This show was a disappointment. It focused on technology alone. Completely missed the wellness. Please ask yourself, Why should the future of home is always about technology, why not awellness, why shouldn't we build the home of the future around wellness of individual, community and environment.
@@UsSpiritual so technology and wellness are seperate? No technology in your local hospital? Future home could monitor your wellness in realtime you dinosaur
Space is the issue: How we optimize the usage of our space. Take a look at Kasita, there in Texas. Is an interesting concept of a space for one o two people, no much bigger than a container, prefab and mobile (you did once a video of that one). Maybe microliving is part of the key, then again, looking at a home of the future witout considering the urbanism of the future is, I believe, a mistake. Most urban planners today think of the suburban sprawling as a huge and costly mistake, the city of the future looks more dense, people-centric and walkable. Maybe is time to revisit Paolo Soleri's Arcology concept... maybe the Home of the Future is actually a modular appartment. The point is, if we're going to look 50 years into the future, we have to see a bigger picture.
Great series Verge, I'm glad you discussed some of the impracticalities of smart home teach in this episode. Smart fridges appear to be a solution looking for a problem. If you take this series to a season two, I'd love to see the tech behind a carbon neutral home.
Absolutely. Would be great if they discussed modern building techniques, like Matt Risinger does on his RUclips channel. So not just the electronics, but a glance at the material and architectural science. Also would have been neat if they could have added geothermal heating and cooling, though I don't know if that's practical in a pre-existing suburban environment that this home seems to have been installed in. Assuming that may have been one of the "zoning issues" mentioned at the end of this vid?
What you are missing is: 1. Autonomous Building 2. Zero Energy Building 3. Earthquake, Fire, Flood and Wind Resistant. 4. Made up of new smart, cost and energy efficient durable material. 5. Strong and secure so that it is difficult for a thief to get into it. The important aspect and purpose of a home is to sit, lay and sleep comfortably with peace of mind. Where you can study with focus in case if you love reading alot or working from home. A good home can be cleaned with ease. A good home also need roof top terrace with good view of outside. Location of home depends on electricity, access to clean water, proper sewerage, availability of basic facilities at nearby distances like grocery and food store, hospital and school/college. Use of IOT and gadgets doesn't make the home of future. It will only give access to corporates to invade your privacy and have 24/7 eye on you and your lifestyle.
I was thinking about parts of that too: It's a lot of automation you can do now, entertainment and stuff. What about a smart bed? Water recycling (you can reuse up to 90%)? One of those Japanese (insane) toilets? Smart BBQ? Better materials? I do like gadgets, but there's a lot of stuff I missed in this series even if it's nice to see GI again.
Truth. If we want a better idea of what a true home of the future would look like, the closest I can think of at the moment would be the work of Neri Oxman and her firm. That's about it. This house is neat, but it's more like a gimmick than an actual house of the future. In 50 years, this will look as dated and off as the other ones from the 50s, 60s, etc.
Faisal, i m copying you comment to be part of the planning to built my house up.Simple and clear notes,cheers mate.Concrete base prefabricated and portable foundation,wood treated as frame structure maetrial and strawbale walls plus solar and wind energy sources and new sewage dispelling systems are closer to 21 st century homes than gadgets and cool external desings empty of core. Internet is important but as small part of the whole home system and below the new design and new materials approach.
Most importantly, this house is in freaking Texas, there's no way it could withstand a tornado or a hurricane I mean, it doesn't even have a tornado shelter and it's built in the exact same way as most American houses that are constantly getting wrecked by extreme weather. This house may be cool and all but it ain't solid, that's for sure. Ffs they don't even pour the slab on site!
It’s a home of gadgets. The most structurally integral home is a steel/concrete geodesic structure. To construct a home of the future, you need to go beyond the consumer gadget home.
The UT professor eluded to as much as well as society's slow adaptation to drastically different concepts. Btw, theres a company selling module geodesic homes today. Cant remember the name but thought they were cool
Complete Home Electronix a video titled “home of the future” should execute the true potential of an efficiently designed home that maximizes the well being of the home owner. I’d like to see more radical designs and technology implemented. Geodesic design, solar photovoltaic cells, modular furniture, highest energy efficiency. The Verge wants to appeal to the more common modern design.
@@TimeKillersAddendum in fairness, they are tech reporters so the fact that they focus on tech over design isnt surprising, but i definitely see your point
Even though I loved all that you did with your home, the simple fact that ALL the tech in the home is currently available proves it's more for the present then the future. It does have a futuristic vibe, but to actually talk about a home of the future, you need to get away from current thinking and delve more into the Scifi of things to come. Some of these points were touched on in this episode.
I concur. I would like a home with a very different way of cooling and warming itself off the grid, I live in the desert. And it still has to be beautiful, light and airy.
Thanks to the Verge & Curbed for the excellent "think & discussion piece" on the homes of the future. Thank you Grant for an excellent job hosting. Hopfully this this will be an annual series for a serious look at technology and the future of homes.
Grant is great, he's natural and enthusiastic, without being annoyingly day glo like some kids TV presenter or typical YT celebrity, and I really enjoyed watching this. Some of these things though like Nest smart heating is already commonplace, in fact I have a similar Salus smart heating system. I really like the house, it's airy and the technology isn't vulgar, it's discreet and useful. Now all I need is smart maps that allow me to actually not still get lost as I can't read maps to save my life!!!!!!!
@@twannapermenter8229 yeah, i rather have a bit more complicated to operate system yet easy to maintenance since i can just repeat it everyday, while troubleshooting/maintenance would require a service or investigations with trials & errosr if you're doing it on your own.
I stand my ground this is the house of yesterday. after six episodes I now realize this is a program about gadgets that you can buy today. That would be useful tomorrow. For this specific video when Grant spoke of reducing heat and cooling costs there are projects live when you have a bed and it heats or calls only you at night thus reducing our consumption by 40%. And a small hydroponics garden with automated systems that check what nutrients need to be used and how much light there should be should be in every home for herbs and stuff you don’t need in large quantities every day. It’s also is pleasant to the eye
Not really. All I saw was a fridge pretending to be a smartphone and a general hornyness about the editing and the way people talked. None of what they said opened my eyes in any real way.
This is more about the kitchen and you mentioned only a few things about the house in total. What about a Tesla car with a Tesla battery that is charged by the solar panels? (Instead of that Ford with that high MPG) What about recycling water? What about doors? Windows with tinted glass?
Yes, a house of the future would have nano coatings on the windows, auto opaque LCD inside the double glazing, self healing roof that automatically closes up any leaks that develop, or monitor the structural condition to alert you BEFORE a massive storm dumps a dozen litres of water into your bedroom. Smart Power distribution to other houses in the neighbourhood, or being able to utilise the battery in your car for emergency power during a blackout. So much more useful than the stupid home auto controller they had that they can even re program themselves.
This was a great series and brought up many questions with how we do things and how we live and what technology can offer today to help make things more efficient. I thought about your question of rethinking how a home should be. I personally feel that the home of the future, would be more minimalistic at least on the surface. Instead of having a counter full of appliances such as a water filter, coffee maker, or a blender. The future it would be built into the counter. A nozzle rises and dispense your beverage, Filtered water or your favorite coffee on demand. I feel like for now our home of the future will be filled with gadgets that help make out lives easier but the next step would be to integrate these gadgets so they don’t appear that they are even there until you need them. My next thought was the design of the home. Not now but generations from now I can see the home of the future will become modular but not in how we think of it now. When I say modular I mean that our our stuff is all contained in a section of the house say a life module and this module can be easily moved. Say you got a new job a hundred miles away. Rather than making the 100 mile commute to work, you can move your life module to a new home station that will include its own kitchen, living room, and bathroom. You want to upgrade your home, you can just move too a upgraded home station. Even better if you just want to try living in a new city or state, with a command the life module would lock the items down and an automated transport would pick it up and the next thing you know you are in a new city. I do see our city start to build up with buildings to help with the over population of certain city’s.
Easy ideas for home of the future: Virtual reality room, with a full treadmill floor. Becomes the home gym of the future. Modular home design using all polycarbonate materials that are meant to last. Each room is a separate module that can be purchased, making overall ownership more affordable. Each module has it's own hookups for electrical, plumbing. Automated sliding doors, for interior and exterior. Local power and water recycling, to make the most use of resources. External water tanks that plug into the grid, same as power. Wireless power stations in every room. Is a device that sits in ceiling, like a light, and emits waves (whatever the technical terms are, this exists already). Windows that double as viewing screens.
on a vacation a series of flights presented my wife and I with inflight entertainment ideas from a variety of different generations, one leg had an older plane with the fold down screens from above the seats. another flight on a newer plane had integrated screens in seat backs, and the newest plane had USB ports for charging the entertainment that was brought along with presumably each passenger. Looking at a car from even 5 years ago you can see how dated the operating system for the built in entertainment system looks. I think the home of the future will have to be less integrated and more open. I don't want anything in my future home that locks me into a tech from 2018. I want ability to use new tech in my home seamlessly.
I predict in the future fridges will only be fridges and will not pretend to be another smartphone. Because we already have a smartphone in the pocket.
good series. to your question: whats stopping us? complexity. i'm a nerd, it would be alot of work for me to keep this stuff up and running. for my mom who doesn't care for tech? impossible. also, the costs of constantly having guys around to fix electronics/computers would be prohibitive, this stuff is in NO WAY stable or service free, at all. don't believe me? ask ANYONE who has to service ANY machine at work or for clients. my ideal house is completely minimalistic, with passive systems all around, easy to replace or repair. it has to be carefree, my home is where i want to relax, not start a second job.
You showcased the house, and said what some of the tech is inside. How about a listing of all of tech that was put into the house, and what it does. I would like to know about the security system, etc.
quick question for do you how much a house like this would cost? what warranties does the company provide? and where can it be built and like in which state ?..tk
Great series! I think the home of the future needs to be an adaptation of the homes we have. It’s more sustainable to upgrade what’s been built over the last 100 years than keep dreaming green space housing developments. That being said, evolution of human centered design (simple to use...) is what’s going to get adoption, and the continued price decrease in computers and batteries will make the home tech more approachable.
I'd like to see a complete food supply system and in home recycling. Food would be grown and processed in the home (like how a Beyond Meat burger is made from peas). If our food printer can't supply some special ingredients they would be automatically ordered and delivered. Food waste becomes fertilizer, cleaned waste water plant water. Same for things. Plastics, metals, circuit components, and flexible polymers would be stored. Need a new microwave? Print one up. Just don't forget to throw the old one in the recycler to keep the printer stocked! If you need something too complicated (like a new flexible transparent phone you can wrap on your wrist) your house will order after determining it can't print it.
There is this www.amazon.com/Food-Cycler-Kitchen-Compost-Container/dp/B00KLI43RC. And the whole 3D printing will have to fight against production lines on industrial scale optimized to reduce costs, I think it will be useful for exploration and space, but not here where buying is an order or two of magnitud cheaper than 3D printing
I have a idea about a future house. We have 3D printing on certain foods but it takes a really long time because of how 3D printing works. In a future scenario maybe there could be a way to atomically reconstruct food with added nutrients That would allow us to eat almost anything and still get the daily recommendation of nutrients. Hopefully it would come with with a information page of all the base amount of contents in the food so we can still eat healthy, or maybe it could miraculously still construct the same food with out the same molecular structure but still look exactly the same and have the same taste. I can only imagine the idea where there is no fridge in the future just a machine that can recreate your desires on a plate while still having all the daily required supplements. On top of that if i'm thinking about something that can recreate things on a molecular level i guess i could add in medicine like an Advil or prescribed medicine or drinks. Basically anything consumable. Wild thought: a cake made of pizza in many layers with the outside with cheese filled crust and cheese baked on the outside maybe less inside just in case of fear for constipation and inside customization by the layers.
A fridge lasts 15-years??? My last fridge lasted just over 10-years, I am not sure I'd spend $3,700.00 (CDN) for a fridge that will only last 10-years. I break that down into the yearly cost + electricity cost and it just doesn't make sense. What would make more sense would be a interactive screen in the kitchen or family room; though I get the other features the fridge offers -- they just don't make sense.
Just replaced our fridge this year that I originally bought when I was flatting with my then fiancee. Gone though two houses and our eldest kid is now 16. so it lasted way longer than expected.
I am curious to know the price of everything that went into that home, including the solar setup. Where I am solar is extremely expensive and still way too far of a reach for the average middle class family
Supposedly the tech will go down in cost with more and more people using it. But this houses of the future use poorly efficient systems. I liked a lot the solar roof for the garage, that seems like a goos idea but I don't know the cost, it could be worth it here in the tropic.
This is basically a 150 year old construction technology fitted with new appliances. The home of the future is NOT about appliances but about how we build, which then translates to speed, comfort and affordability. Also Although the north American market seems to fixated to “four walls and a door” living in apartments is a much more financially / socially and environmentally sustainable way to have a “home”.
Leaft already sell aquaponic garden that are the side of a refrigerator. So a tech garden is not new, there is quite a lot of connected aquaponic machines sold (at least in France)
Great series and to end what about a tour of Samsungs Home of the Future /or Microsoft Home of the Future /or LG's Homes of the Future , maybe design feature with future of Recycling /Waste/ Smart connectivity Intel's home of the future/ or even Smart Cupboards that senses what you have put inside and running low on?
Grant (and some of us) would do all the smart part of house using some some raspberry Pi's and some arduino, without using super expensive commercial products. I honestly didn't learn anything from this video and my house is kinda smarter than that. One thing to watch for, because a "house of the future" would probably be used by multiple generations, every new tech should be integrated in the old one, so older folks could turn on the lights without having to learn how to use an ipad or alexa.... My parents don't have any idea of the ammout of tech in our house. when they come home, they insert the keys in the door and flick the light switch. When I return home, my computer is starting up when im near 50 meters of the house and the door opens when I touch the door handle (rfid chip in hand), etc.
Russia has greenhouses with webcams where the client pays for a portion of the floor space, and the grower interacts to grow vegetables and deliver fresh food. This is in Moscow.
2:46 At the very least homes can be designed with passive heating and cooling along with more traditional methods of heating and cooling. There are ways of reducing energy consumption without resorting to radically new ways. Like personal heating and cooling systems.
My home (condo) was built 43 years ago. Not much could be done to this home that would make it a home of the future other than tearing it down and starting over again. That's not likely to happen especially when it would affect my neighbors too. There are ~126 million households in the country...not too many old homes are torn down to make way for a completely new (high energy efficient/technologically advanced) home.
In my home/world of the future, I would have a big post box for packages that works both ways. Keyless phoneless entry. Service which everybody would use to share tools and resources. Also I would have way less things in general.
i think a home of the future would need to: 1) Make things easier (automation) 2) Make things seamless and interchangable (modular design , IOT, IOE) 3) Have everything you can have from outside world (grow your own food, cinema, gym) 4) Reconnect with nature (Plants and vegetation will play important role) 5) Seamless communication (virtual video calls,)
What do you want in your home 50 years from now?
A wife and grandchildren
This show was a disappointment. It focused on technology alone. Completely missed the wellness. Please ask yourself, Why should the future of home is always about technology, why not awellness, why shouldn't we build the home of the future around wellness of individual, community and environment.
You mean “if” I have a home
@@UsSpiritual so technology and wellness are seperate? No technology in your local hospital? Future home could monitor your wellness in realtime you dinosaur
Space is the issue: How we optimize the usage of our space. Take a look at Kasita, there in Texas. Is an interesting concept of a space for one o two people, no much bigger than a container, prefab and mobile (you did once a video of that one). Maybe microliving is part of the key, then again, looking at a home of the future witout considering the urbanism of the future is, I believe, a mistake. Most urban planners today think of the suburban sprawling as a huge and costly mistake, the city of the future looks more dense, people-centric and walkable. Maybe is time to revisit Paolo Soleri's Arcology concept... maybe the Home of the Future is actually a modular appartment. The point is, if we're going to look 50 years into the future, we have to see a bigger picture.
I binged this entire series just for Grant. RIP
Grant Imahara is an underrated national treasure.
Yeah maybe if you live in Zimbabwe
Everything about him screams sellout who doesn't do real reporting.
Rip
Great series but no house tour as a finale?
Owen Copson ikrr
Ikr
Yes. I would have loved a house tour.
He died
@ :(
Great series Verge, I'm glad you discussed some of the impracticalities of smart home teach in this episode. Smart fridges appear to be a solution looking for a problem. If you take this series to a season two, I'd love to see the tech behind a carbon neutral home.
Absolutely. Would be great if they discussed modern building techniques, like Matt Risinger does on his RUclips channel. So not just the electronics, but a glance at the material and architectural science. Also would have been neat if they could have added geothermal heating and cooling, though I don't know if that's practical in a pre-existing suburban environment that this home seems to have been installed in. Assuming that may have been one of the "zoning issues" mentioned at the end of this vid?
Keep. On. Trucking.......
Great idea, a carbon neutral home.
What you are missing is:
1. Autonomous Building
2. Zero Energy Building
3. Earthquake, Fire, Flood and Wind Resistant.
4. Made up of new smart, cost and energy efficient durable material.
5. Strong and secure so that it is difficult for a thief to get into it.
The important aspect and purpose of a home is to sit, lay and sleep comfortably with peace of mind. Where you can study with focus in case if you love reading alot or working from home. A good home can be cleaned with ease. A good home also need roof top terrace with good view of outside.
Location of home depends on electricity, access to clean water, proper sewerage, availability of basic facilities at nearby distances like grocery and food store, hospital and school/college.
Use of IOT and gadgets doesn't make the home of future. It will only give access to corporates to invade your privacy and have 24/7 eye on you and your lifestyle.
I was thinking about parts of that too: It's a lot of automation you can do now, entertainment and stuff. What about a smart bed? Water recycling (you can reuse up to 90%)? One of those Japanese (insane) toilets? Smart BBQ? Better materials?
I do like gadgets, but there's a lot of stuff I missed in this series even if it's nice to see GI again.
Truth. If we want a better idea of what a true home of the future would look like, the closest I can think of at the moment would be the work of Neri Oxman and her firm. That's about it. This house is neat, but it's more like a gimmick than an actual house of the future. In 50 years, this will look as dated and off as the other ones from the 50s, 60s, etc.
IoT can secure though if you do the right way. If only alexa were less data hungry :S
Faisal, i m copying you comment to be part of the planning to built my house up.Simple and clear notes,cheers mate.Concrete base prefabricated and portable foundation,wood treated as frame structure maetrial and strawbale walls plus solar and wind energy sources and new sewage dispelling systems are closer to 21 st century homes than gadgets and cool external desings empty of core. Internet is important but as small part of the whole home system and below the new design and new materials approach.
Most importantly, this house is in freaking Texas, there's no way it could withstand a tornado or a hurricane I mean, it doesn't even have a tornado shelter and it's built in the exact same way as most American houses that are constantly getting wrecked by extreme weather. This house may be cool and all but it ain't solid, that's for sure. Ffs they don't even pour the slab on site!
It’s a home of gadgets. The most structurally integral home is a steel/concrete geodesic structure. To construct a home of the future, you need to go beyond the consumer gadget home.
Very great observation and i fully agree
Really appreciate it
The UT professor eluded to as much as well as society's slow adaptation to drastically different concepts. Btw, theres a company selling module geodesic homes today. Cant remember the name but thought they were cool
Complete Home Electronix a video titled “home of the future” should execute the true potential of an efficiently designed home that maximizes the well being of the home owner. I’d like to see more radical designs and technology implemented. Geodesic design, solar photovoltaic cells, modular furniture, highest energy efficiency. The Verge wants to appeal to the more common modern design.
@@TimeKillersAddendum in fairness, they are tech reporters so the fact that they focus on tech over design isnt surprising, but i definitely see your point
This series has been fascinating. Many thanks to all who participated in bringing it to us.
Yea it is fascinating but been biased and very ad placements here and there. I hope they renew this and add fix those
Lol in 50 years, I’ll be lucky to have a roof and four walls.
you will have to rent a fridge cardboard box .
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Even though I loved all that you did with your home, the simple fact that ALL the tech in the home is currently available proves it's more for the present then the future. It does have a futuristic vibe, but to actually talk about a home of the future, you need to get away from current thinking and delve more into the Scifi of things to come. Some of these points were touched on in this episode.
Youngaloha very smart comment indeed.
I concur. I would like a home with a very different way of cooling and warming itself off the grid, I live in the desert. And it still has to be beautiful, light and airy.
Wow just watched this video yesterday. Thanks for making science and tech so fun and engaging Grant RIP.
Thanks to the Verge & Curbed for the excellent "think & discussion piece" on the homes of the future. Thank you Grant for an excellent job hosting. Hopfully this this will be an annual series for a serious look at technology and the future of homes.
Grant is great, he's natural and enthusiastic, without being annoyingly day glo like some kids TV presenter or typical YT celebrity, and I really enjoyed watching this. Some of these things though like Nest smart heating is already commonplace, in fact I have a similar Salus smart heating system. I really like the house, it's airy and the technology isn't vulgar, it's discreet and useful. Now all I need is smart maps that allow me to actually not still get lost as I can't read maps to save my life!!!!!!!
Been waiting for this
Amazing work guys. Wonderful thoughts.
This whole series just felt like a giant ad.
Instead of a house of the future it's more like an overpriced gadget house
Agree. I'm 65 yrs old so I don't want anything that will complicate my day. Maintenance free and energy efficient is my dream.
@@twannapermenter8229 yeah, i rather have a bit more complicated to operate system yet easy to maintenance since i can just repeat it everyday, while troubleshooting/maintenance would require a service or investigations with trials & errosr if you're doing it on your own.
Plz do more stuff with Grant Imahara! He's such a pleasant host. Love him!
What was the overall cost?
And how much will it cost maintaine per month or year?
I love it. Great work ;) hope u do well with this home :)
I stand my ground this is the house of yesterday. after six episodes I now realize this is a program about gadgets that you can buy today. That would be useful tomorrow. For this specific video when Grant spoke of reducing heat and cooling costs there are projects live when you have a bed and it heats or calls only you at night thus reducing our consumption by 40%. And a small hydroponics garden with automated systems that check what nutrients need to be used and how much light there should be should be in every home for herbs and stuff you don’t need in large quantities every day. It’s also is pleasant to the eye
*R.I.P GRANT.* _a moment of silence please._
Loved every minute of this series. Great job guys!
Not really. All I saw was a fridge pretending to be a smartphone and a general hornyness about the editing and the way people talked. None of what they said opened my eyes in any real way.
This is more about the kitchen and you mentioned only a few things about the house in total. What about a Tesla car with a Tesla battery that is charged by the solar panels? (Instead of that Ford with that high MPG) What about recycling water? What about doors? Windows with tinted glass?
Yes, a house of the future would have nano coatings on the windows, auto opaque LCD inside the double glazing, self healing roof that automatically closes up any leaks that develop, or monitor the structural condition to alert you BEFORE a massive storm dumps a dozen litres of water into your bedroom.
Smart Power distribution to other houses in the neighbourhood, or being able to utilise the battery in your car for emergency power during a blackout. So much more useful than the stupid home auto controller they had that they can even re program themselves.
Ford is the sponsor. We were betrayed by the car
I loved this series!
I found Grant Imahara!!! Nice to see your great new adventures after mythbusters!
Smart fridge already sounds stupid.
Anton Markov ikr
Rip grant Imahara I miss him he was so cool
This was a great series and brought up many questions with how we do things and how we live and what technology can offer today to help make things more efficient. I thought about your question of rethinking how a home should be. I personally feel that the home of the future, would be more minimalistic at least on the surface. Instead of having a counter full of appliances such as a water filter, coffee maker, or a blender. The future it would be built into the counter. A nozzle rises and dispense your beverage, Filtered water or your favorite coffee on demand. I feel like for now our home of the future will be filled with gadgets that help make out lives easier but the next step would be to integrate these gadgets so they don’t appear that they are even there until you need them.
My next thought was the design of the home. Not now but generations from now I can see the home of the future will become modular but not in how we think of it now. When I say modular I mean that our our stuff is all contained in a section of the house say a life module and this module can be easily moved. Say you got a new job a hundred miles away. Rather than making the 100 mile commute to work, you can move your life module to a new home station that will include its own kitchen, living room, and bathroom. You want to upgrade your home, you can just move too a upgraded home station. Even better if you just want to try living in a new city or state, with a command the life module would lock the items down and an automated transport would pick it up and the next thing you know you are in a new city. I do see our city start to build up with buildings to help with the over population of certain city’s.
I'm pumping as fast as I can!
In 50years when the population has hit 15+ billion people I would be happy with any house at all. Glad I live in somewhat rural area.
Easy ideas for home of the future:
Virtual reality room, with a full treadmill floor. Becomes the home gym of the future.
Modular home design using all polycarbonate materials that are meant to last. Each room is a separate module that can be purchased, making overall ownership more affordable. Each module has it's own hookups for electrical, plumbing.
Automated sliding doors, for interior and exterior.
Local power and water recycling, to make the most use of resources. External water tanks that plug into the grid, same as power.
Wireless power stations in every room. Is a device that sits in ceiling, like a light, and emits waves (whatever the technical terms are, this exists already).
Windows that double as viewing screens.
on a vacation a series of flights presented my wife and I with inflight entertainment ideas from a variety of different generations, one leg had an older plane with the fold down screens from above the seats. another flight on a newer plane had integrated screens in seat backs, and the newest plane had USB ports for charging the entertainment that was brought along with presumably each passenger. Looking at a car from even 5 years ago you can see how dated the operating system for the built in entertainment system looks. I think the home of the future will have to be less integrated and more open. I don't want anything in my future home that locks me into a tech from 2018. I want ability to use new tech in my home seamlessly.
More! Please!
How much does the house they've built (including everything) actually cost?
My favorite episode yet
50 years from now someone is going to watch this video and see that all of the predictions in it were wrong.
Grant, you will be missed :(
I predict in the future fridges will only be fridges and will not pretend to be another smartphone. Because we already have a smartphone in the pocket.
Cool video!
i don't see this home like a future home since the beginnig but most as a tech home !!
good series. to your question:
whats stopping us? complexity. i'm a nerd, it would be alot of work for me to keep this stuff up and running.
for my mom who doesn't care for tech? impossible.
also, the costs of constantly having guys around to fix electronics/computers would be prohibitive, this stuff is in NO WAY stable or service free, at all.
don't believe me? ask ANYONE who has to service ANY machine at work or for clients.
my ideal house is completely minimalistic, with passive systems all around, easy to replace or repair. it has to be carefree, my home is where i want to relax, not start a second job.
You showcased the house, and said what some of the tech is inside. How about a listing of all of tech that was put into the house, and what it does. I would like to know about the security system, etc.
quick question for do you how much a house like this would cost? what warranties does the company provide? and where can it be built and like in which state ?..tk
I would've love to have a completed house tour. RIP Grant.
I won’t be around in 50 years. Too bad
THIS BUILDING WILL
BURN TO THE GROUND
Can we get a list of the devices and service providers used in the house?
Great series! I think the home of the future needs to be an adaptation of the homes we have. It’s more sustainable to upgrade what’s been built over the last 100 years than keep dreaming green space housing developments. That being said, evolution of human centered design (simple to use...) is what’s going to get adoption, and the continued price decrease in computers and batteries will make the home tech more approachable.
I would of liked to see a tour of the whole house at the end
Home garden is very good to me.
Yeah, I like way better the idea of using the soil to plant food or herbs than just grass.
Loved the series. What are the plans now with the house? Sell? Donate? Model? Giveaway?
How about stuff on heating, cooling, the glass, building materials like polystyrene. Houses or apartments?
More like this!!
Nice house !!
So, how cost prohibitive is this completed home? What is the expected final price tag??
I'd like to see a complete food supply system and in home recycling. Food would be grown and processed in the home (like how a Beyond Meat burger is made from peas). If our food printer can't supply some special ingredients they would be automatically ordered and delivered. Food waste becomes fertilizer, cleaned waste water plant water. Same for things. Plastics, metals, circuit components, and flexible polymers would be stored. Need a new microwave? Print one up. Just don't forget to throw the old one in the recycler to keep the printer stocked! If you need something too complicated (like a new flexible transparent phone you can wrap on your wrist) your house will order after determining it can't print it.
There is this www.amazon.com/Food-Cycler-Kitchen-Compost-Container/dp/B00KLI43RC. And the whole 3D printing will have to fight against production lines on industrial scale optimized to reduce costs, I think it will be useful for exploration and space, but not here where buying is an order or two of magnitud cheaper than 3D printing
I have a idea about a future house.
We have 3D printing on certain foods but it takes a really long time because of how 3D printing works.
In a future scenario maybe there could be a way to atomically reconstruct food with added nutrients
That would allow us to eat almost anything and still get the daily recommendation of nutrients.
Hopefully it would come with with a information page of all the base amount of contents in the food
so we can still eat healthy, or maybe it could miraculously still construct the same food with out the same
molecular structure but still look exactly the same and have the same taste. I can only imagine
the idea where there is no fridge in the future just a machine that can recreate your desires on a plate
while still having all the daily required supplements. On top of that if i'm thinking about something
that can recreate things on a molecular level i guess i could add in medicine like an Advil or prescribed
medicine or drinks. Basically anything consumable.
Wild thought: a cake made of pizza in many layers with the outside with cheese filled crust and cheese baked on the outside
maybe less inside just in case of fear for constipation and inside customization by the layers.
A fridge lasts 15-years??? My last fridge lasted just over 10-years, I am not sure I'd spend $3,700.00 (CDN) for a fridge that will only last 10-years. I break that down into the yearly cost + electricity cost and it just doesn't make sense. What would make more sense would be a interactive screen in the kitchen or family room; though I get the other features the fridge offers -- they just don't make sense.
Just replaced our fridge this year that I originally bought when I was flatting with my then fiancee. Gone though two houses and our eldest kid is now 16. so it lasted way longer than expected.
I am curious to know the price of everything that went into that home, including the solar setup. Where I am solar is extremely expensive and still way too far of a reach for the average middle class family
all this tech most people don't need AND don't want.
those future homes never take in consideration cost.
For some reason, when designing the home of the future, they always assume in the future we will all be millionaires.
Supposedly the tech will go down in cost with more and more people using it. But this houses of the future use poorly efficient systems. I liked a lot the solar roof for the garage, that seems like a goos idea but I don't know the cost, it could be worth it here in the tropic.
What was the total cost?
I miss Grant!!! 😭
Do a show about transportation of the future, education of the future, or cities of the future.
So, who Gets this house now?
I really want to know the dimension of this house
I hope refrigerator boxes and underpasses have similar advancement trajectories.
This is basically a 150 year old construction technology fitted with new appliances. The home of the future is NOT about appliances but about how we build, which then translates to speed, comfort and affordability. Also Although the north American market seems to fixated to “four walls and a door” living in apartments is a much more financially / socially and environmentally sustainable way to have a “home”.
Waiting for the house tour
Reminds me of my childhood watching you
Can you do a whole house tour
I'm thrilled to know that the home of the future still contains Shiner and Lonestar in the fridge.
Leaft already sell aquaponic garden that are the side of a refrigerator. So a tech garden is not new, there is quite a lot of connected aquaponic machines sold (at least in France)
So what will happen with this home of the future? Will Grant move in? Will there be a follow up in a few months to see how it’s been for 6 months?
RIP Grant
Great series and to end what about a tour of Samsungs Home of the Future /or Microsoft Home of the Future /or LG's Homes of the Future , maybe design feature with future of Recycling /Waste/ Smart connectivity Intel's home of the future/ or even Smart Cupboards that senses what you have put inside and running low on?
Philco / Ford logo on the retro video!
I want to know final price.
Grant (and some of us) would do all the smart part of house using some some raspberry Pi's and some arduino, without using super expensive commercial products. I honestly didn't learn anything from this video and my house is kinda smarter than that. One thing to watch for, because a "house of the future" would probably be used by multiple generations, every new tech should be integrated in the old one, so older folks could turn on the lights without having to learn how to use an ipad or alexa.... My parents don't have any idea of the ammout of tech in our house. when they come home, they insert the keys in the door and flick the light switch. When I return home, my computer is starting up when im near 50 meters of the house and the door opens when I touch the door handle (rfid chip in hand), etc.
Starting to think you guys only had a budget for that fridge lol
Cool
Nope, my current home will look same 50 years later, Guess I need to buy a new one then!
Is this the last episode????
Russia has greenhouses with webcams where the client pays for a portion of the floor space, and the grower interacts to grow vegetables and deliver fresh food. This is in Moscow.
2:46 At the very least homes can be designed with passive heating and cooling along with more traditional methods of heating and cooling. There are ways of reducing energy consumption without resorting to radically new ways. Like personal heating and cooling systems.
I think it would be cool to have that cooking robot in the kitchen.
Seems to me like there was more focus on the entertainment within the home than the home itself.
I was expecting to learn something in this video. I did not.
I learned not to buy any "smart" appliances, the fridge and the home system are waay too expensive to justify costs. The roomba is cool though.
I have to wonder how much the total cost of this home was.
Jesus that scrolling "speed" at 5:00 xD How is that even possible?!
I will be dead in 50 years. Lol
hopefully
Hey, they used the old intro of The Future of Everything by the Wall Street Journal as a background music lol
Hopefully that is a full electric pick up truck parked outside the house
How much dis home
Will You guys do project in india ??
Grant is really an awesome professional host, thanks so much for this series!
My home (condo) was built 43 years ago. Not much could be done to this home that would make it a home of the future other than tearing it down and starting over again. That's not likely to happen especially when it would affect my neighbors too. There are ~126 million households in the country...not too many old homes are torn down to make way for a completely new (high energy efficient/technologically advanced) home.
In my home/world of the future, I would have a big post box for packages that works both ways. Keyless phoneless entry. Service which everybody would use to share tools and resources.
Also I would have way less things in general.
Why didn't you mention costs?
Exactly. In the future we will all be millionaires apparently.
How about a massive deep earth bunker with load Bay lift included so u could easily purchase new furniture fridge freezer etc
i think a home of the future would need to:
1) Make things easier (automation)
2) Make things seamless and interchangable (modular design , IOT, IOE)
3) Have everything you can have from outside world (grow your own food, cinema, gym)
4) Reconnect with nature (Plants and vegetation will play important role)
5) Seamless communication (virtual video calls,)