WEBVTT 1 00:00:06.000 --> 00:00:10.320 Is Michael Garfier. Michael Garfield. Michael Garfield's joining in the high Tech Texan. 2 00:00:10.519 --> 00:00:15.119 Michael Garfield is here with a high tech Texan. It was to make 3 00:00:15.199 --> 00:00:23.000 life easier some new technology. So Michael Garfield has something you might wanta. 4 00:00:25.359 --> 00:00:32.439 Michael Garfield is your high Tech Texan. Three decades helping you make magic with 5 00:00:32.520 --> 00:00:41.000 your gadgets. Heard worldwide on the iHeartRadio Act. Now your high tech Texan. 6 00:00:41.399 --> 00:00:47.560 Michael Garfield. Well, I guess I can say my new year has 7 00:00:47.640 --> 00:00:53.759 officially begne. Normally it's the January first, that's where everybody's clocks reset. 8 00:00:53.799 --> 00:00:57.640 But you know, generally people, I'm just a little bit busy in January 9 00:00:57.719 --> 00:01:00.280 until mid January and things things calm down. If you can't tell by my 10 00:01:00.359 --> 00:01:03.799 voice, it may be a little of my stuffiness. It has been a 11 00:01:03.879 --> 00:01:10.439 very long week because my super Bowl in the world of technology is officially over. 12 00:01:10.640 --> 00:01:12.640 A few days ago, I finally got back from Las Vegas. It 13 00:01:12.760 --> 00:01:18.400 was the annual CEES, which used to be called the Consumer Electronics Show, 14 00:01:18.480 --> 00:01:23.840 and this is my annual post CES show where I'm gonna go through about as 15 00:01:23.840 --> 00:01:26.200 many of the products that I saw, as many the products that I laughed 16 00:01:26.200 --> 00:01:30.519 at as many of the products that I could actually take samples of it and 17 00:01:30.560 --> 00:01:34.519 stuff it to my bags before I threw them on the plane. All the 18 00:01:34.560 --> 00:01:37.040 people that I met, the companies that I met that are trying to get 19 00:01:37.040 --> 00:01:41.159 my attention as a member of the media who covers this stuff, so then 20 00:01:41.200 --> 00:01:45.599 I can then slowly get it out to you and hope so that you must 21 00:01:45.680 --> 00:01:49.040 bid your heart earn money on buying things that you probably don't need and a 22 00:01:49.040 --> 00:01:53.879 lot of the stuff that we all can't afford. Yes, making a little 23 00:01:53.879 --> 00:01:57.400 fun of it, but that is what CEES does, always a fun thing 24 00:01:57.400 --> 00:02:00.879 to do. Should you be listening live here on this Saturday the second is 25 00:02:00.879 --> 00:02:04.560 this the second Saturday. It's the second Saturday of January twenty twenty four. 26 00:02:05.079 --> 00:02:09.159 Getting ready for your Houston Texans playoff game, my home playoff game. You 27 00:02:09.280 --> 00:02:13.719 got to keep it right here for the next two hours. But we dial 28 00:02:13.759 --> 00:02:21.879 in another one of my ilk in the media technological technology space, my buddy 29 00:02:21.919 --> 00:02:23.960 out in Los Angeles, Rich DeMuro. He hosts a show, does some 30 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:27.680 TV stuff like me, and we're going to compare notes of some of the 31 00:02:27.719 --> 00:02:30.479 things that we saw. I will start with this, I'd like to think 32 00:02:30.479 --> 00:02:34.120 I lost a little weight, because it is it's all about walking the cees 33 00:02:34.240 --> 00:02:38.639 by nature. It used to be the world's largest trade show of any kind 34 00:02:38.639 --> 00:02:43.479 of trade show in the world. About one hundred and eighty thousand people from 35 00:02:43.479 --> 00:02:46.439 all over the world. Seriously, world would show up in Las Vegas. 36 00:02:46.439 --> 00:02:49.639 And it's more than just the Las Vegas Convention Center. If you've ever been 37 00:02:49.639 --> 00:02:52.800 to the Las Vegas Convention Center, you know how gigantic it is. Three 38 00:02:52.879 --> 00:02:57.599 years ago it was expanded to another section of the convention Center. Then it 39 00:02:57.639 --> 00:03:01.120 spills over to the Venetian Sands Expo. It's spills over to several hotels and 40 00:03:01.159 --> 00:03:06.039 then a lot of companies. They said, they get their own suites and 41 00:03:06.159 --> 00:03:09.319 space in hotels, at restaurants and whatever, just you know, just to 42 00:03:09.319 --> 00:03:12.960 make sure that they can, you know, have one on one time with 43 00:03:13.039 --> 00:03:15.639 you. It is a lot of walking, It is a lot of talking, 44 00:03:15.719 --> 00:03:19.120 It is a lot of schmoozing, and it really it's just a lot 45 00:03:19.120 --> 00:03:23.680 of deciphering. Is this legit, is this a concept? This is a 46 00:03:23.719 --> 00:03:28.400 neat thing? Is it going to work? And it's more about straight technology. 47 00:03:29.080 --> 00:03:32.400 They there was no phones released. This is not where phones smartphones are 48 00:03:32.439 --> 00:03:38.719 released. Apple does not ever show here. Apple does its own thing when 49 00:03:38.759 --> 00:03:43.840 it releases its products. There were a few computers. This is different than 50 00:03:43.840 --> 00:03:49.039 comdax Condas was another trade show that was in Vegas that stopped probably a good 51 00:03:49.080 --> 00:03:53.759 ten twelve to fifteen years ago. I did see some laptops. HP was 52 00:03:53.800 --> 00:03:58.800 there, and a few desktop computers. But this is more traditionally cees. 53 00:03:59.159 --> 00:04:01.280 It's a lot about you know, the question I get, Oh, it's 54 00:04:01.319 --> 00:04:05.240 the coolest TV you saw. This is famously where the TVs were debuted and 55 00:04:05.319 --> 00:04:11.800 launched, the high definition TVs, the flat screen TVs, the panels, 56 00:04:12.479 --> 00:04:16.279 the LEDC Back in two thousand and one, two thousand and two, those 57 00:04:16.319 --> 00:04:19.839 things were expensive, they were heavy, they were large. Now they're larger, 58 00:04:20.279 --> 00:04:23.439 some of them are cheaper. A lot of them are expensive, but 59 00:04:23.920 --> 00:04:29.240 some of them now roll up. I saw what that actually folds a folding 60 00:04:29.319 --> 00:04:32.480 TV. I saw transparent. I'm gonna talk about transparent TVs, but to 61 00:04:32.519 --> 00:04:36.480 me it's eye candy. It is eye candy. But as as in years 62 00:04:36.519 --> 00:04:43.199 past, there's just a dazzling amount of gadgetry, Giant TVs, robots, 63 00:04:43.519 --> 00:04:50.199 robots, robots, a lot of electric vehicles, but underpinning. I call 64 00:04:50.240 --> 00:04:54.399 it underpinning or maybe the buzzword. Every year there's a theme to me. 65 00:04:54.480 --> 00:04:58.519 When I walked out it was years ago. I remember it was Amazon Alexa. 66 00:04:58.600 --> 00:05:02.759 Alexa was everywhere. Amazon, they cornered the market. They slapped Alexa, 67 00:05:03.160 --> 00:05:06.800 the voice activation system everything, well, this is this is Alexa activated, 68 00:05:06.800 --> 00:05:10.399 and this was this, And then Google came in a year or two 69 00:05:10.480 --> 00:05:12.160 later. Then it was you know, you know, hey Google, okay, 70 00:05:12.199 --> 00:05:16.519 Google, what have you now? It seems to me this year it 71 00:05:16.720 --> 00:05:25.439 was this. It was AI. Artificial intelligence. AI was in just about 72 00:05:25.480 --> 00:05:30.399 almost every piece of technology I saw at this year. Ces AI is the 73 00:05:30.399 --> 00:05:38.560 technology they captivated millions of people ever since chat gpt stormed onto the internet. 74 00:05:38.839 --> 00:05:44.160 It was just over a year ago, but who could blame them? Chat 75 00:05:44.199 --> 00:05:47.959 gbt launched. It was right around Thanksgiving early late November of twenty twenty two. 76 00:05:49.040 --> 00:05:57.360 It took only five days for it to attract one million users. Give 77 00:05:57.360 --> 00:06:01.319 you comparison, it took Netflix three and a half years to accomplish that same 78 00:06:01.360 --> 00:06:06.439 feet. So chatchpt it writes things for you. If you haven't tried it, 79 00:06:06.480 --> 00:06:10.279 just just good go check it out. I mean, it's the air. 80 00:06:10.319 --> 00:06:16.439 But AI is everywhere. There was AI lamps, AI lawnmowers, vacuum 81 00:06:16.480 --> 00:06:19.439 cleaners, mirrors, AI meat thermometer, which, by the way, I 82 00:06:19.480 --> 00:06:23.519 got a sample of that AI dog collars. There was an AI pillow. 83 00:06:24.279 --> 00:06:29.279 Samsung showed off an AI robot. There was refrigerator with AI vision. It 84 00:06:29.319 --> 00:06:32.360 recognizes foods to suggest recipes or tell you when the expiration data is near. 85 00:06:33.639 --> 00:06:39.079 Washing machines are gonna use AI. It learns your habits and suggest washing cycles. 86 00:06:40.839 --> 00:06:44.199 But you have to understand what AI is. AI is not just one 87 00:06:44.240 --> 00:06:50.319 singular thing. It uses troves of training data and synthesizing information like your brain. 88 00:06:50.519 --> 00:06:54.600 It creates text, you can create images and computer code in seconds. 89 00:06:54.800 --> 00:06:59.720 It's really is transformative technology. Google. Microsoft, They've invested billions in a 90 00:06:59.759 --> 00:07:03.480 question to really try to lead the AI market. And all the reps. 91 00:07:03.480 --> 00:07:05.959 I was walking up and down. Hey Michael, mister Garvey, they see 92 00:07:06.000 --> 00:07:09.160 Hey, high tech Texan. Were you out of Oh you out of Texans? 93 00:07:09.759 --> 00:07:15.199 Come over here, take a look at this Walmart, McDonald's, Volkswagen 94 00:07:15.240 --> 00:07:19.560 Loreale. They were there with AI stuff. About one hundred and thirty thousand 95 00:07:19.560 --> 00:07:24.279 attendees were this year. Not you don't COVID slowed things down, but it 96 00:07:24.360 --> 00:07:26.639 was a lot of walking into a lot of talking. I saw some fun 97 00:07:26.680 --> 00:07:29.600 stuff and I'll get to that. Brought a few things home. Maybe I'm 98 00:07:29.600 --> 00:07:31.319 gonna give away, you know, stand by. I can always ask Colin 99 00:07:31.399 --> 00:07:34.279 number nine because maybe I don't want some of these hair dryers or things. 100 00:07:34.560 --> 00:07:39.439 Yes, I did get a really freaking cool hair dryer, which I'm gonna 101 00:07:39.439 --> 00:07:43.079 go ahead and blow the lead. That really was the coolest sample. I 102 00:07:43.079 --> 00:07:46.240 got really neat hair dryer. Because you know, it's all about hair all 103 00:07:46.279 --> 00:07:49.319 the time. So I'll give you the phone number here on Michael Garfield High 104 00:07:49.319 --> 00:07:53.879 Tech Textan Show seven one three two one two five nine five. Oh. 105 00:07:53.879 --> 00:07:59.079 If you saw something in headlines or any other coverage that you wanted to know, 106 00:07:59.120 --> 00:08:01.639 maybe I saw it. You can ask me if it's worth it or 107 00:08:01.879 --> 00:08:05.199 any of these other stupid, crazy things that I was just you know, 108 00:08:05.399 --> 00:08:09.759 exposed to over the past four four days, walking and talking and doing everything. 109 00:08:09.759 --> 00:08:13.360 I am here for you. Seven one three two one two five nine 110 00:08:13.399 --> 00:08:16.639 five. Oh, Michael Garfield, it's all Cees all the time right here 111 00:08:16.720 --> 00:08:24.920 on the High Tech Text Show. Following up with the Big Cees Consumer Electronics 112 00:08:24.920 --> 00:08:28.639 Show, which is what we do every time I come back here from the 113 00:08:28.959 --> 00:08:33.759 about a four day long just big massive technology show. Tell you what it 114 00:08:33.799 --> 00:08:37.759 was, Chili. It's my twenty second year I did the CEES Show. 115 00:08:37.759 --> 00:08:41.559 And I know it's always a little cold in January. It's always the first 116 00:08:41.559 --> 00:08:43.960 week or two of January, but it was. It was a little chilly, 117 00:08:43.039 --> 00:08:46.480 little chilters, so you know, maybe I got a little stuff, 118 00:08:46.519 --> 00:08:50.879 he knows, but it was. It was fun, and I'd like to 119 00:08:50.879 --> 00:08:54.960 thank the nice folks at my buddies at Gringos and Jimmy chang Has starting with 120 00:08:54.039 --> 00:08:58.960 Russell Lee Borrow Johnathan kim who, by the way, just celevated their thirty 121 00:08:58.080 --> 00:09:05.440 first anniversary at Gringoes for the first Greenos phenomenal tex Mex food. Those guys 122 00:09:05.919 --> 00:09:09.399 love Vegas and they brought their IT department out there and got to see some 123 00:09:09.440 --> 00:09:13.480 of the cool things. So go make sure as you're watching the football game 124 00:09:13.519 --> 00:09:18.759 today or this weekend, go grab by some enchiladas, little Morisco Bowl little 125 00:09:18.960 --> 00:09:22.240 beers at one of the mini Mini Gringos Tex Mex newest ones up in Conro 126 00:09:22.440 --> 00:09:28.320 And I appreciate their partnership and having some fun in Las Vegas. Talked about 127 00:09:28.399 --> 00:09:31.360 artificial intelligence. I was kidding with Russell, who runs Gringos. I said, 128 00:09:33.240 --> 00:09:35.559 what do you think of artificial intelligence? I mean, are they gonna 129 00:09:35.679 --> 00:09:37.679 get rid of your waiters? And Russell will say never, because he is 130 00:09:37.759 --> 00:09:43.720 probably the greatest leader and boss of a of a service, you know company 131 00:09:43.759 --> 00:09:48.120 that you know takes care of some great food. He loves his waiters, 132 00:09:48.200 --> 00:09:52.440 he loves his staff too. But I mean, I don't want a robot 133 00:09:52.480 --> 00:09:56.840 really bringing me any of this stuff out. I want, I want somebody 134 00:09:56.840 --> 00:09:58.679 who actually can describe, like, you know, what's inside the season Injlada? 135 00:09:58.720 --> 00:10:01.360 Did A do I have a? Is it too much dairy? But 136 00:10:01.399 --> 00:10:05.440 there are there are, there are companies, there are there are stores out 137 00:10:05.480 --> 00:10:11.679 there who do and we'll use AI power tools. So let's start with Walmart 138 00:10:11.720 --> 00:10:16.679 and Sam's. Shopping at Walmart and Sam's comes is about is about to get 139 00:10:16.679 --> 00:10:24.600 easier. Walmart unveiled a few new of coming offerings that will improve improve customer 140 00:10:24.639 --> 00:10:31.679 experience. They have generative AI powered search tools on their website, and they're 141 00:10:31.720 --> 00:10:35.200 saying it's going to do away with the receipt check lines at Sam's Club, 142 00:10:35.759 --> 00:10:41.639 which is if they if you shop at Sam's club in Costco. What's the 143 00:10:41.720 --> 00:10:46.600 deal that you have to show your receipt to get out? I mean they 144 00:10:46.600 --> 00:10:50.440 got cameras everywhere, man, I mean some of these products probably already have 145 00:10:50.519 --> 00:10:54.639 RFI D chips. Can't they just sense it? I never liked that if 146 00:10:54.679 --> 00:10:58.600 they can get if AI can get rid of those check checkout lines showing the 147 00:10:58.639 --> 00:11:01.840 receipt at Sam's club, I'm shopping at Sam's Clubs, simple as that. 148 00:11:03.480 --> 00:11:07.120 So I'll tell you right. So, this new AI power technology, they 149 00:11:07.159 --> 00:11:11.840 want to do away with the long receipt check lines near the exits. So 150 00:11:11.879 --> 00:11:16.279 what they do is they want to leverage AI and computer vision technology to confirm 151 00:11:16.360 --> 00:11:22.720 that members have paid for all their items in their cart. And they've launched 152 00:11:22.720 --> 00:11:24.759 this tech I think at ten locations with the pilot program. They want to 153 00:11:24.799 --> 00:11:28.559 do it to all the clubs by the end of next year. So as 154 00:11:28.600 --> 00:11:31.639 you're walking out, there's going to be like a cam, an overhead camera 155 00:11:31.679 --> 00:11:37.120 that's going to look in your basket and it could quickly show all of the 156 00:11:37.159 --> 00:11:43.279 things that are in your basket that I believe is going to sync up with 157 00:11:43.360 --> 00:11:46.720 the receipt or your credit card that you just paid. That was just one 158 00:11:46.759 --> 00:11:48.799 of them. And again remember Walmart and Sam's Club at the same company, 159 00:11:48.840 --> 00:11:52.200 owned by the same company. This is not an endorsement, even though I 160 00:11:52.240 --> 00:11:54.000 wish it was. This is just some of the neat stuff that I saw 161 00:11:54.840 --> 00:12:01.759 Walmart. And you're luckier in Texas because Walmart is is going to continue expand 162 00:12:01.759 --> 00:12:05.240 delivery in our great state of Texas via drones. It's a lot of drones. 163 00:12:05.240 --> 00:12:11.159 But get this, Walmart has delivered over twenty thousand drone deliveries of the 164 00:12:11.200 --> 00:12:16.360 last two years in Texas, mostly the DFW area, shout out Dallas Fort 165 00:12:16.360 --> 00:12:20.480 Worth, and they're expanding it to almost two million additional households in DFW. 166 00:12:24.120 --> 00:12:31.039 It's not a concept of the future. It's happening now. Has anybody seen 167 00:12:31.120 --> 00:12:35.399 a drone delivery? Have you ever been driving by? You ever just sat 168 00:12:35.480 --> 00:12:37.960 outside smoking a little cigar in your front yard, laying in the pool, 169 00:12:39.000 --> 00:12:43.159 doing something, and all of a sudden you see a drone Jubai in your 170 00:12:43.159 --> 00:12:48.360 neighbor's yard and drop a package off. I haven't seen it. I know 171 00:12:48.399 --> 00:12:50.360 it's a big, pretty big at Dallas Fort Worth, Arizona, Arkansas, 172 00:12:50.399 --> 00:12:56.519 Florida, Utah, and Virginia. I think they have it two. I 173 00:12:56.600 --> 00:13:01.039 just don't know if that's the right thing. And again I have there's got 174 00:13:01.039 --> 00:13:03.000 to be certain products that can and cannot be delivered by drugs. I don't 175 00:13:03.000 --> 00:13:09.360 want to drone delivering me ice cream because the time it gets there in the 176 00:13:09.480 --> 00:13:15.480 summer, that thing flying from my Walmart distribution center to somebody's house in the 177 00:13:15.480 --> 00:13:20.320 summer three minutes, the things melted. They're gonna have in home grocery delivery 178 00:13:20.360 --> 00:13:28.279 service the point, and they're also going to have virtually actually augmented reality to 179 00:13:28.360 --> 00:13:35.120 have you help try on clothes. They're working on a new augmented reality experience 180 00:13:35.159 --> 00:13:39.240 called it's called Shop with Friends. It's a little social media commerce social commerce 181 00:13:39.240 --> 00:13:43.080 platform, and it's gonna let people customers create virtual outfits to share with their 182 00:13:43.080 --> 00:13:48.399 friends and get feedback. Does this dressed like my butt look fat? To 183 00:13:48.480 --> 00:13:52.120 day? To announcement that's coming up Walmart. They also said they're going to 184 00:13:52.159 --> 00:13:58.279 bring on more more v fast electric vehicle chargers in front of their stores by 185 00:13:58.399 --> 00:14:01.799 twenty thirty, which is great. So I gotta wait six years for this 186 00:14:01.840 --> 00:14:05.720 thing. There's a Walmart by me out in Stafford, Texas, southwest out 187 00:14:05.720 --> 00:14:11.159 of Euston, and I think it's Electrify America. That's the third party who 188 00:14:11.159 --> 00:14:15.799 actually rinse the space. It's only it's one of the very few level three 189 00:14:15.960 --> 00:14:20.000 chargers. Level it's a Level three, which is the highest fastest. That 190 00:14:20.840 --> 00:14:22.720 half of them are already broken. The other two. What I need to 191 00:14:22.799 --> 00:14:26.039 charge an electric vehicle that I'm testing, I have to wait till somebody else 192 00:14:26.120 --> 00:14:28.759 finishes the charger. Then I got to sit to that charger for thirty more 193 00:14:28.799 --> 00:14:33.080 minutes. I'm not a big fan of EV chargers because I still don't think 194 00:14:33.080 --> 00:14:35.120 the contequt is there yet. But ahead good for Walmart for bringing on more 195 00:14:35.159 --> 00:14:39.320 electric vehicle chargers. Now can I make I just not in need to evs 196 00:14:39.360 --> 00:14:43.639 to actually have more range on there's they go more than two hundred and fifty 197 00:14:43.679 --> 00:14:46.919 two to three hundred miles. Point is as we I'm going to finish up 198 00:14:46.919 --> 00:14:50.000 the segment. Then I'm going to get my buddy Richard Murrow rich on Tech. 199 00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:52.679 I'm gonna get him on the line after this next break. It's not 200 00:14:54.080 --> 00:14:56.919 so much about products. It's not so much walking up and down going hey, 201 00:14:56.960 --> 00:14:58.559 here's a television, or here's a phone, or here's a phone case, 202 00:14:58.600 --> 00:15:03.200 or here's a car, here's a drone. Here's they were there also. 203 00:15:03.320 --> 00:15:05.399 But it's about companies. It's you know, business to business, not 204 00:15:05.440 --> 00:15:11.200 so much business consumers or it's it's the services that are going to utilize to 205 00:15:11.240 --> 00:15:16.600 help speed up lines when we check out. It's going to have our you 206 00:15:16.639 --> 00:15:22.120 know, make delivery allegedly easier via drones. We're not gonna have to now 207 00:15:22.159 --> 00:15:24.159 even not in go to AGIB shopping. We're now I don't even have to 208 00:15:24.159 --> 00:15:28.519 go to ATV shopping and wait in the parking lot until someone goes shopping for 209 00:15:28.600 --> 00:15:31.759 us that puts groceries in our car. Now a drone will deliver it. 210 00:15:31.360 --> 00:15:35.080 Maybe they're gonna predict exactly what we want. Maybe I could tell ATV listen, 211 00:15:37.039 --> 00:15:41.759 I've got a high cholesterol, I hate mayonnaise, walming a fat free 212 00:15:41.799 --> 00:15:45.360 diet that AI will now go automatically shopping for me and deliver it to me. 213 00:15:45.879 --> 00:15:48.200 That is what the artificial intelligence is, and this is why I'm trying 214 00:15:48.200 --> 00:15:52.080 to break it down and cover it for you. It's as simple as that. 215 00:15:52.200 --> 00:15:56.600 So if you've got questions or ideas or would you be susceptible to the 216 00:15:56.679 --> 00:16:00.559 idea of having a drone deliver your food deliver groceries. Talk to me. 217 00:16:00.600 --> 00:16:06.919 It's seven one three two one two five nine five. Oh garf is the 218 00:16:07.000 --> 00:16:11.679 nickname is Michael Garfield. Second Saturday, as we're doing this plausably live here 219 00:16:11.120 --> 00:16:15.919 in twenty twenty four. It's the Post Cees Show right here on KPRC nine 220 00:16:15.960 --> 00:16:21.399 fifty am. Good seeing you, Callum, Callum Reid. I usually bring 221 00:16:21.440 --> 00:16:23.720 back goodies. Cal read he's pushing the buttons here on this so I usually 222 00:16:23.759 --> 00:16:26.960 bring out goodies. I did bring back some stuff. Calum. You've got 223 00:16:27.000 --> 00:16:30.639 long hair. Yeah, I mean you got good hair too, But I 224 00:16:30.639 --> 00:16:33.279 got my will later this hour, I'll tell you about this. This hair 225 00:16:33.360 --> 00:16:37.759 dryer it's supposed to do five and a half times more powerful and dry your 226 00:16:37.759 --> 00:16:41.840 hair faster. And you've got long hair. Man, dude, you look 227 00:16:41.879 --> 00:16:45.679 like Jesus. You look like Paul Davis. I mean, I mean, 228 00:16:45.720 --> 00:16:47.440 I love it. Man. You look like you're worried. Al Yankelevick, 229 00:16:47.480 --> 00:16:48.840 wait, wait with the hair. And I say this because it's a compliment. 230 00:16:48.919 --> 00:16:53.960 Man, you been You're not taking my hair dryer. More goodies, 231 00:16:55.080 --> 00:16:56.919 more gifts and potential good giveaways right here on the High Tech Texans Show. 232 00:16:56.919 --> 00:17:02.039 It's Michael, We're gonna be right back back at it. It is the 233 00:17:02.120 --> 00:17:06.880 long running high tech Texan show. Michael Garfield, we are back. We 234 00:17:06.920 --> 00:17:10.279 are back from Vegas. People. Man, I'm telling you, I'm surprised 235 00:17:10.279 --> 00:17:12.960 to actually have a voice still. There was just so much to do, 236 00:17:14.319 --> 00:17:18.279 well over two decades that I've been going for CES. It was fun. 237 00:17:18.519 --> 00:17:22.920 Do I say it was a blast? I mean yeah, but at some 238 00:17:22.960 --> 00:17:25.319 point I'd like to think of getting a little too old for this stuff. 239 00:17:25.319 --> 00:17:27.960 But it's it's fun and this is what I do for a job. One 240 00:17:27.960 --> 00:17:32.039 of the neat things I really enjoy out there is not so much looking at 241 00:17:32.039 --> 00:17:36.079 the products and the companies, but also hanging with my ilk who also cover 242 00:17:36.160 --> 00:17:38.799 it for the technology world. When it comes to the media, one of 243 00:17:38.799 --> 00:17:42.559 which is a good buddy of mine, Rich DeMuro. Rich host a very 244 00:17:42.599 --> 00:17:47.920 popular and much listen to radio show based in LA It's called rich on Tech 245 00:17:48.240 --> 00:17:51.599 Radio Show. You can find it on podcast, rich on Tech, Great, 246 00:17:51.640 --> 00:17:53.839 Instagram, and x feed. I wanted to get his thoughts and we 247 00:17:53.880 --> 00:17:57.200 can kind of play around with it, so I asked him to hop on 248 00:17:57.559 --> 00:18:03.640 the Old Garf Show right now over under the number of steps You've walked this 249 00:18:03.680 --> 00:18:06.319 week, Rich, What do you got? Oh gosh, I was checking 250 00:18:06.359 --> 00:18:07.200 Hey, thanks for having me on, by the way, good to see 251 00:18:07.240 --> 00:18:11.559 you. Look here in Las Vegas. I was checking my steps and it 252 00:18:11.599 --> 00:18:15.880 was probably I think the max was about twenty thousand a day exactly. So 253 00:18:15.680 --> 00:18:18.880 it's it's wild. My feet are hurting, it's a lot. It's nothing. 254 00:18:18.920 --> 00:18:22.400 Everything in Vegas looks like it's very close. It is not. Those 255 00:18:22.400 --> 00:18:27.440 buildings are huge. You cannot walk. Tuesday I did about nineteen thousand steps. 256 00:18:27.480 --> 00:18:32.200 Wednesday I did a close to eighteen thousand steps. But that's about norm. 257 00:18:32.400 --> 00:18:33.279 But the thing is, though, at nights when we get invited to 258 00:18:33.279 --> 00:18:37.400 tell these events, and you and I went into several events with some foods 259 00:18:37.440 --> 00:18:40.720 and cocktails, we need to walk it off, and so I count that 260 00:18:40.759 --> 00:18:42.519 as even. That's how I count that stuff. I agree, one hundred 261 00:18:42.519 --> 00:18:45.720 percent. That's why I feel like anything goes here. You don't, you 262 00:18:45.759 --> 00:18:47.480 know, you don't need to go to the gym. You just you know, 263 00:18:47.559 --> 00:18:51.240 eat, drink whatever you want and then just walk it off. We 264 00:18:49.920 --> 00:18:53.240 we had a lot of fun because we went to a lot of these booths 265 00:18:53.240 --> 00:18:56.759 together. We saw a lot of presentations, We talked to these companies and 266 00:18:57.079 --> 00:19:00.759 I've been like you, like you every day from Vegas. You're out there. 267 00:19:00.519 --> 00:19:03.799 You did your radio hit, your TV hits. What's the funnest thing, 268 00:19:03.839 --> 00:19:07.400 what's the coolest thing, what's the buzz out there? I have my 269 00:19:07.599 --> 00:19:11.799 list, let's kind of compare notes over here. Give me one or two. 270 00:19:11.680 --> 00:19:14.720 I'm gonna call them things. They could be product, they could be 271 00:19:14.759 --> 00:19:17.599 a services, they could be a cloud based thing or whatever. Things. 272 00:19:17.640 --> 00:19:21.640 It stuck out that really, but you do pretty neat. I mean. 273 00:19:21.680 --> 00:19:26.240 The coolest thing that I did as CEES twenty twenty four was try this self 274 00:19:26.279 --> 00:19:30.240 docking boat technology. I don't know if you saw this from Brunswick, but 275 00:19:30.559 --> 00:19:34.559 it is autonomous docking. And so they had this great simulator set up that 276 00:19:36.000 --> 00:19:38.839 really felt like you were driving a boat or steering a boat, whatever you 277 00:19:38.839 --> 00:19:41.279 want to call it. And you get in this thing and it's got the 278 00:19:41.319 --> 00:19:47.680 screens all around you. The actual physical thing moved, so you kind of 279 00:19:47.720 --> 00:19:52.359 get to the dock area, you pick a slip, you press the screen 280 00:19:52.519 --> 00:19:55.640 and the boat does the rest. And I think that is quite possibly the 281 00:19:55.640 --> 00:19:56.960 coolest thing. I know. Some people that are, you know, a 282 00:19:57.000 --> 00:20:02.039 real boat officionado might say, hey, don't take away my ability to park, 283 00:20:02.440 --> 00:20:04.880 you know, dock my own boat. But I thought this was so 284 00:20:06.000 --> 00:20:08.640 cool. And of course then you have things like the transparent TVs. That 285 00:20:08.720 --> 00:20:11.599 stuff is just eye candy. You know. It's like, sure, we're 286 00:20:11.640 --> 00:20:15.960 probably gonna see some inexpensive transparent and see through TVs in the future. But 287 00:20:17.039 --> 00:20:19.720 it's just fun to see what LG and Samsung do at their booths because they're 288 00:20:19.759 --> 00:20:23.079 just always, always larger than life. I like this. Let's go back 289 00:20:23.079 --> 00:20:26.680 to the first one I talked on the boat. You know, we're not 290 00:20:26.680 --> 00:20:29.240 far from Galves and actually we have a lot of listeners in Galveston here, 291 00:20:29.279 --> 00:20:32.799 which is in our DMA, and I know the folks, and there's the 292 00:20:32.839 --> 00:20:34.640 Houston boat shows coming up here and about a week and a half, two 293 00:20:34.680 --> 00:20:37.079 weeks, and they're gonna have a lot of this neat technology. But I 294 00:20:38.279 --> 00:20:42.359 do like boating and I like steering a boat, but it's not the easiest 295 00:20:42.400 --> 00:20:45.920 thing to dock a boat, seriously, And to the fact that this is 296 00:20:47.000 --> 00:20:49.160 autonomous, that's the next greatest thing. And so I actually that stuck out 297 00:20:49.160 --> 00:20:53.000 in my mind too. And you're in the TVs. It's LG, it's 298 00:20:53.039 --> 00:20:57.240 Samsung, there's these third party companies also from Korea or China, and I 299 00:20:57.279 --> 00:21:00.279 saw these transparent TVs and I I love the way you describe it. It 300 00:21:00.400 --> 00:21:04.920 is eye candy, it's ooh, it's ah because I think the word television 301 00:21:06.000 --> 00:21:10.000 or TVs is synonymous with cees, because that's all that people ask me, 302 00:21:10.079 --> 00:21:12.799 Hey, what's the newest TV that you saw? Ces dating back to twenty 303 00:21:12.880 --> 00:21:17.480 years ago when they rolled out the very first I definition TV, I haven't 304 00:21:17.480 --> 00:21:21.039 seen a price in these things. It still kind of doesn't make sense, 305 00:21:21.039 --> 00:21:23.720 but it's it's an oo a factor. Yeah, that's that's what the thing 306 00:21:23.839 --> 00:21:27.680 is. It's like, you know, this is technology that it will quite 307 00:21:27.720 --> 00:21:32.880 possibly come to commercial first. I think in like a mall, instead of 308 00:21:32.880 --> 00:21:37.079 having a window on a store, you're going to have a transparent TV that 309 00:21:37.160 --> 00:21:41.680 you can have advertising on, you can have you know, signage on sale 310 00:21:41.720 --> 00:21:44.920 price, whatever it is, but you can also see through to that store 311 00:21:45.240 --> 00:21:47.559 when they want you to. So I think that, you know, these 312 00:21:47.599 --> 00:21:49.720 things do have a purpose in our lives. I think for the average person 313 00:21:49.720 --> 00:21:52.920 at home, you know, yeah, if you've got a nice, big 314 00:21:52.960 --> 00:21:56.039 penthouse, you want to put the TV in front of the window. I 315 00:21:56.079 --> 00:21:57.799 think there's gonna be some other complications there. How do you actually see the 316 00:21:57.839 --> 00:22:00.920 TV if it's brightly lit from the back, but all this other stuff. 317 00:22:00.960 --> 00:22:04.000 So it's fun, I think. And I saw the folding TV too. 318 00:22:04.000 --> 00:22:07.039 I don't know if you saw this one from that I seen company. Yep, 319 00:22:07.119 --> 00:22:10.599 exactly. It folds up. It's on a stand, it stands up 320 00:22:10.640 --> 00:22:11.680 right. And I was trying to describe this a little earlier to on my 321 00:22:11.759 --> 00:22:15.799 show, and it just kind of slowly automatically folds. It's like orogami or 322 00:22:15.880 --> 00:22:19.519 something. Yeah. Yeah, it takes like about ninety seconds to fold up. 323 00:22:19.599 --> 00:22:22.440 And you know, a purple years rich. What's the purpose? What 324 00:22:22.599 --> 00:22:26.519 is Ted telling me? Because I can't figure it out other than eye candy 325 00:22:26.599 --> 00:22:29.480 and for us media geeks, you know, telling about it, like, 326 00:22:29.599 --> 00:22:32.039 is there a purpose of it? Because it's going to fold out you need 327 00:22:32.079 --> 00:22:36.440 space. Yeah. Again, I asked the guy at Austrian company by the 328 00:22:36.440 --> 00:22:37.319 way, and I said, and I think it's around one hundred and fifty 329 00:22:37.319 --> 00:22:41.240 to two hundred and twenty thousand dollars depending on He said it was about one 330 00:22:41.279 --> 00:22:44.039 hundred and fifty, but I read online that someone said it was about two 331 00:22:44.039 --> 00:22:47.880 twenty But anyway. You know. He gave the example of you have a 332 00:22:47.920 --> 00:22:51.240 penthouse apartment, you have a great view, you want to you know, 333 00:22:51.359 --> 00:22:53.799 not obstruct the view. But also at the same time he said, yeah, 334 00:22:53.839 --> 00:22:56.160 and when you have friends come over, it's kind of a spectacle. 335 00:22:56.319 --> 00:23:00.240 So I get it. There's always going to be people that are big thinkers 336 00:23:00.240 --> 00:23:06.119 in the tech world and come up with just wild implementations of all of this 337 00:23:06.200 --> 00:23:08.000 stuff. Now, there was one thing that I saw that was really cool, 338 00:23:08.000 --> 00:23:14.039 that was very simple, but it had a great use case. And 339 00:23:14.079 --> 00:23:17.079 this was the fingerprint locks. I don't know if you saw these at the 340 00:23:17.079 --> 00:23:19.720 show stoppers or whatever, the pepcoms or the world, but these were a 341 00:23:19.759 --> 00:23:22.880 guy out of la just said, hey, why can't I open up a 342 00:23:22.880 --> 00:23:26.720 lock with my fingerprint? Went on Shark Tank. He said it was a 343 00:23:26.839 --> 00:23:30.559 I think twenty seventeen the idea came to him, and now this year they 344 00:23:30.559 --> 00:23:34.480 came out with TSA approved fingerprint locks. So basically, you can unlock this 345 00:23:34.559 --> 00:23:40.039 lock for your luggage with your fingerprint, but there's also a key spot that 346 00:23:40.079 --> 00:23:42.400 the TSA agents can get into your bag if they need to. I saw 347 00:23:42.480 --> 00:23:45.200 that over the past year or two. I actually have seen those, but 348 00:23:45.240 --> 00:23:48.839 they when every time they would send me one, it just didn't work and 349 00:23:49.119 --> 00:23:52.559 either thing fell apart. But I know this one actually because I saw it. 350 00:23:52.559 --> 00:23:55.119 I think on your Instagram you did a really nice little video. I 351 00:23:55.160 --> 00:23:59.519 think it does work well because instead of sometimes forgetting your code. Yeah, 352 00:23:59.559 --> 00:24:02.039 I love the your price. I love the face recognition when it comes to 353 00:24:02.720 --> 00:24:03.720 on the phones right now. It makes it a lot simple, and I 354 00:24:03.720 --> 00:24:07.640 think it's just a secure too. Oh yeah, and let's be honest, 355 00:24:07.720 --> 00:24:11.640 we've all kind of had that lapse at the gym where you have your combination 356 00:24:11.759 --> 00:24:14.720 lock in the bag and you kind of forget, like, wait, what's 357 00:24:14.799 --> 00:24:17.880 my code again? So this is a much easier way of that now, 358 00:24:18.440 --> 00:24:22.200 Michael, I think you would like the indoor smoker. Did you see that 359 00:24:22.240 --> 00:24:25.000 from I loved it from Ge. I saw it. Not only I think 360 00:24:25.039 --> 00:24:26.359 I saw it. It was the Show Stoppers, but then I stopped by 361 00:24:26.359 --> 00:24:30.799 the ge booth and one of the neat thing is you could smell it twenty 362 00:24:30.839 --> 00:24:33.880 or thirty feet away because it smells like smoke, but it's an indoor smoker 363 00:24:34.039 --> 00:24:37.880 about a thousand dollars tell you what that it's a big hit to keep to 364 00:24:37.920 --> 00:24:40.920 smoke something in your kitchen. Yeah, I mean, especially if you have 365 00:24:40.960 --> 00:24:44.960 like an apartment or a condo or somewhere that you just can't put a smoker 366 00:24:44.960 --> 00:24:48.759 outside. And it's interesting because you would think that you could not smoke meats 367 00:24:48.880 --> 00:24:52.559 indoors. It just doesn't seem to make sense. But like you said, 368 00:24:52.640 --> 00:24:56.720 if you get close enough, you can definitely smell it. But they have 369 00:24:56.839 --> 00:25:00.799 this some some sort of like almost like as they explained it to me, 370 00:25:00.839 --> 00:25:04.400 it's almost like a catalytic converter on a car where they rushed. They pushed 371 00:25:04.400 --> 00:25:10.640 the smoke through this like I don't know material that kind of gets rid of 372 00:25:10.680 --> 00:25:14.440 the smoke. It like it just puts exhaust out and it's not filled with 373 00:25:14.519 --> 00:25:18.119 the smoke scent or whatever. So I thought that was pretty cool. I 374 00:25:18.119 --> 00:25:19.720 mean, you know, are people going to buy it? Probably? It 375 00:25:19.720 --> 00:25:22.519 reminds you like a George Foreman brill or any of those things you see on 376 00:25:22.559 --> 00:25:26.960 like Home Shopping Network late at night. You know, you're you're seeing them 377 00:25:26.000 --> 00:25:29.920 smoke the meat inside and you just you know, your mouth is watering. 378 00:25:29.960 --> 00:25:30.880 Next thing, you know, you spend a thousand bucks on this thing. 379 00:25:32.440 --> 00:25:34.440 Yeah, we're talking to rich de Murow Rich. He hosts a radio show 380 00:25:34.480 --> 00:25:38.200 called rich on Tech and podcast. You can find them online on Instagram and 381 00:25:38.279 --> 00:25:41.759 check it out rich on Tech. You know, I talk a lot of 382 00:25:41.799 --> 00:25:42.680 cars, you know, It's one of the big big things that I do 383 00:25:42.880 --> 00:25:47.079 is the automobiles. I'm a member of the Texas Auto Riders Association and Rich 384 00:25:47.119 --> 00:25:49.880 you know, CEES has kind of become a de facto auto show over the 385 00:25:49.960 --> 00:25:55.240 past few years. There were you know, concept cars, self driving cars, 386 00:25:55.319 --> 00:25:59.319 autonomous cars. Anything pop out to you when it comes into the auto 387 00:25:59.400 --> 00:26:03.480 industry, an actual physical concept, something that's on the road, or even 388 00:26:03.519 --> 00:26:06.440 something that you find inside cars. I mean, I think when it comes 389 00:26:06.480 --> 00:26:10.880 to the concept cars, they were looking more futuristic than I've ever seen before. 390 00:26:11.000 --> 00:26:14.519 I mean, we're getting into the space age of cars. You know. 391 00:26:14.519 --> 00:26:17.200 We saw from Honda, they had a couple of them on display, 392 00:26:17.400 --> 00:26:21.319 LG had them on display, Hyundai, I mean, everyone had these like 393 00:26:21.480 --> 00:26:25.759 super futuristic looking cars. Now, the one that I thought was really interesting 394 00:26:26.000 --> 00:26:30.160 was the one from Hyundai. Mobis that I don't know if you saw this 395 00:26:30.200 --> 00:26:33.880 one, but the wheels spin every direction, so this car could do like 396 00:26:34.039 --> 00:26:38.519 donuts perfectly. It could like it's like it looked like fast and the furious, 397 00:26:38.559 --> 00:26:42.079 you know where it could like back into a into a parking spot by 398 00:26:42.119 --> 00:26:45.799 like kind of skidding into it. I mean it was pretty wild that demo. 399 00:26:45.960 --> 00:26:49.680 Did you see that? I saw that, And again I take listen, 400 00:26:49.720 --> 00:26:52.200 you and I both take this. We're very jaded. We've covered this 401 00:26:52.480 --> 00:26:56.640 industry for so long. Is it going to be Is it just eye candy? 402 00:26:56.799 --> 00:26:59.319 Is it just something that they want for headlines, or is it something 403 00:26:59.319 --> 00:27:00.839 that's actually kind to come out? And you know, I saw some concept 404 00:27:00.960 --> 00:27:04.200 vehicles too. There was one there was a beautiful hot rut. No, 405 00:27:04.279 --> 00:27:10.319 it was just a gorgeous sports car, but it had a it converts into 406 00:27:10.359 --> 00:27:15.359 a drone. Yeah, the one that flies exactly. But let me help 407 00:27:15.400 --> 00:27:18.039 you out in my I mean, you have kids, your kids, your 408 00:27:18.079 --> 00:27:21.680 gor mind. This thing will not actually work even in your kids lifetime, 409 00:27:21.720 --> 00:27:23.599 at least I don't think so. But it's fun to stand up and do 410 00:27:23.640 --> 00:27:26.039 a video shot in front of it. I just don't see it. Everything 411 00:27:26.079 --> 00:27:30.519 come to fruition. But I do like the way the companies are at least 412 00:27:30.519 --> 00:27:33.079 trying to get their name out there and trying to think of head like maybe 413 00:27:33.119 --> 00:27:34.359 one day, one day, way down the road, this could work. 414 00:27:36.240 --> 00:27:38.119 Well. Look, they throw a lot at the wall, and CEES is 415 00:27:38.160 --> 00:27:41.519 all about Look, if you want to have a big booth and a big 416 00:27:41.559 --> 00:27:45.039 presence and you want to spend that money to I mean the booth you're talking 417 00:27:45.039 --> 00:27:49.799 about that was that was a large area where they had this this car plane 418 00:27:49.880 --> 00:27:53.400 whatever you want to call it looked like a hovercraft and they were folding up 419 00:27:53.440 --> 00:27:57.839 the wings or whatever every hour on the hour. I didn't get to see 420 00:27:57.880 --> 00:28:02.480 that part, but you know, it's just there's so many big ideas at 421 00:28:02.480 --> 00:28:06.160 CES. A lot of it is sort of vapor where you know it'll never 422 00:28:06.160 --> 00:28:07.359 see the light of day. But at the same time, a lot of 423 00:28:07.400 --> 00:28:11.359 it is kind of where people are thinking, where things are going. And 424 00:28:11.440 --> 00:28:15.240 yes, it may not happen in the next five ten years, but at 425 00:28:15.359 --> 00:28:18.680 least we get an idea of what people are thinking about. Yeah, and 426 00:28:18.720 --> 00:28:21.000 that's why it really is. I mean, by some you know, the 427 00:28:21.000 --> 00:28:23.160 CEES it used to stand for Consumer Electronics Show. I actually think of the 428 00:28:23.160 --> 00:28:26.359 word see is almost concept whether it's going to happen, whether it's not. 429 00:28:26.440 --> 00:28:30.440 But it's it's fun for us to talk. It's fun. It was great 430 00:28:30.440 --> 00:28:33.119 to get together with you and you know, comparing notes and things, and 431 00:28:33.160 --> 00:28:36.400 I know between you and I we pulled out we got at least what two 432 00:28:36.480 --> 00:28:38.160 or three months of content that we got out of it for all of our 433 00:28:38.200 --> 00:28:42.200 shows. Haven't wait. It's going to take me weeks to go through everything. 434 00:28:42.240 --> 00:28:45.359 And I've recorded at CES. I'm still looking through my camera role too. 435 00:28:45.559 --> 00:28:48.519 Well that's good. Well listen, I just hope I'm going to try 436 00:28:48.559 --> 00:28:51.119 to get my voice back. I hope you get your bunions off of your 437 00:28:51.160 --> 00:28:55.920 feet and everything and always fun to see it and also chat with you about 438 00:28:55.920 --> 00:28:57.680 this stuff. We appreciate it. So if anybody does want to listen or 439 00:28:57.680 --> 00:29:00.480 fine, you tell us where you are are all on social media? What's 440 00:29:00.480 --> 00:29:04.519 going on? Yeah, you could search for the radio show on any audio 441 00:29:04.640 --> 00:29:07.720 app just search rich on Tech. I would love it if you subscribe and 442 00:29:07.839 --> 00:29:12.160 listen. And then of course on social media. Instagram is where I hang 443 00:29:12.200 --> 00:29:15.319 out the most. I'd say, I am at rich on Tech and the 444 00:29:15.400 --> 00:29:21.039 website is rich on Tech dot tv. His name is Rich Jumuro. He 445 00:29:21.160 --> 00:29:25.400 is awesome, He's fun. Listen, buddy, say travels back to LA 446 00:29:25.559 --> 00:29:27.799 and I know I will be as I've seen you soon all right, appreciate 447 00:29:27.799 --> 00:29:30.720 it, Michael, thanks for having me on. You got to hey anytime. 448 00:29:30.720 --> 00:29:32.519 All right, We're gonna take a break right now so I can catch 449 00:29:32.519 --> 00:29:34.079 your voice. I'm back. I'm gonna sip up water, and I will 450 00:29:34.079 --> 00:29:37.160 take your questions of some of the things that you wanted to ask me about 451 00:29:37.200 --> 00:29:41.000 some of the headlines that you saw, and I'll compare my notes to see 452 00:29:41.000 --> 00:29:42.960 if it's worth your time or money. Right here, Michael GARKI, I'm 453 00:29:44.039 --> 00:29:48.880 high tech text and show. Gotta thank our good friends over at US Coins 454 00:29:48.880 --> 00:29:52.000 and Jewelry start off the new year, right. Hope you got some really 455 00:29:52.039 --> 00:29:55.920 cool holiday gifts if you did, or you've got a little extra cash, 456 00:29:55.960 --> 00:29:59.519 or you actually you want to find some money that's buried in your closets and 457 00:29:59.559 --> 00:30:03.759 burried. Why don't you take all your coins and sell them to US Coins 458 00:30:03.759 --> 00:30:07.720 and Jewelry. Katie Freeway just outside of Loop Sixten. It's Katie and Voss. 459 00:30:07.640 --> 00:30:12.200 I was there January second, I think January third. They talking to 460 00:30:12.240 --> 00:30:18.400 Kenny and Matt Duncan and the entire gang is I just like they're getting new 461 00:30:18.440 --> 00:30:21.839 stuff all the time. There's paintings, there's Texas, the state of Texas 462 00:30:21.920 --> 00:30:25.960 member Rebelia. They were taking inventory, and so a lot of the watches, 463 00:30:26.000 --> 00:30:27.799 the Rolex watches, the diamond stuff, they were kind of outside of 464 00:30:27.839 --> 00:30:30.799 the glass. But I know they are packed. They're ready to go. 465 00:30:30.559 --> 00:30:33.000 Do tell me. You heard it on the Michael Garfield Show. But it's 466 00:30:33.480 --> 00:30:37.240 it's an amazing you had a great twenty twenty three. You want to celebrate, 467 00:30:37.279 --> 00:30:41.720 how about a you pre own rolling like I got, you know, 468 00:30:41.920 --> 00:30:45.240 just a nice little air when you walk into the room. No, they 469 00:30:45.240 --> 00:30:48.559 do. Rolex doesn't have a smart watch. I don't think they need. 470 00:30:48.640 --> 00:30:51.680 I think that's a brand that they're not going to jack with any of that 471 00:30:51.720 --> 00:30:53.319 stuff. And so you can, you know, one on one rest you 472 00:30:53.359 --> 00:30:57.519 wear your your Apple Watch, maybe your Samsung Galaxy were watch. And then 473 00:30:57.640 --> 00:31:02.680 on your other what and your rest you were the relics from US Coins Jewelry. 474 00:31:03.000 --> 00:31:04.400 You don't even need to be in Houston to shop. They do it 475 00:31:04.480 --> 00:31:10.839 online, buy, sell, trade coin stamps. That's three two generations and 476 00:31:11.079 --> 00:31:15.440 their families. They're so cool. US Coins and Jewelry dot Com can't wait 477 00:31:15.480 --> 00:31:19.480 to hang with those guys. I need to bring them out to cees. 478 00:31:19.640 --> 00:31:23.039 Kenny Kenny and Matt would love CES. We went to I went to the 479 00:31:23.079 --> 00:31:30.319 New York Comic Con show with them with Rick Flair because they're they have a 480 00:31:30.319 --> 00:31:33.079 new line of product called Celebrity Mint. They work with Mike Tyson, Rick 481 00:31:33.160 --> 00:31:40.680 Flair. They love celebrities and actually celebrity siding. Oh my, breaking news. 482 00:31:40.680 --> 00:31:45.279 I should have started the show off with this. CS is for years 483 00:31:45.319 --> 00:31:48.720 and years. I mean it's it's such a big trade show. There are 484 00:31:48.720 --> 00:31:52.680 a lot of celebrities come out, celebrities because number one, in some cases, 485 00:31:52.720 --> 00:31:56.440 the celebrities they own part of these tech companies, so they've created part 486 00:31:56.480 --> 00:32:02.519 of these tech companies in other parts. In other cases, you've got celebrity 487 00:32:02.559 --> 00:32:07.519 appearances at these booths. So companies will pay celebrities to come in and so 488 00:32:07.599 --> 00:32:09.480 the you know, idiots like me in the media will come and take pictures 489 00:32:09.599 --> 00:32:13.720 and get selfies at whatever, and obviously hopefully they put their product in the 490 00:32:13.759 --> 00:32:17.359 news. Most famous person I've ever seen at CS over the years. Listen, 491 00:32:17.440 --> 00:32:21.839 a lot of sports folks. Shaquille O'Neil has been there many many years 492 00:32:22.160 --> 00:32:27.160 because the entire TBS NBA is an NBA on TNT. They've been there, 493 00:32:27.160 --> 00:32:32.079 they've done their show from there so Charles Barkley Shak's always doing some fun stuff. 494 00:32:32.680 --> 00:32:37.680 I have seen Will i Am was out there, lead singer of the 495 00:32:37.680 --> 00:32:39.839 Black Eyed Peas. He's really big technology. He was there this year. 496 00:32:39.839 --> 00:32:44.279 I didn't see him, but I actually saw the him a few years ago. 497 00:32:45.079 --> 00:32:47.960 My celebrity siding this year i've seen. I've seen David Copperfield before. 498 00:32:49.039 --> 00:32:52.000 David Copperfield. A lot of people think I look like David Copperfield. I 499 00:32:52.079 --> 00:32:57.160 wish I was that tall, that skinny, that thin and that magical. 500 00:32:57.359 --> 00:33:00.279 But alas, yeah, I gotta pick with him. Not this year. 501 00:33:00.319 --> 00:33:05.160 This year, I'm walking around one of the halls and I see right right 502 00:33:05.200 --> 00:33:07.680 on the show floor, just somebody walking around. I see a group about 503 00:33:07.720 --> 00:33:12.000 twenty twenty five people are kind of gather around in some commotion. There's something 504 00:33:12.000 --> 00:33:14.160 going on. I see pictures taking I go, okay, this has got 505 00:33:14.200 --> 00:33:15.920 to be somebody, and I kind of make my way up to the crowd 506 00:33:15.920 --> 00:33:25.960 of looking there ladies and gentlemen. The musical genius himself, little Stevie Wonder, 507 00:33:28.440 --> 00:33:35.839 Freaking Stevie Wonder walking the halls with some assistance of cees. No clue 508 00:33:35.880 --> 00:33:39.920 what he was doing there, walking around and I mean Stevie Wonder. I 509 00:33:39.960 --> 00:33:45.160 mean there are very few. Listen, I know my music, there are 510 00:33:45.240 --> 00:33:52.160 very few pure geniuses in music. I mean David Byrne, Prince, Stevie 511 00:33:52.160 --> 00:33:55.079 Wonder, I mean, top to bottom. I love Michael Jackson. Michael 512 00:33:55.119 --> 00:33:58.759 Jackson. Don't think it was me because musical genius, but there was defined 513 00:33:58.759 --> 00:34:04.319 a different Stevie wonders off some idol love it everything he does, a walk 514 00:34:04.400 --> 00:34:07.160 around, he's got I guess there were bodyguards and you know some of his 515 00:34:07.240 --> 00:34:09.440 you know, Buddy's guides or whatever it was. And he was just he 516 00:34:09.519 --> 00:34:14.119 was standing there, he was taking selfies with people. And I walk up 517 00:34:14.159 --> 00:34:15.239 to him and I am not shy, if you know me, man, 518 00:34:15.280 --> 00:34:19.599 I was. I am, I'm a celebrity. I'm not a stalker, 519 00:34:19.639 --> 00:34:22.039 but I'm all struck and I'm more than I have to go up and ask 520 00:34:22.039 --> 00:34:23.880 for a selfie. So I got. He starts walking away, and I 521 00:34:23.960 --> 00:34:27.360 just walked right up next to him. I said, Stevie, thank you 522 00:34:27.400 --> 00:34:30.920 for being the sunshine of my life. Oh thank you. I appreciate it. 523 00:34:31.199 --> 00:34:34.239 Thank you for being the sun shut on my left or there. I 524 00:34:34.239 --> 00:34:35.960 say, hey, can we take a quick picture? And you know, 525 00:34:35.960 --> 00:34:37.440 I just I kind of put my arm around him and I took a picture. 526 00:34:37.440 --> 00:34:42.400 It's all my social media, really really nice celebrity studying of the day. 527 00:34:42.760 --> 00:34:44.880 You know what I was thinking. And listen, I'm not making a 528 00:34:44.920 --> 00:34:47.719 joke for Stevie Wonder, which by the way, it's callum. Is this 529 00:34:47.760 --> 00:34:52.440 a spoiler alert if I say, uh, he's got he's blind? And 530 00:34:52.480 --> 00:34:55.119 by the way, he's blind the proper word, because nowadays I don't want 531 00:34:55.119 --> 00:35:00.239 to get in trouble for using Is it's okay to say Blind's okay? It's 532 00:35:00.880 --> 00:35:06.239 heart he has doesn't have very good eyesight? Is that the PC way to 533 00:35:06.239 --> 00:35:12.840 say? But Stevie Wonder for years, he I'm not gonna say, makes 534 00:35:12.840 --> 00:35:15.000 fun of it. He takes pride. He jokes about the whole thing. 535 00:35:15.039 --> 00:35:17.320 I remember he was on a Cosby show back in the eighties and you know 536 00:35:17.360 --> 00:35:22.199 he was making jokes how he should be driving the car and it's fun. 537 00:35:22.880 --> 00:35:27.199 Let me tell you something. I'm a marketing genius. I am. Let 538 00:35:27.280 --> 00:35:29.760 me tell you, and I don't know what he was doing there. I 539 00:35:29.800 --> 00:35:36.079 will tell you the ultimate endorsement of any particular technology ever. And I'm just 540 00:35:36.079 --> 00:35:40.159 gonna give this away for anybody's listening. You know, there's self driving autonomous 541 00:35:40.280 --> 00:35:49.239 cars nowadays. Stevie Wonder needs to be the spokesperson. Boom drop the mic, 542 00:35:50.079 --> 00:35:57.199 drop the steering will. Is there a better spokesperson than Stevie Wonder being 543 00:35:57.280 --> 00:36:02.239 driven autonously in a self driving car? Done? I mean, I don't 544 00:36:02.239 --> 00:36:06.559 know why I'm wasting my time on radio and TV when I should open a 545 00:36:06.559 --> 00:36:10.960 marketing company, an ad agency. It's it's freaking genius. Should we get 546 00:36:10.960 --> 00:36:16.159 back to the show. I got phone calls, I got emails. This 547 00:36:16.199 --> 00:36:19.280 is what we do here on the high tech text and shot. I just 548 00:36:19.400 --> 00:36:21.840 it's it's about life. It's just just you know, we're just putting around. 549 00:36:21.840 --> 00:36:24.280 We're just talking here. It's all type I told you. AI Artificial 550 00:36:24.280 --> 00:36:29.960 intelligence was the thing. Every everything's you know, it's like Amazon Alexa six 551 00:36:30.000 --> 00:36:31.679 seven, eight years ago, everything was an Amazon Alexa, Alexa app. 552 00:36:31.960 --> 00:36:36.239 Now it's AI artificial intelligence. You know, it's going to help you. 553 00:36:36.239 --> 00:36:40.360 You know, AI refrigerator. It's got a cameras refrigerator that I'll read all 554 00:36:40.360 --> 00:36:45.599 the barcodes and tell you when you need to replenish some of your food items 555 00:36:45.599 --> 00:36:49.079 and then give your recipes. AI is everywhere so much. I saw this. 556 00:36:49.519 --> 00:36:52.039 You can now and they may have been around for a while. On 557 00:36:52.119 --> 00:36:57.440 a you can get a web domain instead of a dot com, dot net, 558 00:36:57.559 --> 00:37:01.079 dot org, dot gov, and now you can get a dot ai 559 00:37:02.199 --> 00:37:08.119 web extension. I don't know why you would want that. I mean, 560 00:37:08.159 --> 00:37:10.039 I guess to make up. I will tell you why I got. I 561 00:37:10.079 --> 00:37:15.239 got an email from register dot com. This is not an afaregister dot com. 562 00:37:15.679 --> 00:37:21.440 We're proud to introduce dot ai, the popular domain extension that's redefining the 563 00:37:21.519 --> 00:37:25.880 digital landscape. Get ready to declare your expertise, attrack forward thinking clients and 564 00:37:25.920 --> 00:37:30.400 set your brand at the forefront of innovation. So if you can go out 565 00:37:30.400 --> 00:37:32.840 and you could buy and they're not cheap, because I'm listen, you can 566 00:37:32.840 --> 00:37:37.360 get a dot com domain if you can find one for what seven eight nine 567 00:37:37.400 --> 00:37:40.320 bucks a year or something. I think these dot A I think I looked 568 00:37:40.360 --> 00:37:44.280 up high tech texts in dot ai, which I'm not going to grab by 569 00:37:44.280 --> 00:37:45.039 the way, if anybody wants to go, I think it's about a hundred 570 00:37:45.079 --> 00:37:50.079 bucks a year. But anyway, the Ai extension, according to this sales 571 00:37:50.119 --> 00:37:55.559 brochure, instant credibility dot ai showcases your tech proficiency, positioning you as an 572 00:37:55.559 --> 00:38:00.840 innovator, innovation leader. You can future if your brand AI is the future 573 00:38:01.199 --> 00:38:07.039 and a dot ai domain shows you're a digital pioneer. I don't know about 574 00:38:07.039 --> 00:38:09.519 that. But anyway, as we get here to the top of the hour, 575 00:38:09.559 --> 00:38:13.039 we're gonna take a break. We have one more hour full of fun 576 00:38:13.079 --> 00:38:16.440 stuff. I tell you to go to our radio station, which is KPRC 577 00:38:16.639 --> 00:38:21.519 Radio dot ai, But actually it's not. We're still KPRC radio dot com. 578 00:38:21.559 --> 00:38:24.639 iHeartRadio dot com and I am high Tech Texting dot com. Michael Garfield. 579 00:38:24.679 --> 00:38:28.679 When we come back, I will tell you more of the odd the 580 00:38:28.719 --> 00:38:31.800 odd ball, the oddities that I saw at CEES, A lots of of 581 00:38:31.880 --> 00:38:36.880 automobile talk some some lot of ed cars and a lot of accessories. Is 582 00:38:36.960 --> 00:38:39.800 now the time maybe that I'm actually gonna turn the tables and say it is 583 00:38:39.840 --> 00:38:43.239 time to go get an ed car. Well, let's call of t You're 584 00:38:43.239 --> 00:38:45.400 gonna have to wait to the other side of the show. We're gonna be 585 00:38:45.440 --> 00:39:00.320 right back on them. Is Michael Garfield. Michael Garfield. Michael Garfield joining 586 00:39:00.519 --> 00:39:04.760 in the high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield is here with a high Tech Texans. 587 00:39:06.039 --> 00:39:08.400 It was to make life easier some new technology. So Michael Garfield has 588 00:39:08.440 --> 00:39:22.559 something you might want. Michael Garfield is your high tech Texan. Three decades 589 00:39:22.719 --> 00:39:30.159 helping you make magic with your gadgets occurred worldwide on the Iheartmareo Act. Now 590 00:39:30.400 --> 00:39:35.599 you're high Tech Texan, Michael Garfield. If you're just tuning in, we 591 00:39:35.679 --> 00:39:38.159 are halfway through the High Tech Texans Show, halfway to happy hour. You 592 00:39:38.199 --> 00:39:43.000 know what, We've got a big NFL playoff game today. If you're listening 593 00:39:43.039 --> 00:39:46.280 live on Saturday, the thirteenth of January, go ahead, make it happier. 594 00:39:46.320 --> 00:39:50.440 Go ahead and start drinking right now. Might I recommend Papa's p Lar 595 00:39:51.360 --> 00:39:57.400 great Rum Ernest Hemingway Family distilled in Key West, Florida. Don't just go 596 00:39:57.400 --> 00:39:59.480 for yeah, I mean listen. If you just want some blonde rum. 597 00:39:59.559 --> 00:40:01.320 It's not like rum they call it blonde rum. They have dark rum. 598 00:40:01.360 --> 00:40:06.880 They have rum that is aged and cheery cast. Oh it is so good. 599 00:40:07.039 --> 00:40:08.840 Run out to your store today because it is Saturday. Should you be 600 00:40:08.840 --> 00:40:15.079 listening live? Because we don't sell liquor on Sundays. And there's a wonderful 601 00:40:15.079 --> 00:40:19.199 state of ours, So go get some good partners of mine. Papa's Pa 602 00:40:19.400 --> 00:40:22.559 Pa Papa's kilar p I l a R. By the way pillar that was 603 00:40:22.559 --> 00:40:28.639 the name of Ernest Hemmingway's boat. Should you ever be on Jeopardy. Great 604 00:40:28.840 --> 00:40:34.280 rum found in a lot of restaurants around Capitol Grill down in the Galleria area. 605 00:40:34.800 --> 00:40:37.440 We've got it the Blue Lagoon Restaurant, which is in Texas City right 606 00:40:37.480 --> 00:40:40.760 by that big lagoon. They serve it to. And so if your favorite 607 00:40:40.800 --> 00:40:45.159 bar does not have Papa's PLR, you tell them. Garfield said, better 608 00:40:45.199 --> 00:40:47.320 stock that stuff. And when they stock that stuff, I promise I will. 609 00:40:47.800 --> 00:40:50.840 I will. It's true. I'm gonna host a happy hour and I 610 00:40:50.880 --> 00:40:54.960 will buy rounds of drinks everybody, whoever, whatever restaurant stocks this thing. 611 00:40:55.039 --> 00:40:59.159 That's what That's what I'll do for you. It's my goal in twenty twenty 612 00:40:59.199 --> 00:41:01.800 four to drink less, but to actually make you drink more, but be 613 00:41:01.920 --> 00:41:08.480 responsible. We were recapping this is my annual. What did I see at 614 00:41:08.559 --> 00:41:13.079 CEES. I just got back from Las Vegas, Las Vegas. It's a 615 00:41:13.280 --> 00:41:15.559 twenty second year. I believe I have been at the Consumer Electronics Show. 616 00:41:16.679 --> 00:41:21.960 I walked and walked and walked. I did about eighteen to twenty thousand steps 617 00:41:22.000 --> 00:41:24.639 a day, and then at night I probably put back on those calories that 618 00:41:24.719 --> 00:41:30.480 I lost with all the parties and the events, and a lot of sampling 619 00:41:30.559 --> 00:41:36.760 to food technology was rampant over there. I talked about this a little an 620 00:41:36.760 --> 00:41:39.800 hour number one. Some of the cool food look in your kitchen right now. 621 00:41:40.239 --> 00:41:45.199 And the technology of gadgets and appliances. You know, they've been there. 622 00:41:45.760 --> 00:41:49.280 I remember when I was a kid growing up, and you know, 623 00:41:49.400 --> 00:41:53.800 my dad had to have the electric waffle maker. You know that lasted about 624 00:41:53.840 --> 00:41:57.800 two weeks and we made waffles and they stuck, and then you put it 625 00:41:57.840 --> 00:42:00.480 in the bottom of the cabin and you never open again. And there's your 626 00:42:00.559 --> 00:42:06.440 blenders, and there's the all in one toaster ovens. Oh my goodness, 627 00:42:06.559 --> 00:42:09.199 got your airfriers. Now there's an airfire built into so many other appliances. 628 00:42:09.400 --> 00:42:13.679 It's like all these all in one appliances. So there's there was a plant. 629 00:42:13.840 --> 00:42:17.760 GE they bring good things to life. By the way, GE came 630 00:42:17.800 --> 00:42:25.960 out with an indoor smoker, so you can smoke meat or smoke anything you 631 00:42:27.079 --> 00:42:34.719 want inside this contraption. It's about the size. It's like a smaller than 632 00:42:34.760 --> 00:42:37.199 microwave oven, A countertop microwave of it. It's a little bit more vertical, 633 00:42:37.280 --> 00:42:42.400 by the way, and you put these pellets in there, and the 634 00:42:42.639 --> 00:42:47.960 technology is it's kind of like a catalytic converter in your car that allegedly doesn't 635 00:42:49.000 --> 00:42:51.760 set off your smoke alarm. But it smells great. I mean, I'm 636 00:42:51.760 --> 00:42:57.840 walking down the halls here in the convention center in Vegas and I'm smelling barbecue. 637 00:42:58.400 --> 00:43:00.440 Oh my god, is good? What's going on? I mean, 638 00:43:00.480 --> 00:43:01.800 how can they be smoking this inside? Well that you could do that, 639 00:43:01.880 --> 00:43:04.920 you plug it in and you put these bills. So I thought that was 640 00:43:04.920 --> 00:43:07.519 one thousand dollars if you want that. That was pretty neat. I saw 641 00:43:07.960 --> 00:43:10.559 a beer maker. I've seen beer makers for a while, you know, 642 00:43:10.679 --> 00:43:14.960 homebrew making kits. And by the way, my buddy James Simpson who does 643 00:43:15.000 --> 00:43:19.920 his beer show here on our radio station on Sundays, I probably should get 644 00:43:19.960 --> 00:43:22.559 him a sample of one of these things. But the automated beer making kits 645 00:43:22.599 --> 00:43:28.159 are getting simpler. I had I got a beer making kit once and there's 646 00:43:28.239 --> 00:43:31.519 like and there's like like there's twelve steps and you've got to ferment this. 647 00:43:31.719 --> 00:43:35.800 I'm like, what am I doing? I just just let me just go 648 00:43:35.880 --> 00:43:38.800 buy a six pack of beers somewhere. Nowadays it's what was the name of 649 00:43:38.840 --> 00:43:42.760 this company? Here byway, there's new beer making things that it comes to 650 00:43:42.800 --> 00:43:45.199 the little keg and it ferments it quickly and the whole thing. I thought 651 00:43:45.239 --> 00:43:51.719 that was pretty interesting. Here is a gadget called me. This has been 652 00:43:51.760 --> 00:43:52.679 out for a while, but they just came out with their second version. 653 00:43:52.760 --> 00:43:58.280 It's called meter me E A T E R. I remember this thing was 654 00:43:58.320 --> 00:44:00.280 a startup. I think I met the guys here out of my Midami. 655 00:44:00.239 --> 00:44:04.480 It's a probe. It's a digital metal probe. So it looks like a 656 00:44:04.599 --> 00:44:08.440 pin you know probably you know, six inches seven inches and it is a 657 00:44:08.679 --> 00:44:15.840 probe that is bluetooth that you connect an app to for you app to download 658 00:44:15.480 --> 00:44:20.960 and you put this probe in food and so if you're outdoor, if you're 659 00:44:21.000 --> 00:44:23.599 on a grill, if you're smoking something, or you're cooking something, and 660 00:44:24.079 --> 00:44:27.880 it knows the exactly and it'll tell you the temperature. You can on your 661 00:44:27.920 --> 00:44:30.480 app. Is it chicken, is it fish? Is it meat? It'll 662 00:44:30.519 --> 00:44:34.960 tell you what the external temperature is of what's going on in the grill itself, 663 00:44:35.320 --> 00:44:39.000 and what the temperature of the actual meat it's in. So this is 664 00:44:39.039 --> 00:44:44.079 their meter too. It's got a longer Bluetooth range, and so you could 665 00:44:44.079 --> 00:44:45.639 be you know, inside your kitchen or in your house, and then this 666 00:44:45.760 --> 00:44:50.119 could be outside in your grill. It works inside and outside, I mean 667 00:44:50.239 --> 00:44:52.960 in your oven. Two. But this is the smartest meat thermometer, the 668 00:44:53.159 --> 00:44:55.960 second generation meter too. It is about one hundred and twenty dollars for that. 669 00:44:58.199 --> 00:44:59.920 By the way, if you want to see some of these products, 670 00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:04.880 I will be on Great Day Houston this coming Tuesday, if the weather cooperates 671 00:45:04.920 --> 00:45:08.760 in the morning nine in the morning, Great Day Houston on channel at CBS 672 00:45:08.880 --> 00:45:15.039 channel eleven. I will be bringing the meter and I will be bringing a 673 00:45:15.159 --> 00:45:17.679 few other surprises into some of the other goodies that are brought back by Anyway 674 00:45:19.400 --> 00:45:24.639 food technology, appliance technology. It's pretty impressive there. And I'm not even 675 00:45:24.719 --> 00:45:30.440 counting the smart refrigerators. We have smart dishwashers. They're smart washing machines. 676 00:45:30.519 --> 00:45:35.119 Just there's you know the words smart now it's they just they're slap. It's 677 00:45:35.159 --> 00:45:37.840 like AI. Let's just slap AI artificial intelligence everywhere. Let's just slap some 678 00:45:38.159 --> 00:45:42.679 you know, smart on anything. I mean, they're smart what makes things 679 00:45:42.719 --> 00:45:45.000 smart if you don't burn things, I guess it's gonna be okay, but 680 00:45:45.440 --> 00:45:51.480 smart because it's app enabled or AI enabled. But I thought those were interesting 681 00:45:51.519 --> 00:45:53.280 too. So I'm gonna put a big review and update a lot of photos. 682 00:45:53.400 --> 00:45:58.440 By the way, on my Instagram account and my ex account. High 683 00:45:58.480 --> 00:46:01.320 tech texts and Hi g h T E H T e x A N. 684 00:46:01.400 --> 00:46:05.639 When we come back in the next segment, I will talk about I can 685 00:46:05.679 --> 00:46:08.360 talk about foldables too. You know, foldable phones are nothing new unless you 686 00:46:08.440 --> 00:46:12.559 have an Apple and you have no clue that phones can fold. Saw a 687 00:46:12.599 --> 00:46:15.840 foldable TV? We mentioned it last hour. There was a foldable TV. 688 00:46:17.199 --> 00:46:22.440 If you have two hundred thousand dollars to kill totally, can I can sell 689 00:46:22.440 --> 00:46:25.159 you one? Uh? And then uh, there's a new type of phone 690 00:46:25.159 --> 00:46:28.840 that actually folds. It doesn't fold like a book, it doesn't fold like 691 00:46:28.880 --> 00:46:30.599 a clamshell. Folds backwards too, so bend over backwards for me. And 692 00:46:30.639 --> 00:46:35.880 then kind of I saw something. We're gonna titles what's old is new? 693 00:46:37.039 --> 00:46:42.480 Who remembers BlackBerry? Did you love your BlackBerry device with the with the keyboard, 694 00:46:42.760 --> 00:46:46.079 the physical the physical keyboard, not the on screen keyboard that the iPhone 695 00:46:46.119 --> 00:46:50.119 created and everybody now uses. But the physical keyboard. Well, I'll tell 696 00:46:50.119 --> 00:46:53.079 you what there. I saw a product there that is bringing that type of 697 00:46:53.159 --> 00:46:58.639 physical keyboard back to your phone, your current phone. You see, this 698 00:46:58.719 --> 00:47:00.559 is what I do. I cover all the hot break hot new stuff. 699 00:47:01.360 --> 00:47:05.800 Wrap up. Make sure your pipes and your pets and your people are wrapped 700 00:47:05.840 --> 00:47:07.760 up, because it's going we'll get cold people. Michael Garfield, keep it 701 00:47:07.760 --> 00:47:14.960 a nice and warm here on KPRC nine fifteen nine Art Radio. That is 702 00:47:15.039 --> 00:47:19.360 right, this is the high tech Texans show. A nice afternoon getting ready 703 00:47:19.360 --> 00:47:22.840 for the little football here in Houston tomorrow and Dallas. How about them Cowboys? 704 00:47:22.920 --> 00:47:25.679 We shall see. By the way, for some reason, I'll state 705 00:47:25.719 --> 00:47:34.280 this now that the Cowboys and the Texans both make it to the Super Bowl. 706 00:47:34.480 --> 00:47:39.440 Here's let me give you a suggestion. Blow off Las Vegas on on 707 00:47:39.840 --> 00:47:43.599 what is it, February eleventh, where the super Bowl supposed to be, 708 00:47:44.000 --> 00:47:46.480 and just play the damn game in Austin. Just keep it right here in 709 00:47:46.519 --> 00:47:52.039 our great state. Huh. Austin already has more seats than Allegian Stadium in 710 00:47:52.679 --> 00:47:55.599 Vegas. Why don't we just do that? You know, screw it? 711 00:47:55.920 --> 00:48:01.079 Goodal did you give football Texas? That's what we do here. I make 712 00:48:01.119 --> 00:48:06.920 a rain man. It's all state. Michael's a name, Michael Garfield recapping 713 00:48:07.000 --> 00:48:08.880 some of the things that I saw at CS, some of the things that 714 00:48:09.000 --> 00:48:14.519 you need old school. I'm an og guy. I'm of age that I 715 00:48:14.519 --> 00:48:17.280 could say, yeah, I still have my old alarm clock. But I 716 00:48:17.360 --> 00:48:21.280 also I keep it reels, I keep it real. I don't look for 717 00:48:21.320 --> 00:48:24.360 anything that's mid man. It's all riz as these kids say, what's old 718 00:48:24.480 --> 00:48:29.119 is new though. I'm a BlackBerry guy, and pound for pound, what 719 00:48:29.280 --> 00:48:32.519 was your favorite phone? What was your favorite smartphone ever? I mean, 720 00:48:32.519 --> 00:48:37.039 I had a bag phone in nineteen ninety two and three. If you don't 721 00:48:37.039 --> 00:48:38.880 know what a bagphone, just look it up. But that's dating myself right 722 00:48:38.920 --> 00:48:45.480 there. BlackBerry. It was one of the if I had to think of 723 00:48:45.559 --> 00:48:49.840 three to four game changing pieces of technology in my life, the BlackBerry is 724 00:48:49.880 --> 00:48:52.159 certainly one of them. I mean that was the first truly portable phone, 725 00:48:52.159 --> 00:48:54.760 where then it's not just a phone, you could take your email with you. 726 00:48:55.599 --> 00:49:00.039 Research in motion the Canadian company which it was phenomenal. There was so 727 00:49:00.119 --> 00:49:04.360 many iterations that BlackBerry. They had the BlackBerry Pearl for some reason, a 728 00:49:04.400 --> 00:49:07.159 little tiny one. I you talk about the small device, I love too. 729 00:49:07.639 --> 00:49:12.360 But I think what people loved about the BlackBerry there was a physical keyboard. 730 00:49:13.519 --> 00:49:15.280 And I know for you kids out there, this is really hard to 731 00:49:15.679 --> 00:49:21.920 grasp because right now everything is a the keyboards are on screen. You look 732 00:49:21.920 --> 00:49:23.199 at the iPhone, or you look at your invoys, everything, everything is 733 00:49:23.239 --> 00:49:27.719 just one glassket it's a chocolate bar like a phone, and you you turn 734 00:49:27.760 --> 00:49:30.400 it on and all of a sudden you type these virtual keys. There were 735 00:49:30.440 --> 00:49:35.320 actually keys that you put like a keyboard at the bottom of it, and 736 00:49:36.639 --> 00:49:39.960 the click and that response, the physical response was just so pleasurable. It 737 00:49:40.079 --> 00:49:44.400 was just pretty cool. They don't make if there's all anymore, but they 738 00:49:44.480 --> 00:49:46.639 do. So this new piece of technology out there that was showing it's from 739 00:49:46.639 --> 00:49:53.119 a company called clicks c l I c KS. It's a clicks keyboard. 740 00:49:54.280 --> 00:49:58.559 And what it is, it's it's kind of imagine this. It's a phone 741 00:49:58.719 --> 00:50:06.519 case that you take your iPhone fourteen or your iPhone fifteen and you pop it 742 00:50:06.599 --> 00:50:10.280 in there, and the case at the bottom of it has a physical keyboard. 743 00:50:12.679 --> 00:50:15.960 So it's a keyboard that's actually integrated into a wrap around case, so 744 00:50:16.079 --> 00:50:23.039 your device just pops in there and you input it if you want to, 745 00:50:23.599 --> 00:50:31.360 with the keys at the bottom. One hundred and thirty nine dollars. My 746 00:50:32.079 --> 00:50:37.280 I love the concept. Here in lies my problem. I want you to 747 00:50:37.920 --> 00:50:39.559 again this is it's like I'm doing play by play a football on the radio. 748 00:50:39.880 --> 00:50:43.239 All right, we're going to left right here on the field. Let 749 00:50:43.320 --> 00:50:45.079 me describe this for you. You know the size of your phone right now. 750 00:50:45.159 --> 00:50:49.039 Okay, you've got an iPhone fourteen iPhone fifteen. It's a six point 751 00:50:49.079 --> 00:50:52.360 seventy Okay, So the phone itself you're already gonna got, it's probably about 752 00:50:52.360 --> 00:50:55.719 six inches in lenked top. Now you're putting in it to a case with 753 00:50:57.199 --> 00:51:01.000 the bottom portion of it is extended another two inches to three inches with a 754 00:51:01.039 --> 00:51:06.440 physical keyboard. That's a very tall case that you've got a stuff into your 755 00:51:06.480 --> 00:51:10.639 pocket or something. Now, you don't always have to have the case the 756 00:51:10.719 --> 00:51:14.880 phone in the case, but what's the point you gotta carry around your phone 757 00:51:14.920 --> 00:51:17.079 in one pocket in the case in the other pocket. Love the concept, 758 00:51:17.119 --> 00:51:22.199 but this gets into the what a great concept? Do we need this? 759 00:51:22.880 --> 00:51:25.880 I really do like the concept. Do we need it? I don't know? 760 00:51:25.880 --> 00:51:30.159 I think we've gotten used to that. A paradigm shift in the way 761 00:51:30.239 --> 00:51:34.280 we input things happen when the iPhone came out. I remember the first time 762 00:51:34.320 --> 00:51:37.480 I saw that first iPhone. It was June, what was the two thousand 763 00:51:37.480 --> 00:51:42.320 and seven, and when they released that, and where's the keyboard. There's 764 00:51:42.320 --> 00:51:45.039 no physical buttons, It's a virtual keyboard. And I remember looking that thing 765 00:51:45.119 --> 00:51:49.920 and I said, this is the future of every other phone manufacturer, everybody. 766 00:51:50.000 --> 00:51:52.559 And they did not that was mister making me, mister smart or anything, 767 00:51:52.639 --> 00:51:57.440 but everybody followed it. So the fact is now we're kind of going 768 00:51:57.519 --> 00:52:00.320 old school and old style, but this is the Red Show way to do 769 00:52:00.400 --> 00:52:01.119 it. I don't know how popular this thing is going to be, but 770 00:52:01.199 --> 00:52:05.360 that's just one of one of the I'm not gonna say I have but different 771 00:52:05.360 --> 00:52:09.199 things that I saw out there. Samsung was a sam Samsung had a phone 772 00:52:09.960 --> 00:52:13.559 that that folds in half. No, no, no, stand by. 773 00:52:13.679 --> 00:52:16.920 Samsung is already on its fifth generations of the Samsung Fold and the Samsung Flip 774 00:52:17.000 --> 00:52:22.920 phones. The Fold from Samsung folds left to right like a book. I 775 00:52:23.000 --> 00:52:25.800 have the latest version. Actually, I went to South Korea for the press 776 00:52:27.000 --> 00:52:30.280 announcement last July, got to go to the Samsung manufacturer, saw how everything 777 00:52:30.360 --> 00:52:35.159 was done. You know, I'm a Samsung fan without a doubt. But 778 00:52:35.320 --> 00:52:39.679 the phone itself is it's a little thick, a little very heavy, expensive 779 00:52:39.679 --> 00:52:44.840 at eighteen hundred dollars. Then there's a Samsung Flip. I love the Samsung 780 00:52:44.920 --> 00:52:47.360 Flip phone. That's the old style clamshell phone that flips up, doesn't go 781 00:52:47.400 --> 00:52:52.320 open left to right. I don't use that as my daily phone. And 782 00:52:52.639 --> 00:52:57.920 really why it's because the form factor is phenomenal. Imagine you know, hey 783 00:52:58.119 --> 00:53:00.320 ladies out there, you know, you know how you have your little makeup 784 00:53:00.400 --> 00:53:04.599 compacts where you have your powder and you pop open the top and you got 785 00:53:04.639 --> 00:53:06.880 the mirror and whatever like that. It's what it is. It's it's a 786 00:53:06.880 --> 00:53:12.800 clamshell phone. I fit in my blue jean front pocket. It's great problem 787 00:53:12.920 --> 00:53:16.400 is the battery is not the greatest just because of the form factor. It 788 00:53:16.440 --> 00:53:22.159 doesn't have a massive body, and also that doesn't have a high end a 789 00:53:22.280 --> 00:53:25.480 high enough camera. Samsung's I think have some of, if not the best 790 00:53:25.559 --> 00:53:29.639 cameras on the Smart and I use my cameras so I shoot my videos that 791 00:53:29.719 --> 00:53:34.320 for television on on my high end cameras a Samsung S twenty two, S 792 00:53:34.400 --> 00:53:37.719 twenty three, you know, ultra. They're phenomenal cameras. They're more power 793 00:53:38.239 --> 00:53:44.360 sometimes they're clear than actually regular expensive television cameras. But the camera on the 794 00:53:44.480 --> 00:53:47.000 flip phone, the Samsung flip it's got you know, it's only got two 795 00:53:47.039 --> 00:53:51.760 lenses, and it's just the resolution is not there anyway, neither here to 796 00:53:51.800 --> 00:53:54.840 there. Samsung, there was a large build up for that. Samsung came 797 00:53:54.840 --> 00:53:59.639 out with a demo model of something they showcased a it's a concept. It's 798 00:53:59.679 --> 00:54:04.400 called the flex in an out flip phone, so it's another flip phone, 799 00:54:04.400 --> 00:54:08.760 but it's called flex in and out. It folds in both directions and it 800 00:54:08.880 --> 00:54:15.440 folds completely backwards so you can use the phones. It's about a six point 801 00:54:15.480 --> 00:54:22.440 seven eight screen even when the device is shut, so you could bend it 802 00:54:22.480 --> 00:54:27.280 backwards. One side is slightly shorter than the other because that allows the camera 803 00:54:27.400 --> 00:54:30.039 to be exposed, which is good. And the large side it seems to 804 00:54:30.079 --> 00:54:35.320 be pretty big enough to show some icons in the phone's menu and some playback 805 00:54:35.360 --> 00:54:38.880 controls. It's a concept right now. Probably one of those things is I 806 00:54:38.920 --> 00:54:43.960 don't know if I really need it because flip phones are selling, okay, 807 00:54:44.039 --> 00:54:46.519 but flip phones do not have a They have a very very tiny share of 808 00:54:46.559 --> 00:54:50.360 the market. And really that's probably why, because Apple does not have a 809 00:54:50.400 --> 00:54:52.719 flip phone or a full phone. When they do, I'm sure everybody's gonna 810 00:54:52.719 --> 00:54:55.599 say, oh my goodness, I've never seen anything like this, and I'm 811 00:54:55.599 --> 00:54:58.920 gonna yell at you for now listening to my radio show, because I've only 812 00:54:58.960 --> 00:55:01.360 been talking about freaking flipping hold phones for about five years right now. So 813 00:55:01.480 --> 00:55:06.039 those the other interesting things I see. Laptops were there too. I stop 814 00:55:06.199 --> 00:55:12.440 by the HP desk. HP's got to really neat all in one computer at 815 00:55:12.559 --> 00:55:15.559 home my home office. For years, I have an all in one desktop 816 00:55:15.599 --> 00:55:21.280 computer. Yes I still have a desktop because that's I like big screens. 817 00:55:21.719 --> 00:55:24.559 That's my home office. I've got a physical keyboard Bluetooth keyboard. But in 818 00:55:24.679 --> 00:55:30.440 all in one commuter computer means there's there's the monitor. Generally, if you 819 00:55:30.480 --> 00:55:31.320 have them, let's go back twenty years. Remember here, you have your 820 00:55:31.320 --> 00:55:35.719 home computer. There's your monitor, and there's a cord that goes down to 821 00:55:35.760 --> 00:55:39.000 the ground and on the ground sits that upright computer. That's the whole PC 822 00:55:39.199 --> 00:55:44.400 system. Nowadays. For years there's been such as the all in one, 823 00:55:44.800 --> 00:55:47.119 so the computer itself is built into the monitor, very thin, and that's 824 00:55:47.199 --> 00:55:51.800 it. It's clean. I love all on one monitors and I've only had 825 00:55:52.079 --> 00:55:57.039 HP. HP for years has made all in one monitors, thirty thirty two 826 00:55:57.039 --> 00:56:00.320 inch curve monitors. They've got a new one right now that I saw. 827 00:56:00.360 --> 00:56:02.880 It's about a twenty seven to twenty eight inch and this thing is portable. 828 00:56:04.199 --> 00:56:06.880 It looks like it's like a suitcase because at the top it's got a handle 829 00:56:06.920 --> 00:56:08.199 and you pick it up. My buddy Kevin Winstel who works for HP, 830 00:56:08.760 --> 00:56:12.320 he's here at Juston. He was there. I see him at the HP 831 00:56:12.400 --> 00:56:15.440 booth at CES every year. He showed me how it is and it done 832 00:56:15.480 --> 00:56:16.639 way too much. I don't know what. It's away seven eight pounds and 833 00:56:16.639 --> 00:56:20.039 you can pick up your porto book computer and just got to make it like 834 00:56:20.119 --> 00:56:22.719 a so you can take it between your home and office. It's a very 835 00:56:22.760 --> 00:56:25.519 very large laptop. But all in one computers are good. Gaming laptops are 836 00:56:25.559 --> 00:56:30.519 getting very very powerful and the very you know, they're getting a little bit 837 00:56:30.559 --> 00:56:35.519 more affordable too. I saw one from a company called Omen. It's actually 838 00:56:35.559 --> 00:56:38.719 sorry about that. HP makes it, but it's the Omen Transcend fourteen that 839 00:56:38.880 --> 00:56:44.320 was new. It's a fourteen inch, very very fast. It starts about 840 00:56:44.320 --> 00:56:46.559 fifteen one hundred dollars. Is a sixteen inch version for nineteen hundred dollars. 841 00:56:46.599 --> 00:56:51.199 But these gaming laptops for you gamers, you kids out there, this is 842 00:56:51.280 --> 00:56:54.800 when it's got their really high end process the processors, the Intel Core Ultra 843 00:56:54.960 --> 00:57:00.039 nine and the Nvidia g Force, you know, big chip uh in video. 844 00:57:00.199 --> 00:57:04.519 They want to look into the stock for that. That's an inside joke. 845 00:57:04.519 --> 00:57:06.239 All right, people, we're gonna take a break. Coming up, 846 00:57:07.000 --> 00:57:13.239 Health technology found a thermometer that also checks your heart and lungs. Could this 847 00:57:13.320 --> 00:57:15.800 save your life? Well, that's what I'm here for. You gotta keep 848 00:57:15.960 --> 00:57:17.079 keep it right here. K PRC nine fifty A. Yeah, it's called 849 00:57:17.079 --> 00:57:25.320 the High Tech Texan Show. Just under thirty minutes to go. In this 850 00:57:25.519 --> 00:57:30.159 version of the High Tech Texan Show, I will release you and then you 851 00:57:30.239 --> 00:57:34.719 can go watch all the football you want and good luck finding the game on 852 00:57:34.880 --> 00:57:39.119 Peacock tonight. A lot of controversy, manybody, here's the deal. Listen, 853 00:57:39.159 --> 00:57:43.079 I'm not defending the NFL. Listen. The NFL is a business. 854 00:57:43.119 --> 00:57:45.880 It's a multi, multi, multi billion dollar business. I'm good they're growing. 855 00:57:46.000 --> 00:57:50.639 It's I saw last year in twenty twenty three, ninety three of the 856 00:57:50.719 --> 00:57:57.480 top one hundred TV shows were football. Football is king. They can make 857 00:57:57.519 --> 00:58:01.119 more money. So tonight's game Saturday, January thirteenth, the game Kansas City 858 00:58:01.239 --> 00:58:06.239 Chiefs hosting the Miami Dolphins, and like negative twenty degree weather, it is 859 00:58:06.320 --> 00:58:09.960 solely going to be streamed on Peacock Network. And by the way, if 860 00:58:10.000 --> 00:58:15.079 you think you have Peacock, you may or you may not. Exfinity comcast 861 00:58:15.199 --> 00:58:17.880 here in the Houston area. Yes, if you subscribe to Exfinity, which 862 00:58:17.920 --> 00:58:22.639 is very expensive, you do get a free version of Peacock. I watch 863 00:58:22.679 --> 00:58:27.639 Peacock on a daily basis. But tonight's game is on the paid version of 864 00:58:27.800 --> 00:58:30.199 Peacock, So don't expect to turn on your Oh I got Peacock, you 865 00:58:30.320 --> 00:58:32.360 better pay. I think it's five ninety nine a month. And by the 866 00:58:32.400 --> 00:58:37.079 way, I believe you can subscribe for tonight and then you can cancel within 867 00:58:37.199 --> 00:58:40.519 ten days if you want to try this whole thing. Peacock paid one hundred 868 00:58:40.559 --> 00:58:49.119 and ten million dollars to the NFL just to air and produce Tonight's game. 869 00:58:49.440 --> 00:58:53.719 One game they pay the ROI I don't do not know if they're gonna get 870 00:58:53.760 --> 00:58:58.320 that many advertisers that to pay. But again, it's it's branding for Peacock. 871 00:58:59.039 --> 00:59:00.880 It is branding for Peacock. So Doway, people are putting up a 872 00:59:00.880 --> 00:59:04.880 fit. I can't believe you're streaming a playoff game. Well, first of 873 00:59:04.920 --> 00:59:10.119 all, Amazon, for the past two years, three years they solely stream 874 00:59:10.239 --> 00:59:14.239 Thursday Night's game. The only way you can watch was on Thursday nights on 875 00:59:14.559 --> 00:59:16.159 Amazon. You had to be a Prime video memory. Now, I know 876 00:59:16.239 --> 00:59:20.280 it's not a playoff game, but people are like, I can't believe you're 877 00:59:20.280 --> 00:59:22.159 streaming games. Is the only way to watch it? People, this is 878 00:59:22.199 --> 00:59:25.079 the future, man, It's just it's what it is now. Is the 879 00:59:25.159 --> 00:59:30.079 Super Bowl ever gonna be on stream if you asked me this five years ago, 880 00:59:30.159 --> 00:59:32.440 ten years ago, no way, because they want the massive amount of 881 00:59:32.480 --> 00:59:37.480 eyeballs, which is free over the year television. At some point it but 882 00:59:37.679 --> 00:59:40.079 potentially will be so away. I don't think anybody really much cares about that. 883 00:59:40.159 --> 00:59:45.440 I think you're more concerned with your Texans and Cleveland Browns and the Green 884 00:59:45.480 --> 00:59:49.159 Bay Packers, the Dallas Cowboys. There's your football update, brought to you 885 00:59:49.239 --> 00:59:54.400 by absolutely nobody other than my football loving self. More cees stuff, consumer 886 00:59:54.440 --> 00:59:58.719 electronics show. I just got back from Vegas. You can hear it in 887 00:59:58.800 --> 01:00:02.599 my voice, can't you? Health technology? If you're a doctor, is 888 01:00:02.639 --> 01:00:06.360 there a doctor in the house. A lot of health stuff out there for 889 01:00:06.440 --> 01:00:09.320 many many years. Actually the Abbot laboratories, they were out there. They 890 01:00:09.360 --> 01:00:16.280 were passing out free COVID kits. Anybody. I got a few if anybody 891 01:00:16.320 --> 01:00:21.519 wants them. All this the tech stuff amazes me. Listen, we know 892 01:00:21.639 --> 01:00:27.880 our smart watches can monitor our heart rate, our steps, our blood oxygen 893 01:00:28.000 --> 01:00:32.679 levels, beats permitted for our hearts. Saw one that I thought was pretty 894 01:00:32.719 --> 01:00:37.960 cool over though. It is from a company called Bemo b E A m 895 01:00:37.000 --> 01:00:43.159 O BMO the BMO it looks like a little it's like a little small remote 896 01:00:43.199 --> 01:00:49.840 control. It is a four in one thermometer. It's from a company Whvings 897 01:00:49.920 --> 01:00:51.840 makes it. W I T H I N G S. I love with 898 01:00:52.000 --> 01:00:54.920 it. I have a Withvings scale, I have the Whings blood pressure cuff 899 01:00:55.199 --> 01:01:00.119 to Wvings came out with something called the Bemo and it is It is an 900 01:01:00.159 --> 01:01:07.880 electro cardiogram, an oximeter, a stethoscope you know by the way, a 901 01:01:07.920 --> 01:01:14.440 thermometer, and depending on where you where your body, where you beam it 902 01:01:15.599 --> 01:01:19.840 and it's going to give you some tips on your health. So it's portable, 903 01:01:19.880 --> 01:01:25.519 it's smaller than a smartphone, and it uses metrics, newer grade wearable 904 01:01:25.599 --> 01:01:30.760 type of thing, blood oxygen, your heart rate, chest sounds with a 905 01:01:30.880 --> 01:01:36.519 digital stethoscope. So they need to get FDA clearance, which is expected this 906 01:01:36.559 --> 01:01:45.320 summer two hundred and fifty dollars. I love hearing stories how technology, consumer 907 01:01:45.400 --> 01:01:50.920 technology, even smart watches have saved lives. You know, there's accelerometers in 908 01:01:51.199 --> 01:01:53.639 our phones and our watches, accelerometers meaning it knows roughly how what the speed 909 01:01:53.679 --> 01:01:59.119 you're going at, and that's crash detection and Apple watches. You know, 910 01:01:59.519 --> 01:02:01.239 you know, if you're an a car pretty much knows from GPS that you're 911 01:02:01.280 --> 01:02:05.599 going fifty sixty miles an hour and all of a sudden you stop within two 912 01:02:05.639 --> 01:02:10.519 seconds, odds are you've crashed. Well, they can alert ambulances, authorities, 913 01:02:10.599 --> 01:02:13.519 your loved ones or whatever. I mean, that's just one of many 914 01:02:13.599 --> 01:02:17.639 things. If I've heard stories of people, you know that they're all of 915 01:02:17.679 --> 01:02:22.199 a sudden, they're blood pressure, their beats per minute of their heart all 916 01:02:22.199 --> 01:02:27.360 of a sudden escalates or you know, it slows down. Warning devices come 917 01:02:27.440 --> 01:02:30.199 up in your app and let lets people know. I mean, it's it. 918 01:02:30.599 --> 01:02:32.079 Did it all start off with I've fallen, I can't get up to 919 01:02:32.159 --> 01:02:36.920 some extent, that was really just an alert that you know, if you 920 01:02:37.000 --> 01:02:42.199 have I think it was marketed if you had an aging parent or grandparent or 921 01:02:42.239 --> 01:02:45.360 someone who lived alone and they need assistance and they fall in and they can't 922 01:02:45.519 --> 01:02:51.320 climb across the floor to the phone that was attached on the wall that was 923 01:02:51.480 --> 01:02:55.199 probably four feet up. You carry this thing around your your neck and you 924 01:02:55.320 --> 01:02:59.639 hit a button and it calls somebody, I've fallen and I can't get up. 925 01:03:00.559 --> 01:03:02.719 We've come a long way since then, come a long way with the 926 01:03:04.119 --> 01:03:07.760 technology, uh for our health, which you know, which I love. 927 01:03:08.280 --> 01:03:12.280 I'm waiting for cars to be able to tell it. I'm waiting for everything, 928 01:03:12.639 --> 01:03:15.000 the all in one device, and we need to sit into a car 929 01:03:15.679 --> 01:03:20.400 that's obviously electric, that should have a helicopter propeller like a drone on top, 930 01:03:21.079 --> 01:03:24.119 and when you sit in your seat, it takes a it could digitally 931 01:03:24.199 --> 01:03:30.159 measure your entire body, if you're sick, if you've gained weight, if 932 01:03:30.239 --> 01:03:36.440 something's going on, it's when is this coming? It's the typical old Jetsons. 933 01:03:37.079 --> 01:03:38.679 I love the health I love using the Jetsons type. Yeah, I 934 01:03:38.800 --> 01:03:43.599 use the Jetsons analogy my funny Jetson's cote probably twice a year. Hey, 935 01:03:43.679 --> 01:03:45.440 Michael Man, did you see the flying cars? See? Yes? When 936 01:03:45.480 --> 01:03:52.079 are we gonna have flying cars like the Jetsons? Never? Absolutely, not 937 01:03:52.159 --> 01:03:57.840 in my lifetime, not my kid's lifetime, certainly on a mass level, 938 01:03:58.239 --> 01:04:00.360 it won't happen. Oh'm Michael Man. I used to watch that, you 939 01:04:00.400 --> 01:04:05.119 know, George Jefferson and Jane at George Justin and Jay Man either walking their 940 01:04:05.159 --> 01:04:10.559 dog outside in their little skypad. You know. Rastro I said, bro, 941 01:04:11.159 --> 01:04:15.840 let's just break down that carton. Let's go back to the nineteen seventies. 942 01:04:15.800 --> 01:04:21.800 Hannah Barbera had to be on so many mushrooms to create the Jetsons. 943 01:04:24.280 --> 01:04:29.199 You got two animators. It was a car tune that tried to predict the 944 01:04:29.280 --> 01:04:33.119 future, which really was I think it was in two thousand ten twenty twenty, 945 01:04:33.159 --> 01:04:41.519 which we bypassed ain nothing very rarely that the Jetsons only think Jetson's that 946 01:04:41.599 --> 01:04:45.039 are it's happening right now. They had a instead of a telephone, they 947 01:04:45.039 --> 01:04:49.000 had little TVs that you can call and see somebody. Jane was at home, 948 01:04:50.000 --> 01:04:54.840 George was at work at Spaceley Sprockets, and the TV would pop up 949 01:04:54.920 --> 01:05:00.440 that is now possible with face times and whatever. I watched that show pretty 950 01:05:00.480 --> 01:05:08.679 often too. But remember this. The Jetsons was really the futurist spinoff of 951 01:05:08.760 --> 01:05:13.159 The Flintstones. So the hand of Barbara people, they said, hey, 952 01:05:13.239 --> 01:05:15.960 let's just let's come up with Fred Flinstone. What are you like to live 953 01:05:16.000 --> 01:05:19.880 in the Stone Age? Instead of a really cool record player, No, 954 01:05:20.000 --> 01:05:23.320 let's just take a little tear of Doactyl and put its beak on the record 955 01:05:23.320 --> 01:05:27.400 and play that around. Oh it's a popular Well, let's just fast forward 956 01:05:27.400 --> 01:05:30.159 it and let's just make the Jetsons. And if you really think about it, 957 01:05:30.199 --> 01:05:32.199 and I'm gonna relate it, I mean, people, you're gonna lose 958 01:05:32.199 --> 01:05:41.280 this analogy. The Flintstones was a cartoon version of an old original nineteen fifties 959 01:05:41.360 --> 01:05:46.159 TV show called The Honeymooners with the famous Jackie Gleason. Fred Flintstone is Jackie 960 01:05:46.199 --> 01:05:50.800 Gleason. Bang zoom to the moon. Alis. So to answer your question 961 01:05:51.000 --> 01:05:55.079 is no, I ain't gonna give you any jets and stuff. People. 962 01:05:56.079 --> 01:05:59.559 You're basing it off of what you saw as a kid, as a cartoon. 963 01:06:00.840 --> 01:06:02.360 That is just many of those things that different become fruition. Man, 964 01:06:02.400 --> 01:06:05.480 I just ruined so many kids childhood's right there with that rant ded night. 965 01:06:05.760 --> 01:06:10.599 Sorry about that. People. Oh gosh, but there are cars out there. 966 01:06:12.159 --> 01:06:15.800 The electric cars are big. The CES is a de facto car show, 967 01:06:15.880 --> 01:06:17.880 a lot of manufacturers, a lot of the electric stuff. I saw 968 01:06:17.920 --> 01:06:21.119 a lot of charge. One of the things that I saw Volkswagen. They're 969 01:06:21.159 --> 01:06:26.280 putting chat GPT in their car, which is blah blah blah, not a 970 01:06:26.320 --> 01:06:29.079 big deal. I don't care about that. Tia was out there and they 971 01:06:29.119 --> 01:06:31.639 had a display and this is nothing new because I actually drove Kiev fod do 972 01:06:31.760 --> 01:06:39.079 this with their electric vehicles. Electric vehicles are battery operated. There's a very 973 01:06:39.280 --> 01:06:43.920 large battery in electric cars. As you know, and you think about it, 974 01:06:44.000 --> 01:06:48.079 well, you need to go to a charger, a charging station or 975 01:06:48.119 --> 01:06:51.199 even a charging station inside your home, and you got to plug your car 976 01:06:51.280 --> 01:06:56.880 into it to take the power from your home or power from a charging station 977 01:06:57.119 --> 01:07:00.480 to power up your car. Well, I saw some things that will reverse 978 01:07:00.559 --> 01:07:09.039 that. Your home can now be powered from your car's battery. Ford's got 979 01:07:09.079 --> 01:07:11.960 that with Ford the F one fifty lightning. I think actually there's they can 980 01:07:12.000 --> 01:07:14.719 reverse it. I saw Kiya ki has got something called the wall box. 981 01:07:14.760 --> 01:07:17.679 They're selling a wall box and you have to have electrician to plug this kind 982 01:07:17.679 --> 01:07:20.519 of box. It's like it's a circuit box kind of into your home. 983 01:07:21.159 --> 01:07:26.719 That if for some reason you lose power in Houston, welcome because the next 984 01:07:26.800 --> 01:07:29.760 day or two we could lose power with the grid if it shuts down because 985 01:07:29.760 --> 01:07:32.119 it's going to get so cold. You always know hurricane season starts here May 986 01:07:32.159 --> 01:07:35.760 first, we do lose power. So how would you like to power? 987 01:07:35.880 --> 01:07:40.800 Reverse power? Your car can power your home. These are the things that 988 01:07:40.880 --> 01:07:44.119 are out there too. I thought that was that. That was pretty interesting. 989 01:07:45.599 --> 01:07:48.880 Final segment coming up. Last questions phone call seven one three two one 990 01:07:48.960 --> 01:07:53.679 two five nine five ozho. I'll tell you the one thing that you don't 991 01:07:53.760 --> 01:07:58.119 need. That's the U and A. Actually there's two things. If you 992 01:07:58.199 --> 01:08:00.480 like ice cream, if you like television, stamp by, I will tell 993 01:08:00.480 --> 01:08:02.679 you what's some of the hot or cooler things that you don't need to blow 994 01:08:02.719 --> 01:08:11.960 your money on and from CES all hail. Microsoft said that in a while, 995 01:08:12.320 --> 01:08:15.039 we come to the final segment of this week's High Tech textans show, 996 01:08:15.079 --> 01:08:19.000 Happy New Year, Happy post CES Consumer Electronics Shows. I try to start 997 01:08:19.079 --> 01:08:21.760 my new year, which generally starts mid January, because I've got to get 998 01:08:21.800 --> 01:08:26.600 through the week long massive trade show which I just got back from. I 999 01:08:26.720 --> 01:08:31.520 will be on great Day Houston is coming Tuesday morning while you're a home freezing 1000 01:08:31.560 --> 01:08:33.880 and I hope you still have power to watch. I will bring some of 1001 01:08:33.960 --> 01:08:36.560 the some of a few cool products that I saw. I shot a fun 1002 01:08:36.680 --> 01:08:43.760 video that will lead off Debora Duncan and I and we will I maybe give 1003 01:08:43.840 --> 01:08:45.960 some of these products away. Microsoft, though, let me lead with that 1004 01:08:46.479 --> 01:08:56.039 Microsoft unseated Apple last week as the world's most valuable publicly traded company, because 1005 01:08:56.079 --> 01:08:59.720 we know it's been Apple. Apple has been the most valuable company in the 1006 01:08:59.720 --> 01:09:02.720 world over a year and a half, on and off more than a decade, 1007 01:09:03.239 --> 01:09:11.840 but one day actually was earlier. This week, Microsoft had a larger 1008 01:09:11.960 --> 01:09:19.199 market cap than Apple two point nine trillion dollars to Apple's two point eight nine 1009 01:09:19.279 --> 01:09:27.880 trillion. It's actually the fourth time. It's briefly overtaken Apple since nineteen and 1010 01:09:27.960 --> 01:09:30.880 since twenty eighteen. But guess what. By the end of the day, 1011 01:09:30.880 --> 01:09:35.000 Apple went back up, and you know what it was for AI, Artificial 1012 01:09:35.079 --> 01:09:39.159 intelligence. Microsoft is really doing one hell of a job, good job with 1013 01:09:39.760 --> 01:09:48.039 positioning itself as an AI company. That's why AI from at what I saw 1014 01:09:48.439 --> 01:09:55.239 at the Consumer Electronics Show was everywhere you can't touch. It really software that's 1015 01:09:55.239 --> 01:10:00.079 built into so many products and services. I used to work by the I 1016 01:10:00.159 --> 01:10:04.000 used to work in Microsoft late nineteen nineties here in Houston area, almost moved 1017 01:10:04.000 --> 01:10:11.039 to Seattle, actually Redmond, Washington. Right in nineteen ninety nine. I 1018 01:10:11.119 --> 01:10:13.520 had an offer. I just I did not pull the trigger. I said, 1019 01:10:13.520 --> 01:10:15.399 you know what, I'm from Texas. I love Texas. There's no 1020 01:10:15.479 --> 01:10:18.880 state income tax in Texas. I want to where I wanted to raise the 1021 01:10:18.960 --> 01:10:21.720 kids. So I stayed here, did not go to what I still don't 1022 01:10:21.720 --> 01:10:24.960 know if that was a good idea or not. And it did allow me 1023 01:10:25.039 --> 01:10:27.960 to create the high tech text and do what I'm doing right now. Then 1024 01:10:27.960 --> 01:10:30.560 again, I could have been retired with all the stock I got from Microsoft. 1025 01:10:30.600 --> 01:10:33.720 By the way, don't look back on this stuff Microsoft and Apple. 1026 01:10:35.800 --> 01:10:41.720 They were pretty tight back in the early days of tech. Steve Jobs actually 1027 01:10:41.760 --> 01:10:46.000 used software that was developed by Bill Gates. Then, you know that kind 1028 01:10:46.000 --> 01:10:49.840 of got a little rocky. Apple sued Microsoft for ripping off its McIntosh software, 1029 01:10:49.880 --> 01:10:56.479 which Apple lost, by the way, But Microsoft, if it was 1030 01:10:56.640 --> 01:10:59.800 I was there in nineteen ninety seven, I think I just started Microsoft. 1031 01:11:00.039 --> 01:11:06.159 Microsoft saved Apple, say, Apple was near bankruptcy. Microsoft invested one hundred 1032 01:11:06.159 --> 01:11:13.920 and fifty million dollars to keep Apple afloat. Steve Job called Bill Gates personally 1033 01:11:13.960 --> 01:11:20.039 thanked him for the lifeboat one hundred and fifty million. What is that compared 1034 01:11:20.079 --> 01:11:25.359 to two point nine trillion dollars? Nothing? Gosh. I wish I had 1035 01:11:25.399 --> 01:11:28.760 some Apple stock. I wish I still have my Microsoft stock. But today 1036 01:11:29.239 --> 01:11:33.479 Microsoft and Apple account for about fourteen percent of the S and P five hundred. 1037 01:11:36.039 --> 01:11:41.560 Microsoft's doing great. They had an early investment in chat GPT their company, 1038 01:11:43.479 --> 01:11:46.239 and Microsoft came up with something called Copilot for Microsoft three sixty five that 1039 01:11:46.399 --> 01:11:56.680 generates about ten billion dollars. Only at least it will listen. I'm not 1040 01:11:56.800 --> 01:12:00.000 worried about Apple, neither shoe, but Apple's facing slower demand for its eye 1041 01:12:00.439 --> 01:12:05.119 especially in China, but Microsoft is boosting his business with AI. So Apple's 1042 01:12:05.159 --> 01:12:09.319 soon gonna find out if if you could do the same when their new mixed 1043 01:12:09.399 --> 01:12:14.600 reality comes out with its Vision Pro device next month thirty five hundred dollars. 1044 01:12:15.520 --> 01:12:18.399 Technically, they do not want it to be called an AR or VR glasses. 1045 01:12:18.680 --> 01:12:23.239 They're gonna call it mixed reality. It's they don't even want to call 1046 01:12:23.279 --> 01:12:25.319 it a headset. But you know what that is. I do not know 1047 01:12:25.359 --> 01:12:29.079 how that's going to sell, so we shall see about that. Finally, 1048 01:12:29.119 --> 01:12:31.159 a few minutes, people are asking me about all the other cars that I've 1049 01:12:31.239 --> 01:12:38.640 seen. I saw a lot of concepts. There's nothing really new in terms 1050 01:12:38.680 --> 01:12:43.119 of evs. Listen, BMW and Audi, Kia, Honda, Honda, 1051 01:12:43.439 --> 01:12:45.840 they were all there. I did like the accessories with like I just talked 1052 01:12:45.880 --> 01:12:50.920 about Kia's wall box that you can take the battery charge from your car and 1053 01:12:51.079 --> 01:12:57.119 reverse it to actually power up your home, which reminds me keep you know, 1054 01:12:58.079 --> 01:13:01.560 stock up your your supplies, get your firewood, because we got a 1055 01:13:01.600 --> 01:13:05.199 freeze coming here in Houston allegedly on this next Monday or Tuesday, and so 1056 01:13:05.560 --> 01:13:11.319 if you need extra power, uh, and you do, don't don't laugh. 1057 01:13:12.760 --> 01:13:15.199 Gas up. Make sure there's gas in your cars. You may actually 1058 01:13:15.239 --> 01:13:16.279 want to sleep and stay in your cars. That could be the only warm 1059 01:13:16.399 --> 01:13:19.399 warmth. Don't do it in your garage. Do not turn your car on 1060 01:13:20.279 --> 01:13:24.000 in your garage. If you have a gas powered car. I guess you 1061 01:13:24.000 --> 01:13:26.640 could do it if you have an electric car because there's no exhaust. But 1062 01:13:26.840 --> 01:13:29.720 just a little tip from me to you, let's just let's just stay away 1063 01:13:29.760 --> 01:13:33.199 from that stuff. I did that once. I when was the hurricane that 1064 01:13:34.079 --> 01:13:40.000 massive? There's several hurricanes here in Houston where we lost our power. Rita 1065 01:13:41.520 --> 01:13:44.439 was that at this is way before Harvey. I'm gonna go back out on 1066 01:13:44.520 --> 01:13:46.720 a ten to fifte years ago, there was. It was horrible lost power. 1067 01:13:47.359 --> 01:13:49.439 My house always lost power for like two days, but there's a lot 1068 01:13:49.439 --> 01:13:55.479 of house homes lost power for like a week or so. I I have 1069 01:13:55.720 --> 01:13:57.720 and this was in the you know, it's it's it's it was. It 1070 01:13:57.800 --> 01:14:00.359 was hurricanes, so it's obviously it's in the summer, it's hot, eats 1071 01:14:00.359 --> 01:14:02.720 sticky, and I do I need air conditioning when I sleep. I literally 1072 01:14:02.960 --> 01:14:06.399 went into and I had a hybrid vehicle I was testing. Was from Toyota 1073 01:14:06.640 --> 01:14:10.960 I think it was a hybrid. I forget what it was, not the 1074 01:14:11.000 --> 01:14:14.439 point. It was an suv hybrid car. And in the middle of the 1075 01:14:14.520 --> 01:14:17.840 night I could not take it anymore. I went into my driveway, not 1076 01:14:18.000 --> 01:14:23.039 my garage. I turned the engine on and I laid down that second row 1077 01:14:23.479 --> 01:14:26.479 and I bought a sleep first. I put a sleep bag back there, 1078 01:14:26.960 --> 01:14:30.720 and I slept in my car with the air conditioning running. I'm sorry, 1079 01:14:30.800 --> 01:14:33.359 that's just I'm not Actually I don't even need apologize. That's just the way 1080 01:14:33.399 --> 01:14:41.279 I rolled were We like our climate thing. Don't do that again. Never 1081 01:14:41.359 --> 01:14:44.880 start your gas power car in a garage. It's called the assyxiation. We 1082 01:14:44.920 --> 01:14:47.199 don't want to do It's not even joking matter. But electric cars nowaday Remember 1083 01:14:47.199 --> 01:14:50.560 they don't have any combustion there's no combustion engine. But I still wouldn't even 1084 01:14:50.560 --> 01:14:51.880 want to do that. You want to make sure. You want to have 1085 01:14:51.960 --> 01:14:57.640 a lot of ventilation. I'm walking about the phone number because we're actually almost, 1086 01:14:58.239 --> 01:15:00.760 you know, closing this thing down. Calum that I miss anything. 1087 01:15:00.800 --> 01:15:04.439 I'm trying to think, you know what. Once I get off the I 1088 01:15:04.520 --> 01:15:06.399 have to I do have to show some of the gear that I brought back. 1089 01:15:06.399 --> 01:15:12.880 I'm gonna be on great they used to next Tuesday when I got and 1090 01:15:12.960 --> 01:15:16.760 then maybe next week I'll be able to give away some of the gadgets that 1091 01:15:17.000 --> 01:15:20.760 I that I brought back, and I hope so Garf is the name. 1092 01:15:21.000 --> 01:15:25.600 I thank you for tuning in, Stay safe, stay warm this week in 1093 01:15:25.680 --> 01:15:28.560 people. I appreciate it. Good luck to the Houston Texans and all you 1094 01:15:28.680 --> 01:15:32.159 Texans fans, all my listeners up in Dallas, including me even I mean 1095 01:15:32.479 --> 01:15:36.640 just I'm not I'm from Dallas, but let's go Cowboys. It is a 1096 01:15:38.239 --> 01:15:41.000 very Let's just hope we're all safe. It's under twenty twenty four. In 1097 01:15:41.119 --> 01:15:45.680 terms of the technological products, you know, save your money take away from 1098 01:15:45.720 --> 01:15:49.720 cs neat cool. Got to meet a lot of people and I hope they 1099 01:15:49.760 --> 01:15:54.199 send me some demo products that I can give away to you next week on 1100 01:15:54.279 --> 01:15:57.159 the the High Tech Texans Show. In the meantime that wraps us up, 1101 01:15:57.279 --> 01:15:59.840 I do thank you for tuning in, check me out high Tech textsin dot 1102 01:15:59.880 --> 01:16:01.960 com, and I will get to some of the things that I was not 1103 01:16:02.079 --> 01:16:06.279 able to talk about, including a two minute ice ice cream maker. There's 1104 01:16:06.319 --> 01:16:10.760 a company called cold Snap that makes ice cream at home in two minutes. 1105 01:16:11.039 --> 01:16:12.760 Maybe I'll see if I can get one of those so I can give you 1106 01:16:12.800 --> 01:16:14.640 away. My name is Gar. For all of us who've been a part 1107 01:16:14.680 --> 01:16:15.880 of the show, we thank you for tuning in. But right now my 1108 01:16:16.039 --> 01:16:18.920 show is over.