WEBVTT - The TechStuff Christmas List 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:02.880 Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve camera. 0:00:03.200 --> 0:00:08.840 It's ready. Are you get in touch with technology? With 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:14.400 tech stuff from how stuff works dot com. Hi, everybody, 0:00:14.480 --> 0:00:16.680 welcome to the podcast. My name is Chris Polett. I'm 0:00:16.680 --> 0:00:19.000 an editor at how Stuff Works. And sitting next to me, 0:00:19.120 --> 0:00:24.440 as usual, is senior writer Jonathan Strickland Claws. Hey, Chris, 0:00:24.480 --> 0:00:27.520 have you been a good boy this year? As far 0:00:27.560 --> 0:00:30.480 as you know, it works for me. So today we're 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:34.360 gonna talk a little bit about our ultimate Christmas wish list. 0:00:34.520 --> 0:00:36.920 And this is just stuff that Chris and I would 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:41.640 love to have as Christmas presents. If the sky was 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:45.000 the limit, we could ask for anything we wanted. Um, 0:00:45.040 --> 0:00:47.440 and you know price was not an issue. So ho 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:49.720 ho ho exactly do you want to get started? You 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:52.519 want me to go? All right, I'm gonna do. This 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:55.160 is what I may actually get. I'm gonna start off 0:00:55.160 --> 0:00:58.560 with one that I might actually get this Christmas, the 0:00:58.880 --> 0:01:04.919 HTC e G one phone running the Android platform. Because 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:09.560 you know, I'm I am a devoted Google disciple. I've 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:12.520 noticed that. Yeah, well the hats a little much, but 0:01:12.600 --> 0:01:16.480 I you know, you know they're watching you, Chris, just 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:21.920 like Santa clause, they're watching you. So yes, HTC G 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:26.679 one phone. Uh, this phone's got an accelerometer, GPS three 0:01:26.720 --> 0:01:29.360 G and WiFi capability. It's got a touch screen, a 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:32.680 full Corty keyboard, runs on T Mobile. I happen to 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:34.880 be a T Mobile customer, so that that works out 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:39.800 great for me. Um, I want the smartphone, all right, 0:01:40.560 --> 0:01:44.560 that's my first one. All right. Shoot, So what I 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:48.400 was thinking is when we went to c S last year, 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:51.680 I found out that my camera is just very ill 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:55.760 prepared to handle the rigors of life as a traveling 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:59.440 journalist and really anything else. For that man, it's kind 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:02.000 of old. So what I was thinking is it would 0:02:02.040 --> 0:02:04.280 be really cool if I could pick up a Nikon 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:08.120 D three. Now I realized we're talking top of the 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:10.639 line here, but it does have the advantage of being 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:14.080 able to use every Nikon lens ever invented, or at 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:16.760 least pretty much all of them. I think, uh, you know, 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:23.400 and it's only uh you know, so for just under 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:26.359 and I mean just under five thousand dollars. I mean, 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:30.799 how could you go wrong? Okay, well, if we're on cameras, 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:34.359 I'd kind of like the Casio eat X Dash f 0:02:34.720 --> 0:02:38.680 H twenty digital camera. Would I'd like to know why. 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:42.360 All Right, the Casio. It can take forty high res 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:46.720 photographs in one second. It can also shoot video at 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:49.600 one thousand frames per second, so you can get that 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:53.360 great slow motion video. And it has a twenty times 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:57.840 maximum zoom, so you know, when I'm stalking Alison Hannigan, 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:00.520 she doesn't have to know about it can be like 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:05.400 three blocks away. Um, yeah, that that's a It retails 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:07.720 for around six hundred bucks, so it's definitely a little 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:10.880 on the prices side for my camera usage. I am 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:14.080 not a shutter bug. I am not. I am definitely 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:16.880 on the amateur side of photography. I'm the guy who 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:21.680 always has the thumb somewhere in the photograph. Um, I 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:23.840 was wondering who that was. It's hard to tell. Usually 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:27.000 my thumb, though occasionally it's some other guy's thumb that 0:03:27.040 --> 0:03:29.639 I just have to be carrying around. But anyway, yeah, 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:31.960 I'm not a very good photographer, but this camera really 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:34.480 does appeal to me. You know, the creepy stuff was 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:37.040 the Halloween podcast. I just want to point that out. 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:41.720 My bad Right, Um, while we're on the Santa dropping 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:45.880 stuff off, I realized I just got a sixteen gigabyte 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:51.080 iPod Touch right that you can't stop talking about. Hey, 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:54.080 but I would like it's beautiful by the way, I 0:03:55.080 --> 0:03:58.839 covet your iPod Touch, and that explains why it goes 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:01.920 missing something, but that in the drool on it. But 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:05.200 I would like to to get the the thirty two 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:09.280 gigabyte iPod Touch, which wasn't the same as you know, 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:11.440 the one that was out when I bought mine. I 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:14.320 bought mine right as usual before the announcement for the 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:17.839 new ones, and in addition to being larger, it also 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:21.599 has the hardware slider. Mine has the touchscreen slider for 0:04:21.680 --> 0:04:25.800 volume control. So if something else comes on and it's 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:28.839 louder than I expected it to be, I have to 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:31.720 unlock it, you know, slide to unlock and find the 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:34.200 volume control and slide it back instead of using the 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:40.359 little knob. Meanwhile, you're slowly going deaf. What yeah, nice um, 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:42.760 You're a percussionist. You should be used to it. So 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:47.200 I'm gonna go switch over to TVs now. And I 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:50.000 have a I have a kind of uh an advantage 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:52.480 here because I recently wrote an article about the top 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:55.560 ten televisions and it was really about TVs that I 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:59.120 thought were top of the line. Not necessarily was that 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:02.840 the average use or could could afford, but sort of 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:05.600 the best of the best. It's out there. And uh, 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:08.560 and one particularly caught my attention. And I could get 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:11.520 bitten for this because it's sort of a new technology. 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:15.320 But it's the Mitsubishi Laser View sixty five inch television 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:20.920 laser that's a big TV. Sixty five inch television. Really, 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:22.760 you're not going to go for the hundred and five 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:29.039 inch there's d and fifty inch mythic. Yes, well we 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:31.920 saw it. I saw it. I don't think you got 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:35.440 You didn't go to that press conference also at yes, yes, 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:38.080 but you don't see them at your local electronics. Yeah, 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:40.720 you don't fit through the door. So yeah, because that's 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:42.800 eight ft by eleven feet, that's a little big. No, 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:48.080 the Mitsubishi sixty inches plenty large enough. That's much larger 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:51.039 than my current TV. And uh, it's really nice to 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:55.320 ten eight high deaf resolution, hundred twenty hurts refresh rate. 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:58.480 I mean, it's optimized for three D viewing. It's got 0:05:58.560 --> 0:06:00.640 hd m I inputs component and then but you know 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:04.880 the whole shebang um cost about seven grand. Yeah, yeah, 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:07.760 there's gonna be a seventy three inch model out soon. 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:09.760 Actually I should have checked. The seat may might even 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:12.120 be out by now. Yeah. And and this one maybe, 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:14.960 uh it may have lowered the price. Oh sure, yeah, 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:18.039 because because you know. Yeah, well actually I was just saying, 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:21.200 if the new ones, I'll go for the sky's lemon. Right. 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:23.720 Oh that's right, that's right, I dude, Okay, so yeah 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:28.160 that's my that's the TV that I covet all right. Well, um, 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:32.200 the article that that Jonathan is referring to is an 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:35.479 article that we updated because it had uh t vs 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:37.200 from a couple of years ago, so we wanted it 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:41.280 to refresh that and do some really cutting edge stuff. Well. Um, 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:44.120 our other tech writer, who is not with us at 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:49.159 the moment, John Fuller, updated the home theater systems article, 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:53.280 and I'm gonna throw in for for a combo. Um. 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:58.600 John wrote about the the six million dollar theater that 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:05.120 music producer Jeremy Kickness created. Boy you aim, big Pete. Yeah, yeah, 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:10.360 well it's uh, it's got an ultra high definition TV, 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:13.480 the Sony s r x R one ten, which is 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:17.920 a digital cinema projector TV. Um. Well, and it also 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:21.160 has eight point eight channels around sound, six eighteen in 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:26.760 sub woffers, Uh, you know PS three Blu ray H 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:30.160 D DVD would okay, I'll stamp on that. I was 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:34.760 about to say, regular DVD, VHS and laser disc. Wow. 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:37.679 So you know where this is. This is a custom 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:42.200 built high end, ultra end theater and it has t 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:44.600 high definition. You can't even find anything that plays that 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:48.000 right now, can you? Well, apparently this can. But you know, 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:50.080 for six million dollars, it really ought to here. I mean, 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:51.960 I just I can't think of any content you would 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:53.840 find that actually is ultra high definition, is what I 0:07:53.920 --> 0:07:56.360 was saying the U. I guess if you were to 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:58.680 get it straight from the movie studio, and if you're 0:07:58.680 --> 0:08:01.520 gonna spend six million on your home entertainment system, then 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:05.160 you might as well go ahead, go all out, you know, Spielberg. 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:08.320 But I would buy more chairs the one. There are 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:11.680 only three seats for this particular theater. That just means 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:14.120 you have to battle it out to be one of 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:16.920 the top two. Friends that that's kind of that's kind 0:08:16.920 --> 0:08:21.040 of cruel, that's true, but it appeals to me. Um 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:24.800 all right, Well, but I didn't mention this, but I 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:27.560 would have to add the large Logitech Harmony one remote. 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:31.360 That's that was one of mine too. Oh, this is 0:08:31.360 --> 0:08:33.960 what I want, But that's okay, that's okay, we both 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:37.720 want it. It's that tells her that it's definitely one 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:39.719 to look out for. You have the Logitech Harmony one 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:43.280 Universal Remote has an LCD touch screen as well as 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:47.800 button control. Um it's web programmable, so you can go 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:51.480 online and program all the information of your home entertainment 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:54.280 system onto this remote and give it special names. So 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:56.040 that way it makes it very easy for you to 0:08:56.080 --> 0:09:02.280 switch between components. Uh, it's looks really really nice. Yeah, 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:05.520 you just sort of. It's got a rechargeable lithium ion battery. 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:08.199 So this is a serious remote. No double as for 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:12.560 this thing. Yeah, until the you know, thermal runaway, right 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:15.360 until it explodes in your hand, but you know, actually 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:18.000 watching like you know, I don't know, Armageddon, you won't care. 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:22.320 It'll just seem like it just seemed like really immersive. Yeah, yeah, 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:26.559 I should add to that the Kalid Escape, which is 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:30.400 a box that I read about in PC World in 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:35.400 their most Expensive Gadgets article, which is pretty pretty amusing, 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:38.840 most of which really didn't apply to this particular podcast. 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:42.560 But this Kalid Escape is a peripheral that you can 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:44.680 add to your home theater and it will store all 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:48.240 of your your DVDs on it like you can. Basically, 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:50.280 it's like a giant hard drive e thing. But of 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:53.679 course it made the most expensive Gadgets article, so it's 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:57.360 ten dollars you know for this thing. But it's pretty 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:00.559 use that I have an enormous DVD election to the 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:04.119 point now where I don't have shelf space for the DVDs. 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:07.280 I have a bin of DVDs in my living room 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:08.800 right now because I have nowhere else to put it. 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:13.480 My wife wanted us to buy a a filing system 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:17.600 of drawer system from Ikea. They get a free plug Ikea, 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:20.680 and it was so far. Yeah, it was a really neat, 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:23.520 neat drawing that may be one of the things on 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:25.360 my list. The only problems I don't really have any 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:27.800 floor space for it. So yeah, I gotta figure out 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:32.679 something um overhead compartments, right, yeah, something that you know, 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:35.439 right up there with the oxygen masks just in case 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:39.240 the living room loses pressure. Um, so another component of 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:41.760 my home theater system. Because I didn't look at the 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:44.559 six million dollar one I didn't think about that is 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:47.640 the yeah you beat me there, pullet is the s 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:51.600 Sony s t R D A five three zero zero 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:55.959 E s hike. Yeah. I love these names where it's 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:59.120 all digits and letters. But it's a it's an a 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:02.360 V receiver, okay. Um, it's got six h d M 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:06.160 I inputs, three component video inputs, five S video. A 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:10.319 v in puts three coaxial inputs, and it up converts 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:15.079 analog signals so that they are better. When you're you know, 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:19.439 like you're listening to a Vinyl album, it suddenly sounds 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:22.200 better than it would have normally because it's up converting 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:26.280 that signal. Um. It's kind of interesting. And uh, it's 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:29.000 also x M and serious ready, I know you're a 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:34.479 big serious x M fan. Uh. It has automatic speaker calibration. 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:39.280 You can have up to nine high definition video sources 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:44.520 going into this thing. It's crazy. It's seventeen hundred dollars. Um. 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:51.360 It's actually sort of affordable for that precious. Then, you know, 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:53.760 if you're gonna watch regular TV, I would recommend the 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:58.320 tvo h d x L, which was is there extra 0:11:58.520 --> 0:12:04.040 large hard drive all of their HD DVR and you know, 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:06.920 I just like the tvo interface. Yeah, I would recommend that, 0:12:07.040 --> 0:12:09.360 but that's that's one of those that consistently gets very 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:12.040 good reviews, the TVO. I mean, out of all the DVRs, 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:17.240 TiVo's interface they really nailed that the user interface really well. Um, okay, 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:21.520 so are you ready for It's probably not my biggest 0:12:21.600 --> 0:12:24.280 big ticket item, but it's it's it's the one that 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:28.520 I'm I kind of built this whole list around. You ready, Well, 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:31.839 you know I shot my yeah, the six million dollar 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:37.800 so the Alien War a l x X Dash five 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:41.920 eight gaming computer, and I'm talking about the fully tricked 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:44.280 out one, which, by the way, I went ahead and 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:47.320 went on Alien wear site. It's a it's a it's 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:51.079 a gaming pc. Um. They build really good PCs for 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:54.439 playing computer games, you know, very high end graphics cards 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:57.720 and processors, uh and cooling systems. I mean like they 0:12:57.840 --> 0:12:59.360 just trick it out so that you can play the 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:04.880 most advanced games in the highest settings with no hiccups whatsoever. Right, So, 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:08.720 fully tricked out this thing costs almost ten thousand dollars, 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:14.240 it's ninety seven actually, um, and that was without any extras. 0:13:14.280 --> 0:13:17.079 It was just like the top end stuff. But just 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:18.720 to give you an idea of some of the specs. 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:22.839 UH and Intel I seven Extreme CPU, which is a 0:13:22.960 --> 0:13:26.680 three point to giga hurts speed. It's got also three 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:29.600 channels of d d R three memory. That's not Dance 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:32.800 Dance Revolution, by the way, that would be double data 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:38.040 rate three UM. It has a twelve gigabytes of RAM. 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:44.079 Twelve gigs of RAM. Can you imagine? UH runs Windows Vistas, 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:47.480 so that's the downside it's got. Actually, at this point, 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:50.120 Vista is not as bad as everyone made it out 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:53.400 to be. UM, but it also has UH. You can 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:56.679 get it with dual to gigabyte a t I radio 0:13:56.720 --> 0:14:01.280 on HD graphics cards, so you're running two major graphics 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:05.280 cards in this thing, plus a physics processing card UH 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:08.960 to one terabyte storage hard drive, so you have two 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:15.480 terabytes of storage. It's insane. Four times speed, dual layer 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:20.960 blue ray DVD B Chris Santa, if you're listening, I 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:25.080 will take one. I like it black with the red highlights. 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:27.800 But you know, if you want to give me silver 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:32.000 with you know, purple, I'll take it. Right. It's ah, this, 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:35.440 it's it's drool worthy. Now this does not we should 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:39.000 add come with the extra circuit you're going to need. Yeah, 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:44.280 what power supply? Twelve hund what's of power? Yeah? Not 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:49.880 the greenest machine. Now, my carbon footprint would get much 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:52.920 larger just from owning this machine. Yeah, I would suggest 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:58.440 you switch to solar panels. Yeah, maybe an extra bank right, um? Yeah? 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:02.479 Welly for my computer, I actually went to non surprisingly 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:05.440 towards the Mac end um. I was thinking of the 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:09.720 seventeen inch MacBook Pro, you know, which which I I've 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:11.800 coveted for some time. But I would add to it 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:14.520 the new one right that was just announced. Right, Yeah, 0:15:14.600 --> 0:15:17.400 they're pretty with a glass tracking pad, and those are 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:19.800 very pretty pretty machine. They're pretty machines. And I would 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:22.880 also add to that, you know, for those sedentary moments, 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:27.160 the thirty in Apple Cinema HD display nice, you know, 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:29.960 and uh, I was shopping around on Apple's site and 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:32.680 found uh a nice set of banging all of us 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:36.320 and bail ab uh you know, four speakers set. It's 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:40.320 only nine dollars for the speakers alone. Well, the monitors 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:46.200 about seventeen and computer three dollars, so you're getting up there, 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:49.600 not quite ten grand, but for the whole package. But 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:52.360 you know, I prefer the Mac. Yeah, of course. You know, 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:54.560 I have that anti Mac bias that I'm working on, 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:57.720 so you know, for the record, he uses a Mac 0:15:57.760 --> 0:15:59.560 at home, people, I do, so I do use a 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:04.720 Mac at home. But okay, Amazon Kindle, that was on 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:07.720 my list. Well, I just figured we can both talk 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:09.960 about it. I mean, it's real, it's a it's an 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:13.240 e book reader uses the inc you know, we talked 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:17.600 about it in a a few times before, and highly convenient. Yeah. 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:20.000 I mean, I don't know that I'm ready to buy 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:23.560 a three fifty dollar e book reader. It's a gift, 0:16:23.760 --> 0:16:25.960 but a gift, Yeah, totally. I'll totally take it as 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:30.160 a gift. Yeah, absolutely, So that was on my list. Um, oh, 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:34.320 I've got one other big one home automated living system 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:38.400 or how because home automation, I mean, that's another thing 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:41.200 that's been around for you know a while. It's been 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:43.760 getting more and more advanced. While the HELL system, one 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:45.320 of the things you can do is you can put 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:48.840 in microphones and speakers throughout your house and make it 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:52.640 voice activated. Can it open the pod bay doors? Possibly, 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:55.400 but I don't think it wants to do that day. Um, 0:16:56.760 --> 0:17:01.280 but you know it just plays also sproatstra forever on 0:17:01.400 --> 0:17:04.080 a loop. You know. Um, but you can say things 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:07.040 like you can you could create uh, you have to 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:11.080 create a code word that activates the system. Otherwise, if 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:13.280 you were just in the middle of a conversation, you know, 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:16.560 everything could be going bonkers, like your microwaves going off 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:19.560 and your refrigerators opening up or whatever. Um, but you've 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:21.320 come up with a couple of a code word that 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:23.440 activates the system, and then you tell what you wanted 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:25.040 to do, Like, you know, you want to play music, 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:27.040 and if you have an iPod hooked up to the 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:30.159 automation system, it could totally pull music from your iPod, 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:33.040 play it throughout your house, and you can adjust volume 0:17:33.119 --> 0:17:36.320 everything vocally if you wanted to. There are other interfaces 0:17:36.400 --> 0:17:39.520 besides voice commands. But it just made me think, I 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:42.120 don't know, have you ever seen the show Eureka? Yes? 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:48.000 Do you remember Sarah as the self actuated residential automated habitat? 0:17:49.400 --> 0:17:52.439 You know what it stands for, you? You know how 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:55.680 I know? I called my wife just before this podcast. 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:59.920 She's she she got me hooked up over over the 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:02.480 Thanksgiving break that we had not too long ago. She 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:04.679 got me hooked on Eureka, and I called her up 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:07.000 and like, what's the name of the house, And she said, 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:09.080 why do you need to know them? Like, that's not important, 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:12.639 just tell me the name and so yeah, and she she, 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:15.680 you know, pretty much popped right out with that answer. 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:18.920 So but yeah, it turns your house into that. Man. 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:24.800 How awesome is that? The password is octopus? Um? Yeah, 0:18:24.800 --> 0:18:28.040 I just I just have one more and uh, Sadly 0:18:28.080 --> 0:18:32.159 it is uh sort of a moot point. Um. And 0:18:32.280 --> 0:18:35.680 this is another that was written about by our other 0:18:35.760 --> 0:18:39.520 tech writer, John Fuller. It's the Dash Express, something that 0:18:39.600 --> 0:18:42.800 I saw at CS and I thought was the coolest 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:46.200 thing ever. It's a GPS that's Internet enabled, so it's 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:48.600 able to not only tell you where you are and 0:18:48.880 --> 0:18:51.840 where you're going, but it also can find out where 0:18:51.880 --> 0:18:54.760 the traffic is and let you know and you know, 0:18:54.800 --> 0:18:57.760 if you're craving that that cup of coffee, you can 0:18:57.960 --> 0:19:01.399 find out where the coffee shop is. Unfortunately, it's a 0:19:01.440 --> 0:19:04.160 collector's odem. Now, well, it's sort of a collector's outem there. 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:08.520 I'm sure there probably aren't many of them left. Um. Sadly, 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:12.760 just as John turned the article into me, Dash announced 0:19:12.800 --> 0:19:15.200 that it would no longer be making the hardware for 0:19:15.359 --> 0:19:18.320 this particular products in the software. But they're in the 0:19:18.359 --> 0:19:20.520 software is and they're going to be licensing the software 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:23.920 to different GPS manufacturers. So I I just don't have 0:19:24.080 --> 0:19:27.840 the next product the so and so three x l 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:32.000 M I right, that has the DASH software loaded on it. 0:19:32.080 --> 0:19:34.760 But it's really cool. Keep an eye out. There will 0:19:34.760 --> 0:19:38.680 be something probably before terribly long maybe for next Christmas 0:19:38.920 --> 0:19:42.119 list that has the DASH soft. It really was a 0:19:42.280 --> 0:19:45.320 really really neat I remember Jason Calicanas was going with walkers. 0:19:46.840 --> 0:19:50.000 Well I've got I've got three stocking stuffers, so real 0:19:50.119 --> 0:19:54.760 quick toes um, Well that would be for normal stocking stuffer. 0:19:54.880 --> 0:19:57.600 This is Christmas stockings, all right, right? Right? So the 0:19:57.720 --> 0:20:01.360 personal Soundtrack shirt, Oh yes, it was an April Fool's 0:20:01.440 --> 0:20:04.320 joke from Think Geek and now it really exists. It's 0:20:04.359 --> 0:20:06.680 a shirt that has a speaker in it and a 0:20:06.760 --> 0:20:09.560 little remote control. You can have up to twenty sounds 0:20:09.960 --> 0:20:12.800 programmed into this thing. It's got some pre programmed in it, 0:20:13.119 --> 0:20:15.159 but it also has an SD slot so that you 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:17.840 can put in new sounds if you don't like the 0:20:17.920 --> 0:20:20.240 ones that it came with. And it also has a 0:20:20.359 --> 0:20:22.960 jack where you can jack plug it into your iPod 0:20:23.520 --> 0:20:26.119 and you can play music from your iPod through your shirt, 0:20:26.200 --> 0:20:29.400 so you have a personal sound soundtrack wherever you go. Now, 0:20:30.040 --> 0:20:33.200 I don't know if you listeners are are like you know, 0:20:33.520 --> 0:20:38.359 my own humble self really excited. I've always wanted to 0:20:38.440 --> 0:20:40.880 be able to enter a room dramatically with the right 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:43.159 you know music. You know, I'm a big I'm a 0:20:43.240 --> 0:20:46.280 big pro wrestling fan, and so you know, you gotta 0:20:46.359 --> 0:20:49.600 have like that song that really just it strikes up 0:20:49.600 --> 0:20:51.719 when you enter the room. I just haven't figured out 0:20:51.760 --> 0:20:54.400 what mine would be. Probably you know Imperial March from 0:20:54.960 --> 0:20:57.280 The Empress Strikes Back. I mean that's the go to, 0:20:57.640 --> 0:21:00.320 that's everyone goes to. That one. That would be right there. 0:21:00.800 --> 0:21:02.879 So that's one of the stocking stuffers. The stocking stuffer. 0:21:02.920 --> 0:21:04.720 Oh wait, I was just gonna add that. They also 0:21:04.800 --> 0:21:06.560 have two other really cool shirts here. One is the 0:21:06.840 --> 0:21:10.159 WiFi Finder shirt, which actually has the lights and it 0:21:10.280 --> 0:21:13.119 lights up when you're around a WiFi hotspot. Then in 0:21:13.160 --> 0:21:15.800 me at drummer shirt and me being a percussionist, I 0:21:15.840 --> 0:21:17.719 love that, but it actually has a drum drum kit 0:21:18.600 --> 0:21:22.520 into the shirt chest. Yeah, I was not going to 0:21:22.640 --> 0:21:25.000 use the word cool for that, but yeah, yeah, it's 0:21:25.000 --> 0:21:29.240 appropriate for your stuff. Okay, So the R two Fish 0:21:29.400 --> 0:21:33.399 training school kit. You can train a goldfish to do 0:21:33.600 --> 0:21:36.840 tricks like knock a soccer ball into a sucker net 0:21:37.359 --> 0:21:40.400 Um with this gift, I would need one additional gift, 0:21:40.600 --> 0:21:44.160 a goldfish because I don't have one, and a bolt. 0:21:44.200 --> 0:21:48.280 Well you know, yeah something plus kit, right, goldfish plus kit. 0:21:48.920 --> 0:21:50.680 Uh and then the third This is not really a 0:21:50.720 --> 0:21:52.639 stocking stuffer because it wouldn't fit in one, but it 0:21:52.680 --> 0:21:55.159 would be completely appropriate like where we were, Like the 0:21:55.240 --> 0:21:57.760 goldfish bowls gonna fit in your stock. Okay, well, you know, 0:21:58.040 --> 0:22:03.760 be technical. The nerve Vulcan e b F heavy automatic blaster. 0:22:05.600 --> 0:22:09.159 It shoots three darts per second. It's belt fed, it 0:22:09.280 --> 0:22:13.280 takes six D batteries. This thing is a monster people. 0:22:13.440 --> 0:22:16.280 It's got it's got its own tripod and target site 0:22:17.240 --> 0:22:20.359 starts that stick to school is exactly you shouldn't have 0:22:20.359 --> 0:22:22.960 shot me with the nerve Vulcan eb F, Johnny. My 0:22:23.119 --> 0:22:26.480 mother shot me with the nerve Vulcan EBF once once. 0:22:27.320 --> 0:22:29.600 So um, you know I do have one that could 0:22:29.680 --> 0:22:32.199 qualify as a stocking stuffer because I didn't check these off, 0:22:32.240 --> 0:22:34.399 and I do have a last one, um, and that 0:22:34.520 --> 0:22:38.920 was the Denon ah D five thousand reference headphones because 0:22:38.960 --> 0:22:41.560 my old headphones broke. Yeah, I remember, that was a 0:22:41.600 --> 0:22:44.399 sad day. It was a sad day for all of us. 0:22:44.680 --> 0:22:49.280 So we don't I gotta listen to my show the 0:22:49.400 --> 0:22:53.399 day the private music died. And now that I have 0:22:53.600 --> 0:22:57.200 my you know x M blasting through my little speakers 0:22:57.240 --> 0:22:59.639 on my desk, and everybody has to deal with listening 0:22:59.680 --> 0:23:06.200 to the Zeppelin channel or the commercial jingles. That's right channel, 0:23:06.240 --> 0:23:11.880 that's your chance, exactly. It the problem. Anyway, I feel 0:23:11.880 --> 0:23:14.440