Speaker 1: Let's say good morning now to the host of Rich
Speaker 1: on Tech on KFI. It's KTLA's tech reporter Rich Demiro.
Speaker 2: Good morning, Rich, Hey, good morning to you Amy.
Speaker 1: Okay, so what's old is new and the old Pebbles
Speaker 1: smart watch is gone and a new one's coming out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And the interesting thing about these smart watches is
Speaker 3: that the one of the models is actually using the
Speaker 3: old hardware. So apparently this is leftover hardware from before.
Speaker 3: But the guy who created it said, you know what,
Speaker 3: these things were so good even ten years ago. It's
Speaker 3: still just what we need. And so his whole thing
Speaker 3: has been, let's bring back a simple smart watch that
Speaker 3: has an e ink display. If you remember the original,
Speaker 3: it was like one of the original kickstarters. It did
Speaker 3: really well, and now he's bringing them back. So later
Speaker 3: this year, we're going to have the core To duo
Speaker 3: launching in July for one hundred and fifty bucks, and
Speaker 3: then the Core Time two launching for two hundred and
Speaker 3: twenty five dollars. That's going to be a Pebble but
Speaker 3: with a touch screen. And of course the main thing
Speaker 3: about these watches is that they have super long battery
Speaker 3: life thirty.
Speaker 2: Days and they're going to be less distracting. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Wow, My Apple Watch literally is dead by about eight
Speaker 1: o'clock at night.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I mean the Apple watches last. I mean
Speaker 3: they're rated for eighteen hours, but that's, you know, not
Speaker 3: very realistic for most people. But yeah, so thirty days
Speaker 3: you have to charge it?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 2: Nice?
Speaker 1: And does it have a lot of the same features
Speaker 1: or is it pretty much like does it hook to
Speaker 1: your phone and you can take phone calls on it?
Speaker 1: Or I'm not familiar with the pebblewatch.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so the new one, one of them will so
Speaker 3: you can get notifications on these. It sort of depends
Speaker 3: if you're on Android or iPhone, but the whole point
Speaker 3: is more like just a companion where you can glance
Speaker 3: at your wrist see your notifications. The higher end one
Speaker 3: is going to have more modern features. The basic one
Speaker 3: is going to be pretty simple. But the thing they're
Speaker 3: doing here is they're open sourcing the software, which means
Speaker 3: pretty much developers can do whatever they want and make
Speaker 3: these things do whatever they can imagine, as opposed to
Speaker 3: the Apple Watch, where you're very much confined and even
Speaker 3: the Google watches out there, you're confined to what Apple
Speaker 3: and Google allow you to do.
Speaker 1: Okay, so Pebble smart watch hitting the market again when
Speaker 1: later this year.
Speaker 3: Later this year July or December, and yeah, should be interesting.
Speaker 2: And then they'll have some of like the sleep and
Speaker 2: step tracking stuff on them as well.
Speaker 1: Okay, cool, this sounds I got to go check this out,
Speaker 1: and you did go check this out. It's a convenience
Speaker 1: store run by robots.
Speaker 3: Yes, lots of comments about this one on our YouTube
Speaker 3: page at ktla ven Hub. It's called and it's a
Speaker 3: fully automated twenty four to seven convenience store run by robots.
Speaker 3: So there's two robots inside that basically grab your order
Speaker 3: and place it in a little kind of area for
Speaker 3: you to collect and so use the app to purchase
Speaker 3: the products.
Speaker 2: And it's very simple.
Speaker 3: It's kind of like a seven to eleven, but it
Speaker 3: looks like a shipping container with a clear glass screen
Speaker 3: in front, so you get our window in front so
Speaker 3: you can see everything inside. And it's just kind of fun.
Speaker 3: And they're expecting a lot of these around the not
Speaker 3: only the nation, but the world. They've got companies said
Speaker 3: they have eight hundred pre orders. So North Hollywood, you
Speaker 3: can already go there. It's on Van Owen. If you
Speaker 3: know where the Salsasm beer is, that's where it is,
Speaker 3: and then southern California, Las Vegas, the East coast. And
Speaker 3: the guy who created this for former Amazon guy says
Speaker 3: that the whole point is that lower overhead, open twenty
Speaker 3: four to seven, no employees to worry about, and you
Speaker 3: can run these things from the beach once they're set
Speaker 3: up and going.
Speaker 1: So from the way you describe it, it sounds as
Speaker 1: like it's a big vending machine on steroids.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's the best way to describe it. I
Speaker 3: think it's a vending machine, except for the stuff coming
Speaker 3: out by itself.
Speaker 2: A robot arm picks it.
Speaker 3: And then puts it on the table, and then the
Speaker 3: door opens up and you take it out.
Speaker 1: Very cool. Okay.
Speaker 3: By the way, of course, it's instagrammable, so it's fun
Speaker 3: for like people to watch this process as well.
Speaker 1: Exactly. Okay. You say that there are some new tools
Speaker 1: out there that may make note taking by hand up
Speaker 1: colete forever.
Speaker 3: Yes, and I've been testing a whole bunch of them,
Speaker 3: and I really rely on a lot of these. This
Speaker 3: voice to tech stuff and transcription has come a long way,
Speaker 3: especially since AI because now not only can it transcribe,
Speaker 3: but it sort of understands what you're saying, so it
Speaker 3: gets it. The accuracy is a lot better and the
Speaker 3: speed is a lot better. So if you've got a
Speaker 3: Google Pixel, you've got an iPhone or a Samsung with
Speaker 3: the latest software, all of those do free transcription. Pixel
Speaker 3: does it in real time, the other two do it
Speaker 3: after the fact. If you don't have one of those phones,
Speaker 3: otter Ai is a great app which is cross platform.
Speaker 3: Get a couple of free minutes every month and then
Speaker 3: it'll transcribe your meetings and all that good stuff. Then
Speaker 3: I've been testing some AI powered digital recorders from a
Speaker 3: company called PLoud Plaud, and these things are really cool.
Speaker 3: Remember the little micro cassette recorders we had while I
Speaker 3: had as a kid, Remember that like radio shack. So
Speaker 3: this is like a digital version of that, but it
Speaker 3: connects to your phone so you can record for hours
Speaker 3: on end. It will transcribe everything, summariz and then they've
Speaker 3: got a pin version, so you can literally just clip
Speaker 3: this to your shirt or wrist and record your whole
Speaker 3: day and then just have AI summarize every single thing
Speaker 3: that you heard.
Speaker 1: I mean, which is probably a person like me who
Speaker 1: has a really bad memory, it might be a good thing.
Speaker 3: Well, that's what they're pitching these as. It's like a
Speaker 3: limitless memory. So there's a bunch of competitors in this space.
Speaker 3: It's continuing to grow, and yeah that it's being pitched.
Speaker 3: Its like, just don't forget a thing like you can
Speaker 3: just why when you have AI and the ability to
Speaker 3: record and it's so cheap, just remember everything. Which I'm
Speaker 3: gonna go to lunch to day with a friend, I'm
Speaker 3: going to record the whole thing and I'll put it
Speaker 3: in this notes. I'll be like, all right, remember about this,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 1: Okay, So here's a question. Do you have to tell
Speaker 1: people they're being recorded?
Speaker 2: That's a very good question.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think obviously if you're on the phone, yes,
Speaker 3: because these things can record phone calls as well in person,
Speaker 3: I think that you would have to tell people that
Speaker 3: you are recording. So that's I think that there's also
Speaker 3: sort of like common sense and courtesy that comes in here.
Speaker 3: You know, if you're trying to be nefarious, you know
Speaker 3: you can do that. But you can already do that,
Speaker 3: so yeah, okay. Anyway, for computer users, there's a whole
Speaker 3: bunch of apps that you can do this completely free.
Speaker 3: If you want to transcribe it's used to cost a
Speaker 3: lot of money. It's all free. And then I've got
Speaker 3: a great AI voice typing. This is incredible. It's my
Speaker 3: secret weapon. It's how I send my emails to you. Actually, Amy,
Speaker 3: It's called whisper flow and you just dictate and I'm
Speaker 3: not kidding. It polishes up your words. It is so
Speaker 3: incredibly fast. I can get through my emails so quick.
Speaker 3: And by the way, this is all linked up on
Speaker 3: my website richon Tech dot TV.
Speaker 1: Okay, and if you want to see some of these
Speaker 1: transcription tools, that's what you're talking about on KTLA today.
Speaker 3: Right heading over there, right now, Okay, to go show
Speaker 3: some of these things, all right, And as.
Speaker 1: You mentioned on his website, rich on Tech dot TV,
Speaker 1: you can follow Rich on Instagram at rich on Tech,
Speaker 1: and of course you can hear him every weekend right
Speaker 1: here on KFI. It's Rich on Tech Saturdays from eleven
Speaker 1: to two. Thanks you so much, Rich DeMuro.
Speaker 2: Alright, thanks Amy, all Right,