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beautiful so here at the Sony Booth they've got all the usual stuff they've
got their smartphones with image stabilization cameras and 4K screens
they've got their 4K cameras actually one of which we're shooting this video
on right now but that's all stuff we're pretty familiar with and I was looking
for something a little bit different and I definitely found it this is mesh which
stands for make experience and share the
S and the H kind of got worked in together there and the concept is
actually quite simple if you're a member of the maker Community but what I like
about it too is the fact that they've made operating this thing simple as well
so basically you've got a variety of these little these little Bluetooth
connected modules here that have a an
array of different functionalities so this little puppy is an LED this one
right here is a well button it's called button so it should be fairly
self-explanatory this one is a sensor we've got their move which is actually a
Sixaxis gyroscope a brightness sensor a temperature and humidity sensor and a
general purpose IO module that can be used to do things like hook up a
vibration motor say for example what ties it all together the mesh if you
will is the iPad and iPhone app that
lets you create if this then that uh if
you're familiar with if if this and that recipes that work together with the mesh
system as well as third party systems like Philips Hugh so the number of
combinations you can create without any programming experience whatsoever is
pretty much Limitless you just drag your modules over to your you know virtual
circuit board and you start going okay well if I double click my button then I
want my snowman to light up purple if I click it once I want my snowman to turn
off and that's obviously a very rudimentary example they've got another
demo here inside the booth where you open up a drawer and you're greeted with
a hello and the lights turn on and you're ready to sit at your work table I
mean this is really really cool stuff because it's limited only by your
imagination now obviously there's usually a drawback when something is
both really cool and really easy to use and it isn't exactly cheap a single one
of these modules is going to set you back about 50 bucks at Amazon or for
some of the more premium ones like the gpio $60 on
amazon.com but the possibilities in the
future are pretty much endless because they're already providing an SDK and
it's an API so people are going to be able to do pretty much anything they
want with it including hook into it from all kinds of other systems right now
it's pretty much Philips Hue and if this
then that and the app itself with the modules but I see a lot of potential for
this kind of stuff in the future because the thing I've been complaining about
for so long with Internet of Things devices is that they just don't all
really work together there's no ecosystem that ties it all together and
while this isn't necessarily the perfect solution because it does rely on having
a Bluetooth enable tablet nearby I'd love to see a second gen be Wi-Fi
enabled with a controller that can run on a computer or dedicated device and it
feels like now that we've got this we are not that far away so thanks for
checking out this coverage of mesh here at the Sony Booth guys don't miss any of
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