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The Giz Wiz Show # 1816 – Thursday 1/28/21 Independent Show #295
This week we finish our look at some gizmos and gadgets from the Virtual 2021 CES Show!
We start with a CES 2021 Best of Innovation Award in the Smart Home category.
This is something really different. It’s a pet door that comes with a full sized door! Huh? Read on. The company says their myQ Pet Portal is a secure and convenient way to make sure your dog can go outside when they need to, while giving the pet own access at any time, through their smartphone. (Door should obviously open to let the dog into a secure area, like a fenced in backyard.) It works for dogs as small as 10 lbs. up to 90 lbs. and includes safety sensors to ensure safe passage. They add that traditional retrofit dog doors can leave your home exposed to the elements, pesky critters, and other unwanted guests, whereas their design features an auto-close and lock system that triggers after your pet traverses the opening. A two-way camera with audio enables real-time and recorded viewing of a pet’s comings and goings so you can see what is happening at all times. With the myQ Pet Portal app, pet parents can customize alerts, set preferences for how Fido can enter/exit the portal and get daily reports on a pet’s comings and goings. It retails for less than half of what many pet owners spend annually on a dog walker. The professionally installed myQ Pet Portal is now available for pre-order on the company website starting at $2,999.00
Company video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkEzQgOWn14
Website: http://www.myqpetportal.com/
See or hear this show: www.gizwiz.tv/episode/1816
Chad Finds A Really Different Recycle Gadget At Virtual CES 2021.
It’s an amazing automated recycling gadget called Lasso. It has smart scanning and accepts your used materials using internal sensors, cameras and AI machine learning. If an item is not recyclable, Lasso simply returns it to you. No more recycling confusion. Lasso tracks your items in real-time, and you can even check products for recyclability on the move before buying them, with their in-app bar code scanner. The company says used materials can become valuable products. Processing delivers the consistency and purity required for close-loop recycling and remanufacture. Lasso can grind it, crush it, shred it. Plastic, metals and glass are broken down separately, reducing to a fraction of their size and maintaining valuable purity throughout. 74Db is said to be Lasso’s loudest process, which is quieter than the spin cycle of a modern washing machine. Once processed, Lasso channels your purified products into the storage container at the base of the appliance – safe and secure until it’s time for Lasso to collect them. When storage is approaching capacity, Lasso automatically notifies you via the smartphone app – required just 3-8 times per year. When collection is due, simply detach Lasso’s storage container and leave it at the curb. Lasso’s dimensions: Height 49.2″ / Width 23.6″ / Depth 35.4″ / Weight 265 lbs / Needs electricity and plumbed water. At a TED talk the price of the unit was expected to be $3500 to $4000. But it has the ability to become cash positive according to the Lasso website: Lasso will be marketing and selling the closed-loop recycled products produced by households. The sale price of the Lasso recycled products will vary due to future market forces.
Company website: www.lassoloop.com
See or hear this show: www.gizwiz.tv/episode/1816
The Ultimate Bath Experience!
At the Virtual CES 2021 Jonathon Bradly, Kohler Smart Home Innovation Lead, introduced the Kohler Stillness Bath. This is something to behold, assuming you have a really big bathroom- and budget! Kohler, one of the best known high tech kitchen and bathroom equipment retailers has been around since 1873. Their new Stillness Bath draws its inspiration from Japanese forest bathing. It starts with water filling from the bottom of the bath, overflowing into the wood moat to create a soothing sound. Full spectrum lighting surrounds the bath as mist envelopes the surface of the Stillness Bath. Finally, essential oils can be added to emits invigorating aromas. Your bathroom is transformed into a spa-like environment for quiet mindfulness, except maybe for you using voice commands via Alexa or Google Assistant. The Stillness Bath offers a sanctuary for self-care and well-being. And hopefully the water display, light, mist and aromas converge to help you forget it costs about $16,000 and probably some major bathroom alterations for the full, complete bath experience. But wait, there’s LESS! If you just to control the temperature and depth of the water, that’s about $8700.00. If you want to add fog and aroma therapy, you’ll need to add the “Experience Tower” and that’s brings it up to around $11,000. The full Stillness experience is about $16,000 and that will be available around November 2021.
Company website: https://www.smarthome.kohler.com/smart-bathing
See all that’s new with Kohler as David Kohler hosts an event coming up Feb 2 & 3: https://athome.kohler.com/?id=vid_you_kbus_youtube_2021_kohler-at-home
See or hear this show: www.gizwiz.tv/episode/1816
Chad’s 2nd CES Gadget For This Week Is For Protecting Valuables.
It’s the TROVA HOME SAFE. A bit of info from the company: A discreet biometric smart home safe designed to maintain the privacy and safety of your daily use items. Our largest storage solution brings elegant design, premium materials and beauty to any interior space. An object of intelligent art, TROVA Home protects curious explorers and prying eyes from the contents inside, while remaining convenient for responsible parties. NEW FEATURES: TROVA HOME is now boltable into any surface should you desire an extra level of security. – NEW “Tap to Open” functionality like a hotel room key allowing instant access to your TROVA by tapping your phone instead of using the biometric verification inside our TROVA APP. TROVA HOME has added a humidity sensor that will help you maintain your desired level of humidification. Exterior dimensions 14.5” (368mm) X 4.25” (108mm) X 7.5” (190mm) without stand. Interior dimensions 13.7″ (348mm) X 6.2″ (158mm) X 2.8″ (71mm). Sliding tray on top for internal organization sits above our subtle molded organizational ridges below. Tamper resistant On The Move Alert notifies you upon access or relocation by someone other than you. Battery powered to be free standing if desired. PRE ORDER: Your deposit is refundable at any time by sending us an email at info@trovaofficial.com with your order number. Pre Orders are expected to start shipping 5-15-2021. Be sure to watch this week’s show to hear Chad’s thoughts on the Trova Home Safe.
Company website: https://www.trovaofficial.com/Cases/Trova/Home-pid-11
See or hear this show: www.gizwiz.tv/episode/1816
A Different Dick’s Gadget Warehouse This Week.
A Modern Digital Piggy-Bank For Kids.
At CES 2019 Chad & I thought this was a digital take on the ‘piggy-bank’. Well, it’s a heck of a lot more complicated than that! Here’s info from the company: “In our increasingly cashless world, it’s more and more difficult for children to understand the value of money. Pigzbe is a (very) smart device and educational app that teaches kids 6+ great saving, spending and earning habits through play. It’s one of the first ever family products built using the blockchain. Digital money, contactless payments, in-app purchases and crypto currency are all things they need help to understand. It’s hard to get to grips with money if you can’t touch the notes or feel the coins! We wanted to find a way to make digital money physical, so children can touch, play and experiment with it. The same way we did with the coins in our piggy-banks.
From the Giz Wiz: In checking their website for this show it seems they’ve added new currency. It’s very bewildering. But perhaps a six year old would understand better than we did. And it’s almost $70!
And now it’s 2021 & Chad finds this:
Be sure to watch this week’s show as Chad explains more about Pigzbe and what might have contributed to it failing.
See or hear this show: www.gizwiz.tv/episode/1816
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We’d love to include your video in an upcoming Giz Wiz Show! Here’s what we’re looking for! Your home shot video – 2 to 3 minutes long, in any of the following categories:
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Letter of the week:
Hi Dick and Chad,
After watching this past weeks GizWiz with the different types of masks I came across this one on IndieGoGo:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/blanc-the-only-full-face-modular-mask#/
I think this one is even more outrageous than some of the ones you showed.
Love the show, keep them coming. Thanks, Henning aka TheGreatDane – Proud Patreon
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