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hello take fan salute quest right here PC net we're taking a look at the emo spark a I it's an artificial intelligence for your home let's investigate so the emo spark is a crowdfunding success story and what it does is basically can be sorted into two separate categories so on the one hand it serves practical function so you can ask this thing to do things like look things up on Wikipedia it can play music through YouTube you can ask it the weather or it can tell you notifications from Facebook control for that all happens through your smart phone it's got an app with it and that monitors your facial expressions too so that it knows who it's looking at now that's where the second and more interesting parts of this product comes in because this thing monitors your emotions and it knows when you're happy it also knows when you're unhappy and it will try its best to keep your mood up so this has been described as a learning machine so if it shows you for example a Facebook notification and you don't react very well it might think twice about showing you one in the future so as well as building up a picture of you over the time you could also be able to build up a picture of the cube and that's because you can actually influence the cubes mood by how you treat it if for example you're always really really nice and polite to the cube then it'll feel good and that will be represented by these emotions that you can see on screen here if however you are mean or say nasty things or a just a bit rude it will react quite badly and over time that will impact how the cube talks to you and how it treats you so to start with this thing is more about the practical side those things about sorts of making the cube learn and developing its own emotions are going to be longer term things I'm told but it is quite interesting if you say something mean to this and you can see the sort of emotional spike first say terror or fear it's not a great feeling you kind of want to be nice to this thing so longer-term another use for this could be linking up with home automation so you could do things like tell the cube to turn your home appliances on and off now it is quite expensive to start with it's going to cost three hundred and twenty-five dollars to just get the cube or if you pay four hundred and twenty dollars you can get it with this standalone camera attachment which could for example sit on your mantelpiece and monitor your facial expressions from there so it's clearly very early days for this product but it's a really interesting idea and it's worth asking would you welcome something like this into your home let me know and check out seen it come from all