Now the house tells its owner when his dinner is ready, if someone is at the door or when a mouse has been caught in a trap. Dr Andy Stanford-Clark has fitted the grade 1 listed cottage with hundreds of sensors, allowing everything from energy usage to the burglar alarm to be relayed by the blogging website. If he leaves a light on or a tap running, the house automatically sends a tweet - or message - alerting Dr Stanford-Clark, 43, an engineer and master inventor for computer firm IBM. (source: telegraph.co.uk)
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