Line to get in to the Innoventions Dream Home, from the Micechat blog

According to CEPro, Taylor Morrison has sold about five homes as a result of its presence in the Dream Home, and Life|ware dealers have closed four jobs.

This is becoming an exciting opportunity for Life|ware and our dealers. We’ll be getting back to you soon with more details!

Read the full announcement at Taylor Morrison Online Contest Offers a Chance to Win a High-Tech, Disneyland-Inspired Dream Home or if you just want to enter right away, go to http://www.tmdreamhomegiveaway.com/. The contest runs from June 20, 2008 through August 20, 2008, and you can enter up to once a day.

Good luck!

The Washington Independent has some nice comparison photos of the old “home of the future” and the current “dream home” and an interesting editorial about what this says about the evolution of family, though personally I think they’re reading a LEEETLE too much into it. In contrast, Gizmodo says Disney’s Innoventions Dream Home is a Big Ad for Microsoft and HP…But I Still Want It and Shiny Shiny says I SO want to live here.

The DailyBreeze.com notes Disney looks to future with Innoventions Dream Home and walks through the house’s special features in Disney’s Dream Home highlights.

The LA Times’ somewhat snarky Big Spender: Disneyland’s Dream Home nonetheless has some nice video of the house’s features.

Geek.com seems impressed.

And more video:

KTTV Los Angeles (FOX affiliate)

KTVK Phoenix

Print and Podcasts

Ian Dixon has a great report at The Digital Lifestyle.com about the Innoventions Dream Home. Additionally, he’s interviewing EI’s Jason Leonardelli about the Innoventions Dream Home and Life|ware’s particpation in his podcast The Media Center Show this week (download or play online).

The OC Register has a first peek and a layout of the Innoventions Dream Home.

Home Entertainment magazine says “undeniably cool“.

 Video

Life|ware gets a nice shout-out in the OC Register’s video tour:

 

CNET News.com’s Kara Tsuboi gives you a peek at some of the technology in the home.

Fox News KCPQ TV (Seattle-Tacoma) “Kurt the Cyber Guy” video tour.

And check here for their opening day photo gallery.

The Innoventions Dream home, controlled by Life|ware, was opened to tremendous fanfare at Disneyland in Anaheim, CA on Monday and it’s getting some great press!

See a video tour of the home at disneylandevent.com.

More video: Innoventions Home showcases future living

UltimateAVmag.com wants to know when can I move in?

USA Today says Disneyland opens Dream Home with futuristic flourishes.

The Austin American-Statesman has some cool video in Disney’s (new) house of the future.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution says Step into house of the future at Disneyland exhibit.

ANAHEIM – Hello from Disneyland, peeps.

Today was the grand opening of the Innoventions Dream Home here at Disney, and as you might have guessed, it’s Life|ware powered.

The home tells the story of connected digital living with live actors portraying the fictional Elias family. The free form tours let you explore each room on your own, with the Eliases roaming about to tell you about the gear.

Oh—the gear. The gear. The gear. The gear. We’ve got Life|point touch panels. Life|media media servers. Life|ware. EI’s fingerprints are all over this home.

There are 73 digital picture frames in the home, and the images on them change based on which member of the Elias family is in the room. You’re probably wondering what happens when more than one Elias is in the room. The answer is simple: Mom’s pictures.

Coach Manny shows EI’s Jason Leonardelli how to work a Life|point.

Life|ware on a 100 inch rear-projection TV from Blue Ocean.

Breakfast at Tiffany’s. With Life|ware. Tiffany is one of the actresses. She’s pretty nice.

There she is. Hi Tiffany.

Upwards of 70 percent of the technology in the home is available today. The rest is cool emerging technology and some Disney magic. Check out the picture below. The dude on the screen is giving a piano lesson. From New York. He can play his piano there and the piano here will play.

Microsoft’s Surface technology is everywhere. In the dining room, they can edit images, do puzzles, draw, all on the table top. High tech meets high touch.

HP has Touchsmart PCs and displays all over the house. That’s a smart countertop, too.

I realize I need to hold fast on the marketing speak, there, the Pete. It gets to be second nature the more time you spend at Disneyland. You suddenly find yourself dropping the word “magical” into everyday conversation, and made-up words like “innoventions” don’t faze you in the slightest. It’s a tough place to “keep it real” because lots of smart people have designed it to be decidedly unreal — a land where dreams come true.

See? It’s addictive.

But the truth is, the market speak rests here on a solid foundation – the experience that thousands of Disney guests will get every year at the Dream Home is robust, rich and real. That’s why Life|ware is in this project — bringing all the tech together into one beautiful experience. Come to Disneyland and check it out — and watch this line for news stories and more. A few more pics:

Life|ware doesn’t control the cannon in the boy’s room, but it does set the lights to the perfect luminance for cannon fire. This room features an interactive story-telling experience. It involves a cannon. Obviously.

The magic mirror lets you try on different outfits and hairstyles. Oddly enough, I see more men trying this out than women.

Finally, here’s EI’s VP of Marketing Bret Fitzgerald hamming it up with Mrs. Elias in the opening ceremony. It was about a thousand degrees outside and luckily my EI duds are all black. Yet despite this tremendous heat, Bret’s message rang true: every life has a rhythm and Life|ware keeps your home in perfect step with that rhythm. Man, that’s some nice writing. Serious. Whoever wrote that speech deserves, like, triple raises and stuff. I’m not just saying that. I mean it.

Check it out on video:

http://www.disneylandevent.com/tsm/27-dreamhome.html

Good times.

With the new Disney Innoventions Dream home scheduled to open today, I thought I’d give you all a roundup of some of the articles about the house:

From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: This Dream Home Comes with a Mouse.

From Electronic House magazine: Life|ware Added to Disney Exhibit

From Earthtimes.com: It’s the Home of your Dreams

The Innoventions Dream Home opens on June 16th, and CNBC’s Julie Boorstin has a sneak preview (video):

Disney House of the Future

A partnership between Disney, Microsoft, HP, homebuilder Taylor-Morrison, and Life|ware, the Innoventions Dream Home is meant to showcase not only future technologies but also technologies that people can have in their homes today.