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The smart home gets Quirky

2014-11-11
hey I'm Megan Willerton for scenic appliances here at Corky's headquarters and today they have announced a whole bunch of new products Tripper is a door and window sensor basically you just stick it on your door or your window and it'll send you alerts when it detects motion so you can keep your home secured similar to the accessories that we've seen in other security kits and this one is going to be a 2-pack and available for $40 and it's shipping December of 2014 another product is overflow it is a moisture sensor so you can stick it in your basement under your kitchen sink anywhere you think there could be a potential leak or flood so that you can get a signal from it if there's a problem out link is a smart outlet now we've seen a lot of smart clogs not so much a smart outlet so this is going to replace your regular outlet and do a lot of the same things that smart plugs usually do you can connect it with the wink app you can see real-time energy stats from your fridge or computer pretty much anything to try to save money over time and that's going to go for $50 the tapped light switch is another product that was unveiled today it is similar to the Belkin Wemo switch that we've reviewed except that this one has dimmer capabilities but you don't need an extra dimmer to dim your lights you can do that all directly from the wink app it's also different than it has two buttons the top button is used for turning your lights on and off and the bottom button is kind of a bonus button so that you can apply any shortcut you want some of the other products announced today we're the spotter uniq the ascend and norm spotter uniq is basically spotter 2.0 it lets you customize the sensors that you want so you can select passive infrared or motion or temperature and humidity basically whatever you want and quirky will make it for you in their new micro factory and then ship it out norm is a sensor that basically is here to replace your existing thermostat and integrate with the wink app so that you can control everything remotely ascend is a garage door controller so that you can open and close your garage doors from far away and also extend access to friends and family so that was a quick summary of today's quirky announcements on Megan Bullard interesting it appliances
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