 Hi, I'm Addie with The Verge and I'm here at CES with Black & Decker's SmartTech, which is a smart battery. So we make one of smart home devices a little bit at The Verge here because often they just aren't that useful. But this is actually kind of a neat and fairly simple design. What it is is a battery that's compatible with any kind of Black & Decker home or power tool that uses a 20 volt battery. And once you plug it in, it'll pair with a smartphone and you can control it using an app. So the other parts of this app are a little bit more like what we usually mean when we say smart device, which is to say they're not quite as useful. One of them is projects, which will just load a series of projects from the Black & Decker website like how to build a bookcase. Now it'll load it and it's, you know, probably helpful, but it's also the kind of thing that you could probably just look up on your own. The same goes for the messages, which will give you notifications on things like projects and I think can give you some kind of notifications on whether your battery is getting low or other features. But this seems like it's not quite something Black & Decker has figured out. Well, the other major thing you can do is lock this, which essentially just means disabling the battery. So I'm going to lock this right now. It's successfully locked and nothing happens when I pull this trigger. Now I'm going to unlock it and it's working again. Now the obvious question is what happens if you lose your phone and the answer is just that you re-pair it with another phone and then you can unlock it. But maybe the coolest feature here is that this is also an external battery pack. You can plug a USB cable in and use it to power your phone or your tablet or anything else that could be charged with, say, a Mophie. If you want to buy these, these are going to come out in early summer and they'll cost $69. Again, this is Black & Decker Smart Tech. If you want to see other cool stuff from CES, you can check us out at youtube.com slash the verge.
 Hi, I'm Addie with The Verge and I'm here at CES with Black & Decker's SmartTech, which
 is a smart battery.
 So we make one of smart home devices a little bit at The Verge here because often they just
 aren't that useful.
 But this is actually kind of a neat and fairly simple design.
 What it is is a battery that's compatible with any kind of Black & Decker home or power
 tool that uses a 20 volt battery.
 And once you plug it in, it'll pair with a smartphone and you can control it using an
 app.
 So the other parts of this app are a little bit more like what we usually mean when we
 say smart device, which is to say they're not quite as useful.
 One of them is projects, which will just load a series of projects from the Black & Decker
 website like how to build a bookcase.
 Now it'll load it and it's, you know, probably helpful, but it's also the kind of thing that
 you could probably just look up on your own.
 The same goes for the messages, which will give you notifications on things like projects
 and I think can give you some kind of notifications on whether your battery is getting low or
 other features.
 But this seems like it's not quite something Black & Decker has figured out.
 Well, the other major thing you can do is lock this, which essentially just means disabling
 the battery.
 So I'm going to lock this right now.
 It's successfully locked and nothing happens when I pull this trigger.
 Now I'm going to unlock it and it's working again.
 Now the obvious question is what happens if you lose your phone and the answer is just
 that you re-pair it with another phone and then you can unlock it.
 But maybe the coolest feature here is that this is also an external battery pack.
 You can plug a USB cable in and use it to power your phone or your tablet or anything
 else that could be charged with, say, a Mophie.
 If you want to buy these, these are going to come out in early summer and they'll cost
 $69.
 Again, this is Black & Decker Smart Tech.
 If you want to see other cool stuff from CES, you can check us out at youtube.com slash
 the verge.