The smart home hype
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2019
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Has technology really made our homes better? Ed Butler talks to Henry Shepherd from the company Cornflake, which installs high-end smart home systems in London. So why haven't more of us installed the latest technology? Brian Solis, principal analyst and futurist at tech research firm Altimeter in California explains.
(Photo: A smart speaker at home, Credit: Getty Images)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there, I'm Ed Butler. |
| 0:03.3 | Welcome to Business Daily from the BBC. |
| 0:06.4 | Coming up, the guy who talks to his home. |
| 0:10.0 | Telling it to bring me pizza is pretty much my favourite at the moment. |
| 0:14.2 | And it knows my order or telling it to order me an Uber. |
| 0:17.7 | And the lights flashing when the Uber's there. |
| 0:19.5 | It's great stuff. |
| 0:20.7 | Yep, smart home technologies are themed today. |
| 0:23.6 | Is it here? Does it work? |
| 0:25.3 | Is it even safe? |
| 0:26.7 | It's worrying to know that they are listening to you 24-7 and they've got all that data. |
| 0:31.5 | And of course, data gets sold to different companies to kind of build your profile. |
| 0:35.5 | So that's probably my biggest worry. |
| 0:37.1 | The worrying rise of the Internet of Things on Business Daily from BBC. to different companies to kind of build your profile. So that's probably my biggest worry. |
| 0:41.6 | The worrying rise of the Internet of Things on Business Daily from BBC. |
| 0:50.2 | It has been quite a few years since we started hearing the buzz about a new type of domestic technology from bathroom mirrors that would soon be giving us advice to robot vacuum |
| 0:55.1 | cleaners and wireless kitchen appliances. The home we were told was about to be invaded by |
| 0:59.4 | interactive kit transforming our lives. Take this, for instance, the BBC's Jen Copesteak |
| 1:05.0 | reporting from a tech show back in 2014. The focus on smart home tech here at EFA has seen a vast range of gadgets integrated with |
| 1:14.5 | the Internet of Things. They're designed to fit seamlessly into your life. This makeup |
| 1:20.5 | mirror prototype from Panasonic diagnoses skin problems, evaluates your wrinkles and recommends |
| 1:26.5 | treatments for you based on food you |
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