WEBVTT - Wearable AI assistant & end of an era for Chuck E. Cheese animatronics 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:01.520 The AI pin. 0:00:01.680 --> 0:00:06.200 The tech world is divided on the new cable box 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:10.880 that blends live TV plus streaming all in one place. 0:00:11.760 --> 0:00:15.960 Does Apple owe you money for a new gift card settlement? 0:00:16.720 --> 0:00:21.040 Plus your tech questions answered? What's going on? I'm Rich 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:25.160 to Muro and this is Rich on Tech broadcasting live 0:00:25.280 --> 0:00:29.280 from Los Angeles, coast to coast. This is where I 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:31.840 talk about the tech stuff I think you should know about. 0:00:32.159 --> 0:00:36.120 It's also the place where I answer your questions about technology. 0:00:36.640 --> 0:00:39.680 I believe that tech should be interesting, useful, and fun. 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:44.120 I believe that you should feel smart about technology. 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This is the device that the 0:01:36.080 --> 0:01:39.720 tech world is going gaga over, either in a good 0:01:39.720 --> 0:01:42.840 way or in a bad way. Jefferson Graham friend of 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:46.600 the show, He's a with Photo Walks TV. He's gonna 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:50.880 explain how he captured an epic ten day time laps 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:56.160 in Manhattan Beach, California with both the iPhone and the Samsung. 0:01:56.200 --> 0:01:58.520 He's gonna share tips on how to take similar videos 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:02.320 and dish on which phone performed better. 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:04.040 Well. 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:06.360 I don't know how you spent your weekend, but I 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:08.520 was at Chuck E Cheese last night felt like I 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:11.200 was a kid again. Not just for any old reason, 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:15.480 but it came to my attention that Chuck E Cheese 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:21.519 is moving away from animatronics. What I could remember being 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:27.120 a kid being both memorized, mesmerized and also scared out 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:32.440 of my mind looking at these large moving mice and 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:38.320 dogs and whatever these things were. The moose, the band 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:44.360 this is the Munches Make Believe band, and this band is, 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:49.440 you know, just something that only the eighties could really 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:53.680 bring about in this world. Right. So, we were at 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:59.160 the Northridge, California location last night with the CEO of 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:02.840 Chuck E Cheese and also Nolan Bushnell, the founder of 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:07.799 Chuck E Cheese. He also founded Atari, so he has 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:11.920 been instrumental in all things technology throughout the years, and 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:15.040 he came up with the idea of this these animatronics. 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:19.360 But here's the deal. Chuck E Cheese is changing with 0:03:19.440 --> 0:03:23.200 the times. They are ditching the animatronics for something they 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:28.800 call Chuck E Cheese two point zero. Bobo definitely a 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:31.680 kid of the eighties doesn't want this to go away. 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:35.480 I know, I know four hundred Chuck E Cheese locations. 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:38.560 Many of them have already gotten the upgrade, and the 0:03:38.640 --> 0:03:42.640 upgrades are now an interactive dance floor and a video wall. 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:46.000 So the I guess the entertainment is going to be 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:46.960 on this video wall. 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:48.640 But here's the good news. 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:52.800 For those of you that live in California, specifically Los Angeles, 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:57.280 you can visit the Northridge, California location and see Munch's 0:03:57.480 --> 0:04:01.560 Make Believe Band in all their glory. This is going 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:08.080 to stick around permanently. There you go. And I had 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:10.680 to go back in my files of because we had 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:13.880 my kids like sixth party, a sixth birthday party at 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:16.400 this Chuck E Cheese location, and I had to go 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:19.200 back and look, because last night, I will tell you, 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:23.320 this band was really spruced up, like they looked good. 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:26.400 They were in there, like everything was clean. It looked 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:29.000 like this was like brand new. And so I looked 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:32.000 back in my pictures and sure enough, this band is 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:35.960 completely cleaned up from the way it was six years ago. 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:38.760 Like this is the best case scenario of a Chuck 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:42.560 E Cheese band. It's bright, they are all kind of 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:46.280 clean and working, and you know, all the outfits are 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:48.960 brand new. And so they really revamped this band to 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:51.880 make them look their best. So last night with the 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:55.200 was the grand reopening. Like I said, the CEO was there, 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:57.320 no one was there. They explained this whole thing. They 0:04:57.360 --> 0:05:01.600 explained the changeover where they're changing with the times, and 0:05:02.000 --> 0:05:06.200 now this Northridge location is going to be a place 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:09.120 that people will stop at when they come to California, 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:11.440 when they come to Los Angeles, when they come to Hollywood, 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:14.080 this Chuck E Cheese location will be a place they 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:17.280 want to stop mostly for the parents, because the kids 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:19.440 they don't really remember this stuff, they don't even know 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:22.360 about this stuff. But for parents of a certain age, 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:24.799 Chuck E Cheese was a big part of their childhood. 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:28.080 Going into this darkly lit place that had games in 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:32.400 pizza and food and the cake that I remember that 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:36.680 was so delicious. It's all kind of changing, and it's 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:40.120 the tickets are gone, the physical tickets are gone. The 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:43.039 games are more fun, they're new. I mean, let's be honest, 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:46.000 they're competing with the iPad. That is no easy feat. 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:50.600 Kids are like they see animatronics are like really a 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:53.240 thing that kind of moves with pneumatics, like come on. 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:57.400 So anyway, that is the story. If you want to 0:05:57.440 --> 0:06:00.320 see it, it's on my Instagram at rich On Tech. 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:03.800 You can check out the band in all of their glory. 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:06.200 And when you come to Los Angeles, when you come 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:09.360 to Hollywood, you have to make a stop in little 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:13.240 Old Northridge, California to see this Chuck E Cheese location, 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:16.520 the only one in the nation that will feature the 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:20.400 original animatronic band and by the way, the future of 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:24.719 Chuck E Cheese. They announced it last night. Trampolines. They're 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:30.000 going to be adding trampolines at their locations, which is interesting, 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:32.240 but I guess they want to keep kids active and 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:35.240 give them a place to jump around. And I know 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:38.120 that those like sort of sky zone places are very popular. 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:41.920 But anyway, it's always fascinating to me when you see 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:44.680 places changing with the times. And we'll see, we'll see 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:48.200 how it all works out. Oh, I thought this was 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:52.680 really interesting. So Google has a new way to shop. 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:56.599 And it takes a lot to impress me with shopping tools, 0:06:56.720 --> 0:06:58.800 but this one does. And I got to say, Google 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:02.280 obviously is scouring the web on a daily basis, and 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:07.359 if you search in shop deals on Google, this is 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:11.040 a brand new destination where they are. They're always looking 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:13.679 at the prices of things online because in the course 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:16.680 of searching the web, they are noticing what the prices 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:18.080 of popular products are. 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:19.680 And of course if. 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:22.000 It goes down from one week to the next or 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:24.720 one day to the next, Google sees a trend. And 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:27.720 so now someone at Google got the smart idea of saying, 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:29.200 you know what, why don't we put all of these 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:32.000 things that we're tracking on one page and tell people 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:34.760 about the items that have the biggest price drops. 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:36.520 And so that's what they're doing. 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:39.160 So if you go to Google dot com and search 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:43.160 shop deals, you will see a bunch of popular categories. 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:45.480 I'm looking at cell phones, I'm looking at cameras, I'm 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:49.320 looking at laptops. I'm looking at tablets, headphones, all kinds 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:55.480 of categories, TVs, watches, toys. You can see the products 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:59.280 that have the best price drops. So, for instance, in 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:05.480 the TV category, this uh wow Insignia TV forty nine 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:09.720 ninety nine thirty seven percent off, Samsung q Leeds Smart 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:14.280 TV thirteen hundred bucks, thirty five percent off. When you 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:18.080 look at headphones, Apple Beats Solo three fifty percent off 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:22.800 ninety nine dollars. Tablets a Samsung Galaxy tab A seven 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:25.840 light one hundred thirty bucks, thirty five percent off. 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:27.920 Let's see what else? 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:31.000 A chromebook fifty percent off one hundred and fifty bucks 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:34.280 at best Buy, on and on and on, Samsung Galaxy 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:36.920 S twenty two three ninety nine forty two percent off. 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:40.679 So again, shop deals is the magic search. If you're 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:44.160 looking for a specific thing, just put that title in 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:48.520 between shop deals. So for instance, shop Apple Watch deals 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:51.960 will bring up the cheapest Apple watches. Now you have 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:54.360 to remember the top line is always going to be sponsored. 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:57.600 So if you don't want the sponsored stuff, which you know, 0:08:57.720 --> 0:09:00.560 that's fine, but you can move down past and you'll 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:03.840 see the actual stuff that Google is cataloging. That is 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:06.640 percentage off. So I thought that was pretty interesting. I 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:09.920 thought that was pretty useful. I'm always on the lookout 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:15.160 for better shopping tools, especially as we are heading into 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:18.400 this season of shopping, and this was also interesting. I 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:20.679 had a friend at work say, hey, Rich, is there 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:25.080 any way to get a document that I have onto 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:27.800 my Kindle? How do I get a document like a 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:31.760 word document or anything else a pdf onto my Kindle? 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:34.360 I said, It's very very easy. You go to. 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:39.560 Amazon dot com slash send to Kindle. So if you 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:42.560 have a PDF, you've got a document, you've got a 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:48.440 text file, whatever you have, even JPEGs and anything you 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:51.480 have up to two hundred megabytes, you can just drag 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:53.760 and drop on this website and it will send it 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:56.240 to your Kindle. So if you need to read a 0:09:56.320 --> 0:10:00.000 large document for work, you have an ebook, someone gave you, 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:03.880 whatever you've got, just go to Amazon dot com slash 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:05.559 send to Kindle. 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:09.320 That is the letter's t o send to Kindle. 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:12.559 You drag and drop and you can now read anything 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:15.320 you want that you have as a document on your Kindle. 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:17.320 Why do you want to do that? Well, the Kindle's 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:17.839 so nice. 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:21.440 The Kindle has a great screen, it's not a table 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:24.160 it's a it's not like a tablet screen like your iPad. 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:27.400 It's much easier on the eyes because it is a 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:31.520 paper sort of looking document. So again, you want to 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:35.000 send something to your kindle Amazon dot com slash send 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:38.520 to kindle, very very easy. He tried it that night 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:40.840 and he said, Rich it worked. I said, well, yeah, 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:42.760 I mean, come on, I told you it would. 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:46.480 All right. Coming up, Uh, I got to tell you 0:10:46.559 --> 0:10:49.440 about this new AI pin. 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:52.600 This thing has taken the tech world by storm, for 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:55.800 better or for worse. You got to see what you 0:10:55.920 --> 0:11:00.679 think about this device. It is AI on a device 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:04.079 that you wear. So we'll talk about that. Plus we'll 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:07.400 take your questions at triple eight rich one oh one 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:11.960 eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:18.080 This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:21.800 Rich Demiro here talking technology at triple eight rich one 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:24.839 oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:30.559 four one zero one. If you have a question about technology, 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:34.880 give me a call. We got Kim standing by to 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:38.480 get you on the air. So I told you about 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:42.719 this device called Humane AI, and we're gonna have a 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:45.000 guest talk about this. They went hands on with this thing, 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:47.000 but I'll tell you what it's all about, because it 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:49.360 is kind of like one of the biggest stories in 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:52.400 the tech world right now, and it's a head scratcher. 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:56.719 This is a startup called Humane h u m an E. 0:11:57.640 --> 0:12:01.000 It's called the AI Pin. This is a new wearable 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:05.800 AI assistant device and it's kind of an entirely new platform. 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:09.319 So the way that the iPhone introduced apps, they are 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:12.960 hoping that this new device might be similar to that. 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:16.560 And so you wear this device and the best way 0:12:16.600 --> 0:12:18.920 to describe it, I mean, it's really tough to describe 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:19.680 what it looks like. 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:21.640 It looks like a. 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:25.840 Tiny it's a pin. I don't know, it's a seven 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:28.680 hundred Oh I should tell you the price, seven hundred dollars. 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:33.000 So this is a seven hundred dollars pin that has microphones, 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:38.120 It has a laser projector on it, it has no screen, 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:43.560 has some lights, and it has a speaker. And the 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:46.920 idea behind this device is that you can sort of 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:51.800 ditch your smartphone and be more present and use AI 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:54.640 to help you out in this world. So it is 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:59.120 screenless and it has a voice activated AI assistant on it, 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:01.840 so you can ask it things like Hey, catch me 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:04.720 up on my email, or Hey, what was the name 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:09.760 of the twenty third president, and it will search the web, 0:13:10.280 --> 0:13:13.160 search AI and bring that information back to you. It 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:16.360 can also play music, it can also take pictures. It 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:19.560 can do real time translation. So it is kind of 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:24.640 a device of the future that really capitalizes on artificial intelligence. 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:31.280 And some of the biggest backers are Microsoft, Open AI, Qualcom. 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:37.320 T Mobile provides the data connectivity. So it's six hundred 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:40.360 and ninety nine dollars and twenty four dollars a month 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:43.160 for this device. And so as I understand it, you 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:44.840 can put your hand out in front of you. It 0:13:44.880 --> 0:13:49.280 will project out the screen onto your hand, so you 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:51.520 can read little things or see little things. 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:52.720 It can take pictures. 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:57.439 It's got an apparently all day battery use, so you 0:13:57.480 --> 0:14:00.120 can swap the battery as you're using it, and that 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:00.800 way you can use. 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:01.240 It all day. 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:04.960 And they said they've put a strong focus on privacy 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:08.520 and security, so apparently it's not listening all the time, 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:10.760 but you can ask it to do stuff at any time. 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:16.160 So I'm not sure how that works. And the bottom line. 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:18.920 About this device is that the people who got to 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:22.120 try it out first sort of got to see it 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:24.440 in action, but they didn't necessarily get to try it 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:26.480 in action, so they got to see a lot of 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:29.560 demos of how this stuff works. But this is kind 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:33.360 of like the first big major startup that is leaning 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:34.720 very heavily into AI. 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:38.720 I don't know. I'm kind of unsold on this thing. 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:41.960 But we're gonna have Brian Heater of tech Crunch to 0:14:42.000 --> 0:14:43.840 talk about this a little bit later in the show 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:47.240 because he went hands on, or I should say I 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:51.080 guess eyes on in a demo, and it's it's one 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:53.200 of those things where you kind of have to see 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:57.000 it to understand it. I don't really get it. I 0:14:57.040 --> 0:15:00.360 feel like we've got our phones. People are a very 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:01.680 much attached to their phones. 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:02.120 I get it. 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:04.120 We're trying to be a little bit more screenless, we're 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:06.600 trying to be a little bit more present, But at 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:09.960 the same time, it feels like you can replicate a 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:12.840 lot of what this device does using a smart watch 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:15.480 or your phone or a combination of both. And to 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:17.880 go and spend seven hundred dollars on a new device 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:22.320 to do all this stuff, I just don't know. So again, 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:27.400 Humane AI Pin, We'll have to watch that one. Angie 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:29.800 in Wisconsin, writes in on the website rich on tech 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:33.960 dot TV. I'm ten years behind great show. I keep 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:36.360 my phone in the side pocket of my yoga pants 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:39.800 while cleaning houses for work. I'm done having kids, but 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:43.920 wondered if that's still a carcinogen risk having the phone 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:46.640 in the side pocket. I have AirPods and a watch, 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:49.440 but with them both, I like the phone close. I 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:55.040 admire your positivity. Angie in Wisconsin. Well, Angie, I am 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:59.320 no expert in all things health, and I would be 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:02.040 remiss if I didn't say I've thought about this before, 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:04.680 and I'm sure many people have. We've seen a whole 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:10.240 cottage industry of gadgets pop up that purport to take 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:14.400 the radiation away from phones or angle it away from 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:17.560 your face or your head or whatever. And yes, many 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:19.640 of us do carry our phones in our pockets. 0:16:21.440 --> 0:16:21.880 I don't know. 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:25.440 I mean, I've heard from experts that we're okay, and 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:29.000 we have gone thirty years with these smartphones, and the 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:33.560 conclusion is still sort of that we haven't seen an 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:39.280 increased connection between cancer and the smartphone. And so I 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:41.520 want to believe that we can believe that. But I 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:45.480 will say my one concern that I do have is 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:48.360 the fact that I wear an Apple Watch on my wrist. Now, 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:52.280 with the phone, I go eight, ten, twelve, fourteen hours 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:55.880 where it's not in my pocket, whereas with my Apple Watch, 0:16:56.000 --> 0:17:00.440 it is on my wrist the entire day and except 0:17:00.440 --> 0:17:02.840 for when I sleep, and for some people it is 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:04.960 on their wrist when they sleep. And so I will 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:07.879 say I am more concerned about that being so close 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:11.719 to my wrist and the potential for issues there because 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:15.280 it is on your body at all times. Now, the AirPods, 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:18.239 you know, with the Bluetooth, I'm not really concerned about that. 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:19.639 You know, you put them in and you take them out. 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:21.960 I don't really think that's doing much. But I will 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:25.399 say with the specifically cellular connection on your wrist, that 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:28.800 does concern me a little bit. Especially kids. They're having 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:31.000 these things on their wrist for a long long time. 0:17:30.840 --> 0:17:31.480 In their lifetime. 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:35.600 So, Jerry still out, good question. I think it's important 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:37.800 to be concerned with this stuff, but not, you know, 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:43.040 too concern all right, coming up, Jeremy Kaplan Wonder Tools Newsletter, 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:46.560 Let's learn about AI. You're listening to Rich on Tech. 0:17:48.280 --> 0:17:52.080 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:55.440 out talking technology with you at triple eight rich one 0:17:55.480 --> 0:17:59.359 oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two 0:17:59.480 --> 0:18:01.439 four one one zero one. Give me a call if 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:05.000 you have a question about technology. Joining me now is 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:10.520 Jeremy Kaplan, director of Teacher, Teaching and Learning at Qune's 0:18:10.720 --> 0:18:15.000 Grad School of Journalism. He is the creator and writer 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:19.639 of wonder Tools on substack. This is a great AI 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:24.399 newsletter where he shares all kinds of useful tools that 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:25.440 have to do with AI. 0:18:26.040 --> 0:18:27.359 Jeremy, thanks so much for joining me. 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:28.720 Great to be here with you. 0:18:29.480 --> 0:18:32.560 So what made you start this newsletter on subsac. 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:36.040 There's a huge amount of technology coming at us every day. 0:18:36.200 --> 0:18:38.560 It can be overwhelming, and I want to help people 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:40.640 understand it and make the most of it. 0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:44.960 And so when you first heard about chat GBT, is 0:18:44.960 --> 0:18:46.800 that what got you into this. I mean, it's only 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:48.680 been less than a year since that launched. 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:52.480 It's been definitely something that got me really excited about AI. 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:55.360 But I actually started the newsletter when the pandemic hit. 0:18:55.840 --> 0:18:57.880 I was alone in my home and. 0:18:57.880 --> 0:19:00.000 People were alone in their homes all over the country 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:01.920 and trying to figure out how to live online. 0:19:02.440 --> 0:19:03.639 And I wanted to help people. 0:19:03.840 --> 0:19:06.800 So I've now written two hundred posts to help people 0:19:06.800 --> 0:19:08.720 in different ways with technology, including AI. 0:19:09.240 --> 0:19:11.959 Okay, so did you sort of when you first started 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:15.800 it was AI the focus or did you kind of 0:19:15.840 --> 0:19:16.520 pivot to that. 0:19:17.200 --> 0:19:18.800 I pivoted to that first. 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:20.399 It was Zoom and figuring out, you know, how do 0:19:20.440 --> 0:19:22.399 we have online meetings, how do we teach online, how 0:19:22.400 --> 0:19:24.359 do we work online? How do we live online and 0:19:24.400 --> 0:19:27.240 have fun online and meet people? So it was all 0:19:27.280 --> 0:19:30.200 of that online living, and then when AI hit with chagpt, 0:19:30.920 --> 0:19:32.600 it just became the AI revolution. 0:19:33.160 --> 0:19:35.439 Wow, and during the pandemic, bring us back to that 0:19:35.560 --> 0:19:38.360 time because it was such a you know, no one 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:41.199 knew what was next, and so of course everyone was 0:19:41.359 --> 0:19:43.439 hopping on Zoom and all these different tools. We all 0:19:43.520 --> 0:19:46.520 learned how to work online and remote. What was it 0:19:46.720 --> 0:19:47.919 like for this newsletter? 0:19:49.000 --> 0:19:51.760 You know, it was a way for me to connect 0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:53.600 with people and to help people. You know, I couldn't 0:19:53.640 --> 0:19:56.720 necessarily volunteer in hospitals. I don't have a medical background, 0:19:57.280 --> 0:19:59.680 but I was a teacher, and I saw other teachers struggling, 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:03.080 including you know, my kindergartener had a teacher who just 0:20:03.119 --> 0:20:05.159 didn't even know how to work our computer, and so 0:20:05.240 --> 0:20:07.160 I just saw all these teachers and other people who 0:20:07.200 --> 0:20:10.000 needed help with technology, and that was something that I 0:20:10.040 --> 0:20:11.639 could try to help them with. And so that was 0:20:11.680 --> 0:20:14.360 the purpose of the newsletter and step by step, one 0:20:14.440 --> 0:20:16.960 tool at a time each week, giving them some guidance, 0:20:17.000 --> 0:20:20.639 giving them some gestions and practical tips for just ordinary people, 0:20:20.720 --> 0:20:22.080 not for technology experts. 0:20:22.600 --> 0:20:25.880 That's the key right there. So what you know, how 0:20:25.880 --> 0:20:27.480 do you find these new tools? I mean, there's so 0:20:27.480 --> 0:20:31.240 many obviously coming out every week. How do you find them? 0:20:31.320 --> 0:20:32.840 And how do you decide what to feature? 0:20:33.520 --> 0:20:33.720 Well? 0:20:33.760 --> 0:20:36.919 I love exploring technology. Some people like phishing, some people 0:20:36.960 --> 0:20:41.639 like driving. I love technology. So I explore technology, you know, 0:20:41.680 --> 0:20:44.000 in the free hours that I have, and when I 0:20:44.000 --> 0:20:47.240 stumble upon something that makes me say wow, or or 0:20:47.520 --> 0:20:51.280 that I see has a really useful application or way 0:20:51.280 --> 0:20:54.600 to use it, I stop and dig in. And I 0:20:54.640 --> 0:20:57.159 call it pickstick and dig as the approach. So I 0:20:57.200 --> 0:21:00.280 picked something, I really stick with it for a while 0:21:00.280 --> 0:21:01.879 and then dig into how it can be useful. 0:21:02.560 --> 0:21:05.200 So before you kind of talk about some of these 0:21:05.560 --> 0:21:08.000 you know, apps and things that you really like and 0:21:08.040 --> 0:21:11.520 you use on a daily basis, tell me about AI. 0:21:11.680 --> 0:21:14.520 I mean, because people are concerned about it, They worry 0:21:14.600 --> 0:21:17.280 about it. They don't know what the future of AI is. 0:21:17.320 --> 0:21:18.600 What's your take on AI? 0:21:19.680 --> 0:21:22.240 So I think it's a tool like any other tool. 0:21:22.240 --> 0:21:23.760 The phone is a tool, the mobile phone is a tool, 0:21:23.840 --> 0:21:25.680 laptop is a tool. All of those can be used well, 0:21:25.760 --> 0:21:27.439 or they can be misused. They can be used to 0:21:27.480 --> 0:21:29.000 send spam, or they can be used to be to 0:21:29.080 --> 0:21:31.560 send a life saving message to somebody. 0:21:31.600 --> 0:21:34.080 So I think, like all those other tools, AI. 0:21:33.920 --> 0:21:37.120 Can be used for great purposes, for efficiency, for creativity, 0:21:37.960 --> 0:21:41.000 and it can also be misused and used to create 0:21:41.040 --> 0:21:44.399 misinformation or to recavoc So it's all a matter of 0:21:44.440 --> 0:21:46.560 how we use it and setting some guidelines and some 0:21:46.600 --> 0:21:47.280 best practices. 0:21:48.040 --> 0:21:51.240 So we've got the main you know, chat EBT, you've 0:21:51.280 --> 0:21:54.640 got clawed from Anthropic, you've got barred from Google. 0:21:55.240 --> 0:21:56.840 What do you make of those tools? 0:21:57.680 --> 0:22:00.800 So they're all fantastic in their own way. So, for example, 0:22:01.160 --> 0:22:04.040 claud allows you to upload up to seventy thousand words, 0:22:04.320 --> 0:22:05.960 so you can give it an entire book or a 0:22:06.119 --> 0:22:09.840 huge PDF with your whole company set of company policies, 0:22:10.240 --> 0:22:12.760 and guide a new person to your company with here 0:22:12.760 --> 0:22:14.440 are some of the key principles, right, So they don't 0:22:14.440 --> 0:22:17.040 have to read seventy thousand words of a giant PDF, 0:22:17.080 --> 0:22:20.040 for example. Or you can upload a huge amount of 0:22:20.119 --> 0:22:21.679 data that you're just trying to get a sense of 0:22:21.720 --> 0:22:25.359 and understand, or a document in multiple languages that you 0:22:25.359 --> 0:22:28.520 may not speak so for the purpose of understanding large 0:22:28.600 --> 0:22:32.639 giant documents. Claude is fantastic and I've written about it 0:22:32.680 --> 0:22:36.280 in Wonder Tools. Chat GPT has something that's really unique, 0:22:36.280 --> 0:22:39.120 which is this app store. So there are more than 0:22:39.119 --> 0:22:42.639 a thousand different apps now that plug into chat GPT, 0:22:42.760 --> 0:22:45.080 and they do things like connect to Canva, for example. 0:22:45.160 --> 0:22:47.560 So you can ask chat gpt to create a drawing 0:22:47.640 --> 0:22:49.560 for you, or a design for your company, or a 0:22:49.560 --> 0:22:52.639 poster or a slide or any number of visuals. So 0:22:52.680 --> 0:22:56.199 that's something that's unique to chat gpt for example. So 0:22:56.240 --> 0:22:59.560 each of them has their unique capabilities. And now there's 0:22:59.560 --> 0:23:02.600 a whole of other AI tools beyond just the chat 0:23:02.600 --> 0:23:03.560 tools as well. 0:23:04.359 --> 0:23:08.920 So the more I think about AI and specifically Google, 0:23:09.359 --> 0:23:12.800 the more I kind of realize why Google was slow 0:23:12.960 --> 0:23:16.679 to roll out something like chat GBT, Because once you 0:23:16.760 --> 0:23:20.560 get on board with like even Bard, you realize that 0:23:20.920 --> 0:23:24.080 it completely changes the way you search the Internet. You 0:23:24.080 --> 0:23:25.879 know right Now, when you search the Internet, it's kind 0:23:25.920 --> 0:23:28.719 of like you know, hunt and peck, right, You're looking 0:23:28.880 --> 0:23:30.639 and you click a link and you don't find what 0:23:30.720 --> 0:23:32.639 you need, and you go back and you click another one. 0:23:32.840 --> 0:23:35.440 And that's great for Google's business model. But when you 0:23:35.480 --> 0:23:37.719 go to like one of these AI tools and you 0:23:37.800 --> 0:23:40.359 ask for information, and yes, I understand that sometimes that 0:23:40.440 --> 0:23:44.320 information can be false or you know, hallucinations, but it's 0:23:44.359 --> 0:23:48.080 a totally different way of finding information versus that kind 0:23:48.119 --> 0:23:50.280 of clicking a lot of links that might lead you 0:23:50.359 --> 0:23:53.240 to a sponsored link or you know, a paid post. 0:23:53.560 --> 0:23:55.080 What do you think about that idea? 0:23:55.280 --> 0:23:56.920 I think you're absolutely right, Rich. I think the web 0:23:56.960 --> 0:23:58.919 can be overwhelming. And when you search Google and get 0:23:58.960 --> 0:24:00.720 a thousand different links and you have no way of 0:24:00.800 --> 0:24:04.000 verifying you know, one from another, it's just overwhelming. And 0:24:04.520 --> 0:24:06.320 it's a lot more efficient in many cases if you 0:24:06.359 --> 0:24:09.919 can tailor a specific request to an AI engine that 0:24:09.960 --> 0:24:12.679 you can actually trust. Now, the question is can you 0:24:13.040 --> 0:24:15.679 actually trust the results? And what I've found is that 0:24:15.720 --> 0:24:19.359 the AI engines work best as language engines and work 0:24:19.480 --> 0:24:21.720 not quite as well as knowledge engines. So that's where 0:24:21.720 --> 0:24:24.680 there's a distinction with what Google's doing. And so when 0:24:24.720 --> 0:24:26.640 you're putting in a piece of language and saying, hey, 0:24:26.680 --> 0:24:29.600 help me make this paragraph more concise, or help me 0:24:29.640 --> 0:24:32.280 make sure I've got the grammar and the spelling of 0:24:32.320 --> 0:24:34.680 this language, or help me translate this language, or help 0:24:34.720 --> 0:24:39.080 me summarize this complicated scientific language. For those language purposes, 0:24:39.440 --> 0:24:41.800 the AI works terrifically well as a kind of language engine. 0:24:41.800 --> 0:24:44.160 When you get into the factual questions, you know, explain 0:24:44.240 --> 0:24:47.480 to me the history of this topic. In many cases 0:24:47.520 --> 0:24:49.920 you will get a majority, you know, accurate kind of 0:24:49.960 --> 0:24:51.919 piece of information. But the fact that you get a 0:24:51.920 --> 0:24:54.840 little bit of that hallucination up to three percent in 0:24:54.880 --> 0:24:57.640 a recent research study of content that you get back 0:24:57.640 --> 0:25:00.440 when you ask a knowledge based question is hallucinated information. 0:25:00.640 --> 0:25:01.480 So if you have that. 0:25:01.400 --> 0:25:05.680 Three percent faulty rate, it's not as trustworthy. Now, of course, 0:25:05.760 --> 0:25:07.720 when you search Google, you could land on a site 0:25:07.760 --> 0:25:10.439 that has information that itself is not trustworthy. 0:25:10.480 --> 0:25:12.679 So we always have to be a skeptic. In the end. 0:25:12.720 --> 0:25:14.320 It's always up to us to kind of use our 0:25:14.359 --> 0:25:17.560 skepticism and judge for ourselves what's accurate and what might 0:25:17.640 --> 0:25:17.879 not be. 0:25:18.240 --> 0:25:21.400 And as a journalist, you know, you got to fact 0:25:21.480 --> 0:25:26.040 check everything you can't just take it at face value here, okay, 0:25:26.080 --> 0:25:28.800 So can you share some tools that people might not 0:25:28.840 --> 0:25:31.240 have heard of that are useful, fun interesting? Do you 0:25:31.280 --> 0:25:33.080 have anything that you can talk about? 0:25:33.480 --> 0:25:34.080 Absolutely? 0:25:34.119 --> 0:25:34.199 So. 0:25:34.320 --> 0:25:36.359 Oasis is one of these new tools that I use 0:25:36.400 --> 0:25:39.000 almost every day. It's a what I call a bionic 0:25:39.080 --> 0:25:42.200 dictation tool, which basically means it's a voice recorder or 0:25:42.200 --> 0:25:45.080 a dictation tool, just like your voice memos app, for example, 0:25:45.080 --> 0:25:47.040 on your phone, but it does something really powerful in 0:25:47.080 --> 0:25:49.400 addition to that, So instead of just recording your voice, 0:25:49.680 --> 0:25:53.320 it also transcribes what you're saying, and in addition to 0:25:53.440 --> 0:25:56.919 transcribing what you're saying, it will transform what you're saying. 0:25:57.000 --> 0:25:58.760 So what I use it for is to list out 0:25:58.840 --> 0:26:01.160 ideas thoughts I have for article, or for a letter 0:26:01.160 --> 0:26:03.720 I'm writing, or for a class I'm teaching, whatever I'm 0:26:03.720 --> 0:26:07.120 thinking about planning, ideating a presentation, and it will give 0:26:07.160 --> 0:26:09.520 me multiple versions of that content. So we'll give me 0:26:09.560 --> 0:26:11.920 that content just as a transcript, but it will also 0:26:12.000 --> 0:26:14.280 summarize the key points that I've said, it will put 0:26:14.280 --> 0:26:17.119 it in an outline format, it will create a blog 0:26:17.119 --> 0:26:19.600 post version of that or an email version of that. 0:26:20.119 --> 0:26:22.199 And recently I was doing a couple of vertical videos. 0:26:22.280 --> 0:26:25.160 I asked it to give me a vertical videoscript format 0:26:25.440 --> 0:26:27.640 of that ideation that I was doing, and it did 0:26:27.680 --> 0:26:29.600 that as well. So the key thing here is it's 0:26:29.600 --> 0:26:32.560 my own ideas. It's not pulling that information from somewhere online. 0:26:32.600 --> 0:26:35.399 It's taking my own idea, but it's just transforming the 0:26:35.400 --> 0:26:37.240 way that language is presented. It's putting it in a 0:26:37.240 --> 0:26:39.960 summary format or an outline format or a script format. 0:26:40.200 --> 0:26:41.280 So that's super. 0:26:41.040 --> 0:26:44.720 Useful as a way to augment my own ideation process 0:26:44.760 --> 0:26:48.200 and to help me basically organize my ideas more efficiently. 0:26:48.880 --> 0:26:51.800 And it's been a super super helpful part of my 0:26:51.800 --> 0:26:55.240 brainstorming and my creative process recently. And it's called Oasis, 0:26:55.359 --> 0:26:57.280 and you can use it completely for free, and I 0:26:57.280 --> 0:26:59.359 have no affiliation with them, by the way, it's. 0:26:59.200 --> 0:27:00.000 Just something I use in life. 0:27:00.480 --> 0:27:02.040 You can use it completely for free, or you can 0:27:02.040 --> 0:27:04.240 pay a five buck a month, you know, kind of 0:27:04.280 --> 0:27:06.560 freemium payment to use it a little bit more. 0:27:07.200 --> 0:27:08.000 And so that's a great one. 0:27:08.000 --> 0:27:10.560 There's another tool it's very similar, called audio Pen and 0:27:10.600 --> 0:27:12.720 they both do essentially the same kind of idea of 0:27:12.760 --> 0:27:17.440 bionic transcription, where you essentially are using your voice and 0:27:17.800 --> 0:27:20.600 generating you know, the materials for yourself in a new 0:27:20.600 --> 0:27:21.480 way with AI. 0:27:22.040 --> 0:27:24.840 That's awesome. Okay, we have time for one more. You 0:27:24.840 --> 0:27:26.160 have one more you want to talk about? 0:27:26.480 --> 0:27:27.080 Sure? Sure. 0:27:27.600 --> 0:27:30.400 Another one that I use and really like is called 0:27:30.480 --> 0:27:34.640 blocks b l oks dot app, And what that does 0:27:34.720 --> 0:27:36.800 is allow me to record any meeting, either an in 0:27:36.840 --> 0:27:39.840 person meeting or a meeting online. And it sits on 0:27:39.880 --> 0:27:42.359 my laptop so that it doesn't have to join the 0:27:42.359 --> 0:27:44.639 meeting for example, So it works on any platform, but 0:27:44.680 --> 0:27:46.280 it also works in an in person meeting. Of course, 0:27:46.280 --> 0:27:47.720 you need the permission of the person. You don't want 0:27:47.720 --> 0:27:50.240 to record people surreptitiously, but you ask if it's okay. 0:27:50.480 --> 0:27:51.919 And usually what I tell people is, I'd love to 0:27:51.920 --> 0:27:53.920 send you a summary of this conversation. Is it okay 0:27:53.920 --> 0:27:55.639 if I record it so that I can transcribe it 0:27:55.680 --> 0:27:57.720 and summarize it and share that with you. And it 0:27:57.800 --> 0:28:00.240 creates a nice transcription of that, a summary of the meeting. 0:28:00.359 --> 0:28:02.560 It even will include action points, and then you can 0:28:02.640 --> 0:28:04.200 query it. You can say, what were the three things 0:28:04.200 --> 0:28:06.240 we talked about when we came at the toward the 0:28:06.320 --> 0:28:08.080 end of the meeting, You can ask it questions and 0:28:08.119 --> 0:28:08.840 get just that. 0:28:08.920 --> 0:28:11.200 So it's like having an assistant. 0:28:10.840 --> 0:28:13.959 Next to you helping you and keeping track of your 0:28:14.000 --> 0:28:15.800 meetings and your notes, so you don't have to manually 0:28:15.840 --> 0:28:18.520 write down everything and you don't forget anything. So that's 0:28:18.560 --> 0:28:20.400 a free tool and I really love it. I'm using 0:28:20.440 --> 0:28:23.679 it regularly for most of my meetings these days. So 0:28:23.880 --> 0:28:26.360 that's another super helpful AI tool that you. 0:28:26.320 --> 0:28:28.200 May not have heard of. And I've written about these 0:28:28.320 --> 0:28:29.800 in wonder tools, so if. 0:28:29.720 --> 0:28:31.879 People are interested, they can they can dig into that 0:28:32.080 --> 0:28:33.040 further on the newsletter. 0:28:33.200 --> 0:28:35.960 All right, Jeremy Kaplan, thanks so much for joining me today. 0:28:36.359 --> 0:28:37.720 Thanks Rich, it's been great talking with you. 0:28:37.880 --> 0:28:41.320 And if you want to get Jeremy's substack newsletter, just 0:28:41.320 --> 0:28:45.440 go to wondertools dot substack dot com. I love reading 0:28:45.520 --> 0:28:48.960 it every time it arrives to my inbox. Very very 0:28:48.960 --> 0:28:51.920 helpful stuff. Triple eight Rich one oh one eight eight 0:28:52.000 --> 0:28:56.000 eight seven four two four one zero one. More of 0:28:56.000 --> 0:29:02.600 your calls after this. Welcome back to Rich on Tech. 0:29:02.720 --> 0:29:06.080 Rich DeMuro here talking technology with you at triple eight 0:29:06.280 --> 0:29:09.800 Rich one oh one. That's eighty eight seven four to 0:29:09.800 --> 0:29:13.720 two four to one zero one. You can find me 0:29:13.840 --> 0:29:16.480 on social media and follow me there. I'm at rich 0:29:16.560 --> 0:29:20.240 on tech on Instagram, Facebook. 0:29:20.040 --> 0:29:26.000 X and threads. Let's go to Jeff in Jackson, Mississippi. Jeff, 0:29:26.040 --> 0:29:27.000 you're on with rich. 0:29:28.040 --> 0:29:32.960 Hey rich fand your show today. I got a had 0:29:32.960 --> 0:29:35.000 a desire to get a new TV to the bedroom, 0:29:35.040 --> 0:29:37.240 but I'm not sure what to look for and look 0:29:37.320 --> 0:29:40.640 at and one's an advice. 0:29:41.880 --> 0:29:45.320 Well, thanks for finding the show. You're you're looking for 0:29:45.360 --> 0:29:46.160 a TV. 0:29:46.720 --> 0:29:51.680 Som TV, something that you know get into the twenty 0:29:51.680 --> 0:29:53.920 first stating okay. 0:29:53.560 --> 0:29:56.320 And so do you have a TV in another room 0:29:56.360 --> 0:29:58.440 that has kind of the smarts or do you like 0:29:58.960 --> 0:30:00.560 what are you using for your prime Mary TV? 0:30:01.360 --> 0:30:04.640 Yeah, as a just a flat string TV and the 0:30:04.840 --> 0:30:06.800 dand is a smart TV. But the bedroom is not 0:30:07.600 --> 0:30:09.520 not that new of the TV. I'm not sure what 0:30:09.560 --> 0:30:12.840 it is. I was gonna buys one, but I was 0:30:13.400 --> 0:30:15.560 talking with some people and they said be careful about 0:30:15.640 --> 0:30:18.800 buying from Walmart, Target places like that. They'll have they 0:30:18.920 --> 0:30:22.560 have older, you know, TVs, and I don't know what 0:30:22.600 --> 0:30:24.680 to look for. I'm just wanting to buy. 0:30:24.960 --> 0:30:28.720 Okay, Well, I think the main thing you have to 0:30:28.760 --> 0:30:31.760 think about when it comes to a TV is do 0:30:31.800 --> 0:30:34.680 you want the smarts to be built into the TV 0:30:35.120 --> 0:30:38.400 or do you want to add the smarts later. So 0:30:38.840 --> 0:30:40.800 if you're if you're looking for the smarts to be 0:30:40.800 --> 0:30:42.960 built into the TV, you've got a couple of options. 0:30:43.000 --> 0:30:47.560 You've got Roku, You've got Google TV, and you've got 0:30:47.600 --> 0:30:50.480 fire TV, and those are kind of like the three 0:30:50.800 --> 0:30:54.800 main operating systems in addition to you know, the operating 0:30:54.800 --> 0:30:57.320 systems that the TV manufacturers have. So then you have 0:30:57.440 --> 0:31:01.640 Visio they have their own operating system, and also LG 0:31:01.840 --> 0:31:05.480 has one called web OS. So it's a lot to 0:31:05.520 --> 0:31:07.840 think about because if you get one of these TVs 0:31:07.880 --> 0:31:10.360 with this built in, you have to like both the 0:31:10.400 --> 0:31:13.440 TV and the operating system behind the TV, and then 0:31:13.480 --> 0:31:15.720 you have to figure out, well, does the operating system 0:31:15.760 --> 0:31:18.480 have the apps that I want? Now, every TV in 0:31:18.520 --> 0:31:21.280 the world is going to have access to things like Netflix, 0:31:22.280 --> 0:31:24.800 but then when it comes to you know, more obscure apps, 0:31:24.840 --> 0:31:27.280 that's where you may have to make sure the TV 0:31:27.360 --> 0:31:30.880 platform that you want has what you need. So if 0:31:30.920 --> 0:31:33.640 you like something like you know, Curiosity stream or you 0:31:33.640 --> 0:31:37.600 know some sort of like documentary streaming service, you want 0:31:37.640 --> 0:31:39.840 to make sure that it's available on these So my 0:31:40.000 --> 0:31:43.760 personal preference, I think Roku is very very popular. They 0:31:43.800 --> 0:31:48.000 have a good combination of TVs that are inexpensive, good 0:31:48.080 --> 0:31:53.160 value TCL that's kind of the TCL Roku TVs. Those 0:31:53.200 --> 0:31:57.120 have always been a very very strong TV choice. I 0:31:57.120 --> 0:32:00.560 think when it comes to Amazon, if you're looking to 0:32:00.560 --> 0:32:04.160 buy one online, the Fire TVs, I like the software, 0:32:05.280 --> 0:32:08.400 you know, the TV itself doesn't get the best reviews necessarily, 0:32:08.440 --> 0:32:11.000 but they're always a good value. And we are coming 0:32:11.080 --> 0:32:15.280 up into Black Friday, the Cyber Monday, the holiday shopping season. 0:32:15.640 --> 0:32:18.400 There's going to be a lot of deals on TV, 0:32:18.560 --> 0:32:23.000 so I would wait until this shopping season sort of starts. 0:32:23.040 --> 0:32:25.400 And by the way, Amazon's kicking it off a week 0:32:25.440 --> 0:32:29.520 early this year on the seventeenth, so that's when we're 0:32:29.520 --> 0:32:32.960 going to start seeing a lot of deals on these TVs. Now, 0:32:33.240 --> 0:32:36.680 when it comes to the best, best best TVs, which 0:32:36.720 --> 0:32:39.920 I don't think you need in the bedroom, the LG 0:32:40.440 --> 0:32:44.760 O LEDs are clearly ranked number one all the time. 0:32:45.120 --> 0:32:48.000 The G three specifically is probably the top of the line, 0:32:49.120 --> 0:32:52.479 as is the Sony A ninety five K. That's what 0:32:52.520 --> 0:32:55.240 are the last time we had a TV editor on 0:32:55.360 --> 0:32:57.680 that's what they recommended. Now when it comes to mid 0:32:57.760 --> 0:33:01.000 range TVs, that's probably what you want in the secondary room, 0:33:01.440 --> 0:33:04.560 So I would say a TCL or a high Sense 0:33:05.120 --> 0:33:08.120 might be the best case scenario. Now, personally, I like 0:33:08.200 --> 0:33:11.720 to add my smarts later on to the TV because 0:33:11.760 --> 0:33:13.800 I like to pick the device that I'm using for 0:33:13.920 --> 0:33:17.960 my platform, and I really like the fireTV platform, so 0:33:18.080 --> 0:33:20.120 you can get a fire TV stick to add to this. 0:33:20.600 --> 0:33:23.600 What's really cool is that the new Fire TV stick, 0:33:23.840 --> 0:33:28.080 the four K Max, has what's called ambient technology, so 0:33:28.320 --> 0:33:31.720 when you're not using the fire stick, your TV sort 0:33:31.720 --> 0:33:34.880 of turns into a picture frame, and that's really cool. 0:33:34.920 --> 0:33:38.240 Google also does that with their Chrome Cast, their Google 0:33:38.280 --> 0:33:42.160 TV device, not the regular Chrome Cast, but the Google TV, 0:33:42.880 --> 0:33:47.000 and it's great if you use Google Photos. Apple TV 0:33:47.120 --> 0:33:49.200 is another way to get it. If you're an iPhone person, 0:33:49.320 --> 0:33:51.320 you know, Apple TV obviously is going to work very 0:33:51.400 --> 0:33:54.400 nicely with the iPhone, But the Apple TV itself is 0:33:54.920 --> 0:33:57.600 much more expensive than any of the other streaming devices. 0:33:58.160 --> 0:33:59.680 But when it comes to buying. 0:33:59.480 --> 0:34:03.680 The TV at Walmart or Target, I think, to be 0:34:03.760 --> 0:34:06.880 quite honest, it really comes down to looking up some 0:34:07.000 --> 0:34:09.839 reviews online of the best TVs that you can buy, 0:34:10.800 --> 0:34:15.359 and places like Wirecutter offer great reviews. Digital Trends has 0:34:15.400 --> 0:34:19.920 great reviews of TVs. There is no plethora, there's no 0:34:20.040 --> 0:34:23.080 shortage of TV reviews online. So I think it comes 0:34:23.120 --> 0:34:26.040 down to the brand that you get and the model 0:34:26.040 --> 0:34:28.640 that you get. And also it used to be very 0:34:28.640 --> 0:34:31.800 important when it came to like how many HDMI ports 0:34:31.840 --> 0:34:34.400 and things that were on TVs. That's getting less important 0:34:34.400 --> 0:34:37.919 as people are streaming everything. So I think you find 0:34:38.360 --> 0:34:40.840 a size at a price that you like, and you 0:34:40.880 --> 0:34:43.360 make sure it has the features that you like. Obviously 0:34:43.360 --> 0:34:45.560 you want something that's four K and something that you 0:34:45.560 --> 0:34:48.359 can add one of these streaming devices to. I think 0:34:48.400 --> 0:34:50.200 that's gonna be your best bet. So good luck with 0:34:50.239 --> 0:34:53.640 the TV. I am in the I'm in the market 0:34:53.640 --> 0:34:55.440 for a TV myself, and I'll be quite honest, I 0:34:55.440 --> 0:34:57.440 think I'm gonna go with the High Sense U eight 0:34:57.520 --> 0:35:01.000 K because it's getting great review use High Sense. I 0:35:01.040 --> 0:35:03.600 know it's a brand that not many people have heard of, 0:35:04.080 --> 0:35:07.439 but they are definitely making some progress here in the US. 0:35:07.560 --> 0:35:11.640 So thanks for the call, Jeff over there in Jackson, Mississippi. 0:35:12.960 --> 0:35:18.240 Spotify this week added two hundred thousand audiobooks for premium users, 0:35:18.280 --> 0:35:21.040 So if you are a Spotify subscriber in the US, 0:35:21.080 --> 0:35:24.600 you can now listen to audiobooks for free. You get 0:35:24.640 --> 0:35:28.239 fifteen hours of listening per month included, and they say 0:35:28.280 --> 0:35:30.800 they have seventy percent of the best selling titles. That 0:35:30.880 --> 0:35:32.440 doesn't mean you get to listen to seventy percent of 0:35:32.480 --> 0:35:34.560 the book. 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I know, the 0:37:20.080 --> 0:37:23.879 way that the iPhone and iOS and iPad is set up, 0:37:23.960 --> 0:37:26.480 there is no need for antivirus. 0:37:26.640 --> 0:37:27.839 It just doesn't work that way. 0:37:27.960 --> 0:37:33.640 The antivirus program itself cannot even scan the entire system 0:37:34.080 --> 0:37:37.839 because it's what's called sandboxed, and so that means that 0:37:37.880 --> 0:37:42.360 this total AV can't really do anything. 0:37:43.320 --> 0:37:44.759 Let's see, what do they promised to do. 0:37:44.880 --> 0:37:49.160 I get this total av they advertise so heavily, I 0:37:49.239 --> 0:37:52.959 must get fifteen questions about it a week. Let's see 0:37:52.960 --> 0:37:56.000 smart scan data, breach, check photos and videos, clean up, 0:37:56.080 --> 0:38:00.760 duplicate contact finder, webshield, QR code, Private can action, VPN. 0:38:00.880 --> 0:38:03.440 All those are premium features. I don't think you need 0:38:03.480 --> 0:38:06.359 any of this stuff. Honestly. The biggest thing you can 0:38:06.360 --> 0:38:09.640 do to protect yourself on any device is to watch 0:38:10.280 --> 0:38:13.239 the places where you log in. Make sure you're not 0:38:13.320 --> 0:38:15.839 logging into a website that's trying to trick you, and 0:38:16.280 --> 0:38:18.160 watch out for those texts that come in that try 0:38:18.200 --> 0:38:20.080 to make you click a link and hand over your 0:38:20.080 --> 0:38:23.360 personal information. But if you think this is anti virus 0:38:23.400 --> 0:38:25.680 for the iPad, it's just not, so you can go 0:38:25.719 --> 0:38:29.160 ahead and skip it. Good question, though, Let's go to 0:38:29.880 --> 0:38:32.240 Let's go to Joan in San Diego. 0:38:32.360 --> 0:38:33.319 Joan, you're on with Rich. 0:38:34.360 --> 0:38:37.600 Hi, thank you. I have this printer that I bought 0:38:37.719 --> 0:38:42.279 a few years ago. It's an epsom Et twenty and 0:38:42.440 --> 0:38:47.960 I absolutely love it. But something, an airring, fell in 0:38:48.000 --> 0:38:51.719 the back and stammed it and I pulled that out 0:38:52.040 --> 0:38:55.719 and what happened is now the paper when you go 0:38:55.840 --> 0:38:58.160 to print something. It just scrunches up in bunches and 0:38:58.200 --> 0:39:02.680 it won't come out. So I'll tech support and they 0:39:02.719 --> 0:39:05.919 immediately realized that I was not under warranty. We tried 0:39:05.960 --> 0:39:08.680 to troubleshoot it, but it didn't work first, and so 0:39:09.400 --> 0:39:13.799 I asked him. I said, I have a cabinet full 0:39:14.040 --> 0:39:16.440 of the five twenty two inc. Because I sort of 0:39:16.480 --> 0:39:18.280 got it on auto order on Amazon. 0:39:18.440 --> 0:39:19.800 Yeah, and you got like a whole bunch. 0:39:20.719 --> 0:39:23.560 Yeah, but I thought I loved the printer. No big deal. 0:39:24.200 --> 0:39:27.120 And he looked one and back and looked at printers 0:39:27.120 --> 0:39:29.600 and he said, well, and I don't believe this because 0:39:29.600 --> 0:39:32.719 I've found otherwise on Google, but I want to I 0:39:32.800 --> 0:39:36.000 want to verify it. He said, the five twenty two inc. 0:39:36.080 --> 0:39:39.520 That you have will not work in any other EPSOM printers. 0:39:39.880 --> 0:39:42.120 Well, that's not true, okay. 0:39:42.200 --> 0:39:44.680 I just wonder what my options are. Should I try 0:39:44.719 --> 0:39:47.839 to fix this or should I just try to find 0:39:47.840 --> 0:39:49.759 another one that'll take that ink the new one? 0:39:49.880 --> 0:39:51.120 How long have you had this printer? 0:39:52.040 --> 0:39:55.160 I think it's three years okay, probably just outside the warranty. 0:39:55.440 --> 0:39:59.280 Yeah, of course, usually everything breaks just outside the warranty. 0:40:00.080 --> 0:40:04.160 It works perfectly while it's in warranty. So I'm looking 0:40:04.160 --> 0:40:06.719 on Amazon for this five twenty two inc. And it 0:40:06.800 --> 0:40:09.880 says it works with the twenty seven to twenty, the 0:40:09.920 --> 0:40:12.840 twenty eight hundred, the twenty eight oh three, the twenty 0:40:12.880 --> 0:40:15.320 eight to forty, the forty seven hundred, the forty eight hundred, 0:40:15.400 --> 0:40:18.160 the forty eight ten. So I think that you can 0:40:18.200 --> 0:40:21.239 find another printer. What they may have been referencing is 0:40:21.280 --> 0:40:25.600 that perhaps this this you know, there's not a current 0:40:25.680 --> 0:40:28.279 printer that uses this ink. You know, maybe the newer 0:40:28.320 --> 0:40:30.719 models use the five twenty three or something like that, 0:40:31.200 --> 0:40:34.319 but there are definitely models that use this, including the 0:40:34.360 --> 0:40:36.280 same printer that you have. I mean, you can still 0:40:36.320 --> 0:40:39.040 just buy a new printer if you want. This one's 0:40:39.080 --> 0:40:41.479 been discontinued, but of course people are going to still 0:40:41.520 --> 0:40:44.560 sell it for a little bit. But what I would 0:40:44.600 --> 0:40:47.680 do is I would go I just did a quick 0:40:47.719 --> 0:40:50.919 search on THEPPS on the Amazon website, but I would 0:40:50.920 --> 0:40:53.040 go on the EPs and website for the five twenty 0:40:53.080 --> 0:40:56.680 two listing, and I'm sure and I can try to 0:40:56.719 --> 0:40:58.120 find this quickly here. 0:40:58.400 --> 0:40:59.880 But another one. 0:41:00.040 --> 0:41:03.040 I found other ones too, and I just he's double checked, 0:41:03.040 --> 0:41:04.600 and I don't know what he must have just been 0:41:04.640 --> 0:41:05.880 having an off day or something. 0:41:06.040 --> 0:41:07.719 Well, now here's the other question I have. 0:41:08.080 --> 0:41:10.399 So I'm looking at the Yeah, so now I'm looking 0:41:10.440 --> 0:41:12.440 at the website, and it does have all these printers 0:41:12.480 --> 0:41:14.560 that are listed the twenty four hundred. I mean there's 0:41:14.719 --> 0:41:17.960 there's at least one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, 0:41:18.040 --> 0:41:19.160 nine ten printers. 0:41:19.440 --> 0:41:21.440 So what I would do is just go through each. 0:41:21.239 --> 0:41:23.200 One of those printers on this page on the EPSOM 0:41:23.239 --> 0:41:26.640 website and just search and see how much they cost, 0:41:26.840 --> 0:41:29.040 and go with one that has the features that you want. 0:41:29.120 --> 0:41:31.879 Some have a scanner, some have the automatic document feed 0:41:31.960 --> 0:41:34.600 or whatever you need. But yes, you can use this ink. 0:41:35.160 --> 0:41:37.360 Now on the flip side, you know, depending on how 0:41:37.440 --> 0:41:38.919 much ink you have, you may just want to say, 0:41:38.920 --> 0:41:40.920 you know what, let's just call this a total loss 0:41:40.920 --> 0:41:42.320 and let's just go to cost Go and buy a 0:41:42.400 --> 0:41:44.799 new printer and just you know, start over. 0:41:44.960 --> 0:41:45.160 Yeah. 0:41:46.000 --> 0:41:49.640 Yeah, Costco had when I really liked on sale. It 0:41:49.680 --> 0:41:50.680 doesn't take my ink. 0:41:50.960 --> 0:41:53.760 Yeah, I mean, look, here's the thing. I mean, these 0:41:53.920 --> 0:41:57.000 ink is not cheap. And I'm on this plan with 0:41:57.320 --> 0:42:00.080 HP where they send the ink. It's like five six 0:42:00.320 --> 0:42:02.200 I think it was paying like thirteen bucks a month. 0:42:02.600 --> 0:42:04.319 But it's like I went to I said, you know what, 0:42:04.360 --> 0:42:06.000 I'm sick of pain all this. Let me just buy 0:42:06.040 --> 0:42:09.280 the ink out right, And they wanted like two hundred 0:42:09.320 --> 0:42:11.399 dollars for the ink cartridges. And then, by the way, 0:42:11.400 --> 0:42:14.040 the ones in my printer would stop working, like it 0:42:14.040 --> 0:42:15.840 wouldn't use the ones that I already had, like I 0:42:15.840 --> 0:42:18.759 had just send those back in. So I think you're 0:42:18.760 --> 0:42:20.799 doing better than I am because I'm stuck with what 0:42:20.840 --> 0:42:23.319 I have. You're sort of stuck with what you have. 0:42:23.400 --> 0:42:26.120 But the good news is, Joan, this ink will work 0:42:26.120 --> 0:42:27.759 in a different printer. I think that you just go 0:42:27.800 --> 0:42:30.640 on the website see which printers that it works with. 0:42:30.800 --> 0:42:33.000 Since you already have the ink, you're already halfway there. 0:42:33.560 --> 0:42:36.080 And this ink lasts for a long time. So I 0:42:36.080 --> 0:42:38.319 would just go ahead and find a new printer that 0:42:38.360 --> 0:42:41.880 it works with and go that route. Thanks for the question, 0:42:41.960 --> 0:42:47.160 appreciate it. Let's go to Lewis in Riverside with an 0:42:47.280 --> 0:42:50.720 update about a call from Was this last week? 0:42:50.880 --> 0:42:51.200 Lewis? 0:42:51.360 --> 0:42:54.319 Yes, it was last week. Hi had a kid is 0:42:54.360 --> 0:43:00.000 a short story. His mom died unexpectedly, had an iPhone 0:43:00.840 --> 0:43:03.799 turned out it's an iPhone can, had it switched over, 0:43:04.320 --> 0:43:05.440 It had a lock on it. 0:43:05.800 --> 0:43:07.160 Yes, and we were worried. 0:43:07.719 --> 0:43:12.919 Ask you about that. We got it to him. Kids understand tech. 0:43:13.040 --> 0:43:15.880 It was like they speak that language. In less than 0:43:15.920 --> 0:43:18.239 a minute, he was punching the numbers so fast. Had 0:43:18.280 --> 0:43:21.959 it turned on. He's back online and it worked out great. 0:43:22.840 --> 0:43:25.000 So we figured out the code to open the phone. 0:43:25.160 --> 0:43:27.520 Yeah, he had the code. I didn't even try it 0:43:27.520 --> 0:43:31.279 because I had phones before. Where after you try so 0:43:31.360 --> 0:43:32.359 many times. 0:43:32.120 --> 0:43:33.160 Yeah, it'll lock you out. 0:43:33.239 --> 0:43:36.920 Oh yeah, So I didn't even try and he went 0:43:36.960 --> 0:43:39.960 in there. It was like his third try in less 0:43:39.960 --> 0:43:41.640 than a minute and turned on. 0:43:42.400 --> 0:43:44.319 Now what did I say last week? 0:43:46.320 --> 0:43:50.840 You had said that maybe they had If we couldn't 0:43:50.840 --> 0:43:54.359 get it, maybe we could go with them to like documentation. 0:43:54.480 --> 0:43:56.839 Hayes mom died. This was the phone, and it would 0:43:56.880 --> 0:44:00.719 have been a you know, I imagine we could have maybe 0:44:00.760 --> 0:44:04.360 we could have done something. But we're lucky we didn't. 0:44:04.600 --> 0:44:07.520 You're lucky that he figured out the code and three tries, 0:44:07.920 --> 0:44:08.920 so very good. 0:44:08.960 --> 0:44:12.800 I was concerned. I guess he was close with his mom, 0:44:12.920 --> 0:44:15.920 so he knew the information and got it. 0:44:17.120 --> 0:44:17.319 Well. 0:44:17.400 --> 0:44:18.680 I love that he figured it out. 0:44:18.719 --> 0:44:20.960 I love that you can use his phone less waste 0:44:21.000 --> 0:44:24.320 in the in the you know, recycling bent of phones, 0:44:24.520 --> 0:44:26.360 and uh, I would. 0:44:26.080 --> 0:44:28.960 Just and and the best thing, any information that was 0:44:29.000 --> 0:44:30.680 on there didn't get lost. 0:44:31.840 --> 0:44:33.880 Yeah, that's that's well, back it up. 0:44:33.960 --> 0:44:37.520 And uh at some point I would probably recommend backing 0:44:37.600 --> 0:44:39.960 up the information that's on there and then maybe starting 0:44:40.000 --> 0:44:42.360 over with his own account, if that's what you're gonna do. 0:44:42.440 --> 0:44:45.120 But h Lewis, thanks for the update, appreciate it. 0:44:45.880 --> 0:44:48.160 Hey, thank you Rich, thanks. 0:44:48.000 --> 0:44:51.600 For listening there in Riverside. And UH, I do recall 0:44:52.360 --> 0:44:56.200 that I did give the advice to for the child 0:44:56.280 --> 0:44:58.319 to think about the number if he if he could 0:44:58.400 --> 0:45:02.319 figure out that pin code. But in the future, I 0:45:02.360 --> 0:45:05.919 will say the lesson learned from this is to set 0:45:06.000 --> 0:45:12.399 up what's called a legacy contact. So on iOS, on Facebook, 0:45:13.120 --> 0:45:15.920 and on Google, you can set up what's called a 0:45:16.040 --> 0:45:19.400 legacy contact. This is someone that can manage your online 0:45:19.440 --> 0:45:23.560 accounts after you die. Not something you want to think about, right, 0:45:24.080 --> 0:45:27.120 but it's something that is important because yeah, there are 0:45:27.200 --> 0:45:29.560 systems for this. You can write to Apple, you can 0:45:29.600 --> 0:45:33.160 write to Google, you can show a death certificate. But realistically, 0:45:33.239 --> 0:45:35.640 a do you really want to be doing that for 0:45:35.680 --> 0:45:38.400 yourself or a loved one? I guess you wouldn't be 0:45:38.400 --> 0:45:40.600 doing it for yourself because you're not there. But you 0:45:40.640 --> 0:45:43.880 know what I mean. So, I mean there are systems, 0:45:43.880 --> 0:45:46.879 but there's also ways of making these systems easier. So 0:45:47.360 --> 0:45:50.120 for instance, my wife and I have a binder with 0:45:50.160 --> 0:45:53.400 all of the important information, all of the accounts, everything 0:45:53.440 --> 0:45:55.879 we need to know for each other. And again it's 0:45:55.880 --> 0:45:57.319 not something you want to think about. I mean, who 0:45:57.320 --> 0:45:59.440 wants to make a binder this says open this up 0:45:59.480 --> 0:46:02.839 in case I'm my death. Nobody does. But I will 0:46:02.840 --> 0:46:05.359 tell you your loved ones will be much happier for 0:46:05.400 --> 0:46:08.560 it because they will have, if you're okay with it, 0:46:08.640 --> 0:46:11.640 the passwords to the two important accounts, the accounts to 0:46:11.680 --> 0:46:16.120 look for all that good stuff. So Facebook, Google and 0:46:16.239 --> 0:46:20.160 Apple for sure, look up legacy contact. Set someone as 0:46:20.200 --> 0:46:24.080 your legacy contact that if you stop accessing your account 0:46:24.080 --> 0:46:26.279 for a while, they will email them and say, hey, 0:46:27.000 --> 0:46:29.080 this account hasn't been used in a while and you 0:46:29.239 --> 0:46:31.399 have the ability to now take it over and get 0:46:31.440 --> 0:46:34.400 the data from there. So thanks for the call, Lewis, 0:46:34.440 --> 0:46:36.799 appreciate it all right. If you have a question for me, 0:46:36.880 --> 0:46:39.080 give me a call. It's triple eight rich one O one. 0:46:39.120 --> 0:46:41.440 That's eight eight eight seven, four to two, four to 0:46:41.520 --> 0:46:44.960 one zero one. Coming up, I'll tell you about the 0:46:45.239 --> 0:46:48.640 Zoomo stream box. If you're clinging onto your cable box, 0:46:48.680 --> 0:46:51.840 this might be a good option for you. Amazon starting 0:46:51.880 --> 0:46:53.520 Cyber Monday deals a little bit earlier. 0:46:53.520 --> 0:46:55.560 I'll tell you about that. And plus we're gonna talk. 0:46:55.400 --> 0:46:59.319 To Brian Heter of tech Crunch about the Humane AI pin. 0:47:00.040 --> 0:47:05.200 Listening to rich on Tech, Welcome back to rich on Tech. 0:47:05.280 --> 0:47:08.520 Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you talking technology. Before 0:47:08.560 --> 0:47:13.399 the break, we were talking about legacy contacts and how 0:47:13.400 --> 0:47:17.000 to set it. You can indeed set one for Facebook, Apple, 0:47:17.239 --> 0:47:21.279 and Google calls it Inactive Account Manager. It's all linked 0:47:21.360 --> 0:47:24.960 up on the website richon Tech dot tv. You can 0:47:25.040 --> 0:47:28.120 check the show notes for this week's show and everything 0:47:28.160 --> 0:47:32.720 I mentioned is in there. Amazon is starting Black Friday 0:47:32.719 --> 0:47:35.640 and Cyber Monday deals a little bit earlier this year. 0:47:35.760 --> 0:47:39.400 Black Friday deals will start on November seventeenth. Cyber Monday 0:47:39.440 --> 0:47:44.720 deals will happen starting Saturday, November twenty fifth. Amazon, of course, 0:47:44.880 --> 0:47:50.480 is promising deals on popular brands Sony Disney, Peloton, Lego, 0:47:50.560 --> 0:47:54.560 all the Amazon devices like Echo, ring fireTV. They'll be 0:47:54.640 --> 0:47:57.520 up to fifty percent off of course they kind of 0:47:57.840 --> 0:48:01.360 discount the older devices more or so than the newer devices, 0:48:01.400 --> 0:48:02.879 but again, be on the lookout for that. 0:48:03.280 --> 0:48:04.320 And this is kind of cool. 0:48:05.320 --> 0:48:08.600 You know, I'm not a huge sports guy, but I 0:48:08.760 --> 0:48:11.200 do think that part of that problem is that sports 0:48:11.280 --> 0:48:13.120 is just all over the place when it comes to 0:48:13.120 --> 0:48:15.879 where you can find the games, and like literally every 0:48:15.920 --> 0:48:18.520 game is on a different platform or a different channel 0:48:18.640 --> 0:48:22.279 or different streaming service, and it's kind of annoying. And 0:48:22.360 --> 0:48:24.520 so this, I think is kind of cool. So the 0:48:25.080 --> 0:48:29.160 Amazon Prime Video, which they've been doing Thursday night football games, 0:48:29.480 --> 0:48:32.080 which I love because anyone with a Prime account can 0:48:32.120 --> 0:48:34.239 access that game and watch it and stream it from 0:48:34.280 --> 0:48:37.640 any device. And now they're going to apply that same 0:48:37.680 --> 0:48:42.680 logic on Black Friday. You can stream the Jets Dolphins 0:48:42.719 --> 0:48:46.320 game on Prime Video. But here's the difference. You don't 0:48:46.320 --> 0:48:49.120 need an Amazon Prime account to watch it, so all. 0:48:49.000 --> 0:48:50.440 You need is an Amazon account. 0:48:50.520 --> 0:48:53.880 So they're opening up this Prime game to anyone with 0:48:53.960 --> 0:48:56.919 an Amazon account. So that's kind of cool. Now, of course, 0:48:56.960 --> 0:48:59.160 they are going to have shopping during the game. And 0:48:59.200 --> 0:49:01.960 I was tuned into the Thursday night football game on 0:49:02.000 --> 0:49:05.960 Amazon Prime and yeah, in the commercials, they're like literally saying, hey, 0:49:06.000 --> 0:49:08.000 you can buy this, like, scan this QR code on 0:49:08.000 --> 0:49:09.880 the screen and it brings you right to Amazon to 0:49:09.920 --> 0:49:12.840 buy it. So that's kind of interesting. But I just 0:49:12.880 --> 0:49:16.200 thought that was cool. Like it's so like streaming has 0:49:16.239 --> 0:49:19.479 made things so easy but also so complicated because there 0:49:19.520 --> 0:49:22.800 are a thousand different services and everything is on different services. 0:49:22.840 --> 0:49:25.560 Even if you follow one team, they can be playing 0:49:25.560 --> 0:49:28.080 on you know, five six different services throughout the course 0:49:28.200 --> 0:49:29.200 of a season. 0:49:30.640 --> 0:49:31.719 Let's go to UH. 0:49:31.800 --> 0:49:35.080 Let's go to Jerry in Hatfield, Pennsylvania. 0:49:35.200 --> 0:49:36.239 Jerry, you're on with Rich? 0:49:37.000 --> 0:49:37.160 Hi? 0:49:37.360 --> 0:49:38.200 Rich, how you doing? 0:49:38.480 --> 0:49:39.239 I'm doing great? 0:49:39.239 --> 0:49:43.080 How are you well? I'd be happier if it can 0:49:43.160 --> 0:49:45.759 help me out. Rich. You ever hear of Olympia. It's 0:49:45.800 --> 0:49:46.879 a Filipino egg roll. 0:49:47.320 --> 0:49:47.799 I have not. 0:49:48.640 --> 0:49:50.160 Well, if you're ever going to chance to try when 0:49:50.160 --> 0:49:53.319 you want to what I've done, I've written a spreadsheet 0:49:53.400 --> 0:49:58.960 with all the ingredients on it, okay, in in Google sheets, 0:49:59.000 --> 0:50:05.040 with one sell UH for the user to adjust according 0:50:05.120 --> 0:50:08.160 to their to the recipe. If you have, i say, 0:50:08.160 --> 0:50:11.520 three pounds of meat, it'll put it in there, plugget 0:50:11.719 --> 0:50:14.319 and it'll just all your other vegetables and stuff like that. 0:50:14.360 --> 0:50:16.759 Oh sure, sure, you put like the proportions, and you 0:50:16.840 --> 0:50:18.759 programmed it in credit, and. 0:50:19.239 --> 0:50:21.560 I want to have a new machine so I can 0:50:21.560 --> 0:50:25.600 give the link to other people. And I've locked them 0:50:25.640 --> 0:50:28.080 spreadsheetings and that my problem is I want to go 0:50:28.120 --> 0:50:32.360 back into the sprindtsheet as a different user and see 0:50:32.400 --> 0:50:35.359 if my if my parameters are working as far as 0:50:35.480 --> 0:50:38.200 unlocking the lock of that. Some people can't change the 0:50:38.239 --> 0:50:39.439 other stuff I have on there. 0:50:39.600 --> 0:50:41.400 You want to make sure before you share this that 0:50:41.560 --> 0:50:43.520 actually works for a random person. 0:50:43.320 --> 0:50:47.520 Right, And I tried opening up I sent I sent 0:50:47.600 --> 0:50:50.719 the link to a different uh email that I have. 0:50:50.800 --> 0:50:53.640 It's not associated with it, and it's not working. I 0:50:53.640 --> 0:50:56.279 can open it up, but if I change it on 0:50:56.960 --> 0:51:00.400 the secondary email, I can see it change on the 0:51:00.440 --> 0:51:06.759 primary and I want to be able to well, what 0:51:06.800 --> 0:51:08.680 I want to say is that it's just a mirror 0:51:08.680 --> 0:51:10.160 of it. I want to make sure that. 0:51:10.120 --> 0:51:13.840 I can type things in but not change the original. 0:51:14.840 --> 0:51:17.359 Right now, how I do that? 0:51:17.680 --> 0:51:18.040 Okay? 0:51:18.360 --> 0:51:20.680 So what you want to do is there's two parts 0:51:20.680 --> 0:51:22.480 to your question. First off, you want to make this 0:51:22.640 --> 0:51:26.759 document so that you can share it around and not 0:51:26.880 --> 0:51:29.000 have someone change it, but they can use it. So 0:51:29.040 --> 0:51:31.680 that's the number one part. And then the second part 0:51:31.920 --> 0:51:34.640 is that you want to be able to try this out. 0:51:35.239 --> 0:51:38.040 So I think for the first part it depends how 0:51:38.040 --> 0:51:42.920 you share this. So in Google there is a in 0:51:42.920 --> 0:51:46.120 the upper right hand corner a share icon, and it 0:51:46.160 --> 0:51:48.200 gives you a couple of options on how to share. 0:51:48.440 --> 0:51:51.480 So there is an option that says anyone with a 0:51:51.560 --> 0:51:55.320 link can view, and then there is anyone with a 0:51:55.400 --> 0:51:58.040 link and comment, and anyone with the link can edit. 0:51:58.880 --> 0:52:03.200 So you you probably want to make people a viewer, 0:52:04.160 --> 0:52:07.359 and when they view that link, you want to make 0:52:07.400 --> 0:52:10.080 sure that they can change those numbers inside that link. 0:52:10.080 --> 0:52:14.600 And that's the way you format. You format that the 0:52:14.760 --> 0:52:20.560 cell inside that spreadsheet. So the second part of the 0:52:21.160 --> 0:52:24.040 equation here is testing this out. So as you noticed, 0:52:24.080 --> 0:52:26.520 you emailed it to yourself. So what I would do 0:52:26.800 --> 0:52:29.680 is I would just copy the link once you set 0:52:29.760 --> 0:52:33.239 the permissions, and once you copy the link, I would 0:52:33.320 --> 0:52:37.560 use what's called a private browsing window or an incognito window. 0:52:38.040 --> 0:52:40.160 So on your web browser, if you go to file, 0:52:40.640 --> 0:52:42.799 it should say you know. If you're using Safari, they 0:52:42.800 --> 0:52:45.840 call it a private window. If you're using Chrome, they 0:52:45.920 --> 0:52:49.480 call it an incognito window. So open up an incognito window. 0:52:49.920 --> 0:52:53.520 And then paste that URL in there, and you should 0:52:53.520 --> 0:52:58.040 be able to see what's happening on that URL. Like, 0:52:58.120 --> 0:53:00.440 if you can't access it and you can't change the 0:53:00.520 --> 0:53:02.799 data the way you're saying, then you have to go 0:53:02.880 --> 0:53:06.640 back and reformat your your document. Now, if you don't 0:53:06.640 --> 0:53:09.279 want people to be able to save this stuff, you 0:53:09.360 --> 0:53:11.360 need to make sure that they are not an editor 0:53:11.840 --> 0:53:13.719 and they are just a viewer. But you need to 0:53:13.760 --> 0:53:16.160 make sure that when you make them a viewer, they 0:53:16.200 --> 0:53:21.640 can still change you know, the data inside those inside 0:53:21.640 --> 0:53:25.719 those parameters. So with that said, you would have to 0:53:25.719 --> 0:53:27.600 figure that. Off the top of my head. I'm not 0:53:27.640 --> 0:53:29.759 sure if you can make a spreadsheet that people can 0:53:29.800 --> 0:53:31.680 pop in their own data. You may have to make 0:53:31.719 --> 0:53:35.960 it a template and that way people can copy it 0:53:36.080 --> 0:53:40.120 to their Google Docs account and then make the changes 0:53:40.160 --> 0:53:40.960 that they want to do. 0:53:42.239 --> 0:53:44.480 That would probably be the best. 0:53:44.200 --> 0:53:48.319 Way of handling this. So again, maybe a template or 0:53:48.360 --> 0:53:50.440 they have to just save it. You might just you 0:53:50.480 --> 0:53:52.840 just might make it so that they can see this 0:53:53.719 --> 0:53:57.759 document and then save it to their drive and then 0:53:57.800 --> 0:54:00.120 they can make the appropriate changes. I think that it's 0:54:00.160 --> 0:54:01.400 going to be the best way because if you think 0:54:01.440 --> 0:54:04.280 about it, you can't have fifteen people on there making 0:54:04.360 --> 0:54:07.320 changes at the same time, adjusting their ingredients and expecting 0:54:07.360 --> 0:54:09.839 this to work out because you can only have one 0:54:09.840 --> 0:54:11.680 person at a time that's changing it. So I would 0:54:11.719 --> 0:54:14.640 make them just a viewer only once they copy it 0:54:14.680 --> 0:54:17.440 to their account, which there's a little icon for that 0:54:17.600 --> 0:54:20.960 up near the top, then they can then they can make. 0:54:20.840 --> 0:54:22.000 The appropriate changes. 0:54:22.840 --> 0:54:24.759 Let me know, Jerry, go on the website, rich On 0:54:24.800 --> 0:54:27.520 Tech dot TV email me with the update. All right, 0:54:27.560 --> 0:54:30.160 coming up Zumo stream box and oh we're going to 0:54:30.200 --> 0:54:33.120 talk to Brian Heater, hardware editor at tech Crunch. We're 0:54:33.160 --> 0:54:40.399 going to talk about the Humane AI pin. Welcome back 0:54:40.400 --> 0:54:42.880 to rich On Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, 0:54:43.000 --> 0:54:47.000 talking technology at Triple eight Rich one oh one. Brian 0:54:47.080 --> 0:54:50.080 Heater is hardware editor at tech Crunch. He got to 0:54:50.120 --> 0:54:52.520 go hands on with the gadget that the entire tech 0:54:52.520 --> 0:54:57.360 community is talking about. It's the Humane AI pin. Brian, 0:54:57.400 --> 0:54:58.680 thanks so much for joining me today. 0:54:59.280 --> 0:55:00.239 Yeah, thanks for having me. 0:55:00.920 --> 0:55:03.239 So can you explain you got to go hands on 0:55:03.320 --> 0:55:05.000 with this device. I'm sure it was a small group 0:55:05.040 --> 0:55:07.640 of people that got to do this up in San Francisco. 0:55:08.000 --> 0:55:13.280 Can you explain what the Humane AI pin is sure. 0:55:13.360 --> 0:55:15.600 Yeah, let me let me caveat by saying, you know, 0:55:15.800 --> 0:55:17.239 I got to wear it and I got to see 0:55:17.239 --> 0:55:19.160 it in action, but I didn't really get to, you know, 0:55:19.320 --> 0:55:20.879 use it in a super meaningful way. 0:55:21.400 --> 0:55:24.200 But it's a brand new startup. 0:55:25.040 --> 0:55:27.719 They've actually been around since twenty eighteen, but they were 0:55:27.719 --> 0:55:29.200 made public earlier this year. 0:55:29.320 --> 0:55:30.280 It's run by. 0:55:30.200 --> 0:55:33.400 A couple of forber Apple executives and the pitch is 0:55:33.400 --> 0:55:39.680 effectively life beyond the smartphone. It's a little pin that 0:55:39.840 --> 0:55:43.520 sits on your lapel that hangs on there magnetically, and 0:55:43.960 --> 0:55:45.600 it uses AI. 0:55:45.520 --> 0:55:47.240 To do a number of different actions. 0:55:47.280 --> 0:55:50.520 You interact with it, primarily through voice, but there's also touch. 0:55:50.360 --> 0:55:52.120 And the far and away. 0:55:52.160 --> 0:55:55.680 The most visually interesting aspect of it is it actually 0:55:55.719 --> 0:55:58.720 has a projector, a laser projector in it that will 0:55:58.800 --> 0:56:04.760 project emails and even photos if you're getting a call 0:56:05.320 --> 0:56:07.160 during those times where you don't actually want to speak 0:56:07.160 --> 0:56:07.560 to the thing. 0:56:08.760 --> 0:56:11.680 And so, would you actually replace your smartphone with this 0:56:11.880 --> 0:56:13.400 or do you think most people would have it in 0:56:13.440 --> 0:56:15.719 addition to their smartphone. 0:56:16.280 --> 0:56:18.600 Yeah, I don't think anybody's getting rid of their smartphone 0:56:18.640 --> 0:56:22.840 at any point in the near future. But the device 0:56:22.880 --> 0:56:27.280 itself has a twenty four dollar a month subscription fee 0:56:27.280 --> 0:56:31.120 that includes a phone number. It's it's LTE, It's on 0:56:31.280 --> 0:56:34.279 the T Mobile network, and the idea is that you 0:56:34.320 --> 0:56:36.720 can at least leave the smartphone at home. 0:56:37.239 --> 0:56:39.840 Yeah, so theoretically it does operate or I guess it 0:56:39.880 --> 0:56:43.239 does operate independently. Whether people would you know, end up 0:56:43.280 --> 0:56:45.080 doing that as another question. It's kind of like the 0:56:45.080 --> 0:56:47.279 Apple Watch. You could, you know, get the cellular and 0:56:47.400 --> 0:56:50.560 use that on a run or something without it without 0:56:50.560 --> 0:56:53.319 the phone being near by. So this is screenless, it's 0:56:53.400 --> 0:56:56.400 voice activated, and it's got a lot of AI built 0:56:56.440 --> 0:57:00.040 in and chat GBT. Open ai is one of the 0:57:00.040 --> 0:57:01.560 the backers of this startup as well. 0:57:01.640 --> 0:57:03.920 Right, Yes, Sam. 0:57:03.600 --> 0:57:07.520 Altman, the founder of open ai is I believe he's 0:57:08.000 --> 0:57:11.720 the largest shareholder at this point. The actual relationship between 0:57:11.840 --> 0:57:14.040 the two companies is an entirely clear. Asked them a 0:57:14.040 --> 0:57:20.040 few questions about that during our conversation yesterday. It seems 0:57:20.040 --> 0:57:23.720 like they largely built it independently. He believed in the idea. 0:57:23.920 --> 0:57:26.640 A lot of companies right now are trying to figure 0:57:26.640 --> 0:57:29.919 out how to actually bring a lot of these large 0:57:30.000 --> 0:57:34.200 language models generated AI systems like chatpt into the world. 0:57:35.080 --> 0:57:36.600 I know that it is running. 0:57:38.200 --> 0:57:41.200 It's using a lot of different AI models right now. 0:57:41.400 --> 0:57:43.840 I know that chat GPT is among them, and that 0:57:43.920 --> 0:57:46.400 at some point, I guess by the time that it 0:57:46.440 --> 0:57:50.080 actually launches early next year, it will likely be running 0:57:50.160 --> 0:57:51.560 some form of GPT for. 0:57:52.560 --> 0:57:55.520 So some of the features of this device. You can 0:57:56.080 --> 0:57:58.520 use it for messaging. You can make phone calls. I'm 0:57:58.560 --> 0:58:02.280 guessing there's a catch up function for your inbox, so 0:58:02.320 --> 0:58:04.680 it will kind of summarize what's in your inbox, let 0:58:04.720 --> 0:58:07.640 you know the most pertinent information. You can listen to 0:58:07.720 --> 0:58:11.560 music through it, foreign language interpreter, and it can also 0:58:11.600 --> 0:58:15.160 identify food. Which of those items were you able to 0:58:15.280 --> 0:58:16.840 try and see in person? 0:58:18.480 --> 0:58:22.360 I was able to see pretty much all of them, 0:58:22.520 --> 0:58:24.080 but you know, as I said at the top, it 0:58:24.120 --> 0:58:26.800 wasn't able to actually to do them myself. 0:58:26.920 --> 0:58:30.320 I watched a few of the employees use them in 0:58:30.320 --> 0:58:30.720 front of. 0:58:30.680 --> 0:58:33.880 Me, and was it impressive? I mean, did you you 0:58:33.920 --> 0:58:35.720 know you've covered this stuff for a while. Did you 0:58:35.720 --> 0:58:38.280 get the sense that this was the next iPad or 0:58:38.560 --> 0:58:41.160 the next you know, zoom? 0:58:41.320 --> 0:58:41.640 Sure? 0:58:42.800 --> 0:58:45.200 Yeah, Google Glass is the comparison that I hear you 0:58:45.760 --> 0:58:47.200 and I think I think it's a fair one because 0:58:47.240 --> 0:58:50.000 they're Google was trying to do something really similar. 0:58:50.480 --> 0:58:50.640 You know. 0:58:50.680 --> 0:58:54.040 The primary difference one the technology just wasn't there at 0:58:54.080 --> 0:58:56.800 the time. A lot of these AI models have come 0:58:56.880 --> 0:58:58.880 really long way since then. And the other one is 0:58:58.880 --> 0:59:01.680 that it was a head mount display. And this is 0:59:02.160 --> 0:59:05.440 there are a few companies kind of operatings in this space, 0:59:05.520 --> 0:59:08.000 but this is the first one that I've seen with 0:59:08.120 --> 0:59:11.000 what appears to be a viable product that just sits 0:59:11.040 --> 0:59:14.640 on the lapel. It's going to be there's going to 0:59:14.640 --> 0:59:16.680 be a big learning curve. I will say that up 0:59:16.680 --> 0:59:19.920 top six hundred ninety nine dollars is a lot in 0:59:20.160 --> 0:59:24.000 smartphone land, but it is a lot when talking about, 0:59:24.080 --> 0:59:27.000 you know, an unproven first generation device, and then you 0:59:27.040 --> 0:59:29.840 add that the mandatory twenty four dollars a month on 0:59:29.880 --> 0:59:32.920 top of that, if you don't have the mobile subscription, 0:59:33.000 --> 0:59:34.880 then the thing is is basically bricked. 0:59:35.920 --> 0:59:37.480 There's a lot of money here. 0:59:37.680 --> 0:59:37.840 You know. 0:59:37.880 --> 0:59:40.400 There are obviously a lot of really smart people here there. 0:59:40.520 --> 0:59:44.880 There there's Vision as well. I think a lot of 0:59:44.880 --> 0:59:50.760 people like the message around the company. They're effectively positioning 0:59:50.800 --> 0:59:56.040 themselves as being kind of, I guess in direct competition 0:59:56.280 --> 0:59:59.840 with Apple's Vision pro as far as the way that 0:59:59.840 --> 1:00:02.400 we you will interact with computers going forward. You know, 1:00:02.440 --> 1:00:05.680 Apple is taking the display and putting on your head 1:00:05.720 --> 1:00:07.440 and they're removing display altogether. 1:00:08.640 --> 1:00:11.120 What was the projected kind of image? Like, I mean, 1:00:11.400 --> 1:00:13.959 did it look cool or was it tough to read? 1:00:14.120 --> 1:00:16.320 Or was it you know, where do you project it 1:00:16.360 --> 1:00:18.200 onto like a table in front of you or on 1:00:18.240 --> 1:00:18.680 your hand? 1:00:19.640 --> 1:00:23.160 Yeah, So it's if you've ever you've probably seen one 1:00:23.160 --> 1:00:25.960 of these kinds of laser projectors in the world. There's 1:00:26.160 --> 1:00:28.320 there's advertisers that will do them. You know, you'll see 1:00:28.320 --> 1:00:30.520 it like projected on a sidewalk in front of you. 1:00:30.960 --> 1:00:36.520 It's it's very sharp. It functionality, it's it's somewhat limited. 1:00:36.560 --> 1:00:38.160 Like I said, you can look you can preview the 1:00:38.200 --> 1:00:40.240 pictures that you take with the device, but that's not 1:00:40.440 --> 1:00:42.440 you don't really want to actually use that to look 1:00:42.440 --> 1:00:45.680 at the pictures. They're not super clear. Texta is pretty clear. 1:00:46.280 --> 1:00:50.480 The way it works is you you tap the device, 1:00:50.640 --> 1:00:51.680 you tap the touch screen. 1:00:52.240 --> 1:00:53.360 Then it uses. 1:00:54.800 --> 1:00:58.920 I believe it used to see motion tracking and object 1:00:58.920 --> 1:01:01.400 identification to tell they you've got your hands out in 1:01:01.440 --> 1:01:04.080 front of you, and then the projector turns on and 1:01:04.120 --> 1:01:07.840 projects onto your hands, and then while reading it that way, 1:01:07.960 --> 1:01:10.240 you can also use your hand to interact with it 1:01:10.280 --> 1:01:12.400 in a sense. You know, for example, you could pinch 1:01:12.880 --> 1:01:17.520 two fingers together to scroll, or you know, move your 1:01:17.560 --> 1:01:20.000 hands at an angle. There's a variety of different ways 1:01:20.040 --> 1:01:21.880 to interact with it once it's actually on the palm. 1:01:22.840 --> 1:01:25.800 I'm just trying to figure out why someone would want 1:01:25.840 --> 1:01:29.320 this and not just use their smartphone with like an 1:01:29.320 --> 1:01:32.240 ear piece. And I love cool things, and I love 1:01:32.320 --> 1:01:34.720 new things, and I love new ways of thinking about things. 1:01:34.720 --> 1:01:37.720 But I'm just really struggling here to understand how this 1:01:37.800 --> 1:01:39.480 is better than the solutions we have. 1:01:39.560 --> 1:01:41.560 And I haven't gone hands on, so maybe that's part 1:01:41.600 --> 1:01:41.840 of it. 1:01:42.800 --> 1:01:45.280 Sure, I mean, I'm certainly not here to sell it 1:01:45.320 --> 1:01:49.120 to you, and I you know, I absolutely approach these 1:01:49.160 --> 1:01:53.560 things with skepticism. I will almost certainly be getting one 1:01:53.600 --> 1:01:57.360 of these things at some point to try out. I 1:01:57.360 --> 1:01:59.960 think most people are skeptical, and I think it's right. 1:02:00.320 --> 1:02:04.240 I don't know that the company has entirely figured out 1:02:04.280 --> 1:02:05.480 what the killer app. 1:02:05.360 --> 1:02:06.080 Is right now. 1:02:06.280 --> 1:02:08.000 There aren't a lot of hardware startps in the world, 1:02:08.040 --> 1:02:09.960 but the way you can think of all these devices 1:02:09.960 --> 1:02:13.720 are kind of really like whide beta testing with that 1:02:13.800 --> 1:02:16.400 first generation of people. It's a bit expensive to get there, 1:02:16.480 --> 1:02:18.880 but there are a lot of people who just get 1:02:18.960 --> 1:02:21.360 excited about tech and will be the first ones to 1:02:21.440 --> 1:02:21.800 try it. 1:02:22.760 --> 1:02:23.360 There were a lot of. 1:02:23.320 --> 1:02:25.440 Sign ups, you know, they had a waiting list that 1:02:25.520 --> 1:02:29.200 I think actually closed. During the event yesterday they said 1:02:29.200 --> 1:02:31.320 they had a one hundred and ten thousand sign ups. Now, 1:02:31.320 --> 1:02:34.400 again that doesn't actually equate to devices sold. You know, 1:02:34.400 --> 1:02:36.640 there's no money down, there's no commitment there, but there's 1:02:36.640 --> 1:02:37.360 certainly interest. 1:02:37.800 --> 1:02:40.400 Are there any potential privacy concerns with this new device? 1:02:40.800 --> 1:02:44.440 Yeah, I mean there are always privacy concerns when you're 1:02:44.480 --> 1:02:46.760 bringing a new form factor out with a camera on 1:02:46.800 --> 1:02:49.640 it and you're walking around with it at all times. 1:02:51.080 --> 1:02:53.000 A couple of things I'll say and I don't. 1:02:53.080 --> 1:02:57.400 I'm certainly not an expert on the privacy or security 1:02:57.400 --> 1:02:57.840 at the moment. 1:02:57.920 --> 1:02:59.680 This is just based on the conversations that I've had 1:02:59.680 --> 1:02:59.960 so far. 1:03:00.160 --> 1:03:03.920 But one of the key parts is that you have 1:03:04.000 --> 1:03:08.560 to actively engage with it, so it's not listening for 1:03:08.720 --> 1:03:11.600 a wake word the way you know, like Siri or 1:03:11.640 --> 1:03:15.640 Alexa or Google assystem is, so it's not constantly monitoring 1:03:15.720 --> 1:03:19.680 and it's certainly not constantly taking video, and when it 1:03:19.720 --> 1:03:23.160 does take video, it's got a privacy light on it, 1:03:23.240 --> 1:03:26.400 so you know, it's pretty clear. The light sortainly goes 1:03:26.640 --> 1:03:29.200 back and forth like a syloon on the top, So 1:03:29.720 --> 1:03:32.720 I people aren't going to know necessarily what's going on 1:03:32.800 --> 1:03:34.520 or what they're looking at. That at least they'll be 1:03:34.520 --> 1:03:37.040 able to tell like something is going on with that device. 1:03:37.400 --> 1:03:40.440 Brian Heater, hardware editor at tech Crunch, thanks so much 1:03:40.440 --> 1:03:41.160 for joining me today. 1:03:41.800 --> 1:03:43.760 Yeah, thanks for having me. That's it. 1:03:43.880 --> 1:03:47.240 The Humane Ai pin pre order start November sixteenth, six 1:03:47.320 --> 1:03:49.360 hundred ninety nine dollars twenty four dollars a month for 1:03:49.440 --> 1:03:52.440 unlimited calls, text and data through T Mobile. This is 1:03:52.480 --> 1:03:55.840 shipping in early twenty twenty four. Give me a call 1:03:55.840 --> 1:03:58.040 if you have a question about technology. Triple eight rich 1:03:58.160 --> 1:04:00.560 one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four two 1:04:00.800 --> 1:04:03.880 four to one zero one. You are listening to Rich 1:04:03.960 --> 1:04:12.720 on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro 1:04:12.840 --> 1:04:17.200 here hanging out with you talking technology. Before the interview, 1:04:17.440 --> 1:04:21.800 we had Jerry in Hatfield, Pennsylvania, asking about Google Sheets. 1:04:23.120 --> 1:04:25.800 I learned a food that I had not heard of, Lumpia, 1:04:27.360 --> 1:04:31.240 a Filipino version of spring rolls. The rappers are made 1:04:31.240 --> 1:04:34.280 from flour, cornstarch, and water than in delicate but strong 1:04:34.400 --> 1:04:38.000 enough to hold fillings. They can be served fresh or fried. 1:04:38.800 --> 1:04:40.800 Kind of looks like a like a you know, like 1:04:40.840 --> 1:04:42.560 a what do you call a thing? An egg roll? 1:04:43.760 --> 1:04:48.320 Like a spring roll? So now I'm hungry. Thanks, But Jerry, 1:04:48.360 --> 1:04:52.120 I think I found a more complete answer. So I 1:04:52.200 --> 1:04:55.120 mentioned that you should save and share this as a template. 1:04:55.240 --> 1:04:59.760 But the little trick, according to this website, conquer the 1:04:59.760 --> 1:05:03.880 digit empire dot com. When you create that link to 1:05:04.040 --> 1:05:07.760 share it okay, You then update the link at the 1:05:07.880 --> 1:05:11.600 end with slash copy at the end, and then you 1:05:11.640 --> 1:05:14.560 can share that updated link. And when they first take 1:05:14.600 --> 1:05:17.440 that link, it will say do you want to copy 1:05:17.480 --> 1:05:19.760 this template to your Google Drive? And that makes the 1:05:19.800 --> 1:05:22.680 process a little easier, and it also makes it so 1:05:22.720 --> 1:05:26.600 that they can change the numbers like you did in 1:05:26.640 --> 1:05:29.400 your template without changing the original. 1:05:29.400 --> 1:05:30.120 And I tested this. 1:05:30.200 --> 1:05:33.880 I created like a very simple template, very simple Google spreadsheet. 1:05:34.120 --> 1:05:36.160 I put in a couple numbers with the you know 1:05:36.280 --> 1:05:38.520 we're at the end. It added them all up and 1:05:38.560 --> 1:05:40.760 then I was able to share this template and then 1:05:40.800 --> 1:05:43.760 I logged in you know with the incognito window like 1:05:43.760 --> 1:05:48.600 I mentioned, and made a copy and it completely worked. 1:05:48.720 --> 1:05:52.400 So I put the link on the website so you 1:05:52.400 --> 1:05:54.400 can find it in the show notes. But again, just 1:05:54.480 --> 1:05:56.959 add that slash copy to the end of the link 1:05:57.000 --> 1:05:59.600 when you share it out on Google when you generate it, 1:06:00.080 --> 1:06:02.680 and that should work. Paul says, I have an iMac 1:06:02.880 --> 1:06:06.000 I bought in twenty twenty. When I'm using Safari, seems 1:06:06.040 --> 1:06:09.040 like it's infected with a virus called Searchalpha dot com, 1:06:09.040 --> 1:06:11.080 making it very difficult for me to search the web. 1:06:11.160 --> 1:06:14.760 What should I do, Paul, I think you have an 1:06:14.800 --> 1:06:19.680 extension on there that is bad. These are sometimes called 1:06:19.720 --> 1:06:24.200 search helpers, but realistically they're pretty much malware and sometimes 1:06:24.200 --> 1:06:26.280 you download them you don't realize and they. 1:06:26.160 --> 1:06:27.080 Take over your search. 1:06:27.560 --> 1:06:32.280 So open up Safari, go into the settings, click extensions, 1:06:32.480 --> 1:06:35.440 and if you see anything you don't need or don't recognize, 1:06:35.600 --> 1:06:39.040 delete it and just get rid of them. Same thing 1:06:39.120 --> 1:06:41.760 on Google Chrome you can go through and this is 1:06:41.760 --> 1:06:44.520 probably something you should do in general, is just check 1:06:44.560 --> 1:06:47.439 the extensions that are installed in your computer, make sure 1:06:47.440 --> 1:06:50.440 you recognize them. If you don't recognize them, get rid 1:06:50.480 --> 1:06:52.840 of them. You can do that by clicking there's a 1:06:52.840 --> 1:06:56.680 little puzzle piece icon in your toolbar. If you hover 1:06:56.760 --> 1:06:59.480 over it, it'll say extensions. You can click that and 1:06:59.520 --> 1:07:02.720 it will show you all the extensions that are installed 1:07:02.920 --> 1:07:05.760 on your browser, and then you can click down below, 1:07:05.840 --> 1:07:08.720 or it says manage extensions to delete those and get 1:07:08.800 --> 1:07:11.640 rid of them. Alternatively, you can go into the menu 1:07:11.680 --> 1:07:16.360 on Chrome, which you can let's see. You could just 1:07:16.400 --> 1:07:19.320 go into the three dots in the upper right hand 1:07:19.320 --> 1:07:23.160 corner next to your profile icon, and then it says extensions, 1:07:23.360 --> 1:07:27.960 and then it says manage extensions. You tap that and 1:07:28.040 --> 1:07:29.880 it will give you a list of all the extensions 1:07:29.920 --> 1:07:34.240 on your computer. I've got two four, six, eight, ten, twelve, fourteen, sixteen, 1:07:34.280 --> 1:07:37.200 eighteen twenty extensions. Not all of them are turned on, 1:07:37.760 --> 1:07:40.400 so you can either turn one off or you can 1:07:40.520 --> 1:07:42.880 just click or remove if you don't need it anymore. 1:07:43.520 --> 1:07:45.920 So if you see anything on there that says search helper, 1:07:46.080 --> 1:07:49.120 search Functions, search Buddy, you probably don't need it. 1:07:49.560 --> 1:07:50.200 Get rid of it. 1:07:50.400 --> 1:07:53.520 That is interfering with your searches, and it's also collecting 1:07:53.600 --> 1:07:55.520 data in the background that you don't need it to 1:07:55.560 --> 1:08:01.720 be doing. Let's go to Sarah in Ventura. Sarah you're 1:08:01.760 --> 1:08:03.720 on with rich Hi. 1:08:04.400 --> 1:08:05.680 Hi Hi. 1:08:05.800 --> 1:08:10.000 I was taking a class. In the morning it's a 1:08:10.040 --> 1:08:15.240 Google Suite and in the afternoon it's Microsoft Office Suite. 1:08:17.560 --> 1:08:23.000 It's just one day. It's in class with the teacher 1:08:24.320 --> 1:08:30.880 where assigned laptops. And I was wondering if maybe the 1:08:32.320 --> 1:08:36.840 teacher or this is at a job center, okay, And 1:08:37.720 --> 1:08:41.479 I was wondering if maybe someone is doing something because 1:08:42.040 --> 1:08:47.559 on the in the daytime, I mean in the morning part, 1:08:48.040 --> 1:08:51.479 I was on one network and then I turned it off, 1:08:51.520 --> 1:08:54.600 and when I came back, it was on another network. 1:08:55.200 --> 1:09:00.920 And then I noticed that whenever I started the class August, 1:09:01.320 --> 1:09:03.840 whenever the teacher says pay attention to what I'm saying, 1:09:04.600 --> 1:09:08.720 the computer, the laptop I'm using, stops. It won't let 1:09:08.760 --> 1:09:15.880 me click anything, move anything, do anything, and then other 1:09:15.960 --> 1:09:19.559 things happen like so. 1:09:19.520 --> 1:09:21.400 It sounds like it sounds like they have control over 1:09:21.439 --> 1:09:23.960 the computer. Are these are these handed out by them? 1:09:24.760 --> 1:09:25.280 It's fair? 1:09:25.560 --> 1:09:27.840 Yeah, okay, so they have they have software on this 1:09:27.920 --> 1:09:30.839 that allows them to control when you can do things 1:09:30.920 --> 1:09:34.080 and also to allow them to do whatever they want 1:09:34.120 --> 1:09:37.160 on this computer, Walt, It's in front of you. So 1:09:37.360 --> 1:09:41.080 it's it's pretty standard software that allows them to remain 1:09:41.120 --> 1:09:43.240 in control of the situation. 1:09:44.240 --> 1:09:47.799 And when she needs to leave early, the battery suddenly 1:09:47.840 --> 1:09:51.519 goes down to where the battery is low, and then 1:09:51.520 --> 1:09:56.320 I would need to recharge it. So can I stop 1:09:56.360 --> 1:09:57.360 her from doing that? 1:09:57.760 --> 1:09:58.040 No? 1:09:58.040 --> 1:10:00.880 Not if it's their computer, it's are you Are you 1:10:00.880 --> 1:10:02.000 bringing this computer home? 1:10:03.120 --> 1:10:03.320 No? 1:10:03.479 --> 1:10:04.680 Okay, I'm not. 1:10:05.120 --> 1:10:11.640 But I noticed when she feels bored she people just 1:10:11.760 --> 1:10:14.160 suddenly when she's looking up looking for something to do, 1:10:14.320 --> 1:10:19.240 nothing's happening. Then someone has a problem, and I think 1:10:19.320 --> 1:10:25.880 that she likes to feel useful, So I noticed it 1:10:26.000 --> 1:10:30.519 just seems like she's interfering with something that I need 1:10:30.560 --> 1:10:34.839 to learn when she just feels like, you know, talking 1:10:34.880 --> 1:10:39.400 to someone who needs to have help it. 1:10:38.920 --> 1:10:41.000 Sarah, it sounds like it sounds like this teacher is 1:10:41.000 --> 1:10:42.000 not working out for you. 1:10:42.040 --> 1:10:43.040 Do you like this teacher? 1:10:44.080 --> 1:10:46.759 You know, she was very nice except when she started 1:10:46.800 --> 1:10:50.519 to teach Excel. I started when she was teaching Excel, 1:10:51.360 --> 1:10:55.280 and this is near the end of one cycle. They 1:10:55.320 --> 1:10:58.320 teach in cycles, and now that she's in Excel again, 1:10:58.880 --> 1:11:02.280 she all thistay's happened. But in between she's so sweet 1:11:02.320 --> 1:11:07.760 and nice, but suddenly she's not not quite that way. Yeah, 1:11:08.320 --> 1:11:10.320 well the battery. 1:11:10.000 --> 1:11:14.000 Too, Yeah, that's the battery. The battery is interesting. I'm 1:11:14.000 --> 1:11:15.920 not sure about the battery. I don't think she has 1:11:15.920 --> 1:11:18.599 a switch, a magic switch on her computer to say, okay, now, 1:11:18.680 --> 1:11:22.040 drain everyone's battery on these computers. But when it comes 1:11:22.040 --> 1:11:24.599 to computers that are handed out, and this this is 1:11:24.640 --> 1:11:28.839 for anyone that has a company issued computer, a school 1:11:28.840 --> 1:11:33.240 issued computer, uh, there is a lot of software out 1:11:33.280 --> 1:11:37.120 there that keeps tabs on these computers. They may they 1:11:37.200 --> 1:11:40.600 may take a screenshot at random intervals. They may be 1:11:40.640 --> 1:11:43.519 able to remotely access into your computer without you even 1:11:43.560 --> 1:11:47.840 knowing your Your company may have software that logs what 1:11:47.960 --> 1:11:50.760 you do. So my advice, if you are using a 1:11:50.760 --> 1:11:54.639 computer that is not completely yours, you treat it that way, 1:11:55.120 --> 1:11:58.559 and they have the ability to monitor what you're doing 1:11:58.600 --> 1:12:01.639 on there, to see anything that you do, anything that's 1:12:01.680 --> 1:12:05.880 on your screen. Schools do it, companies do it. They 1:12:05.920 --> 1:12:08.680 all do it. And it's mostly there because they are 1:12:08.720 --> 1:12:12.240 the administrator of that computer. So it sounds like, Sarah, 1:12:12.240 --> 1:12:15.720 what you're talking about is, I think it sounds halfway 1:12:15.800 --> 1:12:19.400 between this teacher has this ability and also you're not 1:12:19.479 --> 1:12:21.800 a fan of this teacher and what she's doing. And 1:12:21.840 --> 1:12:25.439 so for the teacher part, I would just avoid classes 1:12:25.439 --> 1:12:27.439 with this teacher in the future. Finish up what you're doing. 1:12:27.840 --> 1:12:29.920 But for the computer part, no, you're not able to 1:12:29.920 --> 1:12:32.080 turn that off easily. I mean, yes, you can maybe 1:12:32.120 --> 1:12:34.960 hack into it and figure that out, but this is 1:12:35.000 --> 1:12:38.160 a safety precaution. They are administrators on this computer, kind 1:12:38.160 --> 1:12:41.479 of like at work. When you can't install something on 1:12:41.520 --> 1:12:44.680 your computer at work, that's because you are not the administrator. 1:12:45.040 --> 1:12:46.439 If you want to be in charge of your computer, 1:12:46.520 --> 1:12:48.880 you have to buy it yourself. And I would even 1:12:48.960 --> 1:12:52.960 say if you are installing programs are apps on your 1:12:53.000 --> 1:12:56.479 devices from your company, you need to be aware of 1:12:56.520 --> 1:13:00.160 what you're installing because sometimes that can have implications as well. 1:13:00.560 --> 1:13:02.479 You may get a notice on your computer that when 1:13:02.520 --> 1:13:05.240 you log in with your corporate account on something like Microsoft, 1:13:05.240 --> 1:13:07.920 that says, hey, can we uh can you can your 1:13:08.000 --> 1:13:11.439 work remotely wipe this device? So just be real careful 1:13:11.439 --> 1:13:13.280 with that kind of stuff, because if you want your 1:13:13.280 --> 1:13:14.959 own stuff, you got to have your own stuff. 1:13:14.760 --> 1:13:15.439 And keep it that way. 1:13:16.200 --> 1:13:18.439 Eight a eight rich one on one eight eight eight 1:13:18.640 --> 1:13:22.559 seven four to two four one zero one. Coming up, 1:13:22.600 --> 1:13:25.719 I'll tell you about the Zoomo stream box. You're listening 1:13:25.800 --> 1:13:30.160 to rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. 1:13:30.320 --> 1:13:33.679 Rich DeMuro here talking technology with you at Triple eight 1:13:34.360 --> 1:13:38.080 rich one on one. That's eight eight eight seven four 1:13:38.120 --> 1:13:42.280 to two four one zero one. Coming up this hour 1:13:42.320 --> 1:13:45.160 of the show. Friend of the show, Jefferson Graham of 1:13:45.280 --> 1:13:48.600 Photo Walks TV is going to talk about how he 1:13:48.640 --> 1:13:52.760 captured an epic ten day time laps. He did it 1:13:52.800 --> 1:13:55.840 on both the iPhone and the Samsung, and he's got 1:13:55.840 --> 1:13:58.840 some information about which one did it better, plus tips 1:13:58.840 --> 1:14:01.639 on how to take similar videos. I did a time 1:14:01.720 --> 1:14:04.120 lapse in my hotel room. I was in New York 1:14:04.160 --> 1:14:06.960 City and I had this cool view of the city, 1:14:07.360 --> 1:14:08.760 and so I just set up my phone on the 1:14:08.760 --> 1:14:09.840 window and did a time lapse. 1:14:09.880 --> 1:14:10.559 It was pretty cool. 1:14:10.600 --> 1:14:13.680 They're fun Triple eight rich one on one eighty eight 1:14:13.800 --> 1:14:18.160 seven four to two four one zero one. Howard says, 1:14:18.200 --> 1:14:20.759 can you send me the links from today's show? He emails, 1:14:21.120 --> 1:14:25.760 particularly the gas of the guests, Jeremy, with the newsletter 1:14:26.320 --> 1:14:28.320 and the other sites you were talking about. 1:14:28.520 --> 1:14:30.840 You have an amazing show. Thank you well. 1:14:30.840 --> 1:14:33.040 It made it really easy if you want to find 1:14:33.080 --> 1:14:35.880 links to the show in real time. Let's say I 1:14:35.920 --> 1:14:38.760 mentioned something. I keep everything in the notes. So if 1:14:38.800 --> 1:14:45.320 you go to rich on tech dot tv slash wiki wiki, 1:14:46.000 --> 1:14:50.519 this will bring you to the awesome show notes and 1:14:50.600 --> 1:14:53.840 they go back almost to the first show. I didn't 1:14:53.880 --> 1:14:56.479 start doing this until like maybe show number ten, but 1:14:57.040 --> 1:14:59.960 we've done forty five shows and so you can see 1:15:00.160 --> 1:15:03.080 the notes for every single show. Some shows even have 1:15:03.120 --> 1:15:04.720 a transcript, so if you want to see if I 1:15:04.720 --> 1:15:07.640 mentioned something specific, you can search there. But all the 1:15:07.680 --> 1:15:09.519 notes and all the links are there. So rich on 1:15:09.640 --> 1:15:14.000 tech dot tv slash wiki, now that's the wiki, so 1:15:14.080 --> 1:15:16.960 that's like everything. But rich on tech dot tv the 1:15:17.000 --> 1:15:20.120 standard page eventually has the notes for that show, along 1:15:20.160 --> 1:15:23.360 with the audio of the show. Eva says, hey, Rich, 1:15:23.439 --> 1:15:25.519 enjoy everything you do. I have thousands of photos i'd 1:15:25.560 --> 1:15:28.080 like to scan into my laptop. What's the best scanner 1:15:28.120 --> 1:15:31.160 I can buy? I want good quality resolution in case 1:15:31.160 --> 1:15:33.519 I want to print a photo later, example a four 1:15:33.640 --> 1:15:36.200 x six eight by ten eleven fourteen. Thank you, Eva, 1:15:36.840 --> 1:15:39.320 So yeah, if you're gonna print photos bigger than a 1:15:39.360 --> 1:15:41.920 four x six, most people are just scanning these things 1:15:41.960 --> 1:15:43.600 and then putting them on their phone. But if you 1:15:43.640 --> 1:15:45.720 are going to print, you probably want to scan at 1:15:45.760 --> 1:15:49.280 a higher dpi, probably six hundred. Most scanners default to 1:15:49.479 --> 1:15:52.200 about three hundred, and some can even go as low 1:15:52.240 --> 1:15:55.120 as I believe, like seventy six. So you probably want 1:15:55.120 --> 1:15:56.920 to do a higher dpi if you're going to do 1:15:56.920 --> 1:15:59.519 those bigger pictures. I have a feeling, though, EVA, You're 1:15:59.520 --> 1:16:01.639 probably not gonna end up printing out all those pictures. 1:16:02.240 --> 1:16:04.040 I always think I'm gonna print out pictures, and I 1:16:04.080 --> 1:16:06.200 don't now. If you want the best, and you've got 1:16:06.320 --> 1:16:09.200 thousands of photos, like you said, and you want to 1:16:09.200 --> 1:16:12.360 do this at home, probably the best is this EPSN 1:16:12.479 --> 1:16:17.599 Fast Photo FF six't eighty W high speed scanning system. 1:16:17.600 --> 1:16:19.960 But that's six hundred bucks, so you. 1:16:19.880 --> 1:16:23.280 Can get it and then sell it or you know, 1:16:23.320 --> 1:16:25.000 split the price of the family member if you have 1:16:25.000 --> 1:16:26.879 a bunch of people that want to all scan their photos. 1:16:26.920 --> 1:16:30.280 This is like the Lamborghini of scanners. You feed in 1:16:30.320 --> 1:16:32.719 a whole bunch of pictures at once, it will scan 1:16:32.840 --> 1:16:34.519 through them really fast. I think it even does the 1:16:34.520 --> 1:16:36.080 front and back at the same time. So if you 1:16:36.120 --> 1:16:38.679 wrote stuff on the back of the pictures, that will 1:16:38.680 --> 1:16:41.080 do it. But six hundred bucks, nobody really wants to 1:16:41.080 --> 1:16:45.360 spend that on a scanner. So Trusty Amazon has a 1:16:45.360 --> 1:16:49.400 couple of top picks for the scanners. Cannons are very popular. 1:16:50.360 --> 1:16:55.000 The cannon Cano scan lied l id E three hundred 1:16:55.160 --> 1:16:58.519 is fifty eight bucks. So, but that's a flatbed scanner, 1:16:58.560 --> 1:17:01.120 so you're gonna be you're gonna be putting pictures in there, 1:17:01.240 --> 1:17:05.120 one at a time, very slowly. And you also have 1:17:05.920 --> 1:17:08.240 they have a cheap O not a cheapo but a 1:17:08.320 --> 1:17:10.880 kind of like a third party brand I've never heard 1:17:10.920 --> 1:17:14.040 of that does do a feeder, but it looks like 1:17:14.040 --> 1:17:15.160 it's one picture at a time. 1:17:15.640 --> 1:17:16.679 That's two hundred dollars. 1:17:16.680 --> 1:17:21.040 Then they've got the epsom Perfection V nineteen that's ninety bucks, 1:17:21.720 --> 1:17:25.439 and that has higher resolution as well. So I would 1:17:25.560 --> 1:17:28.120 probably go with some sort of scanner where you can 1:17:28.160 --> 1:17:31.719 feed stuff in easily as opposed to a flatbed flatbed 1:17:31.760 --> 1:17:33.600 if you have thousands of pictures, those are going to 1:17:33.680 --> 1:17:35.719 take a while to get through. 1:17:36.880 --> 1:17:38.479 Zuomo's stream box. All right. 1:17:38.520 --> 1:17:42.040 So if you are clinging to the idea of cable, 1:17:42.560 --> 1:17:45.760 and I'm saying this with the idea of I personally 1:17:45.840 --> 1:17:51.400 prefer a completely cord cutting streaming service, So I like 1:17:51.439 --> 1:17:54.679 a fire TV or an Apple TV. But there are 1:17:55.120 --> 1:17:58.920 many people out there that still like traditional cable and 1:17:58.960 --> 1:18:01.639 they have a traditional cable box, but they still want 1:18:01.640 --> 1:18:04.160 to stream stuff. And so that means you have two 1:18:04.160 --> 1:18:06.880 different items going on with your TV. You've got your 1:18:06.880 --> 1:18:09.360 cable box on one input and you've got a streaming 1:18:09.400 --> 1:18:12.559 stick on another input, and you're switching between those things. 1:18:12.560 --> 1:18:14.040 When you want to watch Netflix, you got to go 1:18:14.040 --> 1:18:16.280 to the stick. When you want to watch Channel five, 1:18:16.320 --> 1:18:18.960 you got to go to your cable box. So the 1:18:19.000 --> 1:18:23.320 cable companies they have banded together to come up with 1:18:23.360 --> 1:18:26.280 this thing called Zumo. And I believe this was a 1:18:26.320 --> 1:18:28.360 startup and they purchased it or something like that, but 1:18:28.439 --> 1:18:30.760 Charter and Comcast are the two big companies that are 1:18:30.800 --> 1:18:33.719 behind this. And it's a box. It's called the Zumo 1:18:33.800 --> 1:18:38.400 stream Box, and it combines cable TV with popular streaming apps. 1:18:39.040 --> 1:18:41.839 So it doesn't have a Cox cable. It's all delivered 1:18:41.880 --> 1:18:45.280 over the internet. But what it essentially is is your 1:18:45.360 --> 1:18:48.080 cable service, like a streaming cable service, like if you 1:18:48.080 --> 1:18:50.519 have a YouTube TV, but it would be Spectrum's version 1:18:50.560 --> 1:18:54.679 of that alongside these streaming apps. And there's three hundred 1:18:54.760 --> 1:18:58.599 streaming apps on this box. They're not all installed at once, 1:18:58.640 --> 1:19:00.640 but they're all on the screen. You it, it kind of 1:19:00.640 --> 1:19:02.360 installs it in the background and you're good to go. 1:19:03.120 --> 1:19:05.400 So the big difference here is that this comes from 1:19:05.439 --> 1:19:08.479 your cable company. So you have to have a cable plan, 1:19:08.600 --> 1:19:11.360 you have to have cable Internet, and you get this box. 1:19:11.840 --> 1:19:13.920 The box is either five bucks a month as a 1:19:13.960 --> 1:19:17.400 service fee, which you would pay forever, or you can 1:19:17.520 --> 1:19:20.400 pay sixty dollars outright, but they're not going to help. 1:19:20.280 --> 1:19:21.719 You if something goes wrong with the box. 1:19:22.120 --> 1:19:24.479 So by paying the five dollars a month, you get 1:19:24.560 --> 1:19:26.720 kind of the backing of the cable company, just like 1:19:26.760 --> 1:19:31.120 you would a cable box. Something goes wrong, you exchange it. 1:19:30.840 --> 1:19:31.599 It's nice. 1:19:31.640 --> 1:19:33.400 I mean, I had a demo of this over at 1:19:33.400 --> 1:19:37.679 the Spectrum store and in the limited time I had 1:19:37.840 --> 1:19:40.320 it seems like a nice option if you still like 1:19:40.680 --> 1:19:43.000 a traditional cable TV experience. 1:19:43.040 --> 1:19:44.280 So if you like all those. 1:19:44.200 --> 1:19:48.160 Channels that are always streaming or I should say always 1:19:48.280 --> 1:19:50.840 kind of just playing something, you turn on your TV, 1:19:51.040 --> 1:19:53.240 it goes to a channel. Now, the funny thing is 1:19:53.280 --> 1:19:57.120 it goes to Spectrum's own Spectrum one News, which happens 1:19:57.160 --> 1:20:00.000 to be Channel one on their systems. If you don't 1:20:00.120 --> 1:20:02.360 have Spectrum News in your area, it's going to default 1:20:02.360 --> 1:20:04.400 to the first channel that you have, which is probably 1:20:04.479 --> 1:20:07.880 channel two. I think that they should let you customize 1:20:07.880 --> 1:20:11.000 that to your favorite channel. So let's say you love MTV, 1:20:11.240 --> 1:20:12.720 you can have it go to that. Let's say you 1:20:12.760 --> 1:20:14.880 love channel five, you can have a default to that. 1:20:14.880 --> 1:20:16.439 That would be a nice thing for them to do. 1:20:16.840 --> 1:20:20.080 But again, these are cable companies. They're not always you know, 1:20:20.439 --> 1:20:24.760 they're not always thinking in I feel bad even saying it, 1:20:24.800 --> 1:20:27.280 but not every company is always, you know, thinking of 1:20:27.320 --> 1:20:30.000 their customer's best interest. Sometimes there's a little bit of 1:20:30.000 --> 1:20:34.720 a loaded, you know, a little bit bias towards their 1:20:34.720 --> 1:20:38.360 own interests. But otherwise I like the idea that this 1:20:38.439 --> 1:20:41.400 has one remote control for everything, and it does have 1:20:41.720 --> 1:20:43.960 a keypad, so if you want to once you're in 1:20:44.000 --> 1:20:46.559 the cable side of things, you can just type in 1:20:46.600 --> 1:20:48.960 the cable channel number, so if you know the channels 1:20:48.960 --> 1:20:51.000 that you like, you can go straight to them. That's 1:20:51.040 --> 1:20:53.320 something that most I would say, I don't think I've 1:20:53.360 --> 1:20:56.559 ever seen that on a streaming stick. It's got voice search, 1:20:57.080 --> 1:20:59.200 and in the voice search that I looked at, it's 1:20:59.200 --> 1:21:02.200 supposed to be really good it was okay. Maybe there 1:21:02.240 --> 1:21:04.760 are some issues, maybe it needs a software update, but 1:21:05.320 --> 1:21:07.160 it's like the ideas that you'd be able to use 1:21:07.160 --> 1:21:10.599 your voice to do almost everything. You can also add 1:21:10.600 --> 1:21:13.479 cloud DVR service for a monthly fee. And this is 1:21:13.800 --> 1:21:17.680 what I would consider a stop gap and in between technology. 1:21:18.160 --> 1:21:20.720 So while people are still on cable, while people are 1:21:20.760 --> 1:21:22.840 still on streaming, the cable companies, of course want a 1:21:22.840 --> 1:21:24.559 piece of the action, and they want to offer you 1:21:24.600 --> 1:21:27.160 this box so that it kind of bridges both worlds, 1:21:27.200 --> 1:21:30.120 but they're still in the game versus you ditching your 1:21:30.120 --> 1:21:32.760 cable company, your traditional cable company and going with something 1:21:32.800 --> 1:21:33.559 like YouTube TV. 1:21:34.040 --> 1:21:34.799 Now you can. 1:21:34.680 --> 1:21:36.519 Email me and tell me Rich I can do all 1:21:36.560 --> 1:21:39.960 of this stuff on my Fire TV stick, and Rich 1:21:40.000 --> 1:21:42.519 I can do all of this stuff on my Apple TV. 1:21:42.760 --> 1:21:43.360 Yes you can. 1:21:43.439 --> 1:21:46.360 You can cobble together all the apps you want and 1:21:46.520 --> 1:21:50.000 all of the cable services you want. There's Fubo, there's 1:21:50.920 --> 1:21:53.679 Sling TV, there is you know, there's so many of them. 1:21:54.320 --> 1:21:56.880 But this is a little bit different because it's much 1:21:56.920 --> 1:22:00.200 more combined, it's much more integrated. It feels like traditional 1:22:00.280 --> 1:22:02.920 cable just a little bit more. Some people might like that, 1:22:03.040 --> 1:22:05.479 some people may not like that. I'm kind of in 1:22:05.479 --> 1:22:07.360 the middle. I think for some people that still have 1:22:07.400 --> 1:22:10.320 a cable box and a streamer streaming stick, go for it. 1:22:10.720 --> 1:22:11.040 Why not. 1:22:12.880 --> 1:22:16.200 Life Hacker explains the difference between a modem and a router. 1:22:16.439 --> 1:22:19.240 I thought this was pretty interesting. The modem connects your 1:22:19.240 --> 1:22:22.720 home network to your internet service provider. It translates the 1:22:22.760 --> 1:22:26.240 data between your devices and the Internet service provider. A 1:22:26.320 --> 1:22:29.360 router creates a local network in your home and connects 1:22:29.400 --> 1:22:33.439 all your devices together wirelessly or through Ethernet. It routes 1:22:33.520 --> 1:22:37.839 data between your devices and the modem. Modems just provide 1:22:37.880 --> 1:22:41.720 the Internet connection. The routers enable the wireless networking and 1:22:41.880 --> 1:22:46.840 connect multiple devices. Most of the time, your Internet service 1:22:46.880 --> 1:22:50.639 provider is giving you a combined modem slash router device. 1:22:51.080 --> 1:22:53.600 And that's why it's a little confusing, because it's a 1:22:53.640 --> 1:22:56.200 modem that also sends out the Wi Fi signal that 1:22:56.240 --> 1:22:59.400 all of your devices latch onto. If you're getting something 1:22:59.479 --> 1:23:03.080 like an ear row that is a that is a 1:23:03.360 --> 1:23:07.960 router and that will take your modem signal and put 1:23:07.960 --> 1:23:09.639 it out to all of your devices, you can get 1:23:09.640 --> 1:23:12.800 an upgraded signal, so if you want, you can buy 1:23:12.840 --> 1:23:16.200 your own modem from your cable company or your Internet 1:23:16.240 --> 1:23:19.240 service provider. You know, I'm kind of torn on that. 1:23:19.320 --> 1:23:20.840 You know, it's like one of these things where I 1:23:20.880 --> 1:23:23.479 get it. Some of these ISPs charge five bucks a 1:23:23.479 --> 1:23:26.160 month ten bucks a month to rent the router or 1:23:26.200 --> 1:23:29.720 the modem rather and it's it may be cheaper to 1:23:29.760 --> 1:23:31.120 buy it if you're going to stick with them for 1:23:31.120 --> 1:23:33.320 a long time. You can buy it out right and 1:23:33.360 --> 1:23:36.080 have it yourself, but you know, if something goes wrong, 1:23:36.160 --> 1:23:38.160 you are on the hook. And they're also not going 1:23:38.200 --> 1:23:41.880 to provide support for you. And finally, mostly for my 1:23:41.960 --> 1:23:48.120 California listeners, well California, Washington, Oregon, the app Quake Alert 1:23:48.280 --> 1:23:52.080 USA is shutting down. So as of November sixth, twenty 1:23:52.120 --> 1:23:56.000 twenty three, the free quake Alert USA app is decommissioned, 1:23:56.040 --> 1:23:59.320 which means you will no longer get earthquake early warning 1:23:59.320 --> 1:24:01.960 alerts through the This was one of the earliest apps 1:24:01.960 --> 1:24:05.000 that I covered with the Quake Alert system or the 1:24:05.000 --> 1:24:08.040 Shake alert system. It's been operating for eight years. If 1:24:08.080 --> 1:24:10.200 you have it on your phone, you can delete it 1:24:10.640 --> 1:24:12.519 and if you have an Android you can actually just 1:24:12.600 --> 1:24:17.280 use the built in earthquake alerts under settings Safety and Emergency, 1:24:17.560 --> 1:24:20.320 Earthquake alerts and you can turn that offer on. Google 1:24:20.360 --> 1:24:22.800 has built that into Android, or I guess Android has 1:24:22.800 --> 1:24:25.920 built it into Android. If you're on an iPhone, the 1:24:25.920 --> 1:24:29.400 app that you want is called My Shake, My Shake, 1:24:29.680 --> 1:24:32.120 and Noah has nothing to do with a protein shake. 1:24:32.240 --> 1:24:33.519 It is the shake. 1:24:33.760 --> 1:24:36.160 It works with the Shake Alert system, which is a 1:24:36.160 --> 1:24:40.120 whole bunch of sensors in California, Oregon, and Washington that 1:24:40.439 --> 1:24:44.559 detect earthquakes and send a alert to your phone anywhere 1:24:44.560 --> 1:24:47.519 between five and thirty seconds before you feel the shaking. 1:24:48.400 --> 1:24:51.200 So again, Quake Alert USA. If you have it on 1:24:51.240 --> 1:24:53.680 your phone, it no longer works. It's no longer going 1:24:53.760 --> 1:24:56.920 to send you alerts, so delete it and download My Shake. 1:24:57.320 --> 1:24:59.240 You can do that on iPhone or Android. But if 1:24:59.280 --> 1:25:01.960 you have Android, you've got earthquake alerts built right into 1:25:02.000 --> 1:25:05.360 your operating system. Open up your settings, tap safety in 1:25:05.439 --> 1:25:09.000 emergency and you will find the earthquake alerts in there. 1:25:09.479 --> 1:25:12.040 And yes, the earthquake alert alerts work. I got one 1:25:12.080 --> 1:25:13.720 for the last to earthquake we had. It was like 1:25:13.800 --> 1:25:18.120 maybe five or six seconds before the earthquake. All right, 1:25:18.120 --> 1:25:20.320 coming up, Jefferson Graham is going to talk to us 1:25:20.320 --> 1:25:26.799 about his time lapse capture plus more tech news, tips, reviews. 1:25:26.880 --> 1:25:28.080 Eighty eight rich on Tech. 1:25:28.400 --> 1:25:32.800 Sorry, rich one on one, you're listening to rich on Tech. 1:25:34.400 --> 1:25:36.400 Welcome back to rich on Tech. 1:25:36.680 --> 1:25:40.559 Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, and then totally 1:25:40.600 --> 1:25:47.840 eighties Weekend. I'd give you the phone number, but I 1:25:47.840 --> 1:25:49.639 don't even know if we'll get to more calls. Eighty 1:25:49.680 --> 1:25:51.519 to eight rich one on one. Well, since I said 1:25:51.520 --> 1:25:55.400 it wrong before the break eight eight eight seven four 1:25:55.439 --> 1:25:59.720 to two four one zero one. The website rich on Tech. 1:26:02.360 --> 1:26:04.280 If you want to email me, you can go to 1:26:04.400 --> 1:26:07.880 the contact link. There a lot of you commenting on 1:26:07.920 --> 1:26:13.120 my Instagram about the story I broke at the beginning 1:26:13.160 --> 1:26:15.360 of the show about how Chuck E. 1:26:15.479 --> 1:26:17.840 Cheese is doing away with animatronics. 1:26:17.840 --> 1:26:20.519 This was news to me last night going to their 1:26:20.520 --> 1:26:24.639 event and the Northridge location. I can't believe it. It's 1:26:24.680 --> 1:26:28.120 like it's just so wild that something I grew up 1:26:28.120 --> 1:26:30.360 with is like no longer going to be a thing. 1:26:30.800 --> 1:26:32.760 I'm glad my kids were able to experience it, But 1:26:33.520 --> 1:26:36.280 as I explain to my instagram at richon Tech, the 1:26:36.600 --> 1:26:38.720 last location in the US that you'll be able to 1:26:38.800 --> 1:26:42.040 experience animatronics at Chuck E. Cheese will be the Northridge, 1:26:42.080 --> 1:26:44.800 California location. So I have a feeling it's going to 1:26:44.840 --> 1:26:46.800 make it to a lot of lists. When people hit 1:26:46.880 --> 1:26:50.479 up California for travel, they're going to say, gotta stop there, 1:26:50.600 --> 1:26:52.439 bring my kids, And most of the time the kids 1:26:52.479 --> 1:26:53.439 won't really care. 1:26:53.479 --> 1:26:56.639 It'll be the parents that care. Let's see here. 1:26:58.439 --> 1:27:00.320 Well, I don't have the person's name, but they wrote 1:27:00.320 --> 1:27:03.439 in I travel frequently for work. Often I have the 1:27:03.439 --> 1:27:05.519 address of my client and they need to find it 1:27:05.560 --> 1:27:08.160 a nearby hotel. I'd like to search for a hotel 1:27:08.240 --> 1:27:12.880 based on brand to increase my loyalty points, and so 1:27:14.080 --> 1:27:18.080 let's see here. I've tried various methods on iOS, Google Maps, 1:27:18.120 --> 1:27:20.880 even map quest to find hotels in proximity, but I've 1:27:20.920 --> 1:27:23.839 not found an easy solution. I've spoken to fellow travelers 1:27:23.840 --> 1:27:26.160 and they don't have good suggestions. If you have a 1:27:26.200 --> 1:27:29.200 tip app or anything else that resolves this, I bet 1:27:29.240 --> 1:27:33.080 your followers would be eager to learn about it. Yes, 1:27:33.200 --> 1:27:37.040 I do have a solution for this because I did 1:27:37.080 --> 1:27:40.240 the same exact thing. I was looking for a way 1:27:40.360 --> 1:27:44.000 to find hotel closest to where I am going for 1:27:44.040 --> 1:27:48.719 an event in a different city, and it's surprisingly tough 1:27:48.840 --> 1:27:50.960 and I think the reason why it's so tough is 1:27:51.000 --> 1:27:54.200 because there's a lot of marketing money at stake. These 1:27:54.240 --> 1:27:57.360 websites like trip Advisor and all these other sites, they 1:27:57.400 --> 1:27:59.600 make money based on the hotel that you choose, and 1:28:00.000 --> 1:28:01.280 I don't want to make it easy for you to 1:28:01.360 --> 1:28:04.080 just find the closest hotel and book it. They want 1:28:04.080 --> 1:28:07.120 to make money based on They're presenting you a list 1:28:07.160 --> 1:28:09.960 of results that make them the most money in that order. 1:28:11.120 --> 1:28:12.360 So what have I found? 1:28:12.400 --> 1:28:15.240 Well, my favorite app for doing this used to be 1:28:15.320 --> 1:28:18.920 called hotels dot com. And you can put in the 1:28:19.120 --> 1:28:22.320 address of where you're going, and then hotels, of course 1:28:22.360 --> 1:28:25.240 would try to sort it by what's quote unquote recommended, 1:28:25.280 --> 1:28:28.439 which just means the sort that makes us the most money. 1:28:28.760 --> 1:28:31.960 But you could change that sort to distance and you 1:28:32.000 --> 1:28:37.400 can find the hotels directly closest to the area you 1:28:37.439 --> 1:28:38.160 want to stay in. 1:28:38.280 --> 1:28:39.000 You know the thing. 1:28:39.120 --> 1:28:41.799 Let's say you have a convention center, you know, convention 1:28:42.000 --> 1:28:44.639 at a convention center, you want the hotel that's walking 1:28:44.640 --> 1:28:47.240 distance to the convention center, right, so you can sort 1:28:47.320 --> 1:28:49.840 by distance, and then, like you're saying, you want to 1:28:49.880 --> 1:28:53.800 be able to sort even further by the hotel name 1:28:54.320 --> 1:28:56.720 or the Loyalty brand, and you'd be able to do 1:28:56.760 --> 1:28:59.720 that as well. But Hotels dot Com just got rid 1:28:59.760 --> 1:29:02.920 of this functionality, and so I've been searching for a 1:29:02.920 --> 1:29:04.760 new way to do this, and it seems like the 1:29:04.760 --> 1:29:09.000 closest way is called Booking dot Com. And Booking dot 1:29:09.040 --> 1:29:12.559 Com will let you put in as on the website. 1:29:12.560 --> 1:29:14.400 I haven't checked this on the app, but on Booking 1:29:14.439 --> 1:29:19.120 dot Com you can type in an address and sort 1:29:19.280 --> 1:29:22.960 by distance from that address. So, for instance, if I 1:29:23.000 --> 1:29:26.880 say Las Vegas Convention Center and you can put that 1:29:26.960 --> 1:29:29.800 in there and check in date, let's just put any 1:29:29.800 --> 1:29:33.080 old date here and press search and it will show 1:29:33.080 --> 1:29:35.479 your results on a map. Now, of course, again I 1:29:35.560 --> 1:29:40.559 said the the sort you want to do distance from 1:29:40.600 --> 1:29:44.200 place of interest, and so that's the that's the way 1:29:44.240 --> 1:29:46.519 you want to sort. And the closest hotel is the 1:29:46.560 --> 1:29:50.679 Residence in by Mariott Las Vegas Convention Center, point two 1:29:51.040 --> 1:29:54.679 miles from map center. Now, if you do the default, 1:29:54.800 --> 1:29:58.679 which is top picks that hotel is twenty miles away. 1:29:59.439 --> 1:30:02.320 I mean, on who wants to say twenty miles away 1:30:02.360 --> 1:30:04.960 from where they're going. So that is the way to 1:30:05.040 --> 1:30:06.479 do it. That's the only way I can do it. 1:30:06.520 --> 1:30:08.760 I'm not saying you have to book on booking dot Com, 1:30:08.800 --> 1:30:11.360 but that will definitely help you find the hotel. Now, 1:30:11.360 --> 1:30:13.680 the other way I find hotels this is since I'm 1:30:13.720 --> 1:30:16.320 on the topic of hotels, I'll tell you my little secrets. 1:30:17.320 --> 1:30:19.959 So I go to I have actually two more secrets. 1:30:20.240 --> 1:30:22.800 So I go to trip Advisor. I type in the 1:30:22.920 --> 1:30:24.960 name of where I'm going. So let's say I'm going 1:30:25.000 --> 1:30:30.840 to Charleston, South Carolina. Okay, so char LSTN. So if 1:30:30.880 --> 1:30:33.320 you go to trip Advisor, you can type in Charleston, 1:30:33.880 --> 1:30:36.439 and then up at the top it says hotels. You 1:30:36.479 --> 1:30:39.320 tap that, and then you can put in your dates. 1:30:39.640 --> 1:30:41.320 You don't have to, but you can put in your 1:30:41.360 --> 1:30:43.120 dates if you want. But you can see all the 1:30:43.120 --> 1:30:45.840 properties in Charleston one hundred and thirty seven and then 1:30:45.880 --> 1:30:48.600 it says sort by best value. Now I don't like 1:30:48.640 --> 1:30:51.200 that sort because I don't even know what that means. You 1:30:51.240 --> 1:30:53.599 can look up. You can change that sort to what's 1:30:53.600 --> 1:30:57.240 called traveler ranked, and that's the one that I like 1:30:57.720 --> 1:31:00.599 because that's going to show you the top hotel based 1:31:00.640 --> 1:31:03.160 on what travelers you're doing. And then you can go 1:31:03.240 --> 1:31:06.960 in you can sort by the neighborhood, the rating, the 1:31:07.040 --> 1:31:10.599 hotel class or the brand. So those are my two 1:31:10.640 --> 1:31:13.240 little tricks for booking hotels. All right, Coming up next, 1:31:13.320 --> 1:31:17.120 Jefferson Graham, I'm going to talk about taking time lapses 1:31:17.280 --> 1:31:26.160 on your smartphone. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro, 1:31:26.439 --> 1:31:32.479 that's my name, talking technology with you. Website is Richontech 1:31:32.720 --> 1:31:35.719 dot tv, and you can follow me on social media 1:31:35.760 --> 1:31:39.120 on all of the major platforms at rich on Tech 1:31:39.720 --> 1:31:43.280 got an email through the website from my k Rich 1:31:43.360 --> 1:31:46.360 regarding the caller on Saturday that asked about photo scanning. 1:31:46.400 --> 1:31:49.679 Did they indicate the medium of her pictures? We're actual 1:31:49.720 --> 1:31:53.240 photos or were they slides and negatives. I've scanned tens 1:31:53.240 --> 1:31:55.760 of thousands of slides and negatives and generally pick a 1:31:55.800 --> 1:31:59.439 DEPI between twenty four thirty and thirty two hundred. I 1:31:59.560 --> 1:32:02.639 use an flatbed scanner and scan up to twelve slides 1:32:02.640 --> 1:32:06.080 at a time or twenty four photos on negatives at 1:32:06.080 --> 1:32:09.839 a time. Software product I use is called silver Fast 1:32:10.560 --> 1:32:14.400 that allows me to batch scan the slides and negatives. Ooh, 1:32:14.479 --> 1:32:17.599 silver Fast. That's a good one, So good question, Mike. 1:32:18.040 --> 1:32:21.360 I believe they said photos in the email, but I 1:32:21.400 --> 1:32:26.519 agree I should have mentioned the delineation between negatives and 1:32:26.560 --> 1:32:30.360 also actual photos. I would say I think that negatives 1:32:30.360 --> 1:32:32.040 would be the better way to go because that's a 1:32:32.120 --> 1:32:35.880 much more kind of pure way of capturing what was 1:32:35.880 --> 1:32:40.920 originally in the picture. Jefferson Graham is with Photo Walks 1:32:41.040 --> 1:32:46.719 TV formerly of USA Today, recently captured an epic ten 1:32:46.840 --> 1:32:50.720 day time lapse with both the iPhone and Samsung. Jefferson 1:32:50.840 --> 1:32:53.560 is all about smartphone photography. 1:32:54.479 --> 1:32:56.720 Did I say that right? Jefferson? Smartphones? 1:32:56.760 --> 1:32:58.439 It's a new word. It's a new word, but I 1:32:58.520 --> 1:32:59.400 like it. 1:32:59.040 --> 1:33:00.360 What A say song? 1:33:00.400 --> 1:33:03.360 They've got something like they call phontography. Maybe I don't know. 1:33:04.240 --> 1:33:05.120 Welcome to the show. 1:33:06.400 --> 1:33:07.840 Thank you great to be here. 1:33:08.240 --> 1:33:09.479 Have you scanned? 1:33:09.760 --> 1:33:10.920 Do you have a do you have a thought on 1:33:11.520 --> 1:33:14.400 UH scanning negatives versus the old the actual picture. 1:33:15.960 --> 1:33:18.880 It's very funny because our friend who has this little 1:33:19.080 --> 1:33:22.160 UH scanning business is the is the place I go to. 1:33:23.320 --> 1:33:24.920 I hate to give him plug and. 1:33:24.920 --> 1:33:28.000 He's so pushy on this, but scan my photos dot 1:33:28.040 --> 1:33:30.639 Com is where I bring my stuff. I just had 1:33:31.280 --> 1:33:35.479 hundreds of negatives scanned and hundreds of slides and they 1:33:35.640 --> 1:33:38.120 clean up the image and they're really nice. 1:33:39.040 --> 1:33:41.599 I mean, I would think that the negative would be 1:33:41.600 --> 1:33:43.320 better than the actual photo. 1:33:43.439 --> 1:33:46.240 But all of your listeners, yes, but anyway. 1:33:45.960 --> 1:33:49.040 Anyway, but as as I was remembering from what what 1:33:49.520 --> 1:33:52.240 you know, what I was told is that most people 1:33:52.320 --> 1:33:54.120 just have the pictures they you know, and look, you're 1:33:54.120 --> 1:33:56.280 looking at them on your smartphone ninety percent of the time. 1:33:56.360 --> 1:33:57.639 So it's it's just as good. 1:33:58.240 --> 1:34:01.639 Okay, So let's yeah this har as scanner goes, I 1:34:01.760 --> 1:34:04.760 don't have a scanner. I find it way too time consuming. Yeah, 1:34:04.800 --> 1:34:07.000 so that that's my answer to that. And you could 1:34:07.000 --> 1:34:09.759 take great photos of your of your photos on your phone. 1:34:09.960 --> 1:34:11.720 That's true. You can use your phone to scan them. 1:34:11.760 --> 1:34:13.360 I mean, there's so many ways to do this, but 1:34:13.479 --> 1:34:16.000 it's just the reality is just get them scanned. That's 1:34:16.000 --> 1:34:17.880 the bottom line. Like, no matter what you do, it's 1:34:17.920 --> 1:34:19.920 gonna be better. Just don't do the thing where you 1:34:19.960 --> 1:34:21.960 take a picture with a flash and you have like 1:34:22.000 --> 1:34:25.360 this big giant like flash reflection on your pictures when 1:34:25.360 --> 1:34:25.960 you scan them. 1:34:26.160 --> 1:34:30.479 There are definitely some better Also, stand further back because 1:34:30.520 --> 1:34:33.360 you'll get a shadow of yourself in the photo. So 1:34:33.520 --> 1:34:37.000 if you use your your Portraita telephoto lens and stand 1:34:37.000 --> 1:34:40.000 further back, you'll get a better image of the photo. 1:34:40.479 --> 1:34:43.200 The two that's a great one. The two apps that 1:34:43.240 --> 1:34:45.920 I like. One is from Google. It's called photo Scan. 1:34:46.040 --> 1:34:47.880 It hasn't been updated in a while, so I think 1:34:47.880 --> 1:34:50.479 they gave up on it, but it still works. And 1:34:50.520 --> 1:34:52.320 then the other one that's actually really good is called 1:34:52.400 --> 1:34:55.720 photo Mind P h O T O M y n E. 1:34:56.360 --> 1:34:58.080 And I think you have to pay a little bit, 1:34:58.320 --> 1:35:01.400 but it's pretty good. And you can even scan negatives 1:35:01.439 --> 1:35:05.240 with that slide? Can you scan it? I think you 1:35:05.280 --> 1:35:07.479 could scan slides with it. Maybe not a negative, but 1:35:07.520 --> 1:35:08.360 a slide for sure. 1:35:08.680 --> 1:35:09.759 Okay, let's talk about. 1:35:09.600 --> 1:35:12.639 Your monthly subscription. Yes, let's talk about a tide lapse. 1:35:12.680 --> 1:35:13.120 Go for it. 1:35:13.200 --> 1:35:15.920 So you took this epic ten date. What made you 1:35:15.960 --> 1:35:17.679 want to take a ten day time lapse? 1:35:19.400 --> 1:35:21.880 Well, what happened was that I was visiting Nova Scotia. 1:35:21.960 --> 1:35:24.880 I was filming one of my episodes for Photo Walks 1:35:24.880 --> 1:35:27.519 TV on Nova Scotia, and the place we stayed in 1:35:28.040 --> 1:35:30.920 was they put on the TV one morning a thirty 1:35:30.960 --> 1:35:34.519 minute time lapse of Nova Scotia for you know, as 1:35:34.520 --> 1:35:36.360 we were eating breakfast, I said, you know I could 1:35:36.400 --> 1:35:39.040 do that in Manette Beach. Why don't I do something 1:35:39.080 --> 1:35:40.760 like that when I get home, and I have a 1:35:40.800 --> 1:35:43.719 friend who actually lives at the beach, and I said, 1:35:43.880 --> 1:35:47.360 may I put my camera on your deck for a 1:35:47.360 --> 1:35:50.040 few days? And they said, well, we can go want better. 1:35:50.320 --> 1:35:54.759 Our next door neighbor upstairs neighbor is away for ten days, 1:35:55.200 --> 1:35:56.960 and why don't you put it up there on a 1:35:56.960 --> 1:35:59.120 second story. You don't have to worry about anybody stealing 1:35:59.200 --> 1:36:02.479 your phone. And I said, great, Now she's gone for 1:36:02.560 --> 1:36:05.280 ten days, so I'm going to use the ten days. Really, 1:36:05.320 --> 1:36:07.639 all I wanted to do was go from one day 1:36:07.680 --> 1:36:11.679 to the next, because when I do a time lapse, 1:36:11.720 --> 1:36:13.599 I let it go for about an hour and then 1:36:13.640 --> 1:36:15.960 I peter out. I just get tired of standing there. 1:36:16.320 --> 1:36:19.839 And I wanted to see the sunset to the darkness 1:36:19.920 --> 1:36:23.519 of the night, to the night shifting today. That's really 1:36:23.520 --> 1:36:25.800 what I wanted. But since I had the opportunity to 1:36:25.840 --> 1:36:28.479 go for so long, I took it. And now I 1:36:28.600 --> 1:36:30.639 have a friend who lives at the beach. You don't, 1:36:30.760 --> 1:36:33.280 You probably don't, but you might have a friend. 1:36:33.080 --> 1:36:36.160 Who has a balcony, who has a deck, who has. 1:36:36.240 --> 1:36:38.280 Or you may have one of those things, and so 1:36:38.880 --> 1:36:42.000 if you could put the camera, let it roll. You're 1:36:42.000 --> 1:36:44.439 going to get some amazing footage of stuff that you 1:36:44.479 --> 1:36:47.519 would never see with your naked eye, primarily because you'll 1:36:47.520 --> 1:36:47.960 be asleep. 1:36:48.360 --> 1:36:49.639 Asleep, and all this stuff happened. 1:36:49.640 --> 1:36:52.240 So you did this with the iPhone and the Samsung, 1:36:52.479 --> 1:36:54.280 and I assume you set it up on a tripod. 1:36:54.280 --> 1:36:56.160 You had to make sure the tripod didn't blow over, 1:36:56.880 --> 1:36:59.400 you had to plug in the phones. I'm guessing, so 1:37:00.160 --> 1:37:02.760 what did you? Did you use any particular settings because 1:37:02.800 --> 1:37:05.160 I never know, like which time lap setting to use 1:37:05.800 --> 1:37:07.840 on the iPhone. I don't think they give you a setting, right. 1:37:08.640 --> 1:37:11.360 Yeah, First of all, all you need is a tripod, 1:37:11.960 --> 1:37:15.400 a smartphone, a mount to go in the tripod to 1:37:15.439 --> 1:37:18.000 put the phone on top of it, and the extension cord. 1:37:20.080 --> 1:37:20.479 That's it. 1:37:20.800 --> 1:37:21.760 That is it. 1:37:22.240 --> 1:37:24.800 And I kept going back every day to make sure 1:37:24.840 --> 1:37:28.040 that the cameras hadn't turned off, that they weren't overheating, 1:37:28.160 --> 1:37:30.760 and they weren't, so that was all good. That the 1:37:30.800 --> 1:37:34.679 iPhone will not let you make a decision beyond which 1:37:34.920 --> 1:37:38.440 lens to use, the ultra wide, the wide, or the telephoto. 1:37:38.800 --> 1:37:39.960 I recommend the. 1:37:39.880 --> 1:37:42.400 One X, which is the wide, because it's the sharpest 1:37:42.479 --> 1:37:46.040 lens and it's the best in low light. So that's 1:37:46.040 --> 1:37:49.280 what I use on the galaxy. There's thirty decisions. There's 1:37:49.320 --> 1:37:51.520 a lot of decisions. 1:37:51.760 --> 1:37:57.200 I'm looking at the galaxy and is it under hyper laps? 1:37:57.360 --> 1:38:00.960 It's under more. It's under more said, you know, after 1:38:01.000 --> 1:38:03.320 you go all the way to the end. Yes, under more. 1:38:03.439 --> 1:38:04.559 And it's called hyper laps. 1:38:04.600 --> 1:38:07.679 Okay, so they call it hyper lapse. That's confusing. Shouldn't 1:38:07.680 --> 1:38:08.479 it be time lapse? 1:38:08.520 --> 1:38:08.920 Okay? 1:38:09.000 --> 1:38:11.040 Well, okay, it should, but it isn't. 1:38:11.120 --> 1:38:11.439 Okay. 1:38:11.479 --> 1:38:13.720 And there are so many decisions. Do you want to 1:38:13.720 --> 1:38:17.040 shoot one frame a second? Do you want to shoot five, ten, thirty? 1:38:17.200 --> 1:38:18.760 It goes on and on and on. Do you want 1:38:18.760 --> 1:38:20.400 to shoot for a minute? Do you want to shoot 1:38:20.400 --> 1:38:22.240 for ken? Do you want to shoot for twenty? I 1:38:22.360 --> 1:38:25.240 shot for Unlimited and I shot at one frame a 1:38:25.280 --> 1:38:28.160 second and it ran for days and days. 1:38:28.560 --> 1:38:31.160 My file was HUMANUS sixty gigabytes. 1:38:31.240 --> 1:38:31.519 Wow. 1:38:31.560 --> 1:38:34.160 But once I finally got there, I got there. 1:38:34.400 --> 1:38:36.080 That's really cool. I love that they give you all 1:38:36.120 --> 1:38:39.559 these options. I'm looking at this. You get automatic fifteen x, 1:38:39.640 --> 1:38:43.320 forty five five X, and then the time limit, so 1:38:43.320 --> 1:38:44.599 if you want to do it for a certain amount 1:38:44.600 --> 1:38:46.840 of time, you can do four K, or you can 1:38:46.880 --> 1:38:47.880 do just HD. 1:38:48.600 --> 1:38:49.920 So which camera did it better? 1:38:51.439 --> 1:38:56.479 The Galaxy by far, hands down. Now that's that's using 1:38:56.920 --> 1:39:00.760 the settings that I used in the Galaxy, and that's 1:39:00.840 --> 1:39:04.840 using the automatic settings in the iPhone. People have to 1:39:04.920 --> 1:39:08.280 know that Apple will actually screw you if you want 1:39:08.320 --> 1:39:11.639 to shoot for longer than an hour. No matter how 1:39:11.680 --> 1:39:14.120 long you shoot, whether it's for two hours, five hours, 1:39:14.160 --> 1:39:17.759 ten hours a day, three days, five days, your video 1:39:17.800 --> 1:39:18.799 will be thirty seconds. 1:39:19.040 --> 1:39:21.240 So after it will be thirty seconds. 1:39:20.880 --> 1:39:22.680 No matter what, no matter how long you leave it there. 1:39:22.720 --> 1:39:25.000 So if you leave it there and walk away, matter what. Okay, 1:39:25.040 --> 1:39:26.439 so you're only getting thirty seconds. 1:39:26.439 --> 1:39:30.200 So they will take frames out out of your footage. 1:39:30.400 --> 1:39:32.920 They will do all sorts of weird things that will 1:39:32.920 --> 1:39:36.280 make it really really really fast, faster than it needs 1:39:36.320 --> 1:39:39.080 to be unless you go to a third party app. 1:39:39.439 --> 1:39:41.599 Once I discovered what was going on, I couldn't figure 1:39:41.600 --> 1:39:41.840 it out. 1:39:41.920 --> 1:39:43.840 Hey, I just let it run for three days, I'll 1:39:43.840 --> 1:39:46.759 I have thirty seconds. Doesn't make any sense. So anyway, so. 1:39:46.760 --> 1:39:50.120 I use an app called lapse it, which is well, 1:39:50.160 --> 1:39:52.880 it's sort of free, and it's a dollar for a week, 1:39:52.920 --> 1:39:55.360 and it's five dollars for the year, but it worked 1:39:55.400 --> 1:39:58.240 really well and it did everything I wanted to do. 1:39:58.320 --> 1:40:00.360 There are other apps you can use, the Moment app. 1:40:00.600 --> 1:40:03.679 You can use the new black Magic Camera app, which 1:40:03.720 --> 1:40:08.240 is complicated. The Lapset app is not, so back to 1:40:08.320 --> 1:40:13.280 back both of them. 1:40:13.439 --> 1:40:15.120 Okay, so the the. 1:40:15.040 --> 1:40:18.280 Lap to watch TV, go to the hour long. 1:40:18.720 --> 1:40:20.639 Yeah we lost you for a second there, so you're 1:40:20.680 --> 1:40:23.960 you're saying the lapse laps it and then the Moment 1:40:24.040 --> 1:40:27.559 app and then the black Magic Camera app, and that 1:40:27.560 --> 1:40:29.000 one's like really high end. 1:40:29.680 --> 1:40:32.639 So where can we see the fruits of your labor? 1:40:34.120 --> 1:40:37.000 YouTube dot com, slash go to watch TV. I have 1:40:37.439 --> 1:40:40.160 a playlist and you can go to all of them. 1:40:40.200 --> 1:40:42.519 I had the ten day, I have the one hour 1:40:42.840 --> 1:40:45.880 which is that's laps and at the beginning then it 1:40:45.880 --> 1:40:48.280 goes to the galaxy and have a complete how too. 1:40:48.600 --> 1:40:51.120 So I think I'll answer all your questions there and 1:40:51.120 --> 1:40:53.879 if you have any more, just hit me up. Subscribe 1:40:53.880 --> 1:40:56.599 to the newsletter. Jefferson gram that substack dot com. I 1:40:56.640 --> 1:40:58.479 know we've had three substackers here today. 1:40:58.720 --> 1:41:01.320 Yeah, go substack, Go sub stack. So I have a 1:41:01.960 --> 1:41:02.680 challenge for you. 1:41:02.720 --> 1:41:08.800 There's a website called window dash swap dot com and 1:41:09.000 --> 1:41:13.560 I found this website and it basically has people's windows 1:41:13.600 --> 1:41:16.479 like they looking out their window. And so I think 1:41:16.520 --> 1:41:18.479 that this would be a fun thing for you to do, 1:41:18.680 --> 1:41:21.000 is to create one of these. You know, I think 1:41:21.000 --> 1:41:23.040 it's like tenor This is not a time lapse, but 1:41:23.080 --> 1:41:25.280 it's just like a ten or fifteen minute video outside 1:41:25.320 --> 1:41:28.000 your window. And since you live near the beach, you 1:41:28.040 --> 1:41:30.760 could have fun with this. And you can just see 1:41:30.800 --> 1:41:33.479 a bunch of people's different windows throughout the world. And 1:41:33.520 --> 1:41:37.559 it's called windows Swap, Window dash Swap dot com, and 1:41:37.640 --> 1:41:38.559 so it's just kind of. 1:41:38.680 --> 1:41:41.040 I will be happy to do that with YouTube at 1:41:41.120 --> 1:41:45.320 time lapse of Chucky Cheese at the end of the animatronics. 1:41:44.680 --> 1:41:48.000 Oh I should I it's so sad, it's almost but 1:41:48.080 --> 1:41:49.640 when you look at those things up close, they are 1:41:49.720 --> 1:41:50.240 kind of creepy. 1:41:50.280 --> 1:41:50.880 I'll tell you that. 1:41:51.280 --> 1:41:53.479 The like I said, the last time laps I did, 1:41:53.560 --> 1:41:55.760 Jefferson was in my hotel room in New York City. 1:41:55.800 --> 1:41:58.320 I'll tell you why I got in so early. I 1:41:58.320 --> 1:42:00.479 got in it. I took a red eye. I got 1:42:00.479 --> 1:42:02.599 it at five am. I checked into my hotel at 1:42:02.640 --> 1:42:05.200 five point fifty five am. And the guy looks at 1:42:05.200 --> 1:42:07.120 the time he goes, you're here a little early, you know, 1:42:07.200 --> 1:42:09.320 check in is usually like four pm, he said, but 1:42:09.360 --> 1:42:11.120 I do have a room for you. And so I 1:42:11.200 --> 1:42:13.400 was so tired, but it was such a beautiful view 1:42:13.439 --> 1:42:15.840 outside my room that I was like, ooh, before I 1:42:15.880 --> 1:42:17.400 go to sleep. Because I was going to take a nap. 1:42:17.520 --> 1:42:19.280 I said, let me set up the camera in the 1:42:19.280 --> 1:42:21.280 window and I'll see if I can get a time lapse. 1:42:21.280 --> 1:42:23.880 And so I set up the camera and it worked. 1:42:23.920 --> 1:42:26.479 It ran forever. I actually was using the nothing phone 1:42:26.560 --> 1:42:28.560 and it did a beautiful time lapse. I don't know 1:42:28.600 --> 1:42:31.479 where I posted that, maybe on my Instagram. Anyway, time 1:42:31.560 --> 1:42:34.040 lapses are fun. Thanks for coming on the show today. 1:42:34.080 --> 1:42:34.680 Appreciate it. 1:42:35.920 --> 1:42:36.320 Thank you. 1:42:36.600 --> 1:42:39.559 Jefferson Graham of Photo Walks TV. 1:42:39.960 --> 1:42:43.080 Check him out. He's on YouTube. Friend of the show. 1:42:43.640 --> 1:42:45.720 I think Jefferson has now been on the show more 1:42:45.760 --> 1:42:47.760 than anyone else. I think that was your fourth time 1:42:48.479 --> 1:42:53.120 coming up the feedback segment. You are listening to rich 1:42:53.400 --> 1:42:59.439 on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Time for 1:42:59.520 --> 1:43:03.840 the feed back segments. This is all the stuff that 1:43:03.880 --> 1:43:06.519 you email me throughout the week. I can't get to 1:43:06.600 --> 1:43:08.240 all of it, but I'll try to do my best. 1:43:08.320 --> 1:43:10.360 Let me just get through a couple of news stories first, 1:43:10.360 --> 1:43:15.520 I wanted to mention a couple of Amazon stories. Amazon 1:43:15.880 --> 1:43:20.799 is introducing a new Prime health benefit with their new 1:43:21.080 --> 1:43:24.080 subsidiary called One Medical. They bought this company, I don't know, 1:43:24.160 --> 1:43:27.280 last year. This is a medical provider, and now they're 1:43:27.280 --> 1:43:29.920 adding nine dollars a month or ninety nine dollars a 1:43:30.000 --> 1:43:32.679 year for Prime members to get twenty four to seven 1:43:32.760 --> 1:43:36.920 on demand virtual care nationwide, or you can get an 1:43:36.920 --> 1:43:41.560 appointment for an in office visit at one Medical locations 1:43:41.600 --> 1:43:44.360 across the US. You can use your insurance or you 1:43:44.360 --> 1:43:46.639 can pay out of pocket. They do accept a lot 1:43:46.640 --> 1:43:49.800 of insurance plans. The main thing here is that you 1:43:49.800 --> 1:43:52.320 can get unlimited access to virtual care at no cost. 1:43:52.560 --> 1:43:54.840 So if you have something simple that just requires a 1:43:55.040 --> 1:43:58.960 of you know, virtual care, you can do that quickly 1:44:00.040 --> 1:44:01.840 and sign up now. Of course they want you to 1:44:01.840 --> 1:44:07.479 get your your prescriptions through Amazon Pharmacy, but nine bucks 1:44:07.479 --> 1:44:10.320 a month or ninety nine dollars a year, this is 1:44:10.360 --> 1:44:13.360 really if you are kind of you want like a 1:44:13.400 --> 1:44:16.040 more modern medical experience and you maybe don't go to 1:44:16.080 --> 1:44:16.920 the doctor as much. 1:44:17.080 --> 1:44:18.160 That's the way I see it. 1:44:18.560 --> 1:44:23.240 But Amazon's really been pushing hard into healthcare, and so 1:44:23.360 --> 1:44:26.519 far nobody's really made a huge dent in healthcare, like 1:44:26.560 --> 1:44:29.760 made it easy for someone like myself that I like 1:44:29.800 --> 1:44:32.360 everything to be sort of on demand. You know, you 1:44:32.400 --> 1:44:34.759 call your doctor to reschedule an appointment. They're like, Okay, 1:44:34.800 --> 1:44:36.360 we can get you in. Maybe this is just an 1:44:36.479 --> 1:44:40.000 LA thing. We can get you in, you know, next October. 1:44:40.000 --> 1:44:42.240 You're like, what what do you mean next October? 1:44:42.360 --> 1:44:43.200 Like what I mean? 1:44:43.240 --> 1:44:45.240 I literally called one time for you know, I had 1:44:45.280 --> 1:44:47.240 like a sore throat or something like, oh, we can't 1:44:47.240 --> 1:44:49.599 take you got to go to like a medi center. 1:44:49.680 --> 1:44:52.560 It's like wait, what So anyway. 1:44:52.960 --> 1:44:55.000 The one medical says you can get same day or 1:44:55.040 --> 1:44:59.040 next day appointments at the clinics too. Other Amazon News 1:44:59.439 --> 1:45:04.519 Amazon expanding it's grocery delivery and pickup from Amazon Fresh 1:45:04.520 --> 1:45:06.800 stores to all customers, even if you don't have a 1:45:06.840 --> 1:45:08.960 Prime membership. So it used to be you had to 1:45:09.000 --> 1:45:11.680 have a Prime membership to shop at Amazon Fresh online. 1:45:11.920 --> 1:45:14.040 You no longer need to have a Prime membership to 1:45:14.080 --> 1:45:16.559 do that. Now delivery is gonna cost you a fee. 1:45:17.320 --> 1:45:20.200 From what I can tell, pickup is free, so you 1:45:20.240 --> 1:45:21.639 can go to the store and pick it up. Anyway, 1:45:21.800 --> 1:45:25.160 the main news here is that you can use Amazon 1:45:25.240 --> 1:45:29.400 Fresh for groceries delivery pickup even if you don't have 1:45:29.439 --> 1:45:33.080 a Prime membership. And they have redesigned the dash cart, 1:45:33.320 --> 1:45:35.679 which is the self checkout car. I love the killer 1:45:35.720 --> 1:45:38.439 new feature, which is it adds up your groceries as 1:45:38.439 --> 1:45:41.760 you're walking through the store. I've wanted that forever because 1:45:41.800 --> 1:45:43.400 I want to know how much I'm spending. You know, 1:45:43.439 --> 1:45:45.120 you go to the grocery store, you end up spending 1:45:45.160 --> 1:45:49.040 so much more than you think. BUCkies and Mercedes Benz. 1:45:49.080 --> 1:45:51.360 Have you been to a BUCkies? Have you heard of BUCkies? 1:45:52.640 --> 1:45:54.960 Bobo has never heard of BUCkies. I never did either 1:45:55.120 --> 1:45:58.000 until I would land it in some Texas town and 1:45:58.040 --> 1:46:00.439 I said, what is this? It was like the Holy 1:46:00.479 --> 1:46:04.240 Grail of gas stations. I'm talking like one hundred pumps 1:46:04.920 --> 1:46:08.280 and this place was incredible. It's probably one of the 1:46:08.320 --> 1:46:11.200 earliest viral videos or videos I had go viral on 1:46:11.240 --> 1:46:14.000 my Facebook page because I was such a fish out 1:46:14.000 --> 1:46:16.040 of water. I'm like, I'm like this, you know, kid 1:46:16.040 --> 1:46:18.160 from New Jersey in LA and I get to Texas 1:46:18.200 --> 1:46:20.559 and I'm like, wait, what is this? I stopped, I 1:46:20.600 --> 1:46:23.960 walked in. I'm like This is incredible. I'm talking all 1:46:24.080 --> 1:46:26.599 kinds of stuff. Anyway, if you haven't been to all BUCkies, 1:46:27.200 --> 1:46:29.160 you have to check it out when you go to Texas. 1:46:29.640 --> 1:46:31.759 And if you have been, you know what I'm talking about. Anyway, 1:46:31.760 --> 1:46:35.080 they're partnering with Mercedes Benz. They're gonna add ev charging 1:46:35.160 --> 1:46:39.200 at Buckies' locations by the end of twenty twenty four. 1:46:39.200 --> 1:46:42.080 They're adding a whole bunch of them. They're gonna have 1:46:42.160 --> 1:46:45.280 over four hundred charging hubs nationwide by twenty twenty seven. 1:46:46.360 --> 1:46:49.519 They're gonna use charge Point and they're gonna have plugs 1:46:49.520 --> 1:46:51.720 for all different evs, not just Mercedes, but I guess 1:46:51.720 --> 1:46:56.240 they'll be Mercedes branded, so that's kind of cool. So 1:46:56.280 --> 1:46:58.879 they get to charge your car, and I will happily 1:46:58.880 --> 1:47:02.600 stop to charge my car. Yeah, Bobo says, this is huge. 1:47:03.040 --> 1:47:04.960 I would happily stop to charge my car for a 1:47:04.960 --> 1:47:08.200 long time at a Buckie's. Apple gift card lawsuit settlement, 1:47:08.400 --> 1:47:10.280 You're probably gonna see a lot of ads about this 1:47:10.600 --> 1:47:13.479 if you bought a gift card for the app Store 1:47:13.680 --> 1:47:17.400 or iTunes. There is a new settlement which covers people 1:47:17.439 --> 1:47:19.840 who bought gift cards between March twenty eighteen and July 1:47:19.960 --> 1:47:23.719 twenty twenty and they had other people steal the cards 1:47:23.720 --> 1:47:27.679 from them, apparently unauthorized redemptions in California. It's from May 1:47:27.720 --> 1:47:31.200 twenty seventeen to February twenty eighteen. Apple's going to pay 1:47:31.200 --> 1:47:33.880 one point eight million dollars total. Oh that's not that much, 1:47:34.880 --> 1:47:37.280 which each claimant receiving up to the face value of 1:47:37.320 --> 1:47:39.320 their card. So if you want to get settlement money, 1:47:39.320 --> 1:47:41.519 you got to submit a claim by January eighth, twenty 1:47:41.560 --> 1:47:45.280 twenty four. The gift the settlement is shay Gift Card 1:47:45.400 --> 1:47:50.040 Settlement dot com. But my advice watch out for scams 1:47:50.040 --> 1:47:53.200 because you know they're going to be capitalizing on this, 1:47:53.720 --> 1:47:54.719 so just be careful. 1:47:56.320 --> 1:47:56.720 All right. 1:47:56.800 --> 1:48:00.400 Some feedback, Wendy, I'm the least technical person in the 1:48:00.439 --> 1:48:03.720 world and I love listening to your show. Thanks so much. Well, 1:48:03.800 --> 1:48:06.360 thank you, Wendy. That is the goal. If you've noticed, 1:48:06.800 --> 1:48:09.800 this show is not for nerds. Nerds love it, but 1:48:10.160 --> 1:48:13.200 you can be a regular person and enjoy this show. 1:48:13.240 --> 1:48:15.200 You don't have to be in tech nerd. The whole 1:48:15.240 --> 1:48:18.320 point is that I'm making you help you understand technology 1:48:18.360 --> 1:48:21.400 and making you feel smarter about it. You know't say 1:48:21.479 --> 1:48:27.280 I don't know technology at all. Brent says, hey, Rich, 1:48:27.320 --> 1:48:29.680 I saw your Rivian segment and you commented on the 1:48:29.760 --> 1:48:31.840 charging issues. I'm surprised you didn't call it the company 1:48:31.880 --> 1:48:37.720 Electrify America. The signage indicates the speeds, but like you said, 1:48:37.760 --> 1:48:41.280 they're inconsistent. Many are non operational or intentionally set below 1:48:41.439 --> 1:48:44.360 one hundred kilo hours. Please do a look seet into 1:48:44.400 --> 1:48:48.439 this company. There's not one EA that's not disappointing. Yeah, 1:48:48.479 --> 1:48:51.439 I've heard things about this Electrify America. I know it's 1:48:51.880 --> 1:48:55.240 not a perfect system. Charles says, I enjoyed your segment 1:48:55.320 --> 1:48:57.439 on the Rivian with regards to evs. Where are the 1:48:57.479 --> 1:49:01.080 solar roofs and hoods? I read about corporating solar panels 1:49:01.080 --> 1:49:02.800 into rooftop surfaces a couple of years ago. 1:49:02.840 --> 1:49:06.040 Than nothing, not a peep. It would help with range anxiety. Yeah. 1:49:06.080 --> 1:49:08.160 The problem, Charles is that solar. 1:49:07.920 --> 1:49:10.880 Would not charge the battery fast enough or meaningful enough, 1:49:10.960 --> 1:49:12.080 and it would be too heavy. 1:49:12.320 --> 1:49:13.080 I think that's why. 1:49:14.280 --> 1:49:16.200 Joanne says, hey, Rich, I bought a Ring camera and 1:49:16.200 --> 1:49:19.000 it works perfectly, but Amazon and FedEx driver deliveries do 1:49:19.080 --> 1:49:19.719 not record. 1:49:20.400 --> 1:49:21.840 Where's our X files? Music? 1:49:22.640 --> 1:49:27.120 Ring User blog suspects that drivers are jamming the devices. 1:49:27.640 --> 1:49:30.759 I primarily wanted to see deliveries to prevent porch piracy. 1:49:30.880 --> 1:49:33.200 There are reports to the FCC. I learned Amazon and 1:49:33.240 --> 1:49:37.200 FedEx with the delivery tracking numbers since an Amazon products surprise, 1:49:37.280 --> 1:49:41.200 there's not been any sufficient response from ring complaints date 1:49:41.320 --> 1:49:42.040 back years. 1:49:42.520 --> 1:49:43.920 Joanne Joeann. 1:49:43.960 --> 1:49:47.439 That sounds like a major conspiracy. I doubt that FedEx 1:49:47.479 --> 1:49:49.599 and Amazon workers are sitting there trying to jam every 1:49:49.680 --> 1:49:53.720 ring doorbell they see. Alan says, I love listening to 1:49:53.760 --> 1:49:55.719 you talk about EV's and range. Do you even realize 1:49:55.720 --> 1:49:58.400 most evs are charged up by diesel generators, So all 1:49:58.439 --> 1:50:01.000 your electric dream is really a talk about that on 1:50:01.040 --> 1:50:04.080 your show. Look it up, Alan Oh, Alan, I don't 1:50:04.120 --> 1:50:05.439 want to end the show on a bad note, but 1:50:05.439 --> 1:50:06.960 that's going to do it. You can find links on 1:50:07.000 --> 1:50:09.080 the website rich on tech dot TV. Find me on 1:50:09.080 --> 1:50:10.760 social media. I am at rich on tech. 1:50:11.240 --> 1:50:12.080 Talk to you next week.