On the outside, this house looks like any other McMansion in Delray Beach, Florida. Don't be fooled: The place is more teched out than Goldfinger's lair, with its 16 satellite receivers, 13 sensor-controlled temperature zones, and 49 media outputs for audio and video streaming. The 20,000-square-foot home and its 2.5-acre grounds are broken into 125 security areas that can be monitored from any of the 90-plus handhelds and phones scattered throughout the house. The owner, a 37-year-old entrepreneur who's not giving out his name or address, spent roughly $2.5 million to put together his haute hideaway.
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Club Room The house wins. The Monte Carlo electronic gaming table lets six people play slots, baccarat, or blackjack on individual 10-inch LCD monitors. An Intel processor keeps the $50,000 pit running. With Wayne Newton and a few easy marks to stay in the guesthouse, this joint might pay for itself.
Master Bathroom Lather, change channels, sync up, repeat. Behind this mirror is a 15-inch Sharp Aquos LCD screen that hooks into the home's entertainment center. Turn it off, and all you see is mirror. Blast 50 Gbytes of music through the room's hidden speakers with the Wi-Fi-enabled Dell Axim X3 PDA.
Master Bedroom You'd be surprised how easy is it to hide a 60-inch TV: 16 large sets are camouflaged throughout this house. All the televisions stream video from the home's hub, but this particular one also taps into a hi-def satellite receiver for super-detailed live TV. The system can be controlled from multiple PDAs – and the nightstands.
Garage Dig this souped-up hot rod? Not the Benz – the headend in the server closet. The digital nerve center houses a satellite audio receiver, four DirecTV DVRs, two Sony DVD players, and a Microsoft Media Center PC. With a 300- Gbyte library and 1,250 square feet, this garage can hold three cars and a lifetime supply of media.
Club Room Bar The wet bar shares center stage with dual plasma screens. The iPronto universal remote can switch channels or scan any of the estate's 17 security cams. A Wi-Fi-enabled PocketPC and Cisco's 7960 VoIP phone (one of 50) can mix business and pleasure before the movie starts in the next room over.
Office No cubicle here. This 20-inch Apple Cinema Display connects to a Dell Dimension 8300 PC packed with 2 gigs of RAM. If the fire gets too hot, a handheld controller or one of the home's 20 computers can crank down the flames or turn on the AC. The plasma TV can be concealed by a motorized drop-down panel.
