Trailblazers: Connected homes
Devices in the home are talking to each other. You’ve no doubt heard of Nest. Now it’s time to hear from the rest – including the many interesting advances that got us here.
Devices in the home are talking to each other. You’ve no doubt heard of Nest. Now it’s time to hear from the rest – including the many interesting advances that got us here.
In this episode, the story of design enters the 50s and 60s, when a revolutionary new material called plastic combined with electronic miniaturisation to allow designers to offer post-war consumers something new: liberation. A new passion for plastic arose when the possibilities where discovered: ‘plastic fantastic!’.
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