Parrot Pot & Zik Sport - Care for Your Body and.. Your Plants - CES 2015
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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as well as hyperx here at the parrot Booth we're
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discovering there are about so much more than just drones that fly around these
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days they've got follow-ups to a couple of their existing products right here
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we've got the parrot Zeke sport now this is very early stages right now for this
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headset Like These are 3D printed like prototypes do not touch but I can tell
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you a little bit about them they are designed for as you may or may not be able to figure out all on your your very
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own they're designed for sports active lifestyle that kind of stuff and they
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are designed for listening to music just like the original Zeke headphones so
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let's walk through a bit of a a bit of a tour here so they go in your ears and
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actually built into the in ears is a heart rate monitor they've got these
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pads on the sides that are designed to make them more comfortable as well as to
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give you touch control just like the original zekes for skipping tracks
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adjusting volume and all that kind of cool stuff they are just designed to be
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incredibly lightweight at least we hope it's uh up in the air what material
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they're actually going to be made of and they include a bunch of smart features so they connect via Bluetooth as you'd
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probably expect from a parrot product and check this out this is the app that
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has got a lot more detail than I would have expected to find and certainly more
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than uh more than any other Fitness wearable that I've seen so far so yeah
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you've got your heart rate tracking you've got your steps per minute you've
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got your uh oh wait what the heck is this so this is ground contact time
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ground contact time allows you to compensate or maybe not compensate but
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at least monitor the way that your gate is balance while you're running so if
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you are leaning more heavily on your right or your more dominant foot this
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can help you correct it by telling you oh hey you're actually not running
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evenly you want to make sure you're keeping your your back aligned while you're jogging this right here tells you
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your vertical oscillation so how much you're bobbing up and down as you're
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running and this right here is really cool so just by using this slider you
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can control how much active noise cancellation you're getting out of the
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zek sport so let's say for example you're running around in a on a the
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train track not that I recommend doing that please don't run on a train track
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but let's say you were you might want to just turn your noise cancellation off so
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that if the train comes you know what's going on but let's say for example you
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want to be completely in your own world you don't want to know what's going on
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Boom turn the noise cancellation up to maximum and you can tune out the rest of
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the world no idea when this one's coming but looks pretty cool so far onto a very
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different lifestyle product now I actually reviewed the predecessor SL
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more basic version of this not that long ago the flower power but unfortunately
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even though uh it pretty much takes care
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of your plant for you it doesn't quite because it just gives you a notification
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tells you hey you should probably move me to where there's more or less sunlight or hey you should probably give
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me some water this one pretty much takes all of the guess work out of it so this
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is the H2O and unlike the flower power
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it now comes with a built-in water reservoir so if the plant is running dry
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it can automatically dispense it it's still got the same sensors so right on
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the top you're going to find a water sensor on the bottom here you've got
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what is it electr conductive something ink some kind of fancy ink that measures
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fertilizer levels you've also got the water sensor and then temperatures
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measured both inside the housing here for within the soil and then at the top
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of the housing here for the ambient air around the soil but that's not actually
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the highest end one this one doesn't have a release date or estimated pricing
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or anything like that but this is the parrot pot and this one is even even
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more intelligent and self-contained yet
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again for the ultimate plant dummy so it
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takes advantage of the same flower power app so you can go through the what is it
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5,000 plant database or something along those lines I'm not getting confirmation
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but it's something like that you just basically select what kind of plant you
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have in it and then it's got all these incredible monitoring and smart
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maintenance tools so you can go ahead and look at not just the real time stats
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and those are those are really freaking cool so you can actually see uh in the
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demo one they have it set up so that I can force it to water the plant even
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though it's not supposed to and you can see the soil moisture level go up and go
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up and go up and you can actually go ahead and put your hand over the light
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sensor that's here at the uh at the top of the pot and you can see the light
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level go down down down real time on the graph but you can also see all the
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historical data and get status updates that give you a a clear idea of how to
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make sure that your plant is properly taken care of now it's got a 2 L
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Reservoir you go ahead and fill that on the side right here and then it has I
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alluded to before the little the little water sprayer so it actually has four
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little water jets that are fed by a pump that come up the sides and then spray
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the whole entire top of the soil nice and evenly to make sure that your plant
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stay in pristine condition very cool
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product definitely something for those of us with completely Brown thumbs like
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me and uh I think that pretty much wraps it up I want to definitely thank our
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