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Could you could be living in a future home, now?
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Jan 7, 2015
Could you could be living in a future home, now?
At CES, there's everything from connected washing machines to thermostats on display, but is this the connected home that people imagined 50 years ago?
LAS VEGAS, NV - JANUARY 06: Whirlpool's new Smart Top Load washer and dryer are displayed at the 2015 International CES at the Sands Expo and Convention Center on January 6, 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The units can connect with the Nest Learning Thermostat remotely and offer custom downloadable cycles. Through Whirlpool's Connect to care program on the Whirlpool Mobile app, users can choose to donate any mount of money per load of laundry to Whirlpool's corporate partner, Habitat for Humanity. CES, the world's largest annual consumer technology trade show, runs through January 9 and is expected to feature 3,600 exhibitors showing off their latest products and services to about 150,000 attendees. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
LAS VEGAS, NV - JANUARY 06: Whirlpool's new Smart Top Load washer and dryer are displayed at the 2015 International CES at the Sands Expo and Convention Center on January 6, 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The units can connect with the Nest Learning Thermostat remotely and offer custom downloadable cycles. Through Whirlpool's Connect to care program on the Whirlpool Mobile app, users can choose to donate any mount of money per load of laundry to Whirlpool's corporate partner, Habitat for Humanity. CES, the world's largest annual consumer technology trade show, runs through January 9 and is expected to feature 3,600 exhibitors showing off their latest products and services to about 150,000 attendees.
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At CES, there's everything from connected washing machines to thermostats on display, but is this the connected home that people imagined 50 years ago?

Back in 1967, the Philco Ford Corporation released a short film looking at what the home of the future might look like... 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RRxqg4G-G4

While you may not have seen those technologies in the closest Best Buy just yet, there are all sorts of other gadgets designed to make your domestic life easier on display at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. 

from the Wall Street Journal joins Alex Cohen to talk about some of the biggest trends in connected home technology.