of kids want an iPad
The Nielsen Company presented a cadre of individuals with a list of nice, shiny gadgets and let them cross off anything and everything they'd like to buy in the next six months, and 31 percent of kids 6-12 picked the iPad as one of them.
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Great review and great product. Does the Monster also support z-wave devices of other manufacturers, e.g. ACT? (I have specified z-wave switches in homes for more than a year now and would want to use them with the Monster.) And how will the Monster signal electric screens to go down/up, trigger front projectors on/off, etc? I assume someone makes z-wave "switches" that will perform those functions.
We do support other z-wave products. You can use the basic z-wave command classes from our controller for any surrent z-wave product line. There are some advanced things you can do with our IlluminEssence lighting that you can't do with basic command class devices, but you can still create scenes, turn on and off lights, and map scenes to audio video activities.
Funny you should ask about the trigger option. In the future, other CE manufacturers will hopefully incorporate z-wave chipsets natively into their devices so we could (for example) talk to a sony DVD player through the RF z-wave without the need for translation devices.
I do know of a company called Boca Devices (http://www.bocadevices.com) and they make a z-wave 8 port relay for things like projectors and screens called the "Relay-Z".