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Our next guest is here. Hello.

How are you?

Fantastic. Yourself?

I'm doing well. I'm Vicki Lladoc from Human Touch. The Director of Marketing here, I want to show you a couple of the chairs that we have going on over here.

Okay, so Human Touch makes chairs.

Yes, we make massage chairs, and we make other basically wellness products.

Fantastic.

So yeah, so lots of stuff to keep you healthy and functioning.

Very cool. So yeah, let's definitely take a look. This is something that in the past, we never could have featured on the live show. People who were watching live could have never seen it. But thanks to our friend, Steve. We're doing remote so we can actually see your product out on the floor. Let's see this.

Yeah. Yay. See. So we have our great. So we have two chairs that we have on the floor this CES. We have this chair right here. This Ivy-colored chair is called our Super Novo. This is our top-of-the-line massage chair. And I'm actually going to. The best way to show you this chair is to actually sit in it.

Absolutely.

So as you can see, as I sit in this chair, you are fully encompassed in this chair. You can see the speakers are right here. You just kind of sit back and you actually feel like you're in a kind of a cocoon of wellness is what I like to call it. But what is great about this chair, as we are here in CES, we actually debuted this chair about two years ago in the last live CES, which was 2020. And this chair is actually the first massage chair to be Alexa enabled. So you can actually use Alexa with this chair to move you, to start the massage. When I am fully in this chair, I have my arms in these, like-. I call them hot dog buns. So you put your arms on both of these basically. And when you're in there, it's very hard to kind of grab a remote or to control the chair that way because you want to stay immersed, you want to stay relaxed, you want to be in the massage at the moment. So when this is Alexa enabled, you basically just say, "Alexa asked my Novo to give me a massage." You go back into zero gravity, and your massage starts. So it's really cool for that, that you know, and we call it virtual therapist because it is like having a therapist. You basically tell them what to do. And they will do the massage for you, you can set a profile. So I can say "Hi virtual therapist, my name is Vicki. I'm 5' 6" and I like medium intensity. I like 10-minute massages, and I prefer a shiatsu style. So that kind of stays in that memory bank. And next time I sit in the chair and I say "Hello, um, Hi, tell the virtual therapist, this is Vicki." It will go, it will do the massages that I liked as well. So some really great kind of functionality and technology built into that. This chair is also app-enabled. So you can control it with your app if you prefer to use your phone as a remote. So you can do that as well. But so those are the great CES kind of technical things to the chair.

Sure.

Yup.

So I got, so Twitch chat. I've been watching Twitch chat because they're responding to you live. They are loving the design, and love the idea that there are profile settings for different people.

Yeah, it's great. It really helps too, because of the multi-person household. Each person kind of has their own profile setting and they sit in the chair and they can get into their massage pretty quickly. That's stuff kind of, we want to make it all convenient. So besides all that this is just a great high-end massage chair. It's got the features that you would expect in a chair like this including an S and L track. An S and L track, S means it's a curved track. So it actually follows very closely the curvature of your back and L meaning it comes under your seat. So you actually get a glute massage in this chair as well when you're in it. It has air compression as I showed you the hot dog arms so you can get your arms to get a good, a great compression massage. When you're leaning back here, your shoulders actually also get a massage. And another thing that this chair does that you'll find in a lot of thigh-ended massage chairs is an excellent stretch. So what happens is I will sit in this chair, these things will inflate it'll hold my shoulders, it will recline all the way to zero gravity and. I can show this. So I also have these foot and calf massagers where my legs are in. This will actually hold my leg down. And if you can imagine that will stretch me. So I can actually feel a stretch in my back. In my back, the robot will actually push my back upward. So you have a great stretch. When that happens, it's almost like, like you can. You just feel your vertebrae extending and it feels like you're actually you come out of it to two inches taller. So it's a really great therapeutic stretch that kind of in a lot of the massage programs that starts the program or ends the program. So it's a really great kind of way to, to book in that program and get your massage, kind of give a kind of a finishing touch as you as you wrap up.

So we got a question. Are there things like temperature controls for arches and comfort?

Sure, there is only one temperature there is a heat setting. So you only have the one temperature, but yes, we do recommend the heat with a massage because it does help loosen your muscles. So when you get the massage, it really does help to kind of do a more penetrating massage. But yes, there is but there is only one level of heat.

Okay, but there is aches, aches, I'm sorry, it says aches, not arches, they are laughing at me. But obviously you knew what I was saying?

Great for aches and pains. Perfect for aches and pains.

Perfect. So who is your target demo on this? Is this designed to be put in a place where people go to? Or is this designed for me to have in my office or studio next year.

Anywhere that you can find room for it. That's our target audience. We sell direct to consumers. We also do some B2B business where we sell into nail salons or gyms or we do hospitality too where we're in certain hotels or things like that. But a bulk of our business is direct to the consumer. So we sell in places like Costco, or online on Amazon or Best Buy or Target or any of those places.

Wow. Okay, and what kind of price point are we looking at on this?

So the chair that I'm sitting in right now, which is our top of the line massage chair. This is our Super Novo. The Super Novo retails for $10,000. It is, like I said, it is very high end massage chair. This chair right next to it is a little bit smaller of a chair. And this is called our Certus. This is the chair that we're actually debuting this year at CES, it came out in November. I also have one of them behind me in this very eye-catching yellow. You can see that the surface is a little bit smaller chair. It's a little more intense. I like to say the Super Novo is kind of like you're touring luxury sedan to a racecar. So it's smaller, very intense and comes in lots of great bright colors like this yellow behind me, this blue, we have a gray kind of cream color. And it really does lend itself to see very just a chair that you can use that people use a lot for recovery. For, you know, after exercise for if they just want a more kind of intense massage.

Gotcha. Okay, that's great. I'm the perfect chair for break time at CES. I would imagine that your booth is really popular.

Yes, we actually constantly have a line of people ready to get them aside. So I can't can't say I have any complaints about that. So we've had a lot of happy people walk out of here.

I would imagine. So I also really love the logo that the H is a chair.

There you go. Yes, that's exactly what it is. It's supposed to be kind of that the chair and then mesh with the H but yeah, I didn't come up with it. But yeah, I like it as well.

I'm a little picky on branding, and I really love your logo.

Thank you. That's high praise. I'll take it.

The chat is also saying Yes. Great branding. So.

Yeah. If anyone out there is at CES, come on by. We have some chairs available for trying out.

Excellent. And for those who are not at CES if they want more information about your products, how can they get it?

Yep, definitely visit our website. It's humantouch.com. And also, we're on all social media and our handle is "HT Feel Better."

Very cool. Thank you so much for showing this off. That is truly super cool. I always try to interact with the chairs when I'm there from various companies. And this sounds like it is like the top of the line. So that's awesome.

If I could go around here without scaring anyone and show you everyone's faces as they're sitting in the chair, I would but that usually a good indicator.

For sure. Yeah, I would imagine people make some interesting faces.

Had to wake a few people up.

Probably. Well, I really appreciate you taking the time to show us the product today and hopefully you'll have a good rest of CES. I know you've only got a couple hours left there.

Yeah, we're wrapping it up. Thank you very much. I appreciate being on the show.

Absolutely. Thank you.

Okay.

Bye

Bye.

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