 All right. Good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host, Krista Porter, here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the commission's weekly webinar series where we cover a variety of topics that may be of interest to libraries. We broadcast the show live every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. central time. But if you're unable to join us on Wednesdays, that's okay. We do record the show as we are doing this morning. And the archive will be available later for you to watch at your convenience. Both the live show and the recordings are free and open to anyone to watch. So please do share with your friends, family, neighbors, colleagues, anyone you think might be interested in any of the topics we have on the show. For those of you not from Nebraska, the Nebraska Library Commission is the state agency for libraries in Nebraska. It's your state library. So we provide services and training and consulting to all types of libraries in the state. So you'll find shows on Encompass Live for all types of libraries, public academic, K-12, corrections, museums, archives, anything and everything. Really our only criteria is that it's something to do with libraries. We do book reviews, interviews, mini training sessions, demos of services and products. We sometimes have library commission staff do presentations and we sometimes bring in guest speakers. And we have kind of a mixture of that today. It is the last Wednesday of the month. So that means it is a pretty sweet tech day, which is the this when Amanda Sweet, our technology innovation librarian usually comes on the show and does presentations for us on something techy. So if you're into technology and things, this is definitely the time to sign up and watch our show the last Wednesday of the month. And today she has a guest speaker with us with her. This was something we had scheduled last month, but just due to we had two different sessions, two different shows last month due to scheduling issues had to be changed and rescheduled and that's okay. So I'll just hand it over to you, Amanda, to tell us about what we're going to be hearing about today. So I am glad that I gave my show over to Brian today. She is with the Evolve project. So he has been changing the way the world sees libraries. I just read the tag line in this website, which I haven't seen in a while. And so I'm actually going to put in the link to that website in the chat just in case you want to take a look at it. And you should see that in a second. And so Brian tracks tech trends. He does all that techy goodness. He helps libraries to figure out what kind of tech gadgets they want to bring in what could be useful for them. And he basically, if it's techy innovation, awesomeness, he's there. Is it any surprise that he wound up finding the technology innovation librarian. So today he's going to talk about CES and correct me if I'm wrong I think that stands for consumer electronic show. That's correct. So Brian, if you want to talk about Evolve project or just jump right into CES I believe that up to you. Yeah, I'll do a little bit about about the Evolve project. So thanks for joining everyone today. As Amanda said, today we're going to talk about the consumer electronic show. The cool thing about what I what I get to do is I find startup companies and I asked them if they want to work with libraries and so I go to a variety of different conferences and events where there's usually not many librarians and I go to each and I asked hey have you considered marketing to libraries and when I first started doing this the vast majority of people were like, Why, like they just have books we're not we're not a book vendor. And then that's when I explained that libraries like to use STEM tech or educational technology to teach people things teach people skills and through these conversations I built up this massive partnership of a variety of different programs ranging from little bit sphere out all the way to companies that are in other countries like Luca and Tony's and helping them get situated in the United States by doing pilot programs with libraries so I do a lot of really fun partnerships with different groups of people and different different events to get people hands on experience with what stuff that they may not ordinarily see. And the way I find these things again as I go to different conferences and venues. So, one such venue is this CS conference with my slides forward there we go. So, as Amanda said, it's the consumer electronic show. And in this in this like three day event. There's lots of previous a brand new products, new product announcements. A lot of companies show off all their texts of Samsung LG HP Dell, those companies are even there showing off the latest and greatest TV or computer or tablet whatever it may be. The secret is that there is a place called Eureka Park section of CS has a lot of startup companies. And so that's usually where I hang out. It runs the first full week of January. It's, it's one of the largest events of its kind by extension in 2020 so before the pandemic shut down the world. There's 170,000 people crammed into Las Vegas in a 2.9 million square feet arena multiple buildings, multiple exhibits of different sizes and I'll show you some pictures of that. It always it's always in Vegas it doesn't move around the country. Correct yeah just in Vegas every year. So it's a good excuse to go out I guess. And then in 2021 they switched to virtual. They had about 2000 exhibitors, 80,000 people attended and 47 hours of like recorded content which was really cool and I'll share a link at the end so you can watch some of these recorded pieces. Nice. So this was the covers report for 2021. Tons of info, tons of data, tons of different folks going going this was the virtual version. So, giving an opportunity to meet a lot of new people. And then this was through a session that came just pat this past January. So at 44,000 people attend, and then 40,000 people that were online so about 80,000 people joined. So when you look at the reason why this kind of is really neat and impressive is just by the sheer size of it so while you go to these events there's lots of networking opportunities and so as a librarian or working for a library. You can really network out and meet some really cool fascinating people and ask for their advice or opinions on hey what can we do to make our library better. The size of this event takes up roughly 50 football fields. So imagine going up and down and 50 football fields for over the course of a few days you're like get pretty tired. But there's so many things to see and experiment with and do and talk to into a really cool event. And the hybrid version of it for this year still that so many pieces of accessibility so many more people that they can attend online who could not possibly ever be able to do it in person. Yeah, exactly. And so it, there's really no no excuse not to try to attend in some fashion or another. You can attend in your PJs. And so this is CS when you walk in you get greeted with a bunch of lights banners, tons of people. And some people go all out in their boots so this was a car company. And that was their booth lots of lights flashy things because they want to draw you in and want you to like experiment play and things of that nature. Shiny. Come on slides. And then other companies like Samsung. They took a clever route this year in person where they had QR codes everywhere. Just like wooden cubes. So to see the product they didn't bring any physical product it was all stand to find and learn more. So that was kind of clever and cute. And then people sitting down scanning things and watching like virtual AR style product displays. And then you have stuff like this, a TV company TV manufacturer. So again everything's very flashy and showy from the big name brands. When you get to the startup area it's more like tablecloth and a small little booth. But it's cool a lot of really neat things. Cars that can change color from the outside so BMW is there showcasing their color changing car with their special white paint. And it'll change color to whatever you want. Does it go like red for road rage, like a mood car. I think so yeah. Yes, like we're being chased by the police push a button. I don't know. I don't know if it'll be street legal. But it was pretty cool concept. So what is the cost, because you know, we don't have money trees just yet. So if you go in person, and you book early enough you might you should be able to find a hotel for like anywhere from $150 $250 flight depending on where you're coming from 200 to 400. And I ran that number earlier this year I probably should have updated it. I'm sure the flight costs has changed because of the gas prices but it'll hopefully be around there still. And then food I budgeted like $100 a day for food because if you're thrifty like me you take advantage of any of the free meals that might be going around. And so that's how I roll. I stuff my pockets with muffins from the continental breakfast and that's what I eat. Because as one of my friends say it's falling on a budget. So, it's a good time. Transportation, like to and from the airport, like 14 bucks. And then to get into the venue. It's free if you register early, but you have to be like part of media or a be involved in technologies, some in some fashion. What I've done is I just share like my blog that I have. So most libraries have blogs and you can say hey I'm going to this conference I want to blog about what I find. And they're like, okay, your media, or if you go hey we're a library and we showcase a lot of cool tech. Okay, you're in the, you're in the technology industry. I always tell people to bring a decent camera cell phone pickers aren't always the best if you want to capture some really cool things that it's some areas kind of dark. And then a power brick for your cell phone is definitely needed, especially if you're using your phone to take pictures. The reception in the buildings are rough because there's, you know, a whole bunch of folks crammed in there. And so your phone will drain pretty fast. In terms of attire. I always tell people to bring really really good shoes because you'll wear them down because again you're walking through 50 football fields. While there are people like hey what do I need to wear. I see people wearing jeans and like a t-shirt, all the way to full suits. So for me, I opted to wear like business casuals with jeans and a college shirt. Because my goal was to find people to work with to bring them into library spaces. It's similar to a library conference like an ALA or PLA actually. Yeah, same same attire you'll have people all all all dressed up and some folks that are dressed down so no one seemed to judge which was nice. So again to attend virtually it's the same cost to attend it's free as long as you register early. And you have to be either in media or members of the consumer technology association. It's $150 bucks, which isn't horrible for a conference. For how many days is it three days ish. Fifth to the eighth and 2023. I have my finger hovering over the register button. Register now you still can. When you attend virtually you'll want to like to be in it obviously like a quiet space bring pen and paper because when you go to the exhibitors. I don't like their exhibitors space and I'll show you what it looks like in a little bit on the virtual side because it's very confusing. But you'll want you'll want some quiet time. And you make appointments essentially with all these virtual exhibitors if you want to chat with them one on one. So why are you even care like why are you all here I highly doubt to see me to probably see Amanda and then you're like dang it Amanda's not talking. What's this I have to offer. And so what why attend. It's a chance to see an experiment with technology that most folks won't be able to know about. Not yet public knowledge a lot of companies will do notice a lot of new tech it's announced in January and February, and they do the pre announcements at CES. So all those media folks will get a hold of Oh cool. Some so until it's coming out with a brand new TV that you can fold. I'm going to write my article and I'll announce it, but you'll be able to know well in advance. And the thing that I enjoy because for what I try to do is again making startups meet libraries is you're going to see a lot of founders or creators or heads of marketing at this event. And that's when you can ask them hey would I be able to pilot test or beta test your product in my library space can I use your products for free. And in exchange, my library will build programs and workshops around it so you have an opportunity to explore what that would look like in our in our ecosystem. So here's a couple of the links. So if you want to see presentations that were given at CS on the virtual side, if you go to CS broll.com. That will show you a whole bunch of videos and like press related information about what happened at CS. And then the website which has already been posted in the chat for CS is CS. So here's the virtual experience. And this is why it was confusing for me. You see a list of logos and their name doesn't really tell you what they do or what what niche market they're in or what they're trying to sell. You just see a logo so for me clicking through 4000 logos was a painstaking task because that's how I found out what companies did what. And so then I ended up having to go through each one favoriting the ones that I liked to build my list and then I had to go back through that list and then like schedule appointments. And so the way I picked the companies to as I like oh that logo looks like it's a playful educational type company. Well I guess pretty well I think. Well they didn't have a search feature like where you can search by like topic or. I did but everyone there's a lot of companies, especially in like the European market that would just check everything. So you would check like oh they had a category for educational tech, but you'll have, you'll see HP and Dell in there as well and you're like well that's not really what I want. If you squint one I kind of. So it was a little frustrating so I just went by hand and scrolled away. Oh, my top. Yeah, and they were there. So attending sessions was really simple at it all built into the web browser in 2021. They had Billy Eilish singing and then talking and some other famous singer and then Ryan secret so they always try to bring in like famous people to help kick off the event which was pretty cool. I feel like I should know who that girl is but I just can't remember her name. Yeah I can't remember her name either but she's a famous singer to talk famous. Anybody knows let us know typing the question. So there were some of the top trends from CS. I put down, or from what my experience was, there was a lot of artificial intelligence being used in ways other than just answering and receiving questions. There's also a bunch of robotics and automations to quote unquote make your life better. There's a lot of things showing how AI and robots could do health tracking contact tracing because the whole clover thing temperature scanning and things of that nature. So, in terms of tech trends. The goal, it seemed like of AI at least the way CS presented it or the attendees at CS was how can we replace basic interactions to make things more effective and efficient. One such company had a product that could not only box products together but also unbox for display cases. So you have your little AI robot it knows how to pack something and it also knows how to properly display. And so then their demo is just a bunch of boxes is the robot arm would pick up apples and redistribute. Another company was showcasing how they use lidar sensors to give robots the ability to see. So in this example that was showing how the robot was able to use lidar to protect people and objects. And also a lot of companies were also talking about how they use AI or computer vision for smart infrastructure so detecting when there's traffic or when there's an accident or an emergency industrial machines like we saw at the unpacking robot house have smart cars and vehicles drive and so forth. So the first thing that came to mind when I was talking to Kiru was an artificial intelligence company that wanted to make like these wearables to like by by using geolocation to help solve problems. And their problem they were trying to solve is eye health and vision disorders. So as you were traveling here we should be able to detect things for you almost like a seeing eye dog. And then also not only be able to help you on that side, but also diagnose and treat visual issues like field loss double vision and other type of vision problems. And it's really cool. And then other people were there was a lot of kiosk driven AI companies a little like kiosk you walk up to and there's an AI there that chats with you and giving this contact free experience. And so this one was real people, I believe, called Roborus. So you would have like a almost a state call, but it's all built into the app, or the AI flavor, where you have your artificial intelligent individual from a company called deep brain, talking to you and having conversations. They need an AI librarian added to that list. Oh, they have influencer librarians could be influencers. Or information clerk, it's like all of them. There we go that yeah. It's both intriguing and terrifying. Yes. There was one for your dog as well or your cat there was a veterinarian company called KIST. And like, it'll be able to identify your dog's face and pull up like the patient information. So, something for everyone. I saw there was on that first screen there's something called pet cube that was one of the places to this. There's a thing where you can talk to your dog and shoot a pet treat at it. Oh, yes, I see. Yes, so like when you're at work and your dog. Yes, okay. I've tried out with my pets before my cattle like look long at the camera. And then like, like Natalie like you in the walk away. Yeah. My dog gets upset because then she's running around trying to figure out where I'm at and then she runs back to the camera like very confused. Oh, yeah. I don't do no more breaks your heart. What is this sorcery. Yeah. So other cool tech trends that were discussed was VR and AR. There was a ton of VR based companies. Some for like doing your exhibit exhibits like if you had an art gallery or something like that. There's a company called virtual Italy, and you can actually use their product to tour famous Italian art. And even there was another company called the Rendever that made a VR company for senior care. And the goal was that seniors, especially during the pandemic where isolated. So this gives them the opportunity to like go on a VR field trip with their family members or other people in their nursing home and travel together virtually of course, but that was pretty neat. That's cool. Yeah, I see a lot of libraries doing that to you. Wow, libraries should be stepping up and they don't need a company to do that. I can just do it with their own stuff they have. Yeah, I've seen libraries do like those. Using Google Maps to do like book tour book walks of like the like a book and where it actually took place and then they you can use that for the different locations that were mentioned in the book. So as you're reading it, you can kind of go and see you know, it was a book about Paris and here's the thing that goes to the Eiffel Tower. Yeah. That's what they call the lit trips, like literature trips. Oh, that's cool. I like the name. So if you're playing a VR game, this is called tax suit and it'll have it has vibration pads all over the place so if you were to get shot or stabbed in your VR world, you feel like this vibration wherever you got hit. Kind of fun. My consoles does that I don't know if I want my whole body to feel. There's a company called or cam and their first product ever made was the or cam read it was a handheld stick that you can stand over words, and it would read to you. They took that a step farther and they made glasses. So people that are blind or visually impaired can hear voice communication so if it was to read text recognize faces identify products things of that nature it would help. It has a little AI component in there to be able to detect objects. That's awesome so how do you get to test these things. Almost all the products at CS you can play with and test how accurate is this. They were just showing the, like reading a magazine, and it would just read to you as you looked at it. Who does have a question that is actually while we're looking at this one it kind of is appropriate time to maybe ask about this. Did the vendors share the costs of all of these new products they give any sense. So they do have they have the prices there. Yeah, correct. I was the vast majority, like this company Mojo lands I don't think they shared what the cost was because I would assume it astronomical. Probably enough, not enough board space or at the cost, but they're making a contact lens that has an AR component so you can have a heads up display like you see in futuristic movies. This is some future tech crazy. Wow, okay. So if you're like going on a bike ride you can have it set to like monitor your heart rate the elevation how fast you're going how fast your friends going and the distance you are from your destination. It's like a step from Google Glass. Yeah, popping your eyeball but I have this weird version for eye touching so like I don't like it. Yeah so many people don't do yeah I can't do it at all. I can't even do eye drops. There was a, another company that was announcing low cost headsets for VR and AR is like VR glasses or AR glasses that can connect to your computer so it's one of the newer companies I haven't heard of before so I was like alright. Sounds interesting. Changing gears. I'm going to speed up a little bit so we can go through some cool library specific tech. And obviously was health because everyone was interested in contact tracing senior care. So they had mass that you can change the color of, and it'll also change color based on the air quality of breathing. And the contact, like the quality of the air and even tells you when to change your, what's that called filter. The bio button was this idea from a company called bio IntelliSense, and it says that monitoring COVID was as easy as using a sticker. So you basically slap this on you and it'll monitor your heart rate temperature and respiratory rate, and then make like notifications for you if it sees any deviations like hey you may be sick. Then there's a whole bunch of companies that were showcasing their version of a COVID passport to help save your COVID information. This was kind of neat. This was a digital biosensor strip to test for COVID-19. And then put it on an encrypted RFID tag and made that your health pass. So it would say hey you have the antigens and you can use it to stand for like in replacement of a COVID vaccination you can say I have my antibodies and or what not. I'm here I can test right now. This company was called graph graph feel. You can show people like live like if they're concerned and can say hey look here. This right now I can tell you exactly what my situation is. Yeah, allegedly. I always say allegedly because I'm always skeptical sometimes of some of the new stuff. It's a live played with it and I can validate but this was kind of neat this called the motion pillow. And it's, this is for your significant other others that snore. And so when it detect snoring, and it senses how the user's head is, it has like airbags in the pillow that will inflate or make them move without disturbing their sleep, thus reducing snoring or stopping it all together. So basically it's a pillow with like this box that can pump air into it and and the sensor. I snore apparently is what I'm told. So I haven't tested yet. My husband would like that because yes I do snore, and there are there are issues. Well now you can bring something home that you learned at work. Yes. So this one actually won an award for best of innovation. And it's Abbott's the company Abbott is they're fairly well known but not broadcast like a lot of products that you have in your house probably built by Abbott. And this is called Abbott's freestyle Libre, and it's a glucose monitoring system. The freestyle Libre provides glucose readings every minute and trends with a small sensor worn on the back of your arm so that little circle thing goes on your arm, and it reads your glucose throughout the day. Those that have hearing aids. This is a device that can remove moisture from your hearing aid. It's small, useful surprise you don't have something like this that seemed like a needed type of product. That was called redux. This is Algo care. And this is a nutrition as a service so at one awards in 2021 and 2022. So the nutrition as a service model, basically uses your, like, by biology to determine what vitamins and minerals you need. So it analyzes your health using AI. And then it makes a precise dose of what vitamins you need for that day. And then your history is recorded and learned. And as you get healthier, it tweaks those those settings so you know exact supplements that you need. Nice. Taking vitamins and hoping you're doing it the right way. I've been doing the multivitamin thing for years but apparently that's not what you want to do. But they taste good so I'm confused. I'll take it though. This is a bath mat. So when you stand on it takes your weight your balance your posture and a bunch of other readings that it can pull just from the from your feet. What if I just don't want to know. You step over it. That's a lot of yelling at me first thing in the morning I don't know. This is really cool. This is called because at home, you're in test strip, and it's for a personalized nutrition lifestyle advice. So you can use that with the nutrition thing and sync them together. To be honest, I thought it was very neat. So it's called VO or VVO. This is called nylon med. And this is a toothbrush that lets you brush your teeth in, like, less than like a couple minutes. You basically put the whole thing in your mouth and it brushes your tops and bottoms of your teeth, called the why brush Vibrating in your mouth. I guess so yeah. It's like it's designed for people that are always on the go. I like that. I hate brushing my teeth this makes this makes it easier for me done. There's a company called lofty. And they make a bunch of different clocks and lights with the goal of they say that your circadian rhythm is in fact is impacted by lights and so when you go to sleep you need a specific kind of light and to wake up better and healthier you need a specific kind of light. So I thought it was kind of neat and cool so you can do stuff like that in your library and change because they've they've they said for years that having specific lights can change moods. So, you know, you want a nice calming meditation space in your library I think the colors blue. If you want like a fight club in your library the colors red switching gears so couple tech overall tech trends, distant learning and better communications. And like webcams. It was another huge like lots of new webcam companies. Or here, like so this one was called link lit. And the goal of it was to make your zoom meeting a little bit more interactive and give you like give people like this first person point of view if you're showing something. So that's a link let. This is the air selfie. And if you were to Google air selfie right now. They're getting a lot of flack because I believe because it sounds like they also had a kickstarter where they never made anything so now I'm like hesitant to share it but the idea so the cool thing about CS to is, while the product might not be ready. The concept is. And so there's a lot of other new drone companies after the air selfie showed theirs, where you throw a drone in the air to text your face takes a picture and comes back to your hand. And that's the goal of the air selfie but now you're going to start seeing more and more of those. This one's really cool. This one is called the anchor work be 600 it's a webcam that also has a built in light. So you can have better video. You're doing a video call. So rather than having that whole separate ring light or something else it's just one piece, all built in yeah. Nice. They even had smart mirrors. So this is barricades product that shows a mirror that can give you personal health data helps you do your makeup if you wore makeup. So it's pretty neat and it's built in with Alexa, which will be fun so you can, you know, play music. Yeah, that's that one. I don't know if I want my mirror to talk to me either. Mirror mirror on the wall. You are yes. It's like even better than the daily affirmation. It's a program the mirror to be like a mean girl and it just says like, Hey, were you wearing that. I already say that to myself so that's all good. I'm going to do that too. And then what was surprising at CS was there was a group of folks that were talking about sustainability and their products were to help with sustainability. There was a climate summit, little before CS this year. And it had brands like GM and Samsung talking about how they're trying to be more sustainable, how they're looking at building products that focus on green technology. And the CEO, or they're like the organizer of CS. So I challenged everyone by saying how can we create more sustainable practices to reduce our environmental footprint. And so here's the companies that did that. This is called a Sephora Sephora. I'm probably saying around SCP URA home, and it basically is a new and improved garbage disposal. So unlike a normal garbage disposal when you throw your food in it sucks it out and then it goes to your sewage system. What this does is it takes the food waste into a collection bin, and then you can use that collection bin for your compost. That could be kind of handy. Well, this is the whiz gambit. It's a AI robot that cleans and disaffects. It helps to help reduce health risk and sharing cold viruses and flus and other things. And it's being used in hospitals and shopping malls and schools. Sounds like the kind of thing that would be good for a library because those are similar type of locations where lots of people are coming and going. So you might be able to hire an army of people for the same price. Anyway, tech trends and robots. So lots of cool robots were just were just Samsung always seems to come out with like new goofy robots, which are the ones on the left and misty robotics which we're selling out bought is on the right. So one company was called Roy B. It's a child's toy that learns with your child as they get better and better at like doing math puzzles and things of that nature. It makes the challenges even harder and there's over 500 different activities you can do. I don't want to pet and rather have nightmares. This is the first AI dogs of Kota was running around and staring crap out at people. I would not want a dog like this, because it's wanting like these are the things in the horror movies. I really wanted a dog and had allergies. There's your solution I suppose. Yes. Robotic robotic looking. That's the thing that makes me go that's too scary. No. You want to add some fur to it. I think that will make it exterior like spot where it has like a little yellow or add some color to it or something. This is called Achilles, and it's a chairless type of passage for an echoskeleton. So like biomechanics or bioengineering. So you can have be able to walk if you can't walk, or if you have to, if you have pain, like throughout the day, this helps alleviate it. So there's quite a few companies showing exoskeletons like to make you stronger and lift heavy things. Here's your pet cube. So there's a built in laser and it shoots a treat into your pet or dog. And there's a built in vet chat. Your dog can talk to your vet. This is what's wrong with them. And so this is a company called eponymy. And they are actually being used in Madison, Wisconsin, I saw one of these things in person before I was at CES so I like knew I'd put it together right away. This is like the AI version of Grubhub. It'll go pick up an order and bring it to whoever needs it. Madison, Wisconsin was doing it over by the college campus because everyone's pretty much located in the same area. And I don't remember what what companies partnered with it. But it would pick up from a couple different restaurants for food and it keeps it warm or cold depending on what was ordered and delivered. I could see that like as a delivery system for libraries for like homebound patrons. It was lazy people. I mean, I would like that. I identify as lazy so like I like it. If it can like just I like it knows how to open my like smart door and then drive inside and run laying on the couch eating Cheetos, like, even better. Deposit the book into your cheesy hand. Yeah, because libraries. All right. There's another robot showing how it can do obstacle avoidance deliver pizzas take orders and things of that nature. You don't get the board teenager anymore. No, no, you get a isolated robot with no motion instead. So you don't have to tip them. No, that's the cool thing I suppose you save a buck or two. It's true. So here's a couple crazy pieces of tech. I'm going to go through these pretty fast. Here's a flying hovercraft. Here's a life like human that like for practicing dentistry, and they'll move around kick around and everything else. Digitalize will move forward. This was a health monitoring tool that does it only by your camera so somehow it's able to attack a bunch of things about you by looking at your face. It knows all suppose so. This is the, like the smart, powerful AI hand that you can put on your if you were missing ligaments or whatever it may be, you put this on, and it's able to do sensory feedback, which is brand new to those type of devices. It's very clever. It's the world's first care at home robot for people that are, you know, isolated, and it does virtual visits it's toxic people. And it gives you that human interaction. This camera, I think was like 10 grand. And it's a dual fishtide lens camera to make basically like those VR experiences. And that's the lens mind you not the camera the lens. I am taking donations if you want me to play with one. This is called the scenic VR. It's the first solution to help avoid virtual reality sickness. This company originally made something for cars, car motion sickness if you get sick while you're in the car. And then figure out how to do it for the same for VR. So that is a big thing that some people, it VR is great and then some people are just, they just can't do it and it's not so it's not for everyone yet. Nice. I wonder if that would work for people who are motion sickness on boats to orange ships. I don't know the science. I do very cool like dude they look like lumberjacks. And I remember their faces. That's all they do they. So yeah I can ask him I would assume it's different because it's a different movement versus a car or a VR but no just it for what a boat does yeah. It's called the wild cube. It's a like almost like a Rubik's cube that you can twist and play with you do it with different games. So that's to be a fun little product to have around in your library. Samsung does a thing called sea labs and it's like a like their own version of Shark Tank. And so they come out with a bunch of new like products every year. And so the zam star is an electric style guitar that teaches how to play guitar. Poloto I'm probably butchering the names. It's an AI solution that helps children develop smartphone usage habits. So, how long should you be on your phone you should have you know self regulation skills is what it teaches adults need that. No more tick tock Brian. Fluent pet teaches your dog vocabulary. So you may have seen the videos where the dog can talk by pressing buttons is one such company. This is the wags the GPS tracker. That will also be less expensive than a invisible fence because it'll also you can like geofence your area. Keep out zone so it will prevent your dog from going in areas they shouldn't even add stuff for your babies. The first one is the eye baby smart and it was a AI powered baby monitor that can determine how your baby sleeping what their development is. It warns parents when babies are in potentially bad situations somehow like you're about to put their finger on an outlet. I'm not positive. It's supposed to be able to monitor your your child and its growth. Cradle line is a baby crib it's a smart crib that when it detects your baby wake up wakes up and you still want to sleep it'll automatically like rock and get the baby to go back to sleep and then track its sleep as well as white noise generator. Brother wouldn't like that. But his kids are too old for that now. I would like that. Right. Let me be a bigger size please. The last one I want to talk about was Robo try from the cool CS stuff. And then we'll talk about library specific technology for the last few minutes. So Robo try basically what it is as you build your own robot online like they'll give you templates. And then they'll ship you like a cut out cardboard version of it. So you can build it and see your prototype. So cool Amanda we need that. So now everyone hop on your cell phone scan the QR code and type in what technology are you most excited for. Oh like we can do this right here on this. Yeah. And it should hopefully pop up. I will actually share the link to a piece of technology that I just saw. Okay, I did that with my phone. And now I have a. Let me hit play my man. There we go what technology most excited for it should be a text box now. I see it yes it just came up on my phone. So everybody got your phones go ahead and take a picture of that cute will put that QR code up on your camera and automatically give you the URL to jump to. And then I should display for lucky maybe you're not able to see it on the screen are you. Nope. Well that's a bomber. So right now someone wrote AI and robots. Here we go fluent pet. Someone right big delivery robots. All right now it's showing up on your guys. All right you can feel free to add stuff to it will continue on so must have at home educational technology speed round. Okay, we'll go as long as we need to even though we officially go to that now some talking about that. We officially go to 11, but we'll go as long as it takes for you to get through everything you want to show us and if anybody has any questions about any of this or anything you were wondering about a technology that might be there. Go ahead and type in the question section we don't have to cut off right at 11 o'clock we can go as long as people need to. We'll be here till midnight. I'm probably possibly. If I'm going to go for a prayer of getting to my meeting I actually have to duck off. Okay, but I'll see you around. Thanks for doing this. Yeah. And also mentioned to Brian, you will you are you willing to share your slides with people to for back to. Okay, yeah so afterwards we'll have the slides along with our archive to sweet. So some muscle must have at home educational technology or at library educational technology. This is Luca. It's a very popular in China, and Luca is a AI robot that can read books. So you hold up the book Luca identifies the book and read it to you. So if you were to flip to a random page in the book, Luca would know what page you're at and start reading from that page. This is Tony box. Tony's is a very popular company in Germany, and they make what's called Tony's, which are the little characters and each little character you place on the smart speaker. And it will read a story based on that character so if you had Pinocchio would read Pinocchio if you had the lion from the Lion King would talk about Lion King and play music. Tony's very cute very fun. This is pie top it's a robotics kit with a little AI components so you can build like these really cool AI robots that can like detect a ball, a specific colored ball and pick it up. It teaches people how to code, and you can do it in a coding environment built inside of team so as a group of people, you can code together. Finch 2.0 is the new and improved Finch and it allows you to program via Bluetooth there is a micro pixel as well so you can draw art on your little LED pixel. Even as the pen thing so you put your pen in through the top of the Finch and draw shapes. This is the click bot. And it's a creative robot that teaches you about AI and robotics. So again using the cameras and sensors built in. You can learn how to program a robot. This is chess up I thought this was really neat. It's a connected chess board with a built in chess instructor so the pieces light up to show you all the different possible moves of a specific piece. And then you'd be able to play against the computer you'll have to move their pieces but chess. Interesting. Yeah, I like I used to play chess all the time as kids I was excited. I like, I don't have anyone to play now. This is the temporary tattoo printer. Basically you roll the printer along your body and you have an instant tattoo. Not for life but you bring your instant tattoo to life. So those that want to create selfie videos. There's a variety of different companies out there now but some of the coolest ones I saw at CES was from Belkin. Excuse me. It's a magnet mount and Pivo, you put your phone in there and then it'll protect your face and pivot and pan as you move. That's nice it automatically follows you. Yep, it'll protect your face and follow you around. This is Pico. And so this is the idea of using this like these, these wands and you play a variety of different games outside to get people to play. So it'll be like find the person with the green light and everyone runs around looking for that individual. So you get that same experience of like gaming but you're, you're doing it outdoors and having fun. This is the animal island learning adventure. And it's like this built in tablet and the idea is you can learn through short learning sessions. So there's a kid version of the app where you or the kid will play the different activities and then the adult side of the app is you select what learning outcomes you want them to have. Whether that's learning the ABCs matching colors drawing shapes, etc. This is really neat. This is art the RT Max, and you can learn to code line by line, and then draw with it. And so you basically like in my, what was that in high school we had to like draw Mickey mouse by using equations so similar idea. But in this you can drag and drop coat drop drag and drop commands like go left go right, use this color, but you can also write it out in Python so like typing out what it should do. Alright, reload this. Alright so survey time if you go back to the same website so if you're already on your phone just refresh the page. And this should be let me hit play. So now if you go back to the website. You may have to refresh the page you're on choose which library focus tech gadget you most excited for. We have someone vote for the Finch. Oh, and I can see them and now on this one I can see what people I guess other people have done. I'm going to vote for some of the votes for the Finch 33 for Tony's, and so yeah. That's all I have for today. Hopefully you learn some new things or got to experience some new things if you're watching the recording always tell people. You're more than welcome to email me if you want more information about a specific product where you need an introduction I introduced people to all these different companies all the time. And what I like to do. So if you're like man I want to do a pilot with one of these companies Brian and I really like this company I'll set up the intro and we'll see what happens. Yeah, that's actually the first comment we did get at the beginning of their show early on was how do I get a job like Brian's. That's funny. I like playing like if you'd like to play with stuff you can just do it is what I always like I did this while I worked at the library still. I always encourage people just hey if you have something cool you want to try, and it doesn't cost money, like, and why are you not trying. Yeah sure it might take a little bit more time but if you're passionate about stuff I always try to make room for it. Yeah, and getting these just doing these pilot projects that's the thing too there are so many. There's grants out there that you can apply for from us the library commission or all sorts of other places to do these pilot projects to try things out it's something that I am ls Institute of Museum and Library Services they're always looking for. There's always. Can some other library replicate this or you know you you will give you money to test out your concept your idea, your, your library thing you want to do. So you can see if it, you know, in practice can be, you know, something viable and if it works great then you share that information other libraries can follow and do it themselves. If it doesn't failure is a learning experience to. It didn't work out. So, there's lots of places yeah because that's one of the questions to is the cost of these is our, I know you mentioned so many things like $10,000 are ridiculous of course. But are there things that would be know for libraries. The library focus tech that I shared are like really affordable like the Tony's box you can buy a Tony's kit for like 100 bucks. The Finch is 150. And Luca, I think is 150 as well. But yeah they're all in that like typical STEM education costs, which is around $150. Yeah. Yeah, that's something they can do libraries could do that themselves or, like I said apply for a grant to get a few of them. We here at the library commission and Amanda, she had to leave as you said earlier she does our tech kits that we check out to libraries. So that you can test out things and she's always coming up and bringing a new ones and setting up new kits for us so she may get some of these for you all to test out as well. She gets her ideas from all you know he's always updating new new robots new new coding. Come up so if you are in Nebraska library I'll just show you that here actually go back to. And I think if I do get through the mail. Yeah. So, if you're in Nebraska library this is the thing we offer for the from the Nebraska library commission to libraries in Nebraska. You can get a set of these and you get as you can see multiple copies of them just send you one so you can have a program with a bunch of kids that come in and use one of the, you know, the snap or whatever she's got here so you'll get multiple ones Yeah. So she may come up with some new ones after seeing this presentation of Brian's. It's cool. Thanks Sharon. Yeah, so anybody have any other last minute desperate questions you want to ask a Brian right now you can type in the question section. We have all the ones that people were asking throughout about price and library things and whatnot. But of course he gave his email address there and we do have so this is the session page for today show where I do have a link to Brian's evolved project website and the CS site. You can always reach out to Brian through there. And then here's the main page CS and I will add the link that you gave us to Brian through the recordings, the archives form from this CS. And now are these just from the most recent one or is that what's on. I think they have the archives to to be honest. Yeah, they'll they have the dates on them so. Okay. Yes, you can even find some things that might have been from previous. Cool. Oh yeah there's a video archive up here. That's my year hey there you go. Well, yep. So I will add that to the session page for the recording. Thanks for having me. Yeah, awesome yeah it doesn't look at me has other questions right now that's fine. I'll wrap things up for everyone then. Thank you everybody for being here with us this morning for our pretty sweet tech CS 2022 show. That's good resources here or the recording will be available should be done by the end of the day tomorrow depending on how, as long as a go to webinar and YouTube cooperate with me. 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And next week show though will be about building a reading community through podcasting. We've got a cold group of people, staff and you can see all the names here from our Omaha public library, who have a podcast called the book drop and they want to come on the show and talk about what they've been doing how doing podcasting and reading so definitely sign up for that any of our other upcoming shows you see I've gotten started scheduling things into September. I've got some August days to fill in here so keep an eye on our schedule before what our upcoming shows are. So thank you again everyone for being here thank you Brian good to see you again. I hope to see you as well take care. Yeah, I know we will have you again soon I know you're here a few months ago for a show to be on the show before Brian has and maybe after next year CS we'll see what comes up. That'll be fun. Yeah. All right so thank you everybody. Bye bye.