October 8, 2025 • 9 mins
KFI Tech Reporter Rich DeMuro joins Wake Up Call for ‘Wired Wednesday’! Rich talks about Amazon Prime deals, Waze, UCLA’s new esports gaming facility, and what’s new with the Apple watch.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's say good morning now to the host of Rich
on Tech on KFI. It's KTLA's tech reporter Rich DeMuro.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Morning, Rich, good morning to you. Amy.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
It's day two of Prime Days on Amazon, and I
put several things in my cart, but nothing's on sale
right now. So are there some good deals out there?
Speaker 3 (00:21):
I do think there are a good deals, So this
is the final day of Prime big deal days. Don't
assume everything is a bargain. So my advice is to
check the price history before you actually buy, because they've
got a lot of labels that make things seem like
they're a big deal, but sometimes it's just a dollar
off the standard asking price.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
But two ways you can check.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Number one, Rufus, this is their built in AI shopping assistant,
is on every Amazon shopping page. Just tap it and
ask for price history. You can type that right in
you'll see a thirty or ninety day chart of the
recent prices.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Or you can go to Camel Camel Camel and that'll.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Do like sort of a nice graph of the price
of the past six months, year, or whatever you want.
I got a question finding Yes, rufous.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Where do you find rufus. It's on the Amazon side.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Any Yeah, any Amazon product page, you'll see it. It
depends if you're on the phone or on the desktop.
If you're on the desktop, it's right underneath the product pictures.
If you're on the phone, it's in the lower right
hand corner.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
So you tap that.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
It's basically like a chatbot and you can ask all
kinds of questions one of them. Yeah, And it's really
handy for products too, like if you're trying to figure
out like what kind of batteries of product takes, or
like if a product does a certain thing, it can
answer a lot of things or similar products. I mean,
it's actually pretty good anyway. I put a lot of
my picks on my website rich on tech dot TV.
(01:44):
Kindle paper white, lowest price ever, I Pad two hundred
and eighty bucks, AirPods ninety bucks, Bose headphones two hundred dollars,
Echo Spot forty five bucks. All kinds of stuff that
I personally would buy listed on the website rich on
tech dot tv. And yes, I bought it a bunch
of stuff yesterday, Amy, And if you can believe it,
I got a message from Amazon last night. We're sorry,
(02:05):
we couldn't leave your stuff in a secure area, so
we didn't do the delivery. I was like, I don't
believe that, because they leave every package in front of
my house for ten years now, I know.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Yeah, I've never had anything left in a secure area.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Yeah, me either.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
In fact, I have a secure area and they leave
it in the area that's not secure, so they go
out of their way to make sure it's not secure.
So I don't know if someone just got a little
bit like I'm tired, I don't feel like delivering. I
also was surprised that they were delivering everything I ordered
the same day, which is pretty amazing, but I didn't
get it, so I guess it's not amazing.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Yeah. I am constantly amazed at how quickly they can
get stuff, too, especially when they do that same day thing.
A lot of my stuff doesn't come someday same day,
but when it does, I'm like, wow, that's amazing. Okay, yeah,
let's move on to another Amazon topic, and that is
that you might be able to pick up your prescriptions
out of a vending machine or something.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Now, yeah, I thought this was so cool.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
So you know, Amazon has these medical offices called one Medical.
I've got them at various places around Los Angeles. Well,
now they're going to put self service pharmacy kiosks inside
those offices, so starting in December, Basically, if the doctor
prescribes you something like antibiotics and inhaler, blood pressure drugs,
all the common stuff, you literally just walk out to
(03:24):
this kiosk, scan a QR code and you get your
prescription instantly. So it's stocked with like all of the
you know, standard medications. Takes minutes instead of waiting in
line or going somewhere else. And I just thought this
was a super smart idea. Obviously, Amazon throws a lot
at the wall to see what sticks. We'll see if
they stick around, but kind of a new way to
(03:46):
get medicine instantly after your doctor's appointment.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Yeah, and not have to wait in line with all
the sick put people at the pharmacy at CBS.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Yeah, which you know that's like you're like, oh, I'll
be back next week for something else because now I'm.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Sick for real exactly.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Okay, Ways has a new feature tell us about it.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
So I thought this was cool.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
I actually saw a demo of this feature last year
in New York City that tells you how long some
of these things take to roll out. But it's called
conversational reporting. If you use ways, you know, you press
that little button to help report things to other drivers
behind you, like if there's an officer, or if there
is a car that's stuck on the road or something
in the lane. You can alert drivers behind you. Well,
(04:29):
typically you have to press a button and then look
at the options and press a couple other buttons to
report that stuff. Now you can just press one button
and speak naturally, saying something like object in road, there's
construction on the road, there's a speed trap, there's cars
jammed up here, and AI will interpret what you say
and then file that away and help alert other drivers.
(04:49):
So less fiddling with menus while you're driving.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
I thought this was really cool.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
I like that. So it doesn't you won't hear people
tell you, hey, there's a car that's on fire coming up.
You'll hear that, but it takes the what you tell
it and then turns it into an alert.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Yes, you still have to tune into KFI for that,
but if you want to just like object and road ahead,
you know, it'll just it'll just it's just basically helping
people use their voice to tell what's wrong. Instead of
tapping your screen a million times while you're driving, which
I say on my show every week, do not drive distracted.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Put the phone down. It can wait. Please please please please.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
I know.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
But you want to help people, rich, you want to
help people.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Well that's that's okay. You can help, but do it safely,
all right.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
So this is a great This sounds like a great
feature to help you do that stay safer. UCLA new
Esports Gaming Center tell us about that.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Yeah, so I visited this last week, brand new at
UCLA e Sports and Gaming Lounge inside their student union.
So thirty alien Ware PCs, which are super high end.
They've got all the high end processors, graphics, display, these
wireless keyboard, wireless mouse, headphones. It's just such a cool setup.
(06:05):
So it's for students to come and play video games.
Now why you know students have these in their dorms
and this and that, but these are high end. Plus
it's a sense of community. Plus, you know, esports has
actually become kind of a big deal around college campuses,
and so it's you know, people can go into careers
that involve esports, not only as an esports athlete. I
(06:27):
know that sounds silly, but yes, there are people paid
money to play video games, but there's also a whole
business around it, just like a movie business or any
other business. So they need people to do finance and
marketing and.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
This and that.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
So the idea is that Alien Wear teams up with
these schools to get kids not just playing video games,
but interested in the potential beyond just the screen.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Okay, and it's only open to students though, right.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
As far as I know, I think, you know, you'd
be kind of weird if I walked in there.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
I'm like, hey, what's up? Kids want to play?
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Okay? And then real quick, I want to get an
update on the Apple Watch. And it's something cool that
helps you, you know, find out how you're feeling.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
I don't know, I've just been testing this app and it,
you know, the Apple Watch collects so much data, but
actually seeing any of that data it's like impossible. Like
all I see are my rings and I'm like, all right,
I finished my rings today.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
A big deal.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
This app is called bevel b E v e L,
and it gives you so much more actionable info about
the data that your Apple Watch is collecting. So, for instance,
it give you how hard you're working out, how much
recovery you've had, how much sleep you're getting, and it
gives your energy bank, like right now, my battery. It
gives me literally a little battery of my life. And
I'm at seventy nine percent, which is scary.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Because I just woke up, so.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
You haven't had enough yet, you haven't put any gas.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
It tells me my stress is at fifty seven percent
right now, So I mean, it's really it's just it's
such a cool dashboard of all of your vitals. I
can see my my resting heart rate, my regular heart rate,
my oxygen, my sleep, my temperature. I mean, it's really
really the best app I've seen in putting all your
data in one place. And also you can chat with
(08:09):
the app, so after you take a run, says hey,
that was a great run, blah blah blah, And I said,
how much water do I need to drink now to
replace all that sweat?
Speaker 2 (08:16):
And it will tell you. So anyway, test it out.
It's called bevl.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
I think you got to pay fifty bucks a year
if you want this for real, because I'm still on
the free trial.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
But it looks pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
If you like data like this, okay, and the bevill
You get the app on your phone and then it
talks to your smart watch.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
App on your or do you put directly on your
phone and it reads the data from your smart watch?
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Okay? Gotcha? All right? Very interesting and that's called bevll. Okay,
I got to go play with rufus and I got
to let you go. You can hear more with rich Demiro.
He's got a show right here on KFI rich on
Tech and it is every Saturday from eleven to two.
It's KTLA's tech reporter. You can also catch him of
course on KTLA rich on tech dot com. Is it
(09:00):
rich on tech Talk? I should know this about right?
And that's where you can find out all the stuff
that he talks about with us and on his show
and on k t l A and you can follow
him where.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Do we follow you at rich on Tech on Instagram? Easy?
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Right?
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Yeah? Thank you? Rich Aye.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
He's a wealth of information, Like like, how do you
absorb all that information? I think it's incredible m hm
Let's say good morning now to the host of Rich
on Tech on KFI. It's KTLA's tech reporter Rich DeMuro.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Morning, Rich, good morning to you. Amy.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
It's day two of Prime Days on Amazon, and I
put several things in my cart, but nothing's on sale
right now. So are there some good deals out there?
Speaker 3 (00:21):
I do think there are a good deals, So this
is the final day of Prime big deal days. Don't
assume everything is a bargain. So my advice is to
check the price history before you actually buy, because they've
got a lot of labels that make things seem like
they're a big deal, but sometimes it's just a dollar
off the standard asking price.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
But two ways you can check.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Number one, Rufus, this is their built in AI shopping assistant,
is on every Amazon shopping page. Just tap it and
ask for price history. You can type that right in
you'll see a thirty or ninety day chart of the
recent prices.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Or you can go to Camel Camel Camel and that'll.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Do like sort of a nice graph of the price
of the past six months, year, or whatever you want.
I got a question finding Yes, rufous.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Where do you find rufus. It's on the Amazon side.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Any Yeah, any Amazon product page, you'll see it. It
depends if you're on the phone or on the desktop.
If you're on the desktop, it's right underneath the product pictures.
If you're on the phone, it's in the lower right
hand corner.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
So you tap that.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
It's basically like a chatbot and you can ask all
kinds of questions one of them. Yeah, And it's really
handy for products too, like if you're trying to figure
out like what kind of batteries of product takes, or
like if a product does a certain thing, it can
answer a lot of things or similar products. I mean,
it's actually pretty good anyway. I put a lot of
my picks on my website rich on tech dot TV.
(01:44):
Kindle paper white, lowest price ever, I Pad two hundred
and eighty bucks, AirPods ninety bucks, Bose headphones two hundred dollars,
Echo Spot forty five bucks. All kinds of stuff that
I personally would buy listed on the website rich on
tech dot tv. And yes, I bought it a bunch
of stuff yesterday, Amy, And if you can believe it,
I got a message from Amazon last night. We're sorry,
(02:05):
we couldn't leave your stuff in a secure area, so
we didn't do the delivery. I was like, I don't
believe that, because they leave every package in front of
my house for ten years now, I know.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Yeah, I've never had anything left in a secure area.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Yeah, me either.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
In fact, I have a secure area and they leave
it in the area that's not secure, so they go
out of their way to make sure it's not secure.
So I don't know if someone just got a little
bit like I'm tired, I don't feel like delivering. I
also was surprised that they were delivering everything I ordered
the same day, which is pretty amazing, but I didn't
get it, so I guess it's not amazing.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Yeah. I am constantly amazed at how quickly they can
get stuff, too, especially when they do that same day thing.
A lot of my stuff doesn't come someday same day,
but when it does, I'm like, wow, that's amazing. Okay, yeah,
let's move on to another Amazon topic, and that is
that you might be able to pick up your prescriptions
out of a vending machine or something.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Now, yeah, I thought this was so cool.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
So you know, Amazon has these medical offices called one Medical.
I've got them at various places around Los Angeles. Well,
now they're going to put self service pharmacy kiosks inside
those offices, so starting in December, Basically, if the doctor
prescribes you something like antibiotics and inhaler, blood pressure drugs,
all the common stuff, you literally just walk out to
(03:24):
this kiosk, scan a QR code and you get your
prescription instantly. So it's stocked with like all of the
you know, standard medications. Takes minutes instead of waiting in
line or going somewhere else. And I just thought this
was a super smart idea. Obviously, Amazon throws a lot
at the wall to see what sticks. We'll see if
they stick around, but kind of a new way to
(03:46):
get medicine instantly after your doctor's appointment.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Yeah, and not have to wait in line with all
the sick put people at the pharmacy at CBS.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Yeah, which you know that's like you're like, oh, I'll
be back next week for something else because now I'm.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Sick for real exactly.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Okay, Ways has a new feature tell us about it.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
So I thought this was cool.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
I actually saw a demo of this feature last year
in New York City that tells you how long some
of these things take to roll out. But it's called
conversational reporting. If you use ways, you know, you press
that little button to help report things to other drivers
behind you, like if there's an officer, or if there
is a car that's stuck on the road or something
in the lane. You can alert drivers behind you. Well,
(04:29):
typically you have to press a button and then look
at the options and press a couple other buttons to
report that stuff. Now you can just press one button
and speak naturally, saying something like object in road, there's
construction on the road, there's a speed trap, there's cars
jammed up here, and AI will interpret what you say
and then file that away and help alert other drivers.
(04:49):
So less fiddling with menus while you're driving.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
I thought this was really cool.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
I like that. So it doesn't you won't hear people
tell you, hey, there's a car that's on fire coming up.
You'll hear that, but it takes the what you tell
it and then turns it into an alert.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Yes, you still have to tune into KFI for that,
but if you want to just like object and road ahead,
you know, it'll just it'll just it's just basically helping
people use their voice to tell what's wrong. Instead of
tapping your screen a million times while you're driving, which
I say on my show every week, do not drive distracted.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Put the phone down. It can wait. Please please please please.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
I know.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
But you want to help people, rich, you want to
help people.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Well that's that's okay. You can help, but do it safely,
all right.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
So this is a great This sounds like a great
feature to help you do that stay safer. UCLA new
Esports Gaming Center tell us about that.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Yeah, so I visited this last week, brand new at
UCLA e Sports and Gaming Lounge inside their student union.
So thirty alien Ware PCs, which are super high end.
They've got all the high end processors, graphics, display, these
wireless keyboard, wireless mouse, headphones. It's just such a cool setup.
(06:05):
So it's for students to come and play video games.
Now why you know students have these in their dorms
and this and that, but these are high end. Plus
it's a sense of community. Plus, you know, esports has
actually become kind of a big deal around college campuses,
and so it's you know, people can go into careers
that involve esports, not only as an esports athlete. I
(06:27):
know that sounds silly, but yes, there are people paid
money to play video games, but there's also a whole
business around it, just like a movie business or any
other business. So they need people to do finance and
marketing and.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
This and that.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
So the idea is that Alien Wear teams up with
these schools to get kids not just playing video games,
but interested in the potential beyond just the screen.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Okay, and it's only open to students though, right.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
As far as I know, I think, you know, you'd
be kind of weird if I walked in there.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
I'm like, hey, what's up? Kids want to play?
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Okay? And then real quick, I want to get an
update on the Apple Watch. And it's something cool that
helps you, you know, find out how you're feeling.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
I don't know, I've just been testing this app and it,
you know, the Apple Watch collects so much data, but
actually seeing any of that data it's like impossible. Like
all I see are my rings and I'm like, all right,
I finished my rings today.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
A big deal.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
This app is called bevel b E v e L,
and it gives you so much more actionable info about
the data that your Apple Watch is collecting. So, for instance,
it give you how hard you're working out, how much
recovery you've had, how much sleep you're getting, and it
gives your energy bank, like right now, my battery. It
gives me literally a little battery of my life. And
I'm at seventy nine percent, which is scary.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Because I just woke up, so.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
You haven't had enough yet, you haven't put any gas.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
It tells me my stress is at fifty seven percent
right now, So I mean, it's really it's just it's
such a cool dashboard of all of your vitals. I
can see my my resting heart rate, my regular heart rate,
my oxygen, my sleep, my temperature. I mean, it's really
really the best app I've seen in putting all your
data in one place. And also you can chat with
(08:09):
the app, so after you take a run, says hey,
that was a great run, blah blah blah, And I said,
how much water do I need to drink now to
replace all that sweat?
Speaker 2 (08:16):
And it will tell you. So anyway, test it out.
It's called bevl.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
I think you got to pay fifty bucks a year
if you want this for real, because I'm still on
the free trial.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
But it looks pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
If you like data like this, okay, and the bevill
You get the app on your phone and then it
talks to your smart watch.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
App on your or do you put directly on your
phone and it reads the data from your smart watch?
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Okay? Gotcha? All right? Very interesting and that's called bevll. Okay,
I got to go play with rufus and I got
to let you go. You can hear more with rich Demiro.
He's got a show right here on KFI rich on
Tech and it is every Saturday from eleven to two.
It's KTLA's tech reporter. You can also catch him of
course on KTLA rich on tech dot com. Is it
(09:00):
rich on tech Talk? I should know this about right?
And that's where you can find out all the stuff
that he talks about with us and on his show
and on k t l A and you can follow
him where.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Do we follow you at rich on Tech on Instagram? Easy?
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Right?
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Yeah? Thank you? Rich Aye.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
He's a wealth of information, Like like, how do you
absorb all that information? I think it's incredible m hm
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