The Less Boring Dystopia: Microsoft Home of the Future 2005

It’s another home from the future, in the past. Yes, another installment in the “Microsoft Home of The Future” Series. This time it’s 2005, so it’s gotta be fun, right?
Right?
Sorry Suzi.
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[@wj11jam78]

"Open the microwave door Hal." "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."

[@gododoof]

"Just look at the damn box Dave"

[@Y-two-K]

I didn't realize how misquoted this quote was until I watched 2001 a few months ago. It's actually, " I am afraid I can't do that Dave." No "I'm sorry". edit: nevermind, I looked up the clip. I'm wrong and/or an idiot. My bad.

[@wj11jam78]

@@Y-two-K It is commonly misquoted, but I checked a clip and corrected myself before I posted my comment. I'm very meticulous about misquotes.

[@zachbohemian]

You die of radiation Dave *Locks doors *Open microwave door *Set 17:00

[@infernosgaming8942]

"Cook this mac and cheese for three minutes Hal" "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."

[@nykom]

I think they nailed in that prediction about the pokemon pic

[@zenoblues7787]

Love your profile pic

[@adewilliam9047]

madlad cropped it and used it as his/her/their profile pic for the bit. props 👍

[@goombanr3411]

seems about right

[@turna1216]

Hi Espeon

[@blonze_brick6675]

i agree

[@littlejuliuscaesar8920]

I had a girlfriend buy me a Kinect. I was once watching King of the Hill and Cotton said, “Hank’s wife”, and the Xbox voice controls came up. From that point on, I used the Xbox voice controls by calling it Hank’s Wife.

[@simpleinverso8628]

Although kinda unrelated, I really appreciate that you decided to write down that short yet hilarious story.

[@jeraldjoyce2995]

Do you call you xbox one hank's wife?

[@littlejuliuscaesar8920]

@@simpleinverso8628 Every time I see the house of the future using voice controls, I think about how inaccurate the Kinect was to the point that same problem extended to the Xbone. If I lived in that house, I would be worried it would start the garbage disposal when someone said good morning.

[@simpleinverso8628]

@@littlejuliuscaesar8920 yeah, my Google home tends to screw up every once in a while, and it's pretty frustrating

[@My_Old_YT_Account]

Might sound like the xbox in another language, for example xbox pronounced in French would sound like hick's box in English

[@tree48203]

If the 90s were picturing a cool and badass future The 2000s was trying to live up to those expectations

[@emceeunderdogrising]

Now in the 2020s we simulate bowing down to our robot overlords.

[@Grgrqr]

now in 2021 we suffer endless onslaughts of robot advertising

[@capnsteele3365]

In reality we didn't really need them as we met most of the checklists by combining technologies

[@noticias6111]

It's interesting how you say that and in my mind it makes me think how the 2000s didn't really become its own thing until the mid 2000s when social media started gaining momentum and you really got to express yourself during the past decade.

[@ChaoticNeutralMatt]

@@noticias6111 It took a while, I guess. Still weird to think about.

[@coalminer4301]

About that last part: imagine if you were reading a Stephen King book.

[@Pisolithus]

“ murderer appears in living room”

[@yodxxx1]

or even better: Something from H. P. Lovecraft

[@ericlcornwell]

Better yet: Old Testament.

[@MRttbrlo]

@@ericlcornwell This

[@wsp233]

Or shitty tumblr Supernatural fanfic.

[@laffy7204]

In the smart home in the future, the walls have a built in google calendar, the kitchen counters give you recipes stolen from some random website, the mirrors have a deep understanding of color theory, and a TV that reads you a bedtime story

[@kubakornijenko1927]

Now that's a true dystopia.

[@QuantumAscension1]

All that, and still no creepy, anthropomorphized robot nanny to take care of the chores and watch the children. Jetsons was a complete lie I tells ya!

[@alphayun7401]

and doors that could lock you in or out, call authorities if you try to get into your own home

[@KRYMauL]

@@QuantumAscension1 I mean we have a roomba, but I guess it would need to be connected to Google Nest.

[@AdmiralBison]

Just schedule an Audiobook to play when going to sleep. All this stuff can be part of automation. Automation just needs to be improved and easier to use that’s all.

[@trygveplaustrum4634]

It's hilarious how people expect the future to be *more work for humans.*

[@alw2839]

Can't let our voters become educated! That's why becuase 50% of the us voter base votes for the anti education party. There the party of union busting and screwing the worker over if people knew for a fact automation will be everything, no one would vote for them.

[@aturchomicz821]

@@alw2839 Look at this Unionist not seeing a future after Capitalism and that Automation will save us and allow us to be finally free. Writers will be finally free after all this time, who would not want that to be reality?

[@alw2839]

@@aturchomicz821 50% of the US. If you learn your history you know unions are good. Why else would the same people that advocate for bosses treating there employees like non human work machines, also advocate for breaking up unions?? Yeah automation is good. Again those anti union anti human respect people don't like automation. They don't like it becuase it makes them have less control over everyone else monatarily.

[@trygveplaustrum4634]

*Comes back to post after less than an hour:* "Wha... how... why..."

[@Reeces_Pieces]

@@alw2839 If you're still blaming only one party in America, then you are a fool. They both have the same owners. Wake up. It's really just 1 big party that pretends to be 2 that fight each other, but actually they are both united in only caring about themselves and their donor class.

[@JulianUccetta]

well... they kinda got the first bit right, but instead of "hi house, I'm home" it's "Hey Google/Alexa, I'm home"

[@olivercuenca4109]

@Baxi Tabaxi Or one of those Alexa things that can read out a recipe to you.

[@MadDannyWest]

"Hi [Brand], I'm home." is a very sad concept.

[@nanonymous9139]

@Baxi Tabaxi Me too. I disable or remove all assistants on all platforms.

[@PiiTheCat]

Hi home, i'm dad

[@MrlspPrt]

@@nanonymous9139 me too, it's funny because all those assistants are just fancy search engines, I still don't see any real usage for modern standards (and there are still a lot of ambiguity, so they need us to be using those in order to collect our data in order to improve the assistants, so there are a big level of intrusion).

[@heyitsfranklynn168]

Absolutely no one recognized the versatility and portability of smartphones.

[@BFKAnthony817]

Well, we always kinda knew there would be some kind of smart tablet type device. It was shown off for years in everything from Star Trek:TNG To even Back to the Future 2 showing off a lot of things resembling it. But we never really made the leap to seeing the smartphone as a small thin slate you can do everything on. At least not until they hit the scene in 2007. Phones of the future were always shown as either really thin and small, or always with keypads. Remember the phone Bruce Willis uses in Fifth Element? Or how in Back to the Future 2 they got it wrong about people having fax machines everywhere? At least they got wall mounted flat screen HDTV's right with picture in picture.

[@corruptedpoison1]

They acted like it was a fad until Apple did it correctly. It came out of left field.

[@jeremyf9124]

What held smartphones back were the wireless networks, manufacturing tech, internet of the 90s. The idea of a versatile, all-touchscreen handheld computer goes back to the early 90s. IBM Simon, Apple Newton, Magic Cap. Check out generalmagicthemovie (website).

[@KRYMauL]

@@corruptedpoison1 Blackberry was killing in business, but Apple was the only company that understand how to make it main stream.

[@paulgaither]

As others have said, it was "obvious", but the amount of technology to make it all work and come together and at a price that the average person could use was the unknown factor. Even though the iPhone was revealed in 2007, it wasn't until about 2014 or so that decent affordable smart phones and the aps for them became useful and affordable for average people.

[@ziggytheassassin5835]

Most of the 90s and 2000s predictions just ended up being a feature of smartphones.

[@paranoidrodent]

Now I'm staring at my phone wondering how it a future model will have features that let my car fly when Android Auto syncs up. 😃

[@KRYMauL]

@@paranoidrodent Flying cars are just helicopters and always have been. So, if anything you'll just be ordering an uber or waymo and syncing to it in order to play your favorite tune.

[@BrokeBot]

In an alternate universe: Bully: “Did your smart mirror pick your clothes for you?” 😈 Kid: “yes…”

[@theonebman7581]

Oh god That is terrifying-

[@CullenCraft]

About that microwave thing... Sharp actually made a computerized microwave with an extensive food database in 1997. Technology Connections has a great video about it. I don't know why it never took off.

[@ellispress7374]

It’s probably too much effort to update and Cost more money than a £30 microwave you pick up normally

[@theshlauf]

Most microwaves have preprogrammed settings these days. But how many people actually use anything more than the Defrost function? The button I press on my microwave most is the "add 30 seconds" button.

[@emilycampbell6375]

it never took off because 99% of the stuff we put into our microwaves are microwave food which come with easy to follow instructions on the back, no need for a built in computer database

[@ellispress7374]

Also because the majority of microwaveable food has practically the same instructions

[@simpleinverso8628]

I have an idea for a standardized QR code thingy that all microwaves could read, and all microwaveable food could have said code.

[@trygveplaustrum4634]

*The 5G conspiracy theory people would flip out about RFIDs.*

[@Skiivin]

I’m pretty sure they did briefly.

[@Skiivin]

@Baxi Tabaxi very true

[@melfice999]

@Baxi Tabaxi 5G nonsense is a psyop to discredit other, far more real tech conspiracies. Be it simple things such as 24/7 surveillance done by your Fridge or other nonsense.

[@EnigmaticLucas]

@@melfice999NSA spying isn’t a conspiracy theory. It’s been known since 2013.

[@willblack7353]

The real 5G conspiracy theory isn't that the towers will give us cancer, but the high bandwidth will power a techno-dystopia a la Black Mirror.

[@theankotze1292]

There is no way in hell that last thing would ever happen! Children can be entertained by somthing alot cheaper and alot less effort to code

[@bookfound]

The microwave knowing how to cook your food is not a bad idea. The instructions that are written on the container are made for an industry standard microwave, something you might not have.

[@robertlowe6367]

But if you could afford a smart microwave you could just get an industry standard one

[@KRYMauL]

I mean all you really need is a qr code that has cooking information or the link to a site that contains the cooking information.

[@masterspongebat2387]

You know it’s gonna be a good one when Tyler starts talking about Microsoft

[@stemszz7658]

The smart microwave has been a thing for many years and its more useful than you make it out to be. By knowing exactly what its cooking, it could cook it properly based on the wattage of the microwave, the correct moisture needed in the oven, and other factors that directions can't account for. They're really handy.

[@neumdeneuer1890]

Can you state your model please or post a link to a smart microwave, I am interested.

[@baraodascolinas979]

but common people do not use and would not use any of this stuff, even the popcorn and defrost button are very rarely used ! Even because if anything, food tastes are extremely subjective to the point of making standardisation impossible. There is people that like cooking a dish or drink until steaming hot, others like it very hot or mildly hot or room temperature, etc. And they can also vary the cooking time depending on the day, mood etc. And those written instructions would still need to be written on the label, because the cooking time is only one type of instruction. there is also the need to write whether the lid has to be taken out, make a hole, stop at the middle to stir with a spoon, etc etc.

[@JuanTonSoupXP]

“What if we lived in the V for Vendetta dystopia”

[@viciousyeen6644]

Ha! The brexit fits that future

[@abyssstrider2547]

@@viciousyeen6644 Lmao we do!

[@AlcoholicBoredom]

V was kind of a half-assed dystopia. An intolerant authoritarian government: wow, original.

[@JuanTonSoupXP]

@@AlcoholicBoredom true. The comic I’m pretty sure expanded on it much more than the movie. But the concept itself and the evil deceit associated is what would make it an interesting video 💁🏽‍♂️

[@plapbandit]

Hell is real, and Microsoft built it

[@linkthehero1234]

it’s called windows

[@James-oj6ru]

Windows fucking 12

[@lydierayn]

I love old school futurism. RetroFuturism is always one of the most facinating thing

[@BJ-zd2or]

I miss it too, it kinda faded away in 2015-ish and as it was remerge prominent in 2005, 2008. 90s were all hip with it.

[@baraodascolinas979]

@@BJ-zd2or at the time it was plain futurism, not retrofuturism. retrofuturism only exists in retrospect being made at a future time, like in this video. The equivalent of 2015-onwards would be the talks of web3.0, cryptocurrency, NFTs, etc. if in 2030s this does not happen or happens differently, we will talk about them as retrofuturism of the 2010s and 2020s.

[@shyguy85]

@@baraodascolinas979 no shit

[@hyperx72]

"the logistics of using a Pokemon as a Microsoft profile picture..." Meanwhile there's me with a Pokemon discord Avatar, after discord is now part of Microsoft.

[@vylbird8014]

For the avatar to appear in the video though? That must have taken days of legal negotiations and a thick contract.

[@badabomb9946]

@@chestnut4860 Microsoft offered to buy Discord but it didn't go through thankfully.

[@AaronSoul725]

Sony

[@hyperx72]

@@badabomb9946 oh shit I heard differently! That's great!

[@TheGahta]

7:57 timestamp of the kickass outro

[@peppermintturkey1]

Do you know the name of it?

[@superstriker4123]

I used the google app to see if anything came up but it couldn't find any matches. It sounds like his music, but it's not on his album so idk My guess is it's one of his songs that he hasn't released yet maybe.

[@ComicalRealm]

Homes in 2077: Now fully equipped with a state of the art vaxscene dispenser!

[@ChaplainJoshua]

😩

[@gearandalthefirst7027]

At this rate, homes in 2077 will be lucky if they aren't equipped with a 100 year flood every 6 months

[@aturchomicz821]

@@gearandalthefirst7027 Sadge

[@goldeneaglereborn]

*vaccine

[@corruptedpoison1]

It you want to act intelligent spelling might be the first thing you need to get right...

[@thepenguin9]

Man the gadget show. Me and my brother would convince our parents to send a text to enter the competition

[@amirpourghoureiyan1637]

was pretty envious of the prize winners as a kid, now I realise how much of a nightmare you'd have storing that bundle

[@JustTheJames]

@@amirpourghoureiyan1637 For the last 5 years or so, they've been giving away 1 months free storage at your nearest storage facility as part of the prize. iirc this only started when one prize winner asked the delivery crew to meet him at a storage unit

[@Frogman1212]

I swear he always uploads these when I'm doing nothing in the afternoon.

[@Gilotopia]

RFID became huge in the 2010s and then evolved into NFC. It happened.

[@paranoidrodent]

Yeah, but it didn't quite see the levels of absurd proliferation for mundane functions that genuinely didn't benefit from it (or tagging people like some of the nutters thought), like those pointless clothing tags. RFID was a big deal for inventory tagging, ID cards and other functions where scanning stuff actually made sense. Uses that just offered zero advantages, like the RFID washing instructions instead of just printed tags, went the way of the dodo. It's kind of like how some devices do benefit from IoT features (e.g. cars, home audio), some are marginal (e.g. most home appliances) and some are just plain stupid (mostly low-technology devices that are perfectly functional without connectivity - especially those that have long useful lifespans).

[@hshackleton678]

Tbf with RFIDs, they absolutely did become a massive thing, but as with most technology, their usage was a lot more mundane/background than predicted. Namely, ID cards using RFID are ubiquous now; ever institution I've worked at/been at now uses RFID tags and cards and such. Still, it's always interesting to see what they *thought* we'd use them for lmao

[@Evbuscus1]

I use RFID to pay for gas and get into every building on my campus. Still don't know how to wash my shorts, though.

[@impendio]

these segments are so cringe and dumb, i love how convoluted the solutions they came up with were, compared to what we have now that does the same shit. cool, everything is touch but looks _terrible_ like just put a real screen or a high brightness projector instead lol. I love in general about future predictions how people over sold. literally everything but things we actually got, everyone thinking of flying cars and genetic manipulation but no one was thinking of plain old LTE and capacitive screens, in home lan everything and no one thinking of just streaming services.

[@srpenguinbr]

Well, the theorical bandwidth for uncompressed 4k 60fps 24 bpp video is 11Gbit/s, a number that even today is frightening

[@impendio]

@Baxi Tabaxi I mean, it’s exactly that, we thought we would have infinite energy and teleportation but couldn’t imagine _just fast internet._

[@capnsteele3365]

People were thinking of those things just not a lot of people. Everybody wanted to follow the mainstream cool stuff that would practically take centuries to do

[@BlueScreenCorp]

Smart microwaves are a thing, in the 90s you could buy ones with dozens of different ready to use options, Technology connections did an episode on a few of them. They didn't have barcode readers but when this was made there was already a very popular microwave that could do this very thing.

[@jamesklark6562]

"Hi house, I'm home" is she speaking to herself?

[@LiamE69]

She is speaking to my cold, dead heart.

[@Reeces_Pieces]

When they show you the trailer, but it has zero actual game-play.

[@albertjackinson]

Honestly, the digital bullet board sounds cool even today. It's 2021, and I still want one.

[@KRYMauL]

They exist, but you have to make it yourself.

[@baraodascolinas979]

just buy some old tablet and put it at a wall, open an note taking app of your choice, leave it there, and voilá. you would have to connect to power all the time, but it can work.

[@flyingstonemon3564]

Same It sounds so cool even if gadget like @@baraodascolinas979 But that's lame !

[@knowledgehusk]

I have a second channel where I talk about stuff that isn't Microsoft Home of the Future from 2005: kzbin.info

[@softlightlaboratory]

& A E S T H E T I C &

[@nana7225]

I saw the second channel it was almost the same as main channel content.

[@AG-zv9jo]

Oh god there’s a bot here. Alt, please get this “JJ Olatunji” out of here. It’s another channel bot

[@AG-zv9jo]

Oh god there’s a bot here. Alt, please get this “JJ Olatunji” out of here. It’s another channel bot

[@AG-zv9jo]

Oh god there’s a bot here. Alt, please get this “JJ Olatunji” out of here. It’s another channel bot

[@kylorenkardashian79]

I remember in the mid 90's watching a film at Disneyland's main street theater that was 360 degrees.. it was a short film shot in the grand canyon & the technology blew my mind

[@jollyroman6695]

5:04 actually it makes a lot of sense, the national barcode registry already has every food product categorized so this concept wouldn’t be that hard to pull off

[@finkey29]

i like how microsoft put OK Computer and The Bends into the music library. Good taste, microsoft.

[@bryannguyen2383]

The automatic microwave scanner actually seems super useful. Cooking time often varies depending on how powerful your microwave is. I also tend to throw out boxes to save space in my fridge, so I often forget the time. With smart appliances everywhere now all connected to the internet, I don't see why it couldn't be done with small ovens too. It's already happened with washing machines auto sensing a load of clothes 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@skochko9876]

For this gadget to work it relies on your ability to maybe even care for it

[@deathpony698]

you can do they microwave thing way easier than you are saying. You can use a QR code that has the cooking info in it that the microwave can read. No database, no lookup, its just digital cooking instructions on the label

[@paranoidrodent]

But then how would Microsoft make any money storing all that data for us?

[@DogsRNice]

@@paranoidrodent they’d still get the data on what you scanned

[@peytonwhitman8369]

Heyo you just gained a new fan, i binged a bunch of your vids last night and its amazeballs

[@alw2839]

Wait until you learn about the duo of the brothers. They both do education esque channels

[@benjaminpolitics]

For anyone asking themself what the Outro Song was, it is this (Vapetown USA by Whimsu): soundcloud.com/user-503704039/vapetown-usa If you think you heard that tune somewhere, it is probally from Daft Punk or Kanye West. Daft Punk (Harder Better Faster): kzbin.info/www/bejne/nXLNg2eVeMeDprM Kanye West (Stronger): kzbin.info/www/bejne/hqSyZ42kir98Zsk

[@hellotide523]

Thanks

[@morganreese8904]

As a parent of little kids, the “good night moon interactive experience” seems like a nightmare. A bed time story isn’t supposed to be stimulating or exciting. It’s a bedtime story. It’s supposed to be a sedative.

[@itszadkielagain2334]

To the people wandering about the outro, It's called Vapetown USA by Whimsu soundcloud.com/user-503704039/vapetown-usa

[@thelordakira]

Just waiting for the rectal plug so the home can know you better. WE are the ones who put big brother in our own home for "convenience".

[@fiso64]

Lucky for me I couldn't care less about Google spying on me. They know where I go and what porn I watch, so what, still makes my life more convenient.

[@thelordakira]

@@chestnut4860 it is not about paranoia. It is about keeping your personal stuff private. If you think they wont use that information against you, they will. It is like when interacting with the police.

[@kenos911]

@@fiso64 they’re not even using that information and giving it to local authorities. It’s literally just for advertising. Agreed

[@pierremontparnasse]

5:48 I use "Come on Suzie!" when I ask someone to stop explaining to me something I know or push me to do something their way. There are Karens out there but also lots of Suzies. XD XD XD

[@dadbodii]

4:55 they actually made something somewhat similar to this in 1997. Technology Connections made a video about it. It doesn’t use a scanner but it has a insanely large database of food cooking times, at least for the era Here’s the video if anyone is interested: kzbin.info/www/bejne/i5q2Y2qcmr1rpZI

[@SUPERFunStick]

Lmao I love your frustrated confused stuttering. I can honestly relate on a cellular level, and feel exactly the same way you do when you do that. Immersion.

[@ComicalRealm]

Bill and Melinda were *_definitely_* ahead of their time

[@Theautismvideo]

I like a good amount of these ideas! And the way they're presented and displayed!

[@xereeto]

They were absolutely right about RFID being big in the future; I'm not sure why you dismissed that. Contactless payment is extremely common now, they're being used as keyfobs at hotels and the like, and Amazon's checkout free store uses the technology extensively.

[@DDRMixer]

I was going to say the same thing. Like, I use RFIDs multiple times a day. Use cards a bunch at work. If I want to go to the arcade I buy one of those cards to use with the games and pay for the games.

[@sucyshi]

That kind of smart microwave already exists. People program in the data for unknown foods as they encounter them, and that data is shared with others who own the microwave. But to be sure your microwave will know how to cook your food, buy the branded microwave meals! If I remember correctly, it sold well enough on Amazon that Amazon destroyed that company by making their own of the same thing. They have a lot of that data already from product listings so...

[@Im-the-greatest]

I'm glad youre still making those dope beats

[@mutecommercials]

Bravo, your content has been top notch lately, keep it up!

[@tylerpatterson3328]

What really makes this a dystopian future is that Radiohead is still a thing, you can see one of their albums above the halo 5 icon lol

[@havvacuppa]

Then, as now, I'm happy to believe pretty much anything Suzi Perry says.

[@joaquinmig]

Tyler you made me laugh so much with this one, your editing is simply perfect 💯

[@SatanasExMachina]

This is exactly what I needed today. Crunchy beats too brother. Hope you SoundCloud it.

[@onemorechris]

Microsoft predicts the future home, forgets to invent any of it.

[@Dlstufguy2]

Back in the early 2000s I dreamed of smart home tech and imagined having my whole house wired up to a server and networking cables going everywhere. I don't think they were far off on the what, just off on the how. Smartphones and wifi took the place of a Microsoft server. Btw. There is a parody book of goodnight moon called goodnight ipad. I feel that it is fitting here

[@mikemikel1629]

Loved the ending song

[@user-fv2bn9jv7f]

Toda raba pour cette video c'était exactement ce que j avais besoin d entendre.❤

[@soundlesspeal]

the 2000s were more innovative than now, everything judt comes as an app for ios and android but back then everything had their own thing, their own OS and UI shit was wild back then

[@3217666]

That RFID mirror thing existed in 2005 (actually well before). The Prada store in Soho NYC had that in their dressing rooms. The gear behind it to get it to work was impressive and could be done with an ordinary tablet now.

[@inventor121]

or a raspi with a wireless module.

[@LuvzToLol21]

To be fair, they 100% predicted Nest thermostats and smart home integration. Google Home even lets you set routines like turning on the lights and AC when you say "Hey Google, I'm home." I mean, no one does because it's stupid and the voice recognition doesn't work half the time, but you *could* do it.

[@bryannguyen2383]

RFID is actually huge now, but you don't really hear the term itself much. It's in long range "ID" things like toll passes, car keys, and car washes. A subset of RFID called NFC, which is shorter range but can carry more info, is also in our credit cards, phones, hotel/employee keycards, and disney passes. It's pretty neat. I'm pretty sure you have some at home that you didn't even know about. You can do some pretty sweet home automation just with one of those and your smartphone.

[@maxhydekyle2425]

Ya I prefer tablets and phones to having everything in my house be basically a screen.

[@ethanteige6236]

Sick beat at the end man!

[@emirvmendoza]

4:41 RFID chips? It's now used in the toll roads where I am. But certainly not at home, where fridge magnets still rule.

[@joepereira2909]

I love this series, keep it going pls

[@natedetailscars]

So many projectors in this house of the future.

[@janeswitcher6625]

Pokemon was HUGE on MS main campus in 2005... ...and the home is still there today (2001), in building 33.

[@patrickmarsh2538]

The text on the kitchen counter reminds me of those plaques of information at a science center or something.

[@CrimsonTheOriginal]

This doesn’t make sense. RFID did become a big thing. We use it all the time in life. Why did you use the Fact or Fiction clip for it?

[@anustubhmishra]

Other than credit/debit cards idk where else we use them

[@PixlRainbow]

its used everywhere, but companies stopped marketing it as a feature because 1. it was a mouthful 2. people didn't really understand or care how it worked; all they wanted to know was "touch to share" or "touch to scan"

[@CrimsonTheOriginal]

@@PixlRainbow solid point, I agree they stopped marketing it, and maybe it was a bad edit on the video and he meant companies wouldn’t talk about it. But it’s used a lot of places, Apple/Samsung pay, card based access control, we even used RFID tags in my company I worked for to track the location of pallets in a warehouse. Even our car keys all use it for push button start.

[@PixlRainbow]

@@CrimsonTheOriginal I think it's more that uploader doesn't keep track of behind the scenes tech, so they aren't aware it's the same technology just in a different wrapper. In the previous episode of the series, they said that having food get tags that are detected when the packaging is thrown out is unfeasible because "tracking tags like the apple tag or the Tile are too expensive to be disposable", not realizing that it can be achieved with cheap, existing RFID technology and a scanner embedded to the trash bin

[@DogsRNice]

@@anustubhmishra amiibo

[@pgj1997]

It'd be cool if Microsoft brought this "series" back. Just something on thier KZbin channel predicting what the future of the technology in homes would be like. Which may or may not be teasing something that will be available for purchase at your local Best Buy.

[@BJ-zd2or]

I used to watch The Gatget Show, it was 2005, 2008, 2010s was the tech imagination. I remember this woman presenter, optimistic we all were but the show was down to earth and you made your own mind up of the products or tech that was coming out. Man I miss my DS.... This is taking me back.

[@Katzelle3]

The microwave barcode thing can be crowdsourced No need for just one company to keep track of everything

[@RDLFsama]

oh that final part... so many questions Suzy..

[@j4pfun]

OMG I loved the Gadget Show when I was younger

[@DoctorX17]

The story mode at the end sounds like a great way to NOT get your child to sleep

[@KyleandPrieteni]

In Magic Kingdom at innoventions they had the home of the future sponsored by Microsoft. It was literally about a year after this one. The one I went to had an entire wall as a speaker system also the central home system was all touchscreen rather than a projection thing that was on there.

[@blakeking1125]

That end music actually fuckin slaps

[@scatterbrains9]

I can hear this video 18 inches behind my left ear when wearing headphones

[@ultrapim1]

honestly alot of this seems to have actually happened but with smartphones, microsoft just asumed wed be using stationary systems for everything

[@SlinkyStoney]

Hey home, play a background music for my dinner. Home: *earrape*

[@connectivitytissues1429]

Skylanders toys are a good example of consumer RFID being used. Toys for Bob.

[@Pokedude1110]

as a Microsoft nerd, these are extremely fascinating, thanks for making me discover this weird aspect of the company

[@anteaterzhell]

It’s kinda crazy even as recent as 2005 people still didn’t foresee the rise of smartphones at all.

[@ZarzenLetsPlay]

4:40 RFID actually became pretty famous due to NFC... sooo.....

[@amirpourghoureiyan1637]

Tap to Pay, Apple Pay, Amiibos, Key Fobs, etc

[@LiamE69]

Pet microchipping is another ubiquitous RFID implementation. RFID is huge, just not to replace garment care labels.

[@mcmadness110]

EZpass transponders also use rfid.

[@emilyofjane]

The coolest part is, this OLED technology exists! It’s just currently too expensive to be practical in an everyday home setting.

[@quinnoneill9446]

unrelated to the actual video but I loved that little ending song

[@magimon91834]

Your videos are Art

[@andycopeland7051]

I can't believe you were a kid in 2005!

[@Ciara_Foxx]

Imagine if the house responded "Hi home, im dad"

[@neeneko]

Over on the Technology Connections channel they actually did a piece on one of these smart microwaves, or at least as far as the tech seems to have gotten.

[@nickkk420]

Thst cow jumping over the moon looked like a cheetah

[@ThePaperKhan]

I swear there had to have been people even back then that knew these ideas were bonkers.

[@bdawgrise6961]

In some ways I think we’re much further along, because phones.

[@matthewfyson3695]

Tbh, the only places RFID really became a part of daily life was on supermarket price tags and contactless credit cards. I don't think I've ever really used it anywhere else and I'm quite into my technology.

[@LePedant]

You don't have to upload the microwave with everything ever made. You could just have the scanner read the directions directly off the box. "Please verify you are a human by typing in how long this Hot Pocket need to be microwaved." Machine learning is the real dystopia.