Sony的未来之屋

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Katie Scott loooks at Sony's House of the Future at Grand Designs Live and Stuart Miles get a first look at the new HTC Touch Diamond and Audio Pro Porto.

So here is Paul from Design Odyssey who is goanna explain to us this absolutely incredible compact bathroom system, so Paul, what is it?

Hah, Katie, all this is an all-in-one vertical bathroom. It consists of its top shower up here which rotates out, a shower lower down for children, etc. And then we have the system module flushing the toilet so that's hidden away. Then we have a couple of storage units, to store in your bottles, etc. There are lids on that to prevent the water getting in.

So you can actually lift this up and put stuff inside them, okay.

Yes. Lift them up ,you can put your wire baskets in there, customize how you want. And then we have the basin what you want as well which is a stainless steel bowl. Monobloc makes it so dispenser and then your shower controls to control the two overhead showers,(fantastic). Now rotate out the way as well revealing your toilet which has a soft cloth seat and a stainless steel pan. And then in here we have toilet roll and on the other side, we have toilet brush. So it’s very compact, very functional. Next year, we are hoping to be open really to a luxury version, with a mirror TV and some lights in as well and this ** we could out there upon the request.

And so what sort of price we are talking to? For the all-in-one as you see, it’s around about 10..., just only 10,000 including VATs. Ok and is it available now? It will be available in next couple of months. We are just finishing it off in couple of weeks and then we are ready to go.

Fantastic. Paul thanks ever so much for your time and thank you so much for showing us the system.

First of all excuse the lights. It’s actually not just may getting incredibly sunburn last weekend. It’s just very reddened here. This is the house in future after all, so why not have red lights instead of white. I am actually sitting on the hot red lounge which is incredible because it purely uses magnet to basically hover and what you can see is if I move around is that the chair actually moves around but its base just basically on this magnet pushing off each other and it’s incredibly steady and it’s very comfortable of stay with that, beyond the seats-on which would be actually cushions-on but this gives you sense of, you know, what this chair actually does, and it also gives you sense of the fact that it’s quite tough so it could be outside and be in house and in that aspect, it can definitely be one of the chairs in the future.

So we are here in the HTC Diamond launch in London to and we manage to get our hands on the latest handset to check it out to see what it is about. What you get, well you get a 3.20 mega-pixel camera. That’s H’s DPA 7.2 in the unit so that you can upload and download at high speed. There is also a WIFI (wireless Fidelity). But the impressive thing is the new touch close 3D interface which if you just push your fingers on there allows you to scroll through very quickly to different settings, chosen weather. Now, it runs on mobile 6.1, but pretty much it doesn’t look like 6.18 stable form. In fact, the Internet browser is from the Opera rather than Internet Explorers 6. And as you can see it, very graphical in its approach, if we go quickly to the "personal videos", everything is very pretty and images sort of scroll up or we go to "people", and you are goanna sign photos where you can look through the scroll through like a roller it acts, but also the Internet is very quick so we press the button here, page loads, now double tapping zooms in, you can scroll around just like the Iphone. And what’s interesting is that the text will also resize according to the screen rather than gonna…. So we got some text here, going to double tapping. As you can see it’s automatically resized. Then double tap when expand back yet. That’s really clever. and that’s the HTC Diamond due out on all networks in UK in June.

So this might look like a normal Velux's window, but it’s not. How many times if you looked around flat in London where obviously there is no space and it says Juliet Balcony will check this out. Now I know I have a very silly look on my face when I did that. But the first time they showed me, I thought it must be incredibly heavy. But actually I’m a complete weight, and it was no weight at all, and it's also really weak for you to collapse. So, what you have to do is, lift up these little catchers. So that is one there, one on this side, pull it back in, and take it down. That's easy. This is the Cabrio Balcony System from Velux. And it's about 2000 pounds and it will be available on the market very soon.

So I hope you enjoyed our dash-around Grand Design's Life and I hope also it's given you some inspiration ideas for your home maybe not now but may be for the future. Thanks for watching.

wire basket:

VAT: Value-Added Tax

Velux™: A company specialized in producing roof windows and skylights.

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这是来自奥德赛设计公司的Paul，他将向我们介绍一个非常不可思议的简洁浴室系统。那么Paul，具体是什么样的呢？

Katie，你可以看一下，这是一个一体化的垂直浴室。包括一个顶部的淋浴，旋转一下就可以，还有位置稍低的儿童专用的淋浴，等等。我们还有一个隐藏的模块，可以用来充马桶。然后还有两个存储组件，可以装在瓶子里。而且还有盖子，可以防止水流进去。

那么你可以拿起盖子，在里面装东西也可以。

是的，掀开盖子，你可以将钢丝笼放进去，想怎么样都可以。然后我们还有一个你非常想要的洗脸池，是不锈钢制作的。Monobloc将结构制作的非常节凑，可以控制头顶的两个淋浴装置。现在旋转一下，你的马桶也会出来，马桶的有一个柔软的布座位和不锈钢板。马桶的一边有一个马桶滚轴，另外一边有一个马桶刷。所以这个装置非常简洁，功能也非常齐全。明年，我们希望能制作出非常奢华东版本，可以有镜子，电视机，灯饰等等。我们会根据要求进行设计。

那么这个装置的价格怎样呢？你也看到了这是一体化的装置，大约……包括增值税在内，总共10，000美元。现在可以买的到了吗？大约再过两个月就可以上市了。再过两个星期我们就准备好了。

非常棒。Paul，非常感谢你为我们展示这么精彩的装置。

首先原谅这些灯。上个周末本来不应该被太阳灼伤的。只是这里被晒红了。这毕竟是未来之屋，那么为什么不用红色的灯取代白色的灯呢？我坐在红色的长沙发上，这是非常难以置信的，因为完全是依靠磁铁的作用，你可以看到，我转动的时候，沙发确实在转动，仅仅依靠和磁铁之间的相互作用，但是却非常牢固，坐在上面非常舒服。当然，你也可以在上面加上垫褥。这种椅子会给你一种感觉，它非常坚硬，你可以摆放在房间里，也可以放在外面，这一定会成为未来世界的椅子。

现在我们在HTC Diamond伦敦发布会上，我们得以目睹最新式手机的风采。该手机装有320万像素的摄像头，DPA 7.2Mpbs高速上网，可以实现高速上传下载，同时还配有WIFI无线上网功能。但是给人印象最深的是触摸3D界面。将手指放在屏幕上就可以自由选择菜单。现在，该手机安装了mobile 6.1操作系统，但是看上去不像6.18的版本。事实上，网络浏览器来源于挪威Opera软件公司的浏览器软件而不是IE6.0。你可以看到，它的图解非常生动。你点击“个人视频” ，所有的内容都非常漂亮，图像开始滚动，当我们点击“人物”，你可以在转动滚轴的时候给照片做记号，但是网速非常快，我们可以按下载键，双击，就可以像Iphone那样浏览。有趣的是，接下来图片的大小会根据屏幕自动调整……现在我们收到了短信，双击。它可以自动调整大小。然后再双击，就会还原成原来的大小。这手机简直太聪明了，这款HTC Diamond手机六月份就会在英国全线上市。

这可能看上去像一个普通的天窗，但是不是的。有多少次你转遍整个伦敦找公寓都没有位置，它说，Juliet Balcony会搬出去。现在我知道，当我做这件事的时候，脸上的表情非常愚蠢。但是他们第一次给我展示的时候，我认为一定非常重。但是实际上我错了，一点都不重。你要做的只是，拎起这些小抓手。这里就有一个，里面有一个，可以把它拉进去，或者放下来。这很简单。这就是Velux天窗制作公司的Cabrio Balcony系统。价格大约2000英镑，很快就会上市。

所以我希望你们喜欢英国设计展Grand Designs Live，也希望给了你们一些关于家庭的灵感，现在可能没有，但是将来可能会。感谢收看。

单词注解：

wire basket: 铁丝笼
VAT: 增值税
Velux™: 专门制作天窗的一个公司