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This month’s column is going to take a look at some of the amazing technology applications for the kitchen and bath that are out there today, and tie them back to some of the benefits that may make them of value to your designs.
In a time when google is the ultimate information resource, “friends†are a commodity found on Facebook and everything from phones to refrigerators are “smart,†it’s easy to assume the whole word has gone to the technophiles. And, indeed, technology continues to have a growing impact on everything from the way information is accessed and how products are ordered to how the industry markets kitchens and baths to consumers.
Yet most kitchen and bath dealers prefer to take a middle ground approach that blends elements of high-tech communication with the human touch – balancing magazines and newspaper with Web sites and online videos, trade shows and live conferences with Webinars and online interactive training courses, e-Newsletters with good old fashioned word of mouth.