Entering the reception hall, the most striking thing is the 40-square-inch rear projection TV on the wall, which is enough to hold a cocktail party for 150 people. Gates' commercial kitchen can provide catering services for more than 100 people. Of course, there is also a special restaurant for 24 people to enjoy fireplace dinner. On the way home, Gates can remotely explore everything in the home through the smart home system, including automatically adjusting the water temperature in the bathtub and instructing the kitchen staff to prepare dinner.
The only traditional landscape in a smart mansion is a century-old tree, and the sensors in the house can automatically water the old tree in time according to its water demand! (It was later proved to be fake news, and netizens used ps to maliciously speculate. ) Gates' fully intelligent kitchen is probably the most technologically advanced in the world. The refrigerator will always tell the owner which foods have been stored in the refrigerator for too long and need to be handled in time. The refrigerator door is equipped with a computer, a bar code scanner and a display, which can provide correct methods for food preservation, processing and making, so that you can handle food in the safest and healthiest way. The refrigerator is also equipped with a TV and radio. You can watch TV or listen to the news while cooking in the kitchen, and you can also monitor the situation in front of the door and the safety of the children through the camera connected to it. The refrigerator can also scan its own storage and automatically send demand orders to the supermarket.
The most amazing thing is that the host computer can send cooking instructions through the computer, and all kinds of cooking pots are equipped with temperature measuring devices and connected with the control device, which can ensure that the dishes do not explode or overflow when cooking; The automatic equipment buried in the wall and under the floor can automatically spray detergent, water mist and clean water to clean the kitchen.
The host only needs a few mouse clicks before he gets off work. When he got home, the TV was broadcasting the news he wanted to watch, and delicious food was ready. The distinguished guests hosted by Bill Gates have to go through extremely strict security checks before they really enter the "home of the future". Gates usually arranges for VIPs to cross the lake by boat and enter the "home of the future".
When the yacht is moored at the small pier in front of the mansion, it will definitely trouble the distinguished guests to walk slowly first, and don't wear the exclusive electronic brooch prepared by Gates for the guests (this is the necessary equipment for all tourists to enter this artificial intelligence technology mansion).
Of course, the role of brooches is not only for identification. It is mainly used to transmit the personal information of visitors to the miniature transmitter built in the brooch, so that people can carry out a series of amazing interactive activities with the mansion.
Through the micro-communicator embedded in the brooch, the central computer will make intimate arrangements for temperature, humidity, lighting and music. According to the preferences of tourists. Even when distinguished guests visit Gates, a mansion with 45 rooms, the famous paintings hanging on the wall will be automatically replaced.
Visitors will receive a brooch with a built-in microchip from the moment they enter the door, which can preset your favorite conditions such as temperature, humidity, lighting, music and painting. No matter where you go, the built-in sensor will send these data to the central computer of WindowsNT system to adjust the environment and make you feel at home.
When you step into a room, the speaker hidden behind the wallpaper will sound your favorite melody, and the wall will project your familiar paintings; In addition, you can use the portable touchpad to adjust your feeling at any time. Even when you play in the swimming pool, there will be pleasant music underwater.
What people talk about most is the intelligence of this mansion, which is known as the most intelligent building in the world and also known as the "model of future life". The shadow of high technology can be seen everywhere in Gates' home. Every guest must wear a special electronic brooch, on which the relevant information of visitors is registered. Without it, visitors will be recognized as intruders by the system and then call the police through the network.
However, with such a powerful function, people can't see any cables in the house, because all 53 kilometers of cables are buried under the floor; The floor is not only a decoration, but also a huge sensor. When someone enters the room, the floor will adjust the brightness of the lights in the room, as well as the temperature and humidity of the air according to the intensity of sunlight. More interestingly, there is no socket on the wall, because Gates doesn't like the feeling of "mess". Gates usually arranges for tourists to cross Lake Washington by boat and enter the room from the exclusive pier. As soon as you enter the hall, the glass wall gives you a panoramic view of Lake Washington. Facing you is a towering 84-step staircase with a Douglas fir beam as high as 20 meters. Those who are afraid of heights can take the elevator instead and come to the lobby on the first floor.
The reception hall can hold a dinner for 150 people or a cocktail party for 200 people. One wall is embedded with a fireplace two meters wide, and the other wall is lined with 24 40-inch TV screens. Guests with higher status are entertained in another banquet hall that can accommodate 24 people, overlooking the beautiful lakes and mountains from the third floor.
Enjoying nature with sound and light is also the focus of entertaining guests. There is an "Art Deco" style cinema in the mansion, which is equipped as the projection room of Hollywood studios and can be enjoyed by 20 guests. In addition, there is a 70-square-meter gym with sauna and steam bath, and a bouncing bed room with a ceiling of six meters.
However, Gates is most proud of his private library, which is a dome-shaped building with a skylight in the middle of the roof to receive natural light, and the indoor light is adjusted with the outside rain or shine. Leonardo da Vinci's Leicester manuscript, Napoleon's love letter to Josephine, the script manuscript of Hitchcock's movie Psycho and so on are all collected in the museum. Among them, Leonardo da Vinci's manuscript is worth more than 30 million US dollars. Living in such a grand view garden, the safety problem cannot be taken lightly. Because the local area belongs to the earthquake zone, the earthquake resistance should be particularly strengthened, and the strength of its reinforced structure is four times that required by the building code.
The safety factor of the house is also enough to ensure that when one set of safety system fails, another set of standby safety system will start automatically; When the owner needs it, as long as the "rest" switch is pressed, the anti-theft alarm system set around the house will start to work; In case of fire and other accidents, the fire protection system of the house can automatically alarm the outside world through the communication system, display the best rescue plan, shut down the dangerous power system and distribute water supply according to the fire.
In this house, * * * laid 52 miles of cables to connect all the electrical equipment in the room into an absolutely standard home network. Meteorological sensors are installed at the entrance of the mansion, and the computer can control the indoor temperature and ventilation according to various meteorological indicators. At the door of the computer room, a miniature camera was installed. If someone wants to enter the door except the owner, the camera must inform the owner, and the owner will give an order to the computer before the door can be opened. Otherwise, nobody can get in.