 We're in the Linky booth over in Eureka Park in the Sands and I'm here with Joe DeGanzik who's going to tell us about a pretty promising new product here. Hi Joe. Hey Allison, how are you doing? We're pretending we haven't just done a podcast together. Exactly. Well, welcome to Linky. We've got a wonderful smart home hub that controls all of your various smart devices throughout your home, lights, locks, switches, you know, all the usual suspects, right? But you're doing more than anybody else in here, right? Well, we've got a product that does a lot of different, it combines a lot of features into one. So it's got the touch screen, it's got a beautiful customized user interface, it's got the control, it has the radios on board, so Zigbee, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth to connect to all the different things and it's the first third-party hardware product to have Google Assistant natively integrated. We're talking to the audio only listeners as well and this unit looks to be about four inches wide, maybe six inches wide, four inches tall, beautiful on the wall, looks really, really nice, nice industrial design. It's a, thank you so much, it's a five inch HD 720p touch screen and yeah, it's an unassuming so it blends into your decor, it's not too big. So what are the buttons we've got on screen here? Well, we've got a couple just for fun, we've named them things in Vegas like Flamingo so I can just tap a light switch and a light, a virtual light button and then my life ex bulb turned off, I can turn it back on, I can long press and I get a beautiful interface for changing things like brightness and I can change color temperature. We've got a little bit of lag because of all the wireless here in CES but you can see it. Let me dim that down so I don't overpower you. So the screen is a, he's got little dials that he's just flipping through and when he goes to a dial he can just move his finger on screen and he's changing the color temperature, changing the brightness and the temperature. That's right. And that works, that's the way all of it works in terms of it's just a long press while we don't have it connected to our Nest we can add long press and I can show you the interface so you can do various functions for your thermostat as well. So it's a simple user interface, it's very approachable, the same thing goes for if you have, you set up scenes, a movie mode, a way mode, all the different types of scenes that you would set up in your home. So what is an example of what you would do with the Google Home features of Linky? Well, you can obviously talk to it about your smart home stuff like turning things on and off. Let's see if she'll actually respond. This is the most challenging wireless environment in the universe but go for it. You feeling lucky Joe? I'm feeling lucky and so a warning I'm going to set up your devices so terribly sorry. Hey Google, turn off Flamingo. And it actually worked. It actually worked. If it can work here, that means it actually does work really well. That's right, it can work anywhere. So you've got Google Assistant built in and what that means also is that it's not just the smart home stuff, I can ask it all the other questions. What's my name? What's the weather doing? You know, traffic and all. What's my name? I guess, if you forget your name I mean you could be in trouble. I think by the end of the sea, yes, I will forget my name. There you go, there you go. I noticed a plus button there, is that for adding new devices? You can add scenes, watch this. So if I want to add a scene, I just tap the scene. I can just add a junkie scene name and then it's a drag and drop interface so I can literally just drag this down. So he's dragging different devices down. That's right and then I can long press on them. I can make my adjustments to set the scene. Tap, your scene is done. Oh, okay, so that scene now is these two lights are on, they're at this temperature, each one of them at different temperatures, different brightness. That's exactly right. So how about installation of a device like this? Is it complicated? Is it hard? Nope, because we've got two versions. So this version is the wall version. It's got a special little module that goes into a standard single gang switch box and there's a back plate that this snaps onto. You're holding in your hand conveniently, you're like Vanna White. So we have a desktop version. This is powered by USB. It's great for just sitting on the countertop, sitting on your desk or whatnot. Same exact interface, same system. And if you have multiple devices, multiple linky, we call it the linky home intelligence hub. So if you have multiple hubs, they will all sync with each other automatically. So it doesn't matter which one you added a scene to or a device to. You can control them from anywhere. When we finish, we will also have a smartphone app for iOS and Android. The same beautiful interface will be on your smartphone and that will enable things like geofencing. It will auto detect when you leave your house, set away mode and you'll be able to get alerts from the various devices and sensors in your smart home. What kind of granularity is possible with a smart device like this and your phone? Can it turn lights off in a room when you leave the room or is it more geofencing as far as the whole house probably? It's really the whole house. We've seen some other competing products out there that tried to do it with Bluetooth. Bluetooth is not 100% perfect yet to do that kind of granularity. That's more motion sensing than geofencing, right? It's technically geofencing. Bluetooth 5 has different ranges so it will detect down to a couple feet away. But in my experience as a smart home guy, it doesn't work so well. So now we're in Eureka Park as I mentioned which is often pie in the sky but you guys are actually getting close to shipping something like this, is that right? That's right. This will be available. We're going to do a crowdfunding campaign and it will go to retail a little bit later this year. Wow, that sounds like fun. I think I might need to test one of these, Joe. I think you should. If I just knew a guy, I could make that happen. You just knew someone who worked for the company. There you go. All right. So if people want to find out more about Linky, get involved, maybe get into that crowdfunding campaign. Where would they go? They can get updates and get more information at linky.com. That's L-Y-N-K-Y.com. Very good. Thank you for so much, Joe. This is awesome. It is really a beautiful device. Thank you so much, Allison.