welcome to the WAN Show guys the show where I and my co-host uh Luke slick
lafrenier talk to you about the latest in technology and gaming and all that
good stuff you know what's funny is I do most of the talking on this show but it
still feels really weird to have this
thing next to me I was actually really hoping that Luke would be able to join
me on the show this week but that is unfortunately not possible because I
haven't heard from him he landed in Boston like uh yesterday early morning I
think or the night before I don't even know but he flew out Thursday very early
morning so must have landed in Boston Thursday night and other than getting a
call from him that you know hey we landed safely um yo did you ever arrange
a shuttle to which I said no um I haven't actually heard from either him
or Brandon so they're going to be there doing all of our pack East coverage
which you guys can look for to finding on the channel over the next few days
here um they're going to have a lot of emphasis on the Indie Mega Booth because
that's something that Luke is super passionate about but they are going to
make the rounds to some of your favorite Hardware vendors like Cooler Master as
well as I think they're going to swing by Kingston and there's at least a
couple other ones oh yeah Intel for sure Intel is powering our trip to the show
which I've mentioned on the last few van shows so between Intel and Corsair that
is the entire reason that Luke and Brandon were able to go I'm going to try
and do a little bit more audience interaction today just because I don't
have I mean you know this guy is like
you know I like interacting with uh no
no not interacting like that I love I love interacting with my dummy right
here but uh not having Luke here is uh
just a little bit unfortunate people are asking me to go get Taran I would love
to unfortunately because um my my human
physiology requires me to sleep once in a while I wasn't able to get this Friday
so today's fastest possible scripted yet
um to film it Thursday evening before I
went home so I had to film it when I got back from NC today which means that tan
Taran is actually editing right now so Luke and Brandon are in Boston and uh
edel is still at NC and then Taran is the only one who's here with me all
right so let's uh let's go through some of the Fantastic topics that we've got
today before we do our intro here so let me see Will I Am says he developed a
smartwatch I personally would absolutely
love to check it out um it's going to be
coming in a little while he funded it used his own money to develop it so more
on that a little bit later the word on the street is also that Vasa has
accepted free sync as part of the upcoming extension to DisplayPort
called 1.2a which could be very very good news
for gamers Google is taking another crack at the living room with Android TV
more on that later and the black magic Ursa okay maybe you guys don't maybe you
don't think you care about camera technology but ridle me this have you
noticed the dramatic change in the quality of our videos over the last year
that is thanks to camera technology the reason wow looks so crisp compared to a
lot of other streams is the Blackmagic camera that we use to power it that's
their first camera the Blackmagic Cinema Camera it's a 2 and 1 12K camera now
this one okay I'll tell you more about it later but anyway trust me it's like
really freaking cool it's like this upgradable camera and then uh oh this
one's really cool as well so there's a new battery technology potentially
coming seems to the the researchers seem to be very confident about it that could
allow your phone to be recharged in under 25 seconds and I don't know where
I got the number 25 from I'm sorry under 30 seconds the demo was 26 seconds so 25
I'm just there's a new technology that could allow your car to go from zero to
500 Miles hour in 3 seconds I'm just making stuff up at this point but I'll
tell you guys more about that later on in the show as
well why is there no sound I'll just make the
sound I'm gonna kill edel because he forgot to put the music
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I mean it would be possible to do anything I mean you could make uh a
battery that recharges in 25 seconds or a car that goes from Zer to 500 no okay
I'm just going to stop with that now it's not actually funny for me to make up things make up things and present
them as news lightest Media Group that should be our tagline all right so will
I am claims to have developed a smartwatch the article that we're going
to be checking out here is from n Gadget but this was posted on the Forum by kuza
thank you very very much we really do appreciate when people take the time
make up things and present them as news for crying out loud stop that why you do
that why you do that twitch why you make that the automatic automatic default
setting there all right so we appreciate when people post in the new section of
Linus Tech tips.com because we love how active The Forum is and how easy it is
to find all the latest cool Cool Tech news there all right so the article from
a gadget will I am there he is like he's
actually wearing it this isn't like this isn't like Kanye coming up with hey I
invented the white T-shirt and okay actually it is kind of it's kind of the
same or at least it's not different in the way that I was presenting it I was going to say you know it's not like
Kanye claiming to invent the white T-shirt but actually he didn't invent a
t-shirt but he I mean he he did I guess he he did create this white t-shirt that
you could buy and spend a lot of money on but this isn't like just some random
claim he's actually wearing the thing
and talking about it so he he started the company himself okay funded it used
his own money to develop it it can apparently stream stored music via
Bluetooth and make calls and access Twitter Facebook and Instagram without
having to connect to a
smartphone I'm really interested to see how this works a lot of this
stuff does potentially make sense being able to stream music via Bluetooth so if
it was like a like a Bluetooth player
that you could then use like your your jbirds or something like that to to play
music over then okay but if you're going to be able to make calls on it without
having to connect to a smartphone hey uh maybe there's a reason that Intel named
will I IM it's director of creative Innovation back in January 2011 so you
know he's it it's not like it's not like
he's just so far out there in imagination land that comp serious
companies like Intel are ignoring him so
it's rumored to be coming sometime in the next sort of little while and I will
tell you what if you guys want to see it I will review this so apparently there's
a spider behind you okay Aldi if we have
any mods that's a Perma ban see you later all right actually maybe I can
just do that Elie you're gone you're
gone man Ben Perma baned never going to
unban you there you go yeah woo all
right so let's move on to our next topic here and that is this is oh this is such
good news all right so um I was origin I
originally had this brought to my attention from by an article on PC per
so my my bud Ryan shrout's website that I guess he does Tech stuff or something
I think he makes videos too anyway um Vasa May so this is allegedly may have
accepted AMD's free sync this is so cool
so I made an awful lot of noise about
NVIDIA's gsync back when they first showed it off since then my enthusiasm
has naturally somewhat dwindled to the point where it's like are we ever going
to actually get to use this thing because it's a great technology what
gsync basically does does is instead of
refreshing your screen at a fixed interval okay and this is particularly
important when gaming instead it waits for your GPU to render a frame and then
refreshes whenever it's ready and I've had people message me and say oh well
that'll be laggier no actually it'll be less laggy because the problem with this
this constant refreshing is either you're gonna slow down your your GPU
either you're going to have to kind of sit around and and wait for things and
then have them be displayed or you are going to have to see partial frames one
on top of the other and you're going to get tearing what g-sync does is it makes
sure that the frames are delivered as quickly as possible once they're ready
and that you only get one frame at a time rather than like you know the top
of L's body here and the bottom like over here and you're just like okay so I
could enjoy the bottom or the top separately but not the whole package
right so not that people play games just to you know scantily clad female lead
character shame on you anyway
um I forget what I was talking about now right so AMD came along and at CES they
showed off what they were cheekily calling free sync now free sync was
basically exactly the same thing and that was the ability for the display to
only refresh when the GPU was ready or when something on the screen changed
because free prync was using something that was developed for power saving in
laptops so NVIDIA's response at the time
was well freesync there's the the scalers that are being used for this a
they're only in notebooks and B they're not designed for the type of use case
that would have it being used constantly I mean with gsync we developed this
robust piece of Hardware that's really future proof and really designed for
that kind of a workload well free sync
yes was a bit of a Frankenstein experiment at the time and I see NVIDIA's point but if it becomes part of
the DisplayPort 1.2a standard which
allegedly it will we could all of a sudden see basically every display have
this GPU triggered refreshing enabled on
it holy crap DisplayPort you just won
like you just one not only are you ahead
of HDMI because HDMI 2.0 is still not
existent you can't actually buy anything with it and DisplayPort 1.2 has been
available forever and already supports 4K at 60 HZ now you are going to be in
every gaming machine anywhere and rightly so like I
it's just such a shame that the Xbox and Playstation 4 couldn't have something
like this and I'm not even I'm not even poking fun at the console Gamers right
now I'm just legitimately I'm legitimately sad for them because
I'm sad for the entire industry because as long as you have to keep trying to
design games to run at like a fixed frame rate which you have to because
frame rate fluctuations will cause either leg or tearing on consoles where
we're stuck with these constant um where these constant refresh rate monitors so
as long as the games industry has to account for that we can't see them move
forward and push for a little bit more
you know visual quality and so what if it dips down to 48 frames per second or
53 frames per second cuz it still look really good and really smooth cuz that
is something that g-sync and by extension I suppose free sync will do
very very well so fantastic news right
there next up is Android TV so The Verge
got an exclusive scoop here where they
are showing off what appears to be the interface of Android TV and what I
thought was one of the most interesting things about this article
was how little information it actually
seemed to contain so we've got quotes
from Google saying things like uh here let me just track this
down Android TV is an entertainment
interface not a Computing platform it's
all about finding and enjoying content with the least amount of
friction what does that mean
I mean we saw Google TV in the past I mean that was a that was a total
disaster um just because I mean I think they made claims this is in The Verge
article as well so they made claims like the majority of TVs in 2012 would ship
with Google TV but what was the difference like I
understand some of the things they're saying here so they want the interface to be cinematic fun fluid and fast and
they want no no no more than I think they're saying three clicks in order to
go from turning it on to actually watching content which I think is really
cool but beyond that what is the actual
difference between a set toop box that plugs into your TV that is an
entertainment interface and a set toop box that plugs into your TV that is a
Computing platform if anything I would say if you're going to call something an
entertainment interface it would be something more like chomecast where
you'll have specific apps developed for it but really it's more about the
experience and not about the chomecast actually being a Computing platform a
powerful piece of hardware and right now it's not clear how Android TV is going
to slot into the whole ecosystem or how chomecast is going to slot into the
whole ecosystem but what we do know for now is that chomecast will continue to
exist so screenshots are now showing Google's own apps like Play Movies and
YouTube and hangouts but there are also third party apps being shown like Vivo
Netflix Hulu Pandora and games so to me
on the surface anyway what this looks like is just developers having to make
multiple different interfaces for different Google products because there
are plenty of set toop boxes um Amazon's recent Fire TV that use Android although
Amazon is a bad example I guess because it doesn't run stock Android by any
stretch but there are Android-based players from even small manufacturers
like posos so you're GNA have to have an interface for Android that hopefully
looks somewhat good on a TV you're going to have to have an interface for chomecast that looks somewhat good on a
TV you're GNA have to design an interface for Android TV that looks good
on a TV and it just seems like an awful
lot of hassle but maybe they have a better plan
this time and maybe uh all that I'm saying right now is going to have
nothing to do with anything I see a lot of people complaining about mods in the
twitch chat sorry there's not a whole lot I can do about it right now but we
do have plans to work out a different system that's a little bit easier for us
to moderate so stay tuned for that all right guys
this this is something that I'm getting pretty tired of this next topic here now
NVIDIA released a new driver and they
came out with all kinds of claims with
respect to Performance so they're basically saying look we're going to
have directx12 on all of our gpus that
supported directx11 AMD and we're going to release a directx11 driver that
Stomps all over mantle anyway so here check this out so screen sharing here
this was posted originally on the Forum by actually a couple of different folks
I'll credit them later but the 33750 beta driver was claiming that it
would deliver up to 64% faster single
GPU performance and up to 71% faster SLI
performance just through optimizing the
directx11 driver that's available now
now I have heard members of the press
muttering under their breath talking to each other not going to name any names
about every time AMD or NVIDIA releases
a Big Driver update that claims to completely turn the world Inside Out by
delivering amazing new performance to the existing gpus that they produce and
the comments go a little something like this maybe maybe they'll actually have
uh changed something a lot this time but uh I doubt it and I even heard one of
them talking directly to either AMD or NVIDIA not going to name any names here
saying look if I spend the time to Benchmark this thing am I actually going
to find this number you're claiming or is it just a waste of my time again so
the press in general is a little bit sick of the whole claims that don't
really seem to add up thing and unfortunately it looks like this is
maybe more of the okay there are improvements but there might be a little
bit more of the same going on here so we referenced articles from two of my
favorite sites we actually didn't have the time just didn't have the bandwidth
to run the benchmarks ourselves but these are both very trustworthy sources
trust me that they're good for it I guess so Aon and PC Pur so they both did
pretty darn good articles on the new NVIDIA driver and the conclusions from
both of them basically amounted to this um a Onex test indicated about a 10%
Improvement in performance in BioShock Infinite and Metro last Light SLI
performance increased 10% for Grid 2 and 76% for Total War Rome 2
although Total War Rome 2 you know was
yeah pretty far back in terms of optimization so anyway a 76% that means
they did achieve it so 76% performance Improvement in in a particular game is
good um NVIDIA boasts huge performance gains in older games so you know Call of
Duty Black Ops is getting 20% I guess and you know um SLI has seen slight
performance increases and NVIDIA has been working on you know some mantal
optimized games and all this kind of stuff but the the basic conclusion was
that performance was only really increased in some pretty specific games
and for the most part the sensationalist headline performance improvements were
pretty difficult to find um and I guess
for me this it turns into a bit of a can I
trust you issue like I don't mind when
NVIDIA provides us with reference benchmarks when they release a new GPU
in general they've done a pretty good job of it where they say okay if you
take our card and and this AMD card and you run them side by side here's about
the performance Improvement you can expect we're still going to run our own benchmarks anyway we're not just going
to take that at face value but it's nice
when they at least give us a reference so that when we run something and it's
like totally not the same we can go back and go oh crap did we screw something up
this is it just seems like a headline
grab and I and I find it frustrating because I had another similar experience
with NVIDIA not that long ago where I was reviewing a gaming notebook that had
NVIDIA's latest GTX 860m graphics card
in it and they've got a new feature that they're calling battery boost where
they're claiming up to two times the battery performance and I mentioned this
in my notebook review where I said said I got about an extra 2 minutes of
performance not two times performance although I did admit at the time that I
do need to do a followup but I mean I don't think there was too much to go
wrong with my test because the way there's the technology is supposed to work is that instead of allowing The
Notebook GPU to work as hard as it can to deliver you know 60 or 70 frames per
second you can limit the frame rate at like 30 if you're okay with that gaming
experience on battery life in order to preserve some power so I just found a
part of Crisis that normally would run at like 55 frames per second with
battery or 45 frames per second I think with with battery and then I turned the
limiter on to 30 frames per second and I just left it there with a time-lapse
camera on it and the battery died and it shut off and it only was about 2 minutes
different
so I don't know I don't know what else there is for me to really say about it
other than I just find that pretty frustrating so I'm going to go ahead and
add at least one mod here there we go boom I have added a moderator so I don't
think one mod is going to be enough and like I said we're working on a solution
but there you go all right now this next
thing is something that is pretty pretty
close to to me because I do make videos
for a living now this is from NAB 2014
and it is the Blackmagic Ursa upgradable
4k digital film camera now you guys might ask yourselves for those of you
who aren't that familiar with you know film equipment why do we still call it a
film camera like what what does that actually mean that means that they are
trying to achieve a more film-like look
which many content creators still agree
is better than that digital camcorder
feel that you get with a lot of digital Solutions so products like the Ari Alexa
which actually isn't even a 4k camera so
I'm going to let that sink in but gets used for video production for for
feature films it's not even a 4k digital camera what they've achieved with that
is a film look and a color and and and a
feel to it that is closer to film while
avoiding the pitfalls of film which are mostly that is cumbersome to work with
and that it is extremely expensive that's number one so what Blackmagic is
trying to do here is create a 4k camera
that is kind of EG size so like you know those ones for like newscaster news
crews that they carry around on the on the shoulder Mount so it's about EG size
and not just big but also incredibly
featur so they are allowing upgradable
sensors upgradable lens mounts it has a
10in display built into one side of it
it has two additional displays so aside from being used for EG use it could be
used on like a a multi you know with a
multi person crew on a video production set for commercials or even feature
films with like one person monitoring scopes on one side and one person
monitoring what the lens is actually looking at on the other side like up to
three people working per camera it's got all these screens on it it's got
professional quality inputs and outputs so it has 12g SDI which means that you
can basically output directly with one cable 4K it supports internal dual raw
and prores Recorders so it's using the upcoming cfast standard that's kind of
like an extension of compact flash so unlike the cinema camera it doesn't use
ssds but at least this is a standard media as opposed to a lot of recording
solutions that use proprietary media in fact the one that we use for our Sony
camera uses proprietary ssds so it's a firmware lock that doesn't allow us to
use other things and then it's got you know XLR input it's got so the two 5-in
touchscreens that are on both sides of the camera so you can put your settings
controls monitoring tools there and then the big one is the upgradable sensor so
it comes in at only $6,000 which sounds like a lot of money to you guys but to
put this in perspective the Sony fs700 is was around that price when we
bought it I think around $7,000 when we bought it has a 4K sensor in it but it's
only capable of recording directly to 1080p without an expensive firmware
upgrade and an expensive external recorder so our camera has actually cost
us well over $10,000 by the time we're actually shooting 4K with it which we
aren't even able to yet cuz we're still waiting for another firmware update for our recorder but that's a whole other
story so this is only $6,000 records to
4K immediately you can upgrade the sensor to Future standards like 6K 8K or
whatever you can upgrade the mount to put different lenses on it and it just
freaking blew my mind and the fact that it uses Open Standards and comes in at
only $6,000 is just un real I'm going to
head over to Twitch chat and see if uh things have sort of gotten gotten a
little bit less uh out of control yes indeed they have in fact all right let's
move on to our next topic here I think this is going to be a pretty short show
just because there's not a whole lot of room for discussion between me and Luke
over here so this is a cool demo now one of the things that I have criticized
Thunderbolt for is that it just isn't
Ethernet it doesn't allow the same kind of flexibility that Ethernet does in a
multi user scenario so having 10 GB
Ethernet on my PC to me is more important than paying a premium for a
Thunderbolt enabled PC and then paying another premium for a Thunderbolt
enabled storage enclosure well now Thunderbolt 2 has been shown off
enabling a 10 gbit per second Ethernet connection between not only from Mac to
Mac but between a Mac and a PC so now
your Mac Pro with its six Thunderbolt 2 connections and uh you know Gigabyte for
example so your PC motherboard with dual
Thunderbolt connections now all of a sudden you can create a super fast
Network that can connect to Thunderbolt enabled expansion devices such as
storage this makes Thunderbolt a much more feasible option to me because a lot
of what we do is in a multi-user working
environment where everyone needs to access the same resources at the same
time and for thaton reason Thunderbolt has just made no sense to me and the Mac
Pro in particular has made no sense to me because it cannot be expanded to 10
gig Ethernet without buying a Thunderbolt enclosure Thunderbolt to PCI
Express enclosure and then putting a 10 gig Ethernet card in there now you're
adapting this to that to that to that in order to just access a network resource
because it only has one gigabit Ethernet built into it well now Thunderbolt looks
a little bit more feasible now I do see some negative comments about this Tech
technology and I one person put it pretty well and said well this is
ridiculous we're moving away from centralized switching and we're going
back to what like token ring so so you actually have to network each computer
on a network you have to like kind of daisy chain them all together which
feels kind of stupid but and I see that
point but I also see this as a pretty good intermediary solution for folks
that don't want to drop you know 300 to 500 bucks per adapter on 10 GB Ethernet
cards and then build themselves a Nas or
whatever else so now you can just buy a Thunderbolt enclosure and go ahead and
and do that so they showed off transfer speeds of 150 megabytes per second which
um not actually that impressive we'd be looking at we would want uh wait a
minute hold on yeah we we'd want to see quite a bit higher than that for 10
gigabit but at least it's handled or at
least it's working um now uh in line
with the whole Thunderbolt expansion versus internal expansion conversation
that inevitably comes up whenever we talk about Mac these days we actually
have a Hackintosh build guide coming very soon and I'm going to cover this in
quite a bit more depth in that video but um in that build guide I guess I you
know what I I have notes in here that I wanted to talk about that but I guess I kind of talked about it already because
I talk about the merits of Thunderbolt expansion versus PCI Express expansion
and how one can be beneficial or the other can be beneficial but I guess I'll
just do this then I'll tease our upcoming Hackintosh video it's scripted
and shot and sitting in editing now so you should be expecting to see that
sometime about mid next week editing takes so long these days I mean it's
great that we're able to that we're able to deliver so much better production
values than we used to but it is so expensive you guys and it is so time
consuming to make videos like the uh like the HTC1 M8 video that we released
last night where that's like I was uh I was talking to Jack from NC today and he
was saying that um you know blah blah
blah video production this video production that is we were just kind of
talking about it and I was I was I was telling him why I'm not planning to do a
Galaxy S5 review um Samsung reached out
to me they said they have a loner unit that I can borrow for I think 13 days or
15 days or something like that and then it needs to by by that time be in the
hands of the next reviewer and I basically went you know what I'm not
going to bother um they can send it to me and I'll try it but if it's not a
unit that I can actually set up as if
I'm going to use this as my daily driver for the next six months then I just
don't feel that incentivized to bother with it and frankly I find it kind of
insulting because doing a review like the M8
review is is a bit of a different
approach for us I try to use the devices
as if I'm planning to use it forever I try to switch to every device that I use
because I think that that's the only way to review it properly that's the only
way that you can incentivize yourself to work through the problems and that's the
only way that you can avoid convincing yourself that this lock button isn't
going to bother me in the long term you have to actually think about it if I'm
going to be using this for six months then will it be good enough for me and
you could kind of sit there and go oh well lonus you just want you just want
free phones and it's not that because
for the cost of me making this video I
was telling Jack this it cost me about 20 labor hours which when you have
employees that make a decent living wage and you give them benefits and you pay
into their pension plan and you do all this stuff costs me well over $500 to
make that video I could literally just not make a video and I could go buy an
S5 and that would work out just fine for me because that $500 doesn't even Factor
and the time that I spent using the device and tinkering with it and
compiling my notes and scripting my review all right so I basically went
okay yeah you guys can send one to me but I'm not going to make a review because if I'm not worth the effort or
worth the resources to send a phone then quite frankly you're not worth me
spending $500 to make a video about it and let's just kind of leave it at that
so I don't even remember where I was going with this Hackintosh preview how
did I end up talking about this Hackintosh preview
wow speaking of Samsung
phones this is really cool so the BBC
has this article talking about a battery
that right now is not miniaturized enough for cell phone use but is about
the size of a cigarette package but can
be charged in under 30 seconds so they
charged up a Samsung Galaxy S4 that's
Frankenstein hooked up to this thing in
26 seconds at a demo holy crap and the
craziest thing about this technology is that we're actually not that far away
from it being a product that can be commercialized so this bioorganic
battery uses a self assembling uses tiny
self assembly Nano crystals that were first identified in research that was
actually being done into Alzheimer's back at Tel Aviv 10 years ago and the
team is using these nanoc crystals in order to create batteries or even other
technological devices such as a replacement to um flash storage chips so
they're even showing off these these organic chips or whatever you want to
call them in battery applications in chip applications storage applications
and they're showing off that they can achieve right speeds up to three times
what we can do with current Nan Flash the batteries so back to the batteries
are likely to be 30 to 40% more expensive to manufacture and the final
product will likely be about twice as expensive as those on the market today
but what would you guys give would you
pay like I I mean okay let's say just for a second I just bought a replacement
battery for a Droid DNA and I think it cost me about 50 bucks so let's say it
added $100 to the price of a Topline
smartphone or even 150 would you pay the
extra $150 for a phone
and I'd love to hear from you guys on Twitter actually let's let's Twitter Blitz this Linus Tech would you pay an
extra $150 for your phone the one you own right now if it had wireless
charging that you could basically put up against a pad for 30 seconds and fully
recharge it let's say for a second that the pads
also cost twice as much so right now you can get a CH pad for about 20 bucks so
let's say the pad costs 50 bucks so you're spending almost $200 extra out of
pocket to have that solution I'd love to hear if you guys think that's worth it
because I totally do I am tired of
batteries just running out of life and
being frustrating all right now I have
received a ton of requests to review
this bad boy this is the g502 Proteus
core tunable gaming mouse from Logitech
it is available at a very reasonable $79.99
when you consider all of the features it has so it's got weight controls it's got
11 programmable buttons it's got DPI shifting it's got upgraded ergonomics
it's got their dual mode scroll wheel which is actually really cool so it can
either be clicky or you can just flick it into free Spin mode it's great for
things like working on Excel documents and this is the big one it's got a 32bit
microcontroller with the most accurate sensor on the market is what log Tech is
saying what they're saying is that the resolution of the sensor is
1,200 DPI without any tricks without any
Tom Foolery fascinating now we've actually
got a sample of the mouse already so yes a video about this mouse will be coming
but I haven't actually tried it personally yet edel is actually kind of
our Mouse expert these days I swear he's like is like constantly reading up on
Mouse sensors and firmwares and like he's bought a about three or four mice
in the last little while just he's talking about switching out the the
clicky switches on a zoi mouse in order to swap out the ones they're using for
Omron switches like he's turning into a total like Mouse geek but it's great
because I was able to give the mouse to him and I've got his initial Impressions
already that I am just going to tease you guys with now where he said it is a
little bit on the heavy side but that the tracking is actually very very
accurate so I have his initial Impressions and we will be providing you with that but this worked out really
well because um I don't remember where I was going with that this is the problem
with not having him to keep me grounded as I just kind of like go but uh very
very very exciting and definitely a first in the industry and I mean it's
Logitech so their software is going to be stable um they've got a three-year
warranty that is legendary I've had to use it a couple times myself and it's
been a satisfying experience every single time and uh I guess that's pretty
much all I have to say about it Luke will have a chance to check out the ergonomics of this mouse at packs I
think he did plan to swing by the Logitech Booth so maybe you guys can uh
expect to hear his Impressions on it even if you haven't heard mine yet because all I've held is the box I
handed it to Ed and I was like yo you're
into mice these days man check this out is it good is it not I got to know all
right speaking of things are they good and are they not I am I don't know I
guess maybe I'm just like jaded and tired and oh no I want to do my Twitter
Blitz yay Twitter Blitz before lonus gets all jaded and tired of things yay
okay Twitter boom there should be a rule
that people should have at least 100 posts because there's so many fake
accounts on the giveaway nope we're not going to create a rule but what we can
do is audit by IP and we actually have a
couple of other fancy tricks as well so don't worry we'll know if people have
duplicate entries all right uh Marco says yes definitely
worthwhile on that new battery idea
Tyler says not in the first gen wouldn't
pay $150 for it so maybe second or third gen they can have my money Casey says
yes even if it was thicker and produced more heat all the yes John says hell
yeah that's a bargain in my opinion I would love to charge a note three in 26
seconds Anthony says hell's yeah solar
TR hell yes hell yeah yeah yes I would
pay that is a bad word Danny Luke says I would totally pay $200 for a phone that
charges in 30 seconds look at this wow
wow yes yes yes yes no doubt no doubt
ever yes yes yes yes well there you go it's
basically unanimous if we could get batteries that maybe aren't higher
capacity but give us more flexibility in terms of how we use them in our daily
lives like if you had a you know a charging pad in your car so you could just kind of Chuck your phone on there
when you get in the car and then it's like completely done you take it off
like 30 seconds later set it up with your nav and you're ready to go like if
it changes the way that you use your device people are definitely still
willing to pay a lot for phones which is something that I meant to discuss more
in my M8 review was is there still room
for 600 700 $800 Flagship devices in a
world where the NEX 5 exists at300 or
$350 depending on the capacity and you
know what before I had my hands on the M8 I
probably would have said No and when I
get my hands on some of the new stuff that's coming like the OnePlus One um I
might say no again but the experience of using the M8 really does justify maybe
not as a discreet handset purchase like if I was someone who bought my phones
outright so I'm spending twice as much on it maybe it doesn't justify it for me
but it does justify the additional expense if I'm someone who buys on a
carrier contract with a subsidized phone so I'm only paying another couple
hundred dollars for it I think there is still room for premium phones with
premium features that really do feel different from plastic phones with
plastic features for Samsung on the other hand not sure that I feel the same
way where it's just like oh you like wave at the phone in order to to enable
more features but like I said I haven't actually been Hands-On with the S5 I
haven't heard back from them yet so I'm not sure if they're going to be sending me one I did say that I would talk about
it on Wow even if I don't do a dedicated review of it and that I would use the
device even if it's not some right I remember where I was going with that
whole Spiel before is the reason that I
ask for a keeper unit is because I don't
feel like setting it up and actually using it if I'm not going to actually
use it and if I'm just going to have to wipe all my pictures and wipe all of my
settings off of it shortly and then go and you know resync my actual daily
driver back to it I mean it's one thing if I end up doing that anyway because I
don't end up liking the device but that's that's comes with the territory
it's another thing if I end up liking the device and it becomes my favorite
device which hasn't yet happened with a Samsung device so it hasn't really been
that big of an issue but if it becomes my favorite device and then I I send it
away I go back to using something else new devices roll in and I want to
compare them against something that I really like and I don't even have it in my hands anymore I believe that this is
where I was trying to go with this I believe that comparative analysis needs
to be done side by side and not from memory that was my whole point with that
thing jeez all right so let's go back aside
from being a waste of time and money for me to make a video about it when you're
not even willing to invest you know just well here's the product that you're
doing us a favor by generating exposure for or not doing a favor favor if I end
up giving a negative review but that comes with the territory that's any
reviewer all right speaking of any
reviewer there are any number of different reviews on the radon R9
295x2 except one from yours truly
because we didn't get seated a unit I've had quite a few few people complain
about the fact that we've been uploading speaker videos as opposed to a an R9
295x2 video and all I could really say
is there's nothing I can do because AMD didn't see this one we were included in
their viral marketing campaign where they sent pictures uh or they sent a
picture they sent Pringles and then they sent like this disc that had this like
video on it that I didn't look at and then had a slide deck that actually told
me everything I needed to know about the GPU and then I only found out a few days
prior to launch when I was like hey are you guys going to follow up with a card
at some point here that I wasn't getting one so I didn't get one that's why I
didn't bring you guys a review of it unfortunately I I don't think I am going
to get one from AMD I sent a I sent a yo
what's going on followup and uh I got a
response that there may not be any more sample units or there might be but I
haven't heard anything further yet so we'll see what happens but the good news
actually I have two pieces of good news so good news number one is that there are plenty of reviews out there from
sites that I consider extremely credible and so we can definitely check those out
and the other good news is that it's a dual GPU card
so people people always do this they kind of go hey lonus how do you think
the new rumored upcoming duel whatever
is going to perform and I say hey it's going to perform just like two of those
because that's all it is it's two of those AMD has done some Innovative
things here but I didn't even need to Benchmark a 295x2 to get a pretty good
idea of where it was going to land I can throw two 290 XS in a system I can throw
water cooling on them like not great water cooling but water cooling or like
a great air cooler or like go outside in the cold or whatever and I can tell you
how 295x2 is going to perform so that's the other piece of good news and then
good news number three is that good guy Austin Evans has packed up his 295x2 and
put it in the mail today for me so you might see a full review you might just
see some Impressions once we get it on a bench or you might not because we're
pretty late to the party at this point anyway but let's get into how the
credible you know sources of information have evaluated this card since we
haven't tested it ourselves so from bitte they say in nearly every way the
R9 295x2 is dual GPU done right in every
situation it simply works and damn well too as its scaling is seriously
impressive so it's got a pair of overclocked albeit very moderately
overclocked r9290 X's um and performs
about like what you would expect however you can again expect some separate PCB
r9290 XS to give you similar if not
better performance because they have their own dedicated vrm circuitry that
has more room to breathe and you can potentially squeeze more overclocking
out of them for that reason so just like any dual GPU card ever before um Tom's
Hardware actually made a really interesting point and that was that you will be able to buy two for the same
price as the dual gk110 based Battleship
the Titan Z clearly though that comparison leaves one super dreadn
smoldering that's a quote from Tom's Hardware because the Titan Z costs
$3,000 or twice the price and is probably going to perform similarly if
not actually a little bit worse with the key difference being that is air cooled
but would you really pay twice as much
for air cooling versus water cooling or would you rather buy two 295 x2s if you
can figure out out where to put both of those radiators in fact there are some
cases that will support that so there's the overall impressions of the 295 X2 I
don't think I have too much else to really say about it other than that I
do appreciate what AMD has done with
their last two dual GPU cards so with
the um shoot I can't even remember their
bloody branding for the thing the 7990 there we go with the 79 they change it
every generation they've done it again it's like is it a 3870 X2 or is it a
4870 X2 or is it a
5990 or whatever they called that thing they change it every generation so with
the 7990 they introduced an openair cooler
and this was because they had to in order to keep the bloody thing cool so
what that meant was worse case temperatures but better GPU temperatures
and we I looked at that and I went that's great why are we relying on the
on on the GPU card manufacturers to give
us these non-reference cooler designs that keep the GPU cooler I understand
that blower designs are better for certain builds but when we're talking
dual GPU cards I think we're talking about systems that better have some air
flow through them anyway so I appreciated that and I appreciate once
again that AMD has made this card water cooling out of the box so yeah it's only
a single 120 mm radiator and yeah it's
an ace attack all-in-one solution so it's not the greatest performing thing in the world but what I think a lot of
people were surprised to discover is that on a graphics card you don't need
the greatest thing in the world in order to still get really really impressive
thermals like I've seen reports around the web of these cards running as low as
you know 60 to 70 degrees under load
that's running at full speed because people look at their CPU and the
temperatures a CPU runs at and they look at their GPU and they look at the
temperatures a GPU runs at and I think the assumption is that there's some kind
of correlation between something's temperature and the amount of heat that
it is outputting but there isn't your CPU has a much more optimized cooler on
it because it has a lot more space so just because they both run at 80°
doesn't mean that a GPU actually kicks out that much heat compared to a CPU so
just because you could throw an overclocked CPU on a slim 120 mm
radiator design and you still get like you know 80 90° on it it's it's like
yeah why did I even do that when you throw that on two gpus you can get great
results because now you're taking that cooling out of that horrible form factor
that dual slot form factor that's just totally inadequate and you're moving it
to a nice big 120 mm fan that's getting
the heat from those gpus carried to it by water which is much more efficient
than air so I think that's a really Innovative really cool thing that AMD
has done with the what's what's someone saying what's incorrect hold on I'm
curious now twitch chat someone's saying I'm incorrect about
something no no idea what you're talking about anymore oh someone says that's
incorrect I am pretty sure that nothing I said there was actually
incorrect um yeah okay anyway someone
asks where's Luke he's at PX so there I did some twitch chat interaction
especially now that it's uh now that it's not a total disaster in there you
know what speaking of total disasters this isn't a total disaster at all but
let's go ahead and get into our sponsor break here so our first sponsor of the
show today is ASUS this my friends is the g750 JZ and
what I really wanted to be able to do on our first spot for ASUS's new Ultimate
performance gaming notebook was have used it a fair bit and tell you a little
bit about the gaming performance and a little bit about what it's like to use
it but unfortunately Luke took the one
that I started setting up so I was able to use a couple of things I definitely
appreciate their new keyboard implementation with nice long travel time and I was able to set up a couple
of things I definitely appreciate the looks and the fact that it actually runs
cool enough that I'm running this thing on my lap right now which you can't
always say about gaming grade notebooks Luke took it from me and was like oh hey
that's our editing machine for PAX East bye so I was like okay I was actually
going to use that so uh we do have two of them so each of us will be using them
for about the next eight weeks which will give you guys by the end of it a
pretty good idea of what it's like for us to use them we'll definitely talk about our Impressions on the show here
um but it just means that the one that I had set up wasn't set up and I had to
like pull it out of the box now at the last minute get everything installed on
it in order to just do the show at all today but what it also means is it gives
me a way to talk about the ways that these high performance notebooks can be
used it's not always is just about gaming Luke first thing that went
through his mind was holy crap Thunderbolt Port cor i7 quad core with
hyperthreading so nice high performance CPU and
880m graphics card which can be used for
Cuda acceleration in Premiere and he was like mobile workstation yoink it's
because normally when we travel we would take a shuttle or um or a Silverstone
Sugo machine that has like a full size
desktop CPU in it so actually we use six cores for almost all of our editing
machines and normally we take that when we travel but because Luke and Brandon
are traveling to PAX East on their own this time they were really excited about
the opportunity to take a notebook that is fully like high quality video editing
capable so Brandon doesn't have to Lug his ancient heavy thing that's like
super super slow and they don't have to take a desktop so there you go guys the
workstation usage model is another valid one for stuff like this and of course
you play games on the go if you want as well so let's move into our next one
this is another I'm trying to talk about our
sponsors here right Dollar Shave Club so normally I would have my little bin that
has all of the different Dollar Shave Club handles they're shave butter as
well as the one wipe Charlie that's the one thing that these guys left for me
and I would be able to hold them up and talk about how Dollar Shave Club is a
great way to save money and save time by
not dealing with the hassle of going to the store and finding a salesperson to
you know unlock the cabinet for you and give you new razors and then pay a bunch
of money for them and then go home and just B waste time waste money so I would
be able to talk about how it's great and I'd be able to like hold up the razors and show you but the razors are so good
that my staff has absconded with all of them so I did offer Luke to try before
blade one so I gave him both the uh the
package of cartridges that comes with your monthly subscription to Dollar
Shave Club and the handle which he promptly took with him to packs so um
and those of you who were saying in the last Dollar Shave Club ad that we did um
within our video that Luke doesn't shave yes he does people with beards still
shave you guys they have to like shape them and clean them up and stuff anyway
so Luke took that away with them so I don't have anything to show you there and then Taran the new guy was like oh
those look pretty good he's like picking it up he's like oh can I uh can I try
this I'm like yeah sure whatever because we got like our our pack was enough for
uh for for everyone to like well not everyone it was enough for me to have
enough to use for a month because they provide a handle with your first order
and then four cartridges or four blades each month so that you can use a fresh
one every week so you're getting a nice clean shave so I was like okay well I've
got a one-month Supply I guess I could ask Dollar Shave Club to send me a a
renewal sooner and then everyone else can kind of try try one head so we're
not sharing shaving heads cuz that's disgusting so he took off with it so I
don't have that either he's like he just completely absconded with it he's got
the handle and uh the entire thing of uh
six blade cartridges so I don't have anything to show you guys except the one
wipe Charlies so one wipe Charlies are
the uh are butt wipes for men they're peppermint scented they are moistened so
that you do a good job you do have it here awesome how is it by the way I
tried it yet you haven't even tried it yet here I am all upset that everyone's
stealing my things and they haven't even done it yet okay well there you go guys
there's the uh see we've cleverly labeled this one's luses this one's Tern
and there's the nice highquality grippy metal handle that's included with the uh
with the six blade version I'm going to go ahead and bring up their website because I spent this entire uh I spent
this entire thing complaining about everyone stealing the stuff cuz it looks
so good and it turns out that only one of my employees is stealing everything
thing so I'll go ahead and fire it up so
the whole point of Dollar Shave Club since I haven't actually managed to talk
about that a whole lot is that they have a warehouse where they ship to you
founder of Dollar Shave club. sorry about that guys where they ship to you
once a month four new razors for your
handle that they provide to you on your first subscription they do it at a cost
that is lower than buying them from the you know Shopping Center or wherever
else you get them you can see that uh Mike here has put it so well our blades
are you know bleeping great he's got a whole actually very funny commercial
that you guys should definitely check out just if you search for dollarshaveclub.com on YouTube you guys
can check that out and uh all of that
they do for very very reasonable prices so the four blade one the one that Luke
is actually using is only $6 a month and that's with shipping and handling
included in the US and the service is also available in Canada and Australia
this is one of the most disjointed integration I think that I've ever
actually done but I really hope you guys get the point save time save money
Dollar Shave Club check this out and this is really cool because I think this
might be new because when I was first looking at them their Canadian prices I
think were higher or like shipping and handling wasn't included but check this
out this is the first time that I've seen a company that's us in Canada that
has very competitive pricing on their
Canadian service with shipping included that's really cool it's 50 cents more
expensive in Canadian dollars for the four blade razor versus in the US now
when you factor in that the Canadian dollar is about 10% behind the US dollar
I think it's like 5 to 10% right now I haven't looked at it in a couple weeks
they're basically just doing a currency conversion when you factor in that
shipping is so much more expensive in Canada that's freaking impressive and
like a plus doll shave club for doing that in fact I think the
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we're pretty much done all right so let's move on to our next topic here
which is the heart bed bug this is a big
problem I I was actually tempted to just do a dedicated video about this during
the week not because I'm a total expert
on you know SSL encryption and secure
web access I have a basic fundamental understanding of how it works and why
it's important to encrypt certain data that's sent over the Internet so for
example when you interface with a website like Linus tips.com it's
important for us to encrypt your user name and password but it is not
important for us to encrypt the post that you're about to post publicly so
that's that's the that's the fundamental thing that's going on here SSL
encryption exists to protect
inlight private data as it's being transmitted so things like credit card
numbers passwords and the like what the heart bed bug is is it is a problem with
up to an estimated
23 of the sites on the internet including some very frequently used very
very big sites it is a bug that would allow stealing allow theft of the
information that is being transmitted so there's all kinds of of different things
that use SSL so for example web email
instant messaging and some VPN Solutions
are using SSL in order to secure your data and harley.com was actually able to
prove this this problem existed by stealing from themselves the secret Keys
used for their x509 certificates usernames passwords instant messages
emails and business critical documents and communication the bug has actually
existed for around two years and aess a successful attack would leave no Trace
so if your VPN solution for example is has not done anything about heart bleed
you might want to cool it on using it for the time being until they've proven
that they have fixed any of the vulnerabilities because that is pretty
much the only way to even know that you haven't been compromised is to just not
transmit any any secure data over the
internet in the meantime which is kind of terrible it's been a a while since
there's been something that uh that devastating all right let's move on to
our next topic here this was originally posted online tech tips.com by Ashley
thank you very much and that is that Netflix is now streaming in 4k starting
with House of Cards this is a bit of a mixed bag for me so here's the article
on the verge I'm just going to go ahead and flip back to uh back to me here this
is my show this is a bit of a mix bag for me because as much as I appreciate
4K content for some things um I
appreciate that when we are going to switch to 4K which we are for our videos
it is going to enable a higher bit rate playback mode on YouTube that will allow
even 1080p viewers to experience better quality I appreciate that I appreciate
that as part of the 4K production workflow we have the flexibility to take
a 4K frame that's this big and punch in
this small on it and get still a 1080p
full HD image so we don't have to necessarily switch lenses if we want to
get a closeup that's really cool right so we could just take a bigger image and
then punch in in order to do really fantastic close-ups using a digital Zoom
I appreciate that about it but what I don't really much care for is the fact
that it's going to have an impact on bandwidth for Netflix streaming users
something that is a concern if you have a provider that limits your bandwidth I
don't appreciate that it's already um a
concern for Netflix to be able to stream 1080p with any reasonable level of
quality like I don't know if you guys know this should be a topic for an
upcoming fastest possible I don't know if you guys know the mechanisms behind
it but there's more to the quality of a
video stream than just resolution a lot more I mean I could I could give you
guys a video stream that's just 1,80 by
1,920 black pixels that just refresh and
that's not that's not quality that's that's just that's so just because
something has a resolution doesn't mean it's a quality video feed so bit rate
and color depth which is largely affected by the bit rate of the media
actually to me has a very very noticeable impact on the viewing
experience and when I'm watching videos on Netflix I just uh it's really ugly
sometimes the way that their Dynamic throttling will scale back the bit rate
so that you get these blocky chunks of of low color depth and that's at 1080p
already so if you were to tell me okay lonus I want you to give up some more
color depth so that we can throw more resolution at you you might not even
appreciate from so far away from your TV I'd go
eh maybe sure no probably not um
so they're saying right now look guys don't expect a mass roll out of this
right off the bat so they're realistic about it I me okay and on top of all of
this is that it's going to use more bandwidth and Netflix is already having trouble dealing with all the all the uh
service providers to get their service you know actually provided to their
customers that are reasonable degree of quality and that sentence didn't
actually make any sense but I hope you guys get the point so they're saying don't expect a mass roll out and even by
the end of the year the 4K selection will be very small but uh there you go
they've got it so if you were to buy an
inexpensive 4K TV from Seiki or check
this out this is a review that's coming soon an inexpensive 4k monitor from the
likes of Samsung so yes guys I have gotten myself the ud 590 from Samsung 4K
28 in TN monitor available for $700 Holy
balls um then you would be able to map a
pixel to every pixel and enjoy that content natively but I'm just not
necessarily convinced especially from what I've seen of that monitor so far I
did have one open at NCI today that I was able to check out not convinced that
it's really worth it all right direct X12 will double Xbox One performance so
this was originally posted by top war gamer on the lest Tech tips Forum thank
you very much for posting that and the original article is from bgr.com so they
have a gamechanging update that will double Xbox One performance
now my problem with this is comes back
to the whole NVIDIA discussion earlier where it's are you really going to be
providing double the performance or is it going to be like double the performance in one game that was already
fairly well optimized anyway and it's not really going to make a difference to
most people um and other than that is it just going to be a marginal incremental Improvement
um and and I don't know yet there's still a lot of room for Microsoft to
improve things about the Xbox one but a lot of the benefits of direct X12 seem
to have to do at least from what Microsoft said maybe they're keeping
some of their cards close to their chest but a lot of the benefits seem to have
to do with allowing more low-level programming for the GPU from the game
makers but that's something that we've already had on consoles for quite some
time and it's something that Sony could just as easily enable on their platform
whether they're using directx11 or directx12 and from what I've heard like
word on the street is that we're not that far away from bare metal on these
consoles already anyway so that to me kind of goes okay well if we've unlocked
a lot of the potential of the hardware is this just going to be software Tom
Foolery and and smoke and mirrors in
order to try to get games to run at 108p cuz that's one of the claims that
they're making or is this a total Game
Changer as you say and it remains to be seen this and also remains to be seen oh
yeah I remember where I was going with this sorry guys again like my train of thoughts just like run away I haven't
slept a lot this week um right Microsoft
still has a lot of room to improve things whether this update improves
anything or not because their whole cloud-based compute thing where they can
use that for physics effects or simulation stuff where it's not terribly
important that you know the waves of the ocean react with the same split-second
precision as an opponent um so there's a lot of room for Xbox One to improve its
performance I just don't know that this is going to be the difference between
50% performance and 100% performance but
it will bring multi-core processing to the Xbox One something that you know I
am kind of baffled that it didn't have in the first place but I you look at how
long Microsoft's been working on Direct X12 I guess they're just kind of waiting
it out they're going to wait till it's done they're going to release it when
it's actually ready so because I think they said what they've been working on it for four years now
all right uh seate has announced a 6
terabyte hard drive it spins at 7200 RPM
so this is not your this is not your you know Grandpa's cheesy high-capacity hard
drive that spins at lower RPMs in order to make it reliable enough to deliver
that kind of capacity it speeds at 7200 RPM it's available in 2 3 4 5 and six
terabyte capacity points it has 128 megabytes of cache it can feature a SATA
6 GB per second interface and up to a SAS 12 GB per second interface it does
not rely on being helium filled like
Tachi 6 tbte drive and Seagate is using
what they're calling their eighth generation perpendicular magnetic
Recording Technology and what the register is has figured is five platters
to achieve this Milestone
um great I guess I mean it's going to be
really cool for for people who want to have lots of storage I think that for
quite a while it was stagnant to the point where I kind of went okay what is
what is the upgrade path for someone who has a dual Bay Nas because we've only
gone from like one terabyte to three terabytes in the last little while and
like it's gotten to the point now where you don't look at that and go okay
that's triple the capacity you look at that and go like oh that's only 2
terabytes more and I'm I'm accumulating data at such a rate that it's not
necessarily enough I mean to me this is exciting because it is a legitimate
upgrade for someone who bought sweet spot you know two terabyte drives quite
some time ago where now they can triple their capacity and that means adding a
full eight more terabytes of storage to their setup um but other than that I got
don't know I guess it's another hard drive it's going to support you know
encryption it's um it's oh okay what's cool is they are
going to have one available right off the Hop that is rated for 24/7 operation
and some ludicrous number RS per year I think it was something like
500 uh hold on I don't want to I don't want to quote this wrong because I've
made up enough things on this show 550 terabytes per year so that's Enterprise
class types of workloads right there so that's that's exciting I guess but those
drives will continue to be more expensive than most consumers will be
willing to spend I guess for me it's just I guess it's a shot in the ARM for
mechanical storage because especially now that we're getting one terabyte ssds
in that dangerous $500 price range it's
starting to look pretty tough to justify a hard drive as your boot drive if
you're someone who's you know buying a reasonably high performance computer now
our next topic this was originally posted on the Forum by querty Warrior
thank you very much and the original article is from next PowerUp beta is
Project Ara some more details emerge
Project Ara um has received a module
developer kit 1.0 release that has outed
some of the guidelines so it does a couple of things here is it shows off
what we can expect a project R smartphone to look like so we've got a
side view where they show what the screen and in this case looks like
speaker and front camera module will look like and how it will be sandwiched
sandwiched with the rear modules which can be sizes like this so 1X two 2x two
or 1 by one which will contain things like uh processors batteries and all
kinds of cool stuff like that and more importantly than anything else this um
MDK 1.0 news reveals that an aura phone if
you have a couple of batteries on it will actually be capable of staying
powered on not only while you swap a battery like right now that's the phone
feature to have and that's like why Samsung keeps building plastic phones is
uh a user replaceable battery so that if you run out you could switch it out well
Project Ara phones I should probably stop stop calling it Project R so while
an ARA phone will allow you to hot swap
a battery so you will actually be able to leave the phone on while you replace
your battery with something else or or like if you got like a couple batteries
on you just be like yeah I'll pop this one off and put a replacement on there
run off this one in the meantime that is really really cool there are some more
guidelines so they're saying that the module should have a smooth flat Pebble
form and they are saying that we can expect to see three different form
factors mini medium and large which will presumably be some kind of a fablet and
is coming later after mini and medium
size our next topic and this will actually be our last topic this has been
a fairly concise show I've gotten through everything that I really had uh
planned fairly quickly here this was posted by Alex Goes high on the Forum
and the original article is from The Verge and Google will for one day let
anyone in the US by glass it will come
with a free um shade in addition to the
Google Glass itself and it will be available for we are let me have a look
Google is about to make okay I don't see any confirmation here includes of
Explorer Program expansion on April 15th yep there we go so it will include a
free frame or shade with the purchase and it will cost $1,500 just like it has
for everyone who's joined the Explorer Program now I actually bought a Google
Glass not that long ago um and so if
there's anyone in Canada or outside of the US who wants to buy mine off me
because quite frankly I didn't end up using it pretty much at all it's
extremely uncomfortable for me I'll be willing to sell mine for500 and I'll
throw in I have uh I have a clear lens and I have a shaded lens and it's in
basically prisin condition I've hardly touched the thing so there you go Google
I'm one uping you by allowing someone anywhere in the world on the 11th not
the 15th to pay $1,500 for a Google glass instead I'm just trying to recoup
my my money on it cuz I just found it too uncomfortable to use the problem
that a lot of people don't have but for me is a big issue is the way that it
sits on your ears because my ears are not level on my head so when I hold my
head uppr right my ears are wonky it's hard to tell unless I'm wearing glasses
but all glasses sit on me like this and what happens with Google Glass is that
that puts the Display Way outside of where I can actually read the things so
I just I was going to do a review on it but I was just like you know what screw
it this is so uncomfortable it hurts after after like half an hour I'm not
finding it useful cuz I can't even see the thing so forget it and I intended to
flip it like ages ago and then I never got around to it so this is as good an
opportunity as any so I'll be doing that uh on the garage sale after wow
here and I think wow I think that might
be pretty much it I planned to have Luke join me um to call into the show for you
know packs East First Impressions or something like that but uh
I
haven't
okay please just big favor oh okay so
there's that nope nope I don't have a reply from Luke so it looks like he
won't be joining us thank you guys very
much for joining me on the show people are asking for a Pebble Steel review in
twitch chat yes that's coming I ordered one still not here so that's going to be
part of my review that's for sure and uh
or are they just asking for a pebble review I've done a pebble review my
Pebble review has like 200,000 views you guys someone's like call Luke
I won't be calling Luke he's roaming right now so that would be uh that would
be that would be a big uh that'd be a big problem thank you very much guys for
tuning in all 4100 of you I am always
just so overwhelmed that so many of you give up your Friday afternoon or Friday
evening to spend it with me and hear about the latest technology um stay
tuned tuned for all the pack EAS content that's coming this weekend so that is
brought to you by Intel and Corsair and
a huge thanks to Luke and Brandon for giving up their sleep and their weekend
and in Luke's case his health he's actually sick and he's still doing the
trip so like rock on brother huge thanks to them for bringing us a bunch of cool
content from the show and I will see you guys next week on The W show same bat
Time same bat Channel