Wearable AI assistant & end of an era for Chuck E. Cheese animatronics

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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this week include Jeremy Kaplan. He writes the wonder Tools newsletter.
This is a newsletter all about cool AI tools, so
we'll hear all about those. Brian Heater, hardware editor at

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tech Crunch, we'll talk about his hands on time with
the Humane AI pin. This is the device that the
tech world is going gaga over, either in a good
way or in a bad way. Jefferson Graham friend of
the show, He's a with Photo Walks TV. He's gonna
explain how he captured an epic ten day time laps

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in Manhattan Beach, California with both the iPhone and the Samsung.
He's gonna share tips on how to take similar videos
and dish on which phone performed better.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
Well.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
I don't know how you spent your weekend, but I
was at Chuck E Cheese last night felt like I
was a kid again. Not just for any old reason,
but it came to my attention that Chuck E Cheese
is moving away from animatronics. What I could remember being
a kid being both memorized, mesmerized and also scared out

(02:27):
of my mind looking at these large moving mice and
dogs and whatever these things were. The moose, the band
this is the Munches Make Believe band, and this band is,
you know, just something that only the eighties could really

(02:49):
bring about in this world. Right. So, we were at
the Northridge, California location last night with the CEO of
Chuck E Cheese and also Nolan Bushnell, the founder of
Chuck E Cheese. He also founded Atari, so he has
been instrumental in all things technology throughout the years, and

(03:11):
he came up with the idea of this these animatronics.
But here's the deal. Chuck E Cheese is changing with
the times. They are ditching the animatronics for something they
call Chuck E Cheese two point zero. Bobo definitely a
kid of the eighties doesn't want this to go away.
I know, I know four hundred Chuck E Cheese locations.

(03:35):
Many of them have already gotten the upgrade, and the
upgrades are now an interactive dance floor and a video wall.
So the I guess the entertainment is going to be
on this video wall.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
But here's the good news.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
For those of you that live in California, specifically Los Angeles,
you can visit the Northridge, California location and see Munch's
Make Believe Band in all their glory. This is going
to stick around permanently. There you go. And I had
to go back in my files of because we had

(04:10):
my kids like sixth party, a sixth birthday party at
this Chuck E Cheese location, and I had to go
back and look, because last night, I will tell you,
this band was really spruced up, like they looked good.
They were in there, like everything was clean. It looked
like this was like brand new. And so I looked
back in my pictures and sure enough, this band is

(04:32):
completely cleaned up from the way it was six years ago.
Like this is the best case scenario of a Chuck
E Cheese band. It's bright, they are all kind of
clean and working, and you know, all the outfits are
brand new. And so they really revamped this band to
make them look their best. So last night with the
was the grand reopening. Like I said, the CEO was there,

(04:55):
no one was there. They explained this whole thing. They
explained the changeover where they're changing with the times, and
now this Northridge location is going to be a place
that people will stop at when they come to California,
when they come to Los Angeles, when they come to Hollywood,
this Chuck E Cheese location will be a place they
want to stop mostly for the parents, because the kids

(05:17):
they don't really remember this stuff, they don't even know
about this stuff. But for parents of a certain age,
Chuck E Cheese was a big part of their childhood.
Going into this darkly lit place that had games in
pizza and food and the cake that I remember that
was so delicious. It's all kind of changing, and it's
the tickets are gone, the physical tickets are gone. The

(05:40):
games are more fun, they're new. I mean, let's be honest,
they're competing with the iPad. That is no easy feat.
Kids are like they see animatronics are like really a
thing that kind of moves with pneumatics, like come on.
So anyway, that is the story. If you want to
see it, it's on my Instagram at rich On Tech.

(06:00):
You can check out the band in all of their glory.
And when you come to Los Angeles, when you come
to Hollywood, you have to make a stop in little
Old Northridge, California to see this Chuck E Cheese location,
the only one in the nation that will feature the
original animatronic band and by the way, the future of

(06:20):
Chuck E Cheese. They announced it last night. Trampolines. They're
going to be adding trampolines at their locations, which is interesting,
but I guess they want to keep kids active and
give them a place to jump around. And I know
that those like sort of sky zone places are very popular.
But anyway, it's always fascinating to me when you see

(06:41):
places changing with the times. And we'll see, we'll see
how it all works out. Oh, I thought this was
really interesting. So Google has a new way to shop.
And it takes a lot to impress me with shopping tools,
but this one does. And I got to say, Google
obviously is scouring the web on a daily basis, and

(07:02):
if you search in shop deals on Google, this is
a brand new destination where they are. They're always looking
at the prices of things online because in the course
of searching the web, they are noticing what the prices
of popular products are.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
And of course if.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
It goes down from one week to the next or
one day to the next, Google sees a trend. And
so now someone at Google got the smart idea of saying,
you know what, why don't we put all of these
things that we're tracking on one page and tell people
about the items that have the biggest price drops.

Speaker 1 (07:35):
And so that's what they're doing.

Speaker 2 (07:37):
So if you go to Google dot com and search
shop deals, you will see a bunch of popular categories.
I'm looking at cell phones, I'm looking at cameras, I'm
looking at laptops. I'm looking at tablets, headphones, all kinds
of categories, TVs, watches, toys. You can see the products
that have the best price drops. So, for instance, in

(07:59):
the TV category, this uh wow Insignia TV forty nine
ninety nine thirty seven percent off, Samsung q Leeds Smart
TV thirteen hundred bucks, thirty five percent off. When you
look at headphones, Apple Beats Solo three fifty percent off
ninety nine dollars. Tablets a Samsung Galaxy tab A seven

(08:22):
light one hundred thirty bucks, thirty five percent off.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
Let's see what else?

Speaker 2 (08:27):
A chromebook fifty percent off one hundred and fifty bucks
at best Buy, on and on and on, Samsung Galaxy
S twenty two three ninety nine forty two percent off.
So again, shop deals is the magic search. If you're
looking for a specific thing, just put that title in
between shop deals. So for instance, shop Apple Watch deals

(08:49):
will bring up the cheapest Apple watches. Now you have
to remember the top line is always going to be sponsored.
So if you don't want the sponsored stuff, which you know,
that's fine, but you can move down past and you'll
see the actual stuff that Google is cataloging. That is
percentage off. So I thought that was pretty interesting. I
thought that was pretty useful. I'm always on the lookout

(09:10):
for better shopping tools, especially as we are heading into
this season of shopping, and this was also interesting. I
had a friend at work say, hey, Rich, is there
any way to get a document that I have onto
my Kindle? How do I get a document like a
word document or anything else a pdf onto my Kindle?

Speaker 1 (09:31):
I said, It's very very easy. You go to.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
Amazon dot com slash send to Kindle. So if you
have a PDF, you've got a document, you've got a
text file, whatever you have, even JPEGs and anything you
have up to two hundred megabytes, you can just drag
and drop on this website and it will send it
to your Kindle. So if you need to read a

(09:56):
large document for work, you have an ebook, someone gave you,
whatever you've got, just go to Amazon dot com slash
send to Kindle.

Speaker 1 (10:06):
That is the letter's t o send to Kindle.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
You drag and drop and you can now read anything
you want that you have as a document on your Kindle.

Speaker 1 (10:15):
Why do you want to do that? Well, the Kindle's
so nice.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
The Kindle has a great screen, it's not a table
it's a it's not like a tablet screen like your iPad.
It's much easier on the eyes because it is a
paper sort of looking document. So again, you want to
send something to your kindle Amazon dot com slash send
to kindle, very very easy. He tried it that night

(10:38):
and he said, Rich it worked. I said, well, yeah,
I mean, come on, I told you it would.

Speaker 1 (10:44):
All right. Coming up, Uh, I got to tell you
about this new AI pin.

Speaker 2 (10:50):
This thing has taken the tech world by storm, for
better or for worse. You got to see what you
think about this device. It is AI on a device
that you wear. So we'll talk about that. Plus we'll
take your questions at triple eight rich one oh one
eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.

(11:12):
This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech.
Rich Demiro here talking technology at triple eight rich one
oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two
four one zero one. If you have a question about technology,
give me a call. We got Kim standing by to

(11:34):
get you on the air. So I told you about
this device called Humane AI, and we're gonna have a
guest talk about this. They went hands on with this thing,
but I'll tell you what it's all about, because it
is kind of like one of the biggest stories in
the tech world right now, and it's a head scratcher.
This is a startup called Humane h u m an E.

(11:57):
It's called the AI Pin. This is a new wearable
AI assistant device and it's kind of an entirely new platform.
So the way that the iPhone introduced apps, they are
hoping that this new device might be similar to that.
And so you wear this device and the best way
to describe it, I mean, it's really tough to describe

(12:18):
what it looks like.

Speaker 1 (12:20):
It looks like a.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
Tiny it's a pin. I don't know, it's a seven
hundred Oh I should tell you the price, seven hundred dollars.
So this is a seven hundred dollars pin that has microphones,
It has a laser projector on it, it has no screen,
has some lights, and it has a speaker. And the

(12:43):
idea behind this device is that you can sort of
ditch your smartphone and be more present and use AI
to help you out in this world. So it is
screenless and it has a voice activated AI assistant on it,
so you can ask it things like Hey, catch me
up on my email, or Hey, what was the name

(13:04):
of the twenty third president, and it will search the web,
search AI and bring that information back to you. It
can also play music, it can also take pictures. It
can do real time translation. So it is kind of
a device of the future that really capitalizes on artificial intelligence.

(13:25):
And some of the biggest backers are Microsoft, Open AI, Qualcom.
T Mobile provides the data connectivity. So it's six hundred
and ninety nine dollars and twenty four dollars a month
for this device. And so as I understand it, you
can put your hand out in front of you. It
will project out the screen onto your hand, so you

(13:49):
can read little things or see little things.

Speaker 1 (13:51):
It can take pictures.

Speaker 2 (13:53):
It's got an apparently all day battery use, so you
can swap the battery as you're using it, and that
way you can use.

Speaker 1 (14:00):
It all day.

Speaker 2 (14:02):
And they said they've put a strong focus on privacy
and security, so apparently it's not listening all the time,
but you can ask it to do stuff at any time.

Speaker 1 (14:10):
So I'm not sure how that works. And the bottom line.

Speaker 2 (14:15):
About this device is that the people who got to
try it out first sort of got to see it
in action, but they didn't necessarily get to try it
in action, so they got to see a lot of
demos of how this stuff works. But this is kind
of like the first big major startup that is leaning
very heavily into AI.

Speaker 1 (14:35):
I don't know. I'm kind of unsold on this thing.

Speaker 2 (14:38):
But we're gonna have Brian Heater of tech Crunch to
talk about this a little bit later in the show
because he went hands on, or I should say I
guess eyes on in a demo, and it's it's one
of those things where you kind of have to see
it to understand it. I don't really get it. I
feel like we've got our phones. People are a very

(15:00):
much attached to their phones.

Speaker 1 (15:01):
I get it.

Speaker 2 (15:02):
We're trying to be a little bit more screenless, we're
trying to be a little bit more present, But at
the same time, it feels like you can replicate a
lot of what this device does using a smart watch
or your phone or a combination of both. And to
go and spend seven hundred dollars on a new device
to do all this stuff, I just don't know. So again,

(15:22):
Humane AI Pin, We'll have to watch that one. Angie
in Wisconsin, writes in on the website rich on tech
dot TV. I'm ten years behind great show. I keep
my phone in the side pocket of my yoga pants
while cleaning houses for work. I'm done having kids, but
wondered if that's still a carcinogen risk having the phone

(15:43):
in the side pocket. I have AirPods and a watch,
but with them both, I like the phone close. I
admire your positivity. Angie in Wisconsin. Well, Angie, I am
no expert in all things health, and I would be
remiss if I didn't say I've thought about this before,
and I'm sure many people have. We've seen a whole

(16:04):
cottage industry of gadgets pop up that purport to take
the radiation away from phones or angle it away from
your face or your head or whatever. And yes, many
of us do carry our phones in our pockets.

Speaker 1 (16:21):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (16:22):
I mean, I've heard from experts that we're okay, and
we have gone thirty years with these smartphones, and the
conclusion is still sort of that we haven't seen an
increased connection between cancer and the smartphone. And so I
want to believe that we can believe that. But I
will say my one concern that I do have is

(16:45):
the fact that I wear an Apple Watch on my wrist. Now,
with the phone, I go eight, ten, twelve, fourteen hours
where it's not in my pocket, whereas with my Apple Watch,
it is on my wrist the entire day and except
for when I sleep, and for some people it is
on their wrist when they sleep. And so I will
say I am more concerned about that being so close

(17:07):
to my wrist and the potential for issues there because
it is on your body at all times. Now, the AirPods,
you know, with the Bluetooth, I'm not really concerned about that.
You know, you put them in and you take them out.
I don't really think that's doing much. But I will
say with the specifically cellular connection on your wrist, that
does concern me a little bit. Especially kids. They're having

(17:28):
these things on their wrist for a long long time.

Speaker 1 (17:30):
In their lifetime.

Speaker 2 (17:31):
So, Jerry still out, good question. I think it's important
to be concerned with this stuff, but not, you know,
too concern all right, coming up, Jeremy Kaplan Wonder Tools Newsletter,
Let's learn about AI. You're listening to Rich on Tech.
Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging

(17:52):
out talking technology with you at triple eight rich one
oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two
four one one zero one. Give me a call if
you have a question about technology. Joining me now is
Jeremy Kaplan, director of Teacher, Teaching and Learning at Qune's
Grad School of Journalism. He is the creator and writer

(18:15):
of wonder Tools on substack. This is a great AI
newsletter where he shares all kinds of useful tools that
have to do with AI.

Speaker 1 (18:26):
Jeremy, thanks so much for joining me.

Speaker 4 (18:27):
Great to be here with you.

Speaker 1 (18:29):
So what made you start this newsletter on subsac.

Speaker 5 (18:33):
There's a huge amount of technology coming at us every day.
It can be overwhelming, and I want to help people
understand it and make the most of it.

Speaker 2 (18:41):
And so when you first heard about chat GBT, is
that what got you into this. I mean, it's only
been less than a year since that launched.

Speaker 5 (18:49):
It's been definitely something that got me really excited about AI.

Speaker 4 (18:52):
But I actually started the newsletter when the pandemic hit.
I was alone in my home and.

Speaker 5 (18:57):
People were alone in their homes all over the country
and trying to figure out how to live online.

Speaker 4 (19:02):
And I wanted to help people.

Speaker 5 (19:03):
So I've now written two hundred posts to help people
in different ways with technology, including AI.

Speaker 1 (19:09):
Okay, so did you sort of when you first started
it was AI the focus or did you kind of
pivot to that.

Speaker 4 (19:17):
I pivoted to that first.

Speaker 5 (19:18):
It was Zoom and figuring out, you know, how do
we have online meetings, how do we teach online, how
do we work online? How do we live online and
have fun online and meet people? So it was all
of that online living, and then when AI hit with chagpt,
it just became the AI revolution.

Speaker 2 (19:33):
Wow, and during the pandemic, bring us back to that
time because it was such a you know, no one
knew what was next, and so of course everyone was
hopping on Zoom and all these different tools. We all
learned how to work online and remote. What was it
like for this newsletter?

Speaker 5 (19:49):
You know, it was a way for me to connect
with people and to help people. You know, I couldn't
necessarily volunteer in hospitals. I don't have a medical background,
but I was a teacher, and I saw other teachers struggling,
including you know, my kindergartener had a teacher who just
didn't even know how to work our computer, and so
I just saw all these teachers and other people who
needed help with technology, and that was something that I

(20:10):
could try to help them with. And so that was
the purpose of the newsletter and step by step, one
tool at a time each week, giving them some guidance,
giving them some gestions and practical tips for just ordinary people,
not for technology experts.

Speaker 2 (20:22):
That's the key right there. So what you know, how
do you find these new tools? I mean, there's so
many obviously coming out every week. How do you find them?
And how do you decide what to feature?

Speaker 4 (20:33):
Well?

Speaker 5 (20:33):
I love exploring technology. Some people like phishing, some people
like driving. I love technology. So I explore technology, you know,
in the free hours that I have, and when I
stumble upon something that makes me say wow, or or
that I see has a really useful application or way
to use it, I stop and dig in. And I

(20:54):
call it pickstick and dig as the approach. So I
picked something, I really stick with it for a while
and then dig into how it can be useful.

Speaker 2 (21:02):
So before you kind of talk about some of these
you know, apps and things that you really like and
you use on a daily basis, tell me about AI.
I mean, because people are concerned about it, They worry
about it. They don't know what the future of AI is.
What's your take on AI?

Speaker 5 (21:19):
So I think it's a tool like any other tool.
The phone is a tool, the mobile phone is a tool,
laptop is a tool. All of those can be used well,
or they can be misused. They can be used to
send spam, or they can be used to be to
send a life saving message to somebody.

Speaker 4 (21:31):
So I think, like all those other tools, AI.

Speaker 5 (21:33):
Can be used for great purposes, for efficiency, for creativity,
and it can also be misused and used to create
misinformation or to recavoc So it's all a matter of
how we use it and setting some guidelines and some
best practices.

Speaker 2 (21:48):
So we've got the main you know, chat EBT, you've
got clawed from Anthropic, you've got barred from Google.

Speaker 1 (21:55):
What do you make of those tools?

Speaker 5 (21:57):
So they're all fantastic in their own way. So, for example,
claud allows you to upload up to seventy thousand words,
so you can give it an entire book or a
huge PDF with your whole company set of company policies,
and guide a new person to your company with here
are some of the key principles, right, So they don't
have to read seventy thousand words of a giant PDF,
for example. Or you can upload a huge amount of

(22:20):
data that you're just trying to get a sense of
and understand, or a document in multiple languages that you
may not speak so for the purpose of understanding large
giant documents. Claude is fantastic and I've written about it
in Wonder Tools. Chat GPT has something that's really unique,
which is this app store. So there are more than
a thousand different apps now that plug into chat GPT,

(22:42):
and they do things like connect to Canva, for example.
So you can ask chat gpt to create a drawing
for you, or a design for your company, or a
poster or a slide or any number of visuals. So
that's something that's unique to chat gpt for example. So
each of them has their unique capabilities. And now there's
a whole of other AI tools beyond just the chat
tools as well.

Speaker 2 (23:04):
So the more I think about AI and specifically Google,
the more I kind of realize why Google was slow
to roll out something like chat GBT, Because once you
get on board with like even Bard, you realize that
it completely changes the way you search the Internet. You
know right Now, when you search the Internet, it's kind

(23:25):
of like you know, hunt and peck, right, You're looking
and you click a link and you don't find what
you need, and you go back and you click another one.
And that's great for Google's business model. But when you
go to like one of these AI tools and you
ask for information, and yes, I understand that sometimes that
information can be false or you know, hallucinations, but it's
a totally different way of finding information versus that kind

(23:48):
of clicking a lot of links that might lead you
to a sponsored link or you know, a paid post.

Speaker 1 (23:53):
What do you think about that idea?

Speaker 5 (23:55):
I think you're absolutely right, Rich. I think the web
can be overwhelming. And when you search Google and get
a thousand different links and you have no way of
verifying you know, one from another, it's just overwhelming. And
it's a lot more efficient in many cases if you
can tailor a specific request to an AI engine that
you can actually trust. Now, the question is can you
actually trust the results? And what I've found is that

(24:15):
the AI engines work best as language engines and work
not quite as well as knowledge engines. So that's where
there's a distinction with what Google's doing. And so when
you're putting in a piece of language and saying, hey,
help me make this paragraph more concise, or help me
make sure I've got the grammar and the spelling of
this language, or help me translate this language, or help
me summarize this complicated scientific language. For those language purposes,

(24:39):
the AI works terrifically well as a kind of language engine.
When you get into the factual questions, you know, explain
to me the history of this topic. In many cases
you will get a majority, you know, accurate kind of
piece of information. But the fact that you get a
little bit of that hallucination up to three percent in
a recent research study of content that you get back
when you ask a knowledge based question is hallucinated information.

Speaker 4 (25:00):
So if you have that.

Speaker 5 (25:01):
Three percent faulty rate, it's not as trustworthy. Now, of course,
when you search Google, you could land on a site
that has information that itself is not trustworthy.

Speaker 4 (25:10):
So we always have to be a skeptic. In the end.

Speaker 5 (25:12):
It's always up to us to kind of use our
skepticism and judge for ourselves what's accurate and what might
not be.

Speaker 2 (25:18):
And as a journalist, you know, you got to fact
check everything you can't just take it at face value here, okay,
So can you share some tools that people might not
have heard of that are useful, fun interesting? Do you
have anything that you can talk about?

Speaker 4 (25:33):
Absolutely?

Speaker 3 (25:34):
So.

Speaker 5 (25:34):
Oasis is one of these new tools that I use
almost every day. It's a what I call a bionic
dictation tool, which basically means it's a voice recorder or
a dictation tool, just like your voice memos app, for example,
on your phone, but it does something really powerful in
addition to that, So instead of just recording your voice,
it also transcribes what you're saying, and in addition to
transcribing what you're saying, it will transform what you're saying.

(25:57):
So what I use it for is to list out
ideas thoughts I have for article, or for a letter
I'm writing, or for a class I'm teaching, whatever I'm
thinking about planning, ideating a presentation, and it will give
me multiple versions of that content. So we'll give me
that content just as a transcript, but it will also
summarize the key points that I've said, it will put
it in an outline format, it will create a blog

(26:17):
post version of that or an email version of that.
And recently I was doing a couple of vertical videos.
I asked it to give me a vertical videoscript format
of that ideation that I was doing, and it did
that as well. So the key thing here is it's
my own ideas. It's not pulling that information from somewhere online.
It's taking my own idea, but it's just transforming the
way that language is presented. It's putting it in a

(26:37):
summary format or an outline format or a script format.

Speaker 4 (26:40):
So that's super.

Speaker 5 (26:41):
Useful as a way to augment my own ideation process
and to help me basically organize my ideas more efficiently.
And it's been a super super helpful part of my
brainstorming and my creative process recently. And it's called Oasis,
and you can use it completely for free, and I
have no affiliation with them, by the way, it's.

Speaker 4 (26:59):
Just something I use in life.

Speaker 5 (27:00):
You can use it completely for free, or you can
pay a five buck a month, you know, kind of
freemium payment to use it a little bit more.

Speaker 4 (27:07):
And so that's a great one.

Speaker 5 (27:08):
There's another tool it's very similar, called audio Pen and
they both do essentially the same kind of idea of
bionic transcription, where you essentially are using your voice and
generating you know, the materials for yourself in a new
way with AI.

Speaker 2 (27:22):
That's awesome. Okay, we have time for one more. You
have one more you want to talk about?

Speaker 4 (27:26):
Sure? Sure.

Speaker 5 (27:27):
Another one that I use and really like is called
blocks b l oks dot app, And what that does
is allow me to record any meeting, either an in
person meeting or a meeting online. And it sits on
my laptop so that it doesn't have to join the
meeting for example, So it works on any platform, but
it also works in an in person meeting. Of course,
you need the permission of the person. You don't want

(27:47):
to record people surreptitiously, but you ask if it's okay.
And usually what I tell people is, I'd love to
send you a summary of this conversation. Is it okay
if I record it so that I can transcribe it
and summarize it and share that with you. And it
creates a nice transcription of that, a summary of the meeting.
It even will include action points, and then you can
query it. You can say, what were the three things
we talked about when we came at the toward the
end of the meeting, You can ask it questions and

(28:08):
get just that.

Speaker 4 (28:08):
So it's like having an assistant.

Speaker 5 (28:10):
Next to you helping you and keeping track of your
meetings and your notes, so you don't have to manually
write down everything and you don't forget anything. So that's
a free tool and I really love it. I'm using
it regularly for most of my meetings these days. So
that's another super helpful AI tool that you.

Speaker 4 (28:26):
May not have heard of. And I've written about these
in wonder tools, so if.

Speaker 5 (28:29):
People are interested, they can they can dig into that
further on the newsletter.

Speaker 2 (28:33):
All right, Jeremy Kaplan, thanks so much for joining me today.

Speaker 4 (28:36):
Thanks Rich, it's been great talking with you.

Speaker 2 (28:37):
And if you want to get Jeremy's substack newsletter, just
go to wondertools dot substack dot com. I love reading
it every time it arrives to my inbox. Very very
helpful stuff. Triple eight Rich one oh one eight eight
eight seven four two four one zero one. More of
your calls after this. Welcome back to Rich on Tech.

(29:02):
Rich DeMuro here talking technology with you at triple eight
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Speaker 1 (29:20):
X and threads. Let's go to Jeff in Jackson, Mississippi. Jeff,
you're on with rich.

Speaker 6 (29:28):
Hey rich fand your show today. I got a had
a desire to get a new TV to the bedroom,
but I'm not sure what to look for and look
at and one's an advice.

Speaker 2 (29:41):
Well, thanks for finding the show. You're you're looking for
a TV.

Speaker 6 (29:46):
Som TV, something that you know get into the twenty
first stating okay.

Speaker 2 (29:53):
And so do you have a TV in another room
that has kind of the smarts or do you like
what are you using for your prime Mary TV?

Speaker 6 (30:01):
Yeah, as a just a flat string TV and the
dand is a smart TV. But the bedroom is not
not that new of the TV. I'm not sure what
it is. I was gonna buys one, but I was
talking with some people and they said be careful about
buying from Walmart, Target places like that. They'll have they
have older, you know, TVs, and I don't know what

(30:22):
to look for. I'm just wanting to buy.

Speaker 2 (30:24):
Okay, Well, I think the main thing you have to
think about when it comes to a TV is do
you want the smarts to be built into the TV
or do you want to add the smarts later. So
if you're if you're looking for the smarts to be
built into the TV, you've got a couple of options.
You've got Roku, You've got Google TV, and you've got

(30:47):
fire TV, and those are kind of like the three
main operating systems in addition to you know, the operating
systems that the TV manufacturers have. So then you have
Visio they have their own operating system, and also LG
has one called web OS. So it's a lot to
think about because if you get one of these TVs

(31:07):
with this built in, you have to like both the
TV and the operating system behind the TV, and then
you have to figure out, well, does the operating system
have the apps that I want? Now, every TV in
the world is going to have access to things like Netflix,
but then when it comes to you know, more obscure apps,
that's where you may have to make sure the TV
platform that you want has what you need. So if

(31:30):
you like something like you know, Curiosity stream or you
know some sort of like documentary streaming service, you want
to make sure that it's available on these So my
personal preference, I think Roku is very very popular. They
have a good combination of TVs that are inexpensive, good
value TCL that's kind of the TCL Roku TVs. Those

(31:53):
have always been a very very strong TV choice. I
think when it comes to Amazon, if you're looking to
buy one online, the Fire TVs, I like the software,
you know, the TV itself doesn't get the best reviews necessarily,
but they're always a good value. And we are coming
up into Black Friday, the Cyber Monday, the holiday shopping season.

(32:15):
There's going to be a lot of deals on TV,
so I would wait until this shopping season sort of starts.
And by the way, Amazon's kicking it off a week
early this year on the seventeenth, so that's when we're
going to start seeing a lot of deals on these TVs. Now,
when it comes to the best, best best TVs, which

(32:36):
I don't think you need in the bedroom, the LG
O LEDs are clearly ranked number one all the time.
The G three specifically is probably the top of the line,
as is the Sony A ninety five K. That's what
are the last time we had a TV editor on
that's what they recommended. Now when it comes to mid

(32:57):
range TVs, that's probably what you want in the secondary room,
So I would say a TCL or a high Sense
might be the best case scenario. Now, personally, I like
to add my smarts later on to the TV because
I like to pick the device that I'm using for
my platform, and I really like the fireTV platform, so

(33:18):
you can get a fire TV stick to add to this.
What's really cool is that the new Fire TV stick,
the four K Max, has what's called ambient technology, so
when you're not using the fire stick, your TV sort
of turns into a picture frame, and that's really cool.
Google also does that with their Chrome Cast, their Google

(33:38):
TV device, not the regular Chrome Cast, but the Google TV,
and it's great if you use Google Photos. Apple TV
is another way to get it. If you're an iPhone person,
you know, Apple TV obviously is going to work very
nicely with the iPhone, But the Apple TV itself is
much more expensive than any of the other streaming devices.

Speaker 1 (33:58):
But when it comes to buying.

Speaker 2 (33:59):
The TV at Walmart or Target, I think, to be
quite honest, it really comes down to looking up some
reviews online of the best TVs that you can buy,
and places like Wirecutter offer great reviews. Digital Trends has
great reviews of TVs. There is no plethora, there's no

(34:20):
shortage of TV reviews online. So I think it comes
down to the brand that you get and the model
that you get. And also it used to be very
important when it came to like how many HDMI ports
and things that were on TVs. That's getting less important
as people are streaming everything. So I think you find
a size at a price that you like, and you

(34:40):
make sure it has the features that you like. Obviously
you want something that's four K and something that you
can add one of these streaming devices to. I think
that's gonna be your best bet. So good luck with
the TV. I am in the I'm in the market
for a TV myself, and I'll be quite honest, I
think I'm gonna go with the High Sense U eight
K because it's getting great review use High Sense. I

(35:01):
know it's a brand that not many people have heard of,
but they are definitely making some progress here in the US.
So thanks for the call, Jeff over there in Jackson, Mississippi.
Spotify this week added two hundred thousand audiobooks for premium users,
So if you are a Spotify subscriber in the US,

(35:21):
you can now listen to audiobooks for free. You get
fifteen hours of listening per month included, and they say
they have seventy percent of the best selling titles. That
doesn't mean you get to listen to seventy percent of
the book. It means that if you're looking at the
most popular titles available as audiobooks, they say they have
seventy percent of those represented. And they also have a
whole bunch of genres gen Z and millennials lead and

(35:44):
audiobook listening. They say people like to listen to audiobooks
for relaxation, comfort, the cognitive benefits. And now Spotify has music,
podcasts and audiobooks all in one place. So if you
are a premium subscriber that is a perk, you should
probably take advantage of listen to your fifteen hours of
books each month. All right, we'll have more of your

(36:05):
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Speaker 1 (36:47):
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Rich Dedmiro here rich on Tech talkin technology with you
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Speaker 1 (37:08):
Patty did just that.

Speaker 2 (37:09):
Patty says, what are your thoughts on the three dollars
version of total AV for the iPad? Patty, My thought
is that you do not need it. I know, the
way that the iPhone and iOS and iPad is set up,
there is no need for antivirus.

Speaker 1 (37:26):
It just doesn't work that way.

Speaker 2 (37:27):
The antivirus program itself cannot even scan the entire system
because it's what's called sandboxed, and so that means that
this total AV can't really do anything.

Speaker 1 (37:43):
Let's see, what do they promised to do.

Speaker 2 (37:44):
I get this total av they advertise so heavily, I
must get fifteen questions about it a week. Let's see
smart scan data, breach, check photos and videos, clean up,
duplicate contact finder, webshield, QR code, Private can action, VPN.
All those are premium features. I don't think you need
any of this stuff. Honestly. The biggest thing you can

(38:06):
do to protect yourself on any device is to watch
the places where you log in. Make sure you're not
logging into a website that's trying to trick you, and
watch out for those texts that come in that try
to make you click a link and hand over your
personal information. But if you think this is anti virus
for the iPad, it's just not, so you can go
ahead and skip it. Good question, though, Let's go to

(38:29):
Let's go to Joan in San Diego.

Speaker 1 (38:32):
Joan, you're on with Rich.

Speaker 7 (38:34):
Hi, thank you. I have this printer that I bought
a few years ago. It's an epsom Et twenty and
I absolutely love it. But something, an airring, fell in
the back and stammed it and I pulled that out
and what happened is now the paper when you go

(38:55):
to print something. It just scrunches up in bunches and
it won't come out. So I'll tech support and they
immediately realized that I was not under warranty. We tried
to troubleshoot it, but it didn't work first, and so
I asked him. I said, I have a cabinet full
of the five twenty two inc. Because I sort of

(39:16):
got it on auto order on Amazon.

Speaker 1 (39:18):
Yeah, and you got like a whole bunch.

Speaker 7 (39:20):
Yeah, but I thought I loved the printer. No big deal.
And he looked one and back and looked at printers
and he said, well, and I don't believe this because
I've found otherwise on Google, but I want to I
want to verify it. He said, the five twenty two inc.
That you have will not work in any other EPSOM printers.

Speaker 1 (39:39):
Well, that's not true, okay.

Speaker 7 (39:42):
I just wonder what my options are. Should I try
to fix this or should I just try to find
another one that'll take that ink the new one?

Speaker 1 (39:49):
How long have you had this printer?

Speaker 7 (39:52):
I think it's three years okay, probably just outside the warranty.

Speaker 2 (39:55):
Yeah, of course, usually everything breaks just outside the warranty.
It works perfectly while it's in warranty. So I'm looking
on Amazon for this five twenty two inc. And it
says it works with the twenty seven to twenty, the
twenty eight hundred, the twenty eight oh three, the twenty
eight to forty, the forty seven hundred, the forty eight hundred,
the forty eight ten. So I think that you can

(40:18):
find another printer. What they may have been referencing is
that perhaps this this you know, there's not a current
printer that uses this ink. You know, maybe the newer
models use the five twenty three or something like that,
but there are definitely models that use this, including the
same printer that you have. I mean, you can still
just buy a new printer if you want. This one's

(40:39):
been discontinued, but of course people are going to still
sell it for a little bit. But what I would
do is I would go I just did a quick
search on THEPPS on the Amazon website, but I would
go on the EPs and website for the five twenty
two listing, and I'm sure and I can try to
find this quickly here.

Speaker 8 (40:58):
But another one.

Speaker 7 (41:00):
I found other ones too, and I just he's double checked,
and I don't know what he must have just been
having an off day or something.

Speaker 1 (41:06):
Well, now here's the other question I have.

Speaker 2 (41:08):
So I'm looking at the Yeah, so now I'm looking
at the website, and it does have all these printers
that are listed the twenty four hundred. I mean there's
there's at least one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,
nine ten printers.

Speaker 1 (41:19):
So what I would do is just go through each.

Speaker 2 (41:21):
One of those printers on this page on the EPSOM
website and just search and see how much they cost,
and go with one that has the features that you want.
Some have a scanner, some have the automatic document feed
or whatever you need. But yes, you can use this ink.
Now on the flip side, you know, depending on how
much ink you have, you may just want to say,
you know what, let's just call this a total loss
and let's just go to cost Go and buy a

(41:42):
new printer and just you know, start over.

Speaker 9 (41:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (41:46):
Yeah, Costco had when I really liked on sale. It
doesn't take my ink.

Speaker 2 (41:50):
Yeah, I mean, look, here's the thing. I mean, these
ink is not cheap. And I'm on this plan with
HP where they send the ink. It's like five six
I think it was paying like thirteen bucks a month.
But it's like I went to I said, you know what,
I'm sick of pain all this. Let me just buy
the ink out right, And they wanted like two hundred
dollars for the ink cartridges. And then, by the way,

(42:11):
the ones in my printer would stop working, like it
wouldn't use the ones that I already had, like I
had just send those back in. So I think you're
doing better than I am because I'm stuck with what
I have. You're sort of stuck with what you have.
But the good news is, Joan, this ink will work
in a different printer. I think that you just go
on the website see which printers that it works with.
Since you already have the ink, you're already halfway there.

(42:33):
And this ink lasts for a long time. So I
would just go ahead and find a new printer that
it works with and go that route. Thanks for the question,
appreciate it. Let's go to Lewis in Riverside with an
update about a call from Was this last week?

Speaker 1 (42:50):
Lewis?

Speaker 9 (42:51):
Yes, it was last week. Hi had a kid is
a short story. His mom died unexpectedly, had an iPhone
turned out it's an iPhone can, had it switched over,
It had a lock on it.

Speaker 1 (43:05):
Yes, and we were worried.

Speaker 9 (43:07):
Ask you about that. We got it to him. Kids understand tech.
It was like they speak that language. In less than
a minute, he was punching the numbers so fast. Had
it turned on. He's back online and it worked out great.

Speaker 1 (43:22):
So we figured out the code to open the phone.

Speaker 9 (43:25):
Yeah, he had the code. I didn't even try it
because I had phones before. Where after you try so
many times.

Speaker 3 (43:32):
Yeah, it'll lock you out.

Speaker 9 (43:33):
Oh yeah, So I didn't even try and he went
in there. It was like his third try in less
than a minute and turned on.

Speaker 1 (43:42):
Now what did I say last week?

Speaker 9 (43:46):
You had said that maybe they had If we couldn't
get it, maybe we could go with them to like documentation.
Hayes mom died. This was the phone, and it would
have been a you know, I imagine we could have maybe
we could have done something. But we're lucky we didn't.

Speaker 2 (44:04):
You're lucky that he figured out the code and three tries,
so very good.

Speaker 9 (44:08):
I was concerned. I guess he was close with his mom,
so he knew the information and got it.

Speaker 10 (44:17):
Well.

Speaker 1 (44:17):
I love that he figured it out.

Speaker 2 (44:18):
I love that you can use his phone less waste
in the in the you know, recycling bent of phones,
and uh, I would.

Speaker 9 (44:26):
Just and and the best thing, any information that was
on there didn't get lost.

Speaker 1 (44:31):
Yeah, that's that's well, back it up.

Speaker 2 (44:33):
And uh at some point I would probably recommend backing
up the information that's on there and then maybe starting
over with his own account, if that's what you're gonna do.

Speaker 1 (44:42):
But h Lewis, thanks for the update, appreciate it.

Speaker 9 (44:45):
Hey, thank you Rich, thanks.

Speaker 2 (44:48):
For listening there in Riverside. And UH, I do recall
that I did give the advice to for the child
to think about the number if he if he could
figure out that pin code. But in the future, I
will say the lesson learned from this is to set
up what's called a legacy contact. So on iOS, on Facebook,

(45:13):
and on Google, you can set up what's called a
legacy contact. This is someone that can manage your online
accounts after you die. Not something you want to think about, right,
but it's something that is important because yeah, there are
systems for this. You can write to Apple, you can
write to Google, you can show a death certificate. But realistically,

(45:33):
a do you really want to be doing that for
yourself or a loved one? I guess you wouldn't be
doing it for yourself because you're not there. But you
know what I mean. So, I mean there are systems,
but there's also ways of making these systems easier. So
for instance, my wife and I have a binder with
all of the important information, all of the accounts, everything

(45:53):
we need to know for each other. And again it's
not something you want to think about. I mean, who
wants to make a binder this says open this up
in case I'm my death. Nobody does. But I will
tell you your loved ones will be much happier for
it because they will have, if you're okay with it,
the passwords to the two important accounts, the accounts to
look for all that good stuff. So Facebook, Google and

(46:16):
Apple for sure, look up legacy contact. Set someone as
your legacy contact that if you stop accessing your account
for a while, they will email them and say, hey,
this account hasn't been used in a while and you
have the ability to now take it over and get
the data from there. So thanks for the call, Lewis,
appreciate it all right. If you have a question for me,

(46:36):
give me a call. It's triple eight rich one O one.
That's eight eight eight seven, four to two, four to
one zero one. Coming up, I'll tell you about the
Zoomo stream box. If you're clinging onto your cable box,
this might be a good option for you. Amazon starting
Cyber Monday deals a little bit earlier.

Speaker 1 (46:53):
I'll tell you about that. And plus we're gonna talk.

Speaker 2 (46:55):
To Brian Heter of tech Crunch about the Humane AI pin.
Listening to rich on Tech, Welcome back to rich on Tech.
Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you talking technology. Before
the break, we were talking about legacy contacts and how
to set it. You can indeed set one for Facebook, Apple,

(47:17):
and Google calls it Inactive Account Manager. It's all linked
up on the website richon Tech dot tv. You can
check the show notes for this week's show and everything
I mentioned is in there. Amazon is starting Black Friday
and Cyber Monday deals a little bit earlier this year.
Black Friday deals will start on November seventeenth. Cyber Monday

(47:39):
deals will happen starting Saturday, November twenty fifth. Amazon, of course,
is promising deals on popular brands Sony Disney, Peloton, Lego,
all the Amazon devices like Echo, ring fireTV. They'll be
up to fifty percent off of course they kind of
discount the older devices more or so than the newer devices,

(48:01):
but again, be on the lookout for that.

Speaker 1 (48:03):
And this is kind of cool.

Speaker 2 (48:05):
You know, I'm not a huge sports guy, but I
do think that part of that problem is that sports
is just all over the place when it comes to
where you can find the games, and like literally every
game is on a different platform or a different channel
or different streaming service, and it's kind of annoying. And
so this, I think is kind of cool. So the
Amazon Prime Video, which they've been doing Thursday night football games,

(48:29):
which I love because anyone with a Prime account can
access that game and watch it and stream it from
any device. And now they're going to apply that same
logic on Black Friday. You can stream the Jets Dolphins
game on Prime Video. But here's the difference. You don't
need an Amazon Prime account to watch it, so all.

Speaker 1 (48:49):
You need is an Amazon account.

Speaker 2 (48:50):
So they're opening up this Prime game to anyone with
an Amazon account. So that's kind of cool. Now, of course,
they are going to have shopping during the game. And
I was tuned into the Thursday night football game on
Amazon Prime and yeah, in the commercials, they're like literally saying, hey,
you can buy this, like, scan this QR code on
the screen and it brings you right to Amazon to
buy it. So that's kind of interesting. But I just

(49:12):
thought that was cool. Like it's so like streaming has
made things so easy but also so complicated because there
are a thousand different services and everything is on different services.
Even if you follow one team, they can be playing
on you know, five six different services throughout the course
of a season.

Speaker 1 (49:30):
Let's go to UH.

Speaker 2 (49:31):
Let's go to Jerry in Hatfield, Pennsylvania.

Speaker 1 (49:35):
Jerry, you're on with Rich?

Speaker 2 (49:37):
Hi?

Speaker 11 (49:37):
Rich, how you doing?

Speaker 1 (49:38):
I'm doing great?

Speaker 11 (49:39):
How are you well? I'd be happier if it can
help me out. Rich. You ever hear of Olympia. It's
a Filipino egg roll.

Speaker 1 (49:47):
I have not.

Speaker 11 (49:48):
Well, if you're ever going to chance to try when
you want to what I've done, I've written a spreadsheet
with all the ingredients on it, okay, in in Google sheets,
with one sell UH for the user to adjust according
to their to the recipe. If you have, i say,
three pounds of meat, it'll put it in there, plugget

(50:11):
and it'll just all your other vegetables and stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (50:14):
Oh sure, sure, you put like the proportions, and you
programmed it in credit, and.

Speaker 11 (50:19):
I want to have a new machine so I can
give the link to other people. And I've locked them
spreadsheetings and that my problem is I want to go
back into the sprindtsheet as a different user and see
if my if my parameters are working as far as
unlocking the lock of that. Some people can't change the
other stuff I have on there.

Speaker 2 (50:39):
You want to make sure before you share this that
actually works for a random person.

Speaker 11 (50:43):
Right, And I tried opening up I sent I sent
the link to a different uh email that I have.
It's not associated with it, and it's not working. I
can open it up, but if I change it on
the secondary email, I can see it change on the
primary and I want to be able to well, what

(51:06):
I want to say is that it's just a mirror
of it. I want to make sure that.

Speaker 1 (51:10):
I can type things in but not change the original.

Speaker 11 (51:14):
Right now, how I do that?

Speaker 1 (51:17):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (51:18):
So what you want to do is there's two parts
to your question. First off, you want to make this
document so that you can share it around and not
have someone change it, but they can use it. So
that's the number one part. And then the second part
is that you want to be able to try this out.
So I think for the first part it depends how
you share this. So in Google there is a in

(51:42):
the upper right hand corner a share icon, and it
gives you a couple of options on how to share.
So there is an option that says anyone with a
link can view, and then there is anyone with a
link and comment, and anyone with the link can edit.
So you you probably want to make people a viewer,

(52:04):
and when they view that link, you want to make
sure that they can change those numbers inside that link.
And that's the way you format. You format that the
cell inside that spreadsheet. So the second part of the
equation here is testing this out. So as you noticed,
you emailed it to yourself. So what I would do

(52:26):
is I would just copy the link once you set
the permissions, and once you copy the link, I would
use what's called a private browsing window or an incognito window.
So on your web browser, if you go to file,
it should say you know. If you're using Safari, they
call it a private window. If you're using Chrome, they
call it an incognito window. So open up an incognito window.

(52:49):
And then paste that URL in there, and you should
be able to see what's happening on that URL. Like,
if you can't access it and you can't change the
data the way you're saying, then you have to go
back and reformat your your document. Now, if you don't
want people to be able to save this stuff, you
need to make sure that they are not an editor

(53:11):
and they are just a viewer. But you need to
make sure that when you make them a viewer, they
can still change you know, the data inside those inside
those parameters. So with that said, you would have to
figure that. Off the top of my head. I'm not
sure if you can make a spreadsheet that people can
pop in their own data. You may have to make
it a template and that way people can copy it

(53:36):
to their Google Docs account and then make the changes
that they want to do.

Speaker 1 (53:42):
That would probably be the best.

Speaker 2 (53:44):
Way of handling this. So again, maybe a template or
they have to just save it. You might just you
just might make it so that they can see this
document and then save it to their drive and then
they can make the appropriate changes. I think that it's
going to be the best way because if you think
about it, you can't have fifteen people on there making

(54:04):
changes at the same time, adjusting their ingredients and expecting
this to work out because you can only have one
person at a time that's changing it. So I would
make them just a viewer only once they copy it
to their account, which there's a little icon for that
up near the top, then they can then they can make.

Speaker 1 (54:20):
The appropriate changes.

Speaker 2 (54:22):
Let me know, Jerry, go on the website, rich On
Tech dot TV email me with the update. All right,
coming up Zumo stream box and oh we're going to
talk to Brian Heater, hardware editor at tech Crunch. We're
going to talk about the Humane AI pin. Welcome back
to rich On Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you,

(54:43):
talking technology at Triple eight Rich one oh one. Brian
Heater is hardware editor at tech Crunch. He got to
go hands on with the gadget that the entire tech
community is talking about. It's the Humane AI pin. Brian,
thanks so much for joining me today.

Speaker 1 (54:59):
Yeah, thanks for having me.

Speaker 2 (55:00):
So can you explain you got to go hands on
with this device. I'm sure it was a small group
of people that got to do this up in San Francisco.
Can you explain what the Humane AI pin is sure.

Speaker 12 (55:13):
Yeah, let me let me caveat by saying, you know,
I got to wear it and I got to see
it in action, but I didn't really get to, you know,
use it in a super meaningful way.

Speaker 1 (55:21):
But it's a brand new startup.

Speaker 12 (55:25):
They've actually been around since twenty eighteen, but they were
made public earlier this year.

Speaker 1 (55:29):
It's run by.

Speaker 12 (55:30):
A couple of forber Apple executives and the pitch is
effectively life beyond the smartphone. It's a little pin that
sits on your lapel that hangs on there magnetically, and
it uses AI.

Speaker 1 (55:45):
To do a number of different actions.

Speaker 12 (55:47):
You interact with it, primarily through voice, but there's also touch.

Speaker 1 (55:50):
And the far and away.

Speaker 12 (55:52):
The most visually interesting aspect of it is it actually
has a projector, a laser projector in it that will
project emails and even photos if you're getting a call
during those times where you don't actually want to speak
to the thing.

Speaker 2 (56:08):
And so, would you actually replace your smartphone with this
or do you think most people would have it in
addition to their smartphone.

Speaker 12 (56:16):
Yeah, I don't think anybody's getting rid of their smartphone
at any point in the near future. But the device
itself has a twenty four dollar a month subscription fee
that includes a phone number. It's it's LTE, It's on
the T Mobile network, and the idea is that you
can at least leave the smartphone at home.

Speaker 2 (56:37):
Yeah, so theoretically it does operate or I guess it
does operate independently. Whether people would you know, end up
doing that as another question. It's kind of like the
Apple Watch. You could, you know, get the cellular and
use that on a run or something without it without
the phone being near by. So this is screenless, it's
voice activated, and it's got a lot of AI built
in and chat GBT. Open ai is one of the

(57:00):
the backers of this startup as well.

Speaker 1 (57:01):
Right, Yes, Sam.

Speaker 12 (57:03):
Altman, the founder of open ai is I believe he's
the largest shareholder at this point. The actual relationship between
the two companies is an entirely clear. Asked them a
few questions about that during our conversation yesterday. It seems
like they largely built it independently. He believed in the idea.

(57:23):
A lot of companies right now are trying to figure
out how to actually bring a lot of these large
language models generated AI systems like chatpt into the world.

Speaker 1 (57:35):
I know that it is running.

Speaker 12 (57:38):
It's using a lot of different AI models right now.
I know that chat GPT is among them, and that
at some point, I guess by the time that it
actually launches early next year, it will likely be running
some form of GPT for.

Speaker 2 (57:52):
So some of the features of this device. You can
use it for messaging. You can make phone calls. I'm
guessing there's a catch up function for your inbox, so
it will kind of summarize what's in your inbox, let
you know the most pertinent information. You can listen to
music through it, foreign language interpreter, and it can also
identify food. Which of those items were you able to

(58:15):
try and see in person?

Speaker 12 (58:18):
I was able to see pretty much all of them,
but you know, as I said at the top, it
wasn't able to actually to do them myself.

Speaker 1 (58:26):
I watched a few of the employees use them in
front of.

Speaker 2 (58:30):
Me, and was it impressive? I mean, did you you
know you've covered this stuff for a while. Did you
get the sense that this was the next iPad or
the next you know, zoom?

Speaker 1 (58:41):
Sure?

Speaker 12 (58:42):
Yeah, Google Glass is the comparison that I hear you
and I think I think it's a fair one because
they're Google was trying to do something really similar.

Speaker 6 (58:50):
You know.

Speaker 12 (58:50):
The primary difference one the technology just wasn't there at
the time. A lot of these AI models have come
really long way since then. And the other one is
that it was a head mount display. And this is
there are a few companies kind of operatings in this space,
but this is the first one that I've seen with
what appears to be a viable product that just sits

(59:11):
on the lapel. It's going to be there's going to
be a big learning curve. I will say that up
top six hundred ninety nine dollars is a lot in
smartphone land, but it is a lot when talking about,
you know, an unproven first generation device, and then you
add that the mandatory twenty four dollars a month on
top of that, if you don't have the mobile subscription,

(59:33):
then the thing is is basically bricked.

Speaker 1 (59:35):
There's a lot of money here.

Speaker 6 (59:37):
You know.

Speaker 12 (59:37):
There are obviously a lot of really smart people here there.
There there's Vision as well. I think a lot of
people like the message around the company. They're effectively positioning
themselves as being kind of, I guess in direct competition
with Apple's Vision pro as far as the way that

(59:59):
we you will interact with computers going forward. You know,
Apple is taking the display and putting on your head
and they're removing display altogether.

Speaker 2 (01:00:08):
What was the projected kind of image? Like, I mean,
did it look cool or was it tough to read?
Or was it you know, where do you project it
onto like a table in front of you or on
your hand?

Speaker 12 (01:00:19):
Yeah, So it's if you've ever you've probably seen one
of these kinds of laser projectors in the world. There's
there's advertisers that will do them. You know, you'll see
it like projected on a sidewalk in front of you.
It's it's very sharp. It functionality, it's it's somewhat limited.
Like I said, you can look you can preview the
pictures that you take with the device, but that's not

(01:00:40):
you don't really want to actually use that to look
at the pictures. They're not super clear. Texta is pretty clear.
The way it works is you you tap the device,
you tap the touch screen.

Speaker 1 (01:00:52):
Then it uses.

Speaker 12 (01:00:54):
I believe it used to see motion tracking and object
identification to tell they you've got your hands out in
front of you, and then the projector turns on and
projects onto your hands, and then while reading it that way,
you can also use your hand to interact with it
in a sense. You know, for example, you could pinch
two fingers together to scroll, or you know, move your

(01:01:17):
hands at an angle. There's a variety of different ways
to interact with it once it's actually on the palm.

Speaker 2 (01:01:22):
I'm just trying to figure out why someone would want
this and not just use their smartphone with like an
ear piece. And I love cool things, and I love
new things, and I love new ways of thinking about things.
But I'm just really struggling here to understand how this
is better than the solutions we have.

Speaker 1 (01:01:39):
And I haven't gone hands on, so maybe that's part
of it.

Speaker 12 (01:01:42):
Sure, I mean, I'm certainly not here to sell it
to you, and I you know, I absolutely approach these
things with skepticism. I will almost certainly be getting one
of these things at some point to try out. I
think most people are skeptical, and I think it's right.
I don't know that the company has entirely figured out

(01:02:04):
what the killer app.

Speaker 1 (01:02:05):
Is right now.

Speaker 12 (01:02:06):
There aren't a lot of hardware startps in the world,
but the way you can think of all these devices
are kind of really like whide beta testing with that
first generation of people. It's a bit expensive to get there,
but there are a lot of people who just get
excited about tech and will be the first ones to
try it.

Speaker 1 (01:02:22):
There were a lot of.

Speaker 12 (01:02:23):
Sign ups, you know, they had a waiting list that
I think actually closed. During the event yesterday they said
they had a one hundred and ten thousand sign ups. Now,
again that doesn't actually equate to devices sold. You know,
there's no money down, there's no commitment there, but there's
certainly interest.

Speaker 2 (01:02:37):
Are there any potential privacy concerns with this new device?

Speaker 12 (01:02:40):
Yeah, I mean there are always privacy concerns when you're
bringing a new form factor out with a camera on
it and you're walking around with it at all times.

Speaker 1 (01:02:51):
A couple of things I'll say and I don't.

Speaker 12 (01:02:53):
I'm certainly not an expert on the privacy or security
at the moment.

Speaker 1 (01:02:57):
This is just based on the conversations that I've had
so far.

Speaker 12 (01:03:00):
But one of the key parts is that you have
to actively engage with it, so it's not listening for
a wake word the way you know, like Siri or
Alexa or Google assystem is, so it's not constantly monitoring
and it's certainly not constantly taking video, and when it
does take video, it's got a privacy light on it,

(01:03:23):
so you know, it's pretty clear. The light sortainly goes
back and forth like a syloon on the top, So
I people aren't going to know necessarily what's going on
or what they're looking at. That at least they'll be
able to tell like something is going on with that device.

Speaker 2 (01:03:37):
Brian Heater, hardware editor at tech Crunch, thanks so much
for joining me today.

Speaker 1 (01:03:41):
Yeah, thanks for having me. That's it.

Speaker 2 (01:03:43):
The Humane Ai pin pre order start November sixteenth, six
hundred ninety nine dollars twenty four dollars a month for
unlimited calls, text and data through T Mobile. This is
shipping in early twenty twenty four. Give me a call
if you have a question about technology. Triple eight rich
one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four two
four to one zero one. You are listening to Rich

(01:04:03):
on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro
here hanging out with you talking technology. Before the interview,
we had Jerry in Hatfield, Pennsylvania, asking about Google Sheets.
I learned a food that I had not heard of, Lumpia,

(01:04:27):
a Filipino version of spring rolls. The rappers are made
from flour, cornstarch, and water than in delicate but strong
enough to hold fillings. They can be served fresh or fried.
Kind of looks like a like a you know, like
a what do you call a thing? An egg roll?
Like a spring roll? So now I'm hungry. Thanks, But Jerry,

(01:04:48):
I think I found a more complete answer. So I
mentioned that you should save and share this as a template.
But the little trick, according to this website, conquer the
digit empire dot com. When you create that link to
share it okay, You then update the link at the
end with slash copy at the end, and then you

(01:05:11):
can share that updated link. And when they first take
that link, it will say do you want to copy
this template to your Google Drive? And that makes the
process a little easier, and it also makes it so
that they can change the numbers like you did in
your template without changing the original.

Speaker 1 (01:05:29):
And I tested this.

Speaker 2 (01:05:30):
I created like a very simple template, very simple Google spreadsheet.
I put in a couple numbers with the you know
we're at the end. It added them all up and
then I was able to share this template and then
I logged in you know with the incognito window like
I mentioned, and made a copy and it completely worked.
So I put the link on the website so you

(01:05:52):
can find it in the show notes. But again, just
add that slash copy to the end of the link
when you share it out on Google when you generate it,
and that should work. Paul says, I have an iMac
I bought in twenty twenty. When I'm using Safari, seems
like it's infected with a virus called Searchalpha dot com,
making it very difficult for me to search the web.
What should I do, Paul, I think you have an

(01:06:14):
extension on there that is bad. These are sometimes called
search helpers, but realistically they're pretty much malware and sometimes
you download them you don't realize and they.

Speaker 1 (01:06:26):
Take over your search.

Speaker 2 (01:06:27):
So open up Safari, go into the settings, click extensions,
and if you see anything you don't need or don't recognize,
delete it and just get rid of them. Same thing
on Google Chrome you can go through and this is
probably something you should do in general, is just check
the extensions that are installed in your computer, make sure
you recognize them. If you don't recognize them, get rid

(01:06:50):
of them. You can do that by clicking there's a
little puzzle piece icon in your toolbar. If you hover
over it, it'll say extensions. You can click that and
it will show you all the extensions that are installed
on your browser, and then you can click down below,
or it says manage extensions to delete those and get
rid of them. Alternatively, you can go into the menu

(01:07:11):
on Chrome, which you can let's see. You could just
go into the three dots in the upper right hand
corner next to your profile icon, and then it says extensions,
and then it says manage extensions. You tap that and
it will give you a list of all the extensions
on your computer. I've got two four, six, eight, ten, twelve, fourteen, sixteen,

(01:07:34):
eighteen twenty extensions. Not all of them are turned on,
so you can either turn one off or you can
just click or remove if you don't need it anymore.
So if you see anything on there that says search helper,
search Functions, search Buddy, you probably don't need it.

Speaker 1 (01:07:49):
Get rid of it.

Speaker 2 (01:07:50):
That is interfering with your searches, and it's also collecting
data in the background that you don't need it to
be doing. Let's go to Sarah in Ventura. Sarah you're
on with rich Hi.

Speaker 1 (01:08:04):
Hi Hi.

Speaker 8 (01:08:05):
I was taking a class. In the morning it's a
Google Suite and in the afternoon it's Microsoft Office Suite.
It's just one day. It's in class with the teacher
where assigned laptops. And I was wondering if maybe the

(01:08:32):
teacher or this is at a job center, okay, And
I was wondering if maybe someone is doing something because
on the in the daytime, I mean in the morning part,
I was on one network and then I turned it off,
and when I came back, it was on another network.

(01:08:55):
And then I noticed that whenever I started the class August,
whenever the teacher says pay attention to what I'm saying,
the computer, the laptop I'm using, stops. It won't let
me click anything, move anything, do anything, and then other

(01:09:15):
things happen like so.

Speaker 2 (01:09:19):
It sounds like it sounds like they have control over
the computer. Are these are these handed out by them?

Speaker 11 (01:09:24):
It's fair?

Speaker 2 (01:09:25):
Yeah, okay, so they have they have software on this
that allows them to control when you can do things
and also to allow them to do whatever they want
on this computer, Walt, It's in front of you. So
it's it's pretty standard software that allows them to remain
in control of the situation.

Speaker 8 (01:09:44):
And when she needs to leave early, the battery suddenly
goes down to where the battery is low, and then
I would need to recharge it. So can I stop
her from doing that?

Speaker 1 (01:09:57):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:09:58):
Not if it's their computer, it's are you Are you
bringing this computer home?

Speaker 9 (01:10:03):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:10:03):
Okay, I'm not.

Speaker 8 (01:10:05):
But I noticed when she feels bored she people just
suddenly when she's looking up looking for something to do,
nothing's happening. Then someone has a problem, and I think
that she likes to feel useful, So I noticed it

(01:10:26):
just seems like she's interfering with something that I need
to learn when she just feels like, you know, talking
to someone who needs to have help it.

Speaker 2 (01:10:38):
Sarah, it sounds like it sounds like this teacher is
not working out for you.

Speaker 1 (01:10:42):
Do you like this teacher?

Speaker 8 (01:10:44):
You know, she was very nice except when she started
to teach Excel. I started when she was teaching Excel,
and this is near the end of one cycle. They
teach in cycles, and now that she's in Excel again,
she all thistay's happened. But in between she's so sweet
and nice, but suddenly she's not not quite that way. Yeah,

(01:11:08):
well the battery.

Speaker 2 (01:11:10):
Too, Yeah, that's the battery. The battery is interesting. I'm
not sure about the battery. I don't think she has
a switch, a magic switch on her computer to say, okay, now,
drain everyone's battery on these computers. But when it comes
to computers that are handed out, and this this is
for anyone that has a company issued computer, a school
issued computer, uh, there is a lot of software out

(01:11:33):
there that keeps tabs on these computers. They may they
may take a screenshot at random intervals. They may be
able to remotely access into your computer without you even
knowing your Your company may have software that logs what
you do. So my advice, if you are using a
computer that is not completely yours, you treat it that way,

(01:11:55):
and they have the ability to monitor what you're doing
on there, to see anything that you do, anything that's
on your screen. Schools do it, companies do it. They
all do it. And it's mostly there because they are
the administrator of that computer. So it sounds like, Sarah,
what you're talking about is, I think it sounds halfway

(01:12:15):
between this teacher has this ability and also you're not
a fan of this teacher and what she's doing. And
so for the teacher part, I would just avoid classes
with this teacher in the future. Finish up what you're doing.
But for the computer part, no, you're not able to
turn that off easily. I mean, yes, you can maybe
hack into it and figure that out, but this is
a safety precaution. They are administrators on this computer, kind

(01:12:38):
of like at work. When you can't install something on
your computer at work, that's because you are not the administrator.
If you want to be in charge of your computer,
you have to buy it yourself. And I would even
say if you are installing programs are apps on your
devices from your company, you need to be aware of
what you're installing because sometimes that can have implications as well.

(01:13:00):
You may get a notice on your computer that when
you log in with your corporate account on something like Microsoft,
that says, hey, can we uh can you can your
work remotely wipe this device? So just be real careful
with that kind of stuff, because if you want your
own stuff, you got to have your own stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:13:14):
And keep it that way.

Speaker 2 (01:13:16):
Eight a eight rich one on one eight eight eight
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I'll tell you about the Zoomo stream box. You're listening
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to two four one zero one. Coming up this hour
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Photo Walks TV is going to talk about how he
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on how to take similar videos. I did a time
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City and I had this cool view of the city,
and so I just set up my phone on the
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It was pretty cool.

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They're fun Triple eight rich one on one eighty eight
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particularly the gas of the guests, Jeremy, with the newsletter
and the other sites you were talking about.

Speaker 1 (01:14:28):
You have an amazing show. Thank you well.

Speaker 2 (01:14:30):
It made it really easy if you want to find
links to the show in real time. Let's say I
mentioned something. I keep everything in the notes. So if
you go to rich on tech dot tv slash wiki wiki,
this will bring you to the awesome show notes and
they go back almost to the first show. I didn't

(01:14:53):
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we've done forty five shows and so you can see
the notes for every single show. Some shows even have
a transcript, so if you want to see if I
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that's like everything. But rich on tech dot tv the
standard page eventually has the notes for that show, along
with the audio of the show. Eva says, hey, Rich,
enjoy everything you do. I have thousands of photos i'd
like to scan into my laptop. What's the best scanner
I can buy? I want good quality resolution in case
I want to print a photo later, example a four
x six eight by ten eleven fourteen. Thank you, Eva,

(01:15:36):
So yeah, if you're gonna print photos bigger than a
four x six, most people are just scanning these things
and then putting them on their phone. But if you
are going to print, you probably want to scan at
a higher dpi, probably six hundred. Most scanners default to
about three hundred, and some can even go as low
as I believe, like seventy six. So you probably want
to do a higher dpi if you're going to do

(01:15:56):
those bigger pictures. I have a feeling, though, EVA, You're
probably not gonna end up printing out all those pictures.
I always think I'm gonna print out pictures, and I
don't now. If you want the best, and you've got
thousands of photos, like you said, and you want to
do this at home, probably the best is this EPSN
Fast Photo FF six't eighty W high speed scanning system.

Speaker 1 (01:16:17):
But that's six hundred bucks, so you.

Speaker 2 (01:16:19):
Can get it and then sell it or you know,
split the price of the family member if you have
a bunch of people that want to all scan their photos.
This is like the Lamborghini of scanners. You feed in
a whole bunch of pictures at once, it will scan
through them really fast. I think it even does the
front and back at the same time. So if you
wrote stuff on the back of the pictures, that will
do it. But six hundred bucks, nobody really wants to

(01:16:41):
spend that on a scanner. So Trusty Amazon has a
couple of top picks for the scanners. Cannons are very popular.
The cannon Cano scan lied l id E three hundred
is fifty eight bucks. So, but that's a flatbed scanner,
so you're gonna be you're gonna be putting pictures in there,

(01:17:01):
one at a time, very slowly. And you also have
they have a cheap O not a cheapo but a
kind of like a third party brand I've never heard
of that does do a feeder, but it looks like
it's one picture at a time.

Speaker 1 (01:17:15):
That's two hundred dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:17:16):
Then they've got the epsom Perfection V nineteen that's ninety bucks,
and that has higher resolution as well. So I would
probably go with some sort of scanner where you can
feed stuff in easily as opposed to a flatbed flatbed
if you have thousands of pictures, those are going to
take a while to get through.

Speaker 1 (01:17:36):
Zuomo's stream box. All right.

Speaker 2 (01:17:38):
So if you are clinging to the idea of cable,
and I'm saying this with the idea of I personally
prefer a completely cord cutting streaming service, So I like
a fire TV or an Apple TV. But there are
many people out there that still like traditional cable and

(01:17:58):
they have a traditional cable box, but they still want
to stream stuff. And so that means you have two
different items going on with your TV. You've got your
cable box on one input and you've got a streaming
stick on another input, and you're switching between those things.
When you want to watch Netflix, you got to go
to the stick. When you want to watch Channel five,
you got to go to your cable box. So the

(01:18:19):
cable companies they have banded together to come up with
this thing called Zumo. And I believe this was a
startup and they purchased it or something like that, but
Charter and Comcast are the two big companies that are
behind this. And it's a box. It's called the Zumo
stream Box, and it combines cable TV with popular streaming apps.

(01:18:39):
So it doesn't have a Cox cable. It's all delivered
over the internet. But what it essentially is is your
cable service, like a streaming cable service, like if you
have a YouTube TV, but it would be Spectrum's version
of that alongside these streaming apps. And there's three hundred
streaming apps on this box. They're not all installed at once,
but they're all on the screen. You it, it kind of

(01:19:00):
installs it in the background and you're good to go.
So the big difference here is that this comes from
your cable company. So you have to have a cable plan,
you have to have cable Internet, and you get this box.
The box is either five bucks a month as a
service fee, which you would pay forever, or you can
pay sixty dollars outright, but they're not going to help.

Speaker 1 (01:19:20):
You if something goes wrong with the box.

Speaker 2 (01:19:22):
So by paying the five dollars a month, you get
kind of the backing of the cable company, just like
you would a cable box. Something goes wrong, you exchange it.

Speaker 1 (01:19:30):
It's nice.

Speaker 2 (01:19:31):
I mean, I had a demo of this over at
the Spectrum store and in the limited time I had
it seems like a nice option if you still like
a traditional cable TV experience.

Speaker 1 (01:19:43):
So if you like all those.

Speaker 2 (01:19:44):
Channels that are always streaming or I should say always
kind of just playing something, you turn on your TV,
it goes to a channel. Now, the funny thing is
it goes to Spectrum's own Spectrum one News, which happens
to be Channel one on their systems. If you don't
have Spectrum News in your area, it's going to default
to the first channel that you have, which is probably

(01:20:04):
channel two. I think that they should let you customize
that to your favorite channel. So let's say you love MTV,
you can have it go to that. Let's say you
love channel five, you can have a default to that.
That would be a nice thing for them to do.
But again, these are cable companies. They're not always you know,
they're not always thinking in I feel bad even saying it,

(01:20:24):
but not every company is always, you know, thinking of
their customer's best interest. Sometimes there's a little bit of
a loaded, you know, a little bit bias towards their
own interests. But otherwise I like the idea that this
has one remote control for everything, and it does have
a keypad, so if you want to once you're in
the cable side of things, you can just type in

(01:20:46):
the cable channel number, so if you know the channels
that you like, you can go straight to them. That's
something that most I would say, I don't think I've
ever seen that on a streaming stick. It's got voice search,
and in the voice search that I looked at, it's
supposed to be really good it was okay. Maybe there
are some issues, maybe it needs a software update, but
it's like the ideas that you'd be able to use

(01:21:07):
your voice to do almost everything. You can also add
cloud DVR service for a monthly fee. And this is
what I would consider a stop gap and in between technology.
So while people are still on cable, while people are
still on streaming, the cable companies, of course want a
piece of the action, and they want to offer you
this box so that it kind of bridges both worlds,

(01:21:27):
but they're still in the game versus you ditching your
cable company, your traditional cable company and going with something
like YouTube TV.

Speaker 1 (01:21:34):
Now you can.

Speaker 2 (01:21:34):
Email me and tell me Rich I can do all
of this stuff on my Fire TV stick, and Rich
I can do all of this stuff on my Apple TV.

Speaker 1 (01:21:42):
Yes you can.

Speaker 2 (01:21:43):
You can cobble together all the apps you want and
all of the cable services you want. There's Fubo, there's
Sling TV, there is you know, there's so many of them.
But this is a little bit different because it's much
more combined, it's much more integrated. It feels like traditional
cable just a little bit more. Some people might like that,
some people may not like that. I'm kind of in

(01:22:05):
the middle. I think for some people that still have
a cable box and a streamer streaming stick, go for it.

Speaker 1 (01:22:10):
Why not.

Speaker 2 (01:22:12):
Life Hacker explains the difference between a modem and a router.
I thought this was pretty interesting. The modem connects your
home network to your internet service provider. It translates the
data between your devices and the Internet service provider. A
router creates a local network in your home and connects
all your devices together wirelessly or through Ethernet. It routes

(01:22:33):
data between your devices and the modem. Modems just provide
the Internet connection. The routers enable the wireless networking and
connect multiple devices. Most of the time, your Internet service
provider is giving you a combined modem slash router device.
And that's why it's a little confusing, because it's a

(01:22:53):
modem that also sends out the Wi Fi signal that
all of your devices latch onto. If you're getting something
like an ear row that is a that is a
router and that will take your modem signal and put
it out to all of your devices, you can get
an upgraded signal, so if you want, you can buy
your own modem from your cable company or your Internet

(01:23:16):
service provider. You know, I'm kind of torn on that.
You know, it's like one of these things where I
get it. Some of these ISPs charge five bucks a
month ten bucks a month to rent the router or
the modem rather and it's it may be cheaper to
buy it if you're going to stick with them for
a long time. You can buy it out right and
have it yourself, but you know, if something goes wrong,
you are on the hook. And they're also not going

(01:23:38):
to provide support for you. And finally, mostly for my
California listeners, well California, Washington, Oregon, the app Quake Alert
USA is shutting down. So as of November sixth, twenty
twenty three, the free quake Alert USA app is decommissioned,
which means you will no longer get earthquake early warning

(01:23:59):
alerts through the This was one of the earliest apps
that I covered with the Quake Alert system or the
Shake alert system. It's been operating for eight years. If
you have it on your phone, you can delete it
and if you have an Android you can actually just
use the built in earthquake alerts under settings Safety and Emergency,
Earthquake alerts and you can turn that offer on. Google

(01:24:20):
has built that into Android, or I guess Android has
built it into Android. If you're on an iPhone, the
app that you want is called My Shake, My Shake,
and Noah has nothing to do with a protein shake.

Speaker 1 (01:24:32):
It is the shake.

Speaker 2 (01:24:33):
It works with the Shake Alert system, which is a
whole bunch of sensors in California, Oregon, and Washington that
detect earthquakes and send a alert to your phone anywhere
between five and thirty seconds before you feel the shaking.
So again, Quake Alert USA. If you have it on
your phone, it no longer works. It's no longer going
to send you alerts, so delete it and download My Shake.

(01:24:57):
You can do that on iPhone or Android. But if
you have Android, you've got earthquake alerts built right into
your operating system. Open up your settings, tap safety in
emergency and you will find the earthquake alerts in there.
And yes, the earthquake alert alerts work. I got one
for the last to earthquake we had. It was like
maybe five or six seconds before the earthquake. All right,

(01:25:18):
coming up, Jefferson Graham is going to talk to us
about his time lapse capture plus more tech news, tips, reviews.

Speaker 1 (01:25:26):
Eighty eight rich on Tech.

Speaker 2 (01:25:28):
Sorry, rich one on one, you're listening to rich on Tech.

Speaker 1 (01:25:34):
Welcome back to rich on Tech.

Speaker 2 (01:25:36):
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(01:26:02):
If you want to email me, you can go to
the contact link. There a lot of you commenting on
my Instagram about the story I broke at the beginning
of the show about how Chuck E.

Speaker 1 (01:26:15):
Cheese is doing away with animatronics.

Speaker 2 (01:26:17):
This was news to me last night going to their
event and the Northridge location. I can't believe it. It's
like it's just so wild that something I grew up
with is like no longer going to be a thing.
I'm glad my kids were able to experience it, But
as I explain to my instagram at richon Tech, the
last location in the US that you'll be able to

(01:26:38):
experience animatronics at Chuck E. Cheese will be the Northridge,
California location. So I have a feeling it's going to
make it to a lot of lists. When people hit
up California for travel, they're going to say, gotta stop there,
bring my kids, And most of the time the kids
won't really care.

Speaker 1 (01:26:53):
It'll be the parents that care. Let's see here.

Speaker 2 (01:26:58):
Well, I don't have the person's name, but they wrote
in I travel frequently for work. Often I have the
address of my client and they need to find it
a nearby hotel. I'd like to search for a hotel
based on brand to increase my loyalty points, and so
let's see here. I've tried various methods on iOS, Google Maps,
even map quest to find hotels in proximity, but I've

(01:27:20):
not found an easy solution. I've spoken to fellow travelers
and they don't have good suggestions. If you have a
tip app or anything else that resolves this, I bet
your followers would be eager to learn about it. Yes,
I do have a solution for this because I did
the same exact thing. I was looking for a way
to find hotel closest to where I am going for

(01:27:44):
an event in a different city, and it's surprisingly tough
and I think the reason why it's so tough is
because there's a lot of marketing money at stake. These
websites like trip Advisor and all these other sites, they
make money based on the hotel that you choose, and
I don't want to make it easy for you to
just find the closest hotel and book it. They want

(01:28:04):
to make money based on They're presenting you a list
of results that make them the most money in that order.

Speaker 1 (01:28:11):
So what have I found?

Speaker 2 (01:28:12):
Well, my favorite app for doing this used to be
called hotels dot com. And you can put in the
address of where you're going, and then hotels, of course
would try to sort it by what's quote unquote recommended,
which just means the sort that makes us the most money.
But you could change that sort to distance and you
can find the hotels directly closest to the area you

(01:28:37):
want to stay in.

Speaker 1 (01:28:38):
You know the thing.

Speaker 2 (01:28:39):
Let's say you have a convention center, you know, convention
at a convention center, you want the hotel that's walking
distance to the convention center, right, so you can sort
by distance, and then, like you're saying, you want to
be able to sort even further by the hotel name
or the Loyalty brand, and you'd be able to do
that as well. But Hotels dot Com just got rid

(01:28:59):
of this functionality, and so I've been searching for a
new way to do this, and it seems like the
closest way is called Booking dot Com. And Booking dot
Com will let you put in as on the website.
I haven't checked this on the app, but on Booking
dot Com you can type in an address and sort
by distance from that address. So, for instance, if I

(01:29:23):
say Las Vegas Convention Center and you can put that
in there and check in date, let's just put any
old date here and press search and it will show
your results on a map. Now, of course, again I
said the the sort you want to do distance from
place of interest, and so that's the that's the way

(01:29:44):
you want to sort. And the closest hotel is the
Residence in by Mariott Las Vegas Convention Center, point two
miles from map center. Now, if you do the default,
which is top picks that hotel is twenty miles away.
I mean, on who wants to say twenty miles away
from where they're going. So that is the way to

(01:30:05):
do it. That's the only way I can do it.
I'm not saying you have to book on booking dot Com,
but that will definitely help you find the hotel. Now,
the other way I find hotels this is since I'm
on the topic of hotels, I'll tell you my little secrets.
So I go to I have actually two more secrets.
So I go to trip Advisor. I type in the
name of where I'm going. So let's say I'm going
to Charleston, South Carolina. Okay, so char LSTN. So if

(01:30:30):
you go to trip Advisor, you can type in Charleston,
and then up at the top it says hotels. You
tap that, and then you can put in your dates.
You don't have to, but you can put in your
dates if you want. But you can see all the
properties in Charleston one hundred and thirty seven and then
it says sort by best value. Now I don't like
that sort because I don't even know what that means. You

(01:30:51):
can look up. You can change that sort to what's
called traveler ranked, and that's the one that I like
because that's going to show you the top hotel based
on what travelers you're doing. And then you can go
in you can sort by the neighborhood, the rating, the
hotel class or the brand. So those are my two
little tricks for booking hotels. All right, Coming up next,

(01:31:13):
Jefferson Graham, I'm going to talk about taking time lapses
on your smartphone. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro,
that's my name, talking technology with you. Website is Richontech
dot tv, and you can follow me on social media

(01:31:35):
on all of the major platforms at rich on Tech
got an email through the website from my k Rich
regarding the caller on Saturday that asked about photo scanning.
Did they indicate the medium of her pictures? We're actual
photos or were they slides and negatives. I've scanned tens
of thousands of slides and negatives and generally pick a

(01:31:55):
DEPI between twenty four thirty and thirty two hundred. I
use an flatbed scanner and scan up to twelve slides
at a time or twenty four photos on negatives at
a time. Software product I use is called silver Fast
that allows me to batch scan the slides and negatives. Ooh,
silver Fast. That's a good one, So good question, Mike.

(01:32:18):
I believe they said photos in the email, but I
agree I should have mentioned the delineation between negatives and
also actual photos. I would say I think that negatives
would be the better way to go because that's a
much more kind of pure way of capturing what was
originally in the picture. Jefferson Graham is with Photo Walks

(01:32:41):
TV formerly of USA Today, recently captured an epic ten
day time lapse with both the iPhone and Samsung. Jefferson
is all about smartphone photography.

Speaker 1 (01:32:54):
Did I say that right? Jefferson? Smartphones?

Speaker 3 (01:32:56):
It's a new word. It's a new word, but I
like it.

Speaker 1 (01:32:59):
What A say song?

Speaker 2 (01:33:00):
They've got something like they call phontography. Maybe I don't know.
Welcome to the show.

Speaker 3 (01:33:06):
Thank you great to be here.

Speaker 1 (01:33:08):
Have you scanned?

Speaker 2 (01:33:09):
Do you have a do you have a thought on
UH scanning negatives versus the old the actual picture.

Speaker 10 (01:33:15):
It's very funny because our friend who has this little
UH scanning business is the is the place I go to.

Speaker 3 (01:33:23):
I hate to give him plug and.

Speaker 10 (01:33:24):
He's so pushy on this, but scan my photos dot
Com is where I bring my stuff. I just had
hundreds of negatives scanned and hundreds of slides and they
clean up the image and they're really nice.

Speaker 2 (01:33:39):
I mean, I would think that the negative would be
better than the actual photo.

Speaker 3 (01:33:43):
But all of your listeners, yes, but anyway.

Speaker 2 (01:33:45):
Anyway, but as as I was remembering from what what
you know, what I was told is that most people
just have the pictures they you know, and look, you're
looking at them on your smartphone ninety percent of the time.

Speaker 1 (01:33:56):
So it's it's just as good.

Speaker 10 (01:33:58):
Okay, So let's yeah this har as scanner goes, I
don't have a scanner. I find it way too time consuming. Yeah,
so that that's my answer to that. And you could
take great photos of your of your photos on your phone.

Speaker 2 (01:34:09):
That's true. You can use your phone to scan them.
I mean, there's so many ways to do this, but
it's just the reality is just get them scanned. That's
the bottom line. Like, no matter what you do, it's
gonna be better. Just don't do the thing where you
take a picture with a flash and you have like
this big giant like flash reflection on your pictures when
you scan them.

Speaker 10 (01:34:26):
There are definitely some better Also, stand further back because
you'll get a shadow of yourself in the photo. So
if you use your your Portraita telephoto lens and stand
further back, you'll get a better image of the photo.

Speaker 2 (01:34:40):
The two that's a great one. The two apps that
I like. One is from Google. It's called photo Scan.
It hasn't been updated in a while, so I think
they gave up on it, but it still works. And
then the other one that's actually really good is called
photo Mind P h O T O M y n E.
And I think you have to pay a little bit,
but it's pretty good. And you can even scan negatives

(01:35:01):
with that slide? Can you scan it? I think you
could scan slides with it. Maybe not a negative, but
a slide for sure.

Speaker 1 (01:35:08):
Okay, let's talk about.

Speaker 3 (01:35:09):
Your monthly subscription. Yes, let's talk about a tide lapse.
Go for it.

Speaker 2 (01:35:13):
So you took this epic ten date. What made you
want to take a ten day time lapse?

Speaker 10 (01:35:19):
Well, what happened was that I was visiting Nova Scotia.
I was filming one of my episodes for Photo Walks
TV on Nova Scotia, and the place we stayed in
was they put on the TV one morning a thirty
minute time lapse of Nova Scotia for you know, as
we were eating breakfast, I said, you know I could
do that in Manette Beach. Why don't I do something
like that when I get home, and I have a

(01:35:40):
friend who actually lives at the beach, and I said,
may I put my camera on your deck for a
few days? And they said, well, we can go want better.
Our next door neighbor upstairs neighbor is away for ten days,
and why don't you put it up there on a
second story. You don't have to worry about anybody stealing
your phone. And I said, great, Now she's gone for

(01:36:02):
ten days, so I'm going to use the ten days. Really,
all I wanted to do was go from one day
to the next, because when I do a time lapse,
I let it go for about an hour and then
I peter out. I just get tired of standing there.
And I wanted to see the sunset to the darkness
of the night, to the night shifting today. That's really

(01:36:23):
what I wanted. But since I had the opportunity to
go for so long, I took it. And now I
have a friend who lives at the beach. You don't,
You probably don't, but you might have a friend.

Speaker 3 (01:36:33):
Who has a balcony, who has a deck, who has.

Speaker 10 (01:36:36):
Or you may have one of those things, and so
if you could put the camera, let it roll. You're
going to get some amazing footage of stuff that you
would never see with your naked eye, primarily because you'll
be asleep.

Speaker 3 (01:36:48):
Asleep, and all this stuff happened.

Speaker 2 (01:36:49):
So you did this with the iPhone and the Samsung,
and I assume you set it up on a tripod.
You had to make sure the tripod didn't blow over,
you had to plug in the phones. I'm guessing, so
what did you? Did you use any particular settings because
I never know, like which time lap setting to use
on the iPhone. I don't think they give you a setting, right.

Speaker 10 (01:37:08):
Yeah, First of all, all you need is a tripod,
a smartphone, a mount to go in the tripod to
put the phone on top of it, and the extension cord.

Speaker 1 (01:37:20):
That's it.

Speaker 3 (01:37:20):
That is it.

Speaker 10 (01:37:22):
And I kept going back every day to make sure
that the cameras hadn't turned off, that they weren't overheating,
and they weren't, so that was all good. That the
iPhone will not let you make a decision beyond which
lens to use, the ultra wide, the wide, or the telephoto.

Speaker 3 (01:37:38):
I recommend the.

Speaker 10 (01:37:39):
One X, which is the wide, because it's the sharpest
lens and it's the best in low light. So that's
what I use on the galaxy. There's thirty decisions. There's
a lot of decisions.

Speaker 2 (01:37:51):
I'm looking at the galaxy and is it under hyper laps?

Speaker 10 (01:37:57):
It's under more. It's under more said, you know, after
you go all the way to the end. Yes, under more.
And it's called hyper laps.

Speaker 2 (01:38:04):
Okay, so they call it hyper lapse. That's confusing. Shouldn't
it be time lapse?

Speaker 1 (01:38:08):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (01:38:09):
Well, okay, it should, but it isn't.

Speaker 1 (01:38:11):
Okay.

Speaker 10 (01:38:11):
And there are so many decisions. Do you want to
shoot one frame a second? Do you want to shoot five, ten, thirty?
It goes on and on and on. Do you want
to shoot for a minute? Do you want to shoot
for ken? Do you want to shoot for twenty? I
shot for Unlimited and I shot at one frame a
second and it ran for days and days.

Speaker 3 (01:38:28):
My file was HUMANUS sixty gigabytes.

Speaker 1 (01:38:31):
Wow.

Speaker 10 (01:38:31):
But once I finally got there, I got there.

Speaker 2 (01:38:34):
That's really cool. I love that they give you all
these options. I'm looking at this. You get automatic fifteen x,
forty five five X, and then the time limit, so
if you want to do it for a certain amount
of time, you can do four K, or you can
do just HD.

Speaker 1 (01:38:48):
So which camera did it better?

Speaker 10 (01:38:51):
The Galaxy by far, hands down. Now that's that's using
the settings that I used in the Galaxy, and that's
using the automatic settings in the iPhone. People have to
know that Apple will actually screw you if you want
to shoot for longer than an hour. No matter how

(01:39:11):
long you shoot, whether it's for two hours, five hours,
ten hours a day, three days, five days, your video
will be thirty seconds.

Speaker 3 (01:39:19):
So after it will be thirty seconds.

Speaker 2 (01:39:20):
No matter what, no matter how long you leave it there.
So if you leave it there and walk away, matter what. Okay,
so you're only getting thirty seconds.

Speaker 10 (01:39:26):
So they will take frames out out of your footage.
They will do all sorts of weird things that will
make it really really really fast, faster than it needs
to be unless you go to a third party app.
Once I discovered what was going on, I couldn't figure
it out.

Speaker 3 (01:39:41):
Hey, I just let it run for three days, I'll
I have thirty seconds. Doesn't make any sense. So anyway, so.

Speaker 10 (01:39:46):
I use an app called lapse it, which is well,
it's sort of free, and it's a dollar for a week,
and it's five dollars for the year, but it worked
really well and it did everything I wanted to do.

Speaker 3 (01:39:58):
There are other apps you can use, the Moment app.

Speaker 10 (01:40:00):
You can use the new black Magic Camera app, which
is complicated. The Lapset app is not, so back to
back both of them.

Speaker 1 (01:40:13):
Okay, so the the.

Speaker 3 (01:40:15):
Lap to watch TV, go to the hour long.

Speaker 2 (01:40:18):
Yeah we lost you for a second there, so you're
you're saying the lapse laps it and then the Moment
app and then the black Magic Camera app, and that
one's like really high end.

Speaker 1 (01:40:29):
So where can we see the fruits of your labor?

Speaker 10 (01:40:34):
YouTube dot com, slash go to watch TV. I have
a playlist and you can go to all of them.
I had the ten day, I have the one hour
which is that's laps and at the beginning then it
goes to the galaxy and have a complete how too.
So I think I'll answer all your questions there and
if you have any more, just hit me up. Subscribe
to the newsletter. Jefferson gram that substack dot com. I

(01:40:56):
know we've had three substackers here today.

Speaker 1 (01:40:58):
Yeah, go substack, Go sub stack. So I have a
challenge for you.

Speaker 2 (01:41:02):
There's a website called window dash swap dot com and
I found this website and it basically has people's windows
like they looking out their window. And so I think
that this would be a fun thing for you to do,
is to create one of these. You know, I think
it's like tenor This is not a time lapse, but

(01:41:23):
it's just like a ten or fifteen minute video outside
your window. And since you live near the beach, you
could have fun with this. And you can just see
a bunch of people's different windows throughout the world. And
it's called windows Swap, Window dash Swap dot com, and
so it's just kind of.

Speaker 10 (01:41:38):
I will be happy to do that with YouTube at
time lapse of Chucky Cheese at the end of the animatronics.

Speaker 2 (01:41:44):
Oh I should I it's so sad, it's almost but
when you look at those things up close, they are
kind of creepy.

Speaker 1 (01:41:50):
I'll tell you that.

Speaker 2 (01:41:51):
The like I said, the last time laps I did,
Jefferson was in my hotel room in New York City.
I'll tell you why I got in so early. I
got in it. I took a red eye. I got
it at five am. I checked into my hotel at
five point fifty five am. And the guy looks at
the time he goes, you're here a little early, you know,
check in is usually like four pm, he said, but
I do have a room for you. And so I
was so tired, but it was such a beautiful view

(01:42:13):
outside my room that I was like, ooh, before I
go to sleep. Because I was going to take a nap.
I said, let me set up the camera in the
window and I'll see if I can get a time lapse.
And so I set up the camera and it worked.
It ran forever. I actually was using the nothing phone
and it did a beautiful time lapse. I don't know
where I posted that, maybe on my Instagram. Anyway, time
lapses are fun. Thanks for coming on the show today.

(01:42:34):
Appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (01:42:35):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:42:36):
Jefferson Graham of Photo Walks TV.

Speaker 1 (01:42:39):
Check him out. He's on YouTube. Friend of the show.

Speaker 2 (01:42:43):
I think Jefferson has now been on the show more
than anyone else. I think that was your fourth time
coming up the feedback segment. You are listening to rich
on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Time for
the feed back segments. This is all the stuff that

(01:43:03):
you email me throughout the week. I can't get to
all of it, but I'll try to do my best.
Let me just get through a couple of news stories first,
I wanted to mention a couple of Amazon stories. Amazon
is introducing a new Prime health benefit with their new
subsidiary called One Medical. They bought this company, I don't know,

(01:43:24):
last year. This is a medical provider, and now they're
adding nine dollars a month or ninety nine dollars a
year for Prime members to get twenty four to seven
on demand virtual care nationwide, or you can get an
appointment for an in office visit at one Medical locations
across the US. You can use your insurance or you

(01:43:44):
can pay out of pocket. They do accept a lot
of insurance plans. The main thing here is that you
can get unlimited access to virtual care at no cost.
So if you have something simple that just requires a
of you know, virtual care, you can do that quickly
and sign up now. Of course they want you to
get your your prescriptions through Amazon Pharmacy, but nine bucks

(01:44:07):
a month or ninety nine dollars a year, this is
really if you are kind of you want like a
more modern medical experience and you maybe don't go to
the doctor as much.

Speaker 1 (01:44:17):
That's the way I see it.

Speaker 2 (01:44:18):
But Amazon's really been pushing hard into healthcare, and so
far nobody's really made a huge dent in healthcare, like
made it easy for someone like myself that I like
everything to be sort of on demand. You know, you
call your doctor to reschedule an appointment. They're like, Okay,
we can get you in. Maybe this is just an
LA thing. We can get you in, you know, next October.

(01:44:40):
You're like, what what do you mean next October?

Speaker 1 (01:44:42):
Like what I mean?

Speaker 2 (01:44:43):
I literally called one time for you know, I had
like a sore throat or something like, oh, we can't
take you got to go to like a medi center.

Speaker 1 (01:44:49):
It's like wait, what So anyway.

Speaker 2 (01:44:52):
The one medical says you can get same day or
next day appointments at the clinics too. Other Amazon News
Amazon expanding it's grocery delivery and pickup from Amazon Fresh
stores to all customers, even if you don't have a
Prime membership. So it used to be you had to
have a Prime membership to shop at Amazon Fresh online.
You no longer need to have a Prime membership to

(01:45:14):
do that. Now delivery is gonna cost you a fee.
From what I can tell, pickup is free, so you
can go to the store and pick it up. Anyway,
the main news here is that you can use Amazon
Fresh for groceries delivery pickup even if you don't have
a Prime membership. And they have redesigned the dash cart,
which is the self checkout car. I love the killer

(01:45:35):
new feature, which is it adds up your groceries as
you're walking through the store. I've wanted that forever because
I want to know how much I'm spending. You know,
you go to the grocery store, you end up spending
so much more than you think. BUCkies and Mercedes Benz.
Have you been to a BUCkies? Have you heard of BUCkies?
Bobo has never heard of BUCkies. I never did either
until I would land it in some Texas town and

(01:45:58):
I said, what is this? It was like the Holy
Grail of gas stations. I'm talking like one hundred pumps
and this place was incredible. It's probably one of the
earliest viral videos or videos I had go viral on
my Facebook page because I was such a fish out
of water. I'm like, I'm like this, you know, kid
from New Jersey in LA and I get to Texas

(01:46:18):
and I'm like, wait, what is this? I stopped, I
walked in. I'm like This is incredible. I'm talking all
kinds of stuff. Anyway, if you haven't been to all BUCkies,
you have to check it out when you go to Texas.
And if you have been, you know what I'm talking about. Anyway,
they're partnering with Mercedes Benz. They're gonna add ev charging
at Buckies' locations by the end of twenty twenty four.

(01:46:39):
They're adding a whole bunch of them. They're gonna have
over four hundred charging hubs nationwide by twenty twenty seven.
They're gonna use charge Point and they're gonna have plugs
for all different evs, not just Mercedes, but I guess
they'll be Mercedes branded, so that's kind of cool. So
they get to charge your car, and I will happily
stop to charge my car. Yeah, Bobo says, this is huge.

(01:47:03):
I would happily stop to charge my car for a
long time at a Buckie's. Apple gift card lawsuit settlement,
You're probably gonna see a lot of ads about this
if you bought a gift card for the app Store
or iTunes. There is a new settlement which covers people
who bought gift cards between March twenty eighteen and July
twenty twenty and they had other people steal the cards

(01:47:23):
from them, apparently unauthorized redemptions in California. It's from May
twenty seventeen to February twenty eighteen. Apple's going to pay
one point eight million dollars total. Oh that's not that much,
which each claimant receiving up to the face value of
their card. So if you want to get settlement money,
you got to submit a claim by January eighth, twenty
twenty four. The gift the settlement is shay Gift Card

(01:47:45):
Settlement dot com. But my advice watch out for scams
because you know they're going to be capitalizing on this,
so just be careful.

Speaker 1 (01:47:56):
All right.

Speaker 2 (01:47:56):
Some feedback, Wendy, I'm the least technical person in the
world and I love listening to your show. Thanks so much. Well,
thank you, Wendy. That is the goal. If you've noticed,
this show is not for nerds. Nerds love it, but
you can be a regular person and enjoy this show.
You don't have to be in tech nerd. The whole
point is that I'm making you help you understand technology

(01:48:18):
and making you feel smarter about it. You know't say
I don't know technology at all. Brent says, hey, Rich,
I saw your Rivian segment and you commented on the
charging issues. I'm surprised you didn't call it the company
Electrify America. The signage indicates the speeds, but like you said,
they're inconsistent. Many are non operational or intentionally set below

(01:48:41):
one hundred kilo hours. Please do a look seet into
this company. There's not one EA that's not disappointing. Yeah,
I've heard things about this Electrify America. I know it's
not a perfect system. Charles says, I enjoyed your segment
on the Rivian with regards to evs. Where are the
solar roofs and hoods? I read about corporating solar panels
into rooftop surfaces a couple of years ago.

Speaker 1 (01:49:02):
Than nothing, not a peep. It would help with range anxiety. Yeah.
The problem, Charles is that solar.

Speaker 2 (01:49:07):
Would not charge the battery fast enough or meaningful enough,
and it would be too heavy.

Speaker 1 (01:49:12):
I think that's why.

Speaker 2 (01:49:14):
Joanne says, hey, Rich, I bought a Ring camera and
it works perfectly, but Amazon and FedEx driver deliveries do
not record.

Speaker 1 (01:49:20):
Where's our X files? Music?

Speaker 2 (01:49:22):
Ring User blog suspects that drivers are jamming the devices.
I primarily wanted to see deliveries to prevent porch piracy.
There are reports to the FCC. I learned Amazon and
FedEx with the delivery tracking numbers since an Amazon products surprise,
there's not been any sufficient response from ring complaints date
back years.

Speaker 1 (01:49:42):
Joanne Joeann.

Speaker 2 (01:49:43):
That sounds like a major conspiracy. I doubt that FedEx
and Amazon workers are sitting there trying to jam every
ring doorbell they see. Alan says, I love listening to
you talk about EV's and range. Do you even realize
most evs are charged up by diesel generators, So all
your electric dream is really a talk about that on
your show. Look it up, Alan Oh, Alan, I don't

(01:50:04):
want to end the show on a bad note, but
that's going to do it. You can find links on
the website rich on tech dot TV. Find me on
social media. I am at rich on tech.

Speaker 1 (01:50:11):
Talk to you next week.

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