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Speaker 1: We were going to have a live report from Snowmageddon

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Speaker 1: in Toronto. Yeah, Toronto snowed in, and we happen to

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Speaker 1: have Mark Saltzman, host or host of our tech Talk

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Speaker 1: and host of check it Out?

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Speaker 2: Is it check it out? The machines are getting smart.

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Speaker 2: This is tech Talk, brought to you my sky Net. Mark.

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Speaker 1: Sorry, I'm screwing everything up. Are you there? So?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Hey, are you here? Hear you? No? No, no, no,

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Speaker 2: I'm buried under the snow. He's checking it out. You're

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Speaker 2: not wrong. Tech it Out is the name of my podcast,

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Speaker 2: and it's the show on the Patriot, your sister station

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Speaker 2: k e i B one hundred stations across the country.

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Speaker 2: Take the show, and hello Andy. Good to chat with

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Speaker 2: you as well. Mark.

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Speaker 3: I hope you're uh. You've got lots of soup up there.

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Speaker 3: Looks like you've got to be digging out for a

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Speaker 3: couple of months.

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Speaker 2: That's exactly what my lunch was today, was a good

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Speaker 2: beef barley, hearty kind of stew like meal. Because yeah,

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Speaker 2: we've got forty centimeters so far, that's about eighteen inches.

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Speaker 2: I'm really bad with wow, a lot of snow. Yeah. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I sent a picture to uh to Matthew.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we see it. Your entire driveway and leading up

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Speaker 1: into the step. Now just the.

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Speaker 2: Steps to the front. No, we have a service. Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 2: we have a pretty sizable driveway.

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Speaker 3: So I don't want to know. People are pretty used

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Speaker 3: to this kind of thing. If this happened in southern California,

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Speaker 3: it would be the end all day.

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Speaker 2: You got like six rain drops in the city shuts down. Yeah, sorry,

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Speaker 2: it's true. That's true. Yeah. I have friends in LA.

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Speaker 2: They say the same thing. Look, it's not buffalo snow

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Speaker 2: that we get, but it's it can be pretty bad

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Speaker 2: A couple of times.

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Speaker 3: It looks like a lot of fun.

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Speaker 2: Are the dude, it's fun.

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Speaker 3: Are the kids liking it?

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Speaker 2: My kids are away at college, so they have very

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Speaker 2: little snow where they are. But yeah, I mean the

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Speaker 2: little kids will love it. Naturally. It's a snow day.

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Speaker 2: So no school. Who did like growing up that was

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Speaker 2: like obviously a really big deal when you wake up

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Speaker 2: and your parents said no school todays, Lord camp bustle

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Speaker 2: the lord cancer. I know the folks in the Northeast

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Speaker 2: know that. But yeah, my kids are grown. I got

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Speaker 2: twins who are twenty three and twenty one year old Mark.

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Speaker 1: You are fresh off of Cees where you say robots

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Speaker 1: were everywhere.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so both the robots like you know, the humanoid

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Speaker 2: kind that we're still not there yet, despite what Musk says.

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Speaker 2: We saw those. You know, they can do tai chi

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Speaker 2: and they can very slowly fold your laundry. But we're

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Speaker 2: not quite there yet for the kind of domestic robots

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Speaker 2: that we all were envisioning for, you know in the

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Speaker 2: twenty twenties, back when we were watching the Jetsons in

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Speaker 2: the seventies. If you're old enough to know that, reference

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Speaker 2: Rosie the robot. But we did see some purpose built

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Speaker 2: robots that were very impressive and practical, and a lot

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Speaker 2: of them are tied to the cleaning space. We'll talk

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Speaker 2: about a companion robot in a second, but yeah, robots

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Speaker 2: that aren't new, those circular robots that clean your floor.

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Speaker 2: Some of them not just vacuum, but they moth. But

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Speaker 2: we saw some pretty innovative ones that are almost ready

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Speaker 2: One is from a company called Dreamy that can extend

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Speaker 2: in the right place. So you do that through the app.

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Speaker 2: You say, if you see anything that looks like a kleenex,

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Speaker 2: socks go in the hamper, toys go in this little

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Speaker 3: That's pretty cool.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was pretty neat. So it moves the big

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Speaker 2: stuff out of the way while it vacuums and mops

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Speaker 2: your floor. Robo Rock another company showed the first robotic

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Speaker 2: if you can afford to have robots on each floor, great,

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Speaker 2: But now this can climb stairs. Great good, And that

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Speaker 2: first that will emit fragrances in the air as it cleans.

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Speaker 2: It's got a romatherapy like nice. You know, you get

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Speaker 2: So they spray some lovely smelling scents as it cleans

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Speaker 2: last week, Shannon, we may have talked about this puppy

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Speaker 2: that seemed to win like Best of Show, not in

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Speaker 3: It's funny because you were talking about all these robots

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Speaker 2: But the dogs, Well this is so the dogs are

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Speaker 2: meant to be companion bots. They look like this. In

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Speaker 2: this case, this one's called Jenny from a company called Tombot.

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Speaker 2: It looks like a ten week old lab that is

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Speaker 2: meant for your lap. It doesn't walk around your home.

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Speaker 2: But they've been rolling these out in long term care

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Speaker 1: Think they're great for those purposes.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, it's funny. So we talked about

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Speaker 2: on the air, and I wrote about it for USA

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Speaker 2: Today as part of my coverage, and I got more

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Speaker 2: messages from readers. I wrote about fifty five products from

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Speaker 2: cees for USA Today, and this by far was the

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Speaker 2: one that I got the most messages about, saying, you know,

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Speaker 2: so apparently, And there's some videos online if you just

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Speaker 2: do a search for tom Bot or Jenny Robot Dog,

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Speaker 2: you'll see the videos. Again, they're meant more for your lap.

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Speaker 2: They don't want them on the floor in case they

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Speaker 2: they're tripped over. But you know, some people, some journalists

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Speaker 1: That's a cute headline, isn't it. Yeah. You also talked

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Speaker 1: about wearable AI, like an AI necklace that acts as

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Speaker 1: a constant personal assistant. That sounds pretty cool.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's cool if you're you know, as long as

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Speaker 2: you do your due diligence and it's private, like you know,

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Speaker 2: But there's a few that have like full websites devoted

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Speaker 2: that you wear a pin or jewelry that is capturing

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Speaker 2: your audio throughout the day and it will send you

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Speaker 2: summaries AI summaries and transcripts and to do lists and

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Speaker 1: Mind, that sounds something like that. I don't want that.

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Speaker 2: Well for those who want to stay more organized, Like

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Speaker 2: I had a coffee with somebody and then afterwards he

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Speaker 2: sent me what the aipin sent him and it was

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Speaker 2: like Mark, don't forget. Mark asked for a follow up

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Speaker 2: of neat if you need a little help with organizations,

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Speaker 2: kind of like having an EA walking around with you.

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Speaker 2: One product is called the Plod notepin s. It's one

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Speaker 2: hundred and seventy nine bucks. You can pre order now.

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Speaker 2: You can wear it as a wristband or clip to

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Speaker 2: your collar or on a necklace lanyard and it does

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Speaker 2: again they call it audio journaling, where it'll give you

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Speaker 2: know that you may need help with. It can tell

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Speaker 2: you when your stress levels seem elevated based on your tone,

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Speaker 2: your language. It'll tell you that you're not moving enough,

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Speaker 2: which your Apple watch will do as well. It'll tell

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Speaker 2: there's some interesting applications for having AI. You know, it's

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Speaker 2: not a body cam, it's not a camera, it's audio.

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Speaker 2: But there's still some privacy concerns I get, but I

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Speaker 2: your glasses and your you know, on your wrist. I

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Speaker 2: think wearables are are going to augment the smartphone without question. No,

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Speaker 1: I'm exhausted by hearing what the AI assistants going to

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Speaker 1: bombard me with at the end of my day. I

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Speaker 1: feel like, if you're not an organized person I'm looking

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Speaker 2: Oh that's a really good point. Yeah, and I also

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Speaker 3: Obviously there's the privacy concerns, not necessarily that that's new,

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Speaker 3: but it does feel like if it also is listening

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Speaker 3: that'd be like, oh, well, it said Shannon was gonna

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Speaker 2: Up at night? Right?

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Speaker 1: And I'm like, what are you doing here?

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Speaker 1: Well, my AI and I actually said never come to

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Speaker 2: Which how would I do? It's said ten pm booty

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Speaker 2: call right on my app. I don't get it. No,

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Speaker 2: Shannon really meant to come over or she was just

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Speaker 1: I would never say booty call, that's how now sorry?

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Also, I want to make sure I wasn't implying that,

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Speaker 1: Come over, were like fun or something.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I brought some fun. Okay, some fun fun that

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Speaker 2: sounds lovely.

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Speaker 1: Mark Mark Saltzman, good luck, Braving snow, but you're used

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Speaker 1: to it. You're Canadian. This is what you were built for. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they want you on that wall.

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Speaker 2: That's a that's a boot right. Yeah,