Google Home Smart Home Assistant Smart Speaker

In 2016, Google introduced Google Home, its new foray into the world of artificial intelligence for everyday life. The activation phrases “Okay Google” or “Hey Google” wake up Google Home, which is always listening for user directives. The device is meant to act as a personal assistant and can be connected to Google Calendar and Google's Chromecast media streaming device, as well as its note-taking service, Google Keep. Among the most popular uses of the Google Home, however, is its function as a music speaker; a high-tech radio for its many millennial users, the object supports a variety of music platforms and can stream music videos to a user’s television. In terms of design, Unlike the color palette of green, blue, red, and yellow associated with the Google brand and graphics, Google Home is designed to blend in with its domestic surroundings. The object's squat, softly tapered cylindrical form and unobtrusive matte white plastic body is finished with a gently sloping top that contains four soft LED lights in Google’s signature colors, which turn on when in use. The base is removable and comes in several metal or textile-covered color choices for users wishing to customize their Google Home to make more of a statement or harmonize with their surrounding color scheme.

Google Home Smart Home Assistant Smart Speaker; Designed by Google Inc. (United States); polycarbonate, painted steel, rubber, leds; H x diam.: 14.3 × 9.6 cm (5 5/8 × 3 13/16 in.); Gift of Google; 2017-74-2-a/d

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibitions Acquired! Shaping the National Design Collection and The World of Radio.