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beautiful. So, we found something that seemed pretty unlikely at the Sony

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booth. This, my friends, is a watch.

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It's $300, so it's not exactly cheap, but you

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know, for a watch, not exactly expensive. And you can walk up to it.

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It's got this flat display on the front. You can swipe your fingers back and

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forth, and absolutely crap, all will happen because it is not a smart watch.

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No, my friends, this is the FES watch.

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It's an e in like e- paper watch that is

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purely a watch and fashion accessory.

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It's got an adjustable band as you'd expect. It's completely seamless.

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There's no holes in the display side of itself. And by clicking the one button

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on the side, you can cycle through 20 different patterns depending on what

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kind of a mood you're in. That's pretty much it. There's nothing to say about it

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other than that. So, if you're into, you know, simple technology, then this might

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be your thing. Otherwise, well, we've got something else to show you as well.

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So, pretty much my favorite thing at CES is being told that I'm right. And last

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year when I went around to all the different TV booths and I was like, "Oh,

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yeah, that's a really shiny TV. That's a shiny TV, too." And I'm like, "Oh, Sony,

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I actually don't care how shiny your TV is because you actually had the sense to

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implement Android into it instead of, you know, building your own operating

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system that, let's face it, nothing is ever going to support the way that

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Android will be." And this right here is like a super awesome validation for me

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because one of the biggest things preventing me from investing in Philips

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Hue lighting or, you know, Lutron light

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switches or the battery operated blinds that I've got to my right over here is

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the fact that they've all got completely separate apps. Some of which work well,

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some of which are frankly complete complete trash. And it's it's actually

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more effort to pull my phone out of my pocket and kind of like open up a

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different like by that time I might as well get off my ass and go adjust my thermostat because it's time to sleep

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and I want it to be a little bit cooler. This This is cool. This is the Harmony

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Home Hub and it is actually working in

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tandem. Sony and Logitech are working together with a Sony smart TV running

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Android to take that fragmented ecosystem and make all of those devices

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work together just with the native Android support that they have and with

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the TV communicating directly with the Harmony Home Hub. So, you can actually

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use a Harmony remote, you can use your phone with the Harmony app, or you can

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even use your Sony TV remote as well. So, you press the discover button and

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I'm going to discover something other than Adam Sandler in my life. Just

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kidding. I I I I do. Happy Gilmore is actually one of my favorite alltime

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movies. And I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to say, "Okay, uh, good

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night." What happens with good night is the lighting changes or turns off. Takes

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a minute. The blinds go all the way down and boom, all of a sudden I'm sleeping.

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My TV is now off. Now, this is really

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cool. And there are over 200,000 Internet of Things devices that are

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going to be supported by this solution. But the one thing that's still missing

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and that I'm really hoping to get like super excited press release email from

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Sony about sometime in the near future is, hey, we figured out how to make it

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work while the TV is not already on

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because you can't run the Android operating system on the TV without the screen being on just yet. But I'm really

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excited to see someone, whether it's Logitech or Sony or some combination of

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the two, trying to figure out how to make all this stuff actually accessible

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in addition to being something that I spent a bunch of money on. and is inside

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my house. So, don't miss any of our CES

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