WEBVTT - Amazon Echo Frames feel like the future 0:00:10.000 --> 0:00:14.840 I'm obsessed with the Amazon Echo frames. Alexa can now 0:00:14.960 --> 0:00:17.759 answer your door? How much would you have if you 0:00:17.840 --> 0:00:22.160 invested one thousand dollars in a hot tech ipo? Plus 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:28.440 your tech questions answered? What's going on on? 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:30.360 Rich Tomiro? And this is rich on. 0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:32.520 Tech, the podcast where I talk about the tech stuff 0:00:32.560 --> 0:00:35.440 I think you should know about. And it's also the 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:38.919 place where I answer the questions you send me and 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:43.120 believe you me yes. Send a lot of them, and 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:46.199 you might be surprised that I actually respond to a 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:49.360 majority of them, whether it's by Instagram at richon Tech, 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:52.360 Facebook dot com, slash rich on Tech, Hello at Richontech, 0:00:52.400 --> 0:00:56.920 dot TV, carrier pigeon, I don't know, see me in 0:00:56.920 --> 0:01:00.200 the streets. Ask me a question that rarely happened right 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:01.880 now because I'm not out and about as much as 0:01:01.920 --> 0:01:04.320 I used to be. Again, my name is Richard Meiro, 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:08.600 tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. Welcome 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:12.400 to the show. I say show because I hope that 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:16.440 this entertains you, informs you, makes you want to listen again. 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:18.119 That's the whole goal of this. 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:21.840 Right is to really just share some knowledge. And I 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:25.040 don't have the answers to everything. Believe me, I don't, 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:27.960 but I try to answer questions that represent what you're 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:31.319 sending in what you're asking me, and hopefully things that 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:34.720 can help other people at large, because you know, we 0:01:35.080 --> 0:01:38.800 think as Techi's that well, I don't, but some people 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:41.360 think that everyone has the answer when it comes to tech, 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:43.280 and we don't. We're all just learning, we're all just 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:46.520 figuring this stuff out, and sometimes you just got to 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:49.960 go hands on and try it and see and you know, 0:01:50.440 --> 0:01:52.600 just see what's going on with some of this stuff. 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:55.000 And one of the things that I played around with 0:01:55.520 --> 0:01:59.920 last week which was really really cool is the Cadillac 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:05.120 Escalade twenty twenty one edition. This has GM supercrus and 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:07.080 not just Super Crews because that's been around for a while, 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:10.480 but this one had super Cruise along with hands free 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:14.720 well hands free I guess driving, and then auto lane change, 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:16.280 and let me. 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:19.360 Tell you, it was seriously, seriously cool. 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:24.040 I mean, I just loved the ability to set this 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:28.320 car into hands free mode basically drives itself, and then 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:30.360 if you want to change lanes, it changes lanes. And 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:33.079 here's the best part about how it changes lanes. It's 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:35.040 not like me when I change lanes I kind of 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:37.079 creep over because I'm a little scared there might be 0:02:37.160 --> 0:02:39.480 a car in my blind spot. No, no, No, This thing, 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:42.560 even though it's a giant car, has so much big 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:46.320 data surrounding it with all the sensors and you know, 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:49.839 cameras and whatever it's using to figure this stuff out, 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:52.239 that it just changes lanes when it knows it can. 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:56.959 There's no hesitation, there's no wishy washiness. 0:02:57.080 --> 0:02:59.680 It just sort of works. And it was. 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:01.880 Impres I said one hundred and six thousand dollars car, 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:05.160 So I'm not buying it anytime soon, but it was 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:08.079 a really beautiful car. I love where this is going, 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:11.720 and I think it's just really nice to realize that 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:14.360 Tesla is not the only company in town when it 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:17.760 comes to the smart driving stuff and the hands free driving. 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:21.240 I think that they're way ahead of everyone. But these 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:26.000 historic car companies are not going to just kind of 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:29.120 not figure this stuff out right. They are going to 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:32.360 It took them a little bit longer, but they're getting 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:35.960 there and the next car that I'll be testing doing 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:37.760 so I used to do this thing called tech Report 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:40.280 test drive long time ago at KTLA, and then I 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:42.720 kind of stopped. I was only doing hybrids, you know, 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:44.480 like I wanted to do any car that's sort of 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:49.720 a you know, not just a gas car. Now, the Escalate, yes, 0:03:49.760 --> 0:03:51.920 it was full gas and only you know, fourteen miles 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:55.120 to the gallon. But you know that's it's because it 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:58.560 had a feature that's unique. The hands free was unique. 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:02.160 But also the auto lane was brand new. So for 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:05.000 that reason, I make an exception. But I generally like 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:07.280 to test cars that are alternative. You know, they have 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:12.520 a either hybrid or they are all electric or something else. 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:14.520 I haven't really done a hydrogen one, but anyway, the 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:16.120 next one up I'm gonna test out is called the 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:17.600 Volkswagen ID four. 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:19.840 This is their big electric car. 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:22.920 I hope I can mention that, but I'm looking forward 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:26.000 to testing that because there's just so many electric cars 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:28.560 coming along. I'm in the market for a car in 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:31.480 the next couple of years, and so when I do that, 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:32.960 I'm still trying to decide am I going to go 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:36.839 full electric, which I'm leaning towards, or maybe I don't know. 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:40.200 We'll say so that's my story, sticking to it. 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:42.960 Let's get some Let's get to some of the news 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:44.080 of the week. 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:47.839 Let's see what do we want to start with here, 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:52.599 Let's start with uh, well, gosh, is there not one 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:53.520 big story this week? 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:54.640 Maybe there isn't a missing it. 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:59.719 But Alexa can now answer your doorbell and ring. I've 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:02.279 talked about this in the podcast before, but I'm very 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:09.359 I think it's bullish. Is bullish when you're hot on something? Yeah, 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:13.320 So I am bullish on Ring because what they're doing 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:17.320 I think is leaps and bounds ahead of everyone else. 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:20.960 As far as a full kind of system. I mean, 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:23.760 there's a million cool security systems out there. I use Weight, 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:28.080 I use the Wisecam, I've got some nestcams. But when 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:30.120 you really look at like if you wanted a full 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:33.320 solution for everything around your house, when you look at Ring, 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:35.440 I mean, they've got so many products. It's like they're 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:37.320 coming out with new stuff all the time. And so 0:05:37.400 --> 0:05:40.440 now they have this cool new feature. Three new features, Okay, 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:45.159 they're called smart Responses, and there's kind of three of them. 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:47.919 So the first is Alexa Greeting. So if you have 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:51.840 a Ring Video Doorbell Pro and you're a Ring protect subscriber, 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:54.200 which you probably should be if you have a Ring 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:56.760 because it's like three bucks a month, then it gives 0:05:56.800 --> 0:05:59.039 you access to recordings. If not, then you can only 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:01.400 live stream your camera, which would not be very good. 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:04.880 But Alexa can greet visitors when they ring the doorbell, 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:07.280 and then she can kind of go back and forth 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:09.760 with them, so the person can say, you know, it'd 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:11.720 be like hey this Alexa, can I help you? And 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:13.360 it'll be like, hey, I have a package for rich 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:16.240 and then she can say like does it need a signature? 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:19.599 And you can even tell the delivery person where to 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:22.840 put the package, so that's really cool. Then you've got 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:25.480 quick replies and this is for all of the doorbells 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:28.120 from Ring and when you don't feel like answering or 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:31.720 you're not there, it can leave six preset responses like 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:34.240 we can't answer the door right now, leave a message, 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:38.880 leave the package outside, or you can. You know, there's 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:41.039 like six of these things, which I thought was really cool. 0:06:42.040 --> 0:06:44.840 Now the catch here is that if they leave a 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:47.920 recorded message, you'll only see it if again, you're a 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:51.080 Ring Protect subscriber, so otherwise, you know, if you look 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:54.039 at a ring video doorbell, it's good if you want 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:56.479 to just watch out your front door when someone rings 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:58.520 and get that live view, but the reality is you 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:00.840 probably want a record of everyone that rings your doorbell 0:07:00.920 --> 0:07:03.000 or comes near it with the motion, So in that 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:05.800 case you need to be a Ring Protect subscriber and 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:08.240 you can see your event history and these messages people 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:11.480 are leaving, so that's cool. And finally, motion warnings, and 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:13.640 this is just kind of a no brainer. 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:13.880 One. 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:20.960 Motion warnings say an audible alert when someone triggers a recording, 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:23.040 So if they come near one of your cameras, whether 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:26.960 it's a spotlight cam, a floodlight cam, an indoorcam, or 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:29.800 a wired doorbell. This only works with wired doorbells. 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:31.040 It will say. 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:34.640 Warning, you're now being monitored and recorded by Ring and 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:37.560 that's a cool detern as well. And again, these are 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:41.600 all really cool features. The problem is that they don't 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:46.240 necessarily work with everything, and so I think that's kind 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:48.920 of the you know, the only problem with these things 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:51.760 is that you have to know exactly which doorbell you 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:54.800 have and figure out which one of these things works 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:56.360 with them, because not everything works. 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:57.200 And I understand why. 0:07:57.200 --> 0:07:59.600 I think Ring has this thing where like a lot 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:01.720 of it's robells are battery powered, and it can't just 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:04.560 introduce all these features on battery powered doorbells. A battery 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:11.640 go dead in like a day. Cody says, Hey, Rich, 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:15.720 I'm looking for a reliable mobile faxing app that provides 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:18.600 the best value. Can you please suggest one. I love 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:22.800 watching your segments on KTLA. Thank you well, Cody. I 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:25.520 have what I use, and what I have been using 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:28.480 for a long time is it's kind of a one 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:31.240 to two punch. I don't really fax, but I do 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:34.880 use a I will sign things and then email them. 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:38.480 So what I use for that is called Hello Facts 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:42.679 if you need to fax something, and Hello Fax is fantastic. 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:47.920 It's now owned by Dropbox and it's great. And so 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:51.280 if I've never really had a problem with sending faxes, 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:53.920 like I think it's always been free, but it's it's 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:57.520 free for up to five fax pages and then after 0:08:57.559 --> 0:08:59.560 that it's ten dollars a month for up to three 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:03.120 hundred fax pages. Now I don't really understand. I feel 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:05.760 like I've never had to actually pay for it, but 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:07.520 maybe I don't know. 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:09.640 Let me look at what I use. So what I use. 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:13.520 The other thing that I use is called Hello Sign again, 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:18.040 same company, now owned by Dropbox. But that's you know, 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:21.360 so the difference is Hello Sign you sign it in 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:24.000 your browser and then you download it or you email it, 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:27.560 whereas with Hello Facts, you would actually fax it out. 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:32.600 So when I look at pricing for Hello Sign, yeah, okay, 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:34.679 so you get this is why I've never had to 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:38.720 pay for Hello Sign because it's three signature requests per month, 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:40.480 and I've never had to use more than that. I mean, 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:42.400 if I was, you know, I usually use this for 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:44.640 like freelance gigs that I pick up here and there. 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:48.040 So if I get a freelance gig and I have 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:50.280 to sign a contract for some sort of you know deal, 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:53.520 like when I hosted CES, I will use Hello Sign. 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:56.640 And that's why I've never I've never done more than 0:09:56.679 --> 0:09:59.000 three in a month. That would be an amazing thing. 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:01.320 I don't think why schedule could handle more than three. 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:03.040 But if I could, hate I mean, if you got 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:04.000 a project, call me. 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:07.080 But wow. So those are the two I recommend. Hello 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:09.760 Sign and Hello Facts. That's it. 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:11.600 I mean, there's also e Facts. I mean that's been 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:13.160 around forever and ever and ever. 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:13.960 You can use that. 0:10:14.760 --> 0:10:17.760 And there are some assorted apps on Android. There was 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:20.280 one I was actually at a doctor's office. This was 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:23.080 so long ago, but I was at a doctor's office. 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:26.160 And I had something on my phone that they needed, 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:27.960 like I don't know if it was a prescription or 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:29.599 you know, sometimes when you get a referral, you have 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:33.080 to like show them, and they couldn't look at it 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:35.679 on my phone for some reason. They couldn't take an email, 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:37.920 but they could take a fax, and so I said, 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:39.280 all right, let me see if I can fax for 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:42.880 my phone. And sure enough I was able to fax 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:45.360 for my phone and it worked great, and the person 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:49.000 behind the desk was very impressed, even though they weren't 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:51.320 as impressed as I wanted them to be, because I'm 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:53.720 always like, oh, can you you know, like I really wanted. 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:54.440 Yeah. 0:10:55.120 --> 0:10:57.560 So I'm looking for this on my library and I 0:10:57.679 --> 0:10:59.760 and my Android, and I can't really find it right 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:02.920 off the top here because my kid is downloaded so 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:04.640 many games that they're all taking up. I gotta go 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:06.760 through and clean that up. Anyway I would, I would 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:08.640 just use those two Hello sign Hello facts, and I 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:11.200 think those will be great for you. All right, let's 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:16.440 go to let's see some other news. Hm, let's see here, 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:19.360 let's talk about oh, you know what, let me talk 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:22.560 about the echo frames because I am obsessed. It has 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:25.640 been so long that I've gotten a gadget where I 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:29.320 just am like so infatuated with the gadget and the 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:32.840 Amazon Echo frames are that gadget. Now, I'm not saying 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:34.520 you need to rush out and buy these. I'm not 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:38.360 saying that you need to purchase these or you know, anything, 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:40.840 but I'm just saying this is where we're headed. And 0:11:40.880 --> 0:11:43.720 it's so clear when I try a gadget like this 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:46.920 that there is still a lot of room for things 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:49.840 to just sort of amaze us in the future. 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:51.040 When it comes to technology. 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:53.880 The last thing, you know, it's like the iPhone, the iPad, 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:56.760 a couple things like that, little you know, little gadgets 0:11:56.760 --> 0:12:00.280 here and there. But these are just magical. So there 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:02.880 are pair glasses two hundred and fifty dollars. They've got 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:06.160 speakers built in, They've got microphones built in. You charge 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:08.520 them up and you put them on and next thing 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:10.920 you know, you've got hands free access to Alexa. But 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:13.080 you've also got these little speakers on your ears at 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:16.160 all times. So that means you can listen to music, 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:19.040 you can listen to podcasts, you can make phone calls. 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:22.280 It sinks perfectly with your iPhone, sinks perfectly with Android 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:25.480 I tested it. You can activate Siri through it, not 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:29.440 hands free, but you can tap on the side of 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:33.640 the device. Yeah, Siri activated on my iPad here, no 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:39.000 please stop, go away, But you can activate you know 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:42.400 who and also Google Assistant by tapping and holding on 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:44.960 the side of the device and that works perfectly. So 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:47.160 I've just been loving these things. I mean, I've been 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:49.600 walking around the block with them on, listening to podcasts, 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:53.080 I've been working at my desk. And the beauty of 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:56.080 them is that there's nothing in your ears, so it 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:59.800 does not feel like you're wearing headphones, and you wouldn't 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:01.760 wear headphones at work all day. 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:02.800 I don't know. 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:04.959 Maybe some people can wear them on their computer all day. 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:07.640 I'm not one of those people, but with these, I can't. 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:09.800 And I can have nice ambient music if I'm you know, 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:11.480 I can't really have too much going on if I'm 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:14.560 trying to concentrate on jamming out a script or something. 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:16.439 But if I'm just kind of casually. 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:19.800 Browsing the web, looking at stories, reading stuff gently, then 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:22.240 I could, you know, listen to some soft music, you know, 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:24.120 like some instrumental stuff. 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:27.920 Man, everything's just blown up on me right here. That 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:30.800 was one of my stories. So I'm really impressed. 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:34.000 Two fifty you can get your your own prescription lenses 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:37.800 put in them, and I just think they're really great. 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:41.000 I think they are there. They're the second generation, so 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:45.280 there's more to come. But if I wore glasses, I 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:48.920 think that I would definitely get these. I don't wear glasses, 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:51.160 so I don't necessarily need them. And the thing is 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:53.880 they send them with like window panes, but I think 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:56.680 that they're missing an opportunity here to do like blue blocker. 0:13:56.960 --> 0:13:58.319 And I know I did a story and they said 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:01.920 blue blockers don't really do anything, but I think that 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:04.440 you would feel better knowing that you were wearing blue 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:07.880 blocker glasses all day long versus just wearing window panes 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:09.679 all day long, right, So why not just put a 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:12.120 little blue blocker in there so that you get that? 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:15.440 So I just really really impressed. 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:18.480 Battery life, audio quality could be a little bit improved, 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:22.760 but so far, so good. Amazon, very very impressed, very lightweight, 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:25.240 just really really cool. 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:28.680 So just so impressed with those. I can't get over 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:29.800 it all. Right. 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:32.600 Another thing that I tested out this week is the 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:34.920 Tula mic. I think I talked about this, but this 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:37.960 is a microphone that's a USB mic, but it also 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:41.320 records into itself, so you can use it for your 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:44.320 zoom calls, or you can use it to just record stuff. 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:46.880 And it's a great little microphone. 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:47.480 I love it. 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:51.160 I think it sounds good and I recorded a podcast 0:14:51.240 --> 0:14:52.840 episode in it a couple of weeks ago. I probably 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:56.000 told you this story already, but I just think it's 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:58.080 a really cool little mic. Again, it's two hundred dollars, 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:00.880 so it's expensive, but you'd do get a lot for 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:03.200 that price. I mean you get the internal memory recording. 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:06.080 So let's say you want to record your podcast in 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:08.480 the field, you just have to have this mic and 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:10.640 that's it. Nothing else. I mean, how much easier does 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:11.880 it get. You don't have to have a computer, you 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:14.320 don't have to have a fancy setup. You just do 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:17.560 that and it's done. So I thought that was really cool. 0:15:17.600 --> 0:15:19.760 Those are two gadgets I tested this week. I've got 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:21.640 the reviews on my website, rich on tech dot tv 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:22.840 if you want to read more about them. 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:24.960 Let's get to another question. 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:30.960 Gil says, Oh my god, Rich, I love those Alexa glasses, 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:34.680 but concerned about privacy issues, isn't this another way of 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:36.800 collecting more data about our personal. 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:37.640 Activities and choices. 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:40.080 Should we just accept the fact that nothing is sacred 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:45.680 any longer? Egad? What does egad mean? I don't know, egad, 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:50.360 I don't know. Gil, have a magical day, egad? I 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:58.080 don't oh expressing surprise, anger, or affirmation. Okay, I didn't egad. Okay, 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:01.520 I learned something new today. Never saw that word? Okay, Gil, 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:06.040 great segue from the I just talked about these you know, 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:08.840 is it collecting more information? I'd have to look at 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:11.320 the privacy policy of the Echo frames to see. But 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:14.680 to be completely honest with this stuff, you know what, 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:18.640 I am one of those people that, yes, I am 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:25.560 concerned about privacy. I think that we should have a 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:28.960 we should have privacy, and we should have a respectable 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:31.720 sort of understanding of that privacy when it comes to 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:36.040 these smart devices, like a reasonable expectation, I should say, 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:38.240 if you get one of these smart speakers in your 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:40.600 home and you put it in your room, it should 0:16:40.640 --> 0:16:44.280 not The expectation is that it's not listening and sending 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:46.560 all that data back twenty four to seven to Google 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:52.640 or Amazon or Apple. But sometimes they do misfire and 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:56.440 they do activate, and they do catch things off guard. Now, 0:16:56.800 --> 0:16:59.280 are these Echo frames collecting any more data? 0:16:59.440 --> 0:16:59.880 I don't know. 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:03.280 I mean, they don't have GPS on them, although I 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:06.200 did notice that the Alexa app asked for my GPS 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:08.840 location when I installed it on my Android. I don't 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:11.719 know about iOS, but so it could you know if 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:13.760 you're wearing them. It may know where you're wearing them, 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:17.480 and how often and for how long of course, the 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:22.879 commands that you use. So yes, there is definitely a 0:17:22.920 --> 0:17:25.000 privacy issue, and I think that when it comes to 0:17:25.040 --> 0:17:27.639 any of these smart home gadgets, you have to weigh 0:17:28.000 --> 0:17:31.240 the pros and the cons. Are the benefits you get 0:17:31.280 --> 0:17:35.680 out of these glasses worth the extra data that Amazon 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:38.879 gets on you? And by that extra data, you know, 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:42.600 it's like I said, some of the location data, some 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:44.600 of the things you're asking it may pick up things 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:47.159 in the background that you didn't intend it to. But 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:51.040 we have to decide what level we're comfortable with. Personally, 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:54.359 I'm comfortable with a lot of that stuff. I think 0:17:54.440 --> 0:17:59.919 what I'm not comfortable with is things that collect personal information, like. 0:18:02.400 --> 0:18:05.200 You know, financing, banking. That kind of stuff is. 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:07.920 Where I draw the line. I'm very critical about that. 0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:09.760 But when it comes to like where. 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:11.560 I am, where I'm using things, I'm not. 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:15.440 Totally totally concerned because you know, I kind of I'm 0:18:15.480 --> 0:18:19.119 getting something in return for some of the uh you know, 0:18:19.160 --> 0:18:23.160 some of the different services that I use. So that's 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:24.800 I know, it's not the best answer in the world, 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:26.480 but the reality is we just kind of have to. 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:28.920 Every one of us just has to do what we 0:18:29.000 --> 0:18:31.120 feel is best. And I get people that say I'll 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:33.159 never put a Google device in my house because of 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:35.399 this stuff, and I get other people that have a 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:38.880 ton of them, like myself, and again, it just depends 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:41.199 on what your level of comfort is. So it's a 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:43.680 good question and it's something we do need to keep 0:18:43.680 --> 0:18:47.600 in mind. And when I do stories with any any uh, 0:18:48.160 --> 0:18:50.879 you know, app developer or anything that I do a 0:18:50.920 --> 0:18:52.760 story on, at this point, I do ask if I 0:18:52.800 --> 0:18:56.720 do an interview about the privacy implications of those devices, 0:18:56.760 --> 0:19:00.199 And that's just the reality of it. All right, Let's 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:04.600 let's see here, let's talk about let's. 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:09.000 Just do a quick one. Disney plus ninety almost ninety 0:19:09.040 --> 0:19:10.720 five million customers. 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:13.159 In fact, they probably do have ninety five million, because 0:19:13.560 --> 0:19:16.680 this was according to Variety as of January second twenty 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:19.840 twenty one, they had ninety four point nine million, which 0:19:19.880 --> 0:19:23.720 is more than eight million extra in one month. So 0:19:23.800 --> 0:19:27.800 that tops Disney's original projections of having ninety million subscribers 0:19:27.840 --> 0:19:28.880 within the first four years. 0:19:28.920 --> 0:19:30.960 I think it's been just over a year. 0:19:30.840 --> 0:19:35.760 Right, a year and a half, So it's Disney Plus 0:19:35.800 --> 0:19:38.800 is killing it, and it's it's amazing to see a 0:19:38.840 --> 0:19:42.840 company like Disney that people love and they've they've done 0:19:42.880 --> 0:19:47.760 a great job in the historic world of entertainment. And 0:19:47.760 --> 0:19:50.760 I say historic when I mean like broadcast movies, that 0:19:50.840 --> 0:19:53.199 kind of stuff, and it's good to see a company 0:19:53.240 --> 0:19:57.400 that can just as nimbly adapt to the new reality 0:19:57.520 --> 0:20:01.280 of streaming of you know, twenty five seven access movies 0:20:01.320 --> 0:20:03.280 that are not going to theaters. They're just going straight 0:20:03.359 --> 0:20:05.960 to video. And they're doing pretty well. So if you 0:20:06.000 --> 0:20:13.359 do ninety ninety five million times, let's see, it's seven 0:20:13.359 --> 0:20:16.280 bucks a month something like that. So that's uh so 0:20:16.359 --> 0:20:19.080