Our technology helps us do most things now, giving us directions when we are lost, recommending restaurants when we are hungry and telling us what our friends are doing when we are lonely.
But wouldn't it be nice if after a long day at work, your house ran you a bath and put the kettle on because it could detect how you were feeling?
Maybe such an idea is not too far-fetched as LJ Rich reports from Paris where she meets a perceptive building.
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