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a smart plug that's this small let me
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it dave Taylor and I want to talk about
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intelligent homes and internet of things
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and IoT and all that stuff more
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specifically I want to talk about smart
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plugs now the vision's really easy you
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walk into the house and you say "Turn on
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the coffee pot." And "Hey house turn on
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my TV." and house I'm coming close go
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ahead and turn that light on but the
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reality is that the solutions so far are
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big and bulky and spendy so to enable a
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single power plug generally is running
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about 50 60 bucks so doing that across
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your house can be a pretty expensive
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proposition enter this little guy this
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is the Connect Intella Plug and it is
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the smallest and most affordable smart
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plug on the market right now so how does
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it work well let's just demonstrate it
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these are lights from IKEA that my
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daughter wants to put in her room this
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is the smart plug itself and it's hooked
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up to my Amazon Alexa so turn on fairy
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alexa turn on fairy lights
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okay second time's the charm gosh I
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think she got a little confused there
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but hey at least she didn't go by Whole
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right um same sort of thing obviously to
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turn it off alexa turn off fairy lights
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okay how easy is that and it's this
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little guy and its retail price is
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$19.99 but it's on Indiegogo right now
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and check this out on Indiegogo if you
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get it before it runs away before this
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campaign ends they're $10 each now this
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is not from one of the huge electronics
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companies this is more of a little
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startup so they do have an app it's for
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iPhone and Android and you use the app
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to connect it initially to your network
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and that's how you name it so I've
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literally named this plug fairy lights
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so that works great and then oh you know
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once I've done that I just chose the
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connect skill in the Alexa app and Alexa
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knew exactly what to do
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cancel and is listening right there she
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is listening to me it's a little creepy
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actually um the company said that they
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should have Google Home up and online
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pretty darn soon and then the next one
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is Apple HomeKit but right now this
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works with its own app if you don't want
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to use anything like the Echo device you
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can do that you can just have this
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working by itself and the app actually
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supports as many of these as you want to
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get you give each one a different name
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depending on what you're plugging into
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it and you're good to go but of course
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the fun of this is getting into the
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voice activated systems so now my
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daughter can walk into her room and as
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she walks in she can say "Alexa turn on
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fairy lights." And hopefully okay then
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boom the lights will all light up on her
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wall and she can lay in bed and when
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it's late at night and she's getting
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tired all she has to remember to do is
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to say "Alexa turn off fairy
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lights." And then maybe maybe she'd also
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good night sweet dreams how nice see
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it's like better than having an actual
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parent in your room well maybe not
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entirely um so I will say that their app
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the Connect Intell app does include some
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useful things like schedules and timers
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so if you have this hooked up we could
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have it automatically turn off at
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midnight every night so if my daughter
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forgets and falls asleep then it will
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just turn off anyway that's actually
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really nice you can also control it from
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the little button on the side i want to
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point out so if you end up offline you
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can just push the button for on and off
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alternating so that's nice it's nice to
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know that there's something you can do
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that doesn't involve unplugging it and
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then having to reassemble it all later
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uh what else can I tell you you can
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learn more about it at
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connectlife.com though of course I'm
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recommending you check out their
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Indiegogo campaign and just look for
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Intellip and you'll find it now speaking
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of finding things can I ask that you
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click on the subscribe button so you can
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also subscribe to my YouTube channel
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thank you now as I said the retail price
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of these units and I guess at this point
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I can disassemble it the retail price of
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this connect plug will be $19.99 each
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which is a phenomenal deal but I checked
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this morning and the Indiegogo campaign
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you can still get three of them for 30
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bucks so that is absolutely a no-brainer
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three of these for $10 each that is
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something that you can just really have
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some fun with it and whatever you want
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to hook up um it's just going to make it
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really kind of fun and interesting and
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of course there's safety and security
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issues that you can be at work and you
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can push the button to turn the light on
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in the house or something or set up a
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schedule so all of that's really nice me
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I'm just a big fan of being able to use
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things like this big black tube next to
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me so that's it and this is the connect
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and tele plug and I will catch you in my
