188: TechTime Does the Unboxing of CES 2024 the Good, Bad and Ugly. Chinese Mourners Use AI to Digitally Resurrect the Dead. Then is the Disney-Apple Partnership More Than Just Apple Vision Pro? | Air Date: 1/14 - 1/20/24

Ever wondered what happens when tech giants collide or when gadgets at CES make you question reality? That's what we're unpacking in a whirlwind tech roundup, complete with the drama of Apple's blood oxygen app disappearance and the potential Disney-Apple merger. Plus, we're slicing through the hype to give you the skinny on CES 2024's wildest inventions, from a headset that's straight out of a sci-fi flick to a washing bot that might just redefine laziness. And because we're all about that balanced life, we're throwing in a whiskey-tasting interlude – because tech talk goes down better with a smooth sip.

But it's not all flashy headsets and quirky robots. As we lay down the facts, we invite you to ponder the true meaning of ownership in our digital age – is it merely a fleeting privilege, or should we demand more? We'll also touch on the poignancy of AI in China, where technology grapples with human heartstrings in an attempt to resurrect memories of loved ones.

To cap off, we're daydreaming about smart homes that recognize your palm, and pet tech that's so advanced, you'll wonder if your furry friend needs a personal assistant. And because the future isn't just about what's in your pocket or on your wrist, we look to the skies and speculate on whether flying cars will turn the daily grind into a daily glide. So, connect, subscribe, and let's continue this tech-adventurous journey together on TechTime Radio. Cheers to staying savvy in a world where tech never sleeps!

Episode 188: Starts at 1:49

This week on TechTime with Nathan Mumm®, On today's episode, we'll explore the new Disney-Apple partnership. Is there more than just the immersive Apple Vision Pro headset? We'll also discuss why Apple is removing the Blood Oxygen app from its devices and whether this is a good move for consumers. Plus, we'll give you our CES 2024 review, with the best and worst gadgets from the biggest tech show of the year. And finally, we'll look back at the Huygens probe, the first and only spacecraft to land on Saturn's moon Titan, and we have a special Nathan Nugget.

Thank you for tuning in to TechTime Radio with Nathan Mumm, the show that makes you go "Humm" Technology news of the week for January 14th - 20th, 2024

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--- [Top Stories in Technology]: Starts at 4:48

• Redesigned Apple Watch not subject to import ban, US officials determine - http://tinyurl.com/3t9cxfsm
• What is this Disney-Apple Partnership, that goes into effect on February 2? - http://tinyurl.com/bddmdwd6
• Chinese mourners use AI to digitally resurrect the dead - http://tinyurl.com/yf7zyfww

--- [Pick of the Day - Whiskey Tasting Reveal]: Starts at 24:34
Yamasaki 12 Years Old Whisky | 86 Proof | $90.00

--- [2024 Review of CES]: Starts at 27:20
Nathan Reviews the best items from the Consumer Electronics Show - CES 2024

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This Week in Technology: January 14, 2005 - Probe Lands on Titan
 
--- [Marc's Whiskey Mumble]: Starts at 42:37
Marc Gregoire's review of this week's whiskey

--- [Technology Fail of the Week]: Starts at 45:38
This week’s “Technology Fail” comes to us from CES. Nathan looks at some of the not-so-bright ideas from the Las Vegas show.

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Question: If you could live in VR world forever, would you choose this over the real world?

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Ran out of Time

--- [Pick of the Day Whiskey Review]: Starts at 54:07
Yamasaki 12 Years Old Whisky | 86 Proof | $90.00
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Mike Gorday: 0:00

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Mike Gorday: 0:40

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Mike Gorday: 0:45

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Nathan Mumm: 1:49

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Nathan Mumm: 2:35

I'm Nathan Mum, your host and technologist, with over 30 years of technology expertise working for Fortune 500 companies across the country. Today in studio we have our co-host, mike Gorday. Mike's an award winning author originally from Arizona. Mike is a human behavior expert living in the Seattle area with a master's degree in forensic psychology. Mike is here to keep me from geeking out while providing insight into human behavior and how it interacts with technology. And we got some CES stuff. So we've got a bunch of robots. We're gonna be talking about your favorite today, right? And of course, we have Odie behind the board producing this and keeping us on track for today's show. We are friends from different backgrounds, but bring the best technology show possible Every week for our family, friends and fans to enjoy. Welcome everyone. Let's start today's show. ["the New Disney Apple?

Speaker 4: 3:24

Partnership"]. Now on today's show.

Nathan Mumm: 3:30

All right. Today on Tech Time with Nathan Mum, we explore the new Disney Apple partnership. Is there more than just the immersive Apple Vision Pro headset? Is there something brewing here? I think we're gonna have a great article about that and I think there is. We're also gonna discuss why Apple is removing the blood oxygen app from its devices and whether it's a good move for consumers. Plus, we'll give you our CES 2020 review with the best and worst gadgets from the biggest tech show of the year. And finally, we'll look at the Hygiene's probe, the first and only spacecraft to land on Saturn's moon, titan.

Nathan Mumm: 4:06

And we have, of course, a special Nathan nugget. In addition, we have our standard features, including Mike's mesmerizing moment. Our technology failed the week which comes to us from CES on the top four items that makes your head just go wow and makes you scratch it, saying what the heck are you developing? And a possible Nathan nugget. So sit back, raise a glass and welcome to Tech Time Radio. As always, we'll have our pick of the day whiskey tasting during the commercials. Let's see if our selected whiskey pick gets zero, one or two thumbs up by the end of the show. So sit back and raise a glass and welcome to Tech Time with Nathan Mum. Now it's time for the latest headline, for the latest headlines in the world of technology. You sure about that?

Speaker 4: 4:48

Here are our top technology stories of the week.

Nathan Mumm: 4:52

Yeah, someone's phone went off. You know, I forgot to say is the phone off side? Just had me all flustered.

Mike Gorday: 4:57

Nobody needs to know about your Siri phone talking during the radio.

Nathan Mumm: 5:01

Okay all right. Story number one US Customs and Border Protection have determined that the Apple's redesigned watch is now not subject to an import ban, according to the Monday court filings. Let's go to our own, tom Geichen, with more on the story.

Speaker 5: 5:18

US Customs and Border Protection has determined that Apple's redesigned Apple Watch is not subject to an import ban. According to a Monday court filing, the import ban issued by the US International Trade Commission applies to Apple's current Series 9 and Ultra II watches and stems from a patent infringement dispute with the medical monitoring technology company Massimo. Massimo has accused Apple of hiring away its employees and stealing its pulse oximetry technology to use in Apple watches. Apple has countersued, calling Massimo's legal actions a maneuver to clear a path for its own competing smartwatch. Back to you in the studio.

Nathan Mumm: 6:00

All right. So the ITC essentially barred Apple's import and sales of the watches for one day during the holidays, and then they got an injunction to re-allow them to sell their watches. Now, what's interesting about this is that still, massimo, as this medical company that essentially has the patent, they're not solving the problem with the existing watches. They're not stop making the hardware of these watches themselves, but what's interesting, though, is they're still kind of up in the air on if they actually remove this feature from your Apple Watch Series 9 and the Apple Watch Ultra II, essentially moving forward with a software patch. So let's talk about this.

Nathan Mumm: 6:46

If I buy an Apple Watch right, I buy it specifically for some of the features that they advertise, and then, all of a sudden, they get in a patent lawsuit and they have to remove functionality and features that they advertise. What happens next? Is that false advertising? Do you just import different technology to take care of it? Kind of a big deal that Apple hasn't just paid off, which I'm sure they could have done with some type of payment to Massimo for this technology, but they are still deciding to kind of play in this limbo space for the time being. So now you have a watch right.

Mike Gorday: 7:25

No.

Nathan Mumm: 7:26

You don't have a I don't use watches. You don't use watches, no, okay, so I use an Apple Watch. Yes, I know.

Mike Gorday: 7:31

You have your Dick Tracy thing going on.

Nathan Mumm: 7:33

Yeah, I do I really like it, and an avatectime listener responded to our last show when we talked about this. His name was Cliff London and essentially he wrote us and said that he's okay with this happening if it doesn't affect the older models. But the primary reason that he owns an Apple Watch is because he's an aviation pilot and he actually uses the pulse oxygenator to actually take a look when he's flying and use that instead of having to use other medical devices that he would have had to use previously. So he writes this and says, hey, all about them changing these new items, but they better not brick the watch for me, which means essentially lock that feature out on their current watches.

Nathan Mumm: 8:18

Because of the lawsuit itself, apple tried to rewrite software during the holidays. They got all their engineers together and they tried to fix this and rewrite software. They have a new way of using this hardware device in the phone itself. But it's undetermined still at this time if Apple continues to sell their watches, if they're gonna have to create a software patch to stop using this actual hardware piece. If that does, I think not only myself but many, many users that have bought these watches are gonna look to Apple and say what are you gonna do for us Now? Is that fair or unfair?

Mike Gorday: 8:56

I don't know. Do you think it's fair? Well, so if I bought something for a feature, I mean, here we've got a problem where, allegedly, apple is stealing technology from somebody else and using it in their watches and then pawning it off on all these Apple devotees. Yeah, right, yeah, regardless of whether or not it's useful or not. Yeah, and they're getting in trouble.

Nathan Mumm: 9:24

They hired the employees from Massimo to come and work on the technical.

Mike Gorday: 9:28

Well they're getting in trouble for doing that. And if it results in, you know them having to block certain applications on their thing. Is it fair? No, it's not fair. So it kind of reminds me of like purchasing movies.

Nathan Mumm: 9:42

Have you purchased any digital movies? Yeah, so I purchased digital movies. Some of those digital movies.

Mike Gorday: 9:47

Yeah, you can't use them anymore.

Nathan Mumm: 9:49

I can't use them anymore, but I paid for the digital movie.

Mike Gorday: 9:51

This is the big problem with technology right.

Nathan Mumm: 9:54

You pay for something, you expect it to be there and then, all of a sudden, they decide to drudge it up and decide to remove it. Yeah, A feature whether that's a movie, whether that's items, even if you pay for something, aren't you supposed to be able to have that? You know, there's a term out there called buyer beware.

Mike Gorday: 10:09

Yeah, and that still applies to everything that we do.

Ody: 10:13

I don't know if you're talking specifically about iTunes. But if we're throwing iTunes in, they say in their terms and conditions that you're basically leasing the movie.

Nathan Mumm: 10:22

Yep.

Ody: 10:23

Or whatever. The item is the music, podcast, movie, whatever which is so incredibly frustrating because you are paying for it. Correct, you would assume, if I buy the digital, not the digital, copy I buy a blue rang.

Nathan Mumm: 10:33

The digital copy as I guess you bring up a good I mean straight up iTunes.

Mike Gorday: 10:38

When it was before all this other stuff happened, I had bought a whole lot of stuff on iTunes. I can't even access it unless I use their monthly fee.

Nathan Mumm: 10:50

Which is ridiculous. Apple, yeah, they're music places. Apple music, yeah.

Mike Gorday: 10:54

Yeah, so I can't access the things that I quote unquote on. Is it fair? No, but am I going to pay them? No, so. I'll go, I'll go rebuy, I'll buy something else, okay.

Nathan Mumm: 11:08

All right. Well, let's you know what. Hopefully, hopefully, Apple gets a little bit better in story. I don't know.

Mike Gorday: 11:13

Maybe they're. Maybe Apple will mess around and everybody will figure out that they're not as awesome as everybody sees the picture. You know what?

Nathan Mumm: 11:20

They can produce something and people are so devoted to that company now that they're just waiting lines all over everyone. It's ridiculous. All right Story. Number two buddy.

Mike Gorday: 11:27

We're going to keep talking about Apple. Uh-oh, are we? What's up next? I don't know if it. I think it was. Last year we had a. We talked about a possible merger with Disney and Apple.

Nathan Mumm: 11:38

I did. We talked about it on an episode back in February of 2023.

Mike Gorday: 11:43

Yep, it might have been then.

Nathan Mumm: 11:45

And essentially I predicted. I said this is kind of coming out of the blue, but I believe is. Specifically before Iger came back in charge of Disney, I said I think Apple is looking to purchase Disney itself and then actually take their intellectual property, their IP, all the items that they have to be able to be a part of their platform system.

Mike Gorday: 12:06

We'll see. Okay, so Apple-Disney partnership goes into effect on February the 2nd. Hmm. Uh, so a partnership that's been more than six months in the making will officially go into effect on the 2nd of February this year, for an announcement from Apple Inc via press release. Uh, since this, back in November 2022, just days after Walt Disney Company's board of directors removed then CEO Bob Chappec, replacing him with veteran CEO Bob Iger I'm on back. Yep, so that was in 2022. Maybe this was two years old. Oh, maybe it was two years old, maybe, maybe.

Mike Gorday: 12:45

Media outlets began to overflow with news about the potential merger of the Walt Disney Company and Apple. Uh Iger announced at that time a complete overall and restructuring at Disney effective immediately, before delving into the specifics of cost cutting initiative Also effective immediately that was aimed at trimming 5.5 billion in expenditures at the company. The plan included the layoffs of 7,000 employees and, according to upper management, no one knew who would be let go and no one was safe. Uh, weeks later, disney's up tops were told to compile a list of their quote, unquote, useless and replaceable employees. That's a harsh thing.

Nathan Mumm: 13:25

I use this as a hard word Disney, that is.

Mike Gorday: 13:28

The first time, a company was released for layoffs. Then, in three lashes of layoffs one that was referred to as a bloodbath Walt Disney Company purged itself of all their worthless employees once and for all. Wow, uh, so a real, a real Apple Disney partnership, announced over the summer, in June 2023. So I think we made a talk about this two years ago. Okay, so the announcement announced an upcoming partnership, the first time a representative from either company had spoken publicly about the proposition. But the announcement had nothing to do with an Apple buyout of Disney. Instead, disney had something that Apple needed, which was the first virtual reality project called Apple Vision Pro.

Nathan Mumm: 14:12

Oh yeah, apple Vision Pro goes on sale next month. I had the Apple rep contact me personally from a local Apple store and told me that I could actually, because it's like $1,500 for this device. It's a VR headset, yeah, and I could make payments on this because I absolutely needed it to replace my computer that I have, because I don't need a computer any longer. I'll have the screen on this and then we could update everybody at my company with this brand new technology and it'd be better than buying them any new screens.

Mike Gorday: 14:43

Yeah, did you go for it. Aren't you an Apple disciple?

Nathan Mumm: 14:47

Well, no, I'm not an Apple disciple and I'm not paying $1,500 for a VR device when I can get one from Quest, facebook and everything at a $299 price point.

Mike Gorday: 14:55

Yeah but that one doesn't act like a computer.

Nathan Mumm: 14:57

Well, okay.

Mike Gorday: 14:58

Oh well, when an app released on Monday, Apple announced the rollout of its Apple Vision Pro headset, setting the availability date as February. The second Okay yep Ah coincidental. Yeah, pre-orders will begin January 19th of this year. Vision Pro is a revolutionary spatial computer that transforms how people work. Okay, so these are all just other advertising stuff.

Nathan Mumm: 15:22

And the Apple CEO, Tim Cook. What did he say about this bad boy?

Mike Gorday: 15:26

Apple Vision Pro is the most advanced consumer electronic device ever created. It's revolutionary, magical user interface where you define how we connect, create and explore.

Nathan Mumm: 15:35

There's that magic, magical, magical. That's that Disney trademark name. Too right, that's what they do, that's what they do magical.

Mike Gorday: 15:41

It would be that this Disney-Apple partnership is only the first leg of the journey towards a full acquisition of the Apple or the Walt Disney Company by Apple.

Nathan Mumm: 15:48

After all.

Mike Gorday: 15:50

Apple owns the Vision Pro and Disney's content will stream on an Apple-owned device thanks to the new partnership, not the other way around. Yep, I guess we'll wait for the answer to that question while fans and Wall Street analysts alike are watching on the side.

Nathan Mumm: 16:07

So I own the Apple stock and I own Disney stock. So this is the real conundrum Do you buy Apple stock because they're going to purchase Disney, which would increase? I know that would make sense. Or do you buy Disney stock and Apple purchase it at a high price, which gives it a high price value? Or does your Disney stock merge in if they purchase them into an Apple type?

Mike Gorday: 16:30

Why are you asking me? I'm not a financial guy. Those are the questions that I asked myself at night, when I you should have asked the Apple guy that called you about the headset.

Nathan Mumm: 16:40

He was a sales guy. I did say, hey, I'd be really interested to try one out for a couple weeks. He's like, yeah, you and everybody else I'm calling. I said, okay, well, clearly you have to do a demo for all these people you're calling and then maybe we'll see how great it is. I'm not going to buy something that I saw, a video, pre-cut up with inspirational music, everything that Apple does for their marketing churn and burn system, which is very successful. I would want to see it and test it first before I say yeah or no.

Mike Gorday: 17:08

You're going to say it anyway.

Nathan Mumm: 17:10

I may end up liking it and say that's the greatest thing.

Mike Gorday: 17:12

Well, that's true, because you get pretty hooked on things.

Nathan Mumm: 17:15

I do, and I changed my mind too. I may hate something for a while.

Mike Gorday: 17:18

I think there's like a bajillion things from that you're still waiting to get from Kickstarter.

Nathan Mumm: 17:25

I still haven't gotten my boxing VR thing that. I paid for that was like episode 6, 7, 8.

Mike Gorday: 17:30

Yeah, that was like four years ago, yeah, it was a while ago.

Nathan Mumm: 17:33

All right, let's go on to story number two. Story number three buddy oh story number three Chinese mourners use AI to digitally resurrect the dead. Let's go to Karine Westland for more on the story.

Speaker 7: 17:49

Chinese mourners use AI to digitally resurrect the dead. Mr Wu and his wife were devastated when Xuan Mo, their only child, died of a sudden stroke in 2022 while attending Exeter University in Britain. The accounting and finance student, keen sportsman and posthumous organ donor had such a rich and varied life, said Mr Wu. Following a boom in deep learning technologies like chatGPT in China, mr Wu began researching ways to resurrect him. He gathered photos, videos and audio recordings of his son and spent thousands of dollars hiring AI firms to clone his son's face and voice. The results so far are rudimentary, but he has also set up a work team to create a database containing vast amounts of information on his son. Mr Wu hopes to feed it into powerful algorithms to create an avatar capable of copying his son's thinking and speech patterns with extreme precision, and I am sure this is a story that will make the listeners go hum.

Nathan Mumm: 18:49

Alright, stricken by grief. Mr Wu and his wife have joined a growing number of Chinese people turning to AI technology to create life-like avatars of the departed loved ones that they miss. So let's talk about that. Essentially, he went through all the data that he has, all the pictures that he has, all the information he has about his son, hires AI firms to recreate a likeness of him. So he goes all the time to his cemetery, he puts his AI phone out there and he tries to have conversations with his son in this AI. It's not that great, so the video that is online of this it's pretty sketched on hearing all of the dialogue that he has. Now I don't know Chinese so I don't know if that's a good translation or not. Just to be honest, but it does sound very robotic in voice that they have there. I asked the question of is this something that's going to catch on? Because they now have 30 companies that have opened up in China specifically doing this as a grieving process for people that are paying enormous amount of money.

Mike Gorday: 19:57

So psychologically speaking here this is probably going to go crazy. But it doesn't mean it's healthy, because the grieving process is about letting go, and if you have something that is a constant, continual reminder of your loss, that you're interacting with and forming a pair of relationship with, that is going to probably stunt the grieving process, so it's going to make it longer and longer, and so this might not be an unhealthy this might not be a healthy avenue for grieving.

Mike Gorday: 20:36

All right, so I'm not sure what they're posing here as part of the grieving process, but yeah.

Nathan Mumm: 20:43

So you don't have to grieve because the idea is so that's a problem, you don't have to grieve.

Mike Gorday: 20:47

See, that's and this is a human thing. We don't want to experience pain. Yeah, unfortunately we have to, and part of part of growth in ourselves is understanding and dealing with that pain, if we have something that's sitting there replacing that pain with something we're not dealing with it.

Nathan Mumm: 21:14

So in the last year, 30 companies plus have started GoSpots in the United States. These are avatars, ranging for those who died to living parents and able to spend time with your children, or, essentially, a heartbroken woman's former boyfriend.

Mike Gorday: 21:29

Yeah, see this is-, so it really doesn't sound like a really great idea.

Nathan Mumm: 21:34

Clients can even hold video calls with staff members from these companies. Some of these companies who essentially sit across a computer that have a face and voice digital overlay of the person that they're communicating to, so they can have a one-on-one conversation.

Mike Gorday: 21:49

Yeah, this doesn't really sound all that healthy to me.

Nathan Mumm: 21:52

You know, I think this is a good idea, I'm sure it's gonna be a hit, because that's the way things are.

Mike Gorday: 21:58

When we talk about the interaction of human behavior and technology, it is almost significantly negative. Okay, well, this must be breaking because nobody at CES had this.

Nathan Mumm: 22:10

They got a lot of other stuff that we're gonna be talking about, but nobody had these AI for the dead, or at least they weren't advertising AI for the dead. They were advertising AI for everything else. I just find this interesting specifically China. This is hot, hot, hot topics.

Speaker 3: 22:25

United.

Nathan Mumm: 22:25

States now, all of a sudden, the last year, now that they got 30 plus companies that are coming up with this idea. So essentially, you never have to grieve. You just put the person into an Android and then you can still have conversations with the rest of your life. Wow, what happens if you got a whole family, Like if you get really addicted to this, and then your kid dies?

Mike Gorday: 22:44

and you have a kid, you have a wife, you got. Well, there's a problem, we got a fallout. It's a problem. This is a problem. The video game.

Nathan Mumm: 22:51

That's literally what you have right All robotic people interacting with people.

Mike Gorday: 22:56

This is a problem, okay. All right well it's going to be a problem? I think it's probably going to be a hit and everybody's going to buy it, but it's going to be a problem. We're going to see a lot more people going to therapy.

Nathan Mumm: 23:06

All right, well, there you go. Well, that ends our top technology stories of the week. We'll return after our commercial break with the review of CES 2024. You're listening to Tech Time with Nathan Mum. See you after this. This is.

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Nathan Mumm: 24:26

Welcome back to Tech Time with Nathan Mum. Tech Time's a weekly hour technology show that talks about current technology in a simple format Without having to geek out, brought to you by myself and Mike Herday. We just had our first whiskey tasting here in the break. Now let me tell you about what we are sipping in our pick of the day Today during the show, we have chosen the Yamasaki 12-year-old whiskey 86 proof, $90 a bottle From the Santuri's website. The Yamasaki whiskey is the flagship single malt whiskey from Japan's first and oldest malt distillery, with a range of options from the distillery reserve to 12, 18, and 25 years old.

Nathan Mumm: 25:06

All of these are prized whiskies containing carefully blended components aged in American, spanish and Japanese oak. On the palate you can find coconut, cranberry butter and a long finish with sweet ginger and cinnamon. If you're not listening on the radio, please do not forget to like and subscribe. In addition, feel free to add comments. That was from Mark, who is not in studio with us. He's given us the information here Now let me just tell you I taste the cranberries. I taste a little bit of the ginger. I'm a big ginger and cinnamon guy. I like ginger, so I'm tasting some of those on the aftertaste that we go through.

Mike Gorday: 25:44

Heligensis Island, ginger.

Nathan Mumm: 25:45

Well, no, no, no. Well, actually like a little ginger sauce my wife makes for when we do chicken and stuff is pretty good. No, it's ginger onions and some other type of stuff that she puts in it. So it's pretty good, All right. What are you thinking of this whiskey? I like it so far.

Mike Gorday: 26:02

You like it so far? Yeah, I know Mark doesn't really like Japanese whiskies. I tend to like them. I very much like rice wine and some well, not so much beers but whiskies. Yeah.

Nathan Mumm: 26:19

So the smash bill is 100% molted barley. Now the price is $90 or $150 on the secondary market. So this is kind of. I got this as a gift. My brother got this for my birthday and so I told him we'd be sipping in on the show and I'm kind of liking it. I'm not gonna say that I'm gonna give it a thumbs up, but if you notice, the cap was already opened before it got opened here on the show, so maybe my brother and I celebrated on my birthday.

Mike Gorday: 26:46

You pre-taste everything, buddy, I did, I did. I'm the only one here that doesn't taste anything until we do the show.

Nathan Mumm: 26:53

Yeah, yeah, that's right, you're right. I'm sorry, that's what you have to say. Well, actually she may.

Mike Gorday: 26:58

Oh, that's how Odie sometimes says it when she helps us taste but I'm the only one that waits until the show to actually taste it for the first time. Everybody else, except for it was a bad whiskey, pre-taste it.

Nathan Mumm: 27:08

All right, with our first whiskey tasting completed, let's move on to our feature segment. Today we are going to review the CES 20204 show in Las Vegas that happened last week. Let's start our segment Technology Insider.

Speaker 4: 27:21

Welcome to Technology Insider. We get the information directly from the source.

Nathan Mumm: 27:26

All right, so we're gonna be talking about a lot of stuff. So this is really a fun episode. We're gonna be talking about CES and then, in my technology fails we're gonna be talking about the bad things at CES Are you sure, yeah, so we're gonna have a good time here. Now let's talk about CES. Is crazy, right? There's a lot of people?

Mike Gorday: 27:42

I don't know. Every time we talk about CES, we always talk about toilets. So is there gonna be smart toilets this year?

Nathan Mumm: 27:49

You know what? It did not make it on my top list and it did not make me on the worst list.

Mike Gorday: 27:54

Oh, so there were some toilets. There were some toilets to bear. We should always talk about smart toilets.

Nathan Mumm: 27:59

Smart toilets, so they have one that will help you wipe instead of spray stuff I know, so we talked about that a little bit but it was kind of a cool invention.

Nathan Mumm: 28:09

Yeah, it was a Rotor-Rooter. Well, speaking of unique things you may have in the bathroom, we got the Eureka Dual Washing Bot. Okay, no one has ever said I wish my washer, dryer, robot vacuum and robot mop were all one device. But once you've seen this mashup, you can never go back and I want you to tell you that a huge part of my life, and everybody's life, is starting those rumbas. We have rumbas all around our house that clean our carpets.

Mike Gorday: 28:39

I have. That's one of the first things I replaced. Okay, Was my rumba your rumba on the fire. It's garbage too, buddy.

Nathan Mumm: 28:46

Okay, so it does a great job. Now they have rumbas that now have mops that can go over and take care of different areas. What if you had all of that? And instead of it being separate, it also connected with your washer machine and dryer. And not only that, but instead of having a washer machine and dryer stacked on top of each other, the washer machine also ends up washing the clothes, weights, drains, and then it becomes the dryer itself. Well, if you've ever looked for this device, now you have it. Essentially, the AI Dirt Detection Smart Robot slides underneath the washer machine when it's all done and it actually dumps the dirty water tanks into the same pipe as the washer machine with additional pushing from it, so that actually comes down. The water comes from the washer machine down and it cleans out the robot in there, so there's nothing that's left behind, no stickiness. It uses all that water when you wash your clothes to get rid of it when?

Mike Gorday: 29:43

So wait, so this thing doesn't go around your house and picking up your dirty clothes.

Nathan Mumm: 29:47

Well, it doesn't pick up your dirty clothes and then washing them? No.

Mike Gorday: 29:51

So this is a little robot vacuum that just goes and dumps the water out of your water.

Nathan Mumm: 29:55

Like a Roomba. So it's like a Roomba device. It's a Roomba device. It goes in, it will clean your floors across it, but then, instead of being its own separate device, it actually goes into the bottom tray of the washer machine slash dryer unit and then it stays there and then, when you actually wash your clothes, it will actually go through and empty out itself into the same line that you're getting rid of those items.

Mike Gorday: 30:18

It dumps the stuff at vacuums off your carpet into your dirty laundry water.

Nathan Mumm: 30:23

Yeah, it does. That's the way it cleans the system out itself, so nothing gets sticky in there it gets it. What's that?

Mike Gorday: 30:29

That's not good enough. Why is that? It's a cool concept, because when you said that. I wanted this freaking little machine walking through my house and picking up laundry and putting it in itself and washing. Oh, that's right. That's Rosie on the Jetsons.

Nathan Mumm: 30:43

That's right, that's not quite there yet, all right.

Mike Gorday: 30:45

Well, this essentially is only being licensed in China.

Nathan Mumm: 30:49

That's what I thought about when you said this was Rosie. Well, okay, this is only available in China due to licensing and an issue with a company that wants to sell it in North America, but they don't want to use the name Eureka's Dual Washing Bot, so there's some problems with that name. So they're trying to take care of that, but look for that to come hopefully soon that we'll take care of your washing, drying, robot vacuuming and robot mopping. All right, the next thing we have is a Bode Edge Camera. Now, the Bode's new security system camera caught the attention of everybody at CES for one big reason it's crazy wifi range.

Nathan Mumm: 31:25

Now, essentially, this is an outside security camera that uses the wifi halo system made by Morris Micro, giving it a mile of wireless range. So, essentially, you get a camera. Most of your cameras you have at your house. If you have them on a wireless system, they have to be near a wall and you're always shooting out at this. This one, you can take literally a mile away, point it back at your property and it will use your existing wifi.

Nathan Mumm: 31:50

With this technology on battery life and everything else that you would do for security processes, think of having a security camera placed anywhere on your property that you'd like to mounting it facing your home instead of away from your home to get a better view of your whole house. Six month battery life that comes with this. Essentially, this will be available in the next few months for $199. But it also comes with a price of $4 a month to access the AI features and 10 days of footage. So you pay 200 bucks for this device and then you have to pay $4 a month and they're on their own private security system. But if you have let's say you have a large piece of property and I have an okay sized piece of property and so this would be really good. I could put it at the corners of my fences and I can mount it up there. Hopefully no one steals it.

Mike Gorday: 32:38

Do you really need to?

Nathan Mumm: 32:41

Well, so what it really does is it gives people a perspective back, looking at your house for security versus the people walking into the security. What I would really like this for and I probably may buy one of these units is that I can set it up on my Wi-Fi and so if you come to my house and you try to take it down with the microcells, it could be on other people's Wi-Fi's in our neighborhood, and so I could really kind of make it because we're friends with everybody in our neighborhood, yeah, like Amazon, Amazon.

Nathan Mumm: 33:09

Well, let's say, amazon sidewalk. That's what happened.

Mike Gorday: 33:14

I got my new dot.

Nathan Mumm: 33:15

There you go, so you got your new Amazon dot.

Speaker 3: 33:19

Yeah, I had to replace my you know I had to replace everything.

Mike Gorday: 33:22

Yeah, I had to opt out of the sidewalk deal.

Nathan Mumm: 33:25

Oh yeah, because that comes on by default, I know, but it does for to be fair.

Mike Gorday: 33:29

I do like the Amazon. It did have a thing that said hey, this is automatically on Amazon sidewalk, do you want to use it?

Nathan Mumm: 33:39

Oh, did it say that?

Mike Gorday: 33:40

Yeah, oh that's really nice. Okay, that's cool. Yeah, so, to be fair, they did tell me about Amazon. They wanted me to use it. Of course they were like hey there's this great feature on Amazon sidewalk. We want you to keep it on and you said no.

Nathan Mumm: 33:53

The next thing we have. We have the Milo Action Communicator. Have you ever gone skiing or backpack with a group of people and you always have one person that goes off into La La Land, or they're too slow to keep up with the group, or they just want to experience a different deal. I mean, this is a trouble anytime you go camping with a large group of persons. That's why there's one that's always wants to be unique. Right Now I'm that guy.

Mike Gorday: 34:17

Okay, you're that guy. You're the guy Okay, I never go with groups.

Nathan Mumm: 34:20

Okay, so this will be yours. So the Milo Action Communicator essentially is a modern voice communication platform used for small groups. You clip a palm sized device to the outside of your jacket. It looks exactly like a Star Trek communicator. It looks exactly like that and essentially you have the availability to chat freely without worrying about clicking the right button or finding the right frequency. Anybody in your group, when you go on off, can take care of it. Now you can exercise this by saying Milo, which is hands free, and then you say Milo, talk to Sarah, milo talk to so and so, and then essentially tell them if they're in range or if they're not in range. Now, this goes up to 5,000 feet away.

Nathan Mumm: 35:01

So we're really doing a good job of using Wi-Fi and different around here, it probably wouldn't wouldn't be no, so this is actually developed in by an individual here in the Seattle area that goes on up all the time, Mountain hiking. So with this group of people and skiing, essentially I getting lost all the time the back yeah, it's, the battery lasts all day on a single charge and you can use either Bluetooth or a wired headset to listen and to chat in. So this is kind of like you now have a Star Trek communicator only for 5,000 feet away. So it's not quite spaceship to spaceship.

Mike Gorday: 35:35

Like I said, I don't do this stuff. But going with your friends, yeah, hiking, yeah, this is that sort of mean. You're hanging out with your friends.

Nathan Mumm: 35:45

Yeah, but there's always one. There's always one in a group of five or six. There's always that one that wants to either be ahead of everybody or they're hurting and they have to be behind everybody, and so you either all have to wait for that one or you just say okay so let go buddy and our rest of us was that just Darwin them.

Mike Gorday: 36:00

That's right. All right, yeah, see you back at the camp if you make it.

Nathan Mumm: 36:05

That's right If you can't hear the signal any longer, then that means that probably the person died, so then you can just continue on with life.

Mike Gorday: 36:11

No, they're outside of the 5,000 foot range.

Nathan Mumm: 36:14

They're a mile away, but you can get an AI of them if they pass away and they can have them forever with you whenever you go on your next trip. Right, all right, continuing on the next time, you still wander off at CES, the Belkin Auto Tracking Stand Pro with dock kit. Now, this is this. Magsafe charger for the iPhone launches very soon and it doubles as a 360 degree swirling tripod for your iPod camera.

Mike Gorday: 36:40

It means swiveling.

Nathan Mumm: 36:42

Are swiveling. There you go. Essentially this works with Apple's dock kit program and you put your phone in and it uses actually the near field technology to follow you around the room with the camera built in, both on the rear camera or the front facing camera of any of the Apple devices. So think of it on you know Microsoft Teams event or a zoom event that you're on and you just can't stand still.

Mike Gorday: 37:08

This is just going to follow you around.

Nathan Mumm: 37:10

What's that? Oh, this will be huge, for it, it'll be a TikTok thing.

Nathan Mumm: 37:13

No, well, it's already on. People are talking about on TikTok, but this is huge because now you can set it down and you can go and dance, you can go and do musical instruments and it zooms in on you. It stays on you when you move back and forth. This will be probably one of the hottest items to come out of CES that everybody is going to get, because nobody has two people when they're filming their TikTok stuff anymore. They only have themselves and they don't want to have their hands up holding it when you need to do two hand events. So that will be available. Pre-order sales are already happening right now for the MagSafe charger. Go and take a look at those online now. Now you know what. Nothing can be complete without a couple robots, and robots were a big trend again at CES 2020.

Nathan Mumm: 37:54

Sure, they were All right. There's brand new robots. We don't have time to talk about them in this deal, but we will tell you a little bit about them Now. The robots have balls at their bases, so like a big round, rosy. So now you're thinking of that rosy robot that moves back and forth. People are selling robots and pushing the robots specifically to help with hospital and nursing homes scenarios. So we may get one of these people to come on and talk more about how these robots work.

Mike Gorday: 38:22

Why is?

Nathan Mumm: 38:22

this, not a social robot. Flying cars are all the new Raven. Every year CES now in the last five years has had some flying vehicle, but the new one's called E-Voltol Flying Car. It essentially replaced the old company that went out of business, the Jetsons that promised.

Mike Gorday: 38:41

I know I said I thought they were all over this one last year. I thought they were going to take out, oh yeah.

Nathan Mumm: 38:46

But they're a brand new super car concept that you can be driving in this car with two people and it automatically transforms like an auto bot and transformer from the car vehicle into your flying vehicle with the press of a button. Yeah, let's talk about that that. Come on, That'll be. You're going down the highway and all of a sudden you're stuck on I-5. You hit the button, your helicopter comes off and you zoom away. All right.

Mike Gorday: 39:09

Yeah, you know what. You know what will happen. There'll be a bunch of people in a knot doing it and they all crash into each other. That would be a mess.

Nathan Mumm: 39:15

Just to get the insurance for that. That's going to be crazy, all right, well, that ends our 2024 review of CES. We have coming up next this weekend technology. So now would be a great time to enjoy a little whiskey on the side, as we will be doing so during the break. You're listening to Tech Time Radio with Nathan Mum. See you in a few minutes. Hey, mike, yo, what's up? Hey, so you know what. We need people to start liking our social media pages If you like our show, if you really like us we could use your support on patreoncom.

Mike Gorday: 39:45

Is it Patreon? I think it's Patreon. Okay, patreon, if you really like us. You can like us in patreoncom, I butcher the English language.

Nathan Mumm: 39:54

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Mike Gorday: 40:00

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Nathan Mumm: 40:05

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Mike Gorday: 40:17

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Nathan Mumm: 40:18

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Mike Gorday: 40:32

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Nathan Mumm: 40:37

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Speaker 4: 40:40

That's that simple. And now let's look back at this week in technology.

Nathan Mumm: 40:47

All right, mike, we're going to January 14th 2005. The probe lands on Titan. The European Space Agency's Hojin's probe lands on Saturn's moon, titan. This is the first landing ever accomplished in our outer solar system. The Hojin's was designed to enter and break into the Titan's atmosphere and parachute a fully instrumented robotic laboratory to the surface. When the mission was planned, it was not yet certain whether the landing site would be a mountain range, a flat plane, an ocean or something else. The Hojin's touched down on land, and the probe was designed to gather data for a few hours in the atmosphere and a possible short time on the surface. It continued, though, to send data after it came through the atmosphere for a full 90 minutes after touchdown.

Nathan Mumm: 41:34

That was this week in technology. If you ever wanted to watch some Tech Time history, with over 180 weekly broadcasts spanning three plus years video, podcast and blog information, you can visit us at TechTimeRadiocom or watch our older shows and join our Tech Timer Facebook group to talk with us live all the time. We're going to take a commercial break, but when we return, we have our Mark's Mumble Whiskey Review brought to us by Mr Gorday. See you after the break.

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Speaker 4: 42:37

The segment we've been waiting all week for. Here's your first whiskey mumble.

Nathan Mumm: 42:48

Yeah, here we are All right. What do we got today?

Mike Gorday: 42:51

This National Nothing Day? What National Nothing Day?

Nathan Mumm: 42:54

Mark has National Nothing Day.

Mike Gorday: 42:56

National Nothing Day, I guess out of all the days of the year, this is the day where you can do nothing and get away with it.

Nathan Mumm: 43:01

Oh wow, so that means you're actually participating in the day, I guess, okay.

Ody: 43:04

That is my kind of day. Is that every day this?

Nathan Mumm: 43:07

is Odie's favorite holiday. We should have this every day, january 16th.

Mike Gorday: 43:10

Ever been caught doing nothing and shamed into feeling lazier than the average person? No, rest assured that might not happen today, since the trappings and pomp of the holiday literally add up to nothing. Like its namesake is not a lot to tell, mind teaser does occur, though. If you're doing nothing. Aren't you doing something with nothing as the thing you're doing?

Nathan Mumm: 43:29

Oh, that is true. If you're doing nothing, then you're choosing to do nothing. I used to say that to my ex-wife.

Mike Gorday: 43:33

Really, just because I'm doing nothing doesn't mean I'm not doing something. Okay, there you go. How did that turn out? No, I'm divorced Okay.

Mike Gorday: 43:42

All right, well, continuing on the Yamasaki Distillery is Japan's first and oldest malt whiskey distillery, established in 1923 by Shinjiro Tori, who was later a son Tori's founder. Thus, it is the birthplace of Japanese whiskey inspired by traditional Scottish whiskey, tori. I envisioned a Japanese approach by choosing a terrain and climate completely different to those of Scotland to create a unique kind of whiskey. Since it is National Nothing Day, mark will do nothing more. He does not drink a 100% malted barley whiskey not his favorite flavor profile so he will leave the rest to us to flush out for him while he relaxes, having not even gone into the studio today.

Nathan Mumm: 44:30

So Mark's taken his nothing day literally seriously. Right, he's just staying home and doing nothing.

Mike Gorday: 44:35

He's doing nothing.

Nathan Mumm: 44:36

I'll just tell you I've been pretty impressed with this whiskey myself.

Mike Gorday: 44:41

I like, I like like you said I like Japanese whiskies. This one is really good Okay.

Ody: 44:47

Is he not? Is he giving it a thumbs down or is not taking a?

Nathan Mumm: 44:49

thumbs down. He doesn't even drink it. He said he would never buy it and for like 90 bucks he'd be like, oh, I'd never, never buy that. I can buy so many others that are that I'd much rather have in my palate. I guess when you become a whiskey snob, I guess you develop a palette into that type of deal. I'm still kind of a cheapo whiskey drinker so I just like anything that's whiskey.

Mike Gorday: 45:06

That's right, You're whatever. Whatever you get your hands on, you'll drink.

Nathan Mumm: 45:09

All right. Well, mark, thanks for that mumble. You know, pairing of whiskey and technology is just like the pairing of the movie Blade Runner and Harrison Ford, that's having.

Mike Gorday: 45:19

That's perfect. You are, you are really stretching.

Nathan Mumm: 45:22

You can't do Blade Runner without Harrison Ford. I mean Harrison.

Mike Gorday: 45:24

Ford makes Blade Runner. You did Blade Runner without it. No, he was in there 20. Yeah, he was in there.

Nathan Mumm: 45:29

All right, let's get ready for our technology fail the week brought to you by elite executive services technology experts to help you out of a technology fail. We are out of time. Congratulations, you're a failure.

Speaker 7: 45:42

Oh.

Speaker 8: 45:44

I failed. Did I yes, did I yes, did I.

Nathan Mumm: 45:50

Yes, all right. So these are the crazy items. At CES, we got four of these that we're going to get through Okay. So, number four we got the Phillips 5000. It's not the 1000, but it's the Phillips 5000. Wi-fi, palm recognition, smart deadbolt. Okay.

Mike Gorday: 46:10

You lost me. What does this do?

Nathan Mumm: 46:12

So the Phillips 5000 series so this is their very first one, but they named it 5000, is $360.00. You can purchase at Phillips. Keys and door codes are so 2023. It's now 2024, and now you can unlock the doors by simply pointing the palm of your hand at your deadbolt lock. Of course, if you prefer to use a pin or key, you can still use that with the Phillips 5000 series smart deadbolt, but it would be incredibly boring if you didn't decide to use your hand. If someone tries to break into your house with this lock, they'll literally have to take your arm to do it.

Nathan Mumm: 46:49

Okay, okay. So this is a palm, so it reads your palm, so we, so I have one a palm reader. So I have, I have one album that does your fingerprint. Yeah, and it doesn't always work and then you just type in your code and you get in, which is they're very convenient, so not have to have keys to get into your house. I love my devices, that that we have in there, but now you can pay a lot more money to have your palm read.

Mike Gorday: 47:11

Well, I don't know how well, does it tell you your future to?

Nathan Mumm: 47:14

It's how your life line, your heartline and all that other stuff that literally people were shaking their heads saying why do we need this device? Why is it the Phillips 5,000 instead of the 1,000, 2,000?

Mike Gorday: 47:24

one, two, three, four, five five fingers on your palm.

Nathan Mumm: 47:27

Oh, so is that where they came?

Mike Gorday: 47:27

up with a good job marketing.

Nathan Mumm: 47:29

All right. The next one is called the new. That's how you pronounce it electric kids, it's not good new. No, so it's not canoe, it's actually pronounced getting me.

Mike Gorday: 47:39

We were kids and we learned about new. That's what we used to do.

Nathan Mumm: 47:41

Mr Gnu's gonna get a you got the Gnu's, okay, so this is called new Electronic kids. A suitcase is spelled GNU, there's a lot of rideable luggage. But now we have something new and acute as the GNU them. This motorized three-wheeler is Steered by moving its horns back and forth. It looks like a like an elf.

Nathan Mumm: 48:02

It's a ball like, like a bowl. The front wheels light up with a Bluetooth speaker in the front so you can play music. The GNU seat pops open to reveal a small storage area. The GNU speed maxes out of five miles per hour, so your little ones can't move away from you too fast. Essentially, this will become available in May for everyone. That's a young kid at heart that wants to travel for $99.

Mike Gorday: 48:27

Have you seen these? Yes, yes, what's the? At the malls, at the mall, very first thing that comes in your mind when you see this. I want to run into somebody to kick that over.

Nathan Mumm: 48:36

Oh yeah, I want to run into something. So now you have kids at airports getting on these devices when they travel Back and forth, so they can now go at five miles an hour down the thing, poor kids terrible.

Mike Gorday: 48:47

No, it's terrible. Well, we don't need your children running around freak freaking in the Airport.

Nathan Mumm: 48:53

Okay, so the next one here we have the inovx Minult says Smart pet collar. It tracks your pets vitals now.

Nathan Mumm: 49:03

I love smartwatches Taking our health scores and I yeah, so yeah so now, essentially, this product that comes from Japan brings the same type of tracking to our beloved furry friends. This product is winning all kinds of awards at CES 2023, but it's a little bit odd now. I've owned pets, I've owned cats and we're gonna be talking about that because number one comes up to this cat thing but I've owned cats and we have a pretty large area of acreage. I do not know any time when I really wanted to track the health of my cats in a Device that puts around them, so I know how my vitals of my pets are now we're on the west coast.

Mike Gorday: 49:43

People treat their pets Better than they treat other humans.

Nathan Mumm: 49:46

Yeah, okay, so I understand maybe a dog a little bit about this, but I just I think if I want to track my own vitals, I can get it type of deal. I what, what good, you're not a veterinarian so you don't know what's going on. How are you gonna decipher whether the heart rate is good or bad?

Nathan Mumm: 50:04

By a $1,500 vet bill to go on down and say, can you tell here's my chart for my from my pet his vitals have been down here. They'll be like, oh yeah, you probably need to go out more. I just I all about Having nice pets, but I don't think I would ever have my pets vitals that I would have around their neck so I can know what's going on but okay, here you're.

Mike Gorday: 50:25

You just didn't live up here.

Nathan Mumm: 50:26

All right, here you go, number one it's called the flappy AI powered cat flap, so the smart pet tech. So I mean, let me just everything right now.

Mike Gorday: 50:37

Why don't we need to have an AI for a cat? Well, hang on to this.

Nathan Mumm: 50:40

So, essentially, this new gadget caught everybody's attention is a smart cat door that uses motion sensors and AI vision technology To spot when your favorite feline this is for cats Tries to bring in a small animals into your house. And, as a cat owner, I'll tell you. You know what I have been. I have had a cat bringing you gifts.

Nathan Mumm: 50:58

For 30 years I've had to come on in once, maybe twice. This is not a. This is not something that I need to worry about when my cat is bringing in. Most of the time they bring into the door, they leave it at the door, they play with that. We have Voles that they catch, moles that they catch, birds that my cats catch because we live a little bit on the sticks type of deal. But I have never needed to have the flappy which essentially looks to see if my pet has prey in its mouth and if it does, then it will not open the door itself. Now this only works 90% of the time, so the one time that it's not gonna work because he's having a hidden there, he's gonna come on in. It'll still be the same amount of times when I don't have this flappy AI device. So it's gonna be the same amount of chances of them bringing me in now.

Mike Gorday: 51:43

But if you if you have your vital thing, can't you tell? If it's like getting pray, I don't know.

Nathan Mumm: 51:47

You can have both it will not allow them, until they drop their prey outside, to let them into the event itself. There you go. Those were the technology fails.

Mike Gorday: 51:58

I think you should get the flappy and the vitals.

Nathan Mumm: 52:01

Take care of your pets forever. All right, we're now gonna go into Mike's mesmerizing moment, brought to us by story coffee. This is Mike's mesmerizing moment, presented by Story coffee Story coffee dot com. All right, mike, if you could live in a VR world forever We've been talking about this would you choose that over the real world so you could put yourself into, like the matrix, live there forever?

Mike Gorday: 52:31

so you're talking about if I could take my consciousness and stick it into a VR. Yeah right and in my Organic body would be dead and gone and then, but you'd still be always moving, so I wouldn't have to do like these, some of these sci-fi things and have like a hookup where I'm sitting here Starving to do sure, yes, yes, yes. Okay, what would you choose? I would probably not choose that.

Nathan Mumm: 52:57

You see, had all these qualifiers.

Mike Gorday: 53:01

This is one of those human things this is very Attractive. Okay, this is very attractive. Okay so this is something that no matter I don't and it's kind of interesting that we're always doing this is that we, we are seeking him immortality in many different realms and this you know genetics, medicine, things like that. I Don't know why we want to live forever, okay, but this, they know, this is a viable, this would be a viable way to live forever and, you know, it would be a very attractive thing for a lot of people.

Mike Gorday: 53:34

Okay but not you.

Nathan Mumm: 53:36

Yeah, no, I don't think so Okay.

Mike Gorday: 53:38

All right. Well, ultimately, that's part of the human experience right is kind of like going through human experiences is not just birth and life, it's also dealing with death.

Nathan Mumm: 53:48

All right. Well, we don't have time. Oh, he's saying that we ran out of time, so I don't have time to go to my Nathan Douga and we're gonna talk about Windows 11 Users and what they can look forward to in 2024. So we'll have that come back next week. Hopefully we get to that. There's a bunch of AI stuff in there that will make you really excited. But now let's move on to our pick of the day.

Speaker 4: 54:08

And now our pick of the day for our whiskey tastings. Let's see what bubbles to the top.

Nathan Mumm: 54:15

All right, we got the Yamasaki 12-year-old whiskey 86 proof, $90. We're gonna give it a thumbs up or a thumbs down.

Mike Gorday: 54:25

Mr Gorday, I'm a thumbs up and why it's a really good taste. It's a smooth taste, yeah.

Nathan Mumm: 54:33

I'm gonna give it a thumbs up to. I like that ginger taste.

Mike Gorday: 54:36

I would. I would have it. I would have it on my. I would have it on my bar.

Nathan Mumm: 54:40

You would have it on your on the micro day bar. That's right, all right, okay. Well, you know we're just about out of time. We want to thank our listeners for joining the program. Listeners, we want to hear from you. Visit us at tech time radio comm and click on, be a caller and ask us a question on Technology and the talk back recording system. You can ask us just about anything and if you ask something crazy, then I'll ask Mike that, if you're in his mesmerizing moment From all of us at tech time. It was an honor to be the host of today's show. If you enjoyed the show, make sure you give us a five-star review and remember the science of tomorrow starts with the technology of today. See you next week, bye, bye.

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