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forget all that screens forget eating the hottest new display in tech is wood this is muy and it's basically an internet-connected block of wood that acts as a smart home hub so this is a movie and this is how you touched awake and as you can see the interface is pretty minimalistic and there's five icons on the screen that represent its different functionalities so this one controls or this one shows you the weather and you can swipe across the screen to go to the different menus this one shows what song is playing on your Spotify unfortunately you can't really choose from your playlist on the screen like this it's more just a interface display that you control through the app on your phone let's swipe again and you can see that it connects to the smart home hub you can control your home temperature if you have like a smart thermostat like nest and swipe one more time and this one from next to any smart lighting products you might have like the Philips hue you can control how bright you want your light bulbs to be it's a slight lag and this button here is for Google assistant unfortunately you can't use a wakeboard like okay Google you have to tap the button on the screen but you can say what's the weather in Las Vegas and it'll display its response on the screen a little bit slowly so let's give it some time so the designer is intentionally left pretty much half the block blank and that was a purposeful decision for you know the sake of minimalism and it looks pretty good but sometimes it does cut off the responses there so what I like about the movie is that although it basically does the same thing as an Amazon echo show or Google Home Hub where it's basically a display for your smart home hub this is a block of wood it's an internet-connected block of wood and it's unique and instead of just being a device in your home it's actually a part of your home as furniture and I can really see them selling this at IKEA or a lot of like design home goods stores and it's really just a beautiful block of wood so the merchants finished a successful Kickstarter project and it's launching next week on IndieGoGo in demand for $549 if you want more videos like this check out the verge