As part of NBC News’ CES coverage, Mike Seamons demos Life|ware in the NextGen home at CES. There’s some cool footage of our partners as well. Have a look! (you may have to watch a short ad first).

Life|ware 2.0.3, our latest release, has already been honored with a 2008 CES Innovations Award. (Life|media LMS 754 also received a 2008 CES Innovations Award).

Press release is available on Yahoo! Finance, or from our website’s press page. But here are a few highlights:

• Life|ware Visual Project, a brand-new configuration tool that merges the best of our previous tools. It has drag-and-drop functionality, allows significant customization, and makes your job easier than ever.
• Enhanced Life|scenes with conditional scripting
• Revamped UDI
• Customizable icons–select from the provided icons, or add your own.

Customizable Icons

Component Screen in Life|ware Visual Project

Contact your Regional Sales Manager for more information, or come see us at CES, where as a CES Innovations Award honoree, Life|ware 2.0.3 will be on display.

LAS VEGAS (CES – Convention Center Courtyard)

Best Buy is the first major retailer to offer an entry-level digital entertainment and automation package called ConnectedLife.Home. Installed by Best Buy For Business, this package represents a major step in the mainstream adoption of automation. To offer the products they know, have tested and are confident in, BBFB turned to hardware-neutral Life|ware to pull the package together. (See related press on this project.)

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LAS VEGAS (CES – Convention Center Courtyard)

Hello, everybody. Nice seeing you again. It’s the last day of the show and while many of the exhibits around the Life|ware home are empty, the line at our experience is unrelenting. While the actor’s voices are bit hoarse today, their spirits are high and the presentations excellent.

Master Bedroom

We meet up with Grandma in the Master Bedroom, where she’s wrapping up a new Zune for her grandson. Grandma doesn’t really understand how her system works – she thinks her son got her a really smart TV – but she does love it. Here’s what she’s doing:

Grandma loves to check the weather report first thing, and Life|ware serves up daily, three-day, five-day and seven-day forecasts for her. On cold mornings she likes to lay in bed, turn up her thermostats and let the room warm up before she gets up.

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LAS VEGAS (CES – Convention Center Courtyard)

Hello everybody. Nice seeing you again.

Apologies on the posting delays…as usual, Marketing has been keeping me pretty busy with pretty important projects:

Game Room

We’re moving into the Game Room now, a brackish place littered with empty Red Bull cans and pizza boxes, and inhabited by a semi-surly teen and his beloved Xbox.

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