Hello Automaters. Thanks for tuning in again. I've never had to do this before
but I have to give you a new Google Home and Google Assistant updates and new
features and that's based on the fact that CES 2019 is going on right now and
Google is just announcing all kinds of things left right and center and their
partners are doing the same as well so let's get started let's do all the
latest news features updates and new integrations that Google is announcing
at CES now there is a ton to go through so I'm going to go as fast as I can with
all this stuff but what we saw recently was Google putting their Google
Assistant into series shortcuts giving you the ability to do that and then
Apple basically nerfing that and forcing you to now go into the Google Assistant
app well Google's fighting back they're putting the Google Assistant right into Google
Maps inside the application so that's going to show up for anyone who has
Google Maps you're going to be able to get directions things like that send
messages to friends all the stuff you'd think would work with Google Maps will
very shortly another feature that's been debuted there and it's not quite ready
but Auto punctuation here is being created for any messages you send back
and forth so when you send a message through broadcast or you return a
message through broadcast or you use Google Assistant on your phone to send
messages it's going to punctuate it for you so that's going to help a lot of
people with a lot of different grammar things and you know I'm happy to see
that just because visually then people start to see the correct punctuation on
things now another thing that was shown is the immediate translation capability
and the demo was shown on a Google Home Hub but it's obviously going to be
capable in a lot of different ways so you can get translation on the fly like
we've seen in some of the ear but earbuds that Google had put out
previously but now on a display with a visual assistant
as well when we're talking about a Google Home Hub or a Lenovo Smart
Display another thing we saw was the ability to basically get your boarding
passes through Google Assistant now obviously that is going to start in the
US and just some you know specific flights or specific carriers but it will
expand over time the other thing that Google said they're doing is they're
adding the Assistant to more devices when they're locked so you know more
tablets more phones those types of devices are going to be able to access
the Google Assistant and as I move into some of the integration discussion here
and all the products that Google has been integrated with you know they're
kind of the older products that's one of the things the talk about I mean Google
has said that they now have 1 billion devices out there with the Google
Assistant on board and that's an incredible number and to put that in
perspective Amazon has around a hundred million so 10 to 1 Google Assistant
devices to Amazon's voice assistant devices that's amazing actually when you
think about the power of Amazon and their ability to sell products over the
world I think what that says a lot is that you know Google has been doing well
partnering with certain companies and they've been selling a lot of devices
and on the mobile front that's how important having their own phone was to
Google success so you know they're able to put out the pixel to pixel to the
pixel 3 you look all the way back to the Nexus devices and you know now you see
LG's different set of devices the oneplus and most of the Android devices
that we're seeing from Huawei and some of these other makers of phones
with Android on board one of the most impressive things at CES is what they're
calling Google Assistant Gadgets and I'm going to take a little time to explain
this so I talked about this in my smart home predictions that Google would
basically create their own platform for smart home makers to live within and
build devices on and make it more accessible and they have me
thinking about what I could create for the Google Assistant because what we saw
was an e-ink display and there that's that what they're calling their first
Google Assistant Gadget and so what they're saying is Google Assistant is
actually the platform and that will do the higher-level computing and you can
build a very very tiny simple device so they actually had that yank display that
was displaying different information from different services and different
sources what they also had was a button a literal 3d printed button with some
electronics basically inside for a button and that had to be connected and
that would actually be able to trigger assistant action so that's very very
impressive stuff so continuing down the integration list Samsung TVs will have
Google Assistant on board here in 2019 that's a big jump for Google Assistant
now Bixby is going to be front and center on those TVs but Google Assistant
is going to have a lot of capabilities there as well another one of our big
smart homemakers Philips you they put out their own series of products here
you know they have some more outdoor products for us but ultimately what they
did with the Google Assistant is those slow wake and kind of good nightlight
functions where you can spread out the dimming of a light over say 30 minutes
or the increasing of a like when you're waking up over 30 minutes well those
will be given to Google Assistant as voice commands here so you're going to
be able to basically wake up the Sun and you're going to be able to schedule that
with your Google Assistant so I think that says routine integration and that's
actually something that I will look forward to it was reaffirmed again that
Sonos One and Sonos Beam will have Google Assistant here in 2019 I got the
sense that the second quarter was kind of what they were talking about at least
giving an updated timeline by then we spoke about Samsung TVs but Samsung has
also been working to in great with their voice assistant Bixby
they've been working to integrate things like Google Maps and the Google Play
suite of products so our services there so that says a lot and the other thing
that I found really interesting was that we're talking about Gmail integration so
I really like to hear that I want to hear more of that from Google actually
around email integration one last integration on an existing product
called the orbit B-Hyve so this is kind of a specific thing but that will now
get Google Assistant whereas it used to just have the Amazon voice assistant on
board there and now moving on to the new products and there are a lot of new
products some of these we've seen before but they haven't really been released so
I'll give you an example and I'm going to start in the kitchen where I think
lots of makers and I kind of talked about this in my predictions video lots
of makers are looking to the kitchen as the next place to put their device so
KitchenAid has a smart display for around 200 to 300 dollars they're
calling it water jet resistant so it's intended to be a little more rugged I
think in your kitchen on top of that we saw a giant 27 inch smart display with
Google Assistant on board that replaces your fume hood this was by GE now GE
also you know announce some more of their C by GE Color bulbs we'll get to
those in a bit but this giant giant display sitting and basically replacing
your fume hood in front of you in front of the oven it's running between 1200
and $1,400 us a couple of what I'll call portable kitchen appliances the instant
pot you know we have an instant pot here in our home we don't have the Wi-Fi
version and it will get Google Assistant updates here or Google Assistant
integration and that's a big jump actually I really like the instant pot
it makes a lot of great meals for us here the gore Mia eleven and one multi
cooker again another portable thing you're not going to have plugged in all
the time but that has Google Assistant integration coming to it so those prod
right there we're going to see I think you know the first interaction of
plugging in a device having it connect and then using your voice assistant and
what will really matter there to me how long does it take to get that set up an
app I wanted to tell you about that Google has been highlighting a little
bit it's called in it and in it is basically a meal planner and it's there
to help you if you have kind of certain dietary restrictions well I do people in
my family do for example I have to eat gluten free and so what that means is in
it I tell them that preference and they give me recommendations based on that
now I can actually use my Google Assistant or my Google Smart Display my Google
Home Hub or the Lenovo Smart Display to talk to Innit and I just have to enable
that through the mobile application basically connect my Google account and
I'm good to go so you get those recommendations and you can have them
show up on your smart display full videos you know everything that you need
to prepare a meal simplehuman unveiled a $350 to $400 smart mirror with the
Google Assistant on board it has a speaker it has lights it basically will
make you look beautiful on its own so you know that's a pretty impressive
device but that's a big price tag as well
capstone connected also has created a smart mirror now what I'm being told
about that is it's capable of actually downloading interacting with the Google
Play Store downloading apps and is a touchscreen as well as a smart mirror
having the Google Assistant on board and really you know it has all those great
functions so I don't know do I need a tablet anymore I've got a smart mirror I
can look at myself while I play games I guess but anyway he's moving on Kohler
has a whole suite of smart home products for your bathroom so as we go through
there they have a bathtub connected or what they call an
intelligent toilet they have a van a three-piece vanity set
and they also have a mirror and then smart lights for inside your bathroom as
well so all of those devices all with Google Assistant actions or connectivity
basically the last one in the bathroom the you by Moen is a smart shower with
either Google Assistant or Amazon's voice assistant ability so you're going
to be able to essentially control the water in a lot of different ways here
with a U by Moen faucet in your shower moving on to the bedroom and there's a
really only one product I'll say that's really really targeted towards that and
it's actually from Lenovo here so we have the big Lenovo smart display but
what they've also created is essentially a Google Assistant powered bedside clock
and it's intended to go battle the echo spot and I think it's even intended a
little bit to battle the Google Home Hub here so you know it's just a small clock
clock faces not full Google Assistant integration so it's not meant to do
everything but it has the Google Assistant on board and it's meant to be
a bedside clock around the $80 u.s. mark in your living room or anywhere you're
putting big speakers we have the Marley get together mini speaker and it's a
portable battery-powered speaker that you can go take around with a Google
Assistant on board it's for $200 u.s. nice you know standard what we see from
Marley all the time the $200 you know range really great speaker
quality and that bamboo front to this speaker is really nice it looks really
nice and that's what we've come to expect from Marley speakers in general
so with the Google Assistant on board that's obviously a big bonus now on top
of that we also saw a 48 watt sound bar from clips with the ability to have
either Google Assistant or Amazon's voice assistant onboard and the Citation
series from Harman Kardon was expanded as well now each of those products has
the Google Assistant on board naturally what they were also given is a firmware
update to go and and get airplay to connectivity here so
Apple users are happy about that as well things that can go basically
anywhere in your home you thermostats here the Dyken HVAC systems they have a
dike in one plus thermostat with Google Assistant or Amazon's voice assistant
integration as well so we're seeing new makers of smart home
thermostats show up with Google Assistant integration and on top of that
like I talked about a little bit earlier see by GE they now have multicolor bulbs
at many different styles and then they also have a multicolor light strip as
well we also saw from tp-link and they were a little bit coy about this you
know a $50 smart home indoor camera it's essentially a 1080p camera with all the
bells and whistles that you would expect now $50
pretty cheap actually that's one of the lower level costs here in the market
they also released a smart home switch with what they say an assistant a voice
assistant on board they said it would be Amazon's or Google's now what I've seen
and the reason I'm putting in here is tp-link pretty much has partnered with
Google very well over time and so I'm expecting it to be the Google Assistant
but there's no statement of that that you can use those switches as intercoms
actually so that's probably the most interesting piece of those they have
lots of detection capability lots of good functions but they also are a
direct intercom so if you have a couple you can just have an intercom other
things that we've seen IKEA Tradfri has a new set of smart home blinds that
they're selling or they're about to sell in Europe for 99 euros so this isn't
actually something based in CES but it's just something that has come up here
very recently with Google Assistant integration obviously on all of the Tradfri
products from Ikea now another thing at CES the Currant
smart wall outlet it measures what's going through the device for power
consumption and will actually and I haven't seen this it will make
determinations or suggestions to you of what you should shut off so Google would
also like to move outside the home and make sure that the Google Assistant
integration is there as well as the Google Assistant is there with you so a
couple of these products and these might be the first ones I go get you know
you'll remember the Roav Viva which had Amazon's voice assistant on board likely
and now there is the Roav Bolt and it's a $60 or $50 component here with the
Google Assistant onboard, plugs into your cigarette lighter or the 12-volt
outlet there in your car and obviously it has the ability to connect through
Bluetooth and it has the ability to use your phone's internet connection to go
and utilize the Google Assistant the Roav Bolt also has a couple of ports for you
know power connections and they also have an aux out port essentially for
connection to your stereo that way as well now on the other side of the fence
the JBL Link Drive is another google Assistant integrated product so there's
actually Google Assistant on board it plugs into that same 12-volt doesn't
have the charging port but what it does have is noise canceling capability and
the ability to actually turn down your stereo while it's Bluetooth connected so
that as you're issuing commands it's not too loud in your car so some real detail
are paying attention to details I think with the JBL link drive so just outside
your door here Google is also partnered with a number of different makers here
one link has a new smart doorbell basically that they put out as you ring
the doorbell it goes over the smoke alarms you have in your home that are
one link as well we've also seen tp-link with their suite of products that they
release they have a 2k HDR smart video their smart video camera there and you
know that's a pretty high rate and it's just a wired camera as well now we'll
get to an outdoor camera here in a second but the Maximus it's called from
Kuna is a dual doorbell that has either Google Assistant or Amazon's
voice assistant integration and it has the two cameras like I mentioned one that's
basically intended to look down at the packages that have been left on your on
your doorstep and then one to look forward so a little bit of a different
design there and I'll tell you from the remote cam I have in my host that little
down angled camera is very powerful actually now like I talked about
outdoors tp-link has an outdoor totally Wire free camera that is intended to
work for up to six months because it goes into a low-power state has motion
detected detection and it's low-power they also have what they're calling an
ip65 so a water-resistant outdoor plug has dual plugs on it as you're out and
about the Vuzik Blade smart glasses remind us all a little bit about Google
Glass but what they do is they display photos they display video and they also
take photos and video and they can also play into some connected headsets so
something while you're out and about there on top of that Jabra has a new
they're calling them the Elite 65H wireless headphones here they're noise
cancelling and what's also amazing about those is they can have Siri Amazon's
voice assistant or the Google Assistant and you have to enable the interaction
with them and once you enable them your wait word becomes assistant so there you
go guys that is an absolute ton from Google and
their partners obviously I've got a bunch of these to do from CES. Amazon
hasn't exactly been quiet Apple hasn't been quite and Samsung's been blasting
things out there that have been pretty neat actually and then you have all the
other smart home makers so we have to talk about those I have to get four or
five of these videos out so bear with me guys as we go through all of the latest
from CES 2019 you won't need to go spend our search in the internet just spend
some time here with me listening to me talk a little bit about what's going on
in the world of automation so thanks everyone for watching and we'll see you
next time