A smart-home dishwasher detergent system took three years from hardware to launch, but AI is compressing those timelines to months. The challenge now is filtering real innovations from the noise of constant AI-driven product announcements.
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Everything from, of course, voice technology, but we use a lot of smart home technologies. And so that's one of the things I love is being able to go and see things that are not yet at market but are being productized. And one of the ones that I saw recently was the ability for you to do replenishment, like dynamic replenishment of dishwashers. And so when you run out of dishwasher soap, it allows someone like my son to now fill the dishwasher close it, they start the dishwasher and he doesn't have to worry about putting soap in it. He doesn't have to worry about spilling soap anywhere. It's embedded. But that's all new hardware. And so that hardware came out 3 years ago. But at this CES, they actually launched it to market.
So we're seeing a lot of this is coming. Yes, this is coming. And with AI, it's getting sped up, right? That timeline.
Yes. That's why, like, now you don't have to wait till the next CES to see it. You'll probably see it 3 months from now in your inbox. So it's really important to understand, we talked about this on our panel, how to separate the signal from the noise. Like, how do you know when an email is sending you, hi,