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mother knows best hello I'm request rate for CNET's here at CES 2014 we're taking a look at one of the most bizarre-looking and weirdest names products of the show it is the mother home monitoring system by sense all right so this white doll here with the glowing eyes is the mother monitoring system and it sits in your house it communicates with your home Wi-Fi and it speaks to these these are called cookies they are tiny little monitor sensor things that you can stick to the items in your house and they'll communicate over a proprietary network with the mother base unit now these things monitor motion so you could do things like stick to the cookies to your fridge door to see how often you're opening the fridge you could stick it to a water bottle to monitor how much water you're drinking or you could maybe stick one in your kids backpack so that you know when they get home from school all that data from the cookies is then beamed back into the mothership and you can view all the information on a computer or a tablet or a smartphone so you can see what's going on in your house the cookies can also monitor temperature so you could see how warming is in each room of your house for example it's going to be available in the spring and it will cost you one hundred and ninety-nine dollars that gets you the mother unit and for cookies I think it's a cool idea it looks like it would take a little bit of time to really set up and start using in your own house but maybe you'd enjoy the data that it ultimately provides you with I'm Luis Rey for CNET's for more from the show check out Cesc Netcom