EP 237: TechTime's Best of the Best from CES 2025. Privacy Concerns Surrounding Data Transfer to China • Netflix’s Shift in Storytelling, General Motors’ FTC Settlement. Finally Bizarre Inventions Featured at CES 2025 | Air Date: 1/21 - 1/27/2025 - TechTime with Nathan Mumm

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Now on today's show.

All right.
This week on Tech Time Radio,we'll be exploring some of the
groundbreaking developments thatare set to change the way we
interact with technology.
Ces 2025 has showcased someincredible inventions this year,
and we'll be highlighting thebest of the best, from the
groundbreaking gadgets to themost unusual and quirky items
that caught our eye.

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Now, of course, we're going tohave our best of the best from
CES ces, and then we're gonnahave our crazy and unique items
from ces, like it's kind ofbecoming my favorite subject.
Are you okay there, mike?
You got a little.

Mike Gorday (02:11):
You got a little frog in your throat today yeah
okay, all right if I starthacking it, hack it up along.
I'll uh step out of there?

no, no big deal, all right, okay.
Well, now that's not all.
We also have some new trendsthat are emerging in the
entertainment industry that Mikewill be talking about.
We've got some changes that canimpact how we consume media and
stay entertained.
Plus, we have discussion on aunique educational initiative
that is making waves that willmake you be relevant to more

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about what you think abouttechnology.
And, of course, you can'tforget our standard show items,
which includes Mike'smesmerizing moment, our
technology fail of the week anda possible Nathan nugget.
And, of course, our pick of theday whiskey tasting.
And it seems Mark has gone alittle rogue today.
He decided to bring in threewhiskeys, so he must have
something.
He's going to be here, but Ican't wait to figure out what he

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has going for us.
He just wants to get us drunk.
Is that what?
It is all right, but now it'stime for the latest headlines in
the world of technology.
Here are our top technologystories of the week all right,
this is a non-profit privacyadvocacy group I think we're
going to need to hear about andtalk about in the coming future

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here, but it's called none ofyour your Business, so they're
known as NOYB.
Now they have filed sixcomplaints against TikTok,
aliexpress, shintimu, wechat andZami for unlawfully
transferring European users'data to China and infringing
upon the European Union'sGeneral Data Protection

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Regulation, yep.
Let's go to Corinne Westlandfor more on this story.

Speaker 5 (03:47):
The nonprofit privacy advocacy group None of your
Business has filed complaints atdata protection authorities in
Greece, Italy, Belgium, theNetherlands and Austria on
behalf of users in the samecountries.
In the documents, the nonprofithighlights that China collects
citizen data aggressively andprocesses it without
restrictions, which is againstEuropean Union's data protection

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law.
According to the GDPR, datatransfers outside the European
space should only be allowed asexceptions, and proof that the
data is strictly protected fromunauthorized state or other
access needs to be produced.
Sounds like a sticky situation.
Back to you guys in the studio.

All right, so let's talk about this.
This is all up in the air,right?
So, given that China is anauthoritarian surveillance state
, it is crystal clear that Chinadoesn't offer the same level of
data protection as the EU,right?
That's what's stated in thenyb's data protection complaint.
According to them, the chinesecompanies are violating chapter

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5 of the gdpr, specificallyarticle 44 with the general
transfer principles, uh alsoarticle 46 with lack of
safeguards, and 46 on thefailure to conduct adequate
impact assessment.
So let's talk a little bitabout this.
Is this concerning to us thatthis privacy group has decided

(05:10):
to set petitions in thesecountries, that China is taking
the data and surveillancing thedata?
This kind of goes all the wayback to the United States, also
with the concerns with ByteDanceand everything else that's
going on what is your feelingabout this?

You're the Chinese rah-rah guy.
What do you think?

Well, so Odie and I were having a discussion about
this just before we went on theair, so I am so torn.
Here's my idea If the UnitedStates has my data, do I feel
more secure than if somebodyacross the pond feels for my
data?
And I say I don't feel as safewith the United States and Meta

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and all of their social mediaplatforms having that data
because we know that they dosell it to the government.
Right?
They sell that data that theyit to the government.
Right?
They sell that data that theyget to the united states.

Yeah, everything you do anymore online is being
sold right yeah, it is.

Yeah, whether you're in a car, whether you're
in here, yeah, everything isbeing sold.

It feels like you're positive, especially when
we talk about your favoritething, tiktok.
Yeah, is that?
Uh, you know, chinese, thechinese government, they don't
care, they're just going to takeeverybody's data and that's
okay, because everybody else hasmy data already.

Well, okay.
So what happens when a healthcare company gets compromised
here in the United States?

It's already happened.
Yeah, well, I think every singleone of the major large
corporations that do medicalcare have been compromised, so
we just are okay with that andwe're just like oh, I don't
think anybody's okay with that,but we're in a we're in a place
socially where we cannot benon-technological.
Okay, we have to be online todo our jobs, to do our finances,

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to do almost everything, um,and that's the price that we pay
, and that price is not bigenough for most people that
they're going to stop doing whatthey're doing.
That's the only way.
That's the only way this isgoing to stop is if we get
offline.

That's correct.
I mean you'd have to completelyunplug right Cause, even cause,
but you couldn't.
You couldn't exist offlineworld now because if I go and I
do medical uh information, Ihave to sign up for my charts
right so I got to sign up forthat otherwise they won't do
anything.

Ody (07:31):
Yeah, if I want subscriptions if you want any of
your data, that's right, unlessyou're a ludite and want to go
out in the backwoods and live.

Live a grizzly adams life you're not going to
be able to get away from thisstuff.
So the the it comes down to areyou okay with the us government
having your data, or is it okaythat china is obviously and
they don't really care thatanybody knows that they're
taking your data?

Ody (07:59):
well, I wish it wasn't to that extreme.
I wish you can still exist.
You know, partially online andpartially offline, yeah, you
know, now there's no, there's nograce in the technology.
Uh, like day-to-day life, youreally have to be fully in or
you don't understand it at allyeah, well, it doesn't matter,

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because ai is going to comealong and replace you anyway.

Okay.

All right.
So you know, I'm glad thatthere's an advocacy group that
is out there that's looking atthis data.

I really doubt they have any power here, so I don't
think they do either.

And my always it goes back to is the consumer
ever going to get the money fortheir data?
No, because if the consumerdoesn't get it, and the lawyers
get it, and this governmentauthority gets it, and this
person gets it, then really theconsumers of this data that is
being taken from is the peoplethat don't I, I feel, I feel

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like, I feel like you think thatyou know, in all of human
history the peasant class wasthe one that got all the
benefits from folks.

I guess that's not the case.
That's not the case you'reright.

Okay, all right, let's see if story number two
can brighten our day that that'syour story there, mike um sure
why not?

because you know we , we love when people make
really strange requests.
Okay, so I think everybodyknows, or everybody has heard,
that executives on movies canreally ruin a movie.
Yeah, they can, right, right.

Well, it appears that Sometimes directors, but
most of the time it's the studio.

Yeah, we hear that all the time is, but most of the
time it's the studio or it'syeah, we hear that all the time
is because they have a financialinterest in the film, they get
to make decisions about how thefilm is going to be shown or
whatever.
Well, it appears that Netflixis really going to try and ruin
Netflix.

Ody (09:58):
Ok, because there is not already Respectfully?
I don't know.

I don't know.
I like some of the Netflixstuff still.

So there's this sort of rule in writing.
It's called show, don't tell.

Speaker 8 (10:11):
Are you familiar with this?
Have you heard of this?

Yes, well, netflix executives are telling their
writers not to do that anymore.
They're telling their writersto have their characters give
expository speeches about whatthey're doing, so they can.

Ody (10:26):
Like monologues.

Yes, kind of like monologues, so that people who
aren't paying that muchattention will know what's going
on in the film.

Well, if you're not paying that much attention to
the film, isn't that?

on you.
This is the dumbest thing I'veever heard.
Okay, this is so dumb.

Ody (10:42):
They want people to still be entertained, even when
they're not, because all I'mguilty of this, but I do this
with my comfort.
Shows shows that I've seenhundred times over that I don't
need to be paying attention tothe plot anymore yeah, yeah, so
I want I.

We watch friends all the time so that that's they
don't tell me what's going on

Ody (11:00):
though right, but hi I'm ross, I'm walking in the door
yes, but that's something thatagain, like you just said,
that's been on for ages.
You know what's gonna happennow.
The new stuff that's on netflixwants you to watch.
Other stuff is what I'massuming, okay yeah, they.

They want you, they're they're thinking that
this is going to solve theproblem of you staying with the
comfort show no it's stupid Iagree it's the dumbest.

It's the dumbest all right, tell us more.
Tell us more what?
What's going on here?

well, they have been telling their screenwriters
to have characters announcewhat they're doing so that
viewers who have a program on inthe background can follow along
without having to miss plotstrands.
Okay, uh, there's barely beenany pushback until now.
So several, so severalscreenwriters who've worked for
the streamer are telling theoutlet that a common note from

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the company executives is to dothis.
And, after all, focusing yourtime on a 90-minute movie is
certainly not an option for thetoken Netflix viewer.
An example of it is from theirnumber one hit movie, irish wish
starring lindsey lohan.
I don't know how that becamenumber one, but hey, uh is.

(12:12):
Hey, we spend a day.
We spend a day together.
Lohan tells her lover james,and irish wish.
I admit it was a beautiful day,filled with dramatic vistas and
romantic rain, but that doesn'tgive me the right to question
my life choices.
Tomorrow I'm marrying paul.
Fine, he responds, that will bethe last you see of me, because
after this job is over, I'mgoing off to bolivia to

(12:33):
photograph an endangered treelizard.
Okay, you, you, do you notunderstand how stupid that is?
That sounds?

Ody (12:41):
like poor writing.
It is horrible poor writing.
It is why that movie did sowell.
It was probably generated by AI.

Yeah, no, ai would not have generated it that bad.
They would not have said I'mgoing over here and I'm going to
photograph an endangered treelizard Maybe.
Maybe, Grok maybe do that, Idon't know.

Stop defending AI.

Ody (13:06):
With that being said, what?

that's just what's happening right so there is no,
the I you've written.
You've written screenplays I Ino, I've not written.
I don't write screenplays, butI, I am a writer.
I've written books and storiesand articles and things like
that, so, so I've been writingand this is one of the most.

(13:28):
This is one of the stupidestthings I've ever heard of.

Alright, so you're not a big fan of Netflix's.
No this is dumb.

It's stupid.

Okay, there you go, I get you.
Let's go to story number three.
This is great.
Gm has recently settled withthe FTC over allegations that it
misled drivers by collectingand sharing their personal data
without disclosure.
Now we've talked about thisongoing for the last probably
two and a half years, so this isnot something new to our
listeners.
No, we've talked about OnStar.

(13:59):
Yep subsidiary gatheredextensive driver data such as
speed, sharp turns, hard brakingand seat belt usage, and shared
this with consumer reportingagencies.
Now the Texas Attorney General'slawsuit has claimed that GM
pressured drivers into enrollingonto OnStar Smart Driver by
stating that it has some safetyfeatures that would be disabled

(14:21):
otherwise.
However, drivers were notinformed that their data would
be collected and sold toinsurers, which included a
national rise on driver'sinsurance.
So again, I go back to thewhole thing.
Here it's how is this going tofinancially be paid back to the
poor people that signed up?
Because OnStar is not free, it'san additional paid service.

(14:42):
They sold their information outthere and only now, under
pressure, is GM saying thatthey're going to take it away,
and they say that they're goingto work to educate users more on
their vehicles.
Well, here's the problem is, ifyou sign this privacy agreement
to use OnStar, to use any ofthese GM vehicles that they have

(15:02):
the service into.
Whether you opt in or opt out,they're still tracking your data
.
And the next thing is is someof these new contracts?
If you want to buy a gm car, ifyou don't sign that contract,
mike, guess what, you can'tpurchase a new vehicle so yes, I
know.

So I used to pressure people into getting on
star there you go.
All right, there you go and youwill be pressured to get on.
Star, because that's part ofthe salesman's job is to get you
on to, and you because you geta free trial.

Yeah and then, if you stay on, do you get a
residual as a salesperson if yousell it that way, not on star-
but you know that's part of yourcommission.

that's part of your commission is is getting all
these upsells on things.
All right, okay.

All right, let's go to story number four.

Ody (15:46):
So story number four is about K.
College is now teachingstudents how to talk on the
phone as a class as a class Okay.
So one college in the UnitedKingdom is offering a course to
help students get over theirphone fears.
According to the BBC,Nottingham college is offering
training sessions designed tohelp pupils gain some confidence

(16:08):
when yapping into the phone.

Marc Gregoire (16:10):
All right.

Ody (16:11):
Some of these students may even have a phobia of talking on
the phone, which even has aname telephobia.

Okay.

Ody (16:19):
They spoke with a 17-year-old student named Elvie
who says the only people I'llcall on the phone are my mom or
dad, but anyone else I don'twant them to call me because it
feels quite formal and that'snot something I'm used to.
It's unknown to our generation.
We've grown up texting eachother and, as somebody who grew

(16:40):
up in this generation, Okay,that's why you have this story
here.

Do you feel comfortable talking on the phone
?

Ody (16:47):
Yes and no, it depends.
I will say what I preferbecause my okay.
So here's the best relation Ican have with this.
My sister suffers from socialanxiety.
She hates calling on the phonebecause of the unpredictability
of it, and that's also why Ihate talking on the phone when
it's with someone who I'mcomfortable with, aka my mom and

(17:09):
dad or my siblings, I can be onthe phone for hours because
there's no, what do you callthat?
There's no sense of.
Oh, I really need to have themost perfect response with them.
I could just blab and blab forhours, versus if I'm on the
phone with the doctor.
That stresses me out, becauseit's often you know for my own

(17:29):
personality I feel bad forasking for them to further
explain something, or somethingcompletely slips my mind and I
don't have the confidence tothen say, oh hey, let's cut back
to that real quick.
When is my appointment again?
What do I need to bring?
So I've often hung up on thephone call.
Let's cut back to that realquick.
When is my appointment again?
What do I need to bring?
Da, da, da, da, da da.
So I've often hung up on thephone call after I spent like an

(17:50):
hour waiting trying to get anappointment, trying to speak to
an actual human representative,to then get off the phone and be
like darn.
I forgot some key points that Ireally wanted to bring up,
hence da, da da.

That's so interesting.
That's a really good example ofsocial evolution and how we are
changed.
Our behavior is changed by theenvironment in which we live in.
I hate getting on the phonebecause I can't talk to a human
being.

Ody (18:22):
Yes, that is another thing that I hate A human being.
I can talk.

talk to a human being yes, that is another thing
that I hate A human being.
I can talk much quicker too.
I can get things taken care of,and I grew up with the
telephone stretched 20-foot cordinto the subroom and talking to
the girls and talking to mybuddies and everything on the
phone.
That was our only communicationbecause we didn't have
computers, so it's easier.
Texting for me is much moredifficult, and the voice to text

(18:48):
I don't ever check it, so I getwords, I get texts that are
just crazy words.

Well you can't talk anyway, so that's probably a
problem.

Ody (18:57):
I identify as a millennial because I'm on the cusp of the
end of the millennials.
I remember when minutes were athing.
I still remember that and Ialso had a answering machine at
home.
I remember having a home phone.
That's actually becoming athing again.
I remember all that and I willsay I'm probably the last one to

(19:17):
remember having to tell myfriends like, yeah, call my home
phone, leave a message, then myparents will hear it, and then
da-da-da-da.
So I still remember phoneetiquette and all that.
But my sister who grew up moreheavily on, who was only two
years younger than me, shedidn't really have the home
phone experience.
Yes, it was still a thing, butit wasn't that big of a thing

(19:40):
for her because, you know, flipphones were more accessible and
more of the norm for kids herage at that time so let's go
back to the story.

Would you actually attend a class in?

Ody (19:49):
college?
No, because I don't need it,but I can definitely see my
sister and other people do it.
Yeah, and someone like myyounger brother who was 15, I
could definitely see him doingthat all right, this is a
college level this is a collegelevel class I I kind of feel a
little old.

No, I don't.
You should know how to talk.

I don't know that we should be relying on colleges
and universities to teach ourchildren how to talk on a phone.

Ody (20:18):
I mean, is that really a bizarre thing though?
Because, honestly, there is alot of kids that graduate high
school, that don't have thefoundational skills for the real
world.

If we need to have, he will not talk on the phone.

No matter what he does, he will not talk on the
phone Individual I work with.

I won't say his name.
I don't want to call his nameout, if, but if it needs to be
some sort of educational track,then community colleges have
these kind of weird littleclasses that you can take to do
stuff that might be an optionbut, maybe it should be

(20:55):
addressed sooner, maybe insecondary edge or something like
that.

Ody (20:59):
But the issue again, it's not used day to day.
But the issue again, it's notused day to day Like I know,
culturally.
For me it's something whereevery you know I grew up
watching my mom call all hersiblings and be like, oh, this
is what happened this week.
So I saw that and I witnessedthat, and that's what I do with
my sister, even though that welive together.

Well, the conflict is not your personal use of the
phone call, but when you getinto the career world.
The phone is still acornerstone of what we do.

Ody (21:34):
Not as much, though.
Like think about it, you saidit yourself you spend your time
on customer service hoping forthat human interaction.
Why?
Because it's usually just someAI bot that is going through the
fake, typing emotions on thebackground.

That's your experience as a customer but
when you're sitting at a deskdoing your job, you're more than
likely going to have a phonesitting there, unless you're in
the tech world, I don't evenknow, if that's yeah, you know a
lot of offices

Speaker 2 (22:02):
now don know.
They use Discord and Slack allthe time nowadays to communicate
with each other.

But I have a phone that I have to use, but then
again.

Ody (22:14):
I'm in the social services arena, but don't you usually
send your correspondence throughemail?

What.

Ody (22:18):
Don't you usually send your primary correspondence through
email?

Yeah, I do.
Young kids don't, though theydo it in text.
I send my kids both emails.
They never, ever look at theemails.
Primary correspondence throughemail yeah, I do, but young kids
don't they do.
They do it in text.
I I send my kids both emails.
They never, ever look at theemails, but if I text them, then
they'll respond.

Ody (22:29):
Oh yeah, instantaneous.
Yeah, but you can't, you can't.

You can't do sales with an email, you can't do
sales with text, so you have touse the phone.
A lot of industries stillrequire a voice-to-voice sort of
situation.
So this is why this is anecessary piece is that the
evolution here is that, socially, you're doing this, you're

(23:00):
learning this technology from apersonal use aspect, but then
when you get it, and this is thesame- for other aspects, this
is Mike's most rising moment.

Yeah, I guess this is the same for other aspects.

This is Mike's most rising moment.
Yeah, I guess this is the sameaspect.
This is the same aspect as manythings that are affecting the
work world.
You, know, like dependabilityand not showing up when you just
don't want to.

Ody (23:15):
That's a big thing in my generation.
Yeah, you just call out.
Yeah, the idea that youactually have to work.
They don't even call out.

They just don't show up.

Yeah, it's going to show up, all right.
Well, we can't solve all of theworld's problems today.
We'll continue to do that, butI just did Okay, there you go.

That is our top, all the technology.

That is our top technology stories of the week.
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So we'll see.
Okay, with our first whiskeytasting completed, or three,
let's move on to our featuresegment.
Today we have the best of thebest from CES.
Let's start our next segment.

Speaker 1 (27:16):
Welcome to the best of the best for CES 2025,
presented by Tech Time Radiowith Nathan Mumm.

All right, here we go.
We're going to start with thebest new laptop.
Imagine a laptop screen thatcan expand on command.
This is amazing.
The portable display is theThinkPad Plus Gen 6 that offers
a truly unique solution With thetouch of a button, the world's
first rollable laptop OLEDdisplay grows from 14 inches to

(27:44):
16.77 inches I saw this onfallon.
Yeah, pretty cool you saw thison fallon.
Yeah, yeah, this is how does itgrow?

did they make jokes about it?

because I certainly got some jokes.
So you know it laptop it growsup yes, yes, I, yeah, I have a
picture of this funny it doeslook funny, but it also looks
really cool.

It's really cool.
So the idea of this is let'ssay, you have a lengthy document
, a PDF.
Now, all of a sudden, insteadof you have to scroll and scroll
, you actually have the screenscroll up.

So your computer gets excited about PDFs, doesn't
?

it.
Oh wow, how do you make it growWell?

you hit a button on it and it expands Just touch it
.

Ody (28:23):
You got to turn it on, mark , thank you, odie.

All right, it includes an Intel Core Ultra
processor with Wi-Fi 7networking.
Now the problem is thismultitasking laptop comes with a
pretty premium price tag ofalmost $3,500.
Wait until next year, it'll belower.
It'll be lower, but this isactually kind of cool.
And you know what, wait tillnext year.
It'll be lower, it'll be lower,but this is actually kind of a

(28:47):
cool.
And you know what?
I think Lenovo has an idea onthis, because this first model
goes up.
I can actually see them havingit grow and having it expand so
that you actually get largerscreens on you guys.
Okay, all right.

All right, I'm sorry, it was just there.
It was right there.

The Lenovo Legend GS.
Now, we actually talked aboutthis before it actually happened
.
It's a gaming handheld thatwe've been anticipating, you've
been anticipating Well at thefirst party to time that they've
had a third party that can nowrun the Steam OS, the same
operating system that you get onthe steam deck.

(29:24):
And if you don't want that, onthis little handheld which looks
exactly like a steam deck, youcan actually get a unit with
windows 11, with microsoft's os,the legion gs boots uh, unibody
design, we're going thedetachable controllers, it's all
in one, just like the currentsteam deck price is 599 for the

(29:46):
windows 11 version and 499 forthe steam os version.
How much is a steam deck?
Well, steam decks.
Right now is 329 399 steam deck.
That's the steam decks, maybewell, the same thing get.
Let's get a steam well, the ideaof this is that you now have a
d-pad and the steam deck doesn'thave a d-pad it has a

(30:07):
controller, so you know yeahmike, it's all about being
innovative for 2025.
It's all about buttons that youcan, that's right.
That's right.
Well, speaking about buttons,let's talk about a robot vacuum.
Now this was going to be on myweird area, but then actually I
did more and more research andso I moved it on to kind of like
the best.
So this is called RoborockSARS-Z70.

(30:28):
It's the robot vacuum thatactually can detect objects like
socks and shoes in their path,navigate to them and the robot
vacuum actually picks them up.
That's right.
It's equipped with aclaw-mounted arm at the end of
the robotic unit.
It can actually go and pick upand move your laundry into
obstacles that they findavailable for you.

(30:49):
Can they put them?

in a pile somewhere .

Yeah, so you can have a.
You can have an area that therobotic arm will go and pick up
your socks, your shoes, drop itoff into a pile and it still
does an excellent job ofcleaning the floor and it
includes mop heads that are kindof the new item with this,
where they can put water into itand it actually can clean up
and mop your floor at the sametime are we gonna see this in

(31:12):
the mom home soon?
Oh boy this.

So I was looking at this as a weird event and then
I, the more and more I thoughtabout it, these are all things
that we're never gonna see.
Well, I don't know I don't know.

I don't know, I actually like that, I actually
like the.
Yeah, so that's why it movedfrom the crazy into my.

Wasn't there something that we did something
with laundry, where somethingmoved your laundry around?

We did it from the UK.
That was a deal where you wouldactually take the laundry from
the washing machine and move itinto the drying unit.

So is the claw always out or just the claw?

always out, it retracts.

It grows.

Ody (31:48):
Have you seen Star Wars Rebels.

Yes, I have.

Ody (31:51):
This would be chopper.
I'm stoked for this.

If you get this.

Ody (31:55):
I will be over all the time .

Is it going to have a bad attitude about stuff?

Ody (31:58):
No.

That would really make it chopper.

Listen to this next company.
Singapore startup Flint hasdeveloped a flexible,
rechargeable paper battery thatcan be as small as a coin and
embedded in a smartwatch strap.
It also uses cellulose for iontransferring, making it
environment friendly, and,according to the co-founder,
carlo Charles, their supplychain is abundant, as they don't

(32:24):
require a rare or toxicmaterial.
The batters are biodegradablewithin six weeks.
You can even compose feed yourplants.
Flint is currently focused on asmaller consumer, electronics,
but sees potential for scalingup to smartphones and larger
applications like electric carsand planes.
The thin design allows layeringjust like a paper.

(32:44):
If you get five or six piecesof paper on top of each other,
without the fire hazards oflithium ion, oh okay.
So what's the supply chain?
The supply chain is paper.
And where does paper come?

from Trees, and where do we have abundant trees
that are being deforested allover the place?
Oh, okay, well, hang on.

Okay, all right.
Here's another one of the bestproducts from CES.
It's called the HMD Off Grid.
Now, if you own a smartphonelike an iPhone 16 or a Google
Pixel 9, you might already haveaccess to satellite
communications.
If you're in an emergency,think of a climber, a hiker, the
jogger that's out in remoteareas.

Looking around this room, I can't not picture
that.
I cannot picture that Well.

I'm out in the middle of nowhere every day,
can't you tell?

Okay, but for most of us, this feature has been
absent on our devices, leavingus vulnerable if reception goes
down.
Actually, leaving us vulnerableif reception goes down.
Actually, if you just go acrossthe mountains in Washington
State, your reception goes down.

So this would help you with that.
If you go to a spot in myapartment, it goes down it goes
down All right.

Well, hmd's off-grid accessory addresses
this gap.
With a $200 dongle, you cansend texts and reach emergency
servers from any iPhone orAndroid device.
However, there's a subscriptionfor monthly service that is
required, costing or Androiddevice.
However, there's a subscriptionfor monthly service that is
required, costing at $80 peryear.
But you can actually do it permonth type of deals.
You don't have to pay the whole$80, but that's the cheaper way

(34:04):
to do it.
So, for 80 bucks, if you're ahiker, a kayaker, jogger,
somebody that is out into thearea, this is a replacement for
that satellite phone that someof these places used to carry
around.
Now you get access to asatellite if you need an
emergency call to use theirservice.
I like this.
Now iPhone 16 and the newAndroid devices are kind of

(34:25):
being built into this andthey're actually leasing space
in satellites to do this.
So it may be a great featurefor the next four or five years
and it may just become allincorporating into the new
product designs.
But there we go.
What would you have to saythere?

Ody (34:39):
od, you're excited about that uh, my dad is an avid hiker
slash camper.
This would be nice.
Yeah, I'm trying to think ofhow it would compete with the
already on the market items,though so like I think it's
called garmin yeah, garmin has aremote device that's available
there too.

uh, the thing is, it's the dongle, and so the
dongle you just plug into yourphone.

Ody (35:00):
See, that would be nicer instead of having the whole.
You have to connect with it,you have to do Bluetooth to it
so it makes it easier.

You just plug it in , boom, it's ready to go.
So I see that functionality andjust being simple to use Well
worth it than me trying toconnect to this device and then
having it available.

Ody (35:16):
Yes, I will say I haven't been able.
Every time my dad has sent thatlike this is where we are text.
It's a whole thing for me totry to figure out where he is
there you go.

I think this is valuable, but once again, I
think it's a transition periodbefore these actually get built
in.

Yeah, and we did say that we think the
satellite's going to be kind ofthe satellite phone with Musk
and all of his Starlink.

What's the next story?

All right.
The Gaming Pixel Light A lightbright for the 21st century,
unveiled at CES 2025,.
The Goovee Gaming Pixel Lightis a panel that showcases pixel
art and built-in video gamerelated content.
It's the first to support text.
To light, ai generated lightingeffects letting you type what

(35:58):
you want on the Goofy app andthen appears on the board so you
can upload animated GIFs orimages.
For a retro touch, this is theperfect wall mounted or tabletop
display.

So it's like a fancy picture frame.

Well no, it's kind of like a stock ticker.

It's like a little stock banner that you can sit at
your desk and program.

You can see information for weather, sports
schedules, stock quotes, a bunchof different stuff.
So that's okay.

Okay, I don't know why this.
Oh wait, this was Nathan's list.
That's why.

That's why that's why that's why, that's why,
that's why that's why, nevermind you, probably shouldn't
open up your list with a growingscreen.
Okay.
The ExoMotion, the world's mostadvanced wearable robotic
exoskeleton, is designed toassist patients with mobility
issues, including spinal cordinjuries, stroke or other

(36:50):
neurological conditions.
Created by the Vancouver-basedHuman InMotion Robots Inc, this
is a lower-limb device that aidsin standing and walking through
self balancing and hands-freefunctionality, is intended to
use and rehab centers andhospitals to reduce the
cognitive load and physicalstrain on therapists.
X motions received healthCanada approval and is currently

(37:10):
in clinical trials for FDAapproval in the United States.

See, that's what you should have started with.
That's a good one.
That, that's a nice.
It's a good one, that's a nice.

It's a great one, but until you got to the middle
of it, I thought it was goingto be like one of those disco
robots.

Yeah, I stayed off robots because I know how much
Mike likes robots.
At CES there's a whole bunch ofthem, I was waiting for it to
devolve further.

It'd be interesting to talk more with
James, the best of the bestJames might know about this.

I probably would.
Now we're going to go justbriefly into Mike's mesmerizing
moment to see what Mike liked.
Welcome to Mike's mesmerizingmoment.
What does Mike have to saytoday?
All right, mike, which of theseitems did?

you like the best.

This is well, you already went you already talked.
You had your whole thing in themain show.
If you're really mesmerizingmoment, yeah okay, all right.

So I think the best one on this list is the x
motion stuff xo motion.
Um, although for pure uh,comedic resolve, the very first
one was probably the best thelaptop yeah, that's okay.
All right, there you go buteverything else, you know,
that's I'm not a, you know, Idon't have a steam deck I.

(38:31):
I don't hike your camp anymore,and when I did, I didn't I.
I went to get away from all theelectronic stuff.
So okay, all right well.

Thank you, mike, for that inspirational.
I need a paper battery.
The paper battery is kind ofcool.
I like the paper battery that'san.

That's an interesting one.
I, I, but you know, I'mthinking in terms of, uh, where
they're getting their, wherethey're getting their paper and
how much they're yeah, if itworks, I would think it doesn't
mean you cut down trees.

I'm sure it could be part of the recycle stuff.

Let's hope so, because you know, that's just
one of those things that we getto learn about after all these
wonderful innovations, you knowlike lithium mining became a
huge problem after lithiumbatteries.

All right.
Well, we're going to head outhere to a commercial break now.
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The segment we've been waiting all week for Mark's
Whiskey Mumble.

All right, gentlemen, january 21st.
What are we celebrating today?

Well, we have three Jim Beans here.

Jack Daniels, buddy , is it a Jack Daniels?
Oh sorry, jack Daniels, sorry.

Ody (42:51):
Jack Daniels Is it a Jack Daniels you want to?

give them a hint, since they're not close.
What's that?

Ody (42:55):
You gift.
Okay, so part of this item,it's a two-parter.

Okay.

Ody (42:59):
You gifted me one of them for Christmas this year, ooh.

Good hint.

Ody (43:04):
Okay, that's part of it.

Okay, it's National Sock Day.

Ody (43:08):
No.

It's National.
Pick Up your Socks With a RobotArm Day.

Ody (43:11):
No, Think of your.
What's your favorite?

favorite food Lasagna.

Ody (43:15):
Okay, what's on lasagna?

Cheese Socks.
There we go, cheese socks.

Ody (43:20):
Cheese socks.

What is that we?

Ody (43:22):
got to it.
I didn't think we would.
That's pretty good.

Cheesy sock day.
Okay, cheesy sock day.
So this day that defines yourpersonal taste and style.

I take you in just to let you know.
If we're doing charades oranything like that, I take you
as my partner.
That was a good way.

It's all about loving and honoring cheesy sock
patterns and how adorable theylook on you.
Yes, your love for cheesy socksis shared by thousands of
people across the world, evenmyself, and now is the time that
you can go out flaunting yourfavorite pair and I wore one of
my favorite pairs today.

Ody (43:53):
I wish I would Really.

I don't understand that logic.
I got my dad's socks forChristmas.

I'm going to wash them every day.

So my dad is Wear them every day.
My dad moved to Texas and he'sa big fan of President-elect
Donald Trump and there werethese socks that were on sale
and it actually has his hair, soyou actually put on.
That's actually kind of funny.
It was kind of funny.
So you put on the socks andthey have this huge thing of
this hair come over left andright, but it moves left or

(44:19):
right, so that's a little creepyactually, is it?

Well, it's not as creepy as some of our seats,
Although if I could, you know,do it the right way, I could
sweep my floor and not worryabout the robot.

Every Tuesday, if you see me, I'll probably be
wearing my taco socks.
Okay, yeah, and today I'mwearing my octopuses because, uh
, since we're drinking whiskey.
I need more arms to grab, youknow, more glasses.

Okay, you know I'd love to have eight arms and
eight different whiskeys okay, Iknow where you can get a laptop
that has a growing screen mikewalks at lenovo, he okay all
right, all right.

Well, in recent years, novelty sock companies
have created Jack Daniel themesocks too.
Perfect for whiskey lovers whowant to express their passion
for the iconic brand.
These socks often feature theclassic Jack Daniel's old number
seven logo, barrels and whiskeyglasses.
Pairing these with the cheesytheme socks could be a playful
nod to enjoying whiskey with achocotree board.

A common pairing that often includes Is that a
chocotery?

Chocotery is the English pronunciation oh, yes,
okay, way to go.
So we have three picks for ourwhiskey today.
Yes, now, they're all the samebourbon.
They're all the Jack Danielssingle barrel proof rye at
barrel strength.
Since they're single barrels,they're all from different
barrels.
Yes, so we have.

(45:42):
One of them is from the BourbonHounds.
Now, that's one of the whiskeygroups I'm part of.
Okay, I find this one a littlehot, masking the flavors.
Is that my red dot one?
I'm not telling you.
Okay, now, a dash of water doeshelp this one tremendously
bring out the flavors.
Okay, number two and three arefrom another bourbon group I'm

(46:04):
part of, and it's there calledDr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
Oh, now, dr Jekyll, this is myfavorite.
I find it the most balanced andflavorful.
Mr Hyde is a favorite of thatwhiskey group because it's very
spicy and bold, and I'mwondering which one Nathan and
Mike are going to choose.

Okay, so you've got Jackal and Hyde.
So what I've learned from thisis you're in two different
whiskey groups.
Yeah let's just say two.
Let's just say two.

He probably is a closet, maybe eight group
whiskey I think so Okay Allright.
Well, how many groups?

So thank you, Nathan.

How does this pair All right Whiskey and technology
are a great pairing, just likepopcorn in the movie theater.

It's a perfect combination.

Now let's go on to the movie of life in the form of
the craziest things at CES andnow for the strange, bizarre and
all-out crazy inventions fromCES 2025, presented by Tech Time
Radio with Nathan.
Mumm.
Well, now that we've finishedthe best of the best from CES
for Tech Time with Nathan Mumm,now we're on to things that will

(47:12):
make you go mmm, with theunique, crazy and weird items
from CES.
Now let's talk about the firstone.
It's called the Karen electricsalt spoon.

Oh, I'm curious about this one Weird yes.

A little big for sure.
But does it work?
You bet.
Instead of consuming flavorlessfood because everybody's on a
low sodium diet, now you canhave your tastes simulated salt
with the Kirin Smart Spoon,which sends an electric current
through the utensil to yourtongue which tricks the taste
buds into thinking your food issaltier than it is.

(47:46):
The handle of the spoon housesthe product's power and settings
with four different saltiestoptions.
The idea is that we'll thinkthat we had salt, but it's not
for those on a healthier dietyeah, you can get the same thing
by licking a nine volt beforeyou put food in your mouth, but
don't expect this japaneseproduct to ride to the us

(48:08):
anytime soon.
education software giant ishaving issues with this that
they're taking a look at to seeif they can actually have this
uh in available for the UnitedStates sooner than later.

All right, I would have been interested in
this before the salt type ofdeal.

I you know what.
It's a big.
It's a big spoon.
I get the whole idea thatyou're trying to save on sodium.
I don't know if I'm going to beokay with me having an electric
simulation to my tongue to getthat taken care of.

But you know, I had an adrenal gland issue so I
could.
I had to cut out salt becauseit was it's not.
It's not good to process ituntil my adrenal gland was
pulled out, and so a lot ofstuff was was tough without salt
okay, all right, all right,number two.

But you could lick a penny and get the same.
Get the same results, I guessall right, the new Tribble.

No CS event is complete without an adorable
robot stealing our hearts.
This year, the charmer is theYaka Marima, a fluff ball of
cuteness.
Its main functions are lookingcute and engaging.

What?
Yeah, it's Yuki Yuki, yuki.
You know what?

It's not going to make a big difference, because
this is what it does.
It engages with you in eyecontent.
It'll occasionally make a coyglance at you to keep you
intrigued.
The expected cost is 80 forthis to essentially be in your
purse or case that just movesleft and right.

This is so if you buy one, does it turn into
hundreds?
It does not do why do they callit the?

trail.
Well, that's what they'retrying to say.
It's kind of in, in my opinion,a waste of time.

I don't need to have this look like it's a
fluffy thing, a little fluffything that just sits around and
stares.

Yes, yes, that's all it does I that's a cat.
Well, there's many differentthings that you can have for
that, but this is a.

Ody (49:59):
What's it called the U-Kai?
What the U-Kai?

Mirarumi Tribble Mirarumi.
All right, so you get to take alook at it.

Ody (50:06):
I would not pay 80 bucks for this Move on.

Okay, the EcoFlow Power Hat.

Do you want to be able to charge my phone with my
hat?
Well then, we have the hat foryou.

The EcoFlow Power Hat includes an embedded set of
silicon solar cells and a pairof charging ports.
It looks dorky, for sure, butit's also pretty dang useful.
It costs $129 and it'savailable right now.
So this hat, this is a hat withplug-ins, this is a hat with
plug-ins, so you have cablesthat come down to your phone.
Well, you just plug it in, itgoes into your hat so that you

(50:44):
have your devices right next toyour brain as you're walking
around in this hat.

But is it actually a plug-in or is it a
wireless charging?
We just slide it in the hat?
No, you have to plug it in.

I don't know, All right so here we go.
We have Odie decided.

That's a little creepy looking.

Ody (50:58):
Isn't that creepy?

That's 80 bucks, All right.

Ody (51:01):
Odie, I think that's so cute.

Oh well, okay.

Ody (51:03):
I would buy it, okay, which you know 80 bucks on.

That Just sits in your purse and it goes back.

Speaker 2 (51:09):
It just sits there and just stares at you.

Ody (51:12):
It just stares stuffed animal for $7 and put it on my
purse and do that the same thing.
What are you talking about?
Maybe that's what you could getme for Christmas next year.

Okay, that's the same thing those little robots
used to do, oh my god.
Furbies, furbies, yeah.

No, Furby actually had an interaction though.
Oh yeah, I know because, no, itjust stares at you, that's it.

Ody (51:31):
So, what's robotic about it .

Well, the head will move left and right.
The head moves, get me a Furby.
You're sitting there andsuddenly it turns its head
around three times.

Here you go, get ready for this item here, odie.
The next one we have the StarTrek tricorder.
It's called the Mecha SystemComet.
It's a handheld.
The Mecha M-E-C-H-A SystemComet.
It's a handheld computer ofyour dreams.
It's compact, modular, linuxbased device, is perfect for the
hobbyist, and it features a 1.8gigahertz arm, 64 quad core

(52:06):
processor, 32 gigabytes ofstorage and four gigabytes of
Ram.
Everything is expandable andcustomizable.
A magnetic snap interfaceallows the users to clip on
various control panels to see it.
The comment will soon beavailable on Kickstarter.
What am I going to do?
Snap interface Allows users toclip on various control panels
to see if the comet will soon beavailable on Kickstarter.

What am I going to do on this thing?

$160.
It looks like a tricorder fromStar Trek.

A tricorder in Star Trek is something that you use
to figure out what's going onaround you, right?

Yes, it's a mini computer.
It's a mini computer built onthe.
Is it going to take sensorreadings of my?

space and be like telling me.

All it does is it looks like a tricolour.

There's a Lenovo growing.

You like that?
All right, here we go.
Here's the last that thing overthere staring at me.
Here's the last of the weirds.
Do you love your plants?
Yes, and wish you couldcommunicate with them.

Oh my god Enter.

Peddle from the makers of Bird Buddy.
We actually had them on heretwo years ago, the Bird Buddy
was the craziest thing, it'sPeddle the makers of Bird Buddy.
Peddle is a camera with aflexible stem you can place in
your yard to monitor your plantsand flowers.
In 2025 style, it's AI-poweredto identify potential hazards
like insects and bees.

(53:14):
Plus, you can chat with yourflowers via the Bird Buddies
chat bot to learn about yourflowers day.

Oh, my God.

There you go Nice .
All right, the petal Cody'sdoing that one.

Is doing the petal.
I don't think, there you go,right there, that's it, right
there, yeah.

Ody (53:34):
I would, yeah, get it for my sister.

Maybe she could take care of her plants Well the
question is that you can talkto your plants, but does your
plants talk to you?

Ody (53:44):
You know what I'd like to think that they do.

I know you would Hopefully it doesn't have the
grok AI interface.

Alright, grass screams when you cut it.

Alright, that ends our weird cs items this is your
nugget of the week all right.
Here's my nugget.
Sometimes they're rants,sometimes they're educational.
This one is kind of in between.
At&t has decided to end its 5ginternet air service in new york
.
Due to the new affordablebroadband act, which went into
effect on wednesday, existingusers can now continue to use

(54:18):
the service for 45 days withoutcharges, allowing time to find
alternative providers.
The Affordable Broadband Actrequired providers with over
20,000 customers to haveaffordable plans for low-income
households.
These plans must offer speedsof 25 megabits per second for
$15 per month and 200 megabitsfor $20 per month.

(54:39):
Rather than comply, at&t haschosen to halt its service,
citing uneconomical conditionsfor investment and expansion.

Yeah, that means, that means the cost of money to
do that.

I just left them.

That's the decision follows the discontinuation of
the federal affordableconnectivity program last year.
I'm sure more cities will stopthis service from AT&T in their
process of doing that.
So AT&T must be hurting formoney, is what I can say,
because there's something aboutproviding internet services at a

(55:16):
low level Internet service,once you have a pipe and you get
a fiber line that's going intoit and you distribute the stuff,
there is no additional cost.
There's switching and differentitems to that.
But it's like water coming outof a hose.
If I'm deciding to part half ofthe water to the left side of
the hose or the right side ofthe hose, if it goes to the left
side I still have the sameamount of water I If it goes to
the left side, I still have thesame amount of water.
I'm not costing me anythingmore to get the water that comes

(55:38):
in there.

It's just like all the low phone providers can
do it.

Like Mint, Mobile does it for inexpensive and they
just piggyback off people.
Well, I guess you would have toget Ryan Reynolds to buy a.
No, Ryan.

Reynolds.
Clearly, ryan Reynolds is theirspokesperson, right, but
there's just somebody thatunderstood how to do ones and
zero numbers and put it togetherand say, hey, we can still make
money if you do it this way,all right.
Now let's move to our pick ofthe day whiskey tasting and now
our pick of the day for ourwhiskey tastings.

Let's see what bubbles to the top all right,
gentlemen, we're drinking jackdaniel's single barrel barrel
proof rye.
We have three different singlebarrels here from brown foreman.
They they're all ryes at leastfour years old.
They range from $128 to $132proof and $60 per bottle,
roughly when you find it.
What color is your?

favorite.
My palette is the red.
I think it's a little bitspicier.
I think this is the spicy one.

Which one was your favorite?

I like the green one.

Alright, so red is my favorite, mr Hyde.
And yours was green.
That was Dr Jekyll.

Oh, how about that so?

you're Dr Jekyll and we're Mr Hyde.
Any non-drinkable ones.

I did not like the green myself at all.

Yellow was just kind of eh, I don't think it was
non-drinkable, it was just thepreferred profile.
Was the green?
They all taste.
At the end of the day, theytasted the same.

I love the Dr Jekyll and Mr I, so your two are
my two favorites.
I like the one a little bitbetter, but depending on my mood
.
But the yellow one, which isthe Bourbon Hounds one, it's
good, but not quite to the samelevel.

It wasn't that.

That's right.

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