CES 2018 Day 2 Smart Home with Mario Armstrong

**Sponsored Content**

The latest in consumer electronics and technology are unveiled every year in early January from CES in Las Vegas! This year’s show begins Tuesday, January 9, 2018. Owned and produced by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), CES 2018 is the world’s largest annual innovation event and draws more than 150,000 industry professional attendees to witness the next generation of consumer technology. More than 3,500 exhibitors will debut 20,000 new products across more than 2 million net square feet of exhibit space.

The show is not opened to the public, however, Emmy Award Winning TV Host, Media Personality and The Digital Lifestyle Expert® Mario Armstrong partnered with a few companies below to give an insider’s look at some of the exciting products people will be able to see and use this year in your smart home.

Take a look…

LG SmartThinQ

LG SmartThinQ™ makes it simple to manage your LG appliances from a single app (for Android or iOS) or voice controls using Google Assistant or Amazon Alexa. With these smart appliances, you can preheat your oven while stuck in traffic to make dinner prep faster, tell the refrigerator to make more ice and start your robotic vacuum — you can even receive a reminder if left your refrigerator open or your clothes in the washer.

Available for download on any iOS or Android device.
For more information, visit www.lg.com/us/discover/smartthinq/thinq.

Facebook: www.facebook.com/LGUSA
Twitter: www.twitter.com/LGUS

EZVIZ ezGuard

ezGuard is an Outdoor/indoor all-in-one home security system that combines Full HD professional grade camera, smart siren, strobe light and onboard recording capability in one compact package. It has a proactive protection function that includes a 100dB siren and strobe light to alert the intruder that they’ve been spotted. ezGuard’s motion detection alerts your phone with a live video feed of the action so you know what’s going on outside as soon as it happens.

Priced at $109.99 MSRP.
Available for purchase to the general public through Amazon, North American Retail and the EZVIZ website in the first quarter of 2018.
For more information, visit us.ezvizlife.com.

Facebook: www.facebook.com/EZVIZ
Twitter: www.twitter.com/EZVIZLIFE

Polk Command Bar

The Polk Audio Command Bar is the first announced voice-controlled sound bar with the convenience of Amazon Alexa built directly into a superior home theater solution which produces loud, rich audio ideal for movies, music and wireless music streaming. It boasts integrated far-field microphones atop the sound bar to easily control master volume, mute, bass, sound modes, and source selection with voice commands and features dedicated HDMI port designed to fit the Amazon Fire TV Stick and other HDMI streaming devices with wider form factors. Available in the spring of 2018, the Polk Command Bar will retail for $299.95.

Priced at $299.95.
Available for purchase in the spring on www.polkaudio.com and Amazon.
For more information, visit www.polkaudio.com.

Facebook: www.facebook.com/polkaudio
Twitter: www.twitter.com/polkaudio

McAfee Identity Theft Protection

McAfee Identity Theft Protection allows users to take a proactive approach to protecting their identities with personal monitoring, financial monitoring and recovery tools needed to keep identities personal and secured.

Key features include:

Cyber Monitoring: Scans the online black market and the Dark Web and alerts users when their personal information is at risk.
Social Security Number Trace: Delivers reports of known aliases and addresses tied to a users’ Social Security Number so they can review for potentially fake identities.
Credit Monitoring: Sends reports based on lending and credit history, and alerts users to changes to their creditworthiness.
24/7 Dedicated Agent Support: Allows users access to agents who can answer questions and provide guidance on topics from using credit responsibly to handling identity theft.

McAfee Identity Theft Protection will be available in three different tiers to accommodate different budgets and user needs:

McAfee Identity Theft Protection Standard ($89.99/yr.)
McAfee Identity Theft Protection Plus ($174.99/yr.)
McAfee Identity Theft Protection Premium ($264.99/yr.)

Available for purchase first quarter of 2018.
For more information, visit www.mcafee.com/consumer/en-us/store/m0/index.html.

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Twitter: www.twitter.com/McAfee_Home

Verdera Voice Lighted Mirror with Amazon Alexa

Kohler’s Verdera Voice Lighted Mirror is the first-to-market bathroom mirror that has Amazon Alexa embedded into the product. The built-in technology and seamless construction make Verdera Voice Lighted Mirror a highly functional and thoughtfully designed centerpiece of the smart bathroom of the future. Integrating the Amazon Alexa into the mirror helps to reduce countertop clutter in the bathroom space, essentially hiding the technology and creating a seamless aesthetic. With the ability to pair other Kohler products that utilize KOHLER Konnect directly to the Verdera Voice Lighted Mirror, users can streamline voice capabilities within the bathroom space.

Verdera design features also include a dual-microphone solution to enhance the accuracy of voice-control, speakers housed in hermetically sealed casings to maximize stereo sound quality, a motion-activated wayfinding nightlight for safety and convenience, and highly efficient LED lights for makeup application, grooming and skin care.

In addition to controlling products with KOHLER Konnect and its related personalized experiences, Verdera Voice Lighted Mirror with Amazon Alexa can activate 20,000+ Alexa skills. Verdera Voice Lighted Mirror improves the comfort and functionality of time spent in the bathroom by enabling it to be hands-free, seamless, and more convenient, while also communicating with other connected products in your Wi-Fi network.