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in the future our 3d printed robot-pets will take control of the AC system I'm Bridget Carey and this is your scene that update if you want to cool the temperature of your home air conditioner just ask Google to do it for you the nest smart home thermostat is evolving to automate your home in new ways it will be able to communicate with various other appliances and apps Google is the parent company of nest so for starters you will be able to use Google now voice commands on your smartphone to change the thermostat settings but the nest will work with more than just google the device can talk to whirlpool laundry machines to activate energy saving modes and certain mercedes-benz models can be programmed to tell the nest to set the temperature when the car is heading back home and if the nest protect detects smoke well the lifx color changing LED light bulb will turn red and start flashing now if all this connectivity and shared data has you on red alert nest says it's aware of possible security concerns it programmed in some safeguards and it will not share emails names or home addresses with other companies now if you want to truly live in the home of the future you're going to need a robot but don't worry it's really easy and affordable to print and program your own robot buddy thanks to Intel this is Jimmy the robot he's an open sourced walking talking machine that anyone can program and build starting at sixteen hundred dollars his plastic body design is printed from a 3d printer but you don't need to have a printer at home Intel can mail you the pieces to snap together you don't need a college degree to program Jimmy that will be apps to make it easy to give the robot different commands the goal has always been to get it into schools we've really been talking with makers and roboticists who will go and build it themselves but really the goal is to get as many kids imagining designing and building robots as possible you don't have to have a PhD you don't have to learn artificial intelligence use download apps you can go to the App Store and download apps too so your robot will do whatever you want it to do Jimmy is powered by Intel's Edison ship which is the same processor that Intel's using for small wearable devices the goal is to have him and other designs available for purchase in September intel has a few other innovations coming out this year it created a camera for laptops and tablets that can understand distance you can have a conference call on skype that crops out the background so it only shows you on the screen and then you can back away to disappear the camera also can create a 3d image of anything to be turned into plastic on a 3d printer I think I'll need to use this to scan my face so I can replace Jimmy the robots head with my head and I shall create a robo Bridget that's your tech news update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey