Looking inside the homes of the future

Fridges that tell you what to cook for dinner, beds that monitor and improve your sleeping patterns, and mirrors that let you watch movies and TV, will all be in the house of tomorrow, says Jessica Kelly.

THE iconic movie Back to the Future predicted that by 2015 we would all be riding around on hoverboards and travelling in flying cars. While we are still some time away from that, we have unquestionably entered a new technological era.

This is the age of the “Internet of Things” and while that concept may have sounded vague and far-fetched ten years ago, the reality of our daily lives illustrates a transition as seamless as the move from a TV with rabbit ears to the smart TVs of today. And this is only the beginning.