Gadgetory

hello everyone and welcome to the always-on live viewing party I almost forgot to talk because I was chatting in the chat room oh yeah we're turning the nice thoughts from the chat room friends it is I just realized I've made a terrible mistake you guys I forgot my Kleenex today oh no yep it's gonna be a weeper it's gonna be a weeper for those of you who are watching who do not know what has happened what has transpired I posted on cnet and on my own site last night that i am leaving cnet um at the end of this month and I am pursuing some new adventures and I want to thank google image search by the way if we're putting together a really outstanding montage of my hair dude that's cool bitch is that how you got that picture yeah that is a screen grab of what you get when you do an image search for react yeah I was like oh my goodness anyway um so if you haven't seen that blog post that that's what's happening I'm moving on to some independent adventures that I'm extremely excited about there will be more details about that coming but that means that not only is this the last regular episode of always on there will be bloopers and best of best of his next week and bloopers is the week after that but this is the last regular season episode and the last regular episode of always on ever sad face I know bummer kinda hard thing to say out loud you guys yeah it was easier to block it turned out actually was not easier to block it I was I worked on that blog post all day yesterday and I was an emotional wreck I want you to know there was like weeping like Bryant on came a came by I like walk by my office he was like are you know can I fell apart um it is I'm excited it's really exciting news but it's also it's super hard to leave always on and so right now while I have all of you in the chat room and all of you watching on the live stream I would be remiss if I did not say a big fat loud thank you to Allison Tom are supervising producer Eileen Rivera supervising producer before her Lynn foo who was the only name that I had on my list when I knew I was starting to put together a staff for the show Lynn foo abilene poo you can get anything done anything Nick Henry who also is the person who makes anything happen if you need the like between Alison and Nick you have one Lynn foo just kidding you guys salsa Bugatti uh vanessa perez and cristão for their amazing editor jason editing jason pepper who was like the best producer ever just that he was my rock before anybody else worked on the show Sarah Harbin who was the person who made me believe we could do it we had the eye of the tiger project I'm gonna start crying any minute now Bonnie Gannon Lindsay Turrentine mark Larkin for funding it I just I can't tell you like how much fun and of course jeff cannata being like the funnest co-host on earth I can't tell you how incredible the show has been and how much fun I've had doing it and how proud I am of what like what we've accomplished and Stephen Beecham of course per hosting our live viewing party every week it's been a pleasure and it's gonna be sad to see always on ghost was such a massive production and it brought all these new people in New really cool people that will probably stay in touch with you know yeah no I know I I feel that's the best part about it was like this whole fun new audience of people who were just like so excited so young so international like it was just a blast um anyway I'm there's a huge show man like look at the depth of the show like you went saw spaceships launching uh drives through it's crazy how much stuff you guys that one should have gone to my blog post I was trying to make this I was like trying to remember you know I'm like man I jumped out of a helicopter I ran a half marathon I like loaded in the air at the gravity what is that oh yeah when indoor skydiving and I wrote on an America's Cup catamaran saw rocket launch like really yeah I mean it was definitely the the breath is the perfect way to put it like it's just we got to do things that we've never gotten to do before and it was unbelievable it's been unbelievable yeah listening to the planning meetings for your show was painful I mean you'd be like maybe we could go to Hawaii and go scuba diving and I'm like I want to go to Hawaii go scuba Don well yes there was a little bit of leg good you get on the download right you just cannot talk about Hawaii in the office like that's not cool uh yeah so there was definitely some of that and my apologies to everybody who didn't get to go but you know now that I'm gone hope it's probably free up a ton of budget so yeah regulo business plan now launch your replacement show now's your chance so yes this so this is the last regular season episode for those of you who are just trickling into the chat room there will be a best-of and a bloopers next week probably no live show for those but I will be as seen it through basically right after the blooper show yeah and then on to new projects what's the date again october twenty third it's my last day well I know it's gonna it's gonna it's yeah but this week's show is awesome I know you're gonna love it get your tissues for the end because I me did them um this is ironically for the like I've had this amazing outpouring of love and support today but now this one's gonna reignite the rage of the Windows Phone people because it's cut the nokia lumia 1020 blog torture test in it however i do want to mention that right after this show or this thing on thursday the blog post will go up because that is our next giveaway the nokia lumia 1020 so you could win it and give it a better home it deserves it it's a wine themed episode it also included like another bucket list thing for me i got to stomp grapes which i've always wanted to do always wanted to do was delightful little behind the scenes by the way you will notice in this in this shot that there's a gopro inside the bucket of grapes that I was stopping because we were like well maybe we'll get some cool shots from there and then south so came in and he was like I just I want you to know I deleted the footage what because it was totally like upskirt so maybe that one is actually lurking out there somewhere I don't know but it was hilarious he's like uh ya know we can I use any of that into the chat room yeah you know I I'm totally cool if somebody else wants to do always on I I would love to be else what else did I know be replaced at our back you're absolutely right is the perfect farewell show with wine it just needs chocolate I should have brought some wine but yeah you know what I have my green tea ah go get some Kleenex waltz playing please enjoy I'll be back after the show to save Myka pies all right here we go this week on always on Oh is really painful it is get in there phone 1020 vintage hi I'm Hollywood and welcome to always on the show where we take tech into the real world this week we're in Napa Valley one of the world's premier wine destinations there are more than 450 wineries here and as you might imagine hi tech is having quite an impact we got to look at some of the tools that are helping vintners ensure quality in the fields and in the Box in the hills and valleys of Northern California's wine country vintners are using new tech tools to help them in the winemaking process at Donna estates in the Napa Valley head winemaker Cameron water is using a technology from oakland-based fruition sciences it can essentially measure a binds heartbeat using sensors we're basically measuring the sap that is flowing from the roots all the way up through the vine and out the leaves and by measuring this app and the flow of that SAP we can get an idea whether the vine is under stress and limiting itself or whether it's essentially running just fine and so using that we can make decisions about whether we add irrigation or whether we withhold irrigation underneath this foam right here is this device right here which measures the flow of the sap through the vine and the way that it works is that we have two temperature sensors one at the beginning one at the end and then we have a heating element here in the middle okay so by measuring the difference for the SAP going in to the SAP going out we can tell how much sap is flowing through the run the data is gathered from the vine and displayed on this software app it shows on a detailed graph how much water is needed by the month by the day even by the minute how much of a competitive advantage is this so how much of a difference does it make in the quality of the line it can make a huge difference in the quality of the wine working with this technology we started dry farming a lot of our vineyards and I have vineyards today that I still to this day of not irrigated this year in 2013 is a very dry vintage in the Napa Valley and especially here at Donna estates and so it can make a real difference so that's how you make great grapes but making great grapes doesn't necessarily guarantee great wine so we visited palma's winery where they're developing new tech to keep an eye on the grapes once they get inside fermentation tanks to do that Christian Paul math and his family have built a fermentation dome that stands as the world's largest underground reinforced structure or the equivalent of an 18-story building it's basically like a giant wine bat case inside there are 24 fermenters each of which represents the unique flavors or terroirs of their vineyards so when you have 24 tanks and the complexity of course goes up so we decided to build a system that helps them make decisions algorithmically in a general sense we believe fermentation should be a constant rate of change over time so that information goes into what we call the fermentation schedule because you plug this in the computer takes this information and built a trend graph so we can control things like supply temperature mixing temperatures and what do you think is the result I mean so if you were trying to manage 24 tanks with no help would you have four great wines and 20s okay whines you think I think what would happen is we'd have more mistakes all of the tanks are also connected to iPads or iPhones so those winemakers can be mobile while monitoring their product 24-7 so using the iPads at the at the tank means you don't have to walk back to your laboratory to get the information you need it's all there on screen you make the decision while you have you know the sample in your hand for example there are 220 valves behind all these tanks and they fail sometimes so from home you get the alert and you just come here you pull up the valve and you manually close it we can go back we can learn from potential mistakes that we committed in the past and the system can help in a way help predict problems before they occur which in the end is really the whole idea time for us to take a quick break when we come back it is crushed time perfectly ripe for our nokia 1020 torture test welcome back now you may remember that earlier in the season we rode tested the Nokia Lumia 1020 that's the smartphone with a 41 megapixel camera it is very attractive for photographers but I wanted to see how it can hold up to a crush season and torture test time for our torture test of the Nokia Lumia 1020 now the test I have in mind today isn't the most likely occurrence but given that it's crushed season and given the theme of this week's show I thought we would conduct our pressure and moisture test with something special a little crush of my own I want you to know does it's kind of a lifelong dream of mine the lifelong dream didn't involve the phone squishy but it's pretty awesome anyway okay get in there phone pic I need to just come you know what cheat a little bit in buried put that down in there okay I hope it isn't like crack this is super squishy guys I'm making windows phone wine 1020 vintage it's kind of slippery phones getting a little slippery it sees splashing all right I'm just gonna let it marinate for a minute grape juice on my hands okay let's rescue it all right it's pretty wet I can't do anything with his phone until I rinse it so sorry dude you're getting a double dunking huh okay right work okay let me just remind you again that I know perfectly well that I'm not supposed to try to turn the phone on at this point but here I go okay I felt a vibration but I'm not seeing much in terms of the screen definitely does not want to come back on so I'm gonna try to dry it out well oh wait it's restarting you can do it little nokia don't worry i'll try you out i'll try you later just show us what you got buddy windows phone and I'm look at that I'm gonna go to the gallery I want to see if it was recording okay it looks like we may have done some damage to the camera which is kind of a tragedy although to be honest I think I'm gonna do more damage to the camera because you'd think I was gonna leave out the drop test did you so now my phone is all sticky and it's starting to attract bees so I feel like I need to get rid of it oh no my phone fell some water splashed out all around it and grape juice got a little dirty dirt snout earnings mud otherwise I don't really see much damage at all I think we should try that again a lot of water came out that time no physical damage but I can see a little bit of a den right here but listen the great thing about these nokia phones is that they're made like absolute tanks i really believe that if something's going to take it out it's going to be the water well the wine hmm and that's it but we are going to try to dry it out and we'll check back in I'm pulling for this little guy I like the yellow so here is the bag of rice which the 1020 has been marinating in for several weeks now I took it out though earlier today and I've been charging it all day so let's see if I can get it to come on first let's see if I can remember which one of these buttons that are totally unlabeled is the power button I think it's the middle one seems like that button doesn't even depressed anymore okay there we go nothing let's try the bottom button nothing there now while it was charging the little windows light was blinking at one point it sort of restarted itself and gave me the windows phone logo and then said that the battery was dead but I think what it really meant unfortunately was that the entire phone it's dead it was a valiant effort but even the thrifty tough nokia lumia 1020 cannot survive being made into one alright moving on it is time for this week's unboxing inside this box I have a unicorn I know this box doesn't look unicorn size but it might as well have one inside it is the gold iPhone 5s I wear my gold shirt for the occasion this phone has been so hard to find that we actually had to borrow one from a friend to unbox so it's not totally the unboxing experience but we went ahead and taped it up just so that we could feel the vibe all right let's get this thing out of here and see if it's all it's cracked up to be okay already you can see you're getting a premium experience because look there's a little shiny gold edge around the picture on the box it's like I can't help but make fun of it because it became such a big deal all right we have a gold Apple right there gold iPhone 5s they are going all out it is Oh actually huh it's like a lot more gold than I thought it was gonna be that's not very champagne at all in fact no is really pimp look how cool it is it sparkles so the back is Matt as you can see so it's not quite as sparkly as the edges but I really like how the bezel and then the Apple right here are in fact kind of shiny gold I'm not gonna lie somewhat premium even though I am convinced that the scarcity is artificial still pretty cool okay that's the goal now before I get totally mesmerized let's see what else is in the box not expecting any surprises we have our usual power brick I actually think Apple could stop shipping these by now and just go with the cable cuz really i got like about 15 of these our little lightning cable and of course the earpods in there nice little box and that is it ok back to the phone alright let's fire it up I don't care I still wish it out a bigger screen don't be trying to seduce me with your shiny gold prettiness when you're still just the four-inch screen alright so you know we'll get to the specs while I fire it up and go through the configuration and to see if there's any other gold secrets looking inside the new iphone 5s comes with a four-inch screen and three color options silver space grey or gold it runs iOS 7 apples graphically overhauled operating system which includes the Android like control center and air-dropped file transfers it has a motion tracking m7 coprocessor and a new a7 processor capable of 64-bit computing apple says the iPhone 5s is at least twice as fast as the five in terms of ports the headphone jack stays on the bottom with the iphone 5s and then you have a lightning port for charging it is available in either 16 gigs 32 gigs or 64 gig capacity the iphone 5s camera stays at eight megapixels but apple claims major boosts to the sensor it says the sensor itself is fifteen percent larger and that the pixels themselves are physically bigger one point five microns even if they are the same number of them the cameras aperture is larger at F 2.2 and basically all of this adds up to better low light exposure to three jump plus the camera has a new burst mode that takes full resolution photos at 10 pics per second that's better than most DSLRs the iphone 5s records video at 1080p with more digital stabilization and 3x digital zoom and the big fun feature you'll find in the camera is something called slow-mo mode where you can take a video in slow motion and set the in and out points and be a filmmaker in an instant in the u.s. sprint AT&T and verizon are the three carriers offering the iphone 5s under contract while t-mobile sells it unlocked for six hundred forty nine dollars for 16 gigs 749 for 32 and 849 for 64 gigs the price with a new contract is a hundred ninety nine dollars and ninety-nine cents then of course the headline feature for the 5s is the fingerprint sensor which I've already set up when I turn it on I just use my thumbprint to unlock the phone now so far the touch sensor touch ID as Apple's calling it only works with Apple apps hopefully there will be an SDK in the future so that you can use it for banking apps or any other app that requires a password it's promising right now it's probably not the reason to upgrade although I have to admit it's kind of growing on me I like to unlock my phone that way I have to say I did not expect to be won over by the Gold's pneus of the gold iPhone 5s but it is kind of winning me over if you have an iPhone 4s then do not get in line for this save your dignity and wait for more supply but I gotta say for me I think the gold one is the one to get MC and now it's time to answer some of your mail today's email comes from Ben who writes the LGP 925 might not be the world's most popular Android cell phone I personally have never heard of it but as far as I'm concerned it is the most durable mine has been dropped several dozen times it has fallen from a second-story balcony onto concrete it's even been run over by a car the only damage to it thus far it's a chip in the battery cover which resulted from freezing it in liquid nitrogen and throwing it against the wall I decided to postpone trying to kill it and luckily so since now my note 2 has failed the USB connector broke during normal use but as soon as I get the note fixed this thing is going through the ultimate test the 24 hour nitrogen fries and a 26-story fall let me know if you want the video then I want that video that's pretty much all i have to say about that other than i think i also need to go buy that phone and i have some good news for all of you the always-on torture test sweepstakes is back go to our blog cnet com / always on to find out what we're given away and how you can win it and of course keep the feedback coming email me always on at cnet com or find me on twitter facebook or google+ that's it for this week everyone and i'm sorry to say that that is also a wrap for always on i have had an amazing time working on this show and i could not be more grateful to the people who worked on it and to all of you for watching it next week we'll have the highlights from season five including some of our amazing torture tests from this past season and i hope you'll just go and watch the entire run all over again because i know that I thank you for watching always on guys the best day ever I have always wanted to do this literally I've always went to this this and the French Open and as you can imagine you can imagine such a vowel they're free to welcome back everybody now you remain you remain what the hell this is Lulu solid 32 oh good one good one I just really want to point out that Chris now is just a mean bastard with that well I editor Krista with the lake with the the like dramatic sad music oh yeah I saw that yesterday and I was just like Oliver Stephen just reminded me that in virtually every single episode of always on I have shrieked into light this is the best day yeah she's dumping in the grapes they ever I'm sorry I I know you said it when you were skydiving yep definitely know I've said it yeah I mean you're totally right i would say that on eighty percent of the episodes there's been some point where I was like this is best i ever because it was just that kind of show it's just that kind of show this makes me feel like a crazy person but i am with or back who says i feel more happy than I feel sad because he's excited for what's next for me and I really really appreciate that sentiment because I too am excited about what's next yeah you're walking out the door but you're opening 100 other doors yeah so I'm think I'm watching movies are endless a forest of doors yeah and if I totally Biff it and I suck out there in the world and pretty sure that scene they'll take me back oh of course mad I did that once before and I came crawling back crawling back like what why um so for those of you in the chat room who have asked about always on always on is is really my baby I mean that's a show that I developed and executive produced and budgeted and all of that stuff so I don't think I suggested it actually I said you know what's cool with me if you want to find another host for always on but that did not fly they don't want to do that and and I think that's understandable like it's you know it's kind of Intel ibly my show um so that that particular product is ending I trust that cnet is going to find somebody wonderful to come in here and develop a new show and they're committed to video and great content and hope I have some pretty girl to look a soon um I don't know but I you know that I am excited I'm extremely excited about what's next I hope you guys will be excited too especially podcast fans um that's all I can say about that for now but please keep watching me on twitter twitter.com / Mollywood for updates on what's to come thank you for an awesome run I'm just gonna go like hug my peeps now Molly I just want to say thank you very much for everything you've done for me for my career I wouldn't be here for one for you and brian Tong hiring me to produce buzz out loud that's right it's led to so much stuff that I can't even like I can't even begin to thank you enough so thank you very much and it's been a pleasure to do this show and to watch always on and do all here all my music on always on I know so for my music yeah I mean you guys towed I don't think you realize with Stephen Stephen basically did the sound design for always on when we started he's like you made all the little noises and you made all of you yeah tons of music thanks left stole a fun that's all that's all Steven beat him right there yeah the list of credits Islam but I just want to say thank you again for everything and it's been really cool to work with you and to know you and all my friends are like you know she like in person wish you honey oh please say exactly the same yeah this is pretty much the same person on camera is in real life it's been such a pleasure to work with you you were so awesome on buzz out loud like we're just I'm is buzz out loud cuz i know that was so much fun during that show my god it was a blast like that's and and and i gotta tell you it's that kind of um that kind of like honest conversation and live broadcasting that i missed the most and then I'm the most excited to get back to you spontaneous creativity like we would just come up on an idea yeah five minutes before the show could be happening it'll be a segment boom a segment yeah so yeah I'm looking forward to a lot more this is the sad part but the happy part is yet to come thanks for watching everybody mmm see you soon you