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Kim Komando Today

Want a smart home? Try these expert tricks

Kim Komando Today

WestStar Multimedia Entertainment, Inc

News, Tech News, Technology

4.8770 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

You've decided to upgrade your home to a smart home but, where do you start? Should you use an Amazon Alexa, Google Home or Apple Home Pod to connect your devices? Kim and her cohost Andrew Babinski talk about the latest trends in smart home tech, and Andrew shares the trial and error he went through when he started "smartifying" his home. They also talk about some pretty weird smart tech like smart diapers, smart toothbrushes, coffee makers, and… Jim Beam? Kim and Andrew break it all down.

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0:00.0

There's been a lot of promises about smart home technology over the years.

0:06.2

And suddenly someday we would have this home that we could go into.

0:10.0

It'd be as great as, say, the Jetsons.

0:13.5

But is it really here yet?

0:16.0

Well, joining us on this Commando on Demand demand podcast is our our very own Andrew Babinski. Now you've heard Andrew

0:22.8

on the air with me for many years. He is, of course, our awesome call screener. But I have to tell

0:27.9

you over the years, I actually have come to be, I guess you'd say, more friends with Andrew than

0:34.3

you'd say that employee-employer relationship. We have that recorded.

0:38.5

I'm going to use that against you.

0:40.0

I didn't introduce you yet.

0:41.8

Oh, I apologize.

0:43.6

There goes our friendship.

0:45.1

You mess everything up always.

0:49.6

Well, with that, Andrew, we're talking about smart home technology.

0:53.4

So is your home smart?

0:55.5

I would say if you're comparing my house to the average everyday American house, mine's a lot smarter than a lot of people's.

1:03.1

I didn't go to the 100,000th percentile, but we're getting there slowly but surely.

1:09.2

Okay.

1:09.4

So when you bought your new house a couple of months ago.

1:11.5

Yeah.

1:12.4

Was that when you said, okay, clean slate?

1:15.5

It was a nice excuse.

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