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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you get in touch with technology? With

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Speaker 1: tech Stuff from how stuff works dot com. Hello everyone,

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Speaker 1: welcome to tech stuff. My name is Chris Poulette, and

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Speaker 1: I am an editor at how stuff works dot com.

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Speaker 1: Sitting across from me, someone who is not an editor,

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Speaker 1: but he is a senior writer, is Jonathan Strickland. When

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Speaker 1: the earth was still flat, and clouds made of fire,

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Speaker 1: and mountains stretched up to the sky sometimes higher. I

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Speaker 1: think I've actually used that quote before. You might have,

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Speaker 1: but anyway, Hey, we're talking about stuff we already said before. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: that's true. Today we are recording our follow up on

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Speaker 1: our predictions for twenty eleven. And before we get into

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Speaker 1: what we predicted for the year eleven and how we

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Speaker 1: did how our predictions did, we should mention that we're

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Speaker 1: recording this in early early early December in order for

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Speaker 1: us to have enough episodes to get through the end

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Speaker 1: of the year. So, uh, some of these predictions that

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Speaker 1: have not come true may still come true. Your mileage

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Speaker 1: may vary. I'm covering our bases. Okay, that's good. Did

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Speaker 1: you fix the broken scoreboard? Problem that we had. Yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: we no longer the whole checks and uh and exes

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Speaker 1: we don't have to worry. I know that there was

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Speaker 1: previous scorecard where apparently all of my predictions got checks

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Speaker 1: and all of Chris's predictions got xs no matter what

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Speaker 1: said there'll probably be more wireless data streaming between devices,

428
00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:26,200
Speaker 1: and they're kind of was, but it wasn't in the

429
00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:28,000
Speaker 1: way that I had predicted. I thought it was going

430
00:23:28,080 --> 00:23:32,159
Speaker 1: to be more like high data transfers, so things like

431
00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:35,399
Speaker 1: a Blu Ray player and a television set having a

432
00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:39,000
Speaker 1: wireless like a wide gig connection between the two where

433
00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:42,000
Speaker 1: you could watch content directly on your TV from your

434
00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:44,239
Speaker 1: Blu Ray without having to have a cable to connect them.

435
00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:48,800
Speaker 1: But really, what the wireless data streaming stuff, the way

436
00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:51,320
Speaker 1: it played out at CS this is more about ecosystems.

437
00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:55,480
Speaker 1: It was more about having a device or a collection

438
00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:58,320
Speaker 1: of devices and being able to port and experience from

439
00:23:58,359 --> 00:24:00,680
Speaker 1: one device to the next in a very seamless way.

440
00:24:01,119 --> 00:24:05,760
Speaker 1: So in the ultimate example, you might be watching a

441
00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:09,480
Speaker 1: video on your on your smartphone as you're walking in

442
00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:13,159
Speaker 1: the door, and then you transfer that video seamlessly to

443
00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:14,920
Speaker 1: your television so you can watch the rest of it

444
00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:16,760
Speaker 1: on TV and it picks up right where you left

445
00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:19,280
Speaker 1: off on the smartphone. That kind of idea, and we

446
00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:21,879
Speaker 1: haven't really reached that point yet, but there were a

447
00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:24,359
Speaker 1: lot of the like kind of the foundation for that

448
00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:27,600
Speaker 1: technology was on display quite a bit at CES. Yeah,

449
00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:31,360
Speaker 1: the cloud, the cloud seems to have acquired that more

450
00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:33,720
Speaker 1: than your your home. So you know, if you're using

451
00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:36,920
Speaker 1: a service, a streaming movie service that you subscribe to

452
00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:38,800
Speaker 1: over the internet, you can pose it in one thing

453
00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:41,000
Speaker 1: and you have your account in the other room and

454
00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:43,240
Speaker 1: seen it advertise more in that capacity than I have

455
00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:45,320
Speaker 1: in the You buy this thing and stick in your

456
00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:48,080
Speaker 1: house and it makes this happen. Yeah, essentially in order

457
00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:50,800
Speaker 1: for the second the version that I saw at CS,

458
00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:53,159
Speaker 1: for order for that version to really play out, you

459
00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:56,400
Speaker 1: would pretty much have to buy all of your electronics

460
00:24:56,680 --> 00:25:00,600
Speaker 1: from a single source, like a single manufacturer for that

461
00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:03,440
Speaker 1: to work, because they all have their own proprietary ways

462
00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:08,240
Speaker 1: of developing this this uh system. Yeah, I wonder why

463
00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:10,959
Speaker 1: that is. Whereas the version you're talking about is much

464
00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:14,680
Speaker 1: more consumer friendly, and that it is if it's cloud based,

465
00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:16,960
Speaker 1: as long as whatever it is you're buying has the

466
00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:21,480
Speaker 1: capacity to tap into that that cloud system then you're fine.

467
00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:24,879
Speaker 1: So you could have devices from multiple manufacturers and have

468
00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:29,040
Speaker 1: them seamlessly interact, because what they're doing is they're pulling

469
00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:32,359
Speaker 1: stuff from the cloud, and that's where the coordination is

470
00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:35,800
Speaker 1: coming from, not through the devices themselves. But that's not

471
00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:38,720
Speaker 1: the way it was presented at c E s UM.

472
00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:41,960
Speaker 1: I also said that there'd be a lot more green tech,

473
00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:45,800
Speaker 1: and there was UM and uh so yeah for this one,

474
00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:52,359
Speaker 1: I get UM too. Hurt feet apparently. Yeah, I think

475
00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:55,360
Speaker 1: you cashed in on that one a long time ago. Yeah,

476
00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:58,440
Speaker 1: I'll be doing it again soon. Yea. Yeah, speaking of

477
00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:01,840
Speaker 1: green tech, Yeah, you kind of seem to think that

478
00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:05,680
Speaker 1: green green would sort of go away. I I what

479
00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:12,320
Speaker 1: I thought was that the big flashy green tech UM developments,

480
00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:16,399
Speaker 1: things like like these these crazy power plants or whatever. Uh,

481
00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:21,560
Speaker 1: big flashy technologies would sort of fade away in comparison

482
00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:27,840
Speaker 1: to more modest but but achievable green technologies. So in

483
00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:30,639
Speaker 1: other words, you know, you wouldn't see something that was

484
00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:35,639
Speaker 1: going to supposedly eliminate our dependence upon fossil fuels. UM

485
00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:39,159
Speaker 1: like these these big long reach projects that cost a

486
00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:40,879
Speaker 1: lot of money and take will take a lot of

487
00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:42,880
Speaker 1: time to develop. What we would see a lot more

488
00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:47,040
Speaker 1: investment in things like this power chord will automatically shut

489
00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:50,080
Speaker 1: off and not allow your devices to draw vampire power.

490
00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:53,399
Speaker 1: That kind of stuff. It's not not terribly exciting or sexy,

491
00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:55,840
Speaker 1: but it does make a difference, and that, in fact,

492
00:26:56,080 --> 00:27:00,600
Speaker 1: is pretty much how played out. Um. In fact, I

493
00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:03,439
Speaker 1: would argue that in some ways, green technology is kind

494
00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:05,600
Speaker 1: of the buzz has kind of died a little bit.

495
00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:08,160
Speaker 1: You don't. You don't hear about it as much as

496
00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:12,919
Speaker 1: you did, unless, of course, it relates to Celindra. There

497
00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:17,719
Speaker 1: are some exceptions. That's more about the controversy of funding

498
00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:21,440
Speaker 1: a company that that was not doing so hot with

499
00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:23,560
Speaker 1: government money. Or you might hear about it about a

500
00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:26,200
Speaker 1: car that gets in a collision in three days later

501
00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:29,600
Speaker 1: bursts into flames because the battery, the electric battery inside

502
00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:31,680
Speaker 1: of it was damaged, but it takes a while for

503
00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:36,840
Speaker 1: the damage to actually result in a catastrophic failure. There's

504
00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:41,600
Speaker 1: that news too. Yep. So uh for this, I get

505
00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:45,720
Speaker 1: a piece of green felt that was from the same

506
00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:50,200
Speaker 1: bolt of cloth where they made kermit. Hey, it's not easy,

507
00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:54,200
Speaker 1: that's it. That's a pretty cool prize. Yeah, yeah, I

508
00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:58,800
Speaker 1: bungled this next one of mine, but Jonathan got it right.

509
00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:01,359
Speaker 1: Um I said that to what we had been talking about,

510
00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:08,239
Speaker 1: that giant speaking of power, energy sucking stuff. Apple had

511
00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:10,760
Speaker 1: been building this giant data center in North Carolina, and

512
00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:13,639
Speaker 1: we had been speculating, or many of the media had

513
00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:15,560
Speaker 1: been about what they were actually going to do with

514
00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:20,040
Speaker 1: that thing. Um well, it's actually still kind of unclear.

515
00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:22,880
Speaker 1: But um I thought that Apple was going to launch

516
00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:29,720
Speaker 1: its own streaming media music service. And no, no, I didn't. No,

517
00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:32,399
Speaker 1: I Cloud as many things, but it's not really a

518
00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:35,240
Speaker 1: streaming music service. Yeah, and I think that's what what's

519
00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:38,400
Speaker 1: in that center is iCloud. It's supporting i Cloud, but

520
00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:41,680
Speaker 1: it's not yeah eye Cloud. Now, well, it sort of

521
00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:43,320
Speaker 1: depends on how you look at it, but I don't

522
00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:45,680
Speaker 1: think of it as a streaming music service like uh,

523
00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:48,320
Speaker 1: you know last Fm or Pandora and the radio side.

524
00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:51,000
Speaker 1: I think of it like a Lotify. It's more like

525
00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:55,080
Speaker 1: a more like a locker sty style. However, they do

526
00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:59,000
Speaker 1: have for the paying subscribers the music match service, which

527
00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:01,560
Speaker 1: identify eyes the stuff that you got on your your

528
00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:04,440
Speaker 1: computer and you don't have to upload your music. You

529
00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:07,280
Speaker 1: you can say okay, well you got it there don't

530
00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:11,000
Speaker 1: worry about it. As long as iTunes has that song

531
00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:13,560
Speaker 1: in its database, you have a copy of it, you

532
00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:18,640
Speaker 1: can listen to it reasonably nice bit rate too. Yeah yeah, Actually,

533
00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:20,719
Speaker 1: in some cases it will be a better bit rate

534
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:23,240
Speaker 1: than the song you might have on your system, depending

535
00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:25,480
Speaker 1: on Let's say, if you had a c D and

536
00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:27,840
Speaker 1: you ripped music from that CD and you were, you know,

537
00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:30,760
Speaker 1: trying to conserve space, so you ripped it at a

538
00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:34,200
Speaker 1: low bit rate. The bit rate if if iTunes can

539
00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:37,560
Speaker 1: match the song, and you are an iTunes match customer,

540
00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:40,440
Speaker 1: then you will the one that will appear in your

541
00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:43,360
Speaker 1: iTunes account, your iCloud account will actually be at a

542
00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:45,520
Speaker 1: higher bit rate, possibly than the one the one that

543
00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:48,520
Speaker 1: was on your machine. Yeah, so that's kind of nice. Yeah,

544
00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:50,400
Speaker 1: but you got this one right. It's not technically a

545
00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:55,480
Speaker 1: streaming music service, so according to this you even get

546
00:29:55,600 --> 00:30:00,160
Speaker 1: prizes when things aren't right. So, uh, this one is

547
00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:05,640
Speaker 1: a uh it's a little fried apple pie from McDonald's

548
00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:08,280
Speaker 1: in a bag that was left in this studio at

549
00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:11,880
Speaker 1: our twenty ten Predictions episode, which is not good because

550
00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:16,920
Speaker 1: they've been baked for twenty years now, so you're kind

551
00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:21,200
Speaker 1: of gonna need to um, probably dispose of that in

552
00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:25,600
Speaker 1: the most secure vessel that we have in this office,

553
00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:30,920
Speaker 1: which I believe is Josh Clark. Well, speaking of apples anything, Yeah,

554
00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:33,880
Speaker 1: you know, it's kind of late, since we've been talking

555
00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:35,920
Speaker 1: for about thirty minutes now, but it's kind of late.

556
00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:37,760
Speaker 1: But I'm starting to get a little skeptical of this

557
00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:42,120
Speaker 1: scoring system. Um, but yeah, speaking of apples, the next

558
00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:45,600
Speaker 1: prediction came true sort of. Oh, the accepted it didn't

559
00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:48,240
Speaker 1: where I said light peak would debut, we did, but

560
00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:50,880
Speaker 1: it it wasn't light peak, well it was. It was

561
00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:53,520
Speaker 1: light Peak. It was just called Thunderbolt, and it didn't

562
00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:57,280
Speaker 1: use light it used copper. How else and every other way,

563
00:30:57,320 --> 00:31:00,440
Speaker 1: that prediction was completely right. Um, yeah, I said that

564
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:03,120
Speaker 1: light peak would debut inven and and all right. To

565
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:07,080
Speaker 1: be fair, the very first generation of light Peak, even

566
00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:09,560
Speaker 1: back when it was just called light Peak, was still

567
00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:12,040
Speaker 1: going to be copper based. It was not going to

568
00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:14,440
Speaker 1: be until it moved a little bit beyond that where

569
00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:16,320
Speaker 1: it was going to go to the actual fiber optic

570
00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:18,160
Speaker 1: lines where it was going to use light. And this,

571
00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:21,560
Speaker 1: in case you don't know, it's the technology that allows

572
00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:25,640
Speaker 1: very fast data transfer speed between devices and it can

573
00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:28,120
Speaker 1: be any sort of device that that you know can

574
00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:30,120
Speaker 1: have the sort of port on. It's very similar to

575
00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:33,880
Speaker 1: USB technology, or at least that's the purpose of it

576
00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:36,760
Speaker 1: is very much the same as USB technology, except that, uh,

577
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:39,360
Speaker 1: light peak, when it's just going to be fiber optics,

578
00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:41,320
Speaker 1: if there's no copper wire and there will not be

579
00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:44,600
Speaker 1: able to power a device as well as transferred data.

580
00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:48,200
Speaker 1: USB s can. USB s can provide power. Right. So

581
00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:50,800
Speaker 1: in fact, my my phone right now is plugged in

582
00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:53,320
Speaker 1: via USB cord to my computer, which means that the

583
00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:56,880
Speaker 1: batteries not being drained because it's it's pulling power from

584
00:31:56,960 --> 00:32:00,160
Speaker 1: the computer itself. Light Peak would not work that way

585
00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:02,719
Speaker 1: because if it were just the fiber optics, now, if

586
00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:04,880
Speaker 1: they paired it with copper wire, then yes, you could

587
00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:09,280
Speaker 1: carry electricity across the copper wire while the the fiber

588
00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:12,720
Speaker 1: optics carried the data. Well, the very first generation of

589
00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:15,240
Speaker 1: light peak was just copper wire. They weren't including the

590
00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:18,800
Speaker 1: fiber optics, and that did appear in products. In twenty eleven,

591
00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:23,200
Speaker 1: it appeared exclusively in Apple products and it was renamed Thunderbolt.

592
00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:26,200
Speaker 1: But it was the same technology. It's the same thing.

593
00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:30,160
Speaker 1: So because I got this right, more right than not right,

594
00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:32,600
Speaker 1: even though there were a lot of kind of cheating

595
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:35,360
Speaker 1: around the fact of what light Peak was and how

596
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:37,880
Speaker 1: it debuted. I think what you meant and what they

597
00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:39,880
Speaker 1: meant were two different things. I think you should get

598
00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:43,120
Speaker 1: credit for. Yeah, so I get my award. Is I

599
00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:46,200
Speaker 1: get a light but it's over at the Frankenstein Place,

600
00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:49,240
Speaker 1: so you have to pick it up after the show. Yeah,

601
00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:53,200
Speaker 1: you did say that we would be using discs less

602
00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:57,200
Speaker 1: I did. I said that we that digital distribution would

603
00:32:57,240 --> 00:33:00,640
Speaker 1: become a much bigger thing in an eleven that it

604
00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:03,040
Speaker 1: had in previous years. And we've seen that. We've seen

605
00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:05,880
Speaker 1: mac os ten Lion goes ten Lion, We've seen uh

606
00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:09,440
Speaker 1: beta builds of Windows eight. We've seen and I think

607
00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:13,200
Speaker 1: when Microsoft is going to go to primarily digital distribution,

608
00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:16,040
Speaker 1: when when Windows eight comes out? Yeah, and you can

609
00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:19,680
Speaker 1: you can buy games on the various game consoles through

610
00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:23,160
Speaker 1: their online stores and download directly to the console, as

611
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:26,400
Speaker 1: opposed to going out and buying a disc, Steam, Steam

612
00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:30,800
Speaker 1: and other huge games for the PC. So yeah, I

613
00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:33,920
Speaker 1: um I for this. I get a whole bunch of

614
00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:38,800
Speaker 1: zeros and ones. That's what I got for those YEA

615
00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:42,760
Speaker 1: and a little bit in the back. Um. Yeah, this

616
00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:45,560
Speaker 1: next one is a little hard to quantify that I

617
00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:48,000
Speaker 1: that I'm predicted. Uh. I said that we're going to

618
00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:53,400
Speaker 1: be more investments into, uh the alternatives to rare earth metals,

619
00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:57,160
Speaker 1: which are hard. They're they're plentiful, but they're hard to

620
00:33:57,240 --> 00:34:02,320
Speaker 1: find in large amounts in one place. Um and you know,

621
00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:05,520
Speaker 1: therefore they are somewhat expensive. China sort of has the

622
00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:07,800
Speaker 1: market cornered right at the moment, and they're starting to

623
00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:11,120
Speaker 1: use more for their own devices. So I figured that

624
00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:14,000
Speaker 1: more people would would be looking for alternatives to those.

625
00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:18,359
Speaker 1: I haven't really read a whole lot about that. Um,

626
00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:22,399
Speaker 1: so I'm thinking that I I think I'm pretty sure

627
00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:25,120
Speaker 1: that I'm thinking that I think that I think that

628
00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:29,799
Speaker 1: maybe I was wrong. See, Yeah, this one's uh uh yeah,

629
00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:31,520
Speaker 1: this was hard to hear. A lot of this was

630
00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:33,960
Speaker 1: a hard one to research, right because I mean it's yeah,

631
00:34:34,160 --> 00:34:36,720
Speaker 1: it's unless you're hard to find info on you unless

632
00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:40,000
Speaker 1: you're reading very detailed reports. Um. Yeah, we didn't hear

633
00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:43,200
Speaker 1: much about this, and as far as the rare earth

634
00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:47,400
Speaker 1: metal crisis is still going on, so uh So, unfortunately

635
00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:49,799
Speaker 1: because of this, I have to you were talking about

636
00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:54,440
Speaker 1: alternatives too. Rare metals. Uh so I've got and um

637
00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:59,120
Speaker 1: the best of Limp Biscuit album for you Alternative metal.

638
00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:03,480
Speaker 1: There you shouldn't have, I know, really well you shouldn't have.

639
00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:07,239
Speaker 1: You can put that next year, apple Pie. Uh so

640
00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:10,680
Speaker 1: you know we've got a new PlayStation portable coming out.

641
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:14,040
Speaker 1: Yeah I said that. I said I that in eleven

642
00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:17,360
Speaker 1: we'd see the PlayStation phone launch and the experien Play launched.

643
00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:22,160
Speaker 1: That was the PlayStation phone. It was it was, It wasn't.

644
00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:26,640
Speaker 1: It wasn't branded that. It wasn't branded as a PlayStation

645
00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:28,640
Speaker 1: Well it kind of was. Well, I mean it had

646
00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:30,960
Speaker 1: a slide out section, which is what I said it

647
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:33,719
Speaker 1: would have, with a little game pad on it, which

648
00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:36,440
Speaker 1: is what That's exactly what I said. Uh, and it's

649
00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:38,320
Speaker 1: it was called the Experience Play. It even went on

650
00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:42,040
Speaker 1: sale for a hundred bucks. So, um, I got that one.

651
00:35:42,239 --> 00:35:44,800
Speaker 1: I got that one totally right, I got a hedgehog.

652
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:49,200
Speaker 1: I'm squinting what that's right. There wasn't PlayStation phone. It's

653
00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:54,239
Speaker 1: the Experience Play. Look it up. Okay, it's uh, let's see,

654
00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:56,800
Speaker 1: but it wasn't called it anyway. Do you want me

655
00:35:56,840 --> 00:35:58,360
Speaker 1: to do one more? Since that way it'll kind of

656
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:01,160
Speaker 1: even this out. Uh, well, I think I think your

657
00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:04,200
Speaker 1: last one should be the last one we talk about here. No, no,

658
00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:06,160
Speaker 1: I think your last one should be the last one

659
00:36:06,239 --> 00:36:10,359
Speaker 1: we talk about. That's true, so I'll do another one. Uh.

660
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:13,280
Speaker 1: So I had also said that color ink e readers

661
00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:17,239
Speaker 1: would launch in uh and that didn't happen. Instead of

662
00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:21,000
Speaker 1: color e Inc. We saw the e reader companies go

663
00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:25,480
Speaker 1: towards a more tablet design. Wha, They're using lc D displays,

664
00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:29,080
Speaker 1: not e ink displays for that, So that was wrong.

665
00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:32,160
Speaker 1: I did not get that right. I mean, uh, the

666
00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:34,880
Speaker 1: I don't know if there was like a hold up

667
00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:37,120
Speaker 1: on the technology or if it was just they figured

668
00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:40,200
Speaker 1: that the tablet, the tablet experience would be a superior

669
00:36:40,239 --> 00:36:43,520
Speaker 1: experience to ink, or if the people who wanted color

670
00:36:43,640 --> 00:36:46,160
Speaker 1: really didn't care so much about things like battery life

671
00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:48,279
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. Yeah, I think that's that's a

672
00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:52,040
Speaker 1: big part of it. Color et Inc. Does exist. Actually,

673
00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:54,800
Speaker 1: it's been out well, I mean it it's existed for

674
00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:57,040
Speaker 1: some time now, not in a long long time, but

675
00:36:57,480 --> 00:36:59,480
Speaker 1: you know, it was in existence when we had that

676
00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:02,920
Speaker 1: conversation Asian. The problem is it doesn't show nearly as

677
00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:06,399
Speaker 1: many colors, and they're not nearly as bright as um

678
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:08,880
Speaker 1: you know, an l an L E D display or

679
00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:12,520
Speaker 1: an l C D display. So the thing is you're

680
00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:14,719
Speaker 1: you're getting more vibrant colors, but at the cost of

681
00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:18,759
Speaker 1: battery life on these tablet type displays. And I think

682
00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:21,960
Speaker 1: people sort of expect, especially for the things that they're

683
00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:24,600
Speaker 1: saying for the new generation of tablets where they're going

684
00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:28,520
Speaker 1: to have even more high definition displays. I think that

685
00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:32,200
Speaker 1: may uh you know, relegate color eat inc. To a

686
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:34,480
Speaker 1: very small set of devices in the future. So but

687
00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:36,560
Speaker 1: I thought they were coming out to Yeah, yeah, So

688
00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:38,759
Speaker 1: that one was a miss. Let me do one more

689
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:42,000
Speaker 1: on mine in that way, when we alternate, it should

690
00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:44,440
Speaker 1: turn out so that your last ones are the last one.

691
00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:46,520
Speaker 1: Well yeah, yeah, and then this one you were right on. Yeah.

692
00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:48,480
Speaker 1: I said that there we would start seeing near fields

693
00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:52,560
Speaker 1: communication systems show up in smartphones and ding. Yeah, it

694
00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:56,080
Speaker 1: started popping up, not not at the level that I

695
00:37:56,200 --> 00:37:58,960
Speaker 1: was hoping for, but it's it has started to emerge.

696
00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:03,120
Speaker 1: And that's the technology that allows you to make payment

697
00:38:03,239 --> 00:38:08,160
Speaker 1: transfers just by swiping your phone near uh a station

698
00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:12,879
Speaker 1: like a payment station. And Google Wallet debut. Google Wallet

699
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:16,920
Speaker 1: debut and added a lot of that functionality into uh,

700
00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:20,080
Speaker 1: managing that kind of system. So on your end, so

701
00:38:20,239 --> 00:38:21,680
Speaker 1: you would you what you would do is you would

702
00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:24,840
Speaker 1: have to have a particular kind of credit card for

703
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:29,800
Speaker 1: Google Wallet to tie into this system, and then Google

704
00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:32,440
Speaker 1: Wallet would manage your account and would also let you

705
00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:37,120
Speaker 1: subscribe to things like coupon deals and and rewards deals

706
00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:40,840
Speaker 1: and would apply those every time you went to purchase stuff.

707
00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:43,319
Speaker 1: So that way, if you had a coupon for something,

708
00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:46,359
Speaker 1: it would automatically get applied when you bought that thing.

709
00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:48,520
Speaker 1: You wouldn't have to remember it. It would be in

710
00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:51,960
Speaker 1: there in your phone already, which was great. Uh. And

711
00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:56,759
Speaker 1: for that I get an electromagnetic field around me at

712
00:38:56,760 --> 00:39:00,120
Speaker 1: all times, so, um, my computer is no longer are

713
00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:03,120
Speaker 1: really displaying things properly? But other than that, it's pretty awesome.

714
00:39:03,239 --> 00:39:06,480
Speaker 1: Where your fair to day cage? Um? So uh, I

715
00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:11,279
Speaker 1: predicted that hd TV prices would stagnate. You said there

716
00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:14,560
Speaker 1: wouldn't be any more dramatic drops in price that they

717
00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:17,320
Speaker 1: had pretty much. You know, they might creep lower, but

718
00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:21,160
Speaker 1: they wouldn't be You wouldn't see a huge like it's crazy.

719
00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:26,359
Speaker 1: You can get this hd TV screen for two hundred bucks. Um,

720
00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:29,000
Speaker 1: I don't know I think, based on my own personal

721
00:39:29,080 --> 00:39:33,719
Speaker 1: research since I bought an HDTV that uh that that's

722
00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:37,520
Speaker 1: pretty accurate. Um, you know, I I think that, Uh,

723
00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:41,040
Speaker 1: I think there is probably a greater diversity. You see

724
00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:44,279
Speaker 1: a lot more manufacturers with you know, sort of a

725
00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:48,200
Speaker 1: cheap model and a nicer model. Um, but the nicer

726
00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:50,359
Speaker 1: ones have stayed about the same price that I saw

727
00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:55,800
Speaker 1: them in. Yeah. And because you got that right, I

728
00:39:56,000 --> 00:40:00,600
Speaker 1: decided that would necessitate a reward that was high definition

729
00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:03,919
Speaker 1: but low in price. So I got you this HD

730
00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:07,520
Speaker 1: DVD player. Oh, thanks, You're welcome. That was one of

731
00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:11,840
Speaker 1: our very first podcasts. Uh. Next, um, we had I

732
00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:15,920
Speaker 1: had the prediction that Duke Knewcombe Forever would launch INN

733
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:18,440
Speaker 1: and Chris, you agreed, and I agreed with you, and

734
00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:22,560
Speaker 1: we were right, and so many people are so sorry

735
00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:24,520
Speaker 1: that we were right. Yeah. Yeah. It was one of

736
00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:26,840
Speaker 1: those games where again, like for those who don't know,

737
00:40:26,960 --> 00:40:30,640
Speaker 1: it was what thirteen years in the making, um, and

738
00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:34,120
Speaker 1: it had been delayed numerous times, mostly due to things

739
00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:38,239
Speaker 1: like the the lead project manager in charge of the

740
00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:40,880
Speaker 1: game would look at the game and decide that the

741
00:40:41,520 --> 00:40:44,000
Speaker 1: the physics engine or the graphics engine was too out

742
00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:46,080
Speaker 1: of date and that they needed to redesign the game

743
00:40:46,440 --> 00:40:49,560
Speaker 1: for a new engine, and then every yeah, and they

744
00:40:49,600 --> 00:40:52,160
Speaker 1: would scrap everything and start over, and then by the

745
00:40:52,239 --> 00:40:55,440
Speaker 1: time that would be ready to debut, they'd see another

746
00:40:55,600 --> 00:41:00,560
Speaker 1: new system that was even better, which would necessitate ripping

747
00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:02,840
Speaker 1: it all apart and starting over again. And part of

748
00:41:02,920 --> 00:41:06,200
Speaker 1: this is because when Duke Newcome three D first came out,

749
00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:09,000
Speaker 1: it was it came out right at the right time.

750
00:41:09,160 --> 00:41:12,320
Speaker 1: You know, it was taking advantage of technology and and

751
00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:16,160
Speaker 1: using it at its best for that time, right like,

752
00:41:16,239 --> 00:41:18,279
Speaker 1: it was the perfect timing for that game to come

753
00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:21,839
Speaker 1: out on the on the systems that it did, because um,

754
00:41:22,040 --> 00:41:25,520
Speaker 1: it looked very sophisticated compared to other games. It was

755
00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:28,040
Speaker 1: state of the art, and they wanted to try and

756
00:41:28,120 --> 00:41:30,080
Speaker 1: recapture that. But the problem with that is that a

757
00:41:30,160 --> 00:41:32,480
Speaker 1: lot of that ends up just being luck. It's not

758
00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:35,200
Speaker 1: just you know, and you can't really plan for it

759
00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:37,920
Speaker 1: because designing a game and building a game and releasing

760
00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:42,080
Speaker 1: it takes time, and sometimes within that time frame, technology

761
00:41:42,120 --> 00:41:45,200
Speaker 1: has moved along while you've been developing, and especially since

762
00:41:45,239 --> 00:41:50,440
Speaker 1: technology is developing faster and faster, it's just future proofing

763
00:41:50,480 --> 00:41:52,920
Speaker 1: a project like that is really tough to do. It's

764
00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:55,160
Speaker 1: sort of like writing a vampire book for the market

765
00:41:55,239 --> 00:41:58,320
Speaker 1: now now that everyone is tired of the vampire genre

766
00:41:58,480 --> 00:42:01,000
Speaker 1: sort of. You know, you'd have to know what's going

767
00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:03,400
Speaker 1: to be big next, and happened to hit it right

768
00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:07,400
Speaker 1: at the right time, Zombies. So uh it did launch.

769
00:42:07,640 --> 00:42:13,120
Speaker 1: The reviews were almost universally negative or at the very

770
00:42:13,320 --> 00:42:16,040
Speaker 1: at the very best most the some of the best

771
00:42:16,160 --> 00:42:18,279
Speaker 1: reviews I read, like the most positive reviews just called

772
00:42:18,320 --> 00:42:21,279
Speaker 1: it mediocre. So I didn't see anyone say that it

773
00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:25,520
Speaker 1: was a good game. Hasn't really burned up the charts either. Yeah,

774
00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:29,400
Speaker 1: and I didn't purchase it because I mean, I had

775
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:31,400
Speaker 1: heard enough things where I thought that maybe I just

776
00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:33,960
Speaker 1: I would prefer to remember Duke from back in the

777
00:42:34,040 --> 00:42:38,080
Speaker 1: days when I, uh I played the game the first game,

778
00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:40,200
Speaker 1: the Duke NUKEMB three D, not the first Duke Nukem

779
00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:42,359
Speaker 1: game because those were side scrollers, but the first first

780
00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:45,440
Speaker 1: person shooter Duke Nukem game. But yeah, so I got

781
00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:48,680
Speaker 1: that one right. So because of that, I get an

782
00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:52,920
Speaker 1: enormous set of weights which I can't move unless I

783
00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:55,560
Speaker 1: have them in the ad at and unfortunately that's yours,

784
00:42:55,640 --> 00:43:00,320
Speaker 1: not mine. I was going to suggest that actually, and finally,

785
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:03,759
Speaker 1: one of my predictions that I'm so happy about because

786
00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:07,160
Speaker 1: I got it wrong last time, Jonathan would get a

787
00:43:07,280 --> 00:43:10,359
Speaker 1: new computer, new work computer by the end of the year.

788
00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:14,480
Speaker 1: So this is actually I sort of got it right. Yeah,

789
00:43:14,520 --> 00:43:16,239
Speaker 1: he sort of got it right because it's new to me,

790
00:43:17,719 --> 00:43:19,799
Speaker 1: but it wasn't new out of the box. Not new

791
00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:24,240
Speaker 1: out of the box. It is a gently used gentle

792
00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:28,000
Speaker 1: it was you didn't gently gently use the last one,

793
00:43:28,040 --> 00:43:31,120
Speaker 1: which is why it had Problemly, Hey, that was just

794
00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:34,360
Speaker 1: just because the keys wouldn't work. That wasn't because I

795
00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:37,120
Speaker 1: was pounding on it or anything. That again would be

796
00:43:37,239 --> 00:43:42,680
Speaker 1: Josh Clark. Yeah, it's our resident loud type of right. Yeah, no, he'sack.

797
00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:46,120
Speaker 1: So the yeah, you got it kind of right, because

798
00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:48,520
Speaker 1: I did get a new computer. It wasn't you. It

799
00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:50,960
Speaker 1: wasn't brand new, but it was new to me. So

800
00:43:51,320 --> 00:43:54,560
Speaker 1: because you got that one right, you get my old computer.

801
00:43:55,280 --> 00:43:57,560
Speaker 1: Oh goody, I have a door that needs propping open it.

802
00:43:58,120 --> 00:43:59,719
Speaker 1: You know, if you want, I'll even lend you the

803
00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:02,239
Speaker 1: till leaky since you're lending me the ad at Hey, okay,

804
00:44:02,320 --> 00:44:05,600
Speaker 1: that's a wait. So so what is the score? You've

805
00:44:05,640 --> 00:44:09,120
Speaker 1: got this complex scoring system, right, so I have I

806
00:44:09,239 --> 00:44:12,799
Speaker 1: have totaled our our predictions. It's a little weird because

807
00:44:12,800 --> 00:44:15,800
Speaker 1: I made I made more predictions than you did, so

808
00:44:16,040 --> 00:44:20,280
Speaker 1: that kind of throws things off. But according to my calculations,

809
00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:23,920
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, your predictions scored a

810
00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:31,200
Speaker 1: Sega dreamcast, My predictions scored. It looks like it's, um well,

811
00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:33,160
Speaker 1: it looks like it's a World Pool Bath. I'm not

812
00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:41,520
Speaker 1: sure how these compare directly. Uh, but um, I'm sure

813
00:44:41,520 --> 00:44:42,840
Speaker 1: I'll figure it out by the time we do this

814
00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:45,719
Speaker 1: next year. All right, Okay, so yeah, I think that

815
00:44:45,880 --> 00:44:48,919
Speaker 1: went really well. Um, I hope that. Uh, I feel

816
00:44:48,960 --> 00:44:53,920
Speaker 1: like I won. Yeah, I guess maybe. I mean, we

817
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:56,239
Speaker 1: don't actually get the Sega Dreamcast of the World Pool

818
00:44:56,320 --> 00:45:00,239
Speaker 1: Pool Bath. That's just our score, right, I see, you know,

819
00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:04,360
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, I honestly don't know where to

820
00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:06,560
Speaker 1: go from there. In fact, now it seems like this

821
00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:08,440
Speaker 1: whole set of rules that I came up with it

822
00:45:08,560 --> 00:45:10,640
Speaker 1: was just a colossal waste of time. And I just

823
00:45:10,680 --> 00:45:13,319
Speaker 1: found out I got a ticket for an improperly parked

824
00:45:13,360 --> 00:45:16,279
Speaker 1: at at Yeah. Sorry, not much it costs to pay

825
00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:19,680
Speaker 1: off a ticket. I couldn't fit it into the parking deck. No,

826
00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:22,800
Speaker 1: and now the parking deck is collapsed. Well, that's also

827
00:45:23,160 --> 00:45:28,000
Speaker 1: not good. So let's just wrap this up that I think, actually,

828
00:45:28,640 --> 00:45:31,160
Speaker 1: all being said, a lot of our predictions did come true.

829
00:45:31,200 --> 00:45:33,480
Speaker 1: We didn't have as many huge misses this year as

830
00:45:33,520 --> 00:45:36,960
Speaker 1: we have then years passed, which just means we're gonna harder. Yeah,

831
00:45:36,960 --> 00:45:42,279
Speaker 1: we're gonna try harder for twelve predictions. But also there

832
00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:44,319
Speaker 1: were a lot of big news stories that we did

833
00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:47,239
Speaker 1: not predict at all and uh, and we're going to

834
00:45:47,360 --> 00:45:51,759
Speaker 1: do an entire episode about the year in review, like

835
00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:56,200
Speaker 1: what happened in eleven and uh and that will cover

836
00:45:56,560 --> 00:45:58,319
Speaker 1: some of the stories we've talked about here, but also

837
00:45:58,440 --> 00:46:00,480
Speaker 1: a lot of stories that that we just did not

838
00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:04,400
Speaker 1: foresee at all. And I hope you guys will enjoy that.

839
00:46:04,719 --> 00:46:09,360
Speaker 1: This is going to be the last few episodes for eleven.

840
00:46:09,480 --> 00:46:12,680
Speaker 1: So thank you guys for listening to us for yet

841
00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:15,160
Speaker 1: another year, and we're looking forward to talking to you

842
00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:17,520
Speaker 1: more in the future. And if you guys have any

843
00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:20,839
Speaker 1: suggestions for podcast topics that you think we should cover,

844
00:46:21,280 --> 00:46:24,040
Speaker 1: you can email us our email addresses tech Stuff at

845
00:46:24,160 --> 00:46:26,440
Speaker 1: how stuff works dot com, or you can let us

846
00:46:26,480 --> 00:46:28,520
Speaker 1: know on Facebook or Twitter or handled there is tech

847
00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:30,799
Speaker 1: stuff H. S W and Chris and I will talk

848
00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:35,719
Speaker 1: to you again, I predict really soon. Be sure to

849
00:46:35,800 --> 00:46:38,560
Speaker 1: check out our new video podcast, Stuff from the Future.

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