Word: playroom
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...profile stored in the set-top box will select commercials that will be specific not just to the household but to each room of the house: mom and dad will watch one set of ads in the living room, while little Timmy sees a whole different set on the playroom screen...
...uses the PC built into her fridge. Clausen, 34, is on a break from her job at the Girl Guides to care for her two young sons. In her home, the kitchen, dining area and living room all merge seamlessly into a whole: one corner serves as the boys' playroom. In this setting, the Screenfridge makes perfect sense. "I can surf the Net, cook and keep an eye on my children at the same time," says Clausen. "If I had to use the family computer, I'd have to go into the study in the basement, leaving the kids unsupervised...
Marbury Madison--the ears-akimbo German shepherd-Rhodesian Ridgeback mix who came from the pound--looks, frankly, like a neurotic mess. He glances cringingly at a stranger and slinks away behind the 26-month-old twins. By contrast, the twins, Christopher and Siena, toddle toward a downstairs playroom with the focused, menacing energy of a tornado aimed at an Alabama trailer camp. It is left to the lovely Alice, a tortoiseshell cat, to perform ceremonies of greeting and accept a scratch behind the ears...