 Mackie cab 1018 live from Las Vegas for Sunday January 7th 2024 Greetings folks and welcome to the show welcome to Mackie cab. Normally we take your questions and your tips and your cool stuff Found and we share them all Right now though. We are here. Well two of us Pete and I are here in Las Vegas and We're CES for us has already started. We've met with some companies. We wanted to talk about it So yes here live from Las Vegas. I'm Dave Hamilton and here in Frigid Las Vegas this pilot Pete. Hey, what's up with that? We came all the way across the country to sunny warm Southwest desert and it's you know It's like we never left New England, but you know, there we go. Yeah, it's crazy. I don't yeah It's it's cold here. It's like barely 50 degrees all I can say is thank God that about four hours before we left I said, hey as lady. What's the weather in Vegas this week? And she told me and I had to go back and unpack all my polo shirts and get some long sleeves So well the good news is we did we got up this morning went over and saw the folks at uproar who Brought in a bunch of clients to a hotel suite over at the plot so we went over there and we met with a bunch of those folks and One of the ones that we met with was kind enough to give us a nice warm wool winter hat You've got yours handy there. Yeah, yeah, so there it is So YARBO the people who make automated? They it's basically a robot with the ability to put attachments on it Lawn mower snow blower. It'll tow stuff. Yeah, like a like a rake Leaf blower that kind of so it they've put some thought in effort. Yeah, cool Yeah, the the snowblower of course it's snowing in our homes while we're recording this for all of you We aren't at our homes are our better halves. Our wives are out shoveling all that honey. Yeah Yeah, in fact, I was able to show the YARBO folks a live stream of my ring camera that showed Lisa with our snowblower are you know Drive it yourself snowblower in the driveway while we were learning about their automated robot snowblower this thing it was I pull up my notes here and make sure I have it right but the the YARBO snowblower it's like 6500 bucks for the Robot with the snowblower attachment and all the smarts to it Yeah, there's there's one that's also just remote control Correct, so right there's two versions pricing. It was unclear on the on the less expensive version, but the The 6500 bucks gets you fully automated Very similar to what you would get with of a robot vacuum cleaner It does mapping and it will run without you without any intervention and just kind of do its thing There is a large itself. It'll go back and charge itself. It there is a less expensive version And I don't know how less expensive it is. We don't have that data in front of us here They weren't really clear on it. They are either so they may not even know but That one is remote controllable So you can sit in the warmth of your house and drive it around your driveway and it has cameras and GPS in it So it like will figure everything out But you still have to like control it and tell it where to go So, right? I think most people would want the one that does it itself because the idea is it starts going once you've got about an inch or two of snow on the ground and it goes and Does your driveway with your intro to a snow and then it goes back and it recharges itself And it can do a full recharge a full recharge for them is from 10% to 80% It can do about 6,000 square feet on its 80% charge, which is fine And it can fully recharge from 10 to 80 in In about an hour and a half. Yeah, it's about 90 minutes. Yeah, maybe 90 minutes so that the cool part about that is that You just you don't wait until the snow finishes. You just let this thing keep going plow with the storm plow with the storm and I think the the Lawnmower is built to function the same way. You just have it kind of that's my understanding and maintain daily Right, it maintains it because my hang up with one of those has always been where we are now We've got almost two acres of land a lot to mow and he's like And he ran across the numbers. He essentially said you can handle up to about nine acres. Yeah, I mean it's so this is no I Don't put it like to put it like this. It's no consumer grade. Yeah, piece of crap. It is a robust Yeah, I would call it a prosumer piece of equipment. Yeah, that It's gonna Do the work. It's not it's not limp. It's not built Like cheap. No. Oh, no. This is yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we're really impressed to see that So and thank you for the winter hats. We will be used. Yeah, we'll use those this week. That's right Yeah, they they they knew their audience well for sure. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so All right What do we have next here? I got to find our agenda. Yeah, my computer is not the first people we saw were Kenyon Key, why K? I'm sorry. K. E. N. Y. O. N. And they do indoor and outdoor grills Yep, and those were pretty impressive. They're a DC powered 48 volts for the indoor grill Was it also no it was 240 volts out for the outdoor grill the big yeah, it's like a great big Weber grill It's all DC power all DC powered You plug you can plug it into your AC current and they had an inverter. Yeah, step it up to 240 DC But this grill is so well thought out. It was really amazing one of the most Impressive things to me was one of the last things I saw was that Even at the height of grilling with this thing on and grilling steaks or chicken or what have you you can touch the top of the grill Yeah, the they've got a Venturi system in there that keeps the airflow that keeps the top of that grill from getting too hot And and causing injury for lack of a better word, but the thought that they put into the grill shape and the great And I said no, this is great and pun not intended, but it came out was He talked about how it caramelizes the food it isn't the flame in the charcoal, but it's it's the Food being caramelized as as the juices come off the meat and Explode in the super heat and and it's fully even heat because of the way the the The heating element is it you so all the things that we're talking about here We have seen some of them We are going to do bespoke YouTube videos for I think this is one we might yeah Even though it's not like doesn't link with your iPhone yet You know my guess is that's coming in a future version like it seemed like this would be a good thing to maybe link with your phone but But this one it's worth seeing based on that like the way that they kind of engineered this so that the Element the heating element is right there under your food But it never touches your food and it remains completely isolated from it So it'll stay clean and you know, I'll never have food hit it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's it's in a channel and They've put a lot of thought and effort into this It the price point on that it was rather high as I recall was around 5,000 Yeah, so it isn't ready for most people's backyard yet, right? But that's you know, that's how this stuff goes, right? I mean the first the first plasma TV that was 48 inches was a $16,000 TV now you can't get plasma because they're you know, correct. Yeah. Yeah, you know, it's that's old That's ancient technology now Pete. That's right. Yeah. Yeah We went and and saw this company called Vasco that Creates a translator It's translator earbuds, right? they have taken it to another level and There is the the earbuds that you put in you can put one in your ear and one in someone else's ear and in fact You can have up to ten of them going simultaneously Translating an entire conversation audibly and on your phone in Ten different languages Simultaneously people talk Everyone hears it in their chosen preferred language in in their ears and the conversation just sort of happens It's you know, we can do this with one person with our phones right now Which is amazing that we can even do that right now with you know with the devices that we generally have in our pockets This the folks at Vasco take it to a whole other level. It's really It's spectacular in how well this works and they had another device there was that called before Dave That it almost looked like a thin touchscreen Cell phone, but all it did Was it has when you buy that you get the data playing with it Yeah You don't have to be connected to data anywhere in the world right in order for this in order for the earbuds to work Your phone or they needs to connect to they need to be connected to something. That's also connected to data right and the That can be your phone or you can get this upgrade at the earbuds are about 350 bucks and then It's another 200 for their Base unit if you will the version for where the v4 whatever they kept calling it But that then comes with its own data plan that they say is lifetime data for that unit So you don't you don't have to worry about data in another country just to have your ability to translate Yeah, yeah, so that was really cool exactly. Yeah. Yeah, they say the v4. I'm looking on their website right now. That is 331 if you buy it stand alone, okay And then I think they said it was gonna be 549 as like a package with I think with the earbuds earbuds That's right. Yeah. Yeah But that was amazing to watch it translate the gent who demonstrated it to us was speaking Polish It translated the English for Dave in his ear and to Spanish on his phone simultaneously, right? It was Incredible to watch it just work like I guess it did Yeah, and whichever one of us spoke in whatever language we spoke it just picked it up and and went with it, right? And in fact, I threw some pigeon Japanese at it to for yeah And it picked it right up and went okay, this is what you said. Yeah, wow that is what I intended to say so Yeah, and all this stuff like I said We will do videos on some of these things that you'll see on our Mackie Kev video like our YouTube channel We'll put a link to that in the show notes, but it's just you know Right YouTube comm slash at Mackie Kev, but I will also put links to all these things in the show notes as you As you expect I guess I should say one thing. This is Mackie Kev 1018 for Sunday, January 7th Mackie Kev 1017 says that it's for Monday, January 8th It will already have been released It was for Monday, January 8th, and then we decided to do this episode. So we pushed out 1017 a little early So it's fine. It's fine while we were waiting to talk to the folks from Vasco We decided to waste some time. We decided to waste some time that the the folks that up where we're like I'll go check out this O clean company. Yeah O C L E A N dot com. So we did okay, right? They make a smart toothbrush Okay, fine. I've had we've talked about them on the show like it's interesting, but the ones I've used have all been Bluetooth and You know just like a Bluetooth scale You know you have to have your phone open in order to sync with the thing and like it's always a little bit of Just an ordeal if you will well the new O clean toothbrush is Wi-Fi So it's constantly Sinking your data even better than that though. It gives you all the feedback while you're brushing Which is pushing too hard. You're going too fast Yeah, yep, but then when you're finished It shows you both on your phone and on the toothbrush and this will definitely do a video for so you can really kind of dig In and see but it shows you a diagram of your mouth and where you did good and where you didn't do so good Right. Yeah, and yeah, and it uses a basically bone Bone conduction bone conduction. Thank you technology to talk to you. Yeah, no one else here is what it's saying But you do yeah exactly and it's a hundred and thirty bucks Right and it's got a brushless maglev motor inside it and the battery life on they've a couple different ones One is 30 days battery life, which is great in and of itself And then they have another one that is a is not quite as advanced as the Wi-Fi one It has a hundred eighty day battery life on it. I was like, oh my gosh I you know, I don't take my electric toothbrush on the road because I don't want to pack the charger to go around with me as Well and one that's gonna last six months between charges. Okay. I'm good with that. It's pretty cool I was really astounded to see. Yeah, yeah same. Yeah It's pretty cool. So yeah, well, uh, we'll we'll we'll dig more into that But and yeah, 130 bucks and it links with Apple help. Yeah, so you you know, it's like they've already done that work for us Which is great. We love that. So I ask again, who needs a smart toothbrush? Yeah. Oh, yeah Yeah, that's awesome. Yep Yep Of course, none of this would be possible without our CES 2024 coverage sponsors The the we've got three companies on board this year and I'm trying to bring up the graphic for it, which is why I'm Oh, you got you do it. That's why I was trying to do it and then it's great I know this shows audio for the most part. Yeah, but yeah, it's a carbon copy-cloner Mac updater and collide our our CES 2024 coverage sponsors and Our sincere thanks to them all of you for helping us make this happen. Yeah, bring this stuff to you Yeah, it's truly amazing. There's links in the show notes for it, but just go tell them. Thank you That's really the thing. I would love to just like of course if they if the product that they make is something that fits for you Even better even better, but go check out their site Tell them. Thank you and tell friends about them If it's you know, if one of these things isn't for you tell somebody about this about it There's links in the show notes for for each of them and yeah, our sincere things carbon copy-cloner.com slash MGG Collide.com slash MGG that's collide with a K and core code.io slash MGG for for Mac updater though Two more things Pete one of them is a company we saw last year e-site. Yeah You uh, that was cool. Yeah, you want to tell them about it? Yeah, so there's No Don't get old it's bad for your memory. I can't remember the gents name who is standing there Do you remember his name now? I Don't know which one you're talking about the tall gentleman who was who was legally blind. Yes. So anyway He I remember talking to him last year and I was so touched He saw his children's he's legally blind saw his children's face really for the first time through this technology and They've made some huge improvements on it. It's it's much later now. I think it said 160 grams I was able to put one of these on and I don't have the best vision in the world Hence I wear glasses. I could not see a sign with a naked eye that was Better part of two miles away from the hood where we were in the hotel put this thing on and I was able to zoom right in and read the sign on the side of the building and That doesn't seem like much. This is a gent who's legally blind who could now read to his children who can read The sign on a building across the street. He should be able to go to a baseball game Yeah, actually watch the baseball game watch the ballgame in the video Stabilization that's on this now. He said has made it so much nicer. There's less feeling of Jitter and which I assume would bring some level of nausea on yeah That but that's all been worked out the battery life on it is amazing It has the ability it has a camera tilt on it that you can set so that you can watch TV on it You can read without having to hold your head down You can you can have the book down the camera will point down you can keep your head pointed up and still read Just you know watch TV and they they really look they're still a virtual headset But they look a lot more like a pair of big sunglasses now than they did Yeah, even a year ago But it was so touching to see this guy who uses this and he's now a coach when you buy these You get up to five hours of coaching they said and he's a coach for people who buy this technology and it's it's life-changing I know it. Yeah, it's amazing. I I'm yeah, it's It I love when tech can do things like that. Yeah, very cool. The last thing we did Was go check out a company called Brandenburg labs They have been working on Spatial audio right just like, you know, Apple has their version of spatial audio Everybody has their version of spatial audio, which is amazing. It is amazing even apples, you know with the AirPods correct it it Brandenburg labs Started really digging into this. What's happening with our ears? What are we hearing? How are we doing this and they created a demo that isn't just a demo It's being used by people by like engineers Mixing engineers in studios, especially folks that are building like at most mixes, but what they had us do is they had a Set of speakers and the best demo that they did was just with stereo speakers But I mean you could do it with you know, 15 speakers if you wanted that stereo speakers in the room And they had us kind of walk around and listen to some audio samples music and things like that And then they had us put headphones on now The headphones had motion trackers on them so that it would know where we were in the room Which direction you were facing whether you were higher whether you were low. Yeah, exactly and Yeah, 3d motion trackers for these these headphones and it was just in a you know hotel suite or whatever I put the headphones on and They said you know just keep doing the same thing keep walking around and it's like okay This is great Like I'm getting a lot of bleed through from the speakers in the room though And I took my headphones off and realized they had muted the speakers in the room mind-blowing. Yeah, it was amazing The same thing I had it on and the first thing I did was pull it off go wait a minute. Yeah. Yeah Yeah, they got mad at me. They're like no don't take them off I'm like no no no I like needed to so that I knew what was going on And I've had a similar experience with Apple's spatial audio when I first used it on an airplane with my iPad I was convinced that my iPad was I think somebody's getting a call. That's me, too. All right I was convinced that my iPad was you know loud in the airplane, right? It was not you know, but this takes it to a whole other level. Let's it do it with You know, it's in real time and there it's not something you or I could get right now But it's just it's great to see that The technology of this spatial audio thing is moving more and more down the road. It's really it's it blew me away It is yeah. Yeah, you shouldn't be able to do that with a pair of headphones or even a pair of AirPods for that man Yeah, exactly to be able to pretend that It it was wild I'm telling you we were standing there in the room and it would go left high and you could hear sound coming from above you to your left Yeah, and if you turned around and it would say left high you would actually hear it coming from the right side Yeah, yeah, yeah, right right because you had turned around and it was you know, yeah, we left was now right Yeah, it's really something else really something else Yeah That's what we got for today. In fact, we got a we got a go because we have to go to our next We do we got about 10 minutes to get out of here There's no way this show is gonna get published before Before we before we go to that next event, but it's fine. I'll publish it later tonight. We'll get it out Yeah, get it out. Thank you everybody for joining us. Yes. This is this is cool Yeah, I gotta find my my mixer volume here so I can start everything Like, you know, I don't I didn't I really should travel with a portable control surface for the For this cuz that cuz then I could like fade in the music see like that. Well, there's that And for the folks at Brandenburg labs, I think when we were walking out, they said to us I Don't think that's what they said. Oh, okay But if we were if we went back to the Vasco translator folks, they might be able to tell us what that actually meant in German That's don't get caught Thanks for hanging out with us folks Thanks to our sponsors, of course for the CES stuff here carbon copy cloner.com slash mgg cool code.io slash mgg and collide.com Thanks for hanging out and we'll be back. We'll do more of these episodes this week and keep an eye on our YouTube channel So that you can learn all that all that stuff to Pete. What was that? What was that that they said again? Well, how did that go? It was Don't get caught