The outgoing Linux Australia group president of a Web application development company called Internet Vision Technologies has a technologically pimped out home, in which just about anything from watering the lawn, to opening his blinds, or checking the mail can be controlled through a software environment. Jonathan Oxer is an electronics and coding whiz who apparently has an RIFD tag implanted in his arm that opens his front door and his front gate is hooked up with gigabit Ethernet — able to tell him when someone enters the property or send him a virtual email or sms to say he has real mail. Apparently the iPod Touch has just inspired him to begin linking all his little hardware hacks together into the one single, software controlled handheld touch device.

This obviously stands apart from the usually mundane homes we see, without being lavish and by taking something simple and cheap, and modifying it so it can be software controlled, you can do all sorts of things with it you never previously imagined.

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