 I welcome to 2017 can tell us something's different. I'm not going to tell you what it is though. Why are you laughing? I don't know. I don't know why I'm laughing. I'm looking at shoes. I don't need more shoes. I definitely don't need more pairs of black boots and yet that's what I'm looking at. Do you like the black boots, do you? Well, if we can interrupt your shoes for a moment. OK. Would it be OK to do a show? I guess. Do I go with the loafers? Or do I go with the loafers? OK. True to our spirit. Because of the loafing. Loafing. We're not loafing. We're doing a show. We're doing a show. That's the opposite of loafing. All right. Here we go. Daily Tech News Show is powered by its audience to find out more. Head to DailyTechNewsShow.com slash support. This is the Daily Tech News for Monday, January 2nd, 2017. I'm Tom Merritt. You're Veronica Belmont. Hello. Happy 2017. Happy New Year, everybody. It is January 1st observed here in the United States. But not only is Veronica willing to do this show on a day off, but also play in hurt. Yeah, I hurt my tongue. It hurts to talk. Yeah, so if yesterday my tongue was all swelled up in my mouth because I bit it and now it's just. If you're listening and you say, there's something about Veronica's elocution. There you go. That's what it is. That's it. Well, thank you, Veronica, for joining us. We've got a few things to talk about. It's not a huge news day. And we're going to preview what's going on at CES because the Consumer Electronics Show starts this week. So first of all, MS Power User says its sources say Microsoft will finalize the feature set for Windows 10 Creator's Update this month for release in April, not March. That's what their sources say. Now here are some more top stories. Google and Fiat Chrysler announce they will show a Chrysler 300 sedan. It's CES using the Android operating system on board. This is the Android OS 7.0, sporting all the Android apps with some specific car functions built on top of it. Fiat Chrysler calls it UConnect. So this is different than Android Auto. Android Auto works on your phone and then powers the screen. This is your car running Android. Google hopes more automakers will use Android 7 to create customized systems for cars. How is the safety? How is the security? Enquiring minds want to know. We'd all like to know. Yeah, and I'm sure they'll go into that in the announcement at CES later this week. But it's the idea that you shouldn't have to have your phone powering things. You wouldn't rely on a connection. You can do so much more. And more people, third-party developers, can make apps that work, et cetera. And honestly, it might even benefit security-wise from being the entire operating system because you already want Android to be secure for your phones and tablets, et cetera. That's right. Sources tell Korea's Joong Ilbo newspaper that Samsung will announce the results of its investigation into the Note 7 fires later this month. Samsung said in October it was examining all aspects of the phone, meaning there may be more than just one cause. Enquiring minds also want to know this. Done, done, done. Yeah, so we are going to get an announcement, it sounds like, sometime this month from Samsung on this. And I don't know that it matters much in the big scheme of things what it is, but we all want to know. I don't think, you know, more of the hurt to Samsung is image than the definition of this. I don't think people are going to read this announcement and decide then what they think about Samsung that's kind of made up already. But I'm very curious because they thought they had found it. They thought it was the battery getting squeezed and then when they fixed it, it didn't work. So it makes sense that it would be multiple things, right? And of course they would want to know, going forward, so they don't make the same mistake again, especially if they had decided that, oh, it was the battery, okay, we can continue on with manufacturing future phones using different battery sources, but finding out that it might be something else may kind of exacerbate that situation. And towards the end of last month, there was a report that Samsung might be looking at a third battery manufacturer for phones. Right, we talked about that, yeah. Maybe there's something there too. Windows Central noticed a convertible 13-inch laptop called the XPS 13 appeared on the Dell website Sunday and then Monday, Dell announced the XPS 13. Has Kaby Lake, the latest generation, seventh generation Intel processors, you can get it in Core i5 or i7, Intel HD Graphics 615 for the integrated graphics, support for Windows Hello, which can do facial recognition login and a very narrow bezel. Also has an SD card slot, but otherwise two USB-C ports, they'll throw an adapter in the box for the old USB-A stuff that you might have. It's 0.54 inches thick at its thickest and the keys have a nice 1.3 millimeters of travel. Convertible XPS 13 starts at 1,000 bucks available later this week, January 5th. Do you think this was an accidental early announcement that they were saving it for CES and someone just published it to the website live too early? Yes, I actually do. Because this happened to Qualcomm as well. We'll talk about that in a little bit, but around the holidays, a lot of times communication, things slip through the gaps and I think somebody published early because they wanted to get out of the office, maybe? I don't know. No, they must have been a miscommunication or must have been just an accident, but yeah, this definitely has all the bells and all the indicators that it might have been an early mistake. But it's a nice looking convertible if you're looking for a laptop that converts into a tablet. This is very nice. I like the travel on the keys. And to those people who pick on Apple for all their USB-C ports, that is kind of the wave of the future. Maybe they are too early, maybe they're not, but we are going to be seeing USB-C on more and more devices this year and that's gonna help everybody because we'll start seeing more USB-C accessories. I'm trying not to be too bitter. Like I really do eventually, we'll need another upgrade to a laptop and I'm turning further and further away from Apple these days. It's just the problem is there's so much software that I rely on that's Mac only at this point. It's gonna be tough. A new law went into effect Sunday in France establishing a worker's right to disconnect. Companies with more than 50 employees must establish hours when staff should not send or answer email. The measure was part of a larger controversial package of labor law changes. I remember this and I remember this being like, oh, I feel like we talked about this actually. Yeah, we did. And the idea of what is the downside, right? Okay, so are we talking about it when it was proposed and whether it should go into effect? Well, now it is in effect. What if you need to get a hold of someone after hours? Now you have to have a very specific policy about how to do that so you don't run afoul of this law. Word, I wonder where Slack and other kinds of communication platforms kind of tie into this too or do they fall under email or are they a different thing altogether? Yeah, and they speak specifically about email but you could make an argument in court. I'm sure that what it means is electronic communication and Slack is electronic communication. It's also a lot about the expectation of answering. So it seems like if you're a worker, you could go into Slack and make a comment but if you're a boss, you wouldn't be able to ask someone to do something after hours. Right, I think there's gonna be some conversations about what qualifies and what's okay and what's not and what fits in under this law as time goes on. Well, and also I thought about not being allowed to send in certain hours would prevent me from, I would have to send it later, like I'm gonna have to have a delay on so I don't forget because sometimes I'm like, I just wanna get this down right now. That's normal. I think that's actually kind of reasonable to start integrating those types of products into it. A lot of email clients have that built in these days. I know mine does. Yeah. GSM Marina spotted a post on Qualcomm Snapdragon blog today on Monday with details on the ASUS Zenfone AR. The second phone to come with Google's Project Tango depth sensing technology. The first was the Lenovo Fab 2 Pro. The Zenfone AR has a Snapdragon 821 processor and will be Google Daydream VR ready. Qualcomm's post was dated for Wednesday and the post has since been removed. And coincidentally, ASUS has a CES press announcement on Wednesday. Well, that happens. Yes, we've seen. So once again, something got published this time, it definitely even had the date of like. That's a nice looking phone. Yeah, it is a nice looking phone. It's got the same processor that the Pixel has in it. So it's got good specs. And I'm still waiting to see, I think we're all waiting to see what cool things Tango can do besides the demo stuff, right? Besides the ability to like map a room and stuff like that. That's very interesting. But what unexpected practical benefits can it bring? And the more phones we get out there using it, the better. Yeah, I'm having a bit of a dog fart situation over here. I'm good. It's fine. If you seem really. I'm really sorry to hear that. Hands around frantically. That's why. Okay. Moving on. Audio people would, you would have never known and be grateful that we only have audio and video versions. And that smells efficient for us. Get all the tech headlines each day in less than 10 minutes. Subscribe to dailytechheadlines.com. All right. CES 2017 kicking off with CES unveiled tomorrow and of course then go in full steam all the rest of the week. People already starting to show up. If you're part of the major news organizations, part of the trade show exhibitors, they're in there getting everything set up right now. And all of the previews are out. So triangulating from BBC and Gadget, CNET, et cetera, you could sort of get a sense of what it is we expect to see at CES. Looking over all this stuff, Veronica, what is it that most interests you out of the various categories of things we'll see? I'm still most interested in home stuff, maybe because I'm a recent homeowner. And I always like to think of ways that the internet connected devices are gonna make my life a little easier and more interesting. But yeah, I think the smart things, devices, things working with HomeKit, for example, anything having to do with Google Home or Amazon Echo. I didn't say it, guys. I didn't say it. I didn't say the thing. Amazon Voice Services. That's our New Year's resolution. Anything having to do with those types of devices, I think integrating them into speakers, into lamps, into all the other stuff that we see that sometimes seems a little silly, but I think it's going to become more and more commonplace as time goes on. Yeah, it does seem like what we're going to see is device makers picking a platform, finally. Rather than having the platform wars, they're either gonna be on Brillo, HomeKit, maybe Samsung's smart things, and that's it. And maybe they'll be on multiples of these things. And then the other, like you say, is the voice assistants, the Amazon Voice Services. And she's not joking about the lamp, folks. GE is gonna announce a table lamp with Amazon Voice Service built in. Harmon Kardon is expected to come out with a speaker that has Cortana, which would then be a sort of de facto Microsoft competitor with Google Home and Amazon Echo. There's possibly a toaster coming from Cortana. So we're gonna see a lot of crazy stuff like that. It didn't seem like anybody I read was expecting anything amazing. They're like, it's still that sort of point where people are just sticking connectivity and now voice assistants into things and hoping that people will decide they want it. We're just at kind of a point now, and I've been saying this for a few years at CES and I don't have to go this year, which feels wonderful, I might add. But it's been kind of a period like five years or so when there haven't been a ton of huge technology shifts. I feel like the internet of things is probably the biggest one that's become consumer. Ready? You know me at 4K TV, sure. OLED screens potentially. But the big news items have all been around kind of, in my opinion, around connected home type stuff. Yeah, and we're gonna see a lot of people talking about AI and machine learning, which is part and parcel with those voice assistants that we're talking about. So expect some outlandish claims about that, maybe some computer vision stuff. It'll be interesting to see. I saw this one thing from Bixie that struck me as at least a little different. It was gesture control. So a little bit like leap motion, where they wanna build it into your phone so that you can do gesture controls on your phone without having to touch the touchscreen. Maybe that'll pan out, maybe it won't. I wanna know, I really wanna know the use case for that kind of stuff, though. Like I love all that, the idea of that, but I don't know how often I would use it. Like what do I need, and what do you actually need it for? You know, for accessibility reasons, kind of stuff is great. But for the average consumer, I'm not really sure why I would need that. You mentioned TVs, TV's always a big thing at CES. And essentially what we're expecting this year is a lot of OLED competitors to LG. LG will probably be making their panels, although BOE is apparently gonna be in the game trying to make panels for people. But you may see some OLEDs from Panasonic and Sony. They may have LG OLED panels in them, but they'll be their own models. The OLED prices is something to watch. See if these prices finally start to come down. You'll also see Samsung pushing its Quantum Dot technology, which they call QLED, because that's easy to pronounce. But Quantum Dot with brighter screens is probably gonna be the big competitor to OLED. You'll still see lots of LCD TVs. In fact, LG announced something called Nano Cell LCDs, which they claim will have more consistent and accurate colors. And I thought one of the interesting things I saw repeated in several places was that this year it'll be 4K. In fact, it'll be curious to see who's still putting out a 1080P only TV. Because at this point, 4K doesn't really add a lot to the price. And so you can just have your entire TV line be 4K. Yeah, it's frustrating too, because I mean, we've had the same TV for ages and ages, but I'm happy by the time that we do decide to upgrade that 4K will be pretty standard and maybe we'll even be on to the next thing. Yeah, HDR standards are getting more confusing instead of less confusing. HDR10 and Dolby Vision are the two HDR standards. If you're lucky, you're gonna buy a TV that supports both because most can. But now there's the new Hybrid Log Gamma, or HLG standard that needs to be supported as well. So we've got a little bit of a platform war there. And then of course, you may see some next-gen display tech, like what's next after OLED. I remember five or six years ago, OLED was the thing on the show floor that they're like, look at this amazing, low-power, high-color screen. And it was like 12 inches because they just couldn't make it cheap enough at the time. So we'll see some stuff like that. And we'll definitely see a lot of design stuff, curvy things, floating speakers from LG apparently, stuff like that. Well, what do you mean floating speakers? Floating, like it appears to float. Oh, okay. So wall-mounted? No, I don't. Like actually like floating in 3D space? I believe it's magic. Yeah, we'll have to find out, yeah. Cars obviously big at CES. And now more than ever, we're gonna get more car announcements, even though the Detroit Auto Show happens right away after CES, Ford, Nissan, Toyota, Fiat Chrysler, Hyundai, Honda, and BMW all making announcements. Faraday Future will be unveiling its first production vehicle. Not supposedly vaporware, but an actual production vehicle. And the big thing you're gonna see is electric cars competing to have the highest range claim. The Faraday Future story has gotten a lot more interesting recently. There was a big write-up about some of the issues they've had at the company and what their future looks like. But I am excited to see what the first production vehicle actually looks like. We'll see some autonomous car announcements from third parties like Delphi, NVIDIA, and Mobileye. Continental is going to announce facial recognition so that when you sit down in the seat, your car will adjust the mirrors and seat height and wheel tilt to your customization. That's kinda cool. BMW has something called hollow active touch where you can use finger gestures to interact with projected graphics. Sounds very futuristic. I wonder how that fits into the new California law that your phone has to remain docked in an air vent dashboard kind of situation. You can't even be touching your phone at this point while you're driving. While you're driving. I know that it's a built-in system so it might not be impacted by that law. I don't know. Yeah, curious. We're gonna see some robots. Lots of robots. Modular robots like the Modi with function modules like motors and lights and infrared. The Unibot vacuum will have modules for a security camera or air purifier. So it could just roll around purifying your air. Emotech has something called Ollie which is a tabletop robot with a smart assistant. Kinda sounds like it's just the Amazon Echo but Moves. And then wearables. Android Wear 2.0 watches are expected to finally be announced. They were delayed. Remember there weren't any announced for the holidays and loads of health related wearables. Fertility stuff, blood alcohol measures, diagnostic things that can just check in on you and send things to your doctor and then your doctor tells you if you need to come in for a checkup or not. Whether doctors will play along with that or not. I don't know. But we're gonna see a lot of things like this. One that caught my eye was the active protective belt that inflates when it detects you're falling. So when you just like bounce on a big doughnut? It's like a personal airbag, yeah. So I have a question that maybe some of our listeners can answer. Is it about the vibrating genes? No. But it will be. What is, so now that marijuana is legal in a few different states, how will law enforcement agents know if someone is impaired? I think it's going to be new technology that comes out that's similar to a breathalyzer for alcohol that tests for your like, stoned limit. Yeah, I know we have some law enforcement folks in the audience who might know the answer. Like what are the different measures being taken to check safety and things like that? That is an interesting question. Like clearly, if you're super stoned, you're still gonna have trouble doing the same test. There's the old fashioned, say the alphabet backwards. Yeah. If you start giggling uncontrollably while the officer is talking to you, might be a problem. Yeah. Vibrating genes by the way are for directions. So they tie into your GPS and when you're getting navigation, this would be for walking. I never can tell when my Apple Watch is telling me that I have a text message. So if my whole outfit just vibrates at the same time, I feel like I would notice it a lot more. Yeah. Well, the right leg vibrates, then you turn right. Left leg vibrates, yeah. Mobile wise, we're gonna hear lots about 5G even though we're really not gonna get 5G service this year. There's gonna be a lot of people talking about 5G ready devices and services and what they'll be able to do once 5G finally rolls out. TCL is gonna be showing off some Blackberry phones. Remember TCL got the contract to make the Blackberry phones now. Xiaomi is expected to have their first global launch but otherwise it's gonna be AI and VR in the mobile space. Most of the big handsets await until Mobile World Congress to be announced but as we heard, Asus is gonna announce that Google Tango phone. We're expecting a 4K phone from Sony now that 4K is a little cheaper and the BleaTab tablet with a tactile Braille screen. Yeah, so it's a bigger version of what we've seen before where the bubbles can rise up and it can actually change dynamically to deliver Braille. That's super cool. What about gaming? You interested in gaming there, Veronica? You don't know. No, not waiting for the show to be over so you can go back to playing Civ right away. I am, that's gonna happen for sure. But I just, I love, I was looking at some of the announcements for upcoming VR stuff and the thing that always strikes me is how they tried to make VR headsets look like they're cool to wear in certain environments. So there was like one announcement which was like a good looking couple, like sitting at a nice table with like glasses of wine and grapes and cheese and stuff. And then the woman's just wearing a VR headset and it's so silly. It's like, no one's ever gonna do that. You're gonna spill the wine. This is what's gonna happen. Yeah, that's what's definitely gonna happen. Yeah, we're probably gonna see a bunch of VR and probably a lot of augmented reality stuff or really, yeah, augmented reality stuff. Intel's Project Alloy will probably be there. That's the one that lets you see your hands in real world objects in VR. HTC Vive has a similar capacity. Oxypital is expected to introduce their HoloLens-like mixed reality headset. There's gonna be a lot of 4K gaming announced now that Sony is out with theirs and Microsoft's coming with Project Scorpio this year. And we might see some Windows 10 VR headsets now that Microsoft is promoting Windows 10 for VR. The FOV, FOV-E crowdfunded headset with the eye tracking should be out as well. And then VR accessories. It's always about accessories at CES. So foot controllers, sensor shirts, all kinds of haptic devices so that you can feel things while you're in virtual reality. And I am excited about that. That's something I've wanted for a really long, that that's the one, that's the picture that Roger's showing right now. They look so happy. Oh, of the, yeah, go check out the show notes. Roger put that in the show notes for us of the lady having, well, she's not having wine, she's just got water actually, so it's much safer. That's true, that's true. I've definitely spilled water all over my desk because of VR in the past. Wine would make it a lot worse. We might get the new HTC Vive, a lot of rumors about that. Huawei is supposed to have their own VR thing. NVIDIA, RO-CAT, ASUS, Razer. Razer always comes up with cool stuff at CES. And then wrapping up, PC wise, this used to be the PC show for many years. We'll definitely see a lot of PCs with Kaby Lake, the new Intel processor in there, like the Dell XPS that we heard about earlier. A lot of stuff with NVIDIA GTX 1070 and 1080, some things with Intel's Optane 3D storage system. Possible Qualcomm systems, that's something to keep your eye out for now that Windows announced ARM support for Windows 10. And of course, Windows Hello being built into everything. And most of the people I read said, don't expect a lot of MacBook imitators as much this year as Surface Studio imitators. And finally, Miscellaneous. There's always the things that are meant to allow your local news to have something fun to show in its kicker segment based on CES. The wackiest and wildest stuff at CES 2017. Hoverboards were that, and apparently there are new hoverboards that don't explode, they'll be announced, yeah. There's apparently a rideable suitcase. I've seen that, it's hilarious. Yeah, lots of unmanned aerial vehicles, you call them drones, quadcopters, et cetera. Beauty tech, apparently, big trend there. 3D printing still around, so we may see some interesting things there, something to keep your eye out for. A device to record smells, great. Just what we were not watching. No, you can have my very own dog fart smell in your house while you're with me. If you so choose. And self-cleaning litter box as part of the robots. They've been around forever. The cat genie has been around for years. No, but this is the robot that comes and just scoops it for you. Oh. Yeah. Oh. Oh. I don't know, I don't know how that's gonna work. Anyway, this is just, this, all of this that we've been talking about is just the Surface, right? Every year that I've ever looked at CES, what you expect to be the big trends usually don't all hold up throughout the course of the week. So be sure to check in with us every day at Daily Tech News Show. We'll be keeping an eye on this. And that actually reminds me, we will have a little bit of an odd schedule for the live viewers. Tuesday, tomorrow, DTNS will be at 11 a.m. Pacific, 2 p.m. Eastern, so that I can get a flight to CES. Wednesday show will be at 4 p.m. Eastern, 1 p.m. Pacific, so a half hour earlier, from CES. And then Thursday will be a little later in the day because I'll be flying back from CES. That show will be at 6 30 p.m. Eastern, 3 30 p.m. Pacific. What are you most excited for? Now that we've gone through the whole thing. That's a typical person who's been to CES before his reaction. Can they make a robot that will go in front of my house and smack the back of the head of the guy who won't clean up his dog poop? So you want an Internet of Things device with a motion sensor camera and facial recognition and a robot that will go out and gently remind him. Just a little tap in the back of the head. Just like nothing too intense. Just a little smack. Hey, hey, don't do that. I don't even need it to clean up the dog poop. I want it to tell the guy. Yeah, you want to train. You want to teach him to fish or in this game pick a poop. Thanks everybody who participates in our subreddit. You can submit stories and vote on them at DailyTechNewsShow.Reddit.com. And like I said, we will be here all week talking about all the hot stuff from CES. Veronica Belmont, thank you again for joining us today. Anytime, thanks for having me. And I'm so honored to be the first show of the new year. Yes, we are proud to have you in the pole position as we start our fourth year at DailyTechNewsShow. You know what we're having? Our fifth year of vaginal fantasy. And Tom, we are having our 10th year of sword and laser. 10th year of sword and laser this year. 10 years? Yeah. Wow. So that means it's going to be our 12th year of East meets West. Wow. With Roger. And that means we were on Buzz Out Loud 40 years ago. I, you know, I'm not very good at math, so I have to accept that that's true. And I feel that old as well. Well, thank you. Veronica Belmont of course can be found at swordandlaser.com. What else you got to tell folks about? Anything before we go? No, grobot.io, swordandlaser.com, vaginalfantasy.com, all the regular places you can find me. DailyTechNewsShow.com slash support is the place to make sure that we keep doing the show. Huge thanks to everyone who supports the show, including Kara Moore, Reen Lanniser, apologies for the pronunciation, Manuel Sanchez and big thanks to Charles Cleary, John Matthews and Lap, who are among the folks who just raised their pledge at patreon.com slash DTNS. Like I said, different live schedule. So 2 p.m. Eastern Tuesday, 4 p.m. Eastern Wednesday, 6 30 p.m. Eastern Thursday. And of course, coming into your feeds shortly after each show. Our email address is feedback at dailytechnewshow.com. We're live Monday through Friday, normally at 4 30 p.m. At alphageekradio.com and diamondclub.tv. And our website is dailytechnewshow.com. Back tomorrow with Patrick Beja, he's been testing out a thin client service that he loves. Find that out tomorrow. Talk to you then. Which button do I press now? This show is part of the front pants network. Get more at frogpants.com. Diamond Club hopes you have enjoyed this program. If it's called muscle memory, is it then muscle abnesia? Would you? When it doesn't happen? I think you probably thought about it too hard. I guess so. You were consciously thinking to do it. And that's what happens. Screwed me up. That's how you get screwed up. Don't think so hard, Merit. If I had a nickel for every time I heard that, I'd have five cents today. Fifty cents. Titles. What do we got? It has to be a CES preview thing, but do we get any good ones? We got your four starts now. That's pretty good, actually. There's dog farts, smack upside the head. Of course, the obligatory CES. I'm just here for the fun. Obligatory CES 2017 colon. What to expect? Your colon. Alexa toast my bagels. Taking high measures. That's unnecessary. It feels really unnecessary, the bagel thing. Yeah, don't say the name. Oh, they put the title. Sorry. GPS jeans. I'm going to buy an electronic keyboard because I'm going to learn how to play keyboard. Oh, yeah? Learn how to play keyboard. That was a Yamaha. I need a cheap one. That's a good cheap one. Oh, you're going to buy an external one, though, right? Yeah, like a musical keyboard. Yeah, yeah. Eileen's got an electronic piano, which bought from a friend of mine. Well, if you just wait, are you going to use a standalone or are you going to hook it up and then use it like a MIDI interface? I'd like to be able to use it as a MIDI interface. Look at M-Audio. I actually have one. I used to use it on and off. I just didn't have the desk space to use it. Unfortunately, they changed GarageBand, which is pretty cool. Oh, this one has a built-in learn-to-play keyboard screen on it and everything. Oh, look at that. It's the rock jam. Did you wait? You played rock with him. It's for children. This is a keyboard for tiny baby children. I have a piano upright if you want to play it. I don't know how. Well, you can learn. You know, if you play all the black keys, it just sounds like oriental music because they're all external. Let's get it. So your four starts now. It's top at number seven. I think CES 2017, what to expect, is the responsible title, though. Don't you? It is. It is responsible, Tom. It is very responsible. Something a responsible person would pick. Responsible, spelled B-O-R-I-N-G. It is responsible. I don't know what's the difference between all these different numbers. What numbers? It's like a, never mind. I'm looking at keyboards. Oh, wait, like the number of keys or the number of octaves? Well, it says CTK 2400. And it goes all the way up to 7200. That's just a model number. But what's the difference? Typically, it's more features, more keys, more memory. If it's something that does synthesis, it probably also includes a wider range of instruments that you can replicate. If you want to do smooth jazz solo, you want to have your own quiet storm. Can't you just feel the synthesized rolling thunder now? They're very expensive. Yeah, fancy they get. Well, these are for buskers. These are for people who could. It says so right there in the description, not for busking. After listening to the music by Wesley Willis, I believe you can create great music on even the cheapest of Casio keyboards. That's all I need. I'm serious. Well, how much do you want to spend? What is your price point? I don't want to spend more than $150. You would probably just get a standard MIDI keyboard interface. Get a cord organ. And then you could. Well, if you still have a Mac, right? You can interface it with that, use it with GarageBand. You guys should just buy this Rock Jam, because it really does have a big screen on it. You can be the person that makes the work. Yeah, it makes the Rock Jam the hot new thing. Is that the one with the keys light up for each key you're supposed to press? No, but it has a built-in, oh, no. It's just an iPad stand. It comes with a iPad stand. Ralph and Joteman are giving you advice in the chat. Oh, I'm not in the chat. Where is the channel? Just get a Yamaha. They don't, they all do MIDI. No, they actually don't. I'll do do MIDI. Depends. You want, oh, see, that's a great thing with the MIDI interface keyboard, because I think a majority of them are weighted as well as velocity-driven, which is awesome. Velocity-driven? Like, what if I throw it across the room and I'm frustrated? No, not for merit. It's not a marital aid. Get it, you throw it across the room. I wasn't paying attention. And now, you just want to go in. Oh, these jokes just going over your head. Sorry. That's for the right one. In any case, let me get into the chat room. Velocity-driven, that means when you hit the key, depending on how hard you hit the key, it will replicate that sound. So it won't just sound like an actual piano keyboard. Like you can, if you touch it. What's the chat room name again? IRC.chatrealm.net? Yeah, but what's? Oh, hashtag chat is the name of the actual chat room. I just kept going in there and it wouldn't, there was nobody there. Are you the right chat, or are you at the IRC? I'm in ThinStack, is that wrong? No, no, no, that's wrong. It's IRC.chatrealm.net. And chat. Almost like I haven't done this in a long time. Maybe. Ralph says you should go on eBay or Craigslist because tons of people get a keyboard maybe for Christmas and then later regret it. That's true, but you want to be careful because some of those get busted keys and there's nothing more annoying than playing a piece and finding out your A or this AD. You just compose to that. Doesn't just make sense to just buy the Rock Jam. You obviously want it. You should become the Rock Jam YouTube star. Like this woman bought a Rock Jam and she's doing amazing things with it. You have to check out her channel. Yeah. Wait, didn't you play a guitar or something? Nope. No? Did you play an instrument, a wind instrument? I played violin when I was a kid, violin. Oh, it's twice as much on eBay, the Rock Jam. What? Did they used to be better? What's that about? Could you remember any of your violin? You should get electric violin. No, I hated playing violin. It makes my teeth hurt just thinking about it. Is it because your mother forced you to play it? You were not supposed to hold the violin in your teeth. You bow with your arm, hand. Your arm, hand? Arm, hand. I want to get electric cello. I should actually so you can get older. eBay or Craigslist? That's expensive, though. Craiglitz. Midi, I need Midi. W. Scott assists. Everyone's saying look for Midi. Like I said, look just for a Midi keyboard. Get in that monitor. It cost me $100, 88 keys. Pass the house $100. Midi plus $40. Oh, awesome. $40? Nice. On eBay. Can I get a keyboard that has an 808 built into it? Yeah, it's called a computer. Oh, yeah. Here's your M-Audio key station. That has many keys. I got your M-Audio key station right here. I have my box here somewhere. Where did I stick it? I think it's sticking in the closet. It's back in the closet. Midi is a must. Oh, it's very small. It's very small. What? A keyboard. Too small. Oh, is it one of those? Too small. So if you want to do, it might be great for making a track layer for EDM music. So I'm going to do. You should totally go and compose an EDM. That would be awesome. If you wish. Rock Jam. Who was an EDM? The new Rock Jam EDM star. I'll just get this castle as $100. I wonder if there's anyone out there who beat boxes with their own EDM. They just use a multi-track recorder. They do each bit. Use their price. Oh, it's cool. Or you can just get it. It's exactly the same one I was just looking at. Must be good. It's a sign. It's a sign. It's a sign of the times. And you really want to learn. That's nice. Do you just want to learn how to play the piano or do you just want some to play with ish? Both. I want one that I can learn to play piano on and also use to make electronic music. EDM. I just want to have like a musician staged persona. Where you have like your hair. You take your hair and you move it or you gel it up and you form like a giant unicorn horn or something. That would be like your signature appearance hair. That would be my stage name though. Daphne. Oh, a unicorn is from just Transformers. You can't do that. Why would I call myself Daphne? Why would I name myself after another person? DJ Daphne. Just surf in on her popularity, that's all. Oh, OK. Veranatron. Belmamblan. So weird. Bell Block. Carol Bells. Am I only doing Christmas music? Let's see how you start. This is a branch out. And you only put your albums out in July. Flock of Unicorns. Striker Rich said Flock of Unicorns. I'm calling Farting Unicorns. You could call yourself Rainbow Stations. And then it gets out both like an EDM DJ, but also a kid-friendly afternoon show. M-Audio, ooh, this one's expensive. It's $130, $200. Kid-tested. Mother-approved. That was kicks though. This one has. Oh, you could call yourself kicks. Yeah. And drum pad controller. That's cool. You could totally do everything yourself. Yeah. All right, well, the show is up. And I'm about to start singing Wonderful Christmas Time. Are you going to go get your haircut now? I am going to go get all of my hairs cut. Every single one? Yep. Oh my god. Don't scream when they get that vote. Hell. Thanks, everybody, for watching. We'll see you tomorrow. Earlier time, don't forget. Bye. Bye.