WEBVTT - Best of CES 2024 & Bitcoin Explained 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:03.559 The best tech I saw at CS twenty twenty four. 0:00:04.760 --> 0:00:09.399 We now know when Apple Vision Pro will go on sale. 0:00:09.440 --> 0:00:14.480 Bitcoin is back, plus your tech questions answered. 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:15.280 What's going on? 0:00:15.280 --> 0:00:18.759 I'm Rich Demiro and this is Rich on Tech broadcasting 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:20.759 live from Las Vegas. 0:00:20.560 --> 0:00:21.840 Coast to coast. 0:00:22.520 --> 0:00:24.320 This is the show where I talk about the tech 0:00:24.360 --> 0:00:27.159 stuff I think you should know about. It's also the 0:00:27.320 --> 0:00:32.159 place where I answer your questions about technology. I believe 0:00:32.159 --> 0:00:36.919 that tech should be interesting, useful, and fun. 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I 0:01:06.319 --> 0:01:08.959 will put it in the feedback segment, which is at 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:10.560 the end of today's show. 0:01:11.360 --> 0:01:12.720 Got some great guests this week. 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:17.200 Gary Shapiro, President and CEO at the Consumer Technology Association. 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:22.280 We'll talk about this year's CES. Michael Fisher, superstar on YouTube. 0:01:22.319 --> 0:01:26.039 He does all the mobile phone reviews. He has a 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:29.120 new product. He's the creator and co founder of Clicks, 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:32.959 a physical keyboard for the iPhone. Are you ready to 0:01:33.000 --> 0:01:36.639 bring back the physical keyboard? Michael Fisher will talk about 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:41.240 why he's doing that. And Samir Sama, he is the 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:45.560 general manager and Vice president of Android Ecosystem at Google. 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:48.520 He will be talking to us about all the Google 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:52.440 announcements at CES. Yeah, we got a lot of guests today. 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:57.240 Illi Oposen, creator and co founder of Telly. Remember this 0:01:57.440 --> 0:02:00.640 free ad supported television set I told you about couple 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:03.400 months ago, Well, now they are in people's homes. We'll 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:06.080 get an update from Ilia about how that is working 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:08.680 out and how you can get your hands on a 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:14.080 free TV. And later on, Ben Weiss's CEO of coin Flip, 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:17.840 is going to talk about the big movements this week 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:21.480 with bitcoin. If you haven't checked your bitcoin lately, if 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:24.680 you have some, now might be a good time. And 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:27.919 by the way, we might also have a special guest 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:31.120 on the show, a very special guest. If I can 0:02:31.200 --> 0:02:34.160 convince this guest to come on, I will get them 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:36.560 to come on. And I think you'll enjoy this because 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:39.720 it's a person very near and dear to my heart. 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:41.920 And you've heard me talk about them a lot, so 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:46.880 I think it'd be fun if they came on. 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:46.360 One year of the show. 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:49.440 Now, I told you last week we're celebrating one year 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:51.679 of this show. What I did not tell you was 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:54.240 the news that I got this week that we have 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:57.320 expanded this show in a big way. We have added 0:02:57.600 --> 0:03:02.040 multiple multiple stations across the US. Yes, we are syndicated 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:06.480 across now three hundred and fifty affiliates. So thanks to 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:10.519 you for making this show the best tech show. We've 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:12.440 had a little ways to go before we take over 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:15.600 some of the big guys out there, but I think 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:18.120 that we are doing really, really well. Thank you, Bobo. 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:22.600 I love this quote from Julie Talbot. This is the 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:26.519 president of Premieer Networks, the company that syndicates this show. 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:29.639 We are so proud of the continued growth and success 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:33.000 of Rich on Tech. We partnered with rich DeMuro to 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:36.480 create a fresh, intelligent, and entertaining program covering the world 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:39.320 of technology, and we couldn't be happier with the result. 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:43.760 We look forward to celebrating many more milestones together. And 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:46.920 I said that the secret to this show is really you. 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:50.960 It's the emails, it's the questions, it's the comments because 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:53.920 that keeps me sort of. I see all this tech 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:57.040 stuff at the tech shows and the products I cover, 0:03:57.440 --> 0:04:00.240 but it's you that tells me what you need to 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:02.680 know about this stuff. So, yeah, you have an iPhone, 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:05.200 but how do you do this? What about this app? 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:07.440 Or what about that for my computer? Or you know, 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:10.960 what's the best TV to get? So that's really fun 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:14.680 and very excited about that. This week has been CS 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:17.720 here in Las Vegas. What a week it's been. I mean, 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:21.880 Las Vegas definitely the coldest I have ever experienced. 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:24.039 During CS, so that's been interesting. 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:26.240 But this was a big show because it was kind 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:29.400 of like the CES that we have been missing in 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:32.240 previous years because of the pandemic, because of you know, 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:34.560 coming back from the pandemic. This year it was one 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:37.839 hundred percent back, one hundred and thirty five thousand attendees, 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:41.080 forty three hundred exhibitors. So I'm going to do my 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:42.760 best throughout this show to tell you about some of 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:43.960 the best stuff I saw. 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:45.560 But the show has. 0:04:45.400 --> 0:04:47.640 Wrapped, a lot of people have gone home, some people 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:49.960 have stayed for the weekend. But it was a big 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:51.840 show this year and there's a lot to see, so 0:04:51.880 --> 0:04:54.039 I will be going over a lot of that. And 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:56.960 by the way, they already announced next year's date, CS 0:04:57.000 --> 0:05:01.480 twenty twenty five happening January seventh through tenth, and I'm 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:03.800 already booking my hotel room. By the way, if you 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:05.480 want to see some of the things that I saw 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:07.920 here at CS that I thought were pretty interesting, I've 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:10.599 been posting them on my Instagram. So if you go 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:13.599 to Instagram at Richon Tech, you can go and check 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:16.240 out all little things that I've posted, all the reels 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:19.440 that have been posted to my Instagram, So those are 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:22.039 things that I think are interesting enough for a reel. 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:24.240 But then if you go to my profile page, you'll 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:26.880 see this little circle it says CS twenty twenty four. 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:28.239 That's called a highlight. 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:30.359 That's on my Instagram page and it has all the 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:33.359 stories that I posted, so everything that I posted. You know, 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:36.640 stories on Instagram go away after like twenty four hours, 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:40.120 so this way they stick around forever, well until I 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:42.920 delete them. But you can watch all the different stories 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:46.839 that I posted there. What else, Oh, finally got to 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:49.960 go to the sphere, so I did a story on 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:52.520 the sphere. I'm sure you've seen that unless you live 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:56.360 under a Rock. This is that giant dome that looms 0:05:56.440 --> 0:05:59.440 over Las Vegas, five hundred and sixteen feet wide, three 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:03.240 hundred six six feet tall, seating for seventeen thousand, six 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:07.120 hundred with standing room for twenty thousand. And the big 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:11.039 big thing about this is the exterior is completely programmable, 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:14.560 five hundred and eighty thousand square feet of LEDs. 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:16.160 And so you've seen the videos. 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:18.960 I posted one on my Twitter at Richon Tech where 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:22.119 they're playing Tetris on the exterior. It's been a whole 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:23.960 bunch of stuff. You know, you've seen these videos on 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:27.080 social media and the news. Now the inside has a 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:31.920 sixteen x sixteen k ultra resolution LED screen and it's 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:33.920 got all these other things. So it's got like wind, 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:38.400 it's got scent, your seats move. So I was invited. 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:41.400 We got to see the movie that they're showing this. 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:44.560 It's really an immersive experience. It's called Postcard from Earth. 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:48.479 It's fifty minutes and I do recommend it. It is 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:52.640 a completely different way of storytelling. There are some surprises. 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:56.520 I'm not gonna reveal those, but it is really quite incredible. 0:06:57.400 --> 0:07:00.279 So the camera, I got a little hands on time 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:02.880 with a camera and an interview with some folks at Sphere, 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:06.279 which I'll err on KTLA soon. But the camera itself 0:07:06.360 --> 0:07:12.200 is just absolutely wild. I mean, it records so much video. 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:15.880 It one drive only records I think like seventeen seconds 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:19.680 of video or something wild like that. It's it's really, 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:24.360 it's really quite incredible. So you go inside this sphere 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:27.480 and there's an entire like pre show where you interact 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:30.200 with these robots and you know, you make like a 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:31.960 virtual avatar of yourself. 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:33.280 And then once you go. 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:35.720 Into the show, that's when it starts, and you're in 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:39.119 this big dome like experience and it's not unlike anything 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:41.680 you've ever seen. The best way I can describe it, 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:43.440 it had a little bit of a hint of that 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:48.040 ride at Disney the Sore and over California. And then also, 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:50.200 you know, if you've ever been on like Back to 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:52.560 the Future back in the day a Universal Studios, it's 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:55.920 kind of like that, but like think about that times 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:59.200 one hundred using today's technology, and this is stuff that's 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:01.960 really never been done before. The screen is so big 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:05.440 it just takes up the entire inside of this sphere 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:07.560 and you're all in there and it's you know, the 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:10.400 audience is just kind of all. No one's ever experienced 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:13.040 something like this before, so it really was quite incredible. 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:16.560 It's expensive, that is the other side of this. 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:17.240 The tickets. 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:19.560 You know, you're watching a movie and tickets could be 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:22.760 one hundred to one hundred and seventy dollars so and 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:25.360 maybe even more, I'm not sure, but it's a very 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:28.119 expensive experience. But it was funny because I was asking 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:30.960 some people afterwards, just you know, random people kind of 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:33.080 after you know, we were milling about getting out of there, 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:34.560 and I said, ah, what do you think and they said, oh, 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:36.720 it's a lot cheaper than the Disney World. And so, 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:38.960 you know, you come to Vegas, you want to try 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:41.559 something different, and this is definitely something to try. By 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:45.319 the way, the resolution for that camera is eighteen k 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:49.760 so's it's just wild, wild, wild stuff that you see there, 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:52.719 so highly recommended if you come to Vegas to check 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:56.000 out sphere. That is definitely something that is a must 0:08:56.000 --> 0:08:56.440 do here. 0:08:57.480 --> 0:08:57.880 What else? 0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:00.319 Okay, So CS I talked to you about that part 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:05.440 of CS is really making friends, schmoozing, seeing old friends, 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:09.120 and I did a couple of things regarding that, and 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:11.120 one of them was this YouTube dinner I went to. 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:16.080 Now YouTube, you know, YouTubers are all over cs, you know, 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:18.760 social media. It's such a big thing to just create 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:21.440 little videos of the stuff you see at CS. And 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:23.719 so I've become friends with some of these YouTubers, and 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:25.760 you know, I got invited to this dinner and it 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:28.200 was all these like very famous tech YouTubers. Like if 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:31.160 you watch anything technology related on YouTube, you've seen a 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:33.640 lot of these faces in this room. And so I 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:36.600 felt like a little bit of a spy because I 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:39.680 was the only non YouTuber in attendance at this dinner. 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:42.400 But since I hang with these people and I see 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:44.640 them at every event I go to, you know, we're 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:46.480 all friends and we kind of know each other, and so, 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:49.040 you know, somehow got invited. But it was really fun. 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:51.120 I ate a lot of stuff I don't typically eat, 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:53.880 by the way. But what's cool about this And the 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:56.280 reason I tell you this is because, by the way, 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:59.800 Andrew Edwards on YouTube, thanks so much for organizing all 0:09:59.840 --> 0:10:02.000 of But the reason I tell you this is because 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:03.280 I get to learn from people. 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:04.319 You know, I do TV, I. 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:08.679 Do radio, but YouTube is a whole different beast, and 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:10.640 so by hearing what they do and what they go 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:13.440 through and what their methods are. It was really interesting 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:16.560 to kind of see how things work for them versus me. 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:20.600 And also just talking with like minded tech people is 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:24.560 really fun. Because I posted a picture on my Instagram stories, 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:26.960 you know, we're sitting there chatting and like all four 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:29.280 of us were wearing an Apple Watch Ultra. It's like, 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:31.040 when do you see that in a room? You know, 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:33.319 So it's just stuff like that where you get to 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:37.080 actually talk about the technology that you're covering, and it's 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:40.160 it's in a very like, you know, a place where 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:42.120 you can say what you want and you don't have 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:44.680 to worry about you know, you can compare notes and 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:46.040 that's always really fun. 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:47.520 So I've really always enjoyed that. 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:49.760 The other thing we did and I'll get some more 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:51.880 tech stuff in a second here, but the other thing 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:53.000 we did that was really fun. 0:10:53.200 --> 0:10:53.800 Last night. 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:56.680 We have a little tradition where my wife meets me 0:10:56.760 --> 0:11:00.640 out after CS ends and we kind of enjoy like 0:11:00.640 --> 0:11:02.959 a dinner, nice dinner to celebrate, you know, a week 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:05.480 of hell week. I guess if you can call it, 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:08.040 you know, I'm doing twenty thousand steps a day here 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:10.080 in the city. It's it's wild and I'm working like 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:13.240 eighteen twenty hour days, so it's it's pretty wild. So 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:15.000 we go out to like a nice dinner the last 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:17.840 night of CS, and we checked out a new restaurant, 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:20.920 Peter Lugers, which is in Caesar's Palace. This is like 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:22.880 a famous steakhouse out of New York City. I heard 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:24.600 about it growing up, you know, It's one of those 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:26.840 places that like a lot of people have heard of, 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:29.840 and now they have it at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:33.760 We went last night and it was incredible, the service, 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:36.480 the whole atmosphere it was. 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:37.520 It was pretty amazing. 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:40.720 Eighty seven hundred square foot restaurant seats over three hundred people. 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:43.679 Looks like the Brooklyn location. Are sort of inspired by 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:47.760 the Brooklyn location, and they built a one million dollar 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:51.720 dry aging room below the restaurant, so they I mean, 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:54.160 this place is like top notch. It is a splurge. 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:56.280 I will tell you that right now. But what isn't 0:11:56.320 --> 0:11:59.360 In Las Vegas. Everything has gotten so expensive here. But 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:01.680 I will say this is a splurge, but it is 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:05.400 completely worth it. The restaurant was packed. I mean you're 0:12:05.440 --> 0:12:07.640 talking this place is brand new, and there wasn't. I 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:09.440 don't think there's an open seat in the entire house, 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:12.280 and it seats a lot of people. The other thing 0:12:12.320 --> 0:12:14.720 I thought was really cool about this location. I thought 0:12:14.720 --> 0:12:17.839 this was brilliant the way they built the restaurant. They 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:22.120 have sort of these frosted glass window doors that can 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:24.880 open and close. So let's say you're there on a 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:27.840 Tuesday night, nobody's really there. They can kind of close 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:30.920 these window panels and they're frosted so you still see 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:33.800 a little depth behind them, but it looks like that 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:36.560 is the wall of the restaurant. So I thought that 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:39.160 was a very brilliant design key because I don't know 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:42.240 if you've ever been in a restaurant where there are 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:44.280 not a lot of people in there and it's a 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:46.600 giant restaurant, it feels like you don't want to be 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:49.439 there because it's too big and there's no one there, 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:51.360 and you feel like, well, why am I here? And 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:55.400 so by making that design choice of being able to 0:12:55.480 --> 0:13:00.800 close these these industrial sort of windows, I thought that 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:04.600 was very very smart. So if you're in Vegas, definitely 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:07.800 check it out. We really really enjoyed it and we 0:13:07.840 --> 0:13:10.160 had such a nice time there. All right, Let me 0:13:10.720 --> 0:13:16.880 tell you about this. Oh gosh, this thing, this Rabbit device. Okay, 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:21.240 this is the Rabbit R one AI companion. This was 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:23.920 launched at CS and I did not go hands on 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:27.680 with this sadly, but it's an AI companion device and 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:30.640 it runs this thing called rabbit OS and what it 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:34.200 does is it aims to provide an app free experience 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:37.840 using a large language model, so basically sort of a 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:40.960 chat gpt AI. And so what it did was they 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:44.199 taught this thing by looking at how humans use their 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:47.480 apps on their smartphone, and then the device learned how 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:49.000 to do that. So now you can say, oh, call 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:51.120 me an uber and it will just do that and 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:53.200 it will figure out what you would press on the 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:55.120 app to do that. But it does it all on 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:58.400 this little tiny device, So it carries out digital tasks 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:01.280 through rabbits. These are personal AI agents that are trained 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:05.080 for specific apps and workflows. It has a touchscreen, it 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:07.640 has a push to talk button, it has a little camera, 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:10.920 and it also has Wi Fi and cellular and so 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:12.360 this is one hundred ninety nine dollars. 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:14.559 This really got a lot of buzz. 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:17.600 At the show because so many companies are trying to 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:21.760 figure out a way of making us less reliant on 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:25.040 our screens because we are so addicted to our smartphones. 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:26.360 But how can you do the stuff that we do 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:28.640 on our smartphones, Hey, send a message to this person, 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:30.600 catch me up on my email? How do you do 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:34.080 that without actually looking at a screen. So the idea 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:36.480 here is that the AI does everything you would do, 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:39.560 taps all those buttons, but it's all happening in the background, 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:41.880 and nothing is actually showing on the screen except the 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:44.520 information you need to know. So again, this is called 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:49.000 the Rabbit R one and they've already sold like twenty 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:51.800 thousand of these in pre orders one hundred ninety nine dollars, 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:53.920 and the next pre order is open now. But you 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:57.239 can't even get these things that to like may pretty wild. 0:14:56.960 --> 0:14:57.680 Stuff, all right? 0:14:57.960 --> 0:15:00.920 Coming up your questions Triple eight rich one one eight 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:03.680 eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:06.760 Submit your questions on the website rich on tech dot TV. 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:07.520 Hit contact. 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:09.640 My name is rich Dmiro and you are listening to 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:14.720 rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:17.520 Demiro here hanging out with you talking technology at Triple 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:19.960 eight rich one on one eight eight eight seven four 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:25.240 to two four one zero one. Website richon Tech dot TV. 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:28.560 You can find me on social media at rich on tech. 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:32.280 All right, so this week I interviewed Gary Shapiro, President 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:37.080 and CEO at the Consumer Technology Association. This is the 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:40.520 trade group that puts on CES every year. Let's hear 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:42.000 what he had to say about this year's show. 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:45.040 Explain CS for someone who's never been. 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:47.680 Well CS, try and explain is like trying to explain 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:49.320 ice cream to someone who's never had it. 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:51.120 It's called it's fun, it tastes great. 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:54.640 CES is exciting, it's all about innovation. It's where the 0:15:54.680 --> 0:15:59.320 world gathers for the business of technology. We'll have up 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:01.840 to one hundred three thousand people from around the world 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:05.720 and they will be able to see four thousand plus 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:07.720 different companies exhibiting on the show floor. 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:09.040 And the show floor is huge. 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:13.720 It's two convention centers plus some several hotels, and that 0:16:13.920 --> 0:16:17.320 will have two point five million net square feet of 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:20.240 exhibit space, which for the average person doesn't it's about 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:22.760 thirty plus football fields of exhibit space. 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:25.600 Is there any way for a mere mortal to see 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:25.920 it all? 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:27.120 No, it's impossible. 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:28.720 We have to have In a few years, we'll have 0:16:28.720 --> 0:16:30.840 an artificial intelligence robot that. 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:33.000 Will do the whole thing in four days. 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:36.920 Okay, so you've already hinted about the themes. Give me 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:38.760 the big themes of this year's show. 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:42.240 Well, the overall envelope is sustainability and a better world 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:47.359 through fundamental human securities like food, clean air and clean water, healthcare, 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:51.080 things like mobility. And this is UN the UN is 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:53.800 represented here and that's what it's about, is making the 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:57.880 world better for people. But the ingredient that's really big 0:16:57.880 --> 0:17:00.520 this year that really wasn't around us last year is 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:05.040 the new type of AI AI plus and basically artificial 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:09.680 intelligence but that learns, machine learning, others and now will 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:13.600 be the best example people could understand is, you know 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:17.919 there's cars that actually are self driving. There's navigational systems 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:20.080 we'll familiar with. But how do you get to that, Well, 0:17:20.200 --> 0:17:22.320 you learn the car navigational systems. 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:22.880 They don't learn. 0:17:22.920 --> 0:17:25.360 Now, you always go a certain way the car wants 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:26.960 to take you the way it wants to take you to. 0:17:27.920 --> 0:17:28.640 Cars will learn. 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:31.120 Cars will learn about and make you better for healthcare, 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:34.040 they'll learn what actually works for you individually or people 0:17:34.080 --> 0:17:39.440 with your demographics, blood type, DNA, everything, they'll learn educationally 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:43.280 how kids learn what's best. They'll learn from a safety perspective. 0:17:44.200 --> 0:17:46.640 You know, the seat in your car may figure out 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:48.359 that you're about to get sick, and here's the steps 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:48.920 you should take. 0:17:49.200 --> 0:17:50.200 And of course they'll. 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:53.879 They'll learn in many others fields of human endeavor that 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:54.800 will make us better. 0:17:55.880 --> 0:17:58.520 Tell me about the importance of an in person gathering 0:17:58.840 --> 0:17:59.400 like this. 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:02.159 Well, I feel we're back in a big way because 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:04.800 it's been a long haul since COVID. Obviously, we had 0:18:04.840 --> 0:18:08.359 one pure digital event and then we had other events 0:18:08.359 --> 0:18:12.080 that we're not as encouraging as they should because there 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:14.600 was a lot of issues surrounding them. This one is 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:17.240 back bigger. It's up double digits by every measure over 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:22.240 our last year's edition, and we are basically have established 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:26.040 at the CEO level of companies now a view that 0:18:26.200 --> 0:18:28.960 getting together in person is super important. Look, I'm the 0:18:29.000 --> 0:18:34.560 paid cheerleader for the technology world, and I believe strongly 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:37.040 that you have to have face to face not only 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:40.320 to build a deeper relationship, but also to discover to 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:43.760 have serendipity and things about what you don't know see people. 0:18:44.200 --> 0:18:46.560 And also what we need in the technology world to 0:18:46.560 --> 0:18:50.439 succeed is you need to have cross industry relationships developed 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:52.679 because there's so much intellectual property, there's so many pounds 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:55.600 you have to go across industries to develop something even better, 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:59.240 that's comprehensive and will serve your customers better. You add 0:18:59.280 --> 0:19:01.320 that to the fact that CEOs want to see their 0:19:01.320 --> 0:19:04.000 own employees working together occasionally because so many people are 0:19:04.040 --> 0:19:07.199 working from home. The trade shows and CES isn't the 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:10.280 only one, are really very strong right now because of 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:13.879 that pent up desire for face to face contact and 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:17.000 discovery and moving forward in a very competitive business environment. 0:19:17.400 --> 0:19:20.600 I am super charged because this kicks off a tremendous 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:23.199 amount of excitement, optimism, and hope for the future. At 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:25.719 a time when our country and our world are divided, 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:27.600 it's nice to see people from around the world come. 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:30.600 We'll have over forty thousand people from outside of the 0:19:30.680 --> 0:19:35.240 United States coming here in a very positive way, wanting 0:19:35.280 --> 0:19:37.040 to do business with each other, and we don't feel 0:19:37.040 --> 0:19:39.080 that tension that we seem to feel in the rest 0:19:39.080 --> 0:19:41.120 of the world or frank leaving in our own country. 0:19:42.280 --> 0:19:42.520 Again. 0:19:42.560 --> 0:19:46.760 That was Gary Shapiro, president of the Consumer Technology Association. 0:19:47.200 --> 0:19:50.479 They are the trade organization that puts on CES I've 0:19:50.520 --> 0:19:54.480 worked with Gary closely. I did actually host a digital 0:19:54.520 --> 0:19:57.639 CES during the pandemic. I told you about this last week, 0:19:57.880 --> 0:19:59.600 so I knew. I got to know Gary pretty well 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:02.959 throughout that, and I like his sense of optimism and 0:20:03.080 --> 0:20:05.439 he really is on kind of the bleeding edge when 0:20:05.440 --> 0:20:07.320 it comes to technology because he's working with all these 0:20:07.359 --> 0:20:09.800 companies from around the world to get them here, which 0:20:09.840 --> 0:20:10.680 is no easy feet. 0:20:10.720 --> 0:20:13.320 I mean, there are literally exhibitors. 0:20:12.760 --> 0:20:15.639 From every corner of this planet that all come here 0:20:16.000 --> 0:20:18.280 and this is their big moment. You've got tons of 0:20:18.320 --> 0:20:20.720 media here and tons of people like me with a 0:20:20.800 --> 0:20:25.080 camera and a microphone, and they want to get that 0:20:25.160 --> 0:20:28.480 media attention because if you're a small startup, your video 0:20:28.520 --> 0:20:32.840 going viral can really change things. So thanks to Gary 0:20:32.880 --> 0:20:36.120 for chatting with me, and I'll have more of sort 0:20:36.119 --> 0:20:38.800 of my CS coverage throughout the show, so I will 0:20:38.840 --> 0:20:41.280 have plenty, plenty more of the coolest stuff I saw. 0:20:41.520 --> 0:20:44.400 But I have to mention this leave it to Apple 0:20:44.920 --> 0:20:48.679 to steal the thunder from CEES. I thought this was 0:20:48.760 --> 0:20:51.879 such an interesting move by Apple. First day of CS, 0:20:52.200 --> 0:20:54.320 they put out a press release and what does it say, 0:20:54.680 --> 0:20:57.480 Here's when Apple Vision pro is coming to the market, 0:20:57.760 --> 0:21:00.520 and that is news that a lot of people have 0:21:00.520 --> 0:21:02.640 been waiting for. They want to know the date when 0:21:02.680 --> 0:21:05.639 this Apple Vision Pro headset is going to launch, and 0:21:05.760 --> 0:21:09.520 the date is February second. Now, if you're not familiar 0:21:09.600 --> 0:21:12.000 with what Apple Vision Pro is, this is what's Apple 0:21:12.040 --> 0:21:15.760 calling a spatial computer. I really call it a VR 0:21:16.000 --> 0:21:19.919 virtual reality or augmented reality headset. It does both, but 0:21:20.119 --> 0:21:23.400 it's a new way of experiencing things. 0:21:23.640 --> 0:21:24.479 You can work in it. 0:21:24.600 --> 0:21:26.880 You can put a computer screen in there, you can 0:21:26.920 --> 0:21:31.000 watch your movies in there, experience entertainment, you can look 0:21:31.040 --> 0:21:33.679 at your photos in this thing. They're going to have 0:21:33.720 --> 0:21:36.800 a bunch of apps available at launch. Disney is on board. 0:21:37.119 --> 0:21:39.800 You'll be able to do a ton of this pretty much, 0:21:40.000 --> 0:21:43.200 all kinds of new things. What's unique is that it's 0:21:43.280 --> 0:21:46.159 really high quality. You control it by your eyes. You 0:21:46.160 --> 0:21:48.359 can actually look on the screen to the thing you 0:21:48.400 --> 0:21:50.320 want to select and it will notice that, and you 0:21:50.359 --> 0:21:52.280 can select it using your hand. You can kind of 0:21:52.280 --> 0:21:55.840 tap your fingers together. There's also voice navigation. Hope it's 0:21:55.880 --> 0:21:56.960 a little bit better than Siri. 0:21:58.080 --> 0:21:58.880 You have gaming. 0:22:00.160 --> 0:22:03.359 It's an infinite canvas, so you can put screens in 0:22:03.400 --> 0:22:07.280 your entire vision area. And it's just it's a wild experience. 0:22:07.560 --> 0:22:10.840 I did it once, hope to be doing it again 0:22:10.960 --> 0:22:16.280 very soon before this thing launches, hopefully. But it's really transformative. 0:22:16.720 --> 0:22:19.520 But here's the thing. It is thirty five hundred dollars, 0:22:19.560 --> 0:22:21.640 so that is going to limit the amount of people 0:22:21.640 --> 0:22:23.800 that are going to purchase this in a big way, 0:22:24.480 --> 0:22:28.440 at least at the start pre orders open on January nineteenth. 0:22:28.480 --> 0:22:31.320 It is going to be available February second and Apple stores. 0:22:31.640 --> 0:22:33.840 If you have prescription lenses, that's going to be an 0:22:33.880 --> 0:22:35.800 extra one hundred and fifty dollars. If you have readers, 0:22:35.840 --> 0:22:38.040 that's an extra ninety nine dollars for the lenses that 0:22:38.080 --> 0:22:40.639 you need to see this thing. But it's kind of 0:22:40.640 --> 0:22:43.760 like having a four K lens on each eye. And 0:22:43.920 --> 0:22:46.640 it's incredible, there's no doubt about it. Apple has done 0:22:46.640 --> 0:22:48.879 their homework and they're doing this better than any company 0:22:48.880 --> 0:22:51.800 I've seen that is doing any sort of VR or 0:22:52.000 --> 0:22:54.439 AR headset. But here's the thing. This is going to 0:22:54.480 --> 0:22:57.479 start a new trend in the industry where there's going 0:22:57.520 --> 0:22:59.720 to be a whole lot of these types of machinery 0:22:59.720 --> 0:23:01.440 out there there. And we saw it a see. Yes, 0:23:01.480 --> 0:23:03.680 there's a whole bunch of these glasses that are like these, 0:23:05.040 --> 0:23:07.280 you know, spatial and not spatial computing. Well yeah, I 0:23:07.280 --> 0:23:10.240 guess they were actually, but just these glasses you put 0:23:10.240 --> 0:23:12.600 on that put a computer in front of your face, 0:23:12.760 --> 0:23:14.400 and and entertainment Netflix. 0:23:14.440 --> 0:23:15.480 I put a couple of them on. 0:23:15.800 --> 0:23:17.400 None of them are as good as Apple, but they're 0:23:17.440 --> 0:23:21.480 all promising, and I think that this entire genre of 0:23:21.560 --> 0:23:24.359 putting glasses on and seeing stuff is going to be 0:23:24.720 --> 0:23:27.359 quite incredible. All right, let's do a question emailed in 0:23:27.400 --> 0:23:29.760 from Steven Hey Rich love your show. I use Apple 0:23:29.800 --> 0:23:31.919 Wallet all the time, but I have store cards that 0:23:31.960 --> 0:23:32.760 I can't store there. 0:23:33.080 --> 0:23:35.320 What would be the best digital wallet app for that? 0:23:35.520 --> 0:23:35.879 Thank you? 0:23:36.760 --> 0:23:40.399 Okay, there is an app called stow Card st o 0:23:40.920 --> 0:23:44.600 c A r D st o c A r D 0:23:45.400 --> 0:23:49.320 And if you haven't Android, Google Wallet will do a 0:23:49.320 --> 0:23:51.720 lot of this. But this this one is kind of 0:23:51.720 --> 0:23:56.120 cool because it does have a lot of retailers on 0:23:56.200 --> 0:23:58.439 board with this. So I'm looking at the mainscreen, It's 0:23:58.480 --> 0:24:04.879 got Duncan's got Gold, Jim cvs, Kroger, Starbucks, Walgreens, Triple A, big, 0:24:04.920 --> 0:24:07.520 lots AARP. Now, if you look in a lot of 0:24:07.520 --> 0:24:10.200 the apps that you download, from these companies, a lot 0:24:10.240 --> 0:24:13.159 of them have an option to send to Google Wallet 0:24:13.240 --> 0:24:14.320 or send to Apple. 0:24:14.040 --> 0:24:16.000 Wallet, so I would try that first. 0:24:16.040 --> 0:24:19.160 Like, for instance, Walgreens, they have that and the benefit 0:24:19.200 --> 0:24:22.080 there is that you get the tap to use it. So, 0:24:22.280 --> 0:24:25.520 for instance, at Walgreens, if you have your Walgreens cards 0:24:25.520 --> 0:24:28.040 stored in Apple Wallet or Google Pay, you'll be able 0:24:28.080 --> 0:24:30.359 to tap at the register to share your number with 0:24:30.400 --> 0:24:33.080 the register. But if you want something that holds all 0:24:33.160 --> 0:24:36.800 these cards, mostly just for organization too. Again, the app 0:24:36.840 --> 0:24:41.560 is called stoke Card sto Card, and it's a great 0:24:41.600 --> 0:24:43.320 way to get organized. I've got a lot of my 0:24:43.359 --> 0:24:45.800 stuff in Apple Wallet. It's funny because I use my 0:24:46.080 --> 0:24:49.280 Apple Wallet the other day Apple Pay and the person 0:24:49.560 --> 0:24:52.640 I was sharing my contact information with an app called 0:24:52.640 --> 0:24:56.280 Popple popl it's like a digital business card, and the 0:24:56.320 --> 0:24:57.879 person's like, oh, you have a lot of cards in 0:24:57.920 --> 0:24:59.439 your wallet. I was like, well, yeah, I carry as 0:24:59.480 --> 0:25:02.000 many as I can. I've got like, you know, my Starbucks, 0:25:02.040 --> 0:25:04.159 I've got my Walgreens, I've got my seven to eleven, 0:25:04.600 --> 0:25:07.720 I've got CVS. I mean, any of these cards that 0:25:07.760 --> 0:25:10.040 I can carry in a digital way to me is 0:25:10.080 --> 0:25:12.359 a much better way of doing that, all right. If 0:25:12.359 --> 0:25:14.160 you want a link to anything I mentioned here on 0:25:14.200 --> 0:25:17.960 the show, you can go to keep notes in real time. 0:25:18.040 --> 0:25:20.000 So if you heard me mention something like an app 0:25:20.040 --> 0:25:22.880 like I just did, you can go to what's the wiki? 0:25:23.160 --> 0:25:28.600 It's rich on tech dot tv slash wiki wiki. If 0:25:28.600 --> 0:25:30.760 you want more information on a guest, it is all 0:25:30.840 --> 0:25:34.240 updated in real time. If you want to see information 0:25:34.280 --> 0:25:37.040 about the show after it airs, you can go to 0:25:37.320 --> 0:25:40.439 rich on tech dot tv. There's usually an episode page 0:25:40.480 --> 0:25:42.760 there with all the links there as well. But I 0:25:42.880 --> 0:25:45.160 try to put these links in as much as possible 0:25:45.160 --> 0:25:47.119 because I know you're listening, and I know that you 0:25:47.160 --> 0:25:49.080 want to get these links, and you're not listening with 0:25:49.119 --> 0:25:51.520 a pencil and paper, So it's a much easier way 0:25:51.640 --> 0:25:54.399 of right or getting the information that I talk about. 0:25:54.840 --> 0:25:57.160 All right, Coming up, we still got lots of great guests. 0:25:57.280 --> 0:26:01.720 We've got Michael Fisher, who created a physical keyboard for 0:26:01.800 --> 0:26:02.639 the iPhone. 0:26:02.720 --> 0:26:04.200 We're going to hear an interview with him. 0:26:04.240 --> 0:26:06.480 Plus I'm going to tell you about some more of 0:26:06.520 --> 0:26:10.479 the stuff I saw at CS, including a self rocking 0:26:10.800 --> 0:26:13.800 baby stroller. You don't even have to rock your baby anymore. 0:26:13.920 --> 0:26:19.680 You're listening to Rich on Tech. Welcome back to Rich 0:26:19.720 --> 0:26:22.440 on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking 0:26:22.520 --> 0:26:27.639 technology live from Las Vegas today, recovering from CS twenty 0:26:27.800 --> 0:26:32.800 twenty four. Let's go to line too. Melody is in Carlsbad, Melody. 0:26:32.840 --> 0:26:33.800 You're on with Rich. 0:26:38.560 --> 0:26:39.520 Melody. Are you there? 0:26:41.040 --> 0:26:42.719 I am here, Oh there you are. 0:26:42.800 --> 0:26:44.480 Hello, Welcome to the show. 0:26:45.440 --> 0:26:45.840 Thank you. 0:26:47.680 --> 0:26:54.600 Several years ago I retired, and during my tenure as 0:26:55.400 --> 0:26:59.560 a worker for forty some years, I had. 0:26:59.400 --> 0:27:01.240 To use I used. 0:27:02.400 --> 0:27:07.600 The Microsoft Word program to do a lot of documents 0:27:07.640 --> 0:27:12.360 and newsletters, et cetera. And those were on my home computer. 0:27:13.280 --> 0:27:20.000 And so I've continued with that software. But at some point, 0:27:20.040 --> 0:27:23.760 maybe about three or four years ago, they changed it 0:27:23.880 --> 0:27:30.200 to a subscription program where I had to pay sixty 0:27:30.280 --> 0:27:34.159 some bucks a year to continue to use the software. 0:27:35.119 --> 0:27:40.680 But sure, I no longer have to do documents and newsletters, 0:27:40.920 --> 0:27:42.240 and I really don't. 0:27:42.040 --> 0:27:43.080 Use it that much. 0:27:43.800 --> 0:27:46.960 But yes, don't want to pay that money, right, But 0:27:47.119 --> 0:27:48.400 will I be able. 0:27:48.160 --> 0:27:54.639 To reference the documents I have previously made with Words 0:27:55.040 --> 0:27:57.360 if I do not have the subscription? 0:27:58.080 --> 0:27:58.679 Absolutely? 0:27:59.160 --> 0:27:59.720 Absolutely. 0:28:00.040 --> 0:28:02.080 This used to be very complicated in the past. It 0:28:02.160 --> 0:28:05.240 is not anymore thanks to so many free tools out there, 0:28:05.600 --> 0:28:07.920 so you'll be just fine. You can continue to make 0:28:07.960 --> 0:28:10.760 these documents in the word format as much as you want, 0:28:11.280 --> 0:28:14.000 and there will be many ways to access them later. 0:28:14.440 --> 0:28:16.159 The easiest way do you have a Gmail or a 0:28:16.200 --> 0:28:22.280 Google account? Yeah, okay, easiest way Google Docs. So take these. 0:28:22.520 --> 0:28:24.400 You can actually do this right now if you want. 0:28:24.680 --> 0:28:27.800 You can go to Google Drive, or you can go 0:28:27.840 --> 0:28:30.640 to Google Docs and you can drag and drop one 0:28:30.640 --> 0:28:35.240 of these files into the screen and it will put 0:28:35.240 --> 0:28:37.199 it into Google Drive, Google Docs, and then you can 0:28:37.240 --> 0:28:39.720 open it and Google will make it so that you 0:28:39.760 --> 0:28:42.240 can edit that file, you can read that file, whatever 0:28:42.280 --> 0:28:44.360 you need to do. It will convert it for you 0:28:44.920 --> 0:28:47.120 on the fly, and so you'll be able to edit, 0:28:47.200 --> 0:28:48.680 you'll be able to read it, you'll be able to 0:28:48.680 --> 0:28:52.200 access it. There will be no there will be no 0:28:52.320 --> 0:28:55.800 issues here whatsoever. So Melody, you can continue to do this, 0:28:56.440 --> 0:28:58.160 but I would recommend that there are many other ways 0:28:58.200 --> 0:28:59.600 as well. If you have a Mac computer, you can 0:28:59.680 --> 0:29:05.560 use pay There are some free office suites online. There 0:29:05.560 --> 0:29:09.160 are some popular ones like open Office and things like that. 0:29:09.240 --> 0:29:12.520 So I mean there's a lot out there, but I 0:29:12.560 --> 0:29:15.040 think that Google Docs is the easiest. That's the one 0:29:15.040 --> 0:29:18.360 that I use, and I think that you're gonna find 0:29:18.360 --> 0:29:21.440 it very very simple to just open these documents, edit 0:29:21.480 --> 0:29:23.680 them right in your web browser and have no problem 0:29:23.720 --> 0:29:26.160 with that whatsoever. Thanks for the call, Melody, appreciate it. 0:29:28.360 --> 0:29:33.160 Let's see here. Oh so many things that I talked 0:29:33.160 --> 0:29:33.720 about this week. 0:29:33.760 --> 0:29:35.800 I just wanted to share one quick tip. Okay. 0:29:36.080 --> 0:29:39.320 I was in a briefing and someone did something on 0:29:39.360 --> 0:29:42.520 their smartphone and I'd never seen that before. And what 0:29:42.600 --> 0:29:44.800 they did was this is on Android, by the way, 0:29:45.120 --> 0:29:47.160 And what they did was they were in their messaging 0:29:47.200 --> 0:29:49.080 app okay, and you can try this if you have 0:29:49.080 --> 0:29:51.800 an Android phone, go ahead, follow along with me. So 0:29:51.840 --> 0:29:54.480 go to your messages app, okay, open up a text 0:29:54.480 --> 0:29:58.080 messaging thread, and just pinch on the page to zoom 0:29:58.120 --> 0:29:59.680 like you would pinch on a picture to zoom out 0:29:59.720 --> 0:30:03.560 or zoo in, and the text gets bigger or smaller. 0:30:04.000 --> 0:30:06.200 I had never seen that before. I've been covering this 0:30:06.200 --> 0:30:09.560 stuff for so long, I have never seen that tip before. 0:30:09.600 --> 0:30:12.080 So I posted to my Instagram at rich on Tech, 0:30:12.560 --> 0:30:14.920 and you know a lot of people said, hey, where 0:30:14.920 --> 0:30:16.800 if you've been demro, come on, I know all about that, 0:30:16.920 --> 0:30:19.400 but you know the reality is, if I had not 0:30:19.520 --> 0:30:21.720 seen that before. I am sure there are other people 0:30:21.760 --> 0:30:24.120 that have not seen that before. Now, if you try 0:30:24.120 --> 0:30:26.680 this on an iPhone, it does not work. So Apple, 0:30:26.920 --> 0:30:29.480 I know you're listening. Please give us this feature on 0:30:29.520 --> 0:30:32.240 the iPhone as well, because you know people want Sometimes 0:30:32.280 --> 0:30:34.120 you want to zoom in, sometimes you want to zoom out, 0:30:34.160 --> 0:30:36.240 depending on you know, whether we'rearing glasses or not, or 0:30:36.280 --> 0:30:38.360 you want to just see something more clearly. But this 0:30:38.520 --> 0:30:42.560 is a very easy way on Android, Samsung Pixel, any 0:30:42.600 --> 0:30:45.120 Android phone. It's kind of built into the messaging app. 0:30:45.440 --> 0:30:45.920 Just go ahead. 0:30:45.920 --> 0:30:48.080 If you ever need to zoom in on something, just 0:30:48.440 --> 0:30:51.160 select the message and pinch to zoom in or out. 0:30:51.480 --> 0:30:54.000 You can see that little quick tip on my instagram 0:30:54.040 --> 0:30:58.480 at rich On Tech. Let's see here this this is 0:30:58.520 --> 0:31:01.000 something that I saw at see Yes, this was probably 0:31:01.040 --> 0:31:04.600 one of the first gadgets. I'm probably gonna butcher the 0:31:04.680 --> 0:31:07.840 name here, but it's called the glux Kin and g 0:31:08.080 --> 0:31:11.240 l ux ki nd I said glux kind. That is 0:31:11.280 --> 0:31:14.520 not how you say it. It's gluck skin. This is 0:31:14.560 --> 0:31:18.600 a smart self rocking stroller. Now, this company made waves, 0:31:18.680 --> 0:31:21.160 I think about last year because they had a viral 0:31:21.400 --> 0:31:25.320 video that showed the stroller being pushed by itself, and 0:31:25.400 --> 0:31:27.719 I did clarify with the company. This thing is an 0:31:27.760 --> 0:31:30.360 AI stroller that has three main things it can do. 0:31:31.080 --> 0:31:32.920 Number one, this is the new version by the way. 0:31:33.280 --> 0:31:36.280 Number one, it has an electric motor to help you 0:31:36.320 --> 0:31:38.560 push it, so it's like an e bike. You push 0:31:38.640 --> 0:31:40.479 this stroller. The harder you push it, the more it 0:31:40.480 --> 0:31:42.160 helps you. So if you're trying to go up a hill, 0:31:42.400 --> 0:31:44.320 you're trying to go on a long stroller walk with 0:31:44.360 --> 0:31:47.040 your kid, this is basically an e bike of strollers. 0:31:47.160 --> 0:31:50.640 That's wild. Number two, it has a built in speaker 0:31:50.640 --> 0:31:53.600 that plays white noise to soothe your baby, so you 0:31:53.680 --> 0:31:57.560 know that's kind of cool. Number Three, it rocks itself 0:31:57.720 --> 0:32:01.520 so it can put your baby to sleep. There's also 0:32:01.600 --> 0:32:04.080 a front camera on this thing, so if someone tries 0:32:04.120 --> 0:32:06.760 to push your baby stroller that is not you, it 0:32:06.840 --> 0:32:09.920 won't move. So strangers can't push this baby stroller, unless, 0:32:09.920 --> 0:32:11.800 of course, you authorize them if you have a babysitter 0:32:11.880 --> 0:32:14.680 or something like that. This is about thirty three hundred dollars. 0:32:15.160 --> 0:32:18.080 It is again it's called the Glux Can. I think 0:32:18.120 --> 0:32:20.600 there's two names. There's the Ella and then there's another one. 0:32:20.880 --> 0:32:23.320 Now this one, this is I guess, a cheaper version 0:32:23.480 --> 0:32:25.360 of the one that we saw last year in the 0:32:25.440 --> 0:32:28.440 viral video that actually will push your baby by itself. 0:32:28.440 --> 0:32:31.200 Now here's the thing. It does not push the stroller 0:32:31.240 --> 0:32:33.600 when the baby is insides. There must be some sort 0:32:33.640 --> 0:32:37.240 of weight sensor in the stroller, because I did clarify 0:32:37.320 --> 0:32:39.640 with the person who runs the company and he said, no, no, no, 0:32:39.880 --> 0:32:42.280 we are not pushing the baby by itself. And I 0:32:42.280 --> 0:32:44.520 think that's why that video went viral because people just 0:32:44.560 --> 0:32:47.959 assume that this stroller was pushing the baby by itself. 0:32:48.000 --> 0:32:52.440 It was not doing that. So again, Gluxkin smart self 0:32:52.640 --> 0:32:55.040 rocking stroller. I think a lot of people it was 0:32:55.040 --> 0:32:57.720 getting a lot of attention at the show because people 0:32:57.720 --> 0:32:59.600 were just sitting there like, wait, what is happening here 0:32:59.640 --> 0:33:02.000 right now? What is this stroller doing all by itself? 0:33:03.320 --> 0:33:05.280 All right? If you want links to anything I mentioned again, 0:33:05.320 --> 0:33:09.720 the website is rich on Tech dot TV. If you 0:33:09.760 --> 0:33:12.360 want to see the stuff I posted on Instagram from 0:33:12.480 --> 0:33:16.320 CS you can go to my instagram at rich on Tech. 0:33:16.800 --> 0:33:19.480 There I've posted everything. Let me see what's gone the 0:33:19.520 --> 0:33:21.840 most sort of viral here so far? 0:33:22.600 --> 0:33:24.680 It looks like I'll just tell you the stuff that 0:33:24.720 --> 0:33:25.200 I posted. 0:33:25.200 --> 0:33:30.040 So I posted a the LG clear transparent TVs, a 0:33:30.160 --> 0:33:34.000 foldable TV. Oh, the guy kicking the robot. They've got 0:33:34.000 --> 0:33:36.280 this robot that you can kick and it will still 0:33:36.320 --> 0:33:39.560 stay up standing. And that was really scary because we 0:33:39.640 --> 0:33:41.440 know these robots are gonna kick back one day. 0:33:42.600 --> 0:33:44.840 Let's see, we've got an ice cream robot machine. 0:33:45.400 --> 0:33:47.760 Some fun little plugs that look like an old school 0:33:47.800 --> 0:33:51.120 Apple computer that have a screen on them. Oh. 0:33:51.160 --> 0:33:53.480 The one that did really well too is this lock. 0:33:54.000 --> 0:33:56.520 It's a lock that has a fingerprint on it, so 0:33:56.560 --> 0:33:58.880 it's like a TSA lock for your luggage, but you 0:33:58.920 --> 0:34:01.760 can just use your fingerprint to unlock. Its company called 0:34:01.800 --> 0:34:04.520 Benji Lock. All right, Triple eight rich one on one 0:34:04.560 --> 0:34:07.520 eighty eight seven four to two four to one zero one. 0:34:07.520 --> 0:34:09.879 More rich on Tech coming your way live from Las 0:34:09.960 --> 0:34:14.680 Vegas right after this. Welcome back to rich on Tech. 0:34:14.840 --> 0:34:18.080 Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology at 0:34:18.120 --> 0:34:21.640 Triple eight rich one o one eight eight eight seven 0:34:21.760 --> 0:34:26.320 four to two four one zero one website, richon Tech 0:34:26.600 --> 0:34:31.240 dot TV. Hit the contact link to send me an email. 0:34:31.320 --> 0:34:34.000 I will hopefully get to it on today's show. 0:34:35.440 --> 0:34:35.960 Let's see. 0:34:36.000 --> 0:34:39.840 We are broadcasting live from Las Vegas. Recovering from CS 0:34:39.960 --> 0:34:44.319 got an email from Michelle Listener Michelle, and Michelle says 0:34:44.320 --> 0:34:46.720 about CES, please talk about the expense of even going 0:34:46.760 --> 0:34:48.960 to CS and who can go? It is a major 0:34:49.040 --> 0:34:54.800 production and expensive hotel room, resort fees, shoes. Who can attend? Yes, 0:34:54.840 --> 0:34:58.440 it is very very expensive and in fact, I used 0:34:58.480 --> 0:35:01.000 to roll with a crew of about five people at CS. 0:35:01.040 --> 0:35:02.520 I think we're now down to two. Well, I know 0:35:02.560 --> 0:35:05.040 we're now down to two, and we do a lot. 0:35:05.080 --> 0:35:07.479 We do a lot. We are working very long days. 0:35:07.520 --> 0:35:11.120 It is very expensive, it really really is. And you know, 0:35:11.920 --> 0:35:15.080 I try to keep things under control cost wise. I 0:35:15.120 --> 0:35:17.359 try to take you know, public transit, the monorail, all 0:35:17.360 --> 0:35:20.719 that good stuff, but it can add up quick. And 0:35:20.840 --> 0:35:25.080 who can go? So it is open to industry professionals, 0:35:25.080 --> 0:35:28.000 so people in the tech world, people that are journalists 0:35:28.040 --> 0:35:31.239 and also exhibitors, so you do have to be one 0:35:31.239 --> 0:35:33.160 of those. Is not open to the public, although every 0:35:33.200 --> 0:35:36.000 year I tell CS, I said, hey, open one day 0:35:36.040 --> 0:35:36.560 to the public. 0:35:36.600 --> 0:35:38.080 You will make a ton of money. 0:35:39.360 --> 0:35:39.759 One of the. 0:35:39.680 --> 0:35:42.799 Gadgets that was unveiled here is clicks. It brings a 0:35:42.840 --> 0:35:46.560 real keyboard to the iPhone and this connects to your iPhone. 0:35:46.560 --> 0:35:48.120 It's kind of like a case, although they don't call 0:35:48.120 --> 0:35:50.360 it that, and it's one hundred and thirty nine dollars 0:35:50.600 --> 0:35:54.319 and it brings a physical keyboard to the iPhone. This 0:35:54.480 --> 0:35:58.880 was invented by Mobile Tech reviewers including Mister Mobile, Michael Fisher, 0:35:58.920 --> 0:36:02.320 and Crackberry. Kevin and I got to talk to Michael 0:36:02.320 --> 0:36:06.200 Fisher mister Mobile about this new Clicks keyboard. Let's hear 0:36:06.360 --> 0:36:07.920 why he came up with this. 0:36:08.719 --> 0:36:11.920 Clicks is a creator keyboard made for the iPhone to 0:36:11.960 --> 0:36:15.279 give you a physical, quirity keyboard that gives you shortcuts 0:36:15.680 --> 0:36:19.760 and more sensation when typing and gives you your screen 0:36:19.760 --> 0:36:23.360 space back. Every phone today kind of looks the same, 0:36:23.640 --> 0:36:27.239 and every phone today is quite capable. We had to 0:36:27.239 --> 0:36:29.880 throw buttons away about seventeen years to do that as 0:36:29.920 --> 0:36:33.160 a society, but in doing so, we sacrificed a lot 0:36:33.160 --> 0:36:35.560 of the utility and frankly a lot of the fun 0:36:35.719 --> 0:36:39.160 that buttons still provide. So we thought why not bring 0:36:39.200 --> 0:36:41.799 them back. The deal with adding a keyboard to a 0:36:41.800 --> 0:36:44.120 phone is that you have to attach it somehow, right, 0:36:44.160 --> 0:36:46.879 so you can make a standalone keyboard that just plugs in, 0:36:46.960 --> 0:36:50.640 but that introduces some challenges, there's durability issues, and most 0:36:50.640 --> 0:36:53.200 people do use a case on their phone, So we 0:36:53.200 --> 0:36:55.719 don't call this a case because that has different criteria. 0:36:55.800 --> 0:36:58.120 There's different things you have to you know, guarantee, but. 0:36:58.719 --> 0:37:01.560 It is it will protect it scratches, certainly, it'll do 0:37:01.600 --> 0:37:04.120 most things that people expect a case to do. While 0:37:04.160 --> 0:37:06.480 adding the thing we want to do for generation one, 0:37:06.719 --> 0:37:07.960 which is a physical keyboard. 0:37:08.120 --> 0:37:09.880 So do you expect people to keep this on their 0:37:09.920 --> 0:37:11.799 phone all the time or put it on when they 0:37:11.840 --> 0:37:12.200 need it. 0:37:12.680 --> 0:37:14.880 I tend to keep it on all the time. But 0:37:15.000 --> 0:37:17.680 what is nice is that you can remove it or 0:37:17.880 --> 0:37:21.360 add it with very little hassle. So similar to an iPad. 0:37:21.600 --> 0:37:23.840 You know, you see an iPad people use a magic keyboard. 0:37:23.840 --> 0:37:26.920 Sometimes people pop it off when they don't need it. 0:37:26.920 --> 0:37:29.160 It's just as easy to do that with clicks. So 0:37:29.320 --> 0:37:30.840 you can kind of have your own experience. 0:37:31.360 --> 0:37:34.520 What's the benefit of a physical keyboard on the iPhone? 0:37:35.160 --> 0:37:37.000 What's nice is when you add a physical keyboard to 0:37:37.000 --> 0:37:39.440 the iPhone, you get all kinds of surprises, like keyboard 0:37:39.440 --> 0:37:41.600 shortcuts that work on your MacBook or on your mac 0:37:41.719 --> 0:37:44.680 or on your iPad also work here. Command space lets 0:37:44.680 --> 0:37:47.160 you search for something if you're in Safari and you 0:37:47.160 --> 0:37:49.359 want to open up a new tab command and does that. 0:37:49.480 --> 0:37:51.680 So these kind of muscle memory things that have been 0:37:51.680 --> 0:37:54.440 built in over twenty years of using computers and iPads 0:37:54.480 --> 0:37:57.359 also work here. And when you're doing that, say you're 0:37:57.400 --> 0:38:01.640 in a long message thread, you start typing, and you 0:38:01.760 --> 0:38:05.040 still have your entire screen. If you don't have clicks 0:38:05.040 --> 0:38:07.800 attached to your virtual keyboard, pops up and it uses 0:38:07.880 --> 0:38:10.680 up half of your available screen real estate. So having 0:38:10.680 --> 0:38:12.400 the physical keyboard allows you to keep all of that. 0:38:12.440 --> 0:38:16.000 And also, look, I'm kind of an old timer. I 0:38:16.040 --> 0:38:19.040 came up on quarity keyboards that were physical in nature. 0:38:19.120 --> 0:38:21.880 It's more fun to type on, it's a more tactle, 0:38:21.920 --> 0:38:24.160 it's a more personal it's more human experience for me 0:38:24.640 --> 0:38:25.640 than typing on glass. 0:38:26.120 --> 0:38:27.719 And if you need to type on glass, you can 0:38:27.760 --> 0:38:28.279 still do that. 0:38:29.120 --> 0:38:31.520 Now you've done a long time without a physical keyboard 0:38:31.680 --> 0:38:34.600 on a phone. Yeah, So do you think people are 0:38:34.640 --> 0:38:36.560 ready to bring this back into their lives? 0:38:37.600 --> 0:38:38.799 Is everyone ready to do it? 0:38:38.840 --> 0:38:38.920 No? 0:38:39.080 --> 0:38:40.760 And it's you know, it's not a product for everybody 0:38:40.800 --> 0:38:41.319 for sure, But. 0:38:41.320 --> 0:38:45.799 I think people who have missed a physical keyboard will 0:38:45.840 --> 0:38:49.600 find this not only nostalgic but also useful in a 0:38:49.600 --> 0:38:52.880 way that you know the old physical keyboards used to be, 0:38:53.120 --> 0:38:56.680 and people who have never used them before will, I think, 0:38:56.800 --> 0:38:59.440 also find a great deal of pleasure, not just in 0:39:00.000 --> 0:39:03.120 the utility, in the screen space, the things that are pragmatic, 0:39:03.960 --> 0:39:06.759 but also the fun. Fun should be a consideration when 0:39:06.800 --> 0:39:07.880 you're buying a phone, shouldn't that. 0:39:08.960 --> 0:39:12.560 Speaking of which, you review products for a living. Yeah, 0:39:12.640 --> 0:39:15.560 you sort of reviewed your own product for your launch 0:39:15.600 --> 0:39:18.319 sort of, Yes, what is it like to be on 0:39:18.360 --> 0:39:21.200 the other side of putting out a product versus reviewing 0:39:21.200 --> 0:39:22.120 someone else's product? 0:39:22.280 --> 0:39:24.680 It was astute segue because it is fun. 0:39:25.040 --> 0:39:27.600 It is I've been doing reviews for twelve years and 0:39:27.680 --> 0:39:29.799 I've been sitting there saying like, okay, well thank you, 0:39:29.840 --> 0:39:31.359 oh impress me, what did you make? 0:39:31.400 --> 0:39:31.520 Oh? 0:39:31.520 --> 0:39:33.359 Okay, well this is kind of okay, but all right. 0:39:34.400 --> 0:39:37.520 Being on the other side gives you a real clear 0:39:37.600 --> 0:39:40.640 window into how difficult it is to build something, how 0:39:40.680 --> 0:39:45.160 much compromise might be required, but also how fun it 0:39:45.200 --> 0:39:47.160 is to collaborate with people who are better at different 0:39:47.239 --> 0:39:50.879 things than you. And it's very satisfying to ship something 0:39:50.880 --> 0:39:53.560 you can actually touch instead of a creative product which 0:39:53.600 --> 0:39:57.640 is you know more ethereal. This is our first product. 0:39:58.160 --> 0:40:00.760 We built a company, we didn't just build a product. 0:40:00.840 --> 0:40:03.040 So this is the beginning of something that I'm very 0:40:03.120 --> 0:40:05.880 satisfied with. But there's a lot more to come that 0:40:05.960 --> 0:40:08.560 we're not talking about YETNA, I'm even more excited for that. 0:40:09.960 --> 0:40:14.040 All right, Thanks mister Mobile. That is mister Mobile. Michael Fisher, 0:40:14.560 --> 0:40:19.280 creator of the Clicks keyboard accessory for iPhone. One hundred 0:40:19.280 --> 0:40:22.359 and thirty nine dollars ships on February first. I did 0:40:22.360 --> 0:40:25.719 have a chance to try typing on it, and yeah, 0:40:25.719 --> 0:40:28.279 it feels like the old school BlackBerry. It's tactile, you 0:40:28.360 --> 0:40:31.560 feel it. It does free up the screen real estate. 0:40:31.600 --> 0:40:33.680 I never really thought about that on the iPhone, how 0:40:33.760 --> 0:40:36.840 much the keyboard takes up on the screen. But the 0:40:36.960 --> 0:40:40.239 question is are you ready to go back to that. 0:40:40.320 --> 0:40:42.560 I feel like so many people have gotten used to 0:40:43.200 --> 0:40:45.920 not having a keyboard for the iPhone, But at the 0:40:45.920 --> 0:40:48.800 same time, a lot of people are going mobile first, 0:40:48.880 --> 0:40:50.840 and so if you can just throw this in your bag, 0:40:51.200 --> 0:40:53.320 go on a trip, and it helps you type faster 0:40:53.400 --> 0:40:56.759 when you're back in your hotel room or whatever. I 0:40:56.800 --> 0:40:59.160 can see the allure one hundred and thirty nine dollars. 0:40:59.239 --> 0:41:04.280 Ships start February first. The website is clicks dot tech. 0:41:04.800 --> 0:41:07.960 Clicks dot tech if you want to check out the 0:41:08.160 --> 0:41:12.479 new creator keyboard for the iPhone. All right, a couple 0:41:12.480 --> 0:41:16.359 other things I saw at CES I thought were quite interesting. 0:41:17.360 --> 0:41:21.680 Brunswick this is a boat company. They let me dock 0:41:21.920 --> 0:41:25.080 a boat. Well it actually a computer did it, because 0:41:25.120 --> 0:41:29.040 now they have self docking boat technology. And when I 0:41:29.080 --> 0:41:31.480 heard this, I said, no way. I was literally just 0:41:31.520 --> 0:41:33.400 talking about this. I did a story with that electric 0:41:33.400 --> 0:41:36.399 boat company ARC a couple of weeks ago, and I said, 0:41:36.400 --> 0:41:38.920 now I want a boat because this thing looks so cool, 0:41:38.960 --> 0:41:40.640 this electric boat. But if you can figure out how 0:41:40.640 --> 0:41:44.200 to dock it automatically, then I'm in. Because I don't 0:41:44.200 --> 0:41:45.759 know how to dock a boat. And yeah, I could 0:41:45.760 --> 0:41:48.520 probably learn, but I feel like that is a sense 0:41:48.880 --> 0:41:52.160 a source of apprehension for many people that want to 0:41:52.160 --> 0:41:54.600 get a boat. They're just worried about docking it. It's 0:41:54.600 --> 0:41:56.920 not like parking a car, where it's pretty straightforward. You know, 0:41:57.000 --> 0:41:59.200 the boat is floating, it's moving, it can hit into 0:41:59.400 --> 0:42:04.680 the dock. And so this technology is AI and sensors 0:42:05.360 --> 0:42:07.360 and so the way I tried it out was with 0:42:07.440 --> 0:42:10.960 a interactive simulator which was very very real by the way, 0:42:11.600 --> 0:42:14.040 got in this boat and you basically get to a dock. 0:42:14.239 --> 0:42:17.800 The system scans the dock and you choose a slip 0:42:17.920 --> 0:42:19.799 that you want to go into and says, hey, do you. 0:42:19.800 --> 0:42:21.000 Want to back in or do you want to go 0:42:21.040 --> 0:42:21.560 in forward? 0:42:21.920 --> 0:42:24.200 You choose that, and then the boat takes over and 0:42:24.280 --> 0:42:26.960 it literally controls the boat and docks it for you 0:42:27.560 --> 0:42:32.360 with very very precision steering. And it worked. Now, of 0:42:32.400 --> 0:42:34.640 course this was a simulator. I'm not out actually on 0:42:34.680 --> 0:42:37.000 the water trying this out. But you know, this is 0:42:37.040 --> 0:42:39.080 what's going to happen with boats. They are going to 0:42:39.320 --> 0:42:43.359 soon dock themselves in a very smart way. Again, this 0:42:43.400 --> 0:42:48.200 is from a company called Brunswick, and autonomous boat technology 0:42:48.400 --> 0:42:50.960 is coming soon to a boat near you. And I 0:42:51.000 --> 0:42:54.600 got to say I was very impressed with their simulation 0:42:54.960 --> 0:42:56.480 because I thought it was going to be kind of hokey, 0:42:56.960 --> 0:42:59.719 and the whole room kind of lit up and it 0:42:59.760 --> 0:43:01.920 felt like I was on a boat, and actually the 0:43:02.080 --> 0:43:04.600 entire thing moved so like the whole like boat that 0:43:04.640 --> 0:43:06.440 I was standing in. I didn't realize that it was 0:43:06.520 --> 0:43:09.160 like moving, so it really did move. It was it 0:43:09.200 --> 0:43:12.520 was pretty wild. This was also interesting, but this was 0:43:12.520 --> 0:43:16.880 more just eye candy. At ces A folding TV c 0:43:17.160 --> 0:43:20.520 Seed this is an Austrian company showed off a one 0:43:20.640 --> 0:43:24.920 hundred and thirty seven inch folding TV. So they say 0:43:24.960 --> 0:43:27.600 it's the world's first unfolding one hundred and thirty seven 0:43:27.640 --> 0:43:31.399 inch four K TV. It folds and unfolds in about 0:43:31.480 --> 0:43:34.160 ninety seconds, and it looked like it was like four 0:43:34.200 --> 0:43:37.520 TV screens, so it sort of folds up accordion style. Now, 0:43:37.520 --> 0:43:39.040 when I went to the booth, I said, hey, can 0:43:39.080 --> 0:43:40.560 you fold and unfold this thing for me? 0:43:40.600 --> 0:43:41.799 And the guy gave me a hard time. 0:43:42.040 --> 0:43:44.760 I said, dude, if you are showing off a foldable 0:43:44.800 --> 0:43:47.680 TV and you know someone comes up to you that 0:43:47.760 --> 0:43:50.080 wants to get video of this for TV and you 0:43:50.120 --> 0:43:52.760 know social media, you got to show the TV folding. 0:43:52.800 --> 0:43:54.520 They said, oh, we're only doing it once an hour. 0:43:54.880 --> 0:43:56.640 I said no, no, no, you gotta do this. Come on, 0:43:57.080 --> 0:43:58.680 and so he said, all right, fine, we'll do it. 0:43:58.719 --> 0:44:00.800 And so he folded it up and it's it's really cool. 0:44:01.280 --> 0:44:03.839 And I said, well, why does anyone need this? And 0:44:03.880 --> 0:44:06.360 he said, well, you know number one, if you have 0:44:06.480 --> 0:44:10.959 like a penthouse. Yeah, we're talking very very rich situation here. 0:44:11.080 --> 0:44:12.640 If you have a penthouse and you have a view 0:44:12.680 --> 0:44:15.680 that you don't want interrupted by a TV, you put 0:44:15.680 --> 0:44:17.640 this TV in front of it. It folds up and 0:44:17.680 --> 0:44:19.879 the TV's gone. I said, all right, that's fine. He goes, 0:44:19.960 --> 0:44:22.360 And honestly, it's the spectacle of the thing. So I 0:44:22.360 --> 0:44:24.959 guess if you have a penthouse and a foldable TV, 0:44:25.360 --> 0:44:27.600 you know you're living life in a large way and 0:44:27.760 --> 0:44:30.560 you're not worried about the Oh about two hundred thousand 0:44:30.560 --> 0:44:34.799 dollars for this thing, So not for me, but I 0:44:34.840 --> 0:44:37.040 thought it was really really cool. And I just love 0:44:37.080 --> 0:44:41.120 that these TV manufacturers just keep pushing the envelope with 0:44:41.360 --> 0:44:45.240 the form factor of the TV. So again, this company 0:44:45.320 --> 0:44:48.840 is C Seed, the letter C and the name Seed. 0:44:49.320 --> 0:44:52.120 It is a company out of Austria. And they told me, 0:44:52.120 --> 0:44:53.759 they said, they're actually going to have a showroom in 0:44:53.800 --> 0:44:55.920 Los Angeles. You'll be able to actually see this thing. 0:44:56.520 --> 0:44:59.600 And why not, right, why not have a foldable TV 0:44:59.600 --> 0:45:00.880 for a couple hundred thousand dollars? 0:45:01.000 --> 0:45:01.319 All right? 0:45:01.320 --> 0:45:03.320 Coming up on the show, we still got many more guests. 0:45:03.320 --> 0:45:06.560 We got Samir Samant of Google. He's gonna talk about 0:45:06.600 --> 0:45:09.160 what's new when it comes to Android. We've got the 0:45:09.480 --> 0:45:12.160 creator and co founder of Telly. He's gonna talk about 0:45:12.160 --> 0:45:14.560 as free TV that you can get. And we're gonna 0:45:14.600 --> 0:45:18.200 talk bitcoin. What is going on with bitcoin? Big big 0:45:18.239 --> 0:45:20.919 moves this week eighty eight Rich one on one eight 0:45:21.000 --> 0:45:23.920 eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:45:24.120 --> 0:45:28.839 This is Rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. 0:45:28.960 --> 0:45:32.040 Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, live from Las Vegas. 0:45:32.640 --> 0:45:34.880 I think I'm the only person that's not hungover this 0:45:34.960 --> 0:45:37.799 morning in Las Vegas. Believe me, you can tell people 0:45:37.840 --> 0:45:39.520 are like, you know, they're Dragon Vegas. 0:45:39.560 --> 0:45:39.920 At night. 0:45:40.040 --> 0:45:41.080 Oh, it's a party. 0:45:41.120 --> 0:45:43.920 Everyone's happy, everyone's crazy, everyone's wild. 0:45:44.400 --> 0:45:47.480 In the morning. Oh, it is a totally different story here. 0:45:48.000 --> 0:45:49.440 The sun, oh, the. 0:45:49.560 --> 0:45:54.839 Sun, the you know, the the stragglers, people waking up late. Ugh, 0:45:55.800 --> 0:45:57.960 I mean, believe me, it's you know, I have my 0:45:58.120 --> 0:46:01.239 fair share of fun here, but uh, you know, not 0:46:01.640 --> 0:46:04.240 on a radio day. All right. Steve is in Glendale. Steve, 0:46:04.400 --> 0:46:06.640 you are on with Rich Welcome to the show. 0:46:09.239 --> 0:46:11.600 Hello, Rich, Hello Steve. 0:46:11.680 --> 0:46:12.200 What's up? 0:46:14.280 --> 0:46:18.480 So I got a Facebook business page. I'm a professional 0:46:18.560 --> 0:46:24.040 handy man in Glendale, California, and I made a post 0:46:24.840 --> 0:46:29.480 and I've gotten this message before I got a message. 0:46:29.560 --> 0:46:34.160 I actually got four separate messages. Your Facebook page is 0:46:34.280 --> 0:46:39.040 expect to be permanently removed due to post the post 0:46:39.120 --> 0:46:45.600 violating our trademark rice blah blah blah. You know it's 0:46:45.640 --> 0:46:50.960 going to be removed, and and then you know it's 0:46:51.040 --> 0:46:55.759 But it's from It's at the top, it's headings from 0:46:55.960 --> 0:47:00.719 Katie Estes and it shows this weird logo support and 0:47:00.840 --> 0:47:04.640 I think it's probably fishing. It's just trying to scare me, 0:47:04.680 --> 0:47:07.280 and I'm not and I'm I've learned not to click 0:47:07.320 --> 0:47:08.440 on strange links. 0:47:08.520 --> 0:47:11.520 And how can I help? 0:47:11.640 --> 0:47:15.200 It's from it's from Facebook dot t r. 0:47:15.320 --> 0:47:20.239 O okay, and it sounds like a website, So how 0:47:20.239 --> 0:47:21.640 can I help? Did you get hacked? 0:47:22.040 --> 0:47:26.280 Well, I mean I haven't. I'm just I'm just should 0:47:26.320 --> 0:47:27.480 I pay tention to that? 0:47:27.800 --> 0:47:29.040 Okay, Okay, good question. 0:47:29.200 --> 0:47:31.600 Just ignore them as spam yep, yep. 0:47:31.600 --> 0:47:33.240 One hundred percent ignores spam. 0:47:33.360 --> 0:47:36.680 These are these are very I'm telling you, Steve, there 0:47:36.719 --> 0:47:40.400 are so many scams happening with social media. It is 0:47:40.600 --> 0:47:44.440 it's almost become untenable to deal with all this stuff, 0:47:44.480 --> 0:47:46.600 and especially if you have a business account, any sort 0:47:46.600 --> 0:47:48.520 of Facebook page. So a couple of things. Number one, 0:47:49.040 --> 0:47:51.359 these are notifications that they're sending you. This says, hey, 0:47:51.400 --> 0:47:53.839 you're you're violating our terms and conditions, and they seem 0:47:53.920 --> 0:47:56.400 scary because you're running a business. You might be getting 0:47:56.440 --> 0:47:59.920 some clients from this Facebook page, right, and so you 0:48:00.000 --> 0:48:01.960 you don't want your page to go away. And so 0:48:02.440 --> 0:48:05.040 what they want you to do is see this notification, 0:48:05.600 --> 0:48:09.439 click that notification without thinking, and then either log in 0:48:09.920 --> 0:48:13.440 or somehow do something that will either take over your account, 0:48:13.560 --> 0:48:17.640 hijack your account, or you know, otherwise steal your personal information. 0:48:17.760 --> 0:48:20.759 So you can safely ignore these. I can guarantee you 0:48:21.280 --> 0:48:23.680 ninety nine percent of the time ninety nine point nine 0:48:23.680 --> 0:48:29.200 if there's something truly amiss with your Facebook account, Facebook 0:48:29.200 --> 0:48:32.600 will get in touch with you through a legitimate means, 0:48:32.640 --> 0:48:35.920 which is probably through some sort of pop up notification 0:48:36.040 --> 0:48:39.480 in the app or an email. So believe me, I 0:48:39.520 --> 0:48:41.680 do a lot of things on my Facebook page, Facebook 0:48:41.680 --> 0:48:44.040 dot com, slash rich on tech. I see these things 0:48:44.080 --> 0:48:46.680 all the time. There's a lot of scam artists also 0:48:46.760 --> 0:48:49.920 that post on your page. So when you comment something, 0:48:50.400 --> 0:48:53.000 they may comment and say, hey, we can help with that, 0:48:53.160 --> 0:48:55.920 And those are scam artists as well, those I would block, 0:48:56.040 --> 0:48:57.680 but really these are mostly bots. 0:48:58.160 --> 0:48:59.879 But it's a good lesson to learn. 0:49:00.760 --> 0:49:02.719 And the thing that I would do is make sure 0:49:02.760 --> 0:49:05.000 if you have a Facebook account, two things I would do. 0:49:05.600 --> 0:49:09.680 Number one, set up two factor authentication. This means that 0:49:10.200 --> 0:49:12.640 you need a separate code to log in once you 0:49:12.680 --> 0:49:15.640 log in with your password. So let's say you fell 0:49:15.680 --> 0:49:18.240 for one of those notifications, you logged in with your password, 0:49:18.280 --> 0:49:20.600 they got it, they immediately try to hijack your account. 0:49:20.719 --> 0:49:23.040 They wouldn't be able to because there would be a 0:49:23.239 --> 0:49:26.840 secondary code that is texted to your phone and that 0:49:26.880 --> 0:49:28.400 would make it so that they wouldn't be able to 0:49:28.400 --> 0:49:28.719 get in. 0:49:29.040 --> 0:49:29.799 The other thing to. 0:49:29.760 --> 0:49:32.520 Do if you have a Facebook business account is to 0:49:32.640 --> 0:49:35.840 get an admin on that account, someone you trust that 0:49:35.960 --> 0:49:38.319 is not you, And that way, if there's ever a 0:49:38.320 --> 0:49:41.080 problem with your Facebook account, because these are usually linked 0:49:41.120 --> 0:49:44.840 to a personal Facebook account, that way that other person 0:49:44.880 --> 0:49:47.120 will be able to help you get back in. And 0:49:47.160 --> 0:49:51.320 if you have a personal Facebook account, there's other others 0:49:51.320 --> 0:49:53.600 some excuse me, there's some other things you can do, 0:49:53.840 --> 0:49:56.480 which is called trusted contacts. You can set those up 0:49:56.480 --> 0:49:59.560 to help you regain access to your Facebook account. 0:50:00.080 --> 0:50:01.960 And if you have a problem with. 0:50:01.920 --> 0:50:04.279 Your Facebook and it is hacked. The best place to 0:50:04.360 --> 0:50:09.280 go is Facebook dot com slash hacked. Facebook dot com 0:50:09.320 --> 0:50:12.440 slash hacked. All right, let's go to Jamie and Tampa. 0:50:12.560 --> 0:50:14.280 Jamie in Tampa, Florida. 0:50:15.160 --> 0:50:18.800 Go ahead, Hey, Rich, how you doing today, man. 0:50:18.960 --> 0:50:20.280 I'm doing great. 0:50:21.120 --> 0:50:23.560 Yeah, I'm looking to help you brandel affiliate. I'm looking 0:50:23.600 --> 0:50:24.880 at a brand new affiliate. 0:50:24.440 --> 0:50:27.279 Twelve to fifty w h n z oh I love it. 0:50:28.840 --> 0:50:31.320 Yeah, man, I knew yeah, man, walk walk Welcome to 0:50:31.360 --> 0:50:31.920 the eight, one and three. 0:50:31.960 --> 0:50:33.120 Baby, thank you. 0:50:33.840 --> 0:50:35.200 It feels good. I feel the sun. 0:50:36.520 --> 0:50:37.080 Yeah, thank you. 0:50:37.640 --> 0:50:40.840 So we have cable, but I'm we're considering ditching it 0:50:40.840 --> 0:50:42.600 because you not expect your conspectum is getting more and 0:50:42.640 --> 0:50:46.000 more costas used by the minute. And so I'm looking 0:50:46.120 --> 0:50:48.720 to get a TV in tennant. I live in Tampa, Florida. 0:50:49.120 --> 0:50:52.719 But I don't exactly know what TV intendant could get 0:50:52.800 --> 0:50:55.480 or even why I should get one, because anyone's all 0:50:55.760 --> 0:50:59.000 well to go on Netflix or who we were this 0:50:59.120 --> 0:51:03.279 or that, but even that's getting expensive. Now, Oh, why 0:51:03.320 --> 0:51:06.240 should I get an antenna? And what kind of antenna 0:51:06.360 --> 0:51:07.200 do I need? 0:51:07.320 --> 0:51:11.920 Doing it outdoor or great question? Well, it largely depends 0:51:11.920 --> 0:51:14.799 on where you live. Yeah, it largely depends on where 0:51:14.840 --> 0:51:17.000 you live and what kind of signal you can get. 0:51:17.040 --> 0:51:18.600 But I'll tell you the website that I like for 0:51:18.640 --> 0:51:24.720 antenna's Antennasdirect dot Com. I just tested their new Mohu Versa, 0:51:25.200 --> 0:51:28.120 Moho Versa. I used to love their Mohu Leaf. The 0:51:28.239 --> 0:51:30.960 Versa is a bit more versatile, and they have a 0:51:30.960 --> 0:51:34.279 model for thirty mile range fifty mile range. They're very 0:51:34.280 --> 0:51:38.720 inexpensive anywhere from like you know, forty to sixty dollars 0:51:38.760 --> 0:51:41.440 depending on you know the model, and you'd be surprised 0:51:41.520 --> 0:51:46.000 how many and channels you can pick up in your 0:51:46.000 --> 0:51:48.680 home just putting this thing like near your TV. And 0:51:48.719 --> 0:51:50.520 so I would be that would be my first stop 0:51:50.560 --> 0:51:53.520 Antennasdirect dot Com. The other thing I really like is 0:51:53.560 --> 0:51:57.560 called the Tableau TA b l O. This is a 0:51:57.640 --> 0:52:01.759 device that lets you record over the air signals and 0:52:01.800 --> 0:52:03.719 I just got a demo of a Curate ces t 0:52:03.920 --> 0:52:04.680 A b l O. 0:52:05.160 --> 0:52:06.840 You get the antenna, you get the tableau. 0:52:06.960 --> 0:52:09.279 You can forget all together about streaming because you'll have 0:52:09.320 --> 0:52:12.200 all the stuff you need. You are listening to rich 0:52:12.280 --> 0:52:17.240 on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich tamiro 0:52:17.360 --> 0:52:20.319 here hanging out with you talking technology at Triple eight 0:52:20.520 --> 0:52:23.520 rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four to 0:52:23.600 --> 0:52:27.239 two four one zero one. If you're one of our 0:52:27.280 --> 0:52:30.240 new listeners on a new station, thank you for joining us. 0:52:30.400 --> 0:52:34.600 Welcome to the party, Welcome to the inside track. This 0:52:34.640 --> 0:52:36.440 is a show where I talk about the tech stuff 0:52:36.480 --> 0:52:38.759 I think you should know about. So you'll find that 0:52:38.760 --> 0:52:41.000 I don't talk about all the tech stuff. I don't 0:52:41.040 --> 0:52:45.120 answer all the tech questions. It's really consumer focused. It's 0:52:45.120 --> 0:52:48.759 the everyday user. If you're not a tech person, this 0:52:48.840 --> 0:52:51.680 show is perfect for you because it helps you understand 0:52:51.719 --> 0:52:54.880 what you're up against. So much technology in this world. 0:52:55.280 --> 0:52:58.840 I'm helping you understand it. Recently I talked to Samir 0:52:59.000 --> 0:53:02.360 Summat at Google. He is the general manager and vice 0:53:02.440 --> 0:53:06.719 president of Android Ecosystem. He told me all about the 0:53:07.000 --> 0:53:12.279 new things that Google unveiled here at CES. First off, 0:53:12.280 --> 0:53:16.200 tell me about this year Android Google at CS. 0:53:16.239 --> 0:53:17.520 What's kind of the mission here? 0:53:17.760 --> 0:53:19.520 Yeah, Well, first of all, it's really good to see you, 0:53:19.840 --> 0:53:22.400 and we have a lot going on at CS or 0:53:22.440 --> 0:53:25.040 Android this year. We're here in the Android Experience Center. 0:53:25.560 --> 0:53:28.640 We made a bunch of announcements this morning. Android is 0:53:28.680 --> 0:53:31.400 all about an open ecosystem where you can buy the 0:53:31.400 --> 0:53:33.840 devices and products that work best for you and have 0:53:33.960 --> 0:53:37.960 them all work better together. So, for example, many of 0:53:38.000 --> 0:53:41.160 your viewers may be familiar with Cast, which allows you 0:53:41.200 --> 0:53:43.080 to take the song you're listening to you or the 0:53:43.160 --> 0:53:45.280 video you're watching and put it on a big screen 0:53:45.760 --> 0:53:47.320 or a smart speaker that's in your house. 0:53:47.680 --> 0:53:51.840 We made some improvements to CAST during this CES. 0:53:52.400 --> 0:53:55.160 For example, the cast is now coming to more screens 0:53:55.320 --> 0:53:59.160 like lgtvs in twenty twenty four will support CAST, including 0:53:59.200 --> 0:54:01.680 those that you see in hotel rooms, so you can 0:54:01.719 --> 0:54:04.200 cast right to the TV in your hotel room. No 0:54:04.360 --> 0:54:07.200 logging in, no forgetting to log out when you leave 0:54:07.239 --> 0:54:07.760 the hotel. 0:54:08.320 --> 0:54:09.760 Makes it super simple. 0:54:09.880 --> 0:54:12.440 And the other thing that my kids are really excited 0:54:12.480 --> 0:54:15.799 about is TikTok is coming to Cast as well, so 0:54:15.920 --> 0:54:18.719 putting those latest dance moves on your big screen TV 0:54:19.040 --> 0:54:19.920 and learning together. 0:54:20.920 --> 0:54:22.120 You can see that in your future too. 0:54:22.719 --> 0:54:25.200 I heard there's some changes about quick share. 0:54:25.080 --> 0:54:30.680 And the nearby share on Android, So tell me how those. 0:54:30.480 --> 0:54:31.440 Two are sort of emerging. 0:54:31.960 --> 0:54:35.080 Yeah, quick Share and nearby Share both try to solve 0:54:35.160 --> 0:54:38.280 the same problem, which is we have files and photos 0:54:38.320 --> 0:54:40.160 and you and I want to share them with each other, 0:54:40.200 --> 0:54:43.040 and we want to do that really simply. Samsung has 0:54:43.040 --> 0:54:45.560 had their own solution. Android has had its own solution 0:54:45.640 --> 0:54:48.480 as well. What's really cool that we just announced is 0:54:48.520 --> 0:54:52.600 that Samsung and Google are getting together. We're integrating both 0:54:52.640 --> 0:54:56.200 of those two solutions, quick Share and Nearby Share into 0:54:56.239 --> 0:54:59.400 a single solution that will work across. 0:54:59.280 --> 0:55:00.480 All Androids devices. 0:55:00.600 --> 0:55:02.560 We're keeping the name quick Share since it was really 0:55:02.560 --> 0:55:06.160 popular with consumers. Later this year, people their Android phones 0:55:06.160 --> 0:55:09.200 will get an update and you'll have that quick Share 0:55:09.200 --> 0:55:12.560 button and it'll work no matter what phone. Remember what 0:55:12.600 --> 0:55:16.360 Android phone the other user has. What is the purpose 0:55:16.360 --> 0:55:19.600 of quick Share? Quick Share makes it really simple to 0:55:19.680 --> 0:55:22.920 share photos and videos between you and your friends that 0:55:22.960 --> 0:55:24.240 are standing near body. 0:55:25.120 --> 0:55:26.520 Does it work with other devices? 0:55:26.520 --> 0:55:29.080 Like I'm always like, can I get this from my Mac? 0:55:29.760 --> 0:55:32.960 Is that in the future or is that impossible to architects, 0:55:33.000 --> 0:55:33.960 it's a really good question. 0:55:34.239 --> 0:55:36.320 One of the things we've heard from consumers. 0:55:35.840 --> 0:55:37.640 A lot is they want to be able to share 0:55:37.760 --> 0:55:39.080 easily from their phone. 0:55:38.840 --> 0:55:40.560 To their laptops and their desktops. 0:55:40.800 --> 0:55:43.200 So one thing we're adding with quick Shares. We're starting 0:55:43.239 --> 0:55:47.760 out with Windows PCs and chromebooks and so starting for example, 0:55:48.120 --> 0:55:50.560 with any Chromebook that you buy quick Share we'll work with, 0:55:50.640 --> 0:55:53.320 as well as a number of different Windows PCs, starting 0:55:53.360 --> 0:55:54.640 with PCs made by LG. 0:55:55.520 --> 0:56:00.360 AI has become so big in our lives. What is 0:56:00.400 --> 0:56:02.080 Android doing when it comes to AI. 0:56:02.320 --> 0:56:04.319 Yeah, you know, there's a lot that Google's been doing 0:56:04.320 --> 0:56:07.359 with AI for a number of years, and Android's been 0:56:07.360 --> 0:56:09.279 participating in a lot of that. You know, the things 0:56:09.320 --> 0:56:11.440 that we have on our phone today, a lot of 0:56:11.480 --> 0:56:14.200 them that work really well, like defending you from spam. 0:56:14.320 --> 0:56:18.440 We'll block two billion spam messages every month using AI 0:56:18.560 --> 0:56:21.560 on the phone, as well as smart replies that people 0:56:21.600 --> 0:56:24.560 are really fond of. All that has been AI powered 0:56:24.560 --> 0:56:26.960 for a long time. What's new is all the new 0:56:27.040 --> 0:56:30.880 capabilities with generative AI, and we've really seen this progress 0:56:31.080 --> 0:56:33.200 leaps and bounds in the last year or so. We 0:56:33.239 --> 0:56:35.560 have some super cool stuff and Android that takes advantage 0:56:35.560 --> 0:56:38.560 of that. Android's always been known as a platform that 0:56:38.600 --> 0:56:41.680 helps you customize and express yourself. One thing I'm really 0:56:41.719 --> 0:56:45.040 excited about is our AI generated wallpapers. So you can 0:56:45.160 --> 0:56:48.840 ask Android to generate you a wallpaper that is just 0:56:48.880 --> 0:56:52.320 for you. You can give it a prompt bicycle made of 0:56:52.360 --> 0:56:55.640 flowers in the woods sounds nuts. It can do it 0:56:55.680 --> 0:56:58.000 for you, and that wallpaper is just for you. There's 0:56:58.080 --> 0:57:00.640 none other like it in the whole world. The other 0:57:00.640 --> 0:57:03.640 feature that I really love is where AI really helps 0:57:03.719 --> 0:57:06.120 us get things done that we felt in the past 0:57:06.280 --> 0:57:09.160 was just impossible. You know what's impossible for me and 0:57:09.239 --> 0:57:12.439 my family is I have two young boys thirteen and eight, 0:57:12.840 --> 0:57:17.600 and getting a good family picture is impossible. With AI, 0:57:18.320 --> 0:57:21.600 this has helped tremendously. So there's a feature with Google 0:57:21.680 --> 0:57:25.080 Pixel called best Take, And when you take a photo, 0:57:25.240 --> 0:57:27.600 doesn't just take one photo, takes a lot of photos 0:57:27.640 --> 0:57:29.680 without even you having to worry about it, and then 0:57:29.760 --> 0:57:33.080 helps you combine all those photos together so you get 0:57:33.120 --> 0:57:35.720 the one where everyone's smiling, not the one where you've 0:57:35.760 --> 0:57:38.880 got somebody doing the bunny years and someone else frowning. 0:57:39.680 --> 0:57:41.520 You mentioned open ecosystem. 0:57:41.720 --> 0:57:44.600 Open system is a big tenet of what Android is 0:57:44.640 --> 0:57:47.360 all about. In Google, we've had this whole thing about 0:57:47.400 --> 0:57:50.920 the blue bubble versus the Green bubble. Recently sort of 0:57:50.920 --> 0:57:55.720 bubbled up to use that. But Apple's also adopting rcs 0:57:55.840 --> 0:57:58.840 next year or yeah, this year sometime. What do you 0:57:58.880 --> 0:58:01.040 make of this whole debate and do you think messaging 0:58:01.120 --> 0:58:02.280 should be simpler? 0:58:02.920 --> 0:58:06.440 Messaging definitely needs to be simpler. It really shouldn't matter 0:58:06.800 --> 0:58:09.560 what phone we're using. It for us to be able 0:58:09.560 --> 0:58:11.840 to communicate with each other, that's what phones are for. 0:58:12.160 --> 0:58:14.240 So I should need to think about does this person 0:58:14.320 --> 0:58:16.360 have an Android phone? Do they have an iPhone? 0:58:16.360 --> 0:58:19.240 When I send them a video or a photo in 0:58:19.280 --> 0:58:22.040 a text message, it should just all work. 0:58:22.880 --> 0:58:26.720 And that's really what we've been advocating for around. 0:58:26.520 --> 0:58:31.200 RCS, which is a new way of sending text messages, 0:58:31.480 --> 0:58:35.560 replaces SMS and mms, which are thirty year old technologies 0:58:35.600 --> 0:58:38.240 which never grew up to support all the things that 0:58:38.280 --> 0:58:41.800 we expect today, like high quality photos and videos and 0:58:42.160 --> 0:58:45.440 to end encryption. So we're really excited to hear that 0:58:45.480 --> 0:58:48.600 Apple will be supporting RCS. We think it'll make all 0:58:48.640 --> 0:58:51.320 of our lives a lot easier and we're excited to 0:58:51.320 --> 0:58:53.760 see them make good on that promise and roll it 0:58:53.800 --> 0:58:54.600 out later this year. 0:58:54.800 --> 0:58:57.920 What will that mean for consumers? What will the difference 0:58:57.960 --> 0:58:59.800 be Because people like well, I got already text and 0:58:59.840 --> 0:59:02.400 I yeah, So what will that mean for consumers? 0:59:02.480 --> 0:59:04.840 Well, one of the things today is when iPhones and 0:59:04.840 --> 0:59:08.760 androids text each other, you often get videos that are 0:59:09.040 --> 0:59:12.760 not high quality. You often get images which are degraded, 0:59:12.760 --> 0:59:15.760 and people complain. Ah, you know, the Green Bubble didn't 0:59:15.800 --> 0:59:18.400 do the greatest job at sending me the high quality 0:59:18.440 --> 0:59:21.880 information that I wanted. Well, it turns out that's because 0:59:21.920 --> 0:59:25.240 of SMS and MMS, which are thirty year old technologies. 0:59:25.520 --> 0:59:28.480 When RCS replaces these, what we'll be able to do 0:59:28.560 --> 0:59:31.640 together is get all the features that we expect from 0:59:31.680 --> 0:59:35.920 a text messaging application, and so text messaging will become 0:59:36.160 --> 0:59:41.080 high quality videos, high quality photos, read receipts, typing, notifications, 0:59:41.400 --> 0:59:43.040 end end encryption, and so much more. 0:59:43.440 --> 0:59:46.040 You excited about all this stuff? What keeps you going 0:59:46.040 --> 0:59:46.480 about all this? 0:59:46.600 --> 0:59:46.680 You know? 0:59:46.720 --> 0:59:49.480 I couldn't be more excited. There's over three billion users 0:59:49.480 --> 0:59:52.640 of Android around the world. Androids mission is really about 0:59:52.680 --> 0:59:56.080 helping bring computing to more people, and it's not just 0:59:56.080 --> 0:59:59.800 about phones anymore. What you'll see here today is TV, 1:00:00.000 --> 1:00:02.960 these cars, watches, and a whole lot more that makes 1:00:02.960 --> 1:00:04.400 this ecosystem really shine. 1:00:04.120 --> 1:00:04.720 And how long after? 1:00:04.800 --> 1:00:05.400 Thanks so much? 1:00:05.480 --> 1:00:05.800 Thank you? 1:00:07.320 --> 1:00:11.040 All right, that's Samir Samat, general manager and Vice president 1:00:11.080 --> 1:00:15.920 of Android Ecosystem at Google. Lots of cool Google is stuff. 1:00:15.960 --> 1:00:19.880 They're entire setup at CS look like kind of like 1:00:19.920 --> 1:00:24.240 a retro car hop. What do you want to call that? 1:00:24.320 --> 1:00:24.400 On? 1:00:24.480 --> 1:00:26.840 My Google phone is going off? When I say Google, 1:00:26.960 --> 1:00:28.160 I thought I had to say hey Google. 1:00:28.160 --> 1:00:29.040 Oh now I'm saying hey. 1:00:28.960 --> 1:00:31.720 Google, what's going off to? But it was like kind 1:00:31.720 --> 1:00:35.040 of a retro diner gas station kind of looking place. 1:00:35.080 --> 1:00:37.919 It was really cool, very open, and again what's great 1:00:37.920 --> 1:00:40.920 about CS is that you hear about these announcements, but 1:00:41.000 --> 1:00:43.320 you get to go hands on with this stuff early. 1:00:43.480 --> 1:00:46.000 So some of the things that they mentioned come out now, 1:00:46.080 --> 1:00:48.600 some of them come out later. And so the idea 1:00:48.640 --> 1:00:50.840 is that you know, all these journalists and all these 1:00:50.880 --> 1:00:54.200 media people and just people attending in general get to 1:00:54.240 --> 1:00:56.320 go hands on with this stuff before anyone else. 1:00:56.360 --> 1:00:57.280 And that's really fun. 1:00:57.920 --> 1:00:59.720 One of the other things we saw at CES that 1:01:00.160 --> 1:01:02.960 is a real crowd attractor. 1:01:03.440 --> 1:01:04.640 Is that a word? Is that a terms? 1:01:04.640 --> 1:01:08.160 Anyone say that crowd attractor? It attracted a lot of crowds. 1:01:08.320 --> 1:01:12.560 LG world's first wireless transparent OLED TV. If you haven't 1:01:12.600 --> 1:01:14.440 checked out my instagram at rich On Tech, you gotta 1:01:14.480 --> 1:01:17.560 see this thing. They had like thirty of them all 1:01:17.600 --> 1:01:21.200 in this giant display. It is a wireless transparent four 1:01:21.280 --> 1:01:25.520 K OLED TV seventy seven inch has a transparent OLED 1:01:25.600 --> 1:01:28.640 screen and wireless audio and video, which means you can 1:01:28.640 --> 1:01:30.560 place it anywhere, but you still got to plug it in. 1:01:30.560 --> 1:01:34.080 They're still plug It can go between transparent and opaque 1:01:34.320 --> 1:01:36.640 so you can display artwork or if you want, like 1:01:36.760 --> 1:01:39.000 OLED picture quality. So it has this like it looked 1:01:39.000 --> 1:01:41.280 like almost like a screen that came up from the 1:01:41.320 --> 1:01:43.760 back to like make it so it's you know, fully 1:01:43.800 --> 1:01:47.040 black on the back. And it was cool. But here's 1:01:47.040 --> 1:01:48.960 the thing, we don't know the price on this. Transparent 1:01:49.000 --> 1:01:52.520 TVs were big at CES this year. I think businesses 1:01:52.560 --> 1:01:54.560 would probably like these, but I don't know if the 1:01:54.600 --> 1:01:56.680 average person needs it. Again, it goes back to that 1:01:56.760 --> 1:01:59.840 like Penthouse comparison, Like you know, you have a window 1:01:59.840 --> 1:02:01.720 that you don't want to mess up with a TV screen, 1:02:01.760 --> 1:02:02.320 but I don't know. 1:02:02.400 --> 1:02:03.480 Seems like a stretch to me. 1:02:04.880 --> 1:02:07.640 PJ writes in on the website at Richontech dot TV 1:02:07.880 --> 1:02:09.960 self docking boats you just talked about. They will be 1:02:10.000 --> 1:02:13.480 handy for those who already know what and how. In general, 1:02:13.520 --> 1:02:15.960 people who can't deal with docking have many other issues 1:02:16.000 --> 1:02:18.280 and do not understand how to safely operate a boat 1:02:18.320 --> 1:02:22.440 with lots of explanation marks have obsessed those have observed 1:02:22.520 --> 1:02:25.760 those things many times. Many factors come into play during 1:02:25.760 --> 1:02:29.120 all aspects of boating current, wind speed, wind direction, proximity 1:02:29.120 --> 1:02:31.920 to other traffic, and other aspects. Many people only use 1:02:31.960 --> 1:02:34.320 their boats once or twice a year. They are dangerous 1:02:34.320 --> 1:02:37.400 to be around. I frequently observed these things as I've 1:02:37.440 --> 1:02:40.720 spent large amounts of time on boats since my twenties 1:02:40.760 --> 1:02:44.920 and for several years, and have also lived a board PJ. Yeah, 1:02:45.160 --> 1:02:47.600 I guess that's true. I mean, if you're not a 1:02:47.640 --> 1:02:51.040 boating person, you think that this autonomous docking is gonna 1:02:51.840 --> 1:02:54.840 help you or save you, or make you able to 1:02:54.880 --> 1:02:56.760 have a boat. Yeah, you still have to learn the 1:02:56.760 --> 1:02:59.080 basics one hundred percent. I mean, it's like driving a car. 1:02:59.120 --> 1:03:02.000 You can't like, Yes, we Actually I don't know if 1:03:02.000 --> 1:03:05.160 that's totally true, because in the future, when we get 1:03:05.160 --> 1:03:08.600 to the really high levels of autonomous driving, you are 1:03:08.640 --> 1:03:10.160 not going to have to know how to operate that 1:03:10.240 --> 1:03:13.080 car because there's not gonna be controls to operate that car. 1:03:13.440 --> 1:03:15.920 So I think that this is You're right at this point. 1:03:15.960 --> 1:03:18.000 For safety reasons, of course, you should know how to 1:03:18.040 --> 1:03:20.520 operate a boat and how to dock it. But this 1:03:20.600 --> 1:03:22.320 is a nice add on when you just want that 1:03:22.400 --> 1:03:25.680 smooth docking experience where you can just kind of sit 1:03:25.720 --> 1:03:27.600 back and relax and let the boat do the work. 1:03:27.920 --> 1:03:29.720 It is a very handy. 1:03:29.400 --> 1:03:31.360 Thing and it will it will only add to the 1:03:31.360 --> 1:03:34.200 amount of people who feel comfortable getting a boat, because 1:03:34.200 --> 1:03:36.440 now you know you've got the full package. 1:03:36.480 --> 1:03:37.800 There Triple eight. 1:03:37.720 --> 1:03:39.720 Rich one one one eighty eight seven four to two 1:03:39.880 --> 1:03:41.000 four to one zero one. 1:03:41.080 --> 1:03:42.480 We got much more of the show coming up. 1:03:42.520 --> 1:03:44.880 We're going to talk to the founder of Telly, the 1:03:44.920 --> 1:03:48.479 free ad supported television, plus the CEO of coin Flip 1:03:48.600 --> 1:03:50.400 is going to talk all things bitcoin. 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I linked up all of the 1:04:26.200 --> 1:04:29.560 video segments I did for KTLA in Los Angeles and 1:04:29.600 --> 1:04:33.120 our partner stations across the nation. So, uh, you might 1:04:33.280 --> 1:04:35.919 find me popping up on your local TV station. Yeah, 1:04:36.200 --> 1:04:37.920 because our our segments go out to a lot of 1:04:37.920 --> 1:04:38.680 different places. 1:04:39.200 --> 1:04:39.880 Let's go to. 1:04:40.120 --> 1:04:43.080 Uh, Ellie, Ellie is in your Belinda, Ellie, you're on 1:04:43.120 --> 1:04:43.560 with Rich? 1:04:44.760 --> 1:04:44.880 Hi? 1:04:44.920 --> 1:04:46.280 Good after you, Rich? How are you? 1:04:46.840 --> 1:04:49.120 I am doing fantastic? How about you? 1:04:50.400 --> 1:04:51.360 So far, so good? 1:04:51.360 --> 1:04:52.400 But the day is young. 1:04:52.880 --> 1:04:55.400 Yah, I like that outlook all right, what can I 1:04:55.400 --> 1:04:55.840 help you with? 1:04:56.680 --> 1:04:57.080 All right? 1:04:57.160 --> 1:04:58.000 I have a problem. 1:04:58.120 --> 1:05:02.680 I live in a two story ho and I replaced 1:05:02.720 --> 1:05:06.560 my router that was provided by the cable company Spectrum 1:05:06.960 --> 1:05:11.040 because the signal was just interrupted. I also live next 1:05:11.080 --> 1:05:14.560 to the mountains. I live in the home of President 1:05:14.680 --> 1:05:15.800 Nixon the city. 1:05:16.840 --> 1:05:20.520 So I'm President Nixon's home, Yes. 1:05:20.720 --> 1:05:23.720 The library, and yes, yes he was born here. Correct. 1:05:23.840 --> 1:05:25.320 Oh my gosh, okay, sweet. 1:05:25.800 --> 1:05:28.800 So I had an interruption the signal because I'm really 1:05:28.840 --> 1:05:31.600 close to the mountains and I have a two story property. 1:05:32.120 --> 1:05:35.520 So I replaced the router from the Spectrum company, the 1:05:35.560 --> 1:05:40.479 cable company, and I bought my own, and I got 1:05:40.480 --> 1:05:45.200 this one from this company called the l NK S Y. 1:05:44.960 --> 1:05:47.800 S Link says okay, yes. 1:05:48.160 --> 1:05:50.560 And it gave me two towers to put one in 1:05:50.640 --> 1:05:54.600 the you know, above and one below the levels, and 1:05:54.680 --> 1:05:57.960 I still get interruption, and so I'm wondering what I 1:05:58.000 --> 1:06:00.920 can do to change that, because is when my kids 1:06:01.000 --> 1:06:04.000 come over and they're using their WiFi and stuff like that, 1:06:04.440 --> 1:06:06.560 they don't get the signal. And I don't know what 1:06:06.880 --> 1:06:07.880 I can do to change that. 1:06:08.880 --> 1:06:12.000 Okay, well, what so Number one, the mountains don't have 1:06:12.040 --> 1:06:14.040 anything to do with your signal, so that is not 1:06:14.080 --> 1:06:17.760 causing the issue. What's causing the issue is the material 1:06:17.840 --> 1:06:20.880 of this home. So I'm guessing this is an older 1:06:20.920 --> 1:06:25.400 home and it has probably thick walls that are really 1:06:25.440 --> 1:06:27.360 tough to get this signal through. That's what I'm guessing. 1:06:27.400 --> 1:06:30.160 It also sounds like it's pretty large if it is 1:06:30.960 --> 1:06:34.320 a former president's home, So that is the problem. You've 1:06:34.320 --> 1:06:36.000 got a lot of space and you've got a lot 1:06:36.080 --> 1:06:37.840 of challenges for a Wi Fi signal. 1:06:37.920 --> 1:06:41.240 That is, it wasn't the president's home. It's said he's 1:06:41.320 --> 1:06:46.360 the city. He was born here, Oh, he was born there. Okay, 1:06:47.400 --> 1:06:49.640 but it is an older home and there is a 1:06:49.640 --> 1:06:50.840 lot of bricks involved. 1:06:51.040 --> 1:06:54.680 Okay, there you go. That's the issue. Okay, yes, that 1:06:54.800 --> 1:06:57.400 is the issue. So you you sort of halfway solve 1:06:57.480 --> 1:07:01.560 this issue by going with the Lynx's system. It sounds 1:07:01.600 --> 1:07:03.760 like you have a mesh system, but that is what 1:07:03.800 --> 1:07:06.320 you need here, and you it sounds like you may 1:07:06.360 --> 1:07:08.080 need do you know how many square feet this house is? 1:07:09.800 --> 1:07:13.720 Well, the lot is is big, but the house itself 1:07:13.800 --> 1:07:15.400 is thirty two hundred square. 1:07:15.200 --> 1:07:17.080 Okay, that's that's pretty large. 1:07:17.120 --> 1:07:21.400 So I would recommend are. 1:07:20.200 --> 1:07:22.520 You trying to get internet on the lot or just 1:07:22.560 --> 1:07:23.040 in the house. 1:07:23.880 --> 1:07:26.480 Well, I already have it in the house, but it's 1:07:26.480 --> 1:07:28.480 still an interruption. Okay, signal. 1:07:29.160 --> 1:07:31.720 Okay. So here's what I would do. You need a 1:07:31.720 --> 1:07:35.479 mesh system the system that you have already. I would 1:07:35.560 --> 1:07:37.760 go online and look up the name of it and 1:07:37.840 --> 1:07:40.440 see if it is a mesh system that you can 1:07:40.480 --> 1:07:42.880 expand with more what are called access points. 1:07:42.920 --> 1:07:44.440 Let me explain what a mesh system is. 1:07:44.960 --> 1:07:48.760 So typical internet you get from Spectrum is just a 1:07:48.920 --> 1:07:52.680 router that sits below your TV and it just stays 1:07:52.720 --> 1:07:54.160 there and that's basically it. 1:07:54.160 --> 1:07:55.240 It sends out the signal. 1:07:55.360 --> 1:07:58.560 It does not reach very far because it's just the 1:07:58.600 --> 1:08:00.640 walls and everything else kind of me with it. So 1:08:01.200 --> 1:08:04.000 what most people are upgrading now to these days is 1:08:04.040 --> 1:08:06.560 called a mesh system, and a mesh system is kind 1:08:06.560 --> 1:08:10.480 of like think about the home base under your TV 1:08:11.160 --> 1:08:13.880 sends out the signal to all these little access points 1:08:13.920 --> 1:08:16.439 around your house, and they all talk to each other 1:08:16.520 --> 1:08:19.800 to kind of make sure that the signal completely blankets 1:08:19.840 --> 1:08:21.120 every corner of your home. 1:08:21.800 --> 1:08:23.479 And with two of these and I'm not. 1:08:23.520 --> 1:08:27.040 Sure linksis you know, I think the companies that I 1:08:27.080 --> 1:08:31.120 typically recommend for this are either orb O R B 1:08:31.360 --> 1:08:35.120 I or ero E E r O. Those are two 1:08:35.160 --> 1:08:37.559 of the best, and so I would look into maybe 1:08:37.560 --> 1:08:41.160 getting one of those systems. And you want probably three 1:08:41.280 --> 1:08:43.840 access points, so that would that would be three of 1:08:43.920 --> 1:08:46.120 these little devices that you would put around your house, 1:08:46.840 --> 1:08:50.719 and you know, I think that that's probably going to solve. 1:08:51.200 --> 1:08:53.479 The other thing you can do if you really want 1:08:53.479 --> 1:08:55.920 to get this solved, is you know, you can hire 1:08:55.960 --> 1:09:02.639 someone to wire an Ethernet cable from the home base system, 1:09:04.080 --> 1:09:06.920 buy your TV or wherever your internet comes into your house, 1:09:07.840 --> 1:09:10.160 and then you can wire that to another room that 1:09:10.280 --> 1:09:12.400 is pretty far away and you can plug one of 1:09:12.439 --> 1:09:15.080 the access points into that and that way, it's going 1:09:15.120 --> 1:09:17.280 to get a nice strong signal that is actually like 1:09:17.360 --> 1:09:20.320 a really good signal, and it's gonna put that out 1:09:20.360 --> 1:09:21.840 through your house as well. But that's gonna be a 1:09:21.880 --> 1:09:25.559 lot more expensive because you are getting someone to come 1:09:25.600 --> 1:09:27.679 to the house and drill and all that good stuff. 1:09:27.720 --> 1:09:30.519 So I would say you could probably solve this problem 1:09:30.600 --> 1:09:33.840 with a better mesh system that has three points to it. 1:09:34.000 --> 1:09:37.320 So again, look up and see if the mesh system 1:09:37.360 --> 1:09:40.760 that you have will allow a third access point. If 1:09:40.800 --> 1:09:43.519 it does, I would get that third access point, and 1:09:43.600 --> 1:09:46.200 I would also look at where you're placing these. So 1:09:46.320 --> 1:09:49.479 with Internet, you really want to place the main signal 1:09:49.960 --> 1:09:52.599 in kind of the center of the house and also 1:09:52.920 --> 1:09:56.120 up off the floor and not obstructed by anything. And 1:09:56.160 --> 1:09:58.320 then the other two you want to put in different 1:09:58.360 --> 1:10:02.439 areas that are, you know, not too far away, but 1:10:02.800 --> 1:10:04.760 far enough where it can still get the signal and 1:10:04.800 --> 1:10:06.960 put it in that area of the house, but also 1:10:07.080 --> 1:10:09.639 reach the third one and put the signal there as well. 1:10:10.200 --> 1:10:13.640 So if they're unobstructed, that would be ideal. Like if 1:10:13.680 --> 1:10:16.080 it's up like a staircase that you can see something 1:10:16.160 --> 1:10:19.080 like that, that would be ideal. But yeah, Wi Fi 1:10:19.320 --> 1:10:23.320 is it's tricky. It's not the signal. We are really 1:10:23.320 --> 1:10:26.280 stretching this signal to its maximum capacity at this point. 1:10:26.600 --> 1:10:28.800 It was really not intended to do all the things 1:10:28.800 --> 1:10:30.920 that we're doing with it. There is a new standard 1:10:30.960 --> 1:10:34.280 coming up called Wi Fi seven. It is very much emerging. 1:10:34.320 --> 1:10:36.400 I don't know if you need to upgrade to that 1:10:36.640 --> 1:10:39.200 just yet because a lot of devices don't take advantage 1:10:39.200 --> 1:10:42.040 of that just yet. But a lot of these problems 1:10:42.160 --> 1:10:46.280 hopefully will be solved with Wi Fi seven. That handles 1:10:46.280 --> 1:10:47.400 this stuff a little bit better. 1:10:47.720 --> 1:10:49.840 All right, Thanks for the question. 1:10:49.640 --> 1:10:54.360 Melody, are Ellie in or bel Inda? I thought it 1:10:54.400 --> 1:10:56.439 was odd that you lived in the President's house, but 1:10:56.560 --> 1:11:00.320 I get it, orba Inda? Okay, president from there? I 1:11:00.360 --> 1:11:04.160 guess my uh, I guess my California. I guess that's 1:11:04.240 --> 1:11:06.400 national history. I don't know, it's all. It's all up 1:11:06.439 --> 1:11:09.240 in the r anyway. Eight and eight Rich one O 1:11:09.320 --> 1:11:11.840 one eight and eight seven four to two four one 1:11:12.040 --> 1:11:12.519 zero one. 1:11:12.560 --> 1:11:14.200 You are listening to rich on Tech. 1:11:14.960 --> 1:11:17.800 Welcome to another hour of rich on Tech. My name 1:11:17.840 --> 1:11:21.839 is rich Demiro, broadcasting live today from Las Vegas, site 1:11:21.880 --> 1:11:23.639 of CEES. 1:11:23.320 --> 1:11:24.559 Twenty twenty four. 1:11:25.240 --> 1:11:28.080 Now the show is closed, the show is everyone's maybe 1:11:28.120 --> 1:11:33.160 everyone's gone home, but it is still the place where 1:11:33.200 --> 1:11:35.680 cees took place all week long. I've been here for 1:11:35.720 --> 1:11:38.439 the whole week and uh saw a lot, met a 1:11:38.439 --> 1:11:41.120 lot of people, saw a lot of new gadgets, and 1:11:41.200 --> 1:11:42.880 it was a good show. One hundred and thirty five 1:11:42.960 --> 1:11:48.439 thousand attendees, forty three hundred exhibitors. There was a ton 1:11:48.640 --> 1:11:51.639 to see. And this thing spreads across the entire town. 1:11:51.720 --> 1:11:55.520 It's not just the convention Center. It is the Venetian, 1:11:56.080 --> 1:11:58.679 the Expo Hall, and a whole bunch of hotel rooms 1:11:58.680 --> 1:12:01.160 because a lot of companies they may not get a 1:12:01.280 --> 1:12:05.000 booth at the show, but they rent like a hotel room, 1:12:05.080 --> 1:12:07.800 like a suite, and then they show people like you know, 1:12:07.800 --> 1:12:10.040 they meet up with people and show them what they've got. 1:12:10.360 --> 1:12:13.240 That's exactly what happened with Telly. This is the free 1:12:13.439 --> 1:12:18.439 ad supported television set they launched earlier in twenty twenty three, 1:12:18.640 --> 1:12:22.400 and they have thousands of these TVs out in the wild. Yes, 1:12:22.479 --> 1:12:25.000 you can sign up for a free ad supported TV. 1:12:25.560 --> 1:12:28.759 Ili Oposen is the creator and co founder of Telly. 1:12:29.120 --> 1:12:31.000 I caught up with him at CS to get an 1:12:31.080 --> 1:12:35.639 update on the company ili Oposen, creator and co founder 1:12:35.680 --> 1:12:39.760 of Telly on the free ad supported television set. It's 1:12:39.760 --> 1:12:43.360 a fifty five inch set also has a soundbar in 1:12:43.400 --> 1:12:46.240 the middle, and the key is the secondary screen that 1:12:46.320 --> 1:12:46.840 shows ads. 1:12:46.920 --> 1:12:47.360 Let's hear it. 1:12:47.880 --> 1:12:50.439 So I'm Elio Posen. I'm the co founder and CEO 1:12:50.720 --> 1:12:51.240 of Telly. 1:12:51.880 --> 1:12:53.560 So what made you create Telly? 1:12:53.800 --> 1:12:55.920 So my last company is actually Pluto TV if you're 1:12:55.960 --> 1:12:59.360 familiar with that, where Pluto's ad support is streaming, right, 1:12:59.360 --> 1:13:02.760 and we proved that companies who are double dipping on 1:13:02.840 --> 1:13:06.520 revenue where they're charging for a subscription service and monetizing 1:13:06.560 --> 1:13:09.519 with advertising, that you could actually run a sustainable business 1:13:09.520 --> 1:13:11.519 on just one of those revenue streams. And for Pluto, 1:13:11.800 --> 1:13:14.120 that was advertising. And when we looked at Telly in 1:13:14.120 --> 1:13:16.880 the TV market, the same thing happens right now when 1:13:16.880 --> 1:13:19.000 you're going to the store, you're buying a TV, right, 1:13:19.040 --> 1:13:21.959 and then your data is being monetized and that TV. 1:13:21.800 --> 1:13:22.719 Is delivering ads. 1:13:22.960 --> 1:13:24.960 And Telly wanted to prove the exact same thing that 1:13:25.000 --> 1:13:27.760 Pluto approved, where you can monetize and build a sustainable 1:13:27.760 --> 1:13:30.080 business model on just one revenue stream alone, in this 1:13:30.160 --> 1:13:31.040 case advertising. 1:13:31.240 --> 1:13:32.479 What do you get with the TV. 1:13:33.000 --> 1:13:35.960 Yeah, so Telly comes completely free, right. You get a 1:13:35.960 --> 1:13:39.439 fifty five inch four K HDR TV, you get a 1:13:39.439 --> 1:13:42.400 premium soundbar included by Harmon Cardon, and it comes with 1:13:42.439 --> 1:13:44.680 a second screen that's never been done before sys a 1:13:44.760 --> 1:13:47.719 dual screen TV. It also has a lot of extra 1:13:47.760 --> 1:13:49.519 features that you normally wouldn't get out of a TV, 1:13:49.680 --> 1:13:51.680 like a camera where you could do zoom calls and 1:13:51.720 --> 1:13:54.559 fitness and right out of your home, and a voice 1:13:54.560 --> 1:13:57.240 assistant built in. And the cool thing about Telly is 1:13:57.320 --> 1:14:00.719 every single month we release software updates like a Tesla. 1:14:00.800 --> 1:14:03.280 This thing gets better and better and smarter and smarter 1:14:03.640 --> 1:14:06.760 every single month as time goes by. That's never really 1:14:06.800 --> 1:14:07.840 been done on a TV before. 1:14:07.920 --> 1:14:08.080 Right. 1:14:08.160 --> 1:14:09.280 Normally your TV. 1:14:09.200 --> 1:14:11.559 Just kind of fixes bugs and things like that, and 1:14:11.600 --> 1:14:13.040 it ages and ages over time. 1:14:13.280 --> 1:14:15.000 Telly actually gets better over time. 1:14:15.400 --> 1:14:16.280 Is there any catch? 1:14:17.240 --> 1:14:17.960 There's no catch. 1:14:18.120 --> 1:14:20.600 Just so any other TV company, whether you're buying a 1:14:20.640 --> 1:14:24.120 Samsung or a Visio Roku, they monetize your data and 1:14:24.120 --> 1:14:26.760 they give you advertising. We do the exact same thing, 1:14:27.000 --> 1:14:31.160 except we're completely upfront with consumers. Right, So we deliver advertising, 1:14:31.200 --> 1:14:34.599 we monetize data, but we're very transparent. Everything is fully 1:14:34.640 --> 1:14:36.599 opt in. We don't do anything else than noyone else 1:14:36.640 --> 1:14:38.200 does except the one thing we do is we give 1:14:38.240 --> 1:14:39.360 you a completely free TV. 1:14:40.040 --> 1:14:42.600 There's a camera on the front. Is there a microphone? 1:14:42.760 --> 1:14:45.479 So there's a camera that's shut by default. If you 1:14:45.520 --> 1:14:48.000 want to use an app like Zoom or something, then 1:14:48.160 --> 1:14:48.840 it asks you if you. 1:14:48.840 --> 1:14:50.719 Want to open it. We're very privacy first. 1:14:51.240 --> 1:14:53.760 There's a microphone that if you want to use a 1:14:53.800 --> 1:14:56.960 voice assistant, recognizes a wake word like hey Telly, and 1:14:57.000 --> 1:14:59.360 then responds to your commands. But that's it. We don't 1:14:59.360 --> 1:15:02.640 actually cord listen. Nothing happens in the background. We're a 1:15:02.680 --> 1:15:05.280 privacy first company. And that's that's how we're operating. 1:15:05.760 --> 1:15:08.040 What about the ad in the corner of the screen. 1:15:08.240 --> 1:15:09.759 Tell me how the add part of this works. 1:15:09.840 --> 1:15:12.000 Yeah, so that's that's, you know, the secret sauce of 1:15:12.000 --> 1:15:12.760 our business model. 1:15:12.840 --> 1:15:12.960 Right. 1:15:13.040 --> 1:15:15.600 So we have two screens. The main screen, which is 1:15:15.600 --> 1:15:18.200 a fifty five inch TV. The best analogy and give 1:15:18.280 --> 1:15:20.040 is kind of like a car. That's your windshield right. 1:15:20.320 --> 1:15:24.160 The bottom screen that's your dash. It's where your spinnometer is, 1:15:24.200 --> 1:15:26.559 your radio or your nav. In this case, we show 1:15:26.600 --> 1:15:29.720 you sports scores, news weather, and yes, we have a 1:15:29.760 --> 1:15:32.519 portion of it for advertising. So we have advertising that 1:15:32.600 --> 1:15:34.680 shows you relevant ads based on who you are. So 1:15:34.720 --> 1:15:37.040 you and I would both get different ads depending on 1:15:37.040 --> 1:15:39.200 who we are as people and where we live and 1:15:39.240 --> 1:15:41.720 all the different attributes of our profiles. And that's how 1:15:41.760 --> 1:15:43.520 we operate and monetize our business. 1:15:44.280 --> 1:15:45.760 How many of these do you have out in the 1:15:45.760 --> 1:15:47.600 wild and how many do you expect. 1:15:47.200 --> 1:15:47.840 To put out there? 1:15:47.880 --> 1:15:48.120 Yeah? 1:15:48.120 --> 1:15:51.680 So we just announced our company public in twenty twenty. 1:15:51.400 --> 1:15:52.000 Three in May. 1:15:52.280 --> 1:15:55.160 We're already in thousands and thousands of homes. Our TVs 1:15:55.200 --> 1:15:57.360 are used every single day for many many hours. 1:15:57.400 --> 1:15:59.280 It's working. The business model works. 1:15:59.360 --> 1:16:02.160 Twenty twenty three read was our year of validation and 1:16:02.240 --> 1:16:04.320 twenty twenty four is going to be the year we scale. 1:16:04.479 --> 1:16:06.880 So we're planning on going into millions of homes this year. 1:16:07.360 --> 1:16:09.519 Can people still get one of these? How do they 1:16:09.560 --> 1:16:09.840 do that? 1:16:09.960 --> 1:16:10.120 Yeah? 1:16:10.160 --> 1:16:12.320 Absolutely, we have a big weightlist right now. But I 1:16:12.320 --> 1:16:14.679 would sign up and go to free Telly dot com 1:16:14.680 --> 1:16:16.719 to get on the waitlist because we're about to start 1:16:16.720 --> 1:16:18.160 shipping a lot of TVs. 1:16:18.840 --> 1:16:19.160 All right. 1:16:19.200 --> 1:16:23.080 Once again the website freetelly dot com, And I will say, 1:16:23.400 --> 1:16:26.240 going hands on with that TV, it is a nice TV. 1:16:26.280 --> 1:16:29.320 It's got a great picture. It has all the stuff 1:16:29.360 --> 1:16:31.640 you want on it. You can add your own streaming 1:16:32.120 --> 1:16:34.599 dongle if you want, like a fire TV or anything 1:16:34.680 --> 1:16:36.439 like that, or you can just use the one that 1:16:36.479 --> 1:16:39.639 they give you. But it seems very high quality and 1:16:39.760 --> 1:16:42.439 the sound was great, and I think what they're doing 1:16:42.560 --> 1:16:46.599 is quite interesting because it's something that everyone wants for free. 1:16:46.640 --> 1:16:49.400 Why not have a free TV? Yeah, there are ads. 1:16:49.120 --> 1:16:49.719 On the bottom. 1:16:50.160 --> 1:16:53.240 The ads. You know, they're there all the time. So 1:16:53.560 --> 1:16:56.240 are they distracting? I don't think so. We're kind of 1:16:56.280 --> 1:16:58.559 used to ads at this point, so kind of a 1:16:58.600 --> 1:17:01.679 neat thing. Again. That was a creator and co founder 1:17:01.720 --> 1:17:06.920 of Telly. The website is freetelly dot com. 1:17:07.040 --> 1:17:07.400 All right. 1:17:07.439 --> 1:17:09.880 So one of the devices I saw at CS that 1:17:10.160 --> 1:17:13.640 is quite interesting reminds me of the future is a 1:17:13.720 --> 1:17:18.679 device from Wings called Bemo b E a m O BMO. 1:17:19.520 --> 1:17:23.160 This is a four and one health checkup device. It 1:17:23.240 --> 1:17:29.840 combines an ECG, blood oxygen level, stethoscope, and a thermometer. 1:17:30.880 --> 1:17:33.240 It allows you to measure your core vitals like temperature, 1:17:33.439 --> 1:17:36.920 heart rate, blood oxygen, and your lung and heart sounds, 1:17:37.000 --> 1:17:41.479 all at home medical grade health scants. It can detect 1:17:41.479 --> 1:17:46.519 things like fever, arrhythmia, and abnormal heart rate. And it 1:17:46.520 --> 1:17:49.160 also keeps records so that you can share this with 1:17:49.240 --> 1:17:52.559 your doctor. So this is two hundred and fifty dollars. 1:17:52.600 --> 1:17:55.720 It's pending FDA clearance, which is expected middle of this 1:17:55.800 --> 1:17:58.559 year June twenty twenty four. But I got to go 1:17:58.600 --> 1:18:00.880 hands on with this and try it out, and it 1:18:01.000 --> 1:18:04.559 literally felt like I was touching something and using something 1:18:04.600 --> 1:18:06.880 from the future, something you'd see like on a sci 1:18:06.920 --> 1:18:10.160 fi movie. Because you put this thing up to your 1:18:10.200 --> 1:18:13.800 heart or your lungs and it listens and it gives 1:18:13.840 --> 1:18:16.200 you a display and you do the ECG and I 1:18:16.240 --> 1:18:18.280 mean everything. Everything When you go to the doctor and 1:18:18.320 --> 1:18:20.680 they take your vitals, this thing will do. And so 1:18:20.760 --> 1:18:23.360 what is the whole point of this, Well, it is 1:18:23.439 --> 1:18:27.240 for telehealth. Imagine you want to get a quick appointment 1:18:27.240 --> 1:18:29.960 with your doctor and you know, you got a stuff 1:18:30.000 --> 1:18:32.760 he knows or whatever you got, you know, and they 1:18:32.840 --> 1:18:34.439 usually want you to come in to do all these 1:18:34.479 --> 1:18:38.519 little vitals. Now you can take all these vitals right 1:18:38.560 --> 1:18:40.799 from this device. It sends it to the doctor's screen 1:18:41.280 --> 1:18:43.000 and you can get all this stuff that you weren't 1:18:43.000 --> 1:18:45.720 able to get before. I mean, I think, especially when 1:18:45.720 --> 1:18:48.960 it comes to the stuff like this. The I can't 1:18:48.960 --> 1:18:52.200 even say the word the heart and lung sounds the 1:18:52.280 --> 1:18:55.519 sethoscope part. Why is that so tough for me to pronounce? 1:18:55.840 --> 1:18:58.479 But like that part is really tricky to get it home. 1:18:58.479 --> 1:18:59.880 I mean, you're not gonna listen to your own heart 1:19:00.080 --> 1:19:02.320 lungs right, So the fact that you can do this 1:19:02.479 --> 1:19:05.679 is quite incredible. Withings is a company that does all 1:19:05.800 --> 1:19:08.840 kinds of health stuff and they just continue to push 1:19:08.880 --> 1:19:11.160 the envelope when it comes to that. So I think 1:19:11.160 --> 1:19:14.040 we're gonna steal a big push in telehealth because there's 1:19:14.040 --> 1:19:16.840 so many things. Especially during the pandemic, we saw that 1:19:16.840 --> 1:19:19.240 there's just so many things that we can do at home, 1:19:20.120 --> 1:19:23.960 and that is one way we can advance that. Samsung 1:19:24.080 --> 1:19:28.200 unveiled a new AI companion robot for your house called Bali. 1:19:29.640 --> 1:19:33.440 This is a AI robot assistant. It was first introduced 1:19:33.479 --> 1:19:37.479 in twenty twenty. They updated it. It's kind of weird looking. 1:19:37.520 --> 1:19:39.360 It looks like a little soccer ball that rolls around 1:19:39.400 --> 1:19:42.360 your house, follows you around, greets you at the door 1:19:42.400 --> 1:19:44.720 when you come home, like a dog, and it's your 1:19:44.760 --> 1:19:47.599 personal home assistance. You can ask it questions you can 1:19:47.600 --> 1:19:50.360 say something like, hey, show me a recipe for pizza, 1:19:50.760 --> 1:19:54.519 and it will project the recipe on the wall. If 1:19:54.520 --> 1:19:57.120 someone comes to your door, it will project the video 1:19:57.320 --> 1:19:59.600 of the video doorbell, like a live stream of that. 1:20:00.320 --> 1:20:03.559 So it has strong R two D two vibes. You know, 1:20:03.640 --> 1:20:05.519 it's like one of these things that's just like always around. 1:20:05.600 --> 1:20:08.920 It's spinning around, it's following you. And the big new 1:20:08.960 --> 1:20:12.280 feature is the projection. So it's got that projector on it, 1:20:12.360 --> 1:20:15.519 so it can play videos on your walls and your floors. 1:20:15.920 --> 1:20:18.320 It can play music, can help you answer phone calls, 1:20:18.920 --> 1:20:20.720 and of course this is one of those things that 1:20:21.120 --> 1:20:22.720 will it ever see the light of the day. I 1:20:22.760 --> 1:20:25.360 don't know, because typically if a tech company is going 1:20:25.439 --> 1:20:27.120 to introduce something that we are going to see, they're 1:20:27.120 --> 1:20:28.840 going to give us a price and an expected date. 1:20:29.200 --> 1:20:30.920 We have none of that with Bali, but it's still 1:20:30.960 --> 1:20:31.439 pretty cool. 1:20:31.479 --> 1:20:36.479 So Samsung Bali ai companion robot for the home, saw 1:20:36.479 --> 1:20:39.400 a short demo of it, and you know, I don't know, 1:20:39.479 --> 1:20:42.879 I'm i'm I feel like these home robot things really 1:20:42.960 --> 1:20:44.920 have to be useful for us to spend money on them, 1:20:45.160 --> 1:20:47.320 and they really have to be good. And I do 1:20:47.360 --> 1:20:50.479 think that will happen because of artificial intelligence like chat, 1:20:50.520 --> 1:20:53.320 GBT and all that stuff. But right now it is 1:20:53.840 --> 1:20:57.559 We're seeing a lot of ideas, but realistically, what is 1:20:57.760 --> 1:21:00.519 the use? What is the value of having something like 1:21:00.560 --> 1:21:01.439 that at your house? 1:21:02.520 --> 1:21:02.920 All right? 1:21:03.280 --> 1:21:06.200 Website is rich on Tech dot TV. This is rich 1:21:06.280 --> 1:21:09.679 Dmiro giving you updates from CS twenty twenty four here 1:21:09.720 --> 1:21:12.080 in Las Vegas. If you want to see the stuff 1:21:12.080 --> 1:21:15.080 that I posted to my Instagram from CS, you can 1:21:15.080 --> 1:21:19.240 go to my Instagram page at rich on Tech. Website 1:21:19.240 --> 1:21:21.160 for the show is rich on Tech dot TV. I'm 1:21:21.160 --> 1:21:23.880 gonna do the feedback segment soon. 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It is a very special guest. It 1:22:07.360 --> 1:22:10.559 took a lot of convincing to get them on the show. 1:22:10.760 --> 1:22:12.799 Welcome my wife, Lindsey. 1:22:13.680 --> 1:22:14.840 Thank you for having me. 1:22:16.080 --> 1:22:16.639 Were you a. 1:22:16.560 --> 1:22:18.559 Little apprehensive for coming on the show today? 1:22:19.400 --> 1:22:22.320 Yes, I wonder how you do this on a regular basis. 1:22:22.360 --> 1:22:23.280 I've got to be honest. 1:22:24.360 --> 1:22:28.519 Lindsay's been listening to the show, and you know she's 1:22:28.520 --> 1:22:31.240 here in Vegas with me. She usually meets me after SAT. Yes, 1:22:31.320 --> 1:22:33.640 we go out for a nice dinner to celebrate the 1:22:34.160 --> 1:22:36.519 week being over. And so I said, you know what, 1:22:36.600 --> 1:22:39.320 let's do a rapid fire question segment. So, without further ado, 1:22:39.560 --> 1:22:41.200 these are some of the emails I've gotten in the 1:22:41.280 --> 1:22:44.439 last couple of weeks from you. So let's get the 1:22:44.479 --> 1:22:44.960 first one. 1:22:45.320 --> 1:22:48.840 Okay, Mollie Rights looking for an app keyboard for my 1:22:48.920 --> 1:22:51.639 iPhone which has the letters and numbers on one screen 1:22:51.760 --> 1:22:52.439 like a typewriter. 1:22:52.880 --> 1:22:55.840 Great question, Mollie. We've actually had this before on the show. 1:22:55.880 --> 1:22:58.479 And the answer to this question is an app called 1:22:58.600 --> 1:23:02.240 swift Key. So swift key was originally an app that 1:23:02.280 --> 1:23:05.600 was independent and now it is owned by Taylor. 1:23:05.320 --> 1:23:06.400 Swift just kidding. 1:23:07.040 --> 1:23:10.960 It's owned by Microsoft, so Microsoft swift Key does have 1:23:11.000 --> 1:23:14.080 an option to put the number row on top of 1:23:14.120 --> 1:23:17.360 the letter row. So there you go. Swift Key, look 1:23:17.360 --> 1:23:19.479 it up. It's available for iPhone and Android. 1:23:19.520 --> 1:23:23.200 Next question, Okay, this one's from Howard. Happy New Year, Rich. 1:23:23.360 --> 1:23:26.880 I'm cleansing my emails. I've become cautious and suspicious with 1:23:27.040 --> 1:23:31.000 unsubscribed options versus blocking email. Is it safe to click 1:23:31.120 --> 1:23:35.080 unsubscribe some required under email? I don't want to provide 1:23:35.080 --> 1:23:37.920 my email because I have a few emails. Thanks again 1:23:37.960 --> 1:23:40.280 for your tech insights, Howard. 1:23:40.320 --> 1:23:40.920 Good question. 1:23:41.040 --> 1:23:43.400 Here's my rule of thumb when it comes to unsubscribing 1:23:43.439 --> 1:23:47.360 from emails. You can safely unsubscribe to any email from 1:23:47.400 --> 1:23:50.639 a legitimate sender. That's a Macy's, that's a home depot, 1:23:51.000 --> 1:23:53.519 bed bath, and beyond those kind of emails that come 1:23:53.520 --> 1:23:56.759 from a large company or any company that is using 1:23:57.000 --> 1:24:00.640 an email service that is legitimate, like a mail or 1:24:00.680 --> 1:24:04.160 anything like that constant contact. Those are very safe to 1:24:04.240 --> 1:24:07.920 unsubscribe to. It is the emails that are unsolicited or 1:24:08.040 --> 1:24:12.160 spam that sometimes have unsubscribe in the footer. What they're 1:24:12.160 --> 1:24:13.960 trying to do is trick you. They're trying to confirm 1:24:14.040 --> 1:24:15.599 that you open that email and you have a good 1:24:15.600 --> 1:24:18.360 email address, and then once you click on subscribe, they'll 1:24:18.360 --> 1:24:21.120 actually send you more emails. So for those emails, you 1:24:21.160 --> 1:24:23.880 can just throw them out, trash them, don't even open them. 1:24:24.240 --> 1:24:27.439 For the legitimate emails, you can safely unsubscribe. When it 1:24:27.439 --> 1:24:30.120 comes to entering your email address. That's a pet peeve 1:24:30.160 --> 1:24:32.200 of mine. I don't think that should be the case. 1:24:32.560 --> 1:24:35.080 A lot of these email providers have switched to one 1:24:35.160 --> 1:24:38.880 click unsubscribe. Sometimes, if I can tell it's legitimate, I 1:24:38.920 --> 1:24:41.520 will put my email address in there to confirm. Otherwise 1:24:41.800 --> 1:24:44.400 I would just delete that email and hopefully it doesn't 1:24:44.439 --> 1:24:44.880 come back. 1:24:45.160 --> 1:24:49.160 Next question, Okay, this one's from Nilda hi Rich Demiro. 1:24:49.400 --> 1:24:52.080 I daily watch Ketla five news and I enjoy your 1:24:52.080 --> 1:24:55.000 segments there. I was wondering if my books and my 1:24:55.120 --> 1:24:58.120 kindle fire are sinkable. Is that even a word to 1:24:58.400 --> 1:25:02.599 my iPad? Or are they transferable? Thanks again, thanks ahead 1:25:02.640 --> 1:25:03.400 if you can help. 1:25:04.479 --> 1:25:07.799 This is from Nilda. Nilda, good question. 1:25:08.000 --> 1:25:10.479 This is this is pretty wild because when I wrote 1:25:10.479 --> 1:25:13.880 my book for the iPhone, it was so complicated because 1:25:13.920 --> 1:25:16.200 people didn't realize how they could read a Kindle book 1:25:16.200 --> 1:25:19.120 if they didn't own a Kindle And so this is 1:25:19.120 --> 1:25:22.160 what's happening here. You've got a kind Kindle Fire, and 1:25:22.240 --> 1:25:24.720 you've got books that you purchased on those Yes, you 1:25:24.760 --> 1:25:27.200 can easily get those on your iPad. All you have 1:25:27.280 --> 1:25:31.280 to do is download the Kindle app for iPad. Kindle 1:25:31.320 --> 1:25:34.000 has an app for pretty much every operating system out there, 1:25:34.240 --> 1:25:37.600 So if you're purchasing Kindle books from Amazon, yes, you 1:25:37.640 --> 1:25:41.080 can read them on almost any device out there. So 1:25:41.200 --> 1:25:43.839 just go ahead, download the Kindle app on your iPad. 1:25:44.160 --> 1:25:46.360 All of your books in your library will show up there, 1:25:46.400 --> 1:25:49.040 and it is sinkable. So if you get to page 1:25:49.080 --> 1:25:51.880 five hundred on your iPad, you open up your Kindle Fire. 1:25:51.920 --> 1:25:54.400 As long as they're both connected to Wi Fi or 1:25:54.439 --> 1:25:57.719 the Internet, they will sync and you'll be exactly where 1:25:57.720 --> 1:26:01.360 you left off. Good question, Nilda. Let's to get another one, lindsay. 1:26:01.880 --> 1:26:04.360 Eric, right, is there any way to add a flip 1:26:04.360 --> 1:26:07.120 phone to my iPhone account and have calls and texts 1:26:07.160 --> 1:26:09.639 forward to it? I don't want to add a line 1:26:09.720 --> 1:26:12.559 or a number, just roll calls and text. I have Verizon. 1:26:13.360 --> 1:26:18.360 Okay, so this is this is possible, but it's not 1:26:18.439 --> 1:26:23.360 necessarily simple. So there are a limited amount of devices 1:26:23.360 --> 1:26:26.519 that you can share your mobile number with, and Verizon 1:26:26.600 --> 1:26:29.880 calls this number share. All of these cellular carriers have 1:26:29.880 --> 1:26:32.799 a slightly different way of treating this. But for Verizon 1:26:32.840 --> 1:26:35.720 you mentioned is it's called number share, and so they 1:26:35.760 --> 1:26:37.600 have a couple of devices and if you go to 1:26:37.640 --> 1:26:40.800 their website Verizon dot com and look up number share, 1:26:41.120 --> 1:26:43.640 it will tell you which devices you can share your 1:26:43.680 --> 1:26:46.400 phone number with. Most of the devices and this feature 1:26:46.439 --> 1:26:49.280 pretty much launched with the Apple Watch. Most of them 1:26:49.360 --> 1:26:51.640 are watches, whether it's the Apple Watch, whether it's a 1:26:51.680 --> 1:26:56.280 pixel Watch, whether it's a Fossil Watch, but they are 1:26:56.320 --> 1:27:00.680 Samsung Galaxy watches. They do have a few that you 1:27:00.760 --> 1:27:03.200 can get and oh gosh, they get rid of the 1:27:03.240 --> 1:27:05.719 one that I was testing. Hold on, let me see, 1:27:05.760 --> 1:27:07.360 I think they got rid of it. Oh, I don't 1:27:07.400 --> 1:27:09.320 see it there anymore. There used to be a phone 1:27:09.320 --> 1:27:12.240 called the light Phone, and I don't know if that's 1:27:12.240 --> 1:27:14.599 on the list anymore. But anyway, there are a couple 1:27:14.640 --> 1:27:18.200 of devices on the list. You can't typically just use 1:27:18.320 --> 1:27:21.439 any old flip phone to connect to this. You do 1:27:21.520 --> 1:27:23.880 have to find a device that is on this list, 1:27:24.360 --> 1:27:26.559 and it is limited. So if you find a device 1:27:26.600 --> 1:27:27.840 on there, I'm looking to see if they have a 1:27:27.880 --> 1:27:30.760 flip phone on here. I don't know if they have 1:27:30.800 --> 1:27:32.600 one that you can get. Let me see what this 1:27:32.680 --> 1:27:36.599 one is. I'm not really seeing a flip phone on here, 1:27:36.920 --> 1:27:39.599 so I'm not sure this is completely possible. It says 1:27:39.960 --> 1:27:42.200 Palm Companion phone. What's that. I don't even know what 1:27:42.240 --> 1:27:44.000 that is. Oh wow, I don't even think they have 1:27:44.040 --> 1:27:46.639 that anymore. But you can go to the Verizon website. 1:27:46.640 --> 1:27:49.200 It is possible, but it is very, very limited, and 1:27:49.240 --> 1:27:52.080 it's all about money because they don't want you using 1:27:52.120 --> 1:27:54.000 a cheap flip phone because they charge you ten bucks 1:27:54.040 --> 1:27:55.720 a month. They don't want you using that. They want 1:27:55.720 --> 1:27:56.800 you to get a whole another line. 1:27:56.840 --> 1:28:01.080 All right, next question, Okay, let's answer Chef Alex's question. 1:28:01.560 --> 1:28:03.519 First of all, let me let you know that you 1:28:03.560 --> 1:28:06.400 are amazing. I love finding out new gadgets, apps and 1:28:06.400 --> 1:28:09.120 new technology. Seriously, I check your page for new and 1:28:09.120 --> 1:28:12.080 fun staff, so thank you. My question is when do 1:28:12.120 --> 1:28:14.960 you recommend booking a fight and do you prefer Airbnb 1:28:15.160 --> 1:28:15.679 or verbo? 1:28:15.840 --> 1:28:16.200 Thank you? 1:28:16.479 --> 1:28:17.880 Oh, two part question. 1:28:18.320 --> 1:28:21.479 So number one, recommend booking a flight? I recommend booking 1:28:21.479 --> 1:28:22.880 it as soon as you have the money and you 1:28:22.920 --> 1:28:24.800 are ready to do it, because flights go up and 1:28:24.800 --> 1:28:28.920 down all the time and price, and it's one price 1:28:28.960 --> 1:28:30.680 that's right for me may not be right for you, 1:28:30.760 --> 1:28:32.720 may not be right for someone else. So when you 1:28:32.760 --> 1:28:36.120 feel like it's a fair deal and it's working out 1:28:36.160 --> 1:28:38.320 for you, go ahead and book it. The place ide 1:28:38.320 --> 1:28:41.799 book flights flights dot Google dot com is the only 1:28:41.840 --> 1:28:46.040 place I use to research my flights Airbnb versus Verbo. Honestly, 1:28:46.040 --> 1:28:48.479 I'm a hotel guy, so if I had to choose, 1:28:48.560 --> 1:28:50.200 I don't know, I probably Airbnb. 1:28:50.400 --> 1:28:52.080 Thank you, Lindsey, thanks for having me. 1:28:52.120 --> 1:28:52.800 It was fun. 1:28:53.000 --> 1:28:54.719 My wife Lindsay On the show. 1:28:54.800 --> 1:28:56.559 Coming up, we're going to talk to Ben Wye, CEO 1:28:56.600 --> 1:28:59.479 of coin Flip, to explain what happened with bitcoin. This 1:28:59.520 --> 1:29:00.720 week is rich on Tech. 1:29:02.040 --> 1:29:03.719 Welcome back to rich on Tech. 1:29:03.800 --> 1:29:07.200 Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology live 1:29:07.240 --> 1:29:11.200 from Las Vegas today. Here for CS twenty twenty four, 1:29:11.240 --> 1:29:15.880 which has is completed. It has finished, it is done. 1:29:16.200 --> 1:29:17.800 A lot of people counting. 1:29:17.479 --> 1:29:20.040 Their steps this week. We did a lot, but it 1:29:20.120 --> 1:29:21.840 was fun. We saw a lot of great stuff, but 1:29:21.880 --> 1:29:24.200 one of the big news stories of the week while 1:29:24.200 --> 1:29:29.320 we were here involves bitcoin. And yes, we've heard about 1:29:29.320 --> 1:29:32.200 bitcoin on and off for years now, but this is 1:29:32.640 --> 1:29:36.320 it seems like a very big shift in the entire 1:29:36.400 --> 1:29:40.400 crypto world. Let's bring on Ben Weis's CEO of coin 1:29:40.520 --> 1:29:43.840 flip to talk about it. Ben wi CEO of coin flip, 1:29:43.840 --> 1:29:50.280 thanks for joining me today. Hey, Rich, I'm doing great. 1:29:50.680 --> 1:29:52.760 First off, tell me what coin flip does. What do 1:29:52.840 --> 1:29:53.759 you do at coin flip? 1:29:54.640 --> 1:29:59.840 So, coin flip operates over five thousand big ms where 1:30:00.040 --> 1:30:04.960 people can physically perch bitcoin in other crypto and physical locations. 1:30:05.000 --> 1:30:07.519 We operate in nine countries and we have over five 1:30:07.960 --> 1:30:11.240 one hundred locations in California and about one hundred in Nevada. 1:30:12.200 --> 1:30:16.200 Oh wow, Okay, so you do bitcoin atm so you're 1:30:16.240 --> 1:30:19.120 pretty well versed in this stuff. So let's talk about 1:30:19.160 --> 1:30:23.599 first off, the well, let's explain bitcoin first. 1:30:25.720 --> 1:30:28.639 Yeah, and I've been now in this space for over 1:30:28.680 --> 1:30:30.360 a decade, since I was eighteen. 1:30:30.479 --> 1:30:33.640 But bitcoin is a digital currency. 1:30:34.479 --> 1:30:38.519 It's not owned or operated by a central bank or 1:30:38.560 --> 1:30:44.960 any private company. It's simply a decentralized currency on the blockchain. 1:30:45.920 --> 1:30:50.080 And it was the first crypto ever and it's the 1:30:50.120 --> 1:30:53.680 most popular crypto, and this week the SEC just approved 1:30:53.800 --> 1:30:57.280 eleven ETFs for bitcoin, which will make it more easy 1:30:57.320 --> 1:30:58.400 for people to buy. 1:30:59.439 --> 1:31:01.600 Okay, that's the big news this week, and this was 1:31:01.800 --> 1:31:05.680 rumored for a while and why, you know, why is 1:31:05.720 --> 1:31:08.560 that significant and what does that mean exactly? 1:31:10.360 --> 1:31:14.559 Yeah, So ETFs are exchange traded and for those of 1:31:14.600 --> 1:31:19.599 you who purchase stocks, you probably have bought ETFs with 1:31:19.640 --> 1:31:23.600 your online brokerage account or financial advisor on things like 1:31:23.680 --> 1:31:28.479 Vanguard in Fidelity and tdomrriort Trade, And until last week, 1:31:28.600 --> 1:31:32.360 there was no way to purchase bitcoin. 1:31:32.320 --> 1:31:34.440 On any of those traditional brokerages. 1:31:34.560 --> 1:31:36.519 So you had a lot of people who wanted to 1:31:36.520 --> 1:31:40.639 buy bitcoin, but didn't want to buy it that ples 1:31:40.680 --> 1:31:44.120 didn't want to have to worry about storing bitcoin on 1:31:44.160 --> 1:31:44.879 their own wallets. 1:31:44.920 --> 1:31:46.559 I mean, Rich, I'm sure you've heard about. 1:31:46.320 --> 1:31:51.360 The horror stories of people, especially earlier, earlier in the 1:31:51.600 --> 1:31:54.639 early days of bitcoin, who lost access to their crypto 1:31:54.680 --> 1:31:56.559 because they lost their hard drives and things like that. 1:31:56.640 --> 1:31:57.760 So this allows. 1:31:57.439 --> 1:32:01.439 People to get exposure to bitcoin and the upside of 1:32:01.439 --> 1:32:05.360 bitcoin without holding the coin themselves, because the coin is 1:32:05.400 --> 1:32:09.439 held by these exchange traded funds, and you're seeing some 1:32:09.479 --> 1:32:12.880 of the smartest companies in the world, like Blackrock, get 1:32:12.920 --> 1:32:15.240 into the space. So it's a huge day for crypto 1:32:15.560 --> 1:32:18.400 and this will make bitcoin and other cryptos more accessible 1:32:18.439 --> 1:32:18.960 for everyone. 1:32:19.880 --> 1:32:22.519 Oh, that's an interesting aspect that I had not thought 1:32:22.560 --> 1:32:24.800 of because and by the way, I think you cut 1:32:24.800 --> 1:32:28.679 out when you said ETF that's exchange traded fund. These 1:32:28.680 --> 1:32:32.280 are like the hot product in the investment world. It's 1:32:32.320 --> 1:32:33.880 kind of like a mutual fund, I guess, but like 1:32:33.920 --> 1:32:36.479 with less fees and things like that, and it's kind 1:32:36.479 --> 1:32:37.719 of like automated too, right. 1:32:38.640 --> 1:32:41.840 Yeah, So instead of buying individual stocks and having to 1:32:41.880 --> 1:32:45.880 manage that, the fund manages on those stocks, so you 1:32:45.920 --> 1:32:49.759 could have more diversified exposure to areas of the economy 1:32:49.760 --> 1:32:54.280 without having to buy and manage all the individual stocks yourself. 1:32:54.360 --> 1:32:56.960 So that was a concept that was pioneered in the 1:32:56.960 --> 1:33:01.000 traditional stock investing space. Is many of listeners probably have 1:33:01.080 --> 1:33:04.800 participated in that space, and now that whole concept is 1:33:04.800 --> 1:33:05.720 brought to bitcoin. 1:33:05.800 --> 1:33:08.440 So instead of people having to buy. 1:33:08.640 --> 1:33:12.439 Individual bitcoins and hold them on hot wallets and cold 1:33:12.520 --> 1:33:14.960 wallets and you know, on their phone and worry about 1:33:14.960 --> 1:33:16.679 losing them, they can. 1:33:16.600 --> 1:33:20.760 Just buy that ETF that tracks the price. 1:33:20.479 --> 1:33:23.360 Of bitcoin, so if bitcoin goes up, they'll get those 1:33:23.400 --> 1:33:25.640 gains and they won't have to worry about managing or 1:33:25.640 --> 1:33:27.040 holding bitcoin themselves. 1:33:27.520 --> 1:33:29.639 And the industry has been pushing the. 1:33:29.520 --> 1:33:34.519 SEC to approve some of these ETFs for years now, 1:33:34.560 --> 1:33:38.320 and actually about a couple months ago, a federal appeals 1:33:38.360 --> 1:33:43.640 court in DC said that the SEC improperly rejected in 1:33:43.800 --> 1:33:47.320 ETF So the SEC had to reconsider the ETFs and 1:33:47.360 --> 1:33:49.240 the first approvals came down this week. 1:33:50.280 --> 1:33:53.000 Wow. So why do you think the government changed their 1:33:53.000 --> 1:33:53.680 course on this? 1:33:55.240 --> 1:33:57.360 Well, I think at the end of the day, the 1:33:57.439 --> 1:34:03.120 SEC's all about consumer protection and this is a novel technology, right, 1:34:03.240 --> 1:34:07.519 and with novel technologies there could be increased risk to 1:34:07.600 --> 1:34:11.240 increase risk, so I think the SEC was taking their time. 1:34:11.280 --> 1:34:13.719 And it's not uncommon to when. 1:34:13.640 --> 1:34:17.800 Firms apply for whether it's an ETF, for approvals for 1:34:17.880 --> 1:34:21.640 other things, that the SEC will have commentary back, or 1:34:22.439 --> 1:34:24.519 we'll ask for a little bit of different change in 1:34:24.600 --> 1:34:28.200 business model. So there has been some back and forth there, 1:34:28.200 --> 1:34:31.840 and then there was the court decisions which provides more 1:34:31.880 --> 1:34:34.679 guidance as well. So it looks like with the changes 1:34:34.720 --> 1:34:37.000 to some of the applications and the court decisions, the 1:34:37.040 --> 1:34:42.760 SEC was finally satisfied to approve eleven of these ETFs, and. 1:34:42.720 --> 1:34:43.680 I'm sure they'll be poor. 1:34:44.040 --> 1:34:48.120 That was just for Bitcoin, So there's other cryptocurrencies. There's Etherorum, 1:34:48.280 --> 1:34:50.800 and I'm sure that people will be trying to get 1:34:51.160 --> 1:34:53.559 Ethereum and other crypto ETFs proved next. 1:34:54.280 --> 1:34:56.280 I mean, so look, the bottom line is, if you 1:34:56.400 --> 1:34:59.559 have a retirement account or any sort of investment account, 1:35:00.000 --> 1:35:03.040 you can now easily get into crypto. And it seems 1:35:03.040 --> 1:35:07.439 like it's a very legitimate way to do this because, yes, 1:35:07.479 --> 1:35:09.519 there's been many ways of buying this in the past, 1:35:09.560 --> 1:35:11.599 but you had to sign up for, like you said, 1:35:11.640 --> 1:35:15.240 a secondary you know, any one of these programs or 1:35:15.280 --> 1:35:17.080 apps that would sell it to you that you may 1:35:17.080 --> 1:35:19.519 not have done business with before. But if you're buying 1:35:19.520 --> 1:35:22.280 it through your you know, Fidelity or Vanguard or any 1:35:22.320 --> 1:35:25.120 of these like big brand names that you know, I 1:35:25.240 --> 1:35:27.559 feel like that means a lot of people will feel 1:35:27.600 --> 1:35:29.800 much more comfortable getting in on this or at least 1:35:29.880 --> 1:35:32.320 having some, you know, some of this in their portfolio. 1:35:32.600 --> 1:35:35.400 Is that the idea behind why we've seen the price 1:35:35.479 --> 1:35:36.360 go up with bitcoin. 1:35:37.240 --> 1:35:40.040 I mean, I think you're one hundred percent like the 1:35:40.120 --> 1:35:45.400 early adopters of crypto. Maybe people who are very technically sophisticated, 1:35:45.720 --> 1:35:50.120 you know, they probably bought crypto already. They're comfortable self 1:35:50.160 --> 1:35:53.679 customing their own coins on wallets, on. 1:35:53.600 --> 1:35:54.720 Their phone and things like that. 1:35:54.840 --> 1:35:57.080 But for the average person it can be kind of 1:35:57.080 --> 1:36:01.360 intimidating and confusing. Like I know, someone like my you know, 1:36:01.400 --> 1:36:03.800 like my mom and dad, they you know, have been 1:36:03.800 --> 1:36:06.479 buying stocks and ETFs for a while, and they can 1:36:06.520 --> 1:36:09.240 just now log into their tdom Merrior Trader, you know, 1:36:09.360 --> 1:36:11.479 Vanguard and have the option to buy crypto. 1:36:11.560 --> 1:36:13.720 It just makes it so much easier, and. 1:36:13.680 --> 1:36:15.640 Then they don't have to worry about things like do 1:36:15.680 --> 1:36:19.600 I have to remember passwords and codes, you know, for 1:36:19.720 --> 1:36:22.160 my own wallets. So it just simplifies the process. And 1:36:22.200 --> 1:36:24.600 I do think it has a lot to do with 1:36:24.680 --> 1:36:28.519 the price increase. We're sueing bitcoin today just sitting under 1:36:28.560 --> 1:36:29.800 forty three thousand. 1:36:29.560 --> 1:36:32.200 Dollars a coin. And just so your listeners know, you 1:36:32.240 --> 1:36:34.519 don't have to buy one coin at once. 1:36:34.600 --> 1:36:37.880 The bitcoin's infinitely divisible, which means you could buy twenty 1:36:37.880 --> 1:36:41.960 dollars of it fifty dollars, one thousand dollars. But this 1:36:42.040 --> 1:36:45.799 adds so much legitimacy to the space, and this also 1:36:45.880 --> 1:36:48.679 opens up crypto and bitcoin to a bunch of investors 1:36:48.720 --> 1:36:50.559 who would have never considered it before. 1:36:51.840 --> 1:36:54.040 Ben, I'm going to read you an email from you know, 1:36:54.200 --> 1:36:56.040 I have my Gmail account, which you know has an 1:36:56.120 --> 1:36:58.080 archive all my emails. This is from a friend that 1:36:58.120 --> 1:37:02.120 was in the bitcoin space. Early Thursday, November seventh, twenty thirteen. 1:37:02.479 --> 1:37:04.360 He says, I just want to put this on your radar. 1:37:04.680 --> 1:37:08.160 We're having another bitcoin meetup. Bitcoin is in the news 1:37:08.160 --> 1:37:10.160 a lot, and the price just hit a new high 1:37:10.200 --> 1:37:12.960 at over three hundred dollars per bitcoin. I think the 1:37:13.000 --> 1:37:14.680 last time I talked to you about bitcoin, it was 1:37:14.720 --> 1:37:16.679 at one hundred and twenty five, so it is growing. 1:37:18.520 --> 1:37:20.599 He was trying to ask me to buy bitcoin back 1:37:20.600 --> 1:37:24.800 in twenty thirteen, and I didn't. But this goes to 1:37:24.840 --> 1:37:26.599 show that this thing has been around for a while. 1:37:26.920 --> 1:37:30.200 There have been people that have been tracking, like yourself 1:37:30.200 --> 1:37:31.919 and this person very closely. 1:37:33.360 --> 1:37:34.479 Should I have bought back. 1:37:34.360 --> 1:37:37.760 Then, Well, I think a lot of people think they 1:37:37.760 --> 1:37:41.719 should have bought back then, But you know, it's never 1:37:41.800 --> 1:37:44.759 too late, and I think people should do their research 1:37:44.840 --> 1:37:48.320 because you want to have conviction not just in bitcoin, 1:37:48.360 --> 1:37:51.040 but in any sort of financial asset you buy because 1:37:51.320 --> 1:37:53.599 you know, prices go up, prices go down. But if 1:37:53.680 --> 1:37:57.000 you have conviction in the financial asset you're buying, you're 1:37:57.040 --> 1:38:02.759 more likely to hold it long and have better returns. 1:38:02.800 --> 1:38:05.680 But to your point, Bitcoin's been incredibly resilient. I mean, 1:38:05.760 --> 1:38:09.080 let's face it, crypto's had some horrible headlines in the 1:38:09.120 --> 1:38:13.120 past year or two, from FTX to binance. We've also 1:38:13.280 --> 1:38:16.559 had the interest rates go through to over five percent. 1:38:17.000 --> 1:38:19.920 And for bitcoin to be sitting at forty five thousand 1:38:20.000 --> 1:38:23.559 dollars today or forty three thousand dollars today, it wasn't 1:38:23.640 --> 1:38:25.479 forty five thousand a couple of days ago. But to 1:38:25.520 --> 1:38:29.240 be sitting that high with you know, bad news, higher 1:38:29.320 --> 1:38:32.720 interest rates, some economic uncertainty, I think is an incredibly 1:38:33.320 --> 1:38:37.400 positive sign for crypto and for bitcoin. And now you 1:38:37.439 --> 1:38:41.920 have very legitimate players like black Rock, Chase, JP Morgan 1:38:42.000 --> 1:38:44.200 getting into the fray. 1:38:44.280 --> 1:38:46.200 And then, for those of your listeners who don't know, 1:38:46.320 --> 1:38:48.200 this year twenty twenty. 1:38:47.920 --> 1:38:51.280 Four, so every four years with bitcoin, there's something called 1:38:51.280 --> 1:38:55.839 the happening that means the rewards to minors, the supply 1:38:57.479 --> 1:39:01.280 of crypto that's generated every ten minutes actually cuts in half, 1:39:02.400 --> 1:39:06.320 So there's more scarcely every four years with bitcoin, and 1:39:06.360 --> 1:39:10.400 that's typically also in price as well, So there's a 1:39:10.560 --> 1:39:13.880 there's a lot of signs that have allowed bitcoin to 1:39:13.920 --> 1:39:15.439 really kind of break out from the fold. 1:39:15.479 --> 1:39:15.759 Here. 1:39:16.640 --> 1:39:18.519 All right, Ben Weiss, we're gonna leave it there, Thanks 1:39:18.520 --> 1:39:19.639 so much for joining me today. 1:39:20.400 --> 1:39:22.080 Thanks so much, Rich, how a good one? 1:39:22.479 --> 1:39:25.280 All right, Ben wi CEO and co founder of coin flip. 1:39:25.640 --> 1:39:31.719 This is a Bitcoin ATM provider. Is coin flip dot tech? Again? 1:39:31.720 --> 1:39:35.160 That was Ben Weiss, CEO and co founder of coin flip, 1:39:35.200 --> 1:39:39.120 the website coin flip dot tech. Do your research before 1:39:39.120 --> 1:39:41.360 you jump in. Like anything else that has to do 1:39:41.439 --> 1:39:44.200 with money, you gotta do your research. But it is 1:39:44.280 --> 1:39:46.840 certainly an interesting, interesting. 1:39:46.479 --> 1:39:47.679 Place with bitcoin. 1:39:48.160 --> 1:39:52.479 All right, coming up the feedback segment. Can't wait, rich 1:39:52.520 --> 1:39:58.519 on Tech, Rich Demiro here, we'll be right back. Welcome 1:39:58.520 --> 1:40:01.519 back to rich on Tech here, hanging out with you 1:40:01.560 --> 1:40:04.880 talking technology. As you can see, my special guest is 1:40:04.880 --> 1:40:08.439 still chatting into the microphone. That's my wife, Lindsay. She 1:40:08.600 --> 1:40:11.519 joined me today to read some of your questions. I 1:40:11.520 --> 1:40:13.360 think she did a very good job. I do have 1:40:13.400 --> 1:40:16.479 a warning though, for you. If you got gift cards 1:40:16.560 --> 1:40:22.120 over the holidays, check the balance immediately. This happened to us, 1:40:22.240 --> 1:40:24.880 and it's quite scary. It's happening to a lot of 1:40:24.880 --> 1:40:28.000 people based on the comments on my Instagram and Facebook page. 1:40:28.520 --> 1:40:32.240 But basically what happens is scam artists go to the stores, 1:40:32.800 --> 1:40:35.760 they write down the numbers from gift cards, so like 1:40:35.800 --> 1:40:38.280 somehow open up the back of them, write down the 1:40:38.360 --> 1:40:41.719 number and then they'll record that number, keep it at home, 1:40:42.120 --> 1:40:44.960 and I guess they check on a daily basis to 1:40:45.000 --> 1:40:47.880 see if any money got charged up onto that card, 1:40:48.000 --> 1:40:50.719 and as soon as it does, they drain the funds. 1:40:51.160 --> 1:40:53.680 So what happens when you get gift cards, right, you 1:40:53.720 --> 1:40:55.960 give them, you buy them at the store, You hold 1:40:56.000 --> 1:40:57.400 on to them for a week, You give it to 1:40:57.400 --> 1:41:00.080 a person at a birthday party or the holidays, that 1:41:00.120 --> 1:41:02.040 person gets it, they hold on to it for a 1:41:02.040 --> 1:41:04.000 couple of weeks. So, as you can see, there's a 1:41:04.040 --> 1:41:06.600 lot of time here for the scam artists to do 1:41:06.640 --> 1:41:08.960 their work. And so I've noticed that a lot of 1:41:09.040 --> 1:41:12.839 registers they will look at the cards, they will visually 1:41:12.880 --> 1:41:14.840 inspect them to make sure that they have not been 1:41:14.880 --> 1:41:18.920 tampered with, but it doesn't always catch them. And so 1:41:19.160 --> 1:41:20.800 what you need to do. If you have a gift 1:41:20.800 --> 1:41:23.599 card that you got over the holidays. Number one, check 1:41:23.680 --> 1:41:26.160 the balance and make sure that it is valid, because 1:41:26.200 --> 1:41:28.720 if it's not. The quicker you do this, the more 1:41:28.760 --> 1:41:31.559 of a chance you might have of recovering those funds. 1:41:31.920 --> 1:41:35.080 The problem is gift cards are pretty much treated as cash. 1:41:35.439 --> 1:41:37.760 But if you have the receipt and you've got your information, 1:41:37.960 --> 1:41:41.240 some people say they are successful in getting the money back. 1:41:42.160 --> 1:41:45.719 But this is a very very big issue that again 1:41:45.760 --> 1:41:49.240 it happened to us, and you know, it's just one 1:41:49.280 --> 1:41:52.240 of those things where there are so many gift cards. 1:41:52.240 --> 1:41:56.080 Gift cards are almost their own currency, and it's just 1:41:56.640 --> 1:41:59.560 it's very simple for these scam artists to do this apparently, 1:42:00.120 --> 1:42:02.400 and people buy these cards, they don't look at the back, 1:42:02.439 --> 1:42:05.400 they don't notice that numbers are scratched off and recorded, 1:42:05.479 --> 1:42:07.599 and they put the money on it and it's gone. 1:42:08.040 --> 1:42:10.920 So check for that for sure before we get to 1:42:10.920 --> 1:42:12.920 the feedback. Two more things I saw at CES I 1:42:12.960 --> 1:42:17.120 thought were pretty cool. Zekes zox. This is a fully 1:42:17.200 --> 1:42:22.760 autonomous ride hailing vehicle made by Amazon owned Zekes. This 1:42:22.840 --> 1:42:25.920 is a vehicle with no human controls. There's no steering wheels, 1:42:25.920 --> 1:42:30.880 there's no pedals, there's four seats inside. The car goes 1:42:30.920 --> 1:42:32.880 up to seventy five miles an hour. It can go 1:42:32.960 --> 1:42:34.920 either way. So the lights on the front and the 1:42:34.920 --> 1:42:37.800 back changed from white to red so it can go 1:42:37.920 --> 1:42:41.120 back or forth. It's starting public service in twenty twenty 1:42:41.120 --> 1:42:44.880 four in Las Vegas. And this is pretty wild. It's 1:42:44.880 --> 1:42:47.920 like basically a ride hailing taxi, but there's no human 1:42:47.960 --> 1:42:52.720 controls and no human inside. It's called zekes Zox that 1:42:52.880 --> 1:42:56.760 is coming soon from an Amazon owned company. And then 1:42:56.800 --> 1:43:00.680 this was pretty cool. An electric grill. So Current has 1:43:00.720 --> 1:43:04.280 a smart electric grill. It's called the Current Model G. 1:43:04.960 --> 1:43:08.360 It's Wi Fi enabled, fully electric, you can use it outside. 1:43:08.360 --> 1:43:09.200 It's got a mobile app. 1:43:09.240 --> 1:43:13.160 Preheats in ten minutes, reaches seven hundred degrees dual temperature zones. 1:43:13.640 --> 1:43:17.960 And again everything is going electric. Now the grill is 1:43:18.000 --> 1:43:20.679 going electric as well. And speaking of electric, how about 1:43:21.160 --> 1:43:27.080 indoor smoker. GE has an indoor smart smoker. This is 1:43:27.120 --> 1:43:30.200 an indoor electric smoker. It's got this filtration system on 1:43:30.240 --> 1:43:33.360 it that lets you smoke food inside. Can you imagine, 1:43:33.439 --> 1:43:33.920 I mean, you know. 1:43:33.880 --> 1:43:34.639 When you smoke food. 1:43:34.640 --> 1:43:36.240 I've never done it, but I've been around people that do. 1:43:36.320 --> 1:43:38.800 And it's a lot of smoke, but they figured out 1:43:38.840 --> 1:43:40.680 a way to kind of capture that smoke clean out 1:43:40.720 --> 1:43:42.920 the air. And I was near this thing, and you 1:43:42.920 --> 1:43:46.320 can smell the smoky flavor. But it's not like an 1:43:46.400 --> 1:43:49.080 outdoor smoker for sure. So now if you have an 1:43:49.080 --> 1:43:51.840 inside you know, don't have an outside, or you live 1:43:51.840 --> 1:43:54.479 in a condo or an apartment or whatever, you can 1:43:54.479 --> 1:43:57.559 now have an indoor smoker holds up to three racks 1:43:57.600 --> 1:44:01.960 of ribs or a fourteen pound pork butt. Is that 1:44:02.000 --> 1:44:07.520 what people are making. It's got connected features and small footprints, 1:44:07.600 --> 1:44:10.160 a lot of it is dishwasher safe, and it's available 1:44:10.200 --> 1:44:12.400 for nine hundred ninety nine dollars. Again, that's the ge 1:44:12.520 --> 1:44:15.840 profile smart indoor smoker. And they were smoking a chicken 1:44:15.880 --> 1:44:17.600 in there or something like that. Maybe it was a 1:44:17.600 --> 1:44:19.800 pork butt. I don't know. All right, let's get to 1:44:20.160 --> 1:44:24.360 the feedbag segment. Joseph says, love the show. Just want 1:44:24.360 --> 1:44:26.479 to share with you my discovering of an amazing device. 1:44:26.520 --> 1:44:30.479 After cutting the cord, audio video over the air broadcast 1:44:30.560 --> 1:44:33.559 quality has a much better than compressed cable. We get 1:44:33.600 --> 1:44:37.439 fantastic reception with our MOHU window antenna. The best is 1:44:37.479 --> 1:44:41.679 the seventy nine dollars Tableau TV with an indoor DVR 1:44:41.800 --> 1:44:45.560 and no monthly fees. It's amazing for setup an antenna, 1:44:45.680 --> 1:44:49.240 schedule recordings. Tableau will also release an app soon for 1:44:49.280 --> 1:44:52.519 Apple TV. Very impressed, easy to use without paying a 1:44:52.560 --> 1:44:54.400 lot of money. I hope you can get a demo 1:44:54.439 --> 1:44:57.120 from Tableau at CS. Yes, I did get a demo 1:44:57.160 --> 1:45:00.840 from Tableau. It is a fantastic device and they're going 1:45:00.880 --> 1:45:02.439 to send me one of the new ones to test. 1:45:03.080 --> 1:45:05.439 Gretchen says I listened to your podcast every week, and 1:45:05.520 --> 1:45:08.200 your first podcast of twenty twenty four year comments about 1:45:08.320 --> 1:45:10.720 what you want the podcast to be for everyone, not 1:45:10.840 --> 1:45:12.920 just tech experts is right on the money. Your content 1:45:13.000 --> 1:45:15.800 is so helpful to me and the everyday person trying 1:45:15.840 --> 1:45:19.559 to navigate tech. I appreciate the balance between newsworthy alerts, 1:45:19.560 --> 1:45:22.320 how tos and expert guests you have on the show. 1:45:22.520 --> 1:45:25.400 Thank you well, thank you, Gretchen. Tom says I love 1:45:25.400 --> 1:45:28.280 the show. You're doing a great job. It keeps getting better. Tom, 1:45:28.360 --> 1:45:34.120 thank you. Let's see Sandy from Culver City says Miniochi Karaoke. 1:45:34.240 --> 1:45:36.599 I just want to thank you for recommending this little 1:45:36.680 --> 1:45:40.000 karaoke speaker and microphone. I also followed your advice about 1:45:40.080 --> 1:45:43.040 using Apple Music Sing feature with the Minioki. I use 1:45:43.120 --> 1:45:46.520 it at my Christmas brunch party and everyone had a blast. 1:45:46.880 --> 1:45:50.479 It's very easy to use and added so much fun 1:45:50.520 --> 1:45:53.120 to my gathering. All of your recommendations have been spot on. 1:45:53.200 --> 1:45:55.840 Thanks for your help and advice from your rich On Tech, 1:45:57.000 --> 1:45:58.880 Neil says, it's been a whole year. You've done a 1:45:58.920 --> 1:46:00.360 great job, a great public service. 1:46:00.400 --> 1:46:00.680 I used. 1:46:00.760 --> 1:46:02.559 I like to listen live because I want to cheer 1:46:02.600 --> 1:46:03.559 you on and the odd. 1:46:03.400 --> 1:46:06.080 Questions come in then again on my podcast app to 1:46:06.080 --> 1:46:09.200 fully absorb the show's goodness. You don't have to be perfect. 1:46:09.200 --> 1:46:11.960 Love your show. Look forward to listening to many more. 1:46:12.000 --> 1:46:15.360 Thanks for all that you do, Neil from Ohio. All Right, 1:46:15.400 --> 1:46:16.920 if you can believe it, that's gonna do it. For 1:46:16.960 --> 1:46:18.880 this episode of the show, you can find links to 1:46:18.880 --> 1:46:20.720 everything I mentioned on my website. Just go to rich 1:46:20.760 --> 1:46:23.080 on Tech dot tv for the show notes. You can 1:46:23.120 --> 1:46:25.920 find me on social media. I am at rich on Tech. 1:46:26.000 --> 1:46:30.759 Next week, Samsung launching its brand new Galaxy S twenty 1:46:30.760 --> 1:46:33.960 four smartphones. We're gonna go hands on with those. I 1:46:34.000 --> 1:46:36.640 cannot wait. Thanks so much for listening. There are so 1:46:36.680 --> 1:46:39.120 many ways you can spend your time. I do appreciate 1:46:39.120 --> 1:46:42.000 you spending it right here with me. Thanks to everyone 1:46:42.040 --> 1:46:43.240 who makes this show possible. 1:46:43.800 --> 1:46:47.000 Kim, Bobo, Lindsey. 1:46:46.960 --> 1:46:50.120 Say, hello, hello and goodbye. What'd you think of? What 1:46:50.120 --> 1:46:51.760 do you think about being on the show today? Did 1:46:51.800 --> 1:46:52.280 you like it? 1:46:52.680 --> 1:46:54.960 I actually really liked it. It was really fun and fun 1:46:55.000 --> 1:46:55.719 to see you in action. 1:46:56.040 --> 1:46:58.519 Yeah, and in live time. Have you ever watched me 1:46:58.600 --> 1:46:59.360 do the show before? 1:47:00.200 --> 1:47:00.679 Uh? 1:47:00.720 --> 1:47:02.479 Only when I brought the kids in that one day 1:47:02.520 --> 1:47:04.360 for a couple minutes, but not the entire show. 1:47:04.400 --> 1:47:07.120 This was really fun, all right. What would you do differently. 1:47:08.479 --> 1:47:09.240 Me personally? 1:47:09.479 --> 1:47:10.679 Yeah? 1:47:10.400 --> 1:47:13.320 Uh, be a little more relaxed, you know. Now the 1:47:13.360 --> 1:47:14.280 second time, I'll be. 1:47:14.280 --> 1:47:17.040 A proud Okay. Well, oh I just heard it. Sounds 1:47:17.080 --> 1:47:19.479 like Lindsay's gonna come back. I think we didn't scare 1:47:19.479 --> 1:47:22.760 you away. I like that. Okay, Oh I have time 1:47:22.800 --> 1:47:24.880 for one more feedback. Thanks Lindsay for being on the show. 1:47:24.920 --> 1:47:27.560 Jim says, I popped into a store to buy cash 1:47:27.600 --> 1:47:29.200 to pay cash to buy a birthday card. When I 1:47:29.240 --> 1:47:31.000 got the receipt, it looks like the point of sale 1:47:31.040 --> 1:47:34.120 device tried to use two contactless cards before processing my 1:47:34.200 --> 1:47:37.280 cash transaction. Neither of the cards on the receipt match 1:47:37.320 --> 1:47:39.880 what I carry in my RFID blocking wallet. I wonder 1:47:39.920 --> 1:47:41.719 if the poor cashier is going to see a large 1:47:41.720 --> 1:47:45.000 bill if the card he tries to tap were hers. Ooh, 1:47:45.160 --> 1:47:48.479 I have noticed those NFC credit cards are working from 1:47:48.600 --> 1:47:51.120 further and further away, it seems so yes, be careful 1:47:51.160 --> 1:47:53.200 when you put them by the register. All right. 1:47:53.479 --> 1:47:54.479 My name is rich Demiro. 1:47:54.600 --> 1:47:56.760 Find me on the website until next week. Rich on 1:47:56.840 --> 1:48:02.040 tech dot tv. Thanks so much for listening. I'll talk 1:48:02.040 --> 1:48:02.639 to you real soon.