For the past decade, Savant Systems has built a business selling home automation systems for the super rich. The late Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, even used Savant to automate his super yacht, the Venus.

That's no render we're looking at, Savant assures us, it's the most recent photograph of the company's Touch Remote prototype. This crazy do-it-all peripheral comes with an embedded fourth-gen iPod ...

Along with app control, customers also get the option to control home systems remotely from mobile devices in a secure encrypted way through the Savant Plus cloud service, McInerney said. Customers ...