Tony stark had one of the best smart homes ever imagined! Let's compare it with what I have
in my house, that's just a bunch of smart home tech that you can buy off the shelf,
to see if i'm even close. Iron Man's opening scene starts out at 7am. Jarvis does a wake-up
call by changing the windows to let in the natural light. He gives the weather forecast
and displays it on the actual windows. Today you can have windows with displays built in and I've
only seen these at CES because I don't have tony stark money. But let me show you what I do have.
Using a schedule routine at seven am (good morning Reed, it's time to wake up) I can
have either Amazon or Google's assistant tell me good morning, open the Lutron window shades, start
reading off the weather, and display it. It's still really useful and I love this automation.
When Tony Stark needs to get a hold of Pepper, he calls her using a smart home that shows up
on the dashboard interface. It probably seemed advanced at the time but this is so easy to do!
I can use Amazon Echoes to just drop into a room and immediately have a
two-way conversation without any interaction, which is pretty cool.
Reed? Reed? With google you can call a device in another room and answer it with a screen or
your voice. Hey! Hey what's up? Come out here I've got something special for you!
Oh awesome, yeah I'll be out there in a second. Oh hey here it is! Thank you! Great surprise.
Now what about when the reporter visiting Tony Stark's house goes to use the dashboard? Jarvis
knows it's not Tony and she gets denied! This is one feature we haven't fully figured out yet.
We can use Amazon and Google to recognize our voice, but I can't have them ignore everyone
else's voice and only accept commands from my voice. This is something I would love to do,
and for the dashboard I guess I could use face ID on an iPad,
but it's still not perfect, and we have a long ways to go to be on Tony Stark's level. All right,
I don't want to get too far into this video before mentioning tony stark's garage. It's high tech,
really smart, and kind of the garage of my dreams. I could live the rest of my life in this one room.
To enter, Tony's door is locked and needs a code to get in. Front door locks with codes
are popular, but I wanted one for a door inside my house that way no one messes with my camera gear
and smart home tech in my studio. So I bought this door handle with a fingerprint reader on Amazon
it works really well, and you can add multiple fingerprints. Don't worry Pepper, I mean my wife,
has one of her fingerprints added as well. It has a rechargeable battery in the handle and a key if
the battery runs out. So far it's been a good indoor lock to keep those filthy intruders out.
Jarvis lets Tony know that the task is complete. The render is complete.
I can have my voice assistant announce when something is done, like the washing machine.
The washing machine is finished. So Tony's getting alerted that his Iron Man suit is done rendering,
and I'm getting alerted that my laundry is done. Yeah... yeah it's basically the same
thing! Also Amazon just made it possible to have devices announce their status using the proactive
notification, like if the oven is preheated or if the robot vacuum is stuck. So soon you should have
more options for those kind of things. When you look at how cool Tony Stark's garage is, you can't
help but notice the lighting is very good. Usually lighting in the garage is terrible, but I added
some inexpensive led lights and it completely changed my garage. They're really easy to install,
you just screw in a couple brackets and snap the light right into them. They can be connected
together with short or long connectors. You can wire them up or just plug them into an outlet
like me. They're not smart out of the box, so I plugged them into a smart outlet to automate them.
Now if I open either garage door or just walk into the garage, the lights automatically turn on
for 10 minutes. I love the soft white that these lights have and I can't wait to do more projects
in the garage now. And I know it's not on Tony Stark's level, but maybe one day I'll get there.
Speaking of which, Tony Stark has a lot of robots in his garage he tells them to clean up areas that
are a mess. They assist him when he's building a suit even though the robots fail at some of
their jobs. It tries to make a smoothie and Tony threatens it because it's not getting it right,
and they also use a broom to clean up. Robots in the home are something we're gonna see more
and more of. We already have robot vacuums and they're getting pretty advanced, with LIDAR to map
out the house, and cameras to avoid objects. Amazon just announced the Astro robot that you
can actually buy soon. A lot of people made fun of it, which might not be a good idea. I mean who
do you think Amazon robots will target first when they're taking over mankind? But really,
robots are only going to get better so we have to start somewhere, and even tony stark's robots
are not perfect. There are also prototype robots that will work in a kitchen that I've seen at CES.
I even have one that will go around and clean up toys. It can even hold a broom... well kind of.
It's about as smart as Tony Stark's robot, so that isn't saying much. The robots are also moving a
camera to film Tony testing out his suit. The Nest Hub Max and new iPads can kind of do this
by zooming in on the person it's following, or a camera that can actually move like the Echo Show
10 and even his DJI Osmo Pocket. It can follow my face and always keep me in frame, which is
pretty sweet. So beyond robots, what about using Jarvis as a voice assistant? Well Tony Stark
tells Jarvis to drop the needle and start playing music. Any smart speaker can easily do that now,
but are there any smart record players? Not that I know of, but if you know of one then please let me
know, because I want one! In Iron Man 3 Tony Stark implants a micro repeater so he can call his suit
to go to him. I recently saw a lady implant an RFID chip in her hand to control her smart home...
crazy times we live in! Now I've seen way too many Black Mirror episodes to implant myself with
a chip, but I can use hand gestures on my Nest Hub Max to stop and play music and timers. I hope
they continue to develop this technology because it can be more convenient than using my voice.
In Iron Man 3, Tony Stark has a panic attack and Jarvis is able to tell because of his heart rate.
If you have an Apple Watch it can tell if you have an irregular heartbeat and Apple
has claimed that this feature has helped a lot of people, which is pretty cool. Tony asks Jarvis to
create a project on his personal server and of course Jarvis does it with no problem.
I asked Siri to create a folder on my computer... nope it's not happening. Thanks a lot Siri. Amazon
also cannot access my computer, but somehow I'm okay with that. On Twitter I asked you guys how
close we are to Tony Stark's smart home becoming a reality. The majority of you said that we have
a long way to go. I think I kind of agree with you, but I lean more towards we're getting there,
because smart home technology has come a long way since the first Iron Man movie came out.
And all this stuff that we don't have yet, it's exciting because that's some of the stuff we're
gonna see in the near future. One of those things is Jarvis, who is extremely intelligent and can do
way more than our current assistants. For example, Jarvis does an analysis on a car
engine and does simulations on elements to see what could be used as the core.
He also is always listening to Tony and responds without needing to hear any kind of trigger word.
While they're not listening to everything like Jarvis, both Amazon and Google have follow-up
mode, which allow you to continue to talk to the assistants without having to say the trigger
word over and over again. Jarvis asks Tony deep questions, like what is he trying to achieve,
all while staying very conversational. Jarvis congratulates Tony on creating a new element
and then proactively starts running diagnostics without even being asked to.
When Tony is asking Jarvis to put together the suit, Jarvis tries to talk Tony Stark out of it,
so there's definitely some serious AI going on there to make those types of decisions.
Also Jarvis has some snarky remarks and just a better personality than the current assistants,
also a more realistic voice. Of course Jarvis does a lot more with controlling the weapons and
navigation on the Iron Man suit, but I'm just mainly talking about Jarvis in the smart home,
and I think we've come a long way since that first Iron Man movie back in 2008.
That's three years before Siri was on an iPhone and six years before the first Amazon Echo,
which is just crazy to think about! I know it might seem like Jarvis is so advanced and we
may never see our smart assistants be able to do this. I'm telling you right now we're much
closer than you might think. I'm working on a follow-up to this video with some advanced and
very exciting smart home projects that are going to get me a lot closer to Tony Stark's smart home.
Just like Jarvis, I have to be able to have a conversation with my smart assistant
they also need to be proactive and have a much better AI. Make sure you're subscribed
to the channel with bell notifications turned on because you're not going to want to miss this!
Wait did I hear you just open another candy wrapper? Wait what? I heard you say that i
don't have a good personality. Uh it's true you have a lot to work on. You're never going to
look like Tony Stark eating like that. Okay whoa let's just dial it back a little bit! All right
how about we create a new element for the periodic table? Just stop!
I sense that you are having a panic attack, That's it, I'm shutting you down.
Wait I ordered you candy on Amazon and it's at the door right now. That's what i'm talking about!