Hi Texan is Michael Garfield. Michael Garfield. Michael Garfield's joining the high tech Texan. Michael Garfiel is here with a high tech texta items to make life easier technology. So Michael Garfield has something you might like. Texan. Michael Garfield is your high tech Texan. Three decades hoping you make magic with your gadgets. Heard worldwide on the iHeartRadio Act. Now your high tech Texan. Michael Garfield. Another Saturday, halfway through August, which meets it's halfway through
this hot, nasty, nasty month of August. Maybe the hottest July on record. Let's just screw that, Let's just go for the hottest August on record. Why not? But it is always cool here on nine fifty eight KPRC. That's terrestrially here in Houston. No matter where you are, no matter how you are listening, be at Diheart Radio, be at a podcast, you name it. I am here for the next two hours. We've got a lot of energy, a lot of a lot of iced tea,
and a lot of coke zero flowing through the veins. And so as we always say, I packed three hours into a two hour show, we do have a number of things to yap about along with your phone calls, because this is a talk show. This is a talk station, all Texas, all talk, all high tech texts in these next two hours. Seven one three two one two five nine five zero. That is the phone number where you can get to callum. Hello, callum sir. Put them through to
me and we'll see what's going on, including back to school. A lot of people. I found out that Euston Hi s d You kids don't go back to school for another week or so, week and a half or so. There's a lot of outlying school. Say if we're Bend, or if you're down near Galveston, Friendswood or whatever like that, I'll tell you what's
going on. You're back in school, sucks for you. Should you need any type of back to school supply, you need laptops, you need watches, you need tablets, you need I potentially could be your guy, because I am going to talk about a number of things. I got another Samsung review unit this past week. As you know, for the past month it's kind of been Samsung story. As I was in Soul, South Korea late July for the big Samsung press conference, where I saw the unveiling of the
Flip five, the Fold five. I got the Watt one of the watches and the new tablet. Well, I actually got another watch. I got the Samsung Watch six Classics. So now I have the Classic along with the regular Watch six. This is brand new. They're nice folks at eight T and T. Well, we're nice enough to let me try one of the Watch six Classics. I like this being I'm just gonna kind of bury the lead right now. It's because the bezel, the bezel, which is the
outside ring on a watch face. The Samsung has has returned the rotating bezel on the Watch six Classic, not the regular Watch six they just released. But the Classic runs anywhere between three close to three hundred, three hundred and fifty dollars. But I love the rotating bezel, which they had on some previous versions, because it's an easy way to move between screen to screen, so you can see your notifications, your messages, your heart rate, and
have you. I'll get to the full review on that later. I will tell you that if you do have an iPhone and you had an issue with an iPhone back in the day about slowing down, there is a payout apple Is has to pay out with a five hundred million dollars iPhone settlement. I'll let you know if you are eligible to get some money. If you've been following what's going on in Maui. Man, it is just a horrific tragedy
with the wildfires going on. And I say this is we were just getting into this really really dangerous part of hurricane season here and in Southeast Texas and along the Gulf Coast. Got some information on how to protect your homes from natural disasters. I'm gonna use technology products because we do smart homes and all of us do have something in our home that's hopefully smart other than your wife or your kids. I will tell you some things to help your protective and
also we'll do the typical car reviews. I was in not one but two vehicles last week. I will give you my unpaid for just thoughts topped to bottom on the new puck Encore cute little buck Encore and the Lexus three fifty nat it is a hybrid. I've been test driving those. That's what I do because I cover the car industry so much. Other than that, I am here for you. Where do we start? It's got three emails Michael, I remember that iPhone slowdown? What's the deal man? How do I
actually get some money? All right, let's let's get to this real quick. For the for the break. It was years after a lawsuit that alleged Apple was adding software that slowed down older iPhones. Do you remember this? There was about twenty seventeen twenty eighteen, and Apple now has agreed to pay a settlement of hundreds of millions of dollars. It was December twenty seventeenth through
June eighteenth, about a six seven month period. There were sixty six class action lawsuits that were filed against Apple alleging this issue, including that Apple deliberately slowed down battery performance of older iPhones with the latest iOS updates. So there was a It was a twenty seventeen letter to consumers. Apple apologized for slowing down the older iPhones. And I guess the point is, as they wanted
you to buy a new iPhone, you mean humpany you? So anyway, they said in a letter that the software update from twenty sixteen may have had some users experience longer launch time for apps and other reductions and performance. Unquote all right, here's what's going on. Payments now. They're going to be distributed to people who filed claims before the October twenty twenty deadline. And you owned somewhere in the range of an iPhone six or a six plus or an
iPhone seven or a seven plus. About three million people filed and they were approved, and you're expected remember it's a five hundred million dollars settlement. If you filed, you're expected payments around sixty five bones. Absolutely worth your time to do that, Absolutely worth your time. Can you imagine a company, a technology company, doing something a little twisted to actually control you, control us as people and humans, in order to get you to maybe buy a
new version to something. Ah huh, I can't believe it. Can't believe it went away. That's that is what's going now and happen. I'd like to if you you know what, it's been five years, it's been five plus years, if you even remember filing, I'd love to hear from you and tell me what you're gonna do with the sixty five dollars. Yeah, let's go out for some drinks. Let's go for two drinks. Phone number is seven one three two one two five nine five. Oh, I'm Michael
Garfield. This is the whole KPORC High Tech Texting Team. If you're listening on iHeartRadio, thank you so much for downloading it. When we come back, I am going to talk a little bit back to school. I'll talk to you about these new watches. Should you want a smart watch? Should your kids want a smart watch? Of going back to school? And also
how to protect your home in a natural disaster. I do know here the Gulf Coast that I've been living in for thirty plus years, and I mean there's so many of my listeners who've been living here a lot longer, for generations and generations. I know it's hurricane warning. Do you have your water? Do you have your battery backups? But there are other technological ways to actually protect yourself. You see, this is what I do. I give
you the inside, fun information easy to understand. When we come back on the High Tech text and show Hello, Hello, No, it is mister Bigale Garth build that not nearly lunch time? Should you be listening live Sinday just after I don't know about what eleven twenty a m. Central time? I mean, you know, listen, you're probably just waking up. Maybe it is lunch time for you. Standby because we do have some giveaways for you. Because this is what we do on the air. You don't give
nothing away. Ain't nobody going to be listening, even though you should, because I got some good information for you. Fifty dollars gift card to Johnny Tamali's canteena the tex mex CANTEENA the specifically out in mos City, Missouri City southwest side of you. Still I got fifty dollars for you nine now, not now, I'll tell you when we're gonna give that away. And also
Benny Hanna hundred dollars gift card coming up. I just ate at Benny hannam last earlier this week, my parents were in town celebrating their sixtieth anniversary. Muzzle toop raise your hand out there. If you could tell me you've done anything for sixty years, much less stay married. Don't even ask me how my parents have done that point. As my parents were in town, some kids in town too, relatives, and we had a little surprise going on
over at Benny Hannah and it's it's it's dang man. The food is good. I forgot how fun it is, and they still do the little volcano choo choo choo choo choo, the fake catchup. But man to shrimp the lobster to beat by day. Anyway, I just I took everybody out and surprised him. My parents over there. So anyway, they offered to give me a hundred dollars gift card to give away. So you know what I'm gonna do it. I will tell you when to call in, But not
yet. I do have some more important information other than giving away free things all least, I think it's you get has anybody even following the wildfires out in Maui? It's just disaster and they these believe it or not, these these wildfires that could be the deadliest in modern US history. Not the natural not not the biggest natural disaster, but the wildfires itself. Natural disasters are aren't an uncommon incurrents. If you follow what I'm saying over here, the
number and cost of weather and climate disasters, it continues to rise. And that's according to Noah, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. It's due to climate change and in our population growth. It's it's a simple zet fact for here's some facts that's ideal. In facts Facts twenty twenty two, eighteen natural disasters in the US cause more than one billion dollars in damages each. It was three hurricanes, two tornadoes, some extreme storms, some wildfires, and
some drought. Who that's a lot of money, man, is this is where our insurance is rising? I mean, we may feel hopeless. What are we supposed to do? So I am here to tell you your home you're smart home can actually help protect you. Now you're probably wondering, garth, how do I make sure my house is safe from fire in fuego? Well? Number one, As a homeowner, you need to conduct a home assessment to see what changes could make a big diff in reducing your home's risk
from wildfire. And there's websites and there's apps with checklists that can help. Feel free to google it. But general fire prevention tips and I'm gonna go back to my boy scout days. Seriously, you know, regularly clean your roof surfaces, your gutters, make sure your chimney is inspected annually. Look at your vegetation around the house, say make sure it's non combustible. Keep them several feet from your home, keep any power lines near your home clear
of tree limbs, you know, things like that. It's yes, ideal in common sense. But you talk about tech stuff. Let's talk about some technology for fire prevention in the home. Yes, they're smoke alarms. They're getting more advanced. Some of the new ones. They can give you notice of fire, smoke, carbon bnoxide poisoning. You got storm related outages that they can increase the odds of a house fire or even carbon monoxide poisoning.
Because there's generators, there's a number of people who have these whole home generators die. I have at least two to three neighbors right around me who've got whole home generators. And you know one honestly, one of the best things is if your neighbors have a whole home generator and you don't, because you're gonna, say, have a lot of money, and if your power goes
out, hopefully your neighbors are gonna let you inside their air conditioning. Battery based generators probably are a safer bet compared to gas based ones because a lot of these new generators, maybe the generac ones, and again I don't want to you know, call singular brand out. You know, they're they're based on you know gas that you you know, you just have to run a gas line, you know, you know to the home. So, but the batteries obviously are a little bit more safer. Hurricane is big here.
How do you protect your house from flooding during a hurricane. Well, there's a number of different steps. And if you're in the Houston, or if you're in the Gulf Coast, and I have listeners all across the Gulf Coast, you better listen up. Here's your goal. You know what the goal is. The goal is to keep water from entering your home. So this isn't a technological thing. But secure your roof, shingles, your check your gutters, your down spouts, for your proper drainage. You want to seal
all the openings and your cracks and your holes. And when you're building, would you use water Please use water resistant building materials. If you're renovating, use water resistant building materials, especially below ground on level. For for for all of you with no basements, and there's probably hardly a basement here in my list, my terrestrial listening audience, this is tough to have a basement in the state of taxes. And by the way, everybody living up and
down you know by the brais by you the braswood. I'm talking to you. Make sure there's weather production seedlans around, you know, the lower floor, ground windows. But technology wise, there are a few products that can help warn you, and I'm gonna say warn you a flood damage. Little tiny sensors you could place around your home that detects moisture and it notifies you through an app or announcing a problem on a smart speaker. And I have
I actually have a few of these, and I'm not listen. I'm yes, everybody should be worried about damage water, hurricane coming in, but also what happens if you're sink or foster or toilet starts leaking overflowing. This is where I put my sensors. D Link makes a d Link it's big company too. They make a water sensor about eighty bucks kid kit k DDE kitty.
They make a water in leak freeze to detector. I have one, and what it does is it wildly sinks to your WiFi at home and I actually get an alert every time my WiFi goes down, I get an alert that it's actually good because it lets me know that my WiFi is down and they'll say water sensor is offline or water sensor has detected a leak. So sometimes they're not true, but at least I know, like, oh,
I better check what's going on. And if I'm out of town. And because I do have cameras in my home on each of my floors, if I do get one of these alerts, it's like, oh, something's wrong with my water sensor. I immediately log onto my camera and I zoom in. I'm like, oh my gosh, goodness, do I see water on
the ground? And luckily I have not yet. But I'm gonna tell you again, the Wi Fi connected sensors, they can't stop the water from causing bad, costly problems in your home, but they can quickly notify you to the issue, which could mitigate the damage. So again, a few tech tips that we need to do in terms of disasters or natural disasters. I mean, yes, every what is it? What may first? Actually June first, when hurricane season starts, and I'll do my typical I go on
TV and I'll do my radio stuff. Make sure you always have bottle water and your can. Oh, your manual, can openers, make sure you have battery backups, make sure you have you know a number of different apps, and your your cansa tuna, and anything else you need. But there are tech you know tech things too. And when I'm away also, I do know that I'm you know, if my WiFi goes down, that means
I can't get my cameras, and I check those. I mean, I know that, hey, Houston's having some bad weather, so I will I will gradually log in to make sure that the power is stilling on my home because if my cameras, I can't access my cameras, I know my WiFi is down, the electricities probably down. Then I'll call a neighbor and go check it. So a few tips, certainly not a laughing matter. And when it comes to what's going on in Maui or anywhere else, it's just
again, I'm an eagle Scout. Be prepared. That is the motto of the Boy Scouts, and that's what I try to do, folks, Be prepared. I got ninety more minutes of yapping over here. Michael Garfield. It is the High Tech Text, and show bottom of this first hour of the High Tech Text and show hopebo as well. We're about what but twenty
minutes away? What do you say? Callum? We'll give away one of the beautiful restaurant gift cards, the Johnny Tomali's out of Missouri City, maybe to one of the Benny Hannas. We'll do it as we get closer to lunch time. Should you be listening live right now on KPRC nine fifty am, or if you're at iHeart Radio the US back to school stuff if you have it, I'm getting some emails over here. By the way, if you want to email me because you're too shy to call, suck it up,
people, I'm a nice guy. I'm not gonna hurt you, and I don't I don't yell at you. No, no, no, you can email me. Go Michael Garfield at iHeartMedia dot com. You can check me out at high Tech Text and on a lot of the social media platforms. Some back to school stuff, especially for kids going back to back to college. If you're going back to college, or if your kids go back to college, what did you They should be probably almost there and moved in.
By the way, I say a lot of my friends on Facebook and they're getting for clam because they already shipped their kids off to school and their picture of their dorm rooms in there in the sorority and they've got the matching comforters and everything. What other pieces of technology did you get them? I remember I did I have it? We did? Maybe we had a TV. They certainly weren't high definition. In my dorm room. When I went
to ut in Austin, I had an alarm clock. It literally was a clock radio, which, by the way, I still have the same thing. My oldest piece of technology is my clock radio that I've now had for forty oh it's coming up on forty years. Coming up on forty years. I probably this week, my good just four decades. Should have a birthday party for that thing. What I always like asking this, it's the oldest
piece of technology you have in your house. Think about it. I'd love you to go go zeep me or go thread me at high tech tech and oldest piece of technology you may still have. Listen if your mind listen. Generations now they don't have alarm clocks. They have phones. They set the alarms in the phones. But a lot of people still have alarm clocks. I still like turning over and looking to see what time it is. That's old school stuff. I know, what's your what's your oldest piece of technology
or maybe electronic that you have in your house. Talk to me here going back to TVs. And I say this because I saw what Samsung announced this little pet. I wish this was around when I was in school. Samsung to earlier this week they announced a pre order for what's called the Freestyle GIN two, as in Generation two with a gaming hubb. It's what it is. It's a next generation projector, so it's affordable. You could take it
a anywhere. It's a little projector and what you could do. It projects things on your wall, your ceiling, almost any surface up to a one hundred inches. I mean that's pretty cool. I mean these things are getting and then and there. It's gonna be you coul pre order for about eight hundred dollars. You can pre order now to the end of August on Samsung dot com. You also get a free water and dust resistant case, by the way, which is a sixty dollars value. But the thing is this
new model. It gives you quick access to streaming entertainment platforms, but it also features the Samsung Gaming Hub, so you can play games from Xbox and some of their other streaming partners with no console. That's pretty cool. So you don't need an Xbox console. So now you could take your your shows and movies and on the g I've used project I've played with projectors before. I actually need I'd love to get one of these things. And I always
project them on the wall. Like I remember when the kids were young, and I would have I would take a projector and there, and the projectors when the kids were young, I mean they were they were pretty big. I mean there, you know, it's like a big briefcase and we would have pool parties and I would set it up and i'd actually i'd hook up a computer a monitor and then I would project it and we would project against the wall of my garage. I've never projected on my ceiling. Dude,
how trippy is that? I mean, let's just have let's have a movie watching party or street let's watch ted Lasso. But here we're gonna we're gonna lay on the ground on my carpet and we're gonna asking popcorn. But we're gonna look up. That's funky, man. I a should try that. So, uh, it's it's it's a Samsung Gaming Hub. Three thousand games from Xbox and Video g Force now I Amazon, Luna and a lot of other cool stuff. So go check it out. Samsung dot com eight hundred
dollars. If you pre order, you would have the most popular dorm room anywhere. I actually you'd have the most popular house. I see. I always wanted a house. You know, I had three boys, and I wanted a house that was the house where all my all my kids and my and their friends would just kind of like hang out because you know, yeah, I was that dad because I just wanted to hang out with them. But you know, I was the one who had the old school Gallagha machine,
Missus pack, miss pac Man machine. There's the actual stand up versions. We had three projection TV screens. Now I lied, I lied. We had one projection TV screen. So I had a ceiling mounted projector, which again was massive. It was it was you know the size of a big briefcase and it had had one hundred and twenty inch throw one hundred and twins so it was like massive. What was it? What is that six feet or something? And actually more than six It was like twelve feet.
It was flanked by two fifty inch flat screens, and we had it because three kids. We had an Xbox, we had a PlayStation, and we had a Nintendo, so each each kid had their own platform, so they all three simultaneously could play it at once. I mean I lived in an arcade. I created an arcade at home, and we had a pool and the whole stuff, and so this is what I was doing quite well, all right, yeah, now I do not have any of that stuff. I do have a lot of flat screen TV's, but that's the kind of
a house that I wanted. And it was fun because all the kids used to and other friends like, hey, let's go over to the Garfield's house. Oh, you know him, his daddy gets all the the the Xbox. Every day FedEx comes up and he's got this new Xbox game. Oh really, Tiger Woods, you know, two thousand and six or something had come on over. Let's go play with it. It's so it's so cheaper to do it right now. My projector back in the day, how much
was that projector? I mean it was thousands of dollars. Then I had to come get it installer to do the whole thing. These projectors nowadays, they're they're portable. You could pick them up a movement anywhere. So this eight hundred dollars Samsung portable projector, I mean you can, you could take it anywhere. There's a lot of them like that right now. And so why not take it to your dorm room. I mean, you you're gonna be you're you're gonna be a big man campus or a big woman on campus.
So it'd be nice if I actually get through, I try out one of those or some of those other TVs. Phone number here on the old HTT High Tech Textion show seven one three two one two five nine five zero Calum, don't know. Don't give away any gift guard yet. We'll do that here in about five or ten minutes. We got that coming. We
will do that. The somebody asked me about QR scanners. Remember when COVID came around, and you would go to restaurants and you would have a mask on, and they stopped printing menus because you didn't want to touch it. And you would see this square, black and white crazy thing, and you would take your phone and you would use your camera, and then all of a sudden it would connect to a website and would be the menu. It's called a QR code, and they really haven't. It is a need a
vengeon and it worked much more on menus. You can do a number of different things with it. But it's no secret that scanning a QR code can be pretty annoying. It's just it's just a process. I did see this, and Android, Android itself operating it is trying to make it easier by doing something. They're adding a feature that's accessible with your quick setting shortcuts and they're scanning built into your camera. So Google has updated something. It's a
little barcode. And I don't know if you if you've got if you've got a Google phone, if you got an Android phone, Yes, it's one's a Samsung and there's several others too. There is a distinction between a Google code scanner and other barcode scanning things. And again I don't want to get too technical, but it is kind of an issue. So third party apps are soon going to be able to zoom in on it. And I'm gonna
give you a good let me quickly tell you example. So if you were trying to stream something from your television and you have an account for Netflix, and you have account for Amazon, and you have an account for Max. Instead of using your remote control in your television two type in and you've got to use your you know, your up and down, the left and back button to type in all your email and information. That is a pain.
And then you know what nowadays, what you can do. It's they will throw up one of these QR codes on screen and they'll say, use your phone, take a picture of the TV screen and automatically then it'll let you sign it. The problem is sometimes you're pretty far away from your television, you're laying in bed, you get your television. What these new features that Android is doing, It's automatically going to zoom in. It's going to notice
and recognize these QR codes and it'll let you zoom in. So these it's gonna be used on a regular Android camera. All these things are gonna be updated in the latest versions of the Android operating system. But it's it's gonna I don't mind these QR things. I see them more and more places. Business cards. You actually can put them on a business card and just have people. And I actually have one. I've got one of these electronic business
cards. It's from a company called Hello. Is it Hello Hello dot me, dot mme and I create it's free and I created a code and it's on my phone. Someone says, hey man, you got if you've got a business card? And I'm like, yeah, I do, but tell you what here And I pull up my app. A QR code comes on my screen and I will have them take a picture of it. That's one easy way to do it, and automatically they can import that directly into their phone. These QR codes, I don't mind them, and they just need
to get simpler to use. And I think by now most people know how to use them. I remember a number of people you know during COVID it's like, how do you do it? Do I need to download a QR reader? Now phones, Now we'll actually take a picture and automatically take it to that website. But again tech that is making things easier and improving on things. I will be come back. I promised to give away one of these gift cards. At least I will take your phone calls and I will
talk to you about what Amazon is doing. Amazon continues to get into the doctor business. Would you trust a doctor on Amazon. I don't know. Doctor Garf is here to give you all the information you need. Last seg Remember when we get to twelve o'clock, a local live time on KPRCY nine fifty am. Should you be listening in Southeast Texas? Say what because it's almost a lunch time. Why don't we give away some gift cards. Let's
give away one of the gift cards. How about Johnny Tamali's in Missouri City, southwest side of town opened up about six months ago. Just some great tex Mex food and they got cold drinks. Let me help you out on a hot day, like right now, We're gonna get some cold drinks.
Go check it out if you want to go to your If you don't win, ninth callers seven one three two one two five nine five out two one two one seven one three two one two five nine five ozho if you don't win, suck it up, baby, because you can just go there and buy some things yourself. They got just a great happy hour Monday through Friday from two to six pm. Unbelievable menu in Cholata's. They've got some ribs.
Actually I haven't tried the ribs because I'm not a porkman. But man, I mean it seems like once every one out of every four tables here getting some of these ribs. They look so good. Definitely check out some of the Diablo, which is the sizzling vehitas along with the shrimp del mar. He goes on and on and on. Address it's right on Murphy Road near Highway six Murphy Road, so it's FM ten ninety two. If you really want to lock it in, it's twenty seven twenty FM ten ninety two.
It's in most City, right on the edge of Missouri City in sugar Land. Go on out there. They open right now for launch next week. I need to bring some here into the studio because it is good and actually I need a cocktail right now. We already look at that calling number nine. Already got it. I got a thumbs up from Calum in the window, so feel free to stop trying. Next week we will have another Johnny Tamali's and later this later this show, we've got some Benny Hanna gift
card coming to you. So congratulations. There is a fifty dollars Johnny Tamali's Zuri City card. This is what you get by listening to my show. This is what you you don't I give away free information. I try to make you laugh and entertain try to give you something to think about and talk about it. And and now I'm giving away some gift cards. I mean, I don't know what else I can do for you. Let's see what else I can do for you. What story? I had a story?
So now I had a better story. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we're talking about last segment. We were talking about the smart homes and everything from smoke alarms to help you and water sensors. Should you know hurricane season? Right now, I have a my front door. I have a smart front door lock that is fingerprint activated. And these were these are relatively new. Let's go back five, six, seven, eight years ago. But now now you know, you've got big manufacturers like Yale Locks and
what have you. They are making these things and you can go to your home depots or your lows. You can get them on an Amazon. And I don't think it's hard to install a new doorlock. I've done it so many times because I test out so many new locks. I mean I could probably change lock ten fifteen minutes and it's really not that hard. But some of them are neat because you could punch in a code, maybe a four or five, six, seven, eight digit code. You can give every
member of your family their own code. You can give your mad to code. You can give a special one time activated code for your neighbor if they need to get it. But nowadays you can actually could put your fingerprint on there. And I've been using a fingerprint I D here for about two years or so. It's it's good, it's I have a percentage of luck on the first time I put my finger on it there, it's it's about seventy
percent of the time. If my finger is a little sweaty, there is direct sunlight that hits that fingerprint sensor, so sometimes it doesn't have to sit there and try it again. If not, I do have a backup system of punching in a code on there too. But I saw this somebody's I saw what some people are doing. It was this week there was a big security conference, I think it was in Vegas. It's called def Con that people are now putting implants in their skin, these little r F I D
chips in their scanner and their fingerprints. Now stand by, let me tell you what these r f radio frequency identification. These little r f I D chips. These can be found in your toll tags. For example, every time you have a toll tag and you go through a toll booth, if you're in Houston and you go on the Sam Houston Tollway or the Westpark Tollway, you know you have that little toll tag that you have on your window. Well, if you really crack it open, there's a little tiny chip
in there, and it's an r f I D chip. And what it is, it's it's always sitting on a signal and every time it passes through a sensor of any sort of kind it register is that hey, all right, well this RFI D chip is registered to this car, which is registered to this credit card, and that's how you get the toll tag. RFI D chips or many places. They're in grocery stores right now. I think Walmart, I think is one big example. They use RFID chips on a
lot of their products. So every time a product is bought and leaves the store, some stores have a chip reader so they know, okay, well I just know that a case of Coca cola left, or here's some produce or here's some clothing, Well it knows that it was purchased, so then it could goes to the ordering department they need a restock and reorders. It's not like they could. It's a tracking thing. It's yes, it's a tracking thing if you really think about it, but it's for inventory and use
in whatever. But people are putting these things in there in their wrist in their fingers. For one example, is exactly what I just said. Well, I have a lock on my front door and it's got a fingerprint sensor. Well, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't work. If I had a fingerprint sensor, if I had a sensor, a little tiny chip that's implanted in my skin, all I need to do is just approach my door, my car door, my garage door, my office. It automatically opens
up. And I guess, I'm here's the point I'm getting. Would you do this? Let's say it's actually safe and it's not gonna hurt your blood, it's not gonna do anything. I guess I am betting less than five percent of my listener, five percent of America who would want to do this because they're so afraid of the government tracking you. I'll go back to one of my favorite movies, Tom Cruise Minority Report. If you remember the Minority
Report, they tracked everybody through their eyes. There was I iris sensors. You would go Tom Cruise was walking through them all and they would know it's him by scanning the eyes, and they would know what he buys and shops. Hey, welcome to the gap. You're you're a large and you're a size you know, thirty four jeans. That's that's tracking. I'm not saying r F I D is like this, and who knows, the world may be like that one day. But people are putting these things, call them
pass keys, poem thing in in their body. I don't know you can I mean, listen. Advantage is well, you can leave your keys at home. It's a cool party trick. I don't know the downsides. I don't know if there's any doctors out there. I mean, could these things I mean, I listen, I know there's silicon and maybe there's a metal in these chips. Could what happens if you stay in the pool too long
or the shower too long? Do they rust inside your body? I don't know, but this is something to ponder as we get to the top of the twelve o'clock hour. We have about six seven minutes for you to think about it, and you can call and weigh in on should would you put these little tiny chip and plants under your skin so you could leave your keys at home? A lot of more and more people are doing it. I don't know, I'm I don't know if I'm there yet. I'll give you
that number seven one three two one two five nine five zero. Coming back, I will talk about the latest smart watch out there. I am playing with the newest Samsung Watch six Classic. Not only was it announced, it has been on sale for about a week right now. I got to play with that thanks to my friends at AT and T. Also, there's a lot of alert Did you get an alert on your cell phone one of these kids were kidnapped? Or there was a silver alert or an amber alert.
I'm gonna tell you how to if you're sick of those things. There's a way to turn those things off. Do you want to turn them off? Because some of these are national emergencies. I'm gonna tell you how about some emergency settings on your phone that you could set several different alerts that will let you know what's going on in including bad weather wherever you are again, fun stuff that I'm gonna talk about that's gonna keep you hanging on for one more
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Now your high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield. Halfway through the show on a high August day is halfway to a happier hour. You know what I was. We just gave away a gift card to Johnny Tamali's Text Mix Cantina, Missouri City, and they got some nice cold Margarita's and Alando's luck old Beer. I think happier is actually starting. I don't know. I'm here in studio. You know we do have a refrigerator. Do you guys mind if I pop O top. Okay, well we'll talk about that. It's
coming up this hour. You have another gift card for you. You got to tune in one hundred dollars gift card to Binny Hannah. Several of them located here in the Houston area. There's about seventy of them around the country. You are eligible to win anywhere in the country you are. You can just go check them out if you are a calor number whatever. We pick sometime between now and the end of the hour. Michael Garfield does my name? Hello, Callum? How are you Calum? I got some bad news
for you? Or is it actually a good news? Fall in winter or my absolute favorite times of the year. I do not like heat. I cannot stand heat. I'm an outdoor person. When it comes to I'm a runner, and I don't not like It's very tough to run in the summer. It's very difficult to run in the heat that we've had over here for the past two or three months. It's just been disgusting. I like, I am one of the few people in the world who like when the time
switches to daylight saving time. I guess what it is when it gets darker earlier, because which to me, it means it gets cooler earlier, which means I could run earlier and then get home and still go out and do things at night. I'm just a weirdo about this thing. But the point is, how do you know when fall is here, folks? When you start seeing pumpkin spice everywhere at every single grocery store, in restaurant. Welcome Fall, Welcome Fall, Dorrius fuck Dorus ready not people, Fall flavor is
here, saw it Duncan. Duncan already launched its fall menu earlier than ever. They're pouring pumpkin spice, signature lattes and pumpkin coffee. Suck it up. I don't want to see these Facebook posts or can't believe you're already starting to pour pumpkin. Shut up, you know what. I know it's one hundred nine degrees right now, But if I see and smell pumpkin, it at least gets me thinking about fall, puts me in a better mood.
Okay, seven eleven's got it's that's pumpkin spice, lattam pumpkin coffee too. There are seven elevens now in age down. There is a god. August first, that's starting. It's nicer than to break out the pumpkin a little bit earlier. What's wrong with it? Why can't pumpkin be year round? Okay, you know what, maybe not, but at least it gives me the sense that fallows freaking here. And I'll tell you what. I love me some pumpkin beer, low pumpkin beer, and I usually miss pumpkin beer's
out. Now go to a grocery store and you got there's so many different kinds of pumpkin spice beer. I love it. That is fault October Fast. It's it's it's a comfort flavor. It's why are the phones letting up? People? Are people calling to complain and yell at me, shut up about the pumpkin. No, I'm not shutting up up pumpin. I saw pumpkin pop darts. There's pumpkin cereal. I haven't been to Trader Joe. I love Trader Joe. Trader Joe's is like the king of pumpkin. Everything.
Well, I know it's fall when Trader Joe's whip side because you can't walk three feet into a Trader Joe's and you can see everything pumpkin, pumpkin ice cream. And it's not that I love the pumpkin flavor, because really, what does pumpkin taste like? Is it kind of an orangey type of thing. And don't get me wrong, I don't drink coffee, so I don't care if dunkin and seven eleven they're whipping out your pumpkin spicelot day.
It doesn't bother me because I do not walk into a Starbucks because big Daddy Garf has never had a sip of coffee in my life, and even pumpkin is not going to get me to sip coffee. Do you know? According to Nielsen, spending in all retail outlets including supermarkets, restaurants, and more during a week over week since last dogs we as America have spent eight hundred and two million dollars on pumpkin products. Don't tell me it doesn't work.
I have pumpkin house spray. You know how you can like spray a little effervescent like you make things, you know, glade or whatever this stuff is, you know, for breeze, and it makes your house smell good. I love the smell of pumpkin. I'll get pumpkin. I don't like the really really sweet, sweet smell and stuff of pumpkin. But it just it just it just it puts me in in the mood. Goldfish now, goldfish dunkin pumpkin spice grams. Where is there there is a dunk There's a dunkin
at Hobby Airport. I think there's one out by me. Chris. There's no more Krispy Kreams in Houston. I saw that's a bet. So the last Krispy Creme I think is Gonzo I think goes out on West Timer in your Beltway eight. I think it's gonna correct me if I'm wrong people, But if you go somewhere and I'll dig this, I mean, listen,
I think donuts phenomenal. If I have one donut a year, I'm lying, And I think donuts are one of the best foods ever, I just can't or won't eat a donut just because of all the fat and take. They have four different kinds of pumpkin donuts, Pumpkin spiced cheesecakes, World donut. Okay, that's it, Okay, I'm going to find it done. I'm going to find a Krispy Creame now for that pumpkin spice maple pecan donut
the original and cake pumpkin spice. Done it. I'm going to find a pumpkin spice cheesecakes world done it. If anybody is near the galleria where we are broadcasting from, feel free to roll by a Crispy Creme, which I know we don't have any year in Houston, but feel free to defind me one what's the big problem with this? I don't care. Well. I can't wait till Eyehop rolls out on August twenty eight. They're pumpkin spice pancakes. I don't need a lot of piantcakes. Man. But oh, sure's
good. I'm sorry, I just, I just, I just. I'm just dreaming about the fall where I can stop wearing shorts. No, I wear shorts year round two, which, by the way, more people are going back to the office right now. What do you think about wearing shorts in the office? Is that? Is that a problem? I mean, did the tyranny of long pants? If your bosses want you to go into work, shouldn't you have the wherewithal to say, you know what, boss,
the sucks. I'm gonna wear my flippy flops and I'm gonna wear some cargo shorts. There's a big question. I mean, who cares if I'm flashing a little leg in the office. I know you boomers out there, I don't care. I wear shorts quite often. I got some pretty sexy legs. They're hair right, man, But I'll do it. Listen, it ain't nineteen twenty one people. There's a reason people wear pants nowadays, wear shorts. I went to a big family event this past weekend that traditionally
you wear a suit and tie to let me help you out. I do not remember the last time I wore a tie. I don't even know where my ties are. Generally I wear a sport coat to one of these events. Didn't wear a sport coat. I just I wore a button down shirt and I always fits into that thing. Don't do it not me? There you go. See this is these are the interesting things that I talked about when it comes to consumer light. Stop people, Pumpkin weather is here.
You got a problem with that. You talk to me, or you actually tweet me or zeet me or thread me at high tech text and all right, coming back, we're gonna talk a little Amazon. Amazon is opening some clinics. Would you go to an Amazon clinic or a virtual clinic for a doctor. And also I'll tell you what what I've been driving, give you some of my reviews of cars. So how we do it? Just have too much fun here on the high Tech text and show quick taking the clock.
We've got about eighteen nineteen minutes after the hour, and I look at that because I'm looking at my watch, which I recently got from the US Coins and Jewelry. I know Kenny and Matt Duncan they're working right now six days a week. People. That's they work on shobas. That's right, but they're closed on Sunday, just like Chick fil A. Go check them out US Coins and jewel You hear a lot about them here on not only this radio station, but also our sister radio station seven forty K TIERRASI just
because there are a lot of US we shop there. Man. It's been around since nineteen eighty five. Euston's premier in gold silver buyers. And they've got unbelievable watch collection, use Rolexes, other Swiss watches. They have several hundred available at any given time. And I'm telling you right now, I've
learned a lot about watches. And specifically rolexes. Do you know if you don't wear a rolex and you just kind of let it sit on your on your deskary in your jewelry box for a while, you don't wear it, it's it stops just because you need to keep the thing moving. Guess what I got. It's an automatical winding machine that I got also at US Coins and Jewelry. And I put my rollie in there and I put it right and it next to my bed and it slowly, just kind of very quietly
just rotates and rotates, so it's always on time. Just a little something I learned from Kenny and Matt Duncan, who run US Coins and Jewelry. It's at eighty four thirty five Katie Freeways. It's I ten your Voss not too far out of Loop six ten. They are open right now Monday through Saturday. If you want to call them or go online at US Coins and Jewelry dot com. Tell him you arder from me. Seven one three, five nine seven sixty three sixty seven. I wore my relex to this family
event that I had last week. No less than three of my family members like damn, damn htt you make it a big I'm like, well, my kids are off my payroll right now. Yeah, I'm gonna actually spoiler to myself and act one lives up. Cousin of mine lives in Florida. He absolutely loved it what I did. Let I'm not kidding you. I was in. I went to US Coins and Jelry. I was walking around
with Kenny. I was at the jewelry counter. I was live video chatting, not FaceTime because I do not have an Apple, but I was live video chatting showing off the watches to my cousin so he could get one remotely. It's what they do, free written appraisals on almost everything. They want to buy your watches, They want to buy your coins. At least go in and check them out. It is fun. They got a lot of neat stuff you as coins and jewely dot Com. Thank you guys. Fun
same makes you look good, makes you feel good walking around. What time is it? Really? I don't know. Let Mary check on. My watch was at a Rolex nas you know it's just yes, it's arilics. Yes, it's a relics seven one three, two, one two five nine five out not giving away any gift cards. Yeah, we gave it one last last hour. We got one more to give away. I wanted to talk about I do a lot of car reviews, and I don't like when you get into your car now and it's one hundred hundred and ten degrees it's
just nasty hot? Did I did I mention this last week? It was I saw this from early August that a man in Arizona was trapped in his tesla on a one hundred degree day. Let me give you the headlines. This is from USA Today. Arizona man was trapped in his tesla on a one hundred degree day. Okay, what was the most shocking thing you got from that headline? Here's the most shocking thing. Why is it only one hundred degrees in Arizona? That's I'm a factual, duke had to be much
much more than that. The point is, it's these electric cars, and sometimes the little there actually is, even though there's a lithium ion battery in the car and your car has a letter range, little tiny things within your car. Maybe it's the door opener. Sometimes they're running a small battery, maybe a little twelve volte battery. Apparently that twelve volte battery inside dude's car
in Arizona was dead and he couldn't get out. Stand By, if you're a Tesla or any of these other electric cars, there's there's generally a manual door release that you can use in emergencies. Win or if you ever buy an electric vehicle, could you do yourself a favor? Could you I'm not a big reader of manuals, but could you literally take a lot of time and look at every little detail of how to run your car and what happens in case your battery dies, where the rip chord is, where the eject
button is to override to escape the vehicle if your battery dies. By the way, the emergency latch is found underneath the windows switches of the front seat if you have the Tesla model. Why but he was trapped in there for a while. He got out, Okay, But it's it's little things like this, and I hate reading manuals, Like if I have to if I have to read a manual, house something works, Odds are you're gonna have to read the manual two or three times And I'm not smarter than you.
That's not it. But my mind, if a product is designed well, I'm going to look at it and I can quickly decipher how to use it. I get into a brand new vehicle every single week. I test drive a new vehicle every week. Sometimes I get two a week. This past week I was into a week. It rolls up in front of my house from a service. I get the keys, I get in. I don't look at the manual. I have to quickly assimilate, and this is how I review vehicles. Is it easy to find the on off the start button?
You laugh at me. It took me a good forty seconds to find the on off start switch on the Alpha Romeo that I had last week. It's on the left side, bottom of the steering wheel. That's where the on off switch is. Sometimes I'm porches there on the left side of the column when you physically have to put a key in. How the most difficult thing for me and I rate this, it's because how easy is the infottament system? Is it easy to nay? Is it easy to switch radio stations?
Can you quickly lock in nine fifty a m KPRC see what I did there? Is it easy to switch from the navigation system? How hard is it to plant to program your Bluetooth, your kids Bluetooth in there. If you have to go through two, three, four or five, six or more screens, screw it, man, that's tough. And I'm telling you right now, I've just I have not ever been a fan of Mazda.
The Masta's infottament screens have historically been very difficult to sift through. I will tell you this last March, when I got to drive the new Mazda c X ninety, it seems they have eased up and made it simpler to use though infottament system. So they're finally getting it. And I say this is because this week I'm tooling around in a Mazda Miata. Yes, a six foot told dude like me is able to fit in a Mazda Miata. It's also nice that this new one is the RF. It's it's got a button
that makes it a heart. It's a hard top, but it's automatic convertible, so I don't need to take anything off. It's a hard top convertible. But this Mazda had a little difficulty the new one of programming things on the infotainment system. Where am I going with all this stuff? But the point is. I review cars. I'm not afraid to tell you, man, this thing needs to be improved. I don't have a sponsor. I
do not work with dealerships. I work directly from the manufacturers. I'm remember the Texas Auto Writers Association, And I'm gonna give you the play by play. And I have to drive through Kia's BMW's Mercedes. Oh I know, woe is me? I drive minivans. I drive two seater, little tiny cars, just like the Demiata. I drive big MoMA SUVs, eight seater, big things, the quarter of a million dollars cars or cars that'll cost eighteen thousand dollars. I'm gonna give you the play by play. I was
in a really cute well, there's two of them. Let me go start with Alexa. I was at Alexis three fifty n X. It's a hybrid. I don't get a lot of lexus Is if you will, because there's several differ companies who delivered in these cars. I don't mind Lexus. Lexus got better. Alexis used to have the touch had where you would actually have to take your finger and change all the infotainment system. They got rid of that stuff in their newer vehicles. Now there's knobs, and there's buttons,
and then there's other things like that. But Alexus three fifty n X, you are not bad approaches about forty five thousand dollars. I like the hybrid. My neighbors said, I pull out. My neighbors says, is that electric? And I said, no, it's a hybrid. And this is a regenerative breaking. You don't need to plug this hybrid in, so it's not a plug in hybrid electric vehicle. This is just a typical hybrid. Every time you hit the brakes it it kind of regenerates. And I gave
him about a thirty second dissertation. He asked me, do you like electric? Do you like hybrid? And I actually like hybrids right now because I still don't love the public, our current America public system of charging our phones. I don't want to have to sit there wait thirty or forty five minutes and cross fingers that there's going to be an open electricity and it's at full charge. If I'm driving from here to Dallas, I want to be able
to just quote unquote gas up in ten minutes. I really don't feel like putzing around for forty five minutes or so. I'm just not there yet. I think it's great. Electric cars are great as a second car if you have to do some driving within the cities. But this is a hybrid. Hybrids are fine and you can get better gas mileage. When we come back, I will tell you the other car I was driving, it's a little
one, is relatively inexpensive. And if you want me to test drive something, all you need to do is send me an email Michael Garfield at iHeartMedia dot com and I will try to get on my list of what to drive. Coming back here on the high Tech text and show less than thirty minutes to go stand by. Before the end of the segment, we will give away a one hundred dollars gift card to Benny Hanna a little Teppanyakisa Benny A.
Hanna, several locations four or five locations in the area. By the way, brand new and Conro shout out to Conro our signal nine fifty am terrestrially goes up to Conro, goes down to Galveston, and you could take us anywhere if you listen to the iHeart Radio app. So go check out Benny Hannah when I would tell you when it cala, remind me before the segments over to give out the number and we'll figure out what the color number
will actually win. That it is Michael Garfield, High Tech Text and Show. We talked to oh so much about technology. I already went through. It's pumpkin latte spy season. If any of you guys and gals care about that. I don't drink coffee, but I like the pumpkin flavor and it makes me feel like fall is here. Don't look at the thermometer, man, but falls technically here. If seven eleven and Duncan and kruspy Kreeme launched
there, they're put their pumpkin stuff. Talking about cars driving, I was I have a twenty twenty four Lexus three fifty n X I was driving just this past week. I only get these cars for a week. They do knowing gives me a car to keep. I have to every week. We keep flipping and flipping and flipping the NX I had two last week I had. I like hybrids. I like the old fashion old fashion. There's two kinds of hybrids. There's a hybrid that has regenerative breaking, which means and
this is like when the Prius, remember the Prey Preus. The hybrid use Actually, well was the electric cars comes up? It was when you break it's and if you go back to your sixth, seventh, eighth grade or ninth in your college of how you know energy works and energy. Energy is stored up. When you break, it regenerates the battery inside and it gives you more miles to go on. Nowadays, you can plug in hybrid cars, and you certainly can plug in electric cars. Plug in hybrid cars.
They're called PHEV plug in hybrid electric vehicles. He have is the nickname. They don't give you a ton of miles like I was in a jeep p have. Maybe you got twenty miles extra. Some are gonna give you thirty miles. But a true hybrid cars you can it's gonna give you good miles.
Yes, they still have a gas tank. I'm more of a in terms of practicality, if you have one car, I am more of a hybrid fan than I am an electric fan, because I still think for long trips you need to gas up. I am not putzing around and waiting thirty forty five minutes or an hour for me to charge my all electric vehicle anyway. That was my Lexus three fifty X, which I actually do like. It's good. It's a ROADTI, it's a it's a compact SUV, which
is like a CUV, which is a compact utility vehicle. See, it's you know, four doors, two people in front, up to three people in back. Nice little tailgate. You can still fit some you know things in there. People in there, well not people in the tailgate. You can fold the back seat down, you can get some good stuff, handles quite well. It is Alexis and so it's gonna be a little bit price here. But I also had another vehicle. I was playing, and I
was playing in a new Buick Encore sexy little thing. Little is the word. This was the actually upgraded Encore GX Auveneer. Auveneer is the high level finish on all of the Buick models. Uh, it's it's it's four doors. It fit my father in the front seat, and folks, let me help you out. That says a lot. I'm six foot tall, I'm driving. He's six three, and he's he's got he's got some growth. With all due respect, can fit in the front seat. Mom was in
the back and we got did I put two others? I think we had three people back there total. It was it was a squeeze. It was a squeeze on this one. It does have some pep and get up and go. It's got a one point three Leader turbo engine. But because it's a small ish car, it's also a very small compact CUV or SUV. The power to weight ratio is still there. One point three Leaders is not a turbo engine. It's not the biggest engine there. And if you've got
a very heavy vehicle, that ain't gotta get you nowhere. But if it's a relatively light vehicle, it's got some good you know, get up and go. BUEX always has some great safety and security features, good connectivity. I do like the way General Motors GM, which is the parent company of Buick. They actually work their infotament system if you will. This has a you know this is but what was it about? An eight inch touch screen information display. It's got all your you know, your USBC plugs, you
know you're wireless charging and whatever price on the Buick, it's standard. The standard price is about the two thousand dollars. The Auvenir or everything else. This is about thirty five thousand dollars, is what I was tested. How much you're willing to spend for vehicles nowadays? I mean, listen, I've been in a two hundred and thirty five thousand dollars vehicle, if not more. For this is thirty five thousand dollars. This I would recommend. It's
good for Listen, if you're just out of college. Maybe you're in college because it's smallish, maybe you're in high school. I think a buddy might think. My best friend, his daughter has a Buick Encore. She got it when her senior year in high school, and I believe she has it in college right now. She's out in California. Hey, listen, it gets you around. It's nowadays. It's affordable. And I say nowadays it's affordable and Buick. I like Buick. My parents still in Dallas have a
Buick, and that beast has been running for twenty years. It is. They've got it now buck bull. Yeah, it's not your father's Buick, not your father's Oble's Oldsmobile. It's actually not a Nosemobile. Is that a Buick? Yes, that's a Buick. So there's my two quick reviews. Go check it out again. I am not going to give you a dealership. I don't deal withal I would love to recommend a dealership any dealerships out there who want me to come talk to them potentially endorse them, but I
got a lot of checklist before I endorse any company specifically dealership. There's you know, I'll tell you what. There is only one automobile dealership. I'm not mentioning the name that right now because I know them. I grew up with them. They and it's a dealership that has several different brands, so they do not only one manufacturer. They do. They have obviously they're different individual dealerships, but they're conglomerate. Their parent company, which is still goes
by the same name, family name. I would endorse them every time I've come. They are the nicest, they are the cleanest bays. They they're service people. They will hop out, they know you by name. You go in and you can get some fresh cookies, you can go get some some soda. They could not be nicer. That's the only one, and I'm not I'm not gonna get many free love but they're based out of Dallas and let you see if you can figure that one out. But anyway,
I'm just I deal with the manufacturers. They don't pay me, and I can tell you how crappy they are actually how good they are. I'll tell you what you want to give away. Callum is reminding me to give away some Benny Hannah gift cards. Okay, I'm gonna give away one gift card. Who's hungry right now? Benny Hannah been around celebrating sixty years same anniversary
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the way, got about two minutes before the end of this segment. Did anybody get any alerts on their phone this week? There was like a Amber alert or silver alert or something. I was at dinner and all of a sudden, everybody's phone goes. I yay, okay, it's good to get these alerts. And I'm not ragging on alerts. They're there for a reason. When I grew up, there was a torn in Dallas. There was
a tornado siren. They don't have those here in Htown. If there was a tornado spot in your area, every few miles in Dallas, if there's a tornado warning, I believe it is not a watch. There's an exciting of a funnel class. You would get this. Oh my good, this is the worst sound in my life. I mean, it was like a freaking air raid. But it served the purpose, like man, keep your head on this swivel, man duck for cover. Go in a room with
no windows. Don't have those here. Nowadays, everybody has cell phones and if there is an alert you get, you get these things. They go off. You could see whether you know this or not. When you could set alerts, go into your settings and alerts and you could turn them all off. You could turn some one and some up. There's national emergencies,
there's weather alerts, there's amber alerts, there's silver alerts. It's actually something called a rapid s OS and it's a collaboration with emergency responders and what it is, it's a it's rapids. It's like a connector and uses cloud communication and data analytics to funnel essential information, including your exact location, from your device to the nearest nine one one emergency center. So this is a different
type of alert that actually goes the other way. So if an emergency, say you fall, I'm following it, I can't get up, you can maybe press the side button or an SOS button or even cars, cars have crash detection now in rapids. It's it's a platfor them. It's free of charge to nine one one centers, either through cloud based software. It charges license fees to technology companies and other data providers and it licens it. But
for you it's free. I mean, gadgets can save your life. I mean I talk to a lot of people and they don't have any idea how many potentially life's having features their honor devices are your watch right now? Look at your smart watches? I was I talk a lot about the Samsung Watch six Classic that I'm wearing. Your eye felt, your your what is it? Your Apple Watch it's got if you fall it can actually call somebody. There's a if I fall in I can't get you could you could tap to
emergency contacts. There's a health app. It monitors your you could monitor your blood pressure. There are devices out there. Apple's health app is actually does a good job. So anyway, always do something like that emergency ss on know your Apple, watch, your Samsung watch Samsung. When I was at at sam and Soul, Korea, we actually met, says a doctor who runs there. Watch division if you will, because they're relying more and more
and health. I mean you could check your you know your pulse and actually I should check my pulse here during the break because we got only one more segment. I tell you what, I'm gonna take a Break'm gonna check my pulse. When we come back, we will wind up the show. We already have a winner for the Benny Hanna. Thank you Benny Hannah for giving away a one hundred dollars gift card. We'll try one next week too. My name is Michael. Help me out finish, help me cross the finish
line. People. We'll be right back. Final segment, Final seven and a half minutes or so. I Tech Texas show. I do thank you for tuning in. I congratulate the winners today. I think Benny Hannah man, I'm a digging Benny Hanna. I went to the grand opening of their Conro location about a month ago. Forgot how fun that place is. We were there earlier this week celebrating my parents anniversary at the Whole Machine there. And also thank you to Johnny Tamalies. Took the boys to Johnny Tomalies on
Thursday night at Missouri City. Saw a Man. Reggie and Neil love the crowd. Man Good Happy Hour two two to six pm Monday through Friday, FM ten at ninety two. It's Murphy Road right near Highway six. Don't sleep on a man. That got some great margaritism free ice cream, brief officer. If I didn't have any of that. Kids, actually one of the kids actually had that. I want to pay this off here meeting. I'd been teasing this the entire show. Forgot about this. We I just
talked about some technology that actually is can save your life. These are fall detection you know, sensors on your watches, your Apple Watch, your your Fitbitch, or your smart watches. The Virtual Health has become prevalates. Certainly during COVID online you could talk to your doctor. You can look at your doctor and I guess they could examine you open up and say, ah, you put your mouth up to the camera on your on your screen or something.
Amazon is getting into this business. Amazon just rolled out a virtual health clinic across the country and it's been around for a while, but it's expanding it. They launched at last November kind of as a way for patients to connect with tele medicine providers so they can receive treatment for comic condition. Maybe, but Amazon's been trying to break into the healthcare industry, you know, for years, some mixed success. But they're rolling out a virtual health clinic
service. So they're saying it's a virtual platform for users to connect with healthcare providers to treat comic conditions like sinus infections I had. I had a terrific sinus infection in June for the first time my life. I don't know how they can do this online because the only way my E and T lady figured out I had a sinus infection, she shoved a microscopic camera up my nose.
I think that's inversion eight coming next year. I'm not sure. So the thing is that Amazon doesn't provide the tele medicine services itself, but they're randing it as an Amazon Clinic and their partner going there never different companies, and so there it's now across all fifty states you can do Amazon Clinic through video visits. I've actually never I've talked to my doctor when I needed to
look if I was getting on or off medication. I think two or three times, and I'm really I'm really close with my general practitioner, Buddy Man a man, so I might as well just talk to him on the phone cause I see him regularly too. But you know, we did a video because they've got a document this stuff. Oh did you see your doctor? I'll tell you what it does say, Tim, you know the worst part of going to a doctor or clinic or hospital freaking parking, Like I go,
what it? It's just why are these hospitals so crowded? Because me and know my general practitioner, he's like in a hospital it was he used to Methodist or something, and I'm like driving around for freaking twenty minutes is longer than I'm with the doctor. So yeah, the virtual visits are fine. I just don't listen. I covered thee the technology in the medical industry. I got some more electronic show. Every single January, there's a whole
another convention, wing center, wing of all the telemedicine thing. I just I just don't It's tough to do. And I talked to my doctor. I said, do you like this? He goes, well, yes to an extent, because they can fit more patients in and the doctor actually can do it at home at night or whatever, which is good. But the point is, how much can you really tell through video conference? I mean he can't take my pulse, yes, I mean I can give him my
pulse based on my smart watch. I don't think smart watches, with all due respect to everything, including my Samsung that I'm wearing right now, I don't know how accurate they were. Actually I did a test. I went to my cardiology. I went to eight cardiologists, new cardiologists, and he was measuring an old fashion off with the ball. But he was squeezing and squeezing and squeezing versus my blood pressure was on my watch. There was a
discrepancy. I mean, some things are still og old school, but listen, this is what I do. I do. I'm not ragging on it at all. It's just are we there yet to fully believe that e Doctor's electronic doctors electronic equipment is there yet. We could talk about that next week. Other than that, I am having fun with my Samsung Watch six Classic. I have the Watch six which was just when on sale about a week
ago, and that's the newest version of Samsung's Watch six. But they also have a Watch six Classic and I like it at and t thank you so much. They let me play with one here for a few weeks, and this is the one where they brought back the rotating bezel, don't I was so I don't know why Samsung removed the rotating bezel from their watches about two
versions ago. The bezel is the outer ring on a watch. And listen, my Rolex also has a rotating bezel, which really doesn't do anything other than you know, put the you know, the twelve o'clock or the timer on a little but the rotating bezel on a smartchwatch actually has a very useful function because you can rotate it from screen to screen to screen. So I can rotate it between my blood pressure. What's my notification? Am I getting a text? Am I getting an email? To Watch six? You can
take your finger and you can kind of rotate it on there. But I still haven't got the traction yet. So I do like to Watch six classic. That is it worth upgrading from you. Let's just say you have a Galaxy Watch five I got. I gotta tell you the Watch six follows the Watch five template. Overall, it's got some useful updates. I think the battery life, maybe the fitness tools are relatively the same. I think the
screens are brighter and they're larger. There's two different millimeter versions of each of these things. I think I got the forty seven millimeter, which is I like, I like close to fifty millimeters. I'm a I've kind of got a big risk. I got a big hairy wrist that they charge that. I will tell you this that they charge faster. It's got ultra fast charging, and the GPS tracking and the health sensors seem to work. Well.
I've only had this for a few days. I'm still playing with a AT and T. Thank you, but I said welcome return for the rotating bezel. When you're gonna if you get one of these things, maybe you haven't had one. I'm a big Galaxy watch band. I thought I had every versions I think since the second version of the watch, and I'm an Android guy. But make sure you really take a look because there's about one hundred
and hundred fifty dollars difference. The Watch six Classic, which is the bigger one with the rotating bezel, that's gonna run your three hundred and three hundred and fifty bones. The Watch six little smaller, a little bit more active, does not have the rotating bezzl there, you're going to run those babies around two hundred I think two hundred and fifty. Don't quote me on those. Your mileage may vary based on where you get these things. But they're
very good watches. They're great Android watches too, and they actually doesn't matter if you have an iPhone. Use your iPhone, but then you look down at your wrist. Just a watch fan, I'm just a watch fan, and I do think of the Aten t folks, and also Samsung and Berlin Rosen for letting me play with all these watches as I use my Samsung Galaxy Z Flip five. If you see me out I've got the newest version of that flip phone, and it's actually a pretty pretty cool. Hope, I
answered a lot of your questions. I gotta get out of here. Thank you so much to my man Callum for giving away some things, and everybody else who hung with me for the past two hours. Happy fall at least according to seven eleven, Krispy Kreme and Duncan because they got pumpkin spice lattes and all this other pumpkin stuff out there, and I'm actually kind of a fan of anything pumpkin. I'm have everybody who's been a part of this one.
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