CNET's Lindsay Turrentine hosted a panel discussion on Smart Home technology that featured Eric Free of Intel, Charlie Kindel of Amazon, Yoon Lee of Samsung, Greg Hu of Nest, and our own editor Rich Brown.
Yoon Lee of Samsung brings a lot of expertise to the event, and postulated that a new generation of homes might be built to work better with smart home tech.
Do we want the smart home to run itself according to conditions and presets we prefer in an automated fashion? Or perhaps we just want to command everything with our voice or an app on our phone?
Charlie Kindel of Amazon described the positive responses to the Echo and how it has enabled customers who face mobility challenges to accomplish more with just their voice.
Rich Brown of CNET suggested that one of the biggest problems consumers face is fragmentation within their own home after finding that their newly added devices will not play well with prior purchases.
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