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10	[[caption-width-right:350:You would not believe what they had to go through before the homeowners' association gave them a permit for this.]]
11	->''"I start tinkering with things around the house, trying to make them more efficient. I start by making sketches of devices I'd dreamed up in an off moment-some practical, some not so much."''
12	-->--'''Wiress''', ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8451613/13/Life-By-The-Numbers Life, By the Numbers]]"[[note]] a ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' fanfic[[/note]] Chapter 13
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14	How do you quickly communicate to your audience how smart the GadgeteerGenius, MadScientist, or BunglingInventor is? By filling their house with time-saving devices of their own creation, of course.
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16	Consider Bob. Bob has a bathroom with a machine that helps him brush his teeth. He also has a machine that automatically styles his hair for him. Bob also has a foot-activated door-opener. His lamps also have built-in gadgets that assist in the maintenance of the house and also gives Bob materials he will need for the day.
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18	A sub-trope of CoolHouse. Contrast with MadScientistLaboratory, though there may be one of those in the basement as well. In television or film, expect some of the gadgets to be CowTools -- even the authors and/or set designers don't know what they are supposed to be for. Compare RubeGoldbergDevice.
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25	[[folder:Film -- Animation]]
26	* ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe1'': Gru and Vector's houses are filled with gadgets that improve their lifestyles.
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29	[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
30	* ''Film/BackToTheFuture1'' begins inside Dr. Emmet Brown's house, where his alarm clock triggers a machine to automatically prepare breakfast for him and for his dog, Einstein. Since Doc Brown's been missing for a few days, his kitchen is a mess of uneaten breakfasts.
31	* The home of the Potts family in ''Film/ChittyChittyBangBang'' is littered with the HomemadeInventions of father Caractus Potts, including the [[RubeGoldbergDevice automated breakfast maker]] in the kitchen and the music box in the children's room.
32	* At the start of ''Film/DocSavageTheManOfBronze'', the title character is shown in his arctic Fortress of Solitude laboring on inventions that (the {{Narrator}} declares) may one day be useful to Mankind! After gazing at the stars through a telescope, Doc appears to be building a RetroRocket to take him there, but it turns out to be a RubeGoldbergDevice for ice fishing.
33	* Professor Brainard's kitchen in ''Film/{{Flubber}}'' has a similar auto-breakfast setup to Doc Brown's, if slightly more modernized. (A ''[[Platform/AppleMacintosh Mac Plus]]'' automatically runs all the machines around the house.) His two robot assistants, Weebo and Weber, don't necessarily qualify.
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37	* In ''Literature/TanteiTeamKZJikenNote'', the local TechnoWizard Nanaki uses his skills to transform his house that [[TheShutIn he's forced to stay before majority]] into this. Specifically, it is pretty much managed by artificial intelligence, including driverless cars, robotic servants, and large numbers of sensors that report literally everything in the house (to the point of enabling precision agriculture and horticulture). It's also self-sufficient in terms of food production, involving a fish farm and what the novel refers to as miniature farm animals.
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40	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
41	* One of ''Series/APrinceAmongMen'''s sources of comedy comes from the range of devices that Gary has installed into his house going wrong in one way or another.
42	* Eccentric as it already was in ''Series/PeeWeesPlayhouse'', Pee Wee Herman's home gets an upgrade in ''Film/PeeWeesBigAdventure'' with a [[AutoKitchen fully automated breakfast-making machine]].
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46	* In ''VideoGame/Dishonored2'', Kirin Jindosh's [[ClockPunk Clockwork Mansion]] is a tribute to his mechanical engineering genius and rearranges itself on the fly to better fit his current mood and desire to impress the guests.
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50	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'', Jimmy's bathroom has a machine that changes his hairstyle for him. He has a few in his room as well.
51	* The home shared by bumbling inventor Wallace and his faithful canine companion Gromit in ''WesternAnimation/WallaceAndGromit'' has all sorts of inventions built in. Examples include a hinged bed arranged next to a trap door so that Wallace can go straight from bed to the breakfast table, and a toy train that carries mail and other goods around the house.
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