When Google announced its Chrome OS, there was one question we kept asking in the back of our heads: what’s going to happen to Android? Android, Google’s mobile operating system, is coming to netbooks next month. But Chrome OS is also starting with netbooks, so where does that leave Google’s other operating system?
Apparently, Android has found a new market for assimilation: home appliances. According to a report on Forbes, a wave of touch-screen devices are about to be unleashed on the market later this year. They will be capable of everything from controlling your lights to managing your stereo remotely. Oh, and all of these devices are going to run on the open-source Android platform.
If you combine this with the Locale app on your Android phone you could have your air conditioning or heater turn on when you start heading home from work or get close enough where it will be comfortable by the time you get home. You could of course set a timer for this but with the Locale app it could auto compensate if you are running late. The possibilities are endless when you start combining these technologies.
Yes, combine Locale with the “Locale HTTP Request Plug-In” to send a POST or GET request to any of your devices on the home network – here’s your automation!!
Also interesting is the “Locale Ping.fm Plug-In” which can set all your social Network’s statuses based on the Location or Time conditions. Great for posting that you work again, are out to party.