Comment Re:Whatever happened to Haispex 3-D glasses? (Score 1) 535
I disagree. All those things you mentioned should be standard but have suffered from a mess of standardisation. With the light switch, would you like it to work with Zigbee, Insteon, Crestron, Lutron, etc? The whole HA scene is so fragmented. Where I live, all the front doors to the buildings are being replaced with RFID because people don't want a brass key to unlock stuff. The credit card industry is locked up by VISA and Mastercard so you will take what you get given.
Kids want new stuff, but they grow up getting their fingers burnt and realise that time = money and will wait for a mainstream commercial version of whatever they can buy in the supermarket. Same as you start with Gentoo as your OS, but after a couple of borked upgrades end up using Ubuntu as you can't afford for your work machine to be down for over a day.
I disagree with your last two sentences. I think people want security and safety, and often they find that in what they know. You only have to look at the crap that gets sold on something like QVC to see that gadgets sell if they appear to be backed by the apparent 'security' of seeing it on TV.
Phillip.