WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.520 --> 00:00:03.919 Kf I AM six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp, 2 00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:07.719 the house Whisper on demand on the iHeart radio app. 3 00:00:10.279 --> 00:00:13.480 We are talking about the best of the Consumer Electronics 4 00:00:13.480 --> 00:00:15.119 show that just wrapped up a couple of weeks ago 5 00:00:15.199 --> 00:00:20.199 in Las Vegas. And as promised, Elmer's favorite. Oh he's 6 00:00:20.239 --> 00:00:27.960 been waiting for this. Ye, it's time to talk robots, Elmer. Robots. Okay, 7 00:00:28.079 --> 00:00:30.760 what can I tell you about? There were so many? 8 00:00:31.199 --> 00:00:34.719 All right, all right, calm down, people. There are so 9 00:00:34.920 --> 00:00:38.759 many robots at CES this year. Too many to go 10 00:00:38.840 --> 00:00:42.240 into great detail on the ones that relate to home, 11 00:00:42.759 --> 00:00:46.399 the ones that caught my attention. Let me just hit 12 00:00:46.479 --> 00:00:50.479 him real quick here. Rumbas Conway asked me about this 13 00:00:50.520 --> 00:00:53.560 on Thursday night. Hey, what's going on with Rumbas with 14 00:00:54.479 --> 00:00:59.600 robotic vacuums. Everything is going on with robotic vacuums. Rumba 15 00:00:59.640 --> 00:01:02.200 has of or their latest model out there that can 16 00:01:02.600 --> 00:01:06.079 vacuum and also now hot water mop that's a common 17 00:01:06.159 --> 00:01:10.760 thing that is being seen mopping tile floors and hard 18 00:01:10.799 --> 00:01:14.920 surface floors with hot water. They return to their docking 19 00:01:15.120 --> 00:01:18.640 area where the water, the dirty water is drained out, 20 00:01:18.680 --> 00:01:22.319 the mop is cleaned, new, clean, water is placed in 21 00:01:22.400 --> 00:01:25.640 all automatically and then boom back off onto the floor. 22 00:01:25.680 --> 00:01:28.920 They go so vacuuming and mopping and now being guided 23 00:01:28.959 --> 00:01:32.120 with AI. So it's not just a blind mapping of 24 00:01:32.159 --> 00:01:36.599 the household. It is also an intelligent sensing of things 25 00:01:36.640 --> 00:01:39.120 in the way. Oh a chair got moved. Oh, we're 26 00:01:39.120 --> 00:01:42.120 gonna work our way around it. Just to guarantee a 27 00:01:42.159 --> 00:01:47.439 better cleaning experience with these, we've also now got like 28 00:01:47.480 --> 00:01:53.239 the robo Ockum robotic vacuum can do that. Plus it's 29 00:01:53.280 --> 00:01:55.519 got a robotic arm that comes out of the top 30 00:01:55.719 --> 00:01:59.560 to grab stuff that's on the floor. Let's say you 31 00:01:59.599 --> 00:02:02.879 know somebody left a sock in the hallway. Well, instead 32 00:02:02.920 --> 00:02:04.680 of it trying to run over it or try to 33 00:02:04.719 --> 00:02:07.760 avoid it, it'll pull up next to it, out comes 34 00:02:07.799 --> 00:02:10.280 the arm. It'll pick up that sock, take it to 35 00:02:10.400 --> 00:02:14.080 a predetermined location like a hamper, give it, boom, put 36 00:02:14.080 --> 00:02:17.840 it where it belongs, and go back to doing its job. 37 00:02:18.280 --> 00:02:22.159 Pretty cool, pretty cool stuff, a little weird, but pretty 38 00:02:22.159 --> 00:02:27.639 cool stuff. Also, what has improved robot vacuums considerably is 39 00:02:27.680 --> 00:02:30.639 the fact that some of them, like the beat bot 40 00:02:30.960 --> 00:02:36.080 can oh I'm sorry, the robo rock can push itself 41 00:02:36.240 --> 00:02:40.879 up and make a floor level transition change. You know, 42 00:02:40.879 --> 00:02:44.199 it's not climbing up a six inch stare. But if 43 00:02:44.240 --> 00:02:47.280 you've got one of those, you know, irritating floor level 44 00:02:47.319 --> 00:02:50.240 transitions where the wood is higher than the tile or 45 00:02:50.280 --> 00:02:53.000 the linoleum's way down, you know that has in the 46 00:02:53.080 --> 00:02:58.520 past foiled other robotic vacuums. The robo rock can actually 47 00:02:58.680 --> 00:03:02.719 lift itself up a couple of inches and get over 48 00:03:02.759 --> 00:03:07.280 that transition, so really nothing nothing standing ends in its way. 49 00:03:08.080 --> 00:03:13.159 So that's cool stuff. Before I get to pool cleaning 50 00:03:13.240 --> 00:03:17.599 and robotic lawn mowing, I gotta share this with you, Okay, 51 00:03:18.800 --> 00:03:20.759 one of the things that really caught my eye. Tina, 52 00:03:21.080 --> 00:03:22.680 you're gonna want to look this up on your phone 53 00:03:23.039 --> 00:03:27.919 right now. Okay, Tom bought tombot. Okay, it's a very 54 00:03:27.960 --> 00:03:31.960 simple name of a company. It is. H there's this guy, 55 00:03:32.400 --> 00:03:36.280 I forget his last name, Tom, but yeah, just a 56 00:03:36.360 --> 00:03:41.520 sincere guy driven by the fact that his aging mother, 57 00:03:41.960 --> 00:03:46.039 suffering from Alzheimer's had a beloved pet. Here, grab a 58 00:03:46.120 --> 00:03:48.680 my teen so you can comment on what you're seeing there. Okay, 59 00:03:48.680 --> 00:03:52.080 all right, he's got an aging mother with Alzheimer's. She 60 00:03:52.159 --> 00:03:54.560 got to the point where it was not safe for 61 00:03:54.680 --> 00:03:58.960 her or the dog for her to have her beloved 62 00:03:58.960 --> 00:04:03.000 pet anymore. Okay, so what did he do? It inspired 63 00:04:03.120 --> 00:04:08.800 him to create a robotic puppy, and so he created 64 00:04:08.800 --> 00:04:11.159 I forget the name of it, but of what he's got, 65 00:04:11.240 --> 00:04:14.319 but it's tom Bod is the overall name this puppy. 66 00:04:14.319 --> 00:04:18.160 It's modeled after an eight week old Labrador Retriever. It's 67 00:04:18.199 --> 00:04:21.160 about that size. It is in no way, shape or 68 00:04:21.160 --> 00:04:23.639 form looks like a robot. It's all wrapped and fuzzy. 69 00:04:23.920 --> 00:04:26.639 It is warm. That's one of the commentators at cees 70 00:04:26.800 --> 00:04:29.279 she was shocked when she touched it to petit that 71 00:04:29.399 --> 00:04:33.079 it's warm. It's warm to the touch. It moves its mouth, 72 00:04:33.279 --> 00:04:36.439 it moves its tongue, it moves its head, it wags 73 00:04:36.480 --> 00:04:39.360 its tail, it does a whole Yeah, it's ears moved. 74 00:04:39.399 --> 00:04:42.839 There's a whole series of things, and it's just the 75 00:04:42.920 --> 00:04:49.000 beginning platform for him. His goal is to provide safe 76 00:04:49.319 --> 00:04:56.199 pets that don't require the maintenance that somebody with Alzheimer's 77 00:04:56.319 --> 00:04:58.720 or dementia may not be able to give them, but 78 00:04:59.079 --> 00:05:04.879 gives all the psychological and emotional feedback that that an 79 00:05:04.879 --> 00:05:08.680 actual puppy or pet would do and therefore increases health. 80 00:05:08.759 --> 00:05:12.399 And then his goal is for future models to UH 81 00:05:12.600 --> 00:05:17.160 to put into that puppy monitoring UH and UH and 82 00:05:17.240 --> 00:05:21.439 other health giving purposes like making sure that meds are 83 00:05:21.480 --> 00:05:25.560 being taken properly and that there's no confusion or safety monitoring, 84 00:05:25.600 --> 00:05:28.800 all these kinds of things. His hope is that his 85 00:05:29.040 --> 00:05:33.680 will be the very first robot with an FDA approval 86 00:05:34.079 --> 00:05:38.759 as a healthcare device. And it's adorable, I think they. 87 00:05:38.800 --> 00:05:42.720 I think he's named it Jenny Jenny, Okay, but is 88 00:05:42.759 --> 00:05:45.560 it not adorable? It's really cute. It's really cute, and 89 00:05:45.600 --> 00:05:50.480 it's not just designed you know for some you know, uh, 90 00:05:50.720 --> 00:05:54.519 you know digital native young person to oh, I would 91 00:05:54.600 --> 00:05:56.480 like to have this instead of a real No, this 92 00:05:56.600 --> 00:05:59.920 is really focused on people who are aging in place, 93 00:06:00.399 --> 00:06:03.000 people who benefit from a pet but couldn't take care 94 00:06:03.040 --> 00:06:06.839 of a bit. It's really really I thought, just a 95 00:06:06.879 --> 00:06:10.319 beautiful idea, and I hope that he does really really 96 00:06:10.360 --> 00:06:13.040 well with it. So there you go. All right, when 97 00:06:13.040 --> 00:06:17.959 we come back, let's talk about the let's talk about 98 00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:20.519 the robots that are going to mow your lawn and 99 00:06:21.160 --> 00:06:24.639 clean your pool. Really big changes this year in both 100 00:06:24.759 --> 00:06:27.160 of those categories. We'll do that right after. 101 00:06:28.160 --> 00:06:31.439 You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from 102 00:06:31.560 --> 00:06:33.079 KFI AM six forty. 103 00:06:34.680 --> 00:06:38.160 We're talking about the best of CEES the Consumer Electronics 104 00:06:38.160 --> 00:06:42.360 Show for Home. I'm not taking anybody's job, no tech 105 00:06:42.399 --> 00:06:46.319 advisors jobs. I'm just talking about the home based elements 106 00:06:46.360 --> 00:06:49.639 here and what works best for us. We're talking robots. 107 00:06:49.680 --> 00:06:52.920 I also got to mention this robotic pillow. This is 108 00:06:53.720 --> 00:06:56.040 not a robot pillow in the sense of like it 109 00:06:56.120 --> 00:07:00.680 grabs you and reads your mind. But again AI soaking 110 00:07:00.720 --> 00:07:06.240 into everything. This is a air bladder pillow system with 111 00:07:06.439 --> 00:07:11.079 a little bit of a quiet compressor controlling it, and 112 00:07:11.079 --> 00:07:15.040 and it changes the angle that your head is at. 113 00:07:15.240 --> 00:07:18.000 May tip it back, some may move it forward, may 114 00:07:18.079 --> 00:07:19.920 roll it to the left, or roll it to the 115 00:07:20.000 --> 00:07:22.800 right a little bit. Why would it do that? Apparently 116 00:07:22.839 --> 00:07:24.680 it's a very comfortable pillow, But why would it do 117 00:07:24.720 --> 00:07:29.399 these other things? Because it's listening to you, and it 118 00:07:29.519 --> 00:07:33.160 is the first person, not your partner, but it's the 119 00:07:33.319 --> 00:07:36.480 It is the first thing to hear you when you 120 00:07:36.560 --> 00:07:40.279 start to snore, or when your partner starts to oh, Tina, 121 00:07:40.399 --> 00:07:44.720 stop it, here we go, here we go. She's like, uh, 122 00:07:44.759 --> 00:07:47.160 where do I sign up? So these are about six 123 00:07:47.240 --> 00:07:50.519 hundred dollars, so you know it's got to be worth 124 00:07:50.519 --> 00:07:55.240 it to you. But the idea is this that usually 125 00:07:55.720 --> 00:07:59.839 in a large number of cases, snoring is the result 126 00:08:00.199 --> 00:08:04.720 of you know, a weird occlusion of air at the 127 00:08:04.759 --> 00:08:09.519 bottom of your laynx okay, and and changing head position. 128 00:08:10.040 --> 00:08:12.920 It can resolve it okay, without a big deal. So 129 00:08:13.000 --> 00:08:16.240 this thing is listening and as soon as it hears 130 00:08:16.319 --> 00:08:19.800 even the beginning of a little bit of snoring, and 131 00:08:19.839 --> 00:08:23.720 it recognizes it while you're still asleep, Tina, this pillow 132 00:08:23.759 --> 00:08:27.240 would be gently No, it doesn't tap me. You're the 133 00:08:27.240 --> 00:08:29.839 one who taps me and wakes me up. Can we 134 00:08:29.920 --> 00:08:32.559 make this clear? Can we get this pillow? Because I 135 00:08:32.559 --> 00:08:35.200 don't want to get woken up anymore? You know, I 136 00:08:35.240 --> 00:08:40.440 get elbows, knees, taps like, hey, hey, dean, Dean, what 137 00:08:40.639 --> 00:08:43.440 I was white asleep? I was I was totally asleep. 138 00:08:44.279 --> 00:08:48.399 Oh you're snoring. Rollover. Well, the pillow will actually start 139 00:08:48.399 --> 00:08:52.399 moving my head left right back until it stops hearing 140 00:08:52.480 --> 00:08:56.039 the snore, and then it'll hold it there. So ideally, 141 00:08:56.120 --> 00:08:59.080 the idea is that it doesn't wake you up because 142 00:08:59.159 --> 00:09:01.840 you don't hear the snow and it doesn't wake me 143 00:09:02.039 --> 00:09:07.200 up to change positions. It just makes it happen. That's 144 00:09:07.200 --> 00:09:09.840 six hundred bucks. But if it's worth it to you, 145 00:09:10.039 --> 00:09:12.039 there you go. So you can look up the robotic 146 00:09:12.879 --> 00:09:15.600 snore pillow. I don't remember the name of it. I 147 00:09:15.679 --> 00:09:20.720 lost my note on its name. Here motion pillow. Look 148 00:09:20.799 --> 00:09:25.720 up motion pillow. You'll find it. And it's interesting. It's interesting. 149 00:09:26.279 --> 00:09:28.120 I think it was listed at six hundred. It may 150 00:09:28.120 --> 00:09:31.399 be less than that, but that's the idea behind it, 151 00:09:31.480 --> 00:09:34.279 and I think that's a pretty good idea. All right, 152 00:09:34.759 --> 00:09:38.960 robots for your pool and your lawn. We've had robotic 153 00:09:39.440 --> 00:09:42.600 lawnmowers out for a while now. All I can tell 154 00:09:42.639 --> 00:09:49.320 you is with new terrain controls, better wheels, better robotic 155 00:09:49.360 --> 00:09:53.600 abilities to lift themselves over obstacles and to deal with obstacles, 156 00:09:53.679 --> 00:10:02.200 and of course all with AI situational censoring. Now, lawnmowers 157 00:10:02.360 --> 00:10:04.559 that go out and handle the lawn. They don't have 158 00:10:04.639 --> 00:10:07.399 to be carefully pre programmed. You just send them out 159 00:10:07.759 --> 00:10:11.600 on their first day adventure. They'll find it, they'll work 160 00:10:11.639 --> 00:10:14.080 it through. Then you can edit their program down a 161 00:10:14.159 --> 00:10:17.919 little bit. But yeah, now these are not lawnmowers that 162 00:10:18.039 --> 00:10:22.320 catch material. They're mulching lawnmowers, meaning they cut the grass 163 00:10:22.320 --> 00:10:24.679 and just leave it right there in place, which, by 164 00:10:24.720 --> 00:10:27.120 the way, for those of you who did not know, 165 00:10:27.799 --> 00:10:30.799 is the healthiest thing for your lawn in general, for 166 00:10:30.840 --> 00:10:33.360 a lawnmower to mulch the grass and put it back 167 00:10:33.399 --> 00:10:36.679 into the soil as opposed to just always taking away 168 00:10:36.679 --> 00:10:39.000 those blades and then bagging it and throwing it away 169 00:10:39.000 --> 00:10:41.440 in the trash and letting it go to the landfill somewhere. 170 00:10:41.879 --> 00:10:45.759 So it's a mulching lawnmower. When they need a charge, 171 00:10:45.799 --> 00:10:48.559 they find their station, they back in, they sit down, 172 00:10:48.679 --> 00:10:52.320 they charge up, they clean out, they maintenance themselves, and 173 00:10:52.360 --> 00:10:55.720 then off they go on their regular schedule. And instead 174 00:10:55.720 --> 00:10:59.720 of whacking off massive portions of lawn maybe once a week, 175 00:11:00.679 --> 00:11:03.679 these lawnmowers we are likely going to go out two 176 00:11:03.799 --> 00:11:06.200 or three times a week and do their work and 177 00:11:06.320 --> 00:11:09.399 just keep things at a regular maintenance level, which is 178 00:11:09.440 --> 00:11:14.159 also less shocking to the grass as well. So robotic lawnmowers. Now, 179 00:11:14.159 --> 00:11:19.120 maybe the most impressive service robot that I saw at 180 00:11:19.159 --> 00:11:24.799 CEES this year would be the beat Bot robotic pool cleaner. 181 00:11:25.559 --> 00:11:31.120 It is dang impressive. The robotic pool cleaner. So Beatbot 182 00:11:31.159 --> 00:11:33.879 has designed this pool cleaner no longer hooking it up 183 00:11:33.919 --> 00:11:36.759 to a hose and a vacuum system through your pump. 184 00:11:36.799 --> 00:11:39.080 You don't have to go out and put it into 185 00:11:39.120 --> 00:11:42.120 the water and make sure the program is running. It 186 00:11:42.159 --> 00:11:45.360 has its own docking station. It has its own launch 187 00:11:45.519 --> 00:11:50.639 ramp into the pool and also out of the pool, 188 00:11:50.840 --> 00:11:54.519 so it sits, it charges, it does everything it needs 189 00:11:54.559 --> 00:11:57.480 to do, and then down the ramp it goes and 190 00:11:57.559 --> 00:11:59.960 into your pool. This thing the best way to describe, 191 00:12:00.159 --> 00:12:04.480 but it is a little AI driven submarine. It uses 192 00:12:04.559 --> 00:12:08.960 submarine technology to take on water in order to submerge, 193 00:12:09.720 --> 00:12:15.879 to to expel water from it in order to surface. 194 00:12:16.320 --> 00:12:19.000 It can find neutral buoyancy at any point it needs 195 00:12:19.039 --> 00:12:21.559 to in the pool. It can climb the walls of 196 00:12:21.600 --> 00:12:25.159 your pool. It has brushes to not only clean the 197 00:12:25.200 --> 00:12:27.759 surface of every square inch of the pool, but also 198 00:12:28.159 --> 00:12:32.279 the edge tile, the waterline tile, and also cover over 199 00:12:32.399 --> 00:12:37.519 the water surface and take off floating debris. And because 200 00:12:37.559 --> 00:12:41.279 it's AI driven, it's not again like the rumbas, it's 201 00:12:41.320 --> 00:12:44.679 not just blindly covering the pool. But if it's done 202 00:12:44.679 --> 00:12:47.600 its job and it looks back and sees, oh, there's 203 00:12:47.639 --> 00:12:50.720 three leaves still there. How did I miss those? It 204 00:12:50.759 --> 00:12:54.879 turns around, goes back and gets them, and then deals 205 00:12:54.919 --> 00:13:00.279 with that later. All of this surfacing, submerging eleven hours. 206 00:13:00.320 --> 00:13:03.360 It can work inside the pool eleven hours, not hooked 207 00:13:03.440 --> 00:13:06.639 up to anything. And it's about the size of a 208 00:13:06.840 --> 00:13:09.679 you know, like an indoor you know, kitchen trash. Can 209 00:13:10.399 --> 00:13:14.000 climbs out of the pool, charges itself back up and 210 00:13:14.080 --> 00:13:20.799 back in. It goes whatever it takes. Incredibly intelligent robot 211 00:13:21.399 --> 00:13:25.320 for pool cleaning, the beat Bot Robotic pool Cleaner. You 212 00:13:25.320 --> 00:13:29.200 got to check it out. It's dang impressive. All right, 213 00:13:29.679 --> 00:13:31.960 I still got more, Still got more on the list. 214 00:13:32.039 --> 00:13:34.120 We'll talk about it right after. 215 00:13:35.000 --> 00:13:38.320 You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from 216 00:13:38.399 --> 00:13:40.399 KFI Am sixty. 217 00:13:42.120 --> 00:13:44.759 Having a little fun today. We're talking about some smart 218 00:13:44.759 --> 00:13:49.320 home tech, the best of cees for homes from this 219 00:13:50.759 --> 00:13:56.679 just recently finished up Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas, the 220 00:13:56.759 --> 00:14:00.799 annual show that happens every year this time of year. 221 00:14:02.080 --> 00:14:05.559 We were kind of preoccupied with wildfires here in southern California, 222 00:14:05.639 --> 00:14:07.200 so we kind of skipped over this one. But I 223 00:14:07.200 --> 00:14:09.080 want to make sure that we're covering some of the 224 00:14:09.120 --> 00:14:12.879 best and newest and brightest things coming out of CES 225 00:14:13.080 --> 00:14:16.840 as it relates to your home. Let's get back to it. 226 00:14:18.120 --> 00:14:23.720 A lot of interesting AI controlled and LED, very very 227 00:14:23.799 --> 00:14:27.279 high tech LED floor lamps coming out. All I can 228 00:14:27.320 --> 00:14:30.240 tell you is that, you know, just keep looking at 229 00:14:30.240 --> 00:14:32.879 the lamp stores, you're going to see these things trickling 230 00:14:32.919 --> 00:14:37.879 in go V g o v ee go V Lighting 231 00:14:37.960 --> 00:14:40.799 had some really interesting floor lamps, very kind of contemporary 232 00:14:40.799 --> 00:14:44.440 in design, but a floor lamp that projects subtle wave 233 00:14:44.559 --> 00:14:47.279 motion effects onto the ceiling in any room. This is 234 00:14:47.320 --> 00:14:51.960 not like some crazy light show, just subtle, very soothing. 235 00:14:52.559 --> 00:14:54.559 A lot of people find it very soothing to see 236 00:14:54.559 --> 00:14:58.360 those that wave effect, like as they're relaxing in their 237 00:14:58.360 --> 00:15:01.639 living room or even going to sleep night. Very interesting 238 00:15:01.720 --> 00:15:07.519 kind of health slash design, slash decor oriented things starting 239 00:15:07.519 --> 00:15:12.120 to come out on the market, things like that Anchor Solid. 240 00:15:12.279 --> 00:15:16.840 The company is called Anchor Solid. They had on display 241 00:15:17.000 --> 00:15:21.679 a backup power battery. Now, this is a portable backup 242 00:15:21.720 --> 00:15:26.279 power battery, but one that can be easily wired into 243 00:15:26.320 --> 00:15:29.559 a house through a automatic transfer switch, so it could 244 00:15:29.559 --> 00:15:34.919 function like a fully built in backup power battery. But 245 00:15:35.039 --> 00:15:38.320 also it's portable and it's not that big. It's got 246 00:15:38.360 --> 00:15:45.039 wheels smaller than most portable generators, and it has I 247 00:15:45.080 --> 00:15:49.519 got to say, a really impressive six thousand watt output 248 00:15:49.799 --> 00:15:53.799 for this battery. It can if it's hardwired into the house, 249 00:15:53.919 --> 00:15:56.799 then it can be charged and ready to rock and 250 00:15:56.919 --> 00:16:01.480 roll when it is just plugged into the grid, and 251 00:16:01.519 --> 00:16:04.360 then it can actually be programmed, like all good backup 252 00:16:04.360 --> 00:16:09.159 batteries should be, to supplement power in the evening when 253 00:16:09.440 --> 00:16:11.799 power from the grid is that it's most expensive, so 254 00:16:11.840 --> 00:16:14.360 it can save you money on your power bill. Whether 255 00:16:14.480 --> 00:16:17.039 or not you've got solar or not, it doesn't matter. 256 00:16:17.759 --> 00:16:21.600 It will still help to save money by adding power 257 00:16:21.679 --> 00:16:24.080 to the house so you don't have to use as 258 00:16:24.200 --> 00:16:27.559 much power when it's most expensive from the power company. 259 00:16:28.000 --> 00:16:31.720 It can be paired with another anchor battery side by 260 00:16:31.840 --> 00:16:37.600 side to give an extremely impressive twelve thousand watts of power. 261 00:16:37.639 --> 00:16:41.159 That is enough output to actually, you know, get the 262 00:16:41.200 --> 00:16:45.240 air conditioner up and running to handle the probably just 263 00:16:45.279 --> 00:16:51.120 about every thing potentially in a house, including some two 264 00:16:51.240 --> 00:16:56.639 hundred and forty amp items. However, when I say that, 265 00:16:56.639 --> 00:16:58.919 that doesn't mean that it's running at all at once, Okay, 266 00:16:59.000 --> 00:17:01.039 it just means you have to be selective. You're going 267 00:17:01.080 --> 00:17:04.000 to drain it like crazy, really fast. But the point 268 00:17:04.079 --> 00:17:07.799 is as a whole house backup battery system, this will 269 00:17:07.839 --> 00:17:10.200 allow you to move from one thing to another to 270 00:17:10.240 --> 00:17:14.039 another and potentially have everything you know if you cycle 271 00:17:14.079 --> 00:17:16.359 them properly, kind of up and running it or at 272 00:17:16.440 --> 00:17:19.680 least at your disposal if you need it. I was 273 00:17:19.799 --> 00:17:22.799 very impressed with these batteries. They have a relatively quick 274 00:17:22.880 --> 00:17:27.119 recharge time. They have a they've got their own solar 275 00:17:27.200 --> 00:17:29.640 panel if you want to buy that assessory, so you 276 00:17:29.640 --> 00:17:31.880 can set them out in the yard and allow them 277 00:17:31.880 --> 00:17:36.240 to recharge. They claim a full recharge in about three hours, 278 00:17:36.400 --> 00:17:39.599 less than three hours. That's impressive too. They are worth 279 00:17:39.640 --> 00:17:43.559 taking a solid look at anchor solid backup power battery. 280 00:17:43.839 --> 00:17:47.319 A lot of people and so Cal especially asking about 281 00:17:47.680 --> 00:17:50.599 backup generators and what do I do? And I know 282 00:17:50.640 --> 00:17:53.000 the fires are miles of miles away from me, but 283 00:17:53.039 --> 00:17:55.680 with all these wind events, the power company is shutting 284 00:17:55.720 --> 00:17:58.920 down the grid in our area. We went three days 285 00:17:58.920 --> 00:18:02.400 without power, that guy went two days without power. What 286 00:18:02.400 --> 00:18:04.440 do we do with backup power? And this is one 287 00:18:04.480 --> 00:18:09.480 of those solid, very intelligent options worth taking a look at. 288 00:18:09.599 --> 00:18:18.480 So the anchor solid backup battery here's something for renters. Renters, Okay, 289 00:18:19.319 --> 00:18:22.960 you want to have more automated lighting control in your home, 290 00:18:23.079 --> 00:18:26.279 be able to let's say, turn on and off of 291 00:18:26.359 --> 00:18:30.319 lights or a series of lights without having to get 292 00:18:30.400 --> 00:18:33.079 up you know, maybe without even having to be home 293 00:18:33.240 --> 00:18:36.839 app based control, which is getting really really common these days. 294 00:18:37.119 --> 00:18:40.039 But here's the thing. If you're a renter. Typically, you know, 295 00:18:40.039 --> 00:18:42.119 we got to change out the light switch with a 296 00:18:42.279 --> 00:18:47.319 smart light switch, which means wiring stuff into a place 297 00:18:47.359 --> 00:18:50.440 that isn't yours. How do we get around that. Well, 298 00:18:50.440 --> 00:18:51.960 one of the ways to get around it is by 299 00:18:52.079 --> 00:18:57.240 you know, plug in outlets and actually controlling smart light bulbs. 300 00:18:57.680 --> 00:19:01.359 But another way to get around it now is by 301 00:19:01.359 --> 00:19:05.000 a company third Reality. It's called it's a thread based 302 00:19:05.319 --> 00:19:08.119 snap on light switch remote controller. And this is the 303 00:19:08.160 --> 00:19:12.559 thing that just snaps onto on top of a light switch. 304 00:19:13.720 --> 00:19:16.160 You know, whether it's traditional or decor. I think it's 305 00:19:16.160 --> 00:19:19.759 Decora based light switch. The wide paddle switch is not 306 00:19:19.799 --> 00:19:22.680 the it's so much the old style, but it snaps 307 00:19:22.720 --> 00:19:25.920 on to the top of a light switch. And of 308 00:19:26.000 --> 00:19:29.640 course it itself has a button on it so that you 309 00:19:29.680 --> 00:19:32.000 don't lose the functionality of the light switch. You still 310 00:19:32.039 --> 00:19:34.079 reach out and just hit it and on it goes 311 00:19:34.119 --> 00:19:38.240 and off it goes. But this device is app controlled, 312 00:19:38.279 --> 00:19:42.039 which means now you have a device that's essentially flipping 313 00:19:42.079 --> 00:19:44.279 the light switch for you, and that's literally what it does. 314 00:19:44.319 --> 00:19:48.519 It manually flips the light switch for you. And the 315 00:19:48.599 --> 00:19:51.680 cool thing. So if you're a homeowner, this is probably 316 00:19:51.720 --> 00:19:53.920 not the thing that you're looking for, But if you're 317 00:19:53.960 --> 00:19:58.200 a renter, now you can start adding automation to your 318 00:19:58.240 --> 00:20:04.279 home lifestyle without investing in somebody else's infrastructure because these 319 00:20:04.279 --> 00:20:06.599 things you can take with you wherever you want to go, 320 00:20:06.839 --> 00:20:10.039 and it leaves no marks or no hassles behind, and 321 00:20:10.039 --> 00:20:13.359 there's no wiring. So third reality snap on light switch 322 00:20:13.440 --> 00:20:17.400 remote controllers. Another thing that I thought was fascinating and 323 00:20:17.680 --> 00:20:20.240 I think a lot of people would find very very 324 00:20:20.240 --> 00:20:27.640 practical is by Dreoh. It's an AI driven personal fan. Okay, 325 00:20:27.839 --> 00:20:30.680 what does that mean? Well, if you've heard me talk 326 00:20:31.519 --> 00:20:36.880 about heating and air conditioning during those seasons, right, especially 327 00:20:37.000 --> 00:20:41.960 air conditioning, I will usually in the course of having 328 00:20:42.279 --> 00:20:45.839 an air conditioning conversation tell you that those of you 329 00:20:46.039 --> 00:20:49.680 who just want to cool down, you can't afford to 330 00:20:49.799 --> 00:20:52.599 upgrade your AC system or it's broken down. And those 331 00:20:52.640 --> 00:20:54.839 of you who just want to cool down by the 332 00:20:54.960 --> 00:20:59.359 use of a room fan, right, an oscillating fan. I've 333 00:20:59.400 --> 00:21:02.559 told you the most important thing you need to understand 334 00:21:02.599 --> 00:21:04.799 about a fan is it needs to be blowing on 335 00:21:04.880 --> 00:21:08.440 you in order for you to feel cooler, because a 336 00:21:08.440 --> 00:21:11.200 fan that just recirculates air in the room does not 337 00:21:11.240 --> 00:21:15.160 actually cool the room at all. Okay, fans only cool 338 00:21:15.599 --> 00:21:18.599 you because they need to blow air across your skin, 339 00:21:19.079 --> 00:21:23.680 so evaporation is increased. Therefore, the moisture that your body 340 00:21:23.759 --> 00:21:26.640 is putting out leaves, and as it leaves, it cools 341 00:21:26.640 --> 00:21:29.720 your skin. That's why fans feel good when they blow 342 00:21:29.759 --> 00:21:31.319 on you. But if you turn a fan in the 343 00:21:31.319 --> 00:21:33.599 opposite direction, you can run it all day long and 344 00:21:33.640 --> 00:21:35.799 you will never feel a temperature difference in the room 345 00:21:35.839 --> 00:21:38.160 because they're not cooling it. They're just moving the air around. 346 00:21:38.559 --> 00:21:42.200 So a fan needs to cool you needs to be 347 00:21:42.279 --> 00:21:48.200 pointed at you. Well, here is a new fan. It's 348 00:21:48.519 --> 00:21:50.240 a fan. You look at it and you're like, oh, 349 00:21:50.319 --> 00:21:53.799 that looks like a you know, it's a fan. It 350 00:21:53.839 --> 00:21:57.319 would otherwise be an oscillating fan. Technically it does oscillate. 351 00:21:57.400 --> 00:22:01.400 The head moves, but instead of just wagging back and 352 00:22:01.440 --> 00:22:06.960 forth blindly. This fan because of its sensors, because it 353 00:22:07.039 --> 00:22:11.079 has AI built into it, it knows where you are 354 00:22:11.480 --> 00:22:16.079 in the room, and so the fan follows you, not 355 00:22:16.279 --> 00:22:18.960 physically follows you in the room, as it like it 356 00:22:19.000 --> 00:22:21.960 has wheels and it's trailing behind you. But wherever you 357 00:22:22.000 --> 00:22:24.079 set the fan in the room, it will find you 358 00:22:24.319 --> 00:22:26.920 where you're sitting, and it will blow in your direction. 359 00:22:27.000 --> 00:22:29.200 If there are three people sitting in the room, it 360 00:22:29.240 --> 00:22:32.279 will divide its attention between the three of you. It'll 361 00:22:32.279 --> 00:22:34.960 blow on you a little bit, and it'll it'll rotate 362 00:22:35.000 --> 00:22:37.000 over here and blow on her a little bit, and 363 00:22:37.000 --> 00:22:38.960 then back over here and blow on him a little bit, 364 00:22:39.240 --> 00:22:42.240 and everybody gets the benefit of the fan. It spends 365 00:22:42.319 --> 00:22:47.519 all of its time targeting you. Also, the AI allows 366 00:22:47.559 --> 00:22:50.559 it to do something really cool, which is control its 367 00:22:50.680 --> 00:22:53.480 velocity because not only does it know where you are 368 00:22:53.519 --> 00:22:56.400 in the room, it knows how far away you are 369 00:22:56.559 --> 00:22:59.559 from it. So if you're sitting right next to it, 370 00:22:59.559 --> 00:23:02.200 it's going to crank itself down to low. If you're 371 00:23:02.200 --> 00:23:04.240 sitting all the way on the other side of the room, 372 00:23:04.359 --> 00:23:06.960 it's going to crank itself up to high so that 373 00:23:07.160 --> 00:23:10.319 you get the max benefit from what it has to offer. 374 00:23:11.680 --> 00:23:15.359 So you know what, that's a smart fan, AI driven 375 00:23:15.799 --> 00:23:20.279 smart oscillating room fan. The company is dre oh d 376 00:23:20.640 --> 00:23:26.039 r EO. Check it out the AI personal Fan. All right, 377 00:23:26.359 --> 00:23:28.640 I've got one other item to share with you. It's 378 00:23:28.680 --> 00:23:32.920 an interesting one. I don't know, I don't know. I 379 00:23:32.960 --> 00:23:36.160 don't know about this one, but it's worth mentioning because 380 00:23:36.160 --> 00:23:40.839 I've talked a lot about, you know, the electrification of homes, 381 00:23:40.880 --> 00:23:45.039 the trend in that direction, and you've heard me talk 382 00:23:45.119 --> 00:23:49.400 a lot about induction cooktops. A downside if there is 383 00:23:49.519 --> 00:23:54.119 one of an induction cooktop is that it requires two 384 00:23:54.240 --> 00:23:58.519 hundred and forty amps, It requires rewiring, adding you know, 385 00:23:58.599 --> 00:24:01.519 more voltage to your to get to the cook top 386 00:24:02.559 --> 00:24:05.720 than was previously there. That can be costly and that 387 00:24:05.759 --> 00:24:10.160 can disrupt a lot of things. How about an induction 388 00:24:10.279 --> 00:24:14.160 cook top and electric oven that you can just plug 389 00:24:14.200 --> 00:24:20.440 into a one twenty standard outlet? Is that possible? Let's 390 00:24:20.480 --> 00:24:22.039 talk about it when we return. 391 00:24:23.000 --> 00:24:26.279 You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on Demand from 392 00:24:26.400 --> 00:24:27.680 KFI AM six. 393 00:24:27.640 --> 00:24:34.920 Forty So so very very cool of some of the 394 00:24:34.920 --> 00:24:38.960 things coming out of cees this year, right, is it 395 00:24:39.000 --> 00:24:43.759 not super cool, some things relevant to our home smart 396 00:24:43.759 --> 00:24:47.440 home stuff, a lot of it not, but in general, 397 00:24:48.079 --> 00:24:51.200 the one thing I wanted to close with before we're 398 00:24:51.200 --> 00:24:56.799 done today is an induction free standing range. So we 399 00:24:56.920 --> 00:24:59.880 got an oven below, an electric oven below, and then 400 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:03.559 and a full size induction cook top up above. Not 401 00:25:03.640 --> 00:25:06.599