1 00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: Get in touch with technology with tech Stuff from how 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:13,640 Speaker 1: stuff works dot com. Hey there, and welcome to tech Stuff. 3 00:00:13,640 --> 00:00:16,840 Speaker 1: I'm your host, Jonathan Strickland. I'm an executive producer with 4 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:20,239 Speaker 1: I Heart Media and I love all things tech, and 5 00:00:20,320 --> 00:00:25,360 Speaker 1: today I am recording from a hotel suite in Las Vegas, Nevada. 6 00:00:25,960 --> 00:00:29,159 Speaker 1: And if you hear noises in the background and it 7 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:32,320 Speaker 1: sounds a little odd, that is the reason why, or 8 00:00:32,360 --> 00:00:34,680 Speaker 1: at least one of them. Another, of course, is that 9 00:00:35,320 --> 00:00:39,000 Speaker 1: I'm tired. But I am here for the two thousand 10 00:00:39,320 --> 00:00:46,320 Speaker 1: nineteen c e S, the Consumer Electronics Show, which is 11 00:00:46,479 --> 00:00:51,000 Speaker 1: the largest consumer electronics industry show, at least in North America, 12 00:00:51,680 --> 00:00:54,440 Speaker 1: and it's been going on for decades. This is my 13 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:58,000 Speaker 1: tenth time attending c e S, although I did take 14 00:00:58,480 --> 00:01:00,640 Speaker 1: a year off last year. Nowise it would have been 15 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:05,959 Speaker 1: in my eleventh time. And this show is enormous. It 16 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:08,960 Speaker 1: doesn't take place in just one spot in Las Vegas, 17 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:13,280 Speaker 1: Nevada anymore. It it covers lots of different grounds. So 18 00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:18,440 Speaker 1: there are exhibitors at the Sands Expo Center, which is 19 00:01:18,480 --> 00:01:22,800 Speaker 1: next to the Venetian Casino in Las Vegas. There are 20 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:27,040 Speaker 1: all three of the halls of the Las Vegas Convention 21 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:31,000 Speaker 1: Center are filled up with exhibitors, and they're more in 22 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:34,640 Speaker 1: other locations as well throughout the city, including some places 23 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:38,160 Speaker 1: like hotel suites and stuff where there are companies that 24 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:42,600 Speaker 1: have rented out a suite and they did so in 25 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:45,200 Speaker 1: order to kind of have maybe a quieter experience. A 26 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:48,640 Speaker 1: lot of the high end audio exhibitors will do that 27 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:52,120 Speaker 1: so that they're not competing in a noisy space. In 28 00:01:52,160 --> 00:01:56,240 Speaker 1: other cases, it's because exhibition space might be really expensive 29 00:01:56,280 --> 00:01:59,800 Speaker 1: and trying to compete with everybody else isn't terribly attractive, 30 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:01,920 Speaker 1: so some companies will run out as suite and try 31 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:04,200 Speaker 1: and get people to come to the suite to go 32 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:06,720 Speaker 1: check it out, although that's always difficult if you plan 33 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:09,440 Speaker 1: on seeing a lot of stuff each day, because it 34 00:02:09,480 --> 00:02:12,600 Speaker 1: means leaving the main areas in order for you to 35 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:15,000 Speaker 1: go check out something else, and getting around in Las 36 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:18,799 Speaker 1: Vegas can take some time. Like you know, you might think, oh, 37 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:20,480 Speaker 1: well that that will just be twenty minutes out of 38 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:21,760 Speaker 1: my way, and it turns out it's an hour and 39 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:23,760 Speaker 1: a half and you lose that time. And the show 40 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:27,359 Speaker 1: floor is only open a certain number of hours each day. Today, 41 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:29,600 Speaker 1: as I record, this is the first day that the 42 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:32,160 Speaker 1: actual show floor will be open to the public, the 43 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:35,240 Speaker 1: public that is that have bought badges for c e S. 44 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:39,560 Speaker 1: And it doesn't open until ten am UH Pacific time, 45 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:42,960 Speaker 1: And as I record this, it is nine twenty a m. 46 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:46,880 Speaker 1: Pacific time, so I have not actually been on the 47 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:50,799 Speaker 1: exhibit floor space yet, but the press day has already happened. 48 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:53,400 Speaker 1: A couple of big press events have already happened where 49 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:55,400 Speaker 1: companies have tried to get a kind of a head 50 00:02:55,440 --> 00:02:59,560 Speaker 1: start and try to get their stuff seen before being 51 00:02:59,639 --> 00:03:02,840 Speaker 1: lost in the cacophony of the general chaos that is 52 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:05,840 Speaker 1: c e S. And a lot of the bigger news 53 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:09,840 Speaker 1: outlets out there, like Wired and Gadget, the Verge c Net, 54 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:13,720 Speaker 1: they're already starting their coverage of the showroom floor because 55 00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:16,720 Speaker 1: they get early access. So today I thought I would 56 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:19,840 Speaker 1: give an overview of some of the stuff that is 57 00:03:19,919 --> 00:03:23,919 Speaker 1: happening at c e S and and give an idea 58 00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:27,280 Speaker 1: of the trends that we're seeing. I will probably record 59 00:03:28,040 --> 00:03:30,360 Speaker 1: more after I get a chance to walk some of 60 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:34,080 Speaker 1: those floor myself. Granted, I'm gonna have to pick either 61 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:36,400 Speaker 1: the convention Center or the sands today because you can't 62 00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:38,920 Speaker 1: really do both. In the same day, so I'll probably 63 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:41,200 Speaker 1: do the sands today. That's where you get a lot 64 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:46,200 Speaker 1: of your startups, your smaller companies. Uh, you're Eureka Park 65 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:48,680 Speaker 1: is there. That's the one that's known for like some 66 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:53,640 Speaker 1: of the more ambitious startup ideas. Uh. And then in 67 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:57,320 Speaker 1: the convention center you tend to have the larger established companies, 68 00:03:57,720 --> 00:04:02,320 Speaker 1: companies like Intel, Sony, you know, Samsung, that kind of 69 00:04:02,320 --> 00:04:05,680 Speaker 1: stuff they're they're in the convention center and you can 70 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:10,240 Speaker 1: see neat stuff in both. But uh, I am going 71 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:13,760 Speaker 1: to give several caveats to this. First of all, because 72 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:17,360 Speaker 1: the show is so huge and I am one person. Uh, 73 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:19,919 Speaker 1: there's a ton of stuff I haven't even seen or 74 00:04:19,960 --> 00:04:22,400 Speaker 1: heard of yet, I'm sure. And even if I spent 75 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:27,080 Speaker 1: every hour that the show is actually open, walking through 76 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:30,000 Speaker 1: that floor space and looking everywhere I can and never stopping, 77 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:33,479 Speaker 1: I still wouldn't see everything. There's just too much here. 78 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:35,400 Speaker 1: The show is too big for any one person to 79 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:38,040 Speaker 1: see everything. Even if you were only trying to hit 80 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:40,560 Speaker 1: the high spots, you probably wouldn't see all of them 81 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:43,440 Speaker 1: because they're spread out pretty far. And again, just getting 82 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:45,600 Speaker 1: from point A to point B can take quite some time, 83 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:48,200 Speaker 1: so This is going to be as a mile high 84 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:51,719 Speaker 1: overview of the two thousand nineteen show. And before I 85 00:04:51,720 --> 00:04:53,400 Speaker 1: get to some of the stuff that was going on, 86 00:04:54,080 --> 00:04:56,279 Speaker 1: one of the things I need to talk about is 87 00:04:56,360 --> 00:04:59,800 Speaker 1: not so much technological nature, but political in nature, and 88 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:03,360 Speaker 1: it's because it has a direct impact on the show. 89 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:06,480 Speaker 1: You can't get around it. So in the United States 90 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:10,680 Speaker 1: currently we have a partial government shutdown. In other words, 91 00:05:10,760 --> 00:05:14,480 Speaker 1: the government right now, many departments within the government are 92 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:18,880 Speaker 1: currently unfunded. They have no money to run, so they 93 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:24,080 Speaker 1: are they're shut off, and the workers aren't working their 94 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:28,560 Speaker 1: furloughed essentially without pay. So this has had its effect 95 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:31,279 Speaker 1: on c e S in several ways. One of those 96 00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:33,480 Speaker 1: is that there were a lot of US government officials 97 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:36,400 Speaker 1: who originally were supposed to attend c e S and 98 00:05:36,440 --> 00:05:40,120 Speaker 1: be part of various presentations and panel discussions, and now 99 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:44,240 Speaker 1: they're not because there you know, their their departments are 100 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:46,919 Speaker 1: shut down, so they don't even have the budgets to 101 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:50,640 Speaker 1: travel to places, so they've all canceled their presentations. That 102 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:54,799 Speaker 1: includes people like a Jitpi, the FCC chairman, and Brendan 103 00:05:54,839 --> 00:05:58,320 Speaker 1: Carr also of the f C, C Rohit Chopra and 104 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:01,480 Speaker 1: Rebecca Slaughter both of the f TC and the Federal 105 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:05,320 Speaker 1: Trade Commission, and Brandon Bray and Barnes Johnson of the EPA, 106 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:09,080 Speaker 1: the Environmental Protection Agency, among others. So there were a 107 00:06:09,080 --> 00:06:12,600 Speaker 1: lot of like important people in the US government who 108 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:16,159 Speaker 1: were meant to come out and have these conversations about 109 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:20,279 Speaker 1: technology who can't. Now it really means that there's a 110 00:06:20,279 --> 00:06:24,200 Speaker 1: missed opportunity for interaction between consumer tech companies and US 111 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:28,479 Speaker 1: government agents in a publicized setting to kind of create 112 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:35,080 Speaker 1: a public message of what the current strategy is for 113 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:38,800 Speaker 1: developing consumer tech and its role in the lives of 114 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:41,520 Speaker 1: everyday American people, as well as the future of America, 115 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:44,880 Speaker 1: the future of American industry. All those are very important 116 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:48,880 Speaker 1: messages that kind of gut pushed to the side because 117 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:53,160 Speaker 1: of this government shutdown. More than that, in the United States, 118 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:56,720 Speaker 1: every electronic device that emits radio frequencies has to receive 119 00:06:56,760 --> 00:07:00,600 Speaker 1: certification from the f c C upon moving that this 120 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:04,440 Speaker 1: device can operate within safe parameters in those radio frequency emissions. 121 00:07:04,760 --> 00:07:07,400 Speaker 1: And a lot of companies are debuting brand new technology 122 00:07:07,440 --> 00:07:10,160 Speaker 1: at c e s and with the government shut down, 123 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:14,520 Speaker 1: the fcc cannot do this important step. They they can't 124 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:18,360 Speaker 1: go through the certification process, which means in the United States, 125 00:07:18,360 --> 00:07:21,760 Speaker 1: these devices are effectively in limbo until the government is 126 00:07:21,760 --> 00:07:25,080 Speaker 1: funded again. So that has a very real impact on 127 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:28,840 Speaker 1: these companies. And also the shutdown has affected travel across 128 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:33,120 Speaker 1: the United States. T s A employees the Security Agency. 129 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:35,840 Speaker 1: They're not being paid, so a lot of people are 130 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:40,239 Speaker 1: calling out sick because they need to work other jobs 131 00:07:40,280 --> 00:07:42,360 Speaker 1: in order to make ends meet. So they're they're not 132 00:07:42,440 --> 00:07:46,320 Speaker 1: necessarily really sick, but they're calling out sick in order 133 00:07:46,360 --> 00:07:48,560 Speaker 1: to go work other jobs and actually make some money 134 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:53,400 Speaker 1: because otherwise they have to work without pay. And uh, 135 00:07:53,480 --> 00:07:57,040 Speaker 1: it's it's a critical role that they fell to help 136 00:07:57,160 --> 00:08:00,920 Speaker 1: ensure safety or at least, if you're very kunicle, put 137 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:05,520 Speaker 1: on security theater. But either way, it's getting harder and 138 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:09,960 Speaker 1: harder for that too, uh to happen because they're not 139 00:08:10,320 --> 00:08:13,480 Speaker 1: getting any salary. So that's also had a big impact, 140 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:16,320 Speaker 1: not just on the tech companies obviously, but anyone traveling 141 00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:20,200 Speaker 1: to come to this show. But that's the government shut 142 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:24,480 Speaker 1: down and how it's impacting the world right now, in 143 00:08:24,480 --> 00:08:27,320 Speaker 1: the United States or the world, the I guess the 144 00:08:27,360 --> 00:08:30,560 Speaker 1: world because ce S is a global event. You have 145 00:08:30,760 --> 00:08:33,520 Speaker 1: companies from all over the world here at the conference 146 00:08:33,559 --> 00:08:36,360 Speaker 1: and attendees from all over the world as well, but 147 00:08:36,800 --> 00:08:40,880 Speaker 1: specifically affecting the United States. Moving on to what's actually 148 00:08:40,880 --> 00:08:43,920 Speaker 1: going on and being shown off here at the event, Well, 149 00:08:43,920 --> 00:08:47,120 Speaker 1: there are always some broad trends that seem to emerge 150 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:50,800 Speaker 1: during c e S. For example, uh Am, I very 151 00:08:50,840 --> 00:08:54,520 Speaker 1: first ce S eleven years ago. The theme I remember 152 00:08:54,559 --> 00:08:57,920 Speaker 1: the most were widgets, these little web based widgets that 153 00:08:57,960 --> 00:09:01,360 Speaker 1: were on everything, like kind of like many apps, things 154 00:09:01,400 --> 00:09:05,160 Speaker 1: like weather widgets or news ticker widgets. Primarily they were 155 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:07,880 Speaker 1: popping up on televisions, but they also would show up 156 00:09:07,920 --> 00:09:11,240 Speaker 1: on things like kitchen appliances like refrigerators or stoves, and 157 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:15,560 Speaker 1: widgets gradually evolved into more holistic and useful interfaces for 158 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:18,880 Speaker 1: smart devices, more like the operating systems you would find 159 00:09:18,880 --> 00:09:23,040 Speaker 1: on a tablet or smartphone. Another big theme back when 160 00:09:23,080 --> 00:09:25,199 Speaker 1: I first started going to see e S was three 161 00:09:25,280 --> 00:09:28,920 Speaker 1: D television, which was pushed really hard for several years, 162 00:09:29,559 --> 00:09:32,240 Speaker 1: and the industry is largely backed away from that over 163 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:35,480 Speaker 1: the last maybe five six years. They received the loud 164 00:09:35,520 --> 00:09:38,080 Speaker 1: and clear message that the consumer tech market out there 165 00:09:38,120 --> 00:09:40,600 Speaker 1: just doesn't really care. They're not interested in three D 166 00:09:40,679 --> 00:09:45,040 Speaker 1: television's so what sort of big themes emerged this year. 167 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:48,520 Speaker 1: Well some of them are the same ones that have 168 00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:52,120 Speaker 1: been around for years, new versions of technology that we've 169 00:09:52,160 --> 00:09:56,280 Speaker 1: had for ages. And this isn't me slagging off on 170 00:09:56,360 --> 00:09:59,480 Speaker 1: the conference or on the companies at this conference. The 171 00:09:59,559 --> 00:10:02,760 Speaker 1: purpose of c e S ultimately is for these companies 172 00:10:02,800 --> 00:10:05,760 Speaker 1: to connect with retailers and with other companies, because some 173 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:09,560 Speaker 1: of these companies are business to business companies, right like Intel. 174 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:13,239 Speaker 1: Intel does most of its business working with other companies, 175 00:10:13,559 --> 00:10:16,840 Speaker 1: having their these other companies by the processors from Intel 176 00:10:16,880 --> 00:10:21,000 Speaker 1: to incorporate into other products. That's the real reason for 177 00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:25,680 Speaker 1: CEES that often people like myself, people of the media 178 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:29,600 Speaker 1: tend to forget, so to a lesser extent, ce S 179 00:10:29,679 --> 00:10:32,720 Speaker 1: is an opportunity for these companies to connect with the 180 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:36,040 Speaker 1: press and to get some publicity for their stuff. But 181 00:10:36,520 --> 00:10:39,760 Speaker 1: largely it's for them to talk to other business folks 182 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:43,000 Speaker 1: about you know, carrying products and stores things like that. 183 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:47,679 Speaker 1: They're talking about emerging lineups of products, and not every 184 00:10:47,760 --> 00:10:50,600 Speaker 1: new product is going to be a groundbreaking piece of 185 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:54,200 Speaker 1: technology that breaks the mold and defines a new type 186 00:10:54,200 --> 00:10:58,439 Speaker 1: of gadget. There's going to be countless new laptops bluetooth speakers, 187 00:10:58,559 --> 00:11:03,200 Speaker 1: computer peripherals, headphone owns, kitchen gadgets, smart locks, and every 188 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:06,880 Speaker 1: other type of consumer electronic gadget you can imagine. They 189 00:11:07,080 --> 00:11:10,479 Speaker 1: this isn't exactly the stuff that tends to get reporters 190 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:15,120 Speaker 1: salivating about covering the products, right Like a reporter who's 191 00:11:15,160 --> 00:11:17,520 Speaker 1: been doing CS for a while might look at these 192 00:11:17,520 --> 00:11:21,480 Speaker 1: things and just to go like, great, another computer. But 193 00:11:21,559 --> 00:11:23,840 Speaker 1: at the same time, we wouldn't expect companies to just 194 00:11:23,960 --> 00:11:27,160 Speaker 1: keep selling the same old model of gadget year after year. 195 00:11:27,679 --> 00:11:29,120 Speaker 1: Of course, they're going to come out with new ones 196 00:11:29,160 --> 00:11:33,720 Speaker 1: that are maybe faster, more power efficient. They legitimately have 197 00:11:33,920 --> 00:11:37,920 Speaker 1: added value, but it may not be sexy enough for 198 00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:41,079 Speaker 1: the press to really get excited about it. So I'm 199 00:11:41,080 --> 00:11:43,400 Speaker 1: not going to cover all of that. That would take 200 00:11:43,880 --> 00:11:47,680 Speaker 1: thirty episodes about c e s about minute changes in 201 00:11:47,760 --> 00:11:50,959 Speaker 1: some technologies. So what are some of the more innovative 202 00:11:51,120 --> 00:11:55,000 Speaker 1: trends that are emerging. Well, artificial intelligence is a huge one, 203 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:59,319 Speaker 1: and this is a tough theme to talk about because 204 00:11:59,360 --> 00:12:03,240 Speaker 1: people use the term AI so loosely and in connection 205 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:07,200 Speaker 1: with all sorts of different concepts. Right, Like, artificial intelligence 206 00:12:07,280 --> 00:12:10,199 Speaker 1: is pretty much everything until you say it's not. Uh. 207 00:12:11,040 --> 00:12:14,400 Speaker 1: Some people refer to artificial intelligence in the sense of 208 00:12:14,520 --> 00:12:18,800 Speaker 1: machines that seemingly think like people. Others use it in 209 00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:20,960 Speaker 1: a more general way to talk about machines that are 210 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:25,200 Speaker 1: capable of making certain choices based upon the parameters that 211 00:12:25,240 --> 00:12:29,400 Speaker 1: were programmed into those machines to you know, weigh all 212 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:34,240 Speaker 1: the different elements in any given decision making process before 213 00:12:34,360 --> 00:12:37,320 Speaker 1: coming to a conclusion, that kind of thing. But we're 214 00:12:37,320 --> 00:12:39,880 Speaker 1: really talking more about capabilities built into tech so that 215 00:12:39,920 --> 00:12:43,080 Speaker 1: the tech can make some sort of choice on its own, 216 00:12:43,200 --> 00:12:48,080 Speaker 1: or learn from user behavior, and to customize and experience 217 00:12:48,160 --> 00:12:51,080 Speaker 1: based on user behavior. So along with that, we're seeing 218 00:12:51,080 --> 00:12:53,280 Speaker 1: a continuation of a trend that really started to pick 219 00:12:53,360 --> 00:12:56,599 Speaker 1: up steam a couple of years ago, which is integrated 220 00:12:56,640 --> 00:13:01,200 Speaker 1: support for AI assistance, you know stuff Alexa and Google 221 00:13:01,280 --> 00:13:05,360 Speaker 1: Home and Syrie and that kind of thing. Um Google, 222 00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:08,640 Speaker 1: which has a huge pop up building set up on 223 00:13:08,679 --> 00:13:10,920 Speaker 1: the parking lot of the Las Vegas Convention Center. I 224 00:13:10,920 --> 00:13:13,640 Speaker 1: saw the building, haven't been in it yet, has announced 225 00:13:13,679 --> 00:13:17,800 Speaker 1: that Google Home support will be on one billion devices 226 00:13:17,840 --> 00:13:21,480 Speaker 1: by the end of twenty nineteen. Most of those devices, however, 227 00:13:22,080 --> 00:13:25,000 Speaker 1: the company has admitted, are going to be phones, but 228 00:13:25,440 --> 00:13:28,400 Speaker 1: there will be other devices as well. Meanwhile, security experts 229 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:32,079 Speaker 1: and consumer advocates continue to express concern about things like 230 00:13:32,280 --> 00:13:37,880 Speaker 1: consumer privacy, security, transparent policies. More people are starting to 231 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:43,640 Speaker 1: worry about devices that always have an active microphone going right, 232 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:47,079 Speaker 1: whether it's a phone that's in their pocket, or maybe 233 00:13:47,080 --> 00:13:49,360 Speaker 1: it's a smart speaker on a side table, maybe it's 234 00:13:49,400 --> 00:13:52,800 Speaker 1: your car. And even if you go to great measures 235 00:13:52,840 --> 00:13:55,160 Speaker 1: to make sure that you don't have any of those products, 236 00:13:55,160 --> 00:13:58,040 Speaker 1: that none of your products have an active microphone that 237 00:13:58,080 --> 00:14:01,160 Speaker 1: could be potentially listening in on everything, categorizing all of 238 00:14:01,200 --> 00:14:05,560 Speaker 1: your conversations, and building out a more and more detailed 239 00:14:05,559 --> 00:14:08,920 Speaker 1: profile of your likes and dislikes. You can't be sure 240 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:11,959 Speaker 1: that all the places you visit don't have those things. 241 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:14,640 Speaker 1: Like even if you're out in public and people have 242 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:19,000 Speaker 1: smartphones that have these assistance on them, it starts to 243 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:21,960 Speaker 1: make you really paranoid. But for good reason, because these 244 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:28,120 Speaker 1: companies have repeatedly had data issues, data security issues that 245 00:14:28,240 --> 00:14:33,480 Speaker 1: call them to question their practices. So that is a 246 00:14:33,520 --> 00:14:36,480 Speaker 1: continuing conversation and one that I think has to be 247 00:14:36,520 --> 00:14:40,480 Speaker 1: addressed through Like I said in my wish list, transparency, 248 00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:44,960 Speaker 1: really good security measures all of that's incredibly important, and 249 00:14:45,040 --> 00:14:48,880 Speaker 1: ultimately we need to start making some decisions about how 250 00:14:48,920 --> 00:14:53,880 Speaker 1: okay are we at all this information being gathered. Even 251 00:14:53,920 --> 00:14:57,200 Speaker 1: if companies are saying they're not gathering that info, you know, 252 00:14:57,320 --> 00:14:59,560 Speaker 1: they're all I can take is some lines of bad code. 253 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:02,960 Speaker 1: Even if it wasn't intentional, it could still happen. So 254 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:05,960 Speaker 1: we have to start saying, well, how how much of 255 00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:08,360 Speaker 1: this do we want to trade off? Like, do we 256 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:12,600 Speaker 1: find the benefit of these technologies to be so compelling 257 00:15:13,520 --> 00:15:16,720 Speaker 1: that we're willing to uh to deal with the fact 258 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:20,600 Speaker 1: that we're being recorded, or that are the things we 259 00:15:20,680 --> 00:15:23,680 Speaker 1: say are being analyzed in a way that will affect 260 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:26,680 Speaker 1: us later on? And Uh, I don't have the answer 261 00:15:26,720 --> 00:15:29,280 Speaker 1: to that, mostly because I haven't seen the benefit being 262 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:33,560 Speaker 1: so so incredibly compelling that I find the trade off 263 00:15:33,560 --> 00:15:37,160 Speaker 1: to be worthwhile. Anyway, Uh, that's going to be a 264 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:40,440 Speaker 1: continuing conversation. I think we'll see in twenty nineteen. Now 265 00:15:40,480 --> 00:15:44,320 Speaker 1: related to AI was a new emphasis on robots, and 266 00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:46,640 Speaker 1: robots have been a big part of CS for as 267 00:15:46,680 --> 00:15:49,160 Speaker 1: long as I've been going, I mean ever since I started. 268 00:15:49,160 --> 00:15:53,280 Speaker 1: I've seen robots ranging from very primitive robots that are 269 00:15:53,360 --> 00:15:57,360 Speaker 1: essentially just the equivalent of one of those toys that 270 00:15:57,480 --> 00:16:00,440 Speaker 1: will move when sound is playing, so the robot is 271 00:16:00,480 --> 00:16:03,600 Speaker 1: just kind of boogying down whenever music is in the area, 272 00:16:04,160 --> 00:16:08,200 Speaker 1: all the way up to robots that can more in 273 00:16:08,240 --> 00:16:15,000 Speaker 1: a more sophisticated way respond to questions and return useful information. Uh. 274 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:17,920 Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure the first year when I went was 275 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:19,800 Speaker 1: the first time I saw a Parrot drone. I want 276 00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:22,600 Speaker 1: to say that was like when Parrot first showed off 277 00:16:22,720 --> 00:16:28,160 Speaker 1: their consumer quad copter. And uh, every year since there's 278 00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:30,440 Speaker 1: been an army of new robots meant to do everything 279 00:16:30,520 --> 00:16:33,120 Speaker 1: from clean your floors to sweep out your gutters to 280 00:16:33,280 --> 00:16:36,040 Speaker 1: folding your clothes fresh aile of the wash. And we've 281 00:16:36,080 --> 00:16:39,680 Speaker 1: seen several robots meant to interact directly with people over 282 00:16:39,720 --> 00:16:42,200 Speaker 1: the years, but this year that seemed to be emphasized 283 00:16:42,520 --> 00:16:45,120 Speaker 1: a little bit more than usual. So companies are talking 284 00:16:45,200 --> 00:16:49,240 Speaker 1: more about designing robots specifically to work in human environments 285 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:53,400 Speaker 1: and to have meaningful human robot interactions. Now, personally, I 286 00:16:53,440 --> 00:16:56,520 Speaker 1: think this is a fascinating area of technology because it 287 00:16:56,560 --> 00:16:59,880 Speaker 1: requires not just a deep knowledge about tech in gen 288 00:17:00,120 --> 00:17:03,880 Speaker 1: role and robotics in particular, but also human psychology. You 289 00:17:03,880 --> 00:17:07,080 Speaker 1: have to understand people to be able to design robots 290 00:17:07,080 --> 00:17:10,880 Speaker 1: that can interact with people. And one of the challenges 291 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:14,120 Speaker 1: that is that our behavior as people are. Human behavior 292 00:17:14,160 --> 00:17:17,240 Speaker 1: can change when we encounter robots. That if we were 293 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:19,560 Speaker 1: to encounter another person, we might behave one way, but 294 00:17:19,600 --> 00:17:22,399 Speaker 1: when we encounter a robot, we might behave a different way, 295 00:17:22,840 --> 00:17:27,199 Speaker 1: and in turn, this can change the nature of that 296 00:17:27,320 --> 00:17:30,680 Speaker 1: human robot interaction. So designing robots that are meant to 297 00:17:30,720 --> 00:17:35,040 Speaker 1: seamlessly interact with people is incredibly challenging since it's kind 298 00:17:35,080 --> 00:17:37,960 Speaker 1: of like an idea and quantum mechanics, right, there's that 299 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:41,600 Speaker 1: quantum mechanics principle that says you cannot observe a quantum 300 00:17:41,640 --> 00:17:45,280 Speaker 1: system without also affecting that system. In other words, you 301 00:17:45,280 --> 00:17:47,520 Speaker 1: can't make a measurement without affecting the thing that you 302 00:17:47,520 --> 00:17:52,080 Speaker 1: are measuring, which means your measurement is no longer an 303 00:17:52,119 --> 00:17:56,280 Speaker 1: indication of what that thing was, it's now what that 304 00:17:56,320 --> 00:17:59,840 Speaker 1: thing is because you measured it. It's this mind been 305 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:03,639 Speaker 1: in concept. Well with human robot interactions. You can't really 306 00:18:03,680 --> 00:18:06,640 Speaker 1: design a robot to work perfectly out of the gate 307 00:18:07,119 --> 00:18:10,040 Speaker 1: because people are not likely to react to that robot 308 00:18:10,119 --> 00:18:12,800 Speaker 1: in the way that you imagined when you started designing 309 00:18:12,840 --> 00:18:16,000 Speaker 1: the robot. So this involves a lot of design and 310 00:18:16,080 --> 00:18:19,359 Speaker 1: redesign work. You create a robot, you create the software 311 00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:23,639 Speaker 1: for it to guide its interactions. You find out people 312 00:18:23,680 --> 00:18:26,040 Speaker 1: are off put by the way the robot behaves, so 313 00:18:26,040 --> 00:18:28,960 Speaker 1: then you have to go back and adjust the robots behavior. 314 00:18:29,119 --> 00:18:30,919 Speaker 1: And now you find out that people are reacting in 315 00:18:30,920 --> 00:18:33,000 Speaker 1: a totally different way, and it's still not exactly what 316 00:18:33,080 --> 00:18:36,040 Speaker 1: you had planned. So you have to start asking yourself questions, 317 00:18:36,160 --> 00:18:38,720 Speaker 1: how do I guide the behavior to be more like 318 00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:41,160 Speaker 1: the result I want? Or do I need to change 319 00:18:41,160 --> 00:18:45,280 Speaker 1: my expectations. This is a fascinating thing for me because 320 00:18:45,320 --> 00:18:47,919 Speaker 1: it really shows that you have to go beyond just 321 00:18:48,040 --> 00:18:51,280 Speaker 1: figuring out how to make stuff work, and then you 322 00:18:51,320 --> 00:18:53,840 Speaker 1: have to figure out, well, how do we as people work, 323 00:18:54,240 --> 00:18:56,800 Speaker 1: and how can we make stuff that works with us 324 00:18:56,840 --> 00:19:01,879 Speaker 1: instead of against us or inspires us to work against it. 325 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:06,439 Speaker 1: I hope that sometime this year I can have a 326 00:19:06,520 --> 00:19:10,440 Speaker 1: specialist in human robot interactions on the show to talk 327 00:19:10,480 --> 00:19:13,360 Speaker 1: about these concepts and these challenges, because I think it's 328 00:19:13,359 --> 00:19:17,240 Speaker 1: a really interesting area of technology, something that that goes 329 00:19:17,280 --> 00:19:20,920 Speaker 1: beyond uh. Like I said, the circuits and the tech 330 00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:25,760 Speaker 1: also at CES. This is not a surprise. If you've 331 00:19:25,800 --> 00:19:28,680 Speaker 1: been following the progress of the show over the last 332 00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:31,800 Speaker 1: several years, I'm sure you would have expected this. We 333 00:19:31,840 --> 00:19:35,600 Speaker 1: saw tons of driver less car concepts. Some of them 334 00:19:35,640 --> 00:19:38,919 Speaker 1: were practical demonstrations. Some of them were not truly driverless 335 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:42,320 Speaker 1: car practical demonstrations. I'll talk more about one of those 336 00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:46,000 Speaker 1: in a bit, but there were tons in concept form. 337 00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:51,120 Speaker 1: BMW introduced a concept called I Next, which is meant 338 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:54,320 Speaker 1: to go into an autonomous car itself. Is not an 339 00:19:54,320 --> 00:19:59,080 Speaker 1: autonomous car. Instead, this is a mixed reality technology. Mixed 340 00:19:59,119 --> 00:20:02,160 Speaker 1: reality is what we all that type of tech that 341 00:20:02,280 --> 00:20:06,159 Speaker 1: kind of incorporates stuff like virtual reality and augmented reality. 342 00:20:06,320 --> 00:20:09,639 Speaker 1: So in this case, uh, it's a concept where you 343 00:20:09,640 --> 00:20:12,520 Speaker 1: would have a car that could have at least some 344 00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:16,879 Speaker 1: autonomous operations. Now, when the car takes over, then you 345 00:20:16,880 --> 00:20:20,880 Speaker 1: could enact this I next platform. And it's a productivity 346 00:20:20,880 --> 00:20:24,040 Speaker 1: platform and an entertainment system, so you could do things 347 00:20:24,040 --> 00:20:27,720 Speaker 1: like look at your schedule, or watch television or have 348 00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:31,199 Speaker 1: a video conference call, and you would see stuff projected 349 00:20:31,680 --> 00:20:36,200 Speaker 1: on the windshield as if it were just a regular display. Uh. 350 00:20:36,280 --> 00:20:38,680 Speaker 1: This obviously would require the car to be controlling itself, 351 00:20:38,760 --> 00:20:41,000 Speaker 1: or else you would have a terrible accident because you 352 00:20:41,040 --> 00:20:44,760 Speaker 1: would have someone's head up here, like Marlon Brando's face 353 00:20:44,840 --> 00:20:47,439 Speaker 1: and Superman, and I think that would scare me to 354 00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:50,119 Speaker 1: see Marlon Brando in the windshield of my car. For 355 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:54,680 Speaker 1: numerous reasons, his death being one of them. The BMW 356 00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:57,960 Speaker 1: concept was shown off in virtual reality, so this was 357 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:02,639 Speaker 1: not a practical vehicle that they were putting people into, 358 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:05,920 Speaker 1: but rather a VR headset so that you could put 359 00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:08,520 Speaker 1: it on. You'd have some controls at your disposal, so 360 00:21:08,520 --> 00:21:11,560 Speaker 1: it'd be like you're driving a vehicle and you could 361 00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:13,280 Speaker 1: go through the demo to see what it would be 362 00:21:13,320 --> 00:21:15,679 Speaker 1: like to hand over control of the vehicle to the 363 00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:19,080 Speaker 1: autonomous system and then engage the I next system. Now 364 00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:22,679 Speaker 1: I did not do this. I did not do this 365 00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:26,760 Speaker 1: for two really big reasons. One is I don't drive. Actually, 366 00:21:26,840 --> 00:21:29,240 Speaker 1: I get anxiety about driving. It's a it's a phobia, 367 00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:31,600 Speaker 1: and it's something I've had to deal with. It is 368 00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:36,679 Speaker 1: a terribly inconvenient phobia to have. Uh, it is socially embarrassing. 369 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:38,720 Speaker 1: I've talked about it a couple times on the show. 370 00:21:39,240 --> 00:21:41,000 Speaker 1: But I've been dealing with this my whole life, and 371 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:44,640 Speaker 1: I just haven't gotten any better at it. So that's 372 00:21:44,680 --> 00:21:47,280 Speaker 1: one reason I actually get anxiety. Even with the whole 373 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:50,919 Speaker 1: virtual driving thing. I don't even like driving video games 374 00:21:50,920 --> 00:21:53,640 Speaker 1: that much. Um, the more arcady they are, the better 375 00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:56,320 Speaker 1: I am at it. But I didn't want to give 376 00:21:56,359 --> 00:22:00,320 Speaker 1: myself anxiety just sitting down to do a simple maneuver 377 00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:03,679 Speaker 1: in a VR car and have it hand over to 378 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:07,959 Speaker 1: an autonomous vehicle. And I know, I know this is goofy. 379 00:22:08,040 --> 00:22:10,360 Speaker 1: I know I'm a dufas. I get it. You don't 380 00:22:10,359 --> 00:22:12,640 Speaker 1: have to tell me. I'm very aware. But the other 381 00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:16,879 Speaker 1: big reason is kind of practical, y'all. Because this is 382 00:22:16,880 --> 00:22:20,119 Speaker 1: a tech conference. There are hundreds of thousands of people here, 383 00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:22,240 Speaker 1: or at least more than a hundred thousands of people 384 00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:25,639 Speaker 1: here from all over the world. Some of those people 385 00:22:26,080 --> 00:22:30,640 Speaker 1: are likely not entirely healthy right now. They probably have colds. 386 00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:34,240 Speaker 1: That's cold flu season, so some of them are probably sick. 387 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:39,240 Speaker 1: Some of them, based upon what I have witnessed, failed 388 00:22:39,280 --> 00:22:42,280 Speaker 1: to wash their hands after going to the restroom. And yes, 389 00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:46,280 Speaker 1: this is gross, and I hesitate to even say it, 390 00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:48,800 Speaker 1: but I have seen this over and over again at 391 00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:51,600 Speaker 1: c e s. When you know I'm standing at the 392 00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:53,800 Speaker 1: in the men's room, I'm I'm washing my hands, and 393 00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:57,199 Speaker 1: someone just walks from the inside of the restroom straight 394 00:22:57,200 --> 00:22:58,960 Speaker 1: out the door without washing their hands, and I think 395 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:02,280 Speaker 1: that is disgusting. Then I think I'm at a consumer 396 00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:07,120 Speaker 1: electronics show where people pick things up and handle them 397 00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:09,679 Speaker 1: and put them back down again for other people to handle. 398 00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:14,040 Speaker 1: And you immediately think, I gotta wash my hands at 399 00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:16,440 Speaker 1: every opportunity when I'm at this show. But then you think, 400 00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:19,960 Speaker 1: I am definitely not putting on a VR headset that 401 00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:24,600 Speaker 1: is not in my cards. Um. And I don't say 402 00:23:24,600 --> 00:23:27,520 Speaker 1: that to gross anybody out, but rather too one to 403 00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:31,720 Speaker 1: stress to my fellow conference goers. For goodness sakes, wash 404 00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:36,040 Speaker 1: your hands, Come on, people, just some hygiene here. And 405 00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:40,199 Speaker 1: two for everyone else, think about stuff before you handle 406 00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:42,680 Speaker 1: it and put it on your face and everything, because 407 00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:44,919 Speaker 1: I don't want you to get sick. I want it 408 00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:48,760 Speaker 1: to be a good conference for everybody, Okay. Also related 409 00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:53,360 Speaker 1: to vehicles is the concept of connected technology within cars. 410 00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:57,080 Speaker 1: So this is kind of like the Internet of Things concept, 411 00:23:57,760 --> 00:24:02,000 Speaker 1: and it goes beyond cars systems. Right, We've seen these 412 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:04,959 Speaker 1: this connected idea and all sorts of technology, but in 413 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:07,680 Speaker 1: car systems are one of those that get a lot 414 00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:10,080 Speaker 1: of attention year over year, and this year is no 415 00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:14,680 Speaker 1: exception that these systems have huge amounts of connected technology 416 00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:17,000 Speaker 1: and them some of them are pretty cool, Like they 417 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:20,480 Speaker 1: have cameras that are inside the cabin of the car. 418 00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:24,040 Speaker 1: I've already seen vehicles that do this, obviously. There have 419 00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:25,560 Speaker 1: been several that have been on the market for a 420 00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:28,199 Speaker 1: couple of years. A friend of mine actually has a 421 00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:31,840 Speaker 1: car that has a camera mounted on the rear view 422 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:37,119 Speaker 1: mirror so that if her eyes drift away from the 423 00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:39,679 Speaker 1: space in front of her, her car gives her an 424 00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:41,920 Speaker 1: alert saying, hey, put your eyes back on the road. 425 00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:44,760 Speaker 1: So if she looks down at the radio, or if 426 00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:46,680 Speaker 1: she were to look at her phone, she would get 427 00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:49,000 Speaker 1: a notification from her car saying don't do that, or 428 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:51,159 Speaker 1: if she were to nod off, she would get a warning. 429 00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:53,679 Speaker 1: This is something that we're seeing in cars, but we're 430 00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:57,360 Speaker 1: seeing even more of it now, Like there's aftermarket systems, 431 00:24:57,400 --> 00:25:00,359 Speaker 1: their systems that are being designed for cars as soon 432 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:02,840 Speaker 1: as you get them right off the lot, and some 433 00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:06,800 Speaker 1: of them are uh, pretty nifty stuff that we also 434 00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:08,800 Speaker 1: see a lot of touch screen interfaces, a lot of 435 00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:12,720 Speaker 1: app integration into cars. Navigation tools obviously been a big 436 00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:16,440 Speaker 1: part of vehicle systems for a while. Now personal assistants, 437 00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:18,639 Speaker 1: like I said, with Google Home and Alexa, all of 438 00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:22,280 Speaker 1: that incorporation is happening right into the vehicles. At this point, 439 00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:27,760 Speaker 1: we've seen studies that prove that distractions can be as 440 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:30,720 Speaker 1: dangerous as driving while intoxicated, and that makes me a 441 00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:34,199 Speaker 1: little concerned about all these features. I'm worried that they 442 00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:37,800 Speaker 1: might have an impact on driver attention and focus. They're 443 00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:40,399 Speaker 1: not supposed to. They're supposed to allow a driver to 444 00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:44,760 Speaker 1: access all these things without diverting their attention from the road. 445 00:25:45,359 --> 00:25:49,200 Speaker 1: But these are features that go beyond what you would 446 00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:52,879 Speaker 1: typically access in a car. Right, Like if I'm thinking 447 00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:55,560 Speaker 1: about before we got to all these in car systems 448 00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:58,399 Speaker 1: years and years ago. Let's say it's like the seventies. 449 00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:02,560 Speaker 1: You had your radio, you might have an eight track player, 450 00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:05,960 Speaker 1: and then you had your vehicle and that was it. Right. 451 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:09,560 Speaker 1: You didn't have navigation systems, you didn't have entertainment systems, 452 00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:14,600 Speaker 1: you didn't have in dash information systems. You know, you 453 00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:18,840 Speaker 1: had your your regular speedometer and things like that, but 454 00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:21,960 Speaker 1: you didn't have all this other stuff. So there were 455 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:24,399 Speaker 1: things that you could be distracted by, like if you 456 00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:26,520 Speaker 1: kept on searching the radio to find station that was 457 00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:30,159 Speaker 1: playing something you liked, but it was limited. These days, 458 00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:34,280 Speaker 1: we've added in so many interesting features and toys that 459 00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:37,480 Speaker 1: it makes me worried that it's pulling too much attention 460 00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:40,560 Speaker 1: away from the road, which might mean that autonomous vehicle 461 00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:43,800 Speaker 1: systems aren't a necessity anyway, because we're making it more 462 00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:48,040 Speaker 1: dangerous to drive a car. But um, the concept is 463 00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:50,520 Speaker 1: supposed to be that it doesn't take your attention away. 464 00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:55,080 Speaker 1: Maybe you're using voice activation for all of the different features, 465 00:26:55,600 --> 00:27:00,200 Speaker 1: which is fine if those features don't pull your attention away. Um. 466 00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:03,320 Speaker 1: But as I see all these cool screens and really 467 00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:07,840 Speaker 1: flashy displays and and interesting apps and all this stuff 468 00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:10,800 Speaker 1: integrated into cars, I it just it starts to make 469 00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:13,400 Speaker 1: me think more and more about the casinos I'm walking through, 470 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:15,880 Speaker 1: with all the slot machines and flashy lights and stuff. 471 00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:20,000 Speaker 1: It just seems distracting to me. And again, it's hard 472 00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:22,240 Speaker 1: for me to say if this is meaningful to any 473 00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:25,199 Speaker 1: actual driver, because I don't drive. I'm looking at this 474 00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:29,439 Speaker 1: from an outsider perspective, so maybe again I'm making a 475 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:32,560 Speaker 1: big deal out of nothing. But it just doesn't sit 476 00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:35,360 Speaker 1: well with me in every case. Now, there are some 477 00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:39,960 Speaker 1: driver lists or some in in car connected systems that 478 00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:43,439 Speaker 1: I think are pretty cool that maybe don't have that 479 00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:46,119 Speaker 1: kind of factor to them, so I don't want to 480 00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:48,280 Speaker 1: paint them all with the same brush. And there's also 481 00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:53,480 Speaker 1: a related element of privacy and security issues with connected cars. 482 00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:56,919 Speaker 1: I mean, the more features you create that UH allow 483 00:27:56,960 --> 00:28:02,480 Speaker 1: a car to access off the vehicle services, the more 484 00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:06,639 Speaker 1: opportunities you have for someone to perhaps take advantage of 485 00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:11,680 Speaker 1: that and hack your car, for example. But we've already 486 00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:15,399 Speaker 1: seen examples of of car hacking even with limited in 487 00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:18,840 Speaker 1: car systems, So I hope that security is something that 488 00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:21,199 Speaker 1: is a first and foremost in the minds of the 489 00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:24,000 Speaker 1: designers who create these systems. I've got a lot more 490 00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:26,080 Speaker 1: to say about what's going on at c E S 491 00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:28,800 Speaker 1: two thousand nineteen, but before I get into all of that, 492 00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:38,840 Speaker 1: let's take a quick break to thank our sponsor. Alright. 493 00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:41,840 Speaker 1: I talked a lot about some of the broad trends 494 00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:44,560 Speaker 1: that are going on. Let's talk about some specifics here. 495 00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:48,560 Speaker 1: One of the big news items that that broke here 496 00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:52,000 Speaker 1: at CES was really surprising to me, and I found 497 00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:54,360 Speaker 1: out about it from my buddy I as actor. He 498 00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:58,040 Speaker 1: works over at c net. He's a really smart guy 499 00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:01,440 Speaker 1: and is doing incredib will work. If you're not familiar 500 00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:03,400 Speaker 1: with his work had seen it, I highly recommend you 501 00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:05,840 Speaker 1: go check it out. I don't say that just because 502 00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:07,800 Speaker 1: he's my friend. I say that because he does really 503 00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:10,240 Speaker 1: good work. Anyway, he was telling me, Hey, you heard 504 00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:12,200 Speaker 1: about airplay, right, I'm like, well, yeah, I know what 505 00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:15,400 Speaker 1: airplay is. That's that's the Apple feature that allows you 506 00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:19,960 Speaker 1: to stream content from iTunes to something like an Apple 507 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:23,560 Speaker 1: TV platform that then can connect to a television and 508 00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:25,840 Speaker 1: you can watch stuff from like iTunes. You know, you 509 00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:28,800 Speaker 1: can send it via airplay. It's kind of similar to 510 00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:33,000 Speaker 1: Chrome cast. That's Google's version. He says, no, no, no, 511 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:36,800 Speaker 1: no airplay too. You heard that more and more manufacturers 512 00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:41,800 Speaker 1: are integrating airplay two directly into their their products, into 513 00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:45,760 Speaker 1: their television sets. This was news to me. We're talking 514 00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:50,240 Speaker 1: about manufacturers like Samsung, Sony and l G and Samsung 515 00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:53,880 Speaker 1: and Apple have not had the smoothest of relationships over 516 00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:57,440 Speaker 1: the years, so that is big news because typically what 517 00:29:57,480 --> 00:29:59,440 Speaker 1: Apple does is it likes to play within its own 518 00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:02,600 Speaker 1: ecosis them it doesn't tend to like to incorporate its 519 00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:06,440 Speaker 1: technology into someone else's products. It tends to like to 520 00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:09,960 Speaker 1: create its own products and then you connect those to 521 00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:12,920 Speaker 1: other people's technology. And I say it likes to as 522 00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:18,000 Speaker 1: if the Apple Company is its own sentient entity. As 523 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:21,080 Speaker 1: far as they know, it has not yet gained sentience. 524 00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:25,160 Speaker 1: But now Apple's working with these other companies to support 525 00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:29,800 Speaker 1: its airplay technology. So if you buy a Samsung or 526 00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:33,040 Speaker 1: Sony or LG television with this feature, you will be 527 00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:36,720 Speaker 1: able to use like an iPhone and stream stuff that 528 00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:40,600 Speaker 1: you bought on iTunes directly to these televisions without having 529 00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:43,360 Speaker 1: any other peripheral attached to it. You don't have to 530 00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:45,200 Speaker 1: have an Apple TV hooked up to it or anything 531 00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:49,080 Speaker 1: like that. This is an interesting move because for years, 532 00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:52,680 Speaker 1: probably for the better part of a decade, there have 533 00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:55,280 Speaker 1: been a lot of rumors that Apple was developing its 534 00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:58,120 Speaker 1: own television so that it could do this and again 535 00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:01,560 Speaker 1: keep it all within the Apple ecosystem them so that yes, 536 00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:03,200 Speaker 1: you could do the same thing, but it would all 537 00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:06,640 Speaker 1: be an Apple product. The television itself would be made 538 00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:11,000 Speaker 1: by Apple. This appears to say maybe they're backing off 539 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:13,720 Speaker 1: from that. Maybe, and to be fair, the heads of 540 00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:16,200 Speaker 1: the company have always been coy about whether or not 541 00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:18,520 Speaker 1: they were going to come out with a television, and 542 00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:20,360 Speaker 1: it may very well be that Apple has come to 543 00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:23,480 Speaker 1: the conclusion that developing its own television to compete on 544 00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:27,520 Speaker 1: the market against all these established manufacturers that have been 545 00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:31,080 Speaker 1: making TVs for decades might not be the best business move, 546 00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:35,280 Speaker 1: and so they're backing off instead and partnering with those 547 00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:39,880 Speaker 1: companies to incorporate this technology directly into their products. So yep, 548 00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:45,640 Speaker 1: future TVs from major television companies will likely have airplay support, 549 00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:49,040 Speaker 1: which is kind of neat if you use airplay. I don't, 550 00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:53,000 Speaker 1: but it's only because I don't have any Apple gadgets. Um. 551 00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:55,080 Speaker 1: I don't think it's I don't think it's a bad 552 00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:59,000 Speaker 1: service at all. I just literally don't own anything that 553 00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:01,120 Speaker 1: can do it. My wife has an iPhone. I guess 554 00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:03,320 Speaker 1: she could do it, but you know, she doesn't let 555 00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:06,280 Speaker 1: me play with her phone for good reason. I mean, 556 00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:09,400 Speaker 1: I'm a I'm not a responsible person. You can't put 557 00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:12,200 Speaker 1: me in charge of an iPhone anyway. That was a 558 00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:16,160 Speaker 1: big announcement that I found very surprising. One of the 559 00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:18,560 Speaker 1: products that's getting a lot of buzz, and I've seen 560 00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:20,280 Speaker 1: videos of it, but I have not actually seen it 561 00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:22,640 Speaker 1: in action yet. I hope I can swing by the 562 00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:25,480 Speaker 1: booth and maybe see a demo of it. Is the 563 00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:29,480 Speaker 1: LG Roll Up Television. Uh. It's going on sale in 564 00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:32,600 Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. Sale is probably the wrong word. It's going 565 00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:35,320 Speaker 1: for a premium price in twenty nineteen. And it's an 566 00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:38,640 Speaker 1: oh led screen and it rolls up like a window shade. 567 00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:41,880 Speaker 1: So if you remember those old window shades where, especially 568 00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:44,360 Speaker 1: like in cartoons and stuff, you pull it down and 569 00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:46,680 Speaker 1: then to pull it back up, you just you give 570 00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:49,800 Speaker 1: it a little tug and then it activates a spring 571 00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:52,080 Speaker 1: and the whole thing rolls back up. It's kind of 572 00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:55,200 Speaker 1: like that, but much slower and and measured because you 573 00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:59,720 Speaker 1: don't want to break a incredibly expensive television set. The 574 00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:03,480 Speaker 1: version that LG showed off is a four K resolution 575 00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:08,640 Speaker 1: screen sixty inches across the diagonal, so pretty big screen, 576 00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:11,880 Speaker 1: larger than my television at home. It has a one 577 00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:15,640 Speaker 1: what Dolby Atmos speaker in the base. The base looks 578 00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:19,040 Speaker 1: kind of like a like a cardenza. It's like a 579 00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:22,720 Speaker 1: like a cabinet almost, and so it folds down or 580 00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:26,400 Speaker 1: rolls down into this basse and when the screen is 581 00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:28,640 Speaker 1: all the way down. A cover slides on top, and 582 00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:30,760 Speaker 1: so it looks like a little piece of furniture, and 583 00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:35,160 Speaker 1: then you activate it and the cover slides back and 584 00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:37,880 Speaker 1: the television can extend back up. You can actually even 585 00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:40,000 Speaker 1: extend it just a quarter of the way if you like, 586 00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:42,800 Speaker 1: and use it as a music player, and it will 587 00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:45,720 Speaker 1: it will show like the title of the song and 588 00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:49,720 Speaker 1: the basic controls and everything, um, and so then it 589 00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:54,840 Speaker 1: becomes like a weird little soundbar um. And it's super 590 00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:57,640 Speaker 1: neat looking. Also, it has airplay to support, so it's 591 00:33:57,680 --> 00:33:59,240 Speaker 1: one of those TVs I was just talking about a 592 00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:02,760 Speaker 1: second ago. It also was going to have Google Home 593 00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:06,000 Speaker 1: and uh An Alexa support, so you'll be able to 594 00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:10,279 Speaker 1: use the assistance in that case with these TVs. So 595 00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:12,239 Speaker 1: it's super high tech and it's getting, like I said, 596 00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:14,319 Speaker 1: a lot of buzz. A lot of people really like this, 597 00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:16,600 Speaker 1: and I like the videos I saw of it, But 598 00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:19,160 Speaker 1: as I said, I have not yet set eyes upon 599 00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:22,280 Speaker 1: it in person. I hope to do that, probably not today. 600 00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:24,319 Speaker 1: I think today I'm going to the Sands, which is 601 00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:27,239 Speaker 1: the like I said, the Eureka Park area with all 602 00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:29,759 Speaker 1: the startups and stuff, and then tomorrow I'll hit the 603 00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:34,120 Speaker 1: convention center. Rollable and foldable oh LED screens are showing 604 00:34:34,160 --> 00:34:36,880 Speaker 1: up in other places too. We've actually seen some foldable 605 00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:40,120 Speaker 1: displays for several years, but they were always in the 606 00:34:40,160 --> 00:34:44,360 Speaker 1: prototype phase. It wasn't meant to be a consumer product, 607 00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:47,360 Speaker 1: but rather here's what the future can hold kind of stuff. 608 00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:50,520 Speaker 1: So we're now starting to see it rolled out into 609 00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:53,560 Speaker 1: actual products, including one that is already on the market 610 00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:57,520 Speaker 1: in China. That's from Royal r O y O l E. 611 00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:01,439 Speaker 1: They are mostly known for their playze Uh. They did 612 00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:04,840 Speaker 1: a cinematic like a personal cinematic display, essentially a headset 613 00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:07,759 Speaker 1: that allows you to watch movies. They had that on 614 00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:10,359 Speaker 1: on display a few years ago. Now they have a 615 00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:13,919 Speaker 1: flexible sort of tablet slash phone kind of thing called 616 00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:18,759 Speaker 1: flex pie f l e x p a i UH, 617 00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:20,680 Speaker 1: and as I said, it's already on sale in China. 618 00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:23,200 Speaker 1: So when it's unfolded, it's like an eight inch screen 619 00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:26,400 Speaker 1: but you folded in half and it has a specific 620 00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:32,000 Speaker 1: area where the the bezel allows for the folding and 621 00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:34,560 Speaker 1: you can turn it into a phone. When it's folded, 622 00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:37,040 Speaker 1: it looks pretty thick, especially right where the bend is. 623 00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:39,640 Speaker 1: It looks a little bulky to me. I haven't had 624 00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:41,640 Speaker 1: my hands on this either. I've only watched videos of 625 00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:45,080 Speaker 1: this as well. Uh So, I don't know how well 626 00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:48,560 Speaker 1: it works as a phone, but the screen is gorgeous 627 00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:52,040 Speaker 1: and the fact that it does bend and it still, 628 00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:55,279 Speaker 1: you know, is a perfect display on both sides is 629 00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:58,719 Speaker 1: really nifty looking. Uh. I hear that some of its 630 00:35:58,719 --> 00:36:02,160 Speaker 1: features are a little low tech, like the camera I 631 00:36:02,239 --> 00:36:05,200 Speaker 1: understand is not particularly good on it, but it's still 632 00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:09,680 Speaker 1: for an early technology, pretty impressive. Also. I mentioned VR 633 00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:13,239 Speaker 1: in a demonstration earlier that was just meant to demonstrate 634 00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:17,960 Speaker 1: a different technology, but VR itself is still a thing. Um. 635 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:21,719 Speaker 1: It's one of those technologies that we've been waiting to 636 00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:26,120 Speaker 1: see breakout for a while or just fizzle away, kind 637 00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:29,080 Speaker 1: of like it did in the nineties. And like the nineties, 638 00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:31,680 Speaker 1: I think we're seeing the same sort of reaction where 639 00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:34,200 Speaker 1: people are starting to feel like the promise of VR 640 00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:39,439 Speaker 1: doesn't quite um like the like the reality of VR 641 00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:42,680 Speaker 1: doesn't measure up to what the promises. So anyway, we're 642 00:36:42,719 --> 00:36:46,319 Speaker 1: still seeing some interesting VR tech shown off at the 643 00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:50,160 Speaker 1: e s HTC showed off a new Vibe Pro headset 644 00:36:50,719 --> 00:36:54,360 Speaker 1: that has eye tracking support it's called the Vibe pro I, 645 00:36:55,280 --> 00:36:57,840 Speaker 1: So you can use your eyes to navigate menus and 646 00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:01,279 Speaker 1: control interfaces and that kind of thing. Um. So you 647 00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:03,759 Speaker 1: might have choices displayed in front of your eyes, and 648 00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:05,680 Speaker 1: when you stare at a specific choice for a certain 649 00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:08,439 Speaker 1: amount of time, it's alex It that kind of thing, 650 00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:10,960 Speaker 1: And so you can navigate through menus, you can, you know, 651 00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:14,520 Speaker 1: have game developers develop games where specifically your eyes are 652 00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:18,280 Speaker 1: the control It's kind of neat um. They also introduced 653 00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:21,480 Speaker 1: a new user interface design called the Vibe Reality System. 654 00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:25,120 Speaker 1: So previously, the menu screens that you would encounter in 655 00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:28,640 Speaker 1: the Vibe were pretty much like PC type menu screens, 656 00:37:28,719 --> 00:37:31,440 Speaker 1: flat two dimensional screens that kind of takes you out 657 00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:33,560 Speaker 1: of the immersed feeling you would get in virtual reality. 658 00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:36,719 Speaker 1: The new system creates a more three dimensional approach to 659 00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:39,960 Speaker 1: redesigning menus and transitions and stuff, so that way it's 660 00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:43,759 Speaker 1: more like you're navigating through a virtual world to make 661 00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:46,040 Speaker 1: your choices, as opposed to just looking at a screen. 662 00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:49,640 Speaker 1: They also introduced a new headset called the Vibe Cosmos 663 00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:52,640 Speaker 1: that's meant to be easier to set up and to use, 664 00:37:52,719 --> 00:37:55,680 Speaker 1: and that way it removes one of the perceived barriers 665 00:37:55,719 --> 00:37:58,000 Speaker 1: of virtual reality. I would say that the two big 666 00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:03,080 Speaker 1: barriers to adoption. One is that it is fairly complicated 667 00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:09,600 Speaker 1: technology that tends to require multiple pieces like a computer, cables, 668 00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:13,000 Speaker 1: power chords, you know, the headset, all the controllers, all 669 00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:14,960 Speaker 1: this kind of stuff. So this is meant to cut 670 00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:17,640 Speaker 1: down on that. And the other would be the price 671 00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:20,760 Speaker 1: that it costs a lot just to buy the equipment 672 00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:23,279 Speaker 1: and then to have a decent computer that can also 673 00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:26,240 Speaker 1: run all the software that also adds to the cost. 674 00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:29,000 Speaker 1: So Vibe Cosmos is meant to be kind of an 675 00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:32,520 Speaker 1: answer to both of those. Um I am curious to 676 00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:36,560 Speaker 1: see if they are able to really make that compelling, 677 00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:39,359 Speaker 1: because then the question is do you trade off the 678 00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:43,080 Speaker 1: experience to such a degree that people don't know. Yes, 679 00:38:43,239 --> 00:38:45,919 Speaker 1: it's more affordable and easier to use, but people don't 680 00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:50,960 Speaker 1: care because it's not particularly fun or interesting. That's a possibility, 681 00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:52,880 Speaker 1: and I don't know the answer to that. Allow of 682 00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:55,840 Speaker 1: that depends upon the developers who create the software for 683 00:38:55,920 --> 00:39:00,359 Speaker 1: the hardware. Intel showed off the ninth generation of its 684 00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:03,959 Speaker 1: current processors, now with elements measuring in the ten nanometer range, 685 00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:06,879 Speaker 1: which blows my mind. It's way smaller than I ever 686 00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:09,879 Speaker 1: thought we would manage to get and still be able 687 00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:13,200 Speaker 1: to cope with quantum effects, and yet here we are. 688 00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:16,160 Speaker 1: It's one of those reasons why despite the fact that 689 00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:19,080 Speaker 1: we keep on saying Moore's long is going to have 690 00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:21,759 Speaker 1: to come to an end soon, somehow people keep finding 691 00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:26,280 Speaker 1: a way to push that further off into the future. Uh, 692 00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:29,680 Speaker 1: these processors are able to pack more power than previous models, 693 00:39:29,719 --> 00:39:32,680 Speaker 1: and the company also showed off a new microprocessor architecture 694 00:39:32,760 --> 00:39:36,440 Speaker 1: and motherboard design that they called lake Field, and that 695 00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:39,840 Speaker 1: builds out the processor into three dimensions that couples various 696 00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:42,960 Speaker 1: elements together very tightly to decrease the amount of time 697 00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:45,560 Speaker 1: and energy it takes for data to travel between these 698 00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:49,840 Speaker 1: various components. Now, the Intel says that the result is 699 00:39:49,880 --> 00:39:53,240 Speaker 1: that this family of processors are faster, they're more powerful, 700 00:39:53,320 --> 00:39:57,719 Speaker 1: and they're more power efficient than any of their predecessors. 701 00:39:57,760 --> 00:40:01,479 Speaker 1: And the demonstrations the company held were atty impressive. But again, 702 00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:03,799 Speaker 1: I haven't seen it in action yet. I'll see that 703 00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:05,800 Speaker 1: when I go to the convention center, because in tells 704 00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:10,080 Speaker 1: one of the largest booths over in the central hall 705 00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:14,000 Speaker 1: of the Las Vegas Convention Center. They also revealed that 706 00:40:14,160 --> 00:40:17,360 Speaker 1: through a partnership they have with Ali Baba, they're creating 707 00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:21,120 Speaker 1: a three D athlete tracking system for the next Summer Olympics, 708 00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:24,520 Speaker 1: and they'll be able to use video cameras and this 709 00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:31,160 Speaker 1: software to analyze athletes movements and quantify athletic performance in 710 00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:35,120 Speaker 1: a really crazy granular way. So if you want to 711 00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:40,440 Speaker 1: know precisely what angle a shot put thrower chose when 712 00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:43,680 Speaker 1: he or she set a world record, that system will 713 00:40:43,719 --> 00:40:48,080 Speaker 1: grab that information for you, will tell you tons of 714 00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:54,640 Speaker 1: quantifiable information about every single aspect of an athletic athletes 715 00:40:54,719 --> 00:40:58,440 Speaker 1: performance during the Olympics. UM, I'm not sure if that 716 00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:01,279 Speaker 1: information will ever come a cross as being anything more 717 00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:05,239 Speaker 1: than just interesting from a curiosity standpoint, Like I don't 718 00:41:05,239 --> 00:41:09,440 Speaker 1: know that it would necessarily ever become informative or helpful 719 00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:13,440 Speaker 1: or educational for anybody. Like it's it's one thing to 720 00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:19,160 Speaker 1: know that someone threw a shot put at a specific angle. 721 00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:22,160 Speaker 1: It's another thing to be able to replicate that precisely. 722 00:41:22,880 --> 00:41:24,440 Speaker 1: Like if you told me, oh, you just need to 723 00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:26,920 Speaker 1: stand at a thirty seven degree angle to the ground 724 00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:28,879 Speaker 1: in order for this thing to happen, Well, first I'd say, 725 00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:31,440 Speaker 1: there's that's impossible. I don't have the calf's strength to 726 00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:34,239 Speaker 1: hold myself at a thirty seven degree angle. But I'd 727 00:41:34,239 --> 00:41:36,560 Speaker 1: also say I don't know how to process that in 728 00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:39,520 Speaker 1: a way to actually do anything about it. Until also 729 00:41:39,600 --> 00:41:41,520 Speaker 1: talked about five G. Five G is going to be 730 00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:44,880 Speaker 1: one of those buzzwords that gets a ton of coverage 731 00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:47,839 Speaker 1: here at c E S. That's the upcoming new wireless 732 00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:52,240 Speaker 1: data transfer standard that will allow for much, much faster 733 00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:59,319 Speaker 1: wireless data networks. So they talked about working with that 734 00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:02,600 Speaker 1: on a chip code named snow Ridge, which will help 735 00:42:02,880 --> 00:42:06,399 Speaker 1: handle processes that are running on five G two optimize 736 00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:09,960 Speaker 1: them so that you're getting the absolute most out of 737 00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:13,600 Speaker 1: your connection. Uh, then we can move over to Samsung. 738 00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:16,680 Speaker 1: They showed off five G smartphone designs, so they also 739 00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:19,560 Speaker 1: talked about five G quite a bit that they talked. 740 00:42:19,600 --> 00:42:23,680 Speaker 1: Showed off a ninety eight in eight K television. I'll 741 00:42:23,680 --> 00:42:26,839 Speaker 1: never mind that there's no eight K content out there. 742 00:42:26,840 --> 00:42:29,960 Speaker 1: In fact, in the presentation they say, when eight K 743 00:42:30,080 --> 00:42:34,640 Speaker 1: content becomes available, So this is a television that literally 744 00:42:34,760 --> 00:42:39,480 Speaker 1: is able to display resolutions higher than what anyone has 745 00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:43,719 Speaker 1: generated for content that you can watch at home, eight 746 00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:48,719 Speaker 1: K will come along. But I I've talked about resolution 747 00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:52,520 Speaker 1: before on tech stuff and my own personal experience with 748 00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:56,399 Speaker 1: high definition two K and eight K and four K 749 00:42:57,040 --> 00:42:59,560 Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff. I have to say 750 00:42:59,719 --> 00:43:02,840 Speaker 1: from experience, once you get to a certain level of 751 00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:06,359 Speaker 1: of resolution, let's i mean, even HD to two K 752 00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:09,080 Speaker 1: isn't at that big of a jump unless you're talking 753 00:43:09,120 --> 00:43:12,719 Speaker 1: about an enormous screen and you're sitting really close. But 754 00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:15,279 Speaker 1: two K, I would say, I could tell there's a 755 00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:20,239 Speaker 1: difference between two K and HD if both all other 756 00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:22,920 Speaker 1: settings are as equal as they possibly can be. Because remember, 757 00:43:23,239 --> 00:43:25,800 Speaker 1: the quality of a picture you see on a television 758 00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:30,480 Speaker 1: is not just up to the resolution. There's color representation, brightness, contrast, 759 00:43:30,600 --> 00:43:34,439 Speaker 1: there are all these other things that are important with 760 00:43:34,800 --> 00:43:37,880 Speaker 1: the quality of a picture. So you could have an 761 00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:39,960 Speaker 1: HD set and a two K set, and if you 762 00:43:40,040 --> 00:43:43,360 Speaker 1: were really good at tweaking all the settings for the 763 00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:46,080 Speaker 1: h D set, and you were really bad at tweaking 764 00:43:46,080 --> 00:43:47,719 Speaker 1: all the settings for the two K set, the h 765 00:43:47,840 --> 00:43:51,360 Speaker 1: D might actually look better. But if all things are equal, 766 00:43:51,880 --> 00:43:53,840 Speaker 1: then I might be able to tell a little difference 767 00:43:53,840 --> 00:43:56,640 Speaker 1: between two K and HD, But I probably wouldn't be 768 00:43:56,640 --> 00:43:58,600 Speaker 1: able to tell much difference between two K and say 769 00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:02,759 Speaker 1: four K or eight K and that is. I don't 770 00:44:02,880 --> 00:44:05,439 Speaker 1: that that could just be my own physical limitations. As 771 00:44:05,719 --> 00:44:09,160 Speaker 1: Jonathan Strickland, you know, humans are different. Some humans have 772 00:44:09,280 --> 00:44:12,160 Speaker 1: better vision than others. My vision is not the best obviously, 773 00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:15,200 Speaker 1: so it may very well be that for someone else 774 00:44:15,239 --> 00:44:17,880 Speaker 1: there is a definitive difference. They can they can see 775 00:44:18,680 --> 00:44:21,719 Speaker 1: that there is a difference between the resolutions. For me, 776 00:44:21,880 --> 00:44:24,560 Speaker 1: not so much like if I if I'm not told 777 00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:27,799 Speaker 1: which set is eight K versus you know, four K 778 00:44:27,960 --> 00:44:30,960 Speaker 1: or two K, then I'm not likely to be able 779 00:44:30,960 --> 00:44:35,000 Speaker 1: to pick them out other than if one is just ginormous. Still, 780 00:44:35,480 --> 00:44:39,120 Speaker 1: Samsung showed off their ninety eight K television and they 781 00:44:39,120 --> 00:44:40,920 Speaker 1: said that eight K screens are coming out in the 782 00:44:40,960 --> 00:44:43,799 Speaker 1: spring of twenty nineteen, so we're gonna start seeing eight 783 00:44:43,880 --> 00:44:48,240 Speaker 1: K sets, which does mean that the UH lower ultra 784 00:44:48,360 --> 00:44:52,879 Speaker 1: high definition resolution television sets will get cheaper. So I'm 785 00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:57,080 Speaker 1: all for it, uh because I don't have one yet. Again, 786 00:44:57,160 --> 00:45:00,000 Speaker 1: I don't know that it would even matter. Samsung also 787 00:45:00,160 --> 00:45:04,000 Speaker 1: talked about family Hub and Bixby. Family Hub is sort 788 00:45:04,040 --> 00:45:08,400 Speaker 1: of their Internet of Things platform, and Bixby is their 789 00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:12,399 Speaker 1: personal assistant essentially, and they have a fridge that will 790 00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:14,399 Speaker 1: send you a notification on your phone if you leave 791 00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:18,560 Speaker 1: the door open to the fridge, so you know that's something. 792 00:45:18,960 --> 00:45:21,480 Speaker 1: And then they talked about their PCs. They talked about 793 00:45:21,520 --> 00:45:24,279 Speaker 1: their InCAR systems falling in line with some of those 794 00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:27,480 Speaker 1: trends I mentioned earlier. The in car system includes cameras 795 00:45:27,480 --> 00:45:30,360 Speaker 1: like I talked about, but these cameras actually have facial recognition. 796 00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:32,480 Speaker 1: So it's not just that they can tell if you're 797 00:45:32,480 --> 00:45:36,200 Speaker 1: not looking at the windscreen when you're driving or the 798 00:45:36,239 --> 00:45:39,399 Speaker 1: road when you're driving. They can actually tell who you are. 799 00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:44,520 Speaker 1: There's facial recognition technology incorporated with the camera system, so 800 00:45:45,080 --> 00:45:48,120 Speaker 1: the car technically quote unquote knows who is driving and 801 00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:50,560 Speaker 1: who's a passenger in the car. And this means that 802 00:45:50,600 --> 00:45:54,279 Speaker 1: each person can have his or her own profile with 803 00:45:54,480 --> 00:45:57,799 Speaker 1: the vehicle, with their own preferences, and that the car, 804 00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:01,680 Speaker 1: when they detect who's driving, can toomatically enable those preferences. 805 00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:05,520 Speaker 1: So let's say that you have specific settings, like you 806 00:46:05,560 --> 00:46:08,560 Speaker 1: want the car seat to be a specific distance away 807 00:46:08,560 --> 00:46:12,120 Speaker 1: from the steering wheel, you like a particular range of 808 00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:17,479 Speaker 1: radio stations, maybe you like a particular temperature, Maybe you 809 00:46:18,040 --> 00:46:22,120 Speaker 1: really like the car seat heater to be on on 810 00:46:22,200 --> 00:46:24,840 Speaker 1: cold days. That kind of stuff when you get in, 811 00:46:24,880 --> 00:46:27,760 Speaker 1: this car recognizes it's you and sets all those things 812 00:46:27,760 --> 00:46:33,520 Speaker 1: to your preferences automatically. But then maybe your your spouse, 813 00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:38,440 Speaker 1: or your kid, or your parent or your friend gets 814 00:46:38,440 --> 00:46:41,400 Speaker 1: behind the wheel. They also have a profile with your car. 815 00:46:41,840 --> 00:46:45,360 Speaker 1: Then the car will automatically adjust to their preferences if 816 00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:47,919 Speaker 1: they have been established, which I think is kind of neat. 817 00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:51,960 Speaker 1: It's also kind of creepy. Um And again it raises 818 00:46:52,080 --> 00:46:55,279 Speaker 1: questions about data privacy and security. You want to make 819 00:46:55,280 --> 00:46:58,239 Speaker 1: sure that all of those preferences are kept pretty much, 820 00:46:58,360 --> 00:47:01,120 Speaker 1: you know, between you and the car. You don't necessarily 821 00:47:01,160 --> 00:47:04,960 Speaker 1: want companies to know all the things that all of 822 00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:08,879 Speaker 1: your peculiarities, the things that make you you um there. 823 00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:11,319 Speaker 1: There's gonna probably be some point where you're thinking, Yeah, 824 00:47:11,360 --> 00:47:13,640 Speaker 1: companies just don't need to know that. They don't need 825 00:47:13,680 --> 00:47:15,760 Speaker 1: to know that I sing along with Taylor Swift whenever 826 00:47:16,239 --> 00:47:19,319 Speaker 1: she comes on the radio. And I'm not saying that 827 00:47:19,360 --> 00:47:24,000 Speaker 1: I do, but I'm not saying that I don't anyway. 828 00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:27,440 Speaker 1: Samsung also unveiled a line of robot products, including a 829 00:47:27,560 --> 00:47:29,919 Speaker 1: robot that can take your vital signs. You can put 830 00:47:29,960 --> 00:47:31,920 Speaker 1: your finger on its screen and it will measure your 831 00:47:31,960 --> 00:47:34,920 Speaker 1: blood flow and blood pressure. He'll tell you how healthy 832 00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:37,680 Speaker 1: you are or not, I guess. And it can also 833 00:47:37,719 --> 00:47:40,240 Speaker 1: do stuff like play soothing music if you're totally stressed 834 00:47:40,239 --> 00:47:44,480 Speaker 1: out by having a robot in your home. Maybe. IBM 835 00:47:44,520 --> 00:47:47,080 Speaker 1: showed off it's Q system quantum computer, which is the 836 00:47:47,120 --> 00:47:50,040 Speaker 1: twenty cubit system that the company developed and now offers 837 00:47:50,080 --> 00:47:52,719 Speaker 1: up as a cloud based platform, and I talked about 838 00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:55,440 Speaker 1: this when I went to the IBM Sink conference last year. 839 00:47:57,120 --> 00:47:59,040 Speaker 1: They showed it off a little bit more this year. 840 00:47:59,040 --> 00:48:02,520 Speaker 1: It's the e s The really important thing about this platform, 841 00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:05,080 Speaker 1: I think is that we should keep in mind this 842 00:48:05,160 --> 00:48:08,240 Speaker 1: is not meant to be the ground bake breaking machine 843 00:48:08,760 --> 00:48:13,640 Speaker 1: that's going to help scientific researchers find new discoveries and 844 00:48:13,640 --> 00:48:16,839 Speaker 1: and breakthrough barriers that have previously been up in front 845 00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:19,279 Speaker 1: of them. It's more like a stepping stone towards that 846 00:48:19,360 --> 00:48:24,040 Speaker 1: goal because twenty cubits that's sufficient for some small applications, 847 00:48:24,080 --> 00:48:25,680 Speaker 1: but it's not really at a level that's going to 848 00:48:25,680 --> 00:48:29,239 Speaker 1: be transformative, I don't think. However. What it does do 849 00:48:29,400 --> 00:48:32,279 Speaker 1: is it gives developers the chance to actually explore how 850 00:48:32,320 --> 00:48:35,200 Speaker 1: the quantum system works and figure out the best way 851 00:48:35,200 --> 00:48:37,760 Speaker 1: to leverage that. So, in other words, how to program 852 00:48:37,840 --> 00:48:43,400 Speaker 1: software that can take advantage of this quantum computing system 853 00:48:43,480 --> 00:48:46,200 Speaker 1: Without knowing how to build out the software, then it 854 00:48:46,280 --> 00:48:48,400 Speaker 1: just ends up being a really impressive machine that doesn't 855 00:48:48,400 --> 00:48:52,959 Speaker 1: really do anything right. The real potential of computers isn't 856 00:48:53,040 --> 00:48:56,319 Speaker 1: just in their horsepower, but what we do with it 857 00:48:56,600 --> 00:48:59,400 Speaker 1: the software that we create four of those computers. So 858 00:48:59,480 --> 00:49:01,959 Speaker 1: that's kind of what this platform is going to allow 859 00:49:02,040 --> 00:49:05,080 Speaker 1: people to do, is to ask questions like, how can 860 00:49:05,160 --> 00:49:08,480 Speaker 1: we design something that could be really useful with this 861 00:49:08,560 --> 00:49:12,600 Speaker 1: new method of computing. And as we start to develop 862 00:49:12,640 --> 00:49:16,799 Speaker 1: those practices, when we begin to make bigger, more powerful 863 00:49:16,920 --> 00:49:19,839 Speaker 1: quantum computing systems, will be able to take better advantage 864 00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:24,319 Speaker 1: of them, and then we hit those hopefully amazing breakthroughs 865 00:49:24,360 --> 00:49:28,840 Speaker 1: that we've been thinking about all this time. So it's 866 00:49:28,880 --> 00:49:32,200 Speaker 1: not like the the end of encryption is right around 867 00:49:32,239 --> 00:49:35,359 Speaker 1: the corner, but we can see the end of it 868 00:49:35,640 --> 00:49:38,239 Speaker 1: off in the distance. On the PC side, most of 869 00:49:38,280 --> 00:49:42,400 Speaker 1: the changes and features were evolutionary, not revolutionary. Not a 870 00:49:42,400 --> 00:49:45,040 Speaker 1: big surprise. A lot of the laptops I've seen so 871 00:49:45,120 --> 00:49:48,239 Speaker 1: far have sported really thin bezels, for example, that's become 872 00:49:48,280 --> 00:49:50,520 Speaker 1: kind of the new trend in the last couple of years, 873 00:49:50,840 --> 00:49:53,040 Speaker 1: and we're starting to see manufacturers talk about five G 874 00:49:53,440 --> 00:49:56,799 Speaker 1: integration so that there will be native support when that 875 00:49:56,960 --> 00:50:01,000 Speaker 1: technology is ready. But generally speaking, I haven't seen a 876 00:50:01,040 --> 00:50:06,120 Speaker 1: whole lot of truly like wild wacky stuff. For several years, 877 00:50:06,200 --> 00:50:09,160 Speaker 1: there have been tons of personal transportation devices on display, 878 00:50:09,480 --> 00:50:13,120 Speaker 1: things like you know, stuff like that that's in the 879 00:50:13,239 --> 00:50:18,440 Speaker 1: range of segue right, the hoverboards, the segue like material, 880 00:50:18,760 --> 00:50:23,200 Speaker 1: or gadgets rather things like that, electric skateboards, pedal assist bikes. 881 00:50:23,920 --> 00:50:26,120 Speaker 1: These have all been part of CS for ages. But 882 00:50:26,480 --> 00:50:29,759 Speaker 1: one thing I found really inspiring was a demonstration of 883 00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:34,440 Speaker 1: the one wheel x R plus um personal transportation device. 884 00:50:35,200 --> 00:50:36,960 Speaker 1: It's it looks like a balance board with a wheel 885 00:50:36,960 --> 00:50:39,279 Speaker 1: in the middle, so kind of you know, you've got 886 00:50:39,280 --> 00:50:42,040 Speaker 1: that one wheel in the center, and you've got the 887 00:50:42,040 --> 00:50:44,600 Speaker 1: the board you stand on on either side of the wheel. 888 00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:48,000 Speaker 1: Derek Ross gave a demonstration and it was pretty remarkable 889 00:50:48,040 --> 00:50:52,960 Speaker 1: because Mr Ross lost a leg in Afghanistan after a 890 00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:56,960 Speaker 1: bomb exploded, so he has a prosthetic leg, but he 891 00:50:57,080 --> 00:51:00,560 Speaker 1: also uses the one wheel device. He's able to get 892 00:51:00,560 --> 00:51:04,120 Speaker 1: on this thing and wheel around like it's a natural 893 00:51:04,160 --> 00:51:08,200 Speaker 1: way of traveling around his environment, and the way he 894 00:51:08,239 --> 00:51:11,400 Speaker 1: was really able to do this is through firmware on 895 00:51:11,440 --> 00:51:14,720 Speaker 1: the one wheel that is a code named Gemini allows 896 00:51:14,719 --> 00:51:18,360 Speaker 1: each user to customize their experience, so you can make 897 00:51:18,480 --> 00:51:21,359 Speaker 1: sure that the devices responding to you exactly the way 898 00:51:21,400 --> 00:51:24,080 Speaker 1: you wanted to, so you don't have to necessarily just 899 00:51:24,239 --> 00:51:27,400 Speaker 1: learn how it works. You can teach it to work 900 00:51:27,440 --> 00:51:31,480 Speaker 1: with you, which again that's sort of like the big 901 00:51:31,520 --> 00:51:34,160 Speaker 1: goal of machine learning in general, is that we take 902 00:51:34,200 --> 00:51:37,600 Speaker 1: away the necessity for us to learn how the machines work, 903 00:51:37,719 --> 00:51:39,560 Speaker 1: and we teach the machines how we work, and then 904 00:51:39,560 --> 00:51:43,319 Speaker 1: the machines help us work better. So Ross uses this 905 00:51:43,400 --> 00:51:45,480 Speaker 1: to glide around his home even though he has a 906 00:51:45,480 --> 00:51:49,440 Speaker 1: prosthetic leg, which I think is pretty inspirational. When we 907 00:51:49,480 --> 00:51:51,560 Speaker 1: come back, I'm going to talk about some of the wacky, 908 00:51:51,600 --> 00:51:55,440 Speaker 1: weird fun stuff that I've seen or have heard of 909 00:51:55,520 --> 00:51:58,920 Speaker 1: so far at c E S and uh there's some 910 00:51:59,239 --> 00:52:02,000 Speaker 1: there's some weird ones on there, so stick with me. 911 00:52:02,080 --> 00:52:04,360 Speaker 1: I'm going to take a quick break to thank our sponsor. 912 00:52:12,120 --> 00:52:14,719 Speaker 1: So one of the weird things that we saw here 913 00:52:14,760 --> 00:52:20,560 Speaker 1: at CES this year is is a camera called baby 914 00:52:20,640 --> 00:52:24,560 Speaker 1: Eyes or babies Um it's a camera you mount on 915 00:52:24,600 --> 00:52:28,120 Speaker 1: your baby, because that's where we are now. It's a 916 00:52:28,200 --> 00:52:30,440 Speaker 1: it's kind of a camera on a sticker actually, and 917 00:52:30,440 --> 00:52:32,760 Speaker 1: you put the sticker on your baby and this camera 918 00:52:32,800 --> 00:52:35,040 Speaker 1: can record for two hours on a single charge, and 919 00:52:35,120 --> 00:52:38,040 Speaker 1: then you offload the video onto another device like a computer, 920 00:52:38,640 --> 00:52:40,480 Speaker 1: and it comes with some software, and the software has 921 00:52:40,480 --> 00:52:44,479 Speaker 1: facial recognition abilities, so it can start pulling out all 922 00:52:44,600 --> 00:52:47,960 Speaker 1: the video that happens to have people's faces in it, 923 00:52:48,160 --> 00:52:49,960 Speaker 1: so you know, you skip all the stuff where there's 924 00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:51,480 Speaker 1: no one in the frame, and your baby is just 925 00:52:51,560 --> 00:52:54,120 Speaker 1: not pointed at anything in particular. So I guess when 926 00:52:54,160 --> 00:52:57,719 Speaker 1: you do point your baby at someone, thinking of the 927 00:52:57,719 --> 00:53:00,840 Speaker 1: baby is almost like a tripod. Uh. Then the camera 928 00:53:00,920 --> 00:53:03,640 Speaker 1: software knows that there was a person there. And in 929 00:53:03,640 --> 00:53:05,439 Speaker 1: the future you're supposed to be able to search through 930 00:53:05,440 --> 00:53:09,000 Speaker 1: the collective video footage for specific people, and according to 931 00:53:09,040 --> 00:53:13,200 Speaker 1: the company, you could even search according to specific moods. 932 00:53:14,200 --> 00:53:16,120 Speaker 1: This was one of those really quirky things to make 933 00:53:16,160 --> 00:53:18,360 Speaker 1: it to c e s that got some early coverage 934 00:53:18,440 --> 00:53:21,479 Speaker 1: because it wasn't exactly like everything else that's already out there. 935 00:53:22,160 --> 00:53:25,480 Speaker 1: Speaking of cameras, Valio that's a company that often works 936 00:53:25,480 --> 00:53:28,760 Speaker 1: with autonomous car developers create a system called the Extra 937 00:53:28,880 --> 00:53:32,960 Speaker 1: View trailer. So imagine you're towing a trailer behind your vehicle. 938 00:53:33,120 --> 00:53:36,040 Speaker 1: So you've got a trailer behind you. Now imagine that 939 00:53:36,120 --> 00:53:40,120 Speaker 1: both your vehicle and the trailer itself have rear mounted 940 00:53:40,200 --> 00:53:43,640 Speaker 1: cameras on them that can capture video footage of everything 941 00:53:43,680 --> 00:53:47,560 Speaker 1: behind them. Now imagine that the forward surface of that trailer, 942 00:53:47,840 --> 00:53:51,800 Speaker 1: the surface that's actually facing the back windshield of your vehicle, 943 00:53:52,280 --> 00:53:55,280 Speaker 1: is really a video screen and it's got a live 944 00:53:55,480 --> 00:53:58,480 Speaker 1: feed from those cameras. So when you look in your 945 00:53:58,480 --> 00:54:01,520 Speaker 1: rear view mirror, instead of seeing a trailer, you see 946 00:54:01,560 --> 00:54:04,440 Speaker 1: a screen that is displaying a video feed of whatever 947 00:54:04,520 --> 00:54:07,640 Speaker 1: is behind it. It's like the video screen is almost 948 00:54:07,680 --> 00:54:10,160 Speaker 1: like a cloaking device for the trailer. The trailer has 949 00:54:10,200 --> 00:54:13,280 Speaker 1: gone invisible and you can see through it. That's the effect. 950 00:54:13,640 --> 00:54:16,200 Speaker 1: It's supposed to help drivers change lanes and park more 951 00:54:16,200 --> 00:54:19,120 Speaker 1: safely because they can see what is behind their trailer 952 00:54:19,480 --> 00:54:21,480 Speaker 1: and they can have a greater awareness of their surroundings. 953 00:54:21,480 --> 00:54:24,319 Speaker 1: I thought that was pretty cool. Hyundai also showed off 954 00:54:24,360 --> 00:54:28,280 Speaker 1: a concept vehicle called Elevate, or the Ultimate Mobility Vehicle. 955 00:54:28,840 --> 00:54:31,160 Speaker 1: You need to look at pictures of this thing. I 956 00:54:31,160 --> 00:54:33,279 Speaker 1: don't think this is ever going to see production. It 957 00:54:33,360 --> 00:54:37,000 Speaker 1: is a concept, not not an actual vehicle that you 958 00:54:37,040 --> 00:54:39,960 Speaker 1: can get in. But it is nifty because, in addition 959 00:54:40,000 --> 00:54:42,040 Speaker 1: to the wheels that you would expect to find on 960 00:54:42,080 --> 00:54:46,040 Speaker 1: a car, you know, typical car features are wheels, this 961 00:54:46,120 --> 00:54:51,239 Speaker 1: thing has legs. So the legs can extend down and 962 00:54:51,600 --> 00:54:54,120 Speaker 1: now it can go from wheeled mode into legged mode, 963 00:54:54,200 --> 00:54:56,520 Speaker 1: and then it can climb over terrain that wheels would 964 00:54:56,520 --> 00:54:59,480 Speaker 1: have trouble getting over. Now, details about this concept are 965 00:54:59,480 --> 00:55:02,840 Speaker 1: pretty scared or probably because it is just so darned conceptual. 966 00:55:03,480 --> 00:55:06,200 Speaker 1: But one of the things that Hyundai was isn't saying 967 00:55:06,320 --> 00:55:09,400 Speaker 1: is whether this is a driver controlled vehicle or an 968 00:55:09,440 --> 00:55:12,280 Speaker 1: autonomous vehicle. But it is worth pointing out that robotic 969 00:55:12,360 --> 00:55:16,600 Speaker 1: legs are really hard to get right. Boston Dynamics has 970 00:55:16,640 --> 00:55:20,360 Speaker 1: spent years working on the kinks to just basic robotic 971 00:55:20,440 --> 00:55:25,080 Speaker 1: leg motion. You know, they had countless experiments with one 972 00:55:25,160 --> 00:55:27,560 Speaker 1: legged robots hopping in a circle trying to get it 973 00:55:27,640 --> 00:55:30,799 Speaker 1: just right. The wheel has been a go to for 974 00:55:30,880 --> 00:55:33,640 Speaker 1: a lot of vehicles and robots because it's orders of 975 00:55:33,680 --> 00:55:37,439 Speaker 1: magnitude easier to operate than a leg. You know, legs 976 00:55:37,440 --> 00:55:41,960 Speaker 1: have to contend with things like balance, shifting of gravity, 977 00:55:42,200 --> 00:55:45,680 Speaker 1: like it's gravitational center, that kind of thing, pressure, and 978 00:55:45,719 --> 00:55:47,040 Speaker 1: it has to deal with these things in the ways 979 00:55:47,040 --> 00:55:50,120 Speaker 1: that wheels just don't. So it's tough to do. I 980 00:55:50,160 --> 00:55:51,840 Speaker 1: would imagine it would have to be autonomous, but it 981 00:55:51,880 --> 00:55:55,400 Speaker 1: was a really nifty concept. Mercedes Benz showed off another 982 00:55:55,440 --> 00:55:59,040 Speaker 1: concept called the Urbanetic. It's sort of like a minivan 983 00:55:59,160 --> 00:56:01,839 Speaker 1: pod type thing that you would get in. There's no 984 00:56:02,360 --> 00:56:05,600 Speaker 1: no no driver controls or anything. It's The interior is 985 00:56:05,960 --> 00:56:08,640 Speaker 1: a couple of seats or or like almost like benches 986 00:56:08,680 --> 00:56:11,920 Speaker 1: that all face inward and has a nice skylight you 987 00:56:11,920 --> 00:56:16,000 Speaker 1: can see out into the Vegas skyline. Uh. And it 988 00:56:16,080 --> 00:56:20,640 Speaker 1: looks like it's an autonomous taxi or autonomous vehicle delivery vehicle, 989 00:56:20,920 --> 00:56:23,520 Speaker 1: but it's not truly autonomous, at least not the version 990 00:56:23,560 --> 00:56:25,960 Speaker 1: shown off at CS. It was actually driven remotely by 991 00:56:26,080 --> 00:56:29,360 Speaker 1: human operator. But the concept is for an autonomous vehicle 992 00:56:29,840 --> 00:56:31,840 Speaker 1: and what such a vehicle would be like in the future. 993 00:56:32,280 --> 00:56:34,400 Speaker 1: So you would sit in this nice, large, kind of 994 00:56:34,400 --> 00:56:38,160 Speaker 1: funky design, UH vehicle. I didn't get a chance to 995 00:56:38,239 --> 00:56:41,480 Speaker 1: write in it because the line was super long, and 996 00:56:41,520 --> 00:56:43,880 Speaker 1: also I don't even know if my badge would let me, Like, 997 00:56:43,920 --> 00:56:46,799 Speaker 1: I don't know if I have the level of of 998 00:56:46,920 --> 00:56:49,200 Speaker 1: notoriety and importance to be able to get in such 999 00:56:49,239 --> 00:56:53,080 Speaker 1: a vehicle. But look neat, let's see. Uh, there's the 1000 00:56:53,160 --> 00:56:56,000 Speaker 1: ob spot. That's a four K camera that has AI 1001 00:56:56,040 --> 00:56:58,719 Speaker 1: functionality build into it so it can follow the subject 1002 00:56:59,040 --> 00:57:01,880 Speaker 1: as the subject moves around the environment. So the camera 1003 00:57:01,960 --> 00:57:05,480 Speaker 1: stationary has a base uh that the camera sits on. 1004 00:57:05,600 --> 00:57:08,200 Speaker 1: The camera itself is connected to an arm that's on 1005 00:57:08,239 --> 00:57:12,520 Speaker 1: a gimbal, so it has three axes of rotation, and 1006 00:57:12,600 --> 00:57:15,319 Speaker 1: so the camera can pan up and down, left and right. 1007 00:57:15,360 --> 00:57:18,440 Speaker 1: You know, I can do some tilt and um or rotate. 1008 00:57:19,080 --> 00:57:22,200 Speaker 1: And you set up the camera. You use just your 1009 00:57:22,240 --> 00:57:26,080 Speaker 1: controls to indicate to the camera follow me. I am 1010 00:57:26,120 --> 00:57:29,200 Speaker 1: the person that needs to be the focus of this video, 1011 00:57:29,640 --> 00:57:31,960 Speaker 1: and the camera will automatically track you, so as you 1012 00:57:32,000 --> 00:57:35,000 Speaker 1: move around the environment, the camera will turn and continue 1013 00:57:35,040 --> 00:57:37,560 Speaker 1: to keep its focus on you. It also has a 1014 00:57:37,600 --> 00:57:42,120 Speaker 1: twelve megapixel resolution and a three point five times optical zoom, 1015 00:57:42,160 --> 00:57:44,400 Speaker 1: so not a digital zoom. It actually has an optical zoom. 1016 00:57:44,400 --> 00:57:49,200 Speaker 1: It's using lenses and distance to create the zooming feature 1017 00:57:49,760 --> 00:57:51,960 Speaker 1: and there are other gesture controls. If you hold up 1018 00:57:51,960 --> 00:57:53,800 Speaker 1: your palm, that's what tells it to follow you, but 1019 00:57:53,800 --> 00:57:56,439 Speaker 1: you can also hold up a piece sign that would 1020 00:57:56,440 --> 00:58:01,080 Speaker 1: tell it to zoom in. Uh. The camera'slaunching on Kickstarter 1021 00:58:01,760 --> 00:58:04,160 Speaker 1: and may even the Kickstar may even be up and 1022 00:58:04,200 --> 00:58:06,160 Speaker 1: running by the time you hear this podcast and from 1023 00:58:06,160 --> 00:58:08,240 Speaker 1: why I understand. The camera has a price tag of 1024 00:58:08,280 --> 00:58:10,640 Speaker 1: four fifty dollars, so it's not cheap, but it does 1025 00:58:10,680 --> 00:58:14,920 Speaker 1: look pretty nifty. Uh. There's a company called Bell formally 1026 00:58:15,120 --> 00:58:17,680 Speaker 1: Bell Helicopter that showed off a concept called the Bell 1027 00:58:17,840 --> 00:58:21,280 Speaker 1: Nexus here at c e S. It's a flying taxi 1028 00:58:21,400 --> 00:58:24,040 Speaker 1: type thing. It looks kind of like a really large 1029 00:58:24,120 --> 00:58:27,080 Speaker 1: version of a consumer drone, you know, like a quad copter, 1030 00:58:27,160 --> 00:58:30,560 Speaker 1: except this one has six ducted fans, not four, and 1031 00:58:30,600 --> 00:58:32,800 Speaker 1: they can rotate to provide lift and thrust, so it's 1032 00:58:32,800 --> 00:58:36,960 Speaker 1: like a v T O L vehicle. The company has 1033 00:58:37,000 --> 00:58:39,280 Speaker 1: partnered with Uber and they plan to have an air 1034 00:58:39,320 --> 00:58:44,000 Speaker 1: taxi service launch figuratively and literally sometime in the twenty twenties. 1035 00:58:44,680 --> 00:58:46,800 Speaker 1: So according to Bell, this concept could hold up to 1036 00:58:46,840 --> 00:58:49,040 Speaker 1: five people and it has a weight capacity of six 1037 00:58:49,120 --> 00:58:51,320 Speaker 1: hundred pounds, so it's not gonna be carting around the 1038 00:58:51,320 --> 00:58:53,280 Speaker 1: starting lineup of a hockey team or anything that'd be 1039 00:58:53,320 --> 00:58:56,360 Speaker 1: too heavy. But if all goes as planned, within a decade, 1040 00:58:56,360 --> 00:58:59,640 Speaker 1: we're gonna have flying taxis taking us places, assuming that 1041 00:58:59,680 --> 00:59:01,640 Speaker 1: they are proven to be safe and we figure out 1042 00:59:01,640 --> 00:59:03,800 Speaker 1: how the heck to create regulations for such a thing. 1043 00:59:04,600 --> 00:59:06,840 Speaker 1: This is gonna be another one of those in the 1044 00:59:06,880 --> 00:59:11,400 Speaker 1: cases where technology and the law are not in alignment. 1045 00:59:11,840 --> 00:59:13,760 Speaker 1: Have a feeling that the law is going to have 1046 00:59:13,800 --> 00:59:17,120 Speaker 1: to catch up quickly to this kind of tech. Finally, 1047 00:59:17,240 --> 00:59:19,040 Speaker 1: for this episode, I mean, there's tons more I can 1048 00:59:19,080 --> 00:59:21,400 Speaker 1: talk about, but I've been going super long already, and 1049 00:59:21,440 --> 00:59:24,360 Speaker 1: this is like an old school tech stuff episode. Harley 1050 00:59:24,440 --> 00:59:27,640 Speaker 1: Davidson showed off its first all electric motorcycle here at 1051 00:59:27,640 --> 00:59:29,720 Speaker 1: c E S. It's going to be available for purchase 1052 00:59:29,800 --> 00:59:33,320 Speaker 1: later in twenty nineteen for the princely sum of twenty 1053 00:59:33,440 --> 00:59:38,160 Speaker 1: nine thousand seven dollars. One of the most expensive electric 1054 00:59:38,200 --> 00:59:40,400 Speaker 1: motorbikes I've heard of, In fact, it might be the 1055 00:59:40,520 --> 00:59:43,360 Speaker 1: most expensive one I've seen. It can go from zero 1056 00:59:43,440 --> 00:59:45,200 Speaker 1: to sixty miles per hour in just three and a 1057 00:59:45,240 --> 00:59:48,000 Speaker 1: half seconds, and according to the company, well I actually 1058 00:59:48,000 --> 00:59:52,200 Speaker 1: produce a quote new signature Harley Davidson sound end quote 1059 00:59:52,480 --> 00:59:54,720 Speaker 1: as you accelerate because you know it's electric, so otherwise 1060 00:59:54,720 --> 00:59:58,919 Speaker 1: it would be completely silent when it was gearing up. 1061 00:59:59,240 --> 01:00:01,320 Speaker 1: But now, and you don't have to worry about switching 1062 01:00:01,320 --> 01:00:03,640 Speaker 1: gears either because it's an electric motor. But now it's 1063 01:00:03,640 --> 01:00:07,320 Speaker 1: going to have a electronically generated sound so that you 1064 01:00:07,760 --> 01:00:10,960 Speaker 1: still get that feel of the Harley rumble. I imagine. 1065 01:00:11,640 --> 01:00:13,080 Speaker 1: I really hope to get a chance to look at 1066 01:00:13,120 --> 01:00:15,680 Speaker 1: that in person. I'm sure that's at the North Hall. 1067 01:00:15,920 --> 01:00:17,960 Speaker 1: It's where most of the cars and vehicle stuff as 1068 01:00:18,760 --> 01:00:21,400 Speaker 1: here at the at c e S. It's sowhere at 1069 01:00:21,400 --> 01:00:24,520 Speaker 1: the Las Vegas Convention Center, So hopefully tomorrow I'll get 1070 01:00:24,520 --> 01:00:26,640 Speaker 1: a chance to see that. All right, Well, that is 1071 01:00:26,680 --> 01:00:30,360 Speaker 1: our overview of C E S two thousand nineteen. I'm 1072 01:00:30,360 --> 01:00:32,720 Speaker 1: gonna get out of here. I'm gonna send this off 1073 01:00:32,760 --> 01:00:36,240 Speaker 1: to my wonder producer, Tari, and hopefully she'll be able 1074 01:00:36,280 --> 01:00:39,320 Speaker 1: to get this up and running soon, whereas I will 1075 01:00:39,360 --> 01:00:42,840 Speaker 1: be wandering the halls of c E S trying to 1076 01:00:42,840 --> 01:00:45,280 Speaker 1: see if there's anything else interesting to talk about in 1077 01:00:45,360 --> 01:00:49,520 Speaker 1: future episodes. So you, guys, I hope you've had a 1078 01:00:49,600 --> 01:00:52,680 Speaker 1: great new year so far. I look forward to hearing 1079 01:00:52,720 --> 01:00:54,760 Speaker 1: from you guys. If you have any suggestions for future 1080 01:00:54,800 --> 01:00:58,479 Speaker 1: topics of tech stuff, whether it's a company technology, maybe 1081 01:00:58,480 --> 01:01:01,080 Speaker 1: there's someone in tech I should focus on. 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