1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:02,920 Speaker 1: Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve camera. 2 00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:08,920 Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you get in touch with technology? With 3 00:00:09,080 --> 00:00:17,959 Speaker 1: tech Stuff from how stuff Looks dot com. Hello again, everyone, 4 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:20,960 Speaker 1: Welcome to tech Stuff. My name is Chris Poulette. I'm 5 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:23,439 Speaker 1: the tech editor here at how Stuff works dot com. And, 6 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:27,440 Speaker 1: as he often does on these occasions, sitting across from 7 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:31,280 Speaker 1: me is senior writer Jonathan Strickland. Oh, I wonder, wonder, 8 00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:34,240 Speaker 1: wonder do do do do? Who wrote the Book of Love? 9 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:37,920 Speaker 1: Is that your way of telling our listeners that you 10 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:41,480 Speaker 1: love them? I love each and every one of you 11 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:45,319 Speaker 1: except for one person. You know who you are and 12 00:00:45,360 --> 00:00:49,440 Speaker 1: what you did. But we're gonna talk about love and 13 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:54,480 Speaker 1: technology because you know what's coming up. Valentine's Day. Yes, 14 00:00:55,080 --> 00:00:59,720 Speaker 1: some of us have that burned into our brains courtesy 15 00:00:59,840 --> 00:01:07,520 Speaker 1: of are significant others and companies, green card companies, chocolate tears, 16 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:10,400 Speaker 1: people at the grocery store who put out the Valentine's 17 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:17,400 Speaker 1: Day goodies on December. Yeah, so, um, Valentine's Day, it's 18 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:19,720 Speaker 1: coming up. We might be wondering what the heck is 19 00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:22,400 Speaker 1: tech Stuff doing about Valentine's Day? Well, I'll tell you 20 00:01:22,520 --> 00:01:24,640 Speaker 1: We're gonna tell you about some tech that you might 21 00:01:24,640 --> 00:01:28,959 Speaker 1: want to look into as a possible gift for your sweetie. Yes, 22 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:32,400 Speaker 1: and uh, would you like to start yourself or would 23 00:01:32,440 --> 00:01:34,240 Speaker 1: you like me to give? I will? I will start 24 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:38,800 Speaker 1: with my my killer app, your killer app. Yes, this 25 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:42,479 Speaker 1: this is the gift that keeps on giving, and possibly 26 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:45,440 Speaker 1: one of the things that might give is a restraining order. 27 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:51,559 Speaker 1: It's the It's cute Circuits hug shirt. Now, the hug 28 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:54,600 Speaker 1: shirt is not new. This is actually a few years old. 29 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:56,280 Speaker 1: I remember seeing it when it first came out, and 30 00:01:56,280 --> 00:01:59,520 Speaker 1: I actually had a nice long conversation with a coworker 31 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:02,400 Speaker 1: of ours, candas Keener, about the hug shirt, and she 32 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:05,600 Speaker 1: had her own perspective on this, which I only wish 33 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:08,960 Speaker 1: I could repeat. But um, but Candice is so much 34 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:10,639 Speaker 1: better at it than I am at then you rate. 35 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:13,400 Speaker 1: The hug shirt has a shirt that happens to have 36 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:19,000 Speaker 1: within it sensors and actuators, and they're located in strategic 37 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:22,360 Speaker 1: points on the shirt, including things like the wrists and 38 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:26,360 Speaker 1: the shoulders and lower back and parts of the torso. 39 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:29,720 Speaker 1: And the idea here is that when you buy these 40 00:02:29,760 --> 00:02:33,799 Speaker 1: shirts and pears, and when a person on one end 41 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:37,760 Speaker 1: applies pressure to part of the shirt. The person wearing 42 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:40,440 Speaker 1: the other shirt will feel the pressure. And the way 43 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:45,000 Speaker 1: this works is that both shirts have Bluetooth transmitters in them, 44 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:49,959 Speaker 1: and the Bluetooth transmitter will send data to the person's phone. 45 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:53,480 Speaker 1: So you have to use your phone to send the 46 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:56,760 Speaker 1: data to the other person's phone, which will then send 47 00:02:56,800 --> 00:02:59,960 Speaker 1: the data via bluetooth to their shirt, which will then respond. 48 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:04,240 Speaker 1: So I could give myself a hug and that data 49 00:03:04,280 --> 00:03:08,079 Speaker 1: will be transferred over to my significant other, who will 50 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:12,960 Speaker 1: then get hugged by her own shirt and uh. According 51 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:18,480 Speaker 1: to the website, the intensity of the hugging actuator depends 52 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:21,440 Speaker 1: upon several factors, including how much pressure you use on 53 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:26,480 Speaker 1: your end, your heart rate, and your body temperature, and 54 00:03:26,480 --> 00:03:31,680 Speaker 1: those things will determine the intensity of the hug. I 55 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:34,520 Speaker 1: feel dirty just thinking about that. But if you guys 56 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:37,400 Speaker 1: want to hug your significant others, I'm just waiting until 57 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:41,240 Speaker 1: they come out with hug pants. Hug pants. Yeah, you 58 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:43,560 Speaker 1: know what I'm talking about. When you want to put 59 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:49,960 Speaker 1: so yeah, how can I follow that? I don't know. 60 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:54,480 Speaker 1: That's why I wanted to get it out first. Um. Yeah, 61 00:03:54,480 --> 00:03:57,600 Speaker 1: it's it's funny because um, there are a lot of 62 00:03:57,600 --> 00:04:00,320 Speaker 1: of geek stores on the web now that there weren't 63 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:04,839 Speaker 1: just a few years ago. Of course, your mouth, um 64 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:07,640 Speaker 1: my one one of my favorites. IM. I'm a semi 65 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:11,040 Speaker 1: frequent shopper of think geek dot com, an excellent website. 66 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:15,520 Speaker 1: But there are others like a clear gear dot com um, 67 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:19,800 Speaker 1: both of which have some Valentine's Day goodies um. And 68 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:24,160 Speaker 1: they're all techy to different degrees. Um. You know, if 69 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:27,480 Speaker 1: you were looking for a tech style romantic evening, you 70 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:32,640 Speaker 1: both offer the flameless candle, you know, the led lights 71 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:35,480 Speaker 1: that you can essentially blow on and they light up. 72 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:41,000 Speaker 1: They don't use any sort of you know, flammable element 73 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:45,080 Speaker 1: at all. It's so you know, it's a it's a 74 00:04:45,080 --> 00:04:47,839 Speaker 1: pretty nice way to say I love you, you geek. 75 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:50,280 Speaker 1: You know, you have a romantic evening and the lights 76 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:52,640 Speaker 1: very subtle. You can get getting different colors. It's pretty cool. 77 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:55,080 Speaker 1: You can set the scene and there's no danger of 78 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:58,160 Speaker 1: you excellently burning down the apartment, which is always nice. 79 00:04:58,520 --> 00:05:01,040 Speaker 1: And uh yeah, yeah I've seen those. These are those 80 00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:03,479 Speaker 1: are nice. Um. There's nice for other reasons too, but 81 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:08,920 Speaker 1: it's you know, for that romantic evening. Uh. Clearly I'm 82 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:11,680 Speaker 1: going a more goofy and geeky way than you are. Yeah, 83 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:15,000 Speaker 1: why didn't you you? Uh? Just before we started, Jonathan says, 84 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:18,760 Speaker 1: I've got all the goofy ones and I'm going, okay, well, 85 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:21,400 Speaker 1: why don't you go hit us with another goofy one? 86 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:23,920 Speaker 1: Maybe whould do the goofy ones first? Well no, no, no, no, 87 00:05:23,960 --> 00:05:25,960 Speaker 1: we can. We can go back and forth. Here, here's 88 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:29,480 Speaker 1: another one. This is This is another shirt pair. Oh, 89 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:32,880 Speaker 1: this is also from Think Geeky and uh this is 90 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:36,760 Speaker 1: the eight bit Dynamic Life shirt. Yes, yes, So if 91 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:39,560 Speaker 1: you've played games like Legend of Zelda, you are familiar 92 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:42,320 Speaker 1: that your life bar is represented by a series of hearts, 93 00:05:42,480 --> 00:05:45,760 Speaker 1: and as you get hurt, portions of the hearts disappear, 94 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:47,920 Speaker 1: so you could have maybe three and a half hearts, 95 00:05:47,960 --> 00:05:50,760 Speaker 1: you know, four hearts whatever as showing your your total health. 96 00:05:51,279 --> 00:05:53,880 Speaker 1: These shirts have six hearts on them. They're lit by 97 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:58,599 Speaker 1: l e eds and in their rest state. As in, 98 00:05:58,839 --> 00:06:01,480 Speaker 1: if you are very far away from the person wearing 99 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:05,880 Speaker 1: the other shirt or another shirt, because really this will uh, 100 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:08,120 Speaker 1: this will change no matter who happens to be wearing 101 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:10,040 Speaker 1: the other shirt. If there's a whole bunch of people 102 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:12,839 Speaker 1: who show up to an event wearing these things's gonna 103 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:16,640 Speaker 1: everyone's affected. Yeah, but if you are by yourself, you're 104 00:06:16,640 --> 00:06:18,640 Speaker 1: not near anyone else who's wearing one of these, Your 105 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:21,599 Speaker 1: hearts will be at two and a half, and as 106 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:23,960 Speaker 1: you get closer to someone else wearing the same kind 107 00:06:23,960 --> 00:06:27,279 Speaker 1: of shirt, the hearts start to fill up until you're 108 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:30,720 Speaker 1: around you know, hugging distance, and then they should be 109 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:34,080 Speaker 1: showing up in full. They do this with radio frequencies 110 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:37,159 Speaker 1: that transmit over a pretty short distance. But again, it's 111 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:41,520 Speaker 1: not like these are tuned to a specific you know 112 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:45,760 Speaker 1: mate shirt. It's anyone who's wearing that same shirt. So 113 00:06:46,200 --> 00:06:48,400 Speaker 1: if you go to a Jonathan Colton concert, there's a 114 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:50,240 Speaker 1: good chance that you'll be lit up all the way 115 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:53,080 Speaker 1: because it'll be like eight other people wearing that same 116 00:06:53,080 --> 00:06:56,920 Speaker 1: shirt somewhere in the audience. But still, I think it's cute. 117 00:06:57,080 --> 00:06:59,760 Speaker 1: I uh actually looked into getting those for me and 118 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:02,039 Speaker 1: my wife at one point, and then realize that as 119 00:07:02,160 --> 00:07:06,520 Speaker 1: big a dork as I am, my wife's not. I mean, 120 00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:09,920 Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, I'm married a pretty geeky woman 121 00:07:09,960 --> 00:07:14,480 Speaker 1: and she's incredibly tech savvy, but she's content to keep 122 00:07:14,520 --> 00:07:17,440 Speaker 1: that internalized as opposed to wearing it and letting the 123 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:20,680 Speaker 1: entire world know automatically wearing it on her sleeves, so 124 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:25,480 Speaker 1: to speak exactly. Well. Um, Actually, in going with the 125 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:29,840 Speaker 1: light up hearts uh theme, you can also get the 126 00:07:29,880 --> 00:07:32,920 Speaker 1: two stores that I mentioned before. Um, you can also 127 00:07:33,120 --> 00:07:37,760 Speaker 1: get u a l E D kit that has Um 128 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:40,000 Speaker 1: it's a heart shaped kit that you can make l 129 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:41,720 Speaker 1: E d s and with l E d s and 130 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:45,200 Speaker 1: once you put it together, the heart flashes, which is 131 00:07:45,240 --> 00:07:48,240 Speaker 1: something you can you can actually make for yourself. Um. 132 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:51,760 Speaker 1: The Maker shed actually the folks overt O'Reilly who published 133 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:54,760 Speaker 1: Make magazine also have an l E ED Heart kit. 134 00:07:54,960 --> 00:07:58,080 Speaker 1: This one is is smaller and the LEDs are actually 135 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:01,400 Speaker 1: closer together. Um. And but you know, if you want 136 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:04,360 Speaker 1: to do something, uh, you know, you could actually make 137 00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:07,440 Speaker 1: something very much like that shirt yourself, and you know, 138 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:10,480 Speaker 1: or make some kind of jewelry and and enhance it 139 00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:13,760 Speaker 1: with the the L E ED project, which would be 140 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:16,440 Speaker 1: pretty cool. The think geek version and I assume it's 141 00:08:16,440 --> 00:08:20,880 Speaker 1: also has twenty eight red l A D s you 142 00:08:20,880 --> 00:08:24,640 Speaker 1: can use and and yeah, and the circuit board itself 143 00:08:24,760 --> 00:08:27,440 Speaker 1: is heart shaped. And yeah, you just need a little 144 00:08:27,520 --> 00:08:31,440 Speaker 1: soldering experience really to put the thing together, to to uh, 145 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:33,000 Speaker 1: to get all the L A D s in place 146 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:37,040 Speaker 1: and area. Yeah, so if you don't have, um, if 147 00:08:37,040 --> 00:08:39,360 Speaker 1: you don't have soldering experience, it might well, I mean, 148 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:42,440 Speaker 1: you know what, L E D kits not a bad 149 00:08:42,520 --> 00:08:45,360 Speaker 1: way of learning how to solder, as you know, and 150 00:08:45,679 --> 00:08:48,760 Speaker 1: as long as you're careful and you're just paying attention, um, 151 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:51,360 Speaker 1: it's it's a pretty good way to get the basics 152 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:55,360 Speaker 1: of how to build an electronic circuit. So you'll you'll learn, 153 00:08:55,640 --> 00:09:00,959 Speaker 1: you'll love, you'll laugh. All right. I'm not going to 154 00:09:01,040 --> 00:09:03,840 Speaker 1: get one though, because last time I burned the apartment down. 155 00:09:05,520 --> 00:09:07,920 Speaker 1: Here's a here's a geek shirt for you, all right. 156 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:13,720 Speaker 1: Roses are pound f f zero zero zero zero. Violets 157 00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:17,440 Speaker 1: are pound zero zero zero zero f f All my 158 00:09:17,520 --> 00:09:21,960 Speaker 1: base are belonged to you. That's the that would be 159 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:24,760 Speaker 1: the codes for roses or red. Violets are blue, all 160 00:09:24,760 --> 00:09:27,200 Speaker 1: my bass or belonged to you. A supposed geeky as 161 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:30,560 Speaker 1: it gets folks, UM, I don't necessarily recommend that you 162 00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:34,800 Speaker 1: get this for your your female sweetheart. But but ladies, 163 00:09:34,840 --> 00:09:37,640 Speaker 1: if you're listening and you happen to be dating a 164 00:09:37,679 --> 00:09:40,640 Speaker 1: really geeky guy who likes to drop the geek references 165 00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:45,600 Speaker 1: all the time as a guaranteed winner, right there. Hey, um, 166 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:50,080 Speaker 1: speaking of Candice who we mentioned, Yes, Candice, I hope 167 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:53,080 Speaker 1: she doesn't listen to this episode. Didn't you say that? 168 00:09:53,160 --> 00:09:58,000 Speaker 1: She said there she had found some conversation hearts. Yes, 169 00:09:58,040 --> 00:10:00,760 Speaker 1: the conversation hearts um have changed each over the years. These, 170 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:02,240 Speaker 1: of course, of the ones that say things like hug 171 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:05,720 Speaker 1: me and I like you, or I love you, or 172 00:10:05,760 --> 00:10:08,280 Speaker 1: be mine, you are cute that kind of stuff, don't 173 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:11,120 Speaker 1: ingest me. I taste like chalk. That's what I think 174 00:10:11,160 --> 00:10:14,280 Speaker 1: they should say. Yeah, exactly, like I am. I am 175 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:16,720 Speaker 1: stuck in a factory and they won't let me out. 176 00:10:16,840 --> 00:10:20,720 Speaker 1: Help me? Right. Well, some of the more recent ones 177 00:10:20,760 --> 00:10:24,640 Speaker 1: actually have tech kind of phrases on them, including things 178 00:10:24,640 --> 00:10:28,000 Speaker 1: like text me and tweet me. So even our candy 179 00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:32,400 Speaker 1: is moving into the twenty first century. Uh yeah, well 180 00:10:32,440 --> 00:10:35,720 Speaker 1: it's actually because of that. I'm you know, I actually 181 00:10:35,720 --> 00:10:37,560 Speaker 1: thought of that when we were talking about Candice earlier. 182 00:10:37,559 --> 00:10:42,520 Speaker 1: But um, Sweet Tooth Designs has some emoticon jewelry that 183 00:10:42,640 --> 00:10:45,959 Speaker 1: you can say, um, there's a a heart with the 184 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:50,720 Speaker 1: less than three sign, which is the Asky version of 185 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:53,680 Speaker 1: the heart. Um. Also you can buy some with the 186 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:55,880 Speaker 1: you know, smiley emoticons and things like that. But I 187 00:10:56,160 --> 00:10:59,400 Speaker 1: really like the heart shape pin in with the Asky emoticon. 188 00:10:59,520 --> 00:11:04,720 Speaker 1: Heart's kind of a nice, sort of mildly techy touch 189 00:11:05,080 --> 00:11:07,880 Speaker 1: to it. But as an actual piece of jewelry, it's 190 00:11:07,920 --> 00:11:10,880 Speaker 1: not you know, right, I like the I like the 191 00:11:10,960 --> 00:11:13,560 Speaker 1: various kinds of jewelry and shirts and things you can 192 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:18,480 Speaker 1: see with the less than three Yes. Yeah, nice, Um, 193 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:21,520 Speaker 1: you got another one for me? Not for me, Chris 194 00:11:21,559 --> 00:11:23,640 Speaker 1: and I, I should add, we are not each other's 195 00:11:23,640 --> 00:11:26,640 Speaker 1: significant other. That's true. Yeah, it's just clear that up 196 00:11:26,679 --> 00:11:29,360 Speaker 1: because earlier today one of our coworkers suggested we were 197 00:11:29,400 --> 00:11:32,880 Speaker 1: a great historical couple that would be chuck by the 198 00:11:32,880 --> 00:11:38,280 Speaker 1: way and stuff. You should know, that, wasn't it. Yeah. Uh, 199 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:44,680 Speaker 1: Actually I ran across something that you know, the speaking 200 00:11:44,679 --> 00:11:50,920 Speaker 1: of weird Cisco. Yes, the the hardware manufacturer. You know 201 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:53,160 Speaker 1: they bought three Calm not too long ago, very very 202 00:11:53,240 --> 00:11:57,800 Speaker 1: large company that makes things like you know, internet infrastructure routers. 203 00:11:58,679 --> 00:12:00,800 Speaker 1: They have a video on their you Tube channel that 204 00:12:00,920 --> 00:12:04,520 Speaker 1: suggests that if you really want to wow your sweetheart, 205 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:08,600 Speaker 1: you should buy them an a s R nine thousand 206 00:12:08,720 --> 00:12:12,880 Speaker 1: router because and I'm quoting here, nothing says I love 207 00:12:12,920 --> 00:12:17,000 Speaker 1: you like six times the mobile back haul capacity. Really 208 00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:21,280 Speaker 1: nothing says I would like a divorce. Then a massive 209 00:12:21,360 --> 00:12:24,200 Speaker 1: piece of tech hardware that is an awesome shows an 210 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:26,240 Speaker 1: awesome s is a humor. Oh yeah, yeah, no, it's 211 00:12:26,240 --> 00:12:28,520 Speaker 1: funny because I was going, is this really Cisco? And 212 00:12:28,679 --> 00:12:31,120 Speaker 1: the videos on the rest of the channel are all 213 00:12:31,160 --> 00:12:35,360 Speaker 1: about the the equipment. It's it's like, uh, white papers 214 00:12:35,400 --> 00:12:37,480 Speaker 1: and other things that you'd want to know if you 215 00:12:37,520 --> 00:12:41,280 Speaker 1: were going to invest in this, uh, this type of corporate, 216 00:12:41,480 --> 00:12:46,120 Speaker 1: heavy duty high tech routing hardware. And then they posted 217 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:49,320 Speaker 1: this little sixty second video about how to uh to 218 00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:52,360 Speaker 1: win your sweetheart by buying them a router. And I 219 00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:54,120 Speaker 1: just thought it was one of the funniest things when 220 00:12:54,160 --> 00:12:59,640 Speaker 1: I went certain speed day tech stuff, well, um, I 221 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:03,120 Speaker 1: got quite a few others. Okay, let's let's how about 222 00:13:03,120 --> 00:13:06,680 Speaker 1: the USB Plasma Heart from USB dot Brando dot com. 223 00:13:06,760 --> 00:13:08,559 Speaker 1: Oh wait a minute, you're talking. You're you're talking like 224 00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:11,120 Speaker 1: the plasma balls where you put your hands on the 225 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:14,800 Speaker 1: outside of the sphere and the plasma streams light up 226 00:13:14,840 --> 00:13:20,040 Speaker 1: your hands. It was like ne version of you know, 227 00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:23,040 Speaker 1: we're turning this spaceship around there exactly exactly. So they've 228 00:13:23,080 --> 00:13:25,760 Speaker 1: got some that are heart shaped and they connect to 229 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:29,640 Speaker 1: your USB ports very computer, and so you can get 230 00:13:29,679 --> 00:13:32,480 Speaker 1: someone a nice little tool that will consume lots of 231 00:13:32,480 --> 00:13:35,200 Speaker 1: power and absolutely do nothing useful of any nature, which 232 00:13:35,240 --> 00:13:37,360 Speaker 1: is exactly what Valentine's Day is all about. But you 233 00:13:37,360 --> 00:13:39,480 Speaker 1: can put your finger on it, it will ye yeah, 234 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:41,360 Speaker 1: but really there's no use for it. I mean, it's 235 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:43,199 Speaker 1: pretty okay. I saw it and I was thinking I 236 00:13:43,320 --> 00:13:45,120 Speaker 1: kind of want one, and then I thought, yeah, do 237 00:13:45,160 --> 00:13:48,600 Speaker 1: I need another? I've already got enough USB gadgets. Maybe 238 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:51,520 Speaker 1: that's why you doesn't work. It could be it might 239 00:13:51,559 --> 00:13:55,319 Speaker 1: be my e key has been sapped to use uselessness 240 00:13:55,480 --> 00:14:00,520 Speaker 1: because of all my USB accoutrement. Uh else, how about 241 00:14:00,520 --> 00:14:07,040 Speaker 1: the USB Speaking of USB, USB Panda heated gloves Okay, 242 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:09,040 Speaker 1: that one I totally didn't see. This is also with 243 00:14:09,120 --> 00:14:12,959 Speaker 1: the USB dot Brando dot com. So they have several 244 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:15,360 Speaker 1: different kinds of heated gloves that fit on your hands. 245 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:17,920 Speaker 1: You plug the gloves into your USB for it and 246 00:14:17,960 --> 00:14:19,960 Speaker 1: it provides heat. So in case you're one of those 247 00:14:20,320 --> 00:14:24,120 Speaker 1: freaks of nature people people who get cold hands. In 248 00:14:24,120 --> 00:14:26,440 Speaker 1: the office for no apparent reason. It will allow you 249 00:14:26,440 --> 00:14:28,160 Speaker 1: to to get some more within your hands. Now, in 250 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:31,880 Speaker 1: this case, the gloves look like little panda faces. Um, 251 00:14:31,920 --> 00:14:34,440 Speaker 1: and it leaves your fingers free. Obviously, if you had 252 00:14:34,480 --> 00:14:37,000 Speaker 1: your fingers covered up by gloves, would be really hard 253 00:14:37,040 --> 00:14:40,360 Speaker 1: to type. So you know you've got these little panda 254 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:44,040 Speaker 1: faces on the backs of your hands as you're typing away. Um. 255 00:14:44,080 --> 00:14:46,600 Speaker 1: I'm not saying that it's a gift that you should 256 00:14:46,600 --> 00:14:50,880 Speaker 1: buy your wife. I'm just saying it's out there. Someone 257 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:55,160 Speaker 1: must be buying them. I'm sure they are. Uh. Or 258 00:14:55,160 --> 00:14:58,960 Speaker 1: how about the beating hearts stress relief pillow? When you 259 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:02,640 Speaker 1: see this one either heart shaped pillow, and it simulates 260 00:15:02,720 --> 00:15:05,480 Speaker 1: the sound of a beating heart. It actually throbs in 261 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:08,800 Speaker 1: different um speeds. It's never the same twice, or at 262 00:15:08,840 --> 00:15:11,240 Speaker 1: least never the same twice in a row. And the 263 00:15:11,320 --> 00:15:13,960 Speaker 1: idea is that by cuddling up to this, you are 264 00:15:14,120 --> 00:15:17,560 Speaker 1: comforted by the feel and sound of another human heart 265 00:15:17,600 --> 00:15:22,480 Speaker 1: beating close to yours, drifting off to sleep gently, and 266 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:24,720 Speaker 1: it shuts off automatically. So I guess we can assume 267 00:15:24,760 --> 00:15:28,960 Speaker 1: that the heart eventually undergoes cardiac arrest and uh, it 268 00:15:29,040 --> 00:15:33,640 Speaker 1: runs on batteries. Nothing says love like the gift of 269 00:15:33,800 --> 00:15:39,640 Speaker 1: artificial cardiac arrest, speaking of of cardiac um heart attack 270 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:43,600 Speaker 1: in a heart attack. In the geek year shopping sites, 271 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:46,920 Speaker 1: you're if you really want to, uh to give your 272 00:15:47,280 --> 00:15:51,240 Speaker 1: your loved one a piece of candy that says I 273 00:15:51,320 --> 00:15:55,520 Speaker 1: love you, and they happened to be of the uh 274 00:15:55,640 --> 00:15:58,880 Speaker 1: the geeky persuasion you you could find them, you know, 275 00:15:58,920 --> 00:16:03,640 Speaker 1: a gummy heart that's actually like a human heart as 276 00:16:03,680 --> 00:16:06,960 Speaker 1: compared to you know, the typical heart shaped Valentine thing 277 00:16:07,040 --> 00:16:09,200 Speaker 1: that would that would be a very subtle and fairly 278 00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:12,560 Speaker 1: inexpensive thing. Of course, It's also I don't know that 279 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:17,880 Speaker 1: anybody is going to just gnash into a a heart 280 00:16:17,920 --> 00:16:21,920 Speaker 1: shaped heart that's you know, probably gummy. I just it 281 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:25,640 Speaker 1: seems like it might be a little too hurt, Like, yeah, 282 00:16:26,680 --> 00:16:30,720 Speaker 1: we might actually cause heartburn. It's possible. On the other hand, 283 00:16:30,760 --> 00:16:34,000 Speaker 1: gummy feet, you know. Never mind, Well, I have I 284 00:16:34,040 --> 00:16:36,480 Speaker 1: have something here that I have actually seen one of 285 00:16:36,480 --> 00:16:40,920 Speaker 1: these in person. I'm about to potentially cause embarrassment to 286 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:43,440 Speaker 1: someone because I am going to name her. But if 287 00:16:43,480 --> 00:16:46,160 Speaker 1: none of you tell her that I said this, it'll 288 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:50,160 Speaker 1: all be okay. A certainly. A certain miss Natalie del 289 00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:53,760 Speaker 1: Conti of c net was wearing one of these at 290 00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:56,840 Speaker 1: c S. I happened to spot it and I brought 291 00:16:56,880 --> 00:16:58,840 Speaker 1: attention to it because I thought it was so amusing. 292 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:02,240 Speaker 1: She was wearing a net cluss that had her Twitter 293 00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:06,520 Speaker 1: handle on it said at Natalie Dell County. And she 294 00:17:06,720 --> 00:17:09,320 Speaker 1: then told me that it was a gift. So she 295 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:11,960 Speaker 1: was just being nice, I assume, and not actually showing 296 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:15,679 Speaker 1: everyone that that is in fact or Twitter accountant. But 297 00:17:15,720 --> 00:17:18,200 Speaker 1: if you want one of these, you can actually go 298 00:17:18,359 --> 00:17:22,399 Speaker 1: to Survival of the Hippist dot com and there you 299 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:26,919 Speaker 1: can fill out a little form and create a customized 300 00:17:26,960 --> 00:17:31,439 Speaker 1: Twitter handle um necklace. Uh. They also allow you to 301 00:17:31,480 --> 00:17:34,400 Speaker 1: do it as a key chain, a bracelet, anklet, pen, 302 00:17:34,680 --> 00:17:37,320 Speaker 1: or tie clip. And it doesn't have to be a 303 00:17:37,320 --> 00:17:39,280 Speaker 1: Twitter idea. It could be a hashtag, or you could 304 00:17:39,280 --> 00:17:40,760 Speaker 1: have no symbol at all and just have it be 305 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:43,200 Speaker 1: a name. But I think if you happen to have 306 00:17:43,240 --> 00:17:45,719 Speaker 1: a significant other who loves to be on the Twitter, 307 00:17:47,040 --> 00:17:49,920 Speaker 1: check it out the Twitter, the Twitter check it out. Yeah, 308 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:53,479 Speaker 1: so it's Survival of the Hippis dot com. All right? 309 00:17:53,560 --> 00:17:56,639 Speaker 1: Then should we talk about stuff that you you know, 310 00:17:56,720 --> 00:18:00,399 Speaker 1: that's on the less uh that that's tech techy type, 311 00:18:00,440 --> 00:18:03,560 Speaker 1: but maybe you know, if you really want to do 312 00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:06,040 Speaker 1: something actually nice. I got a couple of other little 313 00:18:06,119 --> 00:18:09,199 Speaker 1: kind of cute goofy ones. These are not These are 314 00:18:09,240 --> 00:18:13,520 Speaker 1: not tacky. I think necessarily they're more cute. So, for example, 315 00:18:13,920 --> 00:18:17,600 Speaker 1: motion box dot com, if you you can send a 316 00:18:17,640 --> 00:18:20,480 Speaker 1: fifteen second video to motion box dot com and have 317 00:18:20,560 --> 00:18:24,480 Speaker 1: it converted into a flipbook. So imagine creating a video 318 00:18:24,520 --> 00:18:26,520 Speaker 1: of yourself holding up a little sign saying you know, 319 00:18:26,600 --> 00:18:29,200 Speaker 1: I love you, and then as long as it's fifteen 320 00:18:29,200 --> 00:18:31,080 Speaker 1: seconds or less, you can send a motion box dot 321 00:18:31,119 --> 00:18:34,240 Speaker 1: com and purchase a flipbook where they will print out 322 00:18:34,600 --> 00:18:38,560 Speaker 1: a flipbook of the photos images of you in sequence, 323 00:18:38,600 --> 00:18:40,879 Speaker 1: so that when you flip it you get the effect 324 00:18:40,920 --> 00:18:42,840 Speaker 1: of the video, which I think is a really cute, 325 00:18:42,880 --> 00:18:46,119 Speaker 1: little personal way of showing someone something really nifty that 326 00:18:46,160 --> 00:18:51,080 Speaker 1: they wouldn't expect otherwise. Um. There's also there's the whole 327 00:18:52,080 --> 00:18:56,200 Speaker 1: chocolate thing. Let's talk about chuck o mes. Chocko means 328 00:18:57,080 --> 00:19:02,160 Speaker 1: like the Nintendo. We mean exactly like the Nintendo. Wean 329 00:19:02,240 --> 00:19:05,720 Speaker 1: you can get a chocolate version of your chocolate. Actually 330 00:19:05,760 --> 00:19:08,679 Speaker 1: it's not I think it's more of a generic, but 331 00:19:08,720 --> 00:19:12,280 Speaker 1: it's it's from Paul Pape Designs, who will make a 332 00:19:12,359 --> 00:19:15,359 Speaker 1: chocolate me figures and the message on the box says, 333 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:19,920 Speaker 1: we w I I belong together. You and me am 334 00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:24,600 Speaker 1: I I. But you can also get me avatar as 335 00:19:24,640 --> 00:19:28,520 Speaker 1: an Xbox Avatars, a little big planet, World of Warcraft 336 00:19:28,640 --> 00:19:32,800 Speaker 1: or custom game character cake toppers for your wedding. He 337 00:19:33,160 --> 00:19:36,080 Speaker 1: will design them, he'll customize them for you. So if 338 00:19:36,119 --> 00:19:38,679 Speaker 1: you're getting married on Valentine's Day and you're a geek 339 00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:42,159 Speaker 1: and you want those special geek cake toppers, Paul Paper 340 00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:44,920 Speaker 1: Designs has them for you. Now, granted they're not cheap. 341 00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:47,560 Speaker 1: They run between two hundred and four fifty dollars because 342 00:19:47,560 --> 00:19:50,639 Speaker 1: in a lot of these cases these are the customized figures. 343 00:19:50,680 --> 00:19:52,959 Speaker 1: So he will customize your cake toppers to look like 344 00:19:53,040 --> 00:19:57,240 Speaker 1: your me or your avatar or your World of Warcraft character, 345 00:19:57,960 --> 00:20:01,080 Speaker 1: which is pretty cool. So those were the other goofy ones. 346 00:20:01,080 --> 00:20:03,159 Speaker 1: But yeah, we can talk about some gifts that you know, 347 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:08,560 Speaker 1: maybe less less um whimsical, let's say, and more practical. Well, 348 00:20:08,560 --> 00:20:12,080 Speaker 1: because you know that's how I started act, Well, hit 349 00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:14,840 Speaker 1: me one more time. You know, I was thinking that 350 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:18,760 Speaker 1: that a nice techy gift if you were trying to 351 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:24,440 Speaker 1: show someone affection, might be a digital picture frame. Excellent choice, 352 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:26,640 Speaker 1: you know, because that that's something that you can put 353 00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:29,399 Speaker 1: on your desk with you know, however many photos it 354 00:20:29,440 --> 00:20:32,320 Speaker 1: will hold and you know, swap the mouth from time. 355 00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:34,399 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and they've they've come down in price and 356 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:37,119 Speaker 1: they've gotten a lot more energy efficient as well. I'd 357 00:20:37,160 --> 00:20:40,800 Speaker 1: like to specifically mentioned the Kodak Pulse. Yeah, this isn't 358 00:20:40,840 --> 00:20:45,040 Speaker 1: This isn't necessarily me endorsing a particular digital frame. There 359 00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:47,480 Speaker 1: are others, as we can't. Yeah, there are others that 360 00:20:47,560 --> 00:20:50,320 Speaker 1: do the similar things, but the Kodak Pulse in general 361 00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:53,320 Speaker 1: one of the reasons why I like this this frame, 362 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:55,080 Speaker 1: and again there are others that do the same thing. 363 00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:58,280 Speaker 1: You can create an email address specifically for the frame, 364 00:20:58,520 --> 00:21:01,560 Speaker 1: hook it to your WiFi, and then email photos directly 365 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:04,439 Speaker 1: to that frame. So let's say that you have a 366 00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:07,800 Speaker 1: camera that has that ability where you can take a 367 00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:11,280 Speaker 1: photo and send it via email wirelessly. Uh, there are 368 00:21:11,359 --> 00:21:13,600 Speaker 1: cameras that do this. In fact, Kodak makes another one. 369 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:15,280 Speaker 1: They were doing this at c S, which is why 370 00:21:15,280 --> 00:21:17,440 Speaker 1: it's so fresh in my mind. They had the Slice 371 00:21:17,440 --> 00:21:19,280 Speaker 1: camera that would allow you to take photos and send 372 00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:22,240 Speaker 1: it directly via email or or uploaded to a photo 373 00:21:22,320 --> 00:21:24,640 Speaker 1: sharing site if you wanted, well you could you could 374 00:21:24,640 --> 00:21:27,320 Speaker 1: send it to the frame's email address, so you could 375 00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:30,280 Speaker 1: give one to your sweetheart and then occasionally update the 376 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:36,920 Speaker 1: frame with photos, hopefully nice ones, so that you remain sweethearts. Yeah, 377 00:21:37,080 --> 00:21:39,760 Speaker 1: that's very That shouldn't be necessary to say, but I 378 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:44,960 Speaker 1: thought I would say it anyway. All right, then, um, 379 00:21:45,119 --> 00:21:47,320 Speaker 1: did you have? I mean, you were just I think 380 00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:50,680 Speaker 1: that I have two other other gadgets I think of 381 00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:54,280 Speaker 1: as nice, really nice Valentine's Day gifts. Now these are 382 00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:57,960 Speaker 1: more expensive ones, but like the Amazon Kindle, I think 383 00:21:58,080 --> 00:21:59,560 Speaker 1: is a great one if you have a If you 384 00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:01,720 Speaker 1: have a sweetheart who loves to read and does not 385 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:04,800 Speaker 1: already own a Kindle. Um, I would say the Nook. 386 00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:07,480 Speaker 1: But in general everything I've been looking at, the Kindle 387 00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:10,520 Speaker 1: seems to have a better performance than the milk does. Well, 388 00:22:10,600 --> 00:22:13,720 Speaker 1: you'd have to say it might kindle an old flame. 389 00:22:13,840 --> 00:22:15,920 Speaker 1: There you go, You've got the whole pun thing going 390 00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:18,080 Speaker 1: for you, as Pilett has pointed out exactly. And then 391 00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:21,280 Speaker 1: the flip video camera. I was going that you might 392 00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:24,920 Speaker 1: allow your sweetheart to flip out c two can play 393 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:28,440 Speaker 1: that game Pillette. But yeah, the Flip video camera again, 394 00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:32,359 Speaker 1: it's it's very portable. It it takes you know, pretty 395 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:34,879 Speaker 1: good video and it's not hard to use. It's not 396 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:37,280 Speaker 1: hard to to poort that video over to a computer. 397 00:22:37,840 --> 00:22:40,760 Speaker 1: So even if your sweetheart isn't that tech savvy, it's 398 00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:44,560 Speaker 1: a nice thing to uh, it's a nice present to give. Now. Granted, again, 399 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:47,480 Speaker 1: these are the gifts that are more expensive. So it's 400 00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:49,359 Speaker 1: if you've got the cash to burn and you're not 401 00:22:49,359 --> 00:22:51,720 Speaker 1: gonna be just like, hey, I got your key chain 402 00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:55,520 Speaker 1: with your Twitter handle on it. Well flip Yeah, flips 403 00:22:55,520 --> 00:22:58,840 Speaker 1: aren't very expensive. Neither of the Kodak cameras with the 404 00:22:58,920 --> 00:23:02,600 Speaker 1: z I eight what is similar Yeah, wait a minute, 405 00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:08,200 Speaker 1: isn't flipped by Cisco. Maybe they're getting into the romantic 406 00:23:08,280 --> 00:23:11,520 Speaker 1: tech business and maybe and of course, if you want to, uh, 407 00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:15,560 Speaker 1: if you want to indulge in the stereotypical girls like 408 00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:19,760 Speaker 1: anything that's pink. Pretty much every single manufacturer out there 409 00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:23,040 Speaker 1: has a pink version of whatever it is they're selling. Personally, 410 00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:25,359 Speaker 1: I don't care for that very much. I think it 411 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:28,320 Speaker 1: actually is sort of pandering in a way. I'm not granted, 412 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:31,760 Speaker 1: if your significant other loves the color pink, there's no 413 00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:33,720 Speaker 1: reason not to go out and buy a pink version 414 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:38,520 Speaker 1: of whatever. But um yeah, I think personally, I think 415 00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:42,680 Speaker 1: saying pink is for girls is a little suspect. I 416 00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:46,400 Speaker 1: don't like that marketing push. So, uh, I never buy 417 00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:49,919 Speaker 1: anything that's pink for my wife, which is also, by 418 00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:51,720 Speaker 1: the way, how we ended up with food poisoning at 419 00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:56,280 Speaker 1: that time with the salmon. Oh okay, I'm sorry. I 420 00:23:56,280 --> 00:24:00,399 Speaker 1: shouldn't go into that story. She's gonna kill me probably 421 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:04,919 Speaker 1: with salmon. Yeah, I don't really have a Well, I 422 00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:09,000 Speaker 1: think the ultimate gift of love still is the HTC 423 00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:13,000 Speaker 1: G one phone. Um even't even after the release of 424 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:15,399 Speaker 1: the Nexus one. My wife gave me the HTC g 425 00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:17,679 Speaker 1: one phone, and that's how I knew that we were 426 00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:20,880 Speaker 1: meant to be. It wasn't the previous twelve years of marriage. 427 00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:24,840 Speaker 1: It was the htcg one. Well. Frankly, all kinds of 428 00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:28,479 Speaker 1: gadgets like that, you know, are are great for it's 429 00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:31,920 Speaker 1: something that actually the person actually wants. Yeah, it doesn't 430 00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:35,720 Speaker 1: have to be a Valentine's Day theme, Yeah yeah, if there, 431 00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:38,880 Speaker 1: If if they're really into video games, get a video game. 432 00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:41,240 Speaker 1: They like that they've been talking about. You know, don't 433 00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:45,080 Speaker 1: you don't have to theme it? Perhaps Kingdom Hearts nice. 434 00:24:45,280 --> 00:24:49,040 Speaker 1: That's a good one. Yeah, I was thinking that that 435 00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:51,520 Speaker 1: that game I showed you of the guys who are 436 00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:54,520 Speaker 1: chasing each other and you have to do um different 437 00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:56,679 Speaker 1: muscle poses in order to fit through the hole in 438 00:24:56,680 --> 00:25:04,160 Speaker 1: the wall. Oh yeah, oh man, Okay, yeah, I'm I'm 439 00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:07,640 Speaker 1: just throwing it out there, Okay, okay, So anyway, um, yeah, 440 00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:09,359 Speaker 1: that's that's kind of a roundup of some of the 441 00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:12,080 Speaker 1: gifts that we've looked at. And uh, and you know, 442 00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:14,000 Speaker 1: if so, if you've got someone geeky in your life, 443 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:17,720 Speaker 1: take a look at sites like like think ache and um, 444 00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:21,200 Speaker 1: they have all kinds of other stuff too, I meane 445 00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:25,960 Speaker 1: T shirts and gizmos and and uh and remember do 446 00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:28,520 Speaker 1: not tell Natalie del Kanti I said that because she 447 00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:32,159 Speaker 1: already uh she's going to find out. Yeah, well eventually, 448 00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:34,680 Speaker 1: but I'd like to prolong that for as long as possible. 449 00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:40,080 Speaker 1: All right, So that leads us to some listener mail. 450 00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:47,000 Speaker 1: This listener mail comes from nath Angel. Nathaniel says, Chris 451 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:49,560 Speaker 1: and Jonathan, I've finally taken the time to write you 452 00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:51,840 Speaker 1: and tell you how great your podcast is. I've been 453 00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:54,480 Speaker 1: listening for months now and learn at least a tidbit 454 00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:57,320 Speaker 1: every time. Most of the time I gained an entire 455 00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:01,159 Speaker 1: gig of new knowledge. Any who, I was spurred to 456 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:04,200 Speaker 1: actually write because of an interesting event that occurred one 457 00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:07,080 Speaker 1: cold Wisconsin night. As I was on my way home 458 00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:09,760 Speaker 1: from work. I was listening to my iPod and wanted 459 00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:12,200 Speaker 1: to change the volume, but was not willing to take 460 00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:16,400 Speaker 1: off my toasty warm gloves. I then remember Jonathan saying 461 00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:19,320 Speaker 1: he had been guilty of licking his iPod, and I 462 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:21,760 Speaker 1: know my spin wheel on my Classic has the same 463 00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:25,960 Speaker 1: touch sensitivity. So much to the addition of my dorkiness 464 00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:28,800 Speaker 1: to the tenth power squared and divided by one point 465 00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:33,840 Speaker 1: to two three seven, I licked my iPod. There, I 466 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:36,480 Speaker 1: said it. I'm out of the closet. Keep up the 467 00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:42,280 Speaker 1: good work, Nathaniel, fellow iPod liquor, Nathaniel. I hesitate to 468 00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:46,600 Speaker 1: say this, but I was kidding. I have never licked 469 00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:52,320 Speaker 1: my iPod. How did it taste? 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