- Welcome to the home of the future.
At CES in Las Vegas this week,
I took a look on the show floor
for the technologies that are coming to our homes
to make them smarter, safer, and more efficient.
After days of wandering the halls of CES
and looking at hundreds of gadgets,
I'm excited to show you which ones stood out the most.
Let's take it room by room, starting with the kitchen.
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There's a revolution on the show floor at CES in insulation.
This JennAir smart fridge is equipped
with the world's thinnest refrigeration insulation panels.
Gone are the bulky polyurethane panels
and in their place
is a powder blend of 95% SlimTech insulation
that can make the fridge 50% more efficient
or get you 25% more capacity,
so more space to store your fancy water.
This is really fancy water. (laughs)
Better insulation also means fewer compression cycles,
so your fridge is less noisy and it may last longer.
These under cabinet smart lights are first of their kind
and game changing for your kitchen lighting.
The Cync under cabinet lights
are full color and tunable white light LEDs
that can fit flush under your cabinets
and can be plugged in or hardwired.
They have on-device controllers
and work with wireless or wired GE Cync smart switches,
as well as voice control,
so you can take your kitchen from dim to bright
or even blue in an instant.
Kohler's new bidet can turn your toilet smart.
The PureWash can wash your bits with voice control
using Alexa and Google,
and it has hands-free operation thanks to motion sensor,
plus a remote control
and a heated seat to keep your tush warm.
Oh, it's warm.
We'll be back in a second with some robots.
Here's Andrew with a message from our sponsor.
- At this year's CES,
we're seeing AI integrated into all types of devices,
from small sensors in an electric vehicle
to smart home devices found in your bathroom.
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All right, let's get back to CES.
- Matic is a new robot vacuum
that's more WALL-E than Roomba.
It moves around more naturally
than most robot vacuums,
and it's kind of cute.
I'll give a kiss.
Matic has a slew of interesting features being developed,
including gesture control and dirt detection,
so it can go out and look for messes.
It can suck up wet messes,
(robot vacuum whirring) (Jennifer whooping)
as well as vacuum and mop.
We vacuumed up the spilled milk.
Then, we tackled some raisin bran.
So now, we've got breakfast in the bag.
This is, ugh. (vacuum bag rustling)
And it doesn't require an internet connection,
so that map of your home stays in your home.
There were dozens of new smart locks at CES,
including a new Matter-over-Thread fingerprint lock
from U-tec,
and a retrofit smart lock that works with home key
from Aqara,
but one stood out from the crowd.
The Lockly Visage is a wifi smart lock
with facial recognition built in.
Just walk up and your door unlocks.
Excellent for when your hands are full.
It uses binocular radar and on-device processing
so your face stays in your lock and not in the cloud.
While I've been at CES this week,
a storm has cut power to my house twice
and there's another one on the way.
EcoFlow's new scalable solar generator
is an excellent solution
for taking control of your home's power.
It's also my pick
for best smart home gadget at CES this year.
The Delta Pro Ultra kit
can store enough power to run your home for two days
or up to a month if you scale up the system.
It's also portable,
so you can take it to power your RV for the weekend.
It's easy for an electrician to install
and it works with EcoFlow's new Smart Home Panel 2
to automatically manage which loads use the battery
to keep you running for longer.
Artificial intelligence
was a big theme on the show floor this week,
and Samsung and LG both put AI into robots.
Ballie is a rolling robot from Samsung
that takes the smart display mobile.
The voice-controlled home assistant
has two projectors built in,
and using LIDAR, can figure out where you are
and where best to project a display when you need it.
Working out?
It can project your instructor on the ceiling
during crunches.
Cooking? It can beam your recipes right above the stove.
It's an intriguing solution to the problem
of smart home interfaces.
And as Ballie was first demoed at CES in 2020,
there's a slim chance it will actually arrive in our home.
The same cannot be said, however,
for LG's AI Agent robot.
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Overall, the smart home at CES 2024
felt more iterative than innovative,
with no big breakthrough categories,
and that's a good thing.
I saw good products get even better.
Smart locks adding thread and Apple home key,
and costs coming down across the board.
And most excitingly,
I saw a big shift towards simplicity and choice.
This is in large part due to two things.
Matter and generative AI.
While Matter has had a slightly bumpy start,
at CES, I saw a slew of announcements
around new products from smart locks and lights
to robot vacuums,
meaning there are more devices
that now just work with everything.
But I was really interested
to see how manufacturers are using generative AI
to make setting up and using smart home devices easier.
Combined, I think this is what the smart home really needs.
More choice and fewer barriers to entry,
making it easier for everyone to enjoy the benefits
of living in the home of the future, today.
Oh. (laughing)
It beeped at me
and the lights turned red.