Hello everyone, thanks for tuning in again. What I have here in front of me
today is the Lenovo Smart Display. Now this device, I think it was specifically
made for the kitchen, so what I'm going to do today is show you some of the
specific functions that really make it a good place to put the Lenovo Smart
Display so let's get going.
Now before we get going too far I'm going to tell you at the end of this, I'm
going to give you details on a giveaway that we're holding here on automate your
life. So get ready for that, it's at the end of the video, so let's start with why
this device is really intended for the kitchen. It can go a number of places but
ultimately I feel like it's a great spot to put it. Now
number one what you can see going on here on the front is the Ambient Mode, so
this is Google's ambient mode that they use for all of their chromecast
related devices. You could just sit here and have it rotate through pictures, so
it's a digital photo frame, great spot to have it of course is in the kitchen,
where we spend a lot of our time. Now aside from that, this device gives you
that visual component of Google Assistant, so if we ask this device a
number of different questions related to either what we're cooking or what we're
eating, it's going to assist us. So let me roll you through a couple of those, so
let's start with some really simple functionality like let's start with some
timers here. Hey Google, give me a timer for five minutes. Sure five minutes,
starting now. Now of course I know it's a little light
here on the screen, but ultimately you can see that there is a five minute
timer going on that's rolling, and you can actually watch that visually as it
goes. Now what's amazing here is this. Hey Google, add a second timer for 10 minutes.
Second timer for 10 minutes starting now. It took a few seconds,
but there are two timers that have actually shown up physically on the
display here. So not only can you have the display showing your timer but you
can have it showing multiple, of course you can always name the timers and
utilize that functionality as well, one for eggs, one for water, whatever you want
to do, but ultimately this capability is all here, and you can sit and watch your
timers go or check on them visually instead of having to ask your Google
Assistant to tell you how much time is left on the timer. On top of this
another thing that you can do is you can actually go ahead
and ask the Lenovo Smart Display to give you nutritional information or to
convert units, so let's go ahead and show you a couple of those hey Google convert
a cup to litres. One u.s. cup equals zero point two three seven liter. So
there you go that was pretty simple now you can go through a number of different
conversions. Something that's a little bit tricky is actually converting like a
dry unit, because different dry products have different volumes and
different weights and so it can be a little difficult so the Lenovo Smart
Display actually handles that in a pretty interesting way, it goes to
another source and this is part of the power of the Google Assistant. Hey Google
convert a cup of dry flour to grams on the website,
they say a cup of all-purpose flour weighs four and a quarter ounces or 120
grams. So there you go there's a nice easy measurement method, if you have a
weight scale in your home that's going to tell you exactly how to get a cup of
flour if you're stuck in grams like I am. Now the next thing is nutritional
information. So Hey Google how much protein is there in asparagus?
There are 0.4 grams of protein in one medium stick of asparagus. So there
and you can ask follow-up questions there's all kinds of additional pieces
here on the bottom you can always ask additional follow-up questions like I
said, using the continued conversations functionality that I've already shown
you on the channel. Now what's probably the last, and I saved the best for last,
piece of functionality here is actually the ability to walk through recipes, and
this is kind of a famed feature for the Google Assistant and so let's roll
through just an example of that right now. Hey Google, show me a recipe for
spaghetti. Sure here are some recipes, now what you can
see here is there's a number of different recipes showing up, you can go
ahead and you choose one, so I'm just going to tap on
one here, now what comes up at the bottom is actually a start cooking button. So
you could read a little bit about the recipe and then you're going to start
cooking, and from that point on, you don't have to touch the display because
obviously you're going to be using your hands, you're gonna be doing things, so
you don't want to have to interact with the device with anything other than your
voice. So Hey Google, start cooking. Before we start, preheat oven to 350 degrees, let
me know when you're done. Hey Google I'm done. There are five ingredients, you can
ask for the next ingredient or skip to the instructions. The first ingredient is
8 ounces uncooked spaghetti. So there you go now it's going to run me through the
different ingredients and you heard it say I can skip to the instruction so you
know if you know this recipe or you know the ingredients that you're going to
need you could already have those prepared and you can skip to the
instructions but if you need the next ingredient you just say hey Google next
ingredient the second ingredient is 1/2 pound bacon strips chopped so there you
go I'm going to skip to the instructions now and you can just see that
functionality so hey Google skip to instructions there's four steps I'll
read them one by one when you're ready to hear more you can say next step first
step cook spaghetti according to package directions
repeat the first instruction step 1 cook spaghetti according to all right now
that wraps up the demo obviously you can go ahead you can play music you can play
videos you can be watching cooking videos if you'd like or just listening
to music as you're doing this in your kitchen as well so I think there's a lot
of benefit for this to sit in your kitchen here I just wanted to show some
of that functionality and you know it's a different it's a bit of a paradigm
shift for me when I saw the two timers and I was able to get that nutritional
information and get it visually as well that was a real benefit to me so no I
did promise to tell you guys about a giveaway there are
details down in the description below of course but we're giving away a Lenovo
smart display here on the channel it's a 10 inch Lenovo smart display I'm really
excited to give this away and I want to give it away to one of my subscribers so
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get yourself signed up for that giveaway guys thanks for watching everyone
we'll see you next time.