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Linus tech tips covered to CES 2016 is brought to you by Squarespace build it beautiful so we found something that seemed pretty unlikely at the Sony booth this my friends is a watch it's $300 so it's not exactly cheap but you know for a watch not exactly expensive and you can walk up to it it's got this flat display on the front you can swipe your fingers back and forth and absolutely crap all will happen because it is not a smart watch no my friends this is the fest watch it's an e-ink like ePaper watch that is purely a watch and fashion accessory it's got an adjustable band as you'd expect it's completely seamless there's no holes in the display side of it itself and by clicking the one button on the side you can cycle through 20 different patterns depending on what kind of a mood you're in that's pretty much it there's nothing to say about it other than that so if you're into you know simple technology then this might be your thing otherwise well we've got something else to show you as well so pretty much my favorite thing at CES is being told that I'm right and last year when I went around to all the different TV booths I was like oh yeah it's a really shiny TV that's a shiny TV tounament Oh Sony I actually don't care how shiny your TV is because you actually had the sense to implement Android into it instead of you know building your own operating system that let's face it nothing is ever going to support the way that Android will be and this right here is like a super awesome validation for me because one of the biggest things preventing me from investing in philips hue lighting or you know Lutron light switches or the battery-operated blinds that i've got to my right over here is the fact that they've all got completely separate apps some of which work well some of which are frankly compete complete trash and it's it's actually more effort to pull my phone out of my pocket and kind of like by that time I might as well get off my ass and go adjust my thermostat because it's time to sleep and I want it to be a little bit cooler this this is cool is the harmony home hub and it is actually working in tandem Sony and Logitech are working together with a Sony smart TV running Android to take that fragmented ecosystem and make all of those devices work together just with the native Android support that they have and with the TV communicating directly with the Harmony Home Hub so you can actually use a harmony remote you can use your phone with the Harmony app or you can even use your sony tv remote as well so you press the discover button and I'm gonna discover something other than Adam Sandler in my life just kidding I do happy gilmore is actually one of my favorite all-time movies and I'm gonna go ahead I'm gonna say okay goodnight what happens with goodnight is the lighting changes or turns off takes a minute the blinds go all the way down and boom all of a sudden I'm sleeping my TV is now off now this is really cool and there are over 200,000 Internet of Things devices that are going to be supported by this solution but the one thing that's still missing and that I'm really hoping to get like super excited press release email from Sony about sometime in the near future is hey we figured out how to make it work while the TV is not already on because you can't run the Android operating system on the TV without the screen being on just yet but I'm really excited to see someone whether it's Logitech or Sony or some combination of the two trying to figure out how to make all this stuff actually accessible in addition to being something that I spend a bunch of money on and is inside my house so don't miss any of our CES 2016 coverage by making sure you're subscribed to Linus tech tips and a huge shout out to Squarespace for allowing us to be here at the show in 2016 remember guys you're building a website whether you want to you know have a portfolio or a bunch of pictures of your dog or a portfolio of pictures of your dog you can head over to Squarespace calm slash Linus use offer code Linus to save 10% and start building your beautiful website today