Technology has raised the bar for how perfect our homes can be John Gomes is already living in the future. An early adopter of the kind of advanced smart home technology that is a fantasy for most of us, Gomes had his new Tribeca apartment intelligently connected about six months ago. He still gets a thrill when he realizes how much he can accomplish by doing almost nothing at all.
When he wakes, he says to his Amazon digital assistant, ?Alexa, master bedroom shades up,? and it is done. When he puts his head on his pillow at night, he says, ?Alexa, home off,? and the shades come down, while lights all over the house turn off. When he wants music, he requests it from one of the six Echo Dots spread throughout his 2,700-square-foot home, and Alexa puts on ?Chill,? the Apple Music radio station that he always wants to hear. And most importantly, the lights are precisely calibrated to the right warmth.
Like many smart home early adopters, Gomes has a thing he?s really into?a kind of technological cause?and his thing is lights. Finding the right light for one?s home is ?super serious,? he says. ?I truly believe in the future that more people will understand this.? So he worked with his interior designer to find a company that makes custom light bulbs, searched for just the right lamps and sconces, and then, with the help of his smart home integration service, tweaked and tweaked the lighting till it was the ?perfect amber.? These days, Gomes is one of the leading broker...