It’s hard to hear talk about a “smart home”—in essence, a fully automated, connected habitat that allows residents the ability to control its functions remotely—without thinking of that most clichéd of all space-age clichés: the Jetsons. However, with pioneering powerhouse Google’s recent $3.2 billion purchase of home automation device company Nest, the Jetson lifestyle envisioned by Hanna-Barbera in 1962 may finally be close to mainstream reality. Let’s put the pieces together and see what exactly might compose this dream house as built by Google.
