Lumenhaus - I want one, now!

Thanks to Inhabitat, I've been able to follow the Solar Decathlon Europe with interest. The winner was announced last night and it was the Lumenhaus from Virginia Tech. Inhabitat's feature is here.

The Lumenhaus is undeniably greener than your average home, what with graywater pools, solar panels and just being smaller. What I dig the most though, is the smart aspect of this home. The insulation can come on when needed, natural light and heat is used when available, the furniture serves many purposes. The kicker is definitely the ability to control your appliances and lighting from your iPhone. All of the technology shown is here now, and I can't wait to be able to go on a website and order a prefab home like this soon!



Check out the kitchen, some very innovative elements here.



Another video taken at last year's Solar Decathlon that shows you around the interiors.

And we're baaacckk!

It's been a bit of a challenging time in Bangalore thus far but now we seem to be coastin', and I hope to be back blogging. For starters, I picked a new Blogger theme, you like? Will customize the template a bit more when I get the time.

So what has the last 4 months been like? Hmm.. kids getting sick, Siddharth's mottai, visit with architect to Kutrallam, more of kids getting sick, starting cycling, you get the picture!

I'm finally back to reading my RSS and starting to look for jobs. Vive le blog!