WEBVTT - A TechStuff Tour of Bill Gates's House 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:02.960 Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve Camray. 0:00:03.240 --> 0:00:09.000 It's ready. Are you get in touch with technology? With 0:00:09.080 --> 0:00:17.800 tech Stuff from how stuff works dot com. Hello everyone, 0:00:17.840 --> 0:00:20.160 welcome to tech stuff. My name is Chris Pillette, and 0:00:20.200 --> 0:00:23.119 I am an editor here at how stuff works dot Com. 0:00:23.160 --> 0:00:26.599 Sitting across from me as usually as senior writer Jonathan Strickland, 0:00:26.760 --> 0:00:30.560 father wears his Sunday best mother's tired, she needs arrest. 0:00:30.840 --> 0:00:36.199 The kids are playing up downstairs. I never could get 0:00:36.240 --> 0:00:39.120 that line. Yeah, it doesn't make any sense. I have 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:44.199 a feeling madness. I tell you madness. I figure it's 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:47.599 a colloquialism, but I'll settle for that. Sott. Yes, you 0:00:47.800 --> 0:00:51.360 happen to know who lives at eighteen thirty five seventy 0:00:51.400 --> 0:00:55.400 three Avenue, Northeast, Medina, Washington. Well I do, but I'll 0:00:55.440 --> 0:01:01.760 pretend I don't know who that would be. Bill Gates. Ah, yes, yes, 0:01:01.840 --> 0:01:08.240 Bill Gates, the billionaire, the founder of Microsoft, the amazing philanthropist. 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:15.320 I mean his philanthropic efforts have been phenomenal. That that's 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:17.800 just me being genuine. The guy has given billions of 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:20.640 dollars to charities. I'm sorry when you say phenomenal, I 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:25.479 start singing phenomena in my head. So so we had 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:28.560 some people right in on both Facebook and an email 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:31.720 over well pretty much since we've done our did our 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:34.800 episode about Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, Ages and Ages ago. 0:01:34.880 --> 0:01:37.560 You guys might not remember those, but we did a 0:01:37.680 --> 0:01:41.679 pair of podcasts about Steve Jobs and Bill Gates because 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:46.399 the two have very interesting parallel lives. The development of 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:50.120 Microsoft in the development of Apple have almost the same 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:55.960 timeline but very different pathways. Anyway, we had several people 0:01:56.040 --> 0:01:57.800 right in and say, Hey, I heard that Bill Gates 0:01:57.800 --> 0:02:01.160 has this really cool house and it's really technologically advanced, 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:03.400 and I want to know more about it. So we 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:05.680 did some digging and we've got some information. Now we 0:02:05.680 --> 0:02:07.600 should point out that neither of us have been to 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:11.200 Bill Gates's house. Nope, and neither has Tyler. Tyler, you 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:14.240 haven't been, have you? Okay that Tyler just said he 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:18.320 has not been. Um, Josh and Chuck, strangely enough, have 0:02:18.520 --> 0:02:21.000 yet to go to Bill Gates's house, but that could 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:25.520 change by the time this podcast goes live. Anyway. Um, 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:28.399 what we do know we know from various articles. One 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:31.040 big one was in u S News and World Report. Yeah. 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:35.760 I hadn't actually read that article before doing research on it, 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:38.960 and it is a few years old now. Um, but 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:40.800 they do give you an idea. They even have some 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:43.400 illustrations of what the house looks like. Of course there 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:48.120 are photos, um, mostly you know, taken either from a 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:51.720 boat from Lake Washington or from an airplane flying over 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:56.280 our helicopter flying over the estate. Yes. Yes, his pool 0:02:56.280 --> 0:02:59.160 house is bigger than my house. Yeah, that was one 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:03.560 of the interesting notes I read repeatedly across various websites. 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:06.200 I should also say that kudos to U. S. News 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:09.120 and World Report because you created an article that has 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:12.960 been plagiarized widely on the internet. Um. That is a 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:15.639 problem when you're looking for multiple sources of information. Chris 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:17.720 and I were looking through lots and lots of different 0:03:17.720 --> 0:03:21.240 sources and we kept coming across the same paragraphs, I mean, 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:24.680 exactly the same word for word, with the same titles 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:27.360 and everything. And I'm thinking, where the heck that was 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:29.280 Which one of these was the first? And it turns 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:32.160 out it was this U. S. News and World Report article. Um. 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:35.120 I had actually originally read about this his house in 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:40.400 a Sky magazine article years and years ago, but the Uh. Yeah, 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:43.480 the the whole size of it is enormous. According to 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:45.920 that U. S. News and World Report article, if you 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:49.000 add up all the buildings, because there are several on 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:52.000 his on his estate, if you add up all the buildings, 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:58.080 you get to about sixties six thousand square feet of building. Yes, 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:02.160 the average home is around two thousand square feet, yes, 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:05.240 which is still larger than my house. Yeah, but you know, yes, 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:08.240 and his garage is like three times as large as 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:11.040 the average house. Yes, it's silver six thousand square free 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:13.240 actually one of his one of his garages. He has 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:15.680 three of them, all right, So look we're jumping ahead 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:17.839 of ourselves, so let's give you a quick overview. So, yeah, 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:21.320 sixty six thousand square feet of residents if you add 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:24.159 up all the buildings together, which U. S. News and 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:28.240 World Report is very helpfully points out. Rather, they point 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:31.240 out helpfully that, um, that's one point five acres one 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:35.320 of half acres of just rooms. And uh it has 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:42.640 seven bedrooms, twenty four bathrooms including ten full baths, six kitchens, 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:46.880 and six fireplaces. So yeah, this is uh it's on 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:50.400 Lake Washington. Um. If you were to get in a 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:54.240 boat and go from Seattle across the lake. You would 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:58.679 eventually hit his his house and then be very politely 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:03.080 escorted off property, assuming you weren't invited. I mean, I'm 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:07.640 certain that he's very hospitable towards invited guests, but the 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:12.719 uninvited type, I assume we meet a a friendly but 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:17.680 stiff resistance. That's just me guessing. I have not tried 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:20.240 to get into Bill Gates's house. I learned my lesson 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:24.200 after going to Coubertino. Uh, that's a that's a joke. 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:26.880 I'm not trying to get into Steve jobs This house either. 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:29.039 He actually has Between the two would be more frightened 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:35.039 of Jobs. Um. Yeah, there's approximately ft of waterfront for 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:38.440 the property, which costs around twenty five thousand dollars a foot. 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:43.560 As I recall, I read an interview where he he 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:47.320 specifically pointed that out. It was kind of interesting. It's 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:51.680 built into a hillside. So the while there are there 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:54.880 is this huge square footage involved, most of that is 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:57.640 not visible or a good portion of it is invisible 0:05:57.680 --> 0:06:00.880 because it's built into a hillside. Um, and that was 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:05.080 partly in order to improve energy efficiency. It was actually 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:07.479 thoughtfully done. It was like, you don't I'm gonna have 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:10.000 this enormous estate, but I want to do it in 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:14.200 a way that is responsible. Yeah, there are there are 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:22.159 signs that heat. Uh. And the developers took developers, I'm sorry, 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:25.200 it just hit me. Um, they took some pains to 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:29.880 make it green, or at least greener than than you 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:32.080 might expect for such a large place, and including the 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:35.400 fact that there's an estuary, which is uh, you know, 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:40.200 there's an artificial stream and wetland area. Um designed basically 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:44.400 there there's some there are some retaining walls around the house. Um, 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:47.240 and there's some water runoff and the estuary is designed 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:51.840 to mitigate that somewhat. Yeah. Actually, one of the architects 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:55.479 and designers for his estate, Jim Cutler, was the one 0:06:55.520 --> 0:07:00.160 to convince Bill Gates to include the wetlands as part 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:02.919 of the design in order to mitigate that runoff problem 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:06.560 that you mentioned. And according to an interview I read, uh, 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:09.760 Cutler said that it took it took some convincing because 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:13.080 Bill Gates pointed out that waterfront property and around Seattle 0:07:13.200 --> 0:07:15.360 is very expensive. He said, well, I paid for this 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:17.600 waterfront property. You want me to turn into a swamp. 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:20.080 Cutler said, well, this is a way for you to 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:23.080 connect back to the world. It's a way for you 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:28.680 to provide a disappearing resource because more and more people 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:32.400 are building homes along the lake and destroying the natural wetlands. 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:36.240 This will create wet lands that will allow salmon to spawn. 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:40.239 It will allow wildlife to come back into the area. 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:43.440 And according to Cutler, he says that the wet lands 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:46.920 is now Bill Gates. One of Bill Gates's favorite UM 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:51.600 parts What favorite features of his of his home? Pretty cool? Yeah. 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:55.280 Color also had a couple of other interesting things to say. Um. 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:57.560 For one thing, the a lot of the house. The 0:07:57.560 --> 0:07:59.760 house is made up of various materials, but a lot 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:02.480 of the the wood of the house is a Douglas 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:05.680 fur that's recycled. It actually comes from an old warehouse 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:10.760 and lumber mill. And when Cutler talked to Bill Gates 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:13.640 about this, back when they were first talking about building 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:16.800 the house, that was when you may have heard about 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:19.600 the spotted owls. You remember that the spot owls in 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:22.080 the Pacific Northwest they were in uh they were in 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:26.560 danger because their habitat was being destroyed in lumbering lumbering. 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:30.360 In lumber lumber yards, people were cutting down the trees 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:33.040 that the spot owls were living in and because we're 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:35.800 you know, walking very heavily through there and it was destructing. Yes, 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:38.680 they were lumbering through. That was that was my mistake, 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:42.360 and I'm glad that we managed to have to highlight it. Um. 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:44.040 It doesn't bother me at all. I do it all 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:47.080 the time. So at any rate, you know, I just 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:49.360 love the mental picture. It is pretty funny. I think 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:52.480 these lumbering owls. Actually, I just imagined these enormous ones. 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:55.120 At any rate, let's get back to the topic at hand, 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:58.679 uh cutler. Bill Gates really wanted the Douglas fur as 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:01.240 part of the wood being you and Color said, well, 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:03.720 you know it's we got to find a way to 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:07.840 do this in a responsible manner and found a guy 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:13.439 who sold um reclaimed would essentially recycled wood, and told 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:17.360 Bill Gates, hey, if we if if you buy, if 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:21.880 you build a sawmill to in order to uh to 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:24.720 um produce this repurposed wood and you know, cut it 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:26.880 down to the right size and everything, we could build 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:29.080 your house out of it. And Bill Gates thought this 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:30.800 was actually a great idea, and he set up a 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:34.840 sawmill for salvage lumber. It was called g. R. Plume 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:37.960 and Company and Corey to Cutler. It costs a couple 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:40.720 of million dollars to build, and Bill Gates funded it. 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:43.920 And it wasn't you know, it was not just to 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:45.920 build his house. It's also the idea of being able 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:48.199 to reuse wood so that you don't have to cut down, 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:53.360 you know, adult trees. That's pretty phenomenal too. I think, yeah, 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:57.000 that that that is um and I ironically enough, I 0:09:57.040 --> 0:10:01.360 guess in the way of the the Douglas fur that 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:04.719 is used in Mr. Gates house, uh comes. It's five 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:08.199 years old apparently, um, but it came from an ancient 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:12.520 lumber mill. Uh so, and as part of the construction 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:15.040 process they really polished it up and made it look 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:17.920 really really nice. Um. The house, by the way, is 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:21.520 in a large style, um so they used that in 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:25.120 a stainless steel roof, and uh they made the hardware. 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:28.760 They analyzed the hardware, so all the the metal furnished 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:34.320 UM finishings basically look sort of used but are still 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:37.800 you know, very very up to date. Yep. It's got 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:40.040 lots and lots of like the above ground parts, any 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:42.439 we have lots of glass that kind of most of 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:45.960 the windows face west so that you get the beautiful 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:51.680 sunsets over Seattle. And then, uh, the the house itself 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:54.520 has a very sophisticated computer system running all the way 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:56.679 through it. This is probably what most of our fans 0:10:56.679 --> 0:11:00.320 were curious about, was the computer system running on are 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:03.480 in the house. Yeah. Um, it turns out this is 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:07.719 a what we know of. It sounds like it's pretty sophisticated, 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:11.120 pretty cool idea. And actually, Chris, you pointed out a 0:11:11.120 --> 0:11:16.040 few episodes ago and a neat update that the house 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:21.079 could have using the the software from Connect, the capabilities 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:23.640 of Connect. But we'll we'll get into what the original 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:26.920 design was. We don't have any way of knowing whether 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:30.079 or not Gates would upgrade. I mean I would imagine so, 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:32.839 but we don't know, right because neither of us are 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:36.360 on speaking terms of Mr Gates. Yeah, that's the That's 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:39.479 the thing. The U. S. News and World Report, UH 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:42.760 profile of the house is several years old. The house 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:46.360 is built in the late ninety nineties, you believe, or 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:49.880 mid to late nineties, and UH from the U. S. 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:52.600 News and World War part article, you might get the 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:57.440 feeling that the technology is somewhat dated because the report 0:11:57.520 --> 0:12:00.520 said that it's running. Um. The system that runs the 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:04.200 house uses Windows nt uh, which you might go, ha 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:06.600 ha ha, how old. I'm sure that it's probably been 0:12:06.720 --> 0:12:10.680 upgraded once or maybe even twice since that article was 0:12:10.720 --> 0:12:17.559 just unlivable terrible, um. But you know, honestly, it's designed 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:21.280 to be Bill Gates's vision of the House of the future, 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:24.640 so there's still some many things that I'm sure even 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:27.480 if it were still running on Windows NTI. UM, I 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:30.360 haven't seen anything that's newer than that that actually tells 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:33.920 tells us whether or not the computer systems have been upgraded. 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:37.760 But it's still far The functionality is far more advanced 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:40.040 than most of the stuff that most of us have 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:43.520 in our homes because it's got the ability to recognize 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:49.240 individuals and taylor what's going on uh in the house 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:53.679 around them based on the identification of the person in question, 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:57.360 right right, Yeah. Essentially, every person gets to build their 0:12:57.400 --> 0:13:02.120 own profile, and the profile will as they move through 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:05.440 the house, the house adjusts to the person, which is 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:08.960 that's pretty cool. It reminds me actually of did you 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:13.640 ever see the show Eureka? Yes, Eureka had Sarah. Sarah 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:16.720 was the home of the Sheriff of Eureka, and Sarah 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:19.640 was an automated house. My wife could tell you the 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:23.319 entire what the acronym stands for. I don't remember. It's 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:27.320 like self automated residents something or other. Unfortunately I don't 0:13:27.320 --> 0:13:31.680 have the whole thing. But anyway, Sarah would could identify 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:36.319 people as they walked in and set the profile properly. Well, 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:39.760 Gates's house can do the same thing. Now. The way 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:43.199 it works in Gates's house is that um it runs 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:46.319 on well, at least originally anyway, runs on r f 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:50.640 I D chips radio frequency chips. So each person gets 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:53.400 a badge or a pen of some sort, pen p 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:56.240 I in of some sort that has an r f 0:13:56.320 --> 0:13:59.560 I D chip in it. And then you create your profile. 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:03.560 So you tell the master computer system that you know, 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:07.920 I really like Beethoven, I really and you know, Beethoven's 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:10.800 Seventh Symphony, second movement is my favorite piece of classical 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:13.240 music in particular, I want that in heavy rotation, but 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:18.240 in general Beethoven, maybe some Mozart, etcetera, etcetera. And then 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:20.080 as you move through the house, if you weren't wanted 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:23.080 to listen to music, it would start playing. And if 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:27.000 you went to a different room, the music would follow you, 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:29.600 so the music system would shut down in the room 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:31.920 you have just left and start up in the room 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:34.720 you just walked into. But it goes well beyond that. 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:36.800 It goes into everything from let's say you watch you 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:38.640 were watching a movie in one of the rooms, and 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:41.000 then you need to move into a different room, and 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:43.960 the television would come on and the movie would pick 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:45.680 up exactly where it left off when you were in 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:48.600 the other room. Or even the climate controls. Let's say 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:50.600 that you like it a little cooler than everyone else 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:53.600 in the house, so you've established that it should be 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:57.200 at seventy degrees, which in whichever room you're in, the 0:14:57.280 --> 0:15:00.760 climate controls would adjust automatically as you move through. Because 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:04.000 all of these different systems were tied into the master 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:08.680 computer system and could be customized for a particular person. 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:12.200 The question I have, of course, yes, how do you 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:14.440 rank those R F I D chips so that if 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:17.080 multiple people are in the same room, because these rooms 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:19.680 are enormous. Some of these rooms are bigger than like 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:21.720 a basketball court. So you sit there and think, well, 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:23.760 if I'm the only person in this room, I'm going 0:15:23.800 --> 0:15:27.040 to feel mighty lonely. So assuming there's more than one person, 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:31.640 I wonder how it determines which person's profile wins out. Oh, 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:33.840 I'm pretty sure I know who's gonna Well, I know 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:39.200 who wins overall. Yes, exactly, exactly. Chris and I are 0:15:39.240 --> 0:15:41.800 both married, and we always know who wins in the end. 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:44.640 It's always going to be the wife. But let's say 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:46.520 she's not in the room, or that Bills not in 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:49.080 the room. Let's say it's two guests. I wonder whose 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:53.680 winds maybe the first? Yeah, I'm sorry, that's that's microsoft 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:57.640 if Bomber. If Bombers in the room, you defer to 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:00.440 him out of fear. You don't want to be Limb 0:16:00.480 --> 0:16:03.840 from Limb. No, he's gonna call us one of these days. Yeah, 0:16:03.840 --> 0:16:05.640 but we won't be able to understand anything. I'll just 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:08.840 be screaming. Come on. I respect the heck out of 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:11.160 him as a salesman, as as a businessman. He's far 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:13.680 more intelligent than I am. But man, that guy intimidates 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:16.560 the heck out of me. Just watch go to YouTube. 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:20.600 Go to YouTube and look look up bomb Steve Bomber 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:23.480 on YouTube, and you will see some videos of something 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:30.920 A very intense man, Yes, intense is probably the best word. Uh. Anyhow, Yeah, 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:33.320 I'm sorry I got off on a tangent there. Yeah, 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:36.600 your fault. I actually went looking for the acronym for 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:40.240 for Sarah, which which I found. But before I do that, 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:44.640 I found that. UM actually an article on device, which 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:47.160 you know is sci fi with the channel that shows Eureka. 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:50.280 But um, they did a little piece on it just 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:53.640 just this July. They called this ambient intelligence when your 0:16:53.720 --> 0:16:56.960 environment can know about you and know what's going on 0:16:57.720 --> 0:17:00.440 and uh, you know, basically make things the way you 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:03.200 like them and taylor the environment around you. UM. And 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:06.679 there's a group at the University of Essex and the 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:12.600 United Kingdom that are working on a technology uh which 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:17.119 is called I Space. UM. Yes, very appily. As some 0:17:17.160 --> 0:17:19.359 of the contents point out on the HDS it is 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:22.160 a work aside. But they're basically trying to find ways 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:24.439 to adapt technology like the stuff that you find in 0:17:24.880 --> 0:17:28.240 UH bill Gates home to the average person and how 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:31.560 to make that possible. Course we've run into people like 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:35.680 the eyelink on the she leg locks where you can 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:38.800 have control over that and the other automated home devices. 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:41.640 But um, I think the the idea is to make 0:17:41.680 --> 0:17:45.080 them much more usable for the average person and hopefully 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:48.920 affordable because this stuff is expensive. And it's passive, right. 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:50.800 I mean passive in the sense that you don't have 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:53.840 to pick up a remote control and tell it to 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:57.040 do these things. Right, It actually is sensing what's going 0:17:57.080 --> 0:17:59.960 on and you know, hey, Steve's in the room now 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:02.720 I need to make you know, go ahead and turn 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:05.439 on the coffee maker. You know, with this particular blend 0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:07.520 of being or whatever. You know, so passive from a 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:13.840 user perspective, but active from the actual device perspective. Wow, 0:18:14.520 --> 0:18:16.760 messed in my head. Well, it's because when I said passive, 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:19.160 I realized that, well, it's actively doing something. I meant 0:18:19.160 --> 0:18:21.879 passive from the from my like, if I were walking 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:23.399 through the room, I'd be like, I don't have to 0:18:23.400 --> 0:18:26.800 do anything, exact and everything for me. By the way, 0:18:26.800 --> 0:18:31.920 SARAH stands for self actuated residential automated habitat. There we are, 0:18:32.400 --> 0:18:34.680 I was, I was. I only got two of those 0:18:34.720 --> 0:18:39.400 words semi rights. But but no, there there are other 0:18:39.440 --> 0:18:43.280 things that I thought were kind of strange. Um because 0:18:43.600 --> 0:18:48.800 according to the the article by Richard Folker's from This 0:18:48.880 --> 0:18:50.720 is the US News and World War War thing, you 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:52.720 can you know, tell it you want to watch a 0:18:52.720 --> 0:18:56.919 particular TV show and you can walk through the house 0:18:57.359 --> 0:19:01.160 and the TV show will be on in whatever room 0:19:01.200 --> 0:19:04.200 you happen to be walking into. And I'm thinking it's 0:19:04.240 --> 0:19:06.600 going to be difficult to watch if you're moving from 0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:09.120 room to room. But okay, but I'm thinking, like, let's 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:10.879 say that, you know, I mean, I can think of 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:13.440 an example. Let's say that you want you know, you're 0:19:13.520 --> 0:19:15.359 you're watching in the living room, and then you think, 0:19:16.000 --> 0:19:19.560 I could really go for a grilled cheese sandwich right now, 0:19:19.880 --> 0:19:22.240 I'm going to walk to one of the six kitchens 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:26.080 within this estate and make myself a grilled cheese sandwich. 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:28.119 But then you're thinking, but that do I pause the 0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:31.280 I want to be able to watch this this show 0:19:31.359 --> 0:19:36.399 while I'm making my sandwich, But unfortunately, the kitchen is 0:19:36.440 --> 0:19:39.960 approximately a two mile walk from the living room. So 0:19:39.960 --> 0:19:41.440 how am I going to be able to do that? 0:19:42.400 --> 0:19:46.040 I'm just exaggerating for comedic effect, obviously, But then if 0:19:46.080 --> 0:19:49.920 you have again a television screen in said kitchen, there 0:19:49.960 --> 0:19:52.119 you go. Problem solved. You go into the kitchen and 0:19:52.240 --> 0:19:54.600 television pops on. It picks up right where you left off, 0:19:55.040 --> 0:19:57.800 and then you can make your sandwich while being entertained. 0:19:58.600 --> 0:20:00.480 And uh, I'm sure people are gonn right to me 0:20:00.480 --> 0:20:04.959 and barrate me for you pronouncing sandwich as sandwich. I 0:20:05.000 --> 0:20:08.399 hope not. Some other elements that they have at this house. 0:20:08.640 --> 0:20:14.040 According to various articles, the uh, there's a pool, a 0:20:14.200 --> 0:20:18.880 huge pool. Yes, seventeen by sixty foot swimming pool has 0:20:18.920 --> 0:20:21.439 an underwater music system installed in there, so you can 0:20:21.440 --> 0:20:24.880 actually listen to your music while you're swimming underneath the water. Yes, 0:20:25.000 --> 0:20:28.800 I would recommend perhaps the swimming pool cues if you're 0:20:28.800 --> 0:20:31.320 going to be listening underwater. Nice just a guess, yeah, 0:20:31.520 --> 0:20:35.639 I would. I would recommend the aquabats. That's a nice little, 0:20:35.760 --> 0:20:38.679 uh little hey. If you haven't heard the aquabats, go 0:20:38.800 --> 0:20:43.080 check them out. Any perhaps fish, Yeah, but you would 0:20:43.240 --> 0:20:47.520 drown if you would never come up for air fish 0:20:47.560 --> 0:20:51.480 because their jams last approximately three days. But the pools 0:20:51.480 --> 0:20:53.800 an indoor outdoor pool. You can actually go. You can 0:20:53.960 --> 0:20:56.960 swim under the wall, under a glass wall and emerge outside. 0:20:57.000 --> 0:20:59.960 I think that's pretty cool. Uh. There's a from the entry, 0:21:00.160 --> 0:21:04.200 there's apparently a grand staircase that is eight four steps tall. 0:21:04.440 --> 0:21:07.240 That is a very grand stair two ft long and 0:21:07.320 --> 0:21:10.680 sixty three ft high. Um, there's also an elevator, so 0:21:10.920 --> 0:21:13.640 if you need an elevator, you can have one. There's 0:21:13.680 --> 0:21:18.119 a they have a theater inside the house, Um, seats 0:21:18.160 --> 0:21:22.000 twenty and uh there's a library that is bigger than 0:21:22.080 --> 0:21:27.400 Chris's house. Yes, don't remind me square feet library. Oh 0:21:27.400 --> 0:21:32.200 my gosh, this is the images I saw for the library, which, 0:21:32.240 --> 0:21:34.879 by the way, we're all um they were all uh 0:21:35.520 --> 0:21:38.440 computer generated images. It wasn't like an actual photograph of 0:21:38.480 --> 0:21:42.760 an illustration. Uh. They looked amazing. And supposedly the library 0:21:42.800 --> 0:21:46.560 even has a pivoting bookcases, which is awesome, one of 0:21:46.600 --> 0:21:49.639 which hides a bar and uh I get ripped to 0:21:49.800 --> 0:21:53.560 read read Bill Gates's autobiography, that is the place to 0:21:53.560 --> 0:21:56.919 do it. Yeah. Actually, there's apparently some information about the 0:21:56.960 --> 0:22:01.600 house on the road ahead. Oh okay, so I wish 0:22:01.640 --> 0:22:04.159 I have not read. But I really wish I had 0:22:04.240 --> 0:22:07.080 known that before today. Would have been helpful to know 0:22:07.240 --> 0:22:10.560 before we started recording Plette. However, there is a very 0:22:10.600 --> 0:22:15.040 famous book in that library, apparently the Codex Lester. Oh yeah, 0:22:15.080 --> 0:22:16.760 that's by one of my favorite guys in the whole 0:22:16.760 --> 0:22:21.239 wild world. It would be a Leonardo da Vinci. I'm 0:22:21.280 --> 0:22:23.959 wondering if I wonder if it has the code in it. 0:22:24.480 --> 0:22:26.879 The code, Oh that code, yeah, you know, the Da 0:22:26.960 --> 0:22:28.760 Vinci code. I hear a lot about it. I mean 0:22:28.760 --> 0:22:31.760 they've already got the swiveling bookcase. You know, it's just 0:22:31.760 --> 0:22:33.760 just a little bit longer. Can you imagine a scavenger 0:22:33.800 --> 0:22:36.920 hunt in his house? Holy cow? Um, But he paid 0:22:36.960 --> 0:22:39.520 thirty point eight million dollars for that book, which is 0:22:39.560 --> 0:22:43.720 a sixteenth century notebook. It's Da Vinci's notebook. It is 0:22:43.800 --> 0:22:48.240 Da Vinci's No. Oh my god. Oh we have solved 0:22:48.280 --> 0:22:52.160 the mystery right here. On tech stuff. Uh yeah, there's 0:22:52.160 --> 0:22:54.520 also all these flat pal displays that are throughout the 0:22:54.640 --> 0:22:57.359 home that will well, this is another thing that's tied 0:22:57.359 --> 0:22:59.639 into the r F I D chap Right, it's the 0:23:00.119 --> 0:23:02.480