January 6, 2026 • 14 mins
KTLA & KFI tech reporter Rich DeMuro joins the show for ‘Tech Tuesday.’ Today, Rich is live from CES in Las Vegas to talk about Wearphone the wearable privacy mask for your voice, Jenny the highly realistic therapeutic robotic dog, and Timeeli the personal safety system.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is time for Rich tomorrow, which we do every Tuesday.
And Rich, you are at CEES, which you do every year.
You and one hundred and thirty thousand of your best
friends are there, Rich heard every Saturday right here on KFI.
All right, Rich, let's do it. You're at CS one
(00:22):
hundred and thirty thousand people there. I don't know how
many thousands of exhibits. What have you seen that has
knocked you on your butt?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Well, here's the thing about CES.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
It is.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Yes, like you said, it's a big show. There's a
ton to see.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
You can't see it all, that's number one. But you
do your best.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
So I've been walking an average of about twenty two
thousand steps the first two days. And by the way,
the show floor hasn't even opened. It actually opens this morning,
so they do you know, not only does the convention
center get filled up, but then all these companies rent
out rooms in pretty much every hotel surrounding the strip,
and you know, they all want to get you there.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
So that's really what I did for the past two days.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
You just go to all these different meetings and they
have these smaller shows.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
It's a whole wild thing. A couple of things.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
So number one, AI is making its way into everything.
We know that Bill, I don't know if you remember
this thing. Do you remember a thing called the flowbe
back in the day it would give you a haircut?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
I do, actually, Okay, So they've got this new device
called the Glide, which I call the high tech AI
version of the flowbe. So you take this barbershop clipper
and you use the app to say what kind of
haircut you want, and you just roll it on your
head and it automatically adjusts the length of the clipper
(01:40):
based on your head and the AI, so you can
give yourself your own haircut with this Glide device. I
did press the company a little bit. I said, come on,
this is not something everyone could do, and they said, well,
we admit that the sides are definitely easier than the back.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
So I think we're going to see the mullet come back.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Oh that would be fantastic.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
And by the way, slices and dices, isn't it In
addition to okay, you're.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Here speaking of that slicing and dicing, perfect segue to
my next gadget. Have you ever heard of an ultrasonic knife?
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Not an ultrasonic knife. I know that there are knives
that move. I have a razor that I use a
Gillette to shave and it has and it buzzes in
you know, zillion times a second and it just works better.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
But not ultrasonic guys, So explain that one.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Yeah, So this one, this is from Seattle Ultrasonics. That's
a chef knife for your house. It's the first of
its kind. And the guy spent six years. He's aught
it was gonna take him six months to figure this out.
Took them six years to figure it out. The knife
vibrates about forty thousand times per second, so the blade.
I tried it cutting through a tomato and it can
(02:52):
help people, you know, cut with less force, so fifty
percent less force and everything glides off. So if you're
cutting through cheese or something like that, you know, if
you're cutting the cheese.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
I didn't realize that.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Thank goodness, this is radio So that works, doesn't it.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I'm just curious because, yeah, because I do a lot
of slicing and dicing.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
How much is this puppy? Is it for sale yet? Oh?
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Three hundred and fifty for the knife, one hundred and
fifty for the charging station. You know, it's one of
those things where I put it in that category of
it's brand new right now. Like do you remember when
the Sonic Care toothbrush came out, you.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Know, thirty years ago.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
It was super expensive, it was high tech. Now every
toothbrush and like you said, your razor vibrates, you know,
but this is ultra Sonic, So it's gonna you know,
it's gonna be a little bit higher end than anything
else out there.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Yeah, I certainly want to spend five hundred dollars to
cut a tomato.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Yeah, that makes sense at you h Yeah, no kidding.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
We always talk about this and I always ask you this,
What products have that just floored you and you went, wow,
that's terrific. That's one question. I know we get some
years and some years pretty good. And are there any
blow you away new technology? For example, when the iPhone
(04:09):
came out, I mean that was massive, beyond massive, anything
close to that happening.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
I haven't seen anything close to that just yet. I mean, really,
this year it's.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
All about the AI.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
And the thing about AI is that it's not necessarily
a new product. It's really just a new way of
using the product. So I'll give you one example that
I'm seeing.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Over and over now with.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
These TVs, almost all the major manufacturers are now using
AI to let you enhance the dialogue. So one of
the biggest problems with TV. You're watching a movie or
a TV show, you can barely hear what the people are.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Saying for some reason.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
And so now I saw a both at Samsung and Google.
They're both using technology that lets you separate that speech
track and just hear that. And so that's one example
of something that's kind of cool. It's not like mind boggling,
but it's like, Okay, that could be very helpful for
a lot of people that can't necessarily hear what's being
said on the screen, and it just separates that dialogue.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
And it's just one more use of AI out there.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Yeah, but this is why God invented subtitles, because yeah,
over fifty percent of us, and I didn't know this
in the United States, actually watched TV with subtitles.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I do.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
I watch every show, and now there are certain shows
that you have to have subtitles to watch, Peaky Blinders
being one of them. Phenomenal show. It's I think I
out of Ireland. You cannot understand one word they say,
and it's supposed to be English.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
But in general, and you know, and here is.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
With the the I'm moving into this because I'm just
fascinated by this, and that is a subtitles it's real
time subtitling, and it's an algorithm that does this correct.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Depends on what you're watching.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
But yes, AI has definitely done a lot for news
and live programming with AI or with subtitles for shore.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
There you are at CES and you've been able to
cover a whole lot of it. When one of the
questions I always ask you is what were the most
impressive products that you saw? And the other side of it,
what were the ones that were so stupid you couldn't
believe it?
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Oh gosh, oh my okay. So last night we saw
a product and this is not stupid. This is I mean,
this is silly, but it's interesting. We saw a product
that you put in your toilet and it tests your
urination for hydration.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Well, I think absolutely, that's not silly when you think
about it, that's not you know, Yeah, I'm sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
The idea, Yeah, I just I've just seen the idea.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Of the smart toilet is really taking off because I mean,
it's just it's silly to talk about, but you know,
you're flushing down all of this vital information.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
And we've gotten so obsessed with.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Tracking metrics and health stats, you know, with these rings
and these watches and people. You know, I saw two
different versions of glucose monitoring for the everyday person, not
for someone with diabetes. So there's now these arm patches
you can put on and they talk to your phone
and they show you, you know, your blood sugar levels
throughout the day. So we're really seeing a trend of
(07:24):
basically everyone wants to have every health stat they can.
And yeah, so we saw we're seeing smart toilets that
measure all kinds of things like urination for hydration, which
they said is very important. It's a very important marker
of your health.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Yeah, and I think it is, or at least i'm
told it is by doctor Jim who's with us every week.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Here's a fun one that I want you to talk about. Now.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
You saw this, right, Jenny, the therapeutic robotic dog that's
supposed to be a what a lap dog?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Yeah, Now this is an example of one of those
things that you see and you're like, Okay, give me
a break. Who needs a fake dog? Right, like we've
seen so many. Then when you hear the story behind it,
it's a company called Tombot. They're actually out of the
LA area. They are making this thing called Jenny, and
it's it's like.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
You said, it's a lap dog.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
It doesn't walk, it doesn't you know, it.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Doesn't really talk. But it's for people with dementia or Alzheimer's.
So it's for people that.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
You know, want a dog or want a companion, but
they can't have a companion, no for safety reasons or
for you know, they just simply can't care for it.
And this company went to great lengths to develop this thing.
They worked with Jim Henson's creature shop. So I'm not
kidding Bill. When I saw this dog, you have an
emotional connection with it, unlike any robot I've ever seen before.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Just the way it moves, the eyes.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
The tail, it's soft, it's cuddly, it responds to all
kinds of touch and commands. And the only thing I
will that I did hold it. And again it's not
for it's for your lap so you're supposed to sort
of pet it. But this thing shed all over me
just like a real dog, which I thought was kind
of funny.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
And do we have prices on this stuff?
Speaker 1 (09:13):
I know your tomato cutter came in at five hundred
dollars for the cutter itself, the knife, and the charging station,
which I thought was kind of neat any idea with
this stuff costs? And because the technology is well, let
me ask you exactly, is the technology really high end
or is it basically off the shelf stuff that you
can get now.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
I think the Jenny technology, this robot dog is pretty
high end stuff. This is a you know, robotics company,
and I think that they did a pretty good job.
Now again, it's not moving, it's not it's not walking,
so it's not you know, we've seen a thousand robots.
You know, you've seen those Atlas robots that look like
a dog that kind of move around. They're very nimble.
That's a whole different level. This robot is selling for
(09:57):
about fifteen hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
This robot, which I know sounds expensive.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
But Bill, I don't know if you've ever had a dog,
but you know, my dog had a problem with it's toenail.
Once one call of the vet yeah, come on in
seven hundred dollars later, Okay, your dog's your dog's back
to good again.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
So dogs are not cheap either.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
No, but if someone has that advanced in Alzheimer's, you
just buy a fluffy slipper and I just say, here,
this is your dog, and that will run you two
nine cents at Walmart. Let me tell you, Let.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Me tell you about a silly one. Let me tell
you about a silly one. Because this this, I don't
know you. Maybe I'm wrong on this, but this is
like one of those things where I look at it,
I'm like, come on, really, now, you know you've got
the K cup machine, You've got the Ninja Creamy, You've
got all these at home appliances that make stuff that
we used to have to go out for, right, like
ice cream and smoothies and instant coffee. So this one's
(10:53):
called ice Explosion, okay, and it makes it's it's basically
the equivalent of a seven eleven slushy machine for your home.
So it's a CA cup kind of pod. You put
it in there, you put some.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Water in there.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
It takes about four minutes, and the trick is it
makes carbonated slushy.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
So not just you know, it's slush.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
It's carbonated in about four minutes. They say it's the
first of its kind ever for the house.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
It also makes you know, they have that soda stream machine.
People love that.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
I didn't know this because I don't use the soda stream,
but that soda comes out warm, so you have to
put it in the fridge to keep it cold or
to get it cold. This makes ice cold soda in
about two minutes.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
So that single is that that's a single use or
a single cup that they offer is do I have
that right?
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Yeah, it's it's maybe a couple, like a couple of
small surveys, like maybe two small surveys. Yeah, so it's
and by the way, you got to wait a minute
between each drink. So I don't know who needs a
slurpy that badly. But you know, to spend seven hundred
dollars on this machine, by the way, plus a dollar
for the CA cups.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
But you know, it's one of those things that's there.
It's out there, and you know, we'll see.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
What happens now. And when you talk about AI being.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Involved in everything, AI is simply in the products that
are being produced, right, And do they push the fact
that we're using AI, or do they push the fact
that look what this can do and just don't even
mention it.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
It's AI.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Oh no, AI is I mean, look for people in
the tech world, and I think people are kind of
getting tired of the term AI because it's just like, okay,
give me a break.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
But when these.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Products can actually help you accomplish a task that you
have done in the past or we're not able to
do in the past easily, that's when people are interested.
So for instance, I'll just leave you with this one.
One of the other trends we're seeing is is this
idea of unlimited memory. So we've seen earbuds, we've seen pendants,
we've seen rings. They all have AI built into them
(12:57):
where they are recording basically your entire day, so four
to five hours at a time, where it's just every
person you meet, every conversation you have, and then AI
goes and it just puts it all into this memory
bank that you can then ask questions of later. So
for people that are you know, salespeople, business people, this
could be very very helpful or even for the average person.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
And so that's an.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Example of a product we were like, Okay, come on,
give me a break.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Do we really need that? But for some people that.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Could be very handy, and it can even make them
more money, make them better in their job, or just
better in their personal life listening to their wife's hell
them something and you remember it.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Actually, So where is.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
This memory held? I mean that you can't go back
what happened a year ago? Is it up on the
cloud or the device itself has enough memory?
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Usually the device will will offload it to the cloud,
and yeah, you could go back a year. I mean
the idea is that you know, and we've seen I'm
actually meeting with one.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Of the companies.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
I think I can tell you this one of the
companies that Amazon bought that's making this technology.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
And so I mean it's like, you know, this is
big money.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
You know, this is definitely seen as one of the
next big frontiers where you will wear a ring, you'll
wear a necklace, you'll wear a risk band that will
literally record every single.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Moment of your day.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Because data is getting cheaper, cloud is getting cheaper, Connections
are everywhere, and it's become so cheap to just memorize
every single thing that happens to you.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
And then have AI sort through it later on.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
All right, Rich, Thanks as always.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
You're here Saturday eleven to two and on KTLA every
single day. Instagram the address at rich on Tech. That's
tec website, rich on Tech. That's T. E. C. H.
Rich on Tech dot tv. You have a good one, Rich,
catch over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Thanks Bill,
It is time for Rich tomorrow, which we do every Tuesday.
And Rich, you are at CEES, which you do every year.
You and one hundred and thirty thousand of your best
friends are there, Rich heard every Saturday right here on KFI.
All right, Rich, let's do it. You're at CS one
(00:22):
hundred and thirty thousand people there. I don't know how
many thousands of exhibits. What have you seen that has
knocked you on your butt?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Well, here's the thing about CES.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
It is.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Yes, like you said, it's a big show. There's a
ton to see.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
You can't see it all, that's number one. But you
do your best.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
So I've been walking an average of about twenty two
thousand steps the first two days. And by the way,
the show floor hasn't even opened. It actually opens this morning,
so they do you know, not only does the convention
center get filled up, but then all these companies rent
out rooms in pretty much every hotel surrounding the strip,
and you know, they all want to get you there.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
So that's really what I did for the past two days.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
You just go to all these different meetings and they
have these smaller shows.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
It's a whole wild thing. A couple of things.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
So number one, AI is making its way into everything.
We know that Bill, I don't know if you remember
this thing. Do you remember a thing called the flowbe
back in the day it would give you a haircut?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
I do, actually, Okay, So they've got this new device
called the Glide, which I call the high tech AI
version of the flowbe. So you take this barbershop clipper
and you use the app to say what kind of
haircut you want, and you just roll it on your
head and it automatically adjusts the length of the clipper
(01:40):
based on your head and the AI, so you can
give yourself your own haircut with this Glide device. I
did press the company a little bit. I said, come on,
this is not something everyone could do, and they said, well,
we admit that the sides are definitely easier than the back.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
So I think we're going to see the mullet come back.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Oh that would be fantastic.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
And by the way, slices and dices, isn't it In
addition to okay, you're.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Here speaking of that slicing and dicing, perfect segue to
my next gadget. Have you ever heard of an ultrasonic knife?
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Not an ultrasonic knife. I know that there are knives
that move. I have a razor that I use a
Gillette to shave and it has and it buzzes in
you know, zillion times a second and it just works better.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
But not ultrasonic guys, So explain that one.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Yeah, So this one, this is from Seattle Ultrasonics. That's
a chef knife for your house. It's the first of
its kind. And the guy spent six years. He's aught
it was gonna take him six months to figure this out.
Took them six years to figure it out. The knife
vibrates about forty thousand times per second, so the blade.
I tried it cutting through a tomato and it can
(02:52):
help people, you know, cut with less force, so fifty
percent less force and everything glides off. So if you're
cutting through cheese or something like that, you know, if
you're cutting the cheese.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
I didn't realize that.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Thank goodness, this is radio So that works, doesn't it.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I'm just curious because, yeah, because I do a lot
of slicing and dicing.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
How much is this puppy? Is it for sale yet? Oh?
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Three hundred and fifty for the knife, one hundred and
fifty for the charging station. You know, it's one of
those things where I put it in that category of
it's brand new right now. Like do you remember when
the Sonic Care toothbrush came out, you.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Know, thirty years ago.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
It was super expensive, it was high tech. Now every
toothbrush and like you said, your razor vibrates, you know,
but this is ultra Sonic, So it's gonna you know,
it's gonna be a little bit higher end than anything
else out there.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Yeah, I certainly want to spend five hundred dollars to
cut a tomato.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Yeah, that makes sense at you h Yeah, no kidding.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
We always talk about this and I always ask you this,
What products have that just floored you and you went, wow,
that's terrific. That's one question. I know we get some
years and some years pretty good. And are there any
blow you away new technology? For example, when the iPhone
(04:09):
came out, I mean that was massive, beyond massive, anything
close to that happening.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
I haven't seen anything close to that just yet. I mean, really,
this year it's.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
All about the AI.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
And the thing about AI is that it's not necessarily
a new product. It's really just a new way of
using the product. So I'll give you one example that
I'm seeing.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Over and over now with.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
These TVs, almost all the major manufacturers are now using
AI to let you enhance the dialogue. So one of
the biggest problems with TV. You're watching a movie or
a TV show, you can barely hear what the people are.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Saying for some reason.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
And so now I saw a both at Samsung and Google.
They're both using technology that lets you separate that speech
track and just hear that. And so that's one example
of something that's kind of cool. It's not like mind boggling,
but it's like, Okay, that could be very helpful for
a lot of people that can't necessarily hear what's being
said on the screen, and it just separates that dialogue.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
And it's just one more use of AI out there.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Yeah, but this is why God invented subtitles, because yeah,
over fifty percent of us, and I didn't know this
in the United States, actually watched TV with subtitles.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I do.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
I watch every show, and now there are certain shows
that you have to have subtitles to watch, Peaky Blinders
being one of them. Phenomenal show. It's I think I
out of Ireland. You cannot understand one word they say,
and it's supposed to be English.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
But in general, and you know, and here is.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
With the the I'm moving into this because I'm just
fascinated by this, and that is a subtitles it's real
time subtitling, and it's an algorithm that does this correct.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Depends on what you're watching.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
But yes, AI has definitely done a lot for news
and live programming with AI or with subtitles for shore.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
There you are at CES and you've been able to
cover a whole lot of it. When one of the
questions I always ask you is what were the most
impressive products that you saw? And the other side of it,
what were the ones that were so stupid you couldn't
believe it?
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Oh gosh, oh my okay. So last night we saw
a product and this is not stupid. This is I mean,
this is silly, but it's interesting. We saw a product
that you put in your toilet and it tests your
urination for hydration.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Well, I think absolutely, that's not silly when you think
about it, that's not you know, Yeah, I'm sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
The idea, Yeah, I just I've just seen the idea.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Of the smart toilet is really taking off because I mean,
it's just it's silly to talk about, but you know,
you're flushing down all of this vital information.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
And we've gotten so obsessed with.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Tracking metrics and health stats, you know, with these rings
and these watches and people. You know, I saw two
different versions of glucose monitoring for the everyday person, not
for someone with diabetes. So there's now these arm patches
you can put on and they talk to your phone
and they show you, you know, your blood sugar levels
throughout the day. So we're really seeing a trend of
(07:24):
basically everyone wants to have every health stat they can.
And yeah, so we saw we're seeing smart toilets that
measure all kinds of things like urination for hydration, which
they said is very important. It's a very important marker
of your health.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Yeah, and I think it is, or at least i'm
told it is by doctor Jim who's with us every week.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Here's a fun one that I want you to talk about. Now.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
You saw this, right, Jenny, the therapeutic robotic dog that's
supposed to be a what a lap dog?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Yeah, Now this is an example of one of those
things that you see and you're like, Okay, give me
a break. Who needs a fake dog? Right, like we've
seen so many. Then when you hear the story behind it,
it's a company called Tombot. They're actually out of the
LA area. They are making this thing called Jenny, and
it's it's like.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
You said, it's a lap dog.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
It doesn't walk, it doesn't you know, it.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Doesn't really talk. But it's for people with dementia or Alzheimer's.
So it's for people that.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
You know, want a dog or want a companion, but
they can't have a companion, no for safety reasons or
for you know, they just simply can't care for it.
And this company went to great lengths to develop this thing.
They worked with Jim Henson's creature shop. So I'm not
kidding Bill. When I saw this dog, you have an
emotional connection with it, unlike any robot I've ever seen before.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Just the way it moves, the eyes.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
The tail, it's soft, it's cuddly, it responds to all
kinds of touch and commands. And the only thing I
will that I did hold it. And again it's not
for it's for your lap so you're supposed to sort
of pet it. But this thing shed all over me
just like a real dog, which I thought was kind
of funny.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
And do we have prices on this stuff?
Speaker 1 (09:13):
I know your tomato cutter came in at five hundred
dollars for the cutter itself, the knife, and the charging station,
which I thought was kind of neat any idea with
this stuff costs? And because the technology is well, let
me ask you exactly, is the technology really high end
or is it basically off the shelf stuff that you
can get now.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
I think the Jenny technology, this robot dog is pretty
high end stuff. This is a you know, robotics company,
and I think that they did a pretty good job.
Now again, it's not moving, it's not it's not walking,
so it's not you know, we've seen a thousand robots.
You know, you've seen those Atlas robots that look like
a dog that kind of move around. They're very nimble.
That's a whole different level. This robot is selling for
(09:57):
about fifteen hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
This robot, which I know sounds expensive.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
But Bill, I don't know if you've ever had a dog,
but you know, my dog had a problem with it's toenail.
Once one call of the vet yeah, come on in
seven hundred dollars later, Okay, your dog's your dog's back
to good again.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
So dogs are not cheap either.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
No, but if someone has that advanced in Alzheimer's, you
just buy a fluffy slipper and I just say, here,
this is your dog, and that will run you two
nine cents at Walmart. Let me tell you, Let.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Me tell you about a silly one. Let me tell
you about a silly one. Because this this, I don't
know you. Maybe I'm wrong on this, but this is
like one of those things where I look at it,
I'm like, come on, really, now, you know you've got
the K cup machine, You've got the Ninja Creamy, You've
got all these at home appliances that make stuff that
we used to have to go out for, right, like
ice cream and smoothies and instant coffee. So this one's
(10:53):
called ice Explosion, okay, and it makes it's it's basically
the equivalent of a seven eleven slushy machine for your home.
So it's a CA cup kind of pod. You put
it in there, you put some.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Water in there.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
It takes about four minutes, and the trick is it
makes carbonated slushy.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
So not just you know, it's slush.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
It's carbonated in about four minutes. They say it's the
first of its kind ever for the house.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
It also makes you know, they have that soda stream machine.
People love that.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
I didn't know this because I don't use the soda stream,
but that soda comes out warm, so you have to
put it in the fridge to keep it cold or
to get it cold. This makes ice cold soda in
about two minutes.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
So that single is that that's a single use or
a single cup that they offer is do I have
that right?
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Yeah, it's it's maybe a couple, like a couple of
small surveys, like maybe two small surveys. Yeah, so it's
and by the way, you got to wait a minute
between each drink. So I don't know who needs a
slurpy that badly. But you know, to spend seven hundred
dollars on this machine, by the way, plus a dollar
for the CA cups.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
But you know, it's one of those things that's there.
It's out there, and you know, we'll see.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
What happens now. And when you talk about AI being.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Involved in everything, AI is simply in the products that
are being produced, right, And do they push the fact
that we're using AI, or do they push the fact
that look what this can do and just don't even
mention it.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
It's AI.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Oh no, AI is I mean, look for people in
the tech world, and I think people are kind of
getting tired of the term AI because it's just like, okay,
give me a break.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
But when these.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Products can actually help you accomplish a task that you
have done in the past or we're not able to
do in the past easily, that's when people are interested.
So for instance, I'll just leave you with this one.
One of the other trends we're seeing is is this
idea of unlimited memory. So we've seen earbuds, we've seen pendants,
we've seen rings. They all have AI built into them
(12:57):
where they are recording basically your entire day, so four
to five hours at a time, where it's just every
person you meet, every conversation you have, and then AI
goes and it just puts it all into this memory
bank that you can then ask questions of later. So
for people that are you know, salespeople, business people, this
could be very very helpful or even for the average person.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
And so that's an.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Example of a product we were like, Okay, come on,
give me a break.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Do we really need that? But for some people that.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Could be very handy, and it can even make them
more money, make them better in their job, or just
better in their personal life listening to their wife's hell
them something and you remember it.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Actually, So where is.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
This memory held? I mean that you can't go back
what happened a year ago? Is it up on the
cloud or the device itself has enough memory?
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Usually the device will will offload it to the cloud,
and yeah, you could go back a year. I mean
the idea is that you know, and we've seen I'm
actually meeting with one.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Of the companies.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
I think I can tell you this one of the
companies that Amazon bought that's making this technology.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
And so I mean it's like, you know, this is
big money.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
You know, this is definitely seen as one of the
next big frontiers where you will wear a ring, you'll
wear a necklace, you'll wear a risk band that will
literally record every single.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Moment of your day.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Because data is getting cheaper, cloud is getting cheaper, Connections
are everywhere, and it's become so cheap to just memorize
every single thing that happens to you.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
And then have AI sort through it later on.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
All right, Rich, Thanks as always.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
You're here Saturday eleven to two and on KTLA every
single day. Instagram the address at rich on Tech. That's
tec website, rich on Tech. That's T. E. C. H.
Rich on Tech dot tv. You have a good one, Rich,
catch over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Thanks Bill,
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