Yeah, it's 2016 and they still haven't gotten the snozzberries to taste like snozzberries.

Probably more like, "Imagine if your wallpaper could listen to you"

Even the name of the device, Wireless Identification and Sensing Platform, sounds rather creepy.

But I want my house to listen and sense me. The advantages far outweigh worries. Besides what makes Big Brother isn't the existence of surveillance it is the lack of control over it, who uses it, and how. So fight for open source, transparency, end of advertising/marketing. Not against technology.

I want my house to know what room I'm in (for lights, environment, music following, to adjust temperture when I'm active or too hot, to answer alexa like queries, to announce alarms reminders, to tell me the kitchen is hot and smokey cause I forgot beans on stove, to give me alert someone pulled into my drive, stopped in front of my house, to call 911 if my heart stops.

Been done: "Rich-Media Tags: Battery-Free Wireless Multichannel Digital Audio and Image Transmission with UHF RFID Techniques".

Author (free) version: http://www.travisdeyle.com/publications/pdf/2013_rfid_rich_m...

Official Version: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=654815...

Well, your windows already can: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_microphone

what about wallpaper that was a battery, heat and energy combined in one easy to apply sheet...

Because critical thought was murdered and replaced with marketing.