WEBVTT - TechStuff Visits CES 2013: Part 2 0:00:02.440 --> 0:00:05.440 Get in touch with technology with tech Stuff from how 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:13.680 Stuff Look stop com Hey there, everyone, and welcome to 0:00:13.800 --> 0:00:18.160 tech Stuff. I am Jonathan Strickland and I'm Lauren, both 0:00:18.200 --> 0:00:21.120 of them, and today we're going to conclude our epic 0:00:21.280 --> 0:00:25.000 two part episode about c E S two thousand thirteen 0:00:25.320 --> 0:00:29.400 and the adventures of Jonathan in Vague. Well, you know, 0:00:29.640 --> 0:00:34.440 let's talk a little bit about health. Health. What does 0:00:34.479 --> 0:00:38.000 that have to do with technology everything? As it turns out, well, 0:00:38.040 --> 0:00:41.760 first of all, the trend of creating fitness tech has 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:44.040 not slowed down at all. I saw lots and lots 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:47.680 of examples of various gadgets that will track how many 0:00:47.720 --> 0:00:50.520 steps you take and upload that data in some way 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:53.519 or or or analyze your activity in various ways to 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:58.360 let you know exactly how active or not active are. Yeah, 0:00:58.600 --> 0:00:59.880 you know which, which is really cool and I think 0:00:59.880 --> 0:01:01.800 a lot of people are. If my Facebook feed is 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:05.000 any indication using that kind of thing to um to 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:08.399 just kind of crowdsource their their own ability to to 0:01:08.640 --> 0:01:11.400 level up in health. That's the nerdiest thing that I've 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:13.600 said in a very long time. And I'm podcasting about 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:17.000 tech things right now, so that's really impressive. But but no, 0:01:17.160 --> 0:01:18.840 you know, it's it's it's a great motivation to be 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:21.479 able to connect with other people share that sort of Yeah. 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:24.759 I've seen people who use things like like the fitbit 0:01:25.080 --> 0:01:28.320 as a means of competing against their friends, where you know, 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:30.760 how many they see how many steps they log, and 0:01:30.800 --> 0:01:33.000 then they see how many of their steps their friend logs. 0:01:33.000 --> 0:01:35.320 They're like, oh, I need to fit another fift steps 0:01:35.360 --> 0:01:39.000 so that I could beat them. And you know, in 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:42.720 the end, we're talking about activity and exercise and a 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:45.640 healthier lifestyle. So even though there might be some sort 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:49.280 of goofy competitive edge on one side, yeah, the the 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:51.800 outcome is fantastic. I heard that fit that actually had 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:55.440 a new piece of tech called the Fitbit Flex Activity 0:01:55.520 --> 0:01:57.960 Track or bracelet that you basically just wear all the 0:01:58.000 --> 0:02:02.480 time and very pretty, it's very pretty. Uum in the 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:09.080 United States, it's on sale for pre order for Yeah, 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:11.720 so it's we're talking a hundred dollars. But it does 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:15.000 track all this information and then you can actually view 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:18.840 it through various apps or programs and get more of 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:22.320 an insight into what your activity levels mean for your 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:24.800 general health. And this means that you can use that 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:30.320 information to try and adopt a healthier lifestyle, or you know, 0:02:30.520 --> 0:02:34.040 maybe you realize like, um, I need to make more 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:36.040 time in my day for this sort of thing because 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:39.200 it is important to me in order to have a 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:43.200 happier life experience. I mean, the healthier we are in general, 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:46.440 we tend to be happier. That is actually a science 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:50.600 fact that has been proven that that healthier people are happier. 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:53.520 It's better quality of life. Yeah, poor health means higher 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:56.640 stress levels, which in turn leads to more poor health. 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:59.320 It's a terrible, terrible cycle. And we've got to get 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:02.239 out of that. So uh so we have terrible cycles. No, No, 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:05.480 I saw I saw a lot of exercise equipment. But 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:07.280 one of the things I saw was kind of interesting. 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:09.680 Um it was actually I think it was up for 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:12.280 one of the c E S Innovation Awards. It was 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:16.560 a thing that you would attach to a stationary exercise 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:20.359 bike that will allow you to control the bike's um 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:23.160 uh pressure and everything so that you know you would 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:26.160 have greater resistance. You can control it from a smartphone. 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:28.639 So in other words, you think like I want to 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:30.839 go up a hill now, and on your smartphone, which 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:33.239 is already playing your music, you just go ahead and 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:35.520 adjustice a little thing and suddenly you're you're now. I 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:37.960 don't know how necessary that is. I guess it depends 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:40.520 upon what kind of stationary bike you're writing. But I 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:42.920 thought it was an interesting use of health technology. Yeah, 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:45.400 that's great. Yeah. The big one that I heard about 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:48.520 was the rp VITA by I Robot and in Touch, 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:52.520 which um it stands for Remote Presence, Virtual and Independent 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:56.960 Telemedicine Assistant, which means that it's a hospital butler essentially. Yeah, 0:03:57.360 --> 0:04:01.960 it's it's a it's jarvis or the spittle and um, 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:04.720 let's see, let's see you telecommunicate with your doctor if 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:06.680 he's in a remote he or she. I'm sorry, that 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:10.240 was terrible and met the worst feminist. Um if you're 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:12.320 pretty bad too. If you're if your doctor is in 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:16.240 is in a remote location, Um, you can you can 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:19.280 see them. You can plug your your ultrasound or whatever 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:21.680 other equipment into this thing, and it will send all 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:26.440 of your biomedical statistics over there. Really great for emergency 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:30.599 situations and things like some remote locations where getting a 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:33.560 doctor there might not be uh might not be easy 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:35.560 to do, but a doctor could take a look at 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:38.520 that that data and find out like oh no, we 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:40.840 we really do need to send medical help there. Or 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:44.240 they could say this is something that you can treat 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:47.440 on your own, or perhaps even say this is something 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:49.840 you can do until we can get help to you. 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:53.560 It's it's really a cool way of using technology to 0:04:54.000 --> 0:04:56.839 help people. Um. There was one other one I wanted 0:04:56.839 --> 0:04:59.080 to talk about in this area which kind of relates 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:01.960 back to the sport stuff in a way. Um, and 0:05:02.000 --> 0:05:06.880 it was Belkan had what was called the Wemo Baby Monitor. Now, 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:10.880 Wem is a technology that they've used for things like 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:14.000 home automation and smartphone control. You know you were talking 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:16.800 about controlling everything from your smartphone. A lot of the 0:05:16.800 --> 0:05:19.880 Wemo technology is all about that, things like controlling lights 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:24.120 from your phone, things like that. Well, the Wemo Baby monitor, 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:30.080 uh is a device that has a crying algorithm as 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:34.200 an algorithm that's designed to pick up sound and distinguish 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:37.320 one sound from another, and it's specifically meant to alert 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:40.080 you when your baby cries. So when your baby cries, 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:42.120 you get a message on your phone saying, hey, baby 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:44.360 is not happy. You might want to go check on baby. 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:48.120 But if if a big truck goes by and the 0:05:48.160 --> 0:05:51.800 noise is loud, enough to hear inside the house. The 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:55.480 monitor doesn't send you a false positive saying babies crying. 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:57.719 It also does not send you a message saying a 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:00.839 big truck just went by. That's get a little bit 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:02.400 ted and be like, wow, I'm getting a lot of 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:04.960 data about the noise is coming from baby's room. But 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:07.560 the other thing that this this device does is through 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:13.120 a partnership with a piece of software called evo uh, 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:17.120 it tracks the information about your baby's crying habits and 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:20.400 sleep patterns. So it actually plots this information so that 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:23.280 parents can see when their baby is crying, when their 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:25.560 baby is sleeping, and perhaps if they see that the 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:28.160 baby is crying at a consistent time each day, maybe 0:06:28.200 --> 0:06:32.680 they change the feeding schedule, or maybe it might be 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:36.800 there there's some other environmental factor that is based upon 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:38.920 time that they can look into to make their baby 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:41.360 a happier baby. So the idea is that to use 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:43.880 this data in a way to become a better parent. 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:46.440 And it's the reason why I say it reminds me 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:48.520 of the fitness information is because a lot of this 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:52.839 the fitness gear is all about tracking your activity and 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:55.440 then relating that information to you in a in a 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:59.240 way that is meaning, right, and that's what when we 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:01.760 talk about the Internet of things. That's a big element 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:03.719 of the Internet of things. It's this idea that we're 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:07.080 going to incorporate not just connectivity to the Internet, but 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:10.960 the ability for various stuff to sense what is going 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:13.960 on in our environment and send us information that we 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:17.320 can understand so that we might improve that environment, right, 0:07:17.360 --> 0:07:21.160 improve the environment, or improve our own interaction within that environment. 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:25.400 Now that being said, there's always the opportunity for us 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:28.600 to obsess over this data in ways that you know, 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:31.440 they didn't necessarily intend. But that's a human thing. Yeah, yeah, 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:33.240 well you know, it's all a tiny bit creepy, a 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:35.360 little bit big brother here and there. Yeah, I get 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:38.080 a little bit weirded out by by the things around 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:40.240 me watching me, and I don't. It all depends on 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:42.640 where the data is going to. Well, absolutely, Like if 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:44.960 the data is just coming straight to you, then you're 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:49.320 just like, you start to micromanage your own behavior. But 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:51.560 if the data is going to someone else first, then 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:53.920 you're like, oh, great, now they know they're going to 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:56.240 know everything. Yeah, they know how many times I go 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:58.280 to the refrigerator and open the door and not actually 0:07:58.280 --> 0:08:00.400 get anything out but just stare and then closed the 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:02.680 door and walk away. That's you know, and then they're 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:05.080 gonna send me an email about how wasteful I am. 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:07.480 But but hopefully no one, no one is bored enough 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:12.560 to watch and judge that data fingers crossed. I don't know. 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:16.680 I met some interesting people at see anyway. Yeah, so 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:19.720 that's that's health technology. Um. We also had a lot 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:22.480 of car technology. Now, some of that was things like 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:26.600 various new kinds of car stereos, which you know, even 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:29.560 louder and more basier than before. But I mean that 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:32.240 has a place, right, but it's not something that that 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:35.800 I mean, unless you write about specifically about about cars 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:39.520 sound systems, it's not terribly interesting to a general to 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:43.120 the average consumer. The really interesting thing that I saw 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:48.960 was audis self driving. Lexus also had a car that 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:53.680 was practically self driving. It had this is technology that 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:57.600 we've seen developed and implemented in two cars. It's just 0:08:57.720 --> 0:09:00.280 on a level that goes beyond what we norm see 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:04.800 in the consumer marketplace. So things like lane change software 0:09:04.840 --> 0:09:08.320 that helps you change lane safely, or collision detection or 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:14.280 automatic breaking or uh, you know, the parking assist features 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:16.760 right right, parking assist being where um, you know, if 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:18.920 you have your car parked and it has to be 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:22.200 a specialized garage outfitted with this array of laser scanners 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:24.680 so that your car knows where it is, but you 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:27.560 can you can then, like Batman, just just press a 0:09:27.559 --> 0:09:30.719 button on your smartphone and call your car to you 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:33.120 and it will just drive up from the garage and 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:36.200 the Joker will attack Gotham and you have to be 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:41.200 on your way to save the world. Yeah, like a boss, 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:45.880 as as my buddy say. Yeah. Both both Lexus and 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:48.679 Audi were showing off some features of this, and uh, 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:54.480 Toyota has been really really active in developing self driving cars. 0:09:55.160 --> 0:09:58.480 That news broke just as CES was starting. There was 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:02.800 news about this Toyota self driving car prototype, and it's 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:06.479 really there's a lot of excitement around this because not 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:08.360 not to say that all cars are going to be 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:12.000 driving themselves within a few generations. Yeah, we're a little 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:13.920 bit off from that. But even if even if that 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:18.000 technology is capable, none of these car manufacturers were suggesting 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:19.840 that that's going to become the norm. They were saying, 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:22.640 this is the technology that will make us all safer drivers, 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:25.800 and uh, if we go beyond that, if we start 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:29.640 creating networks that these cars can communicate to UH in 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:32.120 a way that protects our privacy because we don't want 0:10:32.240 --> 0:10:34.200 we don't want the world to know where we're going 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:37.720 all the time, but in a way that allows the 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:41.520 the infrastructure to adapt so that traffic becomes less of 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:44.120 a problem. So let's say that you are in a 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:46.360 city that's outfitted with one of these networks, and the 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:48.440 grant this is far into the future because it would 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:52.400 cause it would require a huge infrastructure change. But you're 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:55.120 in a city where this this is a reality, then 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:58.440 your car could navigate through the city without the problem 0:10:58.600 --> 0:11:02.000 of traffic. If you're going one way, UH, if a 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:04.360 lot of cars are going one way, the traffic lights 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:08.440 could adapt h dynamically to the flows of traffic, so 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:11.000 that you know, you don't sit there and wonder like, 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:13.040 why is this light red for so long? There's no 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:15.520 one coming the other way? You know that would be 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:18.000 less likely to happen. Or if there was an accident somewhere, 0:11:18.040 --> 0:11:21.280 your car could automatically root you through a different way right, 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:23.400 or you could get to a point where there's no 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:26.200 more accidents. That would be nice. Hey, that would be 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:28.719 That would be lovely. Let's take a quick break to 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:32.319 think our sponsor and now back to the show. So, Lauren, 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:34.560 I know you're really eager to talk about the next 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:37.520 category of stuff, which is gaming technology. I am. I'm 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:39.880 excited about it. You. Um, I think I think he 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:42.880 said in your I I listened to your podcast with 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:46.440 Chris about two thousand twelves ces um and you said 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:50.160 that you had seen Project Fiona there. Yes, has since 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:54.560 become the Razor Edge. Yes, and that's not a finishing 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:57.200 move in the w w E in this case, I 0:11:58.320 --> 0:12:05.240 that that that reference. Just wooh, don't I just what? Okay? 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:08.640 I know I need to educate Lauren, but we can 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:11.680 do that after the show. Uh So, Yeah, the the 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:14.480 Razor Edge is a gaming tablet, and this is a 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:18.280 heavy duty tablet. It's a Windows eight machine capable of 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:21.920 running full video games on it. Uh you can run 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:25.400 games and use the tablet like tilting the tablet to 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:29.160 make it do stuff, or if you want to spring 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:34.720 for uh an optional case. The Razor Edge pro Version 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:38.000 at least has a case that has controllers built into 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:40.280 the size that buttons and thumbsticks that you would expect 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:42.360 from any other controlling right, so you can play first 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:46.480 person shooters or other types of games. Uh, directly from that, 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:51.000 the resolution was amazing, the animation fantastic video gameplay. I 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:53.960 mean it looked I mean we're talking like forty eight 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:56.480 gigs of RAM depending on what model. Yeah, this is 0:12:56.679 --> 0:13:01.760 this was a very impressive piece of technology. And uh, 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:05.720 they had some where they were using I believe HDMI 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:09.840 out to larger displays, so they were running games on 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:12.480 this tablet showing it on the big display. So that 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:14.240 was kind of fun too. And I wonder, I wonder 0:13:14.280 --> 0:13:16.360 if they could start integrating stuff like the we you 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:19.040 does with you know, having a small screen big screen, 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:22.439 that would be interesting. I wonder, you know, I assume 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:23.959 you could do that where you would have the h 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:26.720 d m I feed out be different from what you're 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:28.800 actually looking at on the screen. I don't know that 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:30.840 there's any reason why you couldn't do that, But as 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:33.440 far as I know, no one's no one's actually developed that. 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:37.520 That could be wrong. That yeah, someone someone do that thing, 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:40.920 she said, But yeah, that was that was pretty impressive 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:43.640 that one. As I recall, there the two basic two models, 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:45.680 a basic model and a pro model, and the basic 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:49.240 model I think is going to retail for around just 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:51.360 under a thousand, just under thousand, then going up to 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:55.480 like for the pro model. Yeah, so that's that's a 0:13:55.480 --> 0:13:58.719 healthy chunk of change for a tablet. But again, this 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:02.640 is a fully functional computer tablet like, this is not 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:06.960 this is not some uh stripped down mobile device. This 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:09.920 is a full computer in tablet form. Yeah. Yeah, which 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:12.440 which just by itself I think is completely fascinating because 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:14.640 the problem that I have with tablets anyways, the reason 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:16.600 that I don't own one is that they're not powerful 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:18.800 enough for me to do what I want to do 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:20.680 with stuff. You know, I need something that's gonna run 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:24.760 some kind of photo editing program. And you know, also 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:27.920 Microsoft Word and I had I had the same issue 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:30.800 when I was I eventually did buy a tablet. I 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:33.480 very rarely use my tablet, which, again, and I've said 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:36.280 this before, it proves to me that the tablet form 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:38.880 factor just isn't where I need it to be for 0:14:39.040 --> 0:14:43.520 to be a truly useful, indispensable part of my tech life. Now. 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:46.400 I know other people who, you know, they never dropped 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:49.400 their tablets constantly in their hands, and they have plenty 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:51.520 of reasons why they use it, which is great, it's 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:54.360 just not the way I use stuff. Beyond that, in 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:58.760 gaming technology, you also had the Invidios Shield Project Shield, 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:01.480 which was that was a big secret. I mean that 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:04.600 was when that was unveiled on the floor. You there 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:08.640 was an audible gasp. Yeah. No, it was pretty neat. 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:10.960 It was. So if you if you don't know what 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:15.320 the Nvidios shield is, imagine, uh, an Xbox controller, because 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:18.400 that's what it looks like. It's not an Xbox controller, 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:21.320 but it kind of looks like one. And uh, and 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:24.080 you know it just think of it as having a 0:15:24.120 --> 0:15:26.840 blank face. So there's no buttons, there's no thumbsticks or anything. 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:29.400 It's just a blank face. And then you open up 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:33.880 a clamshell and it it opens to reveal the buttons 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:36.800 and thumbsticks underneath the clamshell and on the underside of 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:41.160 the clamshell is a screen. It's a five inch screen touchscreen. UM. 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:45.960 So the the shield is a controller and screen all 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:48.800 in one. And it does have this clamshell design, so 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:51.960 you open it and close it. Uh. It runs a 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:55.400 version of Android, so you can play Android based games 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:59.200 anytime you want. It can be stored locally on that device. 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:03.240 But the the selling point is that it has software 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:06.840 that allows you to stream content from a PC over 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:10.840 WiFi to the project Shield controller, so you can play 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:16.160 full PC games on this little controller over the screen. Now, 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:20.000 the big downside as far as I'm concerned, is that 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:22.480 you have to be over WiFi to do this because 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:26.880 the act the game is actually running on the PC, 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:29.160 not on the shield like the Sheeld if you if 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:32.720 you've heard of the on Live video game consoles, the 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:36.280 same sort of thing where somewhere on the cloud there's 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:38.560 a machine running the game and you are just running, 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:40.720 and you know you're you're you're running a window that's 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:43.720 looking into it. Latency didn't seem to be a problem. 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:46.320 It seemed very responsive. So it wasn't like there was 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:48.520 a problem between when you pressed a button and when 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:52.240 your character did something. That seemed pretty seamless. But it 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:55.760 makes me wonder how practical is this. I mean, are 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:58.400 there a lot of gamers who would love to play 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:00.720 more computer games but they don't like having to sit 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:03.480 at their computer? Well, I mean, you know, maybe you 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:06.160 know it's for for the adventurous types that they really 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:09.600 want to play Call of Duty from the bathtub or yeah, 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:13.919 I guess. M Yeah, I'm not sure because yeah, the 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:16.280 other problem I had was that, you know, you could argue, well, 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:18.040 it also has an hd my out, so you could 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:21.760 play it on your television, But you could build a 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:24.199 video game gaming rig that you can play on the 0:17:24.200 --> 0:17:27.840 TV already, and there's some companies like Valve that make 0:17:27.920 --> 0:17:30.919 that really easy to Yeah, you know, and you know 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:33.280 it's about to get easier. I heard the Valve was 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:37.880 also there mostly to talk to hardware partners about steam Box. Yeah, yep. 0:17:37.960 --> 0:17:39.800 Steam Box is one of those things that we still 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:41.680 don't know a whole lot about other than the fact 0:17:41.680 --> 0:17:44.840 that it's on its way. But yeah, we understand that 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:48.000 it will probably be a pretty lockdown experience, but it 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:51.919 should be. Um, it should be about as good an 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:54.600 experience as you can expect to to get with a 0:17:54.680 --> 0:17:58.480 system that you cannot customize yourself. Right. It's it's meant 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:00.720 for the consumer who wants something they can plug into 0:18:00.760 --> 0:18:04.680 their entertainment system without having to worry about installing drivers 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:10.040 or managing other kinds of connections. So serious gamers have 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:12.880 been doing this stuff on their own already for ages, 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:14.679 but now it's getting to the point where the average 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:18.000 consumer who may not have that kind of technological savvy 0:18:18.640 --> 0:18:20.679 can do it easily. Yeah. Yeah, you know, for for 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:23.320 the PC gamer who wants to who wants to also 0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:26.119 be a concert. It's blurring the line between PC and console. 0:18:26.400 --> 0:18:28.640 And I think it's fascinating and I'm not entirely sure 0:18:28.680 --> 0:18:31.760 what space it has. I'm happy to see it happen 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:35.840 simply because I think anytime you have more competition within 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:39.000 a field, it benefits the consumer. Of course, absolutely, so 0:18:39.400 --> 0:18:42.120 it puts pressure, like all of these products put pressure 0:18:42.200 --> 0:18:47.440 on companies like Microsoft and Sony because these could potentially 0:18:47.520 --> 0:18:53.520 start to siphon away gamers from the established consoles. Nintendo 0:18:54.040 --> 0:18:57.119 should already be worried. That's why I didn't mention it. Todo. No, 0:18:57.400 --> 0:19:00.280 they really should be. I mean, I love no Pindow, 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:02.800 don't get me wrong, but I think I think that 0:19:02.840 --> 0:19:07.040 we You is not enough to answer the competition. We 0:19:07.040 --> 0:19:10.480 talked about this one in our two Predictions show. And yeah, 0:19:10.520 --> 0:19:12.479 and I do think that, you know, it's I like 0:19:12.520 --> 0:19:14.399 the WEU, I like the concept, but I'm just not 0:19:14.440 --> 0:19:18.800 sure if it's you. Um but but but some of 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:22.520 those smaller players, Um, there was the Oculus rift. Okay, 0:19:22.720 --> 0:19:25.520 This kind of transitions us into another discussion about how 0:19:26.040 --> 0:19:30.679 Kickstarter was an incredible presence at c e S. Not directly, 0:19:31.119 --> 0:19:34.080 but there were projects that had been had received Kickstarter 0:19:34.200 --> 0:19:36.520 backing that had a presence at c S and you 0:19:36.600 --> 0:19:40.160 gotta think, you know, without that crowdfunding, they never could 0:19:40.160 --> 0:19:42.880 have made it out to see Yes, and yet there 0:19:42.880 --> 0:19:46.200 they were showing stuff off and these are these are enterprising, 0:19:46.359 --> 0:19:50.840 innovative individuals or groups that are coming up with technologies 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:54.160 that are surprising people. And I heard several people within 0:19:54.200 --> 0:19:58.240 the technology journalism fields say their opinion is that some 0:19:58.320 --> 0:20:01.160 of these big companies, they have so many different lines 0:20:01.200 --> 0:20:05.080 of products that they have to nurture and maintain that 0:20:05.160 --> 0:20:09.960 it's really hard to innovate and create new stuff because 0:20:10.000 --> 0:20:12.119 they're mostly looking at, Okay, well, what features can we 0:20:12.160 --> 0:20:14.720 add to this existing stuff so that we continue to 0:20:14.760 --> 0:20:16.760 sell them yeah, yeah, and so that we get this 0:20:16.800 --> 0:20:20.560 big product name to continue, whereas well, these small groups 0:20:20.600 --> 0:20:24.040 they're saying what cool stuff can we make happen? And 0:20:24.040 --> 0:20:28.320 then the Oculus Rift is a virtual reality gaming headset 0:20:28.880 --> 0:20:34.240 that has stereoscopic screens, so there's a screen dedicated to 0:20:34.280 --> 0:20:37.320 each eye that gives you a three D effect when 0:20:37.320 --> 0:20:41.720 you put it on, and it's really amazing. There's there's 0:20:41.880 --> 0:20:44.000 the latency is not an issue, so you don't get 0:20:44.000 --> 0:20:47.240 the swimmy effect when you turn your head and look around. Um, 0:20:47.560 --> 0:20:51.919 and you can control it using a video game controller. Uh. 0:20:51.960 --> 0:20:56.880 And they even showed off some unreal tournament using this thing, 0:20:56.920 --> 0:21:00.520 so it's like you are actually there and uh. Instead 0:21:00.520 --> 0:21:03.879 of they talked about how it helped or so so 0:21:04.000 --> 0:21:07.040 one journalists talked about how it helped, uh even out 0:21:07.080 --> 0:21:11.040 the playing field between console based gamers who use controllers 0:21:11.400 --> 0:21:13.800 and PC based gamers to use the keyboard mouse set up, 0:21:13.880 --> 0:21:16.280 because that's one of those things people who use keyboard 0:21:16.280 --> 0:21:18.560 and mouse are like, well, I'm much more accurate and fast. 0:21:19.000 --> 0:21:22.199 You have a controller, you're slower. Well with this you 0:21:22.280 --> 0:21:25.360 aimed by looking at stuff. You're all right, let's see 0:21:25.359 --> 0:21:29.480 how fast your mouse is now, buddy boy. So but 0:21:29.520 --> 0:21:31.520 that was a huge success story. It was a Kickstarter 0:21:31.600 --> 0:21:34.160 backed project that actually had space at CS and it's 0:21:34.160 --> 0:21:36.840