Imagine never needing to make your bed again.

Such tiresome chores could be done automatically - according to the high-tech vision of Hockley students, looking ahead 20 years.

The ten youngsters from year ten of Greensward College dreamed up a future home. Their notions, devised on screen with help from computer firm Cisco will be at the BBC Tomorrow's World Live exhibition at Earls Court, London, from June 28 to July 2.

A camera crew from Youth Culture TV interviewed the students, and the footage will be shown during the exhibition on July 2.

Simon Spikesley, head of IT at Greensward, said: "The crew looked at each school group's inventions and at the overall webpage.

"They wanted views on the future of the internet. Cisco designed and built - with the co-operation of Laing - a £500,000 five-bedroomed house in Watford, using all the internet facilities we have now.

"Then the students devised what they thought a house in 2020 might be like. There was a garage where cars could be serviced with help from the internet. You could check e-mails from anywhere in the house, and gain internet access anywhere.

"In the bedroom, there would be facilities to make the bed automatically, and it could be stored in a wardrobe to release more space."

Caught on camera - Shirin Taghizadeh and Lindsay Jones, both 15, are filmed by Youth Culture TV

Picture: STEPHEN LLOYD

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