Comments on: Tech companies prepare for digital home

Conference showcases automated blind closers and light dimmers, but will consumers finally embrace the technology?
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[Razzl]

The one unconscionable omission

Of all the possible household technologies the one that has been most desperately needed to save lives, and could have been in place for the last 40 years, is an intelligent control for electric stoves to prevent fires from untended cooking. I live in a neighborhood where a half dozen people have died in the last 2 decades from falling asleep while something was on/in the stove. I can't think of any other household technology which has caused TENS of THOUSANDS of deaths over the years--Can't GE and Kenmore Whirlpool and all of the big players show some courage and come up with something? Burners with timers and heat sensors can't be that big a deal to develop. The public and courts will accept limits to liability if the manufacturer won't oversell its capabilities...

[Ipod Apple]

limits to liability

http://www.analogstereo.com/tape_backup_tandberg.htm

[Razzl]

The one unconscionable omission

Of all the possible household technologies the one that has been most desperately needed to save lives, and could have been in place for the last 40 years, is an intelligent control for electric stoves to prevent fires from untended cooking. I live in a neighborhood where a half dozen people have died in the last 2 decades from falling asleep while something was on/in the stove. I can't think of any other household technology which has caused TENS of THOUSANDS of deaths over the years--Can't GE and Kenmore Whirlpool and all of the big players show some courage and come up with something? Burners with timers and heat sensors can't be that big a deal to develop. The public and courts will accept limits to liability if the manufacturer won't oversell its capabilities...

[Ipod Apple]

limits to liability

http://www.analogstereo.com/tape_backup_tandberg.htm