 Here we have a Lenovo smart clock with Google Assistant. Let's talk about it Hey there and jrew22.com here with a product review and today's product review is the Lenovo Smart Clock with Google Assistant. It's a little tiny little clock. I'm not going to go into specs or unbox it It's already in use the box is empty. I hate unboxings You want to know why I hate unboxings? This wasn't in my script, but people love that feeling of opening up a product. Oh I don't I I'm not part of that generation. I hate unboxing things. I have a Box here for my Lenovo yoga yoga tab and I just fucking ripped the shit open I really just don't care about unboxings. I just don't I don't get it But anyway, that's a rant so against our better judgment. We now have this device. I have it because It sort of came free with that tablet. I bought and I got the tablet for like half price I think I paid under $200 for this really decent Android tablet would good. I wanted a tablet with good speakers. So I don't have to deal with Bluetooth and all these extra cords and wires and charging up this tablet has good enough speakers to be able to watch press conferences or whatever you want to Check out in your kitchen while you're cooking Without needing a second speaker, so it's good enough. I like it. It's cheap and it works but I've sort of been on the like anti a little I'm a little luddite when it comes to these smart assistants We had an Alexa which I I kind of took away from the family So I don't like that thing plugged in and listening to people But I'm gonna give this Google or I'm giving this Google assistant a try. It's a tiny little screen There's no video camera on the front. You can't use it for video calling, which I don't do anyway because I don't call anybody But this I've been looking into I'm act. What can I do with this? It can I make my life better? Truly without adding in more complications and more need to talk to a freaking computer device You can ask the weather which I typically know the weather anyway because I don't I just look on my computer And I get the whole seven-day forecast on the weather underground or whatever I'm using windy and you could see the chart and you can understand. Okay, this weekend's gonna be kind of rainy You know, whatever. I don't need to ask. Hey, what's the what's the weather today? It's gonna be 91 Like I really don't care about that and for people who use their digital calendars I mean, I'm not that busy that I need to keep calendar of meetings and I have a pretty good little Calendar up here and I remember everything so I don't need to rely On on a computer device to keep my schedule I rely on this device and that's good to keep this thing worked out because when you start relying on this this thing gets out Of shape, but and then there's like one of the other things. Oh, find me a recipe for the turkey dumplings or whatever Like I already know how to cook. I don't need a recipe from anybody I use my own imagination and I don't feel the need my life isn't that boring that I have to find something exciting to cook I like cooking what I cook and then they have music and this thing has a Very substandard. It's not like high fidelity But I don't like the way you have to listen to music has to be some sort of streaming service like Spotify or Pandora Which I know a lot of people like I just don't I have my set of music that I like and I Am at the very least I will I will today for instance I went on YouTube and I listened to some classic rock playlist And there were no commercials. I use a good browser and I didn't get bothered And I was able to listen to 50 songs or there was a choice of 50 songs and I was fine, but I Found two things that I think are okay with this maybe three We have a problem in this house with shopping lists We have a little like toilet paper practically right on these crumpled up lists with like Tiny hieroglyphic handwriting and they're they're all over the place and they get crumpled up. So I started Creating a shopping list. So if I'm laying in bed, I'm like, I gotta add that I remember to add that to the shopping It's I'll tell this stupid box to to add it to my shopping list And I might I'll tell my tablet to add it to the shopping store my phone if I'm out in the Bouter in the garage or somewhere and I remember That I need something I'll add to the shopping list and it kind of collects it in a central location And then for instance when I have to go on shop rights shop from home I have my list on my phone and I order the stuff. That's kind of neat I guess I could just learn how to become a better note-taker and have a central notebook somewhere, but That's all I mean the shopping list. So it's like a $50 shopping list, but One other thing I just found out today that it does is if you can make a phone call just right there There's no phone line or cell in your bedroom You just you can tell this clock to call whoever's in your contact list, which is kind of interesting I guess I thought of it's like say I like I was like that old lady. I fall in and I can't get up I can call my own home phone from this thing and tell somebody in the house that I'm stuck in the the bedroom and One other thing I do is I say I occasionally I'll tell I'll talk to it Hey and set an alarm for eight o'clock in the morning and it'll wake me up Which is I could do that already with my phone, but that's that's kind of neat I might say but that's all I found useful. I went online to see on the Google assistant Home page to see what it is and it's all really kind of superficial garbage. Oh check my stock portfolio Why don't you just check your smart portfolio on your phone or on your computer? Why do you need to check it? It's all this is checking check the scores check this check that It and I guess you could do a turn-off I might try that one day like turn off the the lights and you need special light bulbs and and with Wi-Fi bulbs and I mean one thing I might forget to turn off every now and then is the the floodlights in the house, but I don't know I don't think I Like the thermostat we don't have any of those smart thermostats Turn the air conditioning down in the living room I set the living room in the 22 degrees or whatever it is So I'm not really a big fan of anything automate. It's I don't really think it's worth the headache First of all you have to put all this money into it, and I don't think it really saves I don't know what the return on investment is, but it's probably Very slow, you know 10 years maybe 20 years you might save the money that you paid for it So I'd rather just not do it if my thermostat one of my thermostats breaks However, the one of the ones we have in the house I may put a smart one in that I can do with my phone, but I'm not going to have it connect up to these automated systems And also they like then your news options on these things. It's like all fake news all this BS mainstream Media which I don't I don't want to hear because it's nonsense. It truly is I think that's going to change sometime in the you know relatively near future I still like using my computer and going to a website on my own with my fingers and searching Instead of having this thing curate curate the the news for me I'll find it myself, and I really do think the fact that people are constantly checking everything I think that's a that's a pandemic on its own. It's a first world mental pandemic I gotta check this check that check that the people like like robots now They're constantly checking checking the messages checking their social media checking checking checking. What the hell are they checking? Are they checking into real life ever? I really just don't get it But we're going to keep this day Oh one other thing this stupid thing does it reads children's stories. So Pete parents have gotten so lazy They already have 900 million Automated things now they need that their little clock to tell their child a story We read books for our kids, and we tell our own stories. I'm constantly making up stories It's mentally challenging to to make up a fun story that keeps the kids Interested, but like I said, we're going to keep this clock. It's a nice little clock. Okay, it's a good clock radio I Really think I like life when it was simpler and all these things I really tried with a with an open mind to find something useful to do with this That wasn't a stupid and useless and I really can't so I'm just going to keep my shopping list my alarm clock and maybe my My emergency phone call if I need to make it But I guess that comes down to a little rule here just because you you can you can do something with an automated machine Does not mean you have to okay? Just do it the old way and then just be happy I mean I don't do are people so freed up with time now that they're just sitting around and like Wondering where they went wrong in life. I don't know so I'll do it the old-fashioned way until I cannot do you have anything that's really useful. That's not stupid like like Sports or entertainment. I mean is there anything truly useful? I mean measurements. I I can't remember how to how many ounces are in a cup I don't know if there's something interesting. Please let me know in the comments and that's it Please subscribe hit the like and that's it and I'll see you next video