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Is Michael Garfier. Michael Garfield. Michael Garfield's joining in the high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield is here with a high tech Texan. It was to make life easier some new technology. So Michael Garfield has something you might wanta. Michael Garfield is your high Tech Texan. Three decades helping you make magic with your gadgets. Heard worldwide on the iHeartRadio Act. Now your high tech Texan. Michael Garfield. Well, I guess I can say my new year has

officially begne. Normally it's the January first, that's where everybody's clocks reset. But you know, generally people, I'm just a little bit busy in January until mid January and things things calm down. If you can't tell by my voice, it may be a little of my stuffiness. It has been a very long week because my super Bowl in the world of technology is officially over.

A few days ago, I finally got back from Las Vegas. It was the annual CEES, which used to be called the Consumer Electronics Show, and this is my annual post CES show where I'm gonna go through about as many of the products that I saw, as many the products that I laughed at as many of the products that I could actually take samples of it and

stuff it to my bags before I threw them on the plane. All the people that I met, the companies that I met that are trying to get my attention as a member of the media who covers this stuff, so then I can then slowly get it out to you and hope so that you must bid your heart earn money on buying things that you probably don't need and a lot of the stuff that we all can't afford. Yes, making a little fun of it, but that is what CEES does, always a fun thing

to do. Should you be listening live here on this Saturday the second is this the second Saturday. It's the second Saturday of January twenty twenty four. Getting ready for your Houston Texans playoff game, my home playoff game. You got to keep it right here for the next two hours. But we dial in another one of my ilk in the media technological technology space, my buddy out in Los Angeles, Rich DeMuro. He hosts a show, does some TV stuff like me, and we're going to compare notes of some of the

things that we saw. I will start with this, I'd like to think I lost a little weight, because it is it's all about walking the cees by nature. It used to be the world's largest trade show of any kind of trade show in the world. About one hundred and eighty thousand people from all over the world. Seriously, world would show up in Las Vegas. And it's more than just the Las Vegas Convention Center. If you've ever been to the Las Vegas Convention Center, you know how gigantic it is. Three

years ago it was expanded to another section of the convention Center. Then it spills over to the Venetian Sands Expo. It's spills over to several hotels and then a lot of companies. They said, they get their own suites and space in hotels, at restaurants and whatever, just you know, just to make sure that they can, you know, have one on one time with you. It is a lot of walking, It is a lot of talking, It is a lot of schmoozing, and it really it's just a lot

of deciphering. Is this legit, is this a concept? This is a neat thing? Is it going to work? And it's more about straight technology. They there was no phones released. This is not where phones smartphones are released. Apple does not ever show here. Apple does its own thing when it releases its products. There were a few computers. This is different than comdax Condas was another trade show that was in Vegas that stopped probably a good

ten twelve to fifteen years ago. I did see some laptops. HP was there, and a few desktop computers. But this is more traditionally cees. It's a lot about you know, the question I get, Oh, it's the coolest TV you saw. This is famously where the TVs were debuted and launched, the high definition TVs, the flat screen TVs, the panels, the LEDC Back in two thousand and one, two thousand and two, those things were expensive, they were heavy, they were large. Now they're larger,

some of them are cheaper. A lot of them are expensive, but some of them now roll up. I saw what that actually folds a folding TV. I saw transparent. I'm gonna talk about transparent TVs, but to me it's eye candy. It is eye candy. But as as in years past, there's just a dazzling amount of gadgetry, Giant TVs, robots, robots, robots, a lot of electric vehicles, but underpinning. I call it underpinning or maybe the buzzword. Every year there's a theme to me.

When I walked out it was years ago. I remember it was Amazon Alexa. Alexa was everywhere. Amazon, they cornered the market. They slapped Alexa, the voice activation system everything, well, this is this is Alexa activated, and this was this, And then Google came in a year or two later. Then it was you know, you know, hey Google, okay, Google, what have you now? It seems to me this year it was this. It was AI. Artificial intelligence. AI was in just about

almost every piece of technology I saw at this year. Ces AI is the technology they captivated millions of people ever since chat gpt stormed onto the internet. It was just over a year ago, but who could blame them? Chat gbt launched. It was right around Thanksgiving early late November of twenty twenty two. It took only five days for it to attract one million users. Give you comparison, it took Netflix three and a half years to accomplish that same

feet. So chatchpt it writes things for you. If you haven't tried it, just just good go check it out. I mean, it's the air. But AI is everywhere. There was AI lamps, AI lawnmowers, vacuum cleaners, mirrors, AI meat thermometer, which, by the way, I got a sample of that AI dog collars. There was an AI pillow. Samsung showed off an AI robot. There was refrigerator with AI vision. It recognizes foods to suggest recipes or tell you when the expiration data is near.

Washing machines are gonna use AI. It learns your habits and suggest washing cycles. But you have to understand what AI is. AI is not just one singular thing. It uses troves of training data and synthesizing information like your brain. It creates text, you can create images and computer code in seconds. It's really is transformative technology. Google. Microsoft, They've invested billions in a question to really try to lead the AI market. And all the reps.

I was walking up and down. Hey Michael, mister Garvey, they see Hey, high tech Texan. Were you out of Oh you out of Texans? Come over here, take a look at this Walmart, McDonald's, Volkswagen Loreale. They were there with AI stuff. About one hundred and thirty thousand attendees were this year. Not you don't COVID slowed things down, but it was a lot of walking into a lot of talking. I saw some fun stuff and I'll get to that. Brought a few things home. Maybe I'm

gonna give away, you know, stand by. I can always ask Colin number nine because maybe I don't want some of these hair dryers or things. Yes, I did get a really freaking cool hair dryer, which I'm gonna go ahead and blow the lead. That really was the coolest sample. I got really neat hair dryer. Because you know, it's all about hair all the time. So I'll give you the phone number here on Michael Garfield High

Tech Textan Show seven one three two one two five nine five. Oh. If you saw something in headlines or any other coverage that you wanted to know, maybe I saw it. You can ask me if it's worth it or any of these other stupid, crazy things that I was just you know, exposed to over the past four four days, walking and talking and doing everything. I am here for you. Seven one three two one two five nine

five. Oh, Michael Garfield, it's all Cees all the time right here on the High Tech Text Show. Following up with the Big Cees Consumer Electronics Show, which is what we do every time I come back here from the about a four day long just big massive technology show. Tell you what it was, Chili. It's my twenty second year I did the CEES Show. And I know it's always a little cold in January. It's always the first

week or two of January, but it was. It was a little chilly, little chilters, so you know, maybe I got a little stuff, he knows, but it was. It was fun, and I'd like to thank the nice folks at my buddies at Gringos and Jimmy chang Has starting with Russell Lee Borrow Johnathan kim who, by the way, just celevated their thirty first anniversary at Gringoes for the first Greenos phenomenal tex Mex food. Those guys love Vegas and they brought their IT department out there and got to see some

of the cool things. So go make sure as you're watching the football game today or this weekend, go grab by some enchiladas, little Morisco Bowl little beers at one of the mini Mini Gringos Tex Mex newest ones up in Conro And I appreciate their partnership and having some fun in Las Vegas. Talked about artificial intelligence. I was kidding with Russell, who runs Gringos. I said, what do you think of artificial intelligence? I mean, are they gonna

get rid of your waiters? And Russell will say never, because he is probably the greatest leader and boss of a of a service, you know company that you know takes care of some great food. He loves his waiters, he loves his staff too. But I mean, I don't want a robot really bringing me any of this stuff out. I want, I want somebody who actually can describe, like, you know, what's inside the season Injlada?

Did A do I have a? Is it too much dairy? But there are there are, there are companies, there are there are stores out there who do and we'll use AI power tools. So let's start with Walmart and Sam's. Shopping at Walmart and Sam's comes is about is about to get easier. Walmart unveiled a few new of coming offerings that will improve improve customer

experience. They have generative AI powered search tools on their website, and they're saying it's going to do away with the receipt check lines at Sam's Club, which is if they if you shop at Sam's club in Costco. What's the deal that you have to show your receipt to get out? I mean they got cameras everywhere, man, I mean some of these products probably already have

RFI D chips. Can't they just sense it? I never liked that if they can get if AI can get rid of those check checkout lines showing the receipt at Sam's club, I'm shopping at Sam's Clubs, simple as that. So I'll tell you right. So, this new AI power technology, they want to do away with the long receipt check lines near the exits. So what they do is they want to leverage AI and computer vision technology to confirm that members have paid for all their items in their cart. And they've launched

this tech I think at ten locations with the pilot program. They want to do it to all the clubs by the end of next year. So as you're walking out, there's going to be like a cam, an overhead camera that's going to look in your basket and it could quickly show all of the things that are in your basket that I believe is going to sync up with the receipt or your credit card that you just paid. That was just one of them. And again remember Walmart and Sam's Club at the same company,

owned by the same company. This is not an endorsement, even though I wish it was. This is just some of the neat stuff that I saw Walmart. And you're luckier in Texas because Walmart is is going to continue expand delivery in our great state of Texas via drones. It's a lot of drones.

But get this, Walmart has delivered over twenty thousand drone deliveries of the last two years in Texas, mostly the DFW area, shout out Dallas Fort Worth, and they're expanding it to almost two million additional households in DFW. It's not a concept of the future. It's happening now. Has anybody seen

a drone delivery? Have you ever been driving by? You ever just sat outside smoking a little cigar in your front yard, laying in the pool, doing something, and all of a sudden you see a drone Jubai in your neighbor's yard and drop a package off. I haven't seen it. I know it's a big, pretty big at Dallas Fort Worth, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Utah, and Virginia. I think they have it two. I just don't know if that's the right thing. And again I have there's got

to be certain products that can and cannot be delivered by drugs. I don't want to drone delivering me ice cream because the time it gets there in the summer, that thing flying from my Walmart distribution center to somebody's house in the summer three minutes, the things melted. They're gonna have in home grocery delivery service the point, and they're also going to have virtually actually augmented reality to

have you help try on clothes. They're working on a new augmented reality experience called it's called Shop with Friends. It's a little social media commerce social commerce platform, and it's gonna let people customers create virtual outfits to share with their friends and get feedback. Does this dressed like my butt look fat? To day? To announcement that's coming up Walmart. They also said they're going to bring on more more v fast electric vehicle chargers in front of their stores by

twenty thirty, which is great. So I gotta wait six years for this thing. There's a Walmart by me out in Stafford, Texas, southwest out of Euston, and I think it's Electrify America. That's the third party who actually rinse the space. It's only it's one of the very few level three chargers. Level it's a Level three, which is the highest fastest. That half of them are already broken. The other two. What I need to charge an electric vehicle that I'm testing, I have to wait till somebody else

finishes the charger. Then I got to sit to that charger for thirty more minutes. I'm not a big fan of EV chargers because I still don't think the contequt is there yet. But ahead good for Walmart for bringing on more electric vehicle chargers. Now can I make I just not in need to evs to actually have more range on there's they go more than two hundred and fifty two to three hundred miles. Point is as we I'm going to finish up

the segment. Then I'm going to get my buddy Richard Murrow rich on Tech. I'm gonna get him on the line after this next break. It's not so much about products. It's not so much walking up and down going hey, here's a television, or here's a phone, or here's a phone case, or here's a car, here's a drone. Here's they were there also. But it's about companies. It's you know, business to business, not so much business consumers or it's it's the services that are going to utilize to

help speed up lines when we check out. It's going to have our you know, make delivery allegedly easier via drones. We're not gonna have to now even not in go to AGIB shopping. We're now I don't even have to go to ATV shopping and wait in the parking lot until someone goes shopping for us that puts groceries in our car. Now a drone will deliver it.

Maybe they're gonna predict exactly what we want. Maybe I could tell ATV listen, I've got a high cholesterol, I hate mayonnaise, walming a fat free diet that AI will now go automatically shopping for me and deliver it to me. That is what the artificial intelligence is, and this is why I'm trying to break it down and cover it for you. It's as simple as that. So if you've got questions or ideas or would you be susceptible to the

idea of having a drone deliver your food deliver groceries. Talk to me. It's seven one three two one two five nine five. Oh garf is the nickname is Michael Garfield. Second Saturday, as we're doing this plausably live here in twenty twenty four. It's the Post Cees Show right here on KPRC nine fifty am. Good seeing you, Callum, Callum Reid. I usually bring back goodies. Cal read he's pushing the buttons here on this so I usually bring out goodies. I did bring back some stuff. Calum. You've got

long hair. Yeah, I mean you got good hair too, But I got my will later this hour, I'll tell you about this. This hair dryer it's supposed to do five and a half times more powerful and dry your hair faster. And you've got long hair. Man, dude, you look like Jesus. You look like Paul Davis. I mean, I mean, I love it. Man. You look like you're worried. Al Yankelevick, wait, wait with the hair. And I say this because it's a compliment.

Man, you been You're not taking my hair dryer. More goodies, more gifts and potential good giveaways right here on the High Tech Texans Show. It's Michael, We're gonna be right back back at it. It is the long running high tech Texan show. Michael Garfield, we are back. We are back from Vegas. People. Man, I'm telling you, I'm surprised to actually have a voice still. There was just so much to do, well over two decades that I've been going for CES. It was fun.

Do I say it was a blast? I mean yeah, but at some point I'd like to think of getting a little too old for this stuff. But it's it's fun and this is what I do for a job. One of the neat things I really enjoy out there is not so much looking at the products and the companies, but also hanging with my ilk who also cover it for the technology world. When it comes to the media, one of

which is a good buddy of mine, Rich DeMuro. Rich host a very popular and much listen to radio show based in LA It's called rich on Tech Radio Show. You can find it on podcast, rich on Tech, Great, Instagram, and x feed. I wanted to get his thoughts and we can kind of play around with it, so I asked him to hop on the Old Garf Show right now over under the number of steps You've walked this week, Rich, What do you got? Oh gosh, I was checking Hey, thanks for having me on, by the way, good to see

you. Look here in Las Vegas. I was checking my steps and it was probably I think the max was about twenty thousand a day exactly. So it's it's wild. My feet are hurting, it's a lot. It's nothing. Everything in Vegas looks like it's very close. It is not. Those buildings are huge. You cannot walk. Tuesday I did about nineteen thousand steps. Wednesday I did a close to eighteen thousand steps. But that's about norm.

But the thing is, though, at nights when we get invited to tell these events, and you and I went into several events with some foods and cocktails, we need to walk it off, and so I count that as even. That's how I count that stuff. I agree, one hundred percent. That's why I feel like anything goes here. You don't, you know, you don't need to go to the gym. You just you know, eat, drink whatever you want and then just walk it off. We we had a lot of fun because we went to a lot of these booths

together. We saw a lot of presentations, We talked to these companies and I've been like you, like you every day from Vegas. You're out there. You did your radio hit, your TV hits. What's the funnest thing, what's the coolest thing, what's the buzz out there? I have my list, let's kind of compare notes over here. Give me one or two. I'm gonna call them things. They could be product, they could be a services, they could be a cloud based thing or whatever. Things.

It stuck out that really, but you do pretty neat. I mean. The coolest thing that I did as CEES twenty twenty four was try this self docking boat technology. I don't know if you saw this from Brunswick, but it is autonomous docking. And so they had this great simulator set up that really felt like you were driving a boat or steering a boat, whatever you want to call it. And you get in this thing and it's got the

screens all around you. The actual physical thing moved, so you kind of get to the dock area, you pick a slip, you press the screen and the boat does the rest. And I think that is quite possibly the coolest thing. I know. Some people that are, you know, a real boat officionado might say, hey, don't take away my ability to park, you know, dock my own boat. But I thought this was so cool. And of course then you have things like the transparent TVs. That

stuff is just eye candy. You know. It's like, sure, we're probably gonna see some inexpensive transparent and see through TVs in the future. But it's just fun to see what LG and Samsung do at their booths because they're just always, always larger than life. I like this. Let's go back

to the first one I talked on the boat. You know, we're not far from Galves and actually we have a lot of listeners in Galveston here, which is in our DMA, and I know the folks, and there's the Houston boat shows coming up here and about a week and a half, two weeks, and they're gonna have a lot of this neat technology. But I do like boating and I like steering a boat, but it's not the easiest thing to dock a boat, seriously, And to the fact that this is

autonomous, that's the next greatest thing. And so I actually that stuck out in my mind too. And you're in the TVs. It's LG, it's Samsung, there's these third party companies also from Korea or China, and I saw these transparent TVs and I I love the way you describe it. It is eye candy, it's ooh, it's ah because I think the word television or TVs is synonymous with cees, because that's all that people ask me,

Hey, what's the newest TV that you saw? Ces dating back to twenty years ago when they rolled out the very first I definition TV, I haven't seen a price in these things. It still kind of doesn't make sense, but it's it's an oo a factor. Yeah, that's that's what the thing is. It's like, you know, this is technology that it will quite

possibly come to commercial first. I think in like a mall, instead of having a window on a store, you're going to have a transparent TV that you can have advertising on, you can have you know, signage on sale price, whatever it is, but you can also see through to that store when they want you to. So I think that, you know, these things do have a purpose in our lives. I think for the average person at home, you know, yeah, if you've got a nice, big

penthouse, you want to put the TV in front of the window. I think there's gonna be some other complications there. How do you actually see the TV if it's brightly lit from the back, but all this other stuff. So it's fun, I think. And I saw the folding TV too. I don't know if you saw this one from that I seen company. Yep, exactly. It folds up. It's on a stand, it stands up right. And I was trying to describe this a little earlier to on my

show, and it just kind of slowly automatically folds. It's like orogami or something. Yeah. Yeah, it takes like about ninety seconds to fold up. And you know, a purple years rich. What's the purpose? What is Ted telling me? Because I can't figure it out other than eye candy and for us media geeks, you know, telling about it, like, is there a purpose of it? Because it's going to fold out you need

space. Yeah. Again, I asked the guy at Austrian company by the way, and I said, and I think it's around one hundred and fifty to two hundred and twenty thousand dollars depending on He said it was about one hundred and fifty, but I read online that someone said it was about two twenty But anyway. You know. He gave the example of you have a penthouse apartment, you have a great view, you want to you know,

not obstruct the view. But also at the same time he said, yeah, and when you have friends come over, it's kind of a spectacle. So I get it. There's always going to be people that are big thinkers in the tech world and come up with just wild implementations of all of this stuff. Now, there was one thing that I saw that was really cool, that was very simple, but it had a great use case. And

this was the fingerprint locks. I don't know if you saw these at the show stoppers or whatever, the pepcoms or the world, but these were a guy out of la just said, hey, why can't I open up a lock with my fingerprint? Went on Shark Tank. He said it was a I think twenty seventeen the idea came to him, and now this year they came out with TSA approved fingerprint locks. So basically, you can unlock this lock for your luggage with your fingerprint, but there's also a key spot that

the TSA agents can get into your bag if they need to. I saw that over the past year or two. I actually have seen those, but they when every time they would send me one, it just didn't work and either thing fell apart. But I know this one actually because I saw it. I think on your Instagram you did a really nice little video. I think it does work well because instead of sometimes forgetting your code. Yeah, I love the your price. I love the face recognition when it comes to

on the phones right now. It makes it a lot simple, and I think it's just a secure too. Oh yeah, and let's be honest, we've all kind of had that lapse at the gym where you have your combination lock in the bag and you kind of forget, like, wait, what's my code again? So this is a much easier way of that now, Michael, I think you would like the indoor smoker. Did you see that from I loved it from Ge. I saw it. Not only I think

I saw it. It was the Show Stoppers, but then I stopped by the ge booth and one of the neat thing is you could smell it twenty or thirty feet away because it smells like smoke, but it's an indoor smoker about a thousand dollars tell you what that it's a big hit to keep to smoke something in your kitchen. Yeah, I mean, especially if you have like an apartment or a condo or somewhere that you just can't put a smoker

outside. And it's interesting because you would think that you could not smoke meats indoors. It just doesn't seem to make sense. But like you said, if you get close enough, you can definitely smell it. But they have this some some sort of like almost like as they explained it to me, it's almost like a catalytic converter on a car where they rushed. They pushed the smoke through this like I don't know material that kind of gets rid of

the smoke. It like it just puts exhaust out and it's not filled with the smoke scent or whatever. So I thought that was pretty cool. I mean, you know, are people going to buy it? Probably? It reminds you like a George Foreman brill or any of those things you see on like Home Shopping Network late at night. You know, you're you're seeing them smoke the meat inside and you just you know, your mouth is watering. Next thing, you know, you spend a thousand bucks on this thing.

Yeah, we're talking to rich de Murow Rich. He hosts a radio show called rich on Tech and podcast. You can find them online on Instagram and check it out rich on Tech. You know, I talk a lot of cars, you know, It's one of the big big things that I do is the automobiles. I'm a member of the Texas Auto Riders Association and Rich you know, CEES has kind of become a de facto auto show over the past few years. There were you know, concept cars, self driving cars,

autonomous cars. Anything pop out to you when it comes into the auto industry, an actual physical concept, something that's on the road, or even something that you find inside cars. I mean, I think when it comes to the concept cars, they were looking more futuristic than I've ever seen before. I mean, we're getting into the space age of cars. You know. We saw from Honda, they had a couple of them on display, LG had them on display, Hyundai, I mean, everyone had these like

super futuristic looking cars. Now, the one that I thought was really interesting was the one from Hyundai. Mobis that I don't know if you saw this one, but the wheels spin every direction, so this car could do like donuts perfectly. It could like it's like it looked like fast and the furious, you know where it could like back into a into a parking spot by like kind of skidding into it. I mean it was pretty wild that demo. Did you see that? I saw that, And again I take listen,

you and I both take this. We're very jaded. We've covered this industry for so long. Is it going to be Is it just eye candy? Is it just something that they want for headlines, or is it something that's actually kind to come out? And you know, I saw some concept vehicles too. There was one there was a beautiful hot rut. No, it was just a gorgeous sports car, but it had a it converts into

a drone. Yeah, the one that flies exactly. But let me help you out in my I mean, you have kids, your kids, your gor mind. This thing will not actually work even in your kids lifetime, at least I don't think so. But it's fun to stand up and do a video shot in front of it. I just don't see it. Everything come to fruition. But I do like the way the companies are at least trying to get their name out there and trying to think of head like maybe one day, one day, way down the road, this could work.

Well. Look, they throw a lot at the wall, and CEES is all about Look, if you want to have a big booth and a big presence and you want to spend that money to I mean the booth you're talking about that was that was a large area where they had this this car plane whatever you want to call it looked like a hovercraft and they were folding up the wings or whatever every hour on the hour. I didn't get to see that part, but you know, it's just there's so many big ideas at

CES. A lot of it is sort of vapor where you know it'll never see the light of day. But at the same time, a lot of it is kind of where people are thinking, where things are going. And yes, it may not happen in the next five ten years, but at least we get an idea of what people are thinking about. Yeah, and that's why it really is. I mean, by some you know, the

CEES it used to stand for Consumer Electronics Show. I actually think of the word see is almost concept whether it's going to happen, whether it's not. But it's it's fun for us to talk. It's fun. It was great to get together with you and you know, comparing notes and things, and I know between you and I we pulled out we got at least what two or three months of content that we got out of it for all of our shows. Haven't wait. It's going to take me weeks to go through everything.

And I've recorded at CES. I'm still looking through my camera role too. Well that's good. Well listen, I just hope I'm going to try to get my voice back. I hope you get your bunions off of your feet and everything and always fun to see it and also chat with you about this stuff. We appreciate it. So if anybody does want to listen or fine, you tell us where you are are all on social media? What's

going on? Yeah, you could search for the radio show on any audio app just search rich on Tech. I would love it if you subscribe and listen. And then of course on social media. Instagram is where I hang out the most. I'd say, I am at rich on Tech and the website is rich on Tech dot tv. His name is Rich Jumuro. He is awesome, He's fun. Listen, buddy, say travels back to LA and I know I will be as I've seen you soon all right, appreciate it, Michael, thanks for having me on. You got to hey anytime.

All right, We're gonna take a break right now so I can catch your voice. I'm back. I'm gonna sip up water, and I will take your questions of some of the things that you wanted to ask me about some of the headlines that you saw, and I'll compare my notes to see if it's worth your time or money. Right here, Michael GARKI, I'm high tech text and show. Gotta thank our good friends over at US Coins

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and years. I mean it's it's such a big trade show. There are a lot of celebrities come out, celebrities because number one, in some cases, the celebrities they own part of these tech companies, so they've created part of these tech companies in other parts. In other cases, you've got celebrity

appearances at these booths. So companies will pay celebrities to come in and so the you know, idiots like me in the media will come and take pictures and get selfies at whatever, and obviously hopefully they put their product in the news. Most famous person I've ever seen at CS over the years. Listen, a lot of sports folks. Shaquille O'Neil has been there many many years

because the entire TBS NBA is an NBA on TNT. They've been there, they've done their show from there so Charles Barkley Shak's always doing some fun stuff. I have seen Will i Am was out there, lead singer of the Black Eyed Peas. He's really big technology. He was there this year. I didn't see him, but I actually saw the him a few years ago. My celebrity siding this year i've seen. I've seen David Copperfield before.

David Copperfield. A lot of people think I look like David Copperfield. I wish I was that tall, that skinny, that thin and that magical. But alas, yeah, I gotta pick with him. Not this year. This year, I'm walking around one of the halls and I see right right on the show floor, just somebody walking around. I see a group about twenty twenty five people are kind of gather around in some commotion. There's something

going on. I see pictures taking I go, okay, this has got to be somebody, and I kind of make my way up to the crowd of looking there ladies and gentlemen. The musical genius himself, little Stevie Wonder, Freaking Stevie Wonder walking the halls with some assistance of cees. No clue what he was doing there, walking around and I mean Stevie Wonder. I mean there are very few. Listen, I know my music, there are very few pure geniuses in music. I mean David Byrne, Prince, Stevie

Wonder, I mean, top to bottom. I love Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson. Don't think it was me because musical genius, but there was defined a different Stevie wonders off some idol love it everything he does, a walk around, he's got I guess there were bodyguards and you know some of his you know, Buddy's guides or whatever it was. And he was just he was standing there, he was taking selfies with people. And I walk up to him and I am not shy, if you know me, man,

I was. I am, I'm a celebrity. I'm not a stalker, but I'm all struck and I'm more than I have to go up and ask for a selfie. So I got. He starts walking away, and I just walked right up next to him. I said, Stevie, thank you for being the sunshine of my life. Oh thank you. I appreciate it. Thank you for being the sun shut on my left or there. I say, hey, can we take a quick picture? And you know, I just I kind of put my arm around him and I took a picture.

It's all my social media, really really nice celebrity studying of the day. You know what I was thinking. And listen, I'm not making a joke for Stevie Wonder, which by the way, it's callum. Is this a spoiler alert if I say, uh, he's got he's blind? And by the way, he's blind the proper word, because nowadays I don't want to get in trouble for using Is it's okay to say Blind's okay? It's heart he has doesn't have very good eyesight? Is that the PC way to

say? But Stevie Wonder for years, he I'm not gonna say, makes fun of it. He takes pride. He jokes about the whole thing. I remember he was on a Cosby show back in the eighties and you know he was making jokes how he should be driving the car and it's fun. Let me tell you something. I'm a marketing genius. I am. Let me tell you, and I don't know what he was doing there. I will tell you the ultimate endorsement of any particular technology ever. And I'm just

gonna give this away for anybody's listening. You know, there's self driving autonomous cars nowadays. Stevie Wonder needs to be the spokesperson. Boom drop the mic, drop the steering will. Is there a better spokesperson than Stevie Wonder being driven autonously in a self driving car? Done? I mean, I don't know why I'm wasting my time on radio and TV when I should open a marketing company, an ad agency. It's it's freaking genius. Should we get

back to the show. I got phone calls, I got emails. This is what we do here on the high tech text and shot. I just it's it's about life. It's just just you know, we're just putting around. We're just talking here. It's all type I told you. AI Artificial intelligence was the thing. Every everything's you know, it's like Amazon Alexa six seven, eight years ago, everything was an Amazon Alexa, Alexa app. Now it's AI artificial intelligence. You know, it's going to help you.

You know, AI refrigerator. It's got a cameras refrigerator that I'll read all the barcodes and tell you when you need to replenish some of your food items and then give your recipes. AI is everywhere so much. I saw this. You can now and they may have been around for a while. On a you can get a web domain instead of a dot com, dot net, dot org, dot gov, and now you can get a dot ai web extension. I don't know why you would want that. I mean, I guess to make up. I will tell you why I got. I

got an email from register dot com. This is not an afaregister dot com. We're proud to introduce dot ai, the popular domain extension that's redefining the digital landscape. Get ready to declare your expertise, attrack forward thinking clients and set your brand at the forefront of innovation. So if you can go out and you could buy and they're not cheap, because I'm listen, you can get a dot com domain if you can find one for what seven eight nine

bucks a year or something. I think these dot A I think I looked up high tech texts in dot ai, which I'm not going to grab by the way, if anybody wants to go, I think it's about a hundred bucks a year. But anyway, the Ai extension, according to this sales brochure, instant credibility dot ai showcases your tech proficiency, positioning you as an innovator, innovation leader. You can future if your brand AI is the future and a dot ai domain shows you're a digital pioneer. I don't know about

that. But anyway, as we get here to the top of the hour, we're gonna take a break. We have one more hour full of fun stuff. I tell you to go to our radio station, which is KPRC Radio dot ai, But actually it's not. We're still KPRC radio dot com. iHeartRadio dot com and I am high Tech Texting dot com. Michael Garfield. When we come back, I will tell you more of the odd the odd ball, the oddities that I saw at CEES, A lots of of

automobile talk some some lot of ed cars and a lot of accessories. Is now the time maybe that I'm actually gonna turn the tables and say it is time to go get an ed car. Well, let's call of t You're gonna have to wait to the other side of the show. We're gonna be right back on them. Is Michael Garfield. Michael Garfield. Michael Garfield joining in the high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield is here with a high Tech Texans. It was to make life easier some new technology. So Michael Garfield has

something you might want. Michael Garfield is your high tech Texan. Three decades helping you make magic with your gadgets occurred worldwide on the Iheartmareo Act. Now you're high Tech Texan, Michael Garfield. If you're just tuning in, we are halfway through the High Tech Texans Show, halfway to happy hour. You know what, We've got a big NFL playoff game today. If you're listening live on Saturday, the thirteenth of January, go ahead, make it happier.

Go ahead and start drinking right now. Might I recommend Papa's p Lar great Rum Ernest Hemingway Family distilled in Key West, Florida. Don't just go for yeah, I mean listen. If you just want some blonde rum. It's not like rum they call it blonde rum. They have dark rum. They have rum that is aged and cheery cast. Oh it is so good. Run out to your store today because it is Saturday. Should you be listening live? Because we don't sell liquor on Sundays. And there's a wonderful

state of ours, So go get some good partners of mine. Papa's Pa Pa Papa's kilar p I l a R. By the way pillar that was the name of Ernest Hemmingway's boat. Should you ever be on Jeopardy. Great rum found in a lot of restaurants around Capitol Grill down in the Galleria area. We've got it the Blue Lagoon Restaurant, which is in Texas City right by that big lagoon. They serve it to. And so if your favorite bar does not have Papa's PLR, you tell them. Garfield said, better

stock that stuff. And when they stock that stuff, I promise I will. I will. It's true. I'm gonna host a happy hour and I will buy rounds of drinks everybody, whoever, whatever restaurant stocks this thing. That's what That's what I'll do for you. It's my goal in twenty twenty four to drink less, but to actually make you drink more, but be responsible. We were recapping this is my annual. What did I see at CEES. I just got back from Las Vegas, Las Vegas. It's a

twenty second year. I believe I have been at the Consumer Electronics Show. I walked and walked and walked. I did about eighteen to twenty thousand steps a day, and then at night I probably put back on those calories that I lost with all the parties and the events, and a lot of sampling to food technology was rampant over there. I talked about this a little an hour number one. Some of the cool food look in your kitchen right now.

And the technology of gadgets and appliances. You know, they've been there. I remember when I was a kid growing up, and you know, my dad had to have the electric waffle maker. You know that lasted about two weeks and we made waffles and they stuck, and then you put it in the bottom of the cabin and you never open again. And there's your blenders, and there's the all in one toaster ovens. Oh my goodness, got your airfriers. Now there's an airfire built into so many other appliances.

It's like all these all in one appliances. So there's there was a plant. GE they bring good things to life. By the way, GE came out with an indoor smoker, so you can smoke meat or smoke anything you want inside this contraption. It's about the size. It's like a smaller than microwave oven, A countertop microwave of it. It's a little bit more vertical, by the way, and you put these pellets in there, and the technology is it's kind of like a catalytic converter in your car that allegedly doesn't

set off your smoke alarm. But it smells great. I mean, I'm walking down the halls here in the convention center in Vegas and I'm smelling barbecue. Oh my god, is good? What's going on? I mean, how can they be smoking this inside? Well that you could do that, you plug it in and you put these bills. So I thought that was one thousand dollars if you want that. That was pretty neat. I saw a beer maker. I've seen beer makers for a while, you know,

homebrew making kits. And by the way, my buddy James Simpson who does his beer show here on our radio station on Sundays, I probably should get him a sample of one of these things. But the automated beer making kits are getting simpler. I had I got a beer making kit once and there's like and there's like like there's twelve steps and you've got to ferment this. I'm like, what am I doing? I just just let me just go buy a six pack of beers somewhere. Nowadays it's what was the name of

this company? Here byway, there's new beer making things that it comes to the little keg and it ferments it quickly and the whole thing. I thought that was pretty interesting. Here is a gadget called me. This has been out for a while, but they just came out with their second version. It's called meter me E A T E R. I remember this thing was a startup. I think I met the guys here out of my Midami.

It's a probe. It's a digital metal probe. So it looks like a pin you know probably you know, six inches seven inches and it is a probe that is bluetooth that you connect an app to for you app to download and you put this probe in food and so if you're outdoor, if you're on a grill, if you're smoking something, or you're cooking something, and it knows the exactly and it'll tell you the temperature. You can on your

app. Is it chicken, is it fish? Is it meat? It'll tell you what the external temperature is of what's going on in the grill itself, and what the temperature of the actual meat it's in. So this is their meter too. It's got a longer Bluetooth range, and so you could be you know, inside your kitchen or in your house, and then this could be outside in your grill. It works inside and outside, I mean in your oven. Two. But this is the smartest meat thermometer, the

second generation meter too. It is about one hundred and twenty dollars for that. By the way, if you want to see some of these products, I will be on Great Day Houston this coming Tuesday, if the weather cooperates in the morning nine in the morning, Great Day Houston on channel at CBS channel eleven. I will be bringing the meter and I will be bringing a few other surprises into some of the other goodies that are brought back by Anyway

food technology, appliance technology. It's pretty impressive there. And I'm not even counting the smart refrigerators. We have smart dishwashers. They're smart washing machines. Just there's you know the words smart now it's they just they're slap. It's like AI. Let's just slap AI artificial intelligence everywhere. Let's just slap some you know, smart on anything. I mean, they're smart what makes things smart if you don't burn things, I guess it's gonna be okay, but

smart because it's app enabled or AI enabled. But I thought those were interesting too. So I'm gonna put a big review and update a lot of photos. By the way, on my Instagram account and my ex account. High tech texts and Hi g h T E H T e x A N. When we come back in the next segment, I will talk about I can talk about foldables too. You know, foldable phones are nothing new unless you have an Apple and you have no clue that phones can fold. Saw a

foldable TV? We mentioned it last hour. There was a foldable TV. If you have two hundred thousand dollars to kill totally, can I can sell you one? Uh? And then uh, there's a new type of phone that actually folds. It doesn't fold like a book, it doesn't fold like a clamshell. Folds backwards too, so bend over backwards for me. And then kind of I saw something. We're gonna titles what's old is new?

Who remembers BlackBerry? Did you love your BlackBerry device with the with the keyboard, the physical the physical keyboard, not the on screen keyboard that the iPhone created and everybody now uses. But the physical keyboard. Well, I'll tell you what there. I saw a product there that is bringing that type of physical keyboard back to your phone, your current phone. You see, this is what I do. I cover all the hot break hot new stuff.

Wrap up. Make sure your pipes and your pets and your people are wrapped up, because it's going we'll get cold people. Michael Garfield, keep it a nice and warm here on KPRC nine fifteen nine Art Radio. That is right, this is the high tech Texans show. A nice afternoon getting ready for the little football here in Houston tomorrow and Dallas. How about them Cowboys? We shall see. By the way, for some reason, I'll state this now that the Cowboys and the Texans both make it to the Super Bowl.

Here's let me give you a suggestion. Blow off Las Vegas on on what is it, February eleventh, where the super Bowl supposed to be, and just play the damn game in Austin. Just keep it right here in our great state. Huh. Austin already has more seats than Allegian Stadium in Vegas. Why don't we just do that? You know, screw it? Goodal did you give football Texas? That's what we do here. I make

a rain man. It's all state. Michael's a name, Michael Garfield recapping some of the things that I saw at CS, some of the things that you need old school. I'm an og guy. I'm of age that I could say, yeah, I still have my old alarm clock. But I also I keep it reels, I keep it real. I don't look for anything that's mid man. It's all riz as these kids say, what's old is new though. I'm a BlackBerry guy, and pound for pound, what

was your favorite phone? What was your favorite smartphone ever? I mean, I had a bag phone in nineteen ninety two and three. If you don't know what a bagphone, just look it up. But that's dating myself right there. BlackBerry. It was one of the if I had to think of three to four game changing pieces of technology in my life, the BlackBerry is certainly one of them. I mean that was the first truly portable phone, where then it's not just a phone, you could take your email with you.

Research in motion the Canadian company which it was phenomenal. There was so many iterations that BlackBerry. They had the BlackBerry Pearl for some reason, a little tiny one. I you talk about the small device, I love too. But I think what people loved about the BlackBerry there was a physical keyboard. And I know for you kids out there, this is really hard to

grasp because right now everything is a the keyboards are on screen. You look at the iPhone, or you look at your invoys, everything, everything is just one glassket it's a chocolate bar like a phone, and you you turn it on and all of a sudden you type these virtual keys. There were actually keys that you put like a keyboard at the bottom of it, and the click and that response, the physical response was just so pleasurable. It was just pretty cool. They don't make if there's all anymore, but they

do. So this new piece of technology out there that was showing it's from a company called clicks c l I c KS. It's a clicks keyboard. And what it is, it's it's kind of imagine this. It's a phone case that you take your iPhone fourteen or your iPhone fifteen and you pop it in there, and the case at the bottom of it has a physical keyboard. So it's a keyboard that's actually integrated into a wrap around case, so your device just pops in there and you input it if you want to,

with the keys at the bottom. One hundred and thirty nine dollars. My I love the concept. Here in lies my problem. I want you to again this is it's like I'm doing play by play a football on the radio. All right, we're going to left right here on the field. Let me describe this for you. You know the size of your phone right now. Okay, you've got an iPhone fourteen iPhone fifteen. It's a six point seventy Okay, So the phone itself you're already gonna got, it's probably about

six inches in lenked top. Now you're putting in it to a case with the bottom portion of it is extended another two inches to three inches with a physical keyboard. That's a very tall case that you've got a stuff into your pocket or something. Now, you don't always have to have the case the phone in the case, but what's the point you gotta carry around your phone in one pocket in the case in the other pocket. Love the concept, but this gets into the what a great concept? Do we need this?

I really do like the concept. Do we need it? I don't know? I think we've gotten used to that. A paradigm shift in the way we input things happen when the iPhone came out. I remember the first time I saw that first iPhone. It was June, what was the two thousand and seven, and when they released that, and where's the keyboard. There's no physical buttons, It's a virtual keyboard. And I remember looking that thing and I said, this is the future of every other phone manufacturer, everybody.

And they did not that was mister making me, mister smart or anything, but everybody followed it. So the fact is now we're kind of going old school and old style, but this is the Red Show way to do it. I don't know how popular this thing is going to be, but that's just one of one of the I'm not gonna say I have but different things that I saw out there. Samsung was a sam Samsung had a phone that that folds in half. No, no, no, stand by.

Samsung is already on its fifth generations of the Samsung Fold and the Samsung Flip phones. The Fold from Samsung folds left to right like a book. I have the latest version. Actually, I went to South Korea for the press announcement last July, got to go to the Samsung manufacturer, saw how everything was done. You know, I'm a Samsung fan without a doubt. But the phone itself is it's a little thick, a little very heavy, expensive

at eighteen hundred dollars. Then there's a Samsung Flip. I love the Samsung Flip phone. That's the old style clamshell phone that flips up, doesn't go open left to right. I don't use that as my daily phone. And really why it's because the form factor is phenomenal. Imagine you know, hey ladies out there, you know, you know how you have your little makeup compacts where you have your powder and you pop open the top and you got the mirror and whatever like that. It's what it is. It's it's a

clamshell phone. I fit in my blue jean front pocket. It's great problem is the battery is not the greatest just because of the form factor. It doesn't have a massive body, and also that doesn't have a high end a high enough camera. Samsung's I think have some of, if not the best cameras on the Smart and I use my cameras so I shoot my videos that for television on on my high end cameras a Samsung S twenty two, S twenty three, you know, ultra. They're phenomenal cameras. They're more power

sometimes they're clear than actually regular expensive television cameras. But the camera on the flip phone, the Samsung flip it's got you know, it's only got two lenses, and it's just the resolution is not there anyway, neither here to there. Samsung, there was a large build up for that. Samsung came out with a demo model of something they showcased a it's a concept. It's called the flex in an out flip phone, so it's another flip phone,

but it's called flex in and out. It folds in both directions and it folds completely backwards so you can use the phones. It's about a six point seven eight screen even when the device is shut, so you could bend it backwards. One side is slightly shorter than the other because that allows the camera to be exposed, which is good. And the large side it seems to be pretty big enough to show some icons in the phone's menu and some playback

controls. It's a concept right now. Probably one of those things is I don't know if I really need it because flip phones are selling, okay, but flip phones do not have a They have a very very tiny share of the market. And really that's probably why, because Apple does not have a flip phone or a full phone. When they do, I'm sure everybody's gonna say, oh my goodness, I've never seen anything like this, and I'm gonna yell at you for now listening to my radio show, because I've only

been talking about freaking flipping hold phones for about five years right now. So those the other interesting things I see. Laptops were there too. I stop by the HP desk. HP's got to really neat all in one computer at home my home office. For years, I have an all in one desktop computer. Yes I still have a desktop because that's I like big screens. That's my home office. I've got a physical keyboard Bluetooth keyboard. But in

all in one commuter computer means there's there's the monitor. Generally, if you have them, let's go back twenty years. Remember here, you have your home computer. There's your monitor, and there's a cord that goes down to the ground and on the ground sits that upright computer. That's the whole PC system. Nowadays. For years there's been such as the all in one, so the computer itself is built into the monitor, very thin, and that's it. It's clean. I love all on one monitors and I've only had

HP. HP for years has made all in one monitors, thirty thirty two inch curve monitors. They've got a new one right now that I saw. It's about a twenty seven to twenty eight inch and this thing is portable. It looks like it's like a suitcase because at the top it's got a handle and you pick it up. My buddy Kevin Winstel who works for HP, he's here at Juston. He was there. I see him at the HP booth at CES every year. He showed me how it is and it done

way too much. I don't know what. It's away seven eight pounds and you can pick up your porto book computer and just got to make it like a so you can take it between your home and office. It's a very very large laptop. But all in one computers are good. Gaming laptops are getting very very powerful and the very you know, they're getting a little bit more affordable too. I saw one from a company called Omen. It's actually sorry about that. HP makes it, but it's the Omen Transcend fourteen that

was new. It's a fourteen inch, very very fast. It starts about fifteen one hundred dollars. Is a sixteen inch version for nineteen hundred dollars. But these gaming laptops for you gamers, you kids out there, this is when it's got their really high end process the processors, the Intel Core Ultra nine and the Nvidia g Force, you know, big chip uh in video. They want to look into the stock for that. That's an inside joke. All right, people, we're gonna take a break. Coming up,

Health technology found a thermometer that also checks your heart and lungs. Could this save your life? Well, that's what I'm here for. You gotta keep keep it right here. K PRC nine fifty A. Yeah, it's called the High Tech Texan Show. Just under thirty minutes to go. In this version of the High Tech Texan Show, I will release you and then you can go watch all the football you want and good luck finding the game on Peacock tonight. A lot of controversy, manybody, here's the deal. Listen,

I'm not defending the NFL. Listen. The NFL is a business. It's a multi, multi, multi billion dollar business. I'm good they're growing. It's I saw last year in twenty twenty three, ninety three of the top one hundred TV shows were football. Football is king. They can make more money. So tonight's game Saturday, January thirteenth, the game Kansas City Chiefs hosting the Miami Dolphins, and like negative twenty degree weather, it is

solely going to be streamed on Peacock Network. And by the way, if you think you have Peacock, you may or you may not. Exfinity comcast here in the Houston area. Yes, if you subscribe to Exfinity, which is very expensive, you do get a free version of Peacock. I watch Peacock on a daily basis. But tonight's game is on the paid version of Peacock, So don't expect to turn on your Oh I got Peacock, you

better pay. I think it's five ninety nine a month. And by the way, I believe you can subscribe for tonight and then you can cancel within ten days if you want to try this whole thing. Peacock paid one hundred and ten million dollars to the NFL just to air and produce Tonight's game. One game they pay the ROI I don't do not know if they're gonna get that many advertisers that to pay. But again, it's it's branding for Peacock. It is branding for Peacock. So Doway, people are putting up a

fit. I can't believe you're streaming a playoff game. Well, first of all, Amazon, for the past two years, three years they solely stream Thursday Night's game. The only way you can watch was on Thursday nights on Amazon. You had to be a Prime video memory. Now, I know it's not a playoff game, but people are like, I can't believe you're streaming games. Is the only way to watch it? People, this is

the future, man, It's just it's what it is now. Is the Super Bowl ever gonna be on stream if you asked me this five years ago, ten years ago, no way, because they want the massive amount of eyeballs, which is free over the year television. At some point it but potentially will be so away. I don't think anybody really much cares about that.

I think you're more concerned with your Texans and Cleveland Browns and the Green Bay Packers, the Dallas Cowboys. There's your football update, brought to you by absolutely nobody other than my football loving self. More cees stuff, consumer electronics show. I just got back from Vegas. You can hear it in my voice, can't you? Health technology? If you're a doctor, is there a doctor in the house. A lot of health stuff out there for

many many years. Actually the Abbot laboratories, they were out there. They were passing out free COVID kits. Anybody. I got a few if anybody wants them. All this the tech stuff amazes me. Listen, we know our smart watches can monitor our heart rate, our steps, our blood oxygen levels, beats permitted for our hearts. Saw one that I thought was pretty cool over though. It is from a company called Bemo b E A m O BMO the BMO it looks like a little it's like a little small remote

control. It is a four in one thermometer. It's from a company Whvings makes it. W I T H I N G S. I love with it. I have a Withvings scale, I have the Whings blood pressure cuff to Wvings came out with something called the Bemo and it is It is an electro cardiogram, an oximeter, a stethoscope you know by the way, a thermometer, and depending on where you where your body, where you beam it

and it's going to give you some tips on your health. So it's portable, it's smaller than a smartphone, and it uses metrics, newer grade wearable type of thing, blood oxygen, your heart rate, chest sounds with a digital stethoscope. So they need to get FDA clearance, which is expected this summer two hundred and fifty dollars. I love hearing stories how technology, consumer

technology, even smart watches have saved lives. You know, there's accelerometers in our phones and our watches, accelerometers meaning it knows roughly how what the speed you're going at, and that's crash detection and Apple watches. You know, you know, if you're an a car pretty much knows from GPS that you're going fifty sixty miles an hour and all of a sudden you stop within two seconds, odds are you've crashed. Well, they can alert ambulances, authorities,

your loved ones or whatever. I mean, that's just one of many things. If I've heard stories of people, you know that they're all of a sudden, they're blood pressure, their beats per minute of their heart all of a sudden escalates or you know, it slows down. Warning devices come up in your app and let lets people know. I mean, it's it.

Did it all start off with I've fallen, I can't get up to some extent, that was really just an alert that you know, if you have I think it was marketed if you had an aging parent or grandparent or someone who lived alone and they need assistance and they fall in and they can't climb across the floor to the phone that was attached on the wall that was probably four feet up. You carry this thing around your your neck and you hit a button and it calls somebody, I've fallen and I can't get up.

We've come a long way since then, come a long way with the technology, uh for our health, which you know, which I love. I'm waiting for cars to be able to tell it. I'm waiting for everything, the all in one device, and we need to sit into a car that's obviously electric, that should have a helicopter propeller like a drone on top, and when you sit in your seat, it takes a it could digitally measure your entire body, if you're sick, if you've gained weight, if

something's going on, it's when is this coming? It's the typical old Jetsons. I love the health I love using the Jetsons type. Yeah, I use the Jetsons analogy my funny Jetson's cote probably twice a year. Hey, Michael Man, did you see the flying cars? See? Yes? When are we gonna have flying cars like the Jetsons? Never? Absolutely, not in my lifetime, not my kid's lifetime, certainly on a mass level,

it won't happen. Oh'm Michael Man. I used to watch that, you know, George Jefferson and Jane at George Justin and Jay Man either walking their dog outside in their little skypad. You know. Rastro I said, bro, let's just break down that carton. Let's go back to the nineteen seventies. Hannah Barbera had to be on so many mushrooms to create the Jetsons.

You got two animators. It was a car tune that tried to predict the future, which really was I think it was in two thousand ten twenty twenty, which we bypassed ain nothing very rarely that the Jetsons only think Jetson's that are it's happening right now. They had a instead of a telephone, they had little TVs that you can call and see somebody. Jane was at home, George was at work at Spaceley Sprockets, and the TV would pop up

that is now possible with face times and whatever. I watched that show pretty often too. But remember this. The Jetsons was really the futurist spinoff of The Flintstones. So the hand of Barbara people, they said, hey, let's just let's come up with Fred Flinstone. What are you like to live in the Stone Age? Instead of a really cool record player, No, let's just take a little tear of Doactyl and put its beak on the record and play that around. Oh it's a popular Well, let's just fast forward

it and let's just make the Jetsons. And if you really think about it, and I'm gonna relate it, I mean, people, you're gonna lose this analogy. The Flintstones was a cartoon version of an old original nineteen fifties TV show called The Honeymooners with the famous Jackie Gleason. Fred Flintstone is Jackie Gleason. Bang zoom to the moon. Alis. So to answer your question is no, I ain't gonna give you any jets and stuff. People. You're basing it off of what you saw as a kid, as a cartoon.

That is just many of those things that different become fruition. Man, I just ruined so many kids childhood's right there with that rant ded night. Sorry about that. People. Oh gosh, but there are cars out there. The electric cars are big. The CES is a de facto car show, a lot of manufacturers, a lot of the electric stuff. I saw a lot of charge. One of the things that I saw Volkswagen. They're putting chat GPT in their car, which is blah blah blah, not a

big deal. I don't care about that. Tia was out there and they had a display and this is nothing new because I actually drove Kiev fod do this with their electric vehicles. Electric vehicles are battery operated. There's a very large battery in electric cars. As you know, and you think about it, well, you need to go to a charger, a charging station or even a charging station inside your home, and you got to plug your car into it to take the power from your home or power from a charging station

to power up your car. Well, I saw some things that will reverse that. Your home can now be powered from your car's battery. Ford's got that with Ford the F one fifty lightning. I think actually there's they can reverse it. I saw Kiya ki has got something called the wall box. They're selling a wall box and you have to have electrician to plug this kind of box. It's like it's a circuit box kind of into your home.

That if for some reason you lose power in Houston, welcome because the next day or two we could lose power with the grid if it shuts down because it's going to get so cold. You always know hurricane season starts here May first, we do lose power. So how would you like to power? Reverse power? Your car can power your home. These are the things that are out there too. I thought that was that. That was pretty interesting. Final segment coming up. Last questions phone call seven one three two one

two five nine five ozho. I'll tell you the one thing that you don't need. That's the U and A. Actually there's two things. If you like ice cream, if you like television, stamp by, I will tell you what's some of the hot or cooler things that you don't need to blow your money on and from CES all hail. Microsoft said that in a while, we come to the final segment of this week's High Tech textans show,

Happy New Year, Happy post CES Consumer Electronics Shows. I try to start my new year, which generally starts mid January, because I've got to get through the week long massive trade show which I just got back from. I will be on great Day Houston is coming Tuesday morning while you're a home freezing and I hope you still have power to watch. I will bring some of the some of a few cool products that I saw. I shot a fun video that will lead off Debora Duncan and I and we will I maybe give

some of these products away. Microsoft, though, let me lead with that Microsoft unseated Apple last week as the world's most valuable publicly traded company, because we know it's been Apple. Apple has been the most valuable company in the world over a year and a half, on and off more than a decade, but one day actually was earlier. This week, Microsoft had a larger market cap than Apple two point nine trillion dollars to Apple's two point eight nine

trillion. It's actually the fourth time. It's briefly overtaken Apple since nineteen and since twenty eighteen. But guess what. By the end of the day, Apple went back up, and you know what it was for AI, Artificial intelligence. Microsoft is really doing one hell of a job, good job with positioning itself as an AI company. That's why AI from at what I saw at the Consumer Electronics Show was everywhere you can't touch. It really software that's

built into so many products and services. I used to work by the I used to work in Microsoft late nineteen nineties here in Houston area, almost moved to Seattle, actually Redmond, Washington. Right in nineteen ninety nine. I had an offer. I just I did not pull the trigger. I said, you know what, I'm from Texas. I love Texas. There's no state income tax in Texas. I want to where I wanted to raise the kids. So I stayed here, did not go to what I still don't

know if that was a good idea or not. And it did allow me to create the high tech text and do what I'm doing right now. Then again, I could have been retired with all the stock I got from Microsoft. By the way, don't look back on this stuff Microsoft and Apple. They were pretty tight back in the early days of tech. Steve Jobs actually used software that was developed by Bill Gates. Then, you know that kind

of got a little rocky. Apple sued Microsoft for ripping off its McIntosh software, which Apple lost, by the way, But Microsoft, if it was I was there in nineteen ninety seven, I think I just started Microsoft. Microsoft saved Apple, say, Apple was near bankruptcy. Microsoft invested one hundred and fifty million dollars to keep Apple afloat. Steve Job called Bill Gates personally thanked him for the lifeboat one hundred and fifty million. What is that compared

to two point nine trillion dollars? Nothing? Gosh. I wish I had some Apple stock. I wish I still have my Microsoft stock. But today Microsoft and Apple account for about fourteen percent of the S and P five hundred. Microsoft's doing great. They had an early investment in chat GPT their company, and Microsoft came up with something called Copilot for Microsoft three sixty five that

generates about ten billion dollars. Only at least it will listen. I'm not worried about Apple, neither shoe, but Apple's facing slower demand for its eye especially in China, but Microsoft is boosting his business with AI. So Apple's soon gonna find out if if you could do the same when their new mixed reality comes out with its Vision Pro device next month thirty five hundred dollars. Technically, they do not want it to be called an AR or VR glasses.

They're gonna call it mixed reality. It's they don't even want to call it a headset. But you know what that is. I do not know how that's going to sell, so we shall see about that. Finally, a few minutes, people are asking me about all the other cars that I've seen. I saw a lot of concepts. There's nothing really new in terms of evs. Listen, BMW and Audi, Kia, Honda, Honda,

they were all there. I did like the accessories with like I just talked about Kia's wall box that you can take the battery charge from your car and reverse it to actually power up your home, which reminds me keep you know, stock up your your supplies, get your firewood, because we got a freeze coming here in Houston allegedly on this next Monday or Tuesday, and so if you need extra power, uh, and you do, don't don't laugh. Gas up. Make sure there's gas in your cars. You may actually

want to sleep and stay in your cars. That could be the only warm warmth. Don't do it in your garage. Do not turn your car on in your garage. If you have a gas powered car. I guess you could do it if you have an electric car because there's no exhaust. But just a little tip from me to you, let's just let's just stay away from that stuff. I did that once. I when was the hurricane that massive? There's several hurricanes here in Houston where we lost our power. Rita

was that at this is way before Harvey. I'm gonna go back out on a ten to fifte years ago, there was. It was horrible lost power. My house always lost power for like two days, but there's a lot of house homes lost power for like a week or so. I I have and this was in the you know, it's it's it's it was. It was hurricanes, so it's obviously it's in the summer, it's hot, eats sticky, and I do I need air conditioning when I sleep. I literally

went into and I had a hybrid vehicle I was testing. Was from Toyota I think it was a hybrid. I forget what it was, not the point. It was an suv hybrid car. And in the middle of the night I could not take it anymore. I went into my driveway, not my garage. I turned the engine on and I laid down that second row and I bought a sleep first. I put a sleep bag back there, and I slept in my car with the air conditioning running. I'm sorry,

that's just I'm not Actually I don't even need apologize. That's just the way I rolled were We like our climate thing. Don't do that again. Never start your gas power car in a garage. It's called the assyxiation. We don't want to do It's not even joking matter. But electric cars nowaday Remember they don't have any combustion there's no combustion engine. But I still wouldn't even want to do that. You want to make sure. You want to have

a lot of ventilation. I'm walking about the phone number because we're actually almost, you know, closing this thing down. Calum that I miss anything. I'm trying to think, you know what. Once I get off the I have to I do have to show some of the gear that I brought back. I'm gonna be on great they used to next Tuesday when I got and then maybe next week I'll be able to give away some of the gadgets that I that I brought back, and I hope so Garf is the name.

I thank you for tuning in, Stay safe, stay warm this week in people. I appreciate it. Good luck to the Houston Texans and all you Texans fans, all my listeners up in Dallas, including me even I mean just I'm not I'm from Dallas, but let's go Cowboys. It is a very Let's just hope we're all safe. It's under twenty twenty four. In terms of the technological products, you know, save your money take away from

cs neat cool. Got to meet a lot of people and I hope they send me some demo products that I can give away to you next week on the the High Tech Texans Show. In the meantime that wraps us up, I do thank you for tuning in, check me out high Tech textsin dot com, and I will get to some of the things that I was not able to talk about, including a two minute ice ice cream maker. There's a company called cold Snap that makes ice cream at home in two minutes.

Maybe I'll see if I can get one of those so I can give you away. My name is Gar. For all of us who've been a part of the show, we thank you for tuning in. But right now my show is over.