I forgot one "silly" idea that I have always wanted in a house:

A train that runs through the entire place; every room, the back porch,
yard, pool etc... AND through the storage spaces and refrigerator. With a
robotic arm that can pick up and place items on its flat cars. So I can ask
for a box of cereal and a carton of milk and have it delivered to me.

If it was quite enough not to wake people up, it would make the rounds at
night, checking the windows and doors and smelling for smoke.

And empty the trash from track side hoppers.

Better living through rail roads.

Yes, one would probably spend more time unjamming, picking up spills, fixing
derailments, etc... Than if you just did it by hand, but the point is this:
All of it now becomes playing with your toy train!

Oh, and another thing:

An automated kitchen. Like a bread maker but expanded to cover all food
preparation tasks. Dispensers in both the pantry and refrigerator that dump
raw materials in measured increments into a bowl on the back of a train (!),
which can then move to stations for mixing, folding, rolling and baking. It
could make everything from rice to rolls. And an industrial robot that I
could spend hours training to cook. I would rather program a robot to cook
than cook myself... Even if it took longer... :D

I'd go on with the garden robot, but it's getting late...

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James.
 

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