WEBVTT - The Actually Cool Gadgets Coming From the Tech Industry in 2024

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<v Speaker 1>Aol Zone Media.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh man, welcome back to it could happen here the

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<v Speaker 2>only podcast that takes sole responsibility for the assassination of

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<v Speaker 2>So we're back. We're still at CES. We're slightly more

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<v Speaker 2>sober than we were last night.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, but we are more high on ces.

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<v Speaker 2>We are higher on cees. If you haven't been, The

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<v Speaker 2>Consumer Electronics Show is one hundred and twenty thousand or

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<v Speaker 2>so people all flooding into Las Vegas for about four days,

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<v Speaker 2>where they walk around in a convention center that if

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<v Speaker 2>you grew up in a small town, the convention center

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<v Speaker 2>is larger than where you grew up. And it's just

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<v Speaker 2>wall to wall a mix of incredible new technology, achievements

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<v Speaker 2>that are going to change people's lives, absolute nonsense, vaporware,

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<v Speaker 2>repackaged old shit, and stuff that will get someone you

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<v Speaker 2>love killed, all just crammed together in this massive room

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<v Speaker 2>the size of a small world, and yeah, you just

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<v Speaker 2>kind of go crazy slowly living in it. This is Robert,

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<v Speaker 2>you know me and Garrison? Hello, you know Garrison, And

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<v Speaker 2>returning from part one is Tavia Mora, our resident technological expert. Tavia,

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<v Speaker 2>how'd you feel in your second day out on the floor.

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<v Speaker 4>Exhausted and excited to be impressed by stuff.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, well that is what we're doing today today's episode.

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<v Speaker 2>Last time we tell keep that mic in your hand.

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<v Speaker 2>Last episode we talked about the most obviously stupid products.

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<v Speaker 2>So Tavia, I want you to start us off with

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<v Speaker 2>what is a good product something you saw today or

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<v Speaker 2>yesterday that you thought that thing is fucking cool.

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<v Speaker 4>Well, let's see. I think we're in the North Hall.

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<v Speaker 4>It was in the North Hall that we saw This

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<v Speaker 4>is a gadget called wheel me that was just a

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<v Speaker 4>simple rolling platform that I would track along where it

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<v Speaker 4>was supposed to go on the ground. But what I

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<v Speaker 4>saw on it was a road case, and I was

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<v Speaker 4>very excited. Since I work in a lot of the

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<v Speaker 4>event spaces and when I have to move to and

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<v Speaker 4>from kind of where we're like staging a lot of

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<v Speaker 4>stuff to where the site is, it's really nice to

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<v Speaker 4>have the extra help. The extra lift that was marketed

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<v Speaker 4>pretty much directly toward me. As soon as I saw it,

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<v Speaker 4>instantly wanted it. I could see I use for that.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, it seemed like a potentially really useful thing. Obviously,

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<v Speaker 2>the mount that they had wouldn't be able to go

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<v Speaker 2>up or down stairs. Well, but if you're moving across

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<v Speaker 2>like a large warehouse space or something like the kind

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<v Speaker 2>of folece where a lot of events are held, or

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<v Speaker 2>a concert space, I could see it being a real

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<v Speaker 2>labor saver. And we did see there was another product

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<v Speaker 2>there that was like it was a delivery robot for

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<v Speaker 2>like delivering food that they had built away for it

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<v Speaker 2>to go upstairs, where it basically had a large, maybe

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<v Speaker 2>two feet diameter wheel and there were like plastic spokes

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<v Speaker 2>and then the outside of the wheel is like soft

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<v Speaker 2>plastic like the actual tread itself, and so it would

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<v Speaker 2>just kind of bend to conform to the shape of

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<v Speaker 2>the stairs, and it was able to roll smoothly upstairs

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<v Speaker 2>on its wheels as a result of that, which I

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<v Speaker 2>thought was kind of impressive. And that's one of the

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<v Speaker 2>nicer things, is like seeing like, oh, somebody really puts

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<v Speaker 2>some thought into that. That's a legitimately clever idea as

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<v Speaker 2>opposed to a product we didn't mention last time. But

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<v Speaker 2>it's one of the dumbest things I've ever seen. A

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<v Speaker 2>guy who created smart plants, who used the power of

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<v Speaker 2>AI to make your plants able to communicate with you,

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<v Speaker 2>so It's basically a huge plastic flower plant pets with

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<v Speaker 2>a Z spelled with a Z.

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<v Speaker 3>And basically you can't talk to it. But most of

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<v Speaker 3>what humane to we were just molesting the plants.

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<v Speaker 2>It will it has speakers in the flower pots, so

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<v Speaker 2>would you like stroke the leaves? It will giggle like

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<v Speaker 2>this is It was immediately like, oh, this is made

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<v Speaker 2>for some kind of weird sex freak like some.

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<v Speaker 4>And didn't it like spin back and forth a little

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<v Speaker 4>bit as oh, he's giggling.

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<v Speaker 3>It like it shimmered, it like danced the pod around,

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<v Speaker 3>it made it made small little noises. It was. It

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<v Speaker 3>was quite something. And the guy was incredibly enthusiastic about

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<v Speaker 3>his about his talking, his talking giggling plants.

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<v Speaker 4>He was following his passion truly.

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<v Speaker 3>You could see yeah in his eyes. I will say

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<v Speaker 3>the product worked. I'm just not sure it did work

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<v Speaker 3>the product is for, but it was one of the

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<v Speaker 3>more functional pieces of technology we've seen. It did.

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<v Speaker 2>He also said that like when the plants were dry,

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<v Speaker 2>it would like make the sound like a bubbling water sound,

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<v Speaker 2>which I think is a mistake. It should scream at

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<v Speaker 2>you when you have not watered the plants recently enough.

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<v Speaker 2>But I do love how clearly he was obsessed with

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<v Speaker 2>the brilliance of this design. That is one of the

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<v Speaker 2>fun things at the smaller booths at a show like this,

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<v Speaker 2>because like you know, you got like big companies LG

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<v Speaker 2>and Lenovo and Honda, all these massive companies with very slick,

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<v Speaker 2>expensive booths, and then you have in other areas just

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<v Speaker 2>like a little square that's just a crazy person with

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<v Speaker 2>the thing that they've dedicated their life to building. And

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<v Speaker 2>sometimes it's the most brilliant thing you've ever seen. And

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<v Speaker 2>sometimes it's a flower poth that that giggles when you molest.

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<v Speaker 3>Sometimes it's plant, but it's you.

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<v Speaker 2>I always appreciate the fact that, well, at least you

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<v Speaker 2>threw your life into this stupid thing.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah. No, it's always kind of endearing, like yeah, yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>no matter what it is, it's it's fun to see

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<v Speaker 3>someone who's like, figure it out life.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, a man. Yeah, you know who you are. You're

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<v Speaker 2>the plant pets guy. Is that a good thing to be?

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know, that's not yeah, that's not that's not

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<v Speaker 2>on me. Uh.

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<v Speaker 3>I mean, we certainly saw a lot of a lot

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<v Speaker 3>of products walking walking the show floor today, not nearly

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<v Speaker 3>as many metaverse products as there were last year, and

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<v Speaker 3>there were still some. I was finally able to try

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<v Speaker 3>the Haptics tax suit, which I missed last year. This

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<v Speaker 3>is it's basically a vest that zips up. It's it's

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<v Speaker 3>not as painful as some of the other haptic suits

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<v Speaker 3>that I tried out last year, which I kind of

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<v Speaker 3>you enjoyed the ones that are just like actually hurt you.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, but like basically shock you in such a way

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<v Speaker 2>as to simulate a stab, wound or something.

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<v Speaker 3>That was cool. Yeah, this one by B hacked. This

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<v Speaker 3>one by b Haptics was very user friendly. It wasn't

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<v Speaker 3>it wasn't really painful, but it worked. It worked pretty well.

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<v Speaker 3>What else? What else did we see walking walking into

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<v Speaker 3>the big central hall? Oh? There was there was that

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<v Speaker 3>thing that I wish was real but probably will never be,

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<v Speaker 3>which is the LG podcasting camphor hand.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah. So LG the people who may or may not

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<v Speaker 2>have made your TV, but there's a decent chance they did.

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<v Speaker 2>They have their big booth. It's mostly like TVs and

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<v Speaker 2>smart home connected and entertainment stuff. But then they had

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<v Speaker 2>like a concept product that was like a camper trailer.

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<v Speaker 2>It was actually a really nice layout, but for what

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<v Speaker 2>you know camper trailers, they have all these little like

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<v Speaker 2>cubby holes and storage spaces built into the sides in

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<v Speaker 2>the back, and so underneath the bed that took up

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<v Speaker 2>the back, they had like a folding down space where

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<v Speaker 2>it was like it was like stored a half dozen

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<v Speaker 2>bottles of wine and glasses in a very like pleasing way.

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<v Speaker 2>But then in the center of the wine and the

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<v Speaker 2>glasses are two like recording microphones. Like that's just like

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<v Speaker 2>they made a van for podcasting alcoholics and.

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<v Speaker 3>I respect very targeted audience there.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah. On the other side of it was a fold

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<v Speaker 2>down panel that was like a lot of campers have

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<v Speaker 2>that you could fold it down and it's like a table,

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<v Speaker 2>but on the wall, like once you fold it down,

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<v Speaker 2>underneath the part of it that folds down, it's like

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<v Speaker 2>a TV screen that they had tuned to like a

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<v Speaker 2>fire place, like a campfire video. Just like if I

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<v Speaker 2>am out in the wilderness, I am not putting on

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<v Speaker 2>a campfire video. That's the most depressing thing I can imagine.

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<v Speaker 2>Why would you do that? But that was fun in

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<v Speaker 2>terms of like actually impressive things. There's a product we

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<v Speaker 2>saw our first night out there. The time Kettle. I

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<v Speaker 2>don't know why they gave him up that name. It

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<v Speaker 2>has nothing to do with what the product does. This

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<v Speaker 2>is a translation device specifically, it's it's like the star

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<v Speaker 2>trekiest thing I saw, because first off, it's a little

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<v Speaker 2>retro It's like a kind of a thick rectangular prism

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<v Speaker 2>with a screen on it. And the rep from the

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<v Speaker 2>company was like a Chinese man who clearly was like

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<v Speaker 2>spoke Mandarin is his native language, and we had a

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<v Speaker 2>conversation talking into this thing, and it would translate and

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<v Speaker 2>speak back to each other. And there's like a little

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<v Speaker 2>compartment on it that pops out, and it has two earphones.

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<v Speaker 2>You could each put one in each person's ear to

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<v Speaker 2>have like a live conversation that's translated over it. You

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<v Speaker 2>can also hook it in through your phone. I know

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<v Speaker 2>there's a couple of devices like that. This is the

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<v Speaker 2>one I've seen that seemed both the smoothest and the

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<v Speaker 2>most kind of like purpose built of them. I thought

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<v Speaker 2>it was really impressive, and it's one of those only

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<v Speaker 2>you don't get those so often these days, but like

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<v Speaker 2>every now and then at a show like this, you

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<v Speaker 2>see a piece of technology that's like, well, this is

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<v Speaker 2>what I assumed we would be doing with computers when

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<v Speaker 2>I was a kid in the future, right, there would

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<v Speaker 2>be an instant translator, a babblefish device that you could

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<v Speaker 2>just fit in your pocket, and it is kind of

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<v Speaker 2>fucking dope, and I thought it worked really well. Liked

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<v Speaker 2>I could have conducted an interview with this guy through

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<v Speaker 2>that thing and it would have been pretty seamless, which

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<v Speaker 2>which was nice to see. Speaking of Mandarin, I don't know,

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<v Speaker 2>whatever products you're listening to, there's like a good thirty

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<v Speaker 2>percent chance they're made over in China. So support the

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<v Speaker 2>Chinese economy. We're back. So one of the things we

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<v Speaker 2>did at this trade show, most of the time we

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<v Speaker 2>spent was not out on the floor looking at products,

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<v Speaker 2>it was attending these different speeches and panels, like where

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<v Speaker 2>they'll have people from like they had like one of

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<v Speaker 2>Google's AI heads and like the head of McDonald's AI integration,

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<v Speaker 2>which is happening for some reason. We'll talk more about

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<v Speaker 2>this in our dedicated AI episodes that are coming a

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<v Speaker 2>bit later. But on one of the panels it was

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<v Speaker 2>AI is the Fifth Industrial Revolution, was the name of

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<v Speaker 2>the panel. They did not once to talk about what

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<v Speaker 2>industrial revel The other four were or why this one was?

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<v Speaker 2>They just said that title like five times. They were

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<v Speaker 2>very proud of it. And one who was that Lady Garrison.

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<v Speaker 3>The Alexa lady with the iHeart AI shirt.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, there was a lady with a shirt that said

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<v Speaker 2>iHeart is Was she the dividend lady?

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<v Speaker 3>No, the dividend lady was from was from the Synthetic

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<v Speaker 3>Information panel?

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, yes, oh sorry, sorry sorry that was the other panel. Yeah. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>there was a panel in like deep fakes and AI harms,

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<v Speaker 2>and there was a lady on there who was like

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<v Speaker 2>some sort of relevant expert. But she kept using the

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<v Speaker 2>term the liar's dividend to refer to the money that

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<v Speaker 2>you make if you're a scammer, and she kept using

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<v Speaker 2>it in the way she used it. I immediately thought, like, oh,

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<v Speaker 2>this lady wants to sell a book and that's the

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<v Speaker 2>title of the book, right, Like, that's very clearly she's

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<v Speaker 2>mentioning it in such a pointed, unnatural way. That was

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<v Speaker 2>my assumption. Aparently the term.

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<v Speaker 3>Has existed for a few years now.

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<v Speaker 2>It seems useless to me because like, if you're saying

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<v Speaker 2>someone is a fraudster, well, the diviend is the money

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<v Speaker 2>they make committing fraud. Like, you don't need to give

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<v Speaker 2>it another name. It's not like that's like again, it's

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<v Speaker 2>like calling the money you get robbing a bank the

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<v Speaker 2>bank robbers dividend. Well, that's just a stupid thing to say. So, yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>we've been using that for everything now and now you

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<v Speaker 2>are all enjoying the podcaster's dividend here. You know, that's

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<v Speaker 2>that's what you're listening to.

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<v Speaker 3>Speaking of listening, we tried good pivot here, say thank

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<v Speaker 3>you loud to you, thank you. We call that the

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<v Speaker 3>Segway dividend. We tried. I know Robert's familiar with this,

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<v Speaker 3>but I've not tried them out before until today. I

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<v Speaker 3>think it's called chokes shocks. Shocks.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I wear those headphones every day. Yeah. They're like

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<v Speaker 2>bone conducting headphones.

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<v Speaker 3>Bone conducting headphones, so they don't go in your ear.

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<v Speaker 3>They go around like around the back of your head.

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<v Speaker 3>They hook around your ear lobe and they vibe right

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<v Speaker 3>and they can make you hear sounds in your brain.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, which is pretty cool.

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<v Speaker 3>They were they had they just launched a new waterproof

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<v Speaker 3>model targeting like swimmers.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, IP sixty eight or something like that. Like, yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>it's it's supposed to be. You can submerge it for

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<v Speaker 2>like hours at two meters of depth, so you can

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<v Speaker 2>like swim with them on.

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<v Speaker 3>But I really enjoyed these. Yeah, apparently they can help

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<v Speaker 3>some people who have like targeted hearing loss, So that's

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<v Speaker 3>that's an actually neat piece of working technology.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's really cool if you're not aware of these,

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<v Speaker 2>because when we say, like Whin said, you can hear

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<v Speaker 2>sounds to them. They're just like wearing normal headphones. But

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<v Speaker 2>we have a friend who is deaf in one ear

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<v Speaker 2>and put them on for the first time recently. It

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<v Speaker 2>was able to like hear out of that ear for

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<v Speaker 2>the first time in years, which is like kind of

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<v Speaker 2>an amazing thing to be able to do with a

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<v Speaker 2>fucking set of headphones that are they're not cheap headphones,

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<v Speaker 2>but they're not like inaccessibly expensive. All right, Tavia, you

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<v Speaker 2>got another one you wanted to talk about.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, there was the product that we ran into that

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<v Speaker 4>was very close to the tact suit that Garrison had

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<v Speaker 4>tried on, and it's called three D Desk. It looks

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<v Speaker 4>to be like an additional add on you can put

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<v Speaker 4>on top of your desk that you would use if

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<v Speaker 4>you were working. The one that we had seen was

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<v Speaker 4>a standing sitting style desk and it has the actual

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<v Speaker 4>product itself on top of it, which looked to be

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<v Speaker 4>like a stand, and it had two monitors attached to

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<v Speaker 4>one plane of it, and then with like I think

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<v Speaker 4>a simple button switch, it would sort of like another

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<v Speaker 4>monitor would swoop out from behind them, and there was

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<v Speaker 4>sort of like this cycling monitor arrangement that I hadn't

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<v Speaker 4>quite seen before. And I work a lot with a

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<v Speaker 4>bunch of different types of programs, and I'm like more

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<v Speaker 4>or less stuck to my desk most of the time.

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<v Speaker 4>So this actually looked to be another really useful product

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<v Speaker 4>for somebody like me, not unlike the wheel me.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah. One of the thing you can if you've seen

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<v Speaker 2>like a drafting table, right like those desks, it's basically

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<v Speaker 2>a big desk that you can like pushed down so

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<v Speaker 2>that like the desk part is almost parallel and you

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<v Speaker 2>can like put stick paper and stuff on and you

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<v Speaker 2>can draw draw on it, like it's what architects use.

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<v Speaker 2>It has that, so like underneath the monitors there's this

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<v Speaker 2>top desk piece that you can like flip up and

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<v Speaker 2>you can put stuff on, like use it as like

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<v Speaker 2>a drafting table, or push it back down, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>with the switch of a button. It's pretty cool looking desk.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, it would have like the two monitors and then

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<v Speaker 4>this sort of like this plane that would be sitting

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<v Speaker 4>at like a thirty nine degree angle or so kind

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<v Speaker 4>of from you, so you can set a bunch of

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<v Speaker 4>books up or a bunch of notes you're taking or organizing.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, as a general rule, it was one of the

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<v Speaker 2>like the products that I kept finding myself gravitating towards

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<v Speaker 2>in our free time. There was like anything that had

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<v Speaker 2>nothing to do with AI, because yeah, anyone who could

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<v Speaker 2>who could find any reason to stick AI in something

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<v Speaker 2>like people there's people selling like battery generators that are

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<v Speaker 2>like AI assisted, and it's like, what do you mean

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<v Speaker 2>it means? It means it cuts off the power when

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<v Speaker 2>it's full.

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<v Speaker 3>Well, unbelievable.

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<v Speaker 2>That's not a that's just a battery working better, Like,

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<v Speaker 2>come on, guys, It's this thing the tech industry does

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<v Speaker 2>that that has has been exposed by like a lot

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<v Speaker 2>of the products we've seen this year, many of whom

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<v Speaker 2>are like just absolute nonsense, like the the wehead thing

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<v Speaker 2>that that that like hideous chatbot that looks like a

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<v Speaker 2>broken human face and just deeply off putting. Now that said,

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<v Speaker 2>there was a really cool product that we uh uh

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<v Speaker 2>that I actually like liked, the AI use application. So

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<v Speaker 2>there's a company called Cellistron that makes they're calling it

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<v Speaker 2>a like a home observatory, and it's it looks like

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<v Speaker 2>a big telescope. It's not cheap. It's not insanely expensive

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<v Speaker 2>for a telescope, mind you, but it's it's not inexpensive,

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<v Speaker 2>and it is like a motorized telescope that it uses

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<v Speaker 2>like AI, like some sort of AI program in order

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<v Speaker 2>to cut out light pollution and stuff and enhance the

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<v Speaker 2>images that you're you're getting so that you can actually

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<v Speaker 2>get clear images of like galaxies and other planets from

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<v Speaker 2>your backyard. And it hooks into like a phone or

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<v Speaker 2>a tablet or computer like wirelessly. It actually generates its

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<v Speaker 2>own Wi Fi network, so you can still use even

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<v Speaker 2>if you don't have Internet. But one of what you

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<v Speaker 2>can do is you could control it from like an iPad,

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<v Speaker 2>and you could port the feed directly to your TV,

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<v Speaker 2>and you could like direct you could have like a

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<v Speaker 2>group of people sitting around snorting whatever drugs you prefer

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<v Speaker 2>to snort and like looking at different galaxies and shit

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<v Speaker 2>in space. And that was pretty fucking cool and actually

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<v Speaker 2>like an actual application of machine learning that I thought

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<v Speaker 2>was positive.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, you can have like your little at home star parties.

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<v Speaker 4>I dug in a little bit more on like how

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<v Speaker 4>AI gets used there, and it seemed like it was

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<v Speaker 4>mostly part of the image processing before controls get set

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<v Speaker 4>to the user and they have like other adjustments such

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<v Speaker 4>as brightness, contrast, that kind of thing, But it sounds

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<v Speaker 4>like it does like some image processing as part of

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<v Speaker 4>its AI capabilities.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that was that was neat. Again, not a cheap product,

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<v Speaker 2>but like actually something that's seeing it used impressed me

0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:14.399
<v Speaker 2>and I could see wanting to have that, And I

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<v Speaker 2>could also see like a clear bit my roommate has

0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:19.960
<v Speaker 2>telescopes and stuff, and there's usually the light pollution is

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<v Speaker 2>too much of a pain in the ass and fucking

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<v Speaker 2>even in Portland, which is not the worst city for

0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:27.600
<v Speaker 2>light pollution in this country to use them very well.

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<v Speaker 2>So something like that, and also just being able to

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<v Speaker 2>easily drop it onto your TV and like hang out

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<v Speaker 2>with friends, like if I had fight at access to

0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:37.520
<v Speaker 2>something like that back when I was doing hallucinogens. I

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<v Speaker 2>think it would have used it a lot.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, that sounds that sounds promising.

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<v Speaker 2>Speaking of things that I would have used a lot

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<v Speaker 2>as a young man. Garrison, you want to tell us

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<v Speaker 2>about the hand job machine.

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<v Speaker 3>Sure, So there's this Company's what you said to get

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<v Speaker 3>a second there. So there's this company in Norway called Handy.

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<v Speaker 3>They they make they make interactive, interactive sex toys. They

0:18:06.400 --> 0:18:09.880
<v Speaker 3>started by targeting the male sex toy demographic, or as

0:18:09.880 --> 0:18:13.200
<v Speaker 3>they I actually liked that. They that they actually more

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<v Speaker 3>often said the penis uh demographic, which yeah, which was nice.

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<v Speaker 2>I appreciate that.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, But anyway, it's uh, it's it's a little thing

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<v Speaker 3>that you can you can slight and it.

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<v Speaker 2>Goes up like it looks like a nice coffee thermoscy.

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<v Speaker 2>Its kind of like with like a little tube that

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<v Speaker 2>has like a clear plastic penis prism.

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<v Speaker 3>Next to it. It has what has when it has

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<v Speaker 3>like a has like a stroker sleeve attached in and

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<v Speaker 3>you can control like the speed and vibration just on

0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:50.480
<v Speaker 3>on the little like thermous looking thing. But the real

0:18:50.520 --> 0:18:54.359
<v Speaker 3>features of the Handy is that it also has hands

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<v Speaker 3>free control that you can you can hook this thing

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<v Speaker 3>up via an app to many different sources. You can

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<v Speaker 3>hook this up to whatever you're watching on your computer.

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<v Speaker 3>You can hook this up to movies. You can hook

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<v Speaker 3>this up to an Amazon Alexa if that's your thing,

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<v Speaker 3>and the sounds will will impact how the how the

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<v Speaker 3>Stroker moves. The one of the more promising applications which

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<v Speaker 3>it really also opens opens the field of music, is

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<v Speaker 3>that you can hook it up to like your Spotify

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<v Speaker 3>or something and the music and like the beats of

0:19:30.359 --> 0:19:33.440
<v Speaker 3>the rhythm will impact the vibrations and speed on the stroker.

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<v Speaker 3>So we can now learn which songs are best for orgasms,

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<v Speaker 3>which opens a whole new, whole new category for the Grammys.

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<v Speaker 3>I think there's a lot of trial and error. I

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<v Speaker 3>think one hundred gex is definitely gonna be up there.

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<v Speaker 4>I think nickel Back is going to make a comeback.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, this is gonna be the Billie Joel renaissance. Just

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<v Speaker 2>just people spilling ropes over down Easter Alexas Christ.

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<v Speaker 3>They also just launched a second product called I Think

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<v Speaker 3>just a the O, which is just a more classic

0:20:03.240 --> 0:20:07.639
<v Speaker 3>small handheld vibrator. Similarly like the Handy, It's it's based

0:20:07.640 --> 0:20:11.760
<v Speaker 3>on actual like sound vibrations, not a motorized vibration. So

0:20:11.800 --> 0:20:15.040
<v Speaker 3>it similarly can hook can hook up to music and

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<v Speaker 3>that changes the way it feels. So we have we

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<v Speaker 3>have not been able to test these yet because he

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<v Speaker 3>didn't actually have free copies.

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<v Speaker 2>They only had to give Garrison a penis sheath.

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<v Speaker 3>They only they only had the free sleeves. But the

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<v Speaker 3>actual device is two hundred dollars, which is not is

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<v Speaker 3>not super expensive. Uh, considering this style of like sex toy,

0:20:32.920 --> 0:20:35.399
<v Speaker 3>that is kind of standard. Yeah, yeah, that was. That

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<v Speaker 3>was one of the the more professional booths sexually. Yeah

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<v Speaker 3>and see yes, and this is they did a really

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<v Speaker 3>good job.

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<v Speaker 2>This is a good time for me to tell my

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<v Speaker 2>favorite masturbation machine story. Oh so there's a product. Oh boy,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, for the penis having demographic, there's not as

0:20:51.000 --> 0:20:54.080
<v Speaker 2>many sex toys traditionally, not as many at least fun

0:20:54.119 --> 0:20:56.840
<v Speaker 2>ones out there. It's it's it's a little bit of

0:20:56.840 --> 0:20:59.760
<v Speaker 2>a barren wasteland. But there is the flesh light. And

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<v Speaker 2>if you haven't seen a fleshlight, maybe you've heard about them.

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<v Speaker 2>It does look like a big, heavy plastic flashlight and

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<v Speaker 2>you unscrew the top and there's a fake vagina in

0:21:07.440 --> 0:21:10.280
<v Speaker 2>there right. Some of them are shaped like asses, some

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<v Speaker 2>of them are sex asses.

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<v Speaker 4>Sometimes there are a button. Sometimes there are a mouth too.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, oh yeah, there's mouths too. And I once had

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<v Speaker 2>a friend who got in some trouble with the law,

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<v Speaker 2>and we had to drive to their house and grab

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<v Speaker 2>a bunch of things in their house and throw them

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<v Speaker 2>away because we weren't sure if the police were going

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<v Speaker 2>to be showing up. And so after we did that

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<v Speaker 2>that night, it was a very depressed, very sad night,

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<v Speaker 2>and we all got extremely drunk, and three of the

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<v Speaker 2>four of us are standing out on the front porch

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<v Speaker 2>in front of like the house that we're at, and

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<v Speaker 2>then the fourth person in the room, who was like

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<v Speaker 2>roommates with the person who had just been arrested, comes

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<v Speaker 2>out with the arrested person's fleshlight and for reasons known

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<v Speaker 2>only to them, and God hurls it at us. Now

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<v Speaker 2>we're in like this is a we're in Richardson, Texas,

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<v Speaker 2>and like it's kind of this walled off by concrete bricks,

0:21:58.240 --> 0:22:01.040
<v Speaker 2>little front porch area, and we all bolt to get

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<v Speaker 2>away from the fleshlight and it hits the brick wall

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<v Speaker 2>and the plastic case shatters and then the thing hits

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<v Speaker 2>the ground and the fake plast silicone vagina inside of

0:22:12.080 --> 0:22:18.919
<v Speaker 2>it slithers out like like a living creature, probably lubricated

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<v Speaker 2>by some sort of substance, and it was one of

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<v Speaker 2>the most unsettling moments of my life.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm really glad you could share that with the Strawberry

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<v Speaker 3>that the sound was incredible.

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<v Speaker 2>It did. Yeah, it sounded a lot like if you've

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<v Speaker 2>ever seen that episode Always Sonny where where Danny DeVito

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<v Speaker 2>gets berthed from a couch like covered in sweat. It

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<v Speaker 2>sounded a lot like that, I imagine.

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<v Speaker 3>And we call that experience the flesh Lights Dividend.

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<v Speaker 2>The Fleshlight Dividend. That's right now, speaking of jacking off,

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<v Speaker 2>The next product we're going to talk about is Jackery,

0:22:52.480 --> 0:22:56.159
<v Speaker 2>a company that makes some really actually pretty cool like

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<v Speaker 2>survival equipment, specifically like solar battery, solar panel and battery resetups.

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<v Speaker 2>And we're going to talk about that because it's definitely

0:23:02.960 --> 0:23:05.040
<v Speaker 2>like of the products we saw here the most in

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<v Speaker 2>our miliu as like the world is falling apart show.

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<v Speaker 2>So we're gonna get to that. But first, here's some ads.

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<v Speaker 2>We're back and we're talking about Jackery, which it's fun.

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<v Speaker 2>One of the things I appreciate about this is that

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<v Speaker 2>the hand job machine could have been called jack the Jackery,

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<v Speaker 2>or the company could have been called Jackerreye. And likewise,

0:23:36.520 --> 0:23:38.679
<v Speaker 2>the company that makes batteries and solar panels could have

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<v Speaker 2>been called Handy because it's handy. They have a solar

0:23:41.160 --> 0:23:45.520
<v Speaker 2>battery around when you're camping. Curious, interesting, interesting stuff. Yeah,

0:23:45.600 --> 0:23:47.680
<v Speaker 2>a lot of thoughts there thoughts to be thought.

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<v Speaker 3>Oddly, that ven diagram crossover is closer than I thought

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<v Speaker 3>it would be.

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<v Speaker 2>So jackerrey is a cut I would recommend googling their

0:23:56.920 --> 0:23:59.480
<v Speaker 2>stuff they make. There's a lot the field of like

0:23:59.600 --> 0:24:02.280
<v Speaker 2>solar batteries and panels is super crowded right now, and

0:24:02.320 --> 0:24:04.040
<v Speaker 2>most of the batteries you're gonna are gonna be made

0:24:04.119 --> 0:24:06.360
<v Speaker 2>like one of the same two or three factories. It's

0:24:06.400 --> 0:24:09.280
<v Speaker 2>basically the same factory makes a bunch of companies batteries,

0:24:09.320 --> 0:24:11.359
<v Speaker 2>and a lot of them are very unsafe. There was

0:24:11.400 --> 0:24:13.600
<v Speaker 2>a company that sent me some review samples like a

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<v Speaker 2>whole solar generator and battery last year that I was

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<v Speaker 2>going to kind of do a piece about, you know,

0:24:18.640 --> 0:24:21.240
<v Speaker 2>surviving on a solar generator, and then a month after

0:24:21.240 --> 0:24:23.360
<v Speaker 2>it arrived I was still testing it. It came out

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<v Speaker 2>that they had burned down a bunch of people's houses

0:24:25.280 --> 0:24:28.800
<v Speaker 2>because the batteries were insane. No, yeah, so you want

0:24:28.800 --> 0:24:31.480
<v Speaker 2>to be careful with this stuff. Jackery is one of

0:24:31.520 --> 0:24:33.600
<v Speaker 2>the I have had good luck with some of their products.

0:24:33.640 --> 0:24:35.800
<v Speaker 2>They seem to be of a high build quality. I

0:24:35.840 --> 0:24:38.520
<v Speaker 2>have not heard horror stories about them. When you go

0:24:38.600 --> 0:24:41.000
<v Speaker 2>to the the their booth of people there seem to

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<v Speaker 2>be genuinely knowledgeable, and the way in which they set

0:24:43.400 --> 0:24:46.639
<v Speaker 2>it up and demo it suggests a degree of knowledge

0:24:46.840 --> 0:24:49.800
<v Speaker 2>about the product and like what people want out of it.

0:24:49.880 --> 0:24:51.840
<v Speaker 2>So one of the things they do have some really

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<v Speaker 2>large including some like some solar batteries with generators with

0:24:56.600 --> 0:24:59.159
<v Speaker 2>solar panel generators that are large enough to run like

0:24:59.200 --> 0:25:02.040
<v Speaker 2>a deep freeze, which is really cool being able to

0:25:02.040 --> 0:25:04.719
<v Speaker 2>do that. And the setup they had specifically was a

0:25:05.880 --> 0:25:09.000
<v Speaker 2>like an actual like serious, like solid like not one

0:25:09.000 --> 0:25:12.320
<v Speaker 2>of those folding panel setups that goes on the roof

0:25:12.400 --> 0:25:15.800
<v Speaker 2>of your car or truck alongside with like a tint

0:25:15.880 --> 0:25:18.600
<v Speaker 2>like one of those via truck talk tents for overlanding,

0:25:19.080 --> 0:25:22.040
<v Speaker 2>and then plugs into you know, either their one thousand

0:25:22.119 --> 0:25:24.919
<v Speaker 2>or like two thousand watt solar generator or yeah so

0:25:25.280 --> 0:25:28.440
<v Speaker 2>or a battery generators and just everything about the way

0:25:28.480 --> 0:25:30.960
<v Speaker 2>it was set up seemed really practical. It seemed durable.

0:25:30.960 --> 0:25:33.040
<v Speaker 2>It didn't feel like something was gonna fall apart. Yeah,

0:25:33.280 --> 0:25:36.360
<v Speaker 2>I can see it being like a legitimate like even

0:25:36.359 --> 0:25:39.119
<v Speaker 2>outside of the car, because that's more or less like

0:25:39.160 --> 0:25:41.399
<v Speaker 2>a hobby it's sort of thing. But having one of

0:25:41.440 --> 0:25:44.600
<v Speaker 2>these generators that you can actually run your fridge and

0:25:44.680 --> 0:25:48.640
<v Speaker 2>your freezer and your lights in your house all like

0:25:48.840 --> 0:25:50.320
<v Speaker 2>they had some like an outage.

0:25:50.200 --> 0:25:53.200
<v Speaker 3>Microwaves, stuff, cooking implements, o other kind of stuff you

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<v Speaker 3>might take for like like you know, like a week

0:25:55.720 --> 0:25:59.400
<v Speaker 3>in mountain trip or something. The main the main roof

0:25:59.440 --> 0:26:02.520
<v Speaker 3>Mountain Pad, I think I was able to pull four

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<v Speaker 3>hundred watts, and then it had two sliding up panels

0:26:07.040 --> 0:26:09.720
<v Speaker 3>that can pull three hundred watts so that they could get.

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<v Speaker 2>Hot and in a sunny day, they said you could

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<v Speaker 2>get like nine hundred watts an hour.

0:26:14.000 --> 0:26:18.399
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, exactly, really good for watts an hour, which is

0:26:18.440 --> 0:26:21.240
<v Speaker 3>which is quite impressive. And they have all the batteries

0:26:21.280 --> 0:26:23.959
<v Speaker 3>to store it. And by by far, I think Jackery

0:26:24.000 --> 0:26:27.359
<v Speaker 3>is the most consistent company in this field that I

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<v Speaker 3>could I routinely see high praise for because the feel

0:26:32.400 --> 0:26:36.199
<v Speaker 3>of like portable solar like solar charging is kind of

0:26:36.560 --> 0:26:39.720
<v Speaker 3>a little bit sketchy sometimes, Yes, stuff can easily break,

0:26:39.760 --> 0:26:42.560
<v Speaker 3>things to be really easily over marked. Like I had

0:26:42.560 --> 0:26:45.959
<v Speaker 3>a solar panel to to to charge my iPad that

0:26:46.000 --> 0:26:47.879
<v Speaker 3>really only lasted like two weeks and it just completely

0:26:47.880 --> 0:26:51.520
<v Speaker 3>stopped working. But I've only heard only heard good things

0:26:51.560 --> 0:26:53.560
<v Speaker 3>about Jackery. I have not tested them out myself. I

0:26:53.560 --> 0:26:56.000
<v Speaker 3>know Robert has some of them. Robert has some of

0:26:56.000 --> 0:26:58.159
<v Speaker 3>their battery equipment, but hopefully we'll be able to get

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<v Speaker 3>our hands on some of that this year.

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<v Speaker 4>They also had a lot of different form factors of

0:27:04.240 --> 0:27:06.119
<v Speaker 4>the same types of products, so a lot of smaller

0:27:06.200 --> 0:27:09.560
<v Speaker 4>versions of things that seem to be really good if

0:27:09.560 --> 0:27:11.639
<v Speaker 4>you need a kind of more modular setup. That was

0:27:11.640 --> 0:27:12.159
<v Speaker 4>for sure.

0:27:12.320 --> 0:27:14.560
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, they had like large ones that you could basically

0:27:14.600 --> 0:27:17.879
<v Speaker 2>have plugged into your house in case you lose power

0:27:18.160 --> 0:27:20.119
<v Speaker 2>for a small period of time in order to like

0:27:20.240 --> 0:27:22.560
<v Speaker 2>ensure that you don't like you don't actually have a

0:27:22.560 --> 0:27:25.280
<v Speaker 2>period where the power's out. And then they had a

0:27:25.320 --> 0:27:27.720
<v Speaker 2>lot of like really good camping sort of like off

0:27:27.760 --> 0:27:30.280
<v Speaker 2>grid battery options it's just cool. Take take a look

0:27:30.320 --> 0:27:32.680
<v Speaker 2>at the if you are if you are someone who

0:27:32.720 --> 0:27:34.720
<v Speaker 2>is in the kind of financial situation that you can

0:27:34.800 --> 0:27:38.320
<v Speaker 2>prep in that way where you're buying like solar equipment

0:27:38.359 --> 0:27:43.199
<v Speaker 2>and batteries, which definitely is never super cheap, right, I

0:27:43.200 --> 0:27:45.440
<v Speaker 2>would recommend checking them out at least as you kind

0:27:45.440 --> 0:27:46.280
<v Speaker 2>of do your research.

0:27:46.920 --> 0:27:49.240
<v Speaker 3>There's like two more products I think I want to mention.

0:27:49.960 --> 0:27:52.040
<v Speaker 3>The first is Shift. This is a company I was

0:27:52.080 --> 0:27:54.000
<v Speaker 3>already familiar with, but I got to try these out.

0:27:54.280 --> 0:27:56.600
<v Speaker 3>They look kind of like roller skates, but they're not

0:27:56.720 --> 0:28:00.840
<v Speaker 3>roller skates. They are these sort of boots with motorized

0:28:00.880 --> 0:28:04.280
<v Speaker 3>and locking wheels that attach onto your shoes. And their

0:28:04.400 --> 0:28:06.800
<v Speaker 3>use case for this is like factory workers. It makes

0:28:06.800 --> 0:28:08.720
<v Speaker 3>them real, It makes them be able to walk and move.

0:28:08.960 --> 0:28:11.600
<v Speaker 2>They said two and a half times faster, considerably faster.

0:28:11.680 --> 0:28:13.480
<v Speaker 3>I was able to walk at at a pretty at

0:28:13.520 --> 0:28:16.800
<v Speaker 3>a pretty decent speed. You can you can lock the

0:28:16.800 --> 0:28:19.040
<v Speaker 3>wheels if you need to, like do more like delicate

0:28:19.800 --> 0:28:20.800
<v Speaker 3>mobility tasks.

0:28:20.840 --> 0:28:22.800
<v Speaker 2>Go upstairs stairs ladders.

0:28:23.480 --> 0:28:25.879
<v Speaker 4>That was one way to even lock and unlock the

0:28:26.200 --> 0:28:29.320
<v Speaker 4>shoes themselves from being used. There's like a certain gesture

0:28:29.320 --> 0:28:31.120
<v Speaker 4>you had to make by you.

0:28:31.119 --> 0:28:32.919
<v Speaker 2>Lift up your heel I think it was, and it

0:28:33.000 --> 0:28:34.680
<v Speaker 2>locks the shoes so the wheels don't.

0:28:34.520 --> 0:28:36.639
<v Speaker 3>Come you lift up your heel in twest and and

0:28:36.680 --> 0:28:37.560
<v Speaker 3>it Yeah.

0:28:37.400 --> 0:28:39.440
<v Speaker 4>The boot itself had a hinge that was just under.

0:28:39.240 --> 0:28:44.840
<v Speaker 3>The Yeah, so I've seen these before. They look they

0:28:44.880 --> 0:28:47.560
<v Speaker 3>look kind of fun, but they're four kind of factory works.

0:28:47.640 --> 0:28:50.120
<v Speaker 3>So it's it's it's it's kind of a mixed bag

0:28:50.160 --> 0:28:53.400
<v Speaker 3>where the device worked quite well, and it took me

0:28:53.520 --> 0:28:56.160
<v Speaker 3>like just like maybe like like one minute to get

0:28:56.240 --> 0:28:58.360
<v Speaker 3>used to it. Then I could then I was really smooth.

0:28:58.720 --> 0:29:02.080
<v Speaker 3>But the actual operational use case they're envisioning is like

0:29:02.280 --> 0:29:06.840
<v Speaker 3>being able to get like get more, get more productivity out.

0:29:06.680 --> 0:29:09.120
<v Speaker 2>Of their workers the same amount of money, the same

0:29:09.120 --> 0:29:09.760
<v Speaker 2>amount of money.

0:29:09.800 --> 0:29:13.360
<v Speaker 3>So like, yeah, I think Robert made the pretty good comparison.

0:29:13.440 --> 0:29:16.400
<v Speaker 3>Like last year we tried out this exoskeleton, which also,

0:29:16.600 --> 0:29:19.040
<v Speaker 3>you know, they talked a bit about a little bit

0:29:19.040 --> 0:29:22.600
<v Speaker 3>about productivity specifically for like again factory workers, but that

0:29:22.640 --> 0:29:26.480
<v Speaker 3>extra teleton was also designed to help that worker not

0:29:26.720 --> 0:29:28.920
<v Speaker 3>damage their body. Like it was it was to make

0:29:28.960 --> 0:29:32.959
<v Speaker 3>sure that they actually can can stay safer and not

0:29:33.000 --> 0:29:35.200
<v Speaker 3>to as much damage their knees, their joints, their back

0:29:35.520 --> 0:29:40.320
<v Speaker 3>versus these little roller skate type shoes. Yeah, I have

0:29:40.400 --> 0:29:42.760
<v Speaker 3>no such have no such ability.

0:29:43.840 --> 0:29:45.880
<v Speaker 4>I mean it would it made you go faster, kind

0:29:45.920 --> 0:29:47.440
<v Speaker 4>of like one of those walkways that you have in

0:29:47.480 --> 0:29:49.680
<v Speaker 4>the airport. Who doesn't want to go a little bit faster.

0:29:51.160 --> 0:29:54.200
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that was the way the guy repped it too,

0:29:54.320 --> 0:29:57.400
<v Speaker 2>where he was like, we have these factory workers. They're like,

0:29:57.440 --> 0:29:59.360
<v Speaker 2>I have the best job in the company. Now, it's

0:29:59.360 --> 0:30:02.760
<v Speaker 2>so fun skating around on these things. Nobody said that

0:30:02.800 --> 0:30:05.600
<v Speaker 2>to you, bro, Like, don't lie.

0:30:05.960 --> 0:30:06.800
<v Speaker 4>It's a nice thought.

0:30:07.440 --> 0:30:10.960
<v Speaker 3>He also claimed that there's not been one fall or

0:30:11.200 --> 0:30:14.920
<v Speaker 3>injury with these things, on which I just I do

0:30:15.080 --> 0:30:18.680
<v Speaker 3>not believe because I almost fell down to testing these out.

0:30:18.960 --> 0:30:22.600
<v Speaker 3>I'm sure if you're carrying like heavy boxes like it's

0:30:22.640 --> 0:30:24.680
<v Speaker 3>it's very easy for your weight to get to get

0:30:24.720 --> 0:30:27.320
<v Speaker 3>away from yourself when you're literally walking on wheels like

0:30:27.360 --> 0:30:31.000
<v Speaker 3>and it can be controlling. It actually is more intuitive

0:30:31.000 --> 0:30:33.239
<v Speaker 3>than I thought it would be. But mistakes happen, and

0:30:33.760 --> 0:30:35.880
<v Speaker 3>those those sorts of big claims are a little bit

0:30:36.200 --> 0:30:37.160
<v Speaker 3>a little bit sketchy.

0:30:37.280 --> 0:30:39.760
<v Speaker 4>I found myself kind of waving my arms a little

0:30:39.760 --> 0:30:41.520
<v Speaker 4>bit out in front of me to keep my balance.

0:30:41.800 --> 0:30:43.640
<v Speaker 4>I wasn't like confet on them.

0:30:44.080 --> 0:30:48.160
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. Yeah, just watching you both, I could see like, well, yeah,

0:30:48.160 --> 0:30:51.040
<v Speaker 2>people are gonna get hurt. Now, I don't I am

0:30:51.080 --> 0:30:54.120
<v Speaker 2>sure because it seems to be easy enough to use

0:30:54.400 --> 0:30:56.400
<v Speaker 2>that I suspect it would. You could really get a

0:30:56.440 --> 0:30:58.520
<v Speaker 2>lot of extra money out of your workers as an

0:30:58.520 --> 0:31:01.440
<v Speaker 2>employer using these things, but at the cost of some

0:31:01.760 --> 0:31:04.920
<v Speaker 2>of them are gonna like fucking eat shit and hurt themselves,

0:31:05.480 --> 0:31:07.880
<v Speaker 2>which is not like in the grand scheme of corporate evil,

0:31:07.960 --> 0:31:10.440
<v Speaker 2>especially at the show where everybody's like talking about the

0:31:10.440 --> 0:31:13.080
<v Speaker 2>potential of AI to eliminate tens of millions of jobs.

0:31:13.240 --> 0:31:15.360
<v Speaker 2>Not really, it doesn't really scan. And I think we're

0:31:15.400 --> 0:31:18.080
<v Speaker 2>still putting this on the good episode because like they

0:31:18.160 --> 0:31:20.880
<v Speaker 2>worked in a way that they were technically impressive. We

0:31:21.080 --> 0:31:23.840
<v Speaker 2>just found it kind of upsetting that they were bragging about,

0:31:23.880 --> 0:31:26.320
<v Speaker 2>like you can get more money out of your already

0:31:26.360 --> 0:31:30.680
<v Speaker 2>exploited workforce with these. Yeah, but I could see someone

0:31:30.760 --> 0:31:33.800
<v Speaker 2>just getting these and because they would allow you if

0:31:33.800 --> 0:31:35.400
<v Speaker 2>you like, yeah, if you if you live in a

0:31:35.440 --> 0:31:36.760
<v Speaker 2>walkable city.

0:31:36.760 --> 0:31:39.920
<v Speaker 3>City neighborhood, it can make your commute times much faster.

0:31:39.840 --> 0:31:42.640
<v Speaker 2>And still probably safer than like you less risk maybe

0:31:42.640 --> 0:31:44.120
<v Speaker 2>than like a bike or something like that.

0:31:44.240 --> 0:31:46.400
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I want to see somebody wear those at a

0:31:46.440 --> 0:31:47.280
<v Speaker 4>roller skating rink.

0:31:47.960 --> 0:31:50.400
<v Speaker 3>So yeah, that's called that's called Shift Robotics. I believe

0:31:50.400 --> 0:31:53.040
<v Speaker 3>they're based out of Texas. Yeah. The last thing I

0:31:53.080 --> 0:31:55.960
<v Speaker 3>want to talk about. For both mine and Robert's job,

0:31:56.520 --> 0:31:59.920
<v Speaker 3>we use a lot of computer screens. I'm looking in

0:32:00.080 --> 0:32:03.040
<v Speaker 3>Roberts hotel room right now where we're recording. He has

0:32:03.280 --> 0:32:05.920
<v Speaker 3>a laptop hooked up to a second monitor. I have

0:32:05.960 --> 0:32:09.120
<v Speaker 3>a very similar setup I have. I have a laptop

0:32:09.160 --> 0:32:11.680
<v Speaker 3>and a secondary monitor on my desktop. I have like

0:32:11.840 --> 0:32:14.040
<v Speaker 3>three or four monitors always running at the same time,

0:32:14.120 --> 0:32:17.880
<v Speaker 3>just because of the absurdity of what our works sometimes entails,

0:32:18.240 --> 0:32:19.640
<v Speaker 3>so it could be hard to get things done on

0:32:19.640 --> 0:32:23.400
<v Speaker 3>a single screen. And we saw this one product that

0:32:23.560 --> 0:32:26.840
<v Speaker 3>looked just like a like a very like thick keyboard

0:32:26.920 --> 0:32:30.200
<v Speaker 3>with a with a touchpad, but it had these like

0:32:30.880 --> 0:32:34.480
<v Speaker 3>AR glasses attached. Now, AR is a tricky field. We

0:32:34.920 --> 0:32:36.920
<v Speaker 3>tried a lot of AR stuff last year. Most of

0:32:36.960 --> 0:32:38.960
<v Speaker 3>it some of it was okay, some of it was

0:32:39.000 --> 0:32:42.680
<v Speaker 3>a little bit finicky. But this company was called Sightful. Yeah,

0:32:42.720 --> 0:32:46.400
<v Speaker 3>and what this basically was is that it was a

0:32:46.440 --> 0:32:49.720
<v Speaker 3>fully functioning computer but instead of a instead of just

0:32:49.760 --> 0:32:53.120
<v Speaker 3>having a regular display, it has a display built into

0:32:53.160 --> 0:32:55.240
<v Speaker 3>these yeah, into these glasses.

0:32:55.360 --> 0:32:57.880
<v Speaker 2>The product itself looks like just the bottom half of

0:32:57.920 --> 0:33:00.520
<v Speaker 2>a laptop, like the keyboard part that holds the PCU

0:33:00.560 --> 0:33:03.880
<v Speaker 2>and shit with like this weird flappy thing attached to

0:33:03.920 --> 0:33:07.760
<v Speaker 2>the keyboard part that holds like a set of glasses

0:33:07.840 --> 0:33:10.520
<v Speaker 2>that are plugged in directly to the laptop. That's how

0:33:10.560 --> 0:33:11.320
<v Speaker 2>it like looks.

0:33:12.160 --> 0:33:14.400
<v Speaker 3>And when you put the glasses on, you get like

0:33:14.640 --> 0:33:17.040
<v Speaker 3>four screens that pop up. The screens aren't too big,

0:33:17.080 --> 0:33:19.200
<v Speaker 3>they're not too small. You can change the size by

0:33:19.600 --> 0:33:23.600
<v Speaker 3>using using the touchpad. And this require a lot less

0:33:24.040 --> 0:33:26.680
<v Speaker 3>like like a like a focusing like you usually when

0:33:26.680 --> 0:33:29.760
<v Speaker 3>you put on ar AR glasses you have to kind

0:33:29.800 --> 0:33:34.200
<v Speaker 3>of dial in the focal length to make them look right.

0:33:35.240 --> 0:33:37.360
<v Speaker 3>But this was all very clear. That text was easy

0:33:37.440 --> 0:33:40.560
<v Speaker 3>to read, Changing from one screen to another was pretty

0:33:40.760 --> 0:33:43.720
<v Speaker 3>was pretty easy. They had they had They had a

0:33:43.720 --> 0:33:45.880
<v Speaker 3>pass through mode like a lot of good ar does.

0:33:46.240 --> 0:33:48.400
<v Speaker 3>They had a mode where you can lock the screens

0:33:48.400 --> 0:33:50.040
<v Speaker 3>in place. You can turn your head and they don't move.

0:33:50.080 --> 0:33:53.280
<v Speaker 3>They had another version where you just with like keystrokes,

0:33:53.320 --> 0:33:55.320
<v Speaker 3>you could turn your head and the screens follow you,

0:33:55.800 --> 0:33:57.880
<v Speaker 3>so it was it was a pretty It was a

0:33:57.880 --> 0:33:58.760
<v Speaker 3>pretty useful device.

0:33:58.840 --> 0:34:00.760
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. You could press a button and it would go

0:34:00.960 --> 0:34:03.200
<v Speaker 2>the screens would disappear, Like if you're walking while using it,

0:34:03.240 --> 0:34:04.880
<v Speaker 2>you can press a button and it would go clear,

0:34:04.920 --> 0:34:06.280
<v Speaker 2>so you wouldn't see it, but you could see where

0:34:06.280 --> 0:34:06.600
<v Speaker 2>you were.

0:34:06.480 --> 0:34:07.320
<v Speaker 3>Walking pass through.

0:34:07.400 --> 0:34:09.759
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, Like I typed an email or two, and like

0:34:09.840 --> 0:34:13.160
<v Speaker 2>did some googling on it, and I very quickly adapted

0:34:13.200 --> 0:34:16.600
<v Speaker 2>to the screens being virtual but still using a physical keyboard.

0:34:17.040 --> 0:34:20.200
<v Speaker 3>I we didn't get like motion sick with it. It

0:34:20.239 --> 0:34:22.040
<v Speaker 3>was not. Now. I think this is like either the

0:34:22.080 --> 0:34:24.160
<v Speaker 3>first or second iteration of this product.

0:34:24.600 --> 0:34:26.960
<v Speaker 2>First the first to market, the first.

0:34:27.000 --> 0:34:30.239
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I think there is some ways to improve. It

0:34:30.320 --> 0:34:34.040
<v Speaker 3>runs its own Android operating system, which you know, if

0:34:34.080 --> 0:34:36.680
<v Speaker 3>you're trying to download applications. The fact that I can't

0:34:36.719 --> 0:34:40.359
<v Speaker 3>run Windows or Linux or even Apple's system, you know

0:34:40.400 --> 0:34:42.840
<v Speaker 3>that that could be a bit of a limitation. It

0:34:42.920 --> 0:34:45.960
<v Speaker 3>only had like two hundred and two hundred and like

0:34:46.000 --> 0:34:46.839
<v Speaker 3>fifty gigs of work.

0:34:46.960 --> 0:34:49.480
<v Speaker 2>It wasn't really a full storage and power. It's a

0:34:49.480 --> 0:34:51.680
<v Speaker 2>little bit beefier than your phone.

0:34:51.840 --> 0:34:52.000
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

0:34:52.800 --> 0:34:57.560
<v Speaker 2>The company the product, by the way, is called spacetop. Yeah,

0:34:57.640 --> 0:35:02.080
<v Speaker 2>sightful as the company's spacetop is the is the actual

0:35:02.080 --> 0:35:04.120
<v Speaker 2>product itself, and yeah, I.

0:35:04.280 --> 0:35:06.880
<v Speaker 3>Uh, we're gonna We're gonna keep our eye on it.

0:35:07.000 --> 0:35:08.719
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I wouldn't buy the first in of this thing.

0:35:08.760 --> 0:35:11.560
<v Speaker 2>It's about twenty two hundred bucks, which is like upper

0:35:11.600 --> 0:35:13.560
<v Speaker 2>mid level cost for a laptop.

0:35:15.000 --> 0:35:17.040
<v Speaker 3>My issue is at based on how expensive it is,

0:35:17.080 --> 0:35:20.719
<v Speaker 3>the laptop itself isn't powerful enough to justify that price. Certainly,

0:35:20.960 --> 0:35:22.960
<v Speaker 3>the fact that you know, I can act like I

0:35:23.000 --> 0:35:27.120
<v Speaker 3>have four monitors wherever I go, that is, that is

0:35:27.239 --> 0:35:29.200
<v Speaker 3>very convenient. I think I just need the laptop to

0:35:29.200 --> 0:35:31.480
<v Speaker 3>be a little bit more powerful, especially with how many

0:35:31.480 --> 0:35:33.920
<v Speaker 3>tabs they have open at all times. Having only eight

0:35:33.960 --> 0:35:37.000
<v Speaker 3>gigs of RAM just will not cut it. But I'm

0:35:37.080 --> 0:35:39.480
<v Speaker 3>certainly certainly hopeful that we'll be able to see small

0:35:39.520 --> 0:35:40.720
<v Speaker 3>improvements going forward.

0:35:40.880 --> 0:35:43.879
<v Speaker 4>Indeed, yeah, they had mentioned it as being a web

0:35:43.920 --> 0:35:46.919
<v Speaker 4>first device instead of anything else.

0:35:47.160 --> 0:35:47.640
<v Speaker 3>That makes sense.

0:35:47.719 --> 0:35:49.759
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, Yeah, it's like a Chromebook, and I think in

0:35:50.320 --> 0:35:52.680
<v Speaker 2>terms of like it's actual yeah, efficacy.

0:35:52.480 --> 0:35:54.600
<v Speaker 3>Very similar to a Chromebook, like operation.

0:35:54.320 --> 0:35:56.120
<v Speaker 2>Wise, But my hope is that like the kind of

0:35:56.160 --> 0:36:00.759
<v Speaker 2>technology they've developed, it will get you know, if it's successful,

0:36:00.800 --> 0:36:03.000
<v Speaker 2>they'll make more parers. Now I do kind of worry

0:36:03.000 --> 0:36:04.960
<v Speaker 2>about how successful it will be, because, like Garrison and

0:36:05.000 --> 0:36:06.640
<v Speaker 2>I were both like, oh, this is perfect for what

0:36:06.680 --> 0:36:09.799
<v Speaker 2>we do, but we have a very specific use case

0:36:09.840 --> 0:36:12.160
<v Speaker 2>for our machines. And I'm not sure like how many

0:36:12.160 --> 0:36:14.480
<v Speaker 2>other people are in our position. But I was really

0:36:14.560 --> 0:36:17.200
<v Speaker 2>impressed with just like how well it immediately worked.

0:36:17.760 --> 0:36:20.600
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, No, I I was happy with it. You can

0:36:20.680 --> 0:36:22.640
<v Speaker 3>hook up an external monitor if you if you want to,

0:36:23.400 --> 0:36:24.880
<v Speaker 3>So that's that's nice.

0:36:24.920 --> 0:36:28.000
<v Speaker 4>And I am a glasses wearer, and so one stuff

0:36:28.040 --> 0:36:29.560
<v Speaker 4>that they had for me is that they took my

0:36:29.600 --> 0:36:31.840
<v Speaker 4>glasses and approximated my prescription.

0:36:32.320 --> 0:36:33.040
<v Speaker 3>Oh that's cool.

0:36:33.120 --> 0:36:36.440
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, and they slid on these magnetic sort of like

0:36:36.480 --> 0:36:39.560
<v Speaker 4>eyeglass pieces onto the headset that you're wearing, or like

0:36:39.600 --> 0:36:41.919
<v Speaker 4>the glasses that you're wearing. That way, I could actually

0:36:42.000 --> 0:36:44.000
<v Speaker 4>use it without wearing my prescription glasses.

0:36:44.120 --> 0:36:44.400
<v Speaker 3>Nice.

0:36:44.520 --> 0:36:46.520
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, And that was really It's stuff like that that

0:36:46.680 --> 0:36:49.000
<v Speaker 2>lets you know that people making something didn't just aren't

0:36:49.040 --> 0:36:50.759
<v Speaker 2>just like trying to rush some shit out the door

0:36:50.800 --> 0:36:53.360
<v Speaker 2>to make money, Like, Oh, you put some thought into that, motherfucker.

0:36:53.800 --> 0:36:57.040
<v Speaker 2>I appreciate that. And this all leads us the easily

0:36:57.080 --> 0:36:59.880
<v Speaker 2>the best product of the entire show. Honestly, the only

0:37:00.000 --> 0:37:02.440
<v Speaker 2>one really worth talking about, Garrison. Will you hand me

0:37:02.520 --> 0:37:07.879
<v Speaker 2>the flying car brochure? So Jesus Christ, this is the

0:37:07.880 --> 0:37:12.600
<v Speaker 2>Cees of flying cars. Robotaxis is the term we heard

0:37:12.640 --> 0:37:14.680
<v Speaker 2>a lot. We went to a panel that was like

0:37:15.320 --> 0:37:18.680
<v Speaker 2>serious people in the robotaxi industry, which they admitted does

0:37:18.719 --> 0:37:22.160
<v Speaker 2>not exist, by the way, Advance to air mobility, Advance

0:37:22.200 --> 0:37:24.880
<v Speaker 2>of air mobility. It was the acronym AAM. Yeah. No,

0:37:24.960 --> 0:37:28.359
<v Speaker 2>there are several companies that are using effectively like these are.

0:37:28.600 --> 0:37:30.839
<v Speaker 2>Some of them are like ultra lights. There was one

0:37:30.840 --> 0:37:32.759
<v Speaker 2>of the companies that came here bragged like you can

0:37:32.760 --> 0:37:35.400
<v Speaker 2>buy buy a plane that doesn't require a pilot's license

0:37:35.440 --> 0:37:37.839
<v Speaker 2>because it's so light, but it's still a plane, which

0:37:37.840 --> 0:37:40.480
<v Speaker 2>seems like a horrible idea to me. But there are

0:37:40.480 --> 0:37:45.400
<v Speaker 2>some real companies who are like testing out electronic aero taxis.

0:37:45.440 --> 0:37:48.239
<v Speaker 2>Some of these are this is not vaporware. These products exist. Now,

0:37:48.640 --> 0:37:51.320
<v Speaker 2>what doesn't exist is the legal framework to allow people

0:37:51.360 --> 0:37:54.400
<v Speaker 2>to do this. Like the panelists were like openly like,

0:37:54.760 --> 0:37:57.120
<v Speaker 2>we want this to be an industry, but first there

0:37:57.160 --> 0:38:00.160
<v Speaker 2>have to be it has to be legal right now,

0:38:00.280 --> 0:38:03.160
<v Speaker 2>we don't know, like they they're still trying to figure out,

0:38:03.160 --> 0:38:04.799
<v Speaker 2>like what the rules are going to be. They're hoping

0:38:04.840 --> 0:38:07.080
<v Speaker 2>by the end of this year the FAA puts out

0:38:07.120 --> 0:38:10.800
<v Speaker 2>like a temporary rule set about how robot air robo

0:38:10.840 --> 0:38:13.800
<v Speaker 2>taxes work and also how they called them verta ports,

0:38:13.840 --> 0:38:16.600
<v Speaker 2>which is because these are all vertical takeoff and landing craft.

0:38:17.440 --> 0:38:19.520
<v Speaker 3>At least the one that we saw on the show

0:38:19.520 --> 0:38:23.640
<v Speaker 3>floor looks like a looks like a Lamborghini with a

0:38:23.680 --> 0:38:25.680
<v Speaker 3>massive drone, like a.

0:38:25.719 --> 0:38:29.560
<v Speaker 2>DGI type round top. And that's that's the one I

0:38:29.560 --> 0:38:32.080
<v Speaker 2>want to talk about, because all of those were real products.

0:38:33.120 --> 0:38:35.640
<v Speaker 2>The exit paying the air road product, in my opinion,

0:38:35.680 --> 0:38:38.680
<v Speaker 2>is absolutely not. It's built as a low altitude air

0:38:38.760 --> 0:38:42.680
<v Speaker 2>mobility exploring. Yeah, it looks like a huge drone like

0:38:42.760 --> 0:38:47.960
<v Speaker 2>you'd buy a fucking best Buy attached to a Lamborghini.

0:38:48.200 --> 0:38:50.840
<v Speaker 2>And apparently the whole drone part, all of the rotors

0:38:50.920 --> 0:38:53.480
<v Speaker 2>fold back into the body when you're driving it as

0:38:53.520 --> 0:38:54.040
<v Speaker 2>a car.

0:38:54.040 --> 0:38:57.120
<v Speaker 3>Like a like a transformer, like a transformer.

0:38:57.600 --> 0:39:00.000
<v Speaker 2>And the reason why I say this is the best

0:39:00.000 --> 0:39:02.800
<v Speaker 2>product in cees is not that I think it would

0:39:02.800 --> 0:39:06.759
<v Speaker 2>work or be safe. Because we talked to the people

0:39:07.280 --> 0:39:09.160
<v Speaker 2>and the person who was told to us is their

0:39:09.200 --> 0:39:12.279
<v Speaker 2>technical expert, and neither of them could answer if it

0:39:12.320 --> 0:39:16.680
<v Speaker 2>had airbags. They did say probably. They did say probably.

0:39:16.320 --> 0:39:18.959
<v Speaker 3>Which isn't what you want to hear.

0:39:19.440 --> 0:39:21.400
<v Speaker 2>No, that you should have that answer.

0:39:21.600 --> 0:39:23.839
<v Speaker 5>That's not a tough question, that's not a gotcha does

0:39:23.880 --> 0:39:25.160
<v Speaker 5>your car have airbags?

0:39:25.600 --> 0:39:27.560
<v Speaker 3>First, First, the PR guy that we were talking to

0:39:28.000 --> 0:39:30.720
<v Speaker 3>was very open about knowing almost nothing about the technical

0:39:30.719 --> 0:39:33.239
<v Speaker 3>aspects of this device. And then when we talked to

0:39:33.239 --> 0:39:36.640
<v Speaker 3>the technical person, they too didn't know very much about it, so,

0:39:37.360 --> 0:39:39.120
<v Speaker 3>which just isn't very reassuring.

0:39:39.520 --> 0:39:41.120
<v Speaker 2>Like and I even tried to do it the easy

0:39:41.120 --> 0:39:42.839
<v Speaker 2>way where I was like, well, I know ultra light

0:39:42.920 --> 0:39:46.080
<v Speaker 2>aircraft you don't need a pilot's license for so do

0:39:46.160 --> 0:39:49.839
<v Speaker 2>you need Does this qualify? And they were basically said, no,

0:39:50.040 --> 0:39:52.439
<v Speaker 2>we don't know, we don't know yet. Yeah, it'll take

0:39:52.480 --> 0:39:55.839
<v Speaker 2>some kind of license probably. What kind of range does

0:39:55.840 --> 0:39:57.840
<v Speaker 2>it get? They said twenty kilometers by.

0:39:57.719 --> 0:39:59.840
<v Speaker 3>Air about twenty minutes per.

0:39:59.760 --> 0:40:03.279
<v Speaker 2>Chart, Yeah, which seems like a dangerously short amount of

0:40:03.280 --> 0:40:07.400
<v Speaker 2>time to be flying you and a loved one potentially

0:40:07.560 --> 0:40:09.520
<v Speaker 2>in a thing it is.

0:40:09.600 --> 0:40:11.799
<v Speaker 3>It is pretty low altitude. I think they said it

0:40:11.840 --> 0:40:13.759
<v Speaker 3>maxes out at around one hundred meters.

0:40:13.800 --> 0:40:16.240
<v Speaker 2>One hundred No, they said one hundred meters.

0:40:16.239 --> 0:40:19.200
<v Speaker 3>Sorry, So it's really not for going up super high.

0:40:19.239 --> 0:40:22.920
<v Speaker 3>And I when we went to the more like expert panel,

0:40:23.719 --> 0:40:26.280
<v Speaker 3>a lot of these use cases for this, they imagine

0:40:26.360 --> 0:40:30.920
<v Speaker 3>is kind of replacing helicopters in cities. There's like metavac

0:40:32.120 --> 0:40:34.640
<v Speaker 3>use cases. But a lot of people were talking about

0:40:34.760 --> 0:40:37.680
<v Speaker 3>like testing these things out in New York where rich

0:40:37.719 --> 0:40:40.960
<v Speaker 3>people use helicopters to get around the city, and this

0:40:41.000 --> 0:40:43.399
<v Speaker 3>is what they want to replace them with. Because these

0:40:43.440 --> 0:40:47.080
<v Speaker 3>can be purely electric, these can be much more because

0:40:47.200 --> 0:40:49.960
<v Speaker 3>these can be much quieter. So that was what a

0:40:49.960 --> 0:40:53.000
<v Speaker 3>lot of what they were talking about. However, again most

0:40:53.040 --> 0:40:55.680
<v Speaker 3>of the panel was just them just complaining that the

0:40:55.680 --> 0:40:58.800
<v Speaker 3>government hasn't done enough work to make this a real industry.

0:40:59.440 --> 0:41:02.440
<v Speaker 2>Garrison, I got, you're not aware of this topic. You

0:41:02.560 --> 0:41:05.440
<v Speaker 2>just handed me the flyer we got from them that

0:41:05.480 --> 0:41:08.280
<v Speaker 2>I don't think either of us read through. Here's their story.

0:41:08.360 --> 0:41:09.000
<v Speaker 3>Oh oh boy.

0:41:09.719 --> 0:41:14.680
<v Speaker 2>Sale Beyond Limits twenty thirteen. Zoo Deli ignited Erot with

0:41:14.760 --> 0:41:18.320
<v Speaker 2>a daring dream to turn the enchanting broomsticks of Harry

0:41:18.320 --> 0:41:21.880
<v Speaker 2>Potter into tangible wonder. Oh no, a tribe of daring

0:41:21.960 --> 0:41:25.400
<v Speaker 2>mind set forth on the thrilling journey of crafting electric

0:41:25.520 --> 0:41:29.640
<v Speaker 2>marbles that could take humans to the skies through tireless exploration.

0:41:29.719 --> 0:41:33.799
<v Speaker 2>The first ever prototype, the flying motorcycle. Gracefully, this is

0:41:33.840 --> 0:41:39.319
<v Speaker 2>all a Harry Potter thing. Some madman from China fell

0:41:39.400 --> 0:41:41.440
<v Speaker 2>so in love with Harry Potter that he made a

0:41:41.600 --> 0:41:45.719
<v Speaker 2>death car. I'm back around to loving it again.

0:41:47.040 --> 0:41:51.560
<v Speaker 3>Average tech industry guy, brain poisoned by Harry Potter creates

0:41:51.600 --> 0:41:52.320
<v Speaker 3>death device.

0:41:53.000 --> 0:41:55.040
<v Speaker 4>I feel like this guy and the plant pet sky

0:41:55.160 --> 0:41:56.439
<v Speaker 4>are probably like pretty tight.

0:41:57.440 --> 0:41:59.520
<v Speaker 2>They're both the same kind of why is there somebody

0:41:59.520 --> 0:42:02.040
<v Speaker 2>apocaly ten based around Harry Potter?

0:42:02.320 --> 0:42:04.040
<v Speaker 3>What's going on in this industry?

0:42:04.760 --> 0:42:07.360
<v Speaker 2>And it is so the other brochure they had it

0:42:07.440 --> 0:42:11.000
<v Speaker 2>shows like the flying car, the modular flying car, which

0:42:11.040 --> 0:42:13.719
<v Speaker 2>looks like a cyber truck because if it had like

0:42:14.000 --> 0:42:15.759
<v Speaker 2>you know, you can get a truck, you can put

0:42:15.800 --> 0:42:18.279
<v Speaker 2>like a bed cap on the beds. It's basically like

0:42:18.320 --> 0:42:20.359
<v Speaker 2>a big it's like a cyber truck with one of those,

0:42:20.760 --> 0:42:24.239
<v Speaker 2>but the bed cap opens up to deploy like a

0:42:24.400 --> 0:42:27.000
<v Speaker 2>quad copter thing that human beings can ride in.

0:42:27.400 --> 0:42:32.279
<v Speaker 3>Kind of like sound wave in Transform, which.

0:42:32.040 --> 0:42:34.680
<v Speaker 2>Is like it's a cool idea from like a kid's

0:42:34.719 --> 0:42:37.439
<v Speaker 2>point of view. I think the idea here is that,

0:42:37.760 --> 0:42:40.399
<v Speaker 2>you know, John McAfee used to do this thing where

0:42:40.440 --> 0:42:42.120
<v Speaker 2>he would live in the desert with a cult of

0:42:42.120 --> 0:42:44.920
<v Speaker 2>weirdos and they would fly around on gliders until he

0:42:44.960 --> 0:42:46.840
<v Speaker 2>got his nephew and an old man killed in a

0:42:46.880 --> 0:42:50.440
<v Speaker 2>glider crash. This is this is the dream yeah, of

0:42:50.480 --> 0:42:51.680
<v Speaker 2>that Harry Potter fan.

0:42:51.880 --> 0:42:54.799
<v Speaker 3>I mean, I this The reason why I'm actually very

0:42:54.840 --> 0:42:57.400
<v Speaker 3>pro this product is because the only people that are

0:42:57.400 --> 0:43:00.839
<v Speaker 3>going to use these are really rich. Yes, yeah, I

0:43:00.880 --> 0:43:03.560
<v Speaker 3>think there's a high chance this could take out a

0:43:03.680 --> 0:43:04.439
<v Speaker 3>lot of them.

0:43:04.640 --> 0:43:08.120
<v Speaker 2>This this has the best chance of dropping multiple billionaires

0:43:08.120 --> 0:43:09.560
<v Speaker 2>of anything since the Death's Up.

0:43:09.800 --> 0:43:12.760
<v Speaker 5>Like we comel from one hundred meters in the air,

0:43:14.080 --> 0:43:17.239
<v Speaker 5>just crashing out of the sky in Santa Monica and

0:43:17.320 --> 0:43:21.360
<v Speaker 5>san billionaires just taking out whole lanes of traffic.

0:43:21.480 --> 0:43:24.399
<v Speaker 3>Imaginers, I meagine you're walking through the park one day

0:43:24.600 --> 0:43:28.440
<v Speaker 3>and a billionaire comes flying down from the sky and

0:43:28.600 --> 0:43:31.360
<v Speaker 3>lands in like a two million dollar drone.

0:43:31.719 --> 0:43:34.319
<v Speaker 2>The prototype that they say they got to fly was

0:43:34.400 --> 0:43:37.799
<v Speaker 2>two tons. Wow, you could really do a lot of

0:43:37.880 --> 0:43:43.000
<v Speaker 2>damage with that. Well, this is this is all quite exciting.

0:43:43.239 --> 0:43:45.279
<v Speaker 2>Keep your eye on the sky, folks, Maybe wear a

0:43:45.320 --> 0:43:50.200
<v Speaker 2>helmet for a while until this all shakes out. Like

0:43:50.400 --> 0:43:52.239
<v Speaker 2>there's the story in the news right now that like

0:43:52.280 --> 0:43:55.239
<v Speaker 2>some dude in Portland had the fucking door of that

0:43:55.320 --> 0:43:58.560
<v Speaker 2>Alaska Airlines flight in his backyard. And I can't wait

0:43:58.719 --> 0:44:02.040
<v Speaker 2>until that's like a third to Elon Musk, just like

0:44:02.239 --> 0:44:03.960
<v Speaker 2>Lance in someone's yard.

0:44:03.880 --> 0:44:05.200
<v Speaker 3>Like two million dollars.

0:44:05.360 --> 0:44:08.640
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, yeah. And by the way, if fucking a

0:44:08.680 --> 0:44:12.239
<v Speaker 2>billionaire's carcass winds up in my lawn, I got a

0:44:12.239 --> 0:44:16.440
<v Speaker 2>new punch bowl with their skull, I'm gonna harvest their pros.

0:44:16.760 --> 0:44:21.400
<v Speaker 2>We call the billionaires division the billionaire's dividend. Well, all right, everybody,

0:44:22.600 --> 0:44:24.120
<v Speaker 2>anyone Tapia, you have anything to plug?

0:44:24.920 --> 0:44:27.400
<v Speaker 4>Oh yeah, you can find me on Twitter or x

0:44:27.760 --> 0:44:30.759
<v Speaker 4>at cut Mora, or if you want to learn a

0:44:30.800 --> 0:44:34.040
<v Speaker 4>little bit more about me and my interactive and immersive work,

0:44:34.239 --> 0:44:37.480
<v Speaker 4>you can see my work at tabiamora dot com.

0:44:37.880 --> 0:44:39.719
<v Speaker 2>You can also see her work in my book A

0:44:39.760 --> 0:44:42.480
<v Speaker 2>Brief History of Ice, where she did all the illustrations,

0:44:42.560 --> 0:44:44.520
<v Speaker 2>or in my book After the Revolution where she did

0:44:44.520 --> 0:44:47.400
<v Speaker 2>all the illustrations, or in the sequel which will come

0:44:47.440 --> 0:44:50.360
<v Speaker 2>out when I finished those last two fucking chapters like

0:44:50.440 --> 0:44:54.640
<v Speaker 2>three years from now, huh or in Vegas, yeah tomorrow

0:44:55.440 --> 0:45:02.360
<v Speaker 2>to Laura. All right, well we're done.

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