The ultimate smart home should offer tech amenities that make your life easier, wow anyone who comes over and yet blend into the background. And that's exactly what we discovered when HGTV let us take a tour of its $1.5 million abode near Scottsdale, Arizona.
People like to point to 1989's Back to the Future II as presciently showing technologies that exist today. Video conferencing, for example, was futuristic 28 years ago, but people FaceTime all the time nowadays.
The promise of the smart home has been disappointingly slow to fulfill. But Nest Labs is hoping to make homes a little smarter with its new indoor security camera, the Nest Cam IQ.