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Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy
Speaker 1: Taylor and I'm justin Leme and Sean is out because
Speaker 1: he's doing so is he on the board of an HOA?
Speaker 3: Is he like he's on an HOA board? I've lost
Speaker 3: a lot of respect for him, honestly, I mean.
Speaker 1: He might be popping in. Yeah. It was it until
Speaker 1: I moved out here to Tucson that we had hoas.
Speaker 1: We didn't have him in California, didn't have him in Coachella,
Speaker 1: didn't have the Nunning Beach.
Speaker 3: It just depends on the neighborhood you live in. What's
Speaker 3: been happening, at least in my area is there's no
Speaker 3: longer hoa's. They're called metro districts really, and they're they're
Speaker 3: considered a special district, which is a form or a
Speaker 3: branch of the government.
Speaker 1: So they never Oh wow, I remember driving in Honeyton
Speaker 1: Beach and I went down my street. Now you remember
Speaker 1: these homes in honey And Beach. Yeah, they go for
Speaker 1: almost a million bucks, right, and they're basic three bedroom homes,
Speaker 1: but it is California. I remember turning the corner once
Speaker 1: and seeing this house, and I saw this, and I'm
Speaker 1: not kidding. The grass was as tall as the car,
Speaker 1: like they hadn't mowed it in forever. And I remember
Speaker 1: that house. I remember the people that lived in there.
Speaker 1: They obviously didn't live there anymore. And I remember thinking
Speaker 1: to myself, that's why we have hoas. But there's no
Speaker 1: HOA in that neighborhood.
Speaker 3: I mean there there definitely is a case to be
Speaker 3: made for HS. Yes, it does keep the neighborhood somewhat
Speaker 3: standard across the board. But I think the problem is
Speaker 3: is just it's just they get too powerful, they get
Speaker 3: a little too zealous.
Speaker 1: Yeah you will. I guess we've heard the stories, oh mine.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I mean there are literally websites and subreddits.
Speaker 3: They just overset their bands. They come over and they
Speaker 3: look over your fence and they're like, oh, well, you'll
Speaker 3: watch something on your back you're already not supposed to. Well,
Speaker 3: that's the whole purpose of a fence, so that you
Speaker 3: don't see it.
Speaker 1: We'll have to find out if if Sean is indeed
Speaker 1: on a board. He had to go to the meeting.
Speaker 1: So either that or he's going there to complain about something,
Speaker 1: which could always be the case. Matt has had a
Speaker 1: little issue with the heater giving him problems at home.
Speaker 3: He just got his brand new HVAC system installed earlier
Speaker 3: this year and it's already failed on him twice. And literally,
Speaker 3: as of the time, as right now as we were recording,
Speaker 3: Denver is actually getting a massive snowstorm coming in.
Speaker 1: Oh no, so it is not the night to lose
Speaker 1: your heat, right, you know, it's.
Speaker 3: One thing to be cold whatever. Yeah, okay, fine, you
Speaker 3: got electric blankets and you know, heat up some hot
Speaker 3: water or whatever. But it's the freezing of the pipes, oh,
Speaker 3: because that leads to a world of hurt that I,
Speaker 3: for one, have been privy to in this house.
Speaker 1: You've dealt with the pipes that have been busted and
Speaker 1: pipes that have leaked. As a matter of fact, sadly enough,
Speaker 1: as we have followed your journey twice, you're now going
Speaker 1: through it a third time as well.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, as of tonight, like literally I literally contacted Andy
Speaker 3: before the show and said, look, man, I'm not gonna
Speaker 3: do it. I can't do it. I'm just so stressed
Speaker 3: out right now, we just got another leak in our
Speaker 3: master bathroom that we just paid thirty five thousand dollars
Speaker 3: for back in June to get remodeled. And this is
Speaker 3: not the first leak again after that, it's the second leak.
Speaker 3: And I'm out for blood. I'm out of blood. I mean,
Speaker 3: I'm so livid right now. And these guys are.
Speaker 1: Like, oh, yeah, well, we'll.
Speaker 3: Come out on Wednesday or Thursday and take a wait
Speaker 3: a minute, I'm like, no, you will get your happy
Speaker 3: little butt out here tomorrow right and you will bling
Speaker 3: with you a plumber. You will bring with you a
Speaker 3: drywall expert because you are going to tear down my
Speaker 3: drywall and you are going to fix this right now.
Speaker 3: Oh man, so twice now, this is the twice after
Speaker 3: they've renovated it. Why said I've had to call him
Speaker 3: back out.
Speaker 1: We're all going through I'm going through hard drive issues.
Speaker 1: You're going through that. That's going through no heat. This
Speaker 1: is I thought twenty twenty five was supposed to be
Speaker 1: a fresh start. It really hasn't started out that right
Speaker 1: at all.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 1: No, the reason that I got you to step in
Speaker 1: and I gave him the wrong time because I forgot
Speaker 1: that he was in Vegas. We've got a mutual friend
Speaker 1: of ours that I know you haven't talked to in
Speaker 1: decades that was going to be able to come on
Speaker 1: the show and talk about what he's doing in Vegas
Speaker 1: at the Consumer Electronics Show.
Speaker 3: I mean, I got a couple ideas, but I have Yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't know for sure, but I got a couple
Speaker 3: ideas who it might be.
Speaker 1: Well, the Consumer Electronics Show, of course, is week in
Speaker 1: Vegas has been huge. They kicked off with all kinds
Speaker 1: of announcements. We interviewed Patrick Pennett, who is a senior
Speaker 1: director Industry and Policy Communications to the Consumer Technology Association.
Speaker 1: He'll be on the show a little later and it'll
Speaker 1: be talking about some of the things that we're expecting
Speaker 1: this year. I had no idea that last year during
Speaker 1: CEES they had crews walking around the show floors doing videos,
Speaker 1: short form videos for YouTube, short form videos for you know,
Speaker 1: other social media, highlighting some of the stuff that they
Speaker 1: were showing. And one of them I had never never
Speaker 1: heard about, the Mobian, and I don't know if you've
Speaker 1: heard of Mobian. Mobian is a vehicle from I believe
Speaker 1: it was Hyundai and you say, you're You're sitting there
Speaker 1: in your car and you decide, oh, I need to
Speaker 1: get closer to that curb. All four wheels will turn
Speaker 1: and allow you to go sideways. Yeah, or maybe you're
Speaker 1: at a You.
Speaker 3: Ever done an aftermarket thing?
Speaker 1: No, it's it's the this mobian vehicle that you got
Speaker 1: to see the video. It's available online but from CS
Speaker 1: and so Manton like, have you ever done this where
Speaker 1: you pull up somewhere and you gotta grab a ticket,
Speaker 1: you know, and the gate arm comes up. I'm an idiot.
Speaker 1: I always pull up so too far away. So imagine this,
Speaker 1: rather than having to back up and then get closer,
Speaker 1: get out of your car and grab the ticket, just
Speaker 1: move all the four tires and it slides over. And
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's innovation.
Speaker 3: Cars are just getting they're getting way. They're not even
Speaker 3: cars anymore. You can't even call them a car. It's
Speaker 3: a mobile computer.
Speaker 1: Jim Barry, who has been on the show many times,
Speaker 1: no longer with us, he passed away some years ago,
Speaker 1: would come to Tucson and do what they call the
Speaker 1: CES Tour. After the show ends, they would come in
Speaker 1: and bring gadgets and gear and Jim was phenomenal and
Speaker 1: would show things, and he talked about how the evolution
Speaker 1: of the cees had turned into a car show. He said,
Speaker 1: there's there's a I think it was the West wing
Speaker 1: of the show. Nothing but cars and the technology in
Speaker 1: our vehicles. And we've talked a lot about your Tesla.
Speaker 1: We've talked a lot about the technologies of ev and
Speaker 1: now it's hybrid vehicles. It's entertainment inside your vehicles. It's illumination.
Speaker 1: This mobion. One thing it can do is say somebody
Speaker 1: wants to walk in front of your car, it can
Speaker 1: actually put a crosswalk down for them. It can project
Speaker 1: a crosslock.
Speaker 3: That's kind of cool. I'll definitely check that out because
Speaker 3: I've not heard of that. But I got to say,
Speaker 3: you know, speaking of smart vehicles, I had something happened
Speaker 3: to me yesterday that was amazing. So you know, obviously
Speaker 3: we are Tesla owners, as I've talked about, and I
Speaker 3: have a Model Y twenty twenty three model Why you know,
Speaker 3: every once in a while, Tesla says, hey, man, refer
Speaker 3: your friends and earn up to one thousand dollars if they,
Speaker 3: you know, buy a Tesla. Up to one thousand dollars
Speaker 3: which means they have to buy the top of the
Speaker 3: line to get the thousand dollars right. So I'm like, yeah, okay,
Speaker 3: you know coworker. My wife's is like, yeah, they want
Speaker 3: to buy a Tesla. I'm like, yeah, here, here, here
Speaker 3: you go. There's a referral code. We'll get probably like
Speaker 3: one hundred bucks whatever. I get a thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: Nice.
Speaker 3: And I'm like wait what and there Yeah, they bought
Speaker 3: a Model S, a twenty twenty four Model S, which
Speaker 3: is their top, well top of the line, but there
Speaker 3: there's one more model above that, and it's the top
Speaker 3: it's the Model S plaid. Yes, but he did not
Speaker 3: get the plaid.
Speaker 1: He just got the models.
Speaker 3: Anyway, they came over last night and and you know,
Speaker 3: just show off the car and he wanted to say
Speaker 3: thank you and it. But then he was sitting there
Speaker 3: and he was like, hey, do you want to do
Speaker 3: you want to take the Model S for a drive?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 6: Man?
Speaker 3: Really, I was like, I've never actually driven a Model S.
Speaker 3: He's like, oh, you got to see this.
Speaker 1: We get it.
Speaker 3: I thought that I thought the Model Why was was advanced.
Speaker 3: The Model S has so many more features. It just
Speaker 3: blows my mind. First off, the center console screen actually tilts,
Speaker 3: so like if the passenger wants to see it or
Speaker 3: if the driver wants to see it, you know it'll do.
Speaker 3: I gotta say the model.
Speaker 1: S is is is way now? Now do you want
Speaker 1: to upgrade?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 1: Do you want upgrade? Is that the deal? Oh?
Speaker 3: I do, but I can't afford it?
Speaker 1: Yeah? All right. So we were able to bring in
Speaker 1: not only Sean to find out if he is a
Speaker 1: member of the HOA in his community, but also a
Speaker 1: buddy of ours that I know you have not seen
Speaker 1: justin in a long time. Who has Who is an
Speaker 1: Emmy Award winning videographer, producer, writer. We've worked together in
Speaker 1: radio over at Lotus Broadcasting here in Tucson. Paul Sanchez
Speaker 1: is with us on my Paul, how you doing that
Speaker 1: is god?
Speaker 4: Paul?
Speaker 1: Wow?
Speaker 4: No, right, yes, yeah, I'm okay. I'm not seeing myself
Speaker 4: in the little monitor here. Man.
Speaker 1: It's been it's been forever. It's great to see you
Speaker 1: and you are at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Speaker 4: I am at CS this year. I got media credentials,
Speaker 4: so I was starting early last night at ce S unveiled.
Speaker 4: Of course, my focus has been keyboards, mechanical keyboards specifically.
Speaker 4: I think that's it's something that I think we're on
Speaker 4: the verge of seeing a big, big and use. I
Speaker 4: mean a lot of people are in my office use
Speaker 4: them now. It's it's cut down on a lot of
Speaker 4: like Carpal Tunnel's syndrome.
Speaker 3: So basically yeah, so, I mean our our other co host,
Speaker 3: Matt he just was raving about his mechanical keyboard he
Speaker 3: got for Christmas?
Speaker 4: What kind did he gets?
Speaker 1: What was that? What was that? Sean, you're the you're
Speaker 1: the Sewan? You remember that one?
Speaker 5: I don't remember now what he said, put you.
Speaker 1: On the spot? No, I don't remember.
Speaker 3: It was something it was like it was only like
Speaker 3: a ninety nine.
Speaker 6: It was.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, they've got a booth here that they were
Speaker 4: not unveiled, but they've got a booth here that I'm
Speaker 4: going to be That's that's that's one of the primary booths.
Speaker 4: I definitely got to hit up tomorrow because that's when
Speaker 4: you show the floor opens for all the exhibits.
Speaker 1: Now, did do you do showstoppers as well?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 1: That's a Steve Leon exhibit that that thing is really
Speaker 1: good as well.
Speaker 4: I did not do showstoppers. I was more focused on
Speaker 4: getting to unveil than making sure that I covered the
Speaker 4: auto key, which of course I don't know if he's seen.
Speaker 1: The that is amazing.
Speaker 4: Oh, it's just an incredible thing where it really it
Speaker 4: really focuses on the health aspects of people that have
Speaker 4: like issues with you know, rotation and extension and stuff
Speaker 4: like that. Basically, for those who don't know, the story
Speaker 4: of this guy named what was his name? His real
Speaker 4: name is Christian, but he goes by Ryan, right, Ryan,
Speaker 4: He was by Ryan. He's in the Philippines, I believe,
Speaker 4: and he basically had a shoulder injury from boxing, and
Speaker 4: what he wanted to do was to create a device
Speaker 4: that limited its range of motion where he could just
Speaker 4: keep his arms in one spot. So basically, with the
Speaker 4: health of AI, he created a keyboard. It's a full
Speaker 4: one hundred and sixteen key layout. And then when you
Speaker 4: lift your palms up in a certain direction, it's very
Speaker 4: hard to it's very hard to learn, by the way,
Speaker 4: when you lift your palms up in a certain direction,
Speaker 4: the full keyboard slides back. You get your ten pad
Speaker 4: on your left side and you get a track pad
Speaker 4: on the right side. So basically, Wow, it's it's just
Speaker 4: an incredible piece of machinery and uh, you know Ryan
Speaker 4: knocked out of the park. It's it's just a no.
Speaker 1: Is this part of the thoughkhouse brand, which is what
Speaker 1: th h O C K H A U s.
Speaker 4: Yes, basically it's it's it's me myself and I starting
Speaker 4: this whole blog, this whole coverage of everything when it
Speaker 4: comes to mechanical keyboards from not just like the keyboards themselves,
Speaker 4: with the switches, the key caps, everything that goes into
Speaker 4: building a mechanical keyboard. That is, that is what we're
Speaker 4: here covering, and that's what we're doing for as of January. First.
Speaker 1: Now, I've had some people who have asked me that
Speaker 1: to have Parkinson's that are dealing with that where you
Speaker 1: have the shakes, that sometimes operating a keyboard could be
Speaker 1: a little more difficult than maybe a standard user, especially
Speaker 1: with mice, and we've seen you know, mice on the
Speaker 1: market where the hand rest on the mouse instead so
Speaker 1: it's not moving all over. Can these keyboards have that
Speaker 1: same kind of health function geared to maybe helping somebody
Speaker 1: who is dealing with something like this.
Speaker 4: I believe so you wouldn't want to go with the
Speaker 4: Hall effect magnetic switch because those kinds of keyboards. For example,
Speaker 4: I've got one right here. This is a mel Geek
Speaker 4: you made eighty four water. It's a very limited board
Speaker 4: now because they just did the elements they based off
Speaker 4: the based off the Fifth Element movie, so they made
Speaker 4: all the different elements.
Speaker 1: Wow, it's nice.
Speaker 4: And and it's a it's a Hall Effect. It's a
Speaker 4: magnetic switch. So basically you you hold it up higher.
Speaker 6: Op.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, there got ye, I got a voice for
Speaker 4: I got a face for radio anyway, So basically, uh,
Speaker 4: these switches in this board are magnetic based, which means
Speaker 4: you barely push it and it's registering a keystroke. So
Speaker 4: someone with Parkinson's probably wouldn't want to have a magnetic
Speaker 4: switch hall effect keyboard. They would probably want to go
Speaker 4: with the standard you know, standard switch like this, drop this.
Speaker 1: Drop there, you go, look at that. That's nice.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is great. It's got it's got ceramic key
Speaker 4: caps on it as well, which is very soft. It's
Speaker 4: very nice.
Speaker 6: Touch.
Speaker 4: It stays cool no matter what it's it's cool to
Speaker 4: the touch. You can do well in this thing for hours.
Speaker 4: It stays cool. I can't stay enough about serahc.
Speaker 3: It is amazing. I gotta say how mechanical keyboards have
Speaker 3: made such a major comeback. I mean, we started with
Speaker 3: mechanical keyboards back in you know, the seventies and eighties,
Speaker 3: and then everybody went to you know, digital all the
Speaker 3: membrane stuff. Yeah, and then it's like and then mechanical
Speaker 3: keyboards kind of became that niche market for like video
Speaker 3: gamers and people that wanted that tactile feedback. But now
Speaker 3: what you're helping to do, Paul, is just kind of
Speaker 3: help open up that space and say, look, there's there's
Speaker 3: so many more use cases for mechanical keyboards with great style.
Speaker 4: Yes. And Epomaker the one of the brands of CS
Speaker 4: unveiled last night because they rolled out of new magneticsm
Speaker 4: new magnetic switch that's better than the standard halifect switch
Speaker 4: that you're seeing in like the Mad eighty four that
Speaker 4: I showed you. Their magnetic switch has a has a
Speaker 4: very low act like a like an actuation rate where
Speaker 4: it's like it's almost way sensitive. It's almost way sensitive.
Speaker 4: It's perfect for gamers. But while I was there discussing,
Speaker 4: you know, their their new switches, they clearly see a
Speaker 4: need for these keyboards in the office workspace. They've been
Speaker 4: they that was one of their their selling points. View
Speaker 4: is like you could take this into the office. As
Speaker 4: a matter of fact, we encourage people to take this
Speaker 4: in the office. They had a lot of they had
Speaker 4: a lot of the one hundred percent full key one
Speaker 4: hundred and six hundred and fourteen key layout keyboards there
Speaker 4: and they were really pushing the office aspect of mechanical keyboards.
Speaker 4: Take this to the office, your life will change. And again,
Speaker 4: I've got a lot of coworkers who are using these
Speaker 4: things now that I brought them into the workplace. They
Speaker 4: say these things are amazing and I can't I can't
Speaker 4: agree more.
Speaker 1: Do you find that people will use some of these
Speaker 1: keyboards as a as a tie on to their mobile device?
Speaker 1: So somebody got a laptop. Okay, let's face it, laptops
Speaker 1: don't have the greatest keyboards. There are some that have,
Speaker 1: but so they're just you know, push that aside and
Speaker 1: use that instead.
Speaker 4: I have I I have a laptop and I just
Speaker 4: use mechanical keyboard with it. I haven't seen anyone using
Speaker 4: like a mobile device like a man phone, but I
Speaker 4: have seen people using them with tablets too, Like there
Speaker 4: are tablet size mechanical keyboards that are out in the market.
Speaker 4: I have not you know, tested those yet, but I
Speaker 4: have seen people using like the sixty sixty keyboards that
Speaker 4: are just you know, like there's no function keys, there's
Speaker 4: no ten keys, it's just your quirity and then your
Speaker 4: numbers at the top. Very small keyboards that I've seen
Speaker 4: people using with tablets.
Speaker 1: Wow, now you're at CS. I mean it's the biggest
Speaker 1: tech gathering you know. Ever, let's face it, your heart,
Speaker 1: you're a great videographer, you know, like Sean has works
Speaker 1: in for the Notre Dame doing O their video stuff.
Speaker 1: Do you kind of still look at some of that
Speaker 1: stuff that's going on you want to you know, oh
Speaker 1: I want that camera system or I want this one.
Speaker 1: I know Red's got a brand new one too.
Speaker 4: Oh easily. It's it's it's like I'm here on work,
Speaker 4: I'm here to cover the keyboards, but I find myself,
Speaker 4: you know, just glancing over and seeing there's any any
Speaker 4: kind of technology that catches my eye, whether it be
Speaker 4: a camera system or you know, PCs. I'm slowly making
Speaker 4: the transition out of Mac to PC.
Speaker 1: Whoa oh, thank god.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've been a firm believer in MAC for years,
Speaker 4: but I've I've realized that when it comes to maintenance,
Speaker 4: it's just easier for me, someone who knows his way
Speaker 4: around PC to kind of fix things themselves, kind of
Speaker 4: do things and flop out cards. Whatever goes wrong on
Speaker 4: a PC, I can easily maintain.
Speaker 3: Instead of taking it to the genius bar.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that is that whole thing. And I just it's
Speaker 4: it's basically, you know, my better half, my partner, she
Speaker 4: kind of been all about PCs for a long time
Speaker 4: and has been talking to me like, hey, you should really.
Speaker 3: Better put a ring on that right now?
Speaker 4: Oh man? And then uh yeah, I mean I'll marry tomorrow.
Speaker 4: You know that I'll marry tomorrow. She's great.
Speaker 1: Are you Are you still living in LA out in
Speaker 1: that area?
Speaker 4: I am in Los Angeles, Yes, and I'm still working.
Speaker 4: I'm still working for KTLA. That's a job.
Speaker 3: Wait, so, so how long have you even working for KTLA?
Speaker 4: I'm working on ten years now, k dude.
Speaker 3: I worked for the same company as you for a while.
Speaker 3: I was corporate staff for Next Star actually well Tribune
Speaker 3: as well, but I was corporate it t Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's definitely a changing landscape, the whole television media thing.
Speaker 4: And that's that, and that's and that's kind of like
Speaker 4: where why I'm I'm doing what I'm doing with podcast now,
Speaker 4: I'm kind of trying to branch out and promote this
Speaker 4: kind of thing where I definitely, you know, the video
Speaker 4: stuff is great, and I'm thankful to have such a
Speaker 4: such a long career, starting in two thousand and two
Speaker 4: behind a camera at the Olympics when I was working
Speaker 4: in salt A, working in Greece for the Olympics. But
Speaker 4: it's it's starting to get to a point where things
Speaker 4: I'm starting to evolve and I'm thankful for my time.
Speaker 4: But at the same time, I'm really passionate about this
Speaker 4: keyboard thing, and that's that's amazing.
Speaker 1: Now you're building the social media, you're building the website.
Speaker 1: Of course. Uh again it's thuck House, which is an
Speaker 1: interesting name. Can you tell us this is there a
Speaker 1: story behind that?
Speaker 4: Basically, the scripture for one of these mechanical keyboards, one
Speaker 4: of the scriptors is Thoky. That's that's the sound they
Speaker 4: make is a thocky sound of creamy sound. I just
Speaker 4: you know, I just took the word thalk, and I
Speaker 4: was thinking about things to kind of add to the
Speaker 4: word thalk, and my sister was like, what don't you
Speaker 4: call it like thoughk house, Like it's kind of German thokhouse,
Speaker 4: you know, fancy German kind of Uh.
Speaker 1: I totally pictured it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so it was like, yeah, that's okay. And I
Speaker 4: saw I saw someone on Twitter had used it once
Speaker 4: as a joke, and I was like, okay, well, if
Speaker 4: someone's using that, I think it's perfect.
Speaker 1: That is perfect.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what that's what we're using.
Speaker 3: I gotta let you know. I just found your channel
Speaker 3: on YouTube and I subscribe yep, thank you on there.
Speaker 3: And I saw your thought house at Cees Sunday Night Unveiled.
Speaker 1: It's a good video. Yeah. Yeah, you really get a good,
Speaker 1: good idea of that keyboard that you were talking about
Speaker 1: with the pad that comes out. I was like, wow,
Speaker 1: that's kind of cool.
Speaker 4: I I and that's exactly, that's exactly the kind of thing.
Speaker 3: These are some really cool ones.
Speaker 4: That's the that's the thing that I think that that people.
Speaker 4: That's kind of like our mission statements just kind of
Speaker 4: really emphasize health benefits to these mechanical keyboards. Again, like
Speaker 4: carp specifically my my my better half.
Speaker 3: I mean, I gotta say, Paul, watching this video, I
Speaker 3: mean I can just see like your experience as a videographer,
Speaker 3: like you just have perfect transitions, perfect framing, everything about it.
Speaker 1: It's just it's just perfect.
Speaker 4: Thank you. I did, and I too my own horn.
Speaker 4: I did did just win La Press Club. So total
Speaker 4: journalist of the year.
Speaker 1: Again, Right, that's pretty good. According to our friend Zach Selwyn.
Speaker 1: If you know Zach, remember Zach from two yep, Uh,
Speaker 1: there is an EGS in Redondo I believe on the pier,
Speaker 1: uh somewhere down there, and hey, walk by, and I
Speaker 1: don't think they were selling the food, just selling the
Speaker 1: Egy drinks. So if you happen to be down in
Speaker 1: Redondo Beach, you might want to look for that one.
Speaker 4: But uh, I've been I've been telling my better half
Speaker 4: for for for years now, like we need to go
Speaker 4: to Tucson. You need to try you need tod hot dog,
Speaker 4: you need to travel the Tucson food.
Speaker 3: And she's, yeah, man, there you go.
Speaker 4: I took it to a sonor and fooded place once
Speaker 4: and you know, she was like, this isn't kind of
Speaker 4: my this isn't really my Mexican food.
Speaker 1: So well, it is great to great to connect with you.
Speaker 1: I know Justin uh put a big smile on his
Speaker 1: face as well, so again thought house. Uh you look
Speaker 1: them up on YouTube, check out social media on that
Speaker 1: and continue success with that and you know, maybe we
Speaker 1: could reconnect after CEES, after this whole week and uh see,
Speaker 1: you know what your thoughts are, what will kind of
Speaker 1: the standout products for you.
Speaker 4: I've got twenty eight booths to cover tomorrow, twenty eight
Speaker 4: to go.
Speaker 1: To Wow Wow in eight hours.
Speaker 3: Well I expect a full report from me.
Speaker 4: Yes, you definitely will have one. I'm going to be
Speaker 4: doing individual breakdowns of the keyboards, like more in depth.
Speaker 4: I interviewed all the people involved in those keyboard companies.
Speaker 4: I'll be doing more in depth two to three minute
Speaker 4: breakdowns at every single company coming up in the next week.
Speaker 1: On we'll take a look. We've shared it on our
Speaker 1: social media as well at tech talk Radio. Paul. Great
Speaker 1: to connect with you, Matt, Thanks thanks for having me.
Speaker 3: Good to see you, and we'll be.
Speaker 1: Back with more of tech Talk Radio.
Speaker 3: I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Sean Ard, and I'm Justin. Let
Speaker 3: me find us online at tech talk radio dot com.
Speaker 3: We'll be right.
Speaker 1: Back and now back to tech talk Radio. And finally
Speaker 1: Sean is able to pop in after his HOA meeting,
Speaker 1: so now we can find out Sean. Oh, no, are
Speaker 1: you a board member for an HOA?
Speaker 5: I sure am. Oh that's it.
Speaker 1: I'm done man, Oh, Sean, how could you do that
Speaker 1: to us?
Speaker 5: I'm over here. I'm over here putting leans on people house.
Speaker 3: People's houses were having the wrong colored fence.
Speaker 5: You better believe it.
Speaker 6: No.
Speaker 5: So the reason I joined the board for h WAY
Speaker 5: is because the former president said pretty much said I'm
Speaker 5: I'm done if nobody's taking it over or put it
Speaker 5: into a management company.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: So a handful of us stepped up and said, look,
Speaker 5: I'll be on the board like a guy said he'd
Speaker 5: be president. So I'm doing it solely so we didn't
Speaker 5: get screwed and put to a management company, because who
Speaker 5: knows what it would have turned into. It would have
Speaker 5: been a mess, and people weren't like yeah, so that's right.
Speaker 1: Mm, well you made it back. Everything went okay.
Speaker 5: There's only one hundred and forty four homes in our HA.
Speaker 1: Only only that's that's a lot of homes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 5: It's my first age way, so I don't know.
Speaker 1: I want to find out what else is going on
Speaker 1: with you. But also, justin did something this week? You
Speaker 1: got your son? Now, was this a Christmas present or
Speaker 1: a birthday present? You got your son a smart watch.
Speaker 7: Which, yeah, you know, when you think smart watches for kids,
Speaker 7: there's really some people will always say, oh, don't give
Speaker 7: your kids anything if they're under thirteen, but there are
Speaker 7: some benefits to having technology.
Speaker 1: Still tied with your child.
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely. So yeah, I did get him a smart
Speaker 3: watch for his birthday. It wasn't like an Apple Watch
Speaker 3: or a you know, a Samsung Galaxy Watch or anything
Speaker 3: like that. It was It is designed for kids. And
Speaker 3: it's called tick talk like you think TikTok, like the
Speaker 3: social media app, but it's tic k t a l
Speaker 3: K the words spelled out tick talk.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which people I always have to fix them when
Speaker 1: I'm telling tiktalk radio they go TikTok radio.
Speaker 3: No, No, yeah, no, tick Talk. It is a smart
Speaker 3: watch company. It was on Amazon. I think it was
Speaker 3: like one hundred and eighty bucks. It rides on either
Speaker 3: the AT and T or the team will network your choice,
Speaker 3: but it is a smart watch that allows him to
Speaker 3: text and call approved contacts. So as a parent, you
Speaker 3: set it up and you basically, you know, you set
Speaker 3: yourself and your spouse, if you got one, or anybody
Speaker 3: else that you might want to be allowed to contact
Speaker 3: your child or your child to contact them, and then
Speaker 3: everybody else is blocked. Like if you were to try
Speaker 3: to call my son right now, because he has a
Speaker 3: phone number, he literally has a Denver area phones. Really,
Speaker 3: if you try to call him, it will it won't
Speaker 3: go through because it's not allowed. But you can also
Speaker 3: I thought I could just text him through my you know,
Speaker 3: my primary texting app. No, you have to actually use
Speaker 3: their app to text because it encrypts the traffic. It
Speaker 3: keeps it secure so that way you don't have to
Speaker 3: worry about it, you know, just being on a standard
Speaker 3: you know, SMS or or RTS network.
Speaker 1: So the app is he's pretty good, I gotta say, though.
Speaker 5: The downside is.
Speaker 3: He uses it all the time. Oh wow, and it's
Speaker 3: gotten annoying already. Yeah, like two days, two days and
Speaker 3: I see Sean looking at it in his monitor right there. Yeah,
Speaker 3: two days and he's already texted me probably one hundred
Speaker 3: and fifty times and he's called my my mom, you know,
Speaker 3: his grandma, He's called her about thirty five different times.
Speaker 3: And she's just like, Okay, you know what, we need
Speaker 3: to like set boundaries on this because I don't like
Speaker 3: to be bothered all day every day, like for every
Speaker 3: little thing he wants to tell me. He doesn't need
Speaker 3: to text me or talk to me or whatever. And
Speaker 3: I'm like, I get it. I know it's a new
Speaker 3: little toy, but I do you know you can set boundaries.
Speaker 3: You can set it up so that, like d like,
Speaker 3: during school hours, the watch will not work, right, Okay,
Speaker 3: the only thing that'll work is the SOS mode, and
Speaker 3: if he presses a certain combination of buttons, it'll activate
Speaker 3: SOS mode, which will then give him the option to
Speaker 3: either call me or call nine one one, right, and
Speaker 3: so that's a cool feature, but otherwise the watch will
Speaker 3: not operate during school hours.
Speaker 5: I kind of.
Speaker 1: Wonder Justin and Sean, I don't know what your thoughts
Speaker 1: on this. Should there be a program for youth now
Speaker 1: that where technology is that it actually that we could
Speaker 1: teach them about those boundaries, those lines, those proper maybe
Speaker 1: technology etiquette when it comes to things you don't want
Speaker 1: to do with somebody's WiFi or maybe do with your
Speaker 1: watch or do with it.
Speaker 3: That that's an amazing idea, Sean, I don't know, what
Speaker 3: do you think.
Speaker 5: I think that's a very good thing, right, I think
Speaker 5: that is something that needs to happen because kids don't
Speaker 5: learn social media or internet etiquette from anyone but their peers.
Speaker 3: Well, we grew up, we see. The thing is is
Speaker 3: we grew up with it, Like we grew up from
Speaker 3: the infancy of the Internet. So we set the standard
Speaker 3: as we evolved.
Speaker 5: Right, So, but you we also grew up like so
Speaker 5: the majority of our childhood right was pre modern internet, right,
Speaker 5: pre public public accessible internet.
Speaker 1: Mine was mine was pre color television. What are you
Speaker 1: talking about?
Speaker 5: So? So, I don't know. We think about this a lot,
Speaker 5: And Caitlin and I talk about this quite a bit
Speaker 5: with in terms of education. Her sister is a professor.
Speaker 5: I have several friends that are professor's and the question
Speaker 5: comes up all the time is how are kids learning
Speaker 5: with technology versus how they would learn without it? Yeah,
Speaker 5: you get these kids that are just using and one
Speaker 5: of my my sister in law, said, it's very difficult
Speaker 5: to not get students to not use chat GBT or
Speaker 5: other online resources to teach them the content because she knows,
Speaker 5: She says, I can I easily identify this is not
Speaker 5: your work. You you don't know this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, when when you when you're a third grader turning
Speaker 3: in a paper that's written by chat GBT in the
Speaker 3: form of a college essay, Yeah, your teacher is not
Speaker 3: going to have a hard time figuring that out.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but it's I've heard from other people who have
Speaker 5: grade level kids that these their kids are just putting
Speaker 5: in the most basic stuff into chetchbt, like what does
Speaker 5: to plus four equal? Or what is the radius of pie?
Speaker 5: And not learning it and just copying and pasting answers
Speaker 5: from chet chub to their homework.
Speaker 1: I remember when when I was a kid, I would
Speaker 1: go to the Hunting Beach Public Library and I would
Speaker 1: go through their encyclopedias. But I needed to look something
Speaker 1: up and it would do that. You couldn't cut and paste,
Speaker 1: you had to rewrite everything. And now I understand some
Speaker 1: kids aren't even learning cursive. You know, it's don't teach
Speaker 1: cursive anymore.
Speaker 5: No, some kids are. There are studies going on right
Speaker 5: now that are showing that even like seventh and eighth
Speaker 5: grade level students are struggling with writing because they don't
Speaker 5: do any actual handwritten work anymore. Right, so they're actually
Speaker 5: struggling with knowing how to actually write, not necessarily cursive,
Speaker 5: just writing in general and reading in general because you
Speaker 5: don't have to the process of writing and reading is
Speaker 5: so they're so entwined with each other that those functions
Speaker 5: don't happen when you're just typing into a computer.
Speaker 1: I thought it was I thought it was really interesting.
Speaker 1: Was watching a YouTube video the other day. And I
Speaker 1: don't know if you guys know this, but you ever
Speaker 1: watch YouTube videos with your kids, you know, my grandson
Speaker 1: comes over each three and every moment of Maximue right,
Speaker 1: and my my grandson knows ABC's. He'll just say ABC's,
Speaker 1: ABC's and he'll point to the screen and want me
Speaker 1: to put the ABC's on on YouTube. YouTube kids is great.
Speaker 1: But there was a there was one on their name,
Speaker 1: uh miss Rachel and yeah, I don't know if you're
Speaker 1: familiar with her. And I thought, okay, she gets on there.
Speaker 1: She's kind of bouncy, she sings. I went online and
Speaker 1: I started looking. Then I looked at how much Miss
Speaker 1: Rachel was worth ten million dollars. Oh easily, these influencers.
Speaker 3: They get on get on there, just ten million bucks.
Speaker 3: Well not even not even just a single influencer. Look
Speaker 3: at look at that channel that recently was was was
Speaker 3: talked about as being really actually detrimental to your kid's health.
Speaker 3: Coco Melon.
Speaker 1: I mean, Coco.
Speaker 3: Melon was a massive hit. I mean billions and billions
Speaker 3: of views of their videos, and my son was some
Speaker 3: of probably at least three and a half million of
Speaker 3: those views. But they know, they recently came out and
Speaker 3: said that Coco Melon is like a predatory YouTube channel
Speaker 3: because they're utilizing the fast paced imagery with the bright
Speaker 3: colors and the round shapes to engage children with an
Speaker 3: underdeveloped brain to be addicted to their channel.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I saw in one of the studies on that,
Speaker 1: and I was like really.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And when I first started that, I said the same thing.
Speaker 3: I was like really, But then I went back and
Speaker 3: I mean I read the article and I read their
Speaker 3: evidence against it, and then I went back and I
Speaker 3: actually watched a couple of Coco Melon videos and I'm like,
Speaker 3: oh my god, they're right, Like everything they're saying about
Speaker 3: this is totally addicting to children.
Speaker 1: I can't imagine. How did we grow up learning our A,
Speaker 1: B c's or one two threes?
Speaker 3: We did it the old fashioned way in a classroom.
Speaker 5: We know, we sang that to him. We sang it
Speaker 5: to him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I had a poster on my wall that
Speaker 3: I would study A B, C, D, E, F G
Speaker 3: and then I would learn it backwards and I could
Speaker 3: do it. I could actually at one point in my life,
Speaker 3: I could do the ABC backwards and you would write
Speaker 3: it and I would write it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I would. And then you would write letters
Speaker 5: to words that use those letters, and then you would
Speaker 5: write them some more and write the big ones and
Speaker 5: then the small ones, and you'd write it in cursive
Speaker 5: and then yeah.
Speaker 3: I actually recently asked Eric. I was like, so, what
Speaker 3: what is your like what what kind of like work
Speaker 3: do you do in your school? Like do you do
Speaker 3: you guys get a you know, pen and paper and
Speaker 3: you practice your writing skills.
Speaker 1: And he's like, no, we got a laptop.
Speaker 3: We just do it all online. And I'm like, does
Speaker 3: your teacher even teach you? And he goes, no, she
Speaker 3: just tells us to go to the website and follow
Speaker 3: the lesson online and I'm like, so basically your teacher
Speaker 3: is like like a prison guard. Maybe it wasn't good
Speaker 3: to compare it to that, but yeah, it's all done
Speaker 3: via a laptop or whatever. And all respects, all respects
Speaker 3: to teachers, though it's you know, it's the curriculum the
Speaker 3: district chooses, right, I mean, respect to teachers. But you
Speaker 3: know again, what I would just say is, on one
Speaker 3: hand of me, that's like, hey, that's great because it
Speaker 3: takes the stress off of teachers because teachers have such
Speaker 3: a hard job, right, But.
Speaker 1: I think it's super important though the kids need to
Speaker 1: learn the ethics involved. I mean, we can tell kids,
Speaker 1: you know, don't answer strange texts or don't you know
Speaker 1: those stuff they don't teach. They don't teach that stuff
Speaker 1: they don't teach. Don't take a photo and put of
Speaker 1: you and your friends online. Don't say what sports team
Speaker 1: you play for, say.
Speaker 5: What school you go to.
Speaker 3: Don't yeah, what's what what street you grew up on?
Speaker 3: I mean back when we were kids, what they were
Speaker 3: telling us, you know, not to do.
Speaker 5: Don't dial the one nine hundred numbers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I used to dial that number all the time,
Speaker 1: the one where you could get a joke, dial a joke.
Speaker 1: I used to love dialog joke.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I used to the dial jokes or the Nintendo
Speaker 5: Hotline to get to get you.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, the Miss Cleo Leo Psychic.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's so many different things. But I think they
Speaker 1: need to learn that, and nobody's teaching that. Maybe this
Speaker 1: would be a great opportunity for somebody who has a
Speaker 1: classroom experience.
Speaker 4: To do this.
Speaker 3: Well, what they didn't teach us to and in school
Speaker 3: obviously is like they didn't teach us like how to
Speaker 3: balance our check books, how to do taxes, you know,
Speaker 3: things like that you used to do. It's it's well,
Speaker 3: yeah maybe, but like every generation has that one thing
Speaker 3: where they're like, well, they never taught us this in school,
Speaker 3: and then we had to deal with this.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 1: I learned computers in school in high school. That's when
Speaker 1: they were they were coming out and he had they
Speaker 1: would connect to you know, a server and you could
Speaker 1: use ten print, twenty print input a what is it
Speaker 1: Oregon Trail on the Oh yeah, oh, speaking of that,
Speaker 1: have you seen that the new Oregon Trails out on
Speaker 1: x Xbox Game Pass? Are you kidding me yet?
Speaker 3: They remastered the game and they actually made it with
Speaker 3: there's multiple variations of Oregon Trail you can play and
Speaker 3: and and there's like different quests you can do. It
Speaker 3: is completely renewed for twenty twenty five Oregon Trail on
Speaker 3: Xbox Game Pass.
Speaker 1: All right, listen, we got to take another quick break.
Speaker 1: We come back with more of Tech Talk Radio. We're
Speaker 1: going to talk CEES the Consumer Electronics Show. Earlier we
Speaker 1: had our buddy Paul Sanchez in from from ces in
Speaker 1: Las Vegas. But we are going to speak with a
Speaker 1: representative from the Consumer Technology Association. They put on the
Speaker 1: big Consumer Electronics Show, Patrick Pennett, Who's gonna tell us
Speaker 1: about some of the cool things seen over this past week,
Speaker 1: some of the things to expect, and why this show
Speaker 1: is so important for so many And again you want
Speaker 1: to hang on for that because we'll find out about
Speaker 1: some of the some of the really cool stuff to
Speaker 1: expect for this year. And as a reminder, if you
Speaker 1: do want to follow some of the action from Las
Speaker 1: Vegas and of course the keynote speeches that have been made,
Speaker 1: you could go to CEES dot Tech. But that discussion
Speaker 1: with Patrick is standing by.
Speaker 3: I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Sean de Weird and I'm justin
Speaker 3: Lemme set us an ax at tech Talk Radio.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back now back to tech Talk Radio.
Speaker 1: You know, there are many trade shows that happen throughout
Speaker 1: the country, throughout the world we'll never hear about. But
Speaker 1: one of those that we hear about every year we
Speaker 1: get so excited around this time of the year is
Speaker 1: the Consumer Electronics Show. And Patrick Pennett is a Senior
Speaker 1: director of Industry and Policy Communications for the Consumer Technology Association. Patrick,
Speaker 1: Welcome to tech Talk Radio.
Speaker 6: Thank you, glad to be with you here today. Thrilled
Speaker 6: to be here less than nearly twenty four hours until
Speaker 6: CES twenty twenty five kicks off here in Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: It's going to be an exciting time now this week,
Speaker 1: we're already getting the announcements of some of the great
Speaker 1: products that are coming out. But for our listeners who
Speaker 1: maybe are not familiar with the Consumer Technology Association, tell
Speaker 1: us a little bit about what they do.
Speaker 6: So CTA, the Consumer Technology Association has been around for
Speaker 6: more than a century, one hundred and one years this year,
Speaker 6: starting as the Radio Manufacturers Association, and then we started
Speaker 6: what began as the Consumer Electronics show now known simply
Speaker 6: as CEES more than fifty years ago, and we've been
Speaker 6: in our home Las Vegas for several decades now. The first,
Speaker 6: you know, one of the first few weeks of January
Speaker 6: every year, really to set the agenda for the year
Speaker 6: ahead in technology.
Speaker 4: The other fifty one.
Speaker 6: Weeks a year when we're not here in Vegas. We're
Speaker 6: a DC based trade association, so we work with our
Speaker 6: membership of more than the thousand companies, many of rich,
Speaker 6: eighty percent of small to medium size, helping them with
Speaker 6: advocacy and helping them understand how to compete in a
Speaker 6: regulated and innovative environment, and helping secure a prosperous future
Speaker 6: for North America's tech companies.
Speaker 1: Now we don't see just the huge players like Sony
Speaker 1: and Phillips and some of these others. We see also
Speaker 1: the small startups that find CES to be a great
Speaker 1: launching ground for them.
Speaker 6: That is so true. One of my favorite areas that
Speaker 6: the show is in the Venetian Eureka Park. I equate
Speaker 6: it to like a Moroccan bizarre. You have a thousand
Speaker 6: startups in ten by tens each trying to get your
Speaker 6: attention to talk about the product that is the next
Speaker 6: big thing. That's where startups like Ring and Impossible Burger
Speaker 6: came to market, found partnerships and really got to tell
Speaker 6: their story. And I'm excited for some of the brands
Speaker 6: that we'll see this year. We're going to see I
Speaker 6: don't have green thumbs. There's going to be plant Buddies
Speaker 6: that basically help you grow plants using AI to measure
Speaker 6: the light, the water, humidity to make sure you can
Speaker 6: keep that plant alive even while you're traveling, and it
Speaker 6: will give you guidance on how to do it. And
Speaker 6: I think it's this convergence of AI that's really going
Speaker 6: to sort of drive our future and be additive to
Speaker 6: help make our homes better, more livable. And we'll also
Speaker 6: hear from companies who are helping make our world more livable,
Speaker 6: more comfortable, more sustainable.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're seeing products that that are not just designed
Speaker 1: for just business. We're seeing that stuff that we'll use
Speaker 1: in our everyday lives, whether it be a microwave technology
Speaker 1: or even robotic vacuum. There is products out there that
Speaker 1: can change and even up the game of what these
Speaker 1: products have been able to do.
Speaker 4: That's right.
Speaker 6: One example I think is EU Ecras in June coming
Speaker 6: out with a first to market. It's like a Rumba
Speaker 6: e robot that does your flaws with a mob but
Speaker 6: it uses AI and lighter to find transparent spills on
Speaker 6: the floor, so stuff that you might not see, this
Speaker 6: will find it, vacuum and clean and mock around it
Speaker 6: and then take itself back home to charge and empty out.
Speaker 6: So that's kind of the beginning of what we're seeing.
Speaker 6: The other thing we're seeing, especially in the Venetian is
Speaker 6: the convergence of health technologies, health and fitness and smart home.
Speaker 6: So it's gone beyond just a smart watch. It's really
Speaker 6: getting down to how I'm able to manage my health
Speaker 6: with products like Abbott's Lingo that will help me monitor
Speaker 6: my blood sugar, my glucose to understand how that affects
Speaker 6: my performance. I'm already tracking my sleep. I'm using new
Speaker 6: products like eslog Siltek's glasses that are going to help
Speaker 6: me both see but also using beamforming sound to actors
Speaker 6: over the counter hearing aids to improve my sound and
Speaker 6: my vision. And I can't wait for the next generation
Speaker 6: that will have Sensus like full detection and similar to that.
Speaker 1: One of the questions I get asked a lot is
Speaker 1: when it comes to technology and CES announcements, what about
Speaker 1: our cars because we see so much. I saw my
Speaker 1: sun bought a car the other day and he brought
Speaker 1: it by and he opened the door and I looked
Speaker 1: at it, and I'm like, what the heck is all
Speaker 1: this so much electronics to assist in making the drive
Speaker 1: more enjoyable and more safer.
Speaker 6: That's right, and that's why we are huge advocates of
Speaker 6: what you will see here at CES, and it's around
Speaker 6: autonomous driving. And it's not just cars, it's much smaller
Speaker 6: people movers. And it's also at the industrial scale. It's
Speaker 6: how there's going to be electrification in light rail and
Speaker 6: heavy rail construction equipment. Again, the whole it's about the
Speaker 6: electricification of the entire mobility ecosystem, and that's what you'll
Speaker 6: see here on the floor and outside at CES, in
Speaker 6: addition to drive alongs to exactly see that beautiful O
Speaker 6: lead screen in a BMW as you do a drive
Speaker 6: along in Central Plaza. In addition to autonomous vehicles that
Speaker 6: you'll see on the streets and smaller micromobility companies like
Speaker 6: zoop and of course, where would we be without the
Speaker 6: flying cars. So you're going to see companies like Xpe
Speaker 6: doing their initial launch of their electric flying cars so
Speaker 6: that you are seeing the whole ecosi of them.
Speaker 1: Here now one of the cars from last year. I
Speaker 1: remember the Mobian that caught everybody by surprise with how
Speaker 1: it's able to move and navigate the roads and help
Speaker 1: people in many ways while they're in their vehicles. Will
Speaker 1: we see more vehicles like this, not.
Speaker 6: Just vehicles, but boats as well. We can expect companies
Speaker 6: like Brunswick to come out with electric boats that are
Speaker 6: using AI and autonomous parking technology to help you do
Speaker 6: some of the most challenging parts of driving a boat,
Speaker 6: to dock it to more to take it out in
Speaker 6: inclement weather. And I think again it's just you're seeing
Speaker 6: it across every form of transit and transportation down to
Speaker 6: even micromobility scooters that are going to have greater levels
Speaker 6: of technology collision avoidance and things like that just to
Speaker 6: help you. Not to mention wearables we've seen over time,
Speaker 6: jackets and collars and things that detect an incoming crash
Speaker 6: and basically act as a personal airbag. So it really
Speaker 6: is a holistic look at the system of both safety,
Speaker 6: and that's something that we believe that our autonomous feature
Speaker 6: is really going to help drive safety.
Speaker 1: We also look at our home entertainment systems. When you
Speaker 1: think about it, the VHS and BETA, I think we're
Speaker 1: announced at CES when they first came out, and you
Speaker 1: look at how far we've come with these huge, giant screens,
Speaker 1: but home entertainment change from having to pick whether it's
Speaker 1: going to be VHS or beta or even DVD. Now
Speaker 1: we're seeing so much digital content out there. How will
Speaker 1: entertainment play a role in our homes with announcements made
Speaker 1: from CS.
Speaker 6: I mean, that's such a great question because when you
Speaker 6: think it's it isn't just about the screen. What we
Speaker 6: hear from consumers is that they want a seamless experience
Speaker 6: from the TV to the phone, to the car dashboard
Speaker 6: to the tablet, and it really is this convergence of
Speaker 6: connected content and immersive entertainment with things like Dolby Atmostolby
Speaker 6: Vision DTX going through devices in cars, in home, on
Speaker 6: your phone, immersive sound in your headphones that are really
Speaker 6: going to help bring that experience to life, and it
Speaker 6: really is going to become a content play. That's why
Speaker 6: we have c space at cees where you have brands
Speaker 6: like Walmart and Amazon who were telling the story about
Speaker 6: how the entertainment ecosystem can connect across all of your
Speaker 6: devices and be more seamless, and not just more seamless,
Speaker 6: catering to what I want. That's bespoke to me.
Speaker 1: One of the questions we received a couple of months
Speaker 1: ago was translation devices. Are we seeing that technology ramping
Speaker 1: up where somebody can actually wear or have on their
Speaker 1: smartphone and automatically understand that language and translate.
Speaker 6: It for you massively. And the technology it's general AI
Speaker 6: informed and it's just going to keep getting better. I
Speaker 6: used it on a recent trip to France. I would
Speaker 6: take a picture of a sign and I would have
Speaker 6: it translate what's on the sign, so I knew everything
Speaker 6: that was on the menu, and it's instantaneous. It's also
Speaker 6: going to be projecting to my earbuds or my headphones
Speaker 6: if I'm wearing them. The other thing that we're going
Speaker 6: to see a lot of this year is smart AAR
Speaker 6: informed glasses. So whether it's like the Meta glasses and
Speaker 6: many other startups coming to market with their tape on
Speaker 6: those products. Many are crowdfunded or coming up through Kickstarter
Speaker 6: as well so at Eureka Park and also from estublished
Speaker 6: established brands like Eslor, Luxotica, and Meta. It's really going
Speaker 6: to be about this convergence of augmented reality glasses just
Speaker 6: like you're wearing. It's going to be more data infused.
Speaker 6: Maybe it's maybe you're taking pictures, notes, or simply having
Speaker 6: an overlay so you're not having to have your nose
Speaker 6: in your phone while you're navigating down to midtown Manhattan.
Speaker 1: You know, one of the things I'm wondering about is
Speaker 1: you go to an optalmologist, you get a prescription for
Speaker 1: your glasses, and over time you love these glasses. Over
Speaker 1: time your eyes maybe they need a little more work,
Speaker 1: they need a stronger prescription. I kind of wonder if
Speaker 1: they'll be able to adjust that in the lens itself.
Speaker 6: I mean, I wouldn't doubt it, or maybe the smart
Speaker 6: contact lens of the future. I mean, it's this, this
Speaker 6: is where you see there if possible.
Speaker 1: Now I have to ask you, Patrick, what excites you
Speaker 1: the most when you're walking the show floor, which is
Speaker 1: absolutely huge. If nobody has been to CS that we're
Speaker 1: talking to it, it's just amazing.
Speaker 6: I think we're saying it's more than thirty football pitches,
Speaker 6: but even that doesn't make sense until you kind of
Speaker 6: count your steps at the end of the day and
Speaker 6: you realize you've basically just walked to marathon. But it
Speaker 6: really is about you can choose your adventure here. So
Speaker 6: if you want to dive in on mobility, or if
Speaker 6: you want to learn about startups, or if you want
Speaker 6: to get into digital health, we have curated experiences and
Speaker 6: also really compelling conference programming and keynotes from like Delta's
Speaker 6: Ed Bastian Tomorrow Night, Panasonic. In the video Tonight the
Speaker 6: World's Most Valuable Company, Jensen Bong is going to be
Speaker 6: on stage telling the story. And that's what I love
Speaker 6: is that in the keynotes you'll hear the vision. In
Speaker 6: some of the conferences, you'll hear how it's coming to life,
Speaker 6: and then on the show floor you see it in reality,
Speaker 6: you get to touch it, you get to and really, frankly,
Speaker 6: the thing I love most on the floor is the serendipity.
Speaker 6: It's running into something I didn't expect to be a
Speaker 6: success or the surprise thing that catches all the headlines,
Speaker 6: like bird Buddy last year, who'd have thought everybody in
Speaker 6: the world just wants to spend time looking at the
Speaker 6: birds in their garden.
Speaker 1: And here we are. Yeah, exactly the para. So many
Speaker 1: great products, and again, if our listeners want to keep
Speaker 1: an eye on this, they can do that, keep an
Speaker 1: eye on the keynotes, they can check out the show floor.
Speaker 1: Great video presentations last year, and I know you're going
Speaker 1: to have more of the same for this year.
Speaker 6: Huge amount more finded on cs dot tech and that
Speaker 6: Cees on Socials will be live streaming a whole lot,
Speaker 6: including much of the conference programming. The keynotes will be
Speaker 6: out there live as well, and can definitely encourage you
Speaker 6: to tune in, especially for new venues. Light in the video,
Speaker 6: the miklopolcho Arena tonight and then Delda at Sphere tomorrow
Speaker 6: night with Lenny Kravitz.
Speaker 4: That's going to be a show.
Speaker 1: Nice, great stuff. Patrick, Thank you so much for coming
Speaker 1: on tech Talk Radio. I hope you got your new
Speaker 1: shoes ready to go. It's a lot of WHI thank
Speaker 1: you for coming on tech talk Radio. We'll be back
Speaker 1: with more of tech talk Radio coming up next and
Speaker 1: now fact to tech Talk Radio. Great discussion with cees
Speaker 1: I'm kind of wondering is there anything Justin and Sean
Speaker 1: that you've said, Oh, I want to have that that
Speaker 1: maybe you've heard about. I'll let Shan go first because
Speaker 1: I got something, but I'll let show Okay, all right, Sean,
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I think more of what my kids are gonna want,
Speaker 5: right right, and that's legos.
Speaker 1: Legos legos and paw patrol stuff.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Oh I've been there.
Speaker 1: I remember that.
Speaker 5: And uh yeah, I gotta say.
Speaker 3: The one thing that I did see from Cees was
Speaker 3: that robotic vacuum with with the with the robotic arm.
Speaker 1: Oh isn't that awesome That can actually reach.
Speaker 3: Out and grab an item in front of it and
Speaker 3: move it out of the way so it can vacuuming.
Speaker 3: That's the one thing that I have a problem with
Speaker 3: our robotic vacuum is I have to kill tell Eric,
Speaker 3: always clean up your room. Make sure there's nothing on
Speaker 3: the floor, clean up all the cat toys, you know,
Speaker 3: all that stuff, make sure there's no catpuke on the floor.
Speaker 3: But you know, but this this vacuum with the robotic robotic.
Speaker 1: Arm, it is a it is a rumba right, yeah,
Speaker 1: but no, no, it's from a company called Robo rock
Speaker 1: and they're calling it it's the Santos two seventy. If
Speaker 1: you go to their website at us dot roboock dot com,
Speaker 1: you could see all the different products.
Speaker 6: That they have.
Speaker 1: Now they may not have the Santos two seventy on
Speaker 1: there yet, but it does. It has an arm and
Speaker 1: it uses AI and it could see, oh, there's a sock,
Speaker 1: and it will pick it up and move it and
Speaker 1: then clean the area.
Speaker 3: I mean, I just really hope it doesn't detect like
Speaker 3: a dog poo and think it's a sock and try
Speaker 3: to move it and then it just spreads it all around.
Speaker 1: Oh that, yeah, Just I don't know if you've heard
Speaker 1: those stories about the rumbas that have done that where
Speaker 1: they'll just roll right over it and it's just everywhere
Speaker 1: after that. Yeah, yeah, So all right, I.
Speaker 3: Don't know, but I mean, that's that's the one thing
Speaker 3: I would say that is so far the coolest thing
Speaker 3: that I've seen come out of CS. And I'm sure
Speaker 3: there's plenty more. Honestly, we need to go to Cees
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: I was talking with Patrick earlier and I told him
Speaker 1: next year we're coming. We'll get rooms, we'll you know,
Speaker 1: we'll stay out there it go see us unveiled the
Speaker 1: whole bit, do a live show, ye, do it all right,
Speaker 1: Lucy and Tucson. Real quick question, My daughter got herself
Speaker 1: a gaming device, I guess gaming computer. Oh my gosh, right,
Speaker 1: her dad got it for her. But but about the games?
Speaker 1: Can you rent them online and play them? What's the
Speaker 1: best way to get games for a gaming computer?
Speaker 5: What games is she interested in? That's the big key.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I mean we can't really answer that question
Speaker 1: with not her being here. Yeah, how about it.
Speaker 5: But there's I mean, it's whatever she's interested, whatever the
Speaker 5: person using the computer is interested in playing, right, because
Speaker 5: then you're gonna have to download that specific vendors launcher
Speaker 5: Steam obviously is a big one, right, so Blizzard you
Speaker 5: if you're into Bizzard Games, Steaming, epic launchers, Origin, xbo
Speaker 5: I mean, good old, good old games, Xbox game Pass.
Speaker 3: I mean, I mean, there's a there's a ton of them.
Speaker 3: But I mean, honestly, I would say I would personally say,
Speaker 3: let's just start with Steam. Steam it is the website
Speaker 3: is steampowered dot com, not Steam dot com, steam power
Speaker 3: dot com. That is the probably the go to place
Speaker 3: for PC games. I mean, there's about a million and
Speaker 3: a half games on Steam. It's it's by a company
Speaker 3: called Valve, which is a very famous company. Second on
Speaker 3: the list, I would say, like Sean said, I'd say
Speaker 3: probably Blizzard. Blizzard has a ton of games because they're
Speaker 3: Activision Blizzard, which happens to also be owned by Microsoft.
Speaker 3: You've got World of Warcraft, You've got StarCraft, you've got Overwatch.
Speaker 1: We don't yeah, we don't know how how old the
Speaker 1: Lucy's Daughter is so yeaheah.
Speaker 5: I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't know, but I mean there's a ton. And
Speaker 3: then like dog Sean mentioned, Good Old Games has another one,
Speaker 3: gog oh like those. Xbox game Pass is a great
Speaker 3: because Xbox game Pass nineteen ninety nine dollars a month.
Speaker 3: You get access to a butt load of games for
Speaker 3: you know, for that and it can all be played
Speaker 3: on PC and on the go on your tablet or phone.
Speaker 3: That's kind of like renting them, right, I mean, you know,
Speaker 3: kind if you think of the old Blockbuster days, we'd
Speaker 3: pay you know, four bucks a night.
Speaker 1: If so, you know that that would work out pretty good.
Speaker 3: And game pass basically you pay the monthly fee and
Speaker 3: then you get access to the games, and the games
Speaker 3: usually last ninety to one hundred and eighty days and
Speaker 3: then they start going away eventually, but if they're more popular,
Speaker 3: they'll stay longer.
Speaker 1: But you know, they wrote take games all the time.
Speaker 1: I like good old games. I like that one because
Speaker 1: then you can play, you know, Loura Croft, some of
Speaker 1: the old games. And that's the thing when your parent
Speaker 1: and your kids start gaming, you want them to play
Speaker 1: the games you played, and then you introduce them to
Speaker 1: the games, and then they get angry with you because
Speaker 1: the graphics are just awful.
Speaker 3: I know, I'm trying, man. I keep telling Eric about
Speaker 3: all these games I played, and he's like, dude, this sucks.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I do like the old games.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 5: And one of my favorite games that I have and
Speaker 5: you can get it on go og checks Quest check Quest.
Speaker 1: I don't know that one. That Wasn't that a free
Speaker 1: game that came in a box of chex mix you checks?
Speaker 5: Yes. The company them, tenter Mills River, they released they
Speaker 5: made a game called check checks Quest that they shipped
Speaker 5: out millions of CDs in checked Cereal Man, and it
Speaker 5: became it's a it became a cult classic video game. Yeah,
Speaker 5: And then they ended up remastering it and it's it's
Speaker 5: it's it's incredible.
Speaker 1: You guys have no idea though, of the joy of
Speaker 1: getting a box of Cereal. Right, okay, you get a
Speaker 1: game in one, but did you ever get a forty
Speaker 1: five rpm record on the back of the box that
Speaker 1: you could take cut out of the box of Cereal,
Speaker 1: put it on a record player and it would play what.
Speaker 3: Is a forty five rpm?
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I'm just messing with you all right now.
Speaker 2: I mean we're we're old enough to remember like getting
Speaker 2: demo CDs in PC magazines, oh yeah, and playing the
Speaker 2: ever living out of the demos, never getting the original games, yeah,
Speaker 2: and then then playing the playing the actual.
Speaker 5: Game like twenty years later, like this game sucks.
Speaker 1: All right, listen. That's it for this week's Tech Talk Radio.
Speaker 1: Thank you for joining. We'll have more next week. We'll
Speaker 1: take a look more of the products that have been
Speaker 1: announced from cees. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Sean de Weird,
Speaker 1: and I'm justin Levy. Have yourselves a great week.
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