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let's do that again go welcome to the 359 when we talk about the top tech news of the day you know the crap we want to throw it I'm Roger Chang I'm Alfred hang so Amazon wants to redefine the physical shopping experience the online retail giant debuted Amazon go the concept store that lets you walk in grab what you want and go all without taking out your wallet now Amazon only has one location Seattle and it's only available for customers or employees right now in the beta but they say it'll open to the public next year I don't get the new concept of this I walk in stores and grab stuff and leave all the time that's called shoplifting offered oh oh is that not allowed here I would have yeah sure is friend pawn a little bit I mean I think I think it's a pretty cool concept I just think it'd be annoying with like you know so the way that works is what like it scans your card or something like that and when you pick it off the shelf yeah well I believe they're cameras all over - selection knows when you pick up three items it'll add it to your digital yeah grocery bag and it's actually smart enough to recognize if you put the item you know how that's gonna be really annoying when you have that kid that wants to like that really wants that starburst and you know we're not getting the starburst now it's not like oh you know take it out of the car it's I'm just gonna take it in charge now no he's gonna take he's gonna take the candy he's just gonna run right up yeah orange charged so I mean good luck with that otherwise I do I think you know something like this makes shopping a lot easier um but it also like you know what it does it makes me like forget like how much money I'm spending well I think which entire point I know yeah so and yeah it's again it's Amazon and trying to find new ways to reinvent the physical shopping experience even though you know they're bread butter is online sales they won't get close to your home yep do we want to move on the music yeah all right so I put out a story today about 2016's memes and the worst of them all that should probably be dead by 2017 um I spoke with a professor at Indiana University who basically who's been studying memes this is a real job by the way and he essentially told me that like a lot of the memes that you see are they're all bad they're all awful post none of them are high quality they all get stolen from each other and it just you know it's just building onto something that's like a crappier version of what it was before um so there's poor Pepe the Frog a few of them Pepe the Frog Colonel Ron Bay you know they they've all changed into something that they are they weren't originally yep and the other ones you know they've just gotten old like they're just not that funny anymore I mean one of the things that I looked at you know delete your account was hilarious yeah and then it just became something that everybody said and like holy was overused it was completely over use there is there one that annoys you in particular um I herim Bay is easily the most other thing because it's not gonna die like that ape is long dead and you know what hurrah made completely deserted watch yeah so it was look I if you read my story there's a whole like there's AI I go in a hole like rants about why Harambee is the worst meme but I'll save that for this I will leave with that so lastly we wanted to check out the oculus rift I got a refreshed review now that Scott Stein's had a chance to take a look at those controllers those fancy touch controllers and he came away pretty impressed right it's well design is compact and it finally gives you hands yeah virtual world which is which is uh which was a big missing fact which the vive had for a while that's the thing it doesn't have the kind of whole room tracking that the vibe has so you can't walk around with these things but it does definitely give you a little bit more of dementia a little bit more tangibility to the virtual world I'm actually glad let you know this is the next move that they're kind of doing with it I mean like I guess like phase 1 or step 1 or y'all was kind of just getting the screen onto you and being able to see and experience things but now you know I think this was you know what it really needed to you know jump it's on to the next yeah I mean I think the idea of just using an Xbox controller to roll is not that great so I thought Merced it takes you out of that that experience that said these are $200 yeah I was gonna say this like you know with the controllers I think it's cool that you can finally you know interact with the world but to me I don't care how good the controller is it for me is more about a conveniency factor so I've been a big fan of like the Google daydream where ya bone is the controller yep well your phone is a controller that actually comes with its own little Oh oh yeah it has that remote - okay which is actually kind of neat we're trying it over the weekend yeah except it yeah it has some bugs yeah but I will say this that it is a lot more convenient than like those two you know controllers on both hands yes well we'll have to leave it that for more on that story check us out on SEANET I'm Roger Cheng I'm out for ding thanks for listening