1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:01,480 Speaker 1: Let's say good morning now to the host of Home 2 00:00:01,560 --> 00:00:05,240 Speaker 1: on KFI. It's the house whisper, Dean Sharp. Dean Sharp. 3 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:07,560 Speaker 1: We talked to Richdimiro about some of the fun tech 4 00:00:07,600 --> 00:00:12,080 Speaker 1: items that he discovered at CES. But there's there's high 5 00:00:12,080 --> 00:00:14,240 Speaker 1: tech for your home too, and that's why we need to. 6 00:00:14,240 --> 00:00:17,120 Speaker 2: Talk to you. Okay, that sounds good, all right? 7 00:00:17,680 --> 00:00:20,799 Speaker 1: So CES is coming gone, and like I said, we 8 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:23,440 Speaker 1: were talking about foldable phones and robots and that kind 9 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:26,799 Speaker 1: of stuff. But there are some cool new high tech 10 00:00:26,920 --> 00:00:29,200 Speaker 1: gadgets that you can get for your house too. 11 00:00:29,720 --> 00:00:30,280 Speaker 2: That is true. 12 00:00:30,360 --> 00:00:32,839 Speaker 3: And normally I get to see ES before now, but 13 00:00:33,320 --> 00:00:35,360 Speaker 3: just because of a couple of things, we've had to 14 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:38,440 Speaker 3: hold off on our coverage of it. It's been a 15 00:00:38,440 --> 00:00:42,040 Speaker 3: couple of weeks, but it's still not too late to 16 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:44,680 Speaker 3: discuss it. You know, CS was kind of low key 17 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:47,320 Speaker 3: in the press this year. I don't know why exactly, 18 00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:51,320 Speaker 3: but there was some innovation there, as there always is. 19 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:53,760 Speaker 3: It's the biggest show of its kind on the planet, 20 00:00:54,160 --> 00:00:56,880 Speaker 3: and when it comes to homes, everybody of course wants 21 00:00:56,920 --> 00:00:59,800 Speaker 3: to hear. You know, Oh, by the way, what kind 22 00:00:59,840 --> 00:01:02,920 Speaker 3: of new TV is there out there? And you know 23 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:09,200 Speaker 3: TVs are always a thing at CES this year, I 24 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:13,520 Speaker 3: would just say that everything TV is moving forward of course, 25 00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:16,560 Speaker 3: of course, like you would expect every year. The resolution 26 00:01:16,720 --> 00:01:19,800 Speaker 3: is getting better, the pictures are getting sharper and brighter. 27 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:23,040 Speaker 3: As far as home applications, though, there are a couple 28 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:26,720 Speaker 3: of things that are interesting. One is LG has pushed 29 00:01:26,720 --> 00:01:29,320 Speaker 3: forward on their wallpaper TV. 30 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:30,640 Speaker 2: And build that. What is that? 31 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:33,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, we don't mean TV that comes up in a 32 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:36,960 Speaker 3: role that covers an entire wall. But LG's wallpaper TV 33 00:01:37,120 --> 00:01:42,160 Speaker 3: is only nine millimeters thick. That's a little less. That's 34 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:44,679 Speaker 3: a little more than a third of an inch thick. 35 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:49,200 Speaker 1: Okay, wait still, like for reference, I'm looking at my phone, 36 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:52,680 Speaker 1: so it's even thinner than my phone. 37 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:55,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a little bit thinner than your phone. Wow. 38 00:01:56,400 --> 00:01:59,760 Speaker 3: Yeah, and we're talking about a TV that's seventy seven 39 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:04,280 Speaker 3: inch and eighty three inches diagonal. I mean, it's the 40 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:09,120 Speaker 3: larger of the flat screen TVs. Everything about it is 41 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:12,679 Speaker 3: Wi Fi connected, so there are no wires coming out 42 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:16,679 Speaker 3: of it. The power supply is hidden away. Yeah, it's 43 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:20,200 Speaker 3: pretty amazing, and it's going to be on some people's 44 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:23,120 Speaker 3: walls because it's just a way of getting that screen 45 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:27,040 Speaker 3: up on a wall as seamless and kind of not 46 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:29,720 Speaker 3: there as possible until you want it there, which, by 47 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:34,000 Speaker 3: the way, in my opinion my experience as a designer, 48 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:37,079 Speaker 3: I think it's the destiny of most technology. We all 49 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:38,880 Speaker 3: flip out over it when it first comes out, but 50 00:02:38,919 --> 00:02:42,560 Speaker 3: it's the destiny of all technology to become invisible eventually. 51 00:02:42,639 --> 00:02:45,119 Speaker 3: And by invisible, I mean, you know, we just want 52 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:49,280 Speaker 3: eventually integrated into our lives so seamlessly that we don't 53 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:53,320 Speaker 3: really take notice of it until it's until we need it. 54 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:57,840 Speaker 3: And so the wallpaper TV it's just another step in 55 00:02:57,880 --> 00:03:01,240 Speaker 3: that direction. Here's one of that that I really like, though. 56 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:02,800 Speaker 3: Do you know what bias lighting is? 57 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:05,440 Speaker 1: Why don't you tell us? 58 00:03:05,800 --> 00:03:08,040 Speaker 2: Okay, bias lighting? 59 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:10,600 Speaker 3: Now, see, I come from the time when I remember 60 00:03:10,639 --> 00:03:13,880 Speaker 3: when my family first got their first color TV, our 61 00:03:13,919 --> 00:03:17,200 Speaker 3: first color TV, and I remember my parents sitting a 62 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:19,800 Speaker 3: little light on top of the television saying, this is 63 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:22,000 Speaker 3: the TV light when we watched the TV at night. 64 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:24,880 Speaker 3: Turn this on so that the glare doesn't bother your eyes. 65 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:27,799 Speaker 3: And I used to think, I don't know, I don't 66 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:30,280 Speaker 3: know about you people, it seems a little weird. Well, 67 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:34,040 Speaker 3: it turns out as non scientific as my family was. 68 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:35,520 Speaker 2: They were right. 69 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:36,720 Speaker 1: Mother knows best. 70 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:41,720 Speaker 3: Yeah, bias lighting simply means that when you're watching such 71 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:44,600 Speaker 3: a bright object, like a nice bright flat screen TV 72 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:49,320 Speaker 3: at night, that it is useful to our eyes to 73 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:52,880 Speaker 3: eliminate glare, to have a part of the wall behind 74 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:57,160 Speaker 3: the TV lit up, you know, not brightly, but lit 75 00:03:57,280 --> 00:04:00,960 Speaker 3: up enough so that we're not struggling with high contrast 76 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:02,440 Speaker 3: between the black and the white. 77 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:05,560 Speaker 2: So like a little backlighting, a little backlighting. 78 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:08,160 Speaker 3: And I don't use the term backlighting because in the 79 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:12,000 Speaker 3: TV parlance that means something different as far as the 80 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:16,120 Speaker 3: way the TV is built. But yes, backlighting of the TV. 81 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:19,960 Speaker 3: And there are several brands now that are coming out 82 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:23,800 Speaker 3: with their their TVs with the backlighting built in, bias 83 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:28,039 Speaker 3: lighting built in. Lenovo, Samsung, Phillips all have these led 84 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:31,120 Speaker 3: strips on the backside of the TV. And you know 85 00:04:31,160 --> 00:04:35,359 Speaker 3: what's cool about it is that they actually change the 86 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:38,719 Speaker 3: color and the pattern of the bias lighting to match 87 00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:42,960 Speaker 3: what's going on the screen in real time. So if 88 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:45,320 Speaker 3: there's blues happening on the screen, then it's blue. If 89 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:47,640 Speaker 3: there's reds, then it's reds, and so on and so forth. 90 00:04:47,680 --> 00:04:51,720 Speaker 3: So it's really cool it's a great way to integrate that. 91 00:04:52,040 --> 00:04:55,280 Speaker 3: We actually get asked to add kits to TVs all 92 00:04:55,320 --> 00:04:57,760 Speaker 3: the time. That and you can do this to your 93 00:04:57,800 --> 00:04:59,359 Speaker 3: own flat screen by the way. You can add a 94 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:01,600 Speaker 3: bias light. You can get to it. But these are 95 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:04,599 Speaker 3: brands that are coming out now. It's just integrated in 96 00:05:04,640 --> 00:05:06,039 Speaker 3: and it's smart lighting. 97 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:10,279 Speaker 1: So less eyestrain, so you can watch TV longer. 98 00:05:11,080 --> 00:05:14,359 Speaker 2: Eggs, I love it. 99 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:17,320 Speaker 1: Okay, So you're gonna are you gonna be talking CES 100 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:18,400 Speaker 1: stuff all weekend. 101 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:20,400 Speaker 3: I'm gonna be talking about it on the Big Show 102 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:24,920 Speaker 3: on a Sunday and then Saturday as always, it's an 103 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:26,719 Speaker 3: all call Saturday morning tomorrow. 104 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:29,479 Speaker 1: Oh I love an all call Saturday morning. 105 00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:31,480 Speaker 3: All right. 106 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:35,040 Speaker 1: You can listen to Dean Sharp on Saturday morning from 107 00:05:35,080 --> 00:05:37,600 Speaker 1: six to eight am, and then again Sunday all cees 108 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:41,480 Speaker 1: nine to noon. You can also follow Dean at home 109 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:44,880 Speaker 1: with Dean. Thank you so much, Dean Sharp, Thank you Amy. 110 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:46,039 Speaker 1: All right, we'll talk to you soon.