them
at home they have made a kids notebook that can be used in school and the
teachers can cut out the paper supply of homework and assignments.
Just a few things that could be cut out
by using this product and making the amount of waste and garbage going down:
·
Markers,
Pencils, Pens. Paper
·
Computer
Monitors, Modems, Cords
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Televisions,
cell phones,
·
The
amount of plastic, rubber and metal with the products above
(That is just a short list of millions of
things that could be cut down)
AS you can see there are many pros and
cons to this product, but for most the pros outweigh the cons. If you have not
seen the video that Corning made you need to go watch it. They use this smart
glass everywhere cutting the waste down of many sources. For me that is enough
to forward this technology and bring the future into a reality, we need to
bring this product to the market to help make our everyday life easier than
many think it already is.
Here is the link on you tube to the
Presentation that Corning is hoping to bring to us. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cf7IL_eZ38&feature=fvst
There is also a second video- A Day Made
Of Glass 2: Unpacked. Be sure to check it out!
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