Life at home has significantly improved over the past 50 years with the introduction of technology gadgets, accessibility of goods and social infrastructure. Many factors have contributed to this and allowed for such improvements in everyday life we see and use on a daily basis.
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Food Tech
A great example of this is food, the way that we produce it and modern gadgets that have permitted for much simpler farming techniques, providing a much vaster yield of crops. This, alongside the information we now have on a healthy diet, the technology to prove what one considers as healthy or worthwhile has proved for a much simpler way of maintaining healthy diets.
At Home Entertainment
With modern technology vastly improving the information available on dieting, it has also extended to our homes. Internet of things devices, such as Amazon’s Alexa and mobile phones, have as much computing power as supercomputers of some years ago. Now, we can communicate with one another seamlessly and play games with friends through cross-platform integrations. For instance, casual games like baccarat online can be accessed on the go, as it’s available both on desktop and mobile devices. With a simple registration process, these games are quite the jump from what we had widely available previously. Above all, at home entertainment isn’t comparable today to what it may have been even 50 years ago.
Portable Devices
Amazon’s Alexa was certainly a groundbreaking introduction into our homes and the user count has surpassed hundreds of millions since the initial inception. Being able to set reminders, complete regular shopping lists, play music and get information on just about anything by asking Alexa a question has simply provided more information to homes across the globe than having a library on-site could do.
Not only are portable devices around the home now extremely common, but information is completely accessible wherever you go these days, with 5G connection available almost everywhere you go, you can get train times, walking routes and even up-to-date trackers of buses, trains or even delivery packages to a matter of metres.
Some newer additions to homes
Within the last few years, many newer introductions have become almost a necessity to have at home that just make perfect sense. For example, at the Consumer Electronics show, we have seen some of the biggest place-holders come through and many of the releases were focused on life at home and simple additions that provide infinite ease and help. Much of the tech that’s trending currently is surrounded by surveillance in one way or another, with monitoring not just the outside of the home but inside of it too.
A great example of this is smart-ovens. A camera equipped oven that not only is viewable through an app, but packed with information to not only be set on a timer, but to detect the food you’re cooking and set its own timers to ensure maximum productivity. Alongside these timers being set, the device also monitors the food in real time and can detect any form of burning or over-cooking.
This is just one example within the surveillance category and goes hand in hand with one of the most popular at-home devices in the market at the moment, the Ring Doorbell. Acquired by Amazon for a staggering $1 Billion, it’s a good indicator that home surveillance is now considered a must and many of the public will want to get involved in some way or another. Whether it’s monitoring an infant child, checking the lights and appliances around the house are off or simply reducing the risk of home burglaries it’s certainly a must-have these days.
Less can now be considered more
What can’t be critiqued is that with the introduction of various tech gadgets, the consideration for wanting to produce more inclusive devices that provide multiple uses is a must. For example, the need for a DVD player, CD player, home computer, gaming set-up and music player is now miniscule, as there are mounds of products that include all of the above. A bog-standard laptop can produce all of this with complete ease.
Home-computer systems have now become all too common and are in most homes. After the pandemic, much of the world began to work from home as necessary under government guidelines and this paved the way for workers to want to fill their home-offices with a full computer set-up, giving their kids a platform to play various games with their friends on, a place for online shopping, watching movies and of course for work.
Televisions have also become immensely more productive and some of the newest models include a home-centre, where the user can download many applications that are a must have in the modern day, such as Amazon Prime, Netflix, YouTube and hundreds of other applications. Smart TV’s have condensed much of what would be a nuisance to oversee and have removed the need for having piles of devices that could have been implemented in the one platform.
