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I don't know I think these companies are just like we have way brighter OLED displays now we should take advantage of them and develop new technology that can
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take advantage of it but I'm like it's fun it feels buzzwordy like it's like a feature thing at this point and what are
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we going to do with all these knits yeah we got all these extra knits what are we
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[Music] do all right what is up people of the
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internet welcome back to another episode of the waveform podcast we're your hosts I'm Marquez I'm Andrew and I'm David and
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this has been uary I'm just saying it true I have to it's been so much more stuff than we
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expected St trying to make fetch happen all right I'll stop no no but someone did suggest the name Jan you wear like
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software or Hardware okay better Oh I thought you
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were going to say wear because there's so many wearables but there's not that many wearables yeah the AI pin is not
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coming out yet yeah is that still a thing do people still is that February 2nd so it's not January so there's maybe
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I don't know why a great intro anyway we're hosts I'm Marquez we I knew I knew
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I said that already I don't know why I tried to do that twice today we're doing headlines in a hat we've done this
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before uh you guys know how it goes basically Andrew's got a hat here it's full of a bunch of headlines and they're
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all get at headlines cuz you hat that you actually we still need to make this an actual hat we need the headlines and
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a hat merch that is a hat oh yeah okay so a headlines and a hat hat is what you're saying we should make one okay I
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like that idea but the point is uh lots of smaller things today and we'll probably have different varying lengths
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of things to talk about so we'll just put them in a hat and and go through and see what they are I'm excited who wants to pick first I'll pick first I'll pick
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first stare off why not I don't know I'm just the guy who shakes that this is one
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this is gigantic okay my headline and hat oh this is my favorite one oh no no
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sorry to the viewers and listeners I truly apologize for what we're about to talk about okay so uh Adam Adam puts it
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in the slack a couple hours ago I'm about to pass out the Verge posted Amy is a
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beautiful simple calendar app am i e now if you know
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me you know that I have a bit of a weakness for I think toxic trait is the
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correct term it that you know I like I prefer to call it like it's something I'm working on um but I saw this and I'd
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never actually gotten to use it or I don't think I've even heard of Amy so I I clicked it and you can blame Adam for
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this I immediately dive down the rabbit hole Now The Verge article just looks like a normal article and I'm like looking at it reading about some of the
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features looks pretty cool and then I click the link to go to the
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website and for some reason it's an incredibly beautiful website and I was immediately drawn in I
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do have a huge we weakness for websites that as soon as you click on them or or applications that when you install them
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it's just like you seen this website look at this look at this website I'm just going to for our video viewers you
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can actually see what's going on but there's like floating glass windows that all converge into a moving calendar and
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it's to-dos email and calendar allinone now I will just preface this I don't want to waste you guys time I just want
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to say like I've tried a lot of these things and the core apps in my life are
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my to-do list my calendar and my email and one of the biggest promises that a lot of these all-in ones make is
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combining two or three of them so a lot of times it's the calendar or a lot of
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times it's the calendar and to-do list so you'll be able to put tasks on your calendar that type of thing but in order
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to commit to one you have to decommit from the two other apps that you were
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using so whatever calendar app you were using you don't use that anymore and whatever tasks app you're using all the
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systems you had set up there you don't use that anymore you have to hope all those features are in this hybrid app
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yeah I haven't tried Amy yet but that's the number one thing I'm concerned about going in is I don't know if the to-do
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list features are going to be as robust as what I currently use with tick tick and I don't know if all the CER features
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are going to be as robust as what I currently use with notion calendar and there's an email client built in which I
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can almost guarantee isn't as robust as what I do with superhuman so all of these things have to have some sort of
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extra advantage to convince me to merge them all into one place there's also no
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Android app and there's also what cry there's no Android app
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unfortunately and it also it's a subscription so oh I have to really like it and I'm going to try it I feel like
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the day that you stop using tick tick is the day Hell Freezes Over the day the cybertruck comes out and the pro becomes
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reality that could be I should probably stop using tic te like now no I stop using tic te once every two months when
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I try something else like I tried one called routine pretty recently I tried one and that was that was tasks and
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calendar but no email um and I tried another one I'm forgetting the name of and I try things like every six months
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like there's a lot of it's called things yeah things to doist app sorry yeah I
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use both Google keep and Google notes and there's no organizational what is Google Notes oh sorry Apple notes oh
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okay and Google keep I got scared no organizational structure alarm app anyone no I use clock I use keep I use
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keep for taking notes during reviews so when I'm driving a car or using a phone
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as soon as I set it up I set up a new Google keep uh note for that thing to keep rolling notes of observations as we
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go so that when I'm ready to write the review I just dump it into the dock so that then the new um cuz wasn't it in
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the Galaxy Event there was the like use your keep notes and it would organize them and bullet point them and
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everything no so I like that feature but I'm not trying to switch to Samsung Notes because what if the next phone I
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review isn't Samsung was it Samsung Notes or was it Galaxy Ai and then would that work inside of I think it was
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Samsung Notes I'm going to assume it not like an overstructuring thing it's just a bunch of AI features and a bunch of
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different apps yeah Samsung Notes is the specific like OCR and like handwriting recognition and all that yeah yeah damn
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so yeah I mean you have a first you haven't downloaded it yet oh I have you
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have oh you did yeah what do you think y so I got it I I signed in I I I checked
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all the boxes I gave it access to my entire life you can give it your Apple Health Data yeah you can give it Spotify
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for some reason zo what no I I immediately I didn't even read it I just said yeah have it all okay I have a
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question I have a question okay I don't understand what why people don't just
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use Google Calendar to move on with their life I me what is it about calendar apps that are better than any
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other calendar app cuz every screenshot I see of like every calendar app just looks like every other calendar app I
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did make the joke that the screenshot in here just looks like what I see Marquez using every day in this calendar app
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that's a totally reasonable observation calendars fundamentally all I'm about to
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get okay oh I'm ready let's go Adam's also a freak so any
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AD no they calendars you can only organize them visually in so many
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different ways right it's time you you have a week so you have to have seven slots for your days like we kind of
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figured out how to visually visually organize your calendar sure but then
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there's the actual UI for inputting and managing and moving around in that visual space so a lot of people just put
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like meetings and like a couple things they need to remember birthdays whatever on calendars and that's all they put um
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I know people who don't really even put times or locations they just have to remember that something happens one day they just make it an all day event for
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that day and they just know I am not that type of person I need to actually put the blocks out for time so that I
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know because I have a lot of things going on right so a lot of these calendar apps aren't changing visually
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anything at all what they're changing is how you get about moving things adding things subtracting things marking them
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as done marking them as onto the next one reallocating space sharing available space for a meeting like all that stuff
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that comes with this calendar thing that's what they all try to mess with so this one having email and to-dos built
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in they're trying to convince me to drag to-do list items directly onto the calendar to commit to doing it at a
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certain time oh so like when you go through your to-do list it wants to add
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that to the calendar and do that yeah and when you get an email you want to commit to doing the tasks from that
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email at a certain time so you drag it onto the calendar you can drag the email onto the calendar yeah oh so that's a
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New Concept for a lot of these hybrid apps that there been a lot of these that have been launching recently email apps
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or calendar apps or task apps just keep launching oh yeah and Google keeps trying to like fin like mess with things
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too to try and add some of these features in it but the other thing too is that Google is such a like the Google
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Calendar app they're not going to mess with that fundamentally yeah so many people use it until they shut it down
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until they shut it down eventually inevitably in like 3 years but all of these random little apps do you think
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Google is ever going to have an integration that shows when you listen to Spotify why would I care about it's
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just fun it's just cool what if I want to know how many steps I usually take on Mondays you look at your watch or you
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could just look at your calendar check out your calendar and it'll oh my God nice little color gradient stuff like
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that it's one of those things where I'm like I get it's just a calendar app and I kind of have that same sentiment but then realize like it's the same people
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who say like why do you need wireless charging how long does it take to just plug your phone pH and it's like yeah
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but if you're saving all that time and all those different times it does add up and like it is convenient so maybe I
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just need to try it I'm willing so very funny funnily humorously they they just
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announced notion calendar which just came out this lastek oh yeah that was
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and that was it's it's what did it used to be called it was Kon yeah so you guys
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just switched to that right it is the same app just with a Rebrand I think they got bought by notion yeah we've
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been using Kon for a while as our calendar so they just re they repackaged does that feel better or worse than this
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new one that you're looking at um it's like asking a car Enthusiast
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like does this car feel better or worse there are things that I like about and I'm very used to in KRON SL notion
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calendar but I'm willing to forgo some of those to try some new features that this one might have okay cool you know
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yeah yeah I like that all right well yeah that's about all I got shout out to my fellow calendar enthusiasts next next
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headline all right oh that could have been it I'm trying to for so audio listeners can hear us
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shaking that's me shaking all right okay I can't believe I got this headline um
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all right so New Jersey yes this is a
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quick one this is local New Jersey news um for all our Jersey listeners out for everyone that knows I would argue it's
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Universal I would argue everyone agree to this everyone should should should like this yeah's theine okay so I don't
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live in New Jersey to be clear however I do go to a gym in New Jersey here because we have one at the office uh New
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Jersey just made it a law that all gyms in the state are required to have an
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online cancellation option now yes yes yes yes now this is
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actually extremely important um because in the United States at at least I don't
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know in what if this is like a in other countries but at least in United States there are a lot of very cheap gyms that
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are like $10 to $15 a month they have a lot of random hidden fees like once a year you have to pay $6 for some reason
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and blah blah blah anyway you can sign up online in like two seconds and they don't let but they don't let you uh stop
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your membership online you not only have to be in the gym but you also have to in many cases you have to like write a
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letter as to why you need to cancel and like send it by paral mail to the
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headquarters in which case they could just say like we didn't even get it small story when I
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lived in San Francisco the day I was moving out of San Francisco leaving got rid of my apartment I went to my gym to
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cancel and they were like oh like the manager has to be here and he's not in today and I was like but I'm moving and
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they're like yeah come back like what absurd and so I ended up going back and
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forth with them for like 4 hours until they like made an exception but it's like a horrible experience so the fact
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that the New Jersey state government issued this in one state is great I really wish Biden would go after this if
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he's going to go after Ticket Master but you know just just throwing it out there another big Jersey W served up fresh
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just another checkbox for the greatest state in the in theion wait but didn't didn't the same guy say that Central
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Jersey doesn't exist no no he put into law that Central Jersey does exist oh into
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law not maybe not law but they changed some like new maps that he tweeted about it he tweeted about it sick TW about it
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it's official baby yeah that's all we need this needs to be the case all over the United States everyone should be able to cancel their gym membership
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online yeah 100% the same actually I was going to say the same amount of ease of
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use as unsubscribing from an email newsletter but it should be even easier that is a pain sometimes if you just
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don't click five of them it should just unsubscribe you yeah David can you shake that hat for me oh thank you
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wow does it affect at all which one you pick I don't know maybe pixel 8 mint and
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feature drops oo oh that's not the headline wa bring it they're minting a pixel 8 nft
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yeah wait should it's that's called an air drop not a feature drop oh my God
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that just reminded me of this salop phone 2 I'm not going to do it though I'll be right back salop phone 2 do you didn't hear about this no oh my God no
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please no dude I'm getting tagged on the regular for pre-orders for The salana
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Saga phone 2 no way but does it come with Bonk I bet I bet it has lots of oh
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wow crypto related benefits to those who are in those ecosystems I'm sure I don't
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know anything about the physical phone by the way nobody has tagged a single piece of information about the phone the
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camera is it better who knows the battery is it bigger nobody's mentioned that to me but they are quick to mention
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that it has 40,000 pre-orders and crazy you can pre-order now and it ships in
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20125 it's not clear that it's a phone yes says salana chapter 2 okay but if
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you go down to the FAQ question number four is is chapter 2 a phone and they don't explicitly say yes oh my God can
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you guys stop sending this to me please sounds like you're going to get sent a lot more it says how much will this
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product cost become a top refer oh my God this is why they the product will
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fur will oh it's definitely going to be an AI thing oh no rabbit R2 it's
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definitely rabbit already selling to salana it says this product will further what we set out to do with salana Saga
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which was to make crypto products and services more accessible to the public by putting web 3 securely in your hands
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yeah it it doesn't say it's a phone I bet this is definitely an AI a handheld
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AI it is a non-refundable deposit I'm going to get the nonrefundable $450 I'm
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going to get the mint pixel i' I'd much rather talk about thex is that already announced this is at the bottom of their
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website is my deposit refundable no the mint pixel is announced yes really yes
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the day before this goes live got it be right back okay all right I'm back I bring with me a phone here it is so hot
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look at that col this is the minty this is the mint colored pixel 8 8 Pro
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actually uh we've seen this before like mid cycle refresh new colors of phones um this is the most OnePlus thing Google
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has ever done because it's always yeah the OnePlus would always three months after the launch of the phone drop a new
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color just to recreate hype for it and it's been three months at at least it's not a te like a pixel 8 T that's true
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it's a it's an 8 Pro with a new color feels so nice it is the satin same same pixel we know in love and there is a new
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feature drop associated with it so there's a couple new things that pixel is getting um but this is a new color I
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think it looks uh kind of like a light seafoam green type of thing yeah very
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toothpast that feature drop was basically everything that was announced at Samsung unpack yeah you want to hear
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the list yeah oh actually there's one new thing yeah there is so yes Circle to search Y is coming to the pixel 8 and 8
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Pro which is kind of the same thing I mean you can picture it already you hold the gesture bar or the home button at
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the bottom and then you can Circle or tap whatever's on your screen I love this feature I'm very happy it's coming to the pixel the other thing is take
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your temperature with the pixel 8 Pro F approve we've all been waiting for it you remember this feature there's a
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thermometer app on the pixel 88 Pro just the 8 Pro and it's been able to measure all kinds of things Metals f bricks for
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no reason whatever else you measure liquids I guess um and they're adding
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humans to the list so I'm guessing it got FDA approved whatever they're finally able to say that it can measure
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your skin temperature around your forehead I don't even know what
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temperature I should be getting when I measure my forehead well no if you're doing it your internal temperature is
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supposed to be 90 your core temperature yeah so when you like when you do a laser like forehead temperature it still
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comes out as that correct like when you're getting at the doctor's office I never get it's never super accurate and
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also everyone's temperature is slightly different regular temper yeah but it still should be around that 98 de right
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I've never got an external measurement that high my question is like we we kind of have determined that a lot of even
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smart watches are like very bad at actually reading your temperature yeah so wasn't it the only the thing that
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they're mostly good for for like telling if you're sick or like the uh the like cycle maintenance stuff is like the
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Delta between your temperatures and if there's a ex stream off so the problem is like you're not going to be ticking
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your temperature with the pixel like every day right so like how are you going to know you won't really you'll
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just have to remember what you usually get and there's probably not like Google Keep integration to keep a tab on how
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many times you've measured yourself yeah it's probably not going to be that useful I think we should test to see the
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update to see how much it's gotten and if it's accurate and we could test it against a real temperature it's kind of like when we did the pedometer short we
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could do pixel versus real thermometer or something like that laser thermometer core thermometer I'll try it pixel
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thermometer I got I got to buy like a regular mercury thermometer yeah the uh it does I think I have one in my you
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have a mercury thermometer perfect any want to take a Tempe still says a forehead infrared
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thermometer should still be between 97 and 99 okay allce all right I guess I
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just have a cool forehead they are less accurate yes or because you just have no
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blood flow the outside of your body like the the surface of your body is more likely to change depending on your
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environment than the inside of your body yeah everyone knows someone with cold feet you'd never get 98.6 measuring feet
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yeah yeah well that's the headline Min minty pixel I like itxel wait what else is in the feature drop thermometer oh
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yeah there's two other ones I think there's two others you want to hear the other two photo yeah photoemoji photoemoji allows you to transform your
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favorite photos into reactions with the help of on device Google AI That's epic bad naming though photo Emoji makes it
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sound like it's going to do like animoji or stuff like that but I do like it is this something you can use like in um
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messages Google messages I imagine that's the primary like reactions or Emoji I think it's going to be an emoji
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that moves in the message it moves yeah like yeah there yeah stickers which
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every phone seems to make a big deal about dropping as a feature and I never use them so I'm not even Samsung just
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did that too yeah Samsung just did it and Apple's already done it message yeah I I my okay so uh my good friend Omar
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shout out Omar if you're listening to this is a uh he he's a visual artist he mostly works with uh he does a lot of
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different things but he does a lot with pencil and paper and he was showing me that for his work he uses the sticker
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function um to uh SC take like SC scan his sketches because he can get them on
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a transparent background effectively and then because it saves to a cloud Bank in the messages when he he does it on his
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phone like when he's on the subway sketching and then he opens his iPad and can take all of his new stickers straight to procreate to collage them
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and I was like cool and the cutouts are really good because it's just pencil on paper it can get the edges perfectly
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yeah and it's it tends to be a pretty good cutout that is like the perfect exact use case I would expect to see in
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an apple commercial and be like I know I had no idea that was a thing people did but that's perfect for that I know it's
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and it syns across devices it's yeah just like using Final Cut on the iPad on the train yeah which people totally do
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for sure yeah anyway the last thing is Magic compose powered by Google's
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generative AI technology magic compos crafts stylized suggested responses with
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the context of your messages so it'll write texts back to your friends so this is the same as the Gmail auto reply I
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mean messages already have auto reply in them but this one will have the context of the whole conversation maybe how you
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talk already so instead of I'm on my way it's see you in a minute big dog
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something I don't know I mean I would just like it to just say like yes or okay instead of the like sure thumbs up
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that like everyone I accidentally click on when like I'm trying to respond yeah yeah we'll try it all well
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let's try it all I'm excited let's take a break we got a bunch more stuff in the Hat I'm look at it over there it's still
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teaming with exciting headlines so we'll get back to headlines in a hat but before we take a break trivia trivia in
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a hat in a hat trivia in a
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hat this like a cat in a hat like remix first question usb OTG yeah the OTG
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stands for what that's right I've never even heard of USB when I plug my phone in what USB you've definitely heard of
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USB LTG I know that but I don't know that you know what I mean yeah yeah like
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I know that standard but I don't actually know the answer I can picture exactly where it shows up on my phone
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I'm just trying to remember what it stands for Adam would like it to stand for Over the Garden Wall I wish oh man
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if every USB device had an Over the Garden Wall like option can I propose something yes over the this is not this
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is not multiple choice right ring not multiple choice the r hole OTG is three letters it is can we get one point no
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per letter available and you have to get all three of them
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right several one or two if I get one of the letters right I'd be happy to get a point
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no okay all right well I tried I tried
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we'll be right back all
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visible.com welcome back we're taking a back back now y'all two hops this time this time it's Andrew's turn to pick oh
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twice in a row oh oh it's like a snake draft wait is it your turn oh it is your turn snake draft you go one two 3 3 two
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one sure let's do that or what if Adam and Ellis want to pull one out do you want to pull one out I'm cool okay all
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right snake draft it is snake snake draft Disney arvr walking floor oh I saw
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this yeah that's not quite the headline and maybe as a headline that's like our Tech version of the headline but there's
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a video from the Disney imagineering uh Department Department thank you I don't know what that's
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actually called um and they created this like really cool floor what's Hollow de
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Hollow deck floor Hollow deck floor and like I'm sure you've all seen where VR
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can we all agree that the most the thing that breaks immersion the most in VR games is walking okay I have I can see
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where you're going with this and I know exactly what I want to say go ahead say now or you want me to going I can I feel
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like I know where you're going okay so like the old the old walking things that I've seen and maybe there's some other ones but it's kind of like you're
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slipper you either need to teleport or you need to use your controller then there was the one where you're kind of
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like it's called like omn floor or something yeah it's basically a like Dome floor and you have like slippery
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things on your Sho and you're like in a thing and you're and you're walking it like pulls you back into the middle this
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is like a bunch of tiles that somehow couldn't they like change Direction by
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how you're walking and then you walking without going anywhere yeah and it can like kind of move you around it's for a
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bunch of other things as well yeah um but it looks like potentially one of the coolest ways to walk in VR it's kind of
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a cool video they have like there's this guy that works for Disney research that's been working there for a very long time just an inventor what's his
00:26:48
name Lanny Smoot that's a great name yeah um he plays saxophone he also
00:26:54
invented that realistic lightsaber that Disney Rec has been touting The Verge
00:26:59
just did an article on that today I think actually yeah it's like a it's like a telescoping lightsaber that looks
00:27:04
very realistic comes out slowly and stuff uh but this hollow floor looks very yeah yeah so I have two different
00:27:13
Siz comp not complaints just question marks about it okay okay
00:27:18
okay one is you remember you were talking about the thing where you're like kind of there's something around your waist and you can walk or run yeah
00:27:25
it feels like in a game if all you can do is walk there's got to be some point in the game where you want to run or go
00:27:31
a little faster and I just wonder what happens on the surface I don't really know they had some cool uh some really cool interesting things where he's like
00:27:36
on a chair sliding around like all kinds of other things I think that's really cool and the tech is very impressive but
00:27:43
the other thing about VR and moving around which makes some of these um
00:27:48
movement mechanics so difficult is you also want to sync the environment
00:27:55
movement with your actual inner ear feeling of movement so the reason why
00:28:00
teleport works so well is because you just point at a spot on the ground and you snap there and at no point do you
00:28:05
feel the environment moving while you're not actually moving right because the second you do that and you see movement
00:28:11
but you don't feel movement you're it just that's how like the nauseating feeling happens and with this it's like
00:28:17
super cool that you're actually walking and you'll see movement walking in the environment but your inner ear will still not feel walking cuz you're not
00:28:24
moving so forward is that if you're running on a treadmill you don't get like ill well
00:28:30
that's because you can see that you're not moving so you can see that you're not moving on a treadmill and your legs are fine but you can feel that you're
00:28:36
not moving and you can see it so it matches in the VR headset you're walking and you can feel that you're not moving
00:28:43
in your inner ear but you see that you are moving so you still will feel but how is this different from like the Dome
00:28:49
thing where you're like running cuz in VR you're still moving forward that will also be extremely nauseating have you used that no but I guarantee you'll feel
00:28:56
the same difference H really yeah I've used it before in that Dome thing and it was not pleasant I think that's just cuz
00:29:02
the Dome thing wasn't good that's also true cuz it was at like yes or something that's the fundamental reason why it
00:29:07
feels like motion sickness like in the games in VR where you're sitting in a chair but you're moving through an
00:29:13
environment that also tweaks your balance because you see that you're moving but you feel that you're not
00:29:20
that's why it gives you motion sickness MH so this doesn't change that but it's still cool that you are like moving your
00:29:26
legs which I think is awesome we're gonna have to put it to the test and go to Disney and this might be a good
00:29:33
reason why a lot of AR games are more fun to move around than VR games can we just change our whole studio floor to
00:29:38
this so I don't have to walk slide me across no matter how hard you run you don't go anywhere no or the opposite it
00:29:44
can also just send you places like he's using it as different examples too of like I could see them using this in a
00:29:50
show or something like one guy's pretending to move an Apple box around the floor and it's moving the Apple box
00:29:55
around the floor I'm still don't know what these tiles are exactly yeah they don't really explain it at all it's
00:30:01
Disney kind of wild like it they kind of like slope in different directions and in this two people can be moving in
00:30:08
opposite directions which is wild um it's I have seen like this
00:30:14
omnidirectional treadmill before that it detects like the direction that you're
00:30:19
walking and it moves you the opposite direction and it can go every every way
00:30:24
yeah and that sort of works the same way um so this tile based thing seems kind of weird maybe it's just because it's
00:30:30
more modular it looks like if you look really closely it's like individual spinning disc yeah was say on a log they
00:30:37
like rotate also or so they spin in certain directions that you feel the motion or it pushes you in a certain
00:30:44
emotion I'm interested also like how hard you like how fast you can walk or if there's a certain like I'm now
00:30:50
walking in the video they're all walking really slow it's a very specific walk
00:30:55
but though I I hope they keeping on it I do feel like that would beol for it to like work
00:31:01
really well on a large floor that' be kind of sick yeah I think the reason a lot of people are saying this is like the next step towards the hollow deck
00:31:07
which for people that don't know in Star Trek there's like a room you can go in that that's what basically like it's it
00:31:13
uses AR but like projections and also like everything basically just turns into the simulation of what you want it
00:31:20
to be and there's whole plot lines of like don't get too lost in the hollow
00:31:26
deck you have to remember that it's fake and it's not real life because people can get lost in there forever and
00:31:31
they'll have the perfect world and they don't want to go back to reality it's a very early conception of like don't get
00:31:37
lost in VR your your brain will rot away um and that real life is a little more
00:31:43
sad than the perfect VR world but you have to deal with it but what if we're already in the VR World Poss that's a
00:31:50
simulation Theory but but a lot of people are saying this is like the next step in it because theoretically if you
00:31:55
had like a lightweight like arvr headset and you could go into a room that had all these tiles around it and you could
00:32:00
walk around like you could be on a mountain field you could be whatever you could be walking around and you just have no idea so it's just like
00:32:06
simulating anything for your brain which is got it always fun yeah simulation I
00:32:12
think this would be cool I'm excited for when VR despite your ear thing you're talking about can walk I'm convinced
00:32:19
it's going to be more like what you said Andrew I think the this is going to get used mostly in like shows and like he
00:32:25
wasn't talking about just arvr I threw in here because I do think that's cool and we're talking about AR and VR a lot
00:32:30
and I guess mostly VR less AR um but it stinks when there's a really cool VR
00:32:36
game and then the walking just completely takes you out yeah you know what I think this is going to be great for uh oh all
00:32:43
right no offense I love your dog Adam but picture this it'sing out your dog
00:32:49
15° outside you don't want to take your dog for a walk that sucks slap these
00:32:55
goggles on your dumb dog throw them on this thing they got have the best walk of their life you remember have you seen
00:33:01
the Vans these there's these like vans that come around to people's house and they have like a dog treadmill in it and they
00:33:08
put them on like a collar and they just Sprint it's crazy how fast they're
00:33:14
okay so much money not have to do the thing that they signed up to do okay
00:33:20
Niche next headline that I just picked out of the Hat I didn't shake it I'm sorry um pixel 9 Ren are already leaking
00:33:28
that was fast I want to note that is January I also want to note that we're not
00:33:33
surprised um only nine months away you could have an entire child in the time
00:33:39
that it's going to be before this product is supposed to come out so if you want to have a baby at the same time
00:33:44
the pixel 9 is launching do it right now um so there are renders of the pixel 9
00:33:53
Pro allegedly allegedly alleged renders by links and my spart price as usual as
00:33:59
is tradition around here I don't know what year it is because the same thing happens every year um but they are very
00:34:07
weird looking it's a it's a like the trend now is to make the front and the
00:34:12
sides of everything look exactly like an iPhone flat flat front flat sides metal
00:34:17
rails but the camera bump once again looks even weirder than last year once
00:34:24
again it is different because it not sloped in to the rails according to this that's my least favorite thing the
00:34:30
camera bump yeah I weirdly kind of dig it it's a static
00:34:35
Island part of what makes the pixels visor feel intentional yeah and even
00:34:43
they did it I think even better in previous pixels but it's literally because it feels like it's part of the
00:34:49
the well the in the pixel 6 it was two different components which is what made it look like something they just went to
00:34:56
together yeah but when they got it all as one piece it looks so like it looks like a good design it looks like this is
00:35:01
the way it was supposed to be one single piece of aluminium yeah and like it's one big frame and I like that and I feel
00:35:10
like this is backwards this new render if you're on the video version you can see this new render it looks like again it's back to something bolted onto the
00:35:16
back of a flat phone yeah which is I think that's why I don't like for audio listeners if you've ever seen a xiaomi
00:35:23
mi band uh the Mi band is like this little mod ual that gets put in this
00:35:28
little rubber band that you put around your your wrist it looks like the display of a xiaomi mi band that's just
00:35:34
bolted to the back of a phone oh yeah maybe we should describe it was
00:35:40
something it looks like Among Us it looks like Among Us that's it that's the end of the story okay the last one was
00:35:47
like a Robocop Among Us collab this one they've just committed to the bit yeah
00:35:52
it does have a giant camera they're definitely still going for the visor Vibe of it stretching across the whole
00:35:58
back of the screen but just imagine it's in an oval instead of rolling over onto the side rails now big pill yeah big
00:36:05
very but like very cut and dry it's not rolling into the back it is a very hard
00:36:10
90° angle from the camera bump popping amount of dust that's going to collect around this ring is crazy they were like
00:36:17
we don't have enough dust on the top and the bottom let's put it on the sides too crazy yeah so otherwise it's an iPhone
00:36:25
um hope why is 2024 the year where everyone is making the I like this flat
00:36:32
rails rule I'm happy they did they I I agree like I like the feeling of flat rails it's just it's kind of weird that
00:36:38
they're all so similar I guess I think it's less weird that like they are
00:36:43
similar to The Apple thing and just weird that Samsung and Google seems to be doing this in the same year yeah like
00:36:49
people like phones are making the switch all at the same time which feels and it's not just them it's other manufacturers too are there as well yeah
00:36:55
yeah yeah but I think that the pixel 8 Pro was the
00:37:01
best looking pixel since the pixel 6 since they big redesign like by far it looks the most like put together and
00:37:07
like single like pieced Alum body I'm going a little bit back against the
00:37:15
rails best pixel pixel 2 pixel I said sense pixel six since the new okay the
00:37:23
new eight by far looks the best yeah but I have a thing for the the six visor
00:37:29
even though it was clearly not as well integrated as the current one yeah I think it's cuz it's glass instead of
00:37:34
metal oh cuz the whole thing is glass and doesn't have the like cutouts inside of actually this though kind of almost
00:37:41
feels that Vibe cuz all the cameras are in One Singular piece of glass where the 7 Pro is two openings right it's like an
00:37:48
oval and a circle so this is like one large oval and then you just have the
00:37:54
Flash and IR sensor on the like the what is that the thermometer the thermometer
00:38:00
so is this still the thermometer in this possibly nice possibly Google pixel 9
00:38:06
Pro thermometer confirmed well I don't know if that's that's it could be anything it
00:38:11
could be laser auto focus this is also away and very much don't worry
00:38:17
it'll be on sale in like two two weeks you'll like find it in a Best Buy true flat rails flat screen anyway this is
00:38:23
super early uh we will confirm over the next 9 months whether or not this is correct and get back to you on that I'm
00:38:29
way more excited for tensor to get better than for the design of the phone well that's going to take two more Generations before they switch to
00:38:35
tsmc all right let's get to our second to last headline in top of the snake
00:38:40
draft could be anything Marquez just turned around and looked directly at me while pulling out
00:38:46
this thing and it was mildly threatening it says s24 uploads HDR photos oh no what
00:38:55
do you mean oh no okay oh I didn't put the have you ever been on
00:39:01
Instagram I have and then your eyes get burned to Smither because somebody
00:39:07
uploaded a iPhone video that has hdr on it photos you're just scrolling late at
00:39:12
night you're under your covers you're minimum brightness and then bam that's exactly how it feels that's the
00:39:18
difference just in audio is exactly how it feels to your eyes yeah that's that's a thing So currently uh before the s24
00:39:26
there was no HDR photo support on Instagram only HDR video and that was really only enabled through iPhones I
00:39:33
believe yeah but now with pixel Ultra HDR and because pixel Ultra HDR is like
00:39:39
a standard and Samsung's like kind of making it's like based on the standard these are basically Ultra hdr photos and
00:39:46
now Instagram's supporting it um so now you can be ambushed by photos yeah while
00:39:51
you're in low brightness mode just not this is a hot take possibly but like I don't don't think it's a good experience
00:39:57
to be ambiently scrolling at one brightness and then not being able to control when everything just gets
00:40:04
suddenly brighter it is weird and I agree and I think we probably need to have some sort of way for the for the
00:40:11
for the phone to tell if you're in low brightness mode don't show me the huge
00:40:18
dynamic range of this HDR photo show me an SDR version I think it should by default show SDR and then there should
00:40:24
be a view HDR button why have I never exp would ever press
00:40:30
but but You' never you've never experienced this no like you've never been in like super dim Lighting in on
00:40:37
your phone and then got into a video that just blasts the brightness I don't think so but it's not even it's not even
00:40:42
necessarily blasting the brightness so so HDR like Ultra hdr on Pixel it's just
00:40:48
adding an additional tone map to the jpeg to the the the jpeg um because
00:40:55
jpegs usually get rid of a lot of the luminance data so or sorry the chrominance data and then they add this
00:41:02
like tone map on top so it's the same JPEG but with but with a luminance map just like slapped on top and so so some
00:41:09
parts of it are super bright the highlights and stuff are just way brighter than usual okay if you okay
00:41:16
look I guess I've just never had like a or maybe I just don't scroll in the dark as this is an HDR video can you see how
00:41:23
like the rest of the UI looks just kind of like gray out and darker yeah I can see it actually the UI is not gray out
00:41:30
and darker but the video is just way brighter okay there is small team okay you got to give cut cleaner than you
00:41:38
think this is their fault this is Google's fault this is this is Apple's fault I just for some reason they've
00:41:43
just decided that Ultra HDR is something that people want even Adobe is uh you
00:41:49
can now edit Ultra HDR photos in Lightroom and Photoshop and it's like I
00:41:55
don't want to have to edit an image for SDR and HDR like it's going to double my my editing time if I have to make sure
00:42:01
that it looks good in both modes yeah and there was nothing wrong with SDR in the first place SDR is better it's not
00:42:10
sometimes this is actually a lot of this talk is the same reason why I don't we
00:42:15
don't upload HDR videos to YouTube is because it only looks good if the person
00:42:21
watching it is ready for HDR is watching High brightness HDR content has an HDR monitor and like watches it in HDR in a
00:42:28
lot of the other situations that file will look worse if they don't have the right monitor or if they aren't in an
00:42:34
HDR ready environment or if they're in a dim environment whatever just looks worse yeah so I just don't bother with
00:42:40
it yet I try to look make really good looking SDR content that is more compatible everywhere yeah and I was
00:42:46
just saying this the same thing on in your gallery you can be swiping through a bunch of SDR content and then swipe
00:42:52
over to an HDR video and the screen just goes bam like that's you're here we are HDR again that that experience of going
00:42:59
back and forth we kind of just have to get to a point where HDR is everything all the time but it won't be for so but
00:43:05
if we're not there it's always going to be back and forth and that's tough yeah dedicated cameras are not going to
00:43:10
there's a there's a button now in Lightroom in Photoshop that transforms SDR photos into hdr photos um but I
00:43:19
don't like it that seems tough so yeah it's it's a processing thing it can just
00:43:24
it just like takes highlight details and like bright them up and adds a tone map on top but I don't I don't know I don't
00:43:30
know personally I'm just like I don't want to edit for two different types of displays all the time so I'm a little
00:43:36
old school SDR guy I guess yeah yeah get with the times I personally I don't know I think these
00:43:43
companies are just like we have way brighter OLED displays now we should take advantage of them and develop new technology that can take advantage of it
00:43:49
but I'm like it's fun it feels buzzwordy like it's like a feature thing at this point and what are we going to do with
00:43:55
all these knits yeah yeah we got all these extra knits what are we
00:44:00
do well now they know Instagram at hdr photos yeah so only on Galaxy right now
00:44:06
is that true okay yeah well only uploaded from Galaxy but they will assault your eyes everywhere nice I love
00:44:12
it you all get to reap the benefits I love it all right all right we should take a quick break we've got another headline in the Hat but before we get to
00:44:19
that headline and the break trivia [Music]
00:44:25
trivia all right so the world of storage mediums is a world full of acronyms
00:44:33
we're familiar with the hits we know Ram oh yeah know random access memories that
00:44:39
was an album and an act it is well played it's a good we know ROM random
00:44:47
nope but what is ROM read only that's what what is the acronym for a storage
00:44:54
that can be written a single time Time by a user and cannot be Rewritten ever
00:44:59
again oh pen and paper a Scantron is an example of this kind of memory actually
00:45:07
I think I know this perhaps by guessing there's an acronym there is an acronym there's an acronym for everything
00:45:12
naturally there's an neon for David just best resolution audio video integrated
00:45:18
architecture yikes thanks Sony oh Sony um all right wow you know
00:45:26
about this trivia question how it just raised the energy in the room so high we all started thinking just like
00:45:32
the people I just gave up immediately yeah acronyms are a lot of thinking I don't know this is a this is a good one
00:45:38
everyone everyone washing the dishes just like stopped washing wait here's a question do we need to know just the acronym or do we need to know what it
00:45:44
stands for uh I was looking for the acronym but why don't we throw a bonus point in there you bonus point no I'm
00:45:50
just more okay can we know how many letters the acronym is so some of us can
00:45:55
get maybe if some of people don't know what it is they can just [Music]
00:46:01
guess I think that's fair no it's clear no one knows what it
00:46:06
is okay we'll be right back it'll be a learning experience we'll be we'll be
00:46:17
back all right welcome back to the snake draft snake draft I was the last one to
00:46:22
go but that means I go again because it's because it's the snake draft top of the oh you're right cuz it's it's like a snake that was bad okay
00:46:32
all right we got two headlines left this one oh this one says
00:46:37
rollsroyce spec we're being pretty creative with the term headline by we're just writing down things we like on a
00:46:44
piece of headline this one's not a headline chocolate no we reviewed the Rolls-Royce
00:46:50
the electric Rolls-Royce and that thing is insane can we all go around and say
00:46:55
favorite part about it yes okay perfect can I start wait let's just let me just start with the fundamentals of what it is okay so it's the Rolls-Royce Spectre
00:47:03
uh if you haven't heard of the Rolls-Royce Spectre picture of Rolls-Royce a gigantic twodo coupe with
00:47:10
a back seat it is fully electric it gets 260 Mi of range it's got about 550
00:47:16
horsepower and 600 PB feet of torque it has all of the Rolls-Royce stuff the stars in the ceiling the umbrella in the
00:47:23
door and it's $400,000 go you said gigantic Coupe that is
00:47:29
people need to understand that because yes it is a coupe but that thing is hum
00:47:35
it's also really weird and awkward cuz you the doors open backwards suicide doors yeah they're suicide doors they
00:47:41
open like and then you have to like climb into the back if you're in the back seat but it's a fulls siiz back
00:47:47
seat it's big yeah so it's weird it's like it's like usually those back seats are very cramped but it's not for
00:47:52
context yeah the rivan r1t is 217 in long that is a pickup truck with a 4ot
00:48:00
bed yeah the Rolls-Royce Spectre is 26 in long so it's basically the same size
00:48:07
as a pickup truck Jesus from front to back okay wow so now that the fundamentals are out of the way it's
00:48:14
electric it's a luxury sedan Coupe sorry what did you like about it I liked that we went to wa in it same you can put the
00:48:22
photo in there Adam um that about it
00:48:27
that was all you liked about it okay I like okay there were LED was purple it was purple that was cool in on the
00:48:33
interior there's these like little twinkling LEDs that are all over it even though that probably cost them like 15
00:48:39
cents it was still very pretty I hear it's pretty pricey the LEDs yeah I think everything in that car is pretty pricey
00:48:46
I mean they're nice yeah they're nice they were high refresh rate LEDs too because they didn't flicker with video
00:48:52
which is important the details are they LEDs or are they H is this a dumb question or they ftic I don't think they
00:48:59
were that's an interesting point but a ftic would still have an LED in the back what I thought they could have been is
00:49:06
sometimes people led folk nowadays will put a phosphor layer on inside of the
00:49:12
bulb so that the El or the photons flying off the LED excite this phosphor
00:49:17
layer and produce a more natural oh glow don't know if they did that but it was I don't think they did that I don't think
00:49:23
they did either but the thought crossed my brain that's great I think the um the heating of the seats was better than the
00:49:30
heating of any other seat that I have heated before nice yeah that's actually a really good feature for a luxury
00:49:37
vehicle it felt nice yeah okay what did you like what you like about it I don't know if the carpet is the correct term
00:49:44
for it the it's like 2 in thick plush like I felt so bad getting in the from
00:49:50
the snow getting yeah there's snow and salt and I know if you feel the same way after hearing Lamb's W it was Lamb's W
00:49:57
knew I was like this feels like some animal kind of fur yeah I feel worse
00:50:02
about it but wor it was so soft made no sense of being the place where I put my
00:50:08
feet after walking in the snow although I'm sure they weren't happy that we were all walking in the snow and then going
00:50:13
into it um but yeah it was way too plush to just be the cars
00:50:18
flooring it was pretty solid front and back had that c yeah so you like the
00:50:23
Lambs wo mhm what did you like I guess so you use the word soft to describe that carpet I use the word soft to
00:50:29
describe everything about that car okay the suspension was very soft steering was very soft but most interestingly the
00:50:37
throttle response and braking are very very glow gradual and soft so in uh in
00:50:43
your model 3 if you stamp the accelerator pedal it'll throw your head back and you'll get like a jolt forward
00:50:49
if you stamp the accelerator pedal in this car it will flow forward it will not throw your head back and the
00:50:56
regenerative braking which is one pedal braking as well when you let your foot off the the accelerator and it starts to
00:51:03
slow down it does this really smooth sound smooth stop to zero yeah that
00:51:09
would be nice I did notice when we were driving on it the New Jersey roads um they should you know address that after
00:51:14
the gym stuff but the New Jersey roads are notoriously poth holy and very bumpy
00:51:19
it did kind of feel like we were just drifting you know on 23in Wheels it made you feel like you're on a cloud I don't
00:51:25
know the difference but I would say very impressive when you said it slows up and slows down you said punch the
00:51:33
accelerator won't shoot you forward I thought you would be like slam the brakes nice smooth
00:51:38
Stu nice smooth right into the back of that truck in traffic no you can break
00:51:44
hard you can break hard but I I like the regenerator braking was super smooth it's also the quietest car I think more
00:51:50
regenerative breaking should be smooth like I'm still very surprised when like
00:51:56
you even have the opportunity to let go and just slam forward if you're not used to it I mean there's levels of smooth
00:52:02
but this one was extremely especially in the last couple of miles an hour like you know how you'll get to zero and sort
00:52:07
of like jolt back this one never did that it would just slow down to zero and you just that's nice arrive I love one
00:52:13
pedal driving because your muscle memory like eventually knows how far you need to just let off the accelerator before
00:52:19
you'll just like stop right at the stop light it's a skill it's so fun to just guess every time and you're always
00:52:24
correct it's great yeah you guys wrote in it I liked that the vents for the air
00:52:31
conditioning uh were made out of either like a Chrome plated brass or maybe some sort of like polished tin but it's this
00:52:39
nice semi heavy metal that when you flick it goes ding like
00:52:45
aamp felt fancy felt really fancy really nice mhm my favorite thing and I
00:52:50
couldn't figure out if I was going crazy or not until I got back and Googled the hell out of it and I'm not going crazy
00:52:57
mhm the stars on the roof occasionally they have a shooting star yes what the
00:53:02
whole time we were driving in it I was just staring at it like what I know I saw a shooting star I know I and I it's
00:53:09
a shooting star yeah didn't know Adam and I went we were helping miles shoot something in it and at one point Adam just goes why we were still parked was
00:53:15
that a shooting star and we were like what and he's like I can't I can't prove if that was real or not it's like when
00:53:21
you see a meteor in real life and you're like trust me it happened wa I didn't know that that's awesome did you guys
00:53:26
know you can get uh stars on the doors as well there was stars on the doors in that one it was only 13,000 extra dollars to get them
00:53:32
there how good is that I mean you're losing money if you the paint how much
00:53:38
was the paint 10 grand the paint was also 13 Grand oh my God sorry just the purple part of the paint the satin
00:53:44
silver in the middle was 10 grand more on top of that so the purple and the satin together was 23 Grand more or less
00:53:51
yeah you could get a Hyundai lantro for that price Marquez a you know that's probably the second time you were
00:53:56
powered by a Rolls-Royce power plant in the past few weeks what do you mean because Rolls-Royce also makes the Trent
00:54:03
engine option on the Boeing Triple 7 that you often find yourself going to the West Coast on that's a fantastic
00:54:09
point but I will push back the Rolls-Royce Spectre is actually powered by essentially the BMW i7s electric
00:54:16
power train so so rollsroyce makes well actually actually the BMW i7s power
00:54:22
train is powered by the Model T no no but actually though it's a it's the i7
00:54:28
has a pretty solid size battery and the dual motor setup and all but the Rolls-Royce is just putting a totally
00:54:34
different chassis and body and suspension on top of that and it's very Rolls-Royce and very quiet and luxury
00:54:39
and it's got this decoupled anti- rollbar Tech where like one wheel at a time goes through potholes and you never
00:54:44
feel anything and it's awesome but it's an i7 under it only only weighs 6,500
00:54:51
lbow until this car has the CES Hyundai IC 5 sideways crab uh tires I don't want
00:55:01
it all right that's but when it and when I have $400,000 yeah but when it does yeah yeah
00:55:08
which I don't yeah sorry it was 400 Grand starting we had like about 120 Grand of options so it was like 500
00:55:14
something you had three of my Foresters as options options we had an i seven of options I got here a little late that
00:55:20
day and there was only one spot left right next to the Rolls-Royce and I had to reverse into it that was terrifying I
00:55:27
just scraped the concrete wall on the other side to make sure he didn't hit the that's hilarious okay we have one
00:55:34
more headline don't we have one more headline in the one more hat okay I'm also pretty sure it's a headline in
00:55:40
quotes it's a mini headline wait is it mine or is yours it's yours yours oh cuz
00:55:45
snake it's just not a headline it's just a thing we want to talk about this says the OnePlus 12 and 12r so some may know
00:55:54
that the one 122r just launched very recently that's it right there he I've
00:55:59
seen that that's the 12 yep that's not the 11 yeah just checking just checking yeah no
00:56:07
I I we've been testing so I've had this phone for a week longer than I've had the s24 ultra and we've also had the fex
00:56:14
7 uh Ultra and I've just haven't gotten enough time to test all of them but I want to at least mention this phone and
00:56:19
talk about it briefly M really good phone um and I think a lot of people will like it when I reviewed the OnePlus
00:56:26
11 a lot of my my uh what's the word sentiment yes
00:56:33
was you basically said it I was just I couldn't remember second letter a lot of the sentiment was very much like OnePlus
00:56:39
is back they kind of straight a little bit they got rid of the alert slider the software went kind of sideways the hassleblad thing was gone they brought
00:56:45
it all back and so OnePlus 11 was a solid comeback and a good phone for them this is very much an upgraded with a lot
00:56:52
of 2024 special version of that phone yeah it's got a better telephoto it's got the Snapdragon 8 gen 3 and it's got
00:56:59
that super bright like 25 2600 nits OLED that we're seeing so often right so
00:57:04
those things like really bring it into 2024 and it's still got all the rest of the stuff it's still got the software the alert slider the hassleblad camera
00:57:10
all that good stuff that you expect from the OnePlus phone yeah so it's a really good phone I haven't made a whole review
00:57:15
of it because that's kind of where my observations end and it didn't feel like it was a whole bunch I have a lot to say about a different phone we're reviewing
00:57:21
right now so that'll be a video but I wanted to bring this out and at least have that in the Hat cuz OnePlus 12 is a good phone it is $800 which is a pretty
00:57:28
good price for a like that um they did sort of they they are still sort of using the Oppo ux UI which I don't love
00:57:37
and they merged Like Oxygen OS to be what was the col so they merged them
00:57:42
together they originally just changed it to be called color OSS a lot of people got upset and then what they kind of
00:57:48
ended up doing was just on OnePlus phones calling it oxygen OS but not changing the software at all just so
00:57:55
it's just color just gaslighting yes I think they were like our community will shut up if we just call it oxygen OS
00:58:02
again which if you remember oxygen OS only exists because of the Cyanogen debacle which you should go watch our
00:58:08
episode on Cyanogen mod and the death of the Android ROM uh
00:58:14
your but uh yeah so I don't know someone on Twitter put up a comparison between
00:58:20
oxygen OS and the color OSS that's on it cuz they flashed an old oxygen OS on to
00:58:25
it and I just feel like old OnePlus oxygen OS had a much more cohesive like
00:58:31
brand identity a lot of the app and I know that at the end of the day a lot of this literally comes down to the app
00:58:38
icons and like the way that the overlay of the Quick Settings menu looks and you
00:58:43
know it's not that a deal the quick quick settings menu is a big thing I want you to sorry don't interrupt I want
00:58:50
you to feel the haptics hold this phone and hit that clear button and just feel the haptics
00:58:57
is that good or bad I don't use I don't use any Optics wait a minute it's like a Oh I thought you were listening to dlor
00:59:03
Swift sorry no it was like a triple tap yeah it was it like can I how do I I'll
00:59:09
load up another notification sorry it felt like it like shook up the phone yeah shimmy little shimmy really
00:59:16
Shimmy's up the phone it was pretty sick I will say looking at the phone from this angle the one thing I noticed is that it does not look like an
00:59:23
iPhone it was you said it got all the 2024 new things other than flat edges a
00:59:29
great point Y it did not flatten the edges um okay here so hit the clear
00:59:37
notification button okay oh right it's like very precise
00:59:42
like I love that yeah and I felt it like it felt like it was in three distinct zones like a cat
00:59:50
purring I honestly you could make ASMR out of good haptics on a smartphone that's true we should
00:59:56
is it ASMR if you're feeling it and not hearing it I'm sure there's another acronym do any of us know what ASMR
01:00:01
means yes audio sensory response it's like a feeling you
01:00:08
get from yeah it's scratching your brain so the 12r is also coming out that is $500 comes with uh last year's
01:00:15
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 instead of the Gen 3 um so it's a Prett I mean that's a very
01:00:21
good price it's a good deal you know wow so there you go I wish we got the green one the green
01:00:26
one looks the green one looks amazing green marble type of I never thought I would live in a world where Marquez sees the Black version of something and say I
01:00:32
wish we had the Green version you were very anti- green for a while I feel like you're warming up to it so it's not the
01:00:38
green that's fascinating to me it's the marbley pattern on the one that happens to be green right if there was a marbley
01:00:44
pattern on this I'd be into it I like green yeah it's like a camo type of thing I do like the small little details
01:00:51
like the Ring of the camera module has this little King that kind of looks like a lens I like that and it has a little
01:00:57
hust blood logo next to it there so if you have seen the Oppo Find X7 Ultra it
01:01:03
has many many of the same features of the X7 Ultra just with a little bit different body style but a lot of things
01:01:11
are very similar the extremely bright display all of that kind of stuff um
01:01:17
yeah Optical so that's a thing yeah so there's the review there you go I was
01:01:22
just going to say marz I'm putting you on spot are we getting a review of this thing or no I don't unless I mean we are
01:01:29
about to be spoiler pretty busy so it's it's it's not likely that we'll be able
01:01:34
to get to everything we want to just because of how busy we're about to get but if if you must know I do think this
01:01:39
is a good phone like the purpose of the review is for people to be able to decide if it's good or if it's not good
01:01:45
This falls under good phone which I think is a really good place to just be happy that's a good phone so yeah
01:01:52
OnePlus 12 good looks cool good luck good lucks good luck I was like wow yeah
01:01:58
this is great good luck everybody good luck okay that's it for our headlines which means we can the hat is empty the
01:02:05
hat is empty and we can take out the whiteboards cuz it's time for trivia trivia
01:02:12
dude trivia dude so quick update on the score Marquez with 21 Andrew with 16
01:02:22
David with 20 oh I got to keep you on your toes first question who carried the
01:02:29
one someone in my studio video commented just carry the one and I was like come
01:02:35
on man give me just this they were like carry the one gang and I was like it's a
01:02:41
movement I feel like that's just like a secret code that shows that you listen away for It's Kind like the thing or the
01:02:50
the Narwhal eats waffles at breakfast or whatever it was I thought it was like the symbol on your head no there was
01:02:56
like there was this in the early days of Reddit there was like a secret phrase that you would say to people in public
01:03:03
to see if they were redditors oh that's and now you just lie about using Reddit instead God Inc I think if I remember
01:03:10
correctly it's when does the narwhal bacon yeah at midnight and then everyone
01:03:15
around you looks at you and goes like this is the last time we're inviting what did he just say what did
01:03:21
you say found the reditor secet anyway first question yeah yeah usb OTG what
01:03:28
does the OTG stand for not to be confused with ODB
01:03:34
legendary rapper David don't look so
01:03:39
confused I always look
01:03:45
confused I may or may not have pressed the button twice so it's a little longer
01:03:51
now don't worry about it press it again no no
01:04:00
idea I'm so wrong me too and flip them and read I'm hoping I got the one can't
01:04:08
even think of it I lost gu okay yours looks like the digital rain from The
01:04:13
Matrix hear me out I wrote down all the ones I think I know usbg USB is
01:04:19
universal serial bus that's correct does he get a point for each you don't get a point for that
01:04:25
I'm waiting for the OTG stands for something transfer something nope Universal I just wrot
01:04:31
over the over the over the what goo over the hge Over the Hedge claimed 2007
01:04:39
Thriller um I put over the Gateway no I both it over the the is
01:04:47
probably not I also wrote over but I don't write that cuz David incepted you with Over the Garden Wall that's true
01:04:53
it's actually on the go oh I knew that USB on the go I knew that yeah get any
01:05:00
you guys both got the okay that's true do we get a no no we clarified that said no already
01:05:07
wouldn't you guys feel stupid if I had given you a point for the no I would take
01:05:13
it why what is USB on the go so it was the okay I think it was like the first
01:05:19
version of USB that was the the first like additional version of USB that was announced after the original USB
01:05:25
protocol right that I don't know but according to Wikipedia it was a
01:05:31
specification first used in late 2001 that allows USB devices such as tablets
01:05:36
or smartphones to also act as a host yeah allowing other USB devices such as
01:05:41
flash drives digital cameras keyboard to be attached to them yes okay this is a big thing because like transfer devices
01:05:48
at the time like the iPod and that kind of stuff they were like well these are just portable computers so like why don't we just allow you to store things
01:05:54
on on portable devices as opposed to like only your computer at home can store your stuff why don't we allow your
01:06:02
like iPod or I don't know whatever MP3 player device you have to just like have
01:06:08
stuff on it so you can bring it to another computer and be the host of it move it to that okay question number two
01:06:15
the world of storage mediums is a world full of acronyms we're familiar with the
01:06:21
hits ROM and RAM but what is the acronym for storage that once it is written by a
01:06:27
user cannot be
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Rewritten I got this whoa that's a sharp heel turn from the
01:06:50
confidence where you were like I definitely don't got this USB Over the
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Hedge let's see what you got all right so mine is s t o i i WB a
01:07:05
u c n b r w so storage that on is oh my
01:07:11
god wow Andrew we're going to discuss that answer later storage that written W
01:07:19
right only memory so close but wrong I wrote ROM read only memory also very
01:07:26
close it sounds like you're just saying that in baby talk I I'm going to zoom in on David right now his face cuz I want
01:07:33
you guys to see his reaction when Ellis tells him what it is stop the answer is
01:07:39
worm write once read many right
01:07:46
once awes unfortunate that's that's I'm so glad that we didn't get that right
01:07:52
and got that moment wait guys that's better than getting it right I markers down I like how much of a space there is
01:07:58
here for you but it's the wrong space wow there is um read many so there
01:08:08
is a running joke in the tech community that is wom write only memory because
01:08:13
the idea that you could write unreadable memory sort of like like is it even
01:08:19
memory at that point you know true well that's a great point I didn't even think of that no but it is I think there's
01:08:24
actually a Wikipedia page that is right only memory and then in parenthesis joke nice it's kind of like the um over
01:08:32
Aven carrier yeah it's kind of like over Aven carrier the request for comment for IP over Aven
01:08:38
car car wow W that was we womo womo
01:08:44
when's the last time we got a trivia question right Andrew you you that's what I was
01:08:50
asking yeah oh my god well you know I forgot about that it's not about the
01:08:55
questions you get right it's about The Learning Experience the friends you make along the way I I want to ask a question
01:09:01
do I get an addition a bonus point because when I turn it upside down it says the same thing let's discuss no the
01:09:08
space is in a different spot
01:09:14
no okay and with that we'll wrap up way for for the week thanks for uh joining
01:09:20
us for headlines in a hat if you have any other uh head lines you'd like us to react to drop them in the comments maybe
01:09:26
we'll put them in a hat next week or maybe we'll just be incredibly busy and have other things to talk about we'll see we'll see one or the other might
01:09:32
happen but in either case uh thanks for subscribing and for watching and we'll catch you guys in the next one peace
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