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Hello again, everybody, and welcome to tech Stuff. 21 00:01:09,760 --> 00:01:11,800 Speaker 1: My name is Chris Poulette. I am an editor of 22 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:13,840 Speaker 1: how Stuff Works dot com and sitting across from me 23 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:17,520 Speaker 1: a guy who UH had to stop flapping because his 24 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:20,560 Speaker 1: arms were so tired from flying back from Las Vegas. 25 00:01:20,959 --> 00:01:24,080 Speaker 1: Senior writer Jonathan Strickland. Someone must have slandered Joseph K 26 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:26,920 Speaker 1: for one morning without having done anything truly wrong. He 27 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:30,839 Speaker 1: was arrested. What happened to the Biggest Things? The Biggest Baby? 28 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:37,600 Speaker 1: So we're talking today about CE selve. This podcast, of 29 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:41,320 Speaker 1: course is publishing well after the show, but it's as 30 00:01:41,360 --> 00:01:44,280 Speaker 1: early as we can get it out there. Um, we 31 00:01:44,319 --> 00:01:46,479 Speaker 1: wanted to kind of talk about what I saw at 32 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:48,360 Speaker 1: the show and sort of the trends and what the 33 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:50,400 Speaker 1: show was like. This this year there were actually some 34 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:54,560 Speaker 1: pretty big announcements, some of them not directly connected with 35 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:58,480 Speaker 1: what was on the show floor, but still pretty important. Nonetheless, Yeah, 36 00:01:59,160 --> 00:02:01,800 Speaker 1: c S. They've they've asked us to just call it 37 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:05,760 Speaker 1: CES but for branding purposes. But the Consumer Electronics Show 38 00:02:06,040 --> 00:02:10,640 Speaker 1: right right, And this UH started out a few decades 39 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:13,760 Speaker 1: ago basically sort of as a small trade show. And 40 00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:16,480 Speaker 1: because electronics are such a big part of our lives now, 41 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:19,359 Speaker 1: people are really interested in in the stuff that people enveil. 42 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:21,839 Speaker 1: Some of it is uh, stuff that's going to show 43 00:02:21,919 --> 00:02:25,200 Speaker 1: up on on shelves, some of it now, other stuff 44 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:27,800 Speaker 1: will be available later on, and then a few products 45 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:29,960 Speaker 1: are kind of in the prototype stage which we may 46 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:33,600 Speaker 1: never see implemented into an actual consumer product. Yeah, sort 47 00:02:33,639 --> 00:02:36,440 Speaker 1: of like the the auto shows. Actually the Detroit Auto 48 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:39,440 Speaker 1: Show was going on at the same time, um, but 49 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:43,239 Speaker 1: that wasn't in Las Vegas. Curiously, Um, must have something 50 00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:47,080 Speaker 1: to do with the name of the Detroit Casino. Yes, um, 51 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:49,480 Speaker 1: so yeah, I mean they're they're they're hundreds of companies 52 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:54,120 Speaker 1: I guess technically thousands of companies um exhibiting on at 53 00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:57,320 Speaker 1: the Las Vegas Convention Center and at several hotels around 54 00:02:57,360 --> 00:03:01,000 Speaker 1: the area, The Venetian, the LVH what was formerly known 55 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:02,880 Speaker 1: as the Las Vegas Hilton but is now just the 56 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:07,360 Speaker 1: Las Vegas Hotel. Yeah. Yeah, so um uh it's it's 57 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:09,600 Speaker 1: always extremely busy. I mean for the people who go. 58 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:11,720 Speaker 1: For those of you who don't, it may sound like 59 00:03:11,720 --> 00:03:13,320 Speaker 1: it's really cool because you get a lot of time 60 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:17,920 Speaker 1: checking out the latest gadgets, but you know, not for 61 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:20,160 Speaker 1: the for the people who are working the show, both 62 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:23,800 Speaker 1: as exhibitors and the media, it can be exhausting because 63 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:28,840 Speaker 1: you're you're sort of uh uh uh and enveloping yourself 64 00:03:28,919 --> 00:03:32,040 Speaker 1: in tech from the time you get up until the 65 00:03:32,080 --> 00:03:34,960 Speaker 1: time you go to bed and at night, and it's uh, 66 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:37,960 Speaker 1: it's a lot. Yeah and uh and this year was 67 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:41,360 Speaker 1: a record breaking year as far as attendance goes. The 68 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:45,480 Speaker 1: the attendance was over one hundred fifty three thousand people. 69 00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:47,560 Speaker 1: So that's a lot of people, even in in a 70 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:50,800 Speaker 1: building as as big as the lvc C. Yeah. I 71 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:53,280 Speaker 1: think they said they had one point seven million square 72 00:03:53,320 --> 00:03:56,520 Speaker 1: feet of exhibition space in the convention center this year. 73 00:03:57,080 --> 00:04:00,720 Speaker 1: Uh yeah, even in that size, it's it's still crowded, 74 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:03,520 Speaker 1: and you gotta you know, if you've listened to our 75 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:05,840 Speaker 1: ce S podcast, we've talked about the experience. So we 76 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:08,119 Speaker 1: won't dwell on it too much here because we don't 77 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:12,440 Speaker 1: want to repeat ourselves too much. But yeah, it can 78 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:15,280 Speaker 1: be overwhelming, especially to someone who has never been to 79 00:04:15,320 --> 00:04:17,880 Speaker 1: the show before. Now, and this was my fourth c 80 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:20,239 Speaker 1: e S, so I kind of knew what to expect. 81 00:04:20,279 --> 00:04:24,159 Speaker 1: Although in years past the attendance level had dropped a 82 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:28,400 Speaker 1: little bit. Last year was was fairly was fairly well attended, 83 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:31,400 Speaker 1: but twelve was a record breaking year, which was that 84 00:04:31,440 --> 00:04:33,800 Speaker 1: was new to me. It wasn't since two thousand eight 85 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:37,400 Speaker 1: that it had felt that crowded. Yeah. Um, And and 86 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:41,119 Speaker 1: often at these shows, not always, but often at these shows, 87 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:44,480 Speaker 1: there's there's a product or a handful of products that 88 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:49,760 Speaker 1: absolutely steal a show. Um. Speaking as someone who didn't go, 89 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:53,520 Speaker 1: I didn't get the sense that there was one product 90 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:56,000 Speaker 1: that people were just you know, it was just so 91 00:04:56,160 --> 00:04:59,279 Speaker 1: jaw dropping lee awesome that everyone was talking about it. 92 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:01,000 Speaker 1: But it does seemed like they were a handful of 93 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:03,599 Speaker 1: products that people were sort of going, Okay, now that's 94 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:07,000 Speaker 1: pretty cool. Yeah, there were there was a collection of 95 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:09,640 Speaker 1: products that I think got a lot of attention during 96 00:05:09,640 --> 00:05:12,560 Speaker 1: the show itself. And while there might not be like 97 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:15,120 Speaker 1: you can think of like the Palm pre or the 98 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:18,000 Speaker 1: or the smart watch from a few years ago, like 99 00:05:18,040 --> 00:05:21,040 Speaker 1: those were devices that got people buzzing on the floor 100 00:05:21,080 --> 00:05:24,520 Speaker 1: and almost it almost became their show. I agree that 101 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:26,880 Speaker 1: I don't think there was any single product that really 102 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:29,200 Speaker 1: dominated this year, but there were a lot of products 103 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:32,520 Speaker 1: that got quite a bit of of mention and uh, 104 00:05:32,560 --> 00:05:35,919 Speaker 1: and then there were new product categories they got a 105 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:38,880 Speaker 1: lot of attention, like the ultrabook category is a very 106 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:43,159 Speaker 1: good example up to you know, last year's CEOs. Even 107 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:45,200 Speaker 1: though there were a couple of computers out there that 108 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:48,240 Speaker 1: probably could have qualified to be an ultra book, the 109 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:52,800 Speaker 1: designation itself really had not emerged in the first part 110 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:55,080 Speaker 1: of it was the second of twenty eleven when we 111 00:05:55,080 --> 00:05:59,000 Speaker 1: started to hear about ultra books. Yeah, um, specifically, actually 112 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:01,640 Speaker 1: they made and tell is behind the term ultra book, 113 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:04,040 Speaker 1: and you made their announcement after ce S last year. 114 00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:07,840 Speaker 1: So uh, just in brief, and we're gonna have an 115 00:06:07,839 --> 00:06:10,400 Speaker 1: episode all about ultra books coming out later, so we 116 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:13,800 Speaker 1: won't go too into detail here, but it's an ultrabook 117 00:06:13,880 --> 00:06:17,400 Speaker 1: has to have an Intel Core processor, it has to 118 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:21,039 Speaker 1: be a certain thickness or thinner, uh, and it has 119 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:23,400 Speaker 1: to be able to boot up from sleep mode to 120 00:06:23,640 --> 00:06:27,520 Speaker 1: active mode in seven seconds or less. So really it's 121 00:06:27,560 --> 00:06:31,920 Speaker 1: an competitor to the MacBook Air. That's ultimately what ultra 122 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:35,360 Speaker 1: book is and tablets and tablets, you know, and to 123 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:38,320 Speaker 1: a to a certain degree, really, the ultra book was 124 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:42,640 Speaker 1: almost an a response to the way tablets had affected 125 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:45,520 Speaker 1: the netbook industry. So ultra books are kind of you 126 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:48,920 Speaker 1: know that they're they're more powerful and larger than netbooks, 127 00:06:48,960 --> 00:06:52,159 Speaker 1: but they're also still very portable because they're very, very 128 00:06:52,240 --> 00:06:55,960 Speaker 1: slim and light. Because tablets were a big thing at 129 00:06:55,960 --> 00:06:59,320 Speaker 1: C and they were still a big thing in too, 130 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:03,880 Speaker 1: there were odd of tablets on display, a lot of tablets, 131 00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:05,919 Speaker 1: but they weren't they weren't show stealers like some of 132 00:07:05,920 --> 00:07:08,200 Speaker 1: the ultra books that you saw. No ultra books, I 133 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:11,560 Speaker 1: think mainly because it was a new category took a 134 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:14,680 Speaker 1: lot more attention. Because tablets at this point, really, especially 135 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:18,200 Speaker 1: Android tablets, we've seen so many of them that it's 136 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:21,200 Speaker 1: hard to get people excited about tablet, even if it's 137 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:24,720 Speaker 1: a really good device. It's just, you know, it's almost 138 00:07:24,720 --> 00:07:26,320 Speaker 1: like the Boy who Cried Wolf, right, You hear it 139 00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:28,280 Speaker 1: enough times and you're just like, oh, okay, it's another 140 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:32,080 Speaker 1: Android tablet, and you may not pay the attention that 141 00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:36,760 Speaker 1: that device actually deserves to that device. But so there 142 00:07:36,760 --> 00:07:38,680 Speaker 1: were still plenty of tablets. I would say that just 143 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:41,320 Speaker 1: about every major company had at least one or two 144 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:44,840 Speaker 1: different kinds of tablets on display. We also saw some 145 00:07:44,880 --> 00:07:48,560 Speaker 1: Windows eight tablets on display. One of my favorite devices 146 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:50,800 Speaker 1: was an Android tablet on display, which was the Asis 147 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:58,560 Speaker 1: Transformer Prime. UM very very sleek, very uh, very responsive. No, 148 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:01,800 Speaker 1: it does not transformed, but as it was, you can't 149 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:04,360 Speaker 1: get a docking station that's essentially a keyboard, so it 150 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:07,680 Speaker 1: turns it almost like into a laptop computer, but a 151 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:12,000 Speaker 1: very very snappy processor and that it was very responsive. 152 00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:14,560 Speaker 1: So that was one of the devices that I actually 153 00:08:14,640 --> 00:08:17,080 Speaker 1: sought out on the floor. I had heard about it 154 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:18,800 Speaker 1: and I had to find it. And that was a 155 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:22,440 Speaker 1: little tricky because it was it was it was lumped 156 00:08:22,480 --> 00:08:24,680 Speaker 1: in with other companies. It wasn't like there was the 157 00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:26,560 Speaker 1: ass booth you would go to and see it. It 158 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:29,280 Speaker 1: was more like you'd go to these other booths that 159 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:32,600 Speaker 1: had one on display in order to showcase something else. 160 00:08:33,240 --> 00:08:36,880 Speaker 1: But I'm really just interested in the hardware. Um, So 161 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:39,319 Speaker 1: that was you know, tablets were still a big deal, 162 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:41,880 Speaker 1: but I would say ultra books definitely were more of 163 00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:44,520 Speaker 1: a show stealer as far as a category goes. And 164 00:08:44,640 --> 00:08:48,440 Speaker 1: Intel had said that in we should expect between sixty 165 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:51,840 Speaker 1: five and seventy different ultra books coming out onto the market. Uh, 166 00:08:51,960 --> 00:08:53,600 Speaker 1: some of the ultra books that were on display at 167 00:08:53,640 --> 00:08:57,199 Speaker 1: CES may not ever go to market, like Intel's Nikishi, 168 00:08:57,920 --> 00:09:03,160 Speaker 1: which had a clear window in the keyboard section, of 169 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:06,400 Speaker 1: the notebook and you close the notebook. Uh and the 170 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:10,080 Speaker 1: clear section gives you an actually touch screen interface, so 171 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:12,760 Speaker 1: even when your notebooks closed, you still have an active 172 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:15,520 Speaker 1: computing element there and you can run certain apps, check email, 173 00:09:15,559 --> 00:09:18,040 Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. This is very Windows eight Metro 174 00:09:18,480 --> 00:09:21,880 Speaker 1: kind of layout. So, uh, you know, we saw a 175 00:09:21,880 --> 00:09:26,520 Speaker 1: lot of that and and other innovations and ultra books, 176 00:09:26,559 --> 00:09:31,840 Speaker 1: mostly esthetic designs, like really super slim, sleek designs to 177 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:34,719 Speaker 1: kind of go head to head with the MacBook Air. 178 00:09:35,360 --> 00:09:39,320 Speaker 1: Samsung Series nine was probably one of the more striking designs. 179 00:09:39,840 --> 00:09:43,559 Speaker 1: HPS Envy Spector was also very striking, very pretty design. 180 00:09:43,880 --> 00:09:48,280 Speaker 1: What had gorilla glass on on the outside of the Yes, yeah, 181 00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:50,720 Speaker 1: to help protect against scratches and things like that. There 182 00:09:50,760 --> 00:09:53,040 Speaker 1: was gorilla glass all along the back of it. Gorilla 183 00:09:53,280 --> 00:09:56,920 Speaker 1: glass also represented ces corning headed booth. It was a 184 00:09:56,920 --> 00:10:00,960 Speaker 1: gorilla glass too that when the unveiled grill to it's 185 00:10:01,120 --> 00:10:04,520 Speaker 1: thinner than the original gorilla glass and just as strong 186 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:07,880 Speaker 1: and uh so we saw demonstrations of that where they 187 00:10:07,880 --> 00:10:11,120 Speaker 1: showed people trying to scratch the glass or break the glass, 188 00:10:11,160 --> 00:10:14,760 Speaker 1: showing how it stood up to force compared to previous 189 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:20,880 Speaker 1: versions of gorilla glass. And competing glasses that have you know, 190 00:10:20,960 --> 00:10:24,760 Speaker 1: the protection built into it. Um. So yeah, they were there. 191 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:28,439 Speaker 1: We also saw I mean, of course CES, it's hard 192 00:10:28,440 --> 00:10:32,000 Speaker 1: to talk about CS. We'll talk about television's TVs again. 193 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:35,319 Speaker 1: We're a huge deal now this year, I would say 194 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:38,520 Speaker 1: that the you know, in years past, it's all been 195 00:10:38,559 --> 00:10:44,640 Speaker 1: about better resolution, faster refresh rates and and the size 196 00:10:44,679 --> 00:10:48,439 Speaker 1: of the TV. Yeah, this year, those are still important, 197 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:52,400 Speaker 1: but smart TV really was another thing that's being pushed 198 00:10:52,440 --> 00:10:56,880 Speaker 1: heavily at CS. And you know, you went to c 199 00:10:57,240 --> 00:11:00,720 Speaker 1: S two thousand eight. You remember the Internet, the I 200 00:11:00,920 --> 00:11:04,120 Speaker 1: P t V s we saw, right, Yeah, we really 201 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:07,360 Speaker 1: took Yeah, no they didn't. Yeah, And see that's one 202 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:10,760 Speaker 1: of those things that it's weird to say that four 203 00:11:10,880 --> 00:11:13,080 Speaker 1: years later we're starting to see it actually kind of 204 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:16,400 Speaker 1: get more support. But then you think about it. Back 205 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:20,000 Speaker 1: in two thousand and eight, the widgets, the applications you 206 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:22,880 Speaker 1: saw and smart TVs were very limited. They were so 207 00:11:22,960 --> 00:11:28,120 Speaker 1: as things like weather reports or stock prices or news 208 00:11:28,559 --> 00:11:31,480 Speaker 1: a news feed, but that was about it. Well, now 209 00:11:32,080 --> 00:11:34,240 Speaker 1: you go and you look at a smart TV, and 210 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:37,800 Speaker 1: a lot of the smart TVs are concentrating on alternate 211 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:42,640 Speaker 1: ways of getting content on your television. So having Netflix 212 00:11:42,679 --> 00:11:47,400 Speaker 1: Instant directly integrated into the television set, or Hulu Plus 213 00:11:47,559 --> 00:11:52,160 Speaker 1: or Amazon Video. These are are things that are being 214 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:55,400 Speaker 1: put into TVs from the get go, so you don't 215 00:11:55,440 --> 00:11:58,360 Speaker 1: have to have a video game console or a set 216 00:11:58,400 --> 00:12:01,079 Speaker 1: top box like Roku necessary in order to be able 217 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:05,000 Speaker 1: to access these things. Um Now, I would definitely say 218 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:07,320 Speaker 1: that there's not really any danger of those set top 219 00:12:07,320 --> 00:12:10,120 Speaker 1: boxes going out of business anytime soon, because it's pretty 220 00:12:10,120 --> 00:12:13,160 Speaker 1: expensive to go and replace your TV, you know. So 221 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:17,240 Speaker 1: I think those companies have to really look at what 222 00:12:17,320 --> 00:12:20,120 Speaker 1: their future is going to hold, like they need to 223 00:12:20,160 --> 00:12:23,200 Speaker 1: have a long term plan in place, because maybe five 224 00:12:23,280 --> 00:12:26,679 Speaker 1: years from now you might start seeing companies like Roku 225 00:12:26,840 --> 00:12:30,120 Speaker 1: having issues because if it's built into more and more televisions, 226 00:12:30,120 --> 00:12:34,200 Speaker 1: then it becomes less relevant of a product. So hopefully 227 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:36,720 Speaker 1: those companies are starting to develop long term plans that 228 00:12:36,840 --> 00:12:39,880 Speaker 1: can take into account the the fact that a lot 229 00:12:39,920 --> 00:12:41,920 Speaker 1: of the stuff they offer right now is going to 230 00:12:41,960 --> 00:12:46,640 Speaker 1: be built into televisions in the near future. Roku, by 231 00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:50,160 Speaker 1: the way, also introduced a USB dongle. Yeah, that's exactly 232 00:12:50,160 --> 00:12:51,680 Speaker 1: what I was going to mention. Even the set top 233 00:12:51,679 --> 00:12:54,760 Speaker 1: boxes themselves are sort of changing form factor in Yeah, 234 00:12:54,920 --> 00:12:56,959 Speaker 1: it's kind of funny because the Roku two came out 235 00:12:56,960 --> 00:12:59,760 Speaker 1: in eleven and that was a smaller form factor than 236 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:02,520 Speaker 1: the original Roku. Right. You look at and you're like, oh, 237 00:13:02,520 --> 00:13:05,040 Speaker 1: it's so tiny and it's pretty and it's not just 238 00:13:05,320 --> 00:13:09,760 Speaker 1: a black box. Wow. And then ces they bring out 239 00:13:09,880 --> 00:13:13,280 Speaker 1: a dongle that connects to a USB port. A lot 240 00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:15,920 Speaker 1: of televisions now come with USB ports where you can 241 00:13:15,920 --> 00:13:20,880 Speaker 1: do things like like load photographs directly to your your television. Uh, 242 00:13:20,880 --> 00:13:23,760 Speaker 1: and it interacts with the TV and becomes essentially your 243 00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:27,120 Speaker 1: Roku set um. You know, it has the functionality built 244 00:13:27,120 --> 00:13:29,640 Speaker 1: into it, but it's it's now it's not even a 245 00:13:29,679 --> 00:13:33,480 Speaker 1: set top box anymore, right into the TV itself. Yeah, 246 00:13:33,640 --> 00:13:35,920 Speaker 1: so that's kind of cool, uh, you know. And and 247 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:38,920 Speaker 1: again that's the way of differentiating itself from other set 248 00:13:38,920 --> 00:13:41,880 Speaker 1: top boxes and still trying to keep the price point down. 249 00:13:42,240 --> 00:13:44,280 Speaker 1: The one of the things that attractive things about Roku 250 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:47,360 Speaker 1: is that it tends to be around fifty dollars, and 251 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:49,960 Speaker 1: I think that the USB dongle was going to be 252 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:54,880 Speaker 1: priced at around still pretty attractive, especially when you're thinking like, hey, 253 00:13:54,880 --> 00:13:57,160 Speaker 1: it's one less box, one less set of cables I 254 00:13:57,160 --> 00:13:59,280 Speaker 1: have to worry about, you know, I don't have to work. 255 00:13:59,480 --> 00:14:01,800 Speaker 1: It doesn't have to look like an octopus exploded behind 256 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:05,960 Speaker 1: my television. You Yeah, that's the way my TV looks 257 00:14:06,040 --> 00:14:09,319 Speaker 1: right now. Uh. I would say that probably the television 258 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:11,840 Speaker 1: that got the most attention while I was there was 259 00:14:12,040 --> 00:14:15,920 Speaker 1: an LGO LED display. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's partially 260 00:14:15,920 --> 00:14:19,080 Speaker 1: because oh lad is still such a it seems kind 261 00:14:19,120 --> 00:14:22,160 Speaker 1: of foreign, like it's an elusive category to make an 262 00:14:22,280 --> 00:14:26,280 Speaker 1: organic LED TV. Now, a lot of us have smartphones 263 00:14:26,280 --> 00:14:28,880 Speaker 1: with o LAD screens on them, but they're far more 264 00:14:28,920 --> 00:14:32,320 Speaker 1: common in small form factors than in large. Yeah. Even 265 00:14:32,360 --> 00:14:34,680 Speaker 1: back in two thousand eight, we saw prototypes of oh 266 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:37,600 Speaker 1: led televisions, but in those cases they were very small 267 00:14:37,640 --> 00:14:41,200 Speaker 1: TVs and expensive, very expensive, and things like, you know, 268 00:14:41,280 --> 00:14:44,080 Speaker 1: a twelve inch television screen and you think, wow, that's 269 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:47,800 Speaker 1: you know, in the era of the of the super 270 00:14:48,040 --> 00:14:52,480 Speaker 1: enormous big screen TV, that's nothing. Well, this was the 271 00:14:52,560 --> 00:14:55,600 Speaker 1: year where we started seeing oh lad screens being pushed 272 00:14:55,680 --> 00:14:58,480 Speaker 1: in the large television form factor and l G had 273 00:14:58,480 --> 00:15:04,000 Speaker 1: a fifty five inch television oh lad screen three D capable. Um, 274 00:15:04,040 --> 00:15:08,560 Speaker 1: it was gorgeous and and depending on who you ask. 275 00:15:08,680 --> 00:15:11,920 Speaker 1: It was between four and five millimeters thick, which meant 276 00:15:11,920 --> 00:15:14,160 Speaker 1: that if you looked at it in profile, it looked 277 00:15:14,200 --> 00:15:18,000 Speaker 1: like a pane of glass. I mean, it was so thin, 278 00:15:18,360 --> 00:15:22,320 Speaker 1: and and it was just everyone's jaw dropped when they 279 00:15:22,360 --> 00:15:25,600 Speaker 1: saw how how the profile of this device. People were 280 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:28,440 Speaker 1: trying to take pictures of it and having problems taking 281 00:15:28,440 --> 00:15:30,920 Speaker 1: pictures of it because it was so thin that it 282 00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:33,840 Speaker 1: was not really registering in the photo very well. And 283 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:35,880 Speaker 1: in fact, I have a picture of one. I took 284 00:15:35,920 --> 00:15:37,680 Speaker 1: it on my my phone, so it's not a very 285 00:15:37,760 --> 00:15:40,840 Speaker 1: high definition photo, but I took a picture on my 286 00:15:40,880 --> 00:15:46,240 Speaker 1: phone and it has one of these television's face on 287 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:49,080 Speaker 1: in the background and then one in profile in the foreground, 288 00:15:49,440 --> 00:15:52,560 Speaker 1: and it just looks like there's a line like like wow, 289 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:55,280 Speaker 1: that television is terrible because look at the line of 290 00:15:55,280 --> 00:15:57,120 Speaker 1: distortion right in the middle. And no, no, no, that's 291 00:15:57,120 --> 00:16:00,080 Speaker 1: another TV in profile in front of the one that 292 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:04,080 Speaker 1: you're looking at. Whoa so um. And also they did 293 00:16:04,120 --> 00:16:08,200 Speaker 1: something kind of cool and that they have a proprietary 294 00:16:08,280 --> 00:16:11,920 Speaker 1: port on the LG television that connects to a control 295 00:16:11,960 --> 00:16:15,360 Speaker 1: box and so you plug in all your peripherals to 296 00:16:15,440 --> 00:16:18,880 Speaker 1: the control box and then you put the proprietary chord 297 00:16:18,920 --> 00:16:22,120 Speaker 1: between these control box and the television set, and that 298 00:16:22,240 --> 00:16:24,720 Speaker 1: way you cut down on all those chords going to 299 00:16:24,760 --> 00:16:26,920 Speaker 1: the TV. Because when you get a form factor that thin, 300 00:16:27,560 --> 00:16:30,960 Speaker 1: suddenly chord management becomes a big deal, right because you 301 00:16:30,960 --> 00:16:32,600 Speaker 1: know you're like, well, I've got the power chord and 302 00:16:32,600 --> 00:16:34,720 Speaker 1: then I've got all my H D, M I chords 303 00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:38,200 Speaker 1: or whatever component composite whatever you have, all of that 304 00:16:38,240 --> 00:16:41,000 Speaker 1: has to go to the TV from my peripherals. Well, 305 00:16:41,040 --> 00:16:44,560 Speaker 1: now suddenly I've got this gorgeous television with all these 306 00:16:44,680 --> 00:16:47,120 Speaker 1: ugly bulky chords hanging off. Well that that was sort 307 00:16:47,160 --> 00:16:49,880 Speaker 1: of the approach of getting the control box in there, 308 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:51,880 Speaker 1: So that way you would have a different device. You 309 00:16:51,880 --> 00:16:55,040 Speaker 1: plug everything into that almost act like a receiver and 310 00:16:55,080 --> 00:16:58,520 Speaker 1: then feeds all of that stuff as a switch to 311 00:16:58,800 --> 00:17:03,680 Speaker 1: the television in itself. Um, there's a there's a bit 312 00:17:03,680 --> 00:17:07,760 Speaker 1: of a caveat. I have to add this lad screen 313 00:17:09,320 --> 00:17:12,679 Speaker 1: and that's Uh, it'll cost you a pretty chunk of 314 00:17:12,760 --> 00:17:14,320 Speaker 1: change if you want to buy one. They did not 315 00:17:14,440 --> 00:17:18,040 Speaker 1: have an official price mentioned at c E S. Then 316 00:17:18,119 --> 00:17:20,920 Speaker 1: if you have to ask, you can't afford it. Kind of, 317 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:25,600 Speaker 1: but there are there's the devices. These TVs have launched 318 00:17:25,600 --> 00:17:28,240 Speaker 1: already in Europe. Okay, and if you look at how 319 00:17:28,320 --> 00:17:31,160 Speaker 1: much they cost in Europe and you were to translate 320 00:17:31,160 --> 00:17:33,880 Speaker 1: that to American dollars, we're essentially looking at a ten 321 00:17:33,920 --> 00:17:38,600 Speaker 1: thousand dollar television TV. Meanwhile, you had other companies like 322 00:17:38,680 --> 00:17:43,280 Speaker 1: Sharp looking at pushing larger and larger form factors, trying 323 00:17:43,320 --> 00:17:47,000 Speaker 1: to get those popular in the consumer market. So Sharp 324 00:17:47,119 --> 00:17:50,200 Speaker 1: at their press conference had an entire video about how 325 00:17:50,200 --> 00:17:54,480 Speaker 1: an eight inch television just that's not that big. Eight 326 00:17:54,560 --> 00:17:58,520 Speaker 1: inch television isn't too big for your living room. Okay, Well, um, 327 00:17:58,640 --> 00:18:01,399 Speaker 1: I just got I just moved into a new place, 328 00:18:01,800 --> 00:18:05,280 Speaker 1: and I've got a fairly spacious living room, not not huge, 329 00:18:05,320 --> 00:18:11,280 Speaker 1: but bigger than what I'm used to. Uh. I can't personally, 330 00:18:11,560 --> 00:18:13,639 Speaker 1: I can't imagine having an a d inch television in 331 00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:17,280 Speaker 1: that space. It would to me it would look up scene. Um. 332 00:18:17,320 --> 00:18:20,840 Speaker 1: I'm sure the experience is great because the televisions were fantastic, 333 00:18:20,840 --> 00:18:23,080 Speaker 1: don't get me wrong about that. The quality of the 334 00:18:23,119 --> 00:18:26,560 Speaker 1: TV screens were amazing. Uh. The size, though, just was 335 00:18:26,600 --> 00:18:28,560 Speaker 1: so enormous. I don't know that I would ever get 336 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:32,320 Speaker 1: over the fact that it was that big. UM would 337 00:18:32,320 --> 00:18:37,639 Speaker 1: be pushing it for me. Yeah. So, um, also, not 338 00:18:37,680 --> 00:18:39,960 Speaker 1: to be out done, Samsung announced in oh led TV 339 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:43,800 Speaker 1: ed TV, so they're competing right with LG in that 340 00:18:43,880 --> 00:18:47,200 Speaker 1: same space. And uh, meanwhile, you had Sony coming out 341 00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:49,879 Speaker 1: with a technology they were calling Crystal l e ED, 342 00:18:50,520 --> 00:18:52,479 Speaker 1: so not O l e ED, they called it crystal 343 00:18:52,600 --> 00:18:54,960 Speaker 1: l e ED. I am not entirely clear on what 344 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:59,919 Speaker 1: that means, not crystal clear anyway, So I don't know 345 00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:03,359 Speaker 1: what the technology behind crystal LED actually is. That's something 346 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:05,880 Speaker 1: I have to look into. But that's kind of their 347 00:19:05,920 --> 00:19:09,680 Speaker 1: approach to this ultra high definition era. That was another 348 00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:13,879 Speaker 1: big deal, the move to ultra high definition. So you know, 349 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:17,000 Speaker 1: we talked about ten A D being the the uh, 350 00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:20,639 Speaker 1: the cream of the crop right now. Yeah, they're talking 351 00:19:20,680 --> 00:19:23,439 Speaker 1: four K sets and there were even a couple of 352 00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:27,760 Speaker 1: prototype eight K sets on display. The trick about these 353 00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:32,479 Speaker 1: is that there's no one producing content for them yet. 354 00:19:31,720 --> 00:19:35,120 Speaker 1: That we have an article about ultra high definition. Yeah, 355 00:19:35,119 --> 00:19:37,639 Speaker 1: that was written by Jessica Toothman. Uh, one of my 356 00:19:37,680 --> 00:19:39,720 Speaker 1: favorite articles on the site. It is. It is a 357 00:19:39,840 --> 00:19:42,200 Speaker 1: very good article. You guys, If you have not read 358 00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:45,680 Speaker 1: how ultra high definition television works, I highly recommend it. 359 00:19:45,720 --> 00:19:49,560 Speaker 1: I've had industry experts tell me that that's a great article. 360 00:19:49,680 --> 00:19:53,440 Speaker 1: So props to Jessica from some of that. UM. But yeah, 361 00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:55,960 Speaker 1: the four K and eight K sets, that's they're even 362 00:19:56,040 --> 00:19:59,520 Speaker 1: higher resolution than than what we think of as HDTV 363 00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:02,880 Speaker 1: right now. But the problem is that if you went 364 00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:06,000 Speaker 1: out and bought one right now, you wouldn't have anything 365 00:20:06,080 --> 00:20:09,119 Speaker 1: you could watch on it that could run at that resolution. 366 00:20:09,920 --> 00:20:11,520 Speaker 1: You know, we need the rest of it. We need 367 00:20:11,760 --> 00:20:14,159 Speaker 1: the next level and Blu ray technology, We need the 368 00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:18,600 Speaker 1: next level in broadcast technology because otherwise you just you 369 00:20:18,680 --> 00:20:20,720 Speaker 1: just have you have a set that's capable of running 370 00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:23,080 Speaker 1: at a very high resolution. You just won't have anything 371 00:20:23,119 --> 00:20:26,959 Speaker 1: that can that can take advantage of it. Um. But 372 00:20:27,280 --> 00:20:29,919 Speaker 1: we saw some of that. That was like a fairly 373 00:20:29,960 --> 00:20:32,879 Speaker 1: big move. Another thing that was big at CES this 374 00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:37,560 Speaker 1: year we're apps. Apps have become a big deal. Um. 375 00:20:37,880 --> 00:20:41,400 Speaker 1: I was gonna stop you before we left TV for good. 376 00:20:43,200 --> 00:20:47,120 Speaker 1: One thing I didn't notice you mentioning was big hit. 377 00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:51,720 Speaker 1: Oh the big buzzword three D. Yeah, I understand it 378 00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:54,400 Speaker 1: was understated. This year, three D was still a thing. 379 00:20:55,080 --> 00:20:57,879 Speaker 1: There was still I think every press conference that I 380 00:20:57,880 --> 00:21:00,919 Speaker 1: went to the head Television has had a no, not everyone. 381 00:21:01,040 --> 00:21:03,359 Speaker 1: I take that back. Most of the press conferences I 382 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:06,800 Speaker 1: went to that had a manufacturer that made televisions is 383 00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:09,280 Speaker 1: part of their main line of products, had a three 384 00:21:09,359 --> 00:21:12,000 Speaker 1: D portion where you had to put on glasses and 385 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:15,280 Speaker 1: watch lgs. Big deal was that they were really pushing 386 00:21:16,040 --> 00:21:20,320 Speaker 1: passive glasses technology as opposed to active glasses. Active glasses, 387 00:21:20,359 --> 00:21:22,919 Speaker 1: of course, have a shutter in them that goes on 388 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:26,600 Speaker 1: and off in time with the refresh rate of the television, 389 00:21:26,960 --> 00:21:30,000 Speaker 1: so that each eye seems just sees just one set 390 00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:33,120 Speaker 1: of images, and the two sets together combine in your 391 00:21:33,160 --> 00:21:36,960 Speaker 1: brain to create this three dimensional environment. But they those 392 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:39,360 Speaker 1: are powered glasses. You have to you have to have 393 00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:41,080 Speaker 1: some sort of power source to keep them going, so 394 00:21:41,119 --> 00:21:42,760 Speaker 1: that means you have to keep recharging them. They're also 395 00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:46,080 Speaker 1: a little bulkier than passive glasses. Passive glasses just use 396 00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:49,760 Speaker 1: polarized light and they only allow one kind of polarized 397 00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:53,439 Speaker 1: light through, so that you know, each eye gets again 398 00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:57,080 Speaker 1: one set of images, but both sets of images are 399 00:21:57,119 --> 00:21:59,520 Speaker 1: being displayed at the same time on your television. They're 400 00:21:59,520 --> 00:22:03,000 Speaker 1: not alternating like active glasses. And then's like the active 401 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:08,320 Speaker 1: glasses have a standard much better chance of breaking well, 402 00:22:08,359 --> 00:22:11,439 Speaker 1: because it's something else that can fail technologically, and and 403 00:22:11,440 --> 00:22:15,399 Speaker 1: they're more expensive. Passive glasses are less expensive. So uh 404 00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:19,560 Speaker 1: LG is betting on the passive glasses technology. It's not 405 00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:21,080 Speaker 1: the only one either. There are a lot of other 406 00:22:21,119 --> 00:22:24,480 Speaker 1: companies that also have passive glasses sets. Three D was 407 00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:27,480 Speaker 1: still a still a thing, but it was not being 408 00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:30,960 Speaker 1: pushed as hard. The smart TV element was being pushed 409 00:22:31,119 --> 00:22:34,879 Speaker 1: way harder than three D. So if you look at 410 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:37,119 Speaker 1: years past, I would say that every C E S 411 00:22:37,359 --> 00:22:40,520 Speaker 1: seems to have a kind of an emerging technology that's 412 00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:45,879 Speaker 1: coming out that starts to um get people talking about stuff. So, 413 00:22:47,119 --> 00:22:49,119 Speaker 1: uh Like in two thousand nine, I would say it 414 00:22:49,119 --> 00:22:52,920 Speaker 1: was tablets, Like that was when the tablet idea was 415 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:55,560 Speaker 1: really starting to get pushed. Two thou ten would be 416 00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:58,040 Speaker 1: three D. Two thousand eleven was this idea of a 417 00:22:58,040 --> 00:23:01,679 Speaker 1: digital ecosystem where all of your devices, like your appliances 418 00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:04,679 Speaker 1: could talk to each other. Now that continued also in 419 00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:07,679 Speaker 1: but that wasn't you know, at that point, it's no 420 00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:12,280 Speaker 1: longer an emerging technology, it's a maturing technology. The emerging technology. 421 00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:15,520 Speaker 1: In twelve, I would say, besides ultrabooks, which you know 422 00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:19,240 Speaker 1: is a new category that was the idea of revolutionizing 423 00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:25,359 Speaker 1: the user interface across multiple devices and multiple platforms. I 424 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:29,399 Speaker 1: think that the big uh, the things that really pushed 425 00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:33,560 Speaker 1: the industry to do this are the Microsoft Connect that 426 00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:38,840 Speaker 1: that was obviously a something that was influencing manufacturers in 427 00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:41,920 Speaker 1: their decision to kind of push user interfaces, and also 428 00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:47,800 Speaker 1: products like Apple's Serie and and Google's voice recognition software. 429 00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:51,760 Speaker 1: This is stuff that is pushing the various industries to 430 00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:53,639 Speaker 1: try and to create new ways for you to interact 431 00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:58,160 Speaker 1: with your electronics. UM and that's tough to do because 432 00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:01,760 Speaker 1: it's not just a technological old barrier, it's a user 433 00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:06,000 Speaker 1: The user interface barrier is psychological too. You have to 434 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:08,679 Speaker 1: look at the way people use stuff, and even if 435 00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:12,679 Speaker 1: you create a new way that maybe is easier or 436 00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:15,760 Speaker 1: more intuitive, there's a lot of inertia you have to 437 00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:20,400 Speaker 1: fight against to get people to adopt it. So if 438 00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:23,640 Speaker 1: I'm used to using a keyboard and mouse, or even 439 00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:26,880 Speaker 1: a keyboard and a touch pad, uh, it might take 440 00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:29,120 Speaker 1: a lot for me to get to a point where 441 00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:32,119 Speaker 1: I want to use a touch screen device, right Like, 442 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:35,080 Speaker 1: So we're seeing computers that come out now that have 443 00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:39,040 Speaker 1: touch screens integrated into the computer itself. So notebook computers 444 00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:41,280 Speaker 1: having a touch screen, or even desktop computers having a 445 00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:44,160 Speaker 1: touch screen. Well, I know a lot of people who say, yeah, 446 00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:45,880 Speaker 1: but I'm really going to use that. I mean, I'm 447 00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:47,919 Speaker 1: reaching out and touching the screen. Am I'm really going 448 00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:49,760 Speaker 1: to do that. I think in a couple of years 449 00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:51,800 Speaker 1: that will pretty much be the norm and we won't 450 00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:53,520 Speaker 1: even think about it. It'll be like the way the 451 00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:57,800 Speaker 1: mouse was way back in well we were looking at 452 00:24:57,840 --> 00:25:00,960 Speaker 1: the next step. We're looking at just your controls where 453 00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:05,359 Speaker 1: you move, make emotion in the air and that gives 454 00:25:05,359 --> 00:25:08,760 Speaker 1: a command to whatever your electronics devices and it responds 455 00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:10,720 Speaker 1: in kind. I saw a lot of this with televisions 456 00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:13,920 Speaker 1: where it was going to be uh integrated directly into 457 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:17,359 Speaker 1: the TV set. So think of a Microsoft Connect being 458 00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:19,720 Speaker 1: part of your TV. So if you want to change 459 00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:24,880 Speaker 1: the channel, you can do that by gesturing in the air, right, 460 00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:27,040 Speaker 1: you might you might lift the can, You might lift 461 00:25:27,040 --> 00:25:29,160 Speaker 1: a hand and do a swipe motion to the left 462 00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:31,240 Speaker 1: or to the right to change the channel, or you 463 00:25:31,359 --> 00:25:34,760 Speaker 1: might raise your hand to to increase the volume. There 464 00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:37,160 Speaker 1: were also a lot that were including things like voice 465 00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:40,399 Speaker 1: recognition software where you would give voice commands to your 466 00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:44,160 Speaker 1: device including TVs to get it to UM to respond, 467 00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:47,320 Speaker 1: and I argued it, well, it's something boisterous, like say 468 00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:50,440 Speaker 1: a Super Bowl party that might become a problem. Yeah, 469 00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:54,000 Speaker 1: you know, where someone yells out something and then the 470 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:57,439 Speaker 1: television interprets that to switch over to desperate housewise or 471 00:25:57,480 --> 00:25:59,479 Speaker 1: I don't know, you know, and suddenly something You've got 472 00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:01,320 Speaker 1: a bunch of guy who are really getting into the show, 473 00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:04,320 Speaker 1: which I don't know. It could be a good thing anyway. 474 00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:07,119 Speaker 1: The point being that I saw that that was a 475 00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:11,520 Speaker 1: big theme and everyone had different interpretations and implementations of 476 00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:14,800 Speaker 1: this technology. So there was a company called soft Kinetic 477 00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:19,760 Speaker 1: which had a three D sensing technology that is uh, 478 00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:22,440 Speaker 1: you know, if you looked at it, you would first think, oh, 479 00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:25,320 Speaker 1: this is like Microsoft Connect, but they use a different approach. 480 00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:29,439 Speaker 1: So the connect, the way it it interprets depth is 481 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:33,760 Speaker 1: that it projects a grid onto the environment from the 482 00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:37,399 Speaker 1: camera right so, and then it it interprets the um 483 00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:42,640 Speaker 1: the deformation of the grid as motion and commands. So 484 00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:45,400 Speaker 1: think of a flat grid and then if I stand 485 00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:48,320 Speaker 1: like I'm pressing against that grid, the grid to forms 486 00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:50,600 Speaker 1: around my shape and as I move around, that's what 487 00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:55,920 Speaker 1: it measures. Soft Kinetics depth. Sensor technology uses a different approach. 488 00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:59,720 Speaker 1: It uses light that's being protected at you, not in 489 00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:02,959 Speaker 1: the usible spectrum by the way that's being protected at you, 490 00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:06,680 Speaker 1: bounces back and hits a sensor, and depending on how 491 00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:09,680 Speaker 1: long it took the light to hit the sensor, that's 492 00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:12,199 Speaker 1: how it knows how far away you are. So it 493 00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:15,440 Speaker 1: actually has a greater resolution, like you can get closer 494 00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:18,639 Speaker 1: to the camera and still have accurate motions than you 495 00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:22,199 Speaker 1: could with connect because connects technology is different. If you 496 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:26,480 Speaker 1: get too close to the grid, it won't deform properly, right, 497 00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:29,920 Speaker 1: But this uses a different technology, And so their point 498 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:32,359 Speaker 1: was it was something that could be worked into things 499 00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:36,600 Speaker 1: like tablets or laptop computers where you've got the sensor 500 00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:39,679 Speaker 1: technology built in, but you can be closer to the 501 00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:43,200 Speaker 1: camera and it won't be a problem. But another example 502 00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:46,640 Speaker 1: was Toby t o b I I. They had eye 503 00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:50,159 Speaker 1: tracking technology. Really yeah, they just used it used a 504 00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:53,640 Speaker 1: webcam in a computer that could track your eyes where 505 00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:55,560 Speaker 1: your eyes were on the screen. You had to calibrate 506 00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:58,200 Speaker 1: it first, but once he calibrated it, it would know 507 00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:01,200 Speaker 1: where you're looking on the screen and respond. It was 508 00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:05,080 Speaker 1: the weirdest sensation to read a web page, and as 509 00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:06,960 Speaker 1: I was getting towards the bomb the page, it started 510 00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:09,520 Speaker 1: to automatically scroll up, and as soon as my eyes 511 00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:12,240 Speaker 1: went up, it stopped scrolling so I could continue to read. 512 00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:15,520 Speaker 1: And I was like, I'm controlling it with my mind. 513 00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:20,199 Speaker 1: And you could even select links. You would stare at 514 00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:21,760 Speaker 1: a link and if you looked at the link for 515 00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:24,199 Speaker 1: you know, two or three seconds, that would be the 516 00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:28,000 Speaker 1: command of I want to go to there. So imagine 517 00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:31,639 Speaker 1: having Windows eight the Metro design. You have all these 518 00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:33,800 Speaker 1: icons on the screen that all go to different applications. 519 00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:35,720 Speaker 1: You just stare at an application for a couple of 520 00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:39,080 Speaker 1: seconds and it launches. It was and they even had 521 00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:41,320 Speaker 1: a video game where it was kind of like Asteroids. 522 00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:43,480 Speaker 1: You had to destroy asteroids that were coming in towards 523 00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:46,960 Speaker 1: Actually you're protecting Earth, so kind of a combination of 524 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:51,120 Speaker 1: asteroids and missile command. So asteroids are flying at the 525 00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:53,320 Speaker 1: Earth and you stare at the asteroids and a laser 526 00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:56,360 Speaker 1: shoots the asteroids you're staring at. So you just have 527 00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:58,479 Speaker 1: to keep on looking at the different asteroids they are 528 00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:00,520 Speaker 1: coming in and constrant on the ones that are moving 529 00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:04,040 Speaker 1: the fastest towards the Earth. That was again another really 530 00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:08,360 Speaker 1: neat implementation. Um, And and it's it's one of those 531 00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:11,160 Speaker 1: things where you know, you're not necessarily going to see 532 00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:15,320 Speaker 1: a Toby branded computer, but they might be able to 533 00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:19,840 Speaker 1: form relationships with other manufacturers and incorporate the technology directly 534 00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:24,560 Speaker 1: into that computer. And yeah, speaking of Microsoft, this was 535 00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:27,120 Speaker 1: their last year for the keynote. Wow. Yeah, this was 536 00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:30,320 Speaker 1: their last year being on the floor too. Yeah. Yeah, 537 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:33,960 Speaker 1: so this was it was underwhelming. They said they didn't 538 00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:36,720 Speaker 1: really bring much now the keynote. The keynote wasn't anything 539 00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:44,160 Speaker 1: particularly overwhelming or exciting, but that was kind of the point, um, Microsoft. 540 00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:47,360 Speaker 1: The reason why Microsoft is leaving ce S, or at 541 00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:52,479 Speaker 1: least the reason that we've been given, is that, uh uh, 542 00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:57,360 Speaker 1: that that they their release cycle for their products is 543 00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:01,840 Speaker 1: different than the ce S schedule. So that's the real 544 00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:04,040 Speaker 1: problem with having a big show like the two big 545 00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:06,160 Speaker 1: problems with having a big show like this one. You're 546 00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:09,960 Speaker 1: beholden to their schedule, not your own. Right, So if 547 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:12,520 Speaker 1: your product isn't ready to be shown off, then you 548 00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:15,040 Speaker 1: have the risk of, well, do we show off something 549 00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:19,320 Speaker 1: that isn't totally ready yet and then if things fail 550 00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:23,240 Speaker 1: that could really hurt our product, right, Or do we 551 00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:25,720 Speaker 1: not show it, not mention it, and then just kind 552 00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:29,160 Speaker 1: of have a lackluster show anyway. The other problem is 553 00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:33,600 Speaker 1: that you're making announcements the same time everyone else is, 554 00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:36,760 Speaker 1: so there's always the risk that your announcement will be 555 00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:40,120 Speaker 1: overshadowed by someone else. Even if what you have is 556 00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:44,320 Speaker 1: a really great product, there's the chance that some little 557 00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:47,920 Speaker 1: no name company has created something that just it hits 558 00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:51,360 Speaker 1: that that sweet spot, you know, like the not to 559 00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:53,400 Speaker 1: say that these are no name companies, but again like 560 00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:56,920 Speaker 1: the Palm pre the palm pre got a lot of attention. Well, 561 00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:59,480 Speaker 1: that took attention away from other products, and there could 562 00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:02,440 Speaker 1: have been company saying like, I don't understand this product 563 00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:05,280 Speaker 1: is great, it's fantastic, it's not getting the traction it 564 00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:07,800 Speaker 1: needs to get. Everyone's paying attention to the smartphone, which 565 00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:11,640 Speaker 1: is not even in the same category as what we make. Um, 566 00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:16,160 Speaker 1: there's that danger too. So uh yeah, Microsoft had made 567 00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:18,520 Speaker 1: the announcement that was going to be the last time 568 00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:20,240 Speaker 1: that they were going to be on the show floor 569 00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:23,320 Speaker 1: and the last time they delivered the keynote. Traditionally, the 570 00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:28,600 Speaker 1: Microsoft keynote is what launches the whole show. Now there 571 00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:32,080 Speaker 1: are are press events that happened the two days prior 572 00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:34,680 Speaker 1: to the show floor opening. But it's kind of like, 573 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:37,360 Speaker 1: you don't really think of ceings starting until the Microsoft 574 00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:40,240 Speaker 1: keynote happens. So the fact that that's not going to 575 00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:43,680 Speaker 1: be there anymore, it's kind of a big deal. Also, 576 00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:47,120 Speaker 1: from what I understand, news dot com reported it took 577 00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:52,320 Speaker 1: forty five minutes for the exhibition space that Microsoft usually 578 00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:56,920 Speaker 1: takes up to be sold. And uh, there are two 579 00:31:56,960 --> 00:32:00,680 Speaker 1: companies that ended up purchasing the exhibition in space. One 580 00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:05,640 Speaker 1: was a Chinese based electronics company called Hycins. The other company. 581 00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:08,920 Speaker 1: Do you know what the other company was, You're very 582 00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:12,640 Speaker 1: familiar with the other company, Dish Network. Oh yeah, they 583 00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:15,480 Speaker 1: bought up the rest of the space. Now, for those 584 00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:18,719 Speaker 1: who don't know, who have never been to cees, Microsoft 585 00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:23,240 Speaker 1: had some pretty sweet real estate. There are different entrances 586 00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:25,320 Speaker 1: to the Central Hall and the Central Hall at the 587 00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:28,479 Speaker 1: Las Vegas Convention Centers, where I'd say the majority of 588 00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:33,000 Speaker 1: the really really big names are the biggest booths by 589 00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:36,400 Speaker 1: far are in the Central Hall. That's where Sony and 590 00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:41,160 Speaker 1: Panasonic and and LG and UH and Tshiba and all 591 00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:43,520 Speaker 1: these other big companies. That's where they are is in 592 00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:47,000 Speaker 1: the Central Hall. Well, Microsoft was in one of the 593 00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:49,760 Speaker 1: entrances to the Central Hall, the one that was connected 594 00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:52,080 Speaker 1: to the South Hall. You walk into the Central Hall 595 00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:55,080 Speaker 1: and on your left would be the Microsoft booth and 596 00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:59,040 Speaker 1: on your right was Intel, and they just dominated that section. 597 00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:02,440 Speaker 1: They were huge booths and Intel still will be because they, 598 00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:04,680 Speaker 1: as far as I know, are still playing on being 599 00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:09,440 Speaker 1: and CS. Well, now High Sense and Dish Network are 600 00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:12,160 Speaker 1: going to have that prime real estate on the left 601 00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:14,200 Speaker 1: when you first walk in, and it'll be interesting to 602 00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:19,080 Speaker 1: see how that affects traffic in the Central Hall. I'm 603 00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:21,760 Speaker 1: really kind of curious about it. Um. But yeah, that 604 00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:27,800 Speaker 1: I think the sad fact is Microsoft's departure from c 605 00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:33,440 Speaker 1: E S got more pressed than Microsoft's announcements at CES. Yeah. 606 00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:36,440 Speaker 1: Now that being said, I did visit the Microsoft booth 607 00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:40,120 Speaker 1: and I thought that Windows eight looked really really nice. Uh. 608 00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:43,280 Speaker 1: And I also played with Connect and played a three 609 00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:47,640 Speaker 1: D Star Wars pod racing game and had a good 610 00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:51,960 Speaker 1: time until I hit a wall. Really, pod racing, you 611 00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:56,640 Speaker 1: mean that that thing was now unveiled in episode one. Okay, 612 00:33:56,880 --> 00:33:59,800 Speaker 1: I'm not going to defend episode one, and I'm certainly 613 00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:03,960 Speaker 1: not going to defend the pod racing you know, like 614 00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:08,359 Speaker 1: many series, that took took over half of episode one. 615 00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:12,800 Speaker 1: But as a game, it's awesome. Alright. As a movie, 616 00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:16,120 Speaker 1: I'm not I'm still not sold. But as a game, 617 00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:19,279 Speaker 1: I loved it. Um. So that was but that was 618 00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:23,239 Speaker 1: kind of fun and uh as far as booth spaces go, 619 00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:27,200 Speaker 1: there were some interesting stories there too. UM. In the 620 00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:29,799 Speaker 1: South Hall, the upper level of the South Hall when 621 00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:34,920 Speaker 1: you walk in on your right is the Kodak booth. Now, 622 00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:41,279 Speaker 1: Kodak was at the time looking at going filing for bankruptcy, 623 00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:45,160 Speaker 1: which they have Yeah since since the show, they have 624 00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:49,640 Speaker 1: actually filed for bankruptcy. Uh. In past years, Kodak has 625 00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:55,400 Speaker 1: had some pretty cool booths, some very interactive displays, uh, 626 00:34:55,640 --> 00:34:58,839 Speaker 1: really large ones. Um. You know, there was one where 627 00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:02,400 Speaker 1: there was a display that was a vertical display and 628 00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:04,800 Speaker 1: then a horizontal display. So it's like an L shaped 629 00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:09,239 Speaker 1: uh display, very long and narrow, but it made it 630 00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:12,439 Speaker 1: look like a waterfall. You know, information was falling down 631 00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:15,240 Speaker 1: the vertical side but hit the horizontal side then slide 632 00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:19,120 Speaker 1: down and the horizontal side was about table height and 633 00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:21,400 Speaker 1: it was multi touch so you could then interact with 634 00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:24,600 Speaker 1: the display when it was on the horizontal level gorgeous, 635 00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:28,239 Speaker 1: very very uh like, when you saw it, you had 636 00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:30,680 Speaker 1: to go play with it, right, it pulled you into 637 00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:34,640 Speaker 1: the booth. Well, this year, Codex presence was much more understated. 638 00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:39,399 Speaker 1: UM still had a pretty good sized booth, but there 639 00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:42,120 Speaker 1: was a it was a little bit of a sober 640 00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:46,200 Speaker 1: atmosphere in Kodak, which was you know, that's kind of 641 00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:48,240 Speaker 1: rough to see. It's always rough to see any company 642 00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:50,960 Speaker 1: that's struggling show up at c S because you realize, 643 00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:53,800 Speaker 1: you know that those representatives are going to have to 644 00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:58,040 Speaker 1: answer a lot of really tough questions, tough, uncomfortable questions 645 00:35:58,080 --> 00:36:01,120 Speaker 1: about the state of the company and what they're gonna 646 00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:05,440 Speaker 1: do to get out of whatever slump they're in. So 647 00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:10,040 Speaker 1: I was gonna say gaming gaming, Well, you know, CS 648 00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:13,200 Speaker 1: is not as big on gaming as E three, but 649 00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:17,080 Speaker 1: there were a lot of gaming peripherals, um there always are, 650 00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:20,880 Speaker 1: uh there's and apps showed off a lot of gaming, 651 00:36:21,080 --> 00:36:24,080 Speaker 1: including apps made specifically for television. So of course you 652 00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:26,080 Speaker 1: will eventually be able to play Angry Birds on your 653 00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:30,400 Speaker 1: TV without any other device connected to your television, because, 654 00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:32,400 Speaker 1: as we all know, Angry Birds is the measure of 655 00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:34,799 Speaker 1: whether or not the apps on your device are good 656 00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:37,400 Speaker 1: or not? Yes, And of course they're coming out with 657 00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:43,520 Speaker 1: the uh D Angry Birds device, which actually doesn't show 658 00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:47,440 Speaker 1: TV because they're just an Angry Birds game. Birds wouldn't 659 00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:50,600 Speaker 1: surprise me. Um. There's also there are also a lot 660 00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:56,239 Speaker 1: of examples of gamification where things that wouldn't normally be 661 00:36:56,360 --> 00:36:59,000 Speaker 1: considered a game have had game elements added to them, 662 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:03,200 Speaker 1: including fitness technology. There's a lot of fitness technology. This 663 00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:06,160 Speaker 1: year at CES we saw that we know, we it's 664 00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:08,840 Speaker 1: always been part of ce S, but last year we 665 00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:12,280 Speaker 1: really saw that takeoff with body Media FIT. Little body 666 00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:14,480 Speaker 1: Media is back and they showed updated versions of the 667 00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:16,560 Speaker 1: fit device. That's an arm band you wear that has 668 00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:21,239 Speaker 1: sensors in it, including uh sensors that that measured the 669 00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:26,640 Speaker 1: um how much you've sweat, your body temperature, has accelerometer 670 00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:28,360 Speaker 1: in it and everything so that it keeps track of 671 00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:31,480 Speaker 1: how much activity you do and it accumulates data and 672 00:37:31,480 --> 00:37:34,000 Speaker 1: then exports that to your computer. You sink using a 673 00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:38,279 Speaker 1: cable um at least the standard version, You sink with 674 00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:41,160 Speaker 1: the cable, and then you can track how much energy 675 00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:43,840 Speaker 1: you burn per day. You also can put into the 676 00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:46,920 Speaker 1: software you know what you ate so that you can 677 00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:49,080 Speaker 1: track how many calories you consumed versus how many you 678 00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:51,960 Speaker 1: burned and stay on track to lose weight or just 679 00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:54,400 Speaker 1: use an exercise program. Well, there are a lot of 680 00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:58,360 Speaker 1: other devices out there that compete directly with the body 681 00:37:58,360 --> 00:38:02,960 Speaker 1: media fit. Motorola had one Motoactive that was very pretty 682 00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:05,360 Speaker 1: um I was also an MP three player, so it 683 00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:07,640 Speaker 1: had added functionality there you could you could use it 684 00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:10,480 Speaker 1: while exercising and listen to music. But then you had 685 00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:13,480 Speaker 1: a device. There was a device called the Strive str 686 00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:17,399 Speaker 1: i I V which you could attach to a key chain. Uh. 687 00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:20,120 Speaker 1: This also was sort of like an advanced pedometer, so 688 00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:22,080 Speaker 1: it keeps track of your steps. But it also had 689 00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:24,840 Speaker 1: some games in it. It has a touch screen interface 690 00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:26,960 Speaker 1: and there's a game that's kind of like farm Bill, 691 00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:31,759 Speaker 1: like as you exercise, you accumulate currency within the game 692 00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:33,839 Speaker 1: and then you can use that to to build up 693 00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:38,480 Speaker 1: your your character's realm. But it also had a really 694 00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:43,759 Speaker 1: cool idea in that as you as you uh take 695 00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:47,640 Speaker 1: more and more steps, you can dedicate the the currency 696 00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:52,319 Speaker 1: that you generate. Two charities, three different charities. There's one 697 00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:56,759 Speaker 1: for clean water, there was one for save the rainforest. 698 00:38:57,400 --> 00:38:59,560 Speaker 1: Um I forget what The third one was off the 699 00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:02,359 Speaker 1: top of my but as you walked you could end 700 00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:06,360 Speaker 1: up banking that toward a charity and then Strive and 701 00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:11,320 Speaker 1: its corporate partners would donate money for every x amount 702 00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:15,400 Speaker 1: of energy that you expended. Yeah, so it gives not 703 00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:18,600 Speaker 1: just gamification, but also sort of this this idea that 704 00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:21,600 Speaker 1: you can help other people while getting fit. So, in 705 00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:24,680 Speaker 1: other words, just other ways to motivate people to stay 706 00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:27,040 Speaker 1: with it and not just you know, buy a product 707 00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:28,440 Speaker 1: and use it for a couple of days and then 708 00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:31,319 Speaker 1: forget about it. Yeah, by the way, you got ten 709 00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:36,040 Speaker 1: points from mentioning gamification, thank you. Uh. And there there 710 00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:37,640 Speaker 1: were a lot of other kind of cool things. There 711 00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:40,640 Speaker 1: was a company called a Rasma which did augmented reality 712 00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:44,120 Speaker 1: applications where you know, we've seen like the Nintendo three 713 00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:47,160 Speaker 1: D S has augmented reality elements built into it where 714 00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:49,960 Speaker 1: you have specific cards that you can point the three 715 00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:54,240 Speaker 1: D S at the camerat and it'll create a virtual 716 00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:56,920 Speaker 1: character will pop up on your screen on top of 717 00:39:56,920 --> 00:40:00,200 Speaker 1: the picture of the physical card that's on the table, right, 718 00:40:00,239 --> 00:40:04,280 Speaker 1: So that's augmented reality. Well Erasma sort of does similar stuff, 719 00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:06,560 Speaker 1: except they do it with all sorts of things, not 720 00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:11,120 Speaker 1: just uh, specific cards. So you can have let's say 721 00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:13,160 Speaker 1: that you have a company that enters into an agreement 722 00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:16,919 Speaker 1: with the Erasma and Erasma produces the app that would 723 00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:19,759 Speaker 1: exist on your smartphone device or whatever. It has to 724 00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:22,160 Speaker 1: be a device as a camera. And then obviously and 725 00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:25,680 Speaker 1: then uh, the company, Let's say it's a soft drink company. 726 00:40:26,360 --> 00:40:28,600 Speaker 1: If you point your camera at that soft drink, it 727 00:40:28,680 --> 00:40:32,359 Speaker 1: might suddenly create this little animated character, right. That could 728 00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:34,879 Speaker 1: end up being a link to something along the lines 729 00:40:34,920 --> 00:40:38,040 Speaker 1: of you might get nutritional information, or it might be 730 00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:41,960 Speaker 1: a link to a sweepstakes or a survey. You know, 731 00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:45,399 Speaker 1: it could be pretty much anything that the manufacturer wants 732 00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:47,959 Speaker 1: it to be. But it gives you that added level 733 00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:50,560 Speaker 1: of information on top of the physical product, which is 734 00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:54,359 Speaker 1: what the promise of augmented reality is all about. So 735 00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:57,960 Speaker 1: that was really exciting to see. There was there was 736 00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:00,520 Speaker 1: a lot of interesting Oh, cell phones, let me talk 737 00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:03,279 Speaker 1: about smartphones. Yeah, okay, so did you see what I 738 00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:05,920 Speaker 1: what I said I wanted after I saw it? You 739 00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:09,759 Speaker 1: mean the Samsung Galaxy Note. I want a Samsung Galaxy Note. 740 00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:13,200 Speaker 1: It's bigger, that's the weird thing. It's smaller than a tablet, 741 00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:16,200 Speaker 1: but it's bigger than a phone five point three inch display, 742 00:41:16,360 --> 00:41:19,400 Speaker 1: which is big for a smartphone. And I was skeptical 743 00:41:19,840 --> 00:41:22,120 Speaker 1: when I first saw one. I thought, yeah, when I 744 00:41:22,160 --> 00:41:25,080 Speaker 1: first saw when, I thought, there's just no way. That's 745 00:41:25,120 --> 00:41:27,239 Speaker 1: just too big. It's just too clunky. And then I 746 00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:29,759 Speaker 1: got in my hand and I'm like, okay, all right, 747 00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:32,080 Speaker 1: it's not too big for my hand. It doesn't feel uncomfortable. 748 00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:36,000 Speaker 1: What about my pocket? So that slid one in my pocket, like, okay, 749 00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:38,120 Speaker 1: it's not too big for my pocket. I no longer 750 00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:43,000 Speaker 1: have an excuse um. And also black coats with sunglasses 751 00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:44,880 Speaker 1: came over and said, okay, buddy, can you take that 752 00:41:44,920 --> 00:41:46,879 Speaker 1: back out of your pocket now? Except that in this case, 753 00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:49,560 Speaker 1: I was actually using someone else's Samsung Galaxy Note. It 754 00:41:49,640 --> 00:41:51,759 Speaker 1: was a guy named Tony who works for This Week 755 00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:55,279 Speaker 1: in Tech. He had one, Yes, so I got to 756 00:41:55,320 --> 00:41:58,400 Speaker 1: play with it. Um. It has a stylus and it 757 00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:02,359 Speaker 1: actually has handwriting RECOGNI technology built into it. So let's 758 00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:05,560 Speaker 1: shout back to the newton Um. Yeah. But then, so 759 00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:07,200 Speaker 1: let's say that you want to a text message, but 760 00:42:07,239 --> 00:42:08,719 Speaker 1: you don't want to type it in using an on 761 00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:11,239 Speaker 1: screen keyboard, you can actually scribble it down and then 762 00:42:11,480 --> 00:42:16,160 Speaker 1: it will translate your chicken scratch into text, hopefully accurately. 763 00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:18,920 Speaker 1: I guess it all depends on how bad your chicken scratches. 764 00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:23,040 Speaker 1: But yeah, that was a really cool phone. I thought that. 765 00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:26,279 Speaker 1: Uh it has the Android operating system that I love, 766 00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:29,759 Speaker 1: and it's got a nice big screen, so you can 767 00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:32,720 Speaker 1: use it for all sorts of stuff. Uh. The biggest 768 00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:35,480 Speaker 1: argument against is that it was at that size, it's 769 00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:39,480 Speaker 1: a little awkward to use as a phone. It's almost 770 00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:41,359 Speaker 1: more like a tablet than a phone in that case. 771 00:42:41,719 --> 00:42:43,719 Speaker 1: But then you have to ask yourself, well, if you 772 00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:46,600 Speaker 1: don't use your phone that frequently, then is it as 773 00:42:46,640 --> 00:42:49,040 Speaker 1: big a deal? And the truth is, I use my 774 00:42:49,080 --> 00:42:53,399 Speaker 1: phone not that often, Like I'll use it to talk 775 00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:56,759 Speaker 1: with my wife, um or I might occasionally use it 776 00:42:56,800 --> 00:42:59,480 Speaker 1: to make a call once in a while, But in general, 777 00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:03,239 Speaker 1: I use my phone far more for executing apps and 778 00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:06,279 Speaker 1: browsing the web and and that's o email and that 779 00:43:06,360 --> 00:43:09,560 Speaker 1: kind of stuff. So, uh, you know, that's that's an 780 00:43:09,640 --> 00:43:12,920 Speaker 1: argument for something like the Samsung Galaxy Note. Now, if 781 00:43:12,920 --> 00:43:16,920 Speaker 1: you just can't get past that form factor, then you know, 782 00:43:17,520 --> 00:43:19,799 Speaker 1: I can totally you know, I can totally understand, like 783 00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:23,480 Speaker 1: because it is it is pretty big. Um other interesting 784 00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:27,000 Speaker 1: things the Razor project, Fiona, did you see that it's 785 00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:29,600 Speaker 1: a gaming tablet and it's kind of cool. It had 786 00:43:29,640 --> 00:43:31,839 Speaker 1: a special controllers that you could hook up to it 787 00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:35,319 Speaker 1: that would uh turn it into this really kind of 788 00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:40,479 Speaker 1: um innovative gaming device. Speaking of gaming, I also got 789 00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:43,520 Speaker 1: a demonstration of hands on demonstration of the Nintendo we 790 00:43:43,760 --> 00:43:49,839 Speaker 1: you and guys. I kind of liked it. Uh, it 791 00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:53,560 Speaker 1: was really a pretty interesting implementation of a video gaming device. 792 00:43:53,719 --> 00:43:55,480 Speaker 1: This in this case that we you you know, it 793 00:43:55,520 --> 00:43:58,120 Speaker 1: has a controller that has its own LCD screen inside 794 00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:01,279 Speaker 1: the controller and it's in the can strollers big. But 795 00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:05,000 Speaker 1: you can use it in various ways. One way, the 796 00:44:05,120 --> 00:44:07,480 Speaker 1: obvious way that a lot of people have concentrate on 797 00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:11,480 Speaker 1: is that the game that the screen could show supplemental information. 798 00:44:11,920 --> 00:44:14,359 Speaker 1: So for example, let's say you're playing a game like 799 00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:16,640 Speaker 1: a Zelda game, Well it might be that all your 800 00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:19,399 Speaker 1: health information, your items information is on your little screen, 801 00:44:19,440 --> 00:44:22,000 Speaker 1: and then your big screen, the television is dedicated to 802 00:44:22,040 --> 00:44:24,799 Speaker 1: the action that's going on in the game itself. So 803 00:44:24,880 --> 00:44:28,120 Speaker 1: in that way, your your WEU controller could take the 804 00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:31,239 Speaker 1: place of a heads up display. So then you just 805 00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:33,359 Speaker 1: glanced out your screen to get that info and then 806 00:44:33,400 --> 00:44:36,640 Speaker 1: otherwise you look back at the television for everything else 807 00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:43,000 Speaker 1: but heads down display HDD. Yeah. The other the other 808 00:44:43,239 --> 00:44:45,200 Speaker 1: way that it was used I thought was really cool 809 00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:49,880 Speaker 1: was in multiplayer mode where they had four people playing 810 00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:54,960 Speaker 1: with standard WE controllers, so the we remotes and the nunchucks, 811 00:44:55,880 --> 00:44:58,960 Speaker 1: and then a fifth person was playing with the Nintendo 812 00:44:59,040 --> 00:45:01,600 Speaker 1: We You control ler, and it would be the four 813 00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:04,239 Speaker 1: versus one in various games. And then one of the 814 00:45:04,280 --> 00:45:07,440 Speaker 1: games a person played a character who's trying to escape 815 00:45:07,520 --> 00:45:10,920 Speaker 1: the other four by evading them for a certain amount 816 00:45:10,920 --> 00:45:13,480 Speaker 1: of time within a maze. So I likened it to 817 00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:16,840 Speaker 1: playing the game pac Man, where the person using the 818 00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:19,400 Speaker 1: Wii You controller is playing the part of pac Man 819 00:45:19,680 --> 00:45:21,600 Speaker 1: and everyone else is playing the part of the ghosts 820 00:45:22,160 --> 00:45:24,279 Speaker 1: and they can actually you know, coordinate, Like I see him. 821 00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:26,520 Speaker 1: He's heading to the yellow section and everyone starts running 822 00:45:26,520 --> 00:45:27,839 Speaker 1: over there. It's like, oh no, no no, he's cut back 823 00:45:27,880 --> 00:45:30,240 Speaker 1: to green and like you you so you try and 824 00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:33,400 Speaker 1: cut them off and and and trap them. Uh. That 825 00:45:33,520 --> 00:45:35,960 Speaker 1: was a really cool way of playing a game. I thought, now, 826 00:45:36,920 --> 00:45:39,919 Speaker 1: is it gonna be enough for a Nintendo to really 827 00:45:39,920 --> 00:45:43,360 Speaker 1: compete against Microsoft and Sony? I don't know, but I 828 00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:46,440 Speaker 1: can tell you that U. When it comes to games, 829 00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:48,439 Speaker 1: like if if you're really interested in having games where 830 00:45:48,440 --> 00:45:51,200 Speaker 1: you have groups of people over to play, I thought, 831 00:45:51,280 --> 00:45:53,359 Speaker 1: I thought it was a neat way of shaking things up. 832 00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:55,239 Speaker 1: And I kind of like it where you know, you 833 00:45:55,280 --> 00:45:58,759 Speaker 1: can take turns being the one guy versus the other 834 00:45:58,880 --> 00:46:01,719 Speaker 1: four players. That's kind of uh, you know, if nothing else, 835 00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:03,560 Speaker 1: it gives you bragging rights if you if you win, 836 00:46:04,040 --> 00:46:06,200 Speaker 1: like I was up against four of you guys, and 837 00:46:06,239 --> 00:46:09,600 Speaker 1: I still kick butt. Yeah, yeah, well I've I've actually 838 00:46:09,680 --> 00:46:12,120 Speaker 1: and this is the subject really for another day, but 839 00:46:12,640 --> 00:46:15,800 Speaker 1: I have been hearing rumors that Microsoft and or Sony 840 00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:19,000 Speaker 1: may consider getting out of the gaming hardware business just 841 00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:22,479 Speaker 1: because it is so expensive and cutthroat to do uh 842 00:46:22,640 --> 00:46:26,160 Speaker 1: research and development and compete so um. Not that they 843 00:46:26,160 --> 00:46:28,400 Speaker 1: were getting out of gaming, but out of the manufacturing 844 00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:31,560 Speaker 1: of the machines themselves. So that might, you know, if 845 00:46:31,560 --> 00:46:34,000 Speaker 1: they decided to do that, that might give Nintendo the 846 00:46:34,040 --> 00:46:36,640 Speaker 1: ability to stay in the market, if they're willing to 847 00:46:36,680 --> 00:46:40,040 Speaker 1: do that. Yep. See ye, and uh, I guess i'll U. 848 00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:41,960 Speaker 1: I mean, there's so much more I can talk about. 849 00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:44,680 Speaker 1: I haven't talked about any of the the like the 850 00:46:44,719 --> 00:46:47,640 Speaker 1: parties I went to, or I did go to some 851 00:46:47,680 --> 00:46:49,719 Speaker 1: of those to get my hands on some stuff that 852 00:46:49,840 --> 00:46:53,000 Speaker 1: wasn't really being shown on the show floor itself. Up. 853 00:46:53,080 --> 00:46:56,560 Speaker 1: I also went to the International Association of web Tv Awards, 854 00:46:56,600 --> 00:46:59,200 Speaker 1: which was really cool. Are buddies over at tech News 855 00:46:59,239 --> 00:47:03,880 Speaker 1: Today one for Best News Show, and uh the guys 856 00:47:03,920 --> 00:47:06,680 Speaker 1: over at Rooster Teeth one for Best Animated Web Series, 857 00:47:07,040 --> 00:47:11,399 Speaker 1: and the Guild one everything else not not not entirely true, 858 00:47:11,400 --> 00:47:14,719 Speaker 1: but it started to seem like it well deserved. They 859 00:47:14,760 --> 00:47:17,799 Speaker 1: are all pioneers and web television, and it was kind 860 00:47:17,800 --> 00:47:20,359 Speaker 1: of an interesting thing to see the the award show 861 00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:23,960 Speaker 1: and actually, you know what, surprisingly went pretty smoothly. There 862 00:47:23,960 --> 00:47:27,320 Speaker 1: were a couple of technical glitches, but overall I thought 863 00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:30,440 Speaker 1: it was a pretty good effort. And actually I was 864 00:47:30,560 --> 00:47:34,960 Speaker 1: very impressed. I shouldn't say pretty good, it was very impressive. Um, 865 00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:37,879 Speaker 1: but I'll say one last little bit, the last little 866 00:47:37,920 --> 00:47:39,640 Speaker 1: thing that I thought was really cool at the show floor. 867 00:47:39,640 --> 00:47:44,120 Speaker 1: And we've seen these before. Two three D printers. Now, 868 00:47:44,640 --> 00:47:46,399 Speaker 1: the idea of that three D printer has been around 869 00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:47,799 Speaker 1: for a while. There have been quite a few of 870 00:47:47,840 --> 00:47:49,640 Speaker 1: them out and there are companies that use them to 871 00:47:49,680 --> 00:47:52,759 Speaker 1: help design prototypes. Um and there are other companies that 872 00:47:52,800 --> 00:47:55,400 Speaker 1: will use them so that you can send a design 873 00:47:55,520 --> 00:47:57,560 Speaker 1: and and they will print it out in three dimensions 874 00:47:57,600 --> 00:48:01,200 Speaker 1: for you using some sort of polymers various ways. We've 875 00:48:01,239 --> 00:48:04,480 Speaker 1: done a podcast about three D printers in the past. Well, 876 00:48:04,640 --> 00:48:09,600 Speaker 1: the MakerBot was there and they actually have pre orders 877 00:48:09,600 --> 00:48:12,560 Speaker 1: open for two thousand dollars for three D printers. So 878 00:48:12,600 --> 00:48:15,920 Speaker 1: this is actually coming to the market where the average consumer, 879 00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:18,680 Speaker 1: assuming you've got too grand to drop, can get hold 880 00:48:18,719 --> 00:48:21,120 Speaker 1: of one of these printers. There was also the Cube 881 00:48:21,160 --> 00:48:23,840 Speaker 1: three D, which was another three D printer on display 882 00:48:23,880 --> 00:48:26,879 Speaker 1: at CS. Both of them were really interesting and they 883 00:48:26,960 --> 00:48:31,160 Speaker 1: are able to print uh some neat stuff in various colors, 884 00:48:31,160 --> 00:48:33,680 Speaker 1: and I mean it was it was it was cool 885 00:48:33,719 --> 00:48:36,279 Speaker 1: to see them work, you know. And it's one of 886 00:48:36,280 --> 00:48:39,000 Speaker 1: those things where we're getting closer and closer to the 887 00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:41,400 Speaker 1: time where you'll be able to create a printer, just 888 00:48:41,480 --> 00:48:43,520 Speaker 1: like the promise has always been there. You'll be able 889 00:48:43,560 --> 00:48:45,759 Speaker 1: to create a printer that ultimately can print all the 890 00:48:45,760 --> 00:48:51,000 Speaker 1: components for a second printer and then you just replicate printers. Yeah, 891 00:48:51,080 --> 00:48:53,000 Speaker 1: I'm I'm thinking about buying myself one of those and 892 00:48:53,200 --> 00:48:57,440 Speaker 1: printing myself a new car. Yeah, it might be. It's 893 00:48:57,480 --> 00:48:59,160 Speaker 1: kind of like the Johnny Cash one piece of the 894 00:48:59,239 --> 00:49:05,640 Speaker 1: time song. Yes, what model is it? Well, it's because 895 00:49:05,640 --> 00:49:07,080 Speaker 1: it's gonna take you a while to get all those 896 00:49:07,080 --> 00:49:11,759 Speaker 1: parts printed out, that's right, not in the lunch box. 897 00:49:12,080 --> 00:49:14,520 Speaker 1: Uh yeah, the printer. The printer is not so big 898 00:49:14,560 --> 00:49:16,600 Speaker 1: that you could print a car. And plus I guess 899 00:49:16,640 --> 00:49:18,680 Speaker 1: if you printed a car in one piece, it wouldn't 900 00:49:18,680 --> 00:49:23,920 Speaker 1: really move, would it now? Anyway, Yeah, it was. It 901 00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:26,200 Speaker 1: was a good show overall. I had a really good time. 902 00:49:26,320 --> 00:49:29,560 Speaker 1: Saw a lot of my friends that are in the 903 00:49:29,600 --> 00:49:34,239 Speaker 1: tech journalism business. UM got to meet some other really 904 00:49:34,280 --> 00:49:38,040 Speaker 1: cool people. Met with the channel flip founders who were 905 00:49:38,440 --> 00:49:42,799 Speaker 1: They were great guys, phenomenal guys, very nice. Uh my 906 00:49:42,840 --> 00:49:46,120 Speaker 1: buddy I as actar over this weekend Tech. He and 907 00:49:46,200 --> 00:49:49,359 Speaker 1: I hung out a lot, uh and just sort of 908 00:49:49,400 --> 00:49:52,560 Speaker 1: talked about the show and as well as just debated 909 00:49:52,600 --> 00:49:54,960 Speaker 1: on where to go to eat that that was always 910 00:49:54,960 --> 00:49:59,279 Speaker 1: a big discussion at c S. UM got to be 911 00:49:59,320 --> 00:50:01,279 Speaker 1: on Tech News to while I was there, so those 912 00:50:01,280 --> 00:50:03,439 Speaker 1: guys were there seen it was there. There are tons 913 00:50:03,440 --> 00:50:06,160 Speaker 1: of celebrities at the e S. That's also a big thing. 914 00:50:06,239 --> 00:50:09,359 Speaker 1: It's the companies will get various celebrities to come in 915 00:50:09,480 --> 00:50:13,800 Speaker 1: and help draw attention to their booths. So like Tozy 916 00:50:13,960 --> 00:50:17,800 Speaker 1: Robotics brought in Justin Bieber, which raised the question of 917 00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:21,480 Speaker 1: whether or not he's a Bieber bot and uh I 918 00:50:21,640 --> 00:50:26,279 Speaker 1: Hip brought in Snooky from the Jersey Shore as classy. 919 00:50:26,880 --> 00:50:29,080 Speaker 1: I did not go to the I Hip party. I 920 00:50:29,120 --> 00:50:32,120 Speaker 1: thought I was gonna go, and our our former editor 921 00:50:32,160 --> 00:50:34,680 Speaker 1: here at How Stuff Works that Candice Keener, was begging 922 00:50:34,680 --> 00:50:37,279 Speaker 1: me to go. But it started at ten pm local time, 923 00:50:37,320 --> 00:50:41,040 Speaker 1: which now Vegas time, ten pm feels like one am 924 00:50:41,040 --> 00:50:43,560 Speaker 1: to me and I am not. I am not a 925 00:50:43,680 --> 00:50:46,480 Speaker 1: night ol. So that was that end up not happening. 926 00:50:47,040 --> 00:50:50,560 Speaker 1: But yeah, other celebrities a little cool J fifty cent a, 927 00:50:50,640 --> 00:50:54,360 Speaker 1: Linza Dishku was the celebrity ambassador to c e s A. 928 00:50:54,440 --> 00:50:58,440 Speaker 1: Felicia Day of course was there for the International Association 929 00:50:58,440 --> 00:51:01,160 Speaker 1: of Web TV Awards as well as just seeing other 930 00:51:01,160 --> 00:51:05,320 Speaker 1: stuff that was there. Um Rick Fox, former Lakers player, 931 00:51:05,520 --> 00:51:09,839 Speaker 1: was there. Very tall man as it turns out. Um 932 00:51:10,840 --> 00:51:14,719 Speaker 1: Wayne Brady of of whose Lives It Anyway and and 933 00:51:14,960 --> 00:51:18,759 Speaker 1: Game show fame was there. Very funny guy. Yeah, it was. 934 00:51:18,800 --> 00:51:20,719 Speaker 1: It was cool to see these folks around. I didn't 935 00:51:20,760 --> 00:51:23,640 Speaker 1: really I'm name dropping like crazy, but let me make 936 00:51:23,640 --> 00:51:26,160 Speaker 1: it clear. I did not chat with these folks. I 937 00:51:26,200 --> 00:51:28,560 Speaker 1: watched them and thought they were really cool, and they 938 00:51:28,640 --> 00:51:31,360 Speaker 1: seemed to know their stuff, which was very refreshing. It 939 00:51:31,360 --> 00:51:34,000 Speaker 1: didn't feel like it was a UM at least the 940 00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:36,280 Speaker 1: once I saw. I didn't see Justin Bieber in person. 941 00:51:36,320 --> 00:51:38,600 Speaker 1: I didn't see Snooky in person, but the others I saw, 942 00:51:38,719 --> 00:51:40,359 Speaker 1: and they all seemed to really know their stuff, which 943 00:51:40,400 --> 00:51:43,160 Speaker 1: was kind of cool. UM. But yeah, I did not 944 00:51:43,480 --> 00:51:45,799 Speaker 1: personally go up and meet these folks, so I don't 945 00:51:45,800 --> 00:51:48,120 Speaker 1: want to give the wrong impression there. I'm not best 946 00:51:48,160 --> 00:51:50,719 Speaker 1: buds with any of them. They don't know who I am, 947 00:51:50,800 --> 00:51:55,879 Speaker 1: and it's probably for the best. So you're Jonathan, Well, 948 00:51:55,960 --> 00:52:00,120 Speaker 1: mama said knock you out. Please do not call going 949 00:52:00,200 --> 00:52:03,920 Speaker 1: to come back. I've been here for years for to 950 00:52:04,000 --> 00:52:09,560 Speaker 1: be exact. Yeah, So that's that's the lowdown on CS twelve. 951 00:52:09,600 --> 00:52:13,160 Speaker 1: There are tons of websites out there that list all 952 00:52:13,200 --> 00:52:16,440 Speaker 1: the technology that was on display from the big manufacturers, 953 00:52:16,480 --> 00:52:18,440 Speaker 1: you know, the best of CS that kind of stuff, 954 00:52:18,920 --> 00:52:20,680 Speaker 1: and uh, I do recommend you check it out if 955 00:52:20,719 --> 00:52:23,000 Speaker 1: you're interested in seeing the sort of things that could 956 00:52:23,040 --> 00:52:25,880 Speaker 1: be coming out in twelve. Keep in mind that some 957 00:52:25,960 --> 00:52:31,080 Speaker 1: of the more adventurous and innovative designs may not ever 958 00:52:31,200 --> 00:52:35,160 Speaker 1: make it to consumer electronics in the form that they 959 00:52:35,239 --> 00:52:38,040 Speaker 1: appeared in at CS. They might eventually make it, it's 960 00:52:38,040 --> 00:52:39,880 Speaker 1: just they might be totally different by the time they 961 00:52:39,920 --> 00:52:45,880 Speaker 1: get there. Yeah. Anyway, Yeah, and then you shook a 962 00:52:45,920 --> 00:52:49,040 Speaker 1: narrow to the name. All right, Well, on that outdated meme. 963 00:52:49,120 --> 00:52:52,880 Speaker 1: We're going to wrap this this conversation up. If you 964 00:52:52,920 --> 00:52:55,360 Speaker 1: guys have any topics you would like us to cover, 965 00:52:55,840 --> 00:52:58,640 Speaker 1: you can let us know on Facebook and Twitter are handled. 966 00:52:58,640 --> 00:53:01,120 Speaker 1: There is tech stuff H s W. Or you can 967 00:53:01,120 --> 00:53:04,600 Speaker 1: send us an email at our brand new email address. O, 968 00:53:04,680 --> 00:53:09,600 Speaker 1: get out your pendant paper. It's tech stuff at Discovery 969 00:53:09,719 --> 00:53:11,759 Speaker 1: dot com. And Chris and I will talk to you 970 00:53:11,800 --> 00:53:17,319 Speaker 1: again really soon. Brought to you by the reinvented two 971 00:53:17,360 --> 00:53:19,879 Speaker 1: thousand twelve camera. It's ready, are you