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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Woody Show. And since it is a throwback Thursday,
I got something here. You know, the beginning of the
nineties was thirty five years ago. No way, that's a lie,
and life was a lot different back then. This is
one of those people where asks things where they asked
(00:22):
a question, what's something that was socially acceptable in the
nineties but not today? Good question, not being reachable? It
was a very common answer.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
True, yeah, like you just weren't.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
If you text somebody and you don't get a response
in ten minutes, they freak out.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
I saw this thing and this guy I think he's
in the Netherlands. He works for a US company, a
US based company, but they have an office in the Netherlands,
and so I guess in the Netherlands, like at five o'clock,
people log off and they don't log back on or
check work emails or about un till nine am the
next day. They're not available after five pm on a Friday.
Next time you're gonna hear from them Monday at nine
(01:02):
there was there was this new manager, US based manager
that was hitting this guy up and he was upset
because he wasn't available. The guy the Netherlands wasn't available
for a like one of those like team building Zoom,
and it was at one pm New York time, but
(01:22):
it was like, I forget what time it was seven
six or seven o'clock, you know in the Netherlands, whatever
the time difference is. So he wasn't on it. He goes, well,
you know, we really need you to, you know, have
more of like whatever goes attitude and blah blah blah
blah blah. And he's like, no, many, I don't think
you understand how it works here. And he's just trying
(01:42):
to explain, you know, we see it as if you
are doing things after hours, it just means that you're
not being efficient with your time while you're at work
like that, and it also means that you don't have
good time management. And I'm neither one of those things. Interesting,
and the guy didn't like that answer, and so he
sent like some you know things like hey, well, if
you're looking to get ahead in the company and blah
(02:03):
blah blah blah blah, this is the mindset you're gonna
have to have. And so he gave that to his
Netherlands based HR department for the company, and they like
slap this guy's wrist and he's not fired or anything.
But they, dude, there are different there are different labor
laws here. Yeah, and so you can't be basically threatening
this guy. I'm saying that if he doesn't answer your
emails on Saturday or doesn't show up to your team's
(02:26):
meeting at you know, after hours for the net like
he's here in the Netherlands, he's not in the States.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Like people try to have that attitude in America. Yeah,
in in the workplace, and it just doesn't fly. Here's
the thing me personally, I don't have that attitude. I'm
not a punching at you know whatever, time, clock out, whatever,
and you can't reach me otherwise.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
I'm not that person. I've never been that person. I
do feel that it is beneficial. Could you do it? Yeah?
Do I think you should do that? Probably not exactly,
not not the way that most business is. Well, then
not consider you for any things down the road, because
they want somebody who is quote.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
All in or you know, like legally can you do that? Sure?
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Legally?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Do you look like a douche pretty much? Right?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Exactly?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Well, the minute I leave here, I'm not opening up
forget it.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Like yesterday they asked me, like, hey, we really need
you to record this commercial. I was at home in bed,
and I go and I don't have my home studio
setup because I'm moving, So I drove back here recorded it, yeah,
and then drove back home.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
But I don't I.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Don't necessarily fault the people who are that way, because
you're right, and this the other point this guy was
making is like, hey, I'm compensated for forty hours a week.
I do the forty hours. I do what I'm supposed
to do. I'm meeting my deadlines or whatever. I don't
know what the business is. I'm meeting my deadlines. Like
what I'm I'm holding up my end.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Of the agreement.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Okay, that's that's that's fair enough. Now, I'm not going
to feel bad for him if he does get passed
over for things because they have their own things or
criteria that whether what they're considering. Fine, but you can't
you know, you can't complain at that point. But they
also they also can't complain if you decide that you're
just gonna do what you are, you know, to the
penny of what you're competated for anyway, So not being reachable.
(04:12):
Back to the original thing. What's something that was socially
acceptable in the nineties but not today, Just not being reachable.
Leaving kids in the car while you went grocery shopping.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Oh my god, we left in the car.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, lived in that car.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Yeah, I would get worried my mom would be in
the store for so long.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
I'm like, yes, if you remember, that's what happened to
Punky Burster, Like mom went into the grocery store and
never came back out. Yeah, Punky, you had to go
live with Henry Warnamon.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
I forgot that part. Did her mom died or she just.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
No, she took off her at the grocery store.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
No, we used to do.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
My brother and I used to think horrible that. I
don't think I was. We were the only kids who
did this, And now I would. I feel so bad
just thinking about it. But let's when mom gets back,
Let's have everything turned up, the air conditioner, the radio.
Speaker 7 (04:58):
The car.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
That one time, me and my sister were in the
car when my mom was in the grocery store and
we thought, like, she's taking forever. We're going to go
in and find her. As soon as we went to
open the door, the alarm started going off to the car,
and then we just hid the rest of the time
with the alarm going off.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Socially acceptable in the nineties, not so much today. Showing
up at someone's house unannounced to hang out. Oh I'd dreaming.
Smoking in a restaurant. There were still anywhere smoking. You're
not smoking. You get that question when you walk in smoking,
You're not smoking.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Haven't heard that in what twenty five years?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
How about hiring ten year olds the babysit Oh.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
My god, they were always only like two years older
than you.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
Babysitting at ten.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Yeah, because I remember when you know, we were kids,
when I was a kid. You know, a lot of
the girls like in my class, when we were like
eleven twelve, ten eleven twelve, like they started getting babysitting jobs.
Speaker 6 (05:50):
Oh yeah, made like three dollars an hour.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Oh yeah, yeah, making plans with someone multiple days in advance,
not talking to them about it again, and just showing
up without having to con firm the plans were still on.
Can you imagine what something socially acceptable in the nineties
been not so much today. Mooning people that was just fun,
a list, Yeah, a road trip in the back seat.
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You end up on some kind of like watch list,
the sexual offenders list. We used to going by pressed
hand up against them, fun and I'll give you one more.
This has brought up a number of times. There were
even those announcements on the television right before the late
news would start, like it's eleven o'clock. Do you know
where your kids are? Yeah, not having any idea where
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kids were because you get home from school. It wasn't
like there were cell phones or ways to check in.
No I would. I would come home, let myself in
the house, drop up my backpack, out the door. I went,
and you didn't see me until dark. Well that's gone.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
You were a latchkey kid.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
I was a latchkey kid. You just let yourself in.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
But even still, the parents who were at home like
to stay at home, moms and stuff. At the time,
my friend's parents like we would just be out and
they didn't know where we were going. We're going out today,
We're gonna go play football and then because then you
played football for maybe like forty five minutes, then it'll
be onto something else and then up to somebody else's
house made to play video games. But like your parents
didn't know that you went over to so and so's
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house to play video games.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
You just went.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Yeah, they don't care.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
We would ride our bikes to like two cities over.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Yeah, oh yeah a Coketo.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Woodie.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Well, for the first time here in the new year
and with great purpose, today we bring you Rich Timiro.
He's a tech reporter, he's got a radio show, he's
got a TV presence that he does. He's the official
tech correspondent for not just The Woodie Show, but for
KTLA Television in Los Angeles. The rich on Tech radio
(07:50):
show is heard coast to coast everyone a ton of stations.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
You could also.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Subscribe to Rich's free newsletter at rich on Tech dot
t find him on social media at rich on Tech.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you rich on Tech.
Speaker 8 (08:08):
Wow, that was quite the intro.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Thank you.
Speaker 8 (08:10):
I'm how much you from Las Vegas?
Speaker 9 (08:12):
Yes, looking at the sphere which is always glowing with
something quite wild, illuminating my room all night long.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Yeah, Well, happy New Year. How was your was your break?
Do you do anything cool?
Speaker 9 (08:25):
I went to New Jersey, where I'm from, and my
kids hit the vacation lottery because it snowed not once,
but twice, and they were just loving it, soling, that's
cool it.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Gina went to Minnesota for her her in laws and
there was adult sledding that happened there too. That sounds
like that would involve a cocktail. But yes, right, but
back fun right right back at now. What we love
about Rich be I just being a super nice guy
and super helpful when it comes to all this tech
stuff is that it's a it's very approachable. It's a
it's consumer tech. It's not like the stuff that you
(08:58):
get like when tech guys get together and talk amongst
each other, like.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
What driver do I need for it? This is?
Speaker 8 (09:03):
This is this is what's the refresh rate on that TV? This?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
This is stuff that we as just average people like
you know, who like technology, you like the things that
it can do for you, but just kind of getting
a real insight into it. And this is the super
Bowl of tech. The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
I went one time, and as a guy who loves
all this stuff, I got admit I was kind of overwhelmed.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
There's so much.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
I didn't know where to start. I'm like, I'm sure
I'm missing out on something good and so you know,
Medicin and I were just kind of like wandering around
checking out different stuff. But what are you seeing there, Rich,
What do you like? What? What's some cool stuff to
look forward to?
Speaker 9 (09:38):
Well, just to set it up, I mean, you did
explain how how massive this show is. It is huge
the convention center. It takes over the entire convention center,
but not just that, but also a lot of the hotels.
Speaker 8 (09:49):
In the surrounding areas.
Speaker 9 (09:51):
There's a Venetian, they have a big expo center there,
and then a lot of the suite companies that don't
even go to the show will rent out like a
giant suite and show off stuff there.
Speaker 8 (10:00):
So it is massive.
Speaker 9 (10:02):
It's impossible to see everything, probably over like four thousand exhibitors.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Wow.
Speaker 9 (10:06):
But I go to a lot of the events. I
wander the floor all day long. I did like twenty
two thousand steps yesterday. You know, looking for this stuff,
you know, the TVs and all that stuff kind of
grab your attention, But I'm looking for the little things
that you know every day people are going to use.
So here's some interesting ones. Let's start with. You want
to start with the weirdest thing that I saw?
Speaker 3 (10:25):
There's something that I think you saw that I with
absolutely no exaggeration, no hyperbole, I have dreamt about my
entire life.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Can I guess what it is?
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Okay, so I did see something about this, this smart
hair clipper. Yes? Is that it?
Speaker 2 (10:41):
I know? I thought this would never be a real
Is that real?
Speaker 7 (10:47):
Rich?
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Tell us about this? It's like an AI guided hair clipper, right,
tell us about it?
Speaker 8 (10:51):
So funny.
Speaker 9 (10:52):
I almost started with that one because that is okay.
When I was a kid, remember those commercials on TV
the flow be yes, yes, and they were this kind
of like the AI equivalent of that. So it looks
like a hair clipper, but it's got this like guide
on it that is AI, I guess helpful. So the
guide actually adjusts as you run this thing up and
down your head, and the AI keeps it at different
(11:14):
lengths so you can get like the perfect pace.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Constantly kind of going up and down or whatever.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Yes, if it's like shorter on the sides of the
and then it gets to the top of your your
haircut short on the sides on the on the side,
but on the top, there's a little bit more likely
they would know to adjust itself.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Interesting.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
What, Yeah, this is greg because I'm about to pass out.
How often do you get your hair cut?
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Preferably once a week, once a week, but usually like
every two weeks.
Speaker 8 (11:42):
Guy that would trim his hair all the time.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
You know.
Speaker 9 (11:45):
I saw this in action, and honestly I was tempted
to have them try it on me because I could
use a cleanup, and I was like, what do I
have to lose? It kind of be a fun story,
but they weren't doing it that night, so yeah, we'll see.
I may go back to the booth. But yeah, this
is AI guide it It's called glide and ID if.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
You want to look it up.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Yeah, is it kind of I'm excited When you go
to a car show they have concept cars. Is this
a real thing that's available now or is this a
tease of what's to come?
Speaker 8 (12:13):
This is supposed well.
Speaker 9 (12:14):
Nailing down whether these things are real or coming out
is always tricky with these companies.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
They always say I have a launch day, and then
sometimes it gets to push back. I am on their website,
it's smarthair clipper dot com.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Smart hairclipper dot com. You want to check it out
and sold? What else?
Speaker 8 (12:30):
Rich?
Speaker 1 (12:30):
What else do we need to know?
Speaker 9 (12:31):
About Oh, this is interesting this VVU. This is a
device you put in your toilet and it tests your
urine every time for hydration and wellness.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
That's fascinating is the diversion that tests for drugs.
Speaker 9 (12:48):
I asked if they're going to test for more stuff
in the future. She said absolutely. So this is one
hundred dollars. You know, it's supposed as opposed to test strips.
They say that hydration is such a big part of life,
and it's you know, a big part of a wellness marker.
So I just thought it was interesting that you would
have that you're so obsessed with your hydration that you
would put this thing in your toy.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
We have somebody here on the Woody showed Gina Grad
who was dehydrated to the point where she had a
seizure and passed down her bathroom had to be taken
to the hospital via ambulance over the holiday break.
Speaker 6 (13:16):
So I'd very much like to know without having to
pee in a cup at a doctor's office, if I'm
fully hydrated.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (13:21):
I just thought, you look at the color. It's like,
if it's bright, yeah, right, okay.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
If it's pale, that's good.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
I saw something that I'm dying to know if you
taste tested.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Did you see the lollipop Star?
Speaker 9 (13:32):
Oh my gosh, Okay, I was trying it this morning
because they gave me a bunch of them.
Speaker 8 (13:36):
Oh lucky. This thing is so crazy.
Speaker 9 (13:39):
Okay, if you're not familiar, Lollipop Star is basically a
lollipop that plays music.
Speaker 8 (13:44):
In your mouth when you suck on it.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
It uses like a bone induction technology.
Speaker 8 (13:50):
Yes, what yeah, bone conduction, So conduction.
Speaker 9 (13:53):
Basically, it was a little tiny electronics in the base
of it, and then it looks like a regular lollipop.
Speaker 8 (13:59):
I got the I think of a salted lime.
Speaker 9 (14:01):
And you suck on this thing and as you're you know,
nothing to do with the sucking, but it just as
your teeth are on this, they vibrate your bones and
make you hear this music.
Speaker 8 (14:11):
And it really works.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Okay, let's talk about something actually useful. And I did
see that you would post this again. You can find
a rich on social media at rich on tech and
it's this stair climbing robot vacuum.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Who blowing up on all the tech.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Yeah, and I keep saying, like I'm not just Rich
talking about but like this seems to be getting a
lot of attention there at the Consumer Electronic Show.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
And there's multiple versions, right.
Speaker 9 (14:36):
Yeah, there's a bunch of a bunch of companies working
on this. This is probably the most trending video on
my Instagram at rich on Tech right now.
Speaker 8 (14:44):
I've just been posting a ton of stuff. But this
is Dream d r E a m E.
Speaker 9 (14:49):
They're a pretty well known maker of vacuums and robotics stuff.
But yeah, they have this bionic quad track vacuum cleaner
that climb stairs.
Speaker 8 (14:58):
But here's the deal. It's still a prototype.
Speaker 9 (15:01):
It doesn't use wheels, it uses like these tracks. It
almost looks like like a tank, like the tracks underneath
the tank.
Speaker 8 (15:09):
But here's the weird part.
Speaker 9 (15:10):
It's got the standard room buck kind of like you know,
circular vacuum, but it goes into this like shell and
then the shell goes up the stairs and then it
goes down the stairs and it goes back out. So
it's like getting into like a little armored car almost
to go up the stairs.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Since we're talking this is a robot vacuum. Since we're
talking robots just in general.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Here.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
I posted a comment on one of your videos and
it was a it was a robot like one of
the you know, the things is going to eventually.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Kill us humanoid and it was showing.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
It was showing it like shadow boxing and stuff, and
I go, why are we teaching these things to fight?
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Question?
Speaker 8 (15:51):
I don't know, But.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Like, okay, fold laundry great, because there is another thing too,
there's that folding that laundry folding robot.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Right.
Speaker 9 (15:58):
I spent the I'm not kidding, I spent the entire
second half of the day yesterday just looking at robots
because they're so fun.
Speaker 8 (16:05):
They had okay, they had.
Speaker 9 (16:07):
Robots that are like a puppeteer, like puppet hands, puppet
robot hands doing like little robot puppets.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
That's number one.
Speaker 9 (16:13):
Okay, they had an entire chorus of robots. I'm talking
maybe three dozen robots sitting in chairs, all just moving
at the same time. That was number two. They had
the laundry folding robot. There's two of them. I saw
one is from Dina d y and A and I
watched it fold this towel. Now, it would have taken
a human like three seconds to fold. It took this
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thing like a minute to figure out how to you know,
But they couldn't do it twenty.
Speaker 8 (16:38):
Four hours a day.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
But he was a thing like you walk you walk away.
That's like you could do all the dishes, that's right,
Like but Moore, you just throw them the dishwasher, walk away,
do your other things, come back and the dishes are done.
Same things like this can can take all your laundry,
fold it even if it takes longer. Who cares you
have to do it?
Speaker 2 (16:54):
You can sit and watch TV.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Yeah, I saw the actually fighting robots as the see
why That's what I want to know, Like, what's the
one that you're getting menace? The one ex technology Richard
Menisa put the money in from one of those things.
He's getting one of those things. Uh Like, So it's
it's that type of robot that I'm talking about. Why
are we teaching those things to fight humansoid?
Speaker 9 (17:16):
I don't even know why it would do that demo
because it's just like asking for trouble. Why showing this?
Why are we even why are even showing that We've
explained to these robots that we need to fight. You know,
there's gonna be a robot army that comes across and
just thousands of these things that come through the door,
and there is no hiding, there's no avoiding it.
Speaker 8 (17:37):
We are done as a humans.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Uh. Talking about other stuff that is there at CEES,
you mentioned, you know, the TV seemed to get a
lot of the attention, like like attention grabbing kind of thing.
Is there anything that kind of stood out this year?
Like how much more can we do with televisions? Is
there something that stood out to you from the TV stuff?
You know, Well, there is one thing I saw.
Speaker 9 (17:57):
I mean, obviously they all continue to get bigger and
lighter and you know, better contrast.
Speaker 8 (18:02):
That's yeah, yeah, we've heard that forever.
Speaker 9 (18:04):
What I think is interesting is actually AI is helping
people hear the dialogue better. I don't know if you've
ever been doing this for you watch a movie and
you're like what.
Speaker 8 (18:13):
They just saying?
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Yeah every day?
Speaker 8 (18:15):
Yeah, what is up with that?
Speaker 9 (18:16):
Like we figured out surround sound out the you know, gazoo,
but we can't figure out how to hear these people.
So AI can now separate the audio track from the
background and you can kind of turn that up so
you can hear people better. And I'm seeing that across
a bunch of different TVs, not just Ye, but.
Speaker 7 (18:33):
Rich we're allowed to talk about it now because we're
under NDA. We have that secret meeting where we got
to see those new displays with TCL, because they have
so you're out of CES. You're going to hear all
these TV companies talk about RGB, which is red green blue,
but and the like the new age of red green
(18:54):
blue is the micro RGB. But TCL like jumped the
gun and now they're like going ahead of that, and
they're coming out with s QT, which is super quantum dots,
which is like ultra color.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Okay, so this is work. There's a disconnect, right yeah, yeah,
which is what which is just like high definition even
like even our higher definition.
Speaker 7 (19:20):
And the reason that they can do that, because we've
talked about this before, because TCL versus all these other
companies that are already behind with r GB, is that
they have to buy parts from other companies, which TCL
can do. They make their own parts. Okay, so they're.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Able to advance like Space SpaceX is like three D
printing a lot of stuff they need for their rockets
and stuff right there and hawthorn at their at their facility.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Cool.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Yeah, so they're able to advance faster than anybody else.
Speaker 9 (19:48):
Can I just try to explain TV technology and like
a little bit like what makes a TV better. Basically,
every TV is made up of like display pixels, right,
And so the more that you can illuminate those pixels
individually and with different colors, the better the picture is
going to look. Because let's say you have a picture
of just a moon. You don't want to see the
moon with like you know, clouding around the edges or
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you know, bleeding the color out to the rest of
the screen. You want to see just that moon and
the rest of the screen is completely black. Right, So
the more pixels you have, the more control you have
over lighting them, the better your screen looks, the better
your picture looks. And that's really what all these manufacturers
are trying to do without going to o lead, which
is very expensive, and it's just you know, these companies
(20:32):
would rather use you know, the older technology that still works,
but it looks better depending on how you illuminate it.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
And then moving on from television because I know we're
running out of time. Rich On Tech is on with us.
He is at CEES in Las Vegas checking out all
these different gadgets. I mean it is like, dude, this
is this is like getting to go to Wonkas chocolate
factory when you're in the tech and just seeing all
this stuff. So I'm really interested in finding, you know,
(21:01):
something I think I would get a lot of use
out of it. We always have to do these videos
for different things where the company here for advertisers or whatever,
and they always have all this you know, copy for
us to read and and do it looking directly into
the camera. And I keep seeing all these glasses that
have like teleprompter kind of features and stuff in it,
the smart glasses things like that. There seems to be
a ton of them out there. Rich, is there one
(21:22):
that you recommend, like one that looks like that doesn't
have to be sunglasses, I know, the ray band stuff,
but like that, just like just like regular you can
put a prescription in eyewear that also would have like
say that like sort of like teleprompter type of feature.
Speaker 8 (21:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (21:37):
I tried out two pairs of these. Uh, and I'll
tell you what the problem is in a second. But
the market leader is clearly called Even Realities, So I yes, okay,
they are really good. They invented this whole genre of
the display glasses. And I tried the teleprompter yesterday and
it was easy to read. And the second version, by
(21:57):
the way, is way better than the first version of these.
They also came out with the smart rings so that
you can navigate on screen with your fingers. Rocket R
O k I D is another brand doing the same
exact thing. But here is the problem. And you know,
because the idea is I'd love to give a speech
where I can just read it off my glasses and
talking to an audience. That'd make life so much easier.
(22:19):
But here's the thing. When you move around, the screen
that you're looking at is also kind of jumping around
just by the natural movement of your body, and so
it was very distracting to me to try to read
off of this thing because you're you're just moving and
so still exactly when they can figure out how to
make this thing sort of float in front of you
instead of being locked into the lenses, I think that
(22:41):
is going to be a game changer for that technology.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Interesting, all right, So, but between the two even realities
and then the is it ro our Rocket R O
K I D. Which which one? Which one do you
like the best? Which one right now is the is
the better one?
Speaker 9 (22:56):
Even realities, I think is the to me when I
try to both on even realities was easier to see.
But I think, you know, the rocket, I think, you know,
don't discount them just yet the same very early.
Speaker 8 (23:07):
So which ones look sexier?
Speaker 9 (23:08):
Right?
Speaker 2 (23:09):
You know?
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Which ones should you look hotterer?
Speaker 9 (23:11):
And you know, yeah, I haven't gone through my video yet,
so I got to see which one I look sounds like.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Something that would be good for motorcycle riders for navigation,
you know, Oh yeah that'd be a good idea.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Yeah, well, rich, thank you, uh for getting into some
as I know, it's a it's very busy when CEES
is going on. The good thing is like you get
to go on I'm sure before the general public though, right,
like cause you get that kind of.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Yeah, you're like VIP right right, uh huh.
Speaker 8 (23:35):
Yeah, we get like two days before the general kind
of because.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Then I saw they did it was essentially you know
they do the rope drop at the theme parks and
stuff and then everybody rushes they did that with the
public going into CEES and it was looked like a madhouse. Yeah,
it's very well intended, I mean very well at a
lot of cool stuff going on. Well rich on Tech.
Find them on social media at rich on Tech, and
check out his radio show. It's podcast and you can
(23:59):
find it on the iHeartRadio app. Also, you can subscribe
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in Los Angeles.
Speaker 8 (24:12):
Rich on Tech. Everybody, Thanks guys.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
All right, dude, Happy New Year and we'll talk to
you next time.
Speaker 8 (24:19):
Sounds good?
Speaker 1 (24:19):
All right, is the Woody Show. We'll be right back.
The Woody Show, will be right back.
The Woody Show. And since it is a throwback Thursday,
I got something here. You know, the beginning of the
nineties was thirty five years ago. No way, that's a lie,
and life was a lot different back then. This is
one of those people where asks things where they asked
(00:22):
a question, what's something that was socially acceptable in the
nineties but not today? Good question, not being reachable? It
was a very common answer.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
True, yeah, like you just weren't.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
If you text somebody and you don't get a response
in ten minutes, they freak out.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
I saw this thing and this guy I think he's
in the Netherlands. He works for a US company, a
US based company, but they have an office in the Netherlands,
and so I guess in the Netherlands, like at five o'clock,
people log off and they don't log back on or
check work emails or about un till nine am the
next day. They're not available after five pm on a Friday.
Next time you're gonna hear from them Monday at nine
(01:02):
there was there was this new manager, US based manager
that was hitting this guy up and he was upset
because he wasn't available. The guy the Netherlands wasn't available
for a like one of those like team building Zoom,
and it was at one pm New York time, but
(01:22):
it was like, I forget what time it was seven
six or seven o'clock, you know in the Netherlands, whatever
the time difference is. So he wasn't on it. He goes, well,
you know, we really need you to, you know, have
more of like whatever goes attitude and blah blah blah
blah blah. And he's like, no, many, I don't think
you understand how it works here. And he's just trying
(01:42):
to explain, you know, we see it as if you
are doing things after hours, it just means that you're
not being efficient with your time while you're at work
like that, and it also means that you don't have
good time management. And I'm neither one of those things. Interesting,
and the guy didn't like that answer, and so he
sent like some you know things like hey, well, if
you're looking to get ahead in the company and blah
(02:03):
blah blah blah blah, this is the mindset you're gonna
have to have. And so he gave that to his
Netherlands based HR department for the company, and they like
slap this guy's wrist and he's not fired or anything.
But they, dude, there are different there are different labor
laws here. Yeah, and so you can't be basically threatening
this guy. I'm saying that if he doesn't answer your
emails on Saturday or doesn't show up to your team's
(02:26):
meeting at you know, after hours for the net like
he's here in the Netherlands, he's not in the States.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Like people try to have that attitude in America. Yeah,
in in the workplace, and it just doesn't fly. Here's
the thing me personally, I don't have that attitude. I'm
not a punching at you know whatever, time, clock out, whatever,
and you can't reach me otherwise.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
I'm not that person. I've never been that person. I
do feel that it is beneficial. Could you do it? Yeah?
Do I think you should do that? Probably not exactly,
not not the way that most business is. Well, then
not consider you for any things down the road, because
they want somebody who is quote.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
All in or you know, like legally can you do that? Sure?
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Legally?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Do you look like a douche pretty much? Right?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Exactly?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Well, the minute I leave here, I'm not opening up
forget it.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Like yesterday they asked me, like, hey, we really need
you to record this commercial. I was at home in bed,
and I go and I don't have my home studio
setup because I'm moving, So I drove back here recorded it, yeah,
and then drove back home.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
But I don't I.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Don't necessarily fault the people who are that way, because
you're right, and this the other point this guy was
making is like, hey, I'm compensated for forty hours a week.
I do the forty hours. I do what I'm supposed
to do. I'm meeting my deadlines or whatever. I don't
know what the business is. I'm meeting my deadlines. Like
what I'm I'm holding up my end.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Of the agreement.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Okay, that's that's that's fair enough. Now, I'm not going
to feel bad for him if he does get passed
over for things because they have their own things or
criteria that whether what they're considering. Fine, but you can't
you know, you can't complain at that point. But they
also they also can't complain if you decide that you're
just gonna do what you are, you know, to the
penny of what you're competated for anyway, So not being reachable.
(04:12):
Back to the original thing. What's something that was socially
acceptable in the nineties but not today, Just not being reachable.
Leaving kids in the car while you went grocery shopping.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Oh my god, we left in the car.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, lived in that car.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Yeah, I would get worried my mom would be in
the store for so long.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
I'm like, yes, if you remember, that's what happened to
Punky Burster, Like mom went into the grocery store and
never came back out. Yeah, Punky, you had to go
live with Henry Warnamon.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
I forgot that part. Did her mom died or she just.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
No, she took off her at the grocery store.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
No, we used to do.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
My brother and I used to think horrible that. I
don't think I was. We were the only kids who
did this, And now I would. I feel so bad
just thinking about it. But let's when mom gets back,
Let's have everything turned up, the air conditioner, the radio.
Speaker 7 (04:58):
The car.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
That one time, me and my sister were in the
car when my mom was in the grocery store and
we thought, like, she's taking forever. We're going to go
in and find her. As soon as we went to
open the door, the alarm started going off to the car,
and then we just hid the rest of the time
with the alarm going off.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Socially acceptable in the nineties, not so much today. Showing
up at someone's house unannounced to hang out. Oh I'd dreaming.
Smoking in a restaurant. There were still anywhere smoking. You're
not smoking. You get that question when you walk in smoking,
You're not smoking.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Haven't heard that in what twenty five years?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
How about hiring ten year olds the babysit Oh.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
My god, they were always only like two years older
than you.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
Babysitting at ten.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Yeah, because I remember when you know, we were kids,
when I was a kid. You know, a lot of
the girls like in my class, when we were like
eleven twelve, ten eleven twelve, like they started getting babysitting jobs.
Speaker 6 (05:50):
Oh yeah, made like three dollars an hour.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Oh yeah, yeah, making plans with someone multiple days in advance,
not talking to them about it again, and just showing
up without having to con firm the plans were still on.
Can you imagine what something socially acceptable in the nineties
been not so much today. Mooning people that was just fun,
a list, Yeah, a road trip in the back seat.
(06:14):
You end up on some kind of like watch list,
the sexual offenders list. We used to going by pressed
hand up against them, fun and I'll give you one more.
This has brought up a number of times. There were
even those announcements on the television right before the late
news would start, like it's eleven o'clock. Do you know
where your kids are? Yeah, not having any idea where
(06:35):
kids were because you get home from school. It wasn't
like there were cell phones or ways to check in.
No I would. I would come home, let myself in
the house, drop up my backpack, out the door. I went,
and you didn't see me until dark. Well that's gone.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
You were a latchkey kid.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
I was a latchkey kid. You just let yourself in.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
But even still, the parents who were at home like
to stay at home, moms and stuff. At the time,
my friend's parents like we would just be out and
they didn't know where we were going. We're going out today,
We're gonna go play football and then because then you
played football for maybe like forty five minutes, then it'll
be onto something else and then up to somebody else's
house made to play video games. But like your parents
didn't know that you went over to so and so's
(07:13):
house to play video games.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
You just went.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Yeah, they don't care.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
We would ride our bikes to like two cities over.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Yeah, oh yeah a Coketo.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Woodie.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Well, for the first time here in the new year
and with great purpose, today we bring you Rich Timiro.
He's a tech reporter, he's got a radio show, he's
got a TV presence that he does. He's the official
tech correspondent for not just The Woodie Show, but for
KTLA Television in Los Angeles. The rich on Tech radio
(07:50):
show is heard coast to coast everyone a ton of stations.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
You could also.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Subscribe to Rich's free newsletter at rich on Tech dot
t find him on social media at rich on Tech.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you rich on Tech.
Speaker 8 (08:08):
Wow, that was quite the intro.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Thank you.
Speaker 8 (08:10):
I'm how much you from Las Vegas?
Speaker 9 (08:12):
Yes, looking at the sphere which is always glowing with
something quite wild, illuminating my room all night long.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Yeah, Well, happy New Year. How was your was your break?
Do you do anything cool?
Speaker 9 (08:25):
I went to New Jersey, where I'm from, and my
kids hit the vacation lottery because it snowed not once,
but twice, and they were just loving it, soling, that's
cool it.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Gina went to Minnesota for her her in laws and
there was adult sledding that happened there too. That sounds
like that would involve a cocktail. But yes, right, but
back fun right right back at now. What we love
about Rich be I just being a super nice guy
and super helpful when it comes to all this tech
stuff is that it's a it's very approachable. It's a
it's consumer tech. It's not like the stuff that you
(08:58):
get like when tech guys get together and talk amongst
each other, like.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
What driver do I need for it? This is?
Speaker 8 (09:03):
This is this is what's the refresh rate on that TV? This?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
This is stuff that we as just average people like
you know, who like technology, you like the things that
it can do for you, but just kind of getting
a real insight into it. And this is the super
Bowl of tech. The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
I went one time, and as a guy who loves
all this stuff, I got admit I was kind of overwhelmed.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
There's so much.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
I didn't know where to start. I'm like, I'm sure
I'm missing out on something good and so you know,
Medicin and I were just kind of like wandering around
checking out different stuff. But what are you seeing there, Rich,
What do you like? What? What's some cool stuff to
look forward to?
Speaker 9 (09:38):
Well, just to set it up, I mean, you did
explain how how massive this show is. It is huge
the convention center. It takes over the entire convention center,
but not just that, but also a lot of the hotels.
Speaker 8 (09:49):
In the surrounding areas.
Speaker 9 (09:51):
There's a Venetian, they have a big expo center there,
and then a lot of the suite companies that don't
even go to the show will rent out like a
giant suite and show off stuff there.
Speaker 8 (10:00):
So it is massive.
Speaker 9 (10:02):
It's impossible to see everything, probably over like four thousand exhibitors.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Wow.
Speaker 9 (10:06):
But I go to a lot of the events. I
wander the floor all day long. I did like twenty
two thousand steps yesterday. You know, looking for this stuff,
you know, the TVs and all that stuff kind of
grab your attention, But I'm looking for the little things
that you know every day people are going to use.
So here's some interesting ones. Let's start with. You want
to start with the weirdest thing that I saw?
Speaker 3 (10:25):
There's something that I think you saw that I with
absolutely no exaggeration, no hyperbole, I have dreamt about my
entire life.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Can I guess what it is?
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Okay, so I did see something about this, this smart
hair clipper. Yes? Is that it?
Speaker 2 (10:41):
I know? I thought this would never be a real
Is that real?
Speaker 7 (10:47):
Rich?
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Tell us about this? It's like an AI guided hair clipper, right,
tell us about it?
Speaker 8 (10:51):
So funny.
Speaker 9 (10:52):
I almost started with that one because that is okay.
When I was a kid, remember those commercials on TV
the flow be yes, yes, and they were this kind
of like the AI equivalent of that. So it looks
like a hair clipper, but it's got this like guide
on it that is AI, I guess helpful. So the
guide actually adjusts as you run this thing up and
down your head, and the AI keeps it at different
(11:14):
lengths so you can get like the perfect pace.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Constantly kind of going up and down or whatever.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Yes, if it's like shorter on the sides of the
and then it gets to the top of your your
haircut short on the sides on the on the side,
but on the top, there's a little bit more likely
they would know to adjust itself.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Interesting.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
What, Yeah, this is greg because I'm about to pass out.
How often do you get your hair cut?
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Preferably once a week, once a week, but usually like
every two weeks.
Speaker 8 (11:42):
Guy that would trim his hair all the time.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
You know.
Speaker 9 (11:45):
I saw this in action, and honestly I was tempted
to have them try it on me because I could
use a cleanup, and I was like, what do I
have to lose? It kind of be a fun story,
but they weren't doing it that night, so yeah, we'll see.
I may go back to the booth. But yeah, this
is AI guide it It's called glide and ID if.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
You want to look it up.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Yeah, is it kind of I'm excited When you go
to a car show they have concept cars. Is this
a real thing that's available now or is this a
tease of what's to come?
Speaker 8 (12:13):
This is supposed well.
Speaker 9 (12:14):
Nailing down whether these things are real or coming out
is always tricky with these companies.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
They always say I have a launch day, and then
sometimes it gets to push back. I am on their website,
it's smarthair clipper dot com.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Smart hairclipper dot com. You want to check it out
and sold? What else?
Speaker 8 (12:30):
Rich?
Speaker 1 (12:30):
What else do we need to know?
Speaker 9 (12:31):
About Oh, this is interesting this VVU. This is a
device you put in your toilet and it tests your
urine every time for hydration and wellness.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
That's fascinating is the diversion that tests for drugs.
Speaker 9 (12:48):
I asked if they're going to test for more stuff
in the future. She said absolutely. So this is one
hundred dollars. You know, it's supposed as opposed to test strips.
They say that hydration is such a big part of life,
and it's you know, a big part of a wellness marker.
So I just thought it was interesting that you would
have that you're so obsessed with your hydration that you
would put this thing in your toy.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
We have somebody here on the Woody showed Gina Grad
who was dehydrated to the point where she had a
seizure and passed down her bathroom had to be taken
to the hospital via ambulance over the holiday break.
Speaker 6 (13:16):
So I'd very much like to know without having to
pee in a cup at a doctor's office, if I'm
fully hydrated.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (13:21):
I just thought, you look at the color. It's like,
if it's bright, yeah, right, okay.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
If it's pale, that's good.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
I saw something that I'm dying to know if you
taste tested.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Did you see the lollipop Star?
Speaker 9 (13:32):
Oh my gosh, Okay, I was trying it this morning
because they gave me a bunch of them.
Speaker 8 (13:36):
Oh lucky. This thing is so crazy.
Speaker 9 (13:39):
Okay, if you're not familiar, Lollipop Star is basically a
lollipop that plays music.
Speaker 8 (13:44):
In your mouth when you suck on it.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
It uses like a bone induction technology.
Speaker 8 (13:50):
Yes, what yeah, bone conduction, So conduction.
Speaker 9 (13:53):
Basically, it was a little tiny electronics in the base
of it, and then it looks like a regular lollipop.
Speaker 8 (13:59):
I got the I think of a salted lime.
Speaker 9 (14:01):
And you suck on this thing and as you're you know,
nothing to do with the sucking, but it just as
your teeth are on this, they vibrate your bones and
make you hear this music.
Speaker 8 (14:11):
And it really works.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Okay, let's talk about something actually useful. And I did
see that you would post this again. You can find
a rich on social media at rich on tech and
it's this stair climbing robot vacuum.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Who blowing up on all the tech.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Yeah, and I keep saying, like I'm not just Rich
talking about but like this seems to be getting a
lot of attention there at the Consumer Electronic Show.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
And there's multiple versions, right.
Speaker 9 (14:36):
Yeah, there's a bunch of a bunch of companies working
on this. This is probably the most trending video on
my Instagram at rich on Tech right now.
Speaker 8 (14:44):
I've just been posting a ton of stuff. But this
is Dream d r E a m E.
Speaker 9 (14:49):
They're a pretty well known maker of vacuums and robotics stuff.
But yeah, they have this bionic quad track vacuum cleaner
that climb stairs.
Speaker 8 (14:58):
But here's the deal. It's still a prototype.
Speaker 9 (15:01):
It doesn't use wheels, it uses like these tracks. It
almost looks like like a tank, like the tracks underneath
the tank.
Speaker 8 (15:09):
But here's the weird part.
Speaker 9 (15:10):
It's got the standard room buck kind of like you know,
circular vacuum, but it goes into this like shell and
then the shell goes up the stairs and then it
goes down the stairs and it goes back out. So
it's like getting into like a little armored car almost
to go up the stairs.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Since we're talking this is a robot vacuum. Since we're
talking robots just in general.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Here.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
I posted a comment on one of your videos and
it was a it was a robot like one of
the you know, the things is going to eventually.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Kill us humanoid and it was showing.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
It was showing it like shadow boxing and stuff, and
I go, why are we teaching these things to fight?
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Question?
Speaker 8 (15:51):
I don't know, But.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Like, okay, fold laundry great, because there is another thing too,
there's that folding that laundry folding robot.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Right.
Speaker 9 (15:58):
I spent the I'm not kidding, I spent the entire
second half of the day yesterday just looking at robots
because they're so fun.
Speaker 8 (16:05):
They had okay, they had.
Speaker 9 (16:07):
Robots that are like a puppeteer, like puppet hands, puppet
robot hands doing like little robot puppets.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
That's number one.
Speaker 9 (16:13):
Okay, they had an entire chorus of robots. I'm talking
maybe three dozen robots sitting in chairs, all just moving
at the same time. That was number two. They had
the laundry folding robot. There's two of them. I saw
one is from Dina d y and A and I
watched it fold this towel. Now, it would have taken
a human like three seconds to fold. It took this
(16:34):
thing like a minute to figure out how to you know,
But they couldn't do it twenty.
Speaker 8 (16:38):
Four hours a day.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
But he was a thing like you walk you walk away.
That's like you could do all the dishes, that's right,
Like but Moore, you just throw them the dishwasher, walk away,
do your other things, come back and the dishes are done.
Same things like this can can take all your laundry,
fold it even if it takes longer. Who cares you
have to do it?
Speaker 2 (16:54):
You can sit and watch TV.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Yeah, I saw the actually fighting robots as the see
why That's what I want to know, Like, what's the
one that you're getting menace? The one ex technology Richard
Menisa put the money in from one of those things.
He's getting one of those things. Uh Like, So it's
it's that type of robot that I'm talking about. Why
are we teaching those things to fight humansoid?
Speaker 9 (17:16):
I don't even know why it would do that demo
because it's just like asking for trouble. Why showing this?
Why are we even why are even showing that We've
explained to these robots that we need to fight. You know,
there's gonna be a robot army that comes across and
just thousands of these things that come through the door,
and there is no hiding, there's no avoiding it.
Speaker 8 (17:37):
We are done as a humans.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Uh. Talking about other stuff that is there at CEES,
you mentioned, you know, the TV seemed to get a
lot of the attention, like like attention grabbing kind of thing.
Is there anything that kind of stood out this year?
Like how much more can we do with televisions? Is
there something that stood out to you from the TV stuff?
You know, Well, there is one thing I saw.
Speaker 9 (17:57):
I mean, obviously they all continue to get bigger and
lighter and you know, better contrast.
Speaker 8 (18:02):
That's yeah, yeah, we've heard that forever.
Speaker 9 (18:04):
What I think is interesting is actually AI is helping
people hear the dialogue better. I don't know if you've
ever been doing this for you watch a movie and
you're like what.
Speaker 8 (18:13):
They just saying?
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Yeah every day?
Speaker 8 (18:15):
Yeah, what is up with that?
Speaker 9 (18:16):
Like we figured out surround sound out the you know, gazoo,
but we can't figure out how to hear these people.
So AI can now separate the audio track from the
background and you can kind of turn that up so
you can hear people better. And I'm seeing that across
a bunch of different TVs, not just Ye, but.
Speaker 7 (18:33):
Rich we're allowed to talk about it now because we're
under NDA. We have that secret meeting where we got
to see those new displays with TCL, because they have
so you're out of CES. You're going to hear all
these TV companies talk about RGB, which is red green blue,
but and the like the new age of red green
(18:54):
blue is the micro RGB. But TCL like jumped the
gun and now they're like going ahead of that, and
they're coming out with s QT, which is super quantum dots,
which is like ultra color.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Okay, so this is work. There's a disconnect, right yeah, yeah,
which is what which is just like high definition even
like even our higher definition.
Speaker 7 (19:20):
And the reason that they can do that, because we've
talked about this before, because TCL versus all these other
companies that are already behind with r GB, is that
they have to buy parts from other companies, which TCL
can do. They make their own parts. Okay, so they're.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Able to advance like Space SpaceX is like three D
printing a lot of stuff they need for their rockets
and stuff right there and hawthorn at their at their facility.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Cool.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Yeah, so they're able to advance faster than anybody else.
Speaker 9 (19:48):
Can I just try to explain TV technology and like
a little bit like what makes a TV better. Basically,
every TV is made up of like display pixels, right,
And so the more that you can illuminate those pixels
individually and with different colors, the better the picture is
going to look. Because let's say you have a picture
of just a moon. You don't want to see the
moon with like you know, clouding around the edges or
(20:10):
you know, bleeding the color out to the rest of
the screen. You want to see just that moon and
the rest of the screen is completely black. Right, So
the more pixels you have, the more control you have
over lighting them, the better your screen looks, the better
your picture looks. And that's really what all these manufacturers
are trying to do without going to o lead, which
is very expensive, and it's just you know, these companies
(20:32):
would rather use you know, the older technology that still works,
but it looks better depending on how you illuminate it.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
And then moving on from television because I know we're
running out of time. Rich On Tech is on with us.
He is at CEES in Las Vegas checking out all
these different gadgets. I mean it is like, dude, this
is this is like getting to go to Wonkas chocolate
factory when you're in the tech and just seeing all
this stuff. So I'm really interested in finding, you know,
(21:01):
something I think I would get a lot of use
out of it. We always have to do these videos
for different things where the company here for advertisers or whatever,
and they always have all this you know, copy for
us to read and and do it looking directly into
the camera. And I keep seeing all these glasses that
have like teleprompter kind of features and stuff in it,
the smart glasses things like that. There seems to be
a ton of them out there. Rich, is there one
(21:22):
that you recommend, like one that looks like that doesn't
have to be sunglasses, I know, the ray band stuff,
but like that, just like just like regular you can
put a prescription in eyewear that also would have like
say that like sort of like teleprompter type of feature.
Speaker 8 (21:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (21:37):
I tried out two pairs of these. Uh, and I'll
tell you what the problem is in a second. But
the market leader is clearly called Even Realities, So I yes, okay,
they are really good. They invented this whole genre of
the display glasses. And I tried the teleprompter yesterday and
it was easy to read. And the second version, by
(21:57):
the way, is way better than the first version of these.
They also came out with the smart rings so that
you can navigate on screen with your fingers. Rocket R
O k I D is another brand doing the same
exact thing. But here is the problem. And you know,
because the idea is I'd love to give a speech
where I can just read it off my glasses and
talking to an audience. That'd make life so much easier.
(22:19):
But here's the thing. When you move around, the screen
that you're looking at is also kind of jumping around
just by the natural movement of your body, and so
it was very distracting to me to try to read
off of this thing because you're you're just moving and
so still exactly when they can figure out how to
make this thing sort of float in front of you
instead of being locked into the lenses, I think that
(22:41):
is going to be a game changer for that technology.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Interesting, all right, So, but between the two even realities
and then the is it ro our Rocket R O
K I D. Which which one? Which one do you
like the best? Which one right now is the is
the better one?
Speaker 9 (22:56):
Even realities, I think is the to me when I
try to both on even realities was easier to see.
But I think, you know, the rocket, I think, you know,
don't discount them just yet the same very early.
Speaker 8 (23:07):
So which ones look sexier?
Speaker 9 (23:08):
Right?
Speaker 2 (23:09):
You know?
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Which ones should you look hotterer?
Speaker 9 (23:11):
And you know, yeah, I haven't gone through my video yet,
so I got to see which one I look sounds like.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Something that would be good for motorcycle riders for navigation,
you know, Oh yeah that'd be a good idea.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Yeah, well, rich, thank you, uh for getting into some
as I know, it's a it's very busy when CEES
is going on. The good thing is like you get
to go on I'm sure before the general public though, right,
like cause you get that kind of.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Yeah, you're like VIP right right, uh huh.
Speaker 8 (23:35):
Yeah, we get like two days before the general kind
of because.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Then I saw they did it was essentially you know
they do the rope drop at the theme parks and
stuff and then everybody rushes they did that with the
public going into CEES and it was looked like a madhouse. Yeah,
it's very well intended, I mean very well at a
lot of cool stuff going on. Well rich on Tech.
Find them on social media at rich on Tech, and
check out his radio show. It's podcast and you can
(23:59):
find it on the iHeartRadio app. Also, you can subscribe
to your richest free newsletter at Richontech dot tv. Look
for him on television on k t L A Television
in Los Angeles.
Speaker 8 (24:12):
Rich on Tech. Everybody, Thanks guys.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
All right, dude, Happy New Year and we'll talk to
you next time.
Speaker 8 (24:19):
Sounds good?
Speaker 1 (24:19):
All right, is the Woody Show. We'll be right back.
The Woody Show, will be right back.
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