4 Kids Build the Ultimate Smart Home — From a Treehouse

[Interviewer] Can you tell me what a smart home is?

I learned this in school, but I forget it.

A smart home is whenever you want something

from your home, [light music]

it just drops from the floor.

[Interviewer] Can you guys read what it says on the box?

Where?

Home De-pot.

The Home Depot.

I don't see it.

Are we allowed to open this?

Are we allowed to open this?

[Interviewer] Nope, not yet.

Aw!

[child groans]

[Interviewer] We have a little surprise.

Yay.

[Interviewer] You ready?

Yes.

Let's go now!

[upbeat music]

[children laughing]

Wait, what?

Oh my goodness.

This place is so good!

This is the best day ever!

[child gasps]

I feel like we should go in, Joey.

Hello?

[children exclaiming]

Open the door.

[Child] These are so cool!

Hello! Hi, Kira!

[Joey laughing]

[children humming]

[Adam knocking]

Come in!

[Adam] Hello?

Hello.

Hey, guys.

Cool tree house.

[Child] Thank you.

Hi, I'm Adam, I'm here on business

with WIRED and The Home Depot.

I'm here to teach you guys

about some pretty cool technology.

You guys know what a smart home is?

It's like living inside a big robot, right?

Where you can make it exactly how you want.

Be, boo, bop, bop.

Yep.

Now I think we should probably change the lighting in here

to make it a little more appropriate

for us to talk about technology,

what do you think?

Sure.

Alexa, turn the inside lights to orange.

Hey, there we go.

What color do you wanna turn it?

Alexa, turn the inside lights to pink.

Oh!

Oh, now we're talking.

I did not know she could do that.

I know, it's pretty cool, right?

Do you guys wanna see what I got in my toolbox?

Yes! [bright music]

Yeah.

Yeah, I think you're gonna like it.

This is the Ring Floodlight Cam 4K Pro.

It records super clear footage.

When friends are coming over,

it lights it up automatically,

shows you exactly who's here, isn't that neat?

Lets us see whoever's at the front door.

It could be your friend, your family, the mailman,

it'll show you whoever's there.

It can even make a really loud sound,

you know, if you wanna get somebody's attention.

Do you wanna try that out?

[alarm wailing]

Wow, that was loud.

Do you think we could be that loud?

Yeah.

Yeah, you wanna try?

[Adam and children screaming]

[glass shattering]

Yeah, you did it, that was definitely just as loud.

[upbeat music]

It senses any movement at all,

and then turns the light on.

It's really sensitive.

Do you think you could outrun it

without the light going on? Yeah.

Let's see it, go!

[bell dings]

Can I try again?

[bell dings]

[bell dings]

[bell dings]

Okay!

All right, do you guys wanna come in the house?

I got some more cool stuff to show you.

Yeah!

All right, let's go.

[Child] Let's go.

[bright music]

Let's do this.

This is a Blink Battery Doorbell 2K

that I got from The Home Depot.

It's got a camera with eagle eyes on it.

It can see people from head to toe,

if they're at your tree house front door.

[children babbling]

It will show you right here on the Echo Show 11.

Maybe it's your family here for the holidays.

[doorbell rings]

Who is it?

Hello.

[children shushing]

I gotta work, come on, guys.

Is anyone there?

[Adam] Stay hiding.

He's coming back.

Guys, this is very unprofessional.

If our smart home [bright music]

is like a robot,

the robot's gotta have a brain, right?

And so the control center is the Echo Show 11,

designed for Alexa Plus,

and it connects to everything in the house

and helps you control it all from one place.

It's right there behind you, take a look.

Oh.

Yep, it controls the lights,

the temperature, the sound. Whoa!

It can play music for you.

So the Echo Show 11 can even help us see at night.

You wanna see?

Director, dim the lights.

Alexa, show tree house camera.

[Alexa] Okay.

Oh, there's the crew.

Wave to the crew.

Hi! Hi, crew!

[Adam chuckles]

Hey, do you guys wanna try an experiment?

Yeah!

There's a really cool feature on this doorbell

that lets you hear the people outside your front door

without having to open it.

It cancels out all the outside noise,

so you can hear them perfectly.

So if you're laying on the couch,

you don't wanna get up and go to the front door,

you can hear them without standing up.

All right, so here's the plan,

you're gonna go to that doorbell

and you are going to whisper a secret

about our director that he will not be able to hear,

but we will.

Guy, I heard his name is Graham Cracker.

I think his nickname was Grandma.

[Adam and children giggling]

Alexa, tell me a silly thing to do. [bright music]

[Alexa] Try to touch the tip of your nose

with your tongue.

All right, you guys wanna try?

[Child] Yeah.

I touched it!

You did?

Nice work.

That was awesome.

High fives.

[Interviewer] You learned a lot today,

what do you think a smart home is?

Joey?

Like you just buy a regular home,

and then you put some smart devices connected on it

and then it becomes very smart.

It can tell you someone's at the door

and you can see who it is.

It was like super cool!

You can find everything at The Home Depot.

[Children] How Doers Get More Done!

[Interviewer] Yes!

Yes!