Gadgets for Your Futuristic Home

By Ann Brown

There are a slew of new tech gadgets that will make your life easier at home. These doodads will transform your place and bring you into the future. Here are a few items to check out.

SONOS S5 SYSTEM
Starting at $400 per room
sonos.com

Want to pipe music into every room of your house? Well, don’t turn up the volume. Just install the Sonos S5 system. It acts as a speaker for all of the music in your iPod/iPhone cloud. It also pulls down other music from the Internet, including tunes from web- based services and more than 100,000 radio stations/podcasts. The system costs about $400 per room. Control it with your smartphone.