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AI-THu Shapeshifting Transformer Home
AI-THu smart home from AC Future, can transform itself to meet your needs - and it's AI-enabled! Although I'm not sure what that means. I know what it could mean.
In his 1943 novel Gather, Darkness!, science fiction writer Fritz Leiber describes an adjustable house.
As predicted by science fiction!
— Bill Christensen (@Technovelgy) January 14, 2025
The 'Adjustable House' from "Gather, Darkness!" by Fritz Leiber, published in Astounding Science Fiction in 1943. https://t.co/vldwD2JnKm pic.twitter.com/ZkCPNpdEq0
The AI-THu represents a stationary AI-enabled sustainable smart home that transforms to offer 400 square feet of intelligent living space. Its flexible main living area can seamlessly shift between a comfortable lounge, productive office or additional bedroom, maximizing functional utility. The design includes a convertible front expansion for additional living space and a private primary bedroom with extendable wardrobe options. Integrated AI smart home technology, solar panels, energy storage systems and a water generator ensure sustainable and efficient living. Priced starting at $98,000, the AI-THu can be installed anywhere – on-grid or off-grid – while maintaining the comforts of a traditional home.
As far as having an AI-enabled house that knows what you want and can deliver it, you can't do any better than the psychotropic houses from The Thousand Dreams of Stellavista by JG Ballard.
...it consisted of six huge aluminum-shelled spheres suspended like the elements of a mobile from an enormous concrete davit. The largest sphere contained the lounge, the others successively smaller and spiraling upward into the air, the bedrooms and kitchen...Stamers, the agent, left us sitting in the car... and switched the place on (all the houses in Vermillion Sands, it goes without saying, were psychotropic). There was a dim whirring, and the spheres tipped and began to rotate, brushing against the undergrowth.
...I got out and walked over to the entrance, the main sphere slowing as I approached, uncertainly steering a course toward me, the smaller ones following.
...As I stepped forward, it jerked away, almost in alarm, the entrance retracting and sending a low shudder through the rest of the spheres.
It's always interesting to watch a psychotropic house try to adjust itself to strangers, particularly those at all guarded or suspicious. The responses vary, a blend of past reactions to negative emotions, the hostility of the previous tenants...
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