WEBVTT - Ring created a security drone to fly around your house 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:14.880 Amazon revamps its Fire TV lineup, Ring has a new 0:00:15.080 --> 0:00:20.599 indoor drone, backing up iPhone pictures without the cloud, plus 0:00:20.760 --> 0:00:22.680 your tech questions answered. 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:25.880 What's going on? I'm Rich Damiro and this is Rich on. 0:00:25.880 --> 0:00:28.400 Tech, the podcast where I talk about the tech stuff 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:31.319 I think you should know about, and it's where I 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:34.239 answer the questions that you send me. My name is 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:38.280 Rich Dmiro, tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:41.839 Thanks so much for joining me today. Lots and lots 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:46.920 of tech news. It is quite remarkable how many gadgets 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:50.239 are coming out from now. It started, you know, back 0:00:50.280 --> 0:00:52.879 in August, and now we've got September, we have. 0:00:52.880 --> 0:00:54.560 October and November. 0:00:54.600 --> 0:00:56.680 Well, probably everything will be done by October end of 0:00:56.720 --> 0:01:00.639 October with the iPhone. But man, there are so many gadgets. 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:03.200 It seems like it seems like a lot. But this 0:01:03.320 --> 0:01:06.119 is typically what happens during this time of the year. 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:07.480 But it just seems. 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:10.840 Super odd right now because we're in this pandemic. Everyone's 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:13.959 home and I feel like these tech companies have been 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:17.080 sort of capitalizing on the fact that we do want 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:20.559 entertainment from home. We are you know, we want Zoom, 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:24.680 we want computers. We want work from home stuff. Smartphones 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:26.600 not so much. That's been a little bit of a 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:29.040 challenge because who really wants to spend all that money 0:01:29.040 --> 0:01:32.319 on a new phone right now? But again, there have 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:34.559 been a lot of announcements, and these things are planned 0:01:34.600 --> 0:01:36.320 for a long time, so it's not like these are 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:40.120 a surprise. This is something that generally happens. It just 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:42.399 seems odd right now for this time of the year. 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:45.679 But I've been wearing the new Apple Watch Series six. 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:46.840 I also have the. 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:50.080 Se handy to kind of check out and I'm putting 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:52.840 them through their paces. The Series six, I mean, I'll 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:56.040 be honest, it's great. The loop band is cool. Took 0:01:56.080 --> 0:01:58.280 me a little bit to figure out the sizing on 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:01.000 that because I put the first band on and I 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:02.960 was like, oh, this thing is way too big, and 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:05.680 I didn't realize that there were other sizes. So now 0:02:05.680 --> 0:02:09.640 I've got pretty much the right size. And you know, 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:13.560 have I noticed anything different than the Series five? 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:14.239 Not really. 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:18.160 I mean it's definitely brighter, and the apps are a 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:21.360 little bit faster, but you need to rush out an upgrade. 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:22.000 Probably not. 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:26.240 The oxygen stuff is interesting, but it's not enough for 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:29.120 me to sort of think that you have to upgrade 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:31.480 unless you have some sort of health issue that you 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:33.799 want to you know, address with that. But the problem 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:35.880 is Apple says that's not for health anyway. It's just 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:38.760 for sort of awareness and fitness, and it's not a 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:42.040 medical device. So and I think a lot of the 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:44.240 features you get you get with the software update. Anyway, 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:47.760 The se is much more compelling to me for the 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:51.480 average person because it gives you pretty much everything you 0:02:51.560 --> 0:02:54.560 need for two hundred and seventy nine dollars. And the 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:57.160 fact that they have that new family plan where you 0:02:57.160 --> 0:02:59.200 can put the you know, your kid on an Apple Watch, 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:02.080 that's pretty cool too. Two seventy nine for an Apple Watch, 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:05.040 I think is a fantastic deal. I think I last 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:08.320 week talked about how you don't get certain things like, 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:11.840 you know, the new blood oxygen level, and you also 0:03:11.919 --> 0:03:14.960 don't get the uh oh, what's the other one, the ECG, 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:16.760 and you don't get the always on display. But if 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:18.600 you don't need those things and who cares, what's the 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:22.799 big deal. Let's get to the first topic of the show, 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:27.600 and that is Amazon. Amazon had a big event this week. 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:29.600 This is the second time in a row they did 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:31.919 not invite me to this event, and this one was virtual. 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:33.200 Last year on this. 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:35.640 Very show, I talked about how Amazon did not invite 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:38.040 me to the event in Seattle. This year, they didn't 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:40.320 even invite me to the virtual event. So I don't 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:43.920 know what Amazon has against me. But here we go 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:47.200 with some of their announcements. So they kind of revamped 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:49.880 the Firestick lineup and the Echo lineup, and they had 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:52.040 a bunch of ring announcements. I will be peppering them 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:54.560 in throughout the show. But the main thing you need 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:57.800 to know is that the fire TV stick is more powerful. 0:03:58.040 --> 0:03:58.760 It also has. 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:02.160 HDR and Dolby at most support, and it's forty bucks 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:06.240 and it also has new Wi Fi five gigahertz, which 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:09.680 is great. It's got the Alexa Voice remote, which I think, 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:11.600 I mean, that's what I have on the four K. 0:04:12.000 --> 0:04:16.279 Maybe the other one didn't have that, but I mean, 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:18.120 I don't know. I think it's kind of weird that 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:20.080 they have two now. They also did a fire Stick 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:23.839 light and this one's even cheaper at thirty dollars. But 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:27.680 the thing I don't understand is why are they selling 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:31.440 such cheap room like they have a thirty dollars model 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:34.400 and a forty dollars model. They did not upgrade the 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:38.960 Fire TV stick four K. What I don't understand that 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:41.359 at all. Four K is where all the growth is, 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:44.240 That's where all the TVs are. Why is Amazon still 0:04:44.279 --> 0:04:47.279 putting out a ten EIGHTYP device? 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:48.720 I don't get it. 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:54.920 Why so it doesn't doesn't make any sense. I'm I'm told, 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:57.040 I get the pricing thing they want to make. Oh, 0:04:57.240 --> 0:05:00.720 thirty bucks you can get into streaming. You can get 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:04.440 into streaming, but fifty bucks. I mean, just split the difference, 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:07.040 make it forty five and give everyone four K as 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:09.479 the entry level. Why do we have to have three 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:13.599 different levels? It's confusing for the average person, and quite frankly, 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:16.080 if you know, most a lot of people are upgrading 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:18.960 four K TVs, so why are we getting them stuck 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:20.279 with these ten ADP devices? 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:20.720 I don't know. 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:26.440 fireTV experience is more personalized, blah blah blah. I mean 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:30.359 it's already pretty good. I think that fireTV when I 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:32.800 compare it to the Apple TV interface, which I get 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:34.680 a lot more people use Roku and a lot more 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:37.800 people use fire it's just very cluttered and it's like, 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:40.599 sometimes all I want to see on the fireTV is 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:42.279 like a list of the top movies, and I can't 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:44.760 find them because it's so cluttered with like all the 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:45.880 stuff that they want to promote. 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:47.520 This is cool. 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:50.240 They're gonna do user profiles now, so you have six 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:54.400 six members of your household, all have personalized experiences. And 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:57.400 the best part is you say, ay, switch to my 0:05:57.520 --> 0:06:03.080 profile and after an initition, she'll set up the A 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:08.080 rhymes with MAMESA will automatically recognize your voice and switch. 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:11.480 To your profile. So that's really cool right there. Now. 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:14.159 The fire TV Cube is their most expensive device. I 0:06:14.200 --> 0:06:16.000 doubt many people are buying this. That's one hundred and 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:19.159 twenty dollars. Tough sell there when they're entry levels thirty. 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:22.400 But the cool thing about that one is that you 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:26.120 will be able to add a Logitech webcam to the 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:30.240 fire TV Cube and call with Alexa over video. Oh 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:32.880 I just said the word. But they're also going to 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:36.200 add Zoom later on. So anyway, if you're interested in 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:38.799 these things. The fire TV Stick, the new one starts 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:43.400 at forty bucks. It'll be available next week, and the 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:47.200 fire TV Stick Light is thirty dollars, begins shipping in 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:51.599 the US next week as well. All right, let's get 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:55.839 to our first question. I am trying something new. These 0:06:55.920 --> 0:07:00.599 are new digitized question. You just out of here, let 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:01.440 me just here we go. 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:04.080 Do you know when or if the new iPad pro 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:07.360 will be released? I'm having trouble with my iPad Air 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:11.240 and want to upgrade. Not sure if it's worth waiting 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:14.280 for an iPad Pro. I keep getting messages that I 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:18.600 don't have access to websites like Corner Bakery and QVC, 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:21.880 to name two, and I can't open a lot of websites. 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:25.120 I get a message that Safari has lost connection to 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:29.840 the server or the page doesn't open. I'm very frustrated. 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:33.679 Thank you for any help you can give me. Mary Very, 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:35.160 senior citizen. 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:37.640 Mary Very, senior citizen. 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:40.320 All right now, In case you can't tell, that is 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:42.480 a digitized voice. 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:44.720 It is so cool. I heard about this. 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:46.720 I don't know if I heard it in another podcast 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:51.280 or I listened to the technme ride home and the 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:55.160 host there, Brian McCullough, was he did a whole segment 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:57.920 on his podcast with a digitized voice. Because the idea is, 0:07:58.200 --> 0:08:00.800 you know, this guy has to spend every day reading 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:02.640 his podcast after he writes it, and it's a whole 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:04.480 big thing, and he's like, what if I one day 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:07.640 could like synthesize my own voice, And so we did 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:10.400 a whole segment. Anyway, this is not that, but these 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:13.600 are special voices that they have synthesized in a program 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:17.920 called Descript that you can use in your podcasts. 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:19.120 And so, I mean. 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:21.880 They're not perfect, but they're pretty interesting anyway, So you'll 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:24.920 hear more of them throughout the show. But that's Mary's question, 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:30.240 and it's an interesting question. So it sounds like Mary 0:08:30.520 --> 0:08:35.880 wants a new iPad Pro. And to answer your question, 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:37.680 when the new iPad Pro is going to be released, 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:39.920 I mean it's going to be released next month. They 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:43.120 just announced it at the last event. And the new 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:47.160 iPad Pro is great. It's got a lot of nice features. 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:52.080 But I don't understand why. I mean, I'm having trouble 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:54.880 with my iPad Air. So you have an iPad Air, 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:57.520 I don't know. Number One, you say you're a very 0:08:57.559 --> 0:08:59.880 senior citizen. I don't think you need the iPad Pro. 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:02.600 So I think you just need a regular iPad And 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:07.360 I'm not convinced your iPad Air is necessarily needing an upgrade. 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:10.559 I mean, these iPads last for a long long time. 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:13.800 So and you're saying that you have like these lost 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:17.040 connections to the server. So I think it sounds like 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:19.640 some sort of network issue and that could be the 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:21.840 Wi Fi that you're on, So I guess it would 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:24.360 really depend on does this happen everywhere or just at 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:26.840 your house. So that's the first thing I'd look at 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:29.079 as your Wi Fi settings. And the second thing I 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:33.360 do is do a reset network settings. So if you 0:09:33.400 --> 0:09:37.720 go into your iPad into your settings general reset reset 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:41.080 network settings. This will clear out all the different things 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:44.760 on your iPad, like any Wi Fi settings, passwords for 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:48.319 your Wi Fi cellular settings, any VPNs you have, any apns, 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:51.440 So that will help kind of get this thing back 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:54.520 to normal. And if it's still happening after that, I 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:58.480 would do a complete factory reset, and that means erasing 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:02.719 everything off your iPad, starting it over from fresh, and 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:05.600 then seeing if it works. If it still doesn't work, 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:08.319 then I would go for the new iPad. And I 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:09.880 don't think you need the iPad Pro. I think you 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:14.439 just need the regular iPad. For three hundred and something bucks, 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:16.800 I just bought one for my niece, so it's a 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:17.600 shipping time. 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:18.000 Is a while. 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:21.080 It was like a month, so you know, you have 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:22.800 to keep that in mind. You're not gonna get this 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:24.680 thing overnight. I thought it was gonna be like, Oh, 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:27.000 she gets it the next day. New not so not 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:30.640 so fast. It's it's like four weeks out. And I'm 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:33.240 not sure why there's such a delay. But when I 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:35.400 was looking on Amazon, it was like, oh, next day delivery. 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:38.280 But I like to buy direct from Apple because it's 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:40.440 just uh, I'm then you don't have to If she 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:42.240 needs help, like getting it fixed or whatever, she can 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:44.400 go right into the Apple Store, no worries. I think 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:46.640 Amazon's probably the same way, but I just don't know. 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:49.959 But anyway, Mary, thanks for the question. Appreciate it, and 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:53.040 try to breathe some new life into the iPad air 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:57.440 before you spend that money on an upgrade. All right, 0:10:57.480 --> 0:11:01.120 let's talk about the all new Echo family. So again, 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:06.720 this was at Amazon's event, and this was a digital event, 0:11:06.960 --> 0:11:10.480 so they did the all new echos. So now the 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:16.960 Echo has these spherical designs, So let's talk about the 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:21.160 new Echo. The next generation Echo has a bright led 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:23.560 ring light at the base of it so that you 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:26.840 can it reflexed off your surface. So you can tell, 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:29.240 kind of like when Alexa is oh gosh, I keep 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:32.440 saying that, so you can tell when A is saying things. 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:34.959 It also comes for the first time with a built 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:39.280 in smart home hub with support for Zigbie, Bluetooth Low Energy, 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:42.400 and Amazon Sidewalk. And out of those three with the 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:47.000 funny names, Amazon Sidewalk is the most interesting. I haven't 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:49.000 really talked about it on this podcast, but I was 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:51.360 discussing it with a Bill Handle on KFI on the 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:55.520 radio the other day, and it's just brilliant, brilliant, brilliant 0:11:55.559 --> 0:12:01.400 from Amazon, very dystopian at the same time, because how 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:04.719 it works is that anyone who wants to be part 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:08.120 of this network puts their device like a It basically 0:12:08.160 --> 0:12:10.520 comes from the ring devices. So if you have like 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:13.599 a link a ring floodlight cam, and it's basically the 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:16.000 ring devices that are always connected to the Internet and 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:19.400 they're outside, and so they say, you say, hey, I'll 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:21.959 donate a little bit of my Internet to this sidewalk network, 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:24.480 and so a whole bunch of you do that, and 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:29.240 Amazon aggregates that network and then creates their own network 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:34.440 through these devices that then have a direct connection to 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:36.440 the Internet through a bunch of people's home Wi Fi. 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:38.840 So does that make any sense? It's really weird. 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:41.880 But so imagine you have a Wi Fi connection at 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:43.760 home with one of these Ring devices. You say, sure, 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:46.840 I'll be kind of a spoke or a hub for 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:49.240 this network, and you take a little bit of your 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:51.160 Internet and you give it to that device all the time. 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:53.600 Your neighbor is not part of the network. They're just 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:56.360 a spoke. They have like an Echo. That Echo can 0:12:56.400 --> 0:12:59.880 tap into your your Ring device on the sidewalk network 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:02.160 use a little bit of your Internet if their Internet 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:04.520 goes out. That's kind of the idea here, is that 0:13:04.840 --> 0:13:09.240 they're creating a secondary network that kind of is alive 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:12.240 at all times because chances are someone's device is up 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:14.959 and running on their Internet connection. So if your whole 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:18.360 neighborhood goes out, your Ring camera on your front door 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:21.600 will still continue to work because you're tapping into this 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:24.200 new sidewalk network and not just your Wi Fi. I mean, 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:27.679 it's really really brilliant, kind of scary, but I think 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:32.640 it's really cool. So that's the Echo and then you 0:13:32.679 --> 0:13:36.000 have the Echo Dot Kids edition. This comes in a 0:13:36.080 --> 0:13:40.160 colorful panda or tiger print and it's what is that? 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:41.360 That one's sixty bucks. 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:42.520 And they also have. 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:45.719 This feature on it called Reading Sidekick, where Alexa can 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:48.680 help kids build fluency and foster a love for reading. 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:54.320 Alexa will take turns reading with your child, providing encouragement 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:56.680 when they're reading well and offering support when they struggle. 0:13:56.920 --> 0:13:58.400 So I don't know how that's gonna work. I gotta 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:01.120 see a demo of that, because does it read along 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:03.880 with any book or just the books that they program 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:07.000 for that. Then you've got the Echo Show ten and 0:14:07.000 --> 0:14:11.120 this is really interesting too. Imagine an Echo device. You know, 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:13.240 these are the ones with the display that's sort of 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:16.800 on a swivel mount. This is two hundred and fifty dollars, 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:19.520 so very expensive. But it's got a ten inch HD 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:23.440 display and it rotates as you walk around the room, 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:25.120 so when you're on a video call, you can just 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:27.800 kind of walk around naturally it will follow you not 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:29.960 you know, it won't move, but it will just rotate 0:14:30.200 --> 0:14:32.320 left and right. I don't know if it goes up 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:36.000 and down. But they say it's a brushless motor. So 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:39.880 it's nice and quiet. But that's really cool because we're 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:42.720 all getting into this whole you know, video chat thing, 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:45.400 and it's you know, these smart displays are going to 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:47.320 become more and more valuable because people have gotten so 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:49.840 used to kind of chatting with people on them. You 0:14:49.840 --> 0:14:53.080 can also watch other things on them like Hulu plus 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:59.080 Prime Video, Netflix, and that's cool. There's also a feature 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:03.120 called Alexa gar so the Echo Show ten can pan 0:15:03.240 --> 0:15:05.840 the room and send you an alert if it detects 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:10.560 someone in its field of view. So again, these things 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:13.480 are getting really smart and just we are covering our 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:16.360 homes in all kinds of ways that we never thought possible. 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:19.640 And there is a camera shutter on this thing, so 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:21.720 you can turn that off. You can also turn off 0:15:21.720 --> 0:15:24.040 the motion if you don't like it. So the Echo 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:26.280 is a hundred bucks, the Echo Dot is fifty, the 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:29.520 kids edition is sixty, and the Echo Show ten is 0:15:29.560 --> 0:15:32.520 two fifty that will ship in time for the holidays. 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:35.280 And again, you know, it's nice that these things are 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:37.400 all working with Zoom. It seems like it's gonna take 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:39.680 a little bit, but it is pretty cool that Zoom 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:42.520 is getting a lot of play on these new devices. 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:49.120 All right, let's go to another question. This one comes 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:49.800 from Javier. 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:53.680 My kid always seems to go to YouTube because he 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:57.240 finished his assignment early. He then gets carried away and 0:15:57.320 --> 0:16:00.200 forgets to check back to his classroom. Is there a 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:03.720 way to block YouTube or at least just temporarily using 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:06.960 a laptop running Windows ten. Thank you, Javier. 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:11.480 Okay, good question, Javier. This happens to me as well, 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:16.320 because my kids are obsessed with YouTube, well especially my 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:20.760 little kid. My gosh, when I say obsessed, it is 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:26.880 it's unbelievable the amount of influence these YouTubers have on 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:29.760 small kids. And as a parent, it's kind of scary 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:33.080 because I noticed my kids started talking about Chick fil 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:36.200 A and you know, a couple other little things that 0:16:36.400 --> 0:16:38.120 this YouTuber loves. 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:39.840 And it's like, oh, that's interesting. 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:43.560 Hot Pockets was another one, and it's it's really I mean, 0:16:43.560 --> 0:16:45.840 I see the whole thing with like you know, whether 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:49.560 these are sponsored opportunities or not, because not that kids care, 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:51.800 but for parents, like I want to know, like is 0:16:51.840 --> 0:16:53.800 this guy talking about uh, Chick fil A because he 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:54.160 loves it? 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:57.560 Or is he being paid to do that? But I digress. 0:16:58.080 --> 0:17:00.920 So, yeah, there is a way to block YouTube, at 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:05.320 least temporarily using a laptop running Windows ten. I would 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:11.720 look at a website called next dns dot io, next 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:16.560 dns dot io. And what this does is that it's 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:20.720 basically a it changes the DNS on your or I 0:17:20.720 --> 0:17:23.760 guess you use it to change how your router looks 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:26.879 up things. And so you can put in all kinds 0:17:26.960 --> 0:17:31.000 of you know, restrictions, so you can do all kinds 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:31.320 of stuff. 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:33.359 Let me just go through some of these things. So 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:35.879 let's see security, privacy. 0:17:36.720 --> 0:17:39.080 Hold on, it's saying it's saying that I'm I got 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:40.919 to sign up because I've already set this thing up. 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:43.200 Let me go into a different window here and try 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:47.200 it this way. Let's see next dns try it now 0:17:47.240 --> 0:17:50.359 for free, and it's it's pretty much free. You just 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:52.359 have to change a couple of settings on your router 0:17:52.560 --> 0:17:54.520 and this is it. But you can go in and 0:17:54.960 --> 0:17:59.480 put on Google Safe browsing, crypto jacking protection, let's see 0:17:59.480 --> 0:18:00.240 type squadting. 0:18:00.960 --> 0:18:02.119 Wow, all kinds of stuff. 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:06.960 Privacy, you can block ads, you can block trackers, let's 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:10.640 see parental controls. You can restrict access to a specific website, 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:14.119 app or game or categories. You can turn on safe search, 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:17.720 YouTube restricted mode. And the only thing that's kind of 0:18:17.760 --> 0:18:21.879 tricky about this is that it's coming from the router, 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:24.840 and there's not really a timed way of doing this. 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:26.680 You can't say, oh, I just want this website to 0:18:26.720 --> 0:18:30.080 be restricted from nine am to one pm while my 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:32.479 kid is in school. But another thing you could do, 0:18:32.960 --> 0:18:34.639 and I'm sure there's a whole bunch of like Chrome 0:18:34.720 --> 0:18:38.040 extensions that you can get to help on that Windows laptop. 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:41.280 But I would also look into, if you want kind 0:18:41.280 --> 0:18:45.320 of a heavy duty situation, something called Circle and Circle 0:18:45.440 --> 0:18:48.159 is really good. You plug it into your router, and 0:18:48.280 --> 0:18:51.240 it's like you can control everything your kids do. You 0:18:51.280 --> 0:18:54.240 can control from the time they're able to access their 0:18:54.240 --> 0:18:56.760 devices how much time they're allowed. So, for instance, my 0:18:56.840 --> 0:18:58.680 kid gets a certain amount of time on YouTube every 0:18:58.760 --> 0:19:01.680 day on Minecraft and blocks, and believe me, they fight 0:19:01.720 --> 0:19:04.040 it every day. They When that times up, I get 0:19:04.040 --> 0:19:06.240 a little notification on my watch and it's like, oh, 0:19:06.280 --> 0:19:08.760 here comes my kid marching in asking for more time. 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:12.640 So that's another way of doing it. The other thing 0:19:12.960 --> 0:19:15.400 is if you're on you know, and I know you're 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:17.439 on Windows, but if you're on an Apple device, you 0:19:17.440 --> 0:19:19.920 can use screen time and that's super simple to set up. 0:19:20.400 --> 0:19:24.119 But Windows ten, I think they have something called the 0:19:24.480 --> 0:19:27.880 family filter, because I have this on my kid's laptop 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:34.159 as well. Let's see Windows Family Filter and yeah, so 0:19:34.880 --> 0:19:37.000 you got to go into Family. 0:19:37.160 --> 0:19:42.440 Let's see what's it called. I think it's. 0:19:42.400 --> 0:19:46.359 Microsoft Family dot Microsoft dot com. And then that way 0:19:46.400 --> 0:19:49.400 you can set up all the filters on your child's device. 0:19:50.000 --> 0:19:53.520 So you can do it. It's in you know, you believe me, 0:19:53.560 --> 0:19:55.840 you can. You can do this stuff. It takes a 0:19:55.880 --> 0:19:58.160 little bit of time to set it up, but again, 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:00.760 once it's set up, it is you know, it's a 0:20:00.800 --> 0:20:03.359 little easier. It's on autopilot. But there are some things 0:20:03.359 --> 0:20:05.400 here and there. Like the other night, I was trying 0:20:05.440 --> 0:20:08.520 to watch something on I think it was, I don't know, 0:20:08.640 --> 0:20:10.840 was it Netflix in my bedroom and I was like, 0:20:10.880 --> 0:20:11.840 what is going on here? 0:20:11.920 --> 0:20:12.680 It will not work? 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:15.360 And I remembered that everything gets cut off at seven 0:20:15.440 --> 0:20:18.840 pm because that's my kid's bedtime and the devices are 0:20:18.960 --> 0:20:21.200 on there, or at least the device in my bedroom, 0:20:21.720 --> 0:20:26.560 the firestick is linked to my kid's profile. So I 0:20:26.600 --> 0:20:28.919 had to go in and like extend his bedtime, and 0:20:28.960 --> 0:20:30.879