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Speaker 1: Get in touch with technology with tech Stuff from how

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Speaker 1: Stuff Look stop com Hey there, everyone, and welcome to

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Speaker 1: tech Stuff. I am Jonathan Strickland and I'm Lauren, both

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Speaker 1: of them, and today we're going to conclude our epic

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Speaker 1: two part episode about c E S two thousand thirteen

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Speaker 1: and the adventures of Jonathan in Vague. Well, you know,

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Speaker 1: let's talk a little bit about health. Health. What does

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Speaker 1: that have to do with technology everything? As it turns out, well,

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Speaker 1: first of all, the trend of creating fitness tech has

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Speaker 1: not slowed down at all. I saw lots and lots

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Speaker 1: of examples of various gadgets that will track how many

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Speaker 1: steps you take and upload that data in some way

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Speaker 1: or or or analyze your activity in various ways to

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Speaker 1: let you know exactly how active or not active are. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know which, which is really cool and I think

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Speaker 1: a lot of people are. If my Facebook feed is

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Speaker 1: any indication using that kind of thing to um to

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Speaker 1: just kind of crowdsource their their own ability to to

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Speaker 1: level up in health. That's the nerdiest thing that I've

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Speaker 1: said in a very long time. And I'm podcasting about

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Speaker 1: tech things right now, so that's really impressive. But but no,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's it's it's a great motivation to be

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Speaker 1: able to connect with other people share that sort of Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I've seen people who use things like like the fitbit

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Speaker 1: as a means of competing against their friends, where you know,

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Speaker 1: how many they see how many steps they log, and

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Speaker 1: then they see how many of their steps their friend logs.

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Speaker 1: They're like, oh, I need to fit another fift steps

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Speaker 1: so that I could beat them. And you know, in

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Speaker 1: the end, we're talking about activity and exercise and a

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Speaker 1: healthier lifestyle. So even though there might be some sort

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Speaker 1: of goofy competitive edge on one side, yeah, the the

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Speaker 1: outcome is fantastic. I heard that fit that actually had

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Speaker 1: a new piece of tech called the Fitbit Flex Activity

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Speaker 1: Track or bracelet that you basically just wear all the

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Speaker 1: time and very pretty, it's very pretty. Uum in the

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Speaker 1: United States, it's on sale for pre order for Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so it's we're talking a hundred dollars. But it does

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Speaker 1: track all this information and then you can actually view

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Speaker 1: it through various apps or programs and get more of

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Speaker 1: an insight into what your activity levels mean for your

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Speaker 1: general health. And this means that you can use that

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Speaker 1: information to try and adopt a healthier lifestyle, or you know,

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Speaker 1: maybe you realize like, um, I need to make more

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Speaker 1: it is important to me in order to have a

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Speaker 1: happier life experience. I mean, the healthier we are in general,

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Speaker 1: we tend to be happier. That is actually a science

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Speaker 1: fact that has been proven that that healthier people are happier.

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Speaker 1: It's better quality of life. Yeah, poor health means higher

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Speaker 1: stress levels, which in turn leads to more poor health.

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Speaker 1: It's a terrible, terrible cycle. And we've got to get

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Speaker 1: out of that. So uh so we have terrible cycles. No, No,

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Speaker 1: I saw I saw a lot of exercise equipment. But

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Speaker 1: one of the things I saw was kind of interesting.

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Speaker 1: Um it was actually I think it was up for

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Speaker 1: one of the c E S Innovation Awards. It was

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Speaker 1: a thing that you would attach to a stationary exercise

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Speaker 1: uh pressure and everything so that you know you would

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Speaker 1: have greater resistance. You can control it from a smartphone.

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Speaker 1: So in other words, you think like I want to

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Speaker 1: adjustice a little thing and suddenly you're you're now. I

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Speaker 1: don't know how necessary that is. I guess it depends

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Speaker 1: that's great. Yeah. The big one that I heard about

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Speaker 1: which um it stands for Remote Presence, Virtual and Independent

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Speaker 1: Telemedicine Assistant, which means that it's a hospital butler essentially. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's it's a it's jarvis or the spittle and um,

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Speaker 1: let's see, let's see you telecommunicate with your doctor if

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Speaker 1: It's it's really a cool way of using technology to

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Speaker 1: Wem is a technology that they've used for things like

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Speaker 1: it tracks the information about your baby's crying habits and

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Speaker 1: sleep patterns. So it actually plots this information so that

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Speaker 1: And it's the reason why I say it reminds me

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Speaker 1: improve the environment, or improve our own interaction within that environment.

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Speaker 1: Now that being said, there's always the opportunity for us

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Speaker 1: they didn't necessarily intend. But that's a human thing. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: well you know, it's all a tiny bit creepy, a

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Speaker 1: where the data is going to. Well, absolutely, Like if

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Speaker 1: just like, you start to micromanage your own behavior. But

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Speaker 1: But but hopefully no one, no one is bored enough

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Speaker 1: that's that's health technology. Um. We also had a lot

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Speaker 1: and we were going to do all of that in

431
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Speaker 1: the United States in a California facility that was a

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Speaker 1: small facility that could handle two thousand. Yeah. Yeah, they

433
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Speaker 1: knew what they were dealing with and had some deadlines

434
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Speaker 1: based on it. But then ten million dollars happened, and

435
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Speaker 1: then they realized, well, in order to do this, we

436
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Speaker 1: need to actually shift to a much larger manufacturing process,

437
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Speaker 1: and they went overseas from manufacturing. That complicated the whole

438
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Speaker 1: supply chain and made things slower. So they said, yeah,

439
00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:51,439
Speaker 1: it turns out it was way more complex than what

440
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Speaker 1: we had originally anticipated, which is why we we missed it.

441
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Speaker 1: But we will start shipping the smart watches to Kickstarter

442
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Speaker 1: backers starting anyway twenty three. It would take six to

443
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Speaker 1: eight weeks to get all the Kickstarter orders out, and

444
00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:08,320
Speaker 1: they were going to deliver them in the order that

445
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Speaker 1: people backed the project. So if you were one of

446
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Speaker 1: those first people who backed the project, you're going to

447
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Speaker 1: get your watch first. Now. I pre ordered while I

448
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Speaker 1: was there, so I'm going to have a few months

449
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Speaker 1: before I get mine. Cherry red, by the way, that's

450
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Speaker 1: the color I went with. They have five colors available.

451
00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:25,280
Speaker 1: I went with cherry red. Sounds very silent. If you

452
00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:27,480
Speaker 1: guys start watching tech stuff videos and you see me

453
00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:30,560
Speaker 1: wearing a cherry red watch, that means my my pebble

454
00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:35,360
Speaker 1: watch finally arrived. But yeah, they were another Kickser project

455
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Speaker 1: that had a presence at the floor, and that's amazing.

456
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Speaker 1: You know, there was a time where unless you were

457
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Speaker 1: a major player, you didn't have a presence at CS.

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Speaker 1: If you did have a presence and you weren't a

459
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Speaker 1: major player, it was a tiny little booth that was

460
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Speaker 1: shoved way off in one corner that most people would

461
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Speaker 1: never see. So it was kind of cool. Um, and

462
00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:57,280
Speaker 1: then we got the weird stuff. We we we do

463
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Speaker 1: the weird stuff. We do not do the weird stuff.

464
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Speaker 1: That's I can't even say that here. Now you can

465
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Speaker 1: say that we do the weird stuff. That's a doctor

466
00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:06,359
Speaker 1: horrible reference that all of our listeners will appreciate for

467
00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:10,240
Speaker 1: sweater vests. Yeah, not all of this is weird, but

468
00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:13,040
Speaker 1: it's stuff that doesn't easily fit into other categories. There

469
00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:17,640
Speaker 1: was the track dot luggage sensor and uh that has

470
00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:20,040
Speaker 1: it was a battery operated or it is a battery

471
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Speaker 1: operated sensor that will text you where your luggage is.

472
00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:27,200
Speaker 1: So let's say you go traveling, you get to the airport,

473
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Speaker 1: you check your bag. It happens to have one of

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Speaker 1: these trackers inside it. Uh, it will text you where

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Speaker 1: it is. So let's say you end up in San Francisco,

476
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Speaker 1: but your bag is in uh, Tierra del Fuego. It

477
00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:41,520
Speaker 1: will send you a text message saying, what the heck

478
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Speaker 1: I'm in Tier del Fuego. It also has a Bluetooth

479
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Speaker 1: sensor in it, so that when it reaches your near you,

480
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Speaker 1: assuming that you have your phone paired up to it

481
00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:53,720
Speaker 1: and it's once it comes into range, your phone will

482
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Speaker 1: alert you so you'll know, oh, I need to look

483
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Speaker 1: at my attention to Yeah, let me look at all

484
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Speaker 1: of the black bags there and figure which one is mine. Oh, well,

485
00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:04,200
Speaker 1: I got a message, so it's it's coming in. It's close. Uh.

486
00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:06,639
Speaker 1: So that was kind of neat. Um. There was the

487
00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:11,040
Speaker 1: Plastic Logic had some flexible displays. This was not on

488
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Speaker 1: the show floor. That was a closed door meeting that

489
00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:16,159
Speaker 1: you had to rs VP two, so I went to

490
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Speaker 1: see it. These were really cool. There were these flexible

491
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Speaker 1: displays that they were explaining in one in the future

492
00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:26,120
Speaker 1: could be really really flexible in more ways than one.

493
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Speaker 1: They showed off, uh an implementation that was pretty neat

494
00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:32,400
Speaker 1: where they had a flexible e paper display. So it's

495
00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:35,760
Speaker 1: e ink okay, so it's a very low energy needed

496
00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:38,960
Speaker 1: to to create the image. They lay it down, it's

497
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Speaker 1: showing a map, okay, so it's it looks like a

498
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Speaker 1: sheet of paper that's showing a map. They lay a

499
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Speaker 1: second one, a blank one, next to the first one,

500
00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:50,159
Speaker 1: so that the edges overlap and then the map extends

501
00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:54,080
Speaker 1: automatically across both pages. It was just neat, right, and

502
00:26:54,119 --> 00:26:58,040
Speaker 1: they explained that this was just a basic application that

503
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Speaker 1: could be used in this sort of stuff, And mainly

504
00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:02,119
Speaker 1: they're talking about using it for flexible display so that

505
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Speaker 1: you could create a display that conforms to a curved wall.

506
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Speaker 1: But I could see so many more applications for this,

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Speaker 1: and UH, that was really exciting, So shout out to

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Speaker 1: plastic logic. Uh As for the weird, I've got a

509
00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:18,119
Speaker 1: tie between the two weirdest things I saw. Keep in

510
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Speaker 1: mind there are some weird stuff. It's the e s

511
00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:24,480
Speaker 1: and I never saw there was the happy fork, which

512
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Speaker 1: is a thing. It's it's yes, that is stelled h

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Speaker 1: A P I. Yeah, it's it's a haptic feedback fork.

514
00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:34,760
Speaker 1: And the concept it's actually kind of interesting. The concept

515
00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:38,439
Speaker 1: is that if you are eating and you're eating too fast,

516
00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:40,480
Speaker 1: that can be unhealthy. You could eat more than you

517
00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:42,680
Speaker 1: need to. It's it's something that can lead to overeating

518
00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:46,240
Speaker 1: and think dust can lead to weight gain or obesity.

519
00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:49,359
Speaker 1: So what the haptic fork allows you to do is

520
00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:52,480
Speaker 1: set an interval that you do not wish to exceed

521
00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:55,000
Speaker 1: when it comes to putting your fork to your plate

522
00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:57,439
Speaker 1: and bringing it to your mouth and going back to

523
00:27:57,480 --> 00:28:00,919
Speaker 1: your plate again. And if you exceed the speed, then

524
00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:04,760
Speaker 1: the haptic fork will vibrate in your hand to alert

525
00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:06,440
Speaker 1: you to the fact that you are eating far too

526
00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:09,760
Speaker 1: quickly and you need to slow down. I'm not I'm

527
00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:12,439
Speaker 1: not entirely positive that I need a smart fork in

528
00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:15,760
Speaker 1: my life. I think that that normal intelligence level forks

529
00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:18,600
Speaker 1: are fine for me. It will also tell you by

530
00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:21,399
Speaker 1: tracking your data. You can plug it into a computer

531
00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:24,440
Speaker 1: and find out how many times and how frequently your

532
00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:27,280
Speaker 1: fork went from plate to mouth. So then you can say, wow,

533
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Speaker 1: not only did I eat quickly, I eat a lot

534
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:32,200
Speaker 1: or at least I took a lot of bites. Hey, Yeah,

535
00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:34,000
Speaker 1: because there's a difference between the number of bites you're

536
00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:35,920
Speaker 1: taking and the size of the bites your take. That's true.

537
00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:38,520
Speaker 1: If you if you grab a steak in one big

538
00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:40,800
Speaker 1: stab and just eat the whole thing in one go,

539
00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:44,280
Speaker 1: then your fork went to plate to mouth once that

540
00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:47,040
Speaker 1: fork cannot tell the difference. Yeah. No, there was no

541
00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:49,120
Speaker 1: weight sense or anything. And it also would allow you

542
00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:52,160
Speaker 1: to remove the electronics components so that you could put

543
00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:55,280
Speaker 1: the shell into the dishwasher. Yeah. Um. And you would

544
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:58,160
Speaker 1: charge it via USB of course, so make sure your

545
00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:02,280
Speaker 1: your silverware is charged before you serve dinner. The other

546
00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:05,920
Speaker 1: weird thing was the Hi ME w H E M

547
00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:11,520
Speaker 1: E robot. It's a massage robots massage robot. Yeah, you

548
00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:13,600
Speaker 1: want to know what it looked like. Oh, I know

549
00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:16,680
Speaker 1: you do, Lauren. I'm sure you've got some things running

550
00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:19,840
Speaker 1: through your head. More more than anything really boring. Actually,

551
00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:22,920
Speaker 1: so it looks like uh, as far as the designs

552
00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:25,160
Speaker 1: that are probably going through your head, imagine a remote

553
00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:29,760
Speaker 1: control car, but it has kind of bumpy wheels and uh,

554
00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:32,200
Speaker 1: and it has sensors that tell it when it's getting

555
00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:34,160
Speaker 1: towards the edge of your body so that it can

556
00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:37,440
Speaker 1: reverse its motion. So essentially is rolling over your back

557
00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:42,680
Speaker 1: and you lay down, face down with this massage robot

558
00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:44,520
Speaker 1: on your back and it just rolls across your back

559
00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:47,840
Speaker 1: and gives you a massage that way. I guess that's cool. Yeah,

560
00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:53,040
Speaker 1: it's not some sort of humanoid robot with like well no, no,

561
00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:55,360
Speaker 1: I mean, you know. Nonetheless, I still I don't know.

562
00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:59,120
Speaker 1: I would feel I would personally, Then again, I might be.

563
00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:02,120
Speaker 1: I might be a terror both candidate for tech Stuff

564
00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:04,360
Speaker 1: co host Aora because at a certain point, I'm like,

565
00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:07,800
Speaker 1: I don't really want robots to touch me. See, I

566
00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:10,360
Speaker 1: was thinking, I was so sad you were not with me,

567
00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:13,360
Speaker 1: because I would totally shoot a video segment with you

568
00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:15,720
Speaker 1: laying down with a robot rolling across your back because

569
00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:17,600
Speaker 1: I interview you. Now we've agreed that you get to

570
00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:19,520
Speaker 1: do the embarrassing things. No, no, no, no, no no,

571
00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:24,640
Speaker 1: embarrassing things. We totally have to share crap. I will,

572
00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:27,360
Speaker 1: I will get on the electronic saddle. If you get

573
00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:31,440
Speaker 1: the massage robot, that's the that's the rule. All right. Well,

574
00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:33,840
Speaker 1: if that's if that's the something to look forward to

575
00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:37,280
Speaker 1: and see us two thousand fourteen folks, all right, Well,

576
00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:40,600
Speaker 1: that that's just an overview of what I saw. Of course,

577
00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:43,000
Speaker 1: there was so much more at this show. I mean

578
00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:46,280
Speaker 1: way more. It's impossible to to a talk about it

579
00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:48,040
Speaker 1: and to be even see any all of it when

580
00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:49,920
Speaker 1: you're at this kind of thing right now, the big

581
00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:54,000
Speaker 1: themes I would walk away from were connectivity, smart applications,

582
00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:56,720
Speaker 1: and ultra high definition. Those were the big ones that

583
00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:59,360
Speaker 1: came back over and over and over again. But there

584
00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:01,320
Speaker 1: was a lot of other stuff there too, and and

585
00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:04,240
Speaker 1: it's diversifying more and more each year, so you're seeing

586
00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:10,280
Speaker 1: lots of breakout areas like technology specifically for senior citizens

587
00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:13,000
Speaker 1: or green tech, although that wasn't as big a thing

588
00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:15,000
Speaker 1: this year. I'm worried that green tech was sort of

589
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:19,640
Speaker 1: a buzz trend that has already some of its incorporated

590
00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:23,560
Speaker 1: technology mainstream already. Yeah, I feel like it's mostly been incorporated.

591
00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:25,240
Speaker 1: I think that people don't need to talk about it

592
00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:27,760
Speaker 1: quite as much because all of the you know, all

593
00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:31,000
Speaker 1: of the efforts to conserve energy are useful for anyone

594
00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:33,680
Speaker 1: who's putting any new kind of technology together, so they

595
00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:36,720
Speaker 1: they you know, they want to use it, hopefully, I hope, So,

596
00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:39,520
Speaker 1: I hope. So the other side of that is saying that, well,

597
00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:43,320
Speaker 1: you know, consumer electronic show ultimately is all about consumerism

598
00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:46,840
Speaker 1: and consumption and therefore is kind of antithetical to the

599
00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:50,120
Speaker 1: whole green movement in the first place. And there's something

600
00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:52,080
Speaker 1: to that. I mean, you you walk around, you take

601
00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:53,840
Speaker 1: a look at one of these show floors, and if

602
00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:56,800
Speaker 1: you just sit there and think this is this is

603
00:31:56,840 --> 00:31:59,560
Speaker 1: a lot of lights. We're running a lot of electronics

604
00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:05,360
Speaker 1: right now. Yeah, there's some conflict, but anyway, mostly it's

605
00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:08,040
Speaker 1: kind of cool. So um, yeah, if you guys have

606
00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:10,280
Speaker 1: any suggestions, like if there's anything we talked about that

607
00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:11,960
Speaker 1: she said, you know, that's not interesting, but I really

608
00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:13,920
Speaker 1: want to know more about that. How does ultra high

609
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:17,800
Speaker 1: definition work? Or uh, tell me more about this idea

610
00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:20,640
Speaker 1: of being able to see two different screens on the

611
00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:24,080
Speaker 1: same set or anything along those lines. Let us know

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00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:26,840
Speaker 1: s this an email our addresses tech stuff at Discovery

613
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:28,960
Speaker 1: dot com or drop us a line on Facebook or

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00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:32,560
Speaker 1: Twitter are handled there as tech stuff. Hs W, Lauren

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Speaker 1: and I will talk to you again really soon for

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