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hey where's up guys mkbhd here and this is a Google home so if you've been paying attention over the past couple of months you've noticed Google's pretty big a I push for artificial intelligence so you know they've built in the Google assistant into the latest pixel phones they've gotten better with getting cards and Google now but just generally getting better at displaying useful information so this Google home thing is kind of an extension of that it's essentially a small air freshener looking plastic computer with Google assistant built in you can kind of think of it as Google's version of what Amazon is doing with the echo and Alexa except obviously with Google smarts so the hardware itself is pretty simple looking I think you can fit into most home environments or apartments and not stand out which actually I think is a good trait it doesn't look like a shiny metal tube or anything not that those are bad but I kind of like it when technology blends in and doesn't have to stand out to do its job so at the top here is a touchpad and it has some LED lights behind it that can move when it's doing things and the touchpad can actually be used to do stuff like change the speaker volume or touch to play pause media etc and then that speaker is at the bottom there's actually a couple of speakers facing every direction along with the microphones to hear your voice and the speaker quality is pretty good it's obviously not going to you know replace your home stereo or any dedicated speakers or anything but it's definitely better than the speaker's you have in your phone and that's about as good as it really has to be and it's actually also really easy to replace the bottom speaker grille with other colors in case the gray on gray air freshner look isn't doing it for you so once you set it up with your Google account it will listen to you with those microphones up top and respond to you that's basically the product here's what it can do okay Google how's the weather right now in Kearny it's 56 with rain it'll be rainy there today with a forecasted high of 60 and a low of 53 hey Google how far away is the moon the moon is two hundred thirty eight thousand nine hundred miles from Earth hey Google how's my day look good day Marcus it is 12:04 p.m. the weather in Kearney currently is 56 degrees in rain with a high of 60 degrees tomorrow at 8 a.m. you have left have a wonderful day here's the latest news from NPR news summary at 11:00 a.m. today support for this podcast and the following message come from stop hey Google play my favorites playlist alright playing your Spotify playlist called favorites ok Google next song hey Google stop hey Google add green eggs and ham to my shopping list ok I've added green eggs and ham to your shopping list hey Google Play the latest mkbhd video on the TV sure playing latest mkbhd videos from youtube on down it there's um hey Google how many Ounces are in 3 pounds 3 pounds equals 48 ounces hey Google set a timer for 10 seconds sure 10 seconds and here we go hey Google Play ESPN radio ok ESPN radio from the ESPN network playing on tune in and senator I don't care Bob I don't like that question though wouldn't poop occasionally this rim attack stood up for me wouldn't poop okay only Jim it's not one OK Google one's your birthday I try to live every day like it's my birthday I get more cake that way hey Google let's play a game we can play lucky trivia mad lips or crystal ball what do you wanted to try crystal ball okay let me find an appropriately weird tablecloth come closer closer closer okay stop quiet your mind and focus the crystal ball shall tell your fate now ask a yes-or-no question are you going to give a thumbs up on this video the all-knowing crystal ball says probably not so it does a ton of cool stuff and it can be really useful so that's awesome but I would say it is not complete at all it does get a couple of software updates pretty silently over the air so that's good but it's not complete I think generally the main thing holding it back is it's a one-person device still like your phone but not necessarily like your home like your home you know your apartment or whatever you have multiple people in there and it would be really nice if you could have it replied different answers to different people depending on who's asking the question but the voice recognition is not that good so it's just signing into one account and giving one answers to one person just like your phone would I really think that could be the next level of this like if I sign into my account and I have a roommate and he signs into his account I asked how my calendar looks it reads from my calendar he asks five minutes later in his voice how his calendar looks he gives an answer from his calendar but it isn't there yet voice recognition isn't quite that good it's not that smart so for now it's a one account device one person one Google home so does anyone really like do you need one of these probably not um Google home like it's a really nice gift I think it's also usually discounted around this time of year so I'll leave a link below if you're interested but generally you know it's a mild convenience but once you get used to it it's kind of nice to have I've had one I have two in my house one upstairs one downstairs and I've gotten used to having like that ability to just ask it you know how's the traffic to work or what does my calendar look like so that's kind of the general consensus for Google home it's a mild convenience but once you get used to it it's kind of nice to have that's basically it thanks for watching talk to guys the next one peace