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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Is Michael garfil of Michael Garfield. Michael Garfield's joining in
the high Tech Texan.
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Michael Garfield is here with a high Tech Texans.
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It was to make life easier, some new technology, and.
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Michael Garfield has something you might like. Michael Garfield is
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your high tech Texan. Michael Garfield.
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Let's do it.
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Let's get it on, my friends, because the greatest month
of the year is here.
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I'm an October fan.
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First show in October of twenty twenty five.
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It is all my host holiday season.
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Maybe, Oh, we have so much to talk about. Yes,
Michael Garfield is the name. No matter how you're listening
Terrestray in Dallas and Houston, San Antonio.
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Appreciate it, my friends.
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are listening plausibly live, I will give you a phone
number because this is what radio is.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
You know, It's not like it's a podcast. I can
talk to you.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
I can actually make you famous, make your voice sound
sex eg just like mine three four six twenty nine
Texan three four six two nine t e x A N.
There is my boys, There is Will, there is Calum,
and they are on the other side of the glass.
Maybe if they're not sleeping, they will pick up the phone.
If for some reason it goes to voice manl just
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leave me a message and we have the right to
play your voice on air and maybe I can answer
some questions.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Topics today, Well, we got a number of them.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Number one, Google Voice Assistant is being laid to rest
Ah sitting Shiva for that. That's I'm a Google fan.
But that voice assistant that you may hear through your
nests and everything like that, it's pretty much Ova, not
just the voice. Maybe they're gonna hire my voice to
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actually talk to you. I'll tell you about that. Xbox
lots of news coming out of Microsoft and gaming and handheld,
certainly because of the holiday season. Xbox always been one
of my family's favorites.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Obviously.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
You know my kids, three boys growing up, We've had
the Microsoft Xbox, We've had the Sony PlayStation. We've also
had all the Nintendo's Xbox raising some prices over here. Xbox,
you've heard of the Xbox three sixty. You know the
actual console that you know goes by your TV. Well,
it's we're gonna still call it the Xbox three sixty.
As in a subscription for a year to subscribe to
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all the games, It's gonna be three hundred and sixty dollars.
They will talk about that. Also excited. This coming week,
I am hopping up to New York City.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Get a rope.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
I'm going to be at a press conference Microsoft and Asus,
the computer company, They are debuting their new handheld gaming unit,
the ally X.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
I will give you play by play.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I'll be shooting some of that, not only for my
social media, but also some of for TV stuff. Guess
who's getting in bed together? PayPal and Venmo are finally
getting into bed together despite the fact they're owned by
the same company. I will tell you why using either
one or both of those payment systems is going to
get a lot easier. There's a feature that they're just
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rolling out, and you know what, it's about, Damn time.
Just like Lizo says, it is just it's about time
they actually do this. And the countdown is on this
coming Tuesday, in Wednesday. I think it's the third one
of the year. It is time for Amazon Prime Days.
That's right, if you haven't heard it yet, Amazon is
rolling out another What two Days sale to clear their
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warehouses so they can make room for all the Chotzki's,
all the toys for this shopping sea in the holiday
shopping season for twenty twenty five. I'm already monitoring some
of the better deals that are already out there right now.
If you're listening this weekend, a lot of them are
already online. But get in front of your computers, get
in front of your apps this coming Tuesday and Wednesday,
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because if you're a Prime member, allegedly, allegedly, that's the secret,
you're gonna be able to save some money.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
So with that, that's what we got going. What do
we start off with this?
Speaker 2 (04:26):
I'm getting a lot of traction on my most recent
TV segment in Austin, and I don't know if you
for those of you in and around the Austin area,
or you go to my website high Tech textan dot
com'sbub the whole thing out, you.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Can see a lot of the TV segments that I do.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I'm just not a sexy voice in the radio and
put some lipstick on this pig and you know, maybe
they can you know, use AI and enhance me. But yeah,
I do about a you know, four or five minute
review each week on Fox seven.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
It's in Austin. And this past week, I for.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
The first time in a long time, I actually reviewed
a Now it's no secret I reviewed vehicles.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
I've reviewed vehicles fifteen years.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Every single week I get a test car, a pickup
at SUV and EV whatever it is, and I figure,
you know what, it's about time to start showing some
of these things. And so last week, what was Michael driving.
I was in a twenty twenty five Ford mock e,
their electric vehicle. So I'm thinking, no, it's about time
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people learn, especially because the end of the government related
tax funds is coming to an end. As a matter
of fact, it is OVA as of September thirtieth, as
of this past week officially, and I'm gonna talk about
this later in the show, officially, no more up to
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seventy five hundred dollars tax credits if you buy an EV.
That is something that Trump wanted to do, announced it
months ago. EV sales of the past quarter have really
been used. They've skyrocketed because people were trying to get
in under the deadline.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
They did.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
It is no longer here. However, there is a loophole
that some manufacturers are doing it again. I will I'll
tell you that. But let's get back to the Ford Mockee.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
I did you know spend a week in it.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I took you inside the vehicle, took you outside the vehicle,
talked about the prize, talked about the TV. But I
also spent some time talking about the charging system. Now,
if you're a longtime GARF show listener, you know I'm
not the biggest EV fan really for one reason, and
quite simply, it's the charging infrastructure that we currently have
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here in the US. When you get an EV, odds
are you're going to get a charger to put in
your garage. Okay, so every night you can charge it
up if you drive it to your office. A lot
of offices right now they have a charger. So you
drive to your office and you charge it up again.
But my issue is for a longer drive, say on
a weekend getaway. Say I'm based in Houston and I
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want to go to Austin to.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
See a UT game.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Well, you need about a two hundred threer and ten
mile one way trip, and I go to Dallas to
see my parents. Now we're talking to fifty to sixty miles,
and depending on the range of a vehicle, I'm gonna
have to stop somewhere and charge it. I'm gonna have
to cross my fingers I find an electric charger. I'm
gonna continue to cross my figures to find out that
maybe one of the four charging bays are open and
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they're fully working. I'm gonna have to hope there's not
a vehicle already using it where I don't have to
wait thirty to forty five minutes until they move so
I could pull my car in.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
And then finally I have to wait.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Another thirty forty five sixty minutes to charge the vehicle
before I get on the road. People, I'm adhd. I
don't like that stuff. Uh uh gas me up six minutes,
I'm in and out. Other than that, I think evs
are sexy, I think they're fast, I think they're fine.
I think they're rooting. I think they're really good. They're nice.
I just don't like to charge. So there are in
what I explained, and I only I got about a
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more more minute here before the break. Currently in the US,
there's two pretty much two types of charging systems for vehicles,
and I'm gonna make it simple, just like it did
in the video. There's a Tesla charging system, the Tesla
Supercharging System, and then there's all the others. Okay, we
can call it the ccs, the charge coupled whatever you
want to call it. Pretty much Tesla's they use the
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Tesla Supercharging System, and every other manufacturer who makes evs,
which there are a lot, they use the other ones
and never the two don't work together. If you try
to pull up with a Ford Mochi and you go
to a Tesla supercharger, it's like putting a round peg
in a square hole. It ain't gonna work unless you
have a converter. Just recently, you could go out and
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you can buy a converter eighty hours, one hundred dollars.
You can get these things online. You can go to
a Tesla charging station of which there are many, you
put the converter on, then you can put it into
your non Tesla vehicle. I talk about this, I show
it how it works bottom lined. By the end of
this year, it seems that the industry thank goodness, the
auto industry has come together. They are using going to
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go with one standard, and that standard is gonna be
the Tesla supercharging system, all right, just because they're more
prevalent and they're going to be able to inherently fit
into non Tesla cars because non Tesla vehicles GMS forwards,
BMW goes on and on. They're gonna start making their
charging systems, you know, on the side of the car
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where you open up like kind of the electric charging thing.
They're gonna make those the same shape size for Tesla
superchargers to fit in. Not there yet, It's gonna take
a while. In the meantime, you use an adapter if
you want to watch and see what I look like
and see the play by play high tech text.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
It is my website. Hi g h T e h
T e x A N.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Scroll down first video Fox seven. You can learn about
the Ford Mochy and you can also learn about the
charging systems.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
After that.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Coming back, I'm gonna tell you about Google Voice Assistant
is bye bye, but I'll tell you why and also
how quickly the Xbox prices have escalated along with what
to buy right now for the upcoming Amazon Prime day.
The name Michael Garfield standby.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
We call this the High Tech Textan Show.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
We talk technology, but much more than phones and computers
and laptops.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
People.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
I got, I got a slew a thing so much
so I'm gonna talk about tacos right now.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
You know what I like. I love tacos. I'm from Texas,
no matter what. I live on.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
The southwest side of Houston, and there has been a
very small taco shack since nineteen eighty four, was right
across the street from my kids went to high school.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
It's called Saliz sol Iz.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
For Ustonians, certainly the Ustonians in Fort Benn County on
the southwest side. It's been here certainly, uh what to
a generation and a half at least.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
They're phenomenal. Huge news.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
They're getting ready to open their very first second location.
Shout out Richmond, Texas. Right up there on the Grand
Parkway Highway ninety nine at Harlem Road. You've got the
inside info. I believe it's this coming Tuesday, October ninth,
the brand new sol is Z Salis Tacos. It's at
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one one, one three to one Harlem Road. Just take
the Harlem Road exit when you're on the Grand Parkway
is right there on the west hand side, big grand
opening stuff. I think I actually may pop out there
Thursday for an appearance, like you so much. I think
they said they're gonna make me. They're gonna let me
make some tacos. That's gonna go well, and then the
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following weekend they're gonna have some giveaways, gift cards.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
It really needs stuff.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Congratulations to Eric, his fan family, mister missus Lee's who
have been doing this since nineteen eighty four, will continue
to talk about this. Follow my Instagram, high Tech text
and we're gonna be doing some giveaways and having some fun.
But I believe it is Thursday, October ninth. It is
the grand opening of the new Sali's Tacos. Trust me,
they is a yummy breakfast tacos and you name it.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
So congrats on that.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
See told you I talk more about technology, talk about food.
I just talked about a car car review. If you're
just tuning in, told you about the Ford Mustang mock
E that I was driving. You could see the full
TV segment that I did on it. You can go
to high tech textan dot com and then you could
just scroll down to my videos and you should be
set to go. Google had a big, a lot of
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announcements this past week or so, and they're adding some
cool things, they're subtracting some cool things. Actually, they're rolling
out probably their biggest smart home overhaul in years. And
it's called Gemini for Home. Gemini, Well, Gemini. It's kind
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of a chat GPT like app, an AI app, let's
call it that. That's on Android Google based phones. I
actually prefer it. That's what I use if I need
AI or something on my phone. Because I'm an Android guy,
I use Gemini. But this is called Gemini for Home.
It is a suite of new AI powered features for
a lot of Google smart home hardware and software. And
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I mean I might I go over some of the
void the speakers and the cameras and the doorbells, but
the thing that stood out for me is the biggest change.
It's Gemini is replacing Google Assistant on every single one
of Google Smart speakers, all the way back to the
original Google Home speaker, which I have in my kitchen. Yep,
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I do they announce it. It's gonna be available, uh
through an early access program, Big White, the White rel
It's gonna be planned for later this year. And what
they're saying is it's gonna be an entirely new voice
assistant that uses and understands natural language. It can interpret context,
it can pull in more real time information. Now you're
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still gonna be able to activate it with those wake
up words, Hey Google.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Got I hate using that.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
I'm sure I just woke up every Google out there.
But Google Assistant over it's been evicted.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
It really is.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
There's gonna be a subscription. There's gonna be something called
the Google Home Premium subscription. It used to be called
Nest Aware because Google bought Nest. It's gonna start about
ten bucks a month some Nest smart speakers. They're gonna
get this Gemini Live. It's gonna go on and on
and on, but it Gemini for Home. It's from what
I'm reading, really, it's a ground up overhaul of Google's
Voice Assistant in your home. It's gonna offer ten new voices,
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ten new voices.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
And I do not know if it's gonna be a
James Earl Jones.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
I don't know if it's gonna be a Sabena Carpenter.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
I know it is going to be.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
They have not reached out for a high tech text
and voice. I'm more than happy to put them in
touch with my agent.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
But it's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Ten new voices, more natural conversation, and really the ability
to understand the context of what you're asking, which is good.
So if you had let's go back to some of
the devices, because I have a lot of these old devices,
the Google Home, the Google Home Many, the Google Home Max,
the Nest Many, the Nest Audio, the Nest Hub. It
goes on and on, and there's gonna be a new
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Google Home Speaker, entirely new revamp Google Home Speaker that's
coming in spring of next year of twenty to twenty six.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
I like it.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
We need to evolve, We need to evolve. I'm not
happy that. Well, if there's Jim and I live, there
is going to be a paid version of it. As
I told the Google Home Premium Listen, there are ways
to have the free stuff freemium if you will, And
depends how often and how much do you rely on this, well, yeah,
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then you're gonna be able to pay it. But anyway,
big news coming out of Google, big news coming out
of Amazon too. I was not invited to Amazon's big
press conference wherever it was, maybe New York. Amazon came
out with a number of different devices too. They kind
of have a new kind of it's not an operating
system really for their Firestick TV and you know, things
like that, but they have a lot of it.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
I'm more concerned to tell you.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
That this coming Tuesday and Wednesday, it is Amazon Prime
Day once again. It is returned, and it's gonna be
an October seventh. It's gonna be October eighth. I actually
will be traveling. I will be in New York. But
if I really wanted to buy something, I could probably
log on via Wi Fi on my app somewhere. But
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you don't need to wait until then. I've been monitoring
things online Apple Ablica. Amazon typically always has early Prime
Day deals in the lead up to the event. If
you can go to Amazon right now, you're seating and
you're seeing I'm let me give you some ideas of
potentially decent deals. Are they great deals? Are they gonna
be the greatest deals of the year. No, you're probably
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gonna see that towards Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and all
these other things.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
But I see a lot of.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Chargers, Apple mag safe chargers. Here's one that's thirty five bucks.
That's about thirty percent off. I see robot vacuums. I
see Shark has an AI robot vacuum about fifty eight
percent off. That's a prime exclusive. I think that's about
two hundred and thirty dollars. I've never used anything from Shark.
I'm just letting you know out there. The thing to
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get though, and I've always said this, but the thing
to get when it comes to Amazon Days. The best
deals you're gonna find, really good deals you're gonna findre
on Amazon branded products. The Amazon Echo Speaker, the Amazon
fire Stick, which is the streaming stick, the Amazon Fire TVs,
the Amazon Kindle. Look for those because I've already seen
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some of those discounted and I don't know how low
they can hand go for these two days coming up
on Tuesday and Wednesday, but they will be out here.
And it's not just again. Look at streaming sticks.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
I'm a Roku fan.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
R okay, you I have got one to I think
I got three different streaming sticks in my in my
homes for at least three different TVs.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Roku kind of my favorite. I like that operating system.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
They got a I've already seen a Roku streaming stick
plus for twenty nine dollars. That's about twenty seven They're
thirty percent off. And that's out there too. If you're
looking for just bluetooth speakers, hortible speakers, this is the
stuff that you're gonna find. Yeah, listen, I mean I
can comment on fashion and the shoes and all the
other things, but I'm gonna kind of keep it here
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for the for the tech stuff. Also, I saw a
Nintendo switch to for you kiddies out there, four hundred
and forty nine dollars, not really a discount, but they're
bundling it if you get that switch to device. I
think they're gonna bundle the a Mario Kart game. Anybody
can get that now. So between now and next week,
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and again I know I'm gonna be the next week
is incredibly busy week for me. If you've got questions, Hey, Michael,
is this a good deal?
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Is this not a good deal? What can I do?
Try to go?
Speaker 2 (19:10):
You can go to my email Michael Garfield at iHeartMedia
dot com. If you're a friend on x HI Tech
Texting dot com, if you follow me on Instagram, you
could send me a screenshot and just say, Yo, Garf,
you think this is good, you think this is not
a good. Could be a time to get portable batteries,
doorbell cameras, mini speakers. A lot of the stuff is
gonna be less than fifty bones.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Get it now.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
If you're thinking of stocking stuffers, if you're thinking of
holiday gifts, that may be the thing to do.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
So there you go.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
When we come back another review time, here's a stocking stuffer,
the one that is small enough to fit into stocking,
but you're gonna use it in your car. Ever thought
about dash cams? Dash cams are slowly becoming the rage people.
Cameras that mount on the front and back of your
vehicle that continually record what's going on for insurance purposes
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or for safety and security purposes.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
We'll give you a full review on a brand new
one I just played with.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Coming up my high tech Textan show. We do continue
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the very long running high tech textan show the name
of course Michael Garfield. Thank you for downloading the iHeartRadio app.
If you're listening to Rust really all over well the
Southwest United States.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
He thanks you so much.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Do you have some open phone lines where you can
ask me questions, reviews, my thoughts, because that's my job
to pretty much review every freaking thing that's put in
front of my face seven one, three, two, one two,
five nine five. Oh and a lot of the that
are put my face at a regular basis are vehicles.
You do tune in I know for at least fifteen
of my years here on this radio show, my TV segments,
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and my social.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
To kind of find out what's Michael driving.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Because I do have the opportunity on a weekly basis
to test drive a brand new vehicle, be it electric,
be it a pickup truck and SUV, a CUV, a sportscar,
a hot roding, yes, the occasional minivan.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
So yeah, I mean I am.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Your automobile and automotive guy, along with many other things.
And I also like doing a lot of accessories too,
accessory for vehicles, some really neat stuff to make your
drive safe, to make your family safe. Security, because people,
it's rough out there. It's tough out there, apparently National
Guard or being just deployed in many, many, many cities
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across the United States. We don't want your car broken into. No, no, no, no,
In cases like that if they are broken into, or
just really for a peace of mind, maybe you should
hire one of your kids to sleep and live in
your car.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
That's possible. Ability.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Number one other option I may recommend instead of that
one is to get a dash cam. Get a car
camera that is almost always rolling and always capturing everything
that goes around your car, in your car while you're
driving and also while it has parked and over the years. Yes,
I certainly have reviewed and talked about and shown off
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some dash cams, and they're getting smarter, they're getting better,
and why not stealve into a few few minutes, why
I the eye tech Techsan talk about one of the
latest dash cams that I've been playing with from a
company I am familiar with because I have been playing
with their dash cams for a while. It is called
Van True v A n t r U E. You
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do not need a van to use. That's just the
name of the company, don't ask me. They recently came
out with a very strong one. It may not be
the cheapest, but from what I'm what I've been playing
with and what I've been testing along with the app
and all the camera, this is one of the nicest
most fully function ones I have ever tried. This is
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the Nexus in Exus. I like spelling things out, certainly
for the radio, so you can google them.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
The Van True.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Nexus five s s as in sex A, and this
is an upgrade. They continue to come up with upgrades.
But and I'm gonna give you a few things. If
you listen to me, you kind of know some of
the verbiage. And maybe you have a dash camp. But
this is a four channel, full coverage dash cam. They've
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got four cameras, four count them. They've got a nice
one in front two point seven K, they've got a
rear one a two K. They've got two ten EIGHTYP cameras,
one afford facing and one is a rear facing. And
that's if you just listen to what I described, you've
got almost three hundred and sixty degree coverage. This thing
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is looking every single place. It is a full three
to sixty degree dash cam system covering the front, the rear,
and both of the interior views. It employs something to
follow me over here. And I don't like talking a
lot of the techi giky things because I lose a
lot of my audience. But help me out over here.
It does employ what they have as a Sony Starvist two.
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It's an imaging sensor, and all you need to know
this is a really tiny sensor that all cameras pretty
much have, but it enhances low light clarity.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
So what it's gonna do. It's gonna pick up some
really quality video in low light. What's that good for?
Speaker 2 (24:39):
You? Say, Well, let's just say your car is parked
somewhere at night. Well, last I checked night, it's pretty
low light. Right. Because of this new Sony starves two
imaging system, I have noticed right now that the images
and low light are much clearer than any other dashcam
that I've seen.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Now.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Along with this thing, this also has Wi Fi. It
does have a built in GPS, which is very nice
because at any given time it knows where you your car,
your camera is and in cases like a break in,
in cases like an incident in a wreck, for the
insurance company and for the coppers, it's great to know exactly.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Where you were when you were.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
And this is one thing that the Van tru N
five S dash cam can record. The updates are easy
because this hasn't because it has the Wi Fi. It
has an over the year update, which means you really
don't need to plug it in anywhere into your computer.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Just log into the Wi Fi.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
It's got the app and everything, and every time there's
an update, different version, different firmware pops in there, and
it's it works really well. A Nodalble upcoming feature that
I read somewhere is that Vantru they've indicated that connectivity
directly through cell service LTE connectivity. They say it's in
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the works. If and when that comes, that's pretty cool
because that's going to allow for remote live viewing or
remote live viewing alerts. But I'm not getting the cart before.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
The horse over here.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Now I'm driving along, easy to install during the daytime
over here. What I'm seeing very sharp detail, very good color,
dynamic range. Ah, I told you the low light, the
nighttime footage. Massive improvement over the earlier models, not only
of the Van True ones that I've been talking about
and reviewing over the years, but also a lot of
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the other ones that are on the market too. This
camera really gets its umph. It shine with its coverage.
It's got four different angles and without really having a
blind spot, which is really nice. It kind of blew
me away. So the sheer volume of footage that it
could record and show four different streams. You're gonna need
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a lot of storage over here, and if you set
this thing up, it would The storage is great because
it does provide if you put an SD card in there,
it will record on that SD card a lot.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
All right.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Some of the other feature again looking at my notes
over here, a high resolution I think up to nineteen
forty four P. Even more so than that, you're going
to because of that data demand. You're going to need
a very high, pretty high capacity SD card, right.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
You want some high speed memory on that thing.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
The only thing that you may have to read a
direction and one of the thing listen as the high
tech taxt And my job is this. If I have
to read the direction to set something up, you're screwed,
because that means I'm screwed.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
This is pretty clean. Now.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
The only guess caveat, I'll tell you the rear camera
because there's two pieces. There's one that actually sucks up
and goes to your dash the front of your dashboard,
but there's also one that you can put in your
back window over here, so you're gonna have to wire it.
So running a clean wiring and positioning the lenses. You're
gonna have to maybe spend a little bit of time
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now if to wrap.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
This thing up.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
If you're someone who wants comprehensive video coverage rides here
a driver is if you're a lyft an uber driver,
you really want protection of what's going on inside that
cabin and you know, maybe some what's going on on
the outside. This could be for you families if you
want that inside and outside protection, if you're looking for
you know, if you if you get into a lot
of incidents on the road. I really do think that
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Andrew Van True infives Absolute should be a serious contender
for you. It is not the must casual upgrade because
of the price. The price if you look on van
True right now and even sold on Amazon runs about
four hundred dollars. There are other less expensive dash cams,
without a doubt, but I haven't seen one that has
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this many features.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
It's I mean, I don't use.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
A star rating, but I give this thing at least
four four and a high five out of stars. Maybe
it's losing half a point because maybe it's a little costly,
Maybe the complexity of putting the wiring in the back whatever,
But I think the strengths, without a doubt make it
stand out in a pretty crowded market, pretty crowded and
so if you and this is one of the things
that I like to do after I talk about and
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review something, and I'd certainly give this my high tech
text and stamp of approval. Anybody out there, and I
know I have a lot of car enthusiasts because I
recommend cars every single week.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Like that.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Anybody have a dash cam? Love to hear from you?
Do you use a dash camp?
Speaker 3 (29:17):
And I love stories like this.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Has it dash cam ever helped you? Number one with
insurance purposes because you've got it on video. Has it
helped you get out of a ticket? Does it give
you a piece of mind? Does it help you park?
Love to hear from you? Seven to one three two
one two five nine five. Oh, that's how we do
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it on the high Tech Text and show again the
van true n five s holiday seasons coming up here
in a few months. Get it, especially if you've got
a new car and you want that peace of mind,
get a dash cam without a doubt. If you want
to spend a little bit money Vandrew in five 's
that's how we roll here on the High Tech Teching
Show season calls coming in. We're going to take a break.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
Don't go anywhere.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
About that.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Anybody ready to rush out him by a dash cam?
Speaker 3 (30:30):
If you just missed that.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Michael Garfield, by the way, this is the High Tech
Textans Show. Just spent what was that six seven eight
minutes talking about dash cams?
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Certainly necessary?
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Should I let you in on a little Yeah, I
guess whatever you have, we're tight. You know my might
as well feel my hip out there. Been reviewing vehicles
for fifteen years. Every single week I get at least
one brand new vehicle from the manufacturer, not a dealer
show delivered to my house, and I get the driver
from one week. Luckily it's their insurance. I've been very careful,
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as everybody in my position should be auto reviewers and whatever. Yeah,
they have been some mishaps over fifteen years. Maybe I
got into a little fender bender, maybe it kind of
kind of scraped the rims on a tire or something whatever.
But other than that, it's no really, no crime on crime,
no crime and vehicle. Was that an event two weeks
(31:27):
ago downtown Houston kind of early evening? Maybe five o'clock,
five thirty to eight o'clock. I mean parked on the
street legally under a street light, right across from a
venue midtown Houston. Come out back left window was smashed in.
(31:49):
Somebody smashed into this loaner vehicle that I had never happened.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
What do you do? What do you do? You run?
I mean.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
It's dark near downtown Houston, just like any I'm not
ragging on Houston.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Well I am kind of.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
I really wanted to get out of there. I'm not
sitting here sitting, you know. Should I assess what's going on?
No other damage to the car. Tires were cool, turns on,
blah blah blah. Take a quick peek around, anything stolen.
My sunglasses were there in the front seat. Actually had
an extra little small set of house keys still there.
(32:29):
Looked in my little, you know, kind of the little
you know, compartment between the driver passenger seat.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
I had something in there. Nothing gone.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
I'm thinking, man, what's up? Who busted this window? They
didn't take anything? Get in the car, Go home, all right,
get home? Lass everywhere inside the car, in the back seat.
It's just sloshing around, and it's just it's I got
to get rid of this thing. So anyway, as soon
as I pull in, I'm I look at the back
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seat again. I'm like, now I know what they took.
I keep a because I has drive a brand new
car every week. I really don't even have my own car,
and so what I do is I have this small bag.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
It's like my go bag. And then it just has
some chotchkey's that I keep in there.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
You know, maybe it's a brush, an umbrella, cologne, just something.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
I always keep that in the.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Back, usually on the back floor of the car, maybe
on the back seat. I guess somebody walked by saw
that today. Is just a little tiny bag, not a
sexy bag. It not like as a design it it's
not like it's a Burkin or anything. Busted it and
took it. I'm like, that's it.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
It's gone.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Point is if I had a dash cam, I potentially
could have seen and share that information with the police,
because dash cams are always monitoring what's going on, and
they also have a pre the one I talked about
the van True N five S it has a pre roll,
meaning if it's since his movement, it'll record about ten
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seconds before an incident. Actually happens. It's pretty smart that way.
I didn't have a dashcam on that test car, and
there you go. I did file a police report. I
am okay, and I do want to thank a guy
named Julian. Julian, I do not know if you're listening.
I do not even know if you know what I
do or who I am. I had a business card
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with my phone number and content information in that bag.
Whoever stole that bag, he went through the bag. He
or she went through the bag, took whatever they wanted
from the bag, and then threw the bag on the ground,
on the cement right by my car.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
I didn't see it.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Maybe this guy named Julian, who also was parked right
near me, he picked up the bag, calls me later
that night, explains who he is, tells me he found
the bag. Good samaritan, Good samaritan. I thanked him, verified
who he was. Met him a few days later at
a public place in the day, as anybody should.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
You never know who your meeting.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Could not have been a cooler dude, And so thank
you for bringing up anyway dash cams. That's one of
the reasons we should get it all right. There's five
minutes of me telling you, boy scout, Apparently I wasn't
prepared for that thing.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
Seven went. Actually, let me give you the phone number
over here.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Three four six twenty nine Texan three four six nine
eight three nine. Come say, anybody have an issue like that?
Anybody had something stolen? Has a dash cam ever protected?
You love to hear from you? You know what else
that many people may not have him prepared for this
past week September thirtieth.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
Ovah.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
Now I'm not talking about the tax credits and rebates
for the evs, because that's gone too. Ladies and gentlemen,
AOL officially hung up on their dial up internet service.
That horrific sound, that dial up modem that defined an error.
(36:06):
Don't be surprised. They announced it a few months ago.
I gave you a warning. I talked about it.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
But I will tell.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
You if you still had AOL dial up Internet and
you listen to my show, you really shouldn't be listening
to my show. If you know what I'm saying. Older
generations people, you remember that sound? Can we find that sound?
What's that sound sound like? Let's try this thing. Nails
(36:51):
on a freaking chalkboard. Kids, you have no idea. You
just have no idea. But guess what idiot is absolutely
overt thirtieth, the AOL said it's going to discontinue its
dial up internet service.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
That's about it.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
It's no longer available in any of the AOL plans.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
And that's it. I mean, I don't know, But what
do you do?
Speaker 2 (37:11):
Well, you can actually you know, Actually, here's a neat fact.
In twenty twenty three, the government estimated it's still around
three hundred thousand people in the US still use.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
Dial up internet. Three hundred million use broadband.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
If we could to survive that noise, we could survive
anything really technically. Maybe there are other regional, smaller internet
dial up services. If you still have in want dial tone,
you can get that relatively inexpensive through your your phone service.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
But I mean, your.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
Kids will never visit you if you have dial up service.
I mean, we could joke all this about we want, but.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
That was It's you know, it's funny.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
It's I talk about technology because we have to progress,
and I tell you how to use it and get
into the twenty first century.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
But I'm still in og, still that old guard to
the old guy.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
It's like I remember these things from the Steve Case
owned AOL merging you know with you know with Comcast
back of the day to make sure you know that
was the world's largest you know, communication company back in
two thousand and two thousand and one. But things change, man,
Things get more expensive, things get.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
More difficult, But you know the only way to get.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
Through them is to listen to the High Tech Text
and Show with me Michael Garfield.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
That's called the teas, that's called the promo.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
Speaking of teases, I'm gonna teach you here for a
few minutes. It's the top of the hour. Wherever you're listening, Hey,
hang on, because we're almost halfway to halfy hour.
Speaker 3 (38:37):
People.
Speaker 2 (38:38):
But on the other side, we've got more stuff, potentially
some things to give away.
Speaker 3 (38:41):
We like giving away things, don't we. And we're also
gonna lap about a few more car reviews.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
And I will tell you about the price of the
Xbox subscription drastically going up, and why PayPal and Vinmo
PayPal and Vinmo owned by the said company. Finally they're
getting in bed together. I will display it is Garb
from the H T T Show.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
Is Michael Garfi.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
Michael Garfield, Michael Garfield's joining.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
In the High Tech Texan.
Speaker 3 (39:18):
Michael Garfield is here with a high Tech Texan. Items
to make life easier.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
New technology, and Michael Garfield has something you might want.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
Michael Garfield is your high Tech Texans three decades helping
you make magic with your gadgets. Heard worldwide on the
iheartwaredio add now your high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
Halfway through the High Tech Texan Show, halfway, one hour down,
one hour to go, which makes it halfway to happy hour,
and it should be happy hour indeed, wherever you are listening,
however you are listening this first weekend of October, It's
October people.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
It's all I care about.
Speaker 2 (40:12):
It's still hot as you know what in Texas, and
it's actually still hot in Florida where I well, depending
on when you're listening to us, where I am, where
I was, or where I will be. University of Texas
Longhorns kicking off the sec portion of their schedule. You
are listening plausibly lave from Michael Garfield from the Swamp,
(40:35):
my first ever visit to the swamp in Gainesville. So
if you see someone way up wearing burn orange in
the end, zone, could be me, could be me up
and back trip.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
So hook of morns. You know my allegiance here.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
So whoever you're rooting for, we got the big University
of Houston versus Texas Tech that's going on on Saturday night.
Got the Cowboys and the Jets on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
It's all you know. Listen, football full swing.
Speaker 2 (41:02):
Let's go whoever you root for, and I appreciate it.
Root for me, Root for me. Phone number here if
you want to chime in three four six two nine
eight three nine two six, leave a voicemail if we
don't pick up the phone.
Speaker 3 (41:14):
Who uses their phone to pay for things? Maybe it's
the Apple is it Apple pay? Is that what it's called?
Speaker 2 (41:22):
Because I have Google Wallet, Apple Pay, and you know
we can sell people some things. And I mean there's
app cat, the cash app, and of course there's PayPal.
Of course there's venmo over here. Whether you knew it
or not, let's just put it this way. It is
so convenient that and it is it's it's relatively safe too.
(41:42):
And I'm serious because I've used these for a while.
I know when my kids started going to college, that's
all they did. I had to open a Venmo account
because that's what they wanted, and it's easy to transfer money.
I mean, when I was in college, if I wanted money.
Speaker 3 (41:55):
I had to call home.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
I had to pick up the phone on a wired
phone in my dorm, call my parents and ask them
kindly to go to the bank and deposit money in
my account. I am man, I am old.
Speaker 3 (42:12):
That's how it was.
Speaker 2 (42:13):
Nowadays, you could pay somebody by looking at them.
Speaker 3 (42:17):
Almost. You can use your watch.
Speaker 2 (42:19):
You really can use your watch by holding up it's right,
you can hold your phone, very simple ways to do it.
I do like PayPal a lot, and I like Venmo.
A lot of people pay me this way. I transfer
money to my kids. It's it's whatever in a lot
of places accepted too. PayPal and Venmo are owned by
the same company. Whether you use it or not or not.
(42:40):
PayPal maybe for how about this, here's the analogy. PayPal
is the Facebook to Instagram's Venmo makes sense.
Speaker 3 (42:49):
PayPal kind of was the first one. It was out there.
Speaker 2 (42:53):
Maybe the older folks use it. It's great for businesses. I've
got my business accounts that people can pay for it. Oh,
that's where that's the social media of payment because there's
a setting where everybody in the world can see who
you paid and what you paid. I'm paying I'm paying
Jason four blocks for a slice of pizza. Uh, repaying
my girl back for the earring she bought me at
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the mall. I'm like, yeah, I really don't need people,
so I actually turn that off.
Speaker 3 (43:20):
You actually can turn that off on Venmo.
Speaker 2 (43:22):
The problem I've had though, it's initially depositing funds because
if your Venmo account gets low, because you know, yes,
you could tie it to your credit card. But I
have a balance on my PayPal. Every time I Uber
or something, it comes out of my PayPal. That's how
I set it up. And if I want to deposit
money in my PayPal, I've hooked it up to my
bank account. And sometimes it doesn't do it immediately. Sometimes
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it takes one to.
Speaker 3 (43:45):
Three days, blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (43:48):
But then again, I have a lot of money, a
lot of money. I have more money, relatively more money
in my Venmo account. How come I just can't transfer
one to another. They're all by the freaking same same company.
That was a three minute build up to the story
I'm about to tell you, ladies and gentlemen. Coming this November,
PayPal Venmo, they will be integrated. We've been waiting since
(44:12):
twenty fourteen when PayPal acquired Venmo. All right, PayPal users,
you'll be able to search for Venmo users by their
phone number, then send them money, and you're going to
be able to transfer money from one to the other.
Speaker 3 (44:31):
Some good updates that needed to come.
Speaker 2 (44:36):
Venmo's just one of the partners that PayPal is planning
on integrating with more fully around the world. But longtime
Venmo users probably are is going to remember how annoying
it was to have Venmo automatically make details public to
everyone you connect with. It's frustrating. Yeah, anyway, it's coming
in November. You could adjust so many options on Venmo.
(44:57):
I'm a privacy guy. I really don't want to see
p but I don't even use a Venmo a ton.
But if I transfer funds to my son for going
out on a beer night, he's of age, by the way,
I don't need to see that. Michael, you know just dropped,
you know, Adam five hundred dollars for beer. No, he
doesn't drink that much beer. I'm just using stories. People
don't worry about it. But anyway, Venmo paypaled good for you.
(45:20):
They're finally getting working together, even though it is part
of the same company.
Speaker 3 (45:25):
I actually use it. I use it.
Speaker 2 (45:26):
I have a number of different smart watches and they're
all Android based because Apple doesn't give me crap and
so screw them. I have one, plus I have Samsung.
I have a number of these things, and I have.
Speaker 3 (45:37):
The Google app, the Google Wallet app.
Speaker 2 (45:42):
Every time I get tickets, like if I go tickets
to the University of Texas game, if I get tickets
to via Ticketmasters something, you could download these to your
Google wallet. You could download it to your Apple Pay.
It just makes things more simple. You don't have to
lose your tickets. I mean the stories over the years
of a buddy of mine was riving from Houston to
Dallas to go to the Texas OU game. He gets
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halfway there and he realizes I left my tickets, the
actual paper tickets, back at home.
Speaker 3 (46:08):
He had to turn around.
Speaker 2 (46:09):
You don't even see a lot of paper tickets. Now
you could transfer these things. This is the fun stuff
that we do with technology, and I tell you how
to use it. It's about as good as I as
well as I can and so I do use it
with tickets.
Speaker 3 (46:24):
I use it to transfer the money. I use it
on my watch.
Speaker 2 (46:27):
It is secure because it uses what's called n f
C near field communication. You could walk into mini stores,
many grocery stores, hold your watch up, hold your phone
up to it, and it automatically debits your credit card.
It also could debit your VENMO in your PayPal. Folks
get into the twenty first century. And if you really
want to get into the twenty first century, you can
go to Whole Foods and you can really be freaky
(46:49):
de heat out because you actually can scan the palm
of your hand and have it deduct and pay whatever
your charge is direct from your credit card.
Speaker 3 (47:02):
This has been around for a while.
Speaker 2 (47:05):
And I live near a Whole Foods and I run
and I get on my bike and I never carry
my wallet. Sometimes I'm running and I said, you know what,
I need to stop and get the in.
Speaker 3 (47:14):
I don't shop at Whole Foods a lot. It's a
little I'm an HIV guy.
Speaker 2 (47:17):
Go into Whole Foods and I pick up a little something.
Speaker 3 (47:21):
I kid you not.
Speaker 2 (47:22):
I hold my palm, it scans it, Boom gives me
my Amazon member discount because Amazon owns old foods and
I do not even need to bring a watch, and
I trust it, I actually do. Welcome to the twenty
first freaking century. That's how we do it, people speak
the twenty first century. You ever had a drone delivered
(47:44):
your food? A drone deliver a package. It's happening all
over the country, but in one specific city it was
just halted.
Speaker 3 (47:52):
It's temporarily.
Speaker 2 (47:54):
It's a little incident in the air.
Speaker 3 (47:56):
Tell you about that when we come back.
Speaker 2 (48:13):
As we continue out number two of the weekly.
Speaker 3 (48:17):
Michael Garth Hike Tech Text and Show we do. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (48:19):
You can follow me high Tech Text and Hi. G
h T E C h T e x A N
saw this headline. It just Wall Street Journal just kind
of grabbed me. That Sean Diddy Combs, there's a name
I don't use often on the show, is currently in
jail waiting to see where his life is going to go,
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much less his career.
Speaker 3 (48:46):
Diddy is teaching his.
Speaker 2 (48:47):
Fellow inmates how to build up their careers. Whether that
headline was clickbaite or not, it got me.
Speaker 3 (48:58):
That was a good one. Good for you Wall Street
Journal did.
Speaker 2 (49:03):
He is teaching his fellow inmates break that sentence up
a there's a story about Diddy behind bars. He's teaching
inmates behind bars. Number when he's teaching them something. I mean,
he's a great musician and singer and rapper. Maybe he
can teach him how to do Oh no, No, he's
teaching them how to build up their careers.
Speaker 3 (49:24):
Is there a career currently.
Speaker 2 (49:28):
In prison for inmates now? Once inmates get out recitativism
and they're outstanding, upstanding citizens.
Speaker 4 (49:36):
Good?
Speaker 2 (49:37):
But did he is bringing the power of positive thinking
to jail. He's doing it because he said he wants
to service service shorter term prison sentence.
Speaker 3 (49:49):
Self help class.
Speaker 2 (49:52):
Not making any comments because his career imploded after accusations
of sex traft. Not making any comments, it's because there's
nothing to make light of other than the fact that
he's teaching his fellow inmates build up their careers. Okay,
did he want?
Speaker 1 (50:11):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (50:11):
One? We continue just like this is some of the
things that just amaze me, and we talk about uh
what uh? Oh yeah, I promised about drones.
Speaker 3 (50:22):
Drones.
Speaker 2 (50:24):
I like drones, and actually I was just I'm testing
a drone right now. Of all the things in technology
that I don't receive on a regular basis in terms
of just industries, toughs because I get phones out that
you know what.
Speaker 3 (50:37):
I get watches, I.
Speaker 2 (50:39):
Get TVs, I get cars, I get video games.
Speaker 3 (50:42):
I mean it goes on and on and on. I
don't get a lot of drones.
Speaker 2 (50:46):
Drone drone companies, as we say, to use the Yiddish word,
they're a little schnoop, They're a little dechency. They just
they just you know, they they don't give out a
lot of drones to test. Got a drone, I'll tell
you how that work.
Speaker 3 (50:59):
But let's talk about professional drones. Let's talk about drones.
Speaker 2 (51:02):
Delivery service, Walmart, Amazon, those companies have been using drones
for delivery, playing with it and testing it for a
while several years. More and more cities are doing it.
I believe several cities across Texas, the Dallas area. I
think College Station. I think it may be Amazon. They're
delivering Amazon. There was an incident in Phoenix area with Amazon.
(51:27):
Amazon has paused drone deliveries in the West Valley Phoenix
metro area because a pair of its drones they crashed
into a crane. No injuries, I don't think, but the
what happened earlier this week and it was about two
miles from an Amazon distribution center and no injuries reported,
(51:48):
but I guess they were.
Speaker 3 (51:50):
I don't know. I don't know how it failed.
Speaker 2 (51:53):
That's why I think these companies are saying they're in
the still testing phase. I mean, you got to go
through the FAA for an incident like this, but even certification.
So listen, it was it last year. Last November they
started delivering drones and I think in that area again.
(52:15):
I try to keep tielines in this uh you know,
a nice little spreadsheet here, but they can carry things
like this, can carry payloads of up to five pounds.
Don't know how long the service is going to be paused,
and I can say this is has anybody utilized service?
Speaker 3 (52:30):
Because I have not.
Speaker 2 (52:32):
I really would like to know how it works other
than the ooh ah wow cool factor. For the first
time you and your kids see a drone land in
your front yard or backyard and then drop off a
gallon of melted ice cream because it's in Texas, I
don't know whatever you're ordering. Is there an extra charge?
(52:56):
Was it efficient? Because to me, a lot of Listen,
a lot of things can go wrong with a out
of technology. I see this drone flying to my neighbor's house.
Nobody's there. Ooh, it just dropped off a package in
their backyard. Maybe I'll just walk back there and kind
of see what it is. I mean, it's a new
version of porch pirates. Not that I would do that.
I'm just throwing some things up. I know they work
(53:16):
on GPS. What if it's cloudy, what if it loses
the cell signal or GPS or whatever like that? Is
it going to drop off the delivery in another house?
Speaker 3 (53:25):
Man? There's a lot of a lot of questions.
Speaker 2 (53:27):
There's a lot of room for I don't know about this,
but anyway, love to hear from you. Three four six
twenty nine text in three four six two nine te
x a n if you've had a drone deliveries.
Speaker 3 (53:38):
I am playing with one.
Speaker 2 (53:40):
Let me give you a quick play by play a
little pe bip for this one. I am playing one
the nice folks from a company called Hover who makes
hover go to Hover Air. This is not endorsement because
I'm still playing with this thing. I'm still trying to
figure it out. This is a relative easy one to use.
It's a Hover Air X one pro I'll start with
(54:02):
the fact that it's seven hundred dollars. But of all
the drones I've played with, just on the surface, when
I got this one out of the box, I like
it very small, very compact, and it's foldable, heavy duty plastic,
so it's not metal because it needs to be relatively light,
obviously because it uses quad copters, you know, with these
four fans that actually lift it up, and normally the
(54:26):
fans the blades, the rotor blades are exposed, meaning they're
not in a cage, meaning they're just there. There's four
blades on the bottom or on the top. It takes off,
let's just say. And it's happened many times when I've
been playing with drones.
Speaker 3 (54:38):
I crash it.
Speaker 2 (54:39):
Into a tree, I landed somewhere else, it falls to
the ground. Boom, a blade is busted. I don't now,
I got to fix a freaking blade. Uh uh, this
is nice. These four blades are enclosed in this cage,
so you can't even touch the blade. It's an open cage,
(55:02):
and so they I mean, you know, you fold it
out and the whole thing maybe is eight inches by
five inches, very light, and if it for some reason
falls down and yes, I'm still trying to get the
hang of it. It has fallen from as high as
probably twenty or thirty feet and the blades are intact
(55:25):
because they're encompass, they're enclosed in this cage.
Speaker 3 (55:27):
I like that alone.
Speaker 2 (55:28):
This is a type of drone. That's what I call it,
and I think some of the industry call it of
a follow you follow me? Okay, great Genesis song. But
this is when you're an outdoor person and you're a runner,
or you're a bicycler, or you're a skier, and you
really want to get a cool perspective of you outdoors biking.
(55:50):
What it does in one of the many modes it does,
it will lock in on an object, so you hold
it in your hand, you turn the app on on
your phone. And it also has another third, an accessory
called the beacon. You can actually put this beacon on
your bicycle or whatever like that. Well, anyway, it launches
(56:12):
from your hand. You actually can say take off another
great song obviously to the great right North, Bob and Doug.
Speaker 3 (56:20):
It goes up in the air and you can make
the setting.
Speaker 2 (56:22):
Do you want it five feet away, twenty feet away,
forty feet away, and it locks in on you. Let's
just say you're on your bike or you're on skis
going downhill and as soon as you start moving, this
drone follows you. It's got a great camera. It's got
a four K camera and it will record you and
whether you're on a bicycle, it'll go downhill uphill. It
(56:45):
pretty much has a camera also to Shae, okay, let's
not bump into anything else like trees. The video is excellent,
does sound. You can also take it off that follow
me type of pattern where you can actually use it
manually via the app. The app it's got like kind
of virtual joysticks where you know, you can use your
thumbs that you know you go up and down and
fast and fly really nice. So I'm still playing with it.
(57:09):
Appreciate the folks from hover Air in the PR company.
This is an eight K really action flying camera and
so if you're an outdoorsy type of person, this may
be one for you.
Speaker 3 (57:22):
And I will put some photos and some neat stuff
on my social media, but also I'm.
Speaker 2 (57:28):
Gonna put it on my probably do a TV segment
on my Austin or my and or my Houston TV
segment coming up.
Speaker 3 (57:33):
So there you go, there's a review coming up.
Speaker 2 (57:36):
We actually have another review. What am I going to
review this time? It's going to be a surprise. But anyway,
stand by, I am going to talk about for another
four or five minutes, kay product that you actually may
want coming up here on the holiday season here on
the High Tech text and show this got back but
(58:05):
like wonderful jaunt up to the New York City miner row.
Speaker 3 (58:10):
That's what we say in Texas, what we do.
Speaker 2 (58:13):
It was interesting because I went to a press conference
in the middle of Manhattan for a robotic lawnmower.
Speaker 3 (58:20):
A robotic lawn in the middle of Manhattan.
Speaker 2 (58:24):
I'm about to play an interview over here with just
one of the founders of the company. Phenomenal, phenomenal piece
of machinery from Yarbo, a leader when it comes to
robotic lawnmowers. I'm thinking, I get Actually, I told the
guys they were great. I'm like, you should maybe you've
thought about holding this like in Texas or something where
there's a lot of grass, a lot of lawn and
we could see what's going on.
Speaker 3 (58:45):
And they laughed. They thought about it over there.
Speaker 2 (58:46):
But apparently a lot of technology journalists who cover things
like this.
Speaker 3 (58:50):
They live in New York.
Speaker 2 (58:51):
You know what, move down to Texas people, you know why,
no state income tax. There's a lot of land and
we love and need the lawnmowers. Yarbo is not just
a lawnmower. It's exactly really interesting. It's a modular piece
of equipment. There's different pieces that you could snap on,
as you'll learn when it comes to something like that.
(59:12):
But I want to play a little bit of my
sit down with the one of the co founders and
vice president of Yarbo names kN Coleman.
Speaker 3 (59:21):
Give me just a quick overview of where autonomous robotic
lawnmowers in general have been over the past five to
six years.
Speaker 5 (59:29):
Yeah. Sure.
Speaker 2 (59:29):
So.
Speaker 5 (59:30):
The first autonomous lawnmowers were introduced in Europe in nineteen
ninety nine, believe it or not, by a company called Husbana,
and they had a wire buried solution, almost like a
dog fence, and they would randomly go across the yard.
That was kind of the norm up until twenty twenty
one twenty twenty two when GPS lawnmowers started taking off.
(59:52):
So they were wire free, but they also struggled with
things like lack of GPS not having a consistent signal
all the time and where they're going is actually pretty cool.
Where the technologies take solid are vision. You know, as
the cost of these technologies come down that we're really
used commercially, we're going to see these things, you know,
(01:00:13):
work into autonomous lawnmower solutions in.
Speaker 3 (01:00:16):
The yard, one of them on the market right now.
About a competition over there. There's GPS, there's liger. What
does yarbow do if it stands out different from others
in the market.
Speaker 5 (01:00:25):
Sure, I mean the first one is the modularity by
far right. So it's not just a lawnmower. In fact,
it can handle other aspects of your law and not
just mowing, right so blowing the leaves, trimming, can handle
multi season right so snow blowing. That's that's probably the
biggest thing our customers identify with. The Other thing is
when we talk about wid R and vision, those types
(01:00:48):
of technologies they're usually good to about a half acre
or point seventy five of an acre, But anytime you
need to do a law and that's an acre or more,
you need GPS because the technology just isn't there. The
further you go with wider and vision. The more inaccuracy
you get over time, so you still need GPS in
(01:01:10):
that respect, but as the technology gets better, we can
use these sensors blended with other types of navigation to
handle those smaller yards better.
Speaker 3 (01:01:19):
We mowe a lot of lawns in Texas without a doubt.
You know, gabush lawns writing more is like they a
lot of the one currently on the market. They have
rotating blade. Yours has not only roading taking blades, but
now you have straight blades too. Yeah, why the duality?
Why did you just enhance the cutting system?
Speaker 5 (01:01:33):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (01:01:33):
So it was.
Speaker 5 (01:01:34):
Really the pro version of our lawnmower and the straight
blades was really because there's certain use cases where straight
blades do better. One of them is wet grass. A
lot of people are forced to cut their law and
when it's wet and damp, and that has a tendency
to stick and gum up. Razor blades clog the actual
cutting motors, so you have to go out and constantly
(01:01:54):
clean it. So that's one thing. The other thing is
expensive properties that are over an acre usually have manicured
areas and then unmanicured areas. Think of like a ranch, right,
I'm sure there's a lot of them in Texas where
you have manicured lawn, but then you have wild grass, weeds,
thick things that razor blades cannot get through. So that's
another reason we want it to come up with straight blades,
(01:02:15):
is that it can handle those kind of rough areas
that traditional autonomous lawnmowers can't with the razor blades. The
reason we give them options is because not everyone wants
a straight blade, and we want to give them the
ability to also have the razor blades but have that
extra power for wet grass and things like that, because
maybe they have small children, and even though it's a
(01:02:36):
perfectly safe product, they just don't like the idea of
straight blades, that think it's more dangerous maybe, so we
want to give them options. That's really the kind of
the goal behind Yarbo in general. Right, select your core
and then select your different modules to design Yarbo to
fit your yard. Right, and what you need in Texas,
you probably don't need a snow lower, right, but the
trimmer and the lawnmower and maybe the blower is probably
(01:02:59):
you know, a fit.
Speaker 3 (01:03:00):
So you talk about modularity, which is great. Obviously you
started out in the snow blowing business. As you say,
I don't eat not a lot in Texas. But obviously
when it comes to the yards, without a doubt, you've
got the blades. I noticed the trimmer. This is a trimmer.
This is another interesting accessory too, and this isn't your trip.
You put a lot of thought into this trimmer.
Speaker 5 (01:03:15):
Yeah, yeah, So the trimmer went through a lot of revisions.
There's a lot of challenges with a trimmer, right, varied
terrain obstacles. Also, when we talk about navigation styles lid
ore GPS, how do you get close to objects that
normally would terrup the GPS signals? So we needed ourn
software to be able to work, but we also needed
the hardware to be able to dynamically move away from
(01:03:37):
objects and still get a close cut next to them.
We needed to know when we change on level ground,
we're not going to scalp the lawn. We need an
intelligent way to let more line out on the trimmer
without you needing to do it manually. And we wanted
something that was truly autonomous, not that you had to
kind of babysit while it trimmed. So a lot of
thought and effort went into the trimmer. We're really proud
of it.
Speaker 3 (01:03:57):
Hey, we have a lot of acreage over too, a
noticing you know you talk about point seven five, this
can go up to six acres. I mean you know
between the battery. You know how important is for a
lot of your consumer markets in commercials too, you talk
about soccer fields that it can go acres.
Speaker 5 (01:04:13):
Yeah, so really really important. So Yarbol has a thirty
eight amp hour battery. That's a big capacity. The only
other one that comes close to that is another brand
with a fifteen amp hour battery half the size, and
the reason for that is we have one of the
widest cutting decks in the industry twenty inches, so that
we really need it. And the other thing that's nice
(01:04:33):
is it's wireless charging, so when it's rainy, it's wet out,
we don't have to worry about grass clippings building up
on the charging pad. We don't need any contact to charge,
so we reliably charge every time. That includes the snow
as well. We snowblow off our own charging pad before
we go and then charge again. But that battery and
reliable charging fast charging as well, because usually, like with
(01:04:55):
your phone, you hook up a wireless charger charge is
slower than wired. We actually charge or charge faster wirelessly
than we do plug dain people want these things, are
they in retail locations? Is right now solely online and
you ship sure, So right now it's it's not solely online,
but I would say ninety percent of it is through
our website and Amazon. The offer for the five year
(01:05:17):
warranty is through our website right now, yarbo dot com.
But we do have a dealer network and if anybody
wants to, you know, learn more about Yarbo, they can
actually go to Yarbo's website, go to the dealer locator.
We also have something called the Neighborhood Showcase where owners
will actually either do a virtual meeting or they'll actually
have you come to their property if you live nearby
(01:05:37):
and experience a Yarbo firsthand. So we've got snowboarders, we've
got trimmers, we've got mowers, we've got bos over here.
Can you has a sneak peak of what even is
on the R and D list of what's to come
with Yarbo, uh many more modules. I can tell you
that you know, lawn care, you know, so one of
the things that we're working hard to get released. Is
to mode. To mode lets you toe anything autonomously. You
(01:05:59):
would toe with a ride on Lawnmore de thatcher air rator,
that type of thing. So there's a many many other
aspects to yardcare, and that's what we really want to
tackle is more of those de thatcher air rator ga
you know, seasonal things that you will use to maintain
the health of your lawn. Liquid sprayer, that type of thing.
Speaker 2 (01:06:18):
His name is Ken Coleman, co founder and vice president
of Yardbook Kin.
Speaker 3 (01:06:22):
Thank you so much for your time. We certainly appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (01:06:25):
I'll tell you what I have tested a number of
different you know, robotic lawn mores.
Speaker 3 (01:06:32):
You know, it's fun.
Speaker 2 (01:06:32):
Your neighbors like, what is that thing? They a lot
of them still don't even know that this category exists. Yes,
they know about robotic mops and things, but without a doubt.
In certainly where I am based in the state of Texas,
we have a lot of lawns. And as I was,
you know, as I joked to Can and joked everybody else,
it's like, where was this when I was a kid?
(01:06:53):
Because I was I was a little kid like most
people in Texas growing up your parents made you mode
the lawn. If you were a male and it's out there,
you're out there for three or four hours, it's one
hundred and ten degree heat and it's just it's not fun.
Speaker 3 (01:07:08):
Oh my, how cool? Would this would have been?
Speaker 2 (01:07:11):
More information? You can find it online. Just look for
a Yarbow. I'm hoping to get one of these myself
to actually play with. It probably won't need the snowblower,
but I will continue to update this as we continue.
I do appreciate not only Ken, but also Ari and
the folks that communicate more for making sure I had
a great interview, great opportunity.
Speaker 3 (01:07:29):
Of meeting with the Yarbo folks in New York City.
Michael Barkland is the name.
Speaker 2 (01:07:33):
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(01:11:10):
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