The buzz at CES must be all about wirelessly connecting home electronics because there is lots of talk on the subject this week: Philips is touting its connected home concept, which revolves around the iPronto, a universal remote, or the DesXcape, which sounds like a Tablet PC. The portable devices let users control all connected products in the home. Philips envisions users accessing content from the Internet or a PC to listen to a Web-based music station in one room, watch a movie trailer or music video in another room and check out pictures on a TV elsewhere.
While Philips touts a package of products that makes such a scenario easy to set up and use, it will take some time to develop products that will be truly easy enough for the mass market.