The home has long been considered the next frontier for intelligent appliances. From web tablets and digital set-top boxes to smart-TVs and residential gateways, we've all heard the promise of the home of the future. Yet despite many attempts to deliver on that promise, consumers have been left with few options while OEMs have been left with warehouses full of poorly received appliances.

As an OEM you are faced with two choices: abandon all efforts to build consumer devices and wait for your competition to capture this market, or strategically deploy appliances that deliver on the functionality required to catapult the category. By using Implicit's RADkit to develop your applications, your appliances will transform from single purpose devices to multifunctional media appliances. They will work together to seamlessly share content, resources and processing power. And they will cost less to build because the RADkit provides all the infrastructure you need to make your applications perform magic.

• Poor multimedia and networking performance
• Fat, inflexible applications
• Unpredictable under load
• No content-type based QoS support
• Platform/OS dependencies
• No support for runtime updates of applications
• No support for leveraging extended-PC
• No support for distributed processing and content sharing

• Optimal management of media and network content
• Highly adaptive, flexible and small applications
• Scalable and predictable under load maximizes hardware resources
• Content-type based QoS management allows for proper processing of multimedia content
• Platform independence allows for late binding decisions on chip/OS
• Applications can be modified at runtime for new formats, media types and protocols
• Seamless sharing of resources, content and control with other appliances
• Only platform to support leveraging of PC based resources