Virtual tour of bill gates house

In the US, smart home technologies are used by about 20% of households, in Russia - only 3%. However, judging by the mansions of Mark Zuckerberg, Oprah Winfrey and other media personalities, automation of everything and everyone has already become a new luxury item. Now the main thing is not the origin of the marble for the kitchen countertop and not the number of bedrooms, but how smart your home will turn out to be.

"Digital Butler" Mark Zuckerberg

Virtual assistants like Siri or Alexa can turn on heaters and dim lights. However, none of them satisfied Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. So he decided to develop his own digital assistant that controls all the electronics in his California home. Zuckerberg named him Jarvis, after Iron Man's butler in the Marvel Universe.

Jarvis speaks in the voice of actor Morgan Freeman. He knows well the tastes of Zuckerberg and other household members: when he is asked to put on music, he chooses compositions depending on whose voice he is speaking to - Mark or his wife Priscilla. You can talk to the assistant both verbally and through the Facebook messenger.

According to Zuckerberg, creating an automated home was easier than he thought. It took about 100 hours to develop. One of the challenges was the toaster: “I learned that it is quite difficult to find a toaster that can dip bread into itself in advance to automatically start toasting it when the power is turned on. I ended up finding an old toaster 1950s and equipped it with a switch,” he wrote in a post on his Facebook page.

David Yan Free Robot

ABBYY Group Chairman David Yang is building a house that will be controlled by an artificial intelligence named Morpheus. It was developed on the basis of unsupervised machine learning and, unlike conventional voice assistants, has rather unpredictable behavior.

Morpheus is given the freedom of choice: if he is asked to turn on the coffee machine, open the door, or do any other housework, he will be able to decide for himself whether he should do it or not. Over time, the robot will have a bank account, and he will be able to buy things on Amazon - for himself or for other people.

In addition to household tasks, Morpheus will be busy studying philosophical works on the freedom of consciousness and will. He will be able to record his thoughts in endless essays in 60 languages. “It will be a social experiment: will he become free or not,” Yang said in a recent interview with Forbes Life.

"Green" air conditioners Elon Musk

Following the tech giants, Tesla has taken on the development of systems that will make housing more energy efficient. The company has commercialized solar panels and solar roofing, but little is known about other products.

In the fall of 2018, on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, CEO Elon Musk hinted that engineers are also working on air conditioning systems that will connect to the car and track the owner's movement. Thanks to this, the system will know exactly when you are approaching the house and will cool the rooms when you arrive. The technology has already been tested on Tesla vehicles connected via a mobile app, Musk said.

Spying on guests in the house of Bill Gates

The Microsoft founder lives at Xanadu 2.0 Estate, where visitors must pin a pin-shaped sensor to their clothing at the entrance. This allows them to always remain in sight: in order to determine the location of a particular guest, the owner or guard will only need to look at the smartphone display.

Close attention has its advantages. The tracking sensor interacts with various systems in the house, which are triggered when a person approaches. For example, guests can tell in advance about their musical preferences, and then the selected melody will sound from the speakers, accompanying them as they move from room to room. The route for each of the guests is compiled individually, and only certain doors remain open.

The security measures in Xanadu 2.0 seem over the top if you don't know the size of the residence: the 6,000 square meter house has 7 bedrooms and 24 bathrooms, 10 of which have bathtubs. For solemn events, a separate hall is allocated, which can simultaneously accommodate up to 200 people.

Let's add that Gates keeps an eye not only on the guests, but also on his favorite tree - maple, growing next to the driveway to the house. The condition of the soil is controlled by electronics, which include automatic watering when there is a lack of moisture in the soil.

Warm Asphalt Oprah Winfrey

TV presenter Oprah Winfrey's Telluride mansion, purchased in 2015 for $14 million, is equipped with several smart systems: they keep the temperature in the bathroom, help monitor the garden and control the watering of flowers via iPad, from anywhere in the world.

The property is located in the state of Colorado, known for its harsh winters. Therefore, a lot of attention is paid to the weather conditions here: data on temperature and precipitation are transmitted from their own weather station and then give a signal to the rest of the systems in the house. When it snows, sensors in the driveway turn on the heating system, making it safer to get to Winfrey's house. Road sensors also serve for safety - they warn the mistress of the house about this. when someone drives up to the residence.

Visiting Bill Gates: A tour of the new $43 million Microsoft CEO's mansion

A famous inventor and philanthropist decided not to skimp on a family nest for quarantine

03.05.2020 / 18:45

"We did it seconds before quarantine" - that's how you can unofficially call the deal that Bill Gates and his wife Melinda, one of the richest people on the planet, made. According to the American publication Wall Street Journal, in late March, the couple completed the transaction to purchase a mansion in the prestigious coastal town of Del Mar in San Diego County, California. And the purchase amount - $ 43 million - was, it seems, one of the largest in the history of this place. Not the biggest, though: the building's previous owner, oil tycoon Thomas Boone Pickens Jr., bought it for $48 million in 2007. So in some ways the head of Microsoft and his wife even "saved".

The approximate area of ​​this purchase is 538 square meters. The building has six bedrooms and four bathrooms, a mosaic-encrusted swimming pool, a spacious terrace with ocean views and direct access to the water, and two guest houses. In addition, the owners of the mansion and guests have a wellness SPA, a cinema, a jacuzzi for up to 10 people and a tennis court. The history of the building is also rich: it was designed back in 1999 by architect Ken Ronchetti.

Bill Gates Mansion

Other "simple" benefits of such an expensive residence include underfloor heating, automated alarms, lighting, climate control, and a keyless entry system for hosts. The protection of the mansion even extends to the ocean: to prevent uninvited guests from penetrating "into the waters" of Bill Gates, a special "sea wall" was created under the guidance of oceanographic engineers from the Scripps Institution.

In general, the new home of the Gates couple has not only a beautiful facade, but also the functionality of a real fortress, in which you can dig in during the quarantine. By the way, during his recent interview with Le Figaro, Bill Gates gave a disappointing forecast about the period of self-isolation:

We won't be back to normal life for another year or two. We can get out of this first stage only by building a system that will eliminate the risk of a return to the exponential phase of the progression of the epidemic. With a testing and tracking system, we can quickly identify areas of infection and control them. But we will not return to completely normal activities, because people will be very worried about the possibility of infection and will drastically change their behavior.

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