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Matt Geekab 1018 live from Las Vegas for Sunday, January 7th, 2024.

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Music.

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Greetings folks and welcome to the show.

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Welcome to Matt Geekab. up normally we take your questions and your tips and

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your cool stuff down and we share them all, right now though we are here well

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two of us pete and i are here in las vegas and

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uh we're ces for

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us has already started we've met with some companies we wanted to talk about

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it so yes here live from las vegas i'm

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dave hamilton and here in frigid las

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vegas this pilot pete hey what's up

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up with that we came all the way across the country to sunny warm

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southwest desert and it's you know it's

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like we never left new england but you know there we go yeah it's

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crazy i don't yeah it's it's cold here it's like barely 50 degrees all i can

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say is thank god that about four hours before we left i said hey s lady what's

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the weather in vegas this week and she told me and i had to go back and unpack

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all my polo shirts and get some long sleeves yeah for sure,

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So, well, the good news is we did, we got up this morning, went over and saw

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the folks at Uproar who brought in a bunch of clients to a hotel suite over

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at the Palazzo. And we went over there and we met with a bunch of those folks.

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And one of the ones that we met with was kind enough to give us a nice warm

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wool winter hat. Yes, that's true.

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Oh, you've got yours handy there. Yeah, it's true.

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So there it is. So Yarbo, the people who make automated,

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it's basically a robot with the ability to put attachments on it,

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lawnmower, snowblower, it'll tow stuff,

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you know, like a rake, leafblower, that kind of, so they've put some thought

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and effort in it. It's really cool. Yeah. The snowblower, of course,

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it's snowing at our homes while we're recording this for all of you.

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We aren't at our homes. Our homes.

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Better halves our wives are out shoveling the driveway with all that you

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done yet honey yeah yeah it was in fact i was able to show

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the uh yarbo folks a live stream

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of my ring camera that showed lisa with

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our snowblower our you know drive it

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yourself snowblower in the driveway while we were learning

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about their automated uh robot snowblower this

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thing it was uh let me pull up my notes here

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and make sure i have it right but uh the the yarbo

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snowblower it's like 6500 bucks for the

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robot with the snowblower attachment and all the

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smarts to it because that's the one with all the smarts yeah there's

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there's one that's also just remote control correct so

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right there's two versions the pricing it was

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unclear on the on the less expensive version but

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the uh the 6500 hundred bucks

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gets you fully automated very similar to

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what you would get with a robot vacuum

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cleaner it does mapping and it will run without you.

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Without any intervention and just kind

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of do its thing there is a charge itself it'll yeah

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go back and charge itself it there is a less expensive

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version uh and i don't know how less expensive it

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is we don't have that data in front of us here they weren't really

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clear on it there either so they may not even

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know but uh that one is

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remote controllable so you can sit in the warmth of your house

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and drive it around your driveway and it has cameras and gps

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in it so it it like will figure everything

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out but you still have to like control

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it and tell it where to go so right i think most

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people would want the one that does it itself Because the idea is it starts

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going once you've got about an inch or two of snow on the ground and it goes

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and does your driveway with your inch or two of snow and then it goes back and

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it recharges itself and it can do a full recharge.

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A full recharge for them is from 10 to 80

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percent uh it can do about 6 000 square feet.

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On its 80 percent charge which is fine and it

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can fully recharge from 10 to 80 in uh in about an hour and a half yeah it's

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about 90 minutes yeah maybe 90 minutes so that the cool part about that is that

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you just you don't wait until the snow finishes you just let this thing keep

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going Plow with the storm. Plow with the storm. And I think the...

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Lawnmower is built to function the same way

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you just have it kind of that's my understanding it maintains daily right it

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maintains it and because my hang-up with one of those has always been where

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we are now we've got almost two acres of land a lot to mow and he's like and

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he ran across the numbers he essentially said you can handle up to about nine

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acres without a mower i I mean, it's, so this is no, uh,

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for, I don't put it like to put it like this.

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It's no consumer grade piece of crap.

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It is a robust pro.

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I would call it a prosumer piece of equipment that, uh, uh, it,

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it's going to do the work.

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It's not, it's not limp. It's not, uh, built like cheap. No.

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Oh no. This is. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Really impressed to see that. And thank you for the

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winter hats we will be using. Yeah, we'll use those this week. That's right.

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Yeah, they knew their audience well, for sure.

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Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So, all right.

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What do we have next here? I've got to find our agenda.

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Yeah, my computer is not happy. The first people we saw were Kenyon,

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K-E-Y, I'm sorry, K-E-N-Y-O-N.

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And they do indoor and outdoor grills. Yep. And those were pretty impressive.

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They're DC powered, 48 volts for the indoor grill.

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Was it also, no, it was 240 volts out for the outdoor grill.

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The big, looks like a great big Weber grill. But it's all DC powered. All DC powered.

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You can plug it into your AC current and they had an inverter to step it up to 240 DC.

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But this grill is so well thought out.

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It was really amazing. one of the most impressive things to me was one of the

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last things I saw was that even at the height of grilling with this thing on

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and grilling steaks or chicken or what-have-you you can touch the top of the grill.

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Yeah. They've got a Venturi system in there that keeps the airflow,

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that keeps the top of that grill from getting too hot and causing injury,

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for lack of a better word. But the thought that they put into the grill shape and the grate,

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and I said, no, this is great. And pun not intended, but it came out with a good one.

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Pun acknowledged. Yeah, yeah. And he talked about how it caramelizes the food.

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It isn't the flame and the charcoal, but it's the food being caramelized as

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the juices come off the meat and explode in the superheat.

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And it's fully even heat because of the way the heating element is.

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So all of the things that we're talking about here, we have seen some of them

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we are going to do bespoke YouTube videos for. I think this is one we might,

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even though it's not like it doesn't link with your iPhone yet.

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You know, my guess is that's coming in a future version. Like it seemed like

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this would be a good thing to maybe link with your phone.

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But this one, it's worth seeing based on like the way that they kind of engineered

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this so that the element, the heating element is right there under your food,

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but it never touches your food and it remains completely isolated from it.

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So it'll stay clean and, you know, all of that stuff. Yeah, it'll never have food hit it.

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Yeah. Yeah, it's in a channel, and they've put a lot of thought and effort into this.

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The price point on that, it was rather high, as I recall. It was around $5,000. Yeah.

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So it isn't ready for most people's backyard yet.

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Right, right. But that's how this stuff goes, right?

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I mean, the first plasma TV that was 48 inches was a $16,000 TV.

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Now you can't even get plasma because they're, you know. Correct. Yeah, you know, that's ancient technology now, Pete.

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That's right. Yeah. Yeah. We went and saw this company called Vasco that creates a translator.

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It's translator earbuds, right? They have taken it to another level.

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And there is the earbuds that you put in.

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You can put one in your ear and one in someone else's ear. And in fact,

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you can have up to 10 of them going simultaneously, translating an entire conversation

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audibly and on your phone in 10 different languages simultaneously.

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People talk, everyone hears it in their chosen preferred language in their ears,

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and the conversation just sort of happens.

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It's, you know, we can do this with one person with our phones right now,

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which is amazing that we can even do that now with, you know,

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with the devices that we generally have in our pockets. This, the folks at Vasco take it to a whole other level.

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It's really, it's spectacular how well this works.

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And they had another device there. Was that called the four Dave?

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It almost looked like a thin touchscreen cell phone. But all it did was it has,

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when you buy that, you get the data plan with it.

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You don't have to be connected to data anywhere in the world. Right.

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In order for this, in order for the earbuds to work your phone or they needs

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to connect to, they need to be connected to something that's also connected to data. Right.

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And the, that can be your phone or you can get this upgrade.

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The earbuds are about 350 bucks and then it's another 200 for their base unit,

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if you will, the version four, the V4, whatever they kept calling it.

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But that then comes with its own data plan that they say is lifetime data for that unit.

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So you don't have to worry about data in another country just to have your ability to translate.

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Correct. Yeah. So that was really cool. Exactly. Yeah.

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Yeah. They say the V4. Or I'm looking on their website right now.

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That is $331 if you buy it standalone. Okay.

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And then I think they said it was going to be $549 as like a package.

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I think with the earbuds. With the earbuds, that's right. Yeah.

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But that was amazing to watch it translate. The gent who demonstrated it to us was speaking Polish.

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It translated to English for Dave in his ear and to Spanish on his phone simultaneously.

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Right. it was incredible to watch

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it just work as quickly as it did yeah and and whichever one of

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us spoke in whatever language we spoke it just

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picked it up and and went with it right and in fact uh

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i threw some pidgin japanese at it to for yeah that's right and it picked it

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right up and went okay this is what you said yeah wow that is what i intended

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to say so yeah and all this stuff like i said we will do videos on some of these

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things that you'll see on our mackey cap video like our youtube channel we'll

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put a link to that in the show notes but it's. YouTube.com slash at MacGeekGab. But we'll also put links to all these things

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in the show notes as you expect. I guess I should say one thing.

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This is MacGeekGab 1018 for Sunday, January 7th.

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MacGeekGab 1017 says that it's for Monday, January 8th.

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It will already have been released. It was for Monday, January 8th.

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And then we decided to do this episode. So we pushed out 1017 a little early.

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So it's fine. It's fine. while we

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were waiting to talk to the folks from vasco we decided to

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waste some time we decided to waste some time that the the

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folks at uproar were like oh go check out this oh clean uh company

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yeah o-c-l-e-a-n.com so we

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did okay right we'll kill some time they make

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a smart toothbrush okay fine smart toothbrush

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i've had we've talked about them on the show like it's interesting

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but the ones i've used have all been bluetooth and you

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know just like a bluetooth scale you know

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know you have to have your phone open in order to sync with the thing

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and like it's always a little bit of just a

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an ordeal if you will well the new oakley

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toothbrush is wi-fi so it's constantly syncing your data even better than that

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though it gives you all the feedback while you're brushing which is pushing

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too hard you're going too fast yeah yep but then when you're finished it shows

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It shows you both on your phone and on the toothbrush.

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And this will definitely do a video for us. You can really kind of dig in and see.

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But it shows you a diagram of your mouth and where you did good and where you

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didn't do so good. Right. Yeah, and it uses basically bone conduction technology to talk to you. Yeah.

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Why are you brushing too hard? No one else hears what it's saying, but you do.

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Yeah, exactly. And it's $130.

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Right, and it's got a brushless maglev motor inside it.

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And the battery life, they have a couple different ones.

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One is 30 days battery life, which is great in and of itself.

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And then they have another one that is not quite as advanced as the Wi-Fi one.

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It has 180-day battery life on it. I was like, oh, my gosh.

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You know, I don't take my electric toothbrush on the road because I don't want

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to pack the charger to go around with me as well.

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And one that's going to last six months between charges?

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Yeah. Okay. I'm good with that. It's pretty cool.

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I was really astounded to see, yeah. Yeah. Same.

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Yeah. It's pretty cool. So yeah, we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll dig more into that.

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But yeah, 130 bucks and it links with Apple health.

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So you, you know, it's like, they've already done that work for us, which is great.

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We love that. So I ask again, who needs a smart toothbrush? Yeah. Yeah.

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That's awesome. Yep. Yep.

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of them is a company we saw last year e-site yeah you

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uh that was cool yeah you want to tell them about it

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well yeah so there's uh now don't get

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old it's bad for you remember i can't remember the gent's name who was standing there

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do you remember his name now I

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don't know which one you're talking about the tall gentleman who was legally

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blind yes so anyway he I remember talking to him last year and I was so touched

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he saw his children's legally blind saw his children's face really for the first

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time through this technology. And they've made some huge improvements on it. It's much lighter now.

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I think it's at 160 grams. I was able to put one of these on, and I don't have the best vision in the world, hence I wear glasses.

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I could not see a sign with a naked eye that was a better part of two miles

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away from where we were in the hotel.

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Put this thing on, and I was able to zoom right in and read the sign on the side of the building.

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And that doesn't seem like much. This is a gent who's legally blind who can

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now read to his children, who can read the sign on a building across the street.

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He showed he was able to go to a baseball game and actually watch the baseball

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game. Watch the ball game. And the video stabilization that's on this now, he said, has made it so much nicer.

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There's less feeling of jitter, which I assume would bring some level of nausea on.

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Yeah. But that's all been worked out. The battery life on it is amazing.

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Easing uh it has the ability it has a camera tilt on it that you can set so

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that you can watch tv on it you can read without having to hold your head down

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you can you can have the book down the camera will point down you can keep your

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head pointed up and still read just you know watch tv.

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And they they really look there's still a

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virtual headset but they look a lot more like a pair

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of big sunglasses now than they did yeah even a

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year ago but it was so touching to see this guy

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who uses this and he's now a coach when you buy these you

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get up to five hours of coaching they said and he's a

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coach for people who buy this technology and it's

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it's life-changing i know it yeah it's amazing

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i i'm yeah it's uh it i love when tech can do things like that so yep very cool

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the last thing we did was go check out a company called brandenburg labs they

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have been working on spatial Spatial audio, right?

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Just like, you know, Apple has their version of spatial audio.

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Everybody has their version of spatial audio. Which is amazing.

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It is amazing. Even Apple's, you know, with the AirPods. Correct.

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Brandenburg Labs... Started really digging into this what's happening with our ears

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what are we hearing how are we doing this and

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they created a demo that isn't just a demo

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it's being used by people by like engineers

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mixing engineers and studios especially folks

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that are building like at most mixes but what

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they had us do is they had a set of

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speakers and the best demo that they did was just with stereo speakers but

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i mean you could do it with you know 15 speakers if

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you wanted they had stereo speakers in the room and they

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had us kind of walk around and listen to some audio samples

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music and things like that and then they had.

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Us put headphones on now the headphones had motion trackers on them so

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that it would know where we were in the room which direction you

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were facing whether you were high whether you were low yeah exactly and

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yeah 3d motion trackers for these these headphones

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and it was just in a you know a hotel suite or whatever i put

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the headphones phones on and they said you

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know just keep doing the same thing keep walking around and it's like okay this is

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great like i'm getting a lot of bleed through from the speakers in the

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room though and i took my headphones off and

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realized they had muted the speakers in the room mind-blowing

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yeah it was amazing i did the same thing i had it

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on and the first thing i did was pull it off going wait a minute yeah yeah

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yeah they got mad at me they're like no no don't take them off i'm like

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no no i like needed to so that i knew

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what was going on and i've had a similar experience

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with Apple's spatial audio when I

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first used it on an airplane with my iPad I was

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convinced that my iPad was uh I

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think somebody's getting a call you know it's me it's you all right uh I was

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convinced that my iPad was you know loud in the airplane right it was not you

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know but this takes it to a whole other level it lets it do it with uh you know

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it's in real time and there it's not not something you or I could get right now,

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but it's just, it's great to see that.

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The technology of this spatial audio thing is moving more and more down the

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road it's really it's it blew me away it is yeah yeah you shouldn't be able

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to do that with a pair of headphones or even a pair of airpods for that matter

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you should not be able to exactly pretend that,

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it was wild i'm telling you we were standing there in

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the room and it would go left high and you

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could hear sound coming from above you to your left

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yeah and if you turned around and it would would say left high you would

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actually hear it coming from the right side above yeah yeah

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yeah right because right because you had turned around and it

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was you know yeah left was now right yeah it's really

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something else really something else so yeah that's what we got for today in

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fact we gotta we gotta go because we have to go to our next uh we do our next

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appointment here to get out of here there's no way this show is going to get

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published before uh before we before we go to to that next event.

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But it's fine. I'll publish it later tonight. We'll get it out. Yep. Get it out. So thank you, everybody, for joining us. This is cool.

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Thanks for hanging out. Yeah. I've got to find my mixer volume here so I can

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start everything. Like, you know, I don't...

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I really should travel with a portable control surface for this,

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because then I could, like, fade in the music, see? Like that. Well, there's that.

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You know, got to bring the band in. And for the folks at Brandenburg Labs,

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I think when we were walking out, They said to us.

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I don't think that's what they said. Oh, okay. But if we were,

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if we went back to the Vasco translator folks, they might be able to tell us

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what that actually meant in German.

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That's don't get caught. Thanks for hanging out with us, folks. Thanks to our sponsors.

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Thanks for hanging out, and we'll be back. We'll do more of these episodes this

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week, and keep an eye on our YouTube channel so that you can learn all that

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stuff too. Pete, what was that that they said again?

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How did that go? I think it was...

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Don't get caught. May not. I'm back.

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Thanks for watching!