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Speaker 1: Get into technology with tech stuff from how Stuff, What's

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Speaker 1: dot Com? He there and welcome to tex Stuff. I'm

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Speaker 1: Jonathan Stripland and this is going to sound like a

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Speaker 1: very odd recording because I'm actually recording this in my

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Speaker 1: Las Vegas, Nevada. We are at c E s S

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Speaker 1: today is January five. So we arrived in Las Vegas

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Speaker 1: our hotels and headed down to c S Unveiled. And

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Speaker 1: this is an event that's a press event. Ce S

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Speaker 1: itself is not just a press event. It's actually meant

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Speaker 1: for manufacturers to get a chance to meet with retailers

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Speaker 1: and other companies that are going to be moved being

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Speaker 1: their products. But the press is also there and has

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Speaker 1: a very big presence, So we are here to cover

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Speaker 1: it just like lots of other people are. And the

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Speaker 1: first things that we wanted to check out where the

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Speaker 1: stuff that was on display at CES Unveiled. This is

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Speaker 1: just a small collection of companies that have a few

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Speaker 1: like the tip of the tip of an iceberg, but

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Speaker 1: it gives you a chance to see some stuff that

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Speaker 1: that is the showroom floor. So we went there and

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Speaker 1: if you have not seen that, you can go check

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Speaker 1: it out and see some ridiculous stuff. Like you can

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Speaker 1: see me in a chair that's pitching around left and right,

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Speaker 1: I'm wearing. The whole idea was that you can turn

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Speaker 1: your couch into an immersive experience. It's almost like pimping

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Speaker 1: your couch by adding hydraulics. It's similar to that kind

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Speaker 1: to watch you know, Fast and Furious or something. But

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Speaker 1: it was a fun experience, and not only that, I

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Speaker 1: got to run into some of my peers that I

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Speaker 1: show up on this recording so that we can talk

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Speaker 1: about c e s, what is interesting, what's got all

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Speaker 1: know what fizzled that kind of thing. So I'm going

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Speaker 1: to try and grab some of my my years at

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Speaker 1: about their thoughts on this year's show. Now, to be fair, Uh,

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Speaker 1: the unveiled thing was so so relatively tiny, um. And

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Speaker 1: And today, as I record this, it's pressed day. That

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Speaker 1: year and customers weren't buying it. Literally, we're not buying

429
00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:20,159
Speaker 1: the three D televisions, or if they were, they were,

430
00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:23,000
Speaker 1: they were slagging them saying that, oh yeah, I never

431
00:23:23,119 --> 00:23:25,280
Speaker 1: you know, you lose the glasses or it's a pain

432
00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:27,560
Speaker 1: to have to keep up with that kind of stuff,

433
00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:32,160
Speaker 1: And it was nice to see that particular technology fadeaway.

434
00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:35,879
Speaker 1: Another thing that I liked that when the thing I

435
00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:38,840
Speaker 1: liked when it went away, when it came back it

436
00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:41,800
Speaker 1: was better, was the internet connected TVs because when I

437
00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:44,199
Speaker 1: first started going to C E S, that's when you

438
00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:50,160
Speaker 1: had widgets on everything, and uh, turning your television into

439
00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:54,680
Speaker 1: the world's busiest desktop computer desktop is not the way

440
00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:58,000
Speaker 1: to go, I don't think. I like. It almost becomes

441
00:23:58,040 --> 00:24:01,359
Speaker 1: one of those parodies where it's the parody of a

442
00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:05,439
Speaker 1: newscast where it's just tickers and and and and data

443
00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:09,000
Speaker 1: caps popping up all over the screen while the news

444
00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:12,119
Speaker 1: anchor continues to deliver the news. It's like that except

445
00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:16,560
Speaker 1: for everything on your TV. So smart TVs eventually actually

446
00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:19,280
Speaker 1: earned that name because they were pretty dumb when they

447
00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:22,840
Speaker 1: first came out. It was slow too. Not only did

448
00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:25,879
Speaker 1: you have this extra graphical interface, but it took forever

449
00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:28,600
Speaker 1: to pop up or go away or have a selection

450
00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:31,480
Speaker 1: or do anything, and then you're like, oh, it's not

451
00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:35,359
Speaker 1: connected right, or just there was always something stopping it

452
00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:38,000
Speaker 1: to the point where were such a headache. Like I

453
00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:39,920
Speaker 1: remember some of the first ones I got to check

454
00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:42,680
Speaker 1: out on the show floor here at c ES. You

455
00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:45,600
Speaker 1: would have to click like ten fifteen times to get

456
00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:48,800
Speaker 1: to this subject or whatever application that you wanted to get.

457
00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:53,080
Speaker 1: The taxonomy of the of the commands was so dense. Yeah,

458
00:24:53,119 --> 00:24:55,040
Speaker 1: I I remember them being so slow that when you

459
00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:56,600
Speaker 1: pull up the weather app you get the weather for

460
00:24:56,680 --> 00:25:00,480
Speaker 1: last week, it's pretty rough or at a like a

461
00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:05,359
Speaker 1: zip code yeah right, oh my gosh, Like it couldn't

462
00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:08,359
Speaker 1: identify your geographic location on its own. You had to

463
00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:10,520
Speaker 1: tell it. It was like it was like the modern

464
00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:13,560
Speaker 1: version of a rotary phone, Like they have to find

465
00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:17,240
Speaker 1: numbers or I have to have this terrible, um, because

466
00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:19,280
Speaker 1: some of these televisions were like, oh yeah, we'll have

467
00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:21,800
Speaker 1: a total virtual keyboard, so it's being able to use

468
00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:24,520
Speaker 1: the buttons like one two fo. Yeah, you actually select

469
00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:27,159
Speaker 1: the things, right, And anyone who's like that reminds me

470
00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:29,320
Speaker 1: of the interface for the Xbox, right. Whenever you have

471
00:25:29,359 --> 00:25:31,240
Speaker 1: to type something in, if you don't have one of

472
00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:33,639
Speaker 1: the controllers that has the little keypad that goes with it,

473
00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:36,879
Speaker 1: or you don't use smart glass or something along those lines,

474
00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:40,360
Speaker 1: you're using the controller to highlight each individual letter. And

475
00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:43,840
Speaker 1: that's not not a whole lot of fun. Yeah, it's

476
00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:48,560
Speaker 1: not like they were fundamentally broken. They just weren't ready yet.

477
00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:50,320
Speaker 1: And we've seen that a few times at c e

478
00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:55,120
Speaker 1: s where technology was displayed and you could say there's

479
00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:57,440
Speaker 1: something to that, but it wasn't quite ready. I mean

480
00:25:57,440 --> 00:26:04,720
Speaker 1: I remember several years ago seeing a tablet PC hybrid

481
00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:08,359
Speaker 1: for the first time. Oh yeah, and the very first

482
00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:10,040
Speaker 1: I can't remember the name of it was the X

483
00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:14,960
Speaker 1: one something like that, Lenovo, and it was part Windows,

484
00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:17,560
Speaker 1: part Android of the time. Yes, yeah, maybe it was

485
00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:19,760
Speaker 1: in a splashtop. It might have an Android yet, but

486
00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:23,480
Speaker 1: they had something that you could tear apart and it

487
00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:25,879
Speaker 1: would be a tablet one way and a laptop the other.

488
00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:29,919
Speaker 1: But this is be four windows. Microsoft pushed for Windows eight, right,

489
00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:33,760
Speaker 1: So this so you had essentially Windows seven for the

490
00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:36,679
Speaker 1: PC mode. When you detached the screen and turn it

491
00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:40,760
Speaker 1: into a tablet, it's changed, it changed operating systems. So

492
00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:43,520
Speaker 1: that was kind of interesting, like a very interesting concept,

493
00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:46,159
Speaker 1: and I remember really being intrigued by it when I

494
00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:47,760
Speaker 1: saw it on the show floor. I thought, what a

495
00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:51,840
Speaker 1: what a cool idea, especially since they were really working

496
00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:55,240
Speaker 1: hard to make sure all the apps and programs that

497
00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:59,000
Speaker 1: were shared across the two platforms were cross functional. So

498
00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:01,720
Speaker 1: if you were to start a document in one, you

499
00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:04,040
Speaker 1: could pull up the the software and the other and

500
00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:07,080
Speaker 1: the document would still be there, you know, which was

501
00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:09,119
Speaker 1: a great idea. It just was one of those that

502
00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:13,040
Speaker 1: never quite made it out of that prototype here in

503
00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:15,119
Speaker 1: the United States, at least because they wanted to redo

504
00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:18,000
Speaker 1: it with Android at some point, and there was I

505
00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:22,000
Speaker 1: just remember all the weird splashtop interfaces. You remember that

506
00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:24,960
Speaker 1: at the lightweight operating system that would load before your

507
00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:28,200
Speaker 1: regular operating system. Yes, you work while you couldn't wait

508
00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:32,000
Speaker 1: for the loading time. That's like pre s S d days, Yo, dog,

509
00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:35,320
Speaker 1: I can see that you wanted to to word process,

510
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:37,760
Speaker 1: and I get word process while waiting for your word processor.

511
00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:40,359
Speaker 1: I've done that idea. I'm like, this would be so

512
00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:43,840
Speaker 1: great on an air like airline flight. Yeah, I just

513
00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:45,520
Speaker 1: quickly load this up and it won't eat up a

514
00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:47,920
Speaker 1: lot of battery. It will be great. And those are

515
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:51,359
Speaker 1: the those the netbook era, you know netbooks before we

516
00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:55,200
Speaker 1: got to ultra lights, which uh, I guess are still

517
00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:57,480
Speaker 1: a thing, but I don't ever hear it being called

518
00:27:57,520 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 1: that anymore. Like they're the laptop now, that's that's just

519
00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:04,080
Speaker 1: what it is. And there's like there's modifiers with the

520
00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:06,480
Speaker 1: other stuff, like it's a gaming laptop, which is code

521
00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:10,280
Speaker 1: for it's freaking heavy. You'll need you'll need a you'll

522
00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:14,680
Speaker 1: need a trolley to move this around. Yeah. I think

523
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:16,320
Speaker 1: of some of the other tech that I saw that

524
00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:20,120
Speaker 1: never really made it out, at least not in North America.

525
00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:23,040
Speaker 1: Before we started recording, I mentioned like, do you remember

526
00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:28,560
Speaker 1: the LG smartphone watch that when in debuted And that

527
00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:30,840
Speaker 1: was early too, that might have been two thousand nine

528
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:34,560
Speaker 1: ten something like that. It was early for me because

529
00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:39,360
Speaker 1: I started in two thousand and eight going to these things. Um,

530
00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:41,440
Speaker 1: but I remember that it was one of those where

531
00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:43,640
Speaker 1: you know, you couldn't get your hands on it. They

532
00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:47,120
Speaker 1: had representatives from the booth who were allowed to wear

533
00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:50,480
Speaker 1: it on their wrists, and then you would unless you

534
00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:52,880
Speaker 1: were with someone like seen Net, where you know they

535
00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:54,560
Speaker 1: would want it to get in front of the cameras

536
00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:56,360
Speaker 1: and stuff, you really couldn't get your hands on it.

537
00:28:57,080 --> 00:29:00,160
Speaker 1: It's a little different for people who are able to

538
00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:04,600
Speaker 1: to work for such a well recognized outlet, that that

539
00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:08,840
Speaker 1: some vendors are coming to you guys as as opposed

540
00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:11,480
Speaker 1: to not you, as you are the one who have

541
00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:12,920
Speaker 1: to go with us to go out to them, but

542
00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:15,280
Speaker 1: me in this particular instance, I'm going out to them.

543
00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:17,320
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's it's nice being in that kind of

544
00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:19,680
Speaker 1: organization because I was like, I've been part of small

545
00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:22,600
Speaker 1: teams and doing that kind of stuff, and all I

546
00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:25,160
Speaker 1: remember doing is that tech of the year that we

547
00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:26,959
Speaker 1: went to the casino. In the back of the casino,

548
00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:30,120
Speaker 1: I started using the attitude for everything. So if somebody

549
00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:32,200
Speaker 1: was saying, I can't take off the glass off of

550
00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:34,520
Speaker 1: this thing, I said, yes you can, We're here, we're

551
00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:36,080
Speaker 1: gonna do this, and they would do it and I'm like,

552
00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:37,880
Speaker 1: oh my god, this is working. I can't believe they're

553
00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:40,080
Speaker 1: buying this. It's what they're worth. So we're getting all

554
00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:41,800
Speaker 1: this footage of all this stuff that we weren't supposed

555
00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:44,480
Speaker 1: to be touching. Nobody seemed to care about my Thursday

556
00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:46,640
Speaker 1: and they they're like, Okay, that's true. Who are exhausted.

557
00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:48,080
Speaker 1: We don't want to be here. We want to tear

558
00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:51,000
Speaker 1: down you want you want us to take the glass off? Yeah, okay,

559
00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:53,920
Speaker 1: that's true. It really is true. If you most of

560
00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:56,960
Speaker 1: the action happens the first two days the show floor

561
00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:59,080
Speaker 1: is open. By the time you get to the end

562
00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:02,080
Speaker 1: of the show floor, show Flora hours like I'm the

563
00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:06,400
Speaker 1: last day. People are really kind of lackadaisical when it

564
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:09,560
Speaker 1: comes to the policies they've been following up to that

565
00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:12,680
Speaker 1: point because they've been worn down over time. Except Razor,

566
00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:15,800
Speaker 1: they are really tenacious. Really, they don't like people mess

567
00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:19,000
Speaker 1: with anything odd. Because they gave me hands on demo

568
00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:23,720
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, I should I'll change my

569
00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:28,280
Speaker 1: attitude to Jonathan's attitude, which is pleasant and southern. Yeah,

570
00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:31,280
Speaker 1: well shucks, I just brought you all some This gets Gravey.

571
00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:33,200
Speaker 1: If you let me get my hands on that tip.

572
00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:36,120
Speaker 1: It's always very useful to make friends with pr people

573
00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:39,120
Speaker 1: who also have like the same pets as you, or

574
00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:41,440
Speaker 1: like they get their nails done and I'm like, I

575
00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:44,360
Speaker 1: love your nails. Where did you get your your nails done? Right? Right,

576
00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:47,360
Speaker 1: I'll show them pictures of my cats. They'll be like, oh,

577
00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:50,920
Speaker 1: I have cats to Oh my god. That's great. You

578
00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:53,040
Speaker 1: just make a connection, like talk to them about some

579
00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:55,920
Speaker 1: kind of similarity that you guys have and so do

580
00:30:55,960 --> 00:31:01,000
Speaker 1: you take it from Shannon, find some superficial connected tissues

581
00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:04,720
Speaker 1: so you can leverage it. You seem to like technology.

582
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:08,800
Speaker 1: I like technology to crazy world. You're a little easier

583
00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:12,479
Speaker 1: for girls breathing. It's awesome, right, it really does. It's

584
00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:14,600
Speaker 1: a real problem when you don't can't do that, you know, Yeah,

585
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:18,920
Speaker 1: it's it's you know a starth Vader. Well you can't

586
00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:24,160
Speaker 1: spoiler alert he's dead. Um, yeah, so it's it's uh,

587
00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:25,960
Speaker 1: it's great that I get a chance to catch up

588
00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:29,520
Speaker 1: with you guys. It's fantastic. We're Tomorrow is the day,

589
00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:33,160
Speaker 1: the first day where the show floor is open. Is

590
00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:36,400
Speaker 1: there anything you're particularly looking forward to or anything you

591
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:39,320
Speaker 1: are trying to seek out this year? Do you have

592
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:42,640
Speaker 1: a game plan, Shannon? Are you just gonna go in

593
00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:47,600
Speaker 1: and just absorb or yeah, just like I'm looking at

594
00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:49,600
Speaker 1: it every then. Well, this year is nice because I

595
00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:53,320
Speaker 1: don't have to record forty seven episodes about all these

596
00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:56,320
Speaker 1: weird things that I find. I'm just doing one episode

597
00:31:56,320 --> 00:31:59,160
Speaker 1: for tech thing and then that's it, so I just

598
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:01,120
Speaker 1: get to talk about my favorite things. So this year,

599
00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:03,840
Speaker 1: I'm just planning to hit the Central in South Hall

600
00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:06,680
Speaker 1: and hopefully North as well, while my co host hits

601
00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:10,400
Speaker 1: up the Sands and we're going to find our favorite items.

602
00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:14,360
Speaker 1: I'm mostly interested in the four case Dreaming, which a

603
00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:16,280
Speaker 1: lot of people have been saying is a thing this

604
00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:19,960
Speaker 1: year which I'm I'm a little quizzical about. I want

605
00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:24,000
Speaker 1: to see how it works encoding, Yeah, yeah, exactly now

606
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:26,400
Speaker 1: that I'm editing, I want to understand the back end

607
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:28,760
Speaker 1: of it. I want to get geeky. And I'm also

608
00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:33,560
Speaker 1: really interested in more VR virtual reality, augmented reality and

609
00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:36,120
Speaker 1: things like that nature because it's gotten so much better

610
00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:38,960
Speaker 1: and it doesn't make you sick. Now, my coworker has

611
00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:41,360
Speaker 1: a Samsung Gear I think it's called the Gear VR.

612
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:45,560
Speaker 1: It works flawlessly. The thing is so smooth, and I

613
00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:48,160
Speaker 1: would love to see some more companies working with that.

614
00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:52,920
Speaker 1: UM non proprietary Internet of things would be nice. Yeah,

615
00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:55,320
Speaker 1: where you can actually have Internet of things talking to

616
00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:57,600
Speaker 1: other Internet of things that were made by somebody else

617
00:32:57,800 --> 00:33:01,000
Speaker 1: exactly like I. I believe something is happening along that

618
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:05,440
Speaker 1: line over in one of the car sections. I believe

619
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:07,560
Speaker 1: one of the car manufacturers is going to be working

620
00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:12,560
Speaker 1: with a online online store who sells I don't know,

621
00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:15,280
Speaker 1: this thing called the Amazon Echo. You're talking about Ford

622
00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:18,280
Speaker 1: in Amazon. Yeah, Ford in Amazon. We all thought it

623
00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:20,480
Speaker 1: was gonna be Ford in Google, and it turned out

624
00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:22,520
Speaker 1: to be Ford in Amazon. And they're going to actually

625
00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:25,120
Speaker 1: license that technology to other car companies because they're licensing

626
00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:29,760
Speaker 1: into Toyota's. Yeah, so you'll be able to uh to

627
00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:33,160
Speaker 1: talk to your echo in your car, which is a

628
00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:36,920
Speaker 1: great idea. I mean, Internet of things, non proprietary, make

629
00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:38,880
Speaker 1: all your things work together so you can still buy

630
00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:42,959
Speaker 1: the best product and to be summoned into this one brand.

631
00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:45,120
Speaker 1: There's so many times where I've been stuck in traffic

632
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:47,600
Speaker 1: and thought, I wish I could buy paper towels right now.

633
00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:52,560
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's interesting that you that you mentioned

634
00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:55,160
Speaker 1: that I remember seeing one thing before coming out the

635
00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:57,280
Speaker 1: c e S and I'd have to do research to

636
00:33:57,280 --> 00:33:59,240
Speaker 1: actually look up the name of the deal, but I

637
00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:02,480
Speaker 1: remember seeing was an app. And the app is designed

638
00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:06,480
Speaker 1: to talk to different Internet connected products in your home,

639
00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:09,640
Speaker 1: so it becomes kind of a central hub, which is

640
00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:12,839
Speaker 1: an inelegant solution, right. We would all love to see

641
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:17,440
Speaker 1: a standardized protocol that all of these things worked across,

642
00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:21,680
Speaker 1: so that we didn't have to either all buy into

643
00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:25,520
Speaker 1: one ecosystem or have eight different systems to manage to

644
00:34:25,560 --> 00:34:27,760
Speaker 1: deal with all the stuff in our house. The Internet

645
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:30,319
Speaker 1: of Things is this amazing view of the future, but

646
00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:33,879
Speaker 1: only if everything works without it getting in your way.

647
00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:36,480
Speaker 1: And so the app I saw was one where you

648
00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:40,399
Speaker 1: could do things like control your nest thermostat and your

649
00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:43,320
Speaker 1: hue light bulbs and all that kind of stuff, although

650
00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:46,279
Speaker 1: I don't know if specifically those brands were represented, but

651
00:34:46,520 --> 00:34:50,160
Speaker 1: that was the idea, and I'm thinking like, well, that's

652
00:34:50,200 --> 00:34:53,560
Speaker 1: that's a good temporary solution, but I don't want to

653
00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:57,719
Speaker 1: see that trend continue where you get this this you know,

654
00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:02,360
Speaker 1: splintered uh marketplace, and then you have to find a

655
00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:05,200
Speaker 1: solution like that in order to make everything work together.

656
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:09,480
Speaker 1: Because I can't. Can you imagine living in a house

657
00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:12,000
Speaker 1: where you're like, howney, can you turn the lights? I'm

658
00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:15,080
Speaker 1: looking for the app. It's one of these, it said,

659
00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:19,239
Speaker 1: this folder, this smart tech. As you do, you have

660
00:35:19,239 --> 00:35:21,560
Speaker 1: anything that you're specifically looking forward to. And I was

661
00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:23,880
Speaker 1: thinking about all this smart home stuff. You guys, that

662
00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:26,319
Speaker 1: stuff you're talking about, the Internet things, stuff actually talking

663
00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:28,360
Speaker 1: to each other, and how hubbs we're supposed to be

664
00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:31,200
Speaker 1: some kind of middle ground solution. So then Samsung goes

665
00:35:31,239 --> 00:35:32,839
Speaker 1: out and buy is one of the hubmakers, which made

666
00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:35,520
Speaker 1: it even more weird. And Samsung's got like not a

667
00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:38,800
Speaker 1: mini few with Google said those things don't necessarily work together.

668
00:35:39,160 --> 00:35:41,960
Speaker 1: And then Apple's got Home Kit. So I mean, I

669
00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:43,759
Speaker 1: have a house that's got a bunch of different little things,

670
00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:45,759
Speaker 1: and I do have to find apps. What's weird is

671
00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:49,240
Speaker 1: that the real solution is something like like Echo or Alexa.

672
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:53,279
Speaker 1: These kinds of assistance, let it figure out which app

673
00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:56,399
Speaker 1: is supposed to work with. That to me is way

674
00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:57,920
Speaker 1: more interesting than a lot of the stuff I've been

675
00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:02,080
Speaker 1: originally looking at the fact that Amazon is working with

676
00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:05,240
Speaker 1: Samsung with their fridge. You can have Alexa in the refridge.

677
00:36:05,239 --> 00:36:09,920
Speaker 1: You've heard about their fridge. Does she beg to get out?

678
00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:13,759
Speaker 1: This fridge is a five thousand It's it's called the

679
00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:16,120
Speaker 1: Family Hub. It's five thousand dollars. It's got a twenty

680
00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:19,560
Speaker 1: one in Android touchscreen on it. Uh and it also

681
00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:22,320
Speaker 1: has Amazon Alexa intrigation, so you can ask it things

682
00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:25,239
Speaker 1: like play music or whatever you want. Right, So it's

683
00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:27,560
Speaker 1: kind of a weird concept. So Samsung's working with Famisa

684
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:29,920
Speaker 1: are going like use our s voice thing, which is

685
00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:31,839
Speaker 1: kind of interesting. The fact that if you had your

686
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:34,040
Speaker 1: Ford you drive in, you can have it talked to

687
00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:36,560
Speaker 1: your fridge. That imagine somehow us the Alexa stuff can

688
00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:41,080
Speaker 1: talk to each other. Dude, get ready, this guy bought

689
00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:48,120
Speaker 1: a lot of groceries. Fridge just swings open. Welcome home boys.

690
00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:51,720
Speaker 1: The Ford Amazon connection to me is also fascinating because

691
00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:54,680
Speaker 1: between the car and the smart home there wasn't really

692
00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:56,920
Speaker 1: a good connection. It was almost like this it's its

693
00:36:56,920 --> 00:37:00,000
Speaker 1: own island. It was this thing and it's almost like

694
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:02,520
Speaker 1: you talking in and you're like hopefully stuff with syncop

695
00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:05,040
Speaker 1: and maybe be all right, but no, this actual connection

696
00:37:05,040 --> 00:37:07,960
Speaker 1: between the device and we're like to open the garage

697
00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:11,319
Speaker 1: like that's cool. ELEC Toronto lights or start the car

698
00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:13,600
Speaker 1: when you're inside when it's called out, Like all this

699
00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:17,479
Speaker 1: stuff is like that would be great, well work most

700
00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:20,560
Speaker 1: of the time, secure hopefully. Yeah, that's a big question

701
00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:23,520
Speaker 1: right there. That's an excellent question. It's one of those

702
00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:26,640
Speaker 1: that we uh that we are becoming increasingly aware of,

703
00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:32,120
Speaker 1: especially in the wake of demonstrations such as the terrible

704
00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:37,480
Speaker 1: demonstrations that befell jeep. Oh yeah, that's funny. Yeah, that's

705
00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:42,399
Speaker 1: funny if you don't own a jeep. But yeah, it's

706
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:46,160
Speaker 1: it's it's a it's a different it's a different approach

707
00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:49,759
Speaker 1: to technology. It's a different world, one that has new

708
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:53,840
Speaker 1: concerns that come up. But the potential is really cool

709
00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:58,120
Speaker 1: to to the case of rerigerator literally so to allow

710
00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:02,560
Speaker 1: you to have this kind of interactive and um added

711
00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:06,040
Speaker 1: functionality that you know normally would just be a simple appliance,

712
00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:09,000
Speaker 1: and like even even stuff that is now telling you

713
00:38:09,040 --> 00:38:13,560
Speaker 1: how much energy it uses, giving you that feedback immediately,

714
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:16,799
Speaker 1: so that you can adjust your lifestyle if possible. I mean,

715
00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:19,160
Speaker 1: sometimes you don't have that flexibility, but if you can,

716
00:38:19,719 --> 00:38:23,200
Speaker 1: then you can end up conserving energy and thus saving money,

717
00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:27,279
Speaker 1: Like especially in markets like California and Hawaii. That's a

718
00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:29,919
Speaker 1: big deal. I mean, your your surge pricing can be

719
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:33,960
Speaker 1: pretty expensive at peak times, so that's you know, we're

720
00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:37,919
Speaker 1: seeing more of that. It's really a lot of it's

721
00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:40,880
Speaker 1: all about data still. It's all about either giving data

722
00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:43,480
Speaker 1: back to the user so that you're getting an ability

723
00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:46,839
Speaker 1: to quantify stuff that you couldn't before, or it's about

724
00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:49,920
Speaker 1: data interacting between devices so that you have this kind

725
00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:54,840
Speaker 1: of seamless magical experience as you go through your your home.

726
00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:58,200
Speaker 1: You know, whether it's music following you around through the house,

727
00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:00,799
Speaker 1: or your lights turning off when you leave the room,

728
00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:05,680
Speaker 1: whatever it may be. And uh, I love the direction

729
00:39:05,719 --> 00:39:11,120
Speaker 1: it's going in. It's still very splintered. And uh it

730
00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:13,280
Speaker 1: may turn out that the way we get a standard

731
00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:15,840
Speaker 1: is just that someone makes a system that works so

732
00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:18,360
Speaker 1: much better than everyone else's that it becomes the de

733
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:22,120
Speaker 1: facto standard. That's a possibility. It's not something that people

734
00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:28,640
Speaker 1: willingly enter into. It just happens by by competition. Uh. Sorry.

735
00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:30,800
Speaker 1: There's also lots of issues when it comes to education,

736
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:33,080
Speaker 1: because sure remember there's there are a lot of standards

737
00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:35,640
Speaker 1: to get audio and video to different components in the house,

738
00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:37,600
Speaker 1: and it's open to d l n A. You can

739
00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:40,600
Speaker 1: have d l n A and nobody really educated anybody

740
00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:43,080
Speaker 1: about that. Apple is airplay. People like, oh, I get this,

741
00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:44,920
Speaker 1: and it totally works. It just works. It's like a

742
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:48,600
Speaker 1: variance of the same technology. So the fact when smart

743
00:39:48,640 --> 00:39:51,520
Speaker 1: devices started coming out, right, Internet things devices, and there

744
00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:54,440
Speaker 1: was these giant consortiums, and you'd see all of these

745
00:39:54,520 --> 00:39:56,399
Speaker 1: names and you'd see and you're like, great, but they're

746
00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:59,719
Speaker 1: missing the Google one and the Apple one. As long

747
00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:02,399
Speaker 1: as that keeps going on, we're always gonna have three apps. Yeah,

748
00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:05,359
Speaker 1: which is I think at a minimum right now. That's

749
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:07,839
Speaker 1: that's a fair point. I tell you. The one thing

750
00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:10,960
Speaker 1: that I'm really looking forward to seeing because I still

751
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:13,920
Speaker 1: don't know if it's really real or not, is the

752
00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:18,480
Speaker 1: Faraday electric car because it it seems like people are

753
00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:20,920
Speaker 1: still kind of referring to it as vaporware because the

754
00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:25,080
Speaker 1: concept that's out there is purely like this is like

755
00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:28,840
Speaker 1: a prototype concept type vehicle. The company appears to have

756
00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:33,239
Speaker 1: emerged from nowhere. So it's one of those things like

757
00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:39,239
Speaker 1: a company forms and makes a car, like that's I

758
00:40:39,239 --> 00:40:40,839
Speaker 1: alwaysn't believing the guy who was showing me a nice

759
00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:43,960
Speaker 1: momote control, like, yeah, that's na that that'll come out

760
00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:47,000
Speaker 1: here to be You have a car? How did you

761
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:49,200
Speaker 1: have time to build a car? Yeah? Where did you

762
00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:52,160
Speaker 1: get the manufacturing the facilities from these things? You realized

763
00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:54,359
Speaker 1: that that giant competition thing is there and they might

764
00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:57,320
Speaker 1: crush you over time, right, Yeah? Yeah, There's also supposed

765
00:40:57,320 --> 00:41:00,080
Speaker 1: to be a car. I can't remember who makes it,

766
00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:03,560
Speaker 1: but there's also a car that has a drone landing

767
00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:06,520
Speaker 1: pad on it that's gonna be So that's why I

768
00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:08,080
Speaker 1: want to hit the North Hall because there's going to

769
00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:10,719
Speaker 1: be a car with a drone landing pad and I

770
00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:13,759
Speaker 1: need to see this thing. What is it for for

771
00:41:13,880 --> 00:41:16,319
Speaker 1: drones to land on? I asked, what do you think it's?

772
00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:22,640
Speaker 1: So it's in the name. You're saying, Alexa, it's not

773
00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:25,880
Speaker 1: a predator. I need I need those paper towels. Amazon

774
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:28,400
Speaker 1: is dropping it off on your car that has the

775
00:41:28,520 --> 00:41:31,440
Speaker 1: landing pad. Look, all I can tell you is that

776
00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:34,960
Speaker 1: in the future and this will become a pivotal plot

777
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:39,600
Speaker 1: point in a Fast and Furious movie heliports. Why not

778
00:41:40,520 --> 00:41:44,120
Speaker 1: a car? Yeah? This is how awesome? Can I make

779
00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:46,279
Speaker 1: it work with my moon roof? So it just like

780
00:41:46,360 --> 00:41:48,560
Speaker 1: opens up and it just drops off the stuff in

781
00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:51,080
Speaker 1: my past feeling that's going to mess up your hair,

782
00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:54,200
Speaker 1: Doe Shannon, It's it's kind of like a car hop.

783
00:41:55,320 --> 00:41:58,160
Speaker 1: I want car hop. Is is a drone coming by? Yeah,

784
00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:02,040
Speaker 1: it's just knowing that there is a car with a

785
00:42:02,120 --> 00:42:04,440
Speaker 1: drone landing pad on it, and Ces tells me I

786
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:06,360
Speaker 1: need to see it, if for no reason then just

787
00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:11,760
Speaker 1: to witness it. But yeah, so there's there's always stuff

788
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:15,960
Speaker 1: that will surprise you at c E s as well, like, uh,

789
00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:18,640
Speaker 1: often that it'll be things that I find out about

790
00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:22,040
Speaker 1: after I return home and someone else with a lot

791
00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:27,680
Speaker 1: more manpower. Yeah, not at all. Yeah, you've got two

792
00:42:27,680 --> 00:42:31,839
Speaker 1: point two million square feet of exhibit exhibit spaces. Even

793
00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:35,279
Speaker 1: if you are diligently walking through all the halls, you're

794
00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:37,839
Speaker 1: not gonna see everything, just because eventually you're gonna get

795
00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:40,839
Speaker 1: that thousand yards stare where you're not really like your

796
00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:43,000
Speaker 1: eyes are looking at things, but you're not taking in

797
00:42:43,040 --> 00:42:47,160
Speaker 1: any information that does happen. So um, yeah, I'm sure

798
00:42:47,160 --> 00:42:50,560
Speaker 1: there will be things that we miss, like, uh, I

799
00:42:50,600 --> 00:42:53,120
Speaker 1: love the quirky stuff that you occasionally come across, Like

800
00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:57,880
Speaker 1: I'll always remember the haptic fork that would vibrate if

801
00:42:57,880 --> 00:42:59,799
Speaker 1: you ate too quickly so that the food would fall

802
00:42:59,840 --> 00:43:02,760
Speaker 1: off your fork. Remember the Intel charge bowl, this wireless

803
00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:04,759
Speaker 1: charging bowls a couple of years ago, and you would

804
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:07,240
Speaker 1: just dump your phone in there. I'm sitting there, and

805
00:43:07,680 --> 00:43:10,759
Speaker 1: it did along with your milk in your cereal, could

806
00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:14,279
Speaker 1: charge your have to crunch. It didn't Gonza traffic. It

807
00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:17,759
Speaker 1: was insane. Everyone's fascinated with a wireless charging bowl. It's

808
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:20,560
Speaker 1: like even asked about them, like is it coming back?

809
00:43:21,560 --> 00:43:24,600
Speaker 1: We don't know if we can tell you anything. So

810
00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:28,200
Speaker 1: there wasn't even a tag for your luggage that it

811
00:43:28,239 --> 00:43:30,239
Speaker 1: wasn't even like not a tag tag. It was an

812
00:43:30,239 --> 00:43:32,880
Speaker 1: electronic tag which you would put inside your luggage that

813
00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:35,040
Speaker 1: would allow you to keep track of where your luggage

814
00:43:35,120 --> 00:43:37,719
Speaker 1: was in case you traveled and it didn't arrive in

815
00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:40,279
Speaker 1: the airport that you went to. And I remember people

816
00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:42,480
Speaker 1: were getting really excited by that. I'm thinking, this is

817
00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:46,759
Speaker 1: possibly one of the simplest implementations of technology I've seen

818
00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:50,960
Speaker 1: in a really long time. Was Yeah, they ended up

819
00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:53,160
Speaker 1: selling that on Amazon. I think I just sent my

820
00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:56,080
Speaker 1: friend that link. Yeah, that thing. Yeah, I forget the

821
00:43:56,120 --> 00:43:57,680
Speaker 1: name of it. When I remember seeing about a couple

822
00:43:57,680 --> 00:44:00,640
Speaker 1: of years ago, I think I ran into Molly would

823
00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:02,399
Speaker 1: while I was looking at it, and we were both

824
00:44:02,440 --> 00:44:04,279
Speaker 1: kind of surprised at how much attention was a game.

825
00:44:04,480 --> 00:44:07,360
Speaker 1: That's the other thing is he could never predict which

826
00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:10,239
Speaker 1: odd thing is just gonna get people's attention. If you've

827
00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:14,000
Speaker 1: ever wondered why the press gravitates toward these weird, quirky things,

828
00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:19,080
Speaker 1: it's because we've seen countless televisions and it only gets

829
00:44:19,080 --> 00:44:21,520
Speaker 1: so thin. Yeah, and it's also hard to convey that information,

830
00:44:21,560 --> 00:44:24,960
Speaker 1: like two point seven millimeters. So unless unless your focus

831
00:44:25,200 --> 00:44:28,520
Speaker 1: is home theater, or your focus is headphones or cell

832
00:44:28,560 --> 00:44:31,440
Speaker 1: phones or whatever. So like Android Central, they'll probably have

833
00:44:31,480 --> 00:44:33,479
Speaker 1: a focus. So that's what they're going to talk about.

834
00:44:33,520 --> 00:44:37,280
Speaker 1: But for us, we we talk about everything. Yeah, so

835
00:44:37,480 --> 00:44:39,719
Speaker 1: it's very hard to look at those things over and

836
00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:43,600
Speaker 1: over again. I think, Okay, well, what's exciting about this? Yeah,

837
00:44:43,600 --> 00:44:47,680
Speaker 1: so you increase the ram congratulate exactly. It does the

838
00:44:47,680 --> 00:44:51,440
Speaker 1: things that did before more better now. So yeah, that's

839
00:44:51,560 --> 00:44:55,640
Speaker 1: essentially the gist of many many people think, yeah, yeah,

840
00:44:55,920 --> 00:45:00,279
Speaker 1: pretty much. So at any rate, as Shannon, uh, thank

841
00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:03,360
Speaker 1: you very much, I'm gonna loosen your bonds so that

842
00:45:03,400 --> 00:45:05,920
Speaker 1: way you'll be free to go after I've kidnapped you

843
00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:10,759
Speaker 1: to force you into this episode of text we Cookies.

844
00:45:11,120 --> 00:45:13,480
Speaker 1: You're kind of get that text tag before you leave.

845
00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:15,840
Speaker 1: Trust me, it's gonna hurt a little bit because I

846
00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:18,200
Speaker 1: actually physically attach it to the top of your ear,

847
00:45:18,640 --> 00:45:22,160
Speaker 1: all right, kind of like you know, catch and release. Um.

848
00:45:22,200 --> 00:45:27,080
Speaker 1: Thanks so much, and I'll probably continue this podcast after

849
00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:29,640
Speaker 1: I get a chance to actually see the show flours,

850
00:45:29,680 --> 00:45:37,760
Speaker 1: So more to follow. Okay, I'm recording this last section

851
00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:41,279
Speaker 1: back at the Atlanta office, so that would explain why

852
00:45:41,320 --> 00:45:44,800
Speaker 1: it sounds like this as opposed to the previous recordings. Uh.

853
00:45:44,840 --> 00:45:50,399
Speaker 1: I have already returned from CS. Clearly, I wanted to

854
00:45:50,440 --> 00:45:53,040
Speaker 1: record more in my hotel room while I was there,

855
00:45:53,080 --> 00:45:56,799
Speaker 1: but honestly, I was just so tired at the end

856
00:45:56,840 --> 00:45:59,840
Speaker 1: of the show days and my voice was so fry

857
00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:03,319
Speaker 1: that I wasn't really able to record anything useful while

858
00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:06,160
Speaker 1: I was still out in Vegas. But I thought i'd

859
00:46:06,200 --> 00:46:08,480
Speaker 1: talk about some of the things we looked at on

860
00:46:08,520 --> 00:46:12,879
Speaker 1: the show floor before signing off. So first, the show

861
00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:16,879
Speaker 1: is just too large to see everything. It's impossible. Even

862
00:46:16,920 --> 00:46:20,960
Speaker 1: if you just glanced at each booth and never stopped,

863
00:46:21,120 --> 00:46:24,279
Speaker 1: you'd still miss some stuff because there's just too many

864
00:46:24,280 --> 00:46:26,920
Speaker 1: exhibit areas. I mean there's three days of show days

865
00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:30,080
Speaker 1: like when the show floor is open, but the show

866
00:46:30,120 --> 00:46:33,960
Speaker 1: floor is you know, two point two million square feet

867
00:46:34,239 --> 00:46:37,560
Speaker 1: and that also includes offsite hotels that are not part

868
00:46:37,640 --> 00:46:41,359
Speaker 1: of the Sands or the Las Vegas Convention Center, and

869
00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:45,440
Speaker 1: just getting from place to place, even without maneuvering your

870
00:46:45,480 --> 00:46:48,439
Speaker 1: way through, takes up a lot of time. And there's

871
00:46:48,480 --> 00:46:51,360
Speaker 1: just too many booths. So we went into c S

872
00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:54,400
Speaker 1: with kind of a general game plan, and we stuck

873
00:46:54,440 --> 00:46:56,920
Speaker 1: to it about as closely as we could, with a

874
00:46:56,960 --> 00:46:59,840
Speaker 1: couple of exceptions. We weren't able to see any vr

875
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:02,360
Speaker 1: A R stuff, and we weren't really able to explore

876
00:47:02,400 --> 00:47:05,480
Speaker 1: the drones stuff because we ran out of time while

877
00:47:05,520 --> 00:47:10,840
Speaker 1: we were exploring. But on Wednesday, January six, we focused

878
00:47:10,840 --> 00:47:14,759
Speaker 1: on the Las Vegas Convention Center. Um So, the LVCC

879
00:47:15,040 --> 00:47:19,440
Speaker 1: has three main halls. There's a North Hall, a Central Hall,

880
00:47:19,560 --> 00:47:21,719
Speaker 1: and the South Hall, and the South Hall actually has

881
00:47:21,840 --> 00:47:26,640
Speaker 1: two floors, which makes it particularly huge. We started in

882
00:47:26,680 --> 00:47:31,400
Speaker 1: the North Hall that's generally filled with auto technology and

883
00:47:31,520 --> 00:47:34,439
Speaker 1: car sound systems that kind of stuff. Some other things

884
00:47:34,440 --> 00:47:37,200
Speaker 1: are there too, but it's mostly car tech, So we

885
00:47:37,280 --> 00:47:42,399
Speaker 1: concentrated on four booths while we were there, Toyota, Ford, Volkswagen,

886
00:47:42,520 --> 00:47:45,400
Speaker 1: and Faraday Future. There were others as well, but we

887
00:47:45,440 --> 00:47:48,560
Speaker 1: had to be really careful with our time. So first

888
00:47:48,560 --> 00:47:51,319
Speaker 1: we started with Toyota, and They're big focus was on

889
00:47:51,440 --> 00:47:55,800
Speaker 1: artificial intelligence and the connected car concept. The company is

890
00:47:55,840 --> 00:47:58,160
Speaker 1: really stressing that their research is all about making the

891
00:47:58,200 --> 00:48:01,560
Speaker 1: experience of driving a car, say for with systems in

892
00:48:01,600 --> 00:48:04,120
Speaker 1: place that can take over should a driver be put

893
00:48:04,160 --> 00:48:08,440
Speaker 1: in danger. So even an excellent driver may encounter dangerous

894
00:48:08,520 --> 00:48:11,480
Speaker 1: situations that he or she can't react to in time,

895
00:48:11,880 --> 00:48:15,080
Speaker 1: and that's where these driver assist systems can kick in,

896
00:48:15,239 --> 00:48:18,799
Speaker 1: potentially saving a life. These same technologies may one day

897
00:48:18,840 --> 00:48:22,960
Speaker 1: lead to fully autonomous vehicles, but Toyota experts stress that

898
00:48:23,160 --> 00:48:26,560
Speaker 1: current autonomous car technology is pretty limited. It's it's great

899
00:48:26,640 --> 00:48:31,640
Speaker 1: for mundane driving situations like moving through a regular city grid.

900
00:48:32,520 --> 00:48:34,840
Speaker 1: It's great for that, but they don't deal with the

901
00:48:34,920 --> 00:48:39,160
Speaker 1: unexpected very well. So Toyota is spending a billion dollars

902
00:48:39,160 --> 00:48:41,359
Speaker 1: in research money over the next five years to help

903
00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:44,080
Speaker 1: push the development of AI, with the goal of finding

904
00:48:44,080 --> 00:48:48,919
Speaker 1: ways to make AI better at reacting to new unprecedented situations,

905
00:48:49,640 --> 00:48:51,680
Speaker 1: or to put it in another way. Computers are really

906
00:48:51,719 --> 00:48:54,800
Speaker 1: good at following instructions. So if you think of a scenario,

907
00:48:55,280 --> 00:48:58,880
Speaker 1: you can program that scenario into an autonomous cars logic

908
00:48:58,920 --> 00:49:04,160
Speaker 1: system saying when X happens, then do why, and the

909
00:49:04,200 --> 00:49:06,160
Speaker 1: car will most likely react the way you want it

910
00:49:06,200 --> 00:49:11,440
Speaker 1: to in those situations. But it's impossible to anticipate everything

911
00:49:11,880 --> 00:49:15,319
Speaker 1: and program everything into your car's logic system. And if

912
00:49:15,360 --> 00:49:18,000
Speaker 1: you have enough cars on the road for a long

913
00:49:18,120 --> 00:49:22,520
Speaker 1: enough amount of time, something that you did not anticipate

914
00:49:22,760 --> 00:49:26,920
Speaker 1: will happen at some point. That's when AI needs to

915
00:49:26,920 --> 00:49:30,399
Speaker 1: react more like a person would, where you would think

916
00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:33,640
Speaker 1: back on past experience and extrapolate what you should do

917
00:49:34,080 --> 00:49:38,640
Speaker 1: based upon the particular parameters of that moment uh and

918
00:49:38,680 --> 00:49:41,680
Speaker 1: also to do it while minimizing risk to yourself and

919
00:49:41,719 --> 00:49:46,720
Speaker 1: to others. And that's that's a very difficult AI problem,

920
00:49:46,800 --> 00:49:48,920
Speaker 1: and that's what a lot of that research money is

921
00:49:48,960 --> 00:49:51,839
Speaker 1: going towards to try and solve. How do you make

922
00:49:52,520 --> 00:49:58,840
Speaker 1: AI able to not just anticipate, but react to dynamic

923
00:49:58,880 --> 00:50:02,720
Speaker 1: situations that it had not been specifically programmed to handle.

924
00:50:03,640 --> 00:50:05,200
Speaker 1: And we don't have an answer for that yet. That's

925
00:50:05,239 --> 00:50:08,880
Speaker 1: exactly what the AI research centers that Toyota is backing

926
00:50:08,960 --> 00:50:12,799
Speaker 1: is gonna That's what they're gonna look into. Meanwhile, over

927
00:50:12,880 --> 00:50:17,719
Speaker 1: at Ford, we learned about Ford's partnership with Amazon. Now,

928
00:50:17,760 --> 00:50:20,440
Speaker 1: originally the rumor was that Ford was going to announce

929
00:50:20,480 --> 00:50:25,480
Speaker 1: a partnership with Google, but Amazon's voice concierge system, Alexa,

930
00:50:25,840 --> 00:50:28,160
Speaker 1: is actually the big news. It's going to be part

931
00:50:28,200 --> 00:50:31,120
Speaker 1: of the Ford's in car systems and it will actually

932
00:50:31,120 --> 00:50:33,520
Speaker 1: allow you to synchronize your car with your smart home,

933
00:50:33,840 --> 00:50:36,280
Speaker 1: allowing the car and home to kind of work together.

934
00:50:36,600 --> 00:50:39,600
Speaker 1: So imagine your garage door is communicating with your car,

935
00:50:39,800 --> 00:50:41,839
Speaker 1: or you could just tell your garage door to go

936
00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:44,200
Speaker 1: up while you're driving your car and it goes up.

937
00:50:44,719 --> 00:50:47,080
Speaker 1: That kind of stuff, or even being able to have

938
00:50:47,160 --> 00:50:50,800
Speaker 1: your car alert your home when you're coming into the

939
00:50:50,880 --> 00:50:54,239
Speaker 1: driveway so that the thermostatic just so that you know

940
00:50:54,280 --> 00:50:56,480
Speaker 1: the house is going to be comfortable shortly after you

941
00:50:56,480 --> 00:50:59,560
Speaker 1: get inside. That kind of stuff, you know, sort of

942
00:50:59,560 --> 00:51:03,920
Speaker 1: this concept of the connected future where everything is more convenient.

943
00:51:03,960 --> 00:51:06,200
Speaker 1: But I could go even further than that. You could

944
00:51:06,239 --> 00:51:10,040
Speaker 1: also while you're in your home, tell Alexa start the car,

945
00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:13,640
Speaker 1: and in your garage or in your driveway, your car

946
00:51:13,680 --> 00:51:17,040
Speaker 1: starts up. And the climate system kicks in so that

947
00:51:17,120 --> 00:51:18,800
Speaker 1: the car is nice and comfy by the time you

948
00:51:18,840 --> 00:51:21,520
Speaker 1: get out there. That could be really useful on a

949
00:51:21,600 --> 00:51:24,600
Speaker 1: very hot summer day or a very cold winter day.

950
00:51:24,760 --> 00:51:27,440
Speaker 1: You could get your car started without having to pop

951
00:51:27,480 --> 00:51:30,680
Speaker 1: outside the house. That's kind of neat. Also, you would

952
00:51:30,719 --> 00:51:32,920
Speaker 1: even be able to use Alexa to maybe get updates

953
00:51:32,960 --> 00:51:36,719
Speaker 1: about your car's status. So if that check engine light

954
00:51:36,760 --> 00:51:39,040
Speaker 1: comes on, you might even be able to ask Alexa, hey,

955
00:51:39,080 --> 00:51:41,600
Speaker 1: what's wrong with the car and get an answer, which

956
00:51:41,640 --> 00:51:44,400
Speaker 1: would be nice before you take it into a mechanic

957
00:51:44,560 --> 00:51:50,520
Speaker 1: right Meanwhile, Volkswagen was showing off its electric concept van

958
00:51:50,719 --> 00:51:56,640
Speaker 1: called Buddy b U D D dash E, or as

959
00:51:56,680 --> 00:52:01,920
Speaker 1: Paul Shore would say, by and probably lost everybody. If

960
00:52:01,960 --> 00:52:04,120
Speaker 1: you know who PAULI Shore is, give me a shout

961
00:52:04,120 --> 00:52:08,560
Speaker 1: out on Twitter tech stuff hsw or at John Strickland.

962
00:52:09,320 --> 00:52:12,239
Speaker 1: I once saw him a beach in Maui. Anyway, back

963
00:52:12,280 --> 00:52:17,240
Speaker 1: to Volkswagen, this concept vehicle design was pretty cool, little

964
00:52:17,360 --> 00:52:20,279
Speaker 1: little funky looking lot of interesting lighting and all this

965
00:52:20,360 --> 00:52:23,439
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. But there's no guarantee we'll ever see

966
00:52:23,480 --> 00:52:26,799
Speaker 1: anything like it actually hit the road. It is, after all,

967
00:52:26,880 --> 00:52:30,440
Speaker 1: just a concept. Um. It's also no surprise that Volkswagen

968
00:52:30,520 --> 00:52:33,439
Speaker 1: showed off electric vehicle technology in the wake of that

969
00:52:33,560 --> 00:52:38,040
Speaker 1: clean diesel scandal that broke in late Now the question

970
00:52:38,120 --> 00:52:41,880
Speaker 1: is will electric cars help repair the damage done to

971
00:52:41,960 --> 00:52:46,200
Speaker 1: Volkswagen's public image. Personally, I'm not sure it was a

972
00:52:46,280 --> 00:52:50,239
Speaker 1: lot of damage done, but at least the company is

973
00:52:50,239 --> 00:52:52,279
Speaker 1: trying to do something now. I will say that I

974
00:52:52,320 --> 00:52:54,799
Speaker 1: thought this particular car design and the features that it

975
00:52:54,840 --> 00:52:57,840
Speaker 1: had were really cool. Had some interesting stuff like you

976
00:52:57,840 --> 00:52:59,919
Speaker 1: could have a you had a platform where you could

977
00:52:59,920 --> 00:53:02,799
Speaker 1: do wireless inductive charging for your electronics. So if your

978
00:53:03,080 --> 00:53:07,080
Speaker 1: phone can accept wireless inductive charging, you just lay it

979
00:53:07,120 --> 00:53:09,279
Speaker 1: down on this platform and it would charge through the car.

980
00:53:09,560 --> 00:53:12,759
Speaker 1: It's not exactly brand new, other vehicles have had this,

981
00:53:12,880 --> 00:53:16,880
Speaker 1: but it was cool to see. It also included a

982
00:53:16,880 --> 00:53:20,759
Speaker 1: connected car concept, so similar to Toyota strategy where you

983
00:53:20,800 --> 00:53:23,920
Speaker 1: want to have your car communicate and and forward strategy

984
00:53:23,960 --> 00:53:26,520
Speaker 1: to where you have your car communicate with the smart

985
00:53:26,600 --> 00:53:29,400
Speaker 1: home and with other vehicles. It's, you know, kind of

986
00:53:29,400 --> 00:53:32,200
Speaker 1: the way the future is going. And speaking of the future,

987
00:53:32,600 --> 00:53:35,560
Speaker 1: there was Faraday Future that was one of my favorite

988
00:53:35,600 --> 00:53:38,640
Speaker 1: booths to stop at on our trip. We went to

989
00:53:38,680 --> 00:53:41,680
Speaker 1: a lot of different booths that c ES, but this

990
00:53:41,719 --> 00:53:44,359
Speaker 1: one in particular was interesting mainly because it was so

991
00:53:44,480 --> 00:53:49,400
Speaker 1: mysterious leading up to the show. Faraday Future is the

992
00:53:49,480 --> 00:53:52,400
Speaker 1: company that's kind of like what would happen if you

993
00:53:52,480 --> 00:53:57,239
Speaker 1: smashed up an Internet start up with an automotive industry company.

994
00:53:57,280 --> 00:54:00,399
Speaker 1: That's what you get with Faraday Future, And no one

995
00:54:00,440 --> 00:54:03,960
Speaker 1: really knew a whole lot of details about the company

996
00:54:04,040 --> 00:54:06,120
Speaker 1: leading up to c S. It was just kind of,

997
00:54:06,800 --> 00:54:11,239
Speaker 1: you know, this this mysterious entity that was supposedly going

998
00:54:11,280 --> 00:54:13,000
Speaker 1: to show off a car, and that car ended up

999
00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:17,200
Speaker 1: being the f F zero one concept race car, and

1000
00:54:17,239 --> 00:54:20,880
Speaker 1: that looks like something that came out of Tron or

1001
00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:25,960
Speaker 1: Minority Report or even Batman. It's a really weird looking

1002
00:54:26,080 --> 00:54:29,600
Speaker 1: race car. But really that was just a design to

1003
00:54:29,640 --> 00:54:33,280
Speaker 1: grab attention. It wasn't that Faraday Future is all about

1004
00:54:33,360 --> 00:54:36,360
Speaker 1: producing race cars. They just they use that as a

1005
00:54:36,360 --> 00:54:38,600
Speaker 1: way of pulling people into the booth to explain what

1006
00:54:38,640 --> 00:54:42,920
Speaker 1: their philosophy was. And the philosophy is that Farody has

1007
00:54:42,960 --> 00:54:47,200
Speaker 1: created a modular design approach to building vehicles. They actually

1008
00:54:47,239 --> 00:54:52,280
Speaker 1: have a modular means of putting batteries together, so instead

1009
00:54:52,280 --> 00:54:54,880
Speaker 1: of like a giant battery think of like a series

1010
00:54:54,920 --> 00:54:58,640
Speaker 1: of batteries, and depending upon what your car needs to do,

1011
00:54:59,560 --> 00:55:03,759
Speaker 1: they can modify the foundation to have the amount of

1012
00:55:03,760 --> 00:55:07,520
Speaker 1: batteries appropriate for your car. So, for example, and suv

1013
00:55:07,680 --> 00:55:09,319
Speaker 1: that's gonna do a lot of off roading where it's

1014
00:55:09,320 --> 00:55:13,240
Speaker 1: gonna need more battery power to generate the power needed

1015
00:55:13,280 --> 00:55:16,840
Speaker 1: to actually do those kind of things, whereas a subcompact

1016
00:55:16,840 --> 00:55:20,759
Speaker 1: car wouldn't need that much battery power. So from the

1017
00:55:20,800 --> 00:55:23,359
Speaker 1: design phase, they could say, well, this, this is how

1018
00:55:23,400 --> 00:55:26,560
Speaker 1: many of our battery units were going to include. They

1019
00:55:26,600 --> 00:55:30,239
Speaker 1: also had a modular drive train approach, so they could

1020
00:55:30,239 --> 00:55:35,000
Speaker 1: have different style drive trains on vehicles, and uh, they

1021
00:55:35,040 --> 00:55:41,319
Speaker 1: could also create autonomous vehicles. They could include autonomous technology

1022
00:55:41,440 --> 00:55:45,480
Speaker 1: sensors and and drive systems in any of their models.

1023
00:55:45,520 --> 00:55:49,240
Speaker 1: So in other words, they've created kind of a base,

1024
00:55:50,400 --> 00:55:53,440
Speaker 1: and that base can serve as the foundation for any

1025
00:55:53,480 --> 00:55:57,200
Speaker 1: type of vehicle, whether it's you know, an suv or

1026
00:55:57,760 --> 00:56:01,319
Speaker 1: a van, or a compact are or a race car,

1027
00:56:01,440 --> 00:56:04,799
Speaker 1: whatever it might be. So it also gives them a

1028
00:56:04,800 --> 00:56:07,920
Speaker 1: lot of speed when they want to speed and development,

1029
00:56:07,960 --> 00:56:10,440
Speaker 1: not not vehicle speed, but the speed to actually go

1030
00:56:10,520 --> 00:56:14,000
Speaker 1: from design to building a vehicle. In fact, the FF

1031
00:56:14,120 --> 00:56:18,600
Speaker 1: zero one went from sketch to built out car in

1032
00:56:18,719 --> 00:56:23,280
Speaker 1: eighteen months, which is incredibly fast in the automotive industry.

1033
00:56:24,320 --> 00:56:26,480
Speaker 1: So that was really exciting to actually see this kind

1034
00:56:26,480 --> 00:56:31,360
Speaker 1: of disruptive technological approach to the auto industry. I'm hopeful

1035
00:56:31,400 --> 00:56:36,000
Speaker 1: that that this will have a big impact. We'll see

1036
00:56:36,280 --> 00:56:39,840
Speaker 1: if Faraday Future actually becomes a player in the space,

1037
00:56:40,880 --> 00:56:44,000
Speaker 1: or it may just be that Faraday Future is going

1038
00:56:44,080 --> 00:56:48,680
Speaker 1: to end up influencing other companies. Either way would be interesting.

1039
00:56:48,760 --> 00:56:51,600
Speaker 1: Of course, I would rather see them be a real player,

1040
00:56:51,840 --> 00:56:54,960
Speaker 1: just to kind of add another layer of competition in

1041
00:56:55,640 --> 00:56:59,440
Speaker 1: and uh an innovation. It would be really exciting. At

1042
00:56:59,440 --> 00:57:03,040
Speaker 1: that point, we then moved over to the Central Hall

1043
00:57:03,080 --> 00:57:06,799
Speaker 1: of the convention center, still on Wednesday, January six right now,

1044
00:57:07,680 --> 00:57:10,239
Speaker 1: when we went to the central Hall, that's where a

1045
00:57:10,320 --> 00:57:14,360
Speaker 1: lot of your big electronics companies happen to be. Things

1046
00:57:14,400 --> 00:57:18,400
Speaker 1: like Sony, Panasonic, Intel, and a lot of other big

1047
00:57:18,400 --> 00:57:22,400
Speaker 1: companies are there too. So first we went to Sony

1048
00:57:22,600 --> 00:57:26,560
Speaker 1: and looked at their high dynamic range television's hd R

1049
00:57:26,640 --> 00:57:29,560
Speaker 1: t v s. Actually do a video where I explain

1050
00:57:29,680 --> 00:57:33,840
Speaker 1: what HDR is and why it's important and why even

1051
00:57:33,840 --> 00:57:35,920
Speaker 1: if you have an hdr TV right now, you may

1052
00:57:35,960 --> 00:57:38,280
Speaker 1: not have a whole lot to watch on it, So

1053
00:57:38,400 --> 00:57:40,160
Speaker 1: keep an eye out for that video that's gonna come

1054
00:57:40,200 --> 00:57:42,440
Speaker 1: out on now dot house, stuff works dot com in

1055
00:57:42,480 --> 00:57:46,200
Speaker 1: the near future. We also looked at a fridge from

1056
00:57:46,240 --> 00:57:51,440
Speaker 1: Samsung that has a manufactured suggested retail price of around

1057
00:57:51,480 --> 00:57:55,480
Speaker 1: five thousand dollars. It's smart fridge in the sense that

1058
00:57:55,560 --> 00:57:59,000
Speaker 1: it's connected. It's got lots of different interesting features. It

1059
00:57:59,040 --> 00:58:01,160
Speaker 1: has cameras on the inside, so you can get a

1060
00:58:01,200 --> 00:58:03,720
Speaker 1: quick look at the inside of your fridge even if

1061
00:58:03,760 --> 00:58:05,680
Speaker 1: you're not home, which could come in handy if you're

1062
00:58:05,680 --> 00:58:07,760
Speaker 1: at the grocery store and you're thinking, gosh, do we

1063
00:58:07,760 --> 00:58:10,320
Speaker 1: have any milk left? You can actually look inside your

1064
00:58:10,360 --> 00:58:13,120
Speaker 1: fridge and find out. It also had a twenty one

1065
00:58:13,160 --> 00:58:17,480
Speaker 1: and a half inch screen embedded in the door. It

1066
00:58:17,560 --> 00:58:22,480
Speaker 1: was really an impressive piece of technology. UM, not sure

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Speaker 1: that I'm ready to spend about five thousand dollars on

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00:58:25,160 --> 00:58:28,919
Speaker 1: our fridge, but it was. It was interesting to see

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00:58:28,960 --> 00:58:31,800
Speaker 1: those kind of features worked in and also it was

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Speaker 1: a very different philosophy from another company we would see

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Speaker 1: the next day, which was Whirlpool. But we're were you've

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Speaker 1: got a whole video coming out about the connected kitchen,

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Speaker 1: So keep an eye out on now dot how Stuffworks

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00:58:44,200 --> 00:58:46,520
Speaker 1: dot com for that that will be coming up soon

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Speaker 1: as well. Uh. Then we went over to Intel looked

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Speaker 1: at some of the technology there. Intel, of course is

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Speaker 1: mostly known as the company that makes the stuff that

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00:58:56,680 --> 00:59:00,280
Speaker 1: makes other stuff work, so when we go to tell

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Speaker 1: you see a lot of cool stuff on display, but

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00:59:03,320 --> 00:59:06,000
Speaker 1: these are all products that are the result of partnerships

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Speaker 1: with other companies. Intel provides the microprocessors or the other

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00:59:09,960 --> 00:59:12,920
Speaker 1: technology that allows it to work. So we got to

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00:59:12,920 --> 00:59:16,760
Speaker 1: see things like a robo butler that's a personal uh

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00:59:16,920 --> 00:59:21,960
Speaker 1: transportation device essentially one of those wheeled skateboards that are

1085
00:59:22,000 --> 00:59:24,960
Speaker 1: often called hoverboards, but it could be converted into a

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00:59:25,040 --> 00:59:28,000
Speaker 1: robot butler, which is kind of cool and very cute.

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Speaker 1: It was a very cute robot, and we also saw

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00:59:31,960 --> 00:59:35,720
Speaker 1: um connected bicycles. We saw a dress that reacts to

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00:59:35,920 --> 00:59:39,680
Speaker 1: a person's adrenaline levels, so the dress would expand when

1090
00:59:39,720 --> 00:59:43,680
Speaker 1: adrenaline levels would increase, and it contracted when it decreased,

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Speaker 1: and kind of similar to the spider dress that we

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00:59:46,800 --> 00:59:50,000
Speaker 1: saw last year, which was fun. So we took some

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00:59:50,040 --> 00:59:53,480
Speaker 1: footage of that. It was good to see. After all that,

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Speaker 1: we moved over to the South Hall. Keep in mind,

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00:59:57,000 --> 01:00:00,640
Speaker 1: we probably saw maybe of the Central Hall. It's just

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01:00:00,960 --> 01:00:03,960
Speaker 1: that's how it goes. Because you're running from from place

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01:00:04,000 --> 01:00:07,400
Speaker 1: to place to get your videos in, uh, you're gonna

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01:00:07,400 --> 01:00:08,960
Speaker 1: miss out on a ton of stuff. So there was

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Speaker 1: a lot of stuff on display in the Central Hall

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Speaker 1: that we just didn't see. But we made it to

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Speaker 1: the South Hall, which pretty much hosts a big collection

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Speaker 1: of different stuff, including things like VR A R, drones,

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Speaker 1: all the stuff that we weren't able to see, but

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Speaker 1: we did get to see some really cool things. We

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01:00:25,120 --> 01:00:27,960
Speaker 1: got to go to Codex booth and check out their

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Speaker 1: brand new Super eight film cameras, which is great. Kodak

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01:00:32,120 --> 01:00:35,520
Speaker 1: is bringing film back, So the super eight millimeter camera

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01:00:35,760 --> 01:00:38,479
Speaker 1: is a classic. That's something a lot of filmmakers worked

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01:00:38,520 --> 01:00:41,680
Speaker 1: with with back when they were kids. Um, I used

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01:00:41,720 --> 01:00:43,880
Speaker 1: to play with a super eight camera back when I

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01:00:43,920 --> 01:00:46,520
Speaker 1: was a kid. My dad owned one and I got

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Speaker 1: to play with it. Well, Codex bringing it back and

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01:00:49,320 --> 01:00:52,880
Speaker 1: pairing it with modern technology. So when you buy one

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Speaker 1: of these, when you buy a cartridge of film, the

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Speaker 1: cost of that cartridge isn't just for the film it's

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Speaker 1: also for the processing fee. So in other words, when

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Speaker 1: you buy the film and then you put it in

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01:01:06,600 --> 01:01:09,680
Speaker 1: your camera and you shoot it, you have already paid

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Speaker 1: for the processing. So then you would mail the film

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Speaker 1: off the Kodak. Kodak processes the film and returns the

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Speaker 1: print to you, but you also get a digital print,

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01:01:19,480 --> 01:01:21,240
Speaker 1: so you don't just get the film print. You get

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Speaker 1: a digital print as well. And there's an onboard microphone

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Speaker 1: with this Super eight, which is not the way the

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Speaker 1: old Super eight cameras worked. And you get a digital

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Speaker 1: audio track as well, so you can sync up the

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Speaker 1: audio track with your film. Plus you have the digital

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Speaker 1: print where it's already synked. My video crew got really

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01:01:39,720 --> 01:01:42,520
Speaker 1: excited about this technology, and we'll have a video about

1130
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Speaker 1: this as well, so keep that eye out for that.

1131
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Speaker 1: We also went to gen Worth Financials booth. Now gen

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Speaker 1: Worth Financial is an insurance company. Specifically they provide insurance

1133
01:01:53,400 --> 01:01:58,720
Speaker 1: for long term care for the elderly, and at their

1134
01:01:58,760 --> 01:02:01,320
Speaker 1: booth they had a really amazed using exoskeleton that I

1135
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Speaker 1: actually got to put on. If you follow tech stuff

1136
01:02:05,600 --> 01:02:08,240
Speaker 1: on Facebook, you probably saw a picture of me wearing

1137
01:02:08,280 --> 01:02:11,880
Speaker 1: this thing. So the whole purpose of the exoskeleton was

1138
01:02:11,960 --> 01:02:15,160
Speaker 1: to create a way to start a conversation between young

1139
01:02:15,200 --> 01:02:18,680
Speaker 1: people and the elderly to demonstrate the importance of long

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Speaker 1: term care. So it made sense like they wanted a

1141
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Speaker 1: way for young people to understand what the elderly go through,

1142
01:02:25,120 --> 01:02:27,760
Speaker 1: to say, look, the service we provide as a valuable one,

1143
01:02:28,120 --> 01:02:31,680
Speaker 1: but I think the actual application of the technology goes

1144
01:02:31,720 --> 01:02:34,600
Speaker 1: well beyond that. Uh. They turned to a company called

1145
01:02:34,640 --> 01:02:37,640
Speaker 1: Applied Minds, which was originally co founded by a couple

1146
01:02:37,720 --> 01:02:42,440
Speaker 1: of former Disney imagineers, and that company ended up making

1147
01:02:42,480 --> 01:02:47,800
Speaker 1: the Aging Experience exo Skeleton, which mimics various disabilities, conditions,

1148
01:02:47,800 --> 01:02:51,800
Speaker 1: and illnesses that the elderly often experience. So when I

1149
01:02:51,840 --> 01:02:54,960
Speaker 1: put this thing on, they were able to simulate these

1150
01:02:55,040 --> 01:02:58,680
Speaker 1: various conditions with me, and it was really an interesting

1151
01:02:58,920 --> 01:03:04,520
Speaker 1: experience to go through. So the suit included a headset

1152
01:03:04,760 --> 01:03:07,840
Speaker 1: and that headset has two video cameras that are mounted

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01:03:08,480 --> 01:03:11,280
Speaker 1: about where your eyes are, and they that fed a

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01:03:11,360 --> 01:03:15,000
Speaker 1: live video signal two monitors that were in front of

1155
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Speaker 1: my eyes, and it did it really well that there

1156
01:03:17,560 --> 01:03:20,120
Speaker 1: was no noticeable lag, which is very important because otherwise

1157
01:03:20,120 --> 01:03:22,919
Speaker 1: you would get that kind of swimmy effect you turn

1158
01:03:22,960 --> 01:03:26,560
Speaker 1: your head and then a moment later it's reflected that's

1159
01:03:26,560 --> 01:03:28,520
Speaker 1: gonna make you sea sick. But I didn't. I didn't

1160
01:03:28,520 --> 01:03:32,640
Speaker 1: experience that. It seemed like the lag was manageable. So

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01:03:32,960 --> 01:03:37,600
Speaker 1: they use software which allows handlers to manipulate that video feed,

1162
01:03:38,120 --> 01:03:40,160
Speaker 1: so while you've got video in front of your eyes,

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01:03:40,200 --> 01:03:42,480
Speaker 1: they can change that video around a little bit and

1164
01:03:42,480 --> 01:03:48,320
Speaker 1: simulate conditions like glaucoma or tunnel vision. The headset also

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01:03:48,400 --> 01:03:52,080
Speaker 1: included headphones and they could manipulate that as well, so

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Speaker 1: they could, you know, simulate hearing loss or even tenitus,

1167
01:03:56,400 --> 01:03:59,440
Speaker 1: which by the way, incredibly irritating to have that high

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01:03:59,480 --> 01:04:03,200
Speaker 1: pitch tone in one ear. That's what tenitus is, that

1169
01:04:03,760 --> 01:04:06,320
Speaker 1: ears are ringing. If you've ever been to allowed concert

1170
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Speaker 1: and your ears were ringing afterwards, that's tenitus. Sometimes you

1171
01:04:10,320 --> 01:04:13,240
Speaker 1: develop it and it doesn't go away. So the suit

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Speaker 1: was able to simulate that and also could add torque

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Speaker 1: to all of your major joints like your shoulders, your elbows,

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01:04:22,600 --> 01:04:26,840
Speaker 1: your hips, and your knees. And by adding torque, it

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01:04:26,960 --> 01:04:29,640
Speaker 1: creates resistance, so it makes it harder for you to move.

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Speaker 1: So it's more like if you had a hip replacement,

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Speaker 1: or if your knees were no longer as as flexible

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Speaker 1: if you suffered from something like arthritis. And the whole

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Speaker 1: suit weighed about forty pounds, so that helps simulate the

1180
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Speaker 1: weakness you would have as a result of muscle loss

1181
01:04:48,160 --> 01:04:51,520
Speaker 1: and weight gain. And the whole experience was really enlightening,

1182
01:04:51,680 --> 01:04:55,160
Speaker 1: very interesting stuff. I was very pleased that I got

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Speaker 1: a chance to do it, even though it meant that

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Speaker 1: I was in that weird get up with a lot

1185
01:04:59,480 --> 01:05:04,320
Speaker 1: of people watching me. It was a little um you know,

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01:05:04,480 --> 01:05:07,560
Speaker 1: thank thankfully, I've never been one to shy away from

1187
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Speaker 1: the spotlight. Uh So, it sounds like we did a lot,

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01:05:10,720 --> 01:05:13,240
Speaker 1: but my team only saw a very tiny percentage of

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Speaker 1: what was at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The next

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01:05:16,360 --> 01:05:18,960
Speaker 1: day we hit the Sands Convention Center and that hosted

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01:05:19,000 --> 01:05:23,920
Speaker 1: stuff like fitness tech, wearables, three D printers, connected home technology.

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01:05:24,600 --> 01:05:27,240
Speaker 1: Tons of small startups were in the Eureka Park area,

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01:05:27,520 --> 01:05:30,760
Speaker 1: so we shot several videos there about the technology that

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01:05:30,840 --> 01:05:32,400
Speaker 1: was on display. But I'm not going to go into

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Speaker 1: detail just because it was a lot of stopping and starting.

1196
01:05:35,680 --> 01:05:39,080
Speaker 1: And this episode is already running pretty long, so at

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Speaker 1: any rate, to keep keep on touch, you know, go

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Speaker 1: look at now dot House to parts dot com. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna continue to upload videos from our experience at CES.

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Speaker 1: You'll be able to see them. They're also forward thinking

1201
01:05:50,880 --> 01:05:52,760
Speaker 1: the other show I do. There are a couple of

1202
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Speaker 1: videos that we did, including one of me and the

1203
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Speaker 1: exoskeleton that will go up there. So after an exhausting

1204
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Speaker 1: world wind of shooting videos, we wrapped our production and

1205
01:06:04,120 --> 01:06:07,160
Speaker 1: we rested. We left the following day, which was Friday

1206
01:06:07,000 --> 01:06:10,720
Speaker 1: the eight, and the show continued throughout that day. So

1207
01:06:10,960 --> 01:06:13,400
Speaker 1: we left, but the show was going on and a

1208
01:06:13,400 --> 01:06:15,680
Speaker 1: few events even went into the weekend. But by then

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01:06:15,720 --> 01:06:18,120
Speaker 1: we were back in Atlanta, which pretty much gets us

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Speaker 1: up to speed. Uh. And I'm gonna do some shows

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Speaker 1: where I talked about some of this technology in greater detail,

1212
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Speaker 1: particularly the auto technology. I'm gonna try and get Scott

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Speaker 1: and Ben on this show in the near future to

1214
01:06:30,240 --> 01:06:33,439
Speaker 1: talk about some of the high tech stuff that's coming

1215
01:06:33,440 --> 01:06:35,360
Speaker 1: to cars in the nearer future and kind of get

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Speaker 1: their take on it. Also just discuss some stuff that

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01:06:39,400 --> 01:06:41,040
Speaker 1: they might be aware of that I didn't get a

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01:06:41,120 --> 01:06:43,720
Speaker 1: chance to see. So that episode will be coming up

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01:06:43,760 --> 01:06:46,200
Speaker 1: probably in the near future. I'm hoping to record it

1220
01:06:46,280 --> 01:06:48,000
Speaker 1: next week, but it might be a few more weeks

1221
01:06:48,000 --> 01:06:50,920
Speaker 1: before it airs, just because I've got some other shows

1222
01:06:50,960 --> 01:06:54,120
Speaker 1: in the vault between now and then. But if you

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01:06:54,160 --> 01:06:56,200
Speaker 1: have a suggestion for a tech Stuff topic or a

1224
01:06:56,240 --> 01:06:58,320
Speaker 1: guest I should have on the show, we should get

1225
01:06:58,360 --> 01:07:00,600
Speaker 1: in touch with me and let me know. My email

1226
01:07:00,640 --> 01:07:05,000
Speaker 1: address is tech Stuff at how stuff works dot com,

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01:07:05,080 --> 01:07:07,480
Speaker 1: or just drop me a line on Twitter or Facebook.

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01:07:07,520 --> 01:07:10,040
Speaker 1: The handle of both of those is tech Stuff h

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Speaker 1: s W. And I'll talk to you again really soon.

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Speaker 1: For more on this and bathands of other topics. Is

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Speaker 1: it astac works dot com.