warning this episode may or may not
contain a Tim Cook impression sometimes it happens organically but we make no
promises that one will occur viewer discretion is advised that was a great
opportunity for a Tim Coke impression buy your mom an impression at their it's
glow time event this morning Apple unveiled the iPhone 16 lineup new
airpods and a new Apple watch along with old airpods and an old Apple watch that
you might have thought was new if you aren't terminally online thankfully
we are so here's the lowdown Apple kind of flattened out the iPhone lineup this
time around bringing the iPhone 16 and 16 plus two chip Generations up from the
a16 bionic to the a18 which means these
new non-pro iPhones will have apple
intelligence in beta in the US next
month a lot of that kind of Tomorrow energy going on at this event but we'll
get into that the non-pro iPhone 16s start at 800 bucks and now have the
customizable action button introduced with last year's 15 Pros as well as an
allnew camera control clickable slider
button that's also on the iPhone 16 and
16 Pro Max it not only serves as a proper shutter button when taking photos
in landscape mode it can be lightly pressed to bring up additional uis for
fine focusing or changing modes by sliding your finger kind of like you
would do with physical knobs on a dedicated camera evoking memories of the
iPod click wheel and Apple's history of brilliantly emulating familiar Hardware
on new tech sorry that sounded sarcastic but it was genuine I struggle with
giving Earnest compliments he's never said anything nice to me good job Jacob
clicking and holding the camera control button will activate the new visual
intelligence feature which will let you use a photo to search the web prompt
Siri or chat GPT and even add an event from a poster to your calendar it's like
what Google Lens pretends to be and is actually really cool I'm sorry I just I
don't I don't know how so wait all the iPhone 16s sound pretty similar right
now why would I pay over a th000 bucks for the 16 Pro or Pro Max other than to
get that exclusive color that seemed like it was Pooh brown but is actually
called desert titanium and doesn't actually look like poo to everyone's
surprise well you don't want the regular old 18 you want the a18 pro it's got a
bunch of upgrades that will let the 16 Pros run Apple intelligence 15% faster
than on the iPhone 15 Pro not that we would know at this point it hasn't come
out yet but the pros also have larger displays studio quality mics that enable
customized background noise removal for video recording and upgraded cameras
that support recording 4K 120 video hey
if it's good enough for the weekend to film a music video with it's good enough
for me next up the new airpods 4 have an H2 chip and also an upgraded version
with withc and a wireless charging case while the airpod pros have gotten
upgraded hearing testing abilities that help them function as clinical grade
hearing aids I don't know sounds like Boomer to me Apple also showed off the
new Apple watch series 10 with a bigger display and the thinnest design ever it
now can run the translate app directly on Watch and add sleep apneia to the
list of conditions it can detect continuing the watch's transformation
into basically the High quarter from Star Trek at their next event in October
Apple will reportedly unveil new iPads and Macs packed with new buttons that
activate features that will definitely become available at some point in the
future press them to get an estimate on how long you have to wait you press the
button it's like this feature will be available sometime next year there's no
Tim Cook impression but that was like almost Craig federi your friends and
family can now message each other and occasionally kiss I want
send little kisses over the Internet IFA 2024 kicked off in Berlin last Friday
and some of the tech there really put the funk in intern F that's what IFA
stands for by the way according to Jacob and the world Nano Leaf showed off its
sense plus battery powerered Smart Switch that it's been working on for 8
years although that's no guarantee of success as Concord has shown the switch
uses a proprietary protocol called LightWave to control all nanoleaf smart
lights in a room while two configurable buttons on the sense plus can use matter
to control other devices then there's lenovo's Auto twist aipc concept which
has a motorized 360° hinge allowing the
display to follow you around like it's asking for a restraining order I know
you said you're done using me for stuff but actually I have something to talk to me about you like close the window and
then like walk away and it's like is it is that it more helpfully the laptop can
detect when it's not being used and close itself to prevent any real snoops
from Gaining access oh interesting meanwhile Acer showed off a gaming
laptop concept called project dual play
its touchpad pops out and flips over
into a controller that further separates into two smaller controllers Nintendo
switch style wow but if you're into gaming products that actually exist
there's the Techno pocket go a handheld PC disguised as a chunky gam pad with ar
glasses as a display it evokes a cyberpunk dystopia where the majority of
the population are forced to use the younger sibling controller only the
super rich get a normal controller if you're more into home gadgets the
wireless power Consortium the minds behind theqii wireless charging standard
announced the key standard you're supposed to say it the way that other
people said the other one wrongly apparently it's called that because it's
for kitchens okay key transmitters can be baked into to countertops that's a
pun and deliver up to 2200 WTS to
compatible smart appliances these appliances will be cordless to make them
dishwasher safe and to also render them useless if you ever move I thought that
was a genuine feature welcome to an older shittier building we don't have
countertops like that there is a benefit though if you like accidentally knock over a blender or something it'll stop
spinning yeah it'll never spin if you you live never spit again on the even
weirder side there's the air purifier table from switchbox the only company
brave enough to ask the question what if we just made an air purifier but then we
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architectures rdna and cdna respectively
into a unified udna architecture making
a more accessible platform for developers and hopefully more
effectively competing with NVIDIA's Cuda ecosystem but it seems AMD won't be
competing with NVIDIA's Flagship gaming gpus as wi told Tom's Hardware team red
is reprioritizing mid-range gpus saying
quote I don't want AMD to be the company that only people who can afford Porsches
and Ferraris can buy and that's why they're high-end x870 motherboards
reportedly won't cost more than $800 it's a board for the people for the
people in higher tax brackets meta's rumored budget headset The Meta Quest 3s
is expected to launch on September 25th at meta's connect event but a render of
the headset was recently released online thanks to Reliable leaker meta the
render was originally spotted in the files of the meta Quest client for
Windows and posted to Reddit and it seems to show a design that combines
elements of the Quest 2 and Quest 3
likewise thirdparty accessories for the 3s have already appeared on AliExpress
including apparently real photos of the headset I don't know though this could
still all be just a prank what if we're all in the metaverse already I mean we
just don't Amazon's Audible has started to invite certain us audiobook narrators
to train AIS on their own voices narrators who opt in will be compensated
for any Audi book that makes use of their AI voice though likely at a lower
rate via a royalty share model narrators
can still choose which Productions get to use their AI voice model and will be
able to use built-in tools to edit the AI narration to correct things like
pronunciation mistakes and pacing but I mean at that point why not just record
the audio yourself it sounds like you have time hold on let me just edit this
AI version of me to see if it's any better oh what was this delivery what is
this guy an idiot Sonos is still suffering from its software issues
according to a report by Mark German reporting on something other than Apple
right what are you doing Mark stay in your lane what are you doing buddy the
company's app troubles have caused it to delay the launch of two products one of
which is a set top box code named Pinewood Sonos is also scaling back
production of its Ace headphones as they haven't exactly been flying off the
shelves do you want to buy headphones that will break in a couple months for
no reason worth a shot oh yeah by the
way Sonos makes headphones if you forgot or were never told gosh I wonder why
they aren't selling and researcher and I guess fashion designer Teresa Barton is
recycling old NVIDIA gt730 graphics
cards into purses that cost
$1,024 exactly which is one way to make enough money to finally afford an RTX
480 Barton also offers higher-end purses
fashioned out of h100 AI chips for over
$65,000 these repurposed gpus aren't functional oford according to Barton
they're ethically sourced from data center dumpsters but the fan still works
which should mean your wallet and keys get excellent airf flow I could use that
better in my pants really and we'd appreciate more air flow this Wednesday
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