New technology for the home at London show

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Excel Exhibition Centre, London, UK – May 1, 2011

1. Mid of presenter demonstrating Cybertecture mirror

2. Various of Cybertecture mirror

3. Tilt up presenter stepping on to weighing scales to enact Cybertecture mirror ‘health mode’

4. Various of presenter using Cybertecture mirror

5. Wide of Grand Designs Live show

6. Mid of show visitors

7. Various of technology presenter Lee Baldry, demonstrating kitchen unit unfolding

8. SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Goodey, Technology Blogger:

“It unfolds, it’s the world’s first transformer kitchen. So it builds your appliances and drawers into one unit and it actually unfolds to allow more space for cooking and add more appliance space to your kitchen as well.”

9. Wide of presenter operating switch to raise television from kitchen unit

10. Various of oven retracting back into kitchen unit

11. Wide pan of kitchen unit closing

12. Tilt down of show

13. SOUNDBITE (English) George Clarke, Architect and Interior Designer:

“Home design is changing so quickly in Britain, which I think is great. When you think over the last one hundred years it could have been fairly slow and that we built in a fairly typical and traditional way. I think the way you build a house, the way that you build your house sustainably and the way you absorb modern technology is amazing, I think. It seems to be changing year after year after year. I have to work pretty hard myself to keep up with all the new gadgets out there and new ways of doing things.”

14. Various of Click and Grow gadget

15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Shem Pennant, Technology Journalist:

“This is the Click and Grow which is an electronic flower bed. It quite cool actually because rather than a conventional flower pot its rammed full of sensors and technology and software and there is some sort of onboard graphics chip and batteries as well. What the means is that you can put your seeds inside, walk away, come back in two or three weeks and you get one of these – which is a fully grown flower bed you don’t have to worry about if its watered or if your if your under-watering it or over-watering it, or light conditions or anything like that. All the sensors take care of that. So it basically grows itself.”

16. Various of Smart Gadget being inserted into soil around plant

17. Various of Smart Gadget being inserted into laptop

18. Various of Lift Bed

19. SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Goodey, Technology Blogger:

“It comes down from the ceiling so in a general house build you would actually have it built up into your ceiling so you could operate that space during the day for maybe an office space or just another communal area, and then the bed drops down from the ceiling and you have your bed there in the evening too.”

20. Wide of bed retracting back up into the ceiling

21. Wide of show visitors

22. Mid of young children playing on coffee table computer game

23. Various of coffee table arcade game

24. Wide of retractable electric chandelier

25. Close of electric chandelier

26. Various of Long Form Library

LEAD IN:

New technology for the home is one of the big draws at the Grand Designs Live exhibition in London.

The latest gadgets and space-saving devices are drawing in the crowds at this annual event for innovative designs for home and garden.

STORYLINE:

Once upon a time the humble bathroom mirror did only one thing.

Now, as well as reflecting your face for that early morning brush and shine, the Cybertecture Mirror is a multimedia information platform.

It will do everything from telling the time and weather forecast to keeping you up to date with social networks and live news coverage.

Technology powers one of the smartest kitchens on display.

Technology blogger Anthony Goodey is a fan:

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