Thinking Home Turns 10!

Thinking Home v1.0 made its debut 10 years ago this week!

The last decade has seen fantastic changes. Mac OS X replaced Mac OS 9, USB has matured, INSTEON raised the bar for home automation standards and many great, new gadgets have arrived. Home users have been innovating in all kinds of ways, automating their homes in every way imaginable.

So we’re holding a contest. We want to hear about your clever, useful or creative set up this week. We'll select the best one and show off the winning selection to the world. The winner gets a Lifetime License for Thinking Home! We have lots of new features coming and the winner gets them all for free — forever. Wow! Who won?

The Basic Rules

  1. The winning selection must use any version of Thinking Home in some way.
  2. Entries can be in any common format, such as free-form text, photos, video or any combination.
  3. Entries must be received by 11:59 PM Friday, September 4, 2009. Email them to
  4. The contestant grants permission for Always Thinking, Inc. to publish the entry details. Personal identification is optional and will not be released without written permission.
  5. The winning entry will be selected at the sole discretion of Always Thinking, Inc.
  6. Please do not send email to horsedetroy -- it is not a public address and everything sent to it is deleted.