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beautiful. So, we found something that seemed pretty unlikely at the Sony
booth. This, my friends, is a watch.
It's $300, so it's not exactly cheap, but you
know, for a watch, not exactly expensive. And you can walk up to it.
It's got this flat display on the front. You can swipe your fingers back and
forth, and absolutely crap, all will happen because it is not a smart watch.
No, my friends, this is the FES watch.
It's an e in like e- paper watch that is
purely a watch and fashion accessory.
It's got an adjustable band as you'd expect. It's completely seamless.
There's no holes in the display side of itself. And by clicking the one button
on the side, you can cycle through 20 different patterns depending on what
kind of a mood you're in. That's pretty much it. There's nothing to say about it
other than that. So, if you're into, you know, simple technology, then this might
be your thing. Otherwise, well, we've got something else to show you as well.
So, pretty much my favorite thing at CES is being told that I'm right. And last
year when I went around to all the different TV booths and I was like, "Oh,
yeah, that's a really shiny TV. That's a shiny TV, too." And I'm like, "Oh, Sony,
I actually don't care how shiny your TV is because you actually had the sense to
implement Android into it instead of, you know, building your own operating
system that, let's face it, nothing is ever going to support the way that
Android will be." And this right here is like a super awesome validation for me
because one of the biggest things preventing me from investing in Philips
Hue lighting or, you know, Lutron light
switches or the battery operated blinds that I've got to my right over here is
the fact that they've all got completely separate apps. Some of which work well,
some of which are frankly complete complete trash. And it's it's actually
more effort to pull my phone out of my pocket and kind of like open up a
different like by that time I might as well get off my ass and go adjust my thermostat because it's time to sleep
and I want it to be a little bit cooler. This This is cool. This is the Harmony
Home Hub and it is actually working in
tandem. Sony and Logitech are working together with a Sony smart TV running
Android to take that fragmented ecosystem and make all of those devices
work together just with the native Android support that they have and with
the TV communicating directly with the Harmony Home Hub. So, you can actually
use a Harmony remote, you can use your phone with the Harmony app, or you can
even use your Sony TV remote as well. So, you press the discover button and
I'm going to discover something other than Adam Sandler in my life. Just
kidding. I I I I do. Happy Gilmore is actually one of my favorite alltime
movies. And I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to say, "Okay, uh, good
night." What happens with good night is the lighting changes or turns off. Takes
a minute. The blinds go all the way down and boom, all of a sudden I'm sleeping.
My TV is now off. Now, this is really
cool. And there are over 200,000 Internet of Things devices that are
going to be supported by this solution. But the one thing that's still missing
and that I'm really hoping to get like super excited press release email from
Sony about sometime in the near future is, hey, we figured out how to make it
work while the TV is not already on
because you can't run the Android operating system on the TV without the screen being on just yet. But I'm really
excited to see someone, whether it's Logitech or Sony or some combination of
the two, trying to figure out how to make all this stuff actually accessible
in addition to being something that I spent a bunch of money on. and is inside
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