Tomorrowland has seen the future and it is now. Since opening half a century ago, the fabled Disneyland destination has provided millions of visitors with glimpses into tomorrow’s homes. Now a new generation of visitors to the Anaheim, Calif., theme park will get a peek at future habitats, thanks to the Innoventions Dream Home that opened in June.

From 1957 to 1967, Monsanto’s House of the Future wowed visitors with space-age concepts like electric toothbrushes, picture phones, insulated glass walls and microwave ovens. The 2008 Innoventions Dream Home, sponsored by Microsoft, HP, builder Taylor Morrison and software company Life/ware, introduces consumers to digital-age lifestyle amenities, including home automation and multi-room entertainment. Despite the über-modern leaning of the gadgets inside, roughly two-thirds of the technologies shown are available today.

Touch panels located throughout the home give users the interactive power to select lighting scenes, music and security camera feeds, and electronic photos stored on the family media server are viewable on large-screen LCD monitors and digital photo frames. A whopping 73 frames are scattered throughout the 5,000-square-foot area, along with 26 wall-mounted electronic frames that change photos or artwork to display the preferences of the family member in the room.

RFID tags — one of the home’s few technologies not currently available as a consumer product — are used to store information about each member of the fictitious Elias family. When a family member enters a room, lighting, climate and music preferences set to levels specific to that person. Dad prefers a cooler temperature, so the zoned HVAC control system adjusts to his tastes without forcing other family members to live in his climate elsewhere in the home. Dad also prefers brighter light for his aging eyes, so lights come on to a higher setting when he enters a room, while other rooms use energy-saving dimming.

Life/ware software enables the home’s electronics to run largely on autopilot. When a room is vacant, the system’s energy-miser mode turns off electronics, lowers blinds and dims lights. “The system is smart enough to know when no one is in a room and adjusts all the energy levels accordingly,” says Bret Fitzgerald, vice president of marketing.  Life/ware hopes consumers will leave jazzed enough about energy management to further investigate the possibilities.

Visitors can tour all areas of the Innoventions home, including the kitchen, with its virtual bulletin board and interconnected appliances; the dining room, which has a table with an interactive surface; a home office with videoconferencing equipment; and a family room that transforms into a state-of-the-art home theater. For more information: www.disneyland event.com/tsm/dreamhome.html.