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hey I'm seen that's right Crist and I'm standing here beside the arrow smart air-conditioner from the team at quirky and GE this is a connected appliance that will sync with your smart phone track when you come and go and learn from your habits in order to cool your house more efficiently now we've already tested and reviewed some other quirky products like the spotter and the pivot powered genius they also have some other cool things like a portfolio that's a smart piggy bank for your kids but this is their biggest thing yet three hundred dollars it is a major appliance and it has some really cool functionality to it so first off let's take a look at the design of this thing it looks great it looks like a very modern and sleek appliance it's got the nice white face with the LED display if I turn this thing on you'll see the bright blue LEDs that shine and tell you the current temperature of the room or what settings are using looks very nice and futuristic we're a big fan of that my one problem with the design is that these fans on the side they're usually accordion-style they hug the bottom of the little liner here these don't they're just like a single panel they are a little flimsy and they might let bugs in they might let a slight breeze in I'm not saying it's horrible you could fix it with a piece of duct tape not the biggest deal but still not a perfect design in our test the Eros is smart features did reasonably well the smart budget feature is one that I like a lot you can set the exact amount that you want to spend on your utility bill for the air conditioner each month and then as you go through the month it'll track how much you're using and let you know if you need to use a little less or if you can afford to use a lot more it's a great way to keep on budget there's also that smart away feature that tracks and you come and go it uses geofencing to determine when you've gone more than 100 meters away from your home and then can switch the air conditioner off or turn it to a different setting and then do the same when you come back within that geo-fenced area that's a cool feature all in all I like this machine I think that the price point is especially attractive three hundred dollars for an eight thousand BTU unit that's pretty good that's reasonable most other non-connected not smart 8000 BTU units or retail for anywhere from 225 to over 300 so 300 for a smart one that works well I like that the arrow says an 8,000 BTU air conditioner and that's good for a room of about 350 square feet per Energy Star standards and it does a pretty good job in our test it's a nice cool machine it gets the room nice and cold one thing to note about this machine is that the fan does make some noise if you're watching TV and you've got on the high setting it might be a bit of a distraction it's not a quiet silent type of machine it definitely wears a bit but I will say that the compressor the back part of this air conditioner is pretty quiet actually it doesn't buzz it doesn't vibrate it's just that fan in the front that makes a little bit of noise so if noise is really important to you you might want to look for a different unit but that said for its nice design and smart performance I give arrows high marks for CNET I'm right Chris