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Speaker 1: This is a podcast from WOR.

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Speaker 2: Here again is Larry Menty with the WOR Saturday morning show.

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Speaker 2: The CEES convention is the biggest tech gadget convention in

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Speaker 2: the world, and Rich DeMuro from rich on Tech was

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Speaker 2: like a kid in a candy store. Here's Rich to

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Speaker 2: tell us about some of his favorites. Why don't we

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Speaker 2: start with one that you really want to talk about

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Speaker 2: that you were really impressed with, the star of the convention.

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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, well, I think one of the best

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Speaker 3: things I saw is this robotic dog. It's from a

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Speaker 3: company called Tombot. It's called Jenny, and it's been around

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Speaker 3: for a couple of years, but they're finally getting to

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Speaker 3: the place where they're ready to sell this thing. And

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Speaker 3: it's a robotic dog that they designed with help from

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Speaker 3: Jim Henson's Creature Stop, which means this thing looks really realistic.

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Speaker 3: And he might be thinking, Okay, Rich, I've heard of

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Speaker 3: robotic dogs, why would I need one? But the unique

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Speaker 3: part here is that it's for people that might need

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Speaker 3: it for companionship, for therapy if they have dementia or Alzheimer's,

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Speaker 3: and so it's if you have to take away their

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Speaker 3: dog for safety reasons. You can give them this electronic

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Speaker 3: dog that responds to touch. And when I tell you

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Speaker 3: the lifelike nature of this dog, how it responds and

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Speaker 3: the facial expressions and the movements, it was very impressive.

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Speaker 1: Wow, that's amazing. That's great.

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Speaker 2: I can imagine who you would get that for some

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Speaker 2: aging people that live alone, or as you've mentioned, somebody

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Speaker 2: with dementia. This Vivo smart toilet add on is interesting.

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Speaker 1: What is that?

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Speaker 3: This is interesting? I mean looks Telsa is such a

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Speaker 3: huge part of the show at CES. This is a

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Speaker 3: little gadget that you clip into your toilet. It's one

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Speaker 3: hundred dollars and it analyzes your urine, so every time

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Speaker 3: you go it will give you hydration and wellness insights

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Speaker 3: on your act. And they actually gave me a take

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Speaker 3: home version. I don't even know you could do this.

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Speaker 3: It's a urine test. You can do it at your house.

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Speaker 3: So you take this test strip and you go on it,

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Speaker 3: I guess, and then you take a picture of it

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Speaker 3: and somehow your phone analyzes all the information from the

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Speaker 3: test and it gives you a snapshot of your health.

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Speaker 3: They sell them for like five tests for twenty five dollars.

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Speaker 3: The company is called let's see where it is Vivo

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Speaker 3: b Ivo, So if you want to check that out.

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Speaker 3: Pretty interesting.

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Speaker 1: How about the choco print chocolate printer.

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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, this one is getting debated on my

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Speaker 3: Instagram at richon tech. I thought it was pretty cool.

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Speaker 3: It's a vending machine brand new that three D prints

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Speaker 3: edible chocolate designs on demand. So you go up to

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Speaker 3: the machine. It might be in a candy store, might

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Speaker 3: be at a hotel, whatever, and you choose your design.

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Speaker 3: They had a whole bunch of them, from little animals

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Speaker 3: to sports teams, and you tap what you want and

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Speaker 3: it immediately goes into action, basically printing this edible chocolate

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Speaker 3: design with chocolate and you watch it done. People are

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Speaker 3: saying it might not be that sanitary because you have

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Speaker 3: if they're saying it takes too long, it's too expensive.

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Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, this is one

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Speaker 3: to attract a crowd.

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Speaker 2: And somehow the BlackBerry is coming back, or at least

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is wild, and I actually so. The guy

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Speaker 3: all about mobile phones. He loves clickable keyboards, the physical keyboards.

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Speaker 3: So they've been making this device called Clicks for a

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Speaker 3: have thought about everything. So it's meant to be a

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Speaker 3: the idea is a lot of people are already carrying

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Speaker 3: So at first, I will tell you, Larry, I kind

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Speaker 3: clickie keyboard. We will see. This will come out for

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Speaker 2: I might get get this only because I miss type

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Speaker 1: Is this easier to type on?

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Speaker 3: You know? I find and they tell you that it

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Speaker 3: But there are so many people like yourself and other

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Speaker 3: folks that missed that BlackBerry clickable textile keyboard. Hey, you

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Speaker 3: can get this for your iPhone right now. It's at

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Speaker 3: clicks dot tech. Check it out, see if it works

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Speaker 3: for you. You can go into a best Buy and

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Speaker 3: try it out. You know, not something that I necessarily want,

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Speaker 3: but they have definitely sold a lot of these units

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Speaker 1: Yeah, probably for the same reason. How about a wear phone.

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Speaker 3: Okay, so this is a weird one. This looks like

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Speaker 3: a mask, but it's a privacy mask for your voice.

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Speaker 3: They're saying voice is the next way to interface with

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Speaker 3: as you put this thing on, it's almost like a

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Speaker 3: it's kind of weird, but hey, you know what, I'm

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Speaker 4: Oh wait a minute, you have to paint a picture.

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Speaker 4: Is it covering your whole face? Just your mouth? What

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Speaker 3: It looks like one of those N ninety five masks masks,

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Speaker 2: Doesn't look enough like a medical mask that you can

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Speaker 4: No, so everybody's going to know you're trying to hide

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Speaker 3: But here's here's the other idea. They're thinking that in

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Speaker 3: they're talking to AI, you can literally have instead of

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Speaker 1: I love this one.

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Speaker 2: This one I might get the AI dialogue boost for TVs.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so this we're seeing, this is this is more

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Speaker 3: Audio systems have gotten so good with surround sound and

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Speaker 3: half the time you're watching Netflix, you can't hear what

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Speaker 3: the people are saying. Right. It's led a lot of

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Speaker 2: I love this one, especially if you have young kids

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Speaker 2: or grandkids. The ice Plosion slushy machine.

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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh. I posted this last night before I

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Speaker 3: seven hundred dollars machine. It's basically like a cure egg

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Speaker 3: but for slushies. But the trick is people might say, oh, rich,

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Speaker 3: they already have that from Ninja. No, no, no, this one

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Speaker 3: does carbonated slushies. So you put the pot in, about

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Speaker 3: it out my Instagram. It's so funny. It almost like

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Speaker 3: they call it ice explosion because the way it comes

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Speaker 3: out of the machine, it's like it's a little mini explosion.

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Speaker 3: And I tried it. It was very sweet, very tasty.

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Speaker 3: But to be honest, seven hundred dollars for a home.

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Speaker 4: And the real question is, you know, over the summers

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Speaker 4: people are having wine slushies and tequila slushies.

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Speaker 1: Who come on, you come down.

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Speaker 3: The Jersey's shore.

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Speaker 4: You can get yourself an alcoholic slushy. Does it do

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Speaker 4: an alcoholic slushy?

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Speaker 3: That is a great question. I don't know if alcohol.

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Speaker 1: Thank you.

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Speaker 3: Here's the thing. You know, you could just stop by

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Speaker 3: seven to eleven for a slushy. I'm I mean it's

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Speaker 3: not you know, but yeah, you want to make.

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Speaker 2: Let's we're running out of time, so how about one

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Speaker 2: real quick one and let's stay in the kitchen. The

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Speaker 2: Ultrasonic Knife Seattle's Ultrasonics knife.

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Speaker 3: This got a lot of publicity. This guy took him

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Speaker 3: sick years to figure out this technology. It's a knife,

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Speaker 3: a chef's knife that vibrates thousands of times per second.

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Speaker 3: So when you cut with this thing. I tried it

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Speaker 3: on a tomato and a potato. It's almost like cutting

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Speaker 3: through butter every time because the food it glides right

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Speaker 3: one of those gadgets that just sounds kind of silly.

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Speaker 3: And it's expensive right now, three hundred and fifty dollars

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Speaker 3: plus one hundred and fifty for the charging cradle. But

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Speaker 3: I will tell you this is one of those examples

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Speaker 3: of technology we see today. It's very expensive. In a

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Speaker 3: couple of years, maybe five, ten years down the line,

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Speaker 3: it will be very commonplace for a lot of people.

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Speaker 1: That's great, that's great.

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