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and good Thursday morning from the scene at studios in New York City in 59 episode 241 my name is bebe G in the house today we've got Alfred Inge and Ben Fox Reuben what's up guys hello hello hello to livestream hello to YouTube hello to periscope we got periscope today we also got it and juicy tips juicy tips I don't mean how to please your iPhone so Jessica dual core came out with a story today about how iOS 11 could provide some juicy clues about what the iPhone 8 might look like it's mostly speculative but it's a lot of pretty good educated guesses so we're going to be running through a handful of those we'll also get to Julian Assange's office it's an artist recreation of it in England and gets in Liverpool right I believe so yes somewhere in Liverpool we'll talk all about it and also to end on a very nice positive note a new spider-man doll that talks to you and tells you comic-book stories so certainly bounce he also tells jokes he also tells jokes yes I look forward to that yes so sending your questions and comments BVG we'll get to as many as you can at the end of the podcast and let's make this thing happen all right what stop doing okay here we go called racial expression - welcome to the 359 I'm Ben Fox Ruben I'm Alfred Aang iOS 11s new features offer some useful early clues about the highly anticipated iPhone 8 our own Jessica dual court said in a story today for one thing Apple's heavy focus on augmented reality in iOS 11 gives us a pretty good idea that AR will play a significant role in the new device do you agree I mean I think that with that with you know the addition of AR it definitely means that they're planning something big for their cameras you really can have like a our capabilities be that great without really having like the camera to back it up you like you take a look at that phone Lenovo put out right where it was like this gigantic phone and they had like a pretty good camera on it with that right that's what the that uses google tango yeah earliest ones to do it so that's another thing that Jessica mentions in her story that some or all of the models of the new iPhone 8 may have three cameras which sounds like a lot but if you are going to do AR and do it right you may potentially need that many cameras on the back of it I mean is it worth arguing that the iPhones already have three cameras though because you take a look at these 7s where it's technically it's not another camera but it's dual lens and then they have one on the front already so that to me I feel like that's already three cameras okay three cameras on the back though and do you think the back three hammers on the back yeah because that's that way you get depth perception and we're the actual thing yeah I guess that makes a lot more sense as far as like AR goes I think the other interesting thing is essentially you know Siri maybe you'll be able to start activating just by saying like the same way that you would be able to activate like Alexa right with hey Siri you can do that but yeah right now but the idea would be to add more capabilities to add the thing for me is is that Siri just isn't that good Gangan with so I don't really see this actually making her much better I mean do you think that with more people interacting with it on the home pod though that it might help can assume oh yeah more people would use that yes that would definitely give Apple more data but at the same time I think Syria is pretty far behind next two artists in England made a perfect recreation of Julian Assange's 43 square foot yes 43 living space in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London is this what do you think people would want to get out of this like what is the purpose for doing this I mean you know all those live streams that they do for like WikiLeaks with Julian Assange and like a green screen and things like that I feel like it'd be like a tourist stop where he can go and like pretend that like you're with him or something like that I really hope there's like a wax replication of him that hasn't done that yet right but like I kind of think that creating such a small confined space is potentially a way to get more sympathy for him or at least like raise a little bit more awareness that this guy has been like stuck in the embassy for the past five years I mean I think it's interesting I hope they do the same thing for like wherever Edward Snowden is holed up where you can kind of like get a look at like what it's like inside this this person's like their daily life you know I think is really interesting as far as like historical purposes I think it's like really cool you don't think Edward Snowden is in an awesome Russian mansion somewhere um I don't know I don't know okay last to end the week on a very positive note toymakers furrow created a voice-activated storytelling spiderman doll it's packed with 100 comic book stories in on audio it's also one hundred and fifty dollars so kind of a more expensive toy but I don't know I think it's kind of cool I could watch the spider-man movie for like 15 times at that price and I feel like that would be a much more fun experience than this toy I also don't like smart toys so I was trying I was China and positive but I guess that wasn't gonna happen anyway if you liked what you heard check us out on CNET for more about these stories I'm Ben Fox Ruben I'm Alfred Aang thanks for listening that spider-man is cool I don't know what your what your griping about I hate smart toys whatever you never had a Teddy Ruxpin growing up that a problem yes no I he's a he's a you he doesn't have just give me a phone uh-huh and Angry Birds or what we're kids playing now I don't know I do think it's cute however it is kind of expensive I probably like it's like maybe if it was a Teddy Ruxpin like cuddly kind of thing but this thing's like rock hard like who would play with this on a rubbery I would like some juicy tips into a leasing your Spider Man toy oh don't go there no no this is for children bad this is already a friendly show that's true it is a family-friendly podcast I retract my comments kids play with action figures and plastic dolls yeah I'm but exactly and this link does not look like an action figure it's like trying to be cuddly and then also an act is just weird I don't agree with Scotts verbage of cuddly necessarily but I still think it's pretty cool yeah cuz give me something read any comics I can be that much lazier yeah I agree that's that I like that idea anyway okay but we have Apple question we don't have too many Apple questions but actually this is a great opportunity to pull the ongoing series we have on CNET James H is asking if there are any possible new adaptable software's for people with disabilities such as himself and we actually have an ongoing series on CNET right now mmm it is called ted enabled tech enabled yeah you had some great stories for Tekken yes oh I wrote one story for tech enabled about a smartphone that quadriplegics can use just by using like head movement so it uses like facial recognition and then it registers your face as the mouse so like you move your head around and it uses that to click on things on your smartphone instead so you don't really need to touch it or anything like that a lot of people have been using this to kind of like control their smart homes and things like that or just you know chat with people I actually used it to chat with one of its co-founders who is a quadriplegic over in Israel and we talked on skype using just that which is really cool was that also the same story where you mentioned a guy that is like a really badass Street Fighter player and that's my other that's my other other winery this guy play Street Fighter with his face we didn't really go yeah really neat yeah so in this one it was basically about um this there's there's these two companies one called AbleGamers and the other ones called special effect that they helped create like special controllers specifically for disabled gamers and people would go to them for like consultation sessions and they'd figure out like what your needs are like based off like what your abilities are and like what kind of control they need to make for you so they had one where it's like completely mouth controlled where like you would play with your tongue only but and then they had ones where it's like foot switches so if you couldn't like use your hands to control in like a first-person shooter kind of thing but you could use like fingers to like like shoot right they had like a foot pedal thing or like a board thing where like you could swivel around that to like move around in the game and then like just shoot like pressing like one button only it's really sweet that is really neat that's yeah that's pretty awesome too you know people that want a game help them game as much as they but I think James's question was more about software both of my like questions were more about hardware itself except for the smartphone example but I know that Apple actually does a lot when it comes to like being more accommodating for you know people that want to you use like their technology and things like that most of a lot of it's like for blind users where they have like screen readers really that are really helpful I don't think they revealed that much about that for like WWDC though where it's like new or so or like the iPhone 8 arguably like more Syrians especially if you're going to utilize the home pod yeah those could help people with you know a variety of disabilities so that is obviously helpful I just think that like even with Alexa and Google assistant which are you know far and away a better products then Siri they're still kind of frustrating to deal with so somebody with a disability that's actually going to try to rely on this stuff for their smart home I don't really think that we're quite there yet but it might make certain things much easier for cert somebody to do I think so again this is obviously ongoing there will be lots lots more coverage in this series in fact I don't know how much we can really divulge but I know Rogers out on working on another story right now how much can we spill on what about for a road trip that's for Rogers road trip my mistake yeah you'll just have to wait and see we're going to talk about it at all all right guys that's what I figured we might be how shush on this front design beam so pretty cool one additional feature that I thought was interesting that Jessica mentioned in her story was the idea of integrating with home pod for instance my wife constantly loses her phone around the house we're not going to do this because I'm not buying the home pot it's three hundred and fifty dollars and we already have like two echos in my house or Ben can't afford three hundred and fifty dollar all right whatever let me get to let me start my GoFundMe that would be really nice so let's say you've got the home but you don't know where you put your phone you can ask Siri to find your phone which I know is like such a first real problem but at the same time it's like instead of getting on your computer do Find My iPhone something like that I think that could be a pretty useful function for something like that yeah I'm so because ndu I'm surprised Amazon hasn't already done that with the echo at like find my Amazon phone exactly why would they why cause there are no happens on phones I doubt definitely anybody in the chat go ahead and chime in with some of your predictions or thoughts about what we're gonna see out of the iPhone it's kind of quiet today but that's alright yeah getting close to the end of the week yeah okay so everybody's getting a little sigh I've gotten into the summer I disagree with one of the predictions that she made based off of what i OS xi has to offer and that is the iphone like stand-alone like VR headset kind of thing similar to like what daydream is with like Google mm-hmm I really don't think Apple is gonna come out with something like that on their own why not I think they're gonna come up with like VR stuff or I don't think they're gonna come out with their own headset can you get like can you imagine like a like a cardboard kind of like VR headset from like Apple maybe I don't see it so Tim Cook keeps coming out and saying like I love the possibility of VR I love the possibility of a are obviously tipped his hand quite a bit with WWDC talking about AR kid and all the different focuses on AR I don't see it as so unlikely that they wouldn't try to like push into VR and if they did especially with a phone you probably need some sort of headset that would accommodate so whether that's going to be from a third party or whether that's going to be from Apple itself and it's going to cost like five hundred or a thousand dollars I still tell me there's a chance that that I think there will be VR on it because they were showing that off at WWDC I just don't think like you're saying like either from like some kind of third party I think right that's the route that it might go or like some other division from Apple like maybe like from like beats from dr. Dre or something like never never they will I from VR Dre I really don't think that they're gonna come out with like a new beats labeled product like they had a chance to do that with the home pod and they didn't I mean they do that don't they do that with like the lightening nuts and lightning sorry the air pods what like you know they come out like when they announce the air pods and they're like well we've got so much courage I was like check out this new lineup of like wireless headphones that we also have I think you're right yeah yeah but like it was really like a quick throw away and it wasn't like ear pods brought to you by beads it wasn't home pods brought to you or home pod brought to you by beads which I might have expected as like a quick addition just to like give them like a nod like I we we bought this like you know stereo so or like this audio company but it seems pretty clear to me that they're going to sunset that brand at some point yeah you think they're going to Sunset Beach I hope so I mean like or adjust or they'll just keep it like in that very small yeah but like it makes like a ton of money for them mmm yeah I guess like it sucks yes but like it's at a really high price and a lot of people buy it so it either way like if it's gonna make you a ton of money and you don't spend that much money on it to make it like I really expect them to promote the name beats a lot yeah that's my point I think like beats are like dumb popular and like I think I don't think they're gonna sunset anytime soon yeah I don't think they're gonna send Sun it at anytime soon but they're really not showing it off as much as they could be which is too bad because they're coming out with audio products so beats car you know I think Beats is gonna take over Apple actually right yeah for the word prediction of 2017 award goes to cool all right so we got a few wish lists from Chad TV for what's up Chad TV for the iPhone he says I hope it has a more open OS says I'd really like to see that Iowa's see the iOS users can download and use files like OS X and not have to sync to iTunes which I believe we're seeing coming right open file yes mint on the end yes with the the files like Explorer kind of thing or whatever yeah yeah but like it's a step in the right direction but it's probably not as robust as we might hope for yeah somehow it works on an Android yeah he's exactly right yeah TVs question you know definitely like implies the fact that like if you do want like more openness then you're probably gonna want to go with Android yeah I mean I think the issue reason like part of the reason why Apple does is so if like the lack of openness outside of money is essentially like they're very like gung-ho about like security aspects of it and that's why like there's also a lot of like alarms for like security when it comes to Android wear like people's sideload like these apps that end up like locking up their phones and things like that so Apple is kind of like let's take that step out of it and just you know make sure everything's locked down to the way it is that's like the side of reason the main reasons like probably for money but I mean the main reason is usually for money you know I'm kidding mm-hmm gen TV also asks for allowing for wireless transfer over Bluetooth drop and NFC absolutely yeah like it would be nice if they opened up the NFC chip to more functions like I wouldn't hold your breath now I wouldn't hold your breath either it's something that's mentioned in Jessica story but it's like more as I go maybe sort of probably not going to happen thing that that was the bucket that she put it under the other thing that we haven't mentioned was this whole point about like they're going to get rid of the home button that seems like a very high likelihood that we've been talking about for like a couple years now that like this is the direction that Apple is going in the question is is like are they going to be able to include the fingerprint sensor on the front of the phone because we saw that with Samsung's Galaxy s8 they weren't quite there yet they had to include the fingerprint sensor on the back of the phone yeah reach out super far you got a dig deep reach in and put your finger on it right like all the way in about how to please no no is that galaxy say good lord all right I've got it Thursday we got we have a good one to elaborate on Scott Scott Maya asks do we think the AR kit will be as big as Apple is making out to be mm I don't right well you know there's a great question there accurate and there claim that this is going to be the biggest AR platform ever because it's bit they have the most phones like out there like right well not more than like Android does but it's like essentially they have so many phones and it's gonna be on all of them that technically it's true that it's gonna be the largest AR platform like ever for them ya know it's because they they don't have nearly as much fragmentation either but there are obviously way more Android phones but Android phones run on any number any fun that's a thing like I'd like to see the comparison of how many Android phones are out there that can actually run like project tango or like there AR capabilities so totally there technically correct about that as far as like usage goes though I think they're completely wrong on it we're like there AR features are still like kind of like the fun cool the ones or it's like hey look there's a fidget spinner on this table whereas like with Google's like AR capabilities it's like you're gonna be able to know how much a beer cost at this place and you're gonna be able to like get your Wi-Fi password like using the AR on this so biggest sure most useful probably not like I mean I think your emotion problem I was probably gonna make like a couple of those points and you got to them so well done that's I agree I'll save some of my points no no all right so that's probably about a good place to bring us home for the week uh wrap it up yeah all right I'll I'll do my best mm okay the 359 podcast is available on iTunes soon in stitcher SoundCloud Feedburner Google Play Music app and of course Tina calm also be sure to get something cool for Father's Day oh cool I'm a father yeah happy Father's Day Ben oh thanks man happy Father's it's so nice of you guys anyway check us out and we'll see you next week we'll see you next week that's that that'll call the week yeah we'll do it we are burnt out for some reason come back alright later take care everybody excelsior