INSIDE a disused TV factory in Singapore, an unusual experiment is taking place. While most of the factory stands idle – production long ago moved to lower-cost facilities in Malaysia – one corner is a hive of activity. It resembles the interior of a house or apartment and is used to test and demonstrate the technologies that consumer electronics companies hope will one day be ubiquitous.
The mockup is part of a government project to work out how to pipe sound and images from a vast array of electronics devices to every corner of our homes. But there’s not a cable in…
