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I'm not interested in pointless indulgences like having a plasma screen in a garage, but it would be hugely useful to know the answer to this:

How do you get 24 cars in a 1600sq ft space ?:confused:
 
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“This client even has his housekeeper put [the garage] on her cleaning route along with the rest of the house.”

No, thanks. That doesn't work for me.
 
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Actually, I hadn't had a chance to fully read through it when I posted the link - this is from the original e-mail:

Letter From the Editor
My garage is a messy, dirty place. But apparently, not all are like mine.
"The garage is the new kitchen," said Mark Walters, chairman of the Z-Wave Alliance. He was talking to DIGITAL HOME contributor Dan Daley, who wrote a story this month about the latest in garage design.

"We're seeing custom cabinetry and tile flooring go into garages," Walters said. "And iPod docks aren't far behind. Technology is spilling into the garage from both the home and the car, so it's natural the garage becomes more electronically advanced."

Manufacturers already make devices that allow homeowners to communicate with their homes from inside their cars. Wayne-Dalton, a leader in garage doors, also makes garage openers and keypads that can trigger lighting scenes in the house before the user ever walks inside. The technology is based on Z-Wave wireless networking.

How about a car talking directly to the home's media system through communications installed in the garage?

Microsoft's Sync technology, unveiled at last January's Consumer Electronics Show, is a good first step. Sync allows people to connect cell phones, music players, personal digital assistants, and other devices to their cars using Bluetooth wireless or Universal Serial Bus connections. The technology is starting to roll out in Ford, Lincoln, and Mercury cars.

Recently I was in Benton Harbor, Mich., at Whirlpool headquarters for a meeting of the Continental Automated Buildings Association and its Internet Home Alliance Research Council. Tim Woods, former VP of the Internet Home Alliance and Detroit-area resident, said he'd tried out Sync technology and it works amazingly well.

As cars start to include hard drives in addition to wireless communications, it may only be a matter of time before people can synchronize their music files between their homes and their dashboards. In the meantime, check out what digital home designers say is possible today. Talk about differentiation.

Sincerely,

Brad Grimes, Editor
DIGITAL HOME Magazine

It sounded like there was more information about the technology available in the article...

I did find another article on the Wayne Dalton technology mentioned:
http://www.digitalhomeonline.com/post.asp?BlogId=grimesblog&postid=67111&sectionID=1137
 
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