ANDRIA HALL, CNN ANCHOR: If you're thinking of building or buying a new home, don't forget to consider high technology in your plans. The latest home designs don't really look like "The Jetsons" just yet, but on the inside, some of the gadgets do. CNN's David George shows us just a few of them.</s>DAVID GEORGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Lamps that automatically come on when you come home. Speakers hidden behind the wallpaper, playing music that follows from you room to room, portable touchpads that control everything from the TV to the temperature to the lights, which brighten or dim to fit the occasion or to match the light outdoors. Those are just a few examples of the kind of home technology available today. And high-tech doesn't necessarily mean high price. Every home in this medium-priced subdivision near Atlanta comes prewired for technology and the Internet. How much technology is up to the homeowner. A basic house might have a simple intercom at the front door, for instance. A more expensive house might have a front door camera, with the intercom linked to telephone.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hello.</s>GEORGE: Hi. It's David George from</s>CNN. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hey, David. How are you? Come on in. Well, the way it works, if you ring the doorbell, I just grab the phone and dial "*,*," and I'm talking to you at the front door. So I can by anywhere in the house.</s>GEORGE: Back in 1957, Monsanto Corporation offered its version of the house of the future at California's Disneyland. In Monsanto's view, the future was all about easy living.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Convenience is right at your fingertips here.</s>GEORGE: Some of Monsanto's vision came true, but the house of the future's floating diner design never caught on. Four decades later, the house of the future looks a like the house next door. It's the technology inside that makes it different. David George, CNN, Atlanta.
A Look at High-Technology Homes