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stuff and who doesn’t love being put up in bed for a week and a half afterwards sick with who knows what kind of bug good point good that’s an excellent point yeah I’ve been to CES twice or three times I went to comex long ago maybe seven or eight times and I’ll tell you I’ve had enough I mean if Leo wants me to go I’ll go but man that is a brutal just getting from one place to another is brutal well let’s launch into the news the international CES event officially launched in Las Vegas today at least for the media the show opens to the public tomorrow CES this year is expected to bring in more than 160,000 visitors over 3,500 companies and more than 6,000 journalists and speaking of journalists joining us live now from the event is our own father Robert Biser hey Padre how you doing great thanks for having me on so glad you’re on and uh I’m so glad that you go to the show so I don’t have to and I appreciate that let’s start with a big picture what are the big trends you’re seeing this year are the they the same trends that we kind of expected well the the yes yes and no on the newy side so yesterday that the Press was treated at the Nvidia event to the release of a new chip the Tegra X1 now Nvidia is really making a push into the mobile space which we know is a trend but their new chip has 250 6 GPU cores on top of eight CPU cores so there’s they’re really trying to make that push into the high power low power consumption Arena uh and and we you know I think that was pretty much the best news that we heard from from the the news e side now on the gadget side on Sundays there’s an event called CES unveiled and I believe that uh Jason has a quick view of what this room looks like imagine a a room about the size of the twit Brick House filled with nothing but media personnel and uh some of the boo some of a preview of what’s going to be happening on the on the show floor now pack all these people together give them some really bad food and some really cheap booze and you get an idea of what the the Press gets treated to now the number one Trend other than mobile Mike has to be wearables and and we called this everyone has a wearable it doesn’t matter what kind of company you are you’re going to have a wearable uh uh in fact there was one wearable that was a snowboard imagine this all wearables are about Gathering points of information there’s a company called Zan x n that has embedded sensors into a snowboard so that you can register your run down the slopes and replay it later on and that way you can figure out whether or not you did anything wrong what your weight distribution was like uh whether or not you you need to change your style go goofy foot whatever it’s going to be this is just a sample of what we’ve seen that there are wearables for babies there are wearables for old people there are wearables that will track your activity your food your whatever so uh yeah I think that’s definitely going to continue especially with the release of the Apple watch that’s all it need a snowboard that tell me that I just face Planet into the Ice uh thanks a lot for that now how about the internet of things i’ I’ve got the feeling that there are going to be a gazillion approximately Internet of Things devices of all kinds and maybe some surprising ones uh what are you seeing in that department yes everyone is bringing out their Internet of Things no matter what it is and and that just means it’s connected now one trend that goes along with the Internet of Things is this idea of home automation there are a lot of vendors out there some very established who are pushing everything from Nest which is now owned by Google to belon belcon make made a big splash last year with their lowcost High connectivity wio modules they’re releasing a new module this year called the echo which will allow you to to track your water and your power usage which you know is actually kind of a nerdy dream uh there was one company that caught my eye last night at C yes unveiled it was a company called one link and Jason I think we have some b-roll for this uh now it looks like any other home automation system this does fire protection humidity temperature so on so forth it’s got a little thermostat they and of course they’ve got a wearable but the thing that caught me was they claim these modules right here these are their Wi-Fi thermostat humidity temperature probes can run wirelessly for 10 years with nothing but battery power now I haven’t figured out how they’re going to do that we’re going to stop by their Booth later on and figure out if they put a nuclear reactor but 10 years running a Wi-Fi chipset it it doesn’t seem possible but if they did it uh how much would you pay to stop that annoying beep you get whenever your fire uh detector goes low however much a shotgun shell cost I don’t know whatever that is uh and now I’ve seen a lot of this you know one of the big problems with these kinds of Internet of Things uh devices is the power you know you don’t want to run a cable across the rug or whatever to plug it into the wall and I’ve seen a camera also coming out that plugs into a light socket which looks pretty cool that’s not going to ship till later this year uh so I’m looking forward to that sort of thing Innovative uh ways to deal with power as this uh apparently does now one of your favorite topics I know um Padre is the Drone world you seeing anything in the world of drones or are they not letting drone people into the the the tightly packed events yet they’re letting them in they’re just not letting them fly a lot of these a lot of these companies have figured out a way around that of course the number one quadcopterdrone manufacturer for consumers is going to be DJI they were they were the ones who really brought it to the masses and they were at CES unveiled showing off something that the Press has heard about but they really wanted to take a look at this is the DJI Inspire it has that variable geometry as you can see the The Landing skids and the props go up and down which allows the camera underneath to be thrown around in 360 without getting any part of the quadcopter into into the shot now this thing is beautiful it’s gorgeous and the pictures that come from it are old Ultra Ultra silky smooth oh another thing that uh I should probably notice is oh mention is that they’ve taken the 4k camera off the bottom of this drone and they put it into a handheld so you can now have a gyro stabilized handheld unit uh so I guess DJI is trying to Branch out now there are other manufacturers here who will be trotting out their drones over the next week uh but DJI definitely has a head start I mean they’ve got everything from the lowend model all the way up to their octocopter that carries professional cameras for movie making yeah I I want that drone so bad I can barely stand myself it it’s like so cool and then with that handheld uh unit I mean we we’ve we we’ve got to get our hands on one of those at least to test it uh and uh what have you not seen yet that you’ve heard about but you’re looking forward to seeing later this week for example I’ve heard that uh Nest is coming out with a smart ceiling fan or something like that are there any products you’re hearing rumors about that you’re really excited to see uh yeah there there are a lot of products in home automation uh Nest is one of them but there have been uh you know sensors for doorways there have been sensors to tie everything together in the garage uh what I do want to see though is and I believe there’s a sponsor of twit so I have to put that disclaimer smart things is a company that I think is going to be key to home automation interet of things in 2015 because there are all these products from Lowe’s and from on link and from nest and from Balon that do home automation but they don’t talk to one another so if you get a product like smart things and their Hub that can actually let you buy the censors you want from each company and then tie them together that’s what I want I I would love to see a common operating system or at least a Common Language so that you can buy sensors and doodads and little automation gadgets for your house and not worry about them being from the same manufacturer I love that idea and I really think Samsung is going to really dominate in the internet of things they’re you uniquely positioned to do so and it’s theirs to lose as far as I’m concerned they’re just the right kind of company they make they make smart appliances they make the refrigerators and the washers and dryers uh as well as all kinds of other devices mobile devices and so on so I think that they really are in a great position to do exactly what you’re saying tie it all together all right well Father Robert Biser is a host on this week in Enterprise Tech know how coding 101 and Padres corner thank you so much for sacrificing yourself and going to CES and uh giving us this great report we’re going to be hearing uh from you in multiple shows uh all week so uh good luck to you and uh we’ll see you again soon and I’ll bring you back some uh CES flu a thank you and also a drone if you don’t mind I will all right you can subscribe to all Padres shows at twit.tv and you can follow them on Twitter at Padres SJ well in just a sec we’re going to hear more stuff from CES but first I want to tell you about nature box nature box is the healthy snack that’s you can get by subscription what a great idea here’s a perfect example of what you can get this is the uh dark cocoa almonds chocolate and almonds M boy so so good right now now nature box has giving you a chance to get a free trial box of their most popular snacks and you just pay $2 for shipping and here’s why you’re going to want to do that candy bars and potato chips and all the other kinds of stuff that we snack on all the time are bad for you but sometimes we get hungry and we want a snack we’re going to snack and we’re pretty much 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still enjoy really delicious snacks start your free trial today get a complimentary sampler box at naturebox.com twit Stay full stay strong start snacking smarter go to naturebox.com twit and we thank NatureBox for their support of tech news today Garmin introduced two new fitness watches at CES today their rugged eyes $499 fenex 3 is a training watch for snowboarding hiking climbing skiing and other activities the watch has a built-in compass and barometer the GPS can be used for planning hikes are leaving breadcrumbs for making a back out of the woods alive Garmin claims 50 hours of battery life and while the Fenix 3 is for serious athletes garmin’s other watch is for more casual use the $249 Vivo active is for both Fitness and also for use as an allpurpose Smartwatch Christina bonington is a staff rider for Wired and joins us by telephone from CES welcome to to You Christina hey there now what are the main differences between these two Garmin watches so the main thing here is uh the Vivo active is more of what you think of as a traditional Smartwatch um you know something like the pebble or something comparable to Samsung Smartwatch offerings um it’s pretty slim in design uh with kind of a squarish touch touchscreen face and um it is GPS enabled so you can track different acties like running cycling swimming or golf um but it doesn’t provide the fine-tune tracking and really Advanced features that you’d find on some some of uh garmin’s other uh watches like the 4Runner 920xt or the Phoenix 3 now you wrote that both watches offer apps what kind of apps and who’s creating these apps for for the Garmin devices right so Garmin has a uh third-party uh app platform called connect IQ and I believe it’s launching in March and it’ll feature some uh some apps from third party de from third party developers like um Tempo which is a smart calendar company and then there will also be apps for just getting greater utility out of the fitness functions of the watch uh apps that let you you know track your muscle functions mo more closely for example um now which smartphone platforms can these watches get notifications from because of course even though they’re Fitness oriented watches they can be worn every day as regular SmartWatches and they get notifications and other other features do they support I assume they support iOS Android any others yeah so they they connect over Bluetooth uh Bluetooth LE uh they definitely connect over uh IOS and Android so any uh modern iOS or Android phone uh should work fine with these watches um and I would imagine they may also work with Windows phones um if if it’s Bluetooth IE enabled um but I’m not sure about that now you’re a bike Enthusiast is that right and a fitness person are you tempted by these devices yeah so I am I I do use um I use uh fitness watches to track you know all of my cycling statistics like my distance my heart rate my power um for me so so for me I have kind of two areas of interest there so I want the really detailed stats when I’m actually out there working out and then you know during the day it’s also nice to kind of track my steps and my heart rate making sure I’m not you know stressing my myself out too much and keep keeping my heart rate up or you know if on a day that I’m not working out you know I may want to up my step count so that I can you know have an extra ice cream after dinner or something so there’s kind of two markets going on there and so uh Garmin is interesting because they have a wide range of products that appeal to both of those markets and everything in between they’ve got um they’re Vio smart and Vivo fit for the people that just want really Basic Fitness tracking during the day they’ve got this Vivo active now that kind of crosses um the line there and so you’ve got your general tracking during the day and you’ve got some better Fitness tracking for when you do go workout and then you’ve got more um more advanced things like the Phoenix 3 or the 4Runner line that you know offers you know more a more rugged and sporty design and uh GPS features and just more advanced Fitness tracking now you mentioned that the fix 3 comes with a sapphire model can you talk about that yeah so the sapphire model is is more expensive uh and it’s uh it is $600 and the display uh the glass on top of the display is made of sapphire which is scratch resistant uh which is really great if you you know Take a Tumble onto the concrete it’s not going to get all scratched up um and then the rim around it is also stainless steel it has a really nice high-end watch look um but it also has these features that make it um appropriate for taking on a hike out in the woods awesome well Christina bonington is at wired.com she’s actually seen it but you can you can read her stuff at wired.com and you can follow her on Twitter at red girl says thank you so much for joining us Christina bonington thanks Nvidia announced its new Tegra X1 chip as Padre mentioned at the top of the show uh they announced it last night at a CES event plus two specialized car computers powered by the chip nol randt is a tech reporter for Reuters and joins us now to talk about the story welcome to you nol hey Mike how you doing I’m doing great thank you now the Tegra X1 brings teraflop performance to cars for the first time ever why do cars need that much compute power so cars are uh one of the big themes this year at at CES um you know over the years they’ve already you know grown to include more chips more sensors um and and even kilometers of of copper wire to to connect all of them but companies like Nvidia and all of its competitors are really envisioning a world where our our cars become more intelligent than our smartphones and and laptop computers have become over the years so so Nvidia is playing into that that uh that idea pretty strongly right now they kicked off their their traditional uh press conference at the start of CES last night with uh CEO Jensen Wang in his trademark leather jacket giving some pretty interesting demos of uh of dashboard technology and and Driver assistance technology powered by nvidia’s new chip um the help of some prettyy Next Generation uh uh software for for autonomous vehicles now tell us about the car computers that Nvidia announced uh one is called the drive CX and the other one’s called the drive PX what’s the difference between these two so one of them is really aimed at at uh more of the interior of the car if you will of um uh allowing the cars of tomorrow to have not perhaps not just one or two computerized displays but multiple Okay so Jon Wang the CEO of Nvidia is is look imagining a situation where cars have multiple displays throughout the card on the dashboard the entertainment system the navigation system even heads up displays on the Windows uh you know mirrors that have their own displays and then displays in in the back seat as well for for for you know the kids to to uh to use while the parents are driving now of course all this plays into um the world that Nvidia would like to see happen because nvidia’s Legacy is uh is developing and selling Graphics chips for high-end computers so you know in in their perfect world um cars would have as many screens as possible with as high resolution Graphics as processible because that’s what they do well the second the second supercomputer that they launched last night is more for Advanced Driver assistance where uh you know cars of tomorrow that have up to say 12 or even more uh high highend or high resolution cameras all around the exterior of them collecting information as the car drives around you know watching the blind spot watching the lane next to you Lanes in front of you and so on um this new computer using a couple of these of of nvidia’s newest uh chips will be able to process information from up to 12 or more of them all at the same time and that’s you know that’s that’s a pretty big deal because you’re talking about um not just you know when I say process information I don’t just mean record it I I mean process it analyze it detect you know other cars um you know read road signs speed limits they gave a demonstration of one of the of the chip being able to or the chip of the software that uses being able to discern between a police car and a police car that’s trying to pull you over obviously that’s a pretty big deal if you’re driving an economist car you need to know the difference between a police car that’s driving near you and one that’s actually trying to get you to pull over now obviously I can’t run out to Best Buy tomorrow and buy one of these things and shove it into the dashboard of my car uh this is stuff for car manufacturers and they need to program apps and do all kinds of stuff by when do you think we’re going to see this technology in actual cars that are for sale that’s a good question part of the part of the challenge with with you know applying some of the know- how that how that’s been that’s been learned um in highend Computing and PCs and in and in laptops and smartphones and tablets and applying them to the automobile industry is that everything just takes a lot longer in the autom mobile industry when we buy a smartphone we expect to use it for a couple of years maybe more and then move on to another one same with a computer or a laptop but with a car you know you might potentially keep your car for 10 years and it needs to work perfectly so there just kind of different standards that are that are that are assumed when you’re developing technology that’s used in cars that being said some of this stuff is already starting to appear not to the kind of gray the Next Generation demos that we saw uh last night but bit by bit this technology is already working its way into cars uh Nvidia has multiple Partnerships with Audi BMW and and Tesla for example and they’re looking at ways to incude include more of this technology in in future automobiles but of course this stuff is going to appear first of all in high-end cars this isn’t going to appear in you know you’re running the meal family car anytime soon I don’t think well I’m going to have to get rich then I definitely want it now I have to ask you uh very quickly uh I noticed on your Twitter page you have a uh profile picture not your profile picture but the sort of the banner picture on your Twitter page that uh looks like a tortilla with worms on it can you explain this that’s from um it is a tortilla with with worms um I uh I’ve spent a lot of time in Mexico and uh it’s a a delicacy for something is it really that’s a that’s an actual dish it’s an actual dish those are the worms that we were eating that that mcal fueled afternoon note to self don’t order lunch in Mexico all right no randt is at reuters.com and you can follow him on Twitter at randt thank you so much for joining us today nol thanks Mike all right Google today announced a new chomecast like product but for audio rather than video it’s for music rather than TV shows and movies it’s called googlecast for audio and it lets you control and stream music playing on your iOS or Android phone or tablet or any computer running the Chrome browser to Internet connected speakers it works like Google’s chomecast in the sense that you don’t stream from your device the speakers get the music directly from the internet over your home Wi-Fi network Google cast for audio supports YouTube Google play audio Netflix sza Hulu Pandora iHeart radio and others but not Spotify Google is partnering with speaker makers Sony LG and den of course they’ll no doubt partner with others very soon well some updates for you Intel now owns a 30% stake in the smart glasses maker vsix the investment is worth nearly $25 million musix makes Google glass-like devices but the company specializes in smart glasses targeted at verticals and Enterprises the company’s M100 product tops a lineup of seven Smart Glass devices and I think this is a really smart move because I think that uh I you know I don’t see Google Glass or any uh Smart Glass like product uh taking the Consumer Electronics World by storm but I do see them becoming very useful in uh vertical applications and that’s what viix specializes in the site torrent freak reports that Google received requests in 2014 to remove an incredible 345 million links said to connect users with copyrighted content that would be a 75% increase from the year before the leading requestor of links removals is the UK Music Industry Group BPI which reportedly submitted 60 million links to be removed Google honors most of the requests according to torrent freak in other news parrot unveiled two new potted plant smart devices today they parot pot and the H2O both products are being shown at CES and both keep track track of moisture temperature and fertilizer in the soil of potted plants and also the amount of sunlight they get the gadgets alert you to conditions and automatically water the plants from a water bottle both are slated for shipment later this year and because they’re goofy I think these are going to get way more coverage than they really should get but still kind of an interesting idea the smart uh uh devices actually have databases of plants so they know how much water they should get how much sun they should get what kind of soil they should have and they will help you uh keep your plants alive which is very nice a French company called emota unveiled a smart belt today the in addition to holding up your pants the belty tracks many of the same things that other Fitness wearables and Quantified Self apps track the movement and so on but the belt can also track information those other products can’t namely your expanding or shrinking waistline the belt also Mo uses Motors to automatically tighten and loosen the belt depending on whether you’re standing up or sitting down or whether it’s Thanksgiving or not the company is showing a prototype at CES but says 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