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October 1996

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Definition of ENVIROMATION
The art of mating today's technology with your environment.

Ken Sinclair Enviromation Services Inc. Email / URL

The electronic advancements that touch our personal lives are rapidly changing. These advancements need to be integrated and made more palatable and complimentary to our lifestyles. The ENVIROMATION concept will demonstrate, and provide products that will allow you to achieve a balance of technology and lifestyle harmonious to your personal environment. Good interfaces can simplify technology, and ergonomics designed for the new technologies, can make your environment more comfortable.

Well executed enviromation is indistinguishable from magic. When the automated function becomes an extension of yourself, and it occurs with little or no personal effort, then enviromation has been achieved.

Achieving these enviromation goals for yourself and those sharing your environment can be both extremely satisfying and at times, extremely frustrating. Putting a plan in place to provide a seamless interface with our rapidly technological changing environment requires effort.

How we interface with our environment is radically changing. The stressful daily drive to and from the office could soon be obsolete. The mating of telephone, computer and video technologies, now makes telecommuting from your home office an actuality. Telecommuting, can greatly reduce our personal environmental impact and increase productivity.

Last year in North America more computers were bought for home use than television sets. Housing this technology creates some unique challenges, as most homes have had no provision built into them for personal computers. Their are some excellent compact, portable, ergonomic furniture solutions.

I challenge you to achieve your own personnel Enviromation. It takes extreme effort from the technical types but the rewards come when we can have the non technical users not notice the technology cause they are overwhelmed with the functionality.