Smart Houses Are Kinda Tacky 

There was a short story written by Ray Bradbury in the 1950s that was about a house with AI that kept cleaning and making meals and going about the daily routine despite the fact that a nuclear war happened and all the people living in the house had been killed. That story always reminds me of smart houses.

"I hope she doesn't call the police on us" "...CALL THE POLICE" this made me laugh way too hard

imagine the power goes out. the whole house is suddenly very inconvenient

imagine one day we have fully smart houses that lock you in/out if the internet dies

Ive read WAAY too many dystopian books to EVER get a technology chip implanted ANYWHERE

I've actually had a smart house for years. It's great, at first the doors unlocked and locked whenever I waved my hand near them, instead of me just opening them. The house can control the doors too! It's great! The doors now lock whenever the house wants. I've been stuck here, in the bathroom for 10 years. But it's great. I love my smart house. I'd recommend getting one. It's great.

As for the chip house, my brother uses magnetic locks on all the drawers in the kitchen to keep his toddler out of them, and I can’t open them. I feel like an idiot every time I’m swiping this magnet around to find the dang thing. I can’t imagine having to do that for every single drawer/door/cabinet in the house.

I have a severe joint disorder and I've been wanting one of those robots because sometimes my elbow dislocates under just the weight of a shopping bag. It kills me that I have a need for one and know exactly how it will fit into my life's needs, but she goes and just buys one because it's cute.

The “touchscreens everywhere’ idea of the future kind of horrifies me because imagine what companies will do with that. Your smart house blares ads at you as you enter. You can’t use your toaster because you forgot to pay a subscription. Pop-ups on your windows and mirrors. A power outage happens and you’re locked out of your house. Hell world

As a cybersecurity specialist, I am very happy that all of these people are filling their homes with insecure smart devices. Keeps business booming lol

In the Korean smarthome, I suspect the “snow” can just as easily be yellow dust. Rain and snow are avoided more than in the US because of the yellow dust pollution in them, plus the straight-up dust itself. The dust comes from China’s deserts but also contains industrial pollution. It comes in very, very small particles (which is why KN95 masks are so great and plentiful - they are technically dust masks) and viruses and bacteria can be carried with the dust clouds. So regardless of what Americans would do in the same situation, some Koreans want to sanitize clothes when they get home. Sanitizing your shoes is also important because you wear socks or slippers in other people’s homes so having sneakers or work shoes with odors is more embarrassing that it might be for some Americans. Different cultures but these aren’t creating problems, they are solving problems that already existed in another place. Now vacuum cleaners on the other hand … we used to be perfectly happy just dragging the carpets out twice a year and beating them to get the dirt out and now our floors are expected to be perfection?!? Stoopid vacuum cleaners creating new problems.

I'm down for smart mirrors if I can use the command "mirror mirror on the wall, make me not look like a fool" to buy clothing

If Danny's phone is unlocked using his face, can't his millions and millions of dopplegangers unlock it too? Hm, I think we're onto something, greg.

i stayed in an airbnb with a bunch of friends and it happened to have a “smart” stove (no knobs, no buttons, just a screen)- it was literally impossible to use, we read the manual and everything lol, we couldn’t understand if it was on or off. we used our portable burner for camping to cook for everyone 😭 like when did people decide that buttons were unnecessary, im actually so bored of tapping on screens lol

new variety of cyber crime: Smart Crime where your furniture steals itself, All your doors lock behind you, your TV is stuck on 10 hours of screaming looped, and your smart fridge Orders you 3000 tubes of toothpaste, ah yes, the future

I like the smart home from 13 minutes 'cause like a lot of it is just asian home tech. like the spraying of the coat, she was running a UVB light over it to kill bacteria they seemed to crop up online more after covid started, and the shoe heater is a shoe dryer to prevent bacteria (and shoe smell) from developing. The speaker she puts in with produce is an ultrasonic produce cleaner, supposedly kills bacteria and knocks dirt and stuff off produce. also japan and possibly other asian countries rarely have washers in apartments so the pop up washer is useful. basically most of the tech used is to sanitize the home

I read a book as a kid where houses were customizable and you could move walls and change layouts and eventually the house took over trapped everyone inside and crushed them to death….. been terrified of the concept of smart houses ever since

We all know that the reason Danny doesn't want a smart fridge is because he knows that the fridge will lie about it having saouces

I personally prefer a house that can do everything it normally even when the power cuts out. Which it does a lot now that it's the winter. I have an outdoor toilet and a wood heated sauna (you can also heat water with it to wash yourself), I have a wood heated stove and two big fireplaces. No matter what happens (my country doesn't get hurricanes or things like that, I live in the north) I'm prepared lol

7:50 it sounds like that teacher who’s looking for a specific answer. “That’s a good answer, but what else could it be?”

Man I hate digitalising things that don’t need it. My city’s public transport recently forced students to use a mobile app instead of a travel card, and now my phone’s shitty battery dictates whether I have to walk home. Of course the card does also require an electronic reader, but at least I won’t get fined if it doesn’t work 😄

What went wrong with smart technology is that it could have been so useful for disabled folk, but instead they make the tech super expensive, impractical to use, and they market it towards rich people who don't know what to do with their money. Overall just inaccessible.

Yes, so cool to have a ring doorbell, with securiy flaws that were found less than a month after it started selling, and sending all that's happening in front of your house to Amazon, who are really known for being an ethical company, they would never use this data for malicious purpose

15:04 i love how he said " as adults, WE.. " he looks so young that he forgot hes actually an adult

Finally, someone who hates smart fridges as much as I do. 2 years ago my husband and I needed a new fridge and I had to fight the pushy sales associates to stop pushing smart fridges. They kept looking at my husband as they talked about the "streamline features" while he shrugged and told them to talk to me since I'd done all the research and knew exactly what we wanted. Why would I want to use twitter or Facebook on my fridge? Please just sell me a cold box!

I feel like after a week of having to awkwardly use my wrist to unlock every door, drawer, and cupboard in my house, I'd just start leaving them all slightly ajar

honestly the worst part about smart houses has to be the security risk. with all of that unprotected smart tech hooked up to the internet and linked together on a home network, do you really think even for a second that hackers wouldn't be able to take advantage of that? they could take complete control over the entire smart house and all the appliances if they wanted to! the worst part is that technically they wouldn't even have to work that hard or hack something super crazy to do something like this. they could hack something as simple as a smart lightbulb, and from there they would be inside your home's "internet of things"/smart home network thus giving them access to any other connected smart devices. super terrifying to think about, which is why i will never own a smart house! 💀

My main complaint about making toast is that there aren't enough buttons to push. Said nobody but Chipgirl.

Wow these houses are really cool. I think Danny should upgrade his house like this by maybe adding two smart light bulbs into a room? And he could do it himself? Idk just an idea

i feel like the automatic soap dispenser works better in a public bathroom esp with covid because its used by people you dont know. it seems obsolete in your own personal home

“5,4,3,2,1 DIVORCE, DIVORCE,DIVORCE!!” my cat jumped off of me because I was laughing so hard!!🤣🤣

Chip Girl: "This chip in my hand that unlocks things is so secure no one will be able to break into anything in my house!" Me: "Unless they cut off your hand..."

"I'm not exactly sure what is so great about this toaster" Dude you just said it, it's Smart. This isn't just your average idiot toaster. We're talking Stephen Hawking, Marie Curie levels of intelligence. My own toaster is just a dummy and I'm super embarrassed by him. His name is Crispin and he is a dolt.

Something that's bothered me for a while now -- visions of the future almost always focus on a domestic setting. This technology never leaves the house, or your own body. There's never a vision of what the technology could do on a public, civic scale -- improving the lives of an entire community rather than just a single family household.

As someone with a relative with OCD, the blue light in the Korean Home one is an ultraviolet light that has the capability to kill germs. That's how bright it is.

The toaster thing reminds me of how every microwave has a popcorn or pizza setting that you're not supposed to use.

Danny's point about a self-cleaning toilet got to me. I don't have a self-cleaning toilet. I have to get on my knees and scrub like a fucking peasant. I will not accept that we have made any technological advances until nobody has to clean toilets any more. Oh, and printers actually work.

Personally, I think the strangest thing is wanting to TALK to your virtual assistant to turn on lights, set timers, etc. I think to be able to control it all with an app would be much more convenient and less intrusive (considering Alexa/Google Home are ALWAYS listening to you). It just makes me feel weird talking to into the air to control my home.

7:57 “No, she is an AI… she’s basically the house. Why- why are you grinning like that. I can see something devilish in your eyes, are you good?”

My favorite smart item was our smart washer and dryer. We had the set when we moved in. Get this, you can turn on the washer or dryer from anywhere! Sounds great until you realize you still have to load the clothes in, with the soap, and while you're there you just might aswell start the machine.

The only "smart fridge" I want is the one that auto refills the water in a jug. That would be amazing!

Part of why this annoys me is that it’s just so wasteful. They aren’t automating things to make it more accessible to disabled people, they’re doing it to cater to wealthy people who want to look cool. It’s a completely unnecessary waste of our planet’s finite resources. Rare earth metals are called that for a reason, and the process of mining them is often done with unethical labor methods and is extremely damaging to the ecosystem. And in addition to that, it requires electricity to run them! Reminds me of that idiotic “smart composter” that was billed as being eco-friendly, but actually has a net negative impact on the environment because of the amount of electricity it required. And all because wealthy people don’t want to just keep a compost bin in the cupboard under the sink or in their backyard?

4:03 - the little zoom in/guitar on the middle finger was just so simple but so funny. Chef's kiss.

My oven has some amazing technology, called a dial, it completely bypasses screens and will always show me what temperature I set it for.

No but honestly, the 1960s clip of the future was spot on. Online classes, Amazon shopping, flat TVs, Zoom conferences, videocalls and more. Pretty impressive!

Honestly, have to disagree. Putting a chip in your wrist to unlock your house is, in fact, crazy.

The longer I think about Danny talking about how the furniture is closing in on him, and the more I think about how I KNOW that part of him pretending to be the chair took serval takes (bc he’s literally hunched over and crouched down, scooting along on his tippy toes) and he probably fell a few times while filming this, the funnier it gets

When the pink shirt guy started talking about little controllers, I had a little intrusive thought telling me "lol thats so stupid." Cut to Danny full on embodying that intrusive thought 😂

danny's fuming hatred towards smart fridges likely stems from past experiences with the billion surprise toys sentient fridge

This reminds me of that Tesla that caught fire the other day, and the driver got trapped in their car because the doors automatically locked when the power failed. I feel like a lot of smart devices really aren’t designed to properly account for emergency situations, aka when a smart device should be most useful. Like, it’s all fun and games owning a smart fridge until there’s a power outage and suddenly you’ve lost all access to your food in a crisis.

Automated Christmas tree lights could be done by just plugging them into a timer. I used to have timed lights for some indoor plants, and we have a timer for our hose in the backyard. I find it a bit irritating when my dog wants to “play water” for an entire hour, but it’s not a big deal. I’d like to automate some pet care things, repairs, and various things to accommodate my disabilities.

1. I think the bluetooth speaker looking thing might be an ultrasonic cleaner. I don't know if they are useful tho. 2. A lot of you might already know, but smart mirrors are already a thing that is not that hard or expensive to make. As a matter of fact, there is a highway service station in Korea that has a lot of those in the bathroom for some reason.

What a dashing young gentleman, I wonder if he’s ever installed two smart light bulbs in his room all by himself

I live in Korea, and I think rather than snow it's supposed to be representing what they call "fine dust". Pollution from factories in China and sand from the Mongolian desert blow in to Korea quite regularly and are a severe health hazard, and can make everything quite dusty and dirty very quickly. The light looks similar to products I've seen here that are meant to sanitize and neutralize pollutants that can affect skin health etc. I might be wrong, it's hard to tell, but considering the rest of the products shown were for cleaning it's my best guess.

A shoe heater is actually amazing especially for gym shoes cause it kills the bacteria hence no more sweat smell.

This reminded me of something I saw where someone was complaining about their dishwasher having to install updates. One person said that it was to fix security problems, which exist because it's on the internet, which it is so that it can install updates to fix security problems.

I like how they imagined women cooking for the whole family, even when robots are intelligent enough to teach kids

I'm a disabled person that uses smart tech and mostly I'm just frustrated that companies can't just stick to one long term ecosystem so all of my things can communicate without me having to buy a new hub every year. Smart homes have great potential to make my life easier but I feel like all the time saved gets spent figuring out compatibility issues and troubleshooting - and then there is the eternal dread that the manufacturer can just brick your device because they went out of business or they just want you to upgrade. My bet is that we'll never get a true smart home because capitalism will always ruin it.

OMG I DIDNT KNOW THE "When your wife has promised dinner will be ready in two minutes, you show up COUNTING DOWN. 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, DIVORCE. DIVORCE. YOU WERE LATE. DIVORCE" AUDIO WAS FROM DANNY AHHHH That was a popular animation meme LOL I need Danny to reacte to some of the meme-animations 💀

It's funny how they flex on the auto-playing piano as something futuristic but its actually a thing since the early 1900's, and is also one of the precursors of having music devices in your house.

Danny’s tech may be cool, but not as cool as Kurtis’ FUSHIGI

“Perhaps children will live in beehives?” yeah that was just added to the list of my favorite things Danny has ever said

Every time I watch one of Danny’s videos, and he says “What’s up Greg!” I always say hello back to him

would you buy a smart fridge if it had Danny Gonzalez's voice and demanded random things of you?

Honestly, I think that having a smart house is a bad idea because everything is powered by electricity which means: - You are consuming a lot of energy to do things that you could be able to do already. - Blackouts wretch anything and everything, unless you use batteries, but they can go out and ruin everything. - Any repairs to the house will be expensive. - And don't forget the _piece a resistance_ , you could do all those things already (probably). The only reason you should be using a smart house, if you are in need of one. Like those who are disabled, or are suffering with injuries, rather than just random rich people flaunting their wealth.

Smart houses could be useful for disabled people, if most smart products weren't crazy expensive and difficult to set up, and there are definitely products that are useful (like doorbell cameras). But otherwise a lot of smart products are likely just dystopian ideals hidden as "progressive" and "technologically advanced convenience"

12:30 they would literally lock the fridges and be like “sorry malfunction.. you can’t eat”

MAN THE DANNY’S REACTION TO THE MOVING FURNITURE HAS GOT ME BAWLING ON THE FLOOR LAUGHING OUT LOUD😂😂😂😭

I learned about "techno-chauvinism" in class this year, which is the misguided belief that more tech is inherently better or the right solution. A lot of the time we're just reinventing the wheel and the tech is unnecessary or we are making systems and products actively worse by trying to "techify" it

So, to sum up Danny’s point in this video: “I don’t want a fridge with a personality; just give me my SAUCES!”

The guy folding the tv into the wall is sending some pretty strong Michael Scott vibes.

my dad is a construction manager for some big company and his job just sends him home with these smart outlet/switches and alexas. its kinda a running joke like how many things can we make alexa do for us. we currently can make her turn on/off our entire living room (tv and lamp), the tv and lamp separately, the outside lights in the back, the outside lights in the front, lock the front door/unlock the front door, turn on the master shower(personalized and everything), turn on lights in master bedroom, theres a timer for the lights on the front of the house for when it gets dark, and im pretty sure the foyer had a smart switch too. then we do the same thing with our christmas tree. i wouldnt be surprised if he somehow figures out how to open and close the garage door through alexa

People on TikTok: have LITERAL CHIPS in their wrists to unlock their doors. Me: *still thinks that you’re rich if you have an ice dispenser in your fridge.*

I could see that “following robot” technology being used to help with medical equipment. An IV pole or oxygen tank that you don’t have to drag around but instead just follows you? Awesome! Or for medical equipment (that creepy chair idea was on to something) For example there are many people who can walk for a few minutes but quickly become too tired and need a wheelchair again. If the chair could just follow the person then they could walk as long as possible but always have the chair within reach

The disney movie Smart House came out in the early 2000s and ever since then I’ve been so confused as to why we keep pursuing it. Like, even the happiest place on earth told us it wouldn’t end well, why did we try

1:01 why no one talking about how terrifying this is

Tech enthusiasts: yeah I rigged my whole house up to my Alexa/Google. Everything I own is on the network, automated and fine tuned to my preferences. People who work in tech: The smartest appliance I own is my toaster and I always keep a gun next to it just in case it gets any ideas

Not everything needs to be "smart", especially if it just means slapping a screen on it. Smart fridges and mirrors? What advantage do they have over a regular tablet? I don't need 15 devices in my home that can show me a weather forecast if I can just glance at my phone lol. Also, touch controls have no advantage over physical buttons or switches.

The thing is most of the ideas weren’t predicted it’s just people really wanted the same things so with time and newer technology they were able to improve past concepts.

5:01 I have a Alexa and i agree THEY ALWAYS TRY TO SELL ME STUFF

Used to live with a guy who insisted on buying only Kogan brand smart products. Everything in the house was a low-grade smart product. (He tried to make me pay for some of it even, but like... no.) and it made everything so fuckin annoying. Forty-five seconds to turn on a light is not convenience. A smart vacc that can't pick anything up from the carpet is not convenience. A smart air frier (just what the fuck?) DOESN'T EVEN HAVE ANY EXTRA FUNCTIONS! The smart heater was... who really needs a smart heater? It was also just not the kind of heater it was sold as. The smart TV was so bad it couldn't play tv because IT DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH RAM! Smart weather station? More like: 400 dollars worth of broken gadgets. Smarthouses are less convenient than just a normal house.

Putting technology into everyday objects isn’t always the greatest idea. Smart technology uses more materials, which as a result, costs more money, which would raise the price of the item. Right now it’s ok, if you don’t want a smart fridge don’t buy one, but eventually we might get to the point where the only fridges available are smart fridges so you might have to pay a hell of a lot of money for a fridge. Like with cars right now, pretty much every car has a screen replacing the dashboard, so the cost of cars rose to accommodate that (of course its not the only reason car prices are higher but its part of the reason). I believe smart technology is making our lives more expensive for no reason, and is taking away the availability of affordable options and forcing everyone to get the most high tech version. Like with cars, if you wanted to get a new car without a fancy little screen in the front, good luck with that, you’re stuck paying. It’s also taking away from people buying parts to fix things and forcing everyone to buy new machines instead of replacing broken ones, which isn’t good for our environment since people generally don’t know how to fix a whole damn computer when it breaks leading to a lot of wasted resources just because society decided people need a screen on a fridge.

17:00 think about all the times you’ve accidentally kicked your pet because it snuck up on you and now replace that surprise with a stubbed toe because you kicked a sneaky end table that followed you to the top of the stairs before you remembered to grab your phone off the charger

Fun fact having a Denis in every home it’s like having a personal assistant

If there is ever a power outage she is screwed. My parents have had the same gas oven since before I was born so when the storms get really bad in the winter, we can still make food. This women probably can’t even flush her toilet or open her door

as someone with anxiety that can absolutely verge into the realm of paranoia, living in a smart house is my idea of hell. this shit is only able to respond to you because it's got cameras and microphones wired up constantly, and internet of things stuff has a habit of having the worst cyber-security on planet bloody earth. so not only is the house definitely spying on you 24/7 in hopes of selling you a new brand of peanut butter, but basically anyone else could be too! wonderful, excellent, exactly what anyone would want.

3:11 that’s not black mirror.. that’s white reflection.

That little heavy guitar riff at 4:01 as it zooms into the middle finger is so subtle but the funniest damn thing

the "speaker" she dropped in with the crabs and oranges was an ultrasonic cleaner it basically just shakes the water extremely fast to clean things

Funny thing about the chip girl is its one of the easiest ways to steal someone’s ID. There’s devices made specifically for grabbing the data from chips like that and you could essentially steal her entire house lmao

Robot that does nothing? Great, now they’ve even stolen my job.

I never actually laugh out loud at a video but the concept of the table and chairs chasing me made me laugh for sure.

The “Bluetooth speaker” is a sonic cleaner/sanitizer. The reason the have the small washing machine thing is because there isn’t a lot of room in most Asian apartments so they made these. It’s actually kind of neat and useful for them!

I, too, hate smart fridges. My friend has one and the tablet went bad in the first month and she had to call a tech person instead of a regular refrigerator repair person and the tech person charged her $300 to diagnose the problem and then it was another $2000 for the part. I’ll stick with my dumb fridge thank you

Danny’s definition of “yelling” is crazy

13:55 I think this is a shoe dryer

On the shoe warmer thing: most homes in Norway have those. And almost all day cares do too. Not only does it warm your shoes, but it helps dry them. So instead of your winter shoes still be wet the next day when you have to go to work/school, they’re dry. Actually super convenient and helpful.

I think the lady was sanitising her clothes, the spray looked like a UV light that's sometimes used for sanitation. I'm not sure how effective it would be on clothes though, just that's the closest thing I can think of. As for the tiny washer, I think that could be good if you're in a single person household and don't want to go out to a laundromat- it could save money/water, I guess? If I lived alone I wouldn't mind getting a smaller one.

7:38 so cute ❤

If you’ve never seen the first episode of black mirror, Danny’s line about the pig is so crazy