Comprehension: South Korea's Home of the Future

A stove that recommends recipes, wallpaper that changes colour at the touch of a finger and a table that may just be the world's largest iPod- it's not science fiction, just the first wave of futuristic homes in South Korea.

Watch the video and answer the questions below.  Decide if the statements are True or False.

1. The chip on the plate can recommend recipes.
a. True
b. False

2. The designers created the house based on what people want.
a. True
b. False

3. The bath can be filled to the depth and the temperature that you like best.
a. True
b. False

For transcript and answers see below.

Transcript and Answers:

Welcome to the home of the future at least in South Korea, a place where the fridge tells you what's in it as well as the expiry dates. Where the ergonomic kitchen bench automatically adjusts to your height then detects what has been placed on it.  All thanks to one handy piece of technology central to all of this.

“I am holding this plate of food but there is a chip attached to the bottom of the plate. This chip contains all the information on the food and then after reading the information it can give the best recommendation on a recipe for cooking it.”

Then there is the entertainment room centered around the e-table, a sort of giant iPod that controls the entire room.  Swipe your mobile phone for messages, music, and photographs.  Actual pictures
then send them straight to frames on the wall then watch the entire wall change to suit the mood of the music you just selected.  This technology extends to the children's bedroom; there are even widgets, the world's flattest flat screen television, and on ballgames and language lessons.  Its creators say futuristic thinking had little to do with the design.

“This display centre is about listening to the voice of customers and about proposing future technologies and developing new technologies in such a direction as the customers actually want.”

It maybe what customers want but if you want to check your text messages in the bath or even have run itself automatically to a favorite depth and temperature you'll have to wait until 2015, that's when the future becomes the present.

Answers:

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