December 2, 2025 • 13 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Hey, Ray, Hey, Taken, do you want to hear something
weird about gadget names. Yes, well, it's not exactly weird,
it's more just like my hot take.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
I love this so much because, yes, gadget names look
depending on the company, they can have a long and
weird history.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
It's true, and my hot take is very simple, and
it's just that for the most part, that's not fun anymore.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
And this is not new territory for us.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
We talk a lot about gadgets getting boring, and this
is just something I was thinking about the other day
that this extends to the names.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I've decided yeah, because they're all just model numbers and
stuff now like yeah, you know, they used to be
called call fun things and now they're just like, you know,
the GX one thousand, M seven squared.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Yes, exactly, And there are some exceptions, but I think
that and I have absolutely no evidence to back this
up with. But in my mind's eye, in my memory palace,
it all started with a particular thing that happened to me.
And I'm going to see if you know where I'm going.
If I say a few words, I want you to
see if you know what I'm talking about. So I'm
(01:22):
just going kind of say some things, all right, go cupcake, donut,
are Claire, Froyo, gingerbread, honeycomb, ice cream, sandwich shot me.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
These are all operating systems taken These are all Android
operating systems.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
They certainly certainly.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Are, and they're delicious, delicious and so fun.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Delicious and fun. And they would have the little logos
and it gave you something nice to think about, and
it made you want snacks all through the day.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
It did.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
And apparently people that went to Mobile or Congress every
which I never got to do, like the Rod pavilion
will be set up with whatever the operating system version
was that year.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
I'm going to go through the rest of them.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
There was a jelly bean, Chit cat yeh, lollipop, marshmallow ugurt,
and Oreo and then pie and then I remember this
if I cast my mind back to twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen,
whenever it was that there was this anticipation, yes before
the new Android came out, which was going to be
Android ten or a big one, about what it was
(02:28):
going to be, not only because every year it was
something delicious, but because it was something slightly more difficult
from a Western perspective this time around, which was what
do you do with Q? And I was gunning for quince.
I know it's not exactly a dessert, yes, but.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
It's a paste and it goes on a cheese platter
and you do have it after dinner.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Yes, yes, and you can you can make like quin spies.
There are things that you can do with this. And
so I remember the moment that my you can almost
pinpoint at like Ralph Wickham in Simps, where my heart
broke when they're just like, you know what, it's Android
ten Now, that's and that was the death in my
mind of fun names.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Yes, however, we have had some very confusing names for
gadgets over the years, so I can understand the simplification
of things. I think one of the recent ones in memory,
you know, goes back to the more recent Xbox consoles,
the series X, the series S, and it just became
(03:29):
it's like which one is which? Why are we doing
this in such a complicated way?
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Call it the lights right, solved, do what we've always done, Jesus,
hold it the whatever.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
But like, I really do think that Sony, despite naming
PlayStations very logically, is the worst defender in this with
their headphones.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
I know, I knew you're going to say the headphones
and you are not wrong. I wrote this down, but
please continue.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
I am not choking when I say that we've got
the wh DASH one thousand x M four's, the WHCH
five twenties, WHCH seven twenty n you know one thousand
XM fives like these are how are you meant to
(04:19):
remember what headphones you have? Are you meant to shatter
it on your arm? Write it down? Like, I know,
stop this.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
I barely could as a reviewer, and I loved those headphones,
but particularly when they say and this is very like
particular problem unless you know I relegular consumer, in which
case this will impact you. When they started bringing out
the in ear noise canceling earbuds as well, because again,
correct me if I'm wrong. It was like WFS DASH
one thousand. It was basically exactly the same as the
(04:51):
over ears, but like one letter difference, and like if
you're a consumer, because they're both expensive, worth it in
my mind at the time, but there were expensive head
phones on idiot, you could very easily get the wrong thing,
very annoying.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Yeah, there is literally the WF dash C seven io
N that's different.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
I think that's a different thing.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
And I've had to pop up. But like they're just
not descriptive. They don't tell you what it is you
are using. Oh, that's right, Yeah, here we are the
WF one thousand XM fives.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Told you, told you?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Didn't I as opposed to the w H YEP one
thousand XM fives.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I knew that. I was scarred enough to remember that exactly.
Which is it's really upsetting.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
That is upsetting, sony. Why are you doing this?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Who is this four?
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Who is this four?
Speaker 1 (05:42):
It's I mean maybe audio wankers, but like even then,
like I I just it's not only not fun, it's
just kind of annoying, Like how do you search for
the thing that you want? Like as a consumer?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Genuinely, Yeah, we need memorable names for things.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
I agree.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
There's been quite a few memorable gadget names over the year.
Is and I would like you to see if you
could remember the Cassio. Remember when Cassio made phones, Yes,
like back back back in the day, they had a
g G zone phone, Yes, g apostrophe z O n E.
(06:20):
It was a capital, it was a oh my god, beautiful.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
It's the same with when LG briefly, like when foldable
phones were just kind of coming out, they kind of
in before a little bit before they came to the
Western market with technically a foldle phone, there was really
just two screens, and I think it was called like
something along the lines. And let me see if I
if I wrote this down, Oh yeah, the.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
LG V sixty.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Thin Q And this is like, I mean, LG has
been doing a thin Q thing across a lot of
his products with which is t H.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
I n Q And I just I morally hate that
as it is, but that's just a terrible name.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
And I think later on and I can't remember this
one came to Australia not long after that they had
the LG wing much better. Yeah right, but the name
that's fine. I can in my mind's eye tell what
that probably is.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
I'm going to throw out there an idea. Okay, remember
when the iPod came out and everything just had an
eye in front of it.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
To our detriment.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
I think I think that they could get away with
it because they came up with it, but anyone else
that tried to do it, it was very cringe.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
It was very cringe, but it was very fun and
put things in a time and a place. And I
think we need a more modern equivalent of like, you know,
this was created in the twenty twenties because we know
because we've got a certain letter or number or something
associated with it. Just something that can place the gadgets
(07:43):
in time.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Do you remember now that you say that, do you
remember the Ie smell.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
No, which was like the same thing.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
It jumped on the Eye Train, which was meant to
be this device that I shit you not, which is
a funny phrase considering it was meant to connect a
computer to release it's based on what you were looking at.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
It was like when people were doing five D is
stuff like you'd go like your five D theater and
your chair and move and they pump like smells into
the theater at the same time. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
which which actually we saw a machine for at CEES
this year.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
We did, we did actually, so it all comes full
circle actually, and it's not that far off from when
you did that really disturbing episode about the taste as well.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yes, yeah, I do a lot of disturbing things. One
of my favorite items from the Eye period though, was
the ee muffs. Excuse me, I'm going to need you
to explain that very quickly. It is straight up just
(08:51):
a bluetooth headset. Because it looked like ear muffs. Okay, yeah,
I muffs.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
I can't do that.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
And it just made a skiggle.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Yeah, of course it did.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
But even so I would still argue for that because
at least it's fun, Like, at least I've had a
good time.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
I'll tell you what. I think.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
There are ways to also toe that line if you don't, like,
if you want to be a fun sponge or whatever,
to toe that line between not boring but still professional,
and I would say Apple does a pretty good job
of that. Like it started with its mac ows as
being named after big cats, so you had, you know,
tiger and snow leopard, and then shifted to places in California,
so you've got my Harvey and Bixer and Sonoma and
(09:31):
they're still doing that and I think that's nice.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
It's sleek.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Yeah, I get that we can have some nice naming
conventions for things. I think it would be fun to
be a little bit more descriptive with what we actually
use the tech for in the name. I think back
to uh, it was very very early internet days. Actually,
the Samsung rant do you remember me?
Speaker 3 (09:55):
What?
Speaker 1 (09:55):
No, that's a great I think that probably gets into
the territory of legal going like please, I don't do
anything that can get us into trouble, which I understand,
but tell me everything about this.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
It was a phone that had a slide out full keyboard,
so you're like you turned it on its side and
you slit it out and then you could just like
type your argument and ye send and then slide it
back up again and it would like slam shut.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
It was.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
It would have been really great for like Twitter and
its heyday, I imagined, but I think mostly at this
point it was just used for obscure arguments via text message.
I would love to see Samsung bring back the rant.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Yeah, it was this pre BlackBerry because I feel like,
you know, what's.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
A keyboard question. I'm going I'm going to have a.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Look at the two thousand and eight.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
So around the Blackberries were around before. Oh maybe not.
Let's look this.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Up BlackBerry release date.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Okay, so versus two thousand and eight.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Yeah, Blackberries ninety nine, So.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
So they were maybe vaguely copying up, but bringing in
I guess combining the BlackBerry with the visceral satisfaction that
came with snapping the razor shot exactly, yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Exactly, and in a very kind of sassy era as well.
Two thousand and eight.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Oh yeah, I will say that like, and we can
beat this that because but there is no other word
that I can use here is that two thousand and
eight was like a pracky time for the internet.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
As well as gadgets. Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (11:22):
We did drop an F bomb at the beginning of
one of our recent episodes, which got left in, but
I don't think we can let that state and we're
gonna have to Sam.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
We have to beat that, Sam. But like everyone will
know as well.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
A use I mean, feel free to keep this in like,
but use something that bits that word if we can.
If that's not asking too much, it's like, like everyone
will know.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
It's like the utilization of on a matter paya in gadgets.
You know, let us call things for what we use
them for. I think that would be nice.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
But to top this offree, I do have something for
you that might warm your heart a little bit. Is
that I've heard it's unsubstantiated.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
But I'm going to take this as.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Head cannon yes, because it makes me really happy that apparently,
internally Google Android they are maybe still using the code
names and sings like red Velvet Cake, and that's still
maybe I've heard. I'm choosing to believe it. I think
that's nice.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
I also choose to believe it. I choose to believe
that they're going against the fine overlords and continuing the
dessert theme behind closed doors.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
You've got to have fun.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
I'm going to google desserts that start with Q. Now
they could have done it. Yeah, they could have done it.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Let's see what they would have called it. All right,
well we're saying they would have called it other than quids.
There's like some good like Asian desserts and things like
that that definitely fit the bill.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Oh gosh, no, Google doesn't work anymore. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Shall we cut that bit? Maybe let's okay, say, let's
just start. We'll cut the episode.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Before we brought it up, googling that.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Googling things that start with Q.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
There's Queen of Puddings. Let's just keep that cover.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
And that's it for this episode of Weird Tech. If
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Speaker 3 (13:22):
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Hey, Ray, Hey, Taken, do you want to hear something
weird about gadget names. Yes, well, it's not exactly weird,
it's more just like my hot take.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
I love this so much because, yes, gadget names look
depending on the company, they can have a long and
weird history.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
It's true, and my hot take is very simple, and
it's just that for the most part, that's not fun anymore.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
And this is not new territory for us.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
We talk a lot about gadgets getting boring, and this
is just something I was thinking about the other day
that this extends to the names.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I've decided yeah, because they're all just model numbers and
stuff now like yeah, you know, they used to be
called call fun things and now they're just like, you know,
the GX one thousand, M seven squared.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Yes, exactly, And there are some exceptions, but I think
that and I have absolutely no evidence to back this
up with. But in my mind's eye, in my memory palace,
it all started with a particular thing that happened to me.
And I'm going to see if you know where I'm going.
If I say a few words, I want you to
see if you know what I'm talking about. So I'm
(01:22):
just going kind of say some things, all right, go cupcake, donut,
are Claire, Froyo, gingerbread, honeycomb, ice cream, sandwich shot me.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
These are all operating systems taken These are all Android
operating systems.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
They certainly certainly.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Are, and they're delicious, delicious and so fun.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Delicious and fun. And they would have the little logos
and it gave you something nice to think about, and
it made you want snacks all through the day.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
It did.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
And apparently people that went to Mobile or Congress every
which I never got to do, like the Rod pavilion
will be set up with whatever the operating system version
was that year.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
I'm going to go through the rest of them.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
There was a jelly bean, Chit cat yeh, lollipop, marshmallow ugurt,
and Oreo and then pie and then I remember this
if I cast my mind back to twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen,
whenever it was that there was this anticipation, yes before
the new Android came out, which was going to be
Android ten or a big one, about what it was
(02:28):
going to be, not only because every year it was
something delicious, but because it was something slightly more difficult
from a Western perspective this time around, which was what
do you do with Q? And I was gunning for quince.
I know it's not exactly a dessert, yes, but.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
It's a paste and it goes on a cheese platter
and you do have it after dinner.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Yes, yes, and you can you can make like quin spies.
There are things that you can do with this. And
so I remember the moment that my you can almost
pinpoint at like Ralph Wickham in Simps, where my heart
broke when they're just like, you know what, it's Android
ten Now, that's and that was the death in my
mind of fun names.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Yes, however, we have had some very confusing names for
gadgets over the years, so I can understand the simplification
of things. I think one of the recent ones in memory,
you know, goes back to the more recent Xbox consoles,
the series X, the series S, and it just became
(03:29):
it's like which one is which? Why are we doing
this in such a complicated way?
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Call it the lights right, solved, do what we've always done, Jesus,
hold it the whatever.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
But like, I really do think that Sony, despite naming
PlayStations very logically, is the worst defender in this with
their headphones.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
I know, I knew you're going to say the headphones
and you are not wrong. I wrote this down, but
please continue.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
I am not choking when I say that we've got
the wh DASH one thousand x M four's, the WHCH
five twenties, WHCH seven twenty n you know one thousand
XM fives like these are how are you meant to
(04:19):
remember what headphones you have? Are you meant to shatter
it on your arm? Write it down? Like, I know,
stop this.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
I barely could as a reviewer, and I loved those headphones,
but particularly when they say and this is very like
particular problem unless you know I relegular consumer, in which
case this will impact you. When they started bringing out
the in ear noise canceling earbuds as well, because again,
correct me if I'm wrong. It was like WFS DASH
one thousand. It was basically exactly the same as the
(04:51):
over ears, but like one letter difference, and like if
you're a consumer, because they're both expensive, worth it in
my mind at the time, but there were expensive head
phones on idiot, you could very easily get the wrong thing,
very annoying.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Yeah, there is literally the WF dash C seven io
N that's different.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
I think that's a different thing.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
And I've had to pop up. But like they're just
not descriptive. They don't tell you what it is you
are using. Oh, that's right, Yeah, here we are the
WF one thousand XM fives.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Told you, told you?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Didn't I as opposed to the w H YEP one
thousand XM fives.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I knew that. I was scarred enough to remember that exactly.
Which is it's really upsetting.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
That is upsetting, sony. Why are you doing this?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Who is this four?
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Who is this four?
Speaker 1 (05:42):
It's I mean maybe audio wankers, but like even then,
like I I just it's not only not fun, it's
just kind of annoying, Like how do you search for
the thing that you want? Like as a consumer?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Genuinely, Yeah, we need memorable names for things.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
I agree.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
There's been quite a few memorable gadget names over the year.
Is and I would like you to see if you
could remember the Cassio. Remember when Cassio made phones, Yes,
like back back back in the day, they had a
g G zone phone, Yes, g apostrophe z O n E.
(06:20):
It was a capital, it was a oh my god, beautiful.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
It's the same with when LG briefly, like when foldable
phones were just kind of coming out, they kind of
in before a little bit before they came to the
Western market with technically a foldle phone, there was really
just two screens, and I think it was called like
something along the lines. And let me see if I
if I wrote this down, Oh yeah, the.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
LG V sixty.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Thin Q And this is like, I mean, LG has
been doing a thin Q thing across a lot of
his products with which is t H.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
I n Q And I just I morally hate that
as it is, but that's just a terrible name.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
And I think later on and I can't remember this
one came to Australia not long after that they had
the LG wing much better. Yeah right, but the name
that's fine. I can in my mind's eye tell what
that probably is.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
I'm going to throw out there an idea. Okay, remember
when the iPod came out and everything just had an
eye in front of it.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
To our detriment.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
I think I think that they could get away with
it because they came up with it, but anyone else
that tried to do it, it was very cringe.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
It was very cringe, but it was very fun and
put things in a time and a place. And I
think we need a more modern equivalent of like, you know,
this was created in the twenty twenties because we know
because we've got a certain letter or number or something
associated with it. Just something that can place the gadgets
(07:43):
in time.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Do you remember now that you say that, do you
remember the Ie smell.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
No, which was like the same thing.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
It jumped on the Eye Train, which was meant to
be this device that I shit you not, which is
a funny phrase considering it was meant to connect a
computer to release it's based on what you were looking at.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
It was like when people were doing five D is
stuff like you'd go like your five D theater and
your chair and move and they pump like smells into
the theater at the same time. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
which which actually we saw a machine for at CEES
this year.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
We did, we did actually, so it all comes full
circle actually, and it's not that far off from when
you did that really disturbing episode about the taste as well.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yes, yeah, I do a lot of disturbing things. One
of my favorite items from the Eye period though, was
the ee muffs. Excuse me, I'm going to need you
to explain that very quickly. It is straight up just
(08:51):
a bluetooth headset. Because it looked like ear muffs. Okay, yeah,
I muffs.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
I can't do that.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
And it just made a skiggle.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Yeah, of course it did.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
But even so I would still argue for that because
at least it's fun, Like, at least I've had a
good time.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
I'll tell you what. I think.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
There are ways to also toe that line if you don't, like,
if you want to be a fun sponge or whatever,
to toe that line between not boring but still professional,
and I would say Apple does a pretty good job
of that. Like it started with its mac ows as
being named after big cats, so you had, you know,
tiger and snow leopard, and then shifted to places in California,
so you've got my Harvey and Bixer and Sonoma and
(09:31):
they're still doing that and I think that's nice.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
It's sleek.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Yeah, I get that we can have some nice naming
conventions for things. I think it would be fun to
be a little bit more descriptive with what we actually
use the tech for in the name. I think back
to uh, it was very very early internet days. Actually,
the Samsung rant do you remember me?
Speaker 3 (09:55):
What?
Speaker 1 (09:55):
No, that's a great I think that probably gets into
the territory of legal going like please, I don't do
anything that can get us into trouble, which I understand,
but tell me everything about this.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
It was a phone that had a slide out full keyboard,
so you're like you turned it on its side and
you slit it out and then you could just like
type your argument and ye send and then slide it
back up again and it would like slam shut.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
It was.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
It would have been really great for like Twitter and
its heyday, I imagined, but I think mostly at this
point it was just used for obscure arguments via text message.
I would love to see Samsung bring back the rant.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Yeah, it was this pre BlackBerry because I feel like,
you know, what's.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
A keyboard question. I'm going I'm going to have a.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Look at the two thousand and eight.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
So around the Blackberries were around before. Oh maybe not.
Let's look this.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Up BlackBerry release date.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Okay, so versus two thousand and eight.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Yeah, Blackberries ninety nine, So.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
So they were maybe vaguely copying up, but bringing in
I guess combining the BlackBerry with the visceral satisfaction that
came with snapping the razor shot exactly, yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Exactly, and in a very kind of sassy era as well.
Two thousand and eight.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Oh yeah, I will say that like, and we can
beat this that because but there is no other word
that I can use here is that two thousand and
eight was like a pracky time for the internet.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
As well as gadgets. Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (11:22):
We did drop an F bomb at the beginning of
one of our recent episodes, which got left in, but
I don't think we can let that state and we're
gonna have to Sam.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
We have to beat that, Sam. But like everyone will
know as well.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
A use I mean, feel free to keep this in like,
but use something that bits that word if we can.
If that's not asking too much, it's like, like everyone
will know.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
It's like the utilization of on a matter paya in gadgets.
You know, let us call things for what we use
them for. I think that would be nice.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
But to top this offree, I do have something for
you that might warm your heart a little bit. Is
that I've heard it's unsubstantiated.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
But I'm going to take this as.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Head cannon yes, because it makes me really happy that apparently,
internally Google Android they are maybe still using the code
names and sings like red Velvet Cake, and that's still
maybe I've heard. I'm choosing to believe it. I think
that's nice.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
I also choose to believe it. I choose to believe
that they're going against the fine overlords and continuing the
dessert theme behind closed doors.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
You've got to have fun.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
I'm going to google desserts that start with Q. Now
they could have done it. Yeah, they could have done it.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Let's see what they would have called it. All right,
well we're saying they would have called it other than quids.
There's like some good like Asian desserts and things like
that that definitely fit the bill.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Oh gosh, no, Google doesn't work anymore. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Shall we cut that bit? Maybe let's okay, say, let's
just start. We'll cut the episode.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Before we brought it up, googling that.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Googling things that start with Q.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
There's Queen of Puddings. Let's just keep that cover.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
And that's it for this episode of Weird Tech. If
you have any weird tech that you would like us
to cover, or if some of your tech is being.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Weird we want to hear about it.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
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