Ian Bogost

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439 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 7 Jul

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The Vergecast · The life-changing magic of touching stuff · 7 Jul 2026 podcast

Yeah, it is super nerdy.

So I live in a house that was built in 1909 in St.

Louis.

And, you know, that's a long time, 120 plus years of changes to the house.

And there's a wired doorbell, but it was cut at some point.

And a lot of people put in like a...

like a ring doorbell or something like that that runs on batteries and Wi-Fi.

But I kind of like wanted like a doorbell, like a traditional doorbell that matched the house architecturally and that had a button that you push and it feels like a doorbell button.

And then I wanted it to make the sound that my house, I have this ridiculous house that like wants a big booming doorbell sound, you know?

So, I mean, the long and short of it is that I wired up like five different computers and there's this whole, I have this whole like surfer

running my doorbell in the rest of my house too, but where the doorbell has a button behind it that talks to a Bluetooth device that then sends a message to my Apple home that then has a listener on it that then plays a sound on this speaker that is like nice and resonant.

And then it connects to the camera that I do have somewhere else hidden in a bush that shows me who's at the door.

And it's very nerdy.

And I think it's like just like an interesting example of how the old world and the new world can live together.

Like it's a very high-tech device.

a solution.

I do store all of my video feeds on a RAID in my basement instead of up in the cloud with a service.

That was one moral position that I took.

But also now you come to my door and you press the doorbell and you hear the bong bong that resonates through the house.

And it makes me feel like I'm living in the house as it wants to be lived in and not in some weird Frankenstein version of it where I taped a contemporary smart doorbell to the door and kind of ruined the whole experience.

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