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EnOcean is developing micro-power sources that derive energy from
ambient conditions including light, vibrations, and temperature
differentials. These little power sources should be enough to power
peel-and-stick electronic devices including RF transmitters, sensors
and switches. Deriving power from ambient light or heat could allow a
house to be retrofitted with new light-switches, volume nobs,
information displays and sensors without re-wiring anything. There
could be one RF transmitter in a lightswitch, and a receiver in the
light fixture, and they would be linked wirelessly.
Additional applications could tie in your house's sound system, climate control, and energy monitoring, again, without any new wires, and without pulling in excess energy. Right now, EnOcean products are used mostly in industrial applications, monitoring warehouses and the like. But with a few years of research, programmable houses might be a matter of simply picking up a few things at WalMart.
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My central heating thermostat works like this, with no wires, "talking" to the boiler in the loft. But it took a lot of time to get it working correctly when installed, the two parts just refused to "talk". In hindsight it would have been easier to run a cable to the thermostat.
My digi box and TV remote codes overlap, which gets very confusing.