Disney's new Dream Home is Retrograde, Says The New York Times

The Innoventions Dream Home features a sink with a faucet that rises when needed.

From The New York Times -- Interior Design, 7/11/2008

From The New York Times: TO get to the front door of the Elias family, the inhabitants of the new Dream Home at Disneyland, you must step onto a revolving walkway and glide past Tom Morrow, a Nathan Lane-voiced robot with a face like a machine-age Arcimboldo and a brush cut of stiff copper-colored wire. Tom’s body is an exposed skeleton of hydraulics, wires and transistors, and his one concession to modesty, a clear plastic lab coat, adds an unwittingly pornographic grace note. His signature song, "There’s a Great Big World of Innoventions" -- audible no matter where in the home you may venture -- will play dozens of times during your stay, and will run through your head with a Manchurian Candidate tenacity long after you leave.

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