WEIRDEST Home Automation Robot Yet?
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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freshbooks is the number one cloud accounting software custom built for the
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way that you want to work for your free unrestricted 30 day trial go to
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freshbooks.com forward slash Linus ces
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and enter Linus tech tips in the how did you hear about us section we're here at
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kiker kiker is the world's first multimedia robot for your home you can
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control him with native voice commands that are processed locally or extend his
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capabilities with google home or alexa
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does any of that make sense it didn't to me at first so i had to see kiker with
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my own eyes to understand kiker let's break it down into parts for audio
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you've got four 10 watt speakers and a 50 watt subwoofer that's more than most
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tvs come with by default so your audio listening experience for music or movies
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should actually be pretty good now for video there's a projector on sword of
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the front it's 720p and it can rotate up
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to 90 degrees vertical so you can watch movies directly on the wall in front of
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it or you could tilt it all the way up vertically onto the ceiling or anywhere
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in between then on the top it has a 360 degree
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camera which you can use to interface with your kids or freak the ever living
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crap out of your pets or use as a security device or whatever else you
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could think of with a mobile 360 degree
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camera and yes i did mean mobile kiker
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can move it has wheels on the bottom and while yeah it's going to kind of suck
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its stairs it would be able to move around one floor of your house quite
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effectively and it will map out that floor of your house moving to its
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charging dock when it needs to and coming to you when you need it to say
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you just made a sandwich and you go into the living room and you want to watch a show for some reason kiker's in the
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bedroom you'll be like hey kiker come to the living room play netflix
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stranger things it'll come to the living room and we'll
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play netflix for you on the wall because why not so if you're not currently
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watching netflix which i know it sounds crazy but it is a possibility and you're
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not trying to harass your pet with this crazy robot that rolls around the ground
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and can make light come from it it can do other things as well it has humidity
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and temperature detection and it also has movement detection and light
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detection so you can use it as a security device when you're away from the home but if you don't need your
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mobile temperature detecting humidity detecting intruder detecting light
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detecting robot to do anything other than just play different types of video
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in different rooms in your house well it has Android tv built in as well so you
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can install whatever apps on it you want with kiker extending from google home
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and alexa much in the same way that something like phillips hue would you
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can send commands to it through those devices so like with philips hue if you
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were like hey turn the lights down you could also do something like hey kiker
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what's the sponsor spot and kikro would be like oh yeah hey it's freshbooks
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although i don't i don't think that functionality is in that right now it might be in there later but with
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freshbooks you can do tons of stuff you can create invoices in 30 seconds or
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less which is awesome you can view if someone has actually seen your invoice
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or not so if they're not paying the invoice you can ask them why and make
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sure that they've actually seen the invoice maybe if they didn't see it you can resend it or something like that and
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you can even set up online payments so if they aren't able to pay you in person
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or if this is an online job or if it's really just easier for them to do it
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online because maybe they're paying later when you're not there you'll be
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able to handle all of that through freshbooks so you can focus on being
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productive and actually growing your business instead of wasting time on a
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whole bunch of unnecessary paperwork if you want to try it out try out your free
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trial at freshbooks.com forward slash Linus ces and enter Linus tech tips in
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the how did you hear about us section for your free unrestricted 30-day trial
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hey uh hey kiker what's left in this video
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oh yeah if you liked it like it if you dislike it dislike it uh get subscribed
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if you want to see all the rest of our ces content i don't think there's any
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other uh multimedia home mobile robot projector security systems left at ces
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but uh yeah we'll make some cool videos come watch them i'll see you later