In the Coming Age of the Connected Home, Your Phone Will Be a Magic Wand | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

A snapshot of the mighty morphing smartphone

"Your smartphone is going domestic. In the age of the connected home, your mobile devices are becoming the central command, the brains, if you will, of the entire smarthome experience.
It makes sense. Rather than remote controls with menus to memorize and knobs, dials and switches to manipulate, your smartphone or tablet becomes one remote to rule them all. You’ve always got it with you when you’re out and about, it’s never far from hand when you’re sitting on the couch and it’s dead-simple to use."

In the Coming Age of the Connected Home, Your Phone Will Be a Magic Wand | Gadget Lab | Wired.com