If you ask, there is a work that perfectly interprets "connection", it must be "2001: A Space Odyssey", in which bones are thrown into the air by apes and switched into spaceships when they fall.
There are countless decisive moments in human history, and what happens in these moments is "connection."
Putting food on fire, building trees into bridges, fetching water from rivers for water, first phone calls, first dialing, first moon, first space station docking...
These remarkable "connections" have changed the connection between man and nature, liberated human beings from nature step by step, and promoted human civilization to today.
Standing on the scale of the history of civilization,
Connect is a top-level capability.
It allows us to see the non-existent connections between things and to create meaning from them.
There is a term in film called "matching clips," which refers to making connections through the similarity of the motions and graphics of objects in the shot.
The "2001" beast bone transformation spaceship mentioned at the beginning is the most representative "matching clip", which allows us to see that the evolution of human beings from animal bones to spaceships is not much different in front of the universe.
It continues to expand human understanding of the world and reveal its place in the universe.
In voyager 1's famous photograph "Dim Blue Dot" taken in 1990, the Earth is a pale blue highlight on a black background, like a speck of dust in the afternoon air. This connection allows us to truly understand the accidents and hardships of our own lives.
In addition to the big events in distant history, "connection" is also about the life of each individual.
It is every hug, high-five, cup, handshake, and support between people that makes those grands have a temperature.
Never looking back at the present, are we experiencing moments that could change human civilization?
Today's smart home appliances,
Standing at such a historical juncture.
We have all seen in science fiction's imagination of the future of life that all the devices in the home are highly intelligent and interconnected.
These products are indeed happening slowly and slowly around us.
At the COLMO Shuzhi expert press conference on April 28, Ji Shaoting, director of the Future Affairs Administration, shared the significance of "connection".
COLMO has been telling consumers that connectivity can create new ways of life.
AI speakers, smart refrigerators, intelligent voice systems... The intelligence of a single home appliance is already a visible and tangible trend, but connecting them into an overall system - "whole house intelligence" is the beginning of evolution.
Ji Shaoting believes that the innovation of home appliance interconnection on lifestyle is reflected in three aspects.
First, on an experiential level, "connection" makes life simple.
In science fiction films, "superposition" is a common aesthetic tendency because it allows the audience to see the progress and state of the technology.
In reality, "superposition" is not necessarily a good design idea.
Many home appliances are addicted to functional stacking, such as a remote control per screen, the tedious and distributed control of countless remote controls interfere with each other; and then such as the common "absurd" bridge section of science fiction films: there are too many AI in the home, different systems from each other, wake up a certain, a hundred responses.
Comfortable home life, should let multiple systems interconnect each other, one key unification.
The second is the psychological level, where "connection" makes us more comfortable.
In home appliances, different devices often have different logics, such as humidifiers and air conditioners, which can adjust the air humidity, and use both of them, which is both functional redundancy and increases the cost of learning: turn on the air conditioner in winter, the house is hot, but it is also dry, and the humidifier is opened to humidify. Which one to drive, how to drive, how big to drive, will the two fight? In fact, the cost of this thinking could have been borne by home appliances.
If air conditioners and humidifiers could be interconnected, they would work with each other, freeing the owner from having to "serve" the appliance in turn.
Finally, there is the value level, "connection" strengthens the value of people.
In life, the dazzling functions of various home appliances compete with each other, separate from each other, and in turn override people, and people's experience and behavior are reduced to secondary.
Many sci-fi fears "smart appliances" also lie in this: each item is smart, has its own ideas, and finally becomes the nightmare of "the world's sweeping robots jointly rebelling" in "Love, Death and Robots".
Good sci-fi settings tend to do subtraction, and so do good technologies and products. To achieve a "sense of technology" and "futurism", it is not to let each product stand out, but to let them work together.
One of the things that COLMO appreciates is that through the intelligent design of the whole house, on the basis of simplicity and ease, it gives up the space, time and mental strength that originally belonged to the user. After the user regains these time, space, and spirit, it will be used to engage in things that are more likely to realize the value of life.
Not only that, but "connection" also redefines "home."
Drilling wood for fire, slash-and-burn, the earliest "connections" that brought humans out of nature were the beginning of a remarkable civilization. The development of urban civilization has made us more and more detached from nature, and this is not the best answer. We further connect humans and nature again through technology, such as COLMO's "Whole House Good Water" system, which returns to the basic element of the consumption scenario - water, and provides corresponding solutions for water.
Breathing, drinking water, cooking, washing, bathing, are all water-related life scenes. The water quality is not good, the clothes will harden, the skin will feel uncomfortable, the cup will be full of scale, and the quality of the meal will be affected. COLMO's Smart Good Water is committed to solving the whole house water use solution at one time.
Zweig said in "When the Stars Of Mankind Shine", "What usually happens in succession and at the same time in a leisurely and slow way is compressed into a unique, brief moment that will determine everything and will change everything." ”
There is also a concept in science fiction, Fix Point, which refers to a major node in the long river of time that cannot be changed.
A hundred years later, when we look back at this moment, back to those "key nodes that affected the direction of the world", perhaps, it is the moment when we connect smart home appliances.
Why connect all the appliances together?
A home, through the division of labor and cooperation of various parts, understands who you are and knows what you need, so as to help and shape you.
This is also an answer to COLMO, creating a better future by connecting.
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