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Imagine controlling every single device in your home that has an on/off switch -- from your lights to your Blu Ray player -- all from your iPhone or iPod touch. That is just one of the seemingly futuristic technologies that are actually available today and on display at the SoHo Mews apartment complex. Several spaces at the building have been taken over by Hearst Magazine and remodeled by A-list decorators.

The House Beautiful townhouse is the one run on the Savant home automation setup. Based entirely on Apple's Macintosh operating system, it has touch panels throughout the home, even though everything can be done via iPhone whether you're on the couch or halfway around the world.

"We call it Rosie on the Road so you can manage your home remotely so every bit of control you have in your house you have that same control through your iPhone over wifi or the 3g network, watch TV, answer the door, any of those functions," said Jim Carroll of Savant. "I can access a room, look at a security camera, I can turn lights off and on, I can see what media is playing, I can see my kids are watching MTV and turn the TV off on them."

Developers say the system can run anywhere from $5,000
to a couple hundred thousand dollars depending on the complexity of the project.

Upstairs in Esquire magazine's 7th annual "Ultimate Bachelor
Pad," technology is less for function and more for flair including one room that gets as lively as its occupants.

"This is the Obscure digital ghost light system. It's a room visualizer, not just a music visualizer, it actually feeds off of the energy of the room so when you have a bunch of people in here and you've got the music going and everyone is talking, moving around, making noise it reacts to that," said Andrew Plourde of Obscura Digital.

But when it comes to high tech art, it's tough to out-cool the interactive installation that's actually a part of a pool table.

"There's three different effects the first is kinda an underwater
mercury effect it's liquid, one is kinda flames and smoke trails you
see particles when the ball is hit little explosions happen, and the
third is a reveal which for the Esquire house we put pictures of the
last few year's Esquire's world's sexiest women covers," Plourde said.

At about $80,000, it's one of only two so far in existence. To check out the other, you'd probably have to drop at least that much at the Hard Rock Casino in Vegas to get access to it inside the high rollers suite.