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Originally Posted by jolouis View Post
Home automation integration - Come on guys... everyone's talking about ir blasters... forget that, go big AND go home... what about, say, controlling the lights, stereo system etc from your tablet. Go one step further... how about when you get close to your house the tablet automatically associates with the local AP and turns the lights on for you if it's dark, adjusts the thermostat/etc. You could go one further and have it so that if you've got a cell/3g/whatever connection, it monitors your GPS location and does things like thermostat changes/etc when you get closer/farther from your house.
Something like this whihc Nokia is developing ?
http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/27/n...ter-next-year/

That would indeed be cool.