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this I mean this is it's the top shelf this is the one welcome to top shelf I'm David Pierce and this is our new set this week we're talking about the home of the future not the Jetsons home of the future thousands of years from now when they're robots brushing our teeth and dressing us in the morning but the future more like tomorrow where we're going to live what it's going to look like what we're gonna do when we're home we started here in New York City where PSFK decided to take a look at what they think that home of the future might look like piece of cares a website about design and new ideas and the future and one of the things are really interested in is the home of the future what it'll look like and how it'll change how we live so here at sixteenth street new york city they built it and pierce box the editor-in-chief of PSFK decided to give us a tour give me sort of the the run-up to how you guys started doing this exhibition like where where did this come from you know a psfk you know we write every day we write about new ideas especially within culture creativity to write this reports about the future of retail and the future of games what what are these trends that you're seeing like do people live like this now I guess first of all I think people are beginning to put these products into the home and there and then they will to naturally it's a by accident it was really weird good we know we were we did this analysis and we were looking for products and we're calling PR agencies trying to get these products and these small designers and then we realized we could go on amazon and buy some of them but i think what's holding probably some of it back is there's sort of grand scheme how do all these things talk to each other in a in a clever way so how do we get there is that but yeah i think is it is it sort of your your iPhone or whatever phone you have yeah i think you know some some smart company has to come up with a form inner that going to create scenarios for you and and builds it on this technology which is always already around well thank you so much so now we're in this department let's go see what's downstairs they're all the exhibition future home living experience really it's um it's a real world trends report basically talking about the new trends and taking place in the home and so in this place we have a number of different zones and we talk about these three big themes okay adaptive equilibrium and on demand and they'll put tofu this is the door pot and it is an electronic I ok so so there's a camera there camera then you press the button and that gets been to your phone now this kayak is a foldable kayak is kayak it can be folded a thousand times gonna be folded basically into a bag which is this size wait really the nest is interesting because it's becoming such a mainstream product from barton home depot and buy little owes you think it's like helping people understand sort of what it is its functionality people have apps on their phones and very familiar with having apps and the phones and suddenly with something like the nest the nest makes you think makes people realize that oh they can this is easy but I can control stuff and I huh do you think that when you come home you think how am I plants doing okay we showed the coop Bochy system this is a plant system which knows the time you basically set it up over your phone do like you tell it what your what kind of plant you have said is it up and then it goes you want to see you and tells you about a water things that's really cool knife becomes easy yeah this is again I could have fairly mainstream brand yelping you can control the power output with your phone everybody leaves that you know ions on sure or worries without leaving their ions and obviously and so you can switch off and make sure that that that socket self health is a really important issue of the sea for many people and we have these consumer devices which we used to see in doctors offices yeah even just that these are things you can buy is sort of new yeah the phone automatically recognizes you're wearing it and with the press of a button it pumps up just like the talk two words so you got 133 over 95 it seems high it's got an Amber Alert oh no I'm dying oh my god this might tell it to me straight doc convinced me that little printer is cool and interesting we've had a big debate about this job really like it some people don't why it why is this here I think right time right place that leads a little printer work what everyone loves in the exhibition is this Aquafarm yeah it's a hydroponic farm basically and so imagine you're having a breakfast and you want to add some up to your breakfast this farm works with this fish that's underneath it the plants are fertilized by the fishes poop okay the roots of the plants clean the water for the fish as well so you'll never have to touch this thing is totally so sitting going it going and you fed the fish you know after the first month Reza Wow self-sustaining this is called principles okay what we like about this 3d printer is its consumer price is 299 dollars that's not that kind of thing about some of the prizes put some of the others yeah and so you can begin to see how this technology is going to kind of infiltrate the home in different ways yeah you have a big hanging garden here and they're all connected right exactly all connected and then inside this is a reservoir water it sends it to the top and then it drips the water down and it can monitor the humidity the amount of water going through the temperature and with a tablet it doesn't need to be connected it can be remote it goes through the pit ponics system and it monitors and moderates the kind of the growth of this these plants yeah i gotta i'm like i'm gonna move into this body is that cool I'm just gonna live here 101 West 15 anytime yeah so one thing PSFK didn't talk about is security you have all this cool stuff in your house but how do you make sure that you know it doesn't burn down or that nobody steals it all from you so this man hasn't answered that question Adam cigar the founder and CEO of Canary so tell me what is what is canary so canary is the easiest way to connect to a physical place and do security and have security at home whether your homeowner your renter you just want to have information live video recorded information on what's going on in your physical environment so what is security mean like what are you what are you telling me so this is this is canary this is the thing this is what is this what is this telling so security is really about two things is about information and communication and right now the security systems that are out there aren't really good at either of those things and and so we were devising with the easiest way to both pull information so canary is jam-packed with sensors video audio temperature humidity air quality a seller ometer and more and it's designed to constantly stream that data to the cloud where we analyze it look at pattern detection and we geo locate your cellphone know if your home or not we're really trying to find the easiest way to know if everything's okay in your environment and if it's not send all that information directly to you at your mobile phone notify you so you can take action immediately on it so you'll tell me things like you know somebody opened my front door on my sites unless it's me what you can tell by my phone or you know there's carbon monoxide or I don't even know what else there's a fire or somebody stoled your thing from you um so it's you know you said some of the other systems out there are bad at the information and the communication is it just this is just that it hasn't been out there before like you mentioned before you you know this started you sort of went into home depot and there just wasn't anything so like what's what's been out there what's this oh security today is really about they are the big installers like a DTS of the world and there's some new entrance to the field like AT&T and Comcast and then there are the DIY and they're a bunch of those and some new ones which are great but the to both the DIY and the installers have one thing in common in that they're both very complicated right their sensors all around they're expensive generally and for a renter like myself they're just terrible I mean so I'm not I'm not going to put sensors all around my home to do security and so most people don't have any securities a 90 million homes in the US have nothing no connectivity no security even if their house or apartment burned down and they are away from it they won't know about it right which to us which is why crazy because it burns down you're like well I was just trying to get any absolutely true yes but you don't want to lose your stuff right but so you have all these tools and then you have sort of a communications back end to the whole system to exactly so we we've both created the easiest way to connect because canary you literally you buy it on boxes put it on your table we have a 30 second set of process and then you're done you have home security the device itself constantly sending data to the cloud and you can access it whenever you want its user option if they want to store that data or not we're analyzing it always to know well if it's normal for on Tuesday 3pm for someone to come in your house and have activities whether it's a babysitter or a someone cleaning your house or fan of yours at visits or is it normal if you have a dog or cat in the home we're going to learn that over the first few weeks you you own the device and get better at sending you informed alerts so if we know you have a dog and the dog walks in front of the device we're not going to alert you we're gonna alert you when something wrong happens when somebody else's dog when boxes when so nielsen died like a really big dog yeah you have this little Tsar we're like what's this big dog yeah this is definitely probably yeah so let me see I want to see the actual you made this you can take it apart probably actually this like oh we can take take apart on purpose so we put together with magnets and here's a one of our prototypes we have here basically the video infrared both night vision in motion detection number of sensors both on the front and back boards this here is for our testing purposes and it will include a speaker a siren and others it's all in this really in this composter it's like it's it's also an alarm to it's not just sending you the information but it's it's you absolutely it's also an alarm that that will go off at certain times or you can activate it yourself so if you see someone's going on you can activate the siren from your phone I'm interesting as a deterrent to get rid of some of those in your environment cool yeah and so it's like is it just knew that all of this stuff is so small that you can put it all in one sort of little package like this yeah well what we have today is we have ubiquitous wireless broadband in homes everyone has wireless connection you have the actual video technology is so amazing today even a couple years ago it was very different especially IP video third you have state data storage so to both stream and store data in the cloud a couple years ago was so expensive to do that no one was really doing it right and she was like there were old systems where there was like a video camera but it was like forty nine ninety-nine a month to access like a video that was in the close reading yeah and you have a lot of systems like they're like that today right it doesn't need to be like that yeah it doesn't need to be and so with with canary were actually providing alerts backups you can use your friends and families backups you can have live video or both incidents that have happened all for free when you buy the device on the phone and so it just is complete game changer it's taking a model that's a few thousand dollars yeah like security or even DIY systems that will cost you thousands of dollars are complicated set of the average person won't set one of those up right we're getting rid of all that and we're saying you can simplify by having one device if you're in a larger environment larger home you get a more than one they all work together but most apartments would literally need just one device and right and then you can have security what do you where do you put it like is there if I you know I have this like tiny little New York apartment should put it somewhere where it's like facing the front door I guess it's sort of a different device depending yeah well yeah we tested this in about a hundred apartments in New York and other cities in the best place to put it is if you can see the front door and a living room or the main hallway at the same time what happens is in apartments if something goes wrong the likelihood that they'll pass by a central area of that apartment is over ninety-five percent so if if there you know you'll see you don't need windows sensors on you know your bathroom window like what how is that useful to know when someone's open your bathroom window you want to know what's going on in your environment you want to be able to see it immediately on your phone and we always take action if I mean if it's nothing okay maybe it's some you know you're you're at work and you have a child as your child's four steps that you happen to capture and that's great I mean it allows you to be there to be present environment and in a very unobtrusive way cool and so there's there's apps to control all this yeah right can I can you show me the door how the apps work yeah so it's all of course prototypes now but all working prototypes so you have a basic app which you can connect any time it's giving you immediately if there's an alert the immediate last alert so you're not alert is like you know somebody opened the door or somebody you know success they're fine idea when there's not supposed to be there's a rapid rise in temperature totally so this was two minutes ago actually we have won this one to set up in our office so you can see my co-founders here here live in the video you can get historical data or events coming from it so you can know what happened over time and this is all going to get so much more personalized as as we continue to develop because we're launching now the product and a crowdfunding but the actual product will come out towards the end of the EOB you next year and so the app and everything will be just so so much improved by that time and available in the iphone we're planning for the Android as well cool and it's it'll there's their stuff of coming for the ipad 2 because that's kind of what i do is sitting just like be mr. security guard and just monitor my world exactly so our roadmap is iphone then ipad at android of course it'll be web enabled so you can access to the web at any time in that our plans get all through all that before launch and then and from there just keep developing cool and so where where do you you know you mention the app will be there better and different by the time it comes out what do you guys thinking about now cuz like once you put all the sensors in this thing and stick it on a table there's like a lot of stuff it could do right so what else you guys sort of think well they what's really going into this and the heart and soul are the the computer vision and the algorithms we're developing for to learn about your behaviors and and those because it's all done in the cloud it'll keep getting smarter and smarter over time so even if you have the device day one it's getting smarter both by learning about you over the first few weeks to learn your patterns but it's also getting smarter because we're learning about everyone have people operate in general and so learning about the community and how people operate we can make our algorithm smarter to to know what's normal what's not to be able to send you better and better alerts because ATT I've ADT or another security system their false alarm rate is ninety-nine percent because they just go like oh crap the alarm went off leave no ay y but no idea why so like less than seven percent of people that have alarm systems actually a video in them so yeah if your adt alarm goes off what they're gonna call you you're not home what are you gonna do right I mean are you gonna send your neighbor are you gonna go home or you probably the Sun the police yeah the place will drive by if they don't see anything suspicious outside then they'll leave I mean that's what they do so here's here's my question is do people care about security like they should yeah but do they like what have you you know done any research I looked in all this stuff we're gonna be searched or there's public public available research that show a number the surveys show that up to eighty-five percent of people want some kind of security at homes absolutely hurting in fact what a new survey was just released showed that forty percent people wanted security video in our home it's such a new thing so few people have video in terms of security so it was great for us to see that but for all security is not just about keeping bad guys out writes about giving you information from your environment and that information might be you know learning about the air quality and the temperature and how it acts during the day it might be about making sure that someone you're looking after is comfortable so my father is in California can help look after his father who's 96 and lives in Florida it can be about looking after a child and making sure that the child is safe and they're both their environment the the temperature the humidity in their environment and also you know if you have a babies that are like how they're doing appropriate things like checking out at work so safety and security for us is no just about one thing about putting sensors around right on the house it's about being more connected to that physical place in a very easy and an almost fun way and this is something you could you know convince your ninety six year old grandfather actually plug in and absolutely but my 96 troll grandfather is on facebook and he could probably solve this himself yeah your night 60 little grandfather's on facebook he was on facebook before me that is totally I'm very impressed yes man yeah um so this is coming out for crowdfunding this week this is coming out for crowdfunding and on IndieGoGo yeah and how much is it gonna cost it's gonna job it's gonna cost a beach room 149 199 happening on how quickly people jump on there and is that so that about the price you're going for for the retail yep see the retail price would be 199 and as I said the apps free the basic service is free connectivity alerts everything backups and this kind of thing has never been done before and so we're what excites us the most is the ability to give people access and security that haven't added if you think about it people in the largest homes they're the ones that have security they're the ones that need the lease like large single-family homes are the ones that are least likely to be burgled least likely for there to be a problem least likely to have a fire least like it for any problem because they can afford the best construction and the best equipment and the app security apartments which are specially rentals the most likely to have a problem and they're the ones that at least like and have security and it's crazy for us I mean that's unfair so we want to democratize security make it available for anyone and just and say you know tell the big company is that their way of doing things is not needed their way of doing things doesn't work and this is a new approach cool and I don't have to you know convince my landlord to let me drill into the wall to have something I've seen nothing to install you take it you buy me a you put on the table you can move it from room to room if you want or you can take it obviously take it with you if you move from one house to one apartment together yeah that's awesome cool well Adam thank you so much thanks so much for having me really appreciate it I gotta I gotta get one of these and absolutely my parents have two cats and perfect just are constantly petrified that cats are dead uh because you know there might be and I'm still old what do you are and yeah and so like this is you know it's peace of mind yeah I mean they could you know talking to New Yorkers probably more than anywhere else the first thing people think about other catch of the dog yeah and and what the ability to like wow I can see what what's happening all day long just check in on them like you know brings pleasure to their lives so this you can do that and get like a like a live webcam totally your pet and just live video anytime you want exactly awesome alright well thank you so much thank you he's great a beer cool and that's our show thanks so much to Adam Sager for being here thanks to pierce fox from psfk for showing us around the home of the future we will be back next week on Monday and every Monday and be sure and check us out on youtube and download us has a podcast if you want to and we will see you next week