Speaker 1: Is Michael Garfield.
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Speaker 1: Well here we are one of the first broadcast of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five and arguably my biggest and busiest radio show.
Speaker 1: Here high Tech text and Michael Garfield and I am
Speaker 1: not in my normal studio in Texas. I am in
Speaker 1: one of my favorite cities across the country, Las Vegas. People,
Speaker 1: because you know it, this is the big week the
Speaker 1: Big cees. Used to be called the Consumer Electronic Show,
Speaker 1: but apparently they just want to shorten it to the acronyms.
Speaker 1: We will be here all two hours doing all tech.
Speaker 1: But the funny thing is, and don't turn this off yet,
Speaker 1: it is more than a technology show. It's it's kind
Speaker 1: of evolved over so many years, like my brand has,
Speaker 1: it's it's consumer lifestyle. I am on the Las Vegas
Speaker 1: Convention show floor and the official and I'm getting for
Speaker 1: CLEMP when I say this, the official high tech text
Speaker 1: in broadcast studio for gosh, probably at least a dozen,
Speaker 1: dozen and a half years. The nice folks at CEES
Speaker 1: they have built a little booth for me. Actually it's
Speaker 1: a pretty nice sized. Hell oh, I can probably hit
Speaker 1: a golf ball in here, but this is where everything happens,
Speaker 1: and I'm right next to me. There's there's Fox Business,
Speaker 1: There's CNBC, there's BBC. There's about five thousand media members
Speaker 1: from across the world covering pretty much every new gadget
Speaker 1: product that is being released or thinking about being released
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five. That odds are you may salivate,
Speaker 1: you may think it's neat, but you probably don't need it,
Speaker 1: and you may not be able to afford it. But
Speaker 1: that's the fun that I'm covering. I have been doing
Speaker 1: it for twenty three years now, that as long as
Speaker 1: as my brand has been around of the high tech
Speaker 1: texts in and I'm gonna give you the certainly the sounds,
Speaker 1: and if you want to see the sites, you actually
Speaker 1: can go to my Instagram with a lot of my
Speaker 1: social media high tech t XA and high tech texts.
Speaker 1: And I have been here most all week, and I've
Speaker 1: met a lot of companies. I have played with some
Speaker 1: of these gadgets and toys that and I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: honest with you, and I think this is why a
Speaker 1: lot of listeners and viewers out there, i'd like to
Speaker 1: think have at least a little respect. I'm kind of jaded.
Speaker 1: I've done this so long. I've seen so many things
Speaker 1: from the advent of digital TV and high definition TVs
Speaker 1: and the Blu Ray and everything back twenty years ago.
Speaker 1: It takes a lot to impress me. It takes a
Speaker 1: lot for me to look at a product or a
Speaker 1: service or whatever is being launched here and say, you know,
Speaker 1: this is the coolest thing. Oh my gosh. Everybody has
Speaker 1: to run out of get it. But that's good because
Speaker 1: you don't need to waste your heart earned money on
Speaker 1: things that look neat that you're maybe used once or
Speaker 1: twice and you'll never use again. Think of it as
Speaker 1: a waffle maker or a waffle iron. Oh honey, we
Speaker 1: need this for the kitchen. You buy a waffle iron,
Speaker 1: you maybe get it for your wedding or something. You
Speaker 1: use it once or twice and you never see it again.
Speaker 1: I'm not that and so I really evaluate products like
Speaker 1: I always have. Is this something that can enhance your life?
Speaker 1: And there's a difference between the word want and the
Speaker 1: word need. We want a lot of things. We want
Speaker 1: do we need a lot of things? And I this
Speaker 1: is how I raised my three kids, and when I
Speaker 1: talk to people all the time, there's a differ between
Speaker 1: one and need. Oh my goodness, look at this laptop.
Speaker 1: Look at this transparent TV. Look at this new uh
Speaker 1: you know these headphones and earphones that are the size
Speaker 1: of you know, probably you know, less than your pinky,
Speaker 1: and you can't they they're neat. You may want them.
Speaker 1: Can you afford a lot of this stuff? You're gonna
Speaker 1: lose these things? And why is it better than some
Speaker 1: of the products that you already have? Now this pertains
Speaker 1: also to cars. Now you know, I'm a big car
Speaker 1: an automobile guy. See. Yes, over the years, it's kind
Speaker 1: of turned into a de facto auto show. There are
Speaker 1: a lot of manufacturers here on the show floor which
Speaker 1: I've stopped by and I still will. Obviously, you think
Speaker 1: of evs. There's electric vehicles everywhere, but now there's hybrid's.
Speaker 1: Hybrids are coming back, and I actually did see some
Speaker 1: gas powered vehicles too. But it's also the the the
Speaker 1: ancillary markets. You know, if you have an EV well
Speaker 1: you need a charger at home, Well, there's several, many,
Speaker 1: many different charging companies, and you know, is this gonna
Speaker 1: be a rapid charger and is this something that you
Speaker 1: can do it yourself? And you know, how does this work?
Speaker 1: And there's autonomous vehicles. And so I'm here to really
Speaker 1: kind of decipher and kind of give you a lot
Speaker 1: of the fun things, but also some you know, really
Speaker 1: serious advice. And so I'm gonna throw out you know,
Speaker 1: the number that we usually throw out, and if you
Speaker 1: want to get into the uh the phone call, Hey, Michael,
Speaker 1: I saw this hit on CNN. Did you happen to
Speaker 1: go buy this you know booth? Because we're more than
Speaker 1: happy to because I you know, if I have some time,
Speaker 1: I want to run by that booth and give you
Speaker 1: the information. So one of the easiest way to hit me,
Speaker 1: obviously is to go to my website, which is high
Speaker 1: Tech Texting dot Com, which is h I G H
Speaker 1: T E C h T E x A N. That's
Speaker 1: one of the ways to do it, and you can,
Speaker 1: you know, you can go that way, but you can
Speaker 1: also here call the old Studio show and I'll give
Speaker 1: you that number quite simply. It is seven one three
Speaker 1: two one two five nine five. Oh, and I will
Speaker 1: go check this thing out. I will tell you this
Speaker 1: before we take our first I brought, like I usually
Speaker 1: do every year, I brought three extra suitcases. I am
Speaker 1: not kidding you, little fold up suitcases. Because when I
Speaker 1: meet a lot of these companies and I tell them
Speaker 1: what I do, and I'm very fortunate because a lot
Speaker 1: of them know me and I get all the press releases,
Speaker 1: they give me some demo gear. You know, they may
Speaker 1: not just you know, maybe it's a choch key. I mean,
Speaker 1: no one cares about key chains and things. But I
Speaker 1: have got headphones and earbuds and smart watches. And they said, hey, Michael,
Speaker 1: we want to do some giveaways on your radio show,
Speaker 1: but more importantly on your social media. And so this
Speaker 1: is why you need to follow my social media specifically, yes,
Speaker 1: if you want to hit me on x which is
Speaker 1: high tech text, but also all the videos that I'm posting,
Speaker 1: all the videos that I'm posting on my Instagram. I'm
Speaker 1: a big Instagram guy, right about fifty thousand followers. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give away a lot of this stuff on Instagram.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna show it off and have a contest. All
Speaker 1: you really need to do is like it. Just say
Speaker 1: I want it, Michael, this is cool. I need it,
Speaker 1: And if you say need, you better give me a
Speaker 1: real reason why you actually need it. But I got
Speaker 1: three suitcases, and luckily I'm on Southwest. I'm i just
Speaker 1: have to pay for one of these suitcases because I'm
Speaker 1: going to get two suitcases free. By the way, Southwest Airlines,
Speaker 1: thank you. A list preferred if you're interested in partnering
Speaker 1: or sponsoring the show, I am your guy. Since I'm
Speaker 1: based in Texas and heard and the three cities that
Speaker 1: you started in. That's right. Shout out to Dallas, the
Speaker 1: Mighty Mighty eleven ninety, big Time Houston, which I've been
Speaker 1: in for twenty three years, KPRC nine to fifty AM,
Speaker 1: and San Antonio, WOAI. It's the Texas Triangle. Southwest Airlines started.
Speaker 1: They got me out here, I'm gonna get them back.
Speaker 1: Let's do a little partnership, my friends. A lot of
Speaker 1: partnership opportunities and a lot of fun stuff to come,
Speaker 1: So keep it right here. If you miss some of
Speaker 1: the show podcast that you download the iHeartRadio app and
Speaker 1: then you can hear the entire show, probably the history
Speaker 1: of going back twenty years and you can see how
Speaker 1: this show, the CEES Show has involved not so much
Speaker 1: talking about TVs and things, but there's a lot of
Speaker 1: other neat products in the consumer space that you're going
Speaker 1: to be interested in. So keep it right here. Michael Garfield,
Speaker 1: Las Vegas Convinson Center at my twenty third CES. Ahead
Speaker 1: of it is Michael Garfield in Las Vegas where the
Speaker 1: annual CES you speak called Consumer Electronic Show, but we've
Speaker 1: just used the acronym right now. I'm already tired of walking.
Speaker 1: I mean, I've spent the past several days just walking.
Speaker 1: I've got the shoes. But there's so many things to see.
Speaker 1: If you're a longtime lister of my show. This twenty
Speaker 1: third year, I've been doing this, and you know, I
Speaker 1: may be a little jaded about some of the things
Speaker 1: that I see with ooh and ahs, but it's always
Speaker 1: nice having someone else's perspective opinion. And this time I'm
Speaker 1: going all the way to the top. I'm bringing in
Speaker 1: and actually a representative from CES. He's one of the
Speaker 1: spokespeople for CES. His name is Ed Frank. He is
Speaker 1: joining me and over under the number of steps that
Speaker 1: you plan to take on a daily basis here.
Speaker 5: At CES yesterday I took about eighteen thousand steps, and
Speaker 5: I think that's average. I have this in my third
Speaker 5: one and I average about eighteen thousand steps a day,
Speaker 5: so nine miles time six days. Like I get in
Speaker 5: my steps on this everybody does.
Speaker 1: It's great marathon triding. At the top of the show,
Speaker 1: I started out giving some of the general numbers, and
Speaker 1: I remember coming here two decades plus. The show has
Speaker 1: only gotten bigger and bigger and bigger, and it's international. Whatsoever.
Speaker 1: Compare it to last year. Give me some of the
Speaker 1: numbers for the last year, maybe what you can expect
Speaker 1: this year.
Speaker 5: So last year we had about one hundred and thirty
Speaker 5: eight thousand attendees. This year registration is up. Obviously, we
Speaker 5: don't know how many are going to show up, if
Speaker 5: snowstorms are going to affect attendance at all, but we
Speaker 5: expect a great turnout, a great year. We've got about
Speaker 5: four thousand, five hundred exhibitors over about two point five
Speaker 5: million square feet of space that comes out to about
Speaker 5: forty three American football fields.
Speaker 1: Of exhibits, it seems like, listen, that's one hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty eight thousand people. This is one, But obviously it's
Speaker 1: the largest technology show in the world, which is I
Speaker 1: just you know, love coming over here. Other than the
Speaker 1: gambling and the food too, which is always fun, a
Speaker 1: lot of media too. And you guys really and I
Speaker 1: want to thank you and Pam and everybody in the
Speaker 1: staff because you know, you build this nice radio and
Speaker 1: TV booth for me. But there's coverage. I'm walking with
Speaker 1: the BBC is next door to me, and there's Fox,
Speaker 1: and there's CNBC. I mean, the coverage is amazing because
Speaker 1: I guess companies really want to see what the trends are.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Absolutely, we have about four to five thousand registered
Speaker 5: media here this year. We've got attendees from about over
Speaker 5: one hundred and fifty different countries. I think airlines have
Speaker 5: added over ninety international flights to get into Vegas for this.
Speaker 5: So yeah, last year, forty percent of the on the
Speaker 5: attendees were from outside the US.
Speaker 1: Continues to surprise me. As we talked to Ed Frank,
Speaker 1: Ed is with cees. Now here comes the fun stuff.
Speaker 1: Now I've already seen and met, I've had one on
Speaker 1: one meetings, and you know some things are you know,
Speaker 1: they're laughing. Are they ever going to come to fruition?
Speaker 1: Some companies here just trying to raise money, trying to
Speaker 1: get awareness. But I'm always looking at trends. People want
Speaker 1: to know, Hey, Michael, what's going to be the hot thing?
Speaker 1: What do you see? And I go back to man,
Speaker 1: I remember digital TV and high definition was the thing
Speaker 1: back in the early two thousands. I remember Blu ray
Speaker 1: was back in the day of the Let's look at
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. What do you see are some of
Speaker 1: the trends here on the show floor?
Speaker 5: Well, no surprise, AI is everywhere you can look. But
Speaker 5: I think one thing that's changed since last year, at least,
Speaker 5: you know by my observation, is you know, last year
Speaker 5: there was a lot of talk aboutative. Generative AI was new,
Speaker 5: chat GPT was new, and that was the hot thing.
Speaker 5: And I think this year, seeing you're seeing a lot
Speaker 5: more about the consolidation of AI and you may not
Speaker 5: even see it in different products, but it's expanding dramatically.
Speaker 5: You know, one product I saw at Media Days the
Speaker 5: other night was sort of like a Bluetooth had my
Speaker 5: you know, earpod kind of deal. And you can go
Speaker 5: back and forth through the app and have real time
Speaker 5: conversations and it's instantly translated. So if you have business
Speaker 5: partners in other countries, you can both wear this and
Speaker 5: have basically a conversation translated instantly. You know, you can
Speaker 5: hear it in your ear. You can also see the
Speaker 5: translation on the app in real time pretty much from
Speaker 5: any language into any other language.
Speaker 1: And as I continue to talk about AI and I
Speaker 1: try to describe AI over the past years, so people
Speaker 1: are afraid of it, and I don't know, I'm not
Speaker 1: so sure they should be afraid of it, but they
Speaker 1: just don't understand it because it's not something that we
Speaker 1: can touch and we can feel a lot of people,
Speaker 1: you know, they'll say, hey, Michael, did you get a phone?
Speaker 1: Or what's the TV like? Or did you get earbuds?
Speaker 1: I mean, they're tangible items. This is artificial intelligence that
Speaker 1: has just built into everything. And you know, literally you know,
Speaker 1: my eyes, you know, just go left or right. There's
Speaker 1: banners over here, AI infused. There's AI in here that
Speaker 1: you really can't see but you talk specifically about these earbuds.
Speaker 1: I've seen a number of these earbud translators, which you know,
Speaker 1: you talk about a paradigm shift. Listen, kids nowadays they
Speaker 1: may not even have to take a foreign language because
Speaker 1: this helps. And so you do have to be a
Speaker 1: little weary when it comes to AI. How about another
Speaker 1: one or two things you've just seen.
Speaker 5: In terms of trends, there's a big focus on longevity
Speaker 5: and that comes down to digital health, smart owned devices,
Speaker 5: food tech Wellness Solutions. LG had a good presentation at
Speaker 5: Media Days yesterday and they went through an entire day,
Speaker 5: you know, like from the time that you wake up.
Speaker 5: They have a hub, you know, and they're smart home
Speaker 5: devices and you can find out what the temperature is.
Speaker 5: It'll tell you, hey, it's five degrees warmer than it
Speaker 5: was yesterday. Maybe you don't need the jacket. Your mom,
Speaker 5: you know, we monitor her health and she had a
Speaker 5: bit of a sleepless night and her blood pressure may
Speaker 5: have been up a little bit. I want to check
Speaker 5: in on her, you know, driving to work, it made
Speaker 5: your car may say, you know, yeah, your heart beat
Speaker 5: is a little bit elevated. You might want to calm
Speaker 5: down at the next red light, you can stop for coffee,
Speaker 5: but maybe you don't want to stop for coffee if
Speaker 5: you're you know, So it's it's they show how all
Speaker 5: of this is going on throughout the day behind the scenes.
Speaker 5: Even one of you know, they have a smart dryer
Speaker 5: and it can you know, you're not ready to take
Speaker 5: the stuff out of the dryer, and they're like, do
Speaker 5: you want us to just like fluff it so it
Speaker 5: doesn't get wrinkled throughout the day, so that when you
Speaker 5: get home from work and you can do that. So
Speaker 5: it's like all of these things are interconnected now, and
Speaker 5: that's that's a big focus.
Speaker 1: Making us live longer and saving lives one company at
Speaker 1: a time. And if personally, again, over two decades that
Speaker 1: I've been here, if I've seen a category to just
Speaker 1: incredibly expand in terms of actually show floor space here
Speaker 1: at Las Vegas Covich Center, it is digital health. I mean, yes,
Speaker 1: we've seen all the watches that do can you tell
Speaker 1: us our blood pressure? And you know in what our
Speaker 1: SPO two is and how many steps that we take.
Speaker 1: But now there's digital scales and then it's led to
Speaker 1: you know, the utensils like I've seen smart hair dryers.
Speaker 1: I'm not kidding you. I've lost kind of how many
Speaker 1: smart truth brush companies that are out there. They really
Speaker 1: really are. Cars are very prevalent over here too, and
Speaker 1: it's not just your typical cars, but obviously there's evs
Speaker 1: and there's ev charging type of things. And this to
Speaker 1: me is CS has almost turned into a de facto
Speaker 1: car show.
Speaker 5: It's turned into one of the largest car shows in
Speaker 5: the world. And even in addition to that, there are
Speaker 5: segments that you may not think of as tech, Like
Speaker 5: John Deere has a huge presence here, and they talked
Speaker 5: about their autonomous They have a second generation of autonomous
Speaker 5: tractors and sprayers for you know, sort of like citrus
Speaker 5: and nut you know, farms and stuff like that. And
Speaker 5: so you know, they've they've expanded their technology from what
Speaker 5: they've unveiled two years ago, and these things can now
Speaker 5: they have more sensors, they have they have light ar,
Speaker 5: they have more cameras, and so they can go forty
Speaker 5: percent faster and they're completely automated.
Speaker 1: Talking to Ed Frankie as a spokesperson for CEES as
Speaker 1: we broadcast here at the Las Vegas Convention Center, I'll
Speaker 1: let you go after this because I know you've got
Speaker 1: a lot of show floor walking. It's not so much
Speaker 1: it's called the Consumer Electronic Show, but there's also a
Speaker 1: lot of business going on. And obviously there are things
Speaker 1: behind the scenes that make consumer run. And this is
Speaker 1: like everything from energy and there's battery power and things
Speaker 1: like that. And I'm seeing a lot of this stuff
Speaker 1: on the floor. Is that it's sort of a train
Speaker 1: going on.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Absolutely, And you know, everybody, when you sort of
Speaker 5: get a picture in your head of CEES, you think
Speaker 5: of like the robots and the drones and the huge
Speaker 5: screen TVs and the smart monitors. But business is done here.
Speaker 5: This is where business is done. More than one third
Speaker 5: of the attendees here or at the VP level or above.
Speaker 5: The average executive holds about twenty nine meetings at CEES.
Speaker 5: And you know, ninety four percent of CES exhibitors say
Speaker 5: their annual sales are influenced by CES. A good friend
Speaker 5: of mine works for a large hotel chain and he
Speaker 5: comes to this every year because he wants to find
Speaker 5: out about the latest, you know, more or less smart
Speaker 5: home technology that they can use in their rooms, whether
Speaker 5: it comes to TV, how it all connects with the
Speaker 5: lighting system, the temperature system, and so he comes here
Speaker 5: every year and he finds out the latest technology. He
Speaker 5: meets with those companies and you know, theoretically makes deals
Speaker 5: for you know, a lot of hotel rooms around the country, a.
Speaker 1: Lot of business happening. Okay, Lett, I'm give you one more.
Speaker 1: We got about thirty more seconds. Craziest thing that you
Speaker 1: see him the show for just just outline. It's just
Speaker 1: odd that people would like.
Speaker 5: Well, I don't know if it's outlandish or od but
Speaker 5: I did run across something called tombot, and there's a
Speaker 5: pretty good story behind it. The developer it doesn't start
Speaker 5: off so good. His mom had Alzheimer's disease and is
Speaker 5: no longer able to take care of the her beloved dog.
Speaker 5: So he basically created an extremely lifelike lab yellow lab
Speaker 5: puppy robot that doesn't walk around, it doesn't jump in
Speaker 5: circles and everything. It's just more of a calming device
Speaker 5: for people with Alzheimer's or depression or PTSD, and the
Speaker 5: thing is really lifelike. I kind of wanted to take
Speaker 5: one home just for myself.
Speaker 1: I saw it, I tell you what, I was walking
Speaker 1: through another kind of a pre media show. I saw
Speaker 1: this thing and there was this laying in a dog bed.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I can't believe there actually the dogs in here.
Speaker 1: It was so lifelike, but it just sat there. It's cute.
Speaker 1: It didn't go to the bathroom. You don't need to
Speaker 1: feed the thing. That's the type of dog. I like,
Speaker 1: this is what you're gonna see here at CES.
Speaker 5: And that's what I thought initially. I was like, oh,
Speaker 5: this is great for a single person who travels a
Speaker 5: lot or doesn't have time to walk the dog. But
Speaker 5: it's a specific purpose. It's a calming mechanism. So it's
Speaker 5: kind of health tech for folks who aren't able to
Speaker 5: care for a dog but getn't want to get that
Speaker 5: emotional support.
Speaker 1: Everything you need to know about tech and you beyond that.
Speaker 1: Ed Frank he is a spokesperson with CES. I do
Speaker 1: thank you for your time, and I see you've got
Speaker 1: your step counter watch on and so you know, make
Speaker 1: sure you know you get to your six plus miles
Speaker 1: a day because on a seat. Let's have a contest.
Speaker 1: Let's see how more I can do.
Speaker 5: I'm over five thousand steps already and it's not even
Speaker 5: ten fifteen in the morning.
Speaker 1: Hey, listen, have a great show. I appreciate you stopping
Speaker 1: by Michael Garfield's name. If you're looking for something for
Speaker 1: me to talk about, if you've seen it in other
Speaker 1: forms of media, hit me up right now Michael at
Speaker 1: high tech text dot com. And again, do not forget
Speaker 1: hit my Instagram, high Tech Text. And because I brought
Speaker 1: three or four extra suitcases because companies are giving me demos,
Speaker 1: they want me to give them away, So listeners their yours.
Speaker 1: But you got to follow me high Tech Text and
Speaker 1: h I G H T E C H T E
Speaker 1: X A N. And we're gonna be back here at
Speaker 1: Las Vegas Convention Center at ce.
Speaker 6: S continuing to love rais and five days of probably
Speaker 6: the world's largest convention center.
Speaker 1: Because the CEES is not even contained in the main
Speaker 1: convention center, the West Hall, the Central Hall, the South Hall,
Speaker 1: then it goes to the Venetian Expo, and then it
Speaker 1: goes to like ten other hotels.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 1: It is just non stop. Michael Garfield is the name.
Speaker 1: It is called the High Tech Texan Show, and I
Speaker 1: guess this is the ultimate the Mecca. My Super Bowl
Speaker 1: twenty third year covering CEES used to be called the
Speaker 1: Consumer Electronics Show from the Convention Center show floor. Just
Speaker 1: heard from Ed. He is with the Consumer Electronics Show,
Speaker 1: just kind of expecting of, you know, what companies are offering.
Speaker 1: As I turned my head left and right walking up
Speaker 1: and down these hallways, I do see those two letters
Speaker 1: AI AI AI. Now for basketball fans, you thought Alan
Speaker 1: Iverson he's back in the game. No, it's it could
Speaker 1: be all in, but it is artificial intelligence. And I'm it's.
Speaker 1: I tell people because when they hear the words artificial intelligence,
Speaker 1: it's relatively new. No one knows what to expect. And
Speaker 1: as I said last segment, it's nothing tangible. You know
Speaker 1: when I talk about tangible, when I come to see yes,
Speaker 1: it's oh Michael, you know what's the TV? Is it cool?
Speaker 1: Did you give phone? All right? What's the smallest little
Speaker 1: earbuds in the headphones? Those are tangible products that you
Speaker 1: can hold, that you could touch, that you could feel.
Speaker 1: AI is not it's it's software. It's inside, but it's
Speaker 1: almost inside everything. I also said, this is a de
Speaker 1: facto car show. A lot of vehicles, autonomous ones. Weaimo
Speaker 1: is here. If you're familiar with Weaimo, the self driving
Speaker 1: taxis I see concept cars with you know these not
Speaker 1: so much radar, but it's light ar, which uses light
Speaker 1: L I D A R. And that's where a lot
Speaker 1: other than Tesla, a lot of cars and automan auto
Speaker 1: manufacturers they use lightar and you know, they're sticking out
Speaker 1: over here so they can see what's going on and
Speaker 1: you know, detect rex and use you know, smart intelligence.
Speaker 1: But I guess the question is do you do you
Speaker 1: trust them? I was doing a few hits on some
Speaker 1: of these the radio stations that I contribute to earlier
Speaker 1: this week, and they they asked me, Hey, in our lifetime,
Speaker 1: are we gonna able to you know, be sitting in
Speaker 1: autonomous driving, self driving cars? And I said absolutely. They're
Speaker 1: doing it now. I mean way Mo if you're familiar
Speaker 1: with it. And they just came to Austin about a
Speaker 1: month or two ago, and then they're in several obviously
Speaker 1: San Francisco and several cities. These are self driving autonomous
Speaker 1: vehicles like an uber you call weai moo and a
Speaker 1: vehicle shows up and there's no driver. There's no driver,
Speaker 1: and let's just assume they're relatively safe. They have cameras
Speaker 1: and ate inside and outside the doors lock. They know
Speaker 1: where you're going because you put it on the app
Speaker 1: and you just go between point A and point B.
Speaker 1: The problem is, and this is my and this is
Speaker 1: my thought, and I've long held this belief. It's not
Speaker 1: so much about technology why consumers haven't really adopted these
Speaker 1: the technology. It's not technology. The technology is there. It's
Speaker 1: the paradigm shift. It's their acceptance of Wait a minute.
Speaker 1: All my life I have driven a car, or have
Speaker 1: been a passenger car when someone else is driven. And
Speaker 1: it is freaky d key because I've done it several
Speaker 1: times of sitting in the backseat of a car with
Speaker 1: there's no driver, because it's the what if what if
Speaker 1: you know, it runs a red light? What if someone
Speaker 1: you know runs in me, run into me. Listen, it's
Speaker 1: it can happen with a driver. I've I've been in
Speaker 1: rex in my life. A lot of you listeners you
Speaker 1: probably have too. You have to trust it and it
Speaker 1: it exact. Could take a generation, It really could. It
Speaker 1: may take You know my kids. You know, my youngest
Speaker 1: son is twenty four right now, so you know he
Speaker 1: knows you know, rides hearing, he knows uber, he knows left,
Speaker 1: he knows you know all these he knows waymount he
Speaker 1: now has seen some driverless vehicles. Now, for the first
Speaker 1: twenty four years of life, he's been driven around or
Speaker 1: he drives right now. He's been driving since he was sixteen.
Speaker 1: But you know, as he gets older, they're gonna be
Speaker 1: more prevalent. That younger generation, younger than me. You know,
Speaker 1: the just people and the teenagers and the kids in
Speaker 1: their twenties right now, they're the ones who could adopt
Speaker 1: easier because they live with this stuff. They see this
Speaker 1: stuff and they're gonna accept it. You know, if you
Speaker 1: think about if babies are just born right now, by
Speaker 1: the time they are in their teens, it is gonna
Speaker 1: be prevalent. And that's all they're gonna know. They may
Speaker 1: not even know what a taxi and a taxi driver is.
Speaker 1: And I'm not even talking about the movie with de Niro.
Speaker 1: They're not gonna know it. Michael Garfielder continuing from CEES,
Speaker 1: talking about some of the big trends over here. You
Speaker 1: know every booth has got AI. This there's AI is
Speaker 1: built in the TV TV AI. Well listen, if you
Speaker 1: think about it, look at Amazon, I mean think about it.
Speaker 1: How does Amazon know what you want How do they suggest?
Speaker 1: Isn't that interesting that Amazon suggests that since you bought this,
Speaker 1: you may want this. Oh you bought a pair of pants,
Speaker 1: Well wait a minute, let me suggest a belt. Well,
Speaker 1: how did you know I bought pants? Because they collect data,
Speaker 1: they know almost everything that you purchase. It's the same
Speaker 1: thing with televisions too. Netflix knows what you watch. That's
Speaker 1: where they get the recommended for. So we have lived
Speaker 1: with some sort of artificial intelligence and it's only going
Speaker 1: to get smarter because of these super chips. They're getting
Speaker 1: faster and faster and faster. Speaking of cars, I'm going
Speaker 1: up and down and there's this. I saw so many
Speaker 1: concept cars. I say concept cars. It's these are the
Speaker 1: Jetsonian things. A concept car. It's a concept. Some really
Speaker 1: cool designer is you know, has designed this thing, and
Speaker 1: it's never going to come to fruition. It really really
Speaker 1: may not. Then there's these cars that they're being shown.
Speaker 1: They're allegedly going to go on sales. So maybe next
Speaker 1: year are they going to be in that exact shape
Speaker 1: and form? We don't know. Let me give you an example.
Speaker 1: I'm at the Sony booth, and right outside the Sony booth,
Speaker 1: I see this car and I've never even seen it in.
Speaker 1: It's got even it's called a fila a. It's either
Speaker 1: a Fela or a leaf O. And I apologize for
Speaker 1: not even knowing, because I've just there's a billion things
Speaker 1: going on in my mind with all these products that
Speaker 1: I see here. And I find out it's a jav
Speaker 1: it's a joint venture between Sony and Honda, and they
Speaker 1: are showing they have two of their cars. Now, Mom,
Speaker 1: I gotta calm concept because they are at These look
Speaker 1: like actual cars. They are electric, obviously, and they've got
Speaker 1: the light Hoar based in and they look pretty neat.
Speaker 1: It's a four door, the wheels are nice, kind of
Speaker 1: the smallest shuev or it pops up and they're already
Speaker 1: taking deposits for this. Two hundred dollars right now will
Speaker 1: get you on the wedding list for the new Lifo
Speaker 1: from a Sony and Honda. Total price next year when
Speaker 1: or whenever they come on market, eighty nine thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: Walking around, I see uh listen, a lot of the
Speaker 1: major manufacturers that we know. Hondai's here, Honda itself is here,
Speaker 1: There's BMW, UH, there's UH I think I saw GM.
Speaker 1: I think I saw some stillantis brands was cheap over here,
Speaker 1: but a lot of them are hybrid. But a lot
Speaker 1: of these vehicles unlike a typical auto show, they're part neck,
Speaker 1: they're charged, they're plug in hybrids. They're sitting next to
Speaker 1: charge vehicles. They they they have built these garage, you know,
Speaker 1: these displays. They built like a garage. What the garage
Speaker 1: of the future. But it's not the future, it's the
Speaker 1: garage of now. If you have an electric vehicle, you know,
Speaker 1: you probably should have a charger built in. Well. Now
Speaker 1: the chargers are getting smarter, they're getting a little bit
Speaker 1: more powerful, the level too, chargers that everybody should you know,
Speaker 1: have at their homes.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: And then there's bigger energy. There's bigger electric companies that
Speaker 1: will power uh, probably in an entire neighborhood, certainly the
Speaker 1: ones you see in a parking lot. You know, when
Speaker 1: I get you know, I test drive vehicles every single week,
Speaker 1: and when I don't have a charger at home because
Speaker 1: I technically don't own an EV but I have to
Speaker 1: go to either a Walmart or a Whole Foods parking
Speaker 1: lot and I gotta plug it in, and I gotta
Speaker 1: pay it if you listen to my show. But about
Speaker 1: three weeks ago, when I drove to Lake Charles and
Speaker 1: I went on and on and on and ragging and
Speaker 1: ranting for about fifty minutes of why I personally would
Speaker 1: never buy an ev it, you know, at eighty five dollars.
Speaker 1: It took me an hour of my time. I just did.
Speaker 1: I personally am not in that life mode right now
Speaker 1: to get it. I'm not knocking on EV's but it's
Speaker 1: just not for me. I like snapping in the fingers driving.
Speaker 1: I need to go to Austin. I need to go
Speaker 1: to Dallas, so I want a vehicle that's going to
Speaker 1: get me there in one shot. I do not need
Speaker 1: to be stopping halfway in Centerville, you know, sitting for
Speaker 1: an hour eating beef jerkey, hoping that the level three
Speaker 1: charger from this bigger energy electricity company is fully working
Speaker 1: with all the watts and everything but there here, and
Speaker 1: so I'm seeing more and more accessories from all these
Speaker 1: you know, third party companies who are working in partnering
Speaker 1: with all these chargers. And again, this is what I
Speaker 1: kind of I'm trying to paint the picture. It's not
Speaker 1: just TVs it's not just cell phones, it's not just headphones,
Speaker 1: it's not just earphones. Here at CESAID, there's a whole building.
Speaker 1: It's generally it's the West Convention Center, which is really
Speaker 1: only about three years old that they built. It is
Speaker 1: now pretty much the automobile de facto type of stuff.
Speaker 1: I see racing car, racing car concept. John Deere. John
Speaker 1: Deere has one of the largest booths here and they
Speaker 1: have brought in There is a tractor that is literally
Speaker 1: larger than my house. Massive. I mean you have to climb,
Speaker 1: you have to sign something to climb in here. So
Speaker 1: you because they're using GPS for farmers. When you're using
Speaker 1: these things that will plant the seed, it's self driving,
Speaker 1: so you program it to go out and lawn and
Speaker 1: plant and water and dig holes and whatever you need
Speaker 1: to do. But that's what John Deere's here now. Who
Speaker 1: would imagine John Deere would be at a technology show,
Speaker 1: the largest technology show. That's what's in and SOWAY. This
Speaker 1: is the information that I'm bringing you. If you got questions,
Speaker 1: why don't you go ahead and pop them on my
Speaker 1: Social High Tech DEXs and HI g h T e
Speaker 1: h T e x an. I've continued to put a
Speaker 1: lot of videos and photos on that Instagram account. I'm
Speaker 1: also an ex. You can find me at high Tech
Speaker 1: Text and if you want to send me an email,
Speaker 1: I'll give you the long one. Go to Michael Garfield,
Speaker 1: but both thing out Michael Garfield at iHeartMedia dot com.
Speaker 1: We'll come back right after this on the High Tech
Speaker 1: Texas Show portion Hypertext Show. I'll give my Cabo Bobs.
Speaker 1: If you have to be listening in Houston for location
Speaker 1: San Antonio, you got one location. If you're in Austin,
Speaker 1: or if you go to Austin at the headquarters, boy,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what you make your own burritos and
Speaker 1: your tacos and those fresh tortillas and it's huge. Sadly,
Speaker 1: as I do the show from Las Vegas right now
Speaker 1: this week, specifically for cees, there's a lot actually there's
Speaker 1: a lot of action, really good high end text Mex restaurants.
Speaker 1: There's no Cobo Bob's and so Cobo Bob Don and
Speaker 1: Arnold and and Lourie. You know, all your folks who
Speaker 1: listen and you partner with me, you may want to expand.
Speaker 1: First of all, you need expanded Dallas. If I if
Speaker 1: I have if I have more. My Dallas listeners and
Speaker 1: my TV viewers are my parents and some of my
Speaker 1: best friends where I grew up at Dallas. They know
Speaker 1: Coabo Bob's because they go to Austin, you know, for
Speaker 1: the UT Games or whatever. It's like, when are we
Speaker 1: gonna get Cobo Bobs? And so they're they're waiting for you.
Speaker 1: But I can't wait to I get back and get
Speaker 1: some of those Oh those chips, man, those double crunchy
Speaker 1: chips with kso I don't get technically I can eat it.
Speaker 1: I am. I'm walking an average of twenty twenty five
Speaker 1: thousand steps a day out here. I'm allowed to eat
Speaker 1: some walking quite kse. That's that abbs all I'm saying,
Speaker 1: Michael Garfield. You can hit me on email questions what
Speaker 1: have I seen? What is my favorite gadget? Y'all talk
Speaker 1: about it too, Michael Garfield at iHeartMedia dot com. You
Speaker 1: can also see a lot of the stuff I posted
Speaker 1: on my website high tech Textan dot com. Now you
Speaker 1: gotta spell the whole thing out high tech Textan dot
Speaker 1: com and also on Instagram. I have a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1: We'd be back in my home base of Houston here
Speaker 1: in the next day or two. I hope it's not
Speaker 1: frozen over. Man. I've been looking at the reports all
Speaker 1: this week in Dallas, boy Man, snow and somebody said
Speaker 1: ten to fifteen inches of snow in Dallas. I mean, people,
Speaker 1: I am from Dallas, Okay, so well over fifty years,
Speaker 1: even though I don't live in Dallas, but my parents
Speaker 1: still live there. I don't think in fifteen in fifty years,
Speaker 1: there's fifteen inches of snow that's been accumulated. It's been
Speaker 1: some eye storms, been some ice storms. Don't get me wrong, man,
Speaker 1: but I just told everybody is safe here. It's beautiful
Speaker 1: in Vegas right now. It's high desert. It does get chili.
Speaker 1: I mean it's in the upper forties, lower fifties. But
Speaker 1: it's not bad what's over because I'm pretty much living
Speaker 1: in it, living in casinos and restaurants and convention centers,
Speaker 1: so that we've been doing over here. Talked a lot
Speaker 1: about the cars, the artificial intelligence, and some of the
Speaker 1: things that I've seen, earbuds, earphones. I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: know how much you need. Televisions have long been the
Speaker 1: low hanging fruit. Everybody thinks that that's all they are
Speaker 1: in televisions, and you know the funny story. I always say,
Speaker 1: it's I've becoming twenty three years and so we got
Speaker 1: two thousand and two. That was the year pretty much
Speaker 1: that digital TV was mandated by the FCC. Every all
Speaker 1: the TV stations had to go from analog and but
Speaker 1: also throw it's still a digital signal too. And televisions
Speaker 1: were fifty inches fifty five inches. Those were big ones,
Speaker 1: and they were thin, and they were expensive too. Nowadays, man,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you why. I mean, listen, you can get
Speaker 1: a fifty inch TV for two hundred dollars or so,
Speaker 1: but they continue to get bigger. Went through the lgbooth,
Speaker 1: TCL is here, Samsung certainly is here. Saw one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifteen inch I'm not kidding, one hundred and fifteen
Speaker 1: inch mini, my grow led, and so so I'm a
Speaker 1: six foot tall dude. I'm standing up next thing. It's
Speaker 1: it's little, it's you know, almost my size. It is
Speaker 1: absolutely massive, dude. It's not whether I want or need
Speaker 1: this thing. Where am I going to put this thing?
Speaker 1: Where would you put a one hundred and fifteen inch
Speaker 1: diagonal diagonal screen? I mean, my lord, I have a
Speaker 1: seventy five inch and it's above my fireplace, which is
Speaker 1: not the most ideal place, you know for it. But
Speaker 1: it's on one of those swinging arms, so I can
Speaker 1: kind of rotate it and you know, bevel it out.
Speaker 1: But one hundred and fifteen inches, it's it looks pretty heavy,
Speaker 1: I must say. But I will tell you this, I will.
Speaker 1: And I've talked about this for six or seven months,
Speaker 1: and I'm seeing it now. One of the other hot
Speaker 1: things when it comes to televisions. When it comes to monitors, projectors,
Speaker 1: a number of different companies here projection companies, so a
Speaker 1: lot of them come straight from China, straight from the East.
Speaker 1: There's one called yabber Way. Why a ber went to
Speaker 1: their press conference. They announced several new projectors, one of
Speaker 1: which is a very it's up to high definition. I
Speaker 1: think it shows up to AK. Obviously, nothing's even broadcast
Speaker 1: in AK. Got a great big speaker built out. I
Speaker 1: think it's a JBL speaker, and it throws. It's called
Speaker 1: the throw. When you place a projector up against a
Speaker 1: blank wall, it's gonna project something right. Well, the first
Speaker 1: projector is now you remember they were mounted on the
Speaker 1: ceiling maybe back in school. My first projector, I had
Speaker 1: to have a company coming mounted on the ceiling and
Speaker 1: it had to be about twelve to fifteen feet away,
Speaker 1: and then it wasn't too bright. That's the throw. The
Speaker 1: throw was twelve feet away. The throw on some of
Speaker 1: these new ones, it is so small it's not even funny.
Speaker 1: The one from Yaber Yabra, Yaber Yaber, I'm not kidding you.
Speaker 1: Nine inches. This thing is nine inches from the wall
Speaker 1: and it shoots almost up at an angle as you
Speaker 1: can imagine, and it can go about one hundred and
Speaker 1: ten hundred and twenty inches. Now I said it again,
Speaker 1: it's like, do you have room for one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifteen hundred and twenty inch TV. Well, you may not
Speaker 1: have room for one hundred and fifteen hundred twenty inch
Speaker 1: actual television, heavy expensive monitor, but for a projector, you
Speaker 1: actually can decrease and you can make that even if
Speaker 1: the throw is either nine inches or something like this,
Speaker 1: but you can make the picture smaller. But you can
Speaker 1: make it up to one hundred and twenty inches. But
Speaker 1: the neat thing are they're portable. These things are light.
Speaker 1: Some of these are portable. Some of them are three,
Speaker 1: four or five pounds. That means you can move these.
Speaker 1: So now you can put it outside. You've got kids,
Speaker 1: you've got a pool at summertime, and you want to
Speaker 1: have a pool watch party, you want to have a
Speaker 1: birthday party, you want to watch the football game. Well,
Speaker 1: let's put it on a projector let's go outside and
Speaker 1: we'll project it on our garage. Now you really can't
Speaker 1: do it in the bright of day, but at these
Speaker 1: are getting very bright. And when you're purchasing things, things
Speaker 1: you want to look for a number, and it's it's
Speaker 1: actually a name. It's called lumens. Lumens. Is that there's
Speaker 1: a number like seven hundred lumens of how bright it is. Obviously,
Speaker 1: the brighter the number, the brighter the screen and you
Speaker 1: can see what you know, it doesn't have to be
Speaker 1: totally totally dark like a movie theater. Now you're not
Speaker 1: gonna have I'm not listen, I'm never I'm never gonna
Speaker 1: say it never when it comes to tech, but for
Speaker 1: a long time, you're not gonna see it in bright sunlight.
Speaker 1: But you get it night and you get seven hundred lumens,
Speaker 1: thousand lumens, it's gonna be pretty long, pretty bright and
Speaker 1: it's gonna look great, built in speaker. So now all
Speaker 1: you need to do is move this thing. I'm telling
Speaker 1: you what's what's going to happen right now. And I
Speaker 1: bet a lot of people are doing this instead of
Speaker 1: going out and buy a sixty five inch TV, No,
Speaker 1: sixty five seventy five inch TVs. You want a decent one,
Speaker 1: you're gonna get eight hundred, you're gonna get a thousand,
Speaker 1: you're gona get fifteen hundred dollars. Why not buy a
Speaker 1: projector and then set it up against your blank wall
Speaker 1: in your apartment, in your home, in your condo, in
Speaker 1: your bedroom, wherever it is where a television was supposed
Speaker 1: to be. Now listen, now, this is what you've saved.
Speaker 1: You've saved installation time. You probably stay of a company
Speaker 1: for coming, installing and putting a bracket in the wall,
Speaker 1: making sure it hits the studs so it holds it.
Speaker 1: Wiring the electricity, they're uh wiring the cable if you
Speaker 1: have to use cable, unless you don't use it. You
Speaker 1: just got a projector right now. X Jimmy X G
Speaker 1: I M I. I went to a press conference in
Speaker 1: New York last July for them and I have. I've
Speaker 1: been using one of those things. This is a really
Speaker 1: portable one. This thing really wasted me or four pounds.
Speaker 1: It's got a it's got about five it's got a
Speaker 1: lot of five why JBL speaker. It's got some pretty
Speaker 1: decent movements. It's got four K. It's one hundred and
Speaker 1: nine year one dollar. So projectors actually are kind of
Speaker 1: the new thing in along with TVs, and I could
Speaker 1: see the projectors just based on the technology and they're
Speaker 1: built now come built with Netflix and everything they go.
Speaker 1: You just need to put your account in your set.
Speaker 1: Just need that Internet at you you're set to go.
Speaker 1: Something to think of if you're don't want to set
Speaker 1: up something, maybe a guest room or you know, the
Speaker 1: summer comes and you will to watch a TV.
Speaker 7: That'side.
Speaker 1: Look at projectors, say a little pretty diff from me
Speaker 1: to you have a high tech Texan Hour number one
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Speaker 1: from all save this convention center at my twenty third.
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Speaker 1: Through the show. Had we found at a better time?
Speaker 1: I needed about a seven or eight minute frank at
Speaker 1: the top of the hour as we continue one more
Speaker 1: hour at my busiest show of the year, pretty much undoubted,
Speaker 1: late c Ees, Las Vegas people, thanks for tuning in
Speaker 1: if you missed the first hour. We have this amazing
Speaker 1: thing called a podcast. We put it on iHeartRadio. You
Speaker 1: download the app and my man Callum read he's back
Speaker 1: in the studio. He is going to pop it up
Speaker 1: there and you can just listen to your heart's content,
Speaker 1: which is for this show. This probably, I think anecdotally,
Speaker 1: just over the twenty plus years I've been doing it,
Speaker 1: this is the one that's he requested, most repeated and
Speaker 1: most listened to because okay, well Michael was it Cees
Speaker 1: for an entire week. What did he see? What did
Speaker 1: he like? What did he hate? And I I'm going
Speaker 1: through my list right now. Actually I'll tell you one
Speaker 1: of my favorite things that I saw. It was a laptop.
Speaker 1: Don't laugh, people don't laugh because laptops, we still do
Speaker 1: need them, and because they're pretty powerful. They're much more
Speaker 1: powerful than most all phones out there, and they have
Speaker 1: a full sized keyboard. But the coolest one I saw
Speaker 1: and I have lined up an interview in not next segment,
Speaker 1: So give me two more segments. I'd say about twenty
Speaker 1: minutes or so with the representative from Asus as US
Speaker 1: and I have been a pretty I you know, truth
Speaker 1: be told, I am a pretty big fan of Asus.
Speaker 1: But they launched and I got to see it the
Speaker 1: night before I got earlier this week, and I couldn't
Speaker 1: post it until about a day after. And I did
Speaker 1: post it. If you go to my Instagram, my favorite laptop.
Speaker 1: It is the lightest laptop that I have ever held.
Speaker 1: I am not kidding you. It is just under two
Speaker 1: point two pounds. It literally could be used as a frisbee.
Speaker 1: It is powerful, it is nice, it is sexy, and
Speaker 1: it's got a pretty good starting price too. Of about
Speaker 1: nine hundred bones. I will be sitting down and bringing
Speaker 1: you a little chat with a representative from Asus about
Speaker 1: that and another something they released, the rog Republic of Gamers.
Speaker 1: If you're a gamer man, they've got a kind of
Speaker 1: a tablet computer type of thing that they just launched.
Speaker 1: So again another reason to tease you to say, but
Speaker 1: I've seen so much. I've seen a laptop with an
Speaker 1: expanding screen. I think it's LG it expands. I saw
Speaker 1: the new Sony and Honda first car that they're coming
Speaker 1: out with. It's pretty interesting price, about ninety thousand dollars,
Speaker 1: but you can put it two hundred dollars deposit if
Speaker 1: you live in California. This week, there's an upgraded version
Speaker 1: of the Frame TV. It's a TV on the wall
Speaker 1: but actually looks like a picture and a frame. I've
Speaker 1: seen so many robots it's not even funny. There's a
Speaker 1: fluffy row that clings to your purse. There's a there's
Speaker 1: a robot that actually looks so much like a dog
Speaker 1: that when I saw it on the show floor, I
Speaker 1: really thought it was a Golden retriever. It's it's I
Speaker 1: don't know why they need to make these things but
Speaker 1: they certainly do. It's kind of like Gremlins. You remember
Speaker 1: they how cute those little gremlins from a movie back
Speaker 1: in like what nineteen eighty five or six or something PBKs.
Speaker 1: They were the cutest little grimlins. But don't feed them
Speaker 1: after midnight and never get them wet because then Stripe
Speaker 1: is going to turn into a monster. But some of
Speaker 1: these are so cute, these little robots. I saw a
Speaker 1: robo vac with an arm. I then I saw a
Speaker 1: robo vack with an arm and two legs, And then
Speaker 1: I saw a robovac with interchangeable heads. All these vacuums
Speaker 1: and mops they're doing so much. Yeah, these arms that
Speaker 1: what they do is they'll they'll pick is it you know,
Speaker 1: it's like a little vacuum, you know what I'm talking about,
Speaker 1: And is it goes around and if it comes across
Speaker 1: like a little something as relatively light, I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe it's a dog's toy or little baby rattle or something,
Speaker 1: and arm will reach out and pick it up out
Speaker 1: of the way. Oh my god. It's kind of scary
Speaker 1: if you think about it. Some of the some of
Speaker 1: the show's biggest announcements, they it seems they have come
Speaker 1: from typical big names, I mean LG. They really did
Speaker 1: have some pretty strong TVs to show off. I saw
Speaker 1: it is one hundred and fifteen inch big O'mama TV, Honda, Conda,
Speaker 1: you know a lot of vehicles. Honda was there. They
Speaker 1: had some pretty wild ev concepts speaking of you know,
Speaker 1: laptops and maybe desktops. Dell rebranded its entire PC lineup,
Speaker 1: just rebranded. They killed the XPS brand. That's it, baby,
Speaker 1: that is that is That is it man. So now
Speaker 1: they've got some interest things. I did drop by. I
Speaker 1: saw HP HP my buddy Kevin, who is in Houston,
Speaker 1: he's in marketing. He was there showing off of some
Speaker 1: neat things. They have a new all in one. I'm
Speaker 1: an all in one fan. If you're looking for a
Speaker 1: desktop and you ask me number one, I'm not going
Speaker 1: to tell you it's an Apple or makeet Gosh. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell you to get a Microsoft. But I'm also
Speaker 1: going to tell you that I like all in one.
Speaker 1: I like clean things. You know what an all in
Speaker 1: one is. It's the actual computer and the monitor built
Speaker 1: in together. I've used him for well over ten twelve years.
Speaker 1: You don't have to keep that, you know, the computer
Speaker 1: tower under your desk with the wires, it's it's all there.
Speaker 1: It's nice and clean. And so I saw something, you know,
Speaker 1: really neat from HP some other you know, interesting things.
Speaker 1: The end of the stuff I like, I don't like.
Speaker 1: I'll get to that. But going back to the Honda.
Speaker 1: Someone just just now emailed me, Michael, what was up?
Speaker 1: Was it the Honda's zero prototype you're talking about? It
Speaker 1: actually was. Honda showed off what more interesting concepts at
Speaker 1: at CES? It was the Honda zero. The there's a
Speaker 1: Honda zero saloon and a Honda's zero ish UV and
Speaker 1: they showed off over there. That that's interesting too, I
Speaker 1: still think. And going back to last hour, the Sony
Speaker 1: Honda Honda was making big news. Sony and Honda JV.
Speaker 1: They did a joint venture, announced it a while ago,
Speaker 1: put it on display first time. They announced the price.
Speaker 1: It's eighty nine thousand dollars. The actual name of the
Speaker 1: of the of the company together it's called Afila A
Speaker 1: F E E L A. I feel like comment. I
Speaker 1: feel it's kind of like feel. I guess AI built
Speaker 1: in if courts it's an electric vehicle. It's probably gonna
Speaker 1: be the twenty twenty six before me, as an auto journalist,
Speaker 1: can even test drive the dang thing. But I saw
Speaker 1: that out there, and so a lot of meat meat stuff.
Speaker 1: I think in terms of best l let's go to
Speaker 1: the TV because I know everybody wants to here, what's
Speaker 1: the coolest TV? I think I saw an LG. They
Speaker 1: have one called the G five. It's an O L
Speaker 1: ED TV organic light emitting diode. All right, LGG five,
Speaker 1: it looked the best. It was pretty cool, very bright.
Speaker 1: LG says it's forty percent brighter, has a better contrast
Speaker 1: and bright lighting compared to the G four, which was
Speaker 1: one of the better ones last year too. They also
Speaker 1: have a wireless TV and M five wireless TV. I
Speaker 1: thought that was pretty nice. I saw a few neat
Speaker 1: ones from High Sense, Hi, s E N s C.
Speaker 1: That's a manufacturer too. Nothing really from Sony or TCL
Speaker 1: really impressed me, so I'll go with those so far.
Speaker 1: In terms of the of the TVs, I talked about
Speaker 1: that vacuums and robotic vacuums with arms. I'm kind of
Speaker 1: a robo rock fan r O B O r O
Speaker 1: c K. They had a very very big booth. This
Speaker 1: is it's a robot that can really pick up after us,
Speaker 1: because this is the one with a robotic arm. And
Speaker 1: so you know, I'm looking at pictures right now. Okay,
Speaker 1: so there's a sock in the middle of the floor. Well,
Speaker 1: what are you gonna do? You're gonna is the robot
Speaker 1: gonna go around it? No, there's this little mechanical arm
Speaker 1: that comes out. It's like a crane, and it picks
Speaker 1: it up and it moves it. They they didn't announce
Speaker 1: the price, but I think I kind of heard a
Speaker 1: rumor it's gonna be two thousand dollars for a freaking vacuum.
Speaker 1: All right, they better better do more than a vacuum.
Speaker 1: It better be rosy the made from the ingestin. That's
Speaker 1: all I have to say. So we're gonna end this
Speaker 1: segment one in the second hour. Coming back, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell you some more of the neat things I saw,
Speaker 1: the best gaming things, the best wellness and fitness tech
Speaker 1: tech I I actually saw here, the best automatic door locks,
Speaker 1: privacy and security, and some of the crazier stuff that
Speaker 1: I saw. I saw. I saw this thing. It's a
Speaker 1: it's a spoon. It's a spoon that will make food
Speaker 1: taste better because it automatically adds salt. Don't even get
Speaker 1: me started, because I got to take a break. This
Speaker 1: is Goldiel and the high tech dexit at ces from
Speaker 1: the great City, but Las Vegas, Nevada. Here for the
Speaker 1: next dot at forty minutes. Michael Garfield not given really
Speaker 1: out the phone number this week because we are chock
Speaker 1: full of information at the annual CEES. My twenty third year,
Speaker 1: I walked. I don't know the average of what twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two thousand steps on a daily basis. Then finally
Speaker 1: I will get to be back home for a bit
Speaker 1: before I go out to another press conference. I think
Speaker 1: the embargo is lifted. I will be in San Jose, Califonia,
Speaker 1: Silicon Valley in a few weeks. Samsung is having a
Speaker 1: press conference. I'm guessing it's for a phone, and I'm
Speaker 1: serious because the PR people have not told me exactly
Speaker 1: what it is. But this is generally the time of
Speaker 1: year where they do it. Samsung unpacked, probably not a
Speaker 1: foldable phone. They do those in the summer, so we
Speaker 1: may see another flagship phone drop. Speaking of flagship phones
Speaker 1: and dropping, I have had to bite my tongue for
Speaker 1: what is now free weeks, if not four weeks, because
Speaker 1: I was and I have to sign these embargos. It's
Speaker 1: generally how a lot of companies do things with the press.
Speaker 1: They'll give us information, you cannot say anything until they
Speaker 1: give it to be okay where they have a coordinated
Speaker 1: press release in whatever. But speaking of phones, I can
Speaker 1: talk about right now. For the past three or four weeks,
Speaker 1: I have had a new Android phone that I really
Speaker 1: really like. It's from a company also that I've had
Speaker 1: other cell phones before. You may not be that familiar
Speaker 1: with it because it doesn't say Samsung, it doesn't say Apple.
Speaker 1: It is one plus O in E plus one plus
Speaker 1: and the past several years I've had the one plus fold,
Speaker 1: I've had the one plus twelve, the one plus twelve R.
Speaker 1: And for the past few weeks I have played with
Speaker 1: the super brand new just announced officially to the public
Speaker 1: a few days ago, the one plus thirteen. And also
Speaker 1: it's one plus thirteen R. It's sister phone. So let
Speaker 1: me go through this thing. If you like photos, I
Speaker 1: really like it. Because they have long partnered with a
Speaker 1: company called hassele Blod. And if you know anything about photography.
Speaker 1: I'm talking going back old school photography. Hassleblod in terms
Speaker 1: of cameras and lenses are one of the top in
Speaker 1: the world. And there is a hassle Blide co branded
Speaker 1: camera once again in this and it's very interesting because
Speaker 1: it's not your typical camera where like right now, look
Speaker 1: on the back of your phone. Your camera generally has
Speaker 1: maybe two or three or four little lenses that are
Speaker 1: smoothed down, almost flush with the back of your phone.
Speaker 1: Maybe they stick out a little the past several iterations
Speaker 1: of the one plus it is a circular. Maybe it's
Speaker 1: about see hold on, let me actually man measure this thing.
Speaker 1: It's about one. It's about a one and a half
Speaker 1: inch circle that does protrude a bit out of the
Speaker 1: backside of the phone. It's a hassle Blode but they
Speaker 1: have one flash, three lenses and it is strong. It
Speaker 1: really really is. It is a Qualcom Snapdragon eight Elait,
Speaker 1: which is the most powerful snap Dragon process or on
Speaker 1: a mobile platform that has come out yet. It offers
Speaker 1: about up till let's put it this way, up to
Speaker 1: sixteen gigs of RAM, which is your really fast performance.
Speaker 1: It's got a six and one thing I like about
Speaker 1: one plus. They love their batteries. They pack a good battery.
Speaker 1: This is the first one plus with a six thousand
Speaker 1: milli amp silicon nanostack battery. All right, that's gonna ship worldwide.
Speaker 1: It's a long lasting battery, but it's relatively thin. And
Speaker 1: also they have a proprietary charging system which it's called
Speaker 1: what is it is it vrooms what is called I'm
Speaker 1: sorry er vuk AI r v OOC. You don't need
Speaker 1: to worry about that, but it charges super fast, real quickly.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the photos that I've taken and the
Speaker 1: videos that I've taken over the past you know, almost month,
Speaker 1: really been amazing triple camera system. It's got a fifty
Speaker 1: megapixel sony main camera. I know it's hassleblah, but they
Speaker 1: obviously they work with other cameras, a fifty meg ultra
Speaker 1: wide camera and a fifty meg three x telephoto camera
Speaker 1: and they can capture shots up to ten x zoom
Speaker 1: because guess what it's got AI. It's got an AI
Speaker 1: telephoto feature in there too, lots of AI tools. They
Speaker 1: do have its own proprietary operating system and so it's
Speaker 1: not a lot of bloated you know Samsung type of stuff.
Speaker 1: It's the oxygen OS fifteen. It's the latest version of
Speaker 1: one Plus's proprietary operating system too. But it also has
Speaker 1: features that are still Android Circle to Search and intelligent Search,
Speaker 1: and it's really fun playing with the some of the
Speaker 1: AI features on the camera. They have something that automatically
Speaker 1: unblur photos and they'll you could use AI to erase
Speaker 1: reflections and what have you, and what have you. But
Speaker 1: it's really nice. It comes at a few different colors.
Speaker 1: Midnight ocean, that's the one I got, Arctic dawn, black Eclipse.
Speaker 1: My buddy Spencer Blanco actually is in marketing help come
Speaker 1: up with some of those names. That is the the thirteen.
Speaker 1: It is on sale now. You can I think they
Speaker 1: have the you can get him at best Buy, but
Speaker 1: you can go to one plus O N E p
Speaker 1: L US one plus. The one plus thirteen starts about
Speaker 1: nine hundred dollars US. It is on sale now, and
Speaker 1: the if you want the sixteen gig, it's about one
Speaker 1: thousand dollars. All right. They are at best By also
Speaker 1: and they're also on Amazon too. Real quickly. They also
Speaker 1: let me play with the thirteen R. All right, This
Speaker 1: doesn't have uh, it's good performance. It is less expensive.
Speaker 1: It's really for people who want flagship phones type of stuff,
Speaker 1: some am Ai technology, but a little bit of a
Speaker 1: more affordable price point too. It still has a snap
Speaker 1: Dragon eight generation three mobile platform, not as high as
Speaker 1: that other, you know, Chipset twelve gigs of RAM, but
Speaker 1: it still has that six thousand milli amp battery, and
Speaker 1: it does have the Hasslebloot camera and everything else you need.
Speaker 1: We'll quick if you wanted the price in that on
Speaker 1: the thirteen R at six hundred dollars, so it's going
Speaker 1: to save you three hundred and four hundred dollars. But
Speaker 1: it's still good. Don't sleep in the fact that it's
Speaker 1: one plus. I mean, if you've never heard of it,
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, I should have. I've tried these things.
Speaker 1: I've used one plus for about two years. My daily
Speaker 1: watch is a one plus watch too. The second version
Speaker 1: of this, it's an Android watch. I love this thing.
Speaker 1: But they have launched and I've been playing with that.
Speaker 1: I bit my tongue. They were so super secret, I'm
Speaker 1: not kidding you. We had to we had to put
Speaker 1: a cover on it because from the outside it kind
Speaker 1: of looks like the older versions of OnePlus, like maybe
Speaker 1: the twelve or something. I couldn't talk about it, I
Speaker 1: couldn't show people. I couldn't even let people hold it
Speaker 1: for literally three weeks. But now the cat is out
Speaker 1: of the bag and I'm taking pictures. I will post
Speaker 1: some photos of what the photos look like. And it
Speaker 1: is nice. And so again, android folks, you have many
Speaker 1: more options than just the typical ones that you think of.
Speaker 1: But it was a really it was a fun trip. It
Speaker 1: was actually a cruise that they took some journalists on.
Speaker 1: So and they did it because it's it's what is
Speaker 1: it I P sixty nine, which is kind of a
Speaker 1: waterproof type of thing, and so they're thinking, oh, if
Speaker 1: we drop in the ocean, it's still gonna work. Well,
Speaker 1: if you drop in the ocean, no, pretty much nothing
Speaker 1: is gonna live or work in the ocean unless it's
Speaker 1: a fish or something. And so this is it's kind
Speaker 1: of a waterproof down to ten meters or something, but
Speaker 1: very very good. And so they are not here on
Speaker 1: the floor at ces in Vegas as I do the show,
Speaker 1: but go check it out at best Buy, Amazon and
Speaker 1: OnePlus dot com. I really really do like that another
Speaker 1: minute or two before we line up another interview with
Speaker 1: a gentleman from Asus that just released and launched the
Speaker 1: world's I'm gonna call it the world's lightest laptop. Now listen.
Speaker 1: There may some others laptops that have that that are
Speaker 1: not bigger in America or I don't even know their
Speaker 1: PR people, But at two point two pounds, this is light.
Speaker 1: It is powerful, and a lot of my fellow tech journalists,
Speaker 1: the ILK that I work with, they have in naming
Speaker 1: it the coolest laptop that has been launched here at
Speaker 1: CS and I will talk with the product marketing folks
Speaker 1: of how they designed it, how they released it, and
Speaker 1: I can give you some ideas of what to expect
Speaker 1: if you want to do it. So I've got a
Speaker 1: really good price right about what was it about eight
Speaker 1: hundred and ninety nine dollars too. It seems that's just
Speaker 1: kind of like a phone. It seems like that is
Speaker 1: the price. So if you want to hang on for that,
Speaker 1: we will reset at the bottom of the hour. We'll
Speaker 1: come back as we broadcast the show from CEES.
Speaker 7: It is the Michael Garth High Tech Textant Show.
Speaker 1: We continue from the Consumer Electronics show in Vegas. Michael
Speaker 1: Garfield is the name on the show floor. I appreciate
Speaker 1: all the folks at CEES for building me this spectacular
Speaker 1: booth to interview and talk about and kind of get
Speaker 1: the sites and sounds of what is happening at CES.
Speaker 1: Laptops and desktops, you know, they're still prevalent over here,
Speaker 1: and you know you may not need them as often
Speaker 1: as you think you do, but at some point you're
Speaker 1: going to need to replace them. Maybe it's for business,
Speaker 1: and maybe it's for your college kids, or you know,
Speaker 1: just a typical Hey, listen, I need to go to
Speaker 1: a coffee shop and surf around. Saw some new ones
Speaker 1: on the floor and a few caught my eye from
Speaker 1: specifically from a company I'm very familiar with. It's called
Speaker 1: a SUS as US worldwide leader when it comes to
Speaker 1: computing and desktops and laptops. I note specifically two new
Speaker 1: products that they just launched here at CES, and one
Speaker 1: of them is interesting is specifically for gamers, and so
Speaker 1: if you are a gamer, maybe your kids or gamer.
Speaker 1: I'm really impressed with their new product which is called
Speaker 1: the rog flow Z thirteen ro og s needs for
Speaker 1: Republic of gamers, and so if you're playing a game,
Speaker 1: you certainly know that Rog I'm going to bring in Napoleon.
Speaker 1: Napoleon he is with a sus he's a product manager
Speaker 1: and he's going to talk abo a few of these things,
Speaker 1: my man. First of all, do you play games, Napoleon? Oh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: all the time? Which games?
Speaker 8: I play A lot of Overwatch, a lot of Marvel
Speaker 8: rivals recently.
Speaker 1: They're a blast and to play games. And people have
Speaker 1: to understand you need a very fast computer, you need
Speaker 1: a very fast desk top. I mean it's really about
Speaker 1: that chip inside. You've come out with this new ROG
Speaker 1: flow Z thirteen. Why is this the latest and greatest,
Speaker 1: newest and the fastest.
Speaker 8: Well, it's a combination of our own technology and the
Speaker 8: advsments that they're having on the silicon industry.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 8: So for ourselves, the flows thirteen, it's basically what we
Speaker 8: call the most powerful tablet and we equip it with
Speaker 8: the news AMD rise in AI Max CPUs and with it.
Speaker 8: Basically it's the best of the best when it comes
Speaker 8: to integrate as graphics cards, so gamers can you know,
Speaker 8: run their games really smoothly and getting that advantage when
Speaker 8: it comes to competitive gaming.
Speaker 1: Two things are heard there. Number one today d chip obviously,
Speaker 1: which is very fast. You also called it a tablet,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna stop you hearing back up because I've
Speaker 1: been calling these laptops and there is a difference between
Speaker 1: a laptop and a tablet. This is actually a two
Speaker 1: in one. Explain that.
Speaker 8: Yeah, correct, So it is the most powerful tablet. So
Speaker 8: if people are familiar with kind of like the surface
Speaker 8: kind of thing where it's a tablet, but you can
Speaker 8: also attach a keyboard to it, that's essentially what it is.
Speaker 8: I mean, it actually also has a third mod mode
Speaker 8: where you can attach it to a EGPU, so it
Speaker 8: has that capability, so you can connect it to your
Speaker 8: monitorial desktop, keyboard, mouse, and make it into your workstation.
Speaker 1: But it's also you can make it lighter too. For
Speaker 1: some reason, you don't want the keyboard, and this is
Speaker 1: relatively a light keyboard, but it's magnetic, it's detachable. At
Speaker 1: that point, it becomes a tablet. And you know from
Speaker 1: a dad with three boys who back in the college days,
Speaker 1: they I remember specifically they wanted a laptop, they wanted
Speaker 1: their own tablet, they wanted their own desktop. This actually
Speaker 1: makes sense. Money wise because you're getting that two for one.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you're getting the best of the best. You get
Speaker 8: that portability.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Usually when you get the prod of VIA, you sacrifice
Speaker 8: a little bit on the performance. But in this interision,
Speaker 8: I think we made it so you get no compromises
Speaker 8: on these devices.
Speaker 1: This is again it's called the rog Flow Z thirteen.
Speaker 1: It's just announced. It's not out yet. When will it
Speaker 1: hit the market?
Speaker 8: So it should be coming out at around eight Q
Speaker 8: one and it should be started at nineteen ninety nine.
Speaker 1: Gotcha all right? Now, one more thing that caught my eye.
Speaker 1: And it caught my eye because I actually caught this
Speaker 1: thing flying through the air. I like laptops. Maybe not
Speaker 1: be a gamer, but I'll tell you what, when I travel,
Speaker 1: I want something as light as possible. I like light
Speaker 1: smartphones like light laptops. I've had several of your laptops
Speaker 1: of the past few years from Age Sus and they
Speaker 1: are very light, they're very powerful. The Zin book series,
Speaker 1: the VVO book series, and a lot of the other
Speaker 1: ones you just came out with. The new Zin book
Speaker 1: it's the A series fourteen inch, the A fourteen Napoleon.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you right now, I have never I'm serious,
Speaker 1: I have never felt anything so light when it comes
Speaker 1: to a laptop. This is impossible. It feels it's just
Speaker 1: like a few grams. It's like a few pieces of paper.
Speaker 1: Tell us about that, and your senses are very own point.
Speaker 8: It is actually the right now the world's lightest called
Speaker 8: pilot plus PC in the world basically, and the secret
Speaker 8: of that it's weighing out of a two less than
Speaker 8: two point five pounds. And the secret for that is
Speaker 8: basically that you're familiar with the material Sara aluminum that
Speaker 8: we have debuted like about one.
Speaker 1: Or two years ago.
Speaker 8: This is the first time that we have made the
Speaker 8: entire chassis of the device with Sarah luminium, whereas previously
Speaker 8: it was just the cover of it.
Speaker 1: He talked about Sarah aluminum. I remember, listen, there's several
Speaker 1: different materials you can make laptops out of, starting with
Speaker 1: metal back of the day, which makes it very heavy.
Speaker 1: But Sarah aluminum, which is something specifically that you guys
Speaker 1: make Asis makes, and I remember meeting some of your
Speaker 1: designers last summer. It's a very you know, hard, is
Speaker 1: very tough, it's very durable, but it's incredibly light. But
Speaker 1: what you've did with this, I mean, you know, I
Speaker 1: mean it's almost Frisbee like it is so flat, and
Speaker 1: that's important to a lot of people. I probably would
Speaker 1: suggest college kids. You know, listen, college kids have well
Speaker 1: they may not have books to schlep, but they have
Speaker 1: backpacks and things in the last thing they need is
Speaker 1: get to take a heavy laptop. They probably and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna guess just because this is a snap Dragon processor,
Speaker 1: which does I know give you a lot of battery life,
Speaker 1: they might not even need to take a charger. This
Speaker 1: probably lasts most all day. Is that right? Yes, that
Speaker 1: is very correct.
Speaker 8: So when we talk about very thin and light laptops,
Speaker 8: usually they compromise a little bit when it comes to
Speaker 8: battery live, right, because you need to give in to
Speaker 8: you know, make it so thin. But with this zaptop,
Speaker 8: because it comes with the newest snap Dragon chip, it
Speaker 8: goes up to thirty two hours of offline video playback time.
Speaker 1: That's the way that we measure it.
Speaker 8: Because it has a seventy one hours battery inside, so
Speaker 8: it's very portable. You can last all day when you're
Speaker 8: working outside a school, business, or anything without needing to
Speaker 8: worry or hunt for an.
Speaker 1: Outlet speaking with Napoleon. He is a product manager at
Speaker 1: ASU's Computers, specifically right out talking about that Asus new
Speaker 1: zinbook A fourteen's the AC I'm very familiar with your
Speaker 1: S series, but this is the A fourteen series. When
Speaker 1: is it going to come out?
Speaker 8: So this one should be coming out after announcement of
Speaker 8: a one or two week You should be able to
Speaker 8: snap it over and it should be starting at eight
Speaker 8: ninety nine.
Speaker 1: That is not a bad price, awso, because I know
Speaker 1: this in BOOKAS series may be a little more expensive.
Speaker 1: At eight ninety nine for something that is so light
Speaker 1: that that is just incredible. But you also mentioned one
Speaker 1: more thing als about Copilot. Now, over the course of
Speaker 1: my weekly radio show, I try to tell people what
Speaker 1: Copilot is. AI is built in give us a quick
Speaker 1: overview of what Copilot is and why this is the
Speaker 1: lightest co pilot laptop in the world so far.
Speaker 8: So Copilot plus PCs are basically the devices that are
Speaker 8: able to run the program Copilot, which is from Microsoft,
Speaker 8: and essentially what it is is just an AI assistance
Speaker 8: that is able to help you throughout the day. So
Speaker 8: you previously when you're trying to trick the settings from
Speaker 8: your laptop or do anything you kind of needed to
Speaker 8: know what is the pathway want to click on or anything.
Speaker 8: But with Copilot Assistant, you can just tell them in
Speaker 8: natural languages like hey, I want to make the brightness brighter,
Speaker 8: or I want to do this presentation, can you do
Speaker 8: it for me? It to be about dogs or pass
Speaker 8: or whatever, and it can essentially be more natural and
Speaker 8: create that for you or help you with your daily needs.
Speaker 1: All right, it is the Microsoft that's co Pilot Plus
Speaker 1: and this is the lightest one. And I'm telling you what. Listen.
Speaker 1: I know I just shot a video with you from
Speaker 1: my TV show and we were tossing this thing around
Speaker 1: like a frisbee. It is incredibly light. Coming out very
Speaker 1: very soon within it in about a week or two.
Speaker 1: It is the Asus Zinbook A fourteen and don't forget
Speaker 1: about the roog It's called the Flow and that's a
Speaker 1: thirteen inch in That is the tablet, two of the
Speaker 1: new products that Asus has announced here at cees Napoleon. Congrats.
Speaker 1: I know you did a lot of R and D
Speaker 1: on this thing, and I think you're at as some
Speaker 1: winners on your hand data.
Speaker 8: Thank you everybody. I bet the market is going to lobby.
Speaker 8: I hope you guys will enjoy these advisors as much
Speaker 8: as we have enjoyed making them for you guys.
Speaker 5: Check it out.
Speaker 1: If anybody wants to see some of this video or
Speaker 1: what they look like, just make sure you hit my
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Speaker 1: E C h T E x A N Michael Garfield
Speaker 1: as we continue the Big Show first full week here
Speaker 1: of January of twenty twenty five in Las Vegas at CES,
Speaker 1: I know segment.
Speaker 2: I can't believe.
Speaker 1: In winding down the twenty twenty five coverage of CDEs
Speaker 1: known as the Consumer Electronics Show. Oh, it's actually one
Speaker 1: of the better shows that I have I must say.
Speaker 1: I've been doing this over two decades coming out here
Speaker 1: to Las Vegas. I want to thank the folks who
Speaker 1: run the Consumer Electronics Show, Pam Goldenlauer and all the
Speaker 1: media folks. They do such a nice job to help
Speaker 1: me and in so many other media outlets out They
Speaker 1: build a radio and TV studio for me right here
Speaker 1: in the Las Vegas Convention Center. It makes it easy
Speaker 1: for people and companies to come in and I can
Speaker 1: interview them. Just I just talked to the folks from
Speaker 1: a SEUs with the world's light my favorite laptop that
Speaker 1: I saw two point two pounds, one of the world's
Speaker 1: lightest laptops. I did a lot of TV and a
Speaker 1: lot of fun Instagram stuff, So thank you everybody for
Speaker 1: following me and all the fun comments. High tech texts
Speaker 1: and h I G h T E C h T
Speaker 1: E x A N. And I know I've been running around.
Speaker 1: I only sleep probably four to five hours each of
Speaker 1: these nights that I'm here. The four or five nights
Speaker 1: I didn't go to more receptions and one on one
Speaker 1: in medium meetings, and so I don't nearly have edited
Speaker 1: and posted a lot of the videos yet. And more importantly,
Speaker 1: I haven't got on there to give something away. This
Speaker 1: is your chance follow me Instagram, Hi Tech Texan, h
Speaker 1: I G h T E c h T e x
Speaker 1: a N. Because I'm going to show off some of
Speaker 1: the gadgets that a lot of these companies have given me.
Speaker 1: They said, Michael, why don't you give a few of
Speaker 1: these away on your radio show. I've got some gaming headsets,
Speaker 1: tons of external really high powerful battery battery chargers, and
Speaker 1: who knows when I'm gonna get for the next day
Speaker 1: or two that I'm out here getting some emails from
Speaker 1: a lot of folks in San Antonio, Dallas also, you know,
Speaker 1: which is great. You know, we've only been on those
Speaker 1: markets in about a month, month and a half. It's like,
Speaker 1: what's the weirdest, what's the stupidest, what's the craziest stuff
Speaker 1: you see? It seems like people companies realize that people
Speaker 1: need help brushing their teeth for some reason, because I've
Speaker 1: seen some really odd do it robots will brush your
Speaker 1: teeth for you, like all you need to do. How
Speaker 1: lazy are we where we have to have devices where
Speaker 1: we just put a brush that looks like a horse bit,
Speaker 1: you know, like a U shape thing, and we know,
Speaker 1: don't do anything, and we let it do it for us.
Speaker 1: I'm like, there was something called the why the letter
Speaker 1: Y toothbrush. There's another one called the Willow w I
Speaker 1: L L. It's the Willow Auto Flow Plus and it's
Speaker 1: it's I think it's for kids, which is good, you know,
Speaker 1: because you really can't trust kids when you are brushing
Speaker 1: your teeth. You chomp down on this horse bit thing
Speaker 1: with brushes that are on it, and then you stand
Speaker 1: there with this handle that's dangling out of the machine.
Speaker 1: Why this horse brush weirs away on the kid's teeth?
Speaker 1: It looks it looks got like an espresso machine. Is
Speaker 1: it smart? I don't know. Is it worth it? I
Speaker 1: don't know. Just why don't you be a parent and
Speaker 1: watch your kids actually do this thing? I talked about
Speaker 1: this salt spoon. This one took me five to ten
Speaker 1: minutes to figure out why I was watching this thing.
Speaker 1: It's from a company, goed kieran k I R K
Speaker 1: I R I N. It's the electric salt spoon. And
Speaker 1: what it does follow me here, people, It changes the
Speaker 1: salt ions to give your tongue more of that salty
Speaker 1: taste that we love so much, with just a little
Speaker 1: less sodium. Just and I actually tried this. They gave
Speaker 1: us like bowls of ramen, and they gave us the
Speaker 1: spoon and we hit it and it it kind of
Speaker 1: did taste a little salt here. I don't know. So
Speaker 1: if you have a salt intake problem, maybe high blood pressure,
Speaker 1: this could be the thing for you. That's what look
Speaker 1: at it. I'm saving one life at a time. Uh, plants,
Speaker 1: this is always a good time too. I'm reminding myself
Speaker 1: and some of my other listeners out there who used
Speaker 1: to be friends or listen to. Randy Lemonon, well, one
Speaker 1: of my best friends, the former host of the Garden Line.
Speaker 1: It's been about two years, almost exactly this week that
Speaker 1: he unfortunately and untimely passed away. But I would always
Speaker 1: come back and I would say, hey, Randy man, they
Speaker 1: got all these high tech plants, your job is not
Speaker 1: going to be needed. And we go back and forth,
Speaker 1: you know, giving each other the business over here. But
Speaker 1: it seems that plants now some weird stuff. It's it's
Speaker 1: like electric plants, something called the leafy pod. Leafy pod.
Speaker 1: It's a pot. It makes plants talk and it uses
Speaker 1: sensors so you know if they need watering or they
Speaker 1: need to be fed. It's I don't know. It's kind
Speaker 1: of like little Shop of horrorish if you remember that
Speaker 1: thing like making things stark. There's a number of these
Speaker 1: plants that that are real, but they give themselves automatic
Speaker 1: sunlight or things. Robots, more robots, more robots. I mean
Speaker 1: I saw robot poor cocktails already talked about the robotic
Speaker 1: vacuums with arms that are coming out. I got mopping
Speaker 1: vacuums I mean, at some point we really are going
Speaker 1: to have Rosie the made from the jets and you
Speaker 1: know that we're there too. What else is kind of
Speaker 1: odd and weird. There was you know, there's laptops that
Speaker 1: actually will flip out to give you more screened there.
Speaker 1: There's a company called flip Go. It's a horizon. It's
Speaker 1: they're extra panels to give you kind of like a
Speaker 1: three panel laptop. People, you don't need that. I didn't
Speaker 1: even find out how much it was. There were just
Speaker 1: things are out there. And I'll say it again as
Speaker 1: we're winding up coverage, and I did a lot of
Speaker 1: different hits on TV and radio too. Michael, what's this?
Speaker 1: What's the best thing? You are? The one? It was
Speaker 1: a radio station. They said, what percentage of product that
Speaker 1: you see at cees in any given year are actually
Speaker 1: released that are on sale. It's a really good question,
Speaker 1: and I estimated, I think I said maybe twenty percent,
Speaker 1: maybe thirty percent. A lot of this stuff out here,
Speaker 1: the concept, the research and development, their brands that want
Speaker 1: to get their product in front of people like me
Speaker 1: and the five thousand other journalists from around the world
Speaker 1: that have been here all week so we can talk
Speaker 1: about their brand. Doesn't matter if it's coming out. But
Speaker 1: if you say the word, you know I just gave.
Speaker 1: I gave the Willow Auto Flow plus the Little Kid's
Speaker 1: Crazy toothbrush. I gave them about thirty seconds of air time.
Speaker 1: So congrats they won. So you take these things for granted.
Speaker 1: I told you about cars. Sony and Honda just announced
Speaker 1: their car for eighty nine thousand dollars. That's not going
Speaker 1: to be in the market for at least a year
Speaker 1: and a half, so that's not coming out you know
Speaker 1: this year too. It's fun, it's fun to speculate. But
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, if I could tell
Speaker 1: you exactly what the next big thing is, if I
Speaker 1: could tell you why this is going to change your
Speaker 1: life and what takes back, I'd be retired people. I
Speaker 1: would buy stock in the company. I would create it myself.
Speaker 1: We don't know where trends go. I started this radio
Speaker 1: show in my TV presence the Moniker of the High
Speaker 1: Tech Text in twenty three years actually twenty four years ago.
Speaker 1: I need to start using the number twenty four. Twenty
Speaker 1: four years ago. Man, I didn't know. The only AI
Speaker 1: I knew was Alan Iverson and I don't even know
Speaker 1: if I knew him back then? Was he in college
Speaker 1: at Georgetown? There was no artificial intelligence? What was that?
Speaker 1: Well was an electric vehicle? Now way, man, everything's powered
Speaker 1: by gas. Everything's powered gas. A television that can roll up,
Speaker 1: a television that could you know, be transparent when you
Speaker 1: turn it off, A one hundred and fifteen inch TD
Speaker 1: that can hang them the wall. I didn't know this stuff,
Speaker 1: you know, and we barely actually, we didn't know what
Speaker 1: an app was when I started the first app. I
Speaker 1: believe that was the second generation iPhone. When they came
Speaker 1: up with an app application was two thousand and seven
Speaker 1: of two thousand and eight. So when I started my
Speaker 1: show in two thousand and one, two thousand and two,
Speaker 1: I didn't know. We all had flip phones, we had blackberries.
Speaker 1: If I knew any of this stuff, I would be
Speaker 1: elon musketized rich. I would I'd create space things.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's fun. I'm just a dude trying
Speaker 1: to be a dude, portraying a dude on the radio
Speaker 1: and TV and having fun at it and bringing stuff
Speaker 1: home over under a number of bags. I'm bringing back
Speaker 1: on Southwest Airline. I don't know, I know, you get
Speaker 1: two bags fly free. You can carry two smaller ones on.
Speaker 1: I may have to be playing some extra because I
Speaker 1: got a lot of samples I'm bringing back for you. Well, God,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna sort them out. Next week we'll give some away,
Speaker 1: but I will start the giveaways on my social media
Speaker 1: if you're a Facebook fan, will do some of that.
Speaker 1: But I'm a big, big, big Instagram. I had a
Speaker 1: lot of fun. Go check out Instagram. You could see
Speaker 1: me on the field at Allegian Stadium with a Raiders
Speaker 1: play trying to kick a field goal. Because sports and
Speaker 1: technology you're coming together. I got to meet a lot
Speaker 1: of people, do a lot of things. And my job
Speaker 1: is deferent to my dear listeners in Houston, in Dallas
Speaker 1: and San Antonio chresturally, but also all over that country,
Speaker 1: if not the world on the heart radio hallam Reed.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for doing this from AFAR, putting
Speaker 1: us up on those stations in the burg. Thanks to
Speaker 1: everybody here at CES locally in Las Vegas for having
Speaker 1: me out here for over two decades and having some
Speaker 1: find lessen travel safely. Bundle up where we are and
Speaker 1: Texas is cold. Football seasons is in the we can
Speaker 1: concentred on that. But for everybody who's been a part
Speaker 1: of this big Angules Cees broadcast of the Hiking Texans HLID,
Speaker 1: thank you. But right now signing off from Las Vegas,
Speaker 1: my show is over.