Technology Innovations at Homes

The Philippines, officially known as Republic of the Philippines is a sovereign state of the Southeast Asia in the Western Pacific Ocean. It has a land area of 115,831 sq miles (300,000 km²) comprising 7,107 islands. It is categorized broadly into three main geographical divisions namely: Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.

Having an estimated population of 101,833,938 (July 2011 est), the Philippines is considered to be the 7^th most populated Asian country and the 12^th most populated country in the world according to the Wikipedia. Comprising that large population, it is clear that millions of houses will be found all over the country, from the rich houses, mansions and condominiums down to the simple and smaller homes.

The Philippines being located near the equator makes it a tropical country. There are only two seasons in the Philippines, the rainy and the dry season. The rainy season usually starts in June and ends in October and the rest is the dry season. The Philippines also is a host to several storms in a year, nevertheless, normal things are nothing major. Having that kind of climate, Filipinos indeed needs a shelter as a basic requirement to protect themselves from the heat of the sun and pouring rains that may result to sickness and bad health.  

Home is a place where one stays and where ease and security must prevail. It is a place wherein you can find your inner space with the outmost comfort and satisfaction. During our busiest hours, our home would be our resting place to relax and to seize the moment. Also a place where in a family can enjoy together and have fun around. There are different kinds of houses all over the globe that contains different devices for comfort and entertainment within. Some have larger screen inside bedrooms, whole house studio, home theaters, automatic coffee maker, security filled houses, remote controlled appliances, automatic windows that would open when the sun starts to rise and many more. These were just a few of the advance technology found inside a house.

Often times when I watched a Koreanobela or a movie, I would be really amazed in the interior of the houses and the all automatic features of most of the appliances. I would sometimes dream of having those kinds of things in the future hoping that I could also enjoy those one of a kind experience at my own home.

As technology continued to bloom, more and more human beings continue to discover and used things that would lessen their time and effort. Many inventors try to create things for the better, ease and hassle free living. On our first activity for the Technopreneurship class, we were tasked to make a documentation based on our observations at malls, fast food chains and on our own home. And based on our observations, we will imagine a system that would be applicable and useful to our houses.

As I was thinking about the things that I can suggest having it on our house, I came up to the three possible system solutions. First of it is the digital recipe finder build on the side of our kitchen wall. When I was asked to cooked for the family, I really find it hard to look for the proper recipe especially if the viand or dessert is something that requires more vegetables, spices, flavors, pork and the likes to add on. There were instances when I have to search for my mother’s ‘how to’ book of recipes so that I can serve it right.

And so I have this digital recipe finder as a technology innovation on our home. It is a touch screen device built in the kitchen wall. When I have to look for the proper recipe of a certain dish, I would just search for it and the device would automatically view the ingredients list and the steps how it will be cooked.  You can also specify the amount of chicken, pork or fish that you contain and the device would automatically search for the proper amount of spices and other ingredients fit for the actual amount of main dish that you have. All of the recipes around the globe are located in this device that is sorted according to the type of food.

The second technology that I have in my brain is the automatic window wiper. Philippines as a tropical country, we have a really hot weather especially during summer that causes the roads to dry making it dusty and sandy. Whenever a big vehicle would pass by our house, the dusts on the road will be blown by the wind directed to the house beside it. And I find it time consuming and tiring to always wipe the window every time a vehicle would pass by.  So, I came up to a possible solution which is the automatic window wiper.

This automatic window wiper has a sensor that would detect when a bunch full of dust is blown to the window. When our window would be filled with those dusty things, it would automatically wipe it out. But it will not only wipe when that window is dust full, you can also set its time interval for wiping. Using this, we will never be concerned if our window is dirty thus making our home dustless and presentable to the visitors.

The third technology that I have is the shoe keeper machine. We, at most time go home tired and wanted to just throw our things out and jump to bed. There were times when we just leave our shoes anywhere because it is just so tiring to bring it up and put it on its proper container. And so, I imagined and come up with the idea of having a shoe keeper machine on our house. This would actually help especially for my father who always leaves his shoes outside.

This shoe keeper machine is somewhat like a delivery machine that when you place your foot wears, this would land it to the proper place. When you place a slipper, this machine would detect that it is a slipper and would place it to the slipper stand. And when it is a shoe, this machine will place it to the shoe rack. This machine also clean the foot wears before placing it in its proper designations. This has a car wash like process - deliver, clean, brush and then polish. And by the time you get up in the morning and go to work or in school, our shoes will be as shiny and new.