Speaker 1: A wave that unlocks a video and the future of
Speaker 1: rum but in doubt, we turned to Mark Saltzman. The
Speaker 1: machines are getting smarter.
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Speaker 1: It's pretty crazy, Mark but anchor the maker of just
Speaker 1: about everything technology. I think I have a bunch of
Speaker 1: their their rechargeable batteries and yeah, they're power banks, power banks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they've announced through their UFI. Is that how you say.
Speaker 2: It's That's how you say it. It's e u f y,
Speaker 2: That's how it's pronounced.
Speaker 1: They have a bunch of smart home products, and they
Speaker 1: have a lock that uses your palm. I don't know
Speaker 1: if I like this.
Speaker 2: It's meant to be more secure. They sent it to
Speaker 2: me to play around with. It's pretty wild. So it's
Speaker 2: called the UFI Familock S three Max and it's a
Speaker 2: video door lock, so it's also a video door bell camera.
Speaker 2: But we'll get to that in a second. But yeah,
Speaker 2: the unique feature is that it uses pun vein scanning technology,
Speaker 2: So it's an infrared light IR light that illuminates the
Speaker 2: palm when you wave it over the sensor, it looks
Speaker 2: at the blood flow in your palm and in the veins,
Speaker 2: and it is a unique identifier. It's what we call
Speaker 2: biometrics technology. It's not unlike using your face to unlock
Speaker 2: your iPhone or a fingerprint or something. It is another
Speaker 2: way to securely identify you. The company claims it's ninety
Speaker 2: nine point nine percent accurate and you can program up
Speaker 2: to fifty palm prints. So your family, your friends, whoever
Speaker 2: you want access to your home. So the idea is
Speaker 2: that you don't need a mechanical key. It uses either
Speaker 2: a keypad, but even more convenient is holding up your hand.
Speaker 2: It's may it be this is gonna sound macabre? Can
Speaker 2: I know what you're gonna say? Yeah, cut somebody's hand off.
Speaker 1: I don't you kill them?
Speaker 2: So if someone killed you to get into your home, yeah,
Speaker 2: I think it's looking for blood in the veins. And
Speaker 2: if I don't know how, I don't know how fast?
Speaker 2: How fast you need to hold the hand up after
Speaker 2: it's severed for it. It's a really it's a macob question. Yes,
Speaker 2: had a low red cell blood counts, you're really My
Speaker 2: thinking is if somebody wants to get in your house,
Speaker 2: they're going to get in your house. I feel like
Speaker 2: one way or another. So it does work. It's pretty wild. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was a latchkey kid when I was younger. I
Speaker 2: had like a mechanical key on a shoe string around
Speaker 2: my neck. Like that's old school. So this also works
Speaker 2: with Alexa or Google. You can use your voice to
Speaker 2: lock or unlock the door when you're inside. And it
Speaker 2: does have an integrated two K camera, so that's to
Speaker 2: see deliveries for example. And on the inside of the
Speaker 2: door is the screen as well. There's an app, but
Speaker 2: there's a screen that will show you who's at your door. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so it's going to be coming in April. It's going
Speaker 2: to be three ninety nine, and there's a seventy dollars
Speaker 2: off co at the website at uf dot com. So yeah,
Speaker 2: kind of neat. I've been kicking the tires on that. Everybody.
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people who have roombus. I
Speaker 1: don't know everybody who uses them on a regular basis
Speaker 1: because there is some upkeep involved. Quick question, if you're murdered,
Speaker 1: does your roombus still work?
Speaker 2: Oh? If you're if your Helen is still going to
Speaker 2: do her job, she puts the she puts hell in hell.
Speaker 2: You can't spell hella without hell. Yes, so yeah, the
Speaker 2: roombas and other floor vacuuming robots are still popular, but
Speaker 2: the company I Robot may not be around. It's funny
Speaker 2: they ironically announced a half a dozen new models this week,
Speaker 2: but they in the same breath told investors yesterday that
Speaker 2: it has and I quote, substantial doubt about it or
Speaker 2: our ability to continue. The company is in trouble. What
Speaker 2: happened was a year ago Amazon was going to buy them.
Speaker 2: It was a one point seven billion dollar acquisition that
Speaker 2: was called off by Amazon because of regulatory hurdles, mostly
Speaker 2: out of Europe. That's not unusual. The EU has very
Speaker 2: strict regulatory compliance rules and all that. So I don't
Speaker 2: know what the issues were with privacy and all that,
Speaker 2: or it was maybe deemed monopoly. But what has happened
Speaker 2: since is that there are these brands that have come
Speaker 2: out of nowhere, seemingly that are giving comparable performance in
Speaker 2: a robotic vacuum and mop combo in one as low
Speaker 2: as ninety dollars, Like, how do you compete with that?
Speaker 2: So if you go to Amazon, you'll find brands, some
Speaker 2: you'll recognize, some you won't. Dream Robo Rock, Shark, Shark
Speaker 2: you probably know like Shark. Ninja Ufi is another one
Speaker 2: the same company as the video door bell lock with
Speaker 2: the palm scanning and you can now get comparable quality.
Speaker 2: So even though the company has a half dozen new models,
Speaker 2: they're also just catching up with light ar sensing instead
Speaker 2: of other technologies to navigate around your home. Light ar
Speaker 2: is more efficient. It can clean your home better in
Speaker 2: a shorter amount of time. By learning your home. You
Speaker 2: probably know that there's an app that will show you
Speaker 2: a map of your floor that you can name, like
Speaker 2: that's my kitchen, that's my family room, and then you
Speaker 2: can tell the smart speaker or the app clean in
Speaker 2: front of my stove. Things like that get very specific.
Speaker 2: So yeah, so I Robot's got to catch up. But
Speaker 2: who knows, I'd be worried about buying an eye robot
Speaker 2: just because you don't know if the company's going to
Speaker 2: be around. But they did announce some new they're in debt.
Speaker 2: They're still paying off a two hundred million dollar bridge loan. Wow, yeah,
Speaker 2: not looking good.
Speaker 1: Well, and if if I Robot goes under, then whatever
Speaker 1: Isaac Asimov books are, they're not going to be true anymore.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, yeah, right, you know they were the Ogs
Speaker 2: Room Bod back in two thousand and two. Right, it's
Speaker 2: not the same I Robot as asim of the same name. Sure, yeah,
Speaker 2: I didn't. I didn't know if I should even acknowledge that. Yes,
Speaker 2: it was good. It was a good movie with Will Smith. Though.
Speaker 1: It was a great mind love.
Speaker 2: I like that movie. I was kind of underrated. But yeah, no, Ruba,
Speaker 2: they're the ogs. I Robot came out in two thousand
Speaker 2: and two, in September of twenty two. But so it's
Speaker 2: a shame if they go under because they kickstarted this
Speaker 2: whole robot fact thing that cats like to sit on.
Speaker 1: We like to watch kat. I don't think they like it,
Speaker 1: but we like to watch them sit on it.
Speaker 2: Mark, thank you and to you. Talk to you next week.
Speaker 1: You bet Mark Saltzman follow Mark on x m arc under.
Speaker 1: Mark didn't think my dark humor was funny. He's just
Speaker 1: got a higher level of humor acuity.
Speaker 2: Well, we set the bar high.