What... IS this thing!? - WEIRD tech @ CES 2019
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·TechLinked
·2019-05-06
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could you like move this way a bit i mean
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wait for real what that's kanye west
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that's pretty funny it's day five of techlink's coverage of ces our last
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episode of the week and as you can see we're pretty much ready to go you ready
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to go pella we gotta get out of here but first the
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weirdest stuff episode ces is fantastic
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for showing off the newest technology but innovation doesn't always look
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pretty or even makes sense so we're taking a look at some of the weirdest
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tech at ces 2019 because there's a lot the whole episode is going to be one big
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quick bits ready pella
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you're not even paying attention he's on his phone now i know we've talked about
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the love ott a number of times in this channel already but i just wanted to
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mention it again in the weirdest stuff episode like
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it's a pet baby and people seem to actually like it like what am i missing
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here maybe i actually love the lavat and that's why it bugs me so much maybe we
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have one of those complicated relationships like sometimes you want to kill your siblings but if someone else
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bad mouths them you're like hey that's my robot pet baby speaking of
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babies babe buys is a small camera
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designed to be stuck to your baby so you can record precious moments from the
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baby's point of view the reasoning kind of makes sense people rarely remember
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anything from their first few years of life so this is a way to preserve some
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of those memories but would i want to remember my parents facial expressions
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as they were changing my diapers
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i could do without it edsel what's the best thing about having a pet uh the
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companionship companionship wrong it's
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the tail obviously that's why japanese company
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yukai engineering made the kubo a furry pillow with an electronic tail that wags
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when you stroke it and wags faster when you bop it
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that's the stupidest thing ever you're not sold and sometimes it wags for no
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discernible reason at all you can't tell why it's wagging because it doesn't have
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a face or limbs i mean if you're getting a love odd you might as well pick this
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up too you know robot pet baby things gotta catch em all well if you do have a
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cat like a real one you could take advantage of the little cat an exercise
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wheel for felines with a laser pointer built right in trick your cat into
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exercising until it collapses from exhaustion while you're at work you can
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even watch and laugh at your pet from a connected camera
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pets are so stupid should have just gotten the furry alien pillow
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you like pets pella you like pets
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and this isn't a weird product so much as it's a weird statement by apple you
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might have seen that apple put up a giant ad that's directly visible from the ces main entrance where we are that
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reads what happens on your iphone stays on your iphone well as troy wolverton at
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business insider points out that might be somewhat true for some iphone users
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who don't use icloud and who don't
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search using google which is the default search engine on iOS and who don't use
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facebook or any of the other apps from the companies you're throwing shade at
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with this ad apple itself doesn't collect iphone users data and sell it to companies but
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like that doesn't make it a magically safe phone with impenetrable security so
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apple's advertising adage is about as true as the one about vegas what happens
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in vegas saying vegas about it does it they're gonna find out now before we
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continue down the weirdness list we gotta thank our sponsor c sonic who
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helped make techlink ces trip possible some companies try to be a jack of all
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trades and end up being a master of none but see sonic they make good power
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supplies how long have they been making power supplies 40 years when you've been
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engineering something for 40 years chances are you're pretty good at it sea
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performance so if you need a psu for your next build or upgrade do yourself a
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favor and make it c-sonic guys check them out at the link below vr motion
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sickness is a thing as ed can attest i didn't even know you would be here when
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i wrote when i was gonna film this but i wrote that always think of me
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i like it so you might think that adding vr headsets to the back seat of a car is
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not the best idea but audi disagrees
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it's co-founded a startup called hollowride to develop a vr game that
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uses their new e-tron's suv's movements
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to inform what the virtual experience looks like and the results are
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apparently pretty good i have this thing on the weird list but it's kind of weird and
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cool at the same time i'm conflicted google amazon and
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facebook have made smart displays that are meant to sit in common areas in a
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home like the living room or kitchen but ge is skipping all that and sticking a
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smart display right on kitchen appliances the kitchen hub is a 27-inch
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Android-powered display meant to sit above your stove so grandma can guide
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you through making her special recipe as if you had captured her essence and
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imprisoned her in your stove speaking of ovens what if you didn't
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even need to cook your food yourself the whirlpool smart countertop oven has a
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camera inside which will be able to scan and recognize select frozen foods
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automatically choosing the best settings to cook your tv dinner to absolute
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perfection i can taste the slightly less rubbery
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meat now here's something that's weird and cool as well the cosmo communicator
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a flip phone with a physical keyboard an external mini display and two usb-c
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ports james took a look at it because he was baffled that so many people funded
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this device on indiegogo but walked away
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only slightly less confused and one thing i'm confused about is the welt a
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smart belt that takes health tracking features
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like steps taken and time spent inactive and adds active waist size tracking the
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name apparently came from combining the words wearable and belts
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not from the brews you could get while using this as something other than a
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securing device but also something to think about regular belts that don't
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have fitness tracking are also wearables
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and we already talked about kohler's nume 2.0 intelligent toilet but this is
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the weirdest stuff episode so i it's got to be in here so there it is
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come on all right that's it for this episode guys and that's it for our time
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here at ces thanks for watching this week next week we'll be back in the
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studio and back to our regular monday wednesday friday schedule ces it's been
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fun but i gotta bounce come on guys
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let's bounce come on let's go
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hello we gotta come on we get yeah let's go edzel
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oh he's attached to the camera oh man see ya
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we gotta grab the bags gotta get the bags edzel come on