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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, it is Tuesday, which means it is time for
our Tech segment segment with Rich Demurrow, kfi's tech reporter,
also a host of Well, he is host of rich
on Tech Saturday's eleven to two pm every day on
k t L. All right, Instagram at rich on Tech website,
rich on Tech dot tv. And we're gonna talk a
(00:21):
little bit later on about his holiday gift guide and
Rich I will definitely deal with that some of the
fun stuff that's out there.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Anyways, Good morning, good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Okay, you know this was going to happen all right
because you sent this to me. There's a new AI
feature bringing old photos to life is a video. Okay,
what do you do with those crazy guys that send those?
How do I put it? Richard Picks?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Oh my gosh, what do you do?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
What happens with those?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
That's not what we're talking about here. This is for
old family photosh got it?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Well, you should see my old family photos. I might
not trouble with those, but let's talk about.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
That for a moment. Yeah. So this is a feature
from my Heritage that's one of those you know, DNA
apps that helps you build your family history. They've been
coming out with these AI tools over the years to
kind of bring back old old photos to life. So
you can do simple things in the photos, like convert
a black and white photo to color. You can restore
a photo. But now they're starting to use and I
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I AI more and more, and their new feature is
called live Memory. See you take an old photo. Let's
take an old photo of grandma and grandpa, right, you
put it into this app. It takes a bit, it
will animate the photo. It will literally create a five
second video, even with your grandparents moving and like having
you know, smiling, whatever the gestures they're making, and it's
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all AI. So it kind of makes everything up. But
it looks at the scene to figure out what it
might be doing. So keet on a bicycle might be
riding the bicycle, you know, even though that picture was
taken in nineteen twenty, nineteen thirty. And so you get
to do this for free. You get three of them
for free, and you can do more for paid. But
I tested this out with an old picture of me
and my wife, and you know, it's interesting. It's going
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to get better. It's very very interesting. I think if
you have an old picture of a family, member, you
want to try it on? I would say give it
a try.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
So how's this going to affect the businesses that digitize
old photos and old videos and super eight film if
you remember when those were around. Is it going to
take over that business?
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I don't think so, because this is more taking a
photo that you have that's not a video and saying,
you know what, this is an old picture of my grandpa, grandma, military, whatever,
and it's creating something out of nothing. Basically, all right,
let's move.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Over to Instagram. Let's you temporarily share your location with friends.
What's the difference between that and turning off and on where?
You know? What's that called my?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Find my, find my friends, find.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
My or whatever the hell it is? Because I have
that because I always get lost. I think it's fine my,
isn't it?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Yeah? Find my? Well you used to be called find
my friends back in the day. Now it's just find my.
But yeah, you know, look, this is nothing new. There's
many ways you can share a location with friends. H
find my is obviously very popular because it's built into
the iPhone. Snapchat is probably the most popular with the
with the young n's bill, you know, these are the
kids that share everything, they don't really care about their privacy.
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And so there's actually a map on Snapchat that will
show you where your friends are. And people love it
because they can see they're friends at school, they're friends
at home, or their friends out with their other friends,
friends on friends, whatever. And so I think Instagram wants
to be in on that. And so you can share
you live location with your friends or a group for
up to one hour, and so they're there ideas that
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you can you know, meet up with friends if you're
at a park or something, finding them at a baseball game, whatever.
And again it's all for one hour, so it doesn't
feel as privacy invasive as some other ways of doing this.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Yeah, I'm a huge fan of fine My for a
couple of reasons. First of all, I'd like to know
where everybody is because I'm nosy as hell. But more importantly,
the safety aspect of this, particularly with your kids, it's
to me it's invaluable to have this.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Oh you have them all on a little map.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Yeah, I have the little map.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Matter fact, I can't do that with me and my wife.
They'll they'll check to see if we're like coming to
get them at school. They'll be like, how come you
were at the gym for so long? And I'm like, okay,
stop looking at my location. Kid.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Yeah, I mean you can turn that off, but it's
pretty important. I think, all right, you know what, let's
take an early break because I want to come back
and talk about a couple of things. And also I
want to talk about your holiday gift guide on your website.
What's going on out there?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
All right?
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Now? This is kind of a neat one. The Ritz
Carlton Santa Barbara is adding a robotic mescuse. So I
have a question, what if there is a glitch and
it punches through your sternum? What the hell do you do?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Well, you call a good lawyer, I guess. But hopefully
that does not happen, because you know they've done their research.
There is an emergency stop button though, so it tells
me that they're not one hundred percent certain that that
can't happen. So this is a robotic messeuse called Escape.
It's spelled A escape like the letter A and then escape,
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but it's pronounced escape. And this is going in at
the Rich Carlton Santa Barbara. The Bookara there and it
is high end it's going to be self service twenty
four to seven. Well I don't know if it's twenty
four to seven. They didn't say that, but it's going
to be self service, and it's a massage system, so
it uses AI to scan your body, figures out all,
like they say, over a million three D data points,
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and then it comes up with a custom massage. So
from this touchscreen you can choose the focus areas, how
much pressure you want, the music, and it remembers all
of it for next time. So I think this sounds
really interesting. Of course, people are going to say, oh,
this is taken away jobs. It's taken away jobs probably
you know, it's it's changing the nature of work. I
guess I can say. So. Number one, this is probably
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going to run without a lot of people, which means
hotels that wouldn't normally have a massouse could have a
massage system. Number Two, the company says there is a
twenty nine thousand twenty nine thousand gap in the therapist
need in the massage industry, which means there's less people
than to fill jobs.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
So you have that since it's replacing so many Filipina massuses,
does it also sing karaoke?
Speaker 2 (06:40):
I'm not sure on that one. All I know is
that a thirty minute massage is about seventy five dollars
at a location in New York City, and I'm excited.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Bad. That's not bad because if you're going to a
Rich Carlton a sixty minute massage is it could be
one hundred and thirty hundred and fifty dollars and that's
with karaoke.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Oh wow, Well, I don't know if I assume it's
not gonna be seventy five bucks. I don't think you
can walk into a Rich Carlton and sniff without spending
seventy five dollars. So there's no way this massage is
going to be that cheap.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Yeah, I'm sure a lot of people will do it
just for sort of the joys of doing it, just
to experiment, just to try something new. And so I'll
bet you it does really well. And I'll bet you
that it costs a fortune to buy. Oh yeah, for
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the facility. Okay, let's do it. We're gonna spend a
few minutes talking about your holiday gift guide, which you
do every year. It's on your website, rich on tech
dot TV, and I know we're getting plenty of time
to this, so if we run out of time, we'll
go If we have too much information, we'll go to
a couple other topics. So what I want to do
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is ask what's hot, what's not? And how much money
are we going to spend for insert name a product here.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Well, I think look this holiday number one, This holiday
shopping season is shorter than years past because if you
do the math, there's like a couple less days between
Thanksgiving and Christmas. So I think there's twenty six days
between those two holidays, which in many years it's like
closer to thirty thirty one something like that. So there's
less time. And already, I mean you're talking, we're getting
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to Thanksgiving, we're getting to Black Friday, and that's kind
of like when the deals start and when you have
to start buying stuff because you were getting this stuff
shipped to our house in many instances, and you want
to make sure you're getting that earlier then later.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Right.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
And by the way, one pro tip Bill, I learned
this the hard way. Open up your boxes as they
arrive to your house. Do not wait until the night
before you give them as gifts, because guess what, one
time I ordered something and I didn't open the box until,
you know, the holidays. I was going to give it.
I opened it up the night before and next thing
you know, it was the wrong thing in the box.
So do not wait to open these boxes that you
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get from any retailer. All right, with that said. On
my list, I put a lot of stuff. I like
to find useful stuff, I like to find interesting stuff.
And this is all stuff that I've personally tested, things
like earbuds, things like power banks. My number one pick
is always the same every year. It's the Aura Digital
Picture Frame. Every single person that has gotten one of these,
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not all of them have emailed me, but the ones
who have just say this is the most incredible gift
because everyone likes seeing pictures, and so that unlocks those
pictures from your phone onto a digital picture frame. And
the best part with the Aura is that, as a
kid that gives it to your parents or loved one,
you can actually update the photos on that frame from
your phone, like you can submit photos right from your
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phone and it will show up on their frame no
matter where it is, which is really cool.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
So you're can be you can be an eighty five
year old grandma and instead of having thirty five pictures
across every counter, there's just one and it's rotating the
pictures through. Do I have that right?
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Yes? And you're not just rotating. You know, back in
the day you had the old photo frames, you would
upload the pictures once, you know, Christmas Day or the
day after whatever, and you would never update them. This
you can constantly update them because it's going from your phone,
which is really nice as well. So I love that.
Let's see what else do we have here? A lot
of travel stuff. I talked about the self cleaning kitty
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litter box. I still think that's life changing. A lot
of people have been emailing me about that. Smart rings there.
I would say they're popular, but they're too expensive right
now for most people. But that's a that's a gift
if someone has everything they need. Headphones I've always said
those are a great gift to a couple that I
like the noise cancelation. Obviously those are very popular, but
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if you've got a runner in your life, I've been
testing these shocks open run headphones, which in LA especially,
you know you want to be aware of your surroundings
while you're running outside. These are great because they'd I
don't seal up your ear drums, so they actually use
bone conduction technology so you actually kind of hear what's happening. Yeah,
it's really great. And you can also swim with them too,
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which a lot of people like you. How much are
those those are on sale? Those are a great deal
right now ninety bucks and they're typically a lot more.
So those are great.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
And because I just ordered some very expensive headsets, which
hopefully I'm going to cancel immediately because that's say they're yeah,
well it's just crazy. I can't believe how much I spent.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
What they What did you get Bow's No, I got
beat Beat Beats. Yeah, you know, those are highly ranked
and they're highly rated, and ye they're highly expensive, they are,
but they actually have a pair right now. That's a
great deal for two hundred and fifty bucks.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Yeah, I think I paid. I think I paid for
that much. And mainly because I I do phone calls
and I listen to books on tape. I'm not a
big music guy, so I mean they're overpriced for me,
but they're just so damn comfortable on my ears.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
That's what works. This is this is literally what we're
saying on our segment tomorrow. That's so weird because we
had we had this guy in from another reviews website
and he said, you know, look all these noise canceling
the bow's the Sony. I like the ones from Sonos
as well. They're all great, but the Beats are literally
the most comfortable out of the entire bunch. So it's
funny you said that.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Yeah, and so I mean, that's exactly you know what
I'm spending. I had a pair. Are you ready for this?
They were stolen? Oh wow, so this is my second
go round? Yeah, okay, I don't know if they were
stolen to the gym where. I have no idea where
they were stolen. So I have. I used to have friends,
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which by mistake, I actually invited someone over and cleaned
out completely.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Oh wow, your friends are stealing from you. That's oh
oh yeah, of course they are, of course a new friends.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
What I did, well, let me put it this way.
I had acquaintances because I don't have friends.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
This is getting weird. Who are you inviting over? That's well,
I'll tell you one thing.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
They're not coming back. And if I see them with
a pair of Beats headphones on while they're driving along.
That's gonna be problematic. Okay, Rich the website. You can
find all these holiday gifts on Rich's website at richon
tech dot tv.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Do I have that right? That is Rich on tech
dot TV's front, front and center.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Okay, Rich, thank you. We will talk next Tuesday, all right,