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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us on the program. Today.
Speaker 2: We're talking about the best of the Consumer Electronics show
Speaker 2: that just took place in Las Vegas a couple of
Speaker 2: weeks ago, and that we all kind of skipped over
Speaker 2: because of all the wildfire activity. Well, I haven't let
Speaker 2: that go unnoticed, so we're hitting it now. But right now,
Speaker 2: as is our custom, top of the hour, it is
Speaker 2: time to go to the phones. I want to talk
Speaker 2: to Alexis. Hey, Alexis, welcome home. Do I have Alexis?
Speaker 3: Hello?
Speaker 1: Hi, buddy, you're doing I'm good.
Speaker 3: How are you doing?
Speaker 1: I'm good? How can I help you?
Speaker 3: Okay? So I'm going to consolidate this if I can.
Speaker 3: About eighteen years ago, I had a renovation and an
Speaker 3: addition added to my bedroom, extending at about three hundred
Speaker 3: square feet. I have it's on a slab and I
Speaker 3: have two inch hardwood floors. On top of that, I
Speaker 3: have a French door on one wall that leads out
Speaker 3: to a patio. And everything was fine for about until
Speaker 3: about four years ago, and I noticed the floor was
Speaker 3: cupping and then it got I think with the rains,
Speaker 3: it got really worse, and I looked around. It started
Speaker 3: buckling too in certain spaces, so I looked around for water.
Speaker 3: There was no water, no signs of water on the floor,
Speaker 3: nothing on the walls, nothing coming through the doors. And
Speaker 3: when the rains stopped, I had the floor replaced and
Speaker 3: told the flooring guy the whole situation, and we took
Speaker 3: the floor out, and I had a contractor come and
Speaker 3: checked for rain, for water. He checked the roof, he
Speaker 3: checked the gutters. He felled the whole exterior of that
Speaker 3: side of the wind of the French doors and the
Speaker 3: sides near the gutters, just in case. And I had
Speaker 3: the floor replaced and it started cupping again. So I
Speaker 3: suspect that I'm going to have the floor redone, but
Speaker 3: I don't want to have it redone again until I
Speaker 3: can try to figure out what do I look for.
Speaker 3: I bought a moisture meter and I've been doing readings,
Speaker 3: although I don't know what I'm talking about or what
Speaker 3: they mean. And the highest that it got was on
Speaker 3: to a fourteen, but usually they averaged probably twelve. And
Speaker 3: the place that they replaced the floor was the length
Speaker 3: of the room, but probably two two and a half
Speaker 3: feet out. They didn't do the whole room because the
Speaker 3: rest of the room is fine, and even parts of
Speaker 3: the replacement floor had been fine. So I don't know
Speaker 3: what to do.
Speaker 2: Okay, my friend, it's a tough situation, but you are
Speaker 2: you're headed in the right direction.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: Now I'm not going to speak to all the ceiling
Speaker 2: of the outside. Here is your situation. It doesn't sound
Speaker 2: like you've got a leak. It doesn't sound like you've
Speaker 2: got anything from up above. It is groundwater. Somehow, something
Speaker 2: about the slab when it was originally poured is not
Speaker 2: resisting moisture coming up from underneath. Okay, the slab is
Speaker 2: too moist. Okay, So you are correct in saying having
Speaker 2: you know, having been hit twice by this. Now you
Speaker 2: are correct in being gunshy to put anything else down
Speaker 2: there until this problem is resolved. There are steps that
Speaker 2: can be taken to help resolve the issue, but it
Speaker 2: has to be done very very intelligently as we move forward,
Speaker 2: other otherwise you're gonna end up with the exact same
Speaker 2: problem again.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: So the we're talking about moist and a lot of
Speaker 2: southern California. California homes have experienced an increase of slab
Speaker 2: moisture because of these heavy rains that we've had over
Speaker 2: the last couple of winters. Not so much this year clearly,
Speaker 2: but uh, but prior to so that's been an issue.
Speaker 2: And uh and and I have to say, I'm not
Speaker 2: pointing fingers, because this can happen even when that everything
Speaker 2: is done. Well, Uh, I'm not pointing fingers immediately at
Speaker 2: a contractor, but I will tell you this. I have
Speaker 2: seen bits of slab prep for homes slip over the
Speaker 2: last few years because it's like, well, you know, do
Speaker 2: I have to get all the viscuins stretched out just
Speaker 2: perfectly or do you know so that it really is
Speaker 2: holding back moisture of vapor barrier underneath your slab before
Speaker 2: it was poured, you know, because it's been so dry,
Speaker 2: and you know, climate change and everything's just going to
Speaker 2: be super dry from here on out. So what's the
Speaker 2: big deal? That's not proper thinking. The change that we're
Speaker 2: seeing climatically here in California is basically, from what we
Speaker 2: can tell, is going to point us toward climate extremes.
Speaker 2: We're going to have some very dry years and then
Speaker 2: some really wet years, and so on and so forth,
Speaker 2: kind of ping ponging back instead of you know, the
Speaker 2: mildness and the averages that we're used to. But the
Speaker 2: point is this, when it comes to your slab, if
Speaker 2: you're now, are you using a moisture meter that you
Speaker 2: can actually make contact with the slab and you're getting
Speaker 2: readings off of that.
Speaker 3: Here, According to the instructions and the description of it,
Speaker 3: it does, and it has it has different modes. One
Speaker 3: is for masonry, one is for dry wall, one is
Speaker 3: for hardwood floor, softwood floor. So I can't remember what
Speaker 3: it was.
Speaker 2: You got a good meter and you're using it for masonry,
Speaker 2: you know, or for concrete. I'll tell you right now.
Speaker 2: The the the general accepted level, and every wood manufacturer
Speaker 2: is going to tell you this in the fine print
Speaker 2: of their actual literature, But the generally accepted level is
Speaker 2: that the ideal moisture content. Well for you know, Hey,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, alexis I'm up against a break. I was
Speaker 2: just alerted that I shouldn't go along here. Let me
Speaker 2: pop you on hold and we're going to pick this
Speaker 2: up right on the other side, okay, because I've got answers, Oh, all.
Speaker 1: Right, you hold tight. Everybody else, hold tight.
Speaker 2: We're going to see if we can solve this slab
Speaker 2: moisture problem your Home with Dean Sharp, the house Whisper.
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Speaker 1: I'm taking calls right now at this moment.
Speaker 2: Then we're going to get back to talking about the
Speaker 2: best of the Consumer Electronics Show for Homes twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: But right now I've got Alexis on the line, got
Speaker 2: her on hold, Alexis, are you still there?
Speaker 1: I am okay.
Speaker 2: So Alexis had a bedroom addition made to her house
Speaker 2: a few years back, and she's had two different hardwood
Speaker 2: floors laid down and they've cupped, they've buckled. She's had
Speaker 2: contractors come out check for roof leaks and seal the
Speaker 2: concrete on the outside of the house all around. She's
Speaker 2: got a moisture meter that she's been using to try
Speaker 2: and figure this out. And she's kind of just working
Speaker 2: this problem on her own very intelligently. I could use
Speaker 2: some help, and so Alexis, So, here's the thing. A
Speaker 2: couple of questions real quick. Number one, the kind of
Speaker 2: hardwood that you've been laying down. You said, did you
Speaker 2: say two inch strip hardwood? Is this engineered hardware or.
Speaker 1: Is it solid?
Speaker 3: No? It's solid solid?
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, so this is solid oak hardwood. Is that
Speaker 2: because you're trying to match the existing house?
Speaker 3: Correct?
Speaker 1: Okay? The most vulnerable houses.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, go ahead, no, no, go ahead, no, no, fine,
Speaker 3: the house was built when nineteen twenty eight.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's what I thought. All right, So we're matching
Speaker 2: the existing solid oak strip flooring. So we've got to
Speaker 2: be super super careful because solid oak floor solid meaning
Speaker 2: just one piece of wood from top to bottom, not
Speaker 2: a plywood kind of situation, which is an engineered wood floor,
Speaker 2: are the most the most vulnerable to moisture because they
Speaker 2: have nothing. There aren't other layers of wood underneath the
Speaker 2: finish layer that are set at, you know, at varying
Speaker 2: angles to each other to resist cupping and buckling and
Speaker 2: all of that kind of stuff. So yours is it
Speaker 2: is not an possible situation, but it is the most
Speaker 2: sensitive situations. We've got to be really careful about it.
Speaker 2: Checking moisture in the slab and what'd you say? Your
Speaker 2: readings were.
Speaker 3: The highest I got was fourteen, but they averaged around twelve.
Speaker 2: Okay, so that actually isn't high, very high for most
Speaker 2: slab readings. But here is the thing, and I don't
Speaker 2: know if you've been doing this. I'd be surprised if
Speaker 2: you had been, so don't feel bad about it. But
Speaker 2: it can be deceiving. Checking moisture in a slab can
Speaker 2: be deceiving because it is part of the interior condition
Speaker 2: space of our home. Whether you're using your air conditioner
Speaker 2: which dries air it's a dehumidifier, or whether you're using
Speaker 2: your heater to keep the space warm. The point is
Speaker 2: there could be more moisture coming up through that slab
Speaker 2: than your re Your moisture gauge is perceiving because the
Speaker 2: surface of your slab is constantly being dried out by
Speaker 2: the condition of the air inside the space. So in
Speaker 2: other words, you may be getting a false read on
Speaker 2: that to a certain degree. So here's how we resolve
Speaker 2: that is you get yourself a small roll of a
Speaker 2: thick viscuen plastic right like heavy duty, like six mil
Speaker 2: four mil six mil plastic. You can find this at
Speaker 2: the paint tile at the big box store. And a
Speaker 2: small roll you don't need a you know, one hundred
Speaker 2: foot long roll, just the smallest role you can find,
Speaker 2: but I wanted to be heavy duty, so it lasts
Speaker 2: for a while. And you're gonna cut let's take two
Speaker 2: or three readings in the room. You're gonna cut yourself,
Speaker 2: maybe a twelve by twelve or a twenty four by
Speaker 2: twenty four square of this plastic, three of them. And
Speaker 2: you're gonna get some heavy duty ducked tape, okay, and
Speaker 2: you're gonna tape the on the edges. You're gonna tape
Speaker 2: this plastic down to the slab, okay, in these three
Speaker 2: or four locations, and then we're gonna wait a few days.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: What the plastic is gonna do. It's gonna keep the
Speaker 2: air temperature and the dryness of the air inside your
Speaker 2: house from flashing off the moisture that's really in the slab.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: In other words, it's gonna hold whatever moisture is in
Speaker 2: that little one or two foot square area there.
Speaker 1: It's gonna keep it there.
Speaker 2: And then after you know, three or four days, maybe
Speaker 2: even give it a week, then you're going to pull
Speaker 2: back the plastic and test that slab right then, and there. Okay,
Speaker 2: with that level, and we're gonna get the right reading
Speaker 2: this time. Okay, Uh, that's gonna so it's gonna it's
Speaker 2: gonna prevent the air from drawing out the slab.
Speaker 1: So and that's all well and good.
Speaker 2: I'm supposing that it's gonna be higher than you know,
Speaker 2: fourteen plus percent. But the point is this, it is
Speaker 2: still not a lost cause. We have installed very sensitive
Speaker 2: wood floors on slabs that are very problematic. But this
Speaker 2: is what it takes, and this is what I've the
Speaker 2: only time I've got left for you now is to
Speaker 2: tell you what it's going to take. There are there's
Speaker 2: a process out there in which the very first thing
Speaker 2: we want to do is we want to apply a
Speaker 2: surface sealer and primer to the slab. Okay, a surface
Speaker 2: seiler in primer. Now, this is not just any old
Speaker 2: like oh, a concrete seiler like you know, like you
Speaker 2: would find in the aisle the concrete out Now we're
Speaker 2: talking about a professional hardwood prep sealer that actually is
Speaker 2: designed to form a moisture barrier on the surface of
Speaker 2: the concrete. It grabs onto the surface of the concrete
Speaker 2: for we put it on nice and thick and it
Speaker 2: forms a moisture barrier, but also it's a primer, meaning
Speaker 2: that it is a special substance that is ready for
Speaker 2: hardwood adhesive to grab onto it, because any other kind
Speaker 2: of stuff out there could actually make the hardwood adhesive,
Speaker 2: you know, do a worse job. So step one is
Speaker 2: going to be used like Bostic. Bostic makes are hard
Speaker 2: famous hardwood glue manufacturer. They make a product called roll Coat,
Speaker 2: roll dash Coat, Cote. That's the kind of thing that
Speaker 2: I'm talking about. It's not the only brand out there,
Speaker 2: but it's the kind of thing I'm talking about. We
Speaker 2: roll this out onto the floor, the whole floor, and
Speaker 2: then we let it cure completely. And then I want
Speaker 2: you to do that plastic test again and we're going
Speaker 2: to see that the moisture content drops significantly, Okay, and
Speaker 2: if necessary, we'll put two coats on, okay, of this
Speaker 2: vapor barrier and moisture seal, and we'll retest it again.
Speaker 2: But I guarantee you you're gonna get to the point
Speaker 2: unless there's just water literally bubbling up through which it
Speaker 2: doesn't sound like there is, you're going to get to
Speaker 2: the point where we have got that moisture locked into
Speaker 2: the slab not coming up and through, and then we're
Speaker 2: gonna feel safe to lay down that sensitive hardwood floor,
Speaker 2: but only with an adhesive that is in fact also
Speaker 2: its own vapor barrier. And there are a lot of
Speaker 2: hardwood floor adhesives out there that aren't vapor barriers. The
Speaker 2: more expensive ones are great adhesives and also waterproof at
Speaker 2: the same time. So by the time we get done
Speaker 2: with this, we're gonna have three layers of vapor barrier
Speaker 2: underneath your hardwood floor, and we're not gonna find cupping
Speaker 2: a buckleg anymore.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, okay, that is a process.
Speaker 1: It is a process, but that's what has to happen.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, no, I have to do. I have to
Speaker 3: do whatever it takes to make sure it's not going
Speaker 3: to happen again. It's ridiculous to have the floor torn
Speaker 3: up and put back down in the same situation.
Speaker 1: Exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm going.
Speaker 1: I'm thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Use the plastic test first to get a better reading.
Speaker 2: Then get your hands on talk to a contractor or
Speaker 2: flooring contractor get your hands on some roll coat or
Speaker 2: an equivalent process, get a couple of good layers down, retest,
Speaker 2: and then only use a vapor barrier, waterproof flooring adhesive
Speaker 2: when the time finally comes for your floor. All right,
Speaker 2: my friend, I just wanted to take the extra time
Speaker 2: to make sure you were in good shape, because that's
Speaker 2: how we treat people around here.
Speaker 4: All right, you're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on
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Speaker 1: Your Home with Dean Sharp, the house Whisper.
Speaker 2: We are talking about the consumer Electronics show that just
Speaker 2: wrapped up a couple of weeks ago. Normally we'd get
Speaker 2: to it right after it finishes up, but we've had
Speaker 2: a few things on our mind here in southern California,
Speaker 2: like wildfire disasters happening. So now that a little bit
Speaker 2: more calm in the air, of course, we will continue
Speaker 2: to cover all things related to these fires. The fact
Speaker 2: of the matter is it's time for us to catch
Speaker 2: up with some of these other items for the rest
Speaker 2: of us. So the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas, huge, huge,
Speaker 2: huge thing that happens every year. This was a banner
Speaker 2: year some years. Admittedly, I think we're just kind of
Speaker 2: cruising off the momentum of other changes, but this is
Speaker 2: kind of a sea change show, or at least we're
Speaker 2: starting to see it because of AI, which we've already
Speaker 2: talked about some things. I told you that when we
Speaker 2: got back to this, we're going to talk about a TV.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there is like eight gabillion televisions on every year
Speaker 2: at CEES, and I think in general, I don't know,
Speaker 2: for me at least, and believe me, I'm all about
Speaker 2: the tech, okay, but for me at least, it's we
Speaker 2: get to a point where things are so good that
Speaker 2: the micro infinitesimal changes or seemingly so or even big leaps,
Speaker 2: they just don't seem that big anymore. I mean, we
Speaker 2: saw six K, eight K TVs on display, and the
Speaker 2: fact of the matter is we're really kind of approaching
Speaker 2: the point where we're at retina level, meaning it doesn't matter,
Speaker 2: like a twenty K television isn't going to look any
Speaker 2: different to you and me than like a five K
Speaker 2: television because our eyes just can't see all the rest
Speaker 2: of that detail. It's just too small. In other words,
Speaker 2: we've got it to the point where, yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 2: don't see any pixels. I got my nose pressed up
Speaker 2: against the screen and see any pixels. So you know,
Speaker 2: and I'm not drawing a technical line. I'm sure you
Speaker 2: Techi's out there are like, well, Dean, actually it's gonna
Speaker 2: have to get to this low Okay, but you understand
Speaker 2: the spirit of what I'm saying. For most of us
Speaker 2: who are looking for a high definition experience on in television,
Speaker 2: we're there and we've been there for an awful long
Speaker 2: time now. So those little changes not so you know,
Speaker 2: captivating for me, interesting but not captivating. But there is
Speaker 2: a TV that was at the show that that I
Speaker 2: do find very very interesting for other reasons. It's made
Speaker 2: by Displace.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: Now you're like, that's not a major manufacturer. That is correct,
Speaker 2: and and I'm not telling you to run out and
Speaker 2: get it. Displace is a is not one of the
Speaker 2: big television electronic manufacturers. They're one of the young newcomers
Speaker 2: to the game. But they're doing some smart stuff and
Speaker 2: their emphasis when it comes to a TV, the one
Speaker 2: that we just saw, the Displaced TV a totally wireless television. Okay,
Speaker 2: now wireless meaning no cables attached to it. It's communicating
Speaker 2: via Bluetooth and Wi Fi for speaker systems when necessary.
Speaker 2: It has its own speakers that can attach to it.
Speaker 2: Speaker accessories like a soundbar accessory. It comes in two sizes,
Speaker 2: A twenty seven and a fifty five. Now you're like, well,
Speaker 2: twenty seven is very very small by today's stand that's
Speaker 2: like large monitor size, but very very small. TV fifty
Speaker 2: five is respectable. So what's the point about this. This
Speaker 2: is a television that is literally designed to just be
Speaker 2: laying around the house, not attached to any particular wall,
Speaker 2: not permanently mounted anywhere. This is a television screen that
Speaker 2: is designed for you just grab and set up wherever
Speaker 2: you are because it's wireless and it can do that. Okay,
Speaker 2: so now what features does it have that allows it
Speaker 2: to do it other than its internal battery system, other
Speaker 2: than active vacuum suction cups four suction cups on the
Speaker 2: back of this television that aren't that aren't just like, oh,
Speaker 2: you know, lick them and stick them to the wall
Speaker 2: and hope that your very expensive television doesn't fall.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, no.
Speaker 2: This is kind of the active suction tech. You know,
Speaker 2: you've seen glass professionals use those little suction cup things
Speaker 2: where they actually have to press the buttons in in
Speaker 2: order to keep and maintain the vacuum. Well, this is
Speaker 2: a television that has those kind of suction cups, and
Speaker 2: it actively continues to put a vacuum under those cups.
Speaker 2: It sticks to flat surfaces incredibly securely and really really
Speaker 2: well and safely. Okay, So that means, oh, you want
Speaker 2: to bring this TV into the den for now? Yeah,
Speaker 2: just bring it on in and just pop it on
Speaker 2: the wall, watch TV in here. Oh I'm to do
Speaker 2: it in the bedroom, a bedroom that doesn't have a TV.
Speaker 2: Bring it in, pop it on the wall, pop it
Speaker 2: on a window pane, on a sliding glass door, or
Speaker 2: and here's what got my attention, just the applications for Hey,
Speaker 2: you want to watch TV out side under the patio cover,
Speaker 2: we can just bring this TV out and put it
Speaker 2: there instead of all of the hubbub about bringing wiring
Speaker 2: and cabling outside, setting up a television screen that's going
Speaker 2: to be exposed to moisture and weather, you know, twenty
Speaker 2: four to seven building cases around it to protect it,
Speaker 2: all of those kinds of things. And I'm not saying
Speaker 2: that those aren't appropriate. Things that can still happen in
Speaker 2: certain situations where you know, that's just how we normally
Speaker 2: do things. But this is a TV that challenges that
Speaker 2: that kind of thinking, because it's so dang easy just
Speaker 2: to go to the hall closet, pull the screen out
Speaker 2: and bring it outside with you when you're planning on
Speaker 2: watching a show or something or you know, the game
Speaker 2: outside there it is. Carry it outside for when you
Speaker 2: need it, stick it to whatever for however long you
Speaker 2: need it, and bring it back inside. That's that's a
Speaker 2: useful device. This thing also has a built in stand.
Speaker 2: It comes out the bottom, so if you don't if
Speaker 2: you're not going to attach it to something, you activate
Speaker 2: the stand and these two little legs come out from
Speaker 2: each side down below and then spread out and boom.
Speaker 2: The TV is standing on its own built in and
Speaker 2: if you want a bigger experience, I already said it
Speaker 2: has soundbar assessories that can be attached. But you can
Speaker 2: join this TV with three other screens together and then
Speaker 2: they all unite for a large composite screen.
Speaker 1: That's kind of cool. So anyway, here's one of those things. Now,
Speaker 1: am I saying that this is the one?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: But what I keep my eye out for at shows
Speaker 2: like this are where we've turned a corner and somebody
Speaker 2: is thinking about something that is common in a very
Speaker 2: very different way.
Speaker 1: And so the idea that.
Speaker 2: Television technology, battery technology has got to the point where
Speaker 2: we could have Wi Fi and Bluetooth based screens that
Speaker 2: are lightweight, that don't have to be a permanent mount
Speaker 2: in the house, that you can just kind of take
Speaker 2: it wherever you want to go, use it wherever you
Speaker 2: want to use it, and then store it away safely
Speaker 2: somewhere when you're not using it. That's kind of game
Speaker 2: changing thinking. So kudos for the Displaced TV. You should
Speaker 2: check it out all right. More when we return your
Speaker 2: Home with Dean Sharp the house whisper.
Speaker 4: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
Speaker 4: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1: Welcome home.
Speaker 2: We are having a conversation today about the Consumer Electronics
Speaker 2: show that just wrapped up a couple of weeks ago
Speaker 2: in Las Vegas and the things that we've discovered there
Speaker 2: that are home related, things that may affect the way
Speaker 2: we function with our homes. Tech in our homes, smart
Speaker 2: home technology, and like I said at the top of
Speaker 2: the show, a lot of AI this year, a lot
Speaker 2: of AI kind of seeping its way into familiar devices
Speaker 2: and unfamiliar ones as well. Let me get back to
Speaker 2: my list, all right, I got it. I have to
Speaker 2: share this one with you. And you're gonna ask Dean,
Speaker 2: what does this have to do with my home? It
Speaker 2: just doesn't really. I mean, I mean, you do this
Speaker 2: in your home, but other than that, it doesn't. I
Speaker 2: just I could not stop thinking about it, and so
Speaker 2: I had to share with you because it's interesting. And
Speaker 2: that is Kieran. Kieran the Japanese beer company. Yeah, that Kieran.
Speaker 2: They make a lot of stuff, but beer for sure.
Speaker 2: They introduce at CES twenty twenty five. I don't know
Speaker 2: what exactly the official name of it is a I'm
Speaker 2: just calling it the salt spoon, okay. It is an
Speaker 2: electronic spoon that you use to eat food with and
Speaker 2: it has these little sensors on the surface of the
Speaker 2: spoon and when you put it in your mouth, here
Speaker 2: is the claim from Kiiran, When you put it in
Speaker 2: your mouth, it electronically stimulates the proper parts of your
Speaker 2: tongue in order to give your brain the impression that
Speaker 2: what it is that you're eating is saltier than it is,
Speaker 2: or it has more of a umami taste than what
Speaker 2: it does. And yeah, right, that's a little okay. So
Speaker 2: the issue driving this is excessive salt intake concerns among
Speaker 2: Japanese people and the general public dissatisfaction with the alternative,
Speaker 2: which is the taste of low sodium food. And if
Speaker 2: you know anything about salt, you know that salt is
Speaker 2: not just a regular spice like you know other things
Speaker 2: that you know, you you know, sprinkle onto your food,
Speaker 2: but salt actually has the ability to molecularly kind of
Speaker 2: boost the flavor of food. And that's why salt is
Speaker 2: in everything because it's a flavor booster. It's not salty
Speaker 2: until there's too much salt, and then you taste the salt,
Speaker 2: but at some point salt, when it's below it's too
Speaker 2: salty level, is just amplifying food flavor. That's why it's
Speaker 2: so important to cooking. So this the alternative of not
Speaker 2: using salt is you know, less tasty food because it's
Speaker 2: you know, instead of it being cranked up to you know, ten,
Speaker 2: the flavor of the food is down at three.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: So the idea is that this spoon, if you use
Speaker 2: this spoon to eat I guess foods that you eat
Speaker 2: with a spoon, you can have less or no salt
Speaker 2: in those foods and your brain still feels like you
Speaker 2: are tasting an adequate salt level because it's doing this
Speaker 2: electronically to your tongue.
Speaker 1: There you go. I just had to bring that up
Speaker 1: to you. Is this gonna sell a million? I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's interesting though, wouldn't it be interesting that the day
Speaker 2: comes when just our utensils basically we just programmed them
Speaker 2: to make, you know, just plain old mush taste like
Speaker 2: anything we want.
Speaker 1: Right there you go.
Speaker 2: And then maybe there's a calorie intake potential, transformative potential
Speaker 2: about this as well. But right now, Karen has introduced
Speaker 2: the salt spoon so that you don't have to put
Speaker 2: as much salt on your food. There you go, all right,
Speaker 2: now on to stuff for your home. I just had
Speaker 2: to say that a lot of manufacturers introducing better presence
Speaker 2: sensors in rooms now. Motion detectors have been a part
Speaker 2: now of a lot of light switches in rooms for
Speaker 2: quite a while because they're energy safers right as they
Speaker 2: as long as they detect motion in the room, they
Speaker 2: keep the light on, and when there's no more motion
Speaker 2: in the room, the light goes off. The problem is
Speaker 2: if you're planning on coming in the room and sitting
Speaker 2: you know, sitting down and relaxing and reading a book.
Speaker 2: Most traditional motion sensors are just going to think, oh,
Speaker 2: you're not here anymore, and so they turn the light off.
Speaker 2: Presence sensors are different, not motion presence sensors a whole
Speaker 2: different level of detection and AI intelligence discerning the combination
Speaker 2: of the two means that now, really somebody really is
Speaker 2: kind of watching the room and knows you're in it,
Speaker 2: even if you're completely motionless and still, and only turns
Speaker 2: off the light once you leave. It's just a higher
Speaker 2: level of accurate. See when it comes to that. All right,
Speaker 2: when we come back, let's talk about robots, Elmer's favorite subject.
Speaker 2: We're going to talk about robots. Right after Eileen Gonzalez
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