Program your LIFE with Sony MESH - CES 2016
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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beautiful so here at the Sony Booth they've got all the usual stuff they've
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got their smartphones with image stabilization cameras and 4K screens
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they've got their 4K cameras actually one of which we're shooting this video
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on right now but that's all stuff we're pretty familiar with and I was looking
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for something a little bit different and I definitely found it this is mesh which
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stands for make experience and share the
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S and the H kind of got worked in together there and the concept is
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actually quite simple if you're a member of the maker Community but what I like
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about it too is the fact that they've made operating this thing simple as well
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so basically you've got a variety of these little these little Bluetooth
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connected modules here that have a an
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array of different functionalities so this little puppy is an LED this one
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right here is a well button it's called button so it should be fairly
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self-explanatory this one is a sensor we've got their move which is actually a
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Sixaxis gyroscope a brightness sensor a temperature and humidity sensor and a
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general purpose IO module that can be used to do things like hook up a
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vibration motor say for example what ties it all together the mesh if you
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will is the iPad and iPhone app that
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lets you create if this then that uh if
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you're familiar with if if this and that recipes that work together with the mesh
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system as well as third party systems like Philips Hugh so the number of
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combinations you can create without any programming experience whatsoever is
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pretty much Limitless you just drag your modules over to your you know virtual
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circuit board and you start going okay well if I double click my button then I
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want my snowman to light up purple if I click it once I want my snowman to turn
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off and that's obviously a very rudimentary example they've got another
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demo here inside the booth where you open up a drawer and you're greeted with
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a hello and the lights turn on and you're ready to sit at your work table I
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mean this is really really cool stuff because it's limited only by your
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imagination now obviously there's usually a drawback when something is
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both really cool and really easy to use and it isn't exactly cheap a single one
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of these modules is going to set you back about 50 bucks at Amazon or for
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some of the more premium ones like the gpio $60 on
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amazon.com but the possibilities in the
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future are pretty much endless because they're already providing an SDK and
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it's an API so people are going to be able to do pretty much anything they
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want with it including hook into it from all kinds of other systems right now
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it's pretty much Philips Hue and if this
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then that and the app itself with the modules but I see a lot of potential for
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this kind of stuff in the future because the thing I've been complaining about
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for so long with Internet of Things devices is that they just don't all
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really work together there's no ecosystem that ties it all together and
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while this isn't necessarily the perfect solution because it does rely on having
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a Bluetooth enable tablet nearby I'd love to see a second gen be Wi-Fi
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enabled with a controller that can run on a computer or dedicated device and it
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feels like now that we've got this we are not that far away so thanks for
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checking out this coverage of mesh here at the Sony Booth guys don't miss any of
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