Yeah, I'm pretty sure I'll be staying with my low tech. We've been making a conscious effort at our house to use less screen time.

I think an app that shows recipes based on the ingredients you have in your kitchen is more helpful than showing you all the recipes that include red peppers. On many nights, I'm home later than I want to be and have a bunch of ingredients without a cohesive idea of how to use all of them for a quick meal. Stir frys are easy, but when you have a pound of brussels sprouts and one chicken breast in the freezer, it's not really clear what you could do with that.

Reminds me of this blog I read a while back about how the concept of ubiquitous flat touch-screen surfaces being the future is uninspiring.
http://worrydream.com/#!/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesign

I like the idea of interconnected, instantly synched devices, but of course that'll only work if everything you have is from Apple or Microsoft or an Android.

Also, I spend all day at work staring at a screen. I try to avoid doing so too much at home.

I like the pulls on the island cabinets. Anyone have any leads?

What Parnassus and Trig said.
I will be staying low tech as well. And I, too, stare at not one but two monitors all day long and I really feel (after having done this for the past 20+ years) how detrimental it is for my vision.

And everyone would live happily ever after, until they died of massive brain tumors.

I, for one, will not have room in my house for a giant screen.

Eh, this is just the latest in the "Homes of the Future" prognostication. In 20 years, this one will look as ridiculous as the same type of guesswork done in the 1950s.

I actually find the kitchen in these pictures, cold. It doesn't have the homey feel. Also, really, you need a computer to tell you that it's a red pepper!? And for recipes, once a while I would cool according to those formulas, but most of the time when I get home, I just improvise. That makes life interesting.

This looks like my worst nightmare -- like setting up house without walls in the middle of Times Square. Whatever happened to interacting with three-dimensional people rather than two-dimensional screens?

this is a little... 1984 for my tastes

All the Apartment Therapy posts on "how do we hide the television and computer" ... I think we'll see ubiquitous but invisible connectivity, not giant screens everywhere.

What I find amusing is the these ideas and their presentation always tries to meld the ideal old (notice the 1950's happy family vibe?) with the New (full wall electronic graphics and flowcharts during dinner anyone?). In reality, the kids would be buried in their tablets or phone, same with mom and dad. The touch screen counter top is cool, but I don't have the room to spare. My counterspace is limited, so my cookbook is propped up in my kitchen window. Everything about the New Home requires power and space. It makes me envious of the small spaces on AT.

Please let me apologize first. Then, I think part of what is wrong is people are TOO connected. I want silence, peace and quiet. I do not want video screens everywhere or any place other than my home office. Screens have no need to be everywhere. Maybe we'd spend more time talking and interacting with people if screens weren't everywhere!

Thanks Microsoft for thinking hard on this one. But no, thank you. You can't even make your Windows 7 or 8 work for the consumers. Not to mention your gadgets. MS hardware and software are just not up to the market's expectations anymore.

Hey, sometimes those predictions (massive sexism aside) are pretty accurate! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpq5ZmANp0k

This one predicted internet shopping (for the ladies, naturally), online bill paying (for their husbands, of course) and e-mail.

Pi- I've always, always wished for an app like this. I'm surprised no one has created one yet. Sort of the way HopStop can take your location and destination and show you every convenient route, I want a recipe app that can take a few ingredients I have on hand and show me some convenient ways to prepare them without necessitating the purchase of 20 additional ingredients.
More than that, I want an app that will help plan weekly groceries!! Select a couple of recipes, and then it could suggest more recipes that will use up the left over ingredients from the first recipes, and eventually spit out a shopping list.
I will not be satisfied with technology until these exist!!!