February 10, 2018 • 41 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What's going on? Rich DeMuro here, rich on Tech.
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(01:16):
that'll be kind of cool. So you can just listen
to my daily podcast update through there, and it's just cool.
I just really like what they're doing with Pipa dot io,
so thanks so much to them. Shout out to Pippa
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I'm loving it.
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I've done more with the podcast since i've been on there,
and what I love is I'm able to see my
I'm able to see my statistics, so I can see
how many people are downloading the show and it's done
pretty well. So I'm very excited about the analytics we're getting.
Let's see if I can see them real quick. But
the let's see in the last fifteen hundred downloads, that's
(01:52):
pretty good.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
So yeah, Pipa dot io if you want to check
that out for yourself.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
So welcome to the show.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
As you can see here on my desk if you're
watching on the live stream, I've got Apple's new home pod.
This is a three hundred and fifty dollars smart speaker.
So this is Apple's answer to Alexa from Amazon, the
Echo also Google Home and let's see, is there anything
(02:19):
else out there? I think that's pretty much it for now,
and also so nos I guess too. But this is
a beautifully designed speaker. I've had it now just about
a day, so I haven't done a whole lot with it,
but so far I can tell you this beautiful design.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Super premium.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I mean, obviously you're paying a lot of money for
this thing, so it is going to be really nice.
The just the way it all sets up and everything
very simple, very easy to use. You literally hold your
iPhone next to this thing and it sets itself up
through your iPhone. It's very slick. They did a really
nice job. So for three hundred and fifty dollars, what
do you get, Well, you get a speaker that sounds
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really good.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Then you also get a.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
You know, all the home assistant stuff so you can
ask Siri questions. So let's try a question. Hey Siri,
what's the weather like in Los Angeles?
Speaker 4 (03:11):
It's currently clear and eighty four degrees in Los Angeles, California.
Your pictures are heading down from eighty four degrees this
afternoon to sixty tonight. My weather data is provided by
the weather channel.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Oh well, thank you.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
I don't know, let me know if you can hear that,
because I can turn her up louder if you need to.
There's actually a little touch touch thing up here. Oh
it's playing music, so you can see the top. When
you press play, you actually get some plus and minus
so you can adjust the audio.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
On there, and it gets it gets really loud. I mean,
I don't know if you can hear that this thing,
so maybe we should go in there more so.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Every bit of music that I've heard through this thing
so far sounds really really good. And again you can
ask you questions like, hey, Siri, how many ounces in
a gallon?
Speaker 4 (04:03):
One gallon is one hundred and twenty eight fluid ounces.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Yeah, so I will tell you this.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
I'm gonna have my full report on this on KTLA
tomorrow morning, but I will tell you this that I
listened to this thing against the Google Home Max, the
Amazon Echo, and the sons. Now I have Sonos all
over the place. I love my Sonos speakers. I thought
those sounded so good until I've heard this. And let
me give you the ranking. So now my new ranking
is HomePod, then Google Home Max. That's the big one
(04:33):
that also sells I think that's four hundred bucks. Then
you've got Sons and then Amazon Echo.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
So here's the deal.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Yeah, the Amazon Echo definitely did not sound as good
next to this thing. But if you're listening to them isolated,
like as in you're not listening to them all at
the same time, you're really not gonna know the difference.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
This just really blows them away.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
When you have it next to them and you're I
listened to the same song skipping among the speakers, and
you could definitely tell that the home Pop has done
its homework because it sounds fantastic. Now, is it worth
three hundred and fifty dollars? That's the big question, because
really the only music service you can use through this
natively is Apple Music, and that costs ten dollars a month.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Now, I get it.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
A lot of people pay for Spotify and Pandora and
iHeart whatever, but that's the only native app. So when
you ask Siri to play a song, Hey Siri, Hey Siri,
Oh she's listening on my phone. Hey Siri, play blood
Pop justin Bieber Friends.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Sorry, Okay, so.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
For some reason she's answering on my phone when she
should be answering here, but usually she should answer on
the proper device. I've noticed that's kind of a problem
in general with all of these smart home devices.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
If you have a couple of.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Them around, they all kind of answer or they want
to answer at the same time. These engineers really have
their work cut out for them to make the right
thing answer. Let's try that one more time. Hey, Siri,
play some justin Bieber.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Sure, here's a personalized station of justin Bieber.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Okay, there you go, So there's playing music. Okay, Now,
let me show you the back of this because you okay. So,
if you want to use a different music service, like
let's say you want to use iHeartRadio or Pandora, you
can use your phone to basically airplay that to the speaker.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
And we did that with Spotify.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
It sounded fantastic, but that is not an ideal setup.
Number One, your phone has to be actively in use.
Whereas if you use Apple Music on here, it's pulling
from Wi Fi, so it's streaming from the cloud, which
means you can start music and leave the house with
your phone and still be fine, or someone can come
into your house and play music without your phone. Being
there and on the back there is no input, so
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you really don't have any other input to plug in,
you know, like a three point five millimeters cable to
put any sort of other input into here.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
It's airplay, and that's basically it. Maybe Bluetooth. I'm not
sure if you can bluetooth something. It does not show
up in my list of Bluetooth items right now, but
it does airplay pretty easily. And the only other thing
I thought was kind of weird is that this does
not disconnect.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
So this little.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Wire right here is permanently in there. So let's look
at what you guys are saying. Let's see so Barry
says he's going to look into Google Home. Max Peter
says it's awesome. Too bad it's Apple only. Ruby says,
which I can afford it, it is expensive, and let's
see here.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
What else.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Laurie says, Well, it talk to my Apple TV and
play audio while movies are playing. Theoretically you could get
it to do that because you could airplayer Apple TV
for this device.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
That would be a little bit complicated, but you can.
You can do that for sure. So yeah, so there
you have it. There's the Home pod.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
But again, you can do a lot of cool stuff
with it. I think for three hundred and fifty dollars,
this is a premium buy. This is for someone who
loves Apple. They're in the Apple ecosystem. I assume that
Apple thinks people are going to sign up for Apple
Music to get this speaker, but I think it's the opposite.
If you already have Apple Music, which a lot of
people do, you're gonna be like, all right, well that
(08:13):
works with Apple Music.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
I already use that.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I already have an iPhone, I already have an iPad,
I have a MacBook.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Let me get their speaker.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
But that's a premium buy, especially if you're looking at
getting one of these in a different room. Let's say
you want it in two rooms. Well, guess what, now
you're looking at seven hundred bucks. But there could be
other things going on here.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Apple could come out with.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
A smaller version, which we can see, and that might
be cheaper as well. So all right, I'm gonna open
up the phone lines three one zero five nine four
three zero zero three. You can ask a question about
the home pod, or any question that you want. Joe says,
it seems way too limited to be worth the money
right now.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
And you know it's it's one of those things. It's
it's gonna appeal to certain people.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
You know. I could see this being placed in a
lot of apartments. So if you're kind of a maybe
a single person that has an apartment and you just
want a really cool, slick looking speaker, Yes, that sounds good.
I can see it in like a lot of kind
of restaurants, cafes, like an art gallery type place anywhere
(09:16):
that there's a priority for design and sound.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
That's where this speaker is going to fit in. Really good.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
So Barry says Android all the way, but rich is
great KTLA channel five with the hashtag I love that,
and Laurie says great for Valentine's gift for my sweetheart. Well,
if your sweetheart loves loves Apple, you should definitely get
them one of these things. I think they would like it.
All right, phone line is open. I know there's a
slight delay, but three one zero five nine four three
(09:43):
zero zero three. While you wait for that call, let
me talk about something that I thought was pretty interesting.
Samsung and Roku smart TVs vulnerable to hacking, according to
Consumer Reports.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
So Consumer Reports.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Did a big study and they found that millions of
smart TVs can be controlled by hackers exploiting easy to
find security flaws. Well no, duh, they're smart TVs. What
do you think is going to happen? So they found
that the problems affect Samsung televisions primarily along with models
made by TCL and other brands that use the Roku
(10:18):
TV smart TV platform, as well as streaming.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Devices like the Roku Ultra. So here's what they found.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
That a hacker could do change channels, play offensive content,
crank up the volume, and all this could be done
over the web.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
So what did they figure out?
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Well, they basically figured out some sort of open port
that's available to someone that's pretty you know, probably tech savvy,
but not you and I necessarily, but someone that knows
a little bit about coding and back doors and all
this stuff, and they figured out a way to kind
of change some things on your TV.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
So is this a huge deal? I mean, obviously we.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Don't want this stuff to happen. We don't want our
TVs to be hacked. We don't want people to be
able to see what we're doing. But the reality is
the stuff they're talking about change channels, play offensive content,
crank up the volume. Yes, that would definitely be scary
if you're sitting in your house and someone starts playing
a movie on your TV that you did not ask
for or changes the volume. And these are the kind
(11:16):
of things now, I'll be honest. When I was a kid,
here's the thing, I did the same thing. I just
pointed a remote out my window at my neighbor's house
and did the same thing. Or I sat in the
back of the living room while my parents were watching
TV and I'd sit under the couch and I would
do the same thing with the remote and freak them out.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
So it's not something that hasn't happened before.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
It's just a new way of doing it, and hackers
are finding those exploits. So now, if there's cameras on
the TV, that would definitely be a problem. But this
goes to show a larger problem in general, and that
is the smart home. We are putting so many devices
in our homes that listen and watch and we don't
want people to have access to those. So again, that's
(11:58):
why reports like this come out, because we want these
companies to be on their toes. We want people to
be looking for these exploits so that we can find
them and we can.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Close those holes. That's what we want to happen. Two
one three, you're on with Rich. Two one three, you're
on with Rich. Hello.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
Hello, Hey, l I couldn't hear you. The question I
wanted to ask is if Sonos could be played in
I mean that Sonos the home Pod could be played
in stereo.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Good question.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
So yes, HomePod can be Now do you mean with
one home pod or two?
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Two?
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Okay, yes, So they are coming out with a feature
later this year. And I already saw it in preview.
So they had two HomePods set up and they were
playing in stereo. They do link up with each other
and so, and it sounded fantastic. But that feature is
coming later this year. They didn't say when it's coming,
but it is a promised feature on the HomePod I
(12:59):
saw yesterday, so it's definitely available. They're just working out
the bugs, I assume. So, yes, you can hook up
two HomePods and make them stereo. And again, one thing
I did not mention about the HomePod is that part
of the magic of this thing is how it sounds
in the room and adjusts to the room that it's in,
So no matter where you place it in that room,
it does do three P sixty sound and it kind
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of figures out is it right in front of a wall,
is it in the center of the room, and it
adjusts accordingly.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
So Apple has definitely worked some magic into this. Now.
Sonos has had something like that.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
That for many years, but it required you kind of
holding up your phone to tune the speaker so it
can hear around the room. And I tried to do
that with mine and that it never worked, so I
didn't really give.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
It much thought. But yeah, so does that answer your question?
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Yeah, sure does.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
Thank you very much and shout out to everybody at KTLA.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
I love your news.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Thanks so much for calling in. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Rose says, Are you able to receive incoming calls and
talk through the speaker? Great question, Rose, So we tried this.
I called my wife through here. So here's how it works.
You cannot just say to Siri, can you call this
phone number that is not enabled just yet, But what
you can do is you can make a phone call
through the phone and then transfer it to your speaker.
(14:17):
So when you make a call, you know how you
have little that little uh sign here that says like.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Bluetooth or car or whatever.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
You just press that once and then you'll see your
home pod listed. You press that and your call will
immediately transfer. And by the way, the call sounded fantastic.
I can't get over how good the sound is on
this thing. So I understand it's a super premium, expensive product.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
But the reality is, if you purchase this product for
three hundred and fifty dollars, you're.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Not going to be disappointed. You're not going to get
it home and say, ah, I could have gotten an
echo for eighty bucks. No, no, no, this is not
the same sound quality as an echo. Echo sounds like
a tin can compared to this device. And I'm not
I'm not saying the echo is bad. It's just totally different.
This is a premium speaker product that Apple has put
a lot of work into, and the echo sounds great
(15:02):
until you get it next to this, and then.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Of course it's a little bit different.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
All right, phone line is open three one zero five
nine four three zero zero three.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Jose says, how did you really like the Vava dash cam?
Speaker 2 (15:16):
So here's the deal, And then we've got another Hiram says,
I wanted to buy the dash cam, but I can't
find the link for the code to get the discount.
So let me tell you about the Vava dashcam.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Let's see here Vava. Let me just bring it up.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
So Vava dashcam is basically one of the best dash
cams I've ever tested. And here's what I love about it.
It is a one hundred and thirty dollars dash cam
that let me get you there it is. Oh oh, whoops,
I brought up. I brought it up on the wrong page.
Hang on, let me bring it up on the right
page here. So Vava is a one hundred and thirty
dollars dash cam and it's got a really unique design.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Number one.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
And let me just tell you, this was the top
rated story I have ever done in the history of KTLA.
More of you went to the website yesterday to check
out this dashcam and to check out this deal than
anything else. I cannot believe how I knew it was
gonna be popular because this was really cool. I did
not realize just how popular it would be. So this
(16:15):
dashcam normally sells for one hundred and thirty dollars. It
has a swivel mount so you can swivel it. Three
sixty does not shoot. Three sixty video shoots video one way.
It's got a wide angle one hundred and fifty five
degree lens Sony camera.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Looks really nice.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
I've got a sample video in here, and I actually
downloaded I actually.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Downloaded a Let's see if I can find it.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
I downloaded a video at night because you were asking, hey,
can you send one at night? So let's see if
I can find one Fava dashcam night sample.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Let's see if mine comes up.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
I uploaded this this morning to YouTube, so hopefully there
it is. So oh, someone else upload it. But here's
what it looks like. And I think it looks pretty
darn good. That's not even it hasn't even clicked into
HD yet. There it is seven twenty.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
But that's a pretty bright picture.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
It's a pretty good looking picture, and you can definitely
make out all of the details.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
In the picture.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Especially you want to be able to make out license plates,
So if you were to pause that and zoom in,
you'd definitely be able to see those license plates as well.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
But there you go. That's my drive into work, so
you can see.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
That's going down Vine and let's see stop rich, Okay,
I did, and then taking a left there on Sunset Boulevard.
So Dahlia says, why does one need a dash cam?
Speaker 1 (17:35):
That's a great question. So here's the thing. You don't
need a dash cam.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
But there's something very satisfying about having a dash cam.
You have a confidence on the road that you just
don't have normally because you know if something happens in
front of you or to your car, that.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
This dash cam is going to capture it. And you
know if people cut you off, you get to an accident.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
It's just nice to have that video record of everything
that goes on, plus the audio as well, So you
get the audio of what's happening in your car, plus
you get your speed and location. You can turn off
the speed on, hold on, let's uh, let's close this
so you can let me get back to where I was.
(18:19):
You can set the so it doesn't show you the
speedometer on your car if you want to do that,
but it also captures the sound in your car as well,
so you know what's going on. Now, the here's the deal.
Here's what I did not like about the dashcam. And
the dashcam is good, but it does not shoot the
front and the back at the same time. So I
(18:39):
was rear ended a couple months ago, probably I don't know,
six months ago at this point, and it would have
been nice to have that back, you know, where I
could see what that car did behind me before they
ran into me. You know, it would have just captured
the front, which still would have been interesting to kind
of hear what transpired. You could hear me talking to
the other person, but it would have been nice to
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see what was going on behind me. So anyway, it's
just one of those things that's nice to have. So
long story short, the Vava cam. If you want to
look at it, here's the deal. You can go to
the website and if you go down to the bottom.
I talked to the company. Normally I don't do this,
but I was like, you know what, this thing sells
for one hundred and thirty bucks. I think it would
be amazing under one hundred dollars. I said, if you
(19:20):
can get it under one hundred bucks, I think we're
going to sell a billion of these things because it's
so good. Like people want one of these, but they
don't want to spend so much money. And next thing,
you know, they got it for ninety five ninety nine.
So if you go to Amazon search Vava dashcam and
use the code rich on tech. You can find this
all at ktla dot com slash tech, but that's what
you do, and you can order it through there.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
So wow, you guys already. Dedra says, she already got
hers delivered today.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
That's amazing. She used the code yesterday, that's awesome. Yeah,
Grace says, I love the dash cam. Wish I could
have used it when a woman backed into my car.
There you go, so you have it there as well.
It also keeps a record of all the places that
you drive, so I really like that as well. Here's
the other thing, so I wanted to make sure that
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the Vava cam was a good deal, so I actually checked.
There's this website called Camel Camel Camel and you can
check to see kind of like what the prices are
on Amazon. And this was the cheapest price, or is
the cheapest price in at least ninety days, since it
only launched on de Summer sixth, and the cheapest price
it was before that was one hundred and nineteen dollars.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
So I really love this dash cam. I think it's
really cool.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
It's got some other features that I haven't even talked about,
which include there is a snapshot, so you can actually
there's this little button that you put on your somewhere
on your dashboard, and it's like a little bluetooth. It
looks like a little circle like this. You just press
that and next thing you know, it takes a snapshot too.
You can take a snapshot of you. You know, you'd
swivel it around and take a picture of your friends
(20:54):
in your car while you're stopped of course, or you know,
you can have it aimed at you and you can
take a void so you can just do, you know,
like whatever you want. There's so many little things you
can do. If you want to be a YouTube star.
You can solve it around and do some carpool karaoke.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Now, I will tell you I don't think you should
do that because I.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Don't think anyone should be singing with their friends while
they drive, because that's very dangerous. So I don't know
how James Corden does it, but it seems very every
time I watch that show, I'm.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Like, please be careful, please be careful.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Now, I know, on like normal shows like if they're
driving in a car. The car is being pulled by
a trailer, so they're fine. But I think in carpool
karaoke he's actually driving while they sing, which just seems
absolutely insane to me.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
So let's see Peter says he's ordering it. Now, there
you go, all right, So there's the Vava camp. You
guys love that story, so man I was.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
I was very impressed with a Vava cam with that.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Full lines open three one zero five, nine four three
zero zero three three one zero five to nine four.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
Three zero zero three.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Let's see, there's some I print all these things I
want to talk to you guys about, and let's see.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
I thought this was interesting. So Amazon is.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Going to start delivering from Whole Foods, so or I
guess they already started today. So if you're an Amazon
Prime member, you can get free two hour delivery on
orders over thirty five dollars from Whole Foods. And unfortunately,
it's only in four neighborhoods, which is Austin, Cincinnati, Dallas,
and Virginia Beach. So I don't know how they pick
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those neighborhoods. But if you live in one of those neighborhoods,
you're very lucky. So why is this interesting Because you
might be thinking, well, big deal, I already have Amazon Fresh.
They've been delivering groceries forever. Well, this is included in
Amazon Prime. Amazon Fresh is not included. That's an extra
fifteen dollars a month.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
This is free two hour delivery of groceries over thirty
five dollars if you put in order with your Prime membership.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
So that means you're not paying anything extra for that membership. So, hey, Siri,
what do you think of Whole Foods?
Speaker 4 (23:05):
I think therefore I am Oh, let's not put to
cart before divorce.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
I feel like Siri is my like sidekick on this show.
I think that Siri is uh is gonna be uh,
She's just gonna be here forever because I can just
ask her questions. Oh, all these people asking about the discount.
Please share the code. The code very easy. It's rich
on Tech. Rich on Tech is the code. So if
you but here's the thing. I would not just search
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Amazon because if you get the wrong thing, it's not
going to work. So go into KTLA. Just go to
rich on tech dot tv and then click on the
dash cam story and scroll down to the bottom and
you'll see it. So if you go here, I'll show you,
guys what to do. So if you go to rich
rich on tech dot TV, here I'll show you how
to do it.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
All right, So.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
There's rich on tech dot TV. Here's the dash cam.
And by the way, I put all my stuff right
on here. So if you ever, you know, are looking
for some thing I mentioned on TV, this is where
you go. That's why I always say rich on tech
dot TV, because I put everything on here. If it's
a small mention of something like a lot of people
were asking I mentioned that book I was reading the
other day called Crush It.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
A lot of you asked, you emailed me, Hey, what
was the name of that book? Well, guess what. See
what it says looking for a link to something I mentioned,
Check here and guess what. There it is. There's the link.
Here's the book I bought. So sometimes you have to
kind of just look a little bit, but you will
find it.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
And there's the book Crushing It, which by the way,
is fantastic. So okay, so you have that, and then
you go back to the homepage and here's the dash
cam story. So I click there and about a bing
about a boom. Here we go scroll down and the
code is right here at the bottom of the page.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
So there's the code. So there's the code.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
So you can actually click here you've got the Amazon
click and then use the code, add it to your
shopping cart, and then you can add it at the
code at checkout rich on tech which will take a
lot of money off one it's normally one thirty and
it will come down to ninety six or ninety seven dollars.
So there you go, rich on tech dot TV. And
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the other thing I meant to mention about the dashcan
that I like is that it does have a battery inside,
so even when your car is off, it's still active.
It's not recording, but if your car gets bumped, there
is a G sensor in there, so it will sense
that and it will trigger a recording.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
So again, if someone hits your car and.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Then speeds off, you'll be able to get their license
plate or something like that, or if they try to
get in your car, you know, they'd have to walk
past your car for you.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
To see them.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
But anyway, that's the that's the deal with that.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
So all right, phone.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Lines open three one zero five nine four three zero
zero three. You have a tech question, go ahead and
call in. You can definitely call in and get right through.
Right now, let's see what else we want to talk
about here Vava, We've got.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Disney, We've got I g oh Apple watch. I thought
this was this was pretty good. Oh, you know what,
let me do some while you guys are calling in.
I'll do some. I'll do some of the comments here.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Andreas said, I just got an Echo a few days ago.
Now what lol, I think you'll be okay with the
Echo this. Let this one kind of simmer for a
little bit before you go ahead and order that. Philip says,
the dash cam is perfect for Uber drivers. It is
perfect except for Uber drivers. I guess see, if I
was an Uber driver, I'd want the front and the
back recorded at the same time. So I think in
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a future version of the Vava cam, they're gonna do
front and back and I would assume three sixty video
at one point, because that would be the ideal. You
just capture the entire thing at the same time.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
So there you go.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
All right, we got the code, we got that, We
got that.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Okay, good. Please share this podcast so more people can
be enlightened. Yeah, please.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
I mean, here's the thing. I you know, I do
this for fun. I do this to answer your questions.
And that's the reality of it is that if you
find out about it and you know about it, it's awesome.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
I love it, Thank you so much. But I don't
like sit there and advertise.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
I barely mentioned this on KTLA ever, but I do
do it, and I do like doing it because it
is fun.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
So there you have it, and the phone numbers on
the screen.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Yeah, the phone number is Go ahead and call in
three one zero five nine four three zero zero three.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
That is my personal number. You will get through. So
there you go.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
All right, this I thought was really cool. Apple Watch
can detect early signs of diabetes with eighty.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Five percent accuracy.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
So part of an ongoing study involving Apple Watch and
Android users, researchers at app developer, Cardiogram and the University
of UCSF they basically trained a network called deep Heart
to figure out people with and without diabetes at an
eighty five percent accuracy just by looking at their stats
from Apple Watch. They looked at fourteen thousand users, and
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they looked at thirty three thousand weeks of health censored
data and basically they trained this artificial intelligence to kind
of figure out do these people have diabetes?
Speaker 1 (28:08):
And I thought that that's.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Pretty amazing because this is kind of the holy grail
of medicine, is that because we're wearing these smart devices
that are always monitoring us, that we can kind of
tell things in advance of feeling really sick. So let's see,
they presented samples with and without diabetes, hypertension, sleep apnea,
(28:32):
atriol fibrillation, and high cholesterol. So they fed all this
information into a computer and the computer said, Okay, we
see these patterns developing, and now just by sensing the
person with their watch, we can figure out what's.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Going on with them. I think that's amazing.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Now, if you've heard the rumor from Apple, they are
trying to develop a non invasive glucose sensor for the
Apple Watch, which would be unbelievable because now I don't
I mean, I don't know anyone personally with diabetes, but
I know a lot of people out there have it,
and I know of the disease, and I understand that
you're testing yourself all the time. I mean I know
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someone actually, I do know someone that has it, and
he actually wears a sensor that is kind of embedded
in his body the whole time. This would mean you
don't have to do any sort of blood test, which
is really amazing.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
So that's what Apple's working on. That's not here just yet.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
But again they say the holy grail of modern medical
science would be a system that allows diabetics to continuously
monitor their sugar levels without performing blood draws, and that
would be unbelievable. So and I do think Apple will
accomplish that.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
I really do.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
I think Apple is really trying to put a lot
behind the Apple Watch. All Right, someone was brave at
to call in seven one four You're on with Rich? Hello, Hey,
who am I speaking with?
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Okay, just second here, I've got to turn on this speak.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Oh yeah, it's a little it's a little complicated because
it's delayed as well. So it's kind of like the
old timey radio, you know, and you call and you'd
hear the person in the background. So let me know
when you're ready, seven to one four.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Okay, Yeah, I've got my uh, I'm using my iPhone
and i've got it on speaker phone, but I can't
hear you on the phone.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
That's interesting. Hmm, I wonder why.
Speaker 5 (30:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Oh, you have to wait to hear me through the
through the Facebook Live, which is super delayed, right.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
I think so?
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Yes, yeah, interesting, all right, well we'll try to power
through it. What's your question?
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Okay, now I can hear you.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Oh, here we go.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
I think I see the home pod next year. It's
a little bit bigger than I expected. I got a
notice that it's on the UPS truck for tomorrow for delivery.
How do you like it so far?
Speaker 1 (30:58):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
I mean, I think it's it's probably one of the
best sounding speakers that I've listened to. So I think
I think you're gonna be very happy with the audio quality.
Are you a Are you an Apple Music subscriber already
or are you planning on signing up? Yes?
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Yes I am.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Okay, So, I mean, if you're an Apple Music subscriber,
I mean you could just literally talk to it, say
you know, you can call out a playlist, you can
call it a genre, a specific song. You can just
say play me some music and it will play. And
the audio quality is unbelievable, gets super loud. It's small,
but Apple has done so many great things with tuning
this and making it work in any room. So it's
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got three hundred and sixty degree sound. And from what
I heard yesterday when I had it compared against these
other smart speakers, the only one that came close was
the one from Google, which is four hundred dollars by
the way, So it's not like it's it's cheaper than this.
So now if you put it together, you know, next
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to Sonos, which I really love.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
I was.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
I was very impressed with the It sounded better than Sono's,
which to me has always been the gold standard.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
So what feature are you looking forward to me?
Speaker 3 (32:07):
I am the owned a a speaker, you know, a
device where you can talk to it. Yeah, I've got iPad,
iPhones and all that stuff, but I have yet to
uh to get one of these. And it looks pretty good.
I like, I ordered the white one. I like things white,
not black.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
So well, now you said you said it looks bigger
than you think. I mean it's it might be because
it's closer to the camera if I hold it back.
I mean that's about how big it is. So it's
not it's it is heavy, though, I will tell you
it's got some weight on it.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
I don't know what the what the weight is, but
it is a heavy speaker.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
And it's got this great mesh design that it's just
it feels great.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Not that you really want to push.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
It in because it is a mesh. It could be
damaged that way, I think, But it's just it's very
minimalistic looking. It will fit into your you know, your house.
That kind of blends into the background. But it's also
kind of a statement because it is so well designed.
And you do have the touch controls on the top too,
so if you want to start playing something, you can
just tap I believe, let's see, Yeah, you can just
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tap once, and you also have the volume up and down.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
Can you also plug in a radio or something to
the speaker in the back or.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
No, you can't plug anything into the back. In fact,
I was actually surprised that the cable does not plug in,
even like the power cable does not come out. It's
just built in there, which is kind of odd for
a speaker these days. Yeah, but yeah, so you can't
plug anything into the back. There is no external input whatsoever.
The only way you can get an external audio source
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into it is by using airplay off your iPhone now
I'm not sure. I have to look and see if
you can use Bluetooth, but I I know for sure
you can use airplay. But here's the thing, this is
this is first day. You know, it comes out tomorrow.
Apple probably just wanted to get it out there. I
have a feeling that they probably would not mind other
(34:04):
music services being on there in the future, so we'll see.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Yeah, now, is this is there firmware that can be
upgraded over the air or is it?
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Yeah? So yeah, no, no, it's all it's all software.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
So in fact, we had an earlier caller ask if
you can pair them up with stereo, and that's one
of the features that's coming later on, so you will
be able to pair it up with stereo.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
And you'll be able to do that too.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
So I mean, yeah, this is definitely one of those
things where it's kind of iPhone, you know, you get
new features every once in a while and you're just
like pleasantly surprised, like, oh, it couldn't do this yesterday,
but now it can do this, And that's exactly what
they're going to do with home Pod as well. So
I'm just trying to find when you get something out, Yeah,
when when you held it.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Back, I can see the side and you know, the
real size of it there to where it's more of
a manageable size, right, and your your camera makes it
look like a monster.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Yeah, no, no, no, we just had it. We just
had it up close because it's got to be on
the desk here. But no, no, it's yeah, it's not that.
You know, it does look like a monster up there.
You're right now, this is if I hold it back here,
it's definitely it's not a monster.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
It's it's a good size speaker. It looks really nice.
So here's the two features that are coming later this year.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Stereo pair, so if you put two home pods in
the same room, they automatically balance each other to become stereo.
And then let's see Airplay two, which is basically going
to allow you to play the same music in various rooms.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
If you get a bunch of these in.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Different rooms, you can have multi room audio, which right now,
that's what Sono's kind of pioneered. You can accomplish that
now with the Echo and also with the Google devices.
But now you'll be able to do it with this
later on in the year with a software update.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
Oh that's good. Yeah. Well I'm gonna have to buy
a lot of ticket to get more than one.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
Yeah, I was gonna say that that's where this gets expensive.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
I'm sort of giving myself this my birthday in May. First.
We're going to use it before then, but this is
my birthday present and myself, so it's you know, it's
pretty expensive.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
It is a premium purchase, but I think you'll be happy. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
I like Apple products, so that's good. I watch YouTube
all the time for the latest Apple stuff and looking
at the new iPads coming this year and everything, and
you know, they look pretty good. Oh, they looked pretty nice.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
I deal with a lot of these companies, Apple, Amazon, Google,
and I will say that Apple definitely has.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
They have it together, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
Not that the other companies don't, but Apple is very,
very on top of things, and they've had their stumbles
in recent years, but they they overall, when you get
a product from.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
Them, you know that it's been vetted. You know that
for the most part, they have done their homework on things.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
They've thought of a lot of stuff, and they have
a theory behind why they do things the way they
do it, so I think HomePod is no different.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
So all right, okay, well thanks for your time that
I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Hey, thanks for calling in. I appreciate it. And have
a happy birthday and enjoy the new home pod. All right,
there you go. What are the dimensions?
Speaker 2 (37:12):
Since you don't put your hand by it, you know,
I don't let me see if I have the dimensions.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
I have them right here. Let's see here technical specs.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
So it is six point eight inches high, five point
six inches wide, and it weighs five point five pounds,
and it comes in white and space gray. And again
you've got touch and hold for serious. You can just
touch and hold here.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
What's the weather like in Cabo?
Speaker 4 (37:43):
It's currently cloudy and seventy eight degrees in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
Spect mostly cloudy sky starting in the afternoon. Temperatures are
heading down from eighty degrees this afternoon to seventy three tonight.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
Wow, she's awfully specific with the weather. You get a
lot of stuff there.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
What else here? Audio formats Wi Fi? So yeah, setup
is pretty easy as well.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
All right, if you want to call in three one
zero five nine four three zero zero three three one
zero five nine four three zero zero three. Mama's Gorhero says,
how much rich? Three hundred and fifty dollars for the HomePod.
So three hundred and fifty big ones for the HomePod.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
So all right, let's see.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
Do I have anything else I want to talk to
you guys about before I go here? Oh wow, it's
already two o'clock. Well we're already going over time. All right,
one more thing. I'll just talk about Twitter real quick
before we go. So, you know, Twitter posted its first
profit this week, which is pretty impressive because everyone said that,
(38:44):
you know, like Twitter is not one of those things.
It's like, you don't think of Twitter as like a
big business. It has changed the way we communicate. But
it's not like, oh my gosh, it's not Facebook. It's
not like this giant, you know, kind of moving force
like Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat. It's just kind of there, you know,
it's like a utility almost. But anyway, the good news
is the two hundred and eighty character tweets.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
You know, they expanded it. They've doubled how many characters
you can use. Has actually worked.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
So Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey says, people have the room
and we're seeing less abandonment of tweets, but we're seeing
a lot more engagement as well, more retweets and more mentions, and.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
So that's a good thing.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
So I guess they're saying that because you can talk
longer in these tweets, people are actually taking the time
to craft tweets.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
And I'm guilty of that myself.
Speaker 2 (39:33):
I would start a tweet and I can't fit it,
or I can't you know, I got to sit there
and like get rid of some words to make it
all fit, and I'm just like, you know what, nevermind,
and I'll just close out the app. So the two
hundred and eighty characters has definitely given me some breathing
room on there, and I feel like a lot of
other people so that was a good thing. Hasn't changed
the fabric of Twitter. I don't feel like it's very
different than it was, but I think that that's probably
(39:53):
a good thing that they change that.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
So all right, that's going to do it for today's show.
Thanks so much for joining me, Thanks so much for
two tuning in.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
Thanks so much for asking about the home pod and
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So you've got me Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube. Different
things on each one of them. So Instagram stories more
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I just really like what they're doing with Pipa dot io,
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I'm able to see my statistics, so I can see
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Let's see if I can see them real quick. But
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I like that.
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Speaker 1 (01:57):
So welcome to the show.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
As you can see here on my desk if you're
watching on the live stream, I've got Apple's new home pod.
This is a three hundred and fifty dollars smart speaker.
So this is Apple's answer to Alexa from Amazon, the
Echo also Google Home and let's see, is there anything
(02:19):
else out there? I think that's pretty much it for now,
and also so nos I guess too. But this is
a beautifully designed speaker. I've had it now just about
a day, so I haven't done a whole lot with it,
but so far I can tell you this beautiful design.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Super premium.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I mean, obviously you're paying a lot of money for
this thing, so it is going to be really nice.
The just the way it all sets up and everything
very simple, very easy to use. You literally hold your
iPhone next to this thing and it sets itself up
through your iPhone. It's very slick. They did a really
nice job. So for three hundred and fifty dollars, what
do you get, Well, you get a speaker that sounds
(02:56):
really good.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Then you also get a.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
You know, all the home assistant stuff so you can
ask Siri questions. So let's try a question. Hey Siri,
what's the weather like in Los Angeles?
Speaker 4 (03:11):
It's currently clear and eighty four degrees in Los Angeles, California.
Your pictures are heading down from eighty four degrees this
afternoon to sixty tonight. My weather data is provided by
the weather channel.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Oh well, thank you.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
I don't know, let me know if you can hear that,
because I can turn her up louder if you need to.
There's actually a little touch touch thing up here. Oh
it's playing music, so you can see the top. When
you press play, you actually get some plus and minus
so you can adjust the audio.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
On there, and it gets it gets really loud. I mean,
I don't know if you can hear that this thing,
so maybe we should go in there more so.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Every bit of music that I've heard through this thing
so far sounds really really good. And again you can
ask you questions like, hey, Siri, how many ounces in
a gallon?
Speaker 4 (04:03):
One gallon is one hundred and twenty eight fluid ounces.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Yeah, so I will tell you this.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
I'm gonna have my full report on this on KTLA
tomorrow morning, but I will tell you this that I
listened to this thing against the Google Home Max, the
Amazon Echo, and the sons. Now I have Sonos all
over the place. I love my Sonos speakers. I thought
those sounded so good until I've heard this. And let
me give you the ranking. So now my new ranking
is HomePod, then Google Home Max. That's the big one
(04:33):
that also sells I think that's four hundred bucks. Then
you've got Sons and then Amazon Echo.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
So here's the deal.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Yeah, the Amazon Echo definitely did not sound as good
next to this thing. But if you're listening to them isolated,
like as in you're not listening to them all at
the same time, you're really not gonna know the difference.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
This just really blows them away.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
When you have it next to them and you're I
listened to the same song skipping among the speakers, and
you could definitely tell that the home Pop has done
its homework because it sounds fantastic. Now, is it worth
three hundred and fifty dollars? That's the big question, because
really the only music service you can use through this
natively is Apple Music, and that costs ten dollars a month.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Now, I get it.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
A lot of people pay for Spotify and Pandora and
iHeart whatever, but that's the only native app. So when
you ask Siri to play a song, Hey Siri, Hey Siri,
Oh she's listening on my phone. Hey Siri, play blood
Pop justin Bieber Friends.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Sorry, Okay, so.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
For some reason she's answering on my phone when she
should be answering here, but usually she should answer on
the proper device. I've noticed that's kind of a problem
in general with all of these smart home devices.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
If you have a couple of.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Them around, they all kind of answer or they want
to answer at the same time. These engineers really have
their work cut out for them to make the right
thing answer. Let's try that one more time. Hey, Siri,
play some justin Bieber.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Sure, here's a personalized station of justin Bieber.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Okay, there you go, So there's playing music. Okay, Now,
let me show you the back of this because you okay. So,
if you want to use a different music service, like
let's say you want to use iHeartRadio or Pandora, you
can use your phone to basically airplay that to the speaker.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
And we did that with Spotify.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
It sounded fantastic, but that is not an ideal setup.
Number One, your phone has to be actively in use.
Whereas if you use Apple Music on here, it's pulling
from Wi Fi, so it's streaming from the cloud, which
means you can start music and leave the house with
your phone and still be fine, or someone can come
into your house and play music without your phone. Being
there and on the back there is no input, so
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you really don't have any other input to plug in,
you know, like a three point five millimeters cable to
put any sort of other input into here.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
It's airplay, and that's basically it. Maybe Bluetooth. I'm not
sure if you can bluetooth something. It does not show
up in my list of Bluetooth items right now, but
it does airplay pretty easily. And the only other thing
I thought was kind of weird is that this does
not disconnect.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
So this little.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Wire right here is permanently in there. So let's look
at what you guys are saying. Let's see so Barry
says he's going to look into Google Home. Max Peter
says it's awesome. Too bad it's Apple only. Ruby says,
which I can afford it, it is expensive, and let's
see here.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
What else.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Laurie says, Well, it talk to my Apple TV and
play audio while movies are playing. Theoretically you could get
it to do that because you could airplayer Apple TV
for this device.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
That would be a little bit complicated, but you can.
You can do that for sure. So yeah, so there
you have it. There's the Home pod.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
But again, you can do a lot of cool stuff
with it. I think for three hundred and fifty dollars,
this is a premium buy. This is for someone who
loves Apple. They're in the Apple ecosystem. I assume that
Apple thinks people are going to sign up for Apple
Music to get this speaker, but I think it's the opposite.
If you already have Apple Music, which a lot of
people do, you're gonna be like, all right, well that
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works with Apple Music.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
I already use that.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I already have an iPhone, I already have an iPad,
I have a MacBook.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Let me get their speaker.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
But that's a premium buy, especially if you're looking at
getting one of these in a different room. Let's say
you want it in two rooms. Well, guess what, now
you're looking at seven hundred bucks. But there could be
other things going on here.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Apple could come out with.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
A smaller version, which we can see, and that might
be cheaper as well. So all right, I'm gonna open
up the phone lines three one zero five nine four
three zero zero three. You can ask a question about
the home pod, or any question that you want. Joe says,
it seems way too limited to be worth the money
right now.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
And you know it's it's one of those things. It's
it's gonna appeal to certain people.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
You know. I could see this being placed in a
lot of apartments. So if you're kind of a maybe
a single person that has an apartment and you just
want a really cool, slick looking speaker, Yes, that sounds good.
I can see it in like a lot of kind
of restaurants, cafes, like an art gallery type place anywhere
(09:16):
that there's a priority for design and sound.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
That's where this speaker is going to fit in. Really good.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
So Barry says Android all the way, but rich is
great KTLA channel five with the hashtag I love that,
and Laurie says great for Valentine's gift for my sweetheart. Well,
if your sweetheart loves loves Apple, you should definitely get
them one of these things. I think they would like it.
All right, phone line is open. I know there's a
slight delay, but three one zero five nine four three
(09:43):
zero zero three. While you wait for that call, let
me talk about something that I thought was pretty interesting.
Samsung and Roku smart TVs vulnerable to hacking, according to
Consumer Reports.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
So Consumer Reports.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Did a big study and they found that millions of
smart TVs can be controlled by hackers exploiting easy to
find security flaws. Well no, duh, they're smart TVs. What
do you think is going to happen? So they found
that the problems affect Samsung televisions primarily along with models
made by TCL and other brands that use the Roku
(10:18):
TV smart TV platform, as well as streaming.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Devices like the Roku Ultra. So here's what they found.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
That a hacker could do change channels, play offensive content,
crank up the volume, and all this could be done
over the web.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
So what did they figure out?
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Well, they basically figured out some sort of open port
that's available to someone that's pretty you know, probably tech savvy,
but not you and I necessarily, but someone that knows
a little bit about coding and back doors and all
this stuff, and they figured out a way to kind
of change some things on your TV.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
So is this a huge deal? I mean, obviously we.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Don't want this stuff to happen. We don't want our
TVs to be hacked. We don't want people to be
able to see what we're doing. But the reality is
the stuff they're talking about change channels, play offensive content,
crank up the volume. Yes, that would definitely be scary
if you're sitting in your house and someone starts playing
a movie on your TV that you did not ask
for or changes the volume. And these are the kind
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of things now, I'll be honest. When I was a kid,
here's the thing, I did the same thing. I just
pointed a remote out my window at my neighbor's house
and did the same thing. Or I sat in the
back of the living room while my parents were watching
TV and I'd sit under the couch and I would
do the same thing with the remote and freak them out.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
So it's not something that hasn't happened before.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
It's just a new way of doing it, and hackers
are finding those exploits. So now, if there's cameras on
the TV, that would definitely be a problem. But this
goes to show a larger problem in general, and that
is the smart home. We are putting so many devices
in our homes that listen and watch and we don't
want people to have access to those. So again, that's
(11:58):
why reports like this come out, because we want these
companies to be on their toes. We want people to
be looking for these exploits so that we can find
them and we can.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Close those holes. That's what we want to happen. Two
one three, you're on with Rich. Two one three, you're
on with Rich. Hello.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
Hello, Hey, l I couldn't hear you. The question I
wanted to ask is if Sonos could be played in
I mean that Sonos the home Pod could be played
in stereo.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Good question.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
So yes, HomePod can be Now do you mean with
one home pod or two?
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Two?
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Okay, yes, So they are coming out with a feature
later this year. And I already saw it in preview.
So they had two HomePods set up and they were
playing in stereo. They do link up with each other
and so, and it sounded fantastic. But that feature is
coming later this year. They didn't say when it's coming,
but it is a promised feature on the HomePod I
(12:59):
saw yesterday, so it's definitely available. They're just working out
the bugs, I assume. So, yes, you can hook up
two HomePods and make them stereo. And again, one thing
I did not mention about the HomePod is that part
of the magic of this thing is how it sounds
in the room and adjusts to the room that it's in,
So no matter where you place it in that room,
it does do three P sixty sound and it kind
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of figures out is it right in front of a wall,
is it in the center of the room, and it
adjusts accordingly.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
So Apple has definitely worked some magic into this. Now.
Sonos has had something like that.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
That for many years, but it required you kind of
holding up your phone to tune the speaker so it
can hear around the room. And I tried to do
that with mine and that it never worked, so I
didn't really give.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
It much thought. But yeah, so does that answer your question?
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Yeah, sure does.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
Thank you very much and shout out to everybody at KTLA.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
I love your news.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Thanks so much for calling in. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Rose says, Are you able to receive incoming calls and
talk through the speaker? Great question, Rose, So we tried this.
I called my wife through here. So here's how it works.
You cannot just say to Siri, can you call this
phone number that is not enabled just yet, But what
you can do is you can make a phone call
through the phone and then transfer it to your speaker.
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So when you make a call, you know how you
have little that little uh sign here that says like.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Bluetooth or car or whatever.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
You just press that once and then you'll see your
home pod listed. You press that and your call will
immediately transfer. And by the way, the call sounded fantastic.
I can't get over how good the sound is on
this thing. So I understand it's a super premium, expensive product.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
But the reality is, if you purchase this product for
three hundred and fifty dollars, you're.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Not going to be disappointed. You're not going to get
it home and say, ah, I could have gotten an
echo for eighty bucks. No, no, no, this is not
the same sound quality as an echo. Echo sounds like
a tin can compared to this device. And I'm not
I'm not saying the echo is bad. It's just totally different.
This is a premium speaker product that Apple has put
a lot of work into, and the echo sounds great
(15:02):
until you get it next to this, and then.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Of course it's a little bit different.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
All right, phone line is open three one zero five
nine four three zero zero three.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Jose says, how did you really like the Vava dash cam?
Speaker 2 (15:16):
So here's the deal, And then we've got another Hiram says,
I wanted to buy the dash cam, but I can't
find the link for the code to get the discount.
So let me tell you about the Vava dashcam.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Let's see here Vava. Let me just bring it up.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
So Vava dashcam is basically one of the best dash
cams I've ever tested. And here's what I love about it.
It is a one hundred and thirty dollars dash cam
that let me get you there it is. Oh oh, whoops,
I brought up. I brought it up on the wrong page.
Hang on, let me bring it up on the right
page here. So Vava is a one hundred and thirty
dollars dash cam and it's got a really unique design.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Number one.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
And let me just tell you, this was the top
rated story I have ever done in the history of KTLA.
More of you went to the website yesterday to check
out this dashcam and to check out this deal than
anything else. I cannot believe how I knew it was
gonna be popular because this was really cool. I did
not realize just how popular it would be. So this
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dashcam normally sells for one hundred and thirty dollars. It
has a swivel mount so you can swivel it. Three
sixty does not shoot. Three sixty video shoots video one way.
It's got a wide angle one hundred and fifty five
degree lens Sony camera.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Looks really nice.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
I've got a sample video in here, and I actually
downloaded I actually.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Downloaded a Let's see if I can find it.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
I downloaded a video at night because you were asking, hey,
can you send one at night? So let's see if
I can find one Fava dashcam night sample.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Let's see if mine comes up.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
I uploaded this this morning to YouTube, so hopefully there
it is. So oh, someone else upload it. But here's
what it looks like. And I think it looks pretty
darn good. That's not even it hasn't even clicked into
HD yet. There it is seven twenty.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
But that's a pretty bright picture.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
It's a pretty good looking picture, and you can definitely
make out all of the details.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
In the picture.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Especially you want to be able to make out license plates,
So if you were to pause that and zoom in,
you'd definitely be able to see those license plates as well.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
But there you go. That's my drive into work, so
you can see.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
That's going down Vine and let's see stop rich, Okay,
I did, and then taking a left there on Sunset Boulevard.
So Dahlia says, why does one need a dash cam?
Speaker 1 (17:35):
That's a great question. So here's the thing. You don't
need a dash cam.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
But there's something very satisfying about having a dash cam.
You have a confidence on the road that you just
don't have normally because you know if something happens in
front of you or to your car, that.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
This dash cam is going to capture it. And you
know if people cut you off, you get to an accident.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
It's just nice to have that video record of everything
that goes on, plus the audio as well, So you
get the audio of what's happening in your car, plus
you get your speed and location. You can turn off
the speed on, hold on, let's uh, let's close this
so you can let me get back to where I was.
(18:19):
You can set the so it doesn't show you the
speedometer on your car if you want to do that,
but it also captures the sound in your car as well,
so you know what's going on. Now, the here's the deal.
Here's what I did not like about the dashcam. And
the dashcam is good, but it does not shoot the
front and the back at the same time. So I
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was rear ended a couple months ago, probably I don't know,
six months ago at this point, and it would have
been nice to have that back, you know, where I
could see what that car did behind me before they
ran into me. You know, it would have just captured
the front, which still would have been interesting to kind
of hear what transpired. You could hear me talking to
the other person, but it would have been nice to
(19:00):
see what was going on behind me. So anyway, it's
just one of those things that's nice to have. So
long story short, the Vava cam. If you want to
look at it, here's the deal. You can go to
the website and if you go down to the bottom.
I talked to the company. Normally I don't do this,
but I was like, you know what, this thing sells
for one hundred and thirty bucks. I think it would
be amazing under one hundred dollars. I said, if you
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can get it under one hundred bucks, I think we're
going to sell a billion of these things because it's
so good. Like people want one of these, but they
don't want to spend so much money. And next thing,
you know, they got it for ninety five ninety nine.
So if you go to Amazon search Vava dashcam and
use the code rich on tech. You can find this
all at ktla dot com slash tech, but that's what
you do, and you can order it through there.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
So wow, you guys already. Dedra says, she already got
hers delivered today.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
That's amazing. She used the code yesterday, that's awesome. Yeah,
Grace says, I love the dash cam. Wish I could
have used it when a woman backed into my car.
There you go, so you have it there as well.
It also keeps a record of all the places that
you drive, so I really like that as well. Here's
the other thing, so I wanted to make sure that
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the Vava cam was a good deal, so I actually checked.
There's this website called Camel Camel Camel and you can
check to see kind of like what the prices are
on Amazon. And this was the cheapest price, or is
the cheapest price in at least ninety days, since it
only launched on de Summer sixth, and the cheapest price
it was before that was one hundred and nineteen dollars.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
So I really love this dash cam. I think it's
really cool.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
It's got some other features that I haven't even talked about,
which include there is a snapshot, so you can actually
there's this little button that you put on your somewhere
on your dashboard, and it's like a little bluetooth. It
looks like a little circle like this. You just press
that and next thing you know, it takes a snapshot too.
You can take a snapshot of you. You know, you'd
swivel it around and take a picture of your friends
(20:54):
in your car while you're stopped of course, or you know,
you can have it aimed at you and you can
take a void so you can just do, you know,
like whatever you want. There's so many little things you
can do. If you want to be a YouTube star.
You can solve it around and do some carpool karaoke.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Now, I will tell you I don't think you should
do that because I.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Don't think anyone should be singing with their friends while
they drive, because that's very dangerous. So I don't know
how James Corden does it, but it seems very every
time I watch that show, I'm.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Like, please be careful, please be careful.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Now, I know, on like normal shows like if they're
driving in a car. The car is being pulled by
a trailer, so they're fine. But I think in carpool
karaoke he's actually driving while they sing, which just seems
absolutely insane to me.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
So let's see Peter says he's ordering it. Now, there
you go, all right, So there's the Vava camp. You
guys love that story, so man I was.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
I was very impressed with a Vava cam with that.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Full lines open three one zero five, nine four three
zero zero three three one zero five to nine four.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
Three zero zero three.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Let's see, there's some I print all these things I
want to talk to you guys about, and let's see.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
I thought this was interesting. So Amazon is.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Going to start delivering from Whole Foods, so or I
guess they already started today. So if you're an Amazon
Prime member, you can get free two hour delivery on
orders over thirty five dollars from Whole Foods. And unfortunately,
it's only in four neighborhoods, which is Austin, Cincinnati, Dallas,
and Virginia Beach. So I don't know how they pick
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those neighborhoods. But if you live in one of those neighborhoods,
you're very lucky. So why is this interesting Because you
might be thinking, well, big deal, I already have Amazon Fresh.
They've been delivering groceries forever. Well, this is included in
Amazon Prime. Amazon Fresh is not included. That's an extra
fifteen dollars a month.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
This is free two hour delivery of groceries over thirty
five dollars if you put in order with your Prime membership.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
So that means you're not paying anything extra for that membership. So, hey, Siri,
what do you think of Whole Foods?
Speaker 4 (23:05):
I think therefore I am Oh, let's not put to
cart before divorce.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
I feel like Siri is my like sidekick on this show.
I think that Siri is uh is gonna be uh,
She's just gonna be here forever because I can just
ask her questions. Oh, all these people asking about the discount.
Please share the code. The code very easy. It's rich
on Tech. Rich on Tech is the code. So if
you but here's the thing. I would not just search
(23:31):
Amazon because if you get the wrong thing, it's not
going to work. So go into KTLA. Just go to
rich on tech dot tv and then click on the
dash cam story and scroll down to the bottom and
you'll see it. So if you go here, I'll show you,
guys what to do. So if you go to rich
rich on tech dot TV, here I'll show you how
to do it.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
All right, So.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
There's rich on tech dot TV. Here's the dash cam.
And by the way, I put all my stuff right
on here. So if you ever, you know, are looking
for some thing I mentioned on TV, this is where
you go. That's why I always say rich on tech
dot TV, because I put everything on here. If it's
a small mention of something like a lot of people
were asking I mentioned that book I was reading the
other day called Crush It.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
A lot of you asked, you emailed me, Hey, what
was the name of that book? Well, guess what. See
what it says looking for a link to something I mentioned,
Check here and guess what. There it is. There's the link.
Here's the book I bought. So sometimes you have to
kind of just look a little bit, but you will
find it.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
And there's the book Crushing It, which by the way,
is fantastic. So okay, so you have that, and then
you go back to the homepage and here's the dash
cam story. So I click there and about a bing
about a boom. Here we go scroll down and the
code is right here at the bottom of the page.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
So there's the code. So there's the code.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
So you can actually click here you've got the Amazon
click and then use the code, add it to your
shopping cart, and then you can add it at the
code at checkout rich on tech which will take a
lot of money off one it's normally one thirty and
it will come down to ninety six or ninety seven dollars.
So there you go, rich on tech dot TV. And
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the other thing I meant to mention about the dashcan
that I like is that it does have a battery inside,
so even when your car is off, it's still active.
It's not recording, but if your car gets bumped, there
is a G sensor in there, so it will sense
that and it will trigger a recording.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
So again, if someone hits your car and.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Then speeds off, you'll be able to get their license
plate or something like that, or if they try to
get in your car, you know, they'd have to walk
past your car for you.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
To see them.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
But anyway, that's the that's the deal with that.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
So all right, phone.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Lines open three one zero five nine four three zero
zero three. You have a tech question, go ahead and
call in. You can definitely call in and get right through.
Right now, let's see what else we want to talk
about here Vava, We've got.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Disney, We've got I g oh Apple watch. I thought
this was this was pretty good. Oh, you know what,
let me do some while you guys are calling in.
I'll do some. I'll do some of the comments here.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Andreas said, I just got an Echo a few days ago.
Now what lol, I think you'll be okay with the
Echo this. Let this one kind of simmer for a
little bit before you go ahead and order that. Philip says,
the dash cam is perfect for Uber drivers. It is
perfect except for Uber drivers. I guess see, if I
was an Uber driver, I'd want the front and the
back recorded at the same time. So I think in
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a future version of the Vava cam, they're gonna do
front and back and I would assume three sixty video
at one point, because that would be the ideal. You
just capture the entire thing at the same time.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
So there you go.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
All right, we got the code, we got that, We
got that.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Okay, good. Please share this podcast so more people can
be enlightened. Yeah, please.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
I mean, here's the thing. I you know, I do
this for fun. I do this to answer your questions.
And that's the reality of it is that if you
find out about it and you know about it, it's awesome.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
I love it, Thank you so much. But I don't
like sit there and advertise.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
I barely mentioned this on KTLA ever, but I do
do it, and I do like doing it because it
is fun.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
So there you have it, and the phone numbers on
the screen.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Yeah, the phone number is Go ahead and call in
three one zero five nine four three zero zero three.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
That is my personal number. You will get through. So
there you go.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
All right, this I thought was really cool. Apple Watch
can detect early signs of diabetes with eighty.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Five percent accuracy.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
So part of an ongoing study involving Apple Watch and
Android users, researchers at app developer, Cardiogram and the University
of UCSF they basically trained a network called deep Heart
to figure out people with and without diabetes at an
eighty five percent accuracy just by looking at their stats
from Apple Watch. They looked at fourteen thousand users, and
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they looked at thirty three thousand weeks of health censored
data and basically they trained this artificial intelligence to kind
of figure out do these people have diabetes?
Speaker 1 (28:08):
And I thought that that's.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Pretty amazing because this is kind of the holy grail
of medicine, is that because we're wearing these smart devices
that are always monitoring us, that we can kind of
tell things in advance of feeling really sick. So let's see,
they presented samples with and without diabetes, hypertension, sleep apnea,
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atriol fibrillation, and high cholesterol. So they fed all this
information into a computer and the computer said, Okay, we
see these patterns developing, and now just by sensing the
person with their watch, we can figure out what's.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Going on with them. I think that's amazing.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Now, if you've heard the rumor from Apple, they are
trying to develop a non invasive glucose sensor for the
Apple Watch, which would be unbelievable because now I don't
I mean, I don't know anyone personally with diabetes, but
I know a lot of people out there have it,
and I know of the disease, and I understand that
you're testing yourself all the time. I mean I know
(29:10):
someone actually, I do know someone that has it, and
he actually wears a sensor that is kind of embedded
in his body the whole time. This would mean you
don't have to do any sort of blood test, which
is really amazing.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
So that's what Apple's working on. That's not here just yet.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
But again they say the holy grail of modern medical
science would be a system that allows diabetics to continuously
monitor their sugar levels without performing blood draws, and that
would be unbelievable. So and I do think Apple will
accomplish that.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
I really do.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
I think Apple is really trying to put a lot
behind the Apple Watch. All Right, someone was brave at
to call in seven one four You're on with Rich? Hello, Hey,
who am I speaking with?
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Okay, just second here, I've got to turn on this speak.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Oh yeah, it's a little it's a little complicated because
it's delayed as well. So it's kind of like the
old timey radio, you know, and you call and you'd
hear the person in the background. So let me know
when you're ready, seven to one four.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Okay, Yeah, I've got my uh, I'm using my iPhone
and i've got it on speaker phone, but I can't
hear you on the phone.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
That's interesting. Hmm, I wonder why.
Speaker 5 (30:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Oh, you have to wait to hear me through the
through the Facebook Live, which is super delayed, right.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
I think so?
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Yes, yeah, interesting, all right, well we'll try to power
through it. What's your question?
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Okay, now I can hear you.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Oh, here we go.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
I think I see the home pod next year. It's
a little bit bigger than I expected. I got a
notice that it's on the UPS truck for tomorrow for delivery.
How do you like it so far?
Speaker 1 (30:58):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
I mean, I think it's it's probably one of the
best sounding speakers that I've listened to. So I think
I think you're gonna be very happy with the audio quality.
Are you a Are you an Apple Music subscriber already
or are you planning on signing up? Yes?
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Yes I am.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Okay, So, I mean, if you're an Apple Music subscriber,
I mean you could just literally talk to it, say
you know, you can call out a playlist, you can
call it a genre, a specific song. You can just
say play me some music and it will play. And
the audio quality is unbelievable, gets super loud. It's small,
but Apple has done so many great things with tuning
this and making it work in any room. So it's
(31:35):
got three hundred and sixty degree sound. And from what
I heard yesterday when I had it compared against these
other smart speakers, the only one that came close was
the one from Google, which is four hundred dollars by
the way, So it's not like it's it's cheaper than this.
So now if you put it together, you know, next
(31:55):
to Sonos, which I really love.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
I was.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
I was very impressed with the It sounded better than Sono's,
which to me has always been the gold standard.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
So what feature are you looking forward to me?
Speaker 3 (32:07):
I am the owned a a speaker, you know, a
device where you can talk to it. Yeah, I've got iPad,
iPhones and all that stuff, but I have yet to
uh to get one of these. And it looks pretty good.
I like, I ordered the white one. I like things white,
not black.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
So well, now you said you said it looks bigger
than you think. I mean it's it might be because
it's closer to the camera if I hold it back.
I mean that's about how big it is. So it's
not it's it is heavy, though, I will tell you
it's got some weight on it.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
I don't know what the what the weight is, but
it is a heavy speaker.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
And it's got this great mesh design that it's just
it feels great.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Not that you really want to push.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
It in because it is a mesh. It could be
damaged that way, I think, But it's just it's very
minimalistic looking. It will fit into your you know, your house.
That kind of blends into the background. But it's also
kind of a statement because it is so well designed.
And you do have the touch controls on the top too,
so if you want to start playing something, you can
just tap I believe, let's see, Yeah, you can just
(33:10):
tap once, and you also have the volume up and down.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
Can you also plug in a radio or something to
the speaker in the back or.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
No, you can't plug anything into the back. In fact,
I was actually surprised that the cable does not plug in,
even like the power cable does not come out. It's
just built in there, which is kind of odd for
a speaker these days. Yeah, but yeah, so you can't
plug anything into the back. There is no external input whatsoever.
The only way you can get an external audio source
(33:43):
into it is by using airplay off your iPhone now
I'm not sure. I have to look and see if
you can use Bluetooth, but I I know for sure
you can use airplay. But here's the thing, this is
this is first day. You know, it comes out tomorrow.
Apple probably just wanted to get it out there. I
have a feeling that they probably would not mind other
(34:04):
music services being on there in the future, so we'll see.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Yeah, now, is this is there firmware that can be
upgraded over the air or is it?
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Yeah? So yeah, no, no, it's all it's all software.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
So in fact, we had an earlier caller ask if
you can pair them up with stereo, and that's one
of the features that's coming later on, so you will
be able to pair it up with stereo.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
And you'll be able to do that too.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
So I mean, yeah, this is definitely one of those
things where it's kind of iPhone, you know, you get
new features every once in a while and you're just
like pleasantly surprised, like, oh, it couldn't do this yesterday,
but now it can do this, And that's exactly what
they're going to do with home Pod as well. So
I'm just trying to find when you get something out, Yeah,
when when you held it.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Back, I can see the side and you know, the
real size of it there to where it's more of
a manageable size, right, and your your camera makes it
look like a monster.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Yeah, no, no, no, we just had it. We just
had it up close because it's got to be on
the desk here. But no, no, it's yeah, it's not that.
You know, it does look like a monster up there.
You're right now, this is if I hold it back here,
it's definitely it's not a monster.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
It's it's a good size speaker. It looks really nice.
So here's the two features that are coming later this year.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Stereo pair, so if you put two home pods in
the same room, they automatically balance each other to become stereo.
And then let's see Airplay two, which is basically going
to allow you to play the same music in various rooms.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
If you get a bunch of these in.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Different rooms, you can have multi room audio, which right now,
that's what Sono's kind of pioneered. You can accomplish that
now with the Echo and also with the Google devices.
But now you'll be able to do it with this
later on in the year with a software update.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
Oh that's good. Yeah. Well I'm gonna have to buy
a lot of ticket to get more than one.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
Yeah, I was gonna say that that's where this gets expensive.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
I'm sort of giving myself this my birthday in May. First.
We're going to use it before then, but this is
my birthday present and myself, so it's you know, it's
pretty expensive.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
It is a premium purchase, but I think you'll be happy. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
I like Apple products, so that's good. I watch YouTube
all the time for the latest Apple stuff and looking
at the new iPads coming this year and everything, and
you know, they look pretty good. Oh, they looked pretty nice.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
I deal with a lot of these companies, Apple, Amazon, Google,
and I will say that Apple definitely has.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
They have it together, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
Not that the other companies don't, but Apple is very,
very on top of things, and they've had their stumbles
in recent years, but they they overall, when you get
a product from.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
Them, you know that it's been vetted. You know that
for the most part, they have done their homework on things.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
They've thought of a lot of stuff, and they have
a theory behind why they do things the way they
do it, so I think HomePod is no different.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
So all right, okay, well thanks for your time that
I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Hey, thanks for calling in. I appreciate it. And have
a happy birthday and enjoy the new home pod. All right,
there you go. What are the dimensions?
Speaker 2 (37:12):
Since you don't put your hand by it, you know,
I don't let me see if I have the dimensions.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
I have them right here. Let's see here technical specs.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
So it is six point eight inches high, five point
six inches wide, and it weighs five point five pounds,
and it comes in white and space gray. And again
you've got touch and hold for serious. You can just
touch and hold here.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
What's the weather like in Cabo?
Speaker 4 (37:43):
It's currently cloudy and seventy eight degrees in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
Spect mostly cloudy sky starting in the afternoon. Temperatures are
heading down from eighty degrees this afternoon to seventy three tonight.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
Wow, she's awfully specific with the weather. You get a
lot of stuff there.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
What else here? Audio formats Wi Fi? So yeah, setup
is pretty easy as well.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
All right, if you want to call in three one
zero five nine four three zero zero three three one
zero five nine four three zero zero three. Mama's Gorhero says,
how much rich? Three hundred and fifty dollars for the HomePod.
So three hundred and fifty big ones for the HomePod.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
So all right, let's see.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
Do I have anything else I want to talk to
you guys about before I go here? Oh wow, it's
already two o'clock. Well we're already going over time. All right,
one more thing. I'll just talk about Twitter real quick
before we go. So, you know, Twitter posted its first
profit this week, which is pretty impressive because everyone said that,
(38:44):
you know, like Twitter is not one of those things.
It's like, you don't think of Twitter as like a
big business. It has changed the way we communicate. But
it's not like, oh my gosh, it's not Facebook. It's
not like this giant, you know, kind of moving force
like Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat. It's just kind of there, you know,
it's like a utility almost. But anyway, the good news
is the two hundred and eighty character tweets.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
You know, they expanded it. They've doubled how many characters
you can use. Has actually worked.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
So Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey says, people have the room
and we're seeing less abandonment of tweets, but we're seeing
a lot more engagement as well, more retweets and more mentions, and.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
So that's a good thing.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
So I guess they're saying that because you can talk
longer in these tweets, people are actually taking the time
to craft tweets.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
And I'm guilty of that myself.
Speaker 2 (39:33):
I would start a tweet and I can't fit it,
or I can't you know, I got to sit there
and like get rid of some words to make it
all fit, and I'm just like, you know what, nevermind,
and I'll just close out the app. So the two
hundred and eighty characters has definitely given me some breathing
room on there, and I feel like a lot of
other people so that was a good thing. Hasn't changed
the fabric of Twitter. I don't feel like it's very
different than it was, but I think that that's probably
(39:53):
a good thing that they change that.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
So all right, that's going to do it for today's show.
Thanks so much for joining me, Thanks so much for
two tuning in.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
Thanks so much for asking about the home pod and
all the stuff that we talked about. If you want
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(40:21):
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So you've got me Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube. Different
things on each one of them. So Instagram stories more
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(40:41):
do a lot of this stuff and post the important stuff,
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