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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you get in touch with technology? With

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Speaker 1: tech stuff from how stuff works dot com. Hi, everybody,

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Speaker 1: welcome to the podcast. My name is Chris Polett. I'm

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Speaker 1: an editor at how Stuff Works. And sitting next to me,

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Speaker 1: as usual, is senior writer Jonathan Strickland Claws. Hey, Chris,

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Speaker 1: have you been a good boy this year? As far

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Speaker 1: as you know, it works for me. So today we're

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Speaker 1: gonna talk a little bit about our ultimate Christmas wish list.

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Speaker 1: And this is just stuff that Chris and I would

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Speaker 1: love to have as Christmas presents. If the sky was

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Speaker 1: the limit, we could ask for anything we wanted. Um,

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Speaker 1: and you know price was not an issue. So ho

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Speaker 1: ho ho exactly do you want to get started? You

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Speaker 1: want me to go? All right, I'm gonna do. This

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Speaker 1: is what I may actually get. I'm gonna start off

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Speaker 1: with one that I might actually get this Christmas, the

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm I am a devoted Google disciple. I've

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Speaker 1: noticed that. Yeah, well the hats a little much, but

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Speaker 1: I you know, you know they're watching you, Chris, just

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Speaker 1: like Santa clause, they're watching you. So yes, HTC G

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Speaker 1: one phone. Uh, this phone's got an accelerometer, GPS three

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Speaker 1: G and WiFi capability. It's got a touch screen, a

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Speaker 1: great for me. Um, I want the smartphone, all right,

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Speaker 1: that's my first one. All right. Shoot, So what I

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Speaker 1: was thinking is when we went to c S last year,

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Speaker 1: journalist and really anything else. For that man, it's kind

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Speaker 1: of old. So what I was thinking is it would

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Speaker 1: All Right, the Casio. It can take forty high res

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Speaker 1: photographs in one second. It can also shoot video at

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Speaker 1: does appeal to me. You know, the creepy stuff was

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Speaker 1: My bad Right, Um, while we're on the Santa dropping

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Speaker 1: would have to add the large Logitech Harmony one remote.

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Speaker 1: this thing. Yeah, until the you know, thermal runaway, right

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Speaker 1: I should add to that the Kalid Escape, which is

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Speaker 1: their most Expensive Gadgets article, which is pretty pretty amusing,

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Speaker 1: But this Kalid Escape is a peripheral that you can

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Speaker 1: going into this thing. It's crazy. It's seventeen hundred dollars. Um.

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