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Michael Garfield. Well, I guess I can say my new year has
officially begne. Normally it's the January first, that's where everybody's clocks reset.
But you know, generally people, I'm just a little bit busy in January
until mid January and things things calm down. If you can't tell by my
voice, it may be a little of my stuffiness. It has been a
very long week because my super Bowl in the world of technology is officially over.
A few days ago, I finally got back from Las Vegas. It
was the annual CEES, which used to be called the Consumer Electronics Show,
and this is my annual post CES show where I'm gonna go through about as
many of the products that I saw, as many the products that I laughed
at as many of the products that I could actually take samples of it and
stuff it to my bags before I threw them on the plane. All the
people that I met, the companies that I met that are trying to get
my attention as a member of the media who covers this stuff, so then
I can then slowly get it out to you and hope so that you must
bid your heart earn money on buying things that you probably don't need and a
lot of the stuff that we all can't afford. Yes, making a little
fun of it, but that is what CEES does, always a fun thing
to do. Should you be listening live here on this Saturday the second is
this the second Saturday. It's the second Saturday of January twenty twenty four.
Getting ready for your Houston Texans playoff game, my home playoff game. You
got to keep it right here for the next two hours. But we dial
in another one of my ilk in the media technological technology space, my buddy
out in Los Angeles, Rich DeMuro. He hosts a show, does some
TV stuff like me, and we're going to compare notes of some of the
things that we saw. I will start with this, I'd like to think
I lost a little weight, because it is it's all about walking the cees
by nature. It used to be the world's largest trade show of any kind
of trade show in the world. About one hundred and eighty thousand people from
all over the world. Seriously, world would show up in Las Vegas.
And it's more than just the Las Vegas Convention Center. If you've ever been
to the Las Vegas Convention Center, you know how gigantic it is. Three
years ago it was expanded to another section of the convention Center. Then it
spills over to the Venetian Sands Expo. It's spills over to several hotels and
then a lot of companies. They said, they get their own suites and
space in hotels, at restaurants and whatever, just you know, just to
make sure that they can, you know, have one on one time with
you. It is a lot of walking, It is a lot of talking,
It is a lot of schmoozing, and it really it's just a lot
of deciphering. Is this legit, is this a concept? This is a
neat thing? Is it going to work? And it's more about straight technology.
They there was no phones released. This is not where phones smartphones are
released. Apple does not ever show here. Apple does its own thing when
it releases its products. There were a few computers. This is different than
comdax Condas was another trade show that was in Vegas that stopped probably a good
ten twelve to fifteen years ago. I did see some laptops. HP was
there, and a few desktop computers. But this is more traditionally cees.
It's a lot about you know, the question I get, Oh, it's
the coolest TV you saw. This is famously where the TVs were debuted and
launched, the high definition TVs, the flat screen TVs, the panels,
the LEDC Back in two thousand and one, two thousand and two, those
things were expensive, they were heavy, they were large. Now they're larger,
some of them are cheaper. A lot of them are expensive, but
some of them now roll up. I saw what that actually folds a folding
TV. I saw transparent. I'm gonna talk about transparent TVs, but to
me it's eye candy. It is eye candy. But as as in years
past, there's just a dazzling amount of gadgetry, Giant TVs, robots,
robots, robots, a lot of electric vehicles, but underpinning. I call
it underpinning or maybe the buzzword. Every year there's a theme to me.
When I walked out it was years ago. I remember it was Amazon Alexa.
Alexa was everywhere. Amazon, they cornered the market. They slapped Alexa,
the voice activation system everything, well, this is this is Alexa activated,
and this was this, And then Google came in a year or two
later. Then it was you know, you know, hey Google, okay,
Google, what have you now? It seems to me this year it
was this. It was AI. Artificial intelligence. AI was in just about
almost every piece of technology I saw at this year. Ces AI is the
technology they captivated millions of people ever since chat gpt stormed onto the internet.
It was just over a year ago, but who could blame them? Chat
gbt launched. It was right around Thanksgiving early late November of twenty twenty two.
It took only five days for it to attract one million users. Give
you comparison, it took Netflix three and a half years to accomplish that same
feet. So chatchpt it writes things for you. If you haven't tried it,
just just good go check it out. I mean, it's the air.
But AI is everywhere. There was AI lamps, AI lawnmowers, vacuum
cleaners, mirrors, AI meat thermometer, which, by the way, I
got a sample of that AI dog collars. There was an AI pillow.
Samsung showed off an AI robot. There was refrigerator with AI vision. It
recognizes foods to suggest recipes or tell you when the expiration data is near.
Washing machines are gonna use AI. It learns your habits and suggest washing cycles.
But you have to understand what AI is. AI is not just one
singular thing. It uses troves of training data and synthesizing information like your brain.
It creates text, you can create images and computer code in seconds.
It's really is transformative technology. Google. Microsoft, They've invested billions in a
question to really try to lead the AI market. And all the reps.
I was walking up and down. Hey Michael, mister Garvey, they see
Hey, high tech Texan. Were you out of Oh you out of Texans?
Come over here, take a look at this Walmart, McDonald's, Volkswagen
Loreale. They were there with AI stuff. About one hundred and thirty thousand
attendees were this year. Not you don't COVID slowed things down, but it
was a lot of walking into a lot of talking. I saw some fun
stuff and I'll get to that. Brought a few things home. Maybe I'm
gonna give away, you know, stand by. I can always ask Colin
number nine because maybe I don't want some of these hair dryers or things.
Yes, I did get a really freaking cool hair dryer, which I'm gonna
go ahead and blow the lead. That really was the coolest sample. I
got really neat hair dryer. Because you know, it's all about hair all
the time. So I'll give you the phone number here on Michael Garfield High
Tech Textan Show seven one three two one two five nine five. Oh.
If you saw something in headlines or any other coverage that you wanted to know,
maybe I saw it. You can ask me if it's worth it or
any of these other stupid, crazy things that I was just you know,
exposed to over the past four four days, walking and talking and doing everything.
I am here for you. Seven one three two one two five nine
five. Oh, Michael Garfield, it's all Cees all the time right here
on the High Tech Text Show. Following up with the Big Cees Consumer Electronics
Show, which is what we do every time I come back here from the
about a four day long just big massive technology show. Tell you what it
was, Chili. It's my twenty second year I did the CEES Show.
And I know it's always a little cold in January. It's always the first
week or two of January, but it was. It was a little chilly,
little chilters, so you know, maybe I got a little stuff,
he knows, but it was. It was fun, and I'd like to
thank the nice folks at my buddies at Gringos and Jimmy chang Has starting with
Russell Lee Borrow Johnathan kim who, by the way, just celevated their thirty
first anniversary at Gringoes for the first Greenos phenomenal tex Mex food. Those guys
love Vegas and they brought their IT department out there and got to see some
of the cool things. So go make sure as you're watching the football game
today or this weekend, go grab by some enchiladas, little Morisco Bowl little
beers at one of the mini Mini Gringos Tex Mex newest ones up in Conro
And I appreciate their partnership and having some fun in Las Vegas. Talked about
artificial intelligence. I was kidding with Russell, who runs Gringos. I said,
what do you think of artificial intelligence? I mean, are they gonna
get rid of your waiters? And Russell will say never, because he is
probably the greatest leader and boss of a of a service, you know company
that you know takes care of some great food. He loves his waiters,
he loves his staff too. But I mean, I don't want a robot
really bringing me any of this stuff out. I want, I want somebody
who actually can describe, like, you know, what's inside the season Injlada?
Did A do I have a? Is it too much dairy? But
there are there are, there are companies, there are there are stores out
there who do and we'll use AI power tools. So let's start with Walmart
and Sam's. Shopping at Walmart and Sam's comes is about is about to get
easier. Walmart unveiled a few new of coming offerings that will improve improve customer
experience. They have generative AI powered search tools on their website, and they're
saying it's going to do away with the receipt check lines at Sam's Club,
which is if they if you shop at Sam's club in Costco. What's the
deal that you have to show your receipt to get out? I mean they
got cameras everywhere, man, I mean some of these products probably already have
RFI D chips. Can't they just sense it? I never liked that if
they can get if AI can get rid of those check checkout lines showing the
receipt at Sam's club, I'm shopping at Sam's Clubs, simple as that.
So I'll tell you right. So, this new AI power technology, they
want to do away with the long receipt check lines near the exits. So
what they do is they want to leverage AI and computer vision technology to confirm
that members have paid for all their items in their cart. And they've launched
this tech I think at ten locations with the pilot program. They want to
do it to all the clubs by the end of next year. So as
you're walking out, there's going to be like a cam, an overhead camera
that's going to look in your basket and it could quickly show all of the
things that are in your basket that I believe is going to sync up with
the receipt or your credit card that you just paid. That was just one
of them. And again remember Walmart and Sam's Club at the same company,
owned by the same company. This is not an endorsement, even though I
wish it was. This is just some of the neat stuff that I saw
Walmart. And you're luckier in Texas because Walmart is is going to continue expand
delivery in our great state of Texas via drones. It's a lot of drones.
But get this, Walmart has delivered over twenty thousand drone deliveries of the
last two years in Texas, mostly the DFW area, shout out Dallas Fort
Worth, and they're expanding it to almost two million additional households in DFW.
It's not a concept of the future. It's happening now. Has anybody seen
a drone delivery? Have you ever been driving by? You ever just sat
outside smoking a little cigar in your front yard, laying in the pool,
doing something, and all of a sudden you see a drone Jubai in your
neighbor's yard and drop a package off. I haven't seen it. I know
it's a big, pretty big at Dallas Fort Worth, Arizona, Arkansas,
Florida, Utah, and Virginia. I think they have it two. I
just don't know if that's the right thing. And again I have there's got
to be certain products that can and cannot be delivered by drugs. I don't
want to drone delivering me ice cream because the time it gets there in the
summer, that thing flying from my Walmart distribution center to somebody's house in the
summer three minutes, the things melted. They're gonna have in home grocery delivery
service the point, and they're also going to have virtually actually augmented reality to
have you help try on clothes. They're working on a new augmented reality experience
called it's called Shop with Friends. It's a little social media commerce social commerce
platform, and it's gonna let people customers create virtual outfits to share with their
friends and get feedback. Does this dressed like my butt look fat? To
day? To announcement that's coming up Walmart. They also said they're going to
bring on more more v fast electric vehicle chargers in front of their stores by
twenty thirty, which is great. So I gotta wait six years for this
thing. There's a Walmart by me out in Stafford, Texas, southwest out
of Euston, and I think it's Electrify America. That's the third party who
actually rinse the space. It's only it's one of the very few level three
chargers. Level it's a Level three, which is the highest fastest. That
half of them are already broken. The other two. What I need to
charge an electric vehicle that I'm testing, I have to wait till somebody else
finishes the charger. Then I got to sit to that charger for thirty more
minutes. I'm not a big fan of EV chargers because I still don't think
the contequt is there yet. But ahead good for Walmart for bringing on more
electric vehicle chargers. Now can I make I just not in need to evs
to actually have more range on there's they go more than two hundred and fifty
two to three hundred miles. Point is as we I'm going to finish up
the segment. Then I'm going to get my buddy Richard Murrow rich on Tech.
I'm gonna get him on the line after this next break. It's not
so much about products. It's not so much walking up and down going hey,
here's a television, or here's a phone, or here's a phone case,
or here's a car, here's a drone. Here's they were there also.
But it's about companies. It's you know, business to business, not
so much business consumers or it's it's the services that are going to utilize to
help speed up lines when we check out. It's going to have our you
know, make delivery allegedly easier via drones. We're not gonna have to now
even not in go to AGIB shopping. We're now I don't even have to
go to ATV shopping and wait in the parking lot until someone goes shopping for
us that puts groceries in our car. Now a drone will deliver it.
Maybe they're gonna predict exactly what we want. Maybe I could tell ATV listen,
I've got a high cholesterol, I hate mayonnaise, walming a fat free
diet that AI will now go automatically shopping for me and deliver it to me.
That is what the artificial intelligence is, and this is why I'm trying
to break it down and cover it for you. It's as simple as that.
So if you've got questions or ideas or would you be susceptible to the
idea of having a drone deliver your food deliver groceries. Talk to me.
It's seven one three two one two five nine five. Oh garf is the
nickname is Michael Garfield. Second Saturday, as we're doing this plausably live here
in twenty twenty four. It's the Post Cees Show right here on KPRC nine
fifty am. Good seeing you, Callum, Callum Reid. I usually bring
back goodies. Cal read he's pushing the buttons here on this so I usually
bring out goodies. I did bring back some stuff. Calum. You've got
long hair. Yeah, I mean you got good hair too, But I
got my will later this hour, I'll tell you about this. This hair
dryer it's supposed to do five and a half times more powerful and dry your
hair faster. And you've got long hair. Man, dude, you look
like Jesus. You look like Paul Davis. I mean, I mean,
I love it. Man. You look like you're worried. Al Yankelevick,
wait, wait with the hair. And I say this because it's a compliment.
Man, you been You're not taking my hair dryer. More goodies,
more gifts and potential good giveaways right here on the High Tech Texans Show.
It's Michael, We're gonna be right back back at it. It is the
long running high tech Texan show. Michael Garfield, we are back. We
are back from Vegas. People. Man, I'm telling you, I'm surprised
to actually have a voice still. There was just so much to do,
well over two decades that I've been going for CES. It was fun.
Do I say it was a blast? I mean yeah, but at some
point I'd like to think of getting a little too old for this stuff.
But it's it's fun and this is what I do for a job. One
of the neat things I really enjoy out there is not so much looking at
the products and the companies, but also hanging with my ilk who also cover
it for the technology world. When it comes to the media, one of
which is a good buddy of mine, Rich DeMuro. Rich host a very
popular and much listen to radio show based in LA It's called rich on Tech
Radio Show. You can find it on podcast, rich on Tech, Great,
Instagram, and x feed. I wanted to get his thoughts and we
can kind of play around with it, so I asked him to hop on
the Old Garf Show right now over under the number of steps You've walked this
week, Rich, What do you got? Oh gosh, I was checking
Hey, thanks for having me on, by the way, good to see
you. Look here in Las Vegas. I was checking my steps and it
was probably I think the max was about twenty thousand a day exactly. So
it's it's wild. My feet are hurting, it's a lot. It's nothing.
Everything in Vegas looks like it's very close. It is not. Those
buildings are huge. You cannot walk. Tuesday I did about nineteen thousand steps.
Wednesday I did a close to eighteen thousand steps. But that's about norm.
But the thing is, though, at nights when we get invited to
tell these events, and you and I went into several events with some foods
and cocktails, we need to walk it off, and so I count that
as even. That's how I count that stuff. I agree, one hundred
percent. That's why I feel like anything goes here. You don't, you
know, you don't need to go to the gym. You just you know,
eat, drink whatever you want and then just walk it off. We
we had a lot of fun because we went to a lot of these booths
together. We saw a lot of presentations, We talked to these companies and
I've been like you, like you every day from Vegas. You're out there.
You did your radio hit, your TV hits. What's the funnest thing,
what's the coolest thing, what's the buzz out there? I have my
list, let's kind of compare notes over here. Give me one or two.
I'm gonna call them things. They could be product, they could be
a services, they could be a cloud based thing or whatever. Things.
It stuck out that really, but you do pretty neat. I mean.
The coolest thing that I did as CEES twenty twenty four was try this self
docking boat technology. I don't know if you saw this from Brunswick, but
it is autonomous docking. And so they had this great simulator set up that
really felt like you were driving a boat or steering a boat, whatever you
want to call it. And you get in this thing and it's got the
screens all around you. The actual physical thing moved, so you kind of
get to the dock area, you pick a slip, you press the screen
and the boat does the rest. And I think that is quite possibly the
coolest thing. I know. Some people that are, you know, a
real boat officionado might say, hey, don't take away my ability to park,
you know, dock my own boat. But I thought this was so
cool. And of course then you have things like the transparent TVs. That
stuff is just eye candy. You know. It's like, sure, we're
probably gonna see some inexpensive transparent and see through TVs in the future. But
it's just fun to see what LG and Samsung do at their booths because they're
just always, always larger than life. I like this. Let's go back
to the first one I talked on the boat. You know, we're not
far from Galves and actually we have a lot of listeners in Galveston here,
which is in our DMA, and I know the folks, and there's the
Houston boat shows coming up here and about a week and a half, two
weeks, and they're gonna have a lot of this neat technology. But I
do like boating and I like steering a boat, but it's not the easiest
thing to dock a boat, seriously, And to the fact that this is
autonomous, that's the next greatest thing. And so I actually that stuck out
in my mind too. And you're in the TVs. It's LG, it's
Samsung, there's these third party companies also from Korea or China, and I
saw these transparent TVs and I I love the way you describe it. It
is eye candy, it's ooh, it's ah because I think the word television
or TVs is synonymous with cees, because that's all that people ask me,
Hey, what's the newest TV that you saw? Ces dating back to twenty
years ago when they rolled out the very first I definition TV, I haven't
seen a price in these things. It still kind of doesn't make sense,
but it's it's an oo a factor. Yeah, that's that's what the thing
is. It's like, you know, this is technology that it will quite
possibly come to commercial first. I think in like a mall, instead of
having a window on a store, you're going to have a transparent TV that
you can have advertising on, you can have you know, signage on sale
price, whatever it is, but you can also see through to that store
when they want you to. So I think that, you know, these
things do have a purpose in our lives. I think for the average person
at home, you know, yeah, if you've got a nice, big
penthouse, you want to put the TV in front of the window. I
think there's gonna be some other complications there. How do you actually see the
TV if it's brightly lit from the back, but all this other stuff.
So it's fun, I think. And I saw the folding TV too.
I don't know if you saw this one from that I seen company. Yep,
exactly. It folds up. It's on a stand, it stands up
right. And I was trying to describe this a little earlier to on my
show, and it just kind of slowly automatically folds. It's like orogami or
something. Yeah. Yeah, it takes like about ninety seconds to fold up.
And you know, a purple years rich. What's the purpose? What
is Ted telling me? Because I can't figure it out other than eye candy
and for us media geeks, you know, telling about it, like,
is there a purpose of it? Because it's going to fold out you need
space. Yeah. Again, I asked the guy at Austrian company by the
way, and I said, and I think it's around one hundred and fifty
to two hundred and twenty thousand dollars depending on He said it was about one
hundred and fifty, but I read online that someone said it was about two
twenty But anyway. You know. He gave the example of you have a
penthouse apartment, you have a great view, you want to you know,
not obstruct the view. But also at the same time he said, yeah,
and when you have friends come over, it's kind of a spectacle.
So I get it. There's always going to be people that are big thinkers
in the tech world and come up with just wild implementations of all of this
stuff. Now, there was one thing that I saw that was really cool,
that was very simple, but it had a great use case. And
this was the fingerprint locks. I don't know if you saw these at the
show stoppers or whatever, the pepcoms or the world, but these were a
guy out of la just said, hey, why can't I open up a
lock with my fingerprint? Went on Shark Tank. He said it was a
I think twenty seventeen the idea came to him, and now this year they
came out with TSA approved fingerprint locks. So basically, you can unlock this
lock for your luggage with your fingerprint, but there's also a key spot that
the TSA agents can get into your bag if they need to. I saw
that over the past year or two. I actually have seen those, but
they when every time they would send me one, it just didn't work and
either thing fell apart. But I know this one actually because I saw it.
I think on your Instagram you did a really nice little video. I
think it does work well because instead of sometimes forgetting your code. Yeah,
I love the your price. I love the face recognition when it comes to
on the phones right now. It makes it a lot simple, and I
think it's just a secure too. Oh yeah, and let's be honest,
we've all kind of had that lapse at the gym where you have your combination
lock in the bag and you kind of forget, like, wait, what's
my code again? So this is a much easier way of that now,
Michael, I think you would like the indoor smoker. Did you see that
from I loved it from Ge. I saw it. Not only I think
I saw it. It was the Show Stoppers, but then I stopped by
the ge booth and one of the neat thing is you could smell it twenty
or thirty feet away because it smells like smoke, but it's an indoor smoker
about a thousand dollars tell you what that it's a big hit to keep to
smoke something in your kitchen. Yeah, I mean, especially if you have
like an apartment or a condo or somewhere that you just can't put a smoker
outside. And it's interesting because you would think that you could not smoke meats
indoors. It just doesn't seem to make sense. But like you said,
if you get close enough, you can definitely smell it. But they have
this some some sort of like almost like as they explained it to me,
it's almost like a catalytic converter on a car where they rushed. They pushed
the smoke through this like I don't know material that kind of gets rid of
the smoke. It like it just puts exhaust out and it's not filled with
the smoke scent or whatever. So I thought that was pretty cool. I
mean, you know, are people going to buy it? Probably? It
reminds you like a George Foreman brill or any of those things you see on
like Home Shopping Network late at night. You know, you're you're seeing them
smoke the meat inside and you just you know, your mouth is watering.
Next thing, you know, you spend a thousand bucks on this thing.
Yeah, we're talking to rich de Murow Rich. He hosts a radio show
called rich on Tech and podcast. You can find them online on Instagram and
check it out rich on Tech. You know, I talk a lot of
cars, you know, It's one of the big big things that I do
is the automobiles. I'm a member of the Texas Auto Riders Association and Rich
you know, CEES has kind of become a de facto auto show over the
past few years. There were you know, concept cars, self driving cars,
autonomous cars. Anything pop out to you when it comes into the auto
industry, an actual physical concept, something that's on the road, or even
something that you find inside cars. I mean, I think when it comes
to the concept cars, they were looking more futuristic than I've ever seen before.
I mean, we're getting into the space age of cars. You know.
We saw from Honda, they had a couple of them on display,
LG had them on display, Hyundai, I mean, everyone had these like
super futuristic looking cars. Now, the one that I thought was really interesting
was the one from Hyundai. Mobis that I don't know if you saw this
one, but the wheels spin every direction, so this car could do like
donuts perfectly. It could like it's like it looked like fast and the furious,
you know where it could like back into a into a parking spot by
like kind of skidding into it. I mean it was pretty wild that demo.
Did you see that? I saw that, And again I take listen,
you and I both take this. We're very jaded. We've covered this
industry for so long. Is it going to be Is it just eye candy?
Is it just something that they want for headlines, or is it something
that's actually kind to come out? And you know, I saw some concept
vehicles too. There was one there was a beautiful hot rut. No,
it was just a gorgeous sports car, but it had a it converts into
a drone. Yeah, the one that flies exactly. But let me help
you out in my I mean, you have kids, your kids, your
gor mind. This thing will not actually work even in your kids lifetime,
at least I don't think so. But it's fun to stand up and do
a video shot in front of it. I just don't see it. Everything
come to fruition. But I do like the way the companies are at least
trying to get their name out there and trying to think of head like maybe
one day, one day, way down the road, this could work.
Well. Look, they throw a lot at the wall, and CEES is
all about Look, if you want to have a big booth and a big
presence and you want to spend that money to I mean the booth you're talking
about that was that was a large area where they had this this car plane
whatever you want to call it looked like a hovercraft and they were folding up
the wings or whatever every hour on the hour. I didn't get to see
that part, but you know, it's just there's so many big ideas at
CES. A lot of it is sort of vapor where you know it'll never
see the light of day. But at the same time, a lot of
it is kind of where people are thinking, where things are going. And
yes, it may not happen in the next five ten years, but at
least we get an idea of what people are thinking about. Yeah, and
that's why it really is. I mean, by some you know, the
CEES it used to stand for Consumer Electronics Show. I actually think of the
word see is almost concept whether it's going to happen, whether it's not.
But it's it's fun for us to talk. It's fun. It was great
to get together with you and you know, comparing notes and things, and
I know between you and I we pulled out we got at least what two
or three months of content that we got out of it for all of our
shows. Haven't wait. It's going to take me weeks to go through everything.
And I've recorded at CES. I'm still looking through my camera role too.
Well that's good. Well listen, I just hope I'm going to try
to get my voice back. I hope you get your bunions off of your
feet and everything and always fun to see it and also chat with you about
this stuff. We appreciate it. So if anybody does want to listen or
fine, you tell us where you are are all on social media? What's
going on? Yeah, you could search for the radio show on any audio
app just search rich on Tech. I would love it if you subscribe and
listen. And then of course on social media. Instagram is where I hang
out the most. I'd say, I am at rich on Tech and the
website is rich on Tech dot tv. His name is Rich Jumuro. He
is awesome, He's fun. Listen, buddy, say travels back to LA
and I know I will be as I've seen you soon all right, appreciate
it, Michael, thanks for having me on. You got to hey anytime.
All right, We're gonna take a break right now so I can catch
your voice. I'm back. I'm gonna sip up water, and I will
take your questions of some of the things that you wanted to ask me about
some of the headlines that you saw, and I'll compare my notes to see
if it's worth your time or money. Right here, Michael GARKI, I'm
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I think that's a brand that they're not going to jack with any of that
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Kenny Kenny and Matt would love CES. We went to I went to the
New York Comic Con show with them with Rick Flair because they're they have a
new line of product called Celebrity Mint. They work with Mike Tyson, Rick
Flair. They love celebrities and actually celebrity siding. Oh my, breaking news.
I should have started the show off with this. CS is for years
and years. I mean it's it's such a big trade show. There are
a lot of celebrities come out, celebrities because number one, in some cases,
the celebrities they own part of these tech companies, so they've created part
of these tech companies in other parts. In other cases, you've got celebrity
appearances at these booths. So companies will pay celebrities to come in and so
the you know, idiots like me in the media will come and take pictures
and get selfies at whatever, and obviously hopefully they put their product in the
news. Most famous person I've ever seen at CS over the years. Listen,
a lot of sports folks. Shaquille O'Neil has been there many many years
because the entire TBS NBA is an NBA on TNT. They've been there,
they've done their show from there so Charles Barkley Shak's always doing some fun stuff.
I have seen Will i Am was out there, lead singer of the
Black Eyed Peas. He's really big technology. He was there this year.
I didn't see him, but I actually saw the him a few years ago.
My celebrity siding this year i've seen. I've seen David Copperfield before.
David Copperfield. A lot of people think I look like David Copperfield. I
wish I was that tall, that skinny, that thin and that magical.
But alas, yeah, I gotta pick with him. Not this year.
This year, I'm walking around one of the halls and I see right right
on the show floor, just somebody walking around. I see a group about
twenty twenty five people are kind of gather around in some commotion. There's something
going on. I see pictures taking I go, okay, this has got
to be somebody, and I kind of make my way up to the crowd
of looking there ladies and gentlemen. The musical genius himself, little Stevie Wonder,
Freaking Stevie Wonder walking the halls with some assistance of cees. No clue
what he was doing there, walking around and I mean Stevie Wonder. I
mean there are very few. Listen, I know my music, there are
very few pure geniuses in music. I mean David Byrne, Prince, Stevie
Wonder, I mean, top to bottom. I love Michael Jackson. Michael
Jackson. Don't think it was me because musical genius, but there was defined
a different Stevie wonders off some idol love it everything he does, a walk
around, he's got I guess there were bodyguards and you know some of his
you know, Buddy's guides or whatever it was. And he was just he
was standing there, he was taking selfies with people. And I walk up
to him and I am not shy, if you know me, man,
I was. I am, I'm a celebrity. I'm not a stalker,
but I'm all struck and I'm more than I have to go up and ask
for a selfie. So I got. He starts walking away, and I
just walked right up next to him. I said, Stevie, thank you
for being the sunshine of my life. Oh thank you. I appreciate it.
Thank you for being the sun shut on my left or there. I
say, hey, can we take a quick picture? And you know,
I just I kind of put my arm around him and I took a picture.
It's all my social media, really really nice celebrity studying of the day.
You know what I was thinking. And listen, I'm not making a
joke for Stevie Wonder, which by the way, it's callum. Is this
a spoiler alert if I say, uh, he's got he's blind? And
by the way, he's blind the proper word, because nowadays I don't want
to get in trouble for using Is it's okay to say Blind's okay? It's
heart he has doesn't have very good eyesight? Is that the PC way to
say? But Stevie Wonder for years, he I'm not gonna say, makes
fun of it. He takes pride. He jokes about the whole thing.
I remember he was on a Cosby show back in the eighties and you know
he was making jokes how he should be driving the car and it's fun.
Let me tell you something. I'm a marketing genius. I am. Let
me tell you, and I don't know what he was doing there. I
will tell you the ultimate endorsement of any particular technology ever. And I'm just
gonna give this away for anybody's listening. You know, there's self driving autonomous
cars nowadays. Stevie Wonder needs to be the spokesperson. Boom drop the mic,
drop the steering will. Is there a better spokesperson than Stevie Wonder being
driven autonously in a self driving car? Done? I mean, I don't
know why I'm wasting my time on radio and TV when I should open a
marketing company, an ad agency. It's it's freaking genius. Should we get
back to the show. I got phone calls, I got emails. This
is what we do here on the high tech text and shot. I just
it's it's about life. It's just just you know, we're just putting around.
We're just talking here. It's all type I told you. AI Artificial
intelligence was the thing. Every everything's you know, it's like Amazon Alexa six
seven, eight years ago, everything was an Amazon Alexa, Alexa app.
Now it's AI artificial intelligence. You know, it's going to help you.
You know, AI refrigerator. It's got a cameras refrigerator that I'll read all
the barcodes and tell you when you need to replenish some of your food items
and then give your recipes. AI is everywhere so much. I saw this.
You can now and they may have been around for a while. On
a you can get a web domain instead of a dot com, dot net,
dot org, dot gov, and now you can get a dot ai
web extension. I don't know why you would want that. I mean,
I guess to make up. I will tell you why I got. I
got an email from register dot com. This is not an afaregister dot com.
We're proud to introduce dot ai, the popular domain extension that's redefining the
digital landscape. Get ready to declare your expertise, attrack forward thinking clients and
set your brand at the forefront of innovation. So if you can go out
and you could buy and they're not cheap, because I'm listen, you can
get a dot com domain if you can find one for what seven eight nine
bucks a year or something. I think these dot A I think I looked
up high tech texts in dot ai, which I'm not going to grab by
the way, if anybody wants to go, I think it's about a hundred
bucks a year. But anyway, the Ai extension, according to this sales
brochure, instant credibility dot ai showcases your tech proficiency, positioning you as an
innovator, innovation leader. You can future if your brand AI is the future
and a dot ai domain shows you're a digital pioneer. I don't know about
that. But anyway, as we get here to the top of the hour,
we're gonna take a break. We have one more hour full of fun
stuff. I tell you to go to our radio station, which is KPRC
Radio dot ai, But actually it's not. We're still KPRC radio dot com.
iHeartRadio dot com and I am high Tech Texting dot com. Michael Garfield.
When we come back, I will tell you more of the odd the
odd ball, the oddities that I saw at CEES, A lots of of
automobile talk some some lot of ed cars and a lot of accessories. Is
now the time maybe that I'm actually gonna turn the tables and say it is
time to go get an ed car. Well, let's call of t You're
gonna have to wait to the other side of the show. We're gonna be
right back on them. Is Michael Garfield. Michael Garfield. Michael Garfield joining
in the high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield is here with a high Tech Texans.
It was to make life easier some new technology. So Michael Garfield has
something you might want. Michael Garfield is your high tech Texan. Three decades
helping you make magic with your gadgets occurred worldwide on the Iheartmareo Act. Now
you're high Tech Texan, Michael Garfield. If you're just tuning in, we
are halfway through the High Tech Texans Show, halfway to happy hour. You
know what, We've got a big NFL playoff game today. If you're listening
live on Saturday, the thirteenth of January, go ahead, make it happier.
Go ahead and start drinking right now. Might I recommend Papa's p Lar
great Rum Ernest Hemingway Family distilled in Key West, Florida. Don't just go
for yeah, I mean listen. If you just want some blonde rum.
It's not like rum they call it blonde rum. They have dark rum.
They have rum that is aged and cheery cast. Oh it is so good.
Run out to your store today because it is Saturday. Should you be
listening live? Because we don't sell liquor on Sundays. And there's a wonderful
state of ours, So go get some good partners of mine. Papa's Pa
Pa Papa's kilar p I l a R. By the way pillar that was
the name of Ernest Hemmingway's boat. Should you ever be on Jeopardy. Great
rum found in a lot of restaurants around Capitol Grill down in the Galleria area.
We've got it the Blue Lagoon Restaurant, which is in Texas City right
by that big lagoon. They serve it to. And so if your favorite
bar does not have Papa's PLR, you tell them. Garfield said, better
stock that stuff. And when they stock that stuff, I promise I will.
I will. It's true. I'm gonna host a happy hour and I
will buy rounds of drinks everybody, whoever, whatever restaurant stocks this thing.
That's what That's what I'll do for you. It's my goal in twenty twenty
four to drink less, but to actually make you drink more, but be
responsible. We were recapping this is my annual. What did I see at
CEES. I just got back from Las Vegas, Las Vegas. It's a
twenty second year. I believe I have been at the Consumer Electronics Show.
I walked and walked and walked. I did about eighteen to twenty thousand steps
a day, and then at night I probably put back on those calories that
I lost with all the parties and the events, and a lot of sampling
to food technology was rampant over there. I talked about this a little an
hour number one. Some of the cool food look in your kitchen right now.
And the technology of gadgets and appliances. You know, they've been there.
I remember when I was a kid growing up, and you know,
my dad had to have the electric waffle maker. You know that lasted about
two weeks and we made waffles and they stuck, and then you put it
in the bottom of the cabin and you never open again. And there's your
blenders, and there's the all in one toaster ovens. Oh my goodness,
got your airfriers. Now there's an airfire built into so many other appliances.
It's like all these all in one appliances. So there's there was a plant.
GE they bring good things to life. By the way, GE came
out with an indoor smoker, so you can smoke meat or smoke anything you
want inside this contraption. It's about the size. It's like a smaller than
microwave oven, A countertop microwave of it. It's a little bit more vertical,
by the way, and you put these pellets in there, and the
technology is it's kind of like a catalytic converter in your car that allegedly doesn't
set off your smoke alarm. But it smells great. I mean, I'm
walking down the halls here in the convention center in Vegas and I'm smelling barbecue.
Oh my god, is good? What's going on? I mean,
how can they be smoking this inside? Well that you could do that,
you plug it in and you put these bills. So I thought that was
one thousand dollars if you want that. That was pretty neat. I saw
a beer maker. I've seen beer makers for a while, you know,
homebrew making kits. And by the way, my buddy James Simpson who does
his beer show here on our radio station on Sundays, I probably should get
him a sample of one of these things. But the automated beer making kits
are getting simpler. I had I got a beer making kit once and there's
like and there's like like there's twelve steps and you've got to ferment this.
I'm like, what am I doing? I just just let me just go
buy a six pack of beers somewhere. Nowadays it's what was the name of
this company? Here byway, there's new beer making things that it comes to
the little keg and it ferments it quickly and the whole thing. I thought
that was pretty interesting. Here is a gadget called me. This has been
out for a while, but they just came out with their second version.
It's called meter me E A T E R. I remember this thing was
a startup. I think I met the guys here out of my Midami.
It's a probe. It's a digital metal probe. So it looks like a
pin you know probably you know, six inches seven inches and it is a
probe that is bluetooth that you connect an app to for you app to download
and you put this probe in food and so if you're outdoor, if you're
on a grill, if you're smoking something, or you're cooking something, and
it knows the exactly and it'll tell you the temperature. You can on your
app. Is it chicken, is it fish? Is it meat? It'll
tell you what the external temperature is of what's going on in the grill itself,
and what the temperature of the actual meat it's in. So this is
their meter too. It's got a longer Bluetooth range, and so you could
be you know, inside your kitchen or in your house, and then this
could be outside in your grill. It works inside and outside, I mean
in your oven. Two. But this is the smartest meat thermometer, the
second generation meter too. It is about one hundred and twenty dollars for that.
By the way, if you want to see some of these products,
I will be on Great Day Houston this coming Tuesday, if the weather cooperates
in the morning nine in the morning, Great Day Houston on channel at CBS
channel eleven. I will be bringing the meter and I will be bringing a
few other surprises into some of the other goodies that are brought back by Anyway
food technology, appliance technology. It's pretty impressive there. And I'm not even
counting the smart refrigerators. We have smart dishwashers. They're smart washing machines.
Just there's you know the words smart now it's they just they're slap. It's
like AI. Let's just slap AI artificial intelligence everywhere. Let's just slap some
you know, smart on anything. I mean, they're smart what makes things
smart if you don't burn things, I guess it's gonna be okay, but
smart because it's app enabled or AI enabled. But I thought those were interesting
too. So I'm gonna put a big review and update a lot of photos.
By the way, on my Instagram account and my ex account. High
tech texts and Hi g h T E H T e x A N.
When we come back in the next segment, I will talk about I can
talk about foldables too. You know, foldable phones are nothing new unless you
have an Apple and you have no clue that phones can fold. Saw a
foldable TV? We mentioned it last hour. There was a foldable TV.
If you have two hundred thousand dollars to kill totally, can I can sell
you one? Uh? And then uh, there's a new type of phone
that actually folds. It doesn't fold like a book, it doesn't fold like
a clamshell. Folds backwards too, so bend over backwards for me. And
then kind of I saw something. We're gonna titles what's old is new?
Who remembers BlackBerry? Did you love your BlackBerry device with the with the keyboard,
the physical the physical keyboard, not the on screen keyboard that the iPhone
created and everybody now uses. But the physical keyboard. Well, I'll tell
you what there. I saw a product there that is bringing that type of
physical keyboard back to your phone, your current phone. You see, this
is what I do. I cover all the hot break hot new stuff.
Wrap up. Make sure your pipes and your pets and your people are wrapped
up, because it's going we'll get cold people. Michael Garfield, keep it
a nice and warm here on KPRC nine fifteen nine Art Radio. That is
right, this is the high tech Texans show. A nice afternoon getting ready
for the little football here in Houston tomorrow and Dallas. How about them Cowboys?
We shall see. By the way, for some reason, I'll state
this now that the Cowboys and the Texans both make it to the Super Bowl.
Here's let me give you a suggestion. Blow off Las Vegas on on
what is it, February eleventh, where the super Bowl supposed to be,
and just play the damn game in Austin. Just keep it right here in
our great state. Huh. Austin already has more seats than Allegian Stadium in
Vegas. Why don't we just do that? You know, screw it?
Goodal did you give football Texas? That's what we do here. I make
a rain man. It's all state. Michael's a name, Michael Garfield recapping
some of the things that I saw at CS, some of the things that
you need old school. I'm an og guy. I'm of age that I
could say, yeah, I still have my old alarm clock. But I
also I keep it reels, I keep it real. I don't look for
anything that's mid man. It's all riz as these kids say, what's old
is new though. I'm a BlackBerry guy, and pound for pound, what
was your favorite phone? What was your favorite smartphone ever? I mean,
I had a bag phone in nineteen ninety two and three. If you don't
know what a bagphone, just look it up. But that's dating myself right
there. BlackBerry. It was one of the if I had to think of
three to four game changing pieces of technology in my life, the BlackBerry is
certainly one of them. I mean that was the first truly portable phone,
where then it's not just a phone, you could take your email with you.
Research in motion the Canadian company which it was phenomenal. There was so
many iterations that BlackBerry. They had the BlackBerry Pearl for some reason, a
little tiny one. I you talk about the small device, I love too.
But I think what people loved about the BlackBerry there was a physical keyboard.
And I know for you kids out there, this is really hard to
grasp because right now everything is a the keyboards are on screen. You look
at the iPhone, or you look at your invoys, everything, everything is
just one glassket it's a chocolate bar like a phone, and you you turn
it on and all of a sudden you type these virtual keys. There were
actually keys that you put like a keyboard at the bottom of it, and
the click and that response, the physical response was just so pleasurable. It
was just pretty cool. They don't make if there's all anymore, but they
do. So this new piece of technology out there that was showing it's from
a company called clicks c l I c KS. It's a clicks keyboard.
And what it is, it's it's kind of imagine this. It's a phone
case that you take your iPhone fourteen or your iPhone fifteen and you pop it
in there, and the case at the bottom of it has a physical keyboard.
So it's a keyboard that's actually integrated into a wrap around case, so
your device just pops in there and you input it if you want to,
with the keys at the bottom. One hundred and thirty nine dollars. My
I love the concept. Here in lies my problem. I want you to
again this is it's like I'm doing play by play a football on the radio.
All right, we're going to left right here on the field. Let
me describe this for you. You know the size of your phone right now.
Okay, you've got an iPhone fourteen iPhone fifteen. It's a six point
seventy Okay, So the phone itself you're already gonna got, it's probably about
six inches in lenked top. Now you're putting in it to a case with
the bottom portion of it is extended another two inches to three inches with a
physical keyboard. That's a very tall case that you've got a stuff into your
pocket or something. Now, you don't always have to have the case the
phone in the case, but what's the point you gotta carry around your phone
in one pocket in the case in the other pocket. Love the concept,
but this gets into the what a great concept? Do we need this?
I really do like the concept. Do we need it? I don't know?
I think we've gotten used to that. A paradigm shift in the way
we input things happen when the iPhone came out. I remember the first time
I saw that first iPhone. It was June, what was the two thousand
and seven, and when they released that, and where's the keyboard. There's
no physical buttons, It's a virtual keyboard. And I remember looking that thing
and I said, this is the future of every other phone manufacturer, everybody.
And they did not that was mister making me, mister smart or anything,
but everybody followed it. So the fact is now we're kind of going
old school and old style, but this is the Red Show way to do
it. I don't know how popular this thing is going to be, but
that's just one of one of the I'm not gonna say I have but different
things that I saw out there. Samsung was a sam Samsung had a phone
that that folds in half. No, no, no, stand by.
Samsung is already on its fifth generations of the Samsung Fold and the Samsung Flip
phones. The Fold from Samsung folds left to right like a book. I
have the latest version. Actually, I went to South Korea for the press
announcement last July, got to go to the Samsung manufacturer, saw how everything
was done. You know, I'm a Samsung fan without a doubt. But
the phone itself is it's a little thick, a little very heavy, expensive
at eighteen hundred dollars. Then there's a Samsung Flip. I love the Samsung
Flip phone. That's the old style clamshell phone that flips up, doesn't go
open left to right. I don't use that as my daily phone. And
really why it's because the form factor is phenomenal. Imagine you know, hey
ladies out there, you know, you know how you have your little makeup
compacts where you have your powder and you pop open the top and you got
the mirror and whatever like that. It's what it is. It's it's a
clamshell phone. I fit in my blue jean front pocket. It's great problem
is the battery is not the greatest just because of the form factor. It
doesn't have a massive body, and also that doesn't have a high end a
high enough camera. Samsung's I think have some of, if not the best
cameras on the Smart and I use my cameras so I shoot my videos that
for television on on my high end cameras a Samsung S twenty two, S
twenty three, you know, ultra. They're phenomenal cameras. They're more power
sometimes they're clear than actually regular expensive television cameras. But the camera on the
flip phone, the Samsung flip it's got you know, it's only got two
lenses, and it's just the resolution is not there anyway, neither here to
there. Samsung, there was a large build up for that. Samsung came
out with a demo model of something they showcased a it's a concept. It's
called the flex in an out flip phone, so it's another flip phone,
but it's called flex in and out. It folds in both directions and it
folds completely backwards so you can use the phones. It's about a six point
seven eight screen even when the device is shut, so you could bend it
backwards. One side is slightly shorter than the other because that allows the camera
to be exposed, which is good. And the large side it seems to
be pretty big enough to show some icons in the phone's menu and some playback
controls. It's a concept right now. Probably one of those things is I
don't know if I really need it because flip phones are selling, okay,
but flip phones do not have a They have a very very tiny share of
the market. And really that's probably why, because Apple does not have a
flip phone or a full phone. When they do, I'm sure everybody's gonna
say, oh my goodness, I've never seen anything like this, and I'm
gonna yell at you for now listening to my radio show, because I've only
been talking about freaking flipping hold phones for about five years right now. So
those the other interesting things I see. Laptops were there too. I stop
by the HP desk. HP's got to really neat all in one computer at
home my home office. For years, I have an all in one desktop
computer. Yes I still have a desktop because that's I like big screens.
That's my home office. I've got a physical keyboard Bluetooth keyboard. But in
all in one commuter computer means there's there's the monitor. Generally, if you
have them, let's go back twenty years. Remember here, you have your
home computer. There's your monitor, and there's a cord that goes down to
the ground and on the ground sits that upright computer. That's the whole PC
system. Nowadays. For years there's been such as the all in one,
so the computer itself is built into the monitor, very thin, and that's
it. It's clean. I love all on one monitors and I've only had
HP. HP for years has made all in one monitors, thirty thirty two
inch curve monitors. They've got a new one right now that I saw.
It's about a twenty seven to twenty eight inch and this thing is portable.
It looks like it's like a suitcase because at the top it's got a handle
and you pick it up. My buddy Kevin Winstel who works for HP,
he's here at Juston. He was there. I see him at the HP
booth at CES every year. He showed me how it is and it done
way too much. I don't know what. It's away seven eight pounds and
you can pick up your porto book computer and just got to make it like
a so you can take it between your home and office. It's a very
very large laptop. But all in one computers are good. Gaming laptops are
getting very very powerful and the very you know, they're getting a little bit
more affordable too. I saw one from a company called Omen. It's actually
sorry about that. HP makes it, but it's the Omen Transcend fourteen that
was new. It's a fourteen inch, very very fast. It starts about
fifteen one hundred dollars. Is a sixteen inch version for nineteen hundred dollars.
But these gaming laptops for you gamers, you kids out there, this is
when it's got their really high end process the processors, the Intel Core Ultra
nine and the Nvidia g Force, you know, big chip uh in video.
They want to look into the stock for that. That's an inside joke.
All right, people, we're gonna take a break. Coming up,
Health technology found a thermometer that also checks your heart and lungs. Could this
save your life? Well, that's what I'm here for. You gotta keep
keep it right here. K PRC nine fifty A. Yeah, it's called
the High Tech Texan Show. Just under thirty minutes to go. In this
version of the High Tech Texan Show, I will release you and then you
can go watch all the football you want and good luck finding the game on
Peacock tonight. A lot of controversy, manybody, here's the deal. Listen,
I'm not defending the NFL. Listen. The NFL is a business.
It's a multi, multi, multi billion dollar business. I'm good they're growing.
It's I saw last year in twenty twenty three, ninety three of the
top one hundred TV shows were football. Football is king. They can make
more money. So tonight's game Saturday, January thirteenth, the game Kansas City
Chiefs hosting the Miami Dolphins, and like negative twenty degree weather, it is
solely going to be streamed on Peacock Network. And by the way, if
you think you have Peacock, you may or you may not. Exfinity comcast
here in the Houston area. Yes, if you subscribe to Exfinity, which
is very expensive, you do get a free version of Peacock. I watch
Peacock on a daily basis. But tonight's game is on the paid version of
Peacock, So don't expect to turn on your Oh I got Peacock, you
better pay. I think it's five ninety nine a month. And by the
way, I believe you can subscribe for tonight and then you can cancel within
ten days if you want to try this whole thing. Peacock paid one hundred
and ten million dollars to the NFL just to air and produce Tonight's game.
One game they pay the ROI I don't do not know if they're gonna get
that many advertisers that to pay. But again, it's it's branding for Peacock.
It is branding for Peacock. So Doway, people are putting up a
fit. I can't believe you're streaming a playoff game. Well, first of
all, Amazon, for the past two years, three years they solely stream
Thursday Night's game. The only way you can watch was on Thursday nights on
Amazon. You had to be a Prime video memory. Now, I know
it's not a playoff game, but people are like, I can't believe you're
streaming games. Is the only way to watch it? People, this is
the future, man, It's just it's what it is now. Is the
Super Bowl ever gonna be on stream if you asked me this five years ago,
ten years ago, no way, because they want the massive amount of
eyeballs, which is free over the year television. At some point it but
potentially will be so away. I don't think anybody really much cares about that.
I think you're more concerned with your Texans and Cleveland Browns and the Green
Bay Packers, the Dallas Cowboys. There's your football update, brought to you
by absolutely nobody other than my football loving self. More cees stuff, consumer
electronics show. I just got back from Vegas. You can hear it in
my voice, can't you? Health technology? If you're a doctor, is
there a doctor in the house. A lot of health stuff out there for
many many years. Actually the Abbot laboratories, they were out there. They
were passing out free COVID kits. Anybody. I got a few if anybody
wants them. All this the tech stuff amazes me. Listen, we know
our smart watches can monitor our heart rate, our steps, our blood oxygen
levels, beats permitted for our hearts. Saw one that I thought was pretty
cool over though. It is from a company called Bemo b E A m
O BMO the BMO it looks like a little it's like a little small remote
control. It is a four in one thermometer. It's from a company Whvings
makes it. W I T H I N G S. I love with
it. I have a Withvings scale, I have the Whings blood pressure cuff
to Wvings came out with something called the Bemo and it is It is an
electro cardiogram, an oximeter, a stethoscope you know by the way, a
thermometer, and depending on where you where your body, where you beam it
and it's going to give you some tips on your health. So it's portable,
it's smaller than a smartphone, and it uses metrics, newer grade wearable
type of thing, blood oxygen, your heart rate, chest sounds with a
digital stethoscope. So they need to get FDA clearance, which is expected this
summer two hundred and fifty dollars. I love hearing stories how technology, consumer
technology, even smart watches have saved lives. You know, there's accelerometers in
our phones and our watches, accelerometers meaning it knows roughly how what the speed
you're going at, and that's crash detection and Apple watches. You know,
you know, if you're an a car pretty much knows from GPS that you're
going fifty sixty miles an hour and all of a sudden you stop within two
seconds, odds are you've crashed. Well, they can alert ambulances, authorities,
your loved ones or whatever. I mean, that's just one of many
things. If I've heard stories of people, you know that they're all of
a sudden, they're blood pressure, their beats per minute of their heart all
of a sudden escalates or you know, it slows down. Warning devices come
up in your app and let lets people know. I mean, it's it.
Did it all start off with I've fallen, I can't get up to
some extent, that was really just an alert that you know, if you
have I think it was marketed if you had an aging parent or grandparent or
someone who lived alone and they need assistance and they fall in and they can't
climb across the floor to the phone that was attached on the wall that was
probably four feet up. You carry this thing around your your neck and you
hit a button and it calls somebody, I've fallen and I can't get up.
We've come a long way since then, come a long way with the
technology, uh for our health, which you know, which I love.
I'm waiting for cars to be able to tell it. I'm waiting for everything,
the all in one device, and we need to sit into a car
that's obviously electric, that should have a helicopter propeller like a drone on top,
and when you sit in your seat, it takes a it could digitally
measure your entire body, if you're sick, if you've gained weight, if
something's going on, it's when is this coming? It's the typical old Jetsons.
I love the health I love using the Jetsons type. Yeah, I
use the Jetsons analogy my funny Jetson's cote probably twice a year. Hey,
Michael Man, did you see the flying cars? See? Yes? When
are we gonna have flying cars like the Jetsons? Never? Absolutely, not
in my lifetime, not my kid's lifetime, certainly on a mass level,
it won't happen. Oh'm Michael Man. I used to watch that, you
know, George Jefferson and Jane at George Justin and Jay Man either walking their
dog outside in their little skypad. You know. Rastro I said, bro,
let's just break down that carton. Let's go back to the nineteen seventies.
Hannah Barbera had to be on so many mushrooms to create the Jetsons.
You got two animators. It was a car tune that tried to predict the
future, which really was I think it was in two thousand ten twenty twenty,
which we bypassed ain nothing very rarely that the Jetsons only think Jetson's that
are it's happening right now. They had a instead of a telephone, they
had little TVs that you can call and see somebody. Jane was at home,
George was at work at Spaceley Sprockets, and the TV would pop up
that is now possible with face times and whatever. I watched that show pretty
often too. But remember this. The Jetsons was really the futurist spinoff of
The Flintstones. So the hand of Barbara people, they said, hey,
let's just let's come up with Fred Flinstone. What are you like to live
in the Stone Age? Instead of a really cool record player, No,
let's just take a little tear of Doactyl and put its beak on the record
and play that around. Oh it's a popular Well, let's just fast forward
it and let's just make the Jetsons. And if you really think about it,
and I'm gonna relate it, I mean, people, you're gonna lose
this analogy. The Flintstones was a cartoon version of an old original nineteen fifties
TV show called The Honeymooners with the famous Jackie Gleason. Fred Flintstone is Jackie
Gleason. Bang zoom to the moon. Alis. So to answer your question
is no, I ain't gonna give you any jets and stuff. People.
You're basing it off of what you saw as a kid, as a cartoon.
That is just many of those things that different become fruition. Man,
I just ruined so many kids childhood's right there with that rant ded night.
Sorry about that. People. Oh gosh, but there are cars out there.
The electric cars are big. The CES is a de facto car show,
a lot of manufacturers, a lot of the electric stuff. I saw
a lot of charge. One of the things that I saw Volkswagen. They're
putting chat GPT in their car, which is blah blah blah, not a
big deal. I don't care about that. Tia was out there and they
had a display and this is nothing new because I actually drove Kiev fod do
this with their electric vehicles. Electric vehicles are battery operated. There's a very
large battery in electric cars. As you know, and you think about it,
well, you need to go to a charger, a charging station or
even a charging station inside your home, and you got to plug your car
into it to take the power from your home or power from a charging station
to power up your car. Well, I saw some things that will reverse
that. Your home can now be powered from your car's battery. Ford's got
that with Ford the F one fifty lightning. I think actually there's they can
reverse it. I saw Kiya ki has got something called the wall box.
They're selling a wall box and you have to have electrician to plug this kind
of box. It's like it's a circuit box kind of into your home.
That if for some reason you lose power in Houston, welcome because the next
day or two we could lose power with the grid if it shuts down because
it's going to get so cold. You always know hurricane season starts here May
first, we do lose power. So how would you like to power?
Reverse power? Your car can power your home. These are the things that
are out there too. I thought that was that. That was pretty interesting.
Final segment coming up. Last questions phone call seven one three two one
two five nine five ozho. I'll tell you the one thing that you don't
need. That's the U and A. Actually there's two things. If you
like ice cream, if you like television, stamp by, I will tell
you what's some of the hot or cooler things that you don't need to blow
your money on and from CES all hail. Microsoft said that in a while,
we come to the final segment of this week's High Tech textans show,
Happy New Year, Happy post CES Consumer Electronics Shows. I try to start
my new year, which generally starts mid January, because I've got to get
through the week long massive trade show which I just got back from. I
will be on great Day Houston is coming Tuesday morning while you're a home freezing
and I hope you still have power to watch. I will bring some of
the some of a few cool products that I saw. I shot a fun
video that will lead off Debora Duncan and I and we will I maybe give
some of these products away. Microsoft, though, let me lead with that
Microsoft unseated Apple last week as the world's most valuable publicly traded company, because
we know it's been Apple. Apple has been the most valuable company in the
world over a year and a half, on and off more than a decade,
but one day actually was earlier. This week, Microsoft had a larger
market cap than Apple two point nine trillion dollars to Apple's two point eight nine
trillion. It's actually the fourth time. It's briefly overtaken Apple since nineteen and
since twenty eighteen. But guess what. By the end of the day,
Apple went back up, and you know what it was for AI, Artificial
intelligence. Microsoft is really doing one hell of a job, good job with
positioning itself as an AI company. That's why AI from at what I saw
at the Consumer Electronics Show was everywhere you can't touch. It really software that's
built into so many products and services. I used to work by the I
used to work in Microsoft late nineteen nineties here in Houston area, almost moved
to Seattle, actually Redmond, Washington. Right in nineteen ninety nine. I
had an offer. I just I did not pull the trigger. I said,
you know what, I'm from Texas. I love Texas. There's no
state income tax in Texas. I want to where I wanted to raise the
kids. So I stayed here, did not go to what I still don't
know if that was a good idea or not. And it did allow me
to create the high tech text and do what I'm doing right now. Then
again, I could have been retired with all the stock I got from Microsoft.
By the way, don't look back on this stuff Microsoft and Apple.
They were pretty tight back in the early days of tech. Steve Jobs actually
used software that was developed by Bill Gates. Then, you know that kind
of got a little rocky. Apple sued Microsoft for ripping off its McIntosh software,
which Apple lost, by the way, But Microsoft, if it was
I was there in nineteen ninety seven, I think I just started Microsoft.
Microsoft saved Apple, say, Apple was near bankruptcy. Microsoft invested one hundred
and fifty million dollars to keep Apple afloat. Steve Job called Bill Gates personally
thanked him for the lifeboat one hundred and fifty million. What is that compared
to two point nine trillion dollars? Nothing? Gosh. I wish I had
some Apple stock. I wish I still have my Microsoft stock. But today
Microsoft and Apple account for about fourteen percent of the S and P five hundred.
Microsoft's doing great. They had an early investment in chat GPT their company,
and Microsoft came up with something called Copilot for Microsoft three sixty five that
generates about ten billion dollars. Only at least it will listen. I'm not
worried about Apple, neither shoe, but Apple's facing slower demand for its eye
especially in China, but Microsoft is boosting his business with AI. So Apple's
soon gonna find out if if you could do the same when their new mixed
reality comes out with its Vision Pro device next month thirty five hundred dollars.
Technically, they do not want it to be called an AR or VR glasses.
They're gonna call it mixed reality. It's they don't even want to call
it a headset. But you know what that is. I do not know
how that's going to sell, so we shall see about that. Finally,
a few minutes, people are asking me about all the other cars that I've
seen. I saw a lot of concepts. There's nothing really new in terms
of evs. Listen, BMW and Audi, Kia, Honda, Honda,
they were all there. I did like the accessories with like I just talked
about Kia's wall box that you can take the battery charge from your car and
reverse it to actually power up your home, which reminds me keep you know,
stock up your your supplies, get your firewood, because we got a
freeze coming here in Houston allegedly on this next Monday or Tuesday, and so
if you need extra power, uh, and you do, don't don't laugh.
Gas up. Make sure there's gas in your cars. You may actually
want to sleep and stay in your cars. That could be the only warm
warmth. Don't do it in your garage. Do not turn your car on
in your garage. If you have a gas powered car. I guess you
could do it if you have an electric car because there's no exhaust. But
just a little tip from me to you, let's just let's just stay away
from that stuff. I did that once. I when was the hurricane that
massive? There's several hurricanes here in Houston where we lost our power. Rita
was that at this is way before Harvey. I'm gonna go back out on
a ten to fifte years ago, there was. It was horrible lost power.
My house always lost power for like two days, but there's a lot
of house homes lost power for like a week or so. I I have
and this was in the you know, it's it's it's it was. It
was hurricanes, so it's obviously it's in the summer, it's hot, eats
sticky, and I do I need air conditioning when I sleep. I literally
went into and I had a hybrid vehicle I was testing. Was from Toyota
I think it was a hybrid. I forget what it was, not the
point. It was an suv hybrid car. And in the middle of the
night I could not take it anymore. I went into my driveway, not
my garage. I turned the engine on and I laid down that second row
and I bought a sleep first. I put a sleep bag back there,
and I slept in my car with the air conditioning running. I'm sorry,
that's just I'm not Actually I don't even need apologize. That's just the way
I rolled were We like our climate thing. Don't do that again. Never
start your gas power car in a garage. It's called the assyxiation. We
don't want to do It's not even joking matter. But electric cars nowaday Remember
they don't have any combustion there's no combustion engine. But I still wouldn't even
want to do that. You want to make sure. You want to have
a lot of ventilation. I'm walking about the phone number because we're actually almost,
you know, closing this thing down. Calum that I miss anything.
I'm trying to think, you know what. Once I get off the I
have to I do have to show some of the gear that I brought back.
I'm gonna be on great they used to next Tuesday when I got and
then maybe next week I'll be able to give away some of the gadgets that
I that I brought back, and I hope so Garf is the name.
I thank you for tuning in, Stay safe, stay warm this week in
people. I appreciate it. Good luck to the Houston Texans and all you
Texans fans, all my listeners up in Dallas, including me even I mean
just I'm not I'm from Dallas, but let's go Cowboys. It is a
very Let's just hope we're all safe. It's under twenty twenty four. In
terms of the technological products, you know, save your money take away from
cs neat cool. Got to meet a lot of people and I hope they
send me some demo products that I can give away to you next week on
the the High Tech Texans Show. In the meantime that wraps us up,
I do thank you for tuning in, check me out high Tech textsin dot
com, and I will get to some of the things that I was not
able to talk about, including a two minute ice ice cream maker. There's
a company called cold Snap that makes ice cream at home in two minutes.
Maybe I'll see if I can get one of those so I can give you
away. My name is Gar. For all of us who've been a part
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