CNN aired a short piece on Edge of Discovery, featuring the Aware Home Research Initiative on June 24, 2009. The 90 second piece will air again on June 27th, 2009 at 4pm ET and Sunday at 6pm ET.

Projects featured:

The following projects were shown on the segment and further information may be found on the Research pages

• Viz-a-vis
• Sympathetic Devices
• Deaf 911
• Dr. J says
• Talk to the Hand (a project from the Happy Healthy Home course)
• Digital Family Portrait
• Memory Mirror
• Magic Gesture control

Transcript:

It's called the aware home, and in this case, home is where the smart is. The house is actually a cutting-edge lab where Georgia Tech researchers look at how we live now and how we might live in the future. Brian Jones, Aware Home Research Institute: The overarching theme has really been health in the home. And that's really where the  future is for health care and health care delivery. Here you'll find phones that help the deaf communicate with 911. Computers that recommend a healthy meal based on what's in  the fridge. Even high-tech gloves that identify objects for the blind... One of our areas of research has been in providing a device that can help older adults better communicate with their family. No one lives in the aware home full time, and most of the products won't be available to the public for a few more years, but it may be a glimpse of a new way to live.