WEBVTT - Valentine's Day Technology 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:02.920 Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve camera. 0:00:03.200 --> 0:00:08.920 It's ready. Are you get in touch with technology? With 0:00:09.080 --> 0:00:17.959 tech Stuff from how stuff Looks dot com. Hello again, everyone, 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:20.960 Welcome to tech Stuff. My name is Chris Poulette. I'm 0:00:21.000 --> 0:00:23.439 the tech editor here at how Stuff works dot com. And, 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:27.440 as he often does on these occasions, sitting across from 0:00:27.440 --> 0:00:31.280 me is senior writer Jonathan Strickland. Oh, I wonder, wonder, 0:00:31.280 --> 0:00:34.240 wonder do do do do? Who wrote the Book of Love? 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:37.920 Is that your way of telling our listeners that you 0:00:38.000 --> 0:00:41.480 love them? I love each and every one of you 0:00:42.200 --> 0:00:45.319 except for one person. You know who you are and 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:49.440 what you did. But we're gonna talk about love and 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:54.480 technology because you know what's coming up. Valentine's Day. Yes, 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:59.720 some of us have that burned into our brains courtesy 0:00:59.840 --> 0:01:07.520 of are significant others and companies, green card companies, chocolate tears, 0:01:07.600 --> 0:01:10.400 people at the grocery store who put out the Valentine's 0:01:10.480 --> 0:01:17.400 Day goodies on December. Yeah, so, um, Valentine's Day, it's 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:19.720 coming up. We might be wondering what the heck is 0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:22.400 tech Stuff doing about Valentine's Day? Well, I'll tell you 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:24.640 We're gonna tell you about some tech that you might 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:28.959 want to look into as a possible gift for your sweetie. Yes, 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:32.400 and uh, would you like to start yourself or would 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:34.240 you like me to give? I will? I will start 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:38.800 with my my killer app, your killer app. Yes, this 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:42.479 this is the gift that keeps on giving, and possibly 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:45.440 one of the things that might give is a restraining order. 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:51.559 It's the It's cute Circuits hug shirt. Now, the hug 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:54.600 shirt is not new. This is actually a few years old. 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:56.280 I remember seeing it when it first came out, and 0:01:56.280 --> 0:01:59.520 I actually had a nice long conversation with a coworker 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:02.400 of ours, candas Keener, about the hug shirt, and she 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:05.600 had her own perspective on this, which I only wish 0:02:05.680 --> 0:02:08.960 I could repeat. But um, but Candice is so much 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:10.639 better at it than I am at then you rate. 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:13.400 The hug shirt has a shirt that happens to have 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:19.000 within it sensors and actuators, and they're located in strategic 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:22.360 points on the shirt, including things like the wrists and 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:26.360 the shoulders and lower back and parts of the torso. 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:29.720 And the idea here is that when you buy these 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:33.799 shirts and pears, and when a person on one end 0:02:34.440 --> 0:02:37.760 applies pressure to part of the shirt. The person wearing 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:40.440 the other shirt will feel the pressure. And the way 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:45.000 this works is that both shirts have Bluetooth transmitters in them, 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:49.959 and the Bluetooth transmitter will send data to the person's phone. 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:53.480 So you have to use your phone to send the 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:56.760 data to the other person's phone, which will then send 0:02:56.800 --> 0:02:59.960 the data via bluetooth to their shirt, which will then respond. 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:04.240 So I could give myself a hug and that data 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:08.079 will be transferred over to my significant other, who will 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:12.960 then get hugged by her own shirt and uh. According 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:18.480 to the website, the intensity of the hugging actuator depends 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:21.440 upon several factors, including how much pressure you use on 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:26.480 your end, your heart rate, and your body temperature, and 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:31.680 those things will determine the intensity of the hug. I 0:03:31.680 --> 0:03:34.520 feel dirty just thinking about that. But if you guys 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:37.400 want to hug your significant others, I'm just waiting until 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:41.240 they come out with hug pants. Hug pants. Yeah, you 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:43.560 know what I'm talking about. When you want to put 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:49.960 so yeah, how can I follow that? I don't know. 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:54.480 That's why I wanted to get it out first. Um. Yeah, 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:57.600 it's it's funny because um, there are a lot of 0:03:57.600 --> 0:04:00.320 of geek stores on the web now that there weren't 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:04.839 just a few years ago. Of course, your mouth, um 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:07.640 my one one of my favorites. IM. I'm a semi 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:11.040 frequent shopper of think geek dot com, an excellent website. 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:15.520 But there are others like a clear gear dot com um, 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:19.800 both of which have some Valentine's Day goodies um. And 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:24.160 they're all techy to different degrees. Um. You know, if 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:27.480 you were looking for a tech style romantic evening, you 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:32.640 both offer the flameless candle, you know, the led lights 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:35.480 that you can essentially blow on and they light up. 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:41.000 They don't use any sort of you know, flammable element 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:45.080 at all. It's so you know, it's a it's a 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:47.839 pretty nice way to say I love you, you geek. 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:50.280 You know, you have a romantic evening and the lights 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:52.640 very subtle. You can get getting different colors. It's pretty cool. 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:55.080 You can set the scene and there's no danger of 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:58.160 you excellently burning down the apartment, which is always nice. 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:01.040 And uh yeah, yeah I've seen those. These are those 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:03.479 are nice. Um. There's nice for other reasons too, but 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:08.920 it's you know, for that romantic evening. Uh. Clearly I'm 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:11.680 going a more goofy and geeky way than you are. Yeah, 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:15.000 why didn't you you? Uh? Just before we started, Jonathan says, 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:18.760 I've got all the goofy ones and I'm going, okay, well, 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:21.400 why don't you go hit us with another goofy one? 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:23.920 Maybe whould do the goofy ones first? Well no, no, no, no, 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:25.960 we can. We can go back and forth. Here, here's 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:29.480 another one. This is This is another shirt pair. Oh, 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:32.880 this is also from Think Geeky and uh this is 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:36.760 the eight bit Dynamic Life shirt. Yes, yes, So if 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:39.560 you've played games like Legend of Zelda, you are familiar 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:42.320 that your life bar is represented by a series of hearts, 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:45.760 and as you get hurt, portions of the hearts disappear, 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:47.920 so you could have maybe three and a half hearts, 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:50.760 you know, four hearts whatever as showing your your total health. 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:53.880 These shirts have six hearts on them. They're lit by 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:58.599 l e eds and in their rest state. As in, 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:01.480 if you are very far away from the person wearing 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:05.880 the other shirt or another shirt, because really this will uh, 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:08.120 this will change no matter who happens to be wearing 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:10.040 the other shirt. If there's a whole bunch of people 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:12.839 who show up to an event wearing these things's gonna 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:16.640 everyone's affected. Yeah, but if you are by yourself, you're 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:18.640 not near anyone else who's wearing one of these, Your 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:21.599 hearts will be at two and a half, and as 0:06:21.600 --> 0:06:23.960 you get closer to someone else wearing the same kind 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:27.279 of shirt, the hearts start to fill up until you're 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:30.720 around you know, hugging distance, and then they should be 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:34.080 showing up in full. They do this with radio frequencies 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:37.159 that transmit over a pretty short distance. But again, it's 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:41.520 not like these are tuned to a specific you know 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:45.760 mate shirt. It's anyone who's wearing that same shirt. So 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:48.400 if you go to a Jonathan Colton concert, there's a 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:50.240 good chance that you'll be lit up all the way 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:53.080 because it'll be like eight other people wearing that same 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:56.920 shirt somewhere in the audience. But still, I think it's cute. 0:06:57.080 --> 0:06:59.760 I uh actually looked into getting those for me and 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:02.039 my wife at one point, and then realize that as 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:06.520 big a dork as I am, my wife's not. I mean, 0:07:06.920 --> 0:07:09.920 don't get me wrong, I'm married a pretty geeky woman 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:14.480 and she's incredibly tech savvy, but she's content to keep 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:17.440 that internalized as opposed to wearing it and letting the 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:20.680 entire world know automatically wearing it on her sleeves, so 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:25.480 to speak exactly. Well. Um, Actually, in going with the 0:07:25.600 --> 0:07:29.840 light up hearts uh theme, you can also get the 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:32.920 two stores that I mentioned before. Um, you can also 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:37.760 get u a l E D kit that has Um 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:40.000 it's a heart shaped kit that you can make l 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:41.720 E d s and with l E d s and 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:45.200 once you put it together, the heart flashes, which is 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:48.240 something you can you can actually make for yourself. Um. 0:07:48.360 --> 0:07:51.760 The Maker shed actually the folks overt O'Reilly who published 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:54.760 Make magazine also have an l E ED Heart kit. 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:58.080 This one is is smaller and the LEDs are actually 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:01.400 closer together. Um. And but you know, if you want 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:04.360 to do something, uh, you know, you could actually make 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:07.440 something very much like that shirt yourself, and you know, 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:10.480 or make some kind of jewelry and and enhance it 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:13.760 with the the L E ED project, which would be 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:16.440 pretty cool. The think geek version and I assume it's 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:20.880 also has twenty eight red l A D s you 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:24.640 can use and and yeah, and the circuit board itself 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:27.440 is heart shaped. And yeah, you just need a little 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:31.440 soldering experience really to put the thing together, to to uh, 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:33.000 to get all the L A D s in place 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:37.040 and area. Yeah, so if you don't have, um, if 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:39.360 you don't have soldering experience, it might well, I mean, 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:42.440 you know what, L E D kits not a bad 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:45.360 way of learning how to solder, as you know, and 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:48.760 as long as you're careful and you're just paying attention, um, 0:08:48.800 --> 0:08:51.360 it's it's a pretty good way to get the basics 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:55.360 of how to build an electronic circuit. So you'll you'll learn, 0:08:55.640 --> 0:09:00.959 you'll love, you'll laugh. All right. I'm not going to 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:03.840 get one though, because last time I burned the apartment down. 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:07.920 Here's a here's a geek shirt for you, all right. 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:13.720 Roses are pound f f zero zero zero zero. Violets 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:17.440 are pound zero zero zero zero f f All my 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:21.960 base are belonged to you. That's the that would be 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:24.760 the codes for roses or red. Violets are blue, all 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:27.200 my bass or belonged to you. A supposed geeky as 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:30.560 it gets folks, UM, I don't necessarily recommend that you 0:09:30.600 --> 0:09:34.800 get this for your your female sweetheart. But but ladies, 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:37.640 if you're listening and you happen to be dating a 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:40.640 really geeky guy who likes to drop the geek references 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:45.600 all the time as a guaranteed winner, right there. Hey, um, 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:50.080 speaking of Candice who we mentioned, Yes, Candice, I hope 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:53.080 she doesn't listen to this episode. Didn't you say that? 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:58.000 She said there she had found some conversation hearts. Yes, 0:09:58.040 --> 0:10:00.760 the conversation hearts um have changed each over the years. These, 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:02.240 of course, of the ones that say things like hug 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:05.720 me and I like you, or I love you, or 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:08.280 be mine, you are cute that kind of stuff, don't 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:11.120 ingest me. I taste like chalk. That's what I think 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:14.280 they should say. Yeah, exactly, like I am. I am 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:16.720 stuck in a factory and they won't let me out. 0:10:16.840 --> 0:10:20.720 Help me? Right. Well, some of the more recent ones 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:24.640 actually have tech kind of phrases on them, including things 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:28.000 like text me and tweet me. So even our candy 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:32.400 is moving into the twenty first century. Uh yeah, well 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:35.720 it's actually because of that. I'm you know, I actually 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:37.560 thought of that when we were talking about Candice earlier. 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:42.520 But um, Sweet Tooth Designs has some emoticon jewelry that 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:45.959 you can say, um, there's a a heart with the 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:50.720 less than three sign, which is the Asky version of 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:53.680 the heart. Um. Also you can buy some with the 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:55.880 you know, smiley emoticons and things like that. But I 0:10:56.160 --> 0:10:59.400 really like the heart shape pin in with the Asky emoticon. 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:04.720 Heart's kind of a nice, sort of mildly techy touch 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:07.880 to it. But as an actual piece of jewelry, it's 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:10.880 not you know, right, I like the I like the 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:13.560 various kinds of jewelry and shirts and things you can 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:18.480 see with the less than three Yes. Yeah, nice, Um, 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:21.520 you got another one for me? Not for me, Chris 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:23.640 and I, I should add, we are not each other's 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:26.640 significant other. That's true. Yeah, it's just clear that up 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:29.360 because earlier today one of our coworkers suggested we were 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:32.880 a great historical couple that would be chuck by the 0:11:32.880 --> 0:11:38.280 way and stuff. You should know, that, wasn't it. Yeah. Uh, 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:44.680 Actually I ran across something that you know, the speaking 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:50.920 of weird Cisco. Yes, the the hardware manufacturer. You know 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:53.160 they bought three Calm not too long ago, very very 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:57.800 large company that makes things like you know, internet infrastructure routers. 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:00.800 They have a video on their you Tube channel that 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:04.520 suggests that if you really want to wow your sweetheart, 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:08.600 you should buy them an a s R nine thousand 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:12.880 router because and I'm quoting here, nothing says I love 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:17.000 you like six times the mobile back haul capacity. Really 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:21.280 nothing says I would like a divorce. Then a massive 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:24.200 piece of tech hardware that is an awesome shows an 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:26.240 awesome s is a humor. Oh yeah, yeah, no, it's 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:28.520 funny because I was going, is this really Cisco? And 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:31.120 the videos on the rest of the channel are all 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:35.360 about the the equipment. It's it's like, uh, white papers 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:37.480 and other things that you'd want to know if you 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:41.280 were going to invest in this, uh, this type of corporate, 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:46.120 heavy duty high tech routing hardware. And then they posted 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:49.320 this little sixty second video about how to uh to 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:52.360 win your sweetheart by buying them a router. And I 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:54.120 just thought it was one of the funniest things when 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:59.640 I went certain speed day tech stuff, well, um, I 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:03.120 got quite a few others. Okay, let's let's how about 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:06.680 the USB Plasma Heart from USB dot Brando dot com. 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:08.559 Oh wait a minute, you're talking. You're you're talking like 0:13:08.600 --> 0:13:11.120 the plasma balls where you put your hands on the 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:14.800 outside of the sphere and the plasma streams light up 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:20.040 your hands. It was like ne version of you know, 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:23.040 we're turning this spaceship around there exactly exactly. So they've 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:25.760 got some that are heart shaped and they connect to 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:29.640 your USB ports very computer, and so you can get 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:32.480 someone a nice little tool that will consume lots of 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:35.200 power and absolutely do nothing useful of any nature, which 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:37.360 is exactly what Valentine's Day is all about. But you 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:39.480 can put your finger on it, it will ye yeah, 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:41.360 but really there's no use for it. I mean, it's 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:43.199 pretty okay. I saw it and I was thinking I 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:45.120 kind of want one, and then I thought, yeah, do 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:48.600 I need another? I've already got enough USB gadgets. Maybe 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:51.520 that's why you doesn't work. It could be it might 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:55.319 be my e key has been sapped to use uselessness 0:13:55.480 --> 0:14:00.520 because of all my USB accoutrement. Uh else, how about 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:07.040 the USB Speaking of USB, USB Panda heated gloves Okay, 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:09.040 that one I totally didn't see. This is also with 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:12.959 the USB dot Brando dot com. So they have several 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:15.360 different kinds of heated gloves that fit on your hands. 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:17.920 You plug the gloves into your USB for it and 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:19.960 it provides heat. So in case you're one of those 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:24.120 freaks of nature people people who get cold hands. In 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:26.440 the office for no apparent reason. It will allow you 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:28.160 to to get some more within your hands. Now, in 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:31.880 this case, the gloves look like little panda faces. Um, 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:34.440 and it leaves your fingers free. Obviously, if you had 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:37.000 your fingers covered up by gloves, would be really hard 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:40.360 to type. So you know you've got these little panda 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:44.040 faces on the backs of your hands as you're typing away. Um. 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:46.600 I'm not saying that it's a gift that you should 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:50.880 buy your wife. I'm just saying it's out there. Someone 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:55.160 must be buying them. I'm sure they are. Uh. Or 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:58.960 how about the beating hearts stress relief pillow? When you 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:02.640 see this one either heart shaped pillow, and it simulates 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:05.480 the sound of a beating heart. It actually throbs in 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:08.800 different um speeds. It's never the same twice, or at 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:11.240 least never the same twice in a row. And the 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:13.960 idea is that by cuddling up to this, you are 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:17.560 comforted by the feel and sound of another human heart 0:15:17.600 --> 0:15:22.480 beating close to yours, drifting off to sleep gently, and 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:24.720 it shuts off automatically. So I guess we can assume 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:28.960 that the heart eventually undergoes cardiac arrest and uh, it 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:33.640 runs on batteries. Nothing says love like the gift of 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:39.640 artificial cardiac arrest, speaking of of cardiac um heart attack 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:43.600 in a heart attack. In the geek year shopping sites, 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:46.920 you're if you really want to, uh to give your 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:51.240 your loved one a piece of candy that says I 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:55.520 love you, and they happened to be of the uh 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:58.880 the geeky persuasion you you could find them, you know, 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:03.640 a gummy heart that's actually like a human heart as 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:06.960 compared to you know, the typical heart shaped Valentine thing 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:09.200 that would that would be a very subtle and fairly 0:16:09.200 --> 0:16:12.560 inexpensive thing. Of course, It's also I don't know that 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:17.880 anybody is going to just gnash into a a heart 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:21.920 shaped heart that's you know, probably gummy. I just it 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:25.640 seems like it might be a little too hurt, Like, yeah, 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:30.720 we might actually cause heartburn. It's possible. On the other hand, 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:34.000 gummy feet, you know. Never mind, Well, I have I 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:36.480 have something here that I have actually seen one of 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:40.920 these in person. I'm about to potentially cause embarrassment to 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:43.440 someone because I am going to name her. But if 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:46.160 none of you tell her that I said this, it'll 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:50.160 all be okay. A certainly. A certain miss Natalie del 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:53.760 Conti of c net was wearing one of these at 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:56.840 c S. I happened to spot it and I brought 0:16:56.880 --> 0:16:58.840 attention to it because I thought it was so amusing. 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:02.240 She was wearing a net cluss that had her Twitter 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:06.520 handle on it said at Natalie Dell County. And she 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:09.320 then told me that it was a gift. So she 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:11.960 was just being nice, I assume, and not actually showing 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:15.679 everyone that that is in fact or Twitter accountant. But 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:18.200 if you want one of these, you can actually go 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:22.399 to Survival of the Hippist dot com and there you 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:26.919 can fill out a little form and create a customized 0:17:26.960 --> 0:17:31.439 Twitter handle um necklace. Uh. They also allow you to 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:34.400 do it as a key chain, a bracelet, anklet, pen, 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:37.320 or tie clip. And it doesn't have to be a 0:17:37.320 --> 0:17:39.280 Twitter idea. It could be a hashtag, or you could 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:40.760 have no symbol at all and just have it be 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:43.200 a name. But I think if you happen to have 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:45.719 a significant other who loves to be on the Twitter, 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:49.920 check it out the Twitter, the Twitter check it out. Yeah, 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:53.479 so it's Survival of the Hippis dot com. All right? 0:17:53.560 --> 0:17:56.639 Then should we talk about stuff that you you know, 0:17:56.720 --> 0:18:00.399 that's on the less uh that that's tech techy type, 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:03.560 but maybe you know, if you really want to do 0:18:03.640 --> 0:18:06.040 something actually nice. I got a couple of other little 0:18:06.119 --> 0:18:09.199 kind of cute goofy ones. These are not These are 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:13.520 not tacky. I think necessarily they're more cute. So, for example, 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:17.600 motion box dot com, if you you can send a 0:18:17.640 --> 0:18:20.480 fifteen second video to motion box dot com and have 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:24.480 it converted into a flipbook. So imagine creating a video 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:26.520 of yourself holding up a little sign saying you know, 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:29.200 I love you, and then as long as it's fifteen 0:18:29.200 --> 0:18:31.080 seconds or less, you can send a motion box dot 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:34.240 com and purchase a flipbook where they will print out 0:18:34.600 --> 0:18:38.560 a flipbook of the photos images of you in sequence, 0:18:38.600 --> 0:18:40.879 so that when you flip it you get the effect 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:42.840 of the video, which I think is a really cute, 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:46.119 little personal way of showing someone something really nifty that 0:18:46.160 --> 0:18:51.080 they wouldn't expect otherwise. Um. There's also there's the whole 0:18:52.080 --> 0:18:56.200 chocolate thing. Let's talk about chuck o mes. Chocko means 0:18:57.080 --> 0:19:02.160 like the Nintendo. We mean exactly like the Nintendo. Wean 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:05.720 you can get a chocolate version of your chocolate. Actually 0:19:05.760 --> 0:19:08.679 it's not I think it's more of a generic, but 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:12.280 it's it's from Paul Pape Designs, who will make a 0:19:12.359 --> 0:19:15.359 chocolate me figures and the message on the box says, 0:19:15.680 --> 0:19:19.920 we w I I belong together. You and me am 0:19:19.960 --> 0:19:24.600 I I. But you can also get me avatar as 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:28.520 an Xbox Avatars, a little big planet, World of Warcraft 0:19:28.640 --> 0:19:32.800 or custom game character cake toppers for your wedding. He 0:19:33.160 --> 0:19:36.080 will design them, he'll customize them for you. So if 0:19:36.119 --> 0:19:38.679 you're getting married on Valentine's Day and you're a geek 0:19:38.920 --> 0:19:42.159 and you want those special geek cake toppers, Paul Paper 0:19:42.680 --> 0:19:44.920 Designs has them for you. Now, granted they're not cheap. 0:19:44.960 --> 0:19:47.560 They run between two hundred and four fifty dollars because 0:19:47.560 --> 0:19:50.639 in a lot of these cases these are the customized figures. 0:19:50.680 --> 0:19:52.959 So he will customize your cake toppers to look like 0:19:53.040 --> 0:19:57.240 your me or your avatar or your World of Warcraft character, 0:19:57.960 --> 0:20:01.080 which is pretty cool. So those were the other goofy ones. 0:20:01.080 --> 0:20:03.159 But yeah, we can talk about some gifts that you know, 0:20:03.200 --> 0:20:08.560 maybe less less um whimsical, let's say, and more practical. Well, 0:20:08.560 --> 0:20:12.080 because you know that's how I started act, Well, hit 0:20:12.200 --> 0:20:14.840 me one more time. You know, I was thinking that 0:20:15.480 --> 0:20:18.760 that a nice techy gift if you were trying to 0:20:18.840 --> 0:20:24.440 show someone affection, might be a digital picture frame. Excellent choice, 0:20:24.480 --> 0:20:26.640 you know, because that that's something that you can put 0:20:26.640 --> 0:20:29.399 on your desk with you know, however many photos it 0:20:29.440 --> 0:20:32.320 will hold and you know, swap the mouth from time. 0:20:32.520 --> 0:20:34.399 Oh yeah, and they've they've come down in price and 0:20:34.400 --> 0:20:37.119 they've gotten a lot more energy efficient as well. I'd 0:20:37.160 --> 0:20:40.800 like to specifically mentioned the Kodak Pulse. Yeah, this isn't 0:20:40.840 --> 0:20:45.040 This isn't necessarily me endorsing a particular digital frame. There 0:20:45.080 --> 0:20:47.480 are others, as we can't. Yeah, there are others that 0:20:47.560 --> 0:20:50.320 do the similar things, but the Kodak Pulse in general 0:20:50.680 --> 0:20:53.320 one of the reasons why I like this this frame, 0:20:53.400 --> 0:20:55.080 and again there are others that do the same thing. 0:20:55.400 --> 0:20:58.280 You can create an email address specifically for the frame, 0:20:58.520 --> 0:21:01.560 hook it to your WiFi, and then email photos directly 0:21:01.640 --> 0:21:04.439 to that frame. So let's say that you have a 0:21:04.560 --> 0:21:07.800 camera that has that ability where you can take a 0:21:07.800 --> 0:21:11.280 photo and send it via email wirelessly. Uh, there are 0:21:11.359 --> 0:21:13.600 cameras that do this. In fact, Kodak makes another one. 0:21:13.600 --> 0:21:15.280 They were doing this at c S, which is why 0:21:15.280 --> 0:21:17.440 it's so fresh in my mind. They had the Slice 0:21:17.440 --> 0:21:19.280 camera that would allow you to take photos and send 0:21:19.280 --> 0:21:22.240 it directly via email or or uploaded to a photo 0:21:22.320 --> 0:21:24.640 sharing site if you wanted, well you could you could 0:21:24.640 --> 0:21:27.320 send it to the frame's email address, so you could 0:21:27.320 --> 0:21:30.280 give one to your sweetheart and then occasionally update the 0:21:30.400 --> 0:21:36.920 frame with photos, hopefully nice ones, so that you remain sweethearts. Yeah, 0:21:37.080 --> 0:21:39.760 that's very That shouldn't be necessary to say, but I 0:21:39.800 --> 0:21:44.960 thought I would say it anyway. All right, then, um, 0:21:45.119 --> 0:21:47.320 did you have? I mean, you were just I think 0:21:47.680 --> 0:21:50.680 that I have two other other gadgets I think of 0:21:50.840 --> 0:21:54.280 as nice, really nice Valentine's Day gifts. Now these are 0:21:54.480 --> 0:21:57.960 more expensive ones, but like the Amazon Kindle, I think 0:21:58.080 --> 0:21:59.560 is a great one if you have a If you 0:21:59.600 --> 0:22:01.720 have a sweetheart who loves to read and does not 0:22:01.800 --> 0:22:04.800 already own a Kindle. Um, I would say the Nook. 0:22:04.880 --> 0:22:07.480 But in general everything I've been looking at, the Kindle 0:22:07.520 --> 0:22:10.520 seems to have a better performance than the milk does. Well, 0:22:10.600 --> 0:22:13.720 you'd have to say it might kindle an old flame. 0:22:13.840 --> 0:22:15.920 There you go, You've got the whole pun thing going 0:22:15.960 --> 0:22:18.080 for you, as Pilett has pointed out exactly. And then 0:22:18.200 --> 0:22:21.280 the flip video camera. I was going that you might 0:22:21.440 --> 0:22:24.920 allow your sweetheart to flip out c two can play 0:22:25.040 --> 0:22:28.440 that game Pillette. But yeah, the Flip video camera again, 0:22:28.520 --> 0:22:32.359 it's it's very portable. It it takes you know, pretty 0:22:32.400 --> 0:22:34.879 good video and it's not hard to use. It's not 0:22:34.920 --> 0:22:37.280 hard to to poort that video over to a computer. 0:22:37.840 --> 0:22:40.760 So even if your sweetheart isn't that tech savvy, it's 0:22:40.760 --> 0:22:44.560 a nice thing to uh, it's a nice present to give. Now. Granted, again, 0:22:44.600 --> 0:22:47.480 these are the gifts that are more expensive. So it's 0:22:47.520 --> 0:22:49.359 if you've got the cash to burn and you're not 0:22:49.359 --> 0:22:51.720