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hello and welcome you're listening to seen at UK podcast this episode 4 to 24 Friday the twentieth of februari 2015 Apple has recruited a superstar DJ Samsung is hinting at the s6 and scientists have proposed a ten-dollar chip that would give you Terminator vision I'm it shine diamond joining me and I hi to London studio this week is luke westaway i am sort of like the terminator in many ways absolutely will not stop that is so true collector new pokemon and you always say you'll be back yes yeah that's the disappointment I'll be back don't know hurry hurry no rush we are as always filming the podcast so check that out on CNN com or youtube com /c net so exciting but for now let's start with the news yes big news in the music world Apple has hired as a no the well-known probably one of the best known names in British radio in fact yes I would say so Kiwi born he's been at the BBC for a decade before that he was you were friend TV remember the on the MTV to brown couch that's actually all i remember him problem is that on the sofa bands has come up also sit on the sofa great format for an interview we should have a sofa we should have a sofa in a green screen so it looks like we're flying through space people have said that before actually about the whole sitting down did we decide where we're standing up last week I heard it was no um there was a reason I sitting kills you suggesting kills you that's what oh yes this is he kills you that's Sophie's a terrible former well anyway yes he said he's left the BBC he's going off to work for Apple he's best known as a DJ but he's also he's very influential music industry figure which is presumably apples thinking in this he's been a kind of music director for the International Festival of ether rocks he he's written and produced for tiny temper Jason status and he also co-wrote and produced a track on Sam Smith's album which was grammy-nominated who's over so Jane lowes over the Grammys yeah last last week so presumably he's going to be doing something related to beats and iTunes so do we know anything about what his actual job will be no not really I mean so the statement apples given is that they excited to have him join the music team because he's one of them are foremost music taste makers in the world and a legendary music curator right so there you go here he will presumably have some hand in curating music glad that's cleared up yes I'm yeah curators probably the key word there right now because if they're the room to be making a music service music services need curation because rock and roll isn't all jumping around in a hotel room and throwing a fringe out the window it's curation curation curation careful curation indexed curation absolute and algorithms that's the spirit of rocket so whatever readers listeners and viewers saying well one commenter on this story says this isn't a real diversion to the man's career but it makes sense it's nothing to do with musical talent or insight he doesn't have any Oh and I kalyan ik r up says I'm sure this is ivan's doing remember he is the man whose along with dr. dre in charge of beats that's probably his job at apple advising cook to hide the top talent in the music business I don't know what is going on here but it looks big something really special is coming in terms of a new music service so yeah those that's where all the clues are pointing absolutely be what could it be what could it be and so what it's that Apple hasn't even said we're going to find out so we've got no idea no ori or even if there is anything mmm they might just be collecting all the musicians starting with Zane Lowe I mean a team it's a night list has a lower number 100 out at the bottom work your way up to the top which is the sugar babes obviously yeah that's what we're working up to yeah the not the original ones generated yet get the original atomic in that together if you can Apple yeah I got chopped no I am I don't think even apples budget stretches that far that is true alright what else is happening is that Samsung has been hinting at some features for the samsung galaxy s6 which as we are all marking our calendars is coming out on always certainly will be announced on the first March and because what they've done is they've done this blog post about wireless charging of mobile phones and other devices and they say that 2015 is going to be the year of motive wireless charging which suggests that the s6 has their big flagship phone will presumably have some kind of wireless charging an element to it so that's that's convincing and the thing is about wild charge and we talked about this type very recently starbucks but there's two competing standards than the PMA and a4wp which uses powermat right and then there's the key standard which is backed by the world's power consortium and that's used by asus HTC while way LG motorola Nokia Samsung blackberry and Sony is that all on the prayer is pronounced cheese is pronounced chee did I say it wrong i always do that well I mean you maybe you said it wrong I couldn't remember how it sooner so anyway yes so that's the one that's got most of the phones homecomings back in them so presumably that's gonna be the standard but for some reason the other ones holding out but yes so there's possibility the s6 might should be dual standard well that would be cool if you read between the lines yeah yeah well wireless charging is it's really cool but not many people are sort of taking it up and so yeah multiple standards would be very neat because it's been a berry hasn't it the multiple standard has been a bit of a problem yeah definitely starbucks got around that yeah we talked about this a few weeks ago because starbucks is putting in some of its London coffee outlets like little dongles you can plug into your phone which makes them wireless charge when you plunk em down on the on the table wireless charging pad so that's how they get around the standards problem yeah sounds very elegantly got around the problems of wireless charging by making it not wireless well look well doing their best crazy crazy world but I just might get my way but we should see more about of the s6 at Mobile World Congress which starts at the end of next week isn't it amazing that mwc is coming around and it was at Mobile World Congress rich than we discovered that wireless charging sounds like a double-barrelled surname oh god yeah Charles wireless charging yeah what it yeah we all lost something okay might show little window into what it's like absolutely well first I much as when the Essex all come on we're gonna be able awn CH so look out for photos videos hands on first impressions all that all the good stuff so so yeah and when I know what the people are saying it's gone that tells voice what people saying okay well David Joe 723 says glad to see some improvement in wireless charging namely the inclusion of all the standards in a single device this commenter goes on to say I love taking advantage of this with my current phone and I can't remember the last time I actually plugged it in to charge it's not the most important feature on my phone but it certainly is nice to have no it is a good idea and it does give you the potential to charge your phone anywhere yeah means they have it yeah its prequel meanwhile q an underscore Lee says I've owned a samsung smartphone laptop tablets and a few other things nothing ever works as advertised and will never buy another Samsung product again hook reply stopped using the laptop after two days it was so bad similar to seven songs previous features fingerprint sensor heart rate sensor I tracking etc I'm sure that wireless charging will also not work ouch ouch oh it's not sounds like that so that that's funny because the the the I trackage remember when we heard about that before the phone yeah to everyone it well things yes miles de la scroll whatever it but it was like you can control this phone with your eyes and then it came out and does anyone use that I don't know I yeah well the problem is like you can sort of control it with your eyes it's kind of work but like you really need your eyes to look to it looking yeah important that's the thing that's one of those it's one of those features that you just turn off immediately is it because I if it doesn't work most of the time and then it does it when you don't want it to tell you I've got a game 1212 finally says I am got game one two one two one two oh I thought it's a different game yeah janitor not one of the other at least 1211 um says I'm all for wireless charging and appreciate samsung users beta testing the technology for apple iphone users oh there it is seriously though like the medium of comedy don't want to happen to what ya important the thought provoking pointless namely he's holding a mirror up to our own assumptions um yeah hate to be the one saying it but yeah probably like for wireless charging to really take off it's probably got to being an iPhone because that that's what's going to make like big you know like everyone sort of rushed to get it into their taxis and buses and stuff yes not because the iphones necessarily better but it is just sort of it's the one that's got that impact exactly yeah yeah absolutely yeah and also it's better yeah so are also happening this world profession is so speaking of like new weird newfangled features and stuff yeah an awkward segue but I'm going to come to the right at our throat yeah sony's google Tony's version of google glass hey google glass because we had to say google google glass you yes Google anyone would think we were drunk yeah we're working categorically deny they don't we have definitely not drunk no oh ignore the fact that i'm drinking from a mug that obscures what you can actually see exactly nice i just drinking straight gin straight so yeah this the sony smart I glass developer edition SED e 1 cap Sheamus I know I mean this is the thing right so it's a I'll run through the specs if we start laughing at it but I give them though let's not wait I mean if you're watching the video you can see these on screen if you listen to the audio version track it down see what these things look like because they're enormous yeah I know they are enormous I mean my goodness lights I would feel bad making fun of how ugly they are because well so this is the thing right so I'm not grief absolutely they projected kind of heads up display in front of you they can show a notification all that kind of thing they pair with your phone via bluetooth they can only show the color green but there yet it's there they're costing 520 pounds there for pre-order in the UK right now so if you want one of these god awful horrible things it's your funeral you know you can get it so it's 120 pounds eight hundred forty dollars in the US that's about half the price that the original google glass was and it is a developer edition so it's not aimed at consumers specifically but they look absolutely terrible they were huge you know what's amazing like we saw these you and I together actually in Berlin at the ephah trade show yes in intends on last year and you know we were talking at the moon not sure about this and and you know there were so many people there like obviously surprise i type you know it's not going to look like this I don't know if it does look like this it's yeah I mean even that big dong glee dangly puck thing well this is the other thing not only are they huge they aren't wireless they attach to a huge like it's like a hockey puck size thing and you've got the battery and that's got that you talked into that to make phone calls it's it's very frustrating because Google glass um you know it wasn't the most sort of elegant neatest looking thing ever but like it's what like three years old now probably since it since it first became a thing people were actually wearing white elegant on their faces yeah it's not too bad and it's just like years later here's what Sony hasn't Sony is is that is historically famous for miniaturization and design and stuff you know like look at the look like the Walkman and disc man and stuff like that but they're really good at making well they have been in the past really good at making existing technology smaller and really nice yeah so I know what's going on here and also like what like that they've they've sort of released this into the world at exactly just after google says we're stopped it says this is a terrible idea so it is i rolling back euro oh boy I hope Sony didn't divert too much effort from other projects so what a read isn't listening saying about they say fans well they're actually a lot more charitable than we are okay oh no wait Derek or says I predict a huge flop poor Sony ouch so wobble says maybe the first product in history to make apple and PC users join hands and yell in unison that they'd all found the worst thing created this decade to be fair she should be interject that this is aimed I think largely at businesses so it's a sort yes yes sure if you need to be hands-free when you're in the factory or the plant or something that you can you know you can go up to a piece of machinery and it will show you what how to fix it stuff gotta bring up gotta be hands-free in the factory no see um kolb tron says hmm fifteen hundred dollars to look like a creep or eight hundred and forty dollars to look like an idiot tough choice of joy yeah okay well it'll be fine maybe we find things crossed fingers crossed absolutely speaking of looking like an idiot washing machine gate this is where my favorite stories drama this is fantastic my gosh LG has released CCTV footage at the moment one of its executives is accused of attacking a samsung washing machine Wow well this is at the trade show that we just mentioned actually for this was in Berlin last year it's a trade show where all companies get together in a show off the new products and they've only just got around to watching all the CCTV footage well what happened so what happened is that LG sorry a samsung accused an LG executive one jos song ji and i'm not sure if i pronounce that correctly but he's the head of LG's home appliance section he's the LG executive okay and he was with some other LG executives they were checking out the competition as you do sure and he he looked at a washing machine and he started like you know fiddling with it and stuff hits on the screen now if you if you're watching the video and he he leant on it and he like put his weight on the door and stuff and samsung reclaim claim to that's corporate sabotage and they've really handed him so LG has released this video and to show that it wasn't as bad alright i think it's just absolutely hilarious this i mean there you can see brit puts it does actually put his back into it you can see when you watch the video he does sure but I mean LG claims this is a kind of standard engineering test that he would have just done yah who among us can say that we've never been at a trade show and just sort of you know seen how strong I've broken something at trade show after you yeah you know you know when hybrids tablet pcs with the touch screens came along the ones they come but they're quite complicated because they've got these laptops where the screen comes off in a combo tablet basically yeah they click together that yes keyboard screen here okay so they don't hit the hinge kachunk yes that's right so the hinge bit is quite a complicated bit and over the course of three days I can't which company it was had this tablet sat out I was only like a prototype wasn't completely finished saying someone else loosened it someone else loses so it's been opened and fiddled with well I feel and I broke it completely kicked off yes at the end I've had enough of this through of yet snapped it over your knee through the pieces away this is a fantastic story though i'd like to read normal using that fashion actually from now on just throwing for yeah this is fantastic story so yeah LG and Samsung I guess you could say LG is trying to spin the story yes um they're airing their dirty laundry yeah it's almost like no but it should stop other execs from trying the same thing in other words rich it will act as a detergent if we could list the rest of the podcast now we're gonna go on like this yeah run out i think we've run out though stop listening listening means something so reeling cycle anyway the ones we thought of in advance or better yeah not sure out off the cuff delivery was really that guy i think okay we sold it so what so what's what sir have we heard from any readers on this one visual seed says all LG would have had to do was design a defective washing machine door and samsung would have copied the door to their washing machines in a matter of days oh I mishap sungei a hard time because all right probably even releasing a new model before the end of the trade show that's not a leak it's designed to wash your floors too you just need to buy the optional s mop for it to work properly s mob I could just see something doing that a small actually am let move on as well I know that we've had a great bit of consumer advice but we don't have time unfortunately for someone who's complaining about the ice in his freezer okay well yeah but you know you can see that on facebook and you really um so yeah so we're speaking of mistakes being made by that guy that LG game I here's some more mistakes that you might want to cover up yeah we'll get rid of so this is a guy who student in Canada who has come up with a tattoo removal cream wow so if you regret a tattoo then there's a guy called Alex Falconer and he's in Canada's Dalhousie University and he's come up with a technology called bisphosphonates lie tattoo removal which is as Quincy head of my mother's name and it's at you wear my research was going as well so I mean I'm happy for the guy that he's got there first but yeah I mean that's pretty much what i was thinking of fair enough well you've got a better marketing budget so i think you should be okay so what it does it targets white blood cells called macrophages which kind of which hand quite gothic and they sound like the bad guy aliens in something yeah yeah they creamed essentially encourages these white blood cells to eat up the old macrophages and carry away the pigment in your skin causing the tattooed babe it's much less invasive painful and time-consuming how it's much cheaper than laser removal so there you go could you could you run up we could you wait for someone who has a tattoo to fall asleep that's lose that remove their daddy mostly George Smiley place or something yeah that would be amazing um yeah so this but this guy has four tattoos was only doesn't regret any of them how has he been testing it rich it's been testing on pigs ears I believe right I believe he's made a right pig's ear of it huh you might say the word start of the pigs on a stag do and they were like he has anything you can do about this do not want this to follow me around get a job interview next week well they go I mean so you could find you something about the pokemon that you've got tattooed about your body yeah well I don't regret that so all that all 151 up my spine what why would you regret that I would I regret there exactly a view but you you actually have real I do have to do so I don't regret any of them even the dolphin or the Chinese symbol that says samsung says don't visit often oh let's check out my dog picked a tee yeah so moving on the people who are planning to go to Mars yeah I've been whittled down to 100 so that to 22 hundred thousand people applied for a chance to go with a nonprofit private space travel company to go to Mars and the numbers I've been whittled down to just over a hundred okay so yeah the Sun does 50 men and fifty women and five are from the UK oh ok i read it aren't sure about this though no a storm space says i'd much prefer they send robots ahead first to build a working and stable habitat then send professionals i have no desire to watch people die on national TV well that's tasting point there is a reality show element to this so yeah is the reality show element going to place on earth Oh presumably is not going to be them actually in space we'd have to wait ages for the data t doesn't you actually yeah yeah that would take the Attic for every and um well anyway a victoria underscore 123 says frankly i don't understand how someone could not only have the desire but tell their family many of the original applicants had spouses and children that they wanted to leave them forever and go to Mars that's a passive-aggressive thing that my mum went say about what I don't see the appeal of going to Mars frankly white what's wrong with staying here yeah um I mean come on it's going to Mars we got saying oh being one of the first people on Mars that's pretty cool yeah but like what a conversation the awkwardness of that chat would haunt you all the way to Mars that's true you'd look back at Earth you'd be the first person to look back at Earth from Mars and all you could think was like right down there is someone you know I told like I'd rather be on Mars yeah let me get on my trip right yeah you're in it for three hours with a bunch of three house or three years or every along it is with a bunch of strangers and then you get there and it's just red and dusty okay why dose of all it's just red and dusty what do I do in reply to that comment which doc 59 said it's much like the explorers of several hundred years ago who set sail from new world without really knowing if they would ever return again or the settlers who left the old world for the new world knowing they would never see their friends and family again where would our world be today if all these people had stayed home I think we could have avoided a fair amount of trouble to be honest if the old worldly world settlers had its data yeah but we could all you know yet all just hung out yeah um but that's a good point about you know like this spirit of exploration yeah yeah um we got time for one more comment on that subject I know okay go on the nose all right bank i underscore sseriously it's problematic that this project is making light of a manned mission to Mars is supposed to be a mission not a circus it just takes one mechanical problem to kill the whole crew and if you don't have your best people there to fix it in time everyone dies well that's that is true that is true lots of concern in the comments about basically this being like a reality TV show gimmick thing rather than a proper serious mission to Mars yes I don't think that's fair because they've recruited scientists and other technical types right and um yeah am i right in thinking that they've also recruited one guy who says he's Martian well yes 38 year old man from Poland who goes by the name em 1 dash KO and says he's a Martian sent to earth who would be happy to help us explore his home planet yes but that doesn't mean they're not taking it seriously right anyway well late well I don't want to be in the spaceship necessarily with like the merging of mashing a long time to be in spaceship he said he sounds a bit like a novelty tie-wearing guy yes and well I mean to go in the office if anything if anything he is evidence that we shouldn't be doing this because he left his home planet never to return and no he's like I want to go back alright so should we really be you know the world network is over ladies well anyways so well good luck to the fire from the UK that sir yes and Hannah Ryan Maggie and Claire good luck from good luck good luck from the scene at UK podcasters it is a pretty cool okay final last story this is great one this one this is about a scientist proposed a cortical modem which they reckon is going to be a chip the size of a couple of coins okay that you will stick in your head right and that will implant directly into your new your visual cortex and allow you to to see like a heads-up display like Terminator a Robocop as you're walking around point coins on that small what is it like a 50p or something yeah I'm getting it through into your ear is probably gonna be me yeah yes the size of two court costs ten dollars and okay yeah it sounds fantastic I mean it's pretty clever it's using something called optogenetics which involves altering DNA right and then getting neurons and yeah turning them on and off with light because they're like reactive so you can fire neurons by shining lights on them okay it's pretty impressive and they're possibly even control control new and so could it as well as having like a cool heads up display it could also you know potentially cure cure sight loss neurological this all mean that's good as well um 0b3 been 0 B 0 says and then they'll give the undocumented API to the NSA well Astrid although the NSA should already know about it but there you go alright cool well that's enough this week's news let's gone to feedback okay let's hear what you guys have been saying Richard ambler says if the temperature is 10 degrees and we add on the windchill factor it now feels like five degrees surely the temperature is five degrees and not ten isn't it question is but like temperature is is subjective okay so it can take it kind of makes sense right because you're saying like if it's if it's if a thermometer says 10 degrees and you know it feels like 10 degrees it's still 10 degrees like it might feel like it might feel like five degrees to us like you're very you're a very Hardy man rich you probably don't feel any temperature change I don't feel anything mmhmm yeah it was a cool room temperature absolutely yeah you know I'm matter way well yeah exactly the route you know the room from room temperature that's what every moment that's how they measure it yeah that is it i think you that's the constant andy tomato says i have a google cardboard but it which is Google's like make it at home the oculus rift thing that's true yeah you sit your phone in it you could have virtual reality headset but it's hiding my eyes when I use it what can I do apart from stop using it don't hide your eyes under your eyes your best feature yeah well I mean I don't think it's possible to use google cardboard without hiding your eyes I wonder if maybe Andy means hurting my eyes in which case don't use it if it's hurting your eyes I don't need to take it off you if anything's hurting stop doing it as as I tell my my wife on a regular basis and Oh rich I know regular screen rates to keep this and yet that's whatever screen you're using whether it's a computer at work or a phone or computer via at home then regular it's always good five ten minute breaks every 50 to 60 minutes are good for you and remember sitting down is killing you so get up I have a little wand around yeah and don't just look at your phone yeah yeah misses the point Greg Dobson says daddy your chips I think we buy something else that one don't worry yes dad it ships Oh David Franklin says lollipop or iOS 8 haven't had a good phone shout down in a while I'll David this I think you know I think for the reason for this is that like it's done where we've lost the will to argue about this I'm know all the same I'm done David I mean they're not all the same obviously because there's windows phone in the mix which it is the best well it's not the same let's just put it that way which is the best so yeah um alright not mike batt says why don't americans say Matt well it because we took the s with us when we left it was part of the you know the settlement where they they got to keep country we got to keep the SL mats okay actually it is deal yeah all right in fact it's because so there's different arguments about this and both are right so the idea that mathematics end in s means some people shun it to Matt but the idea that mathematics is a mass noun that just happens to end in s and it's not actually so much for plural is why some people say math and both are kind of write a mass nouns thing has quantity but uncountable like anger music sushi or cinnamon that kind of thing but interestingly enough this is one of those things well actually lived into this you think that a British way is going to be older than the Americans camp with some newfangled way of doing and they're wrong but actually the use of math goes back to eighteen nineteen the United States and the use of maths goes it goes back only to 1911 Wow so the Yanks got their first name as it were but yeah it still maths guys oh yeah obviously it's still maths obviously I mean probably what happened was we spotted that that was happening in 1911 or whenever and said life that's just correct yes that's early yeah yeah correct corrected problem problem solve problem so um all right Josh King says just one question will Samsung ever stop using its galaxy brand and keep up the good work thank you thank you judge it probably's to successful isn't it yeah I think so I mean they have dropped it from something they dropped it from the gear smartwatch devices subsequent one was called the galaxy gear but then after that's just gear so I don't know yeah let's treat it so the OC keeping it for phones and tablets if you are interested in galaxy devices then I'll producer mark you will never see has made an excellent video plugging everywhere it shows every single device every galaxy device ever that's like one amazing hundred of them yeah it's like an intimidating fly through and take it takes me a minute since I don't fly through and you're just overwhelmed by the sheer volume of dizzying and volume of folks falling right over your face so yes I check that out that's on sina com search for i think it's called every efficacy do every galaxy device something yeah excellent david butcher says hi guys I've just got back from the integrated systems exhibition in Amsterdam it was huge with many many impressive 4k and 8k screens but little new tech yeah what events in 2015 would you really recommend visiting well do you know what you don't have to visit event because we do that for you we do the hard work so you don't have to sound like a great deal you're half of these events because we are doing well so we're going to mobile Congress in in like about a week actually so look out for new stuff from that very very soon yeah that's the big phone and tablet shown on the whole sub loads of wearable technology and all that kind of thing plus the s6 will be their new HTC phone is probably gonna be there yeah everyone's gonna have new phones they're so yeah we'll look out for that but if you do want to go there are other shows that are on a minute presuming game from the fact you been to the integrated systems exhibition that you you've got some kind of an IT unravel you might be interested in the wearable tech show which is coming up in March again here and go to that but so that might be interesting to that's in London Anifah any ether and September's open to the public open to the public so anyone can go a long sigh it's pretty cool that's in that symbol in lowes and you can go along there and mess around with washing machines with LG executives yep smash allegedly allegedly and finally sakyo Ahmed says in an email with the subject line of which why sky is blue yeah guys because it reflects the say yeah yeah guys I heard you on one of the podcast talking about it well it's due to sun rays reacting with the layer of ozone ozone ozone ozone that's not a real word you must think we were born yesterday it's reflecting the sea all right Mazel bad guy no zone right honestly oh well thank so much for the feedback everybody ganged up gorgeous here for me please keep it coming and we've really enjoyed how much feedback feedback we've been getting over the last couple of weeks yes great absolutely I so please do keep sending it to cnet UK podcast at CBS I com that email address again is seen at UK podcast at CVS I the screen calm is on the bottom of the screen you've heard it twice it's no excuse whatever you're thinking we want to hear it I'm sorry all right well thank you very much League thank you XO juicer mark you will never see right we're off to try and scrub off our tattoos see you next week