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it's Tuesday March twentieth you are experiencing the crave podcast I'm Donald Bell eric franklin Bonnie cha we need to speed up these intros yeah I am I said to Tom is being like kind of as I pull it back a little bit for emphasis sure that I feel like it just kind of fascist and then it just farts into your mouth yeah then it's just yeah it's Tuesday March twentieth your experience in the crave podcast and I'm Donald Bell i'm eric franklin I'm audit ah and I'm seriously gonna tell you some interesting news the Macho Man don't know no that's pretty good i think that's a keeper let's do it yeah it's do it from that one okay that way let's do our WWE version of the intro and every time we do this I like it all right take good know what else I like what lamps that reference the video games of my youth I love that too I love when that happens yes yeah I'm a fan of that that thing yeah alrighty but I'm glad we got that settled yeah yeah no we uh we and by we I mean all of us yeah everyone welcomes you guys let's say you know they're there sorry Steve sorry yeah next time we got to visit steve is not what you would call a team player steven is Magic too much a team player if he has to do a lot of podcasts here in the studio whatever purdue stuff i'd only excuses Steven we we get to sneak out and visit some makers making stuff that we like that's right Bonnie would you like to tell me about these makers yes well we all got to go like Donald said to me Brian duxbury and Adam Ellsworth and they make this 8-bit question block lamp which super mario band bro fan should recognize as kind of the coin block that my Oh smashes to get coins and I was in love mushrooms for the record he doesn't head but he actually he punches but slow physically yeah it's kind of a weird kind of uppercut I was kind of hammer fist uppercut thing but yes they'll hit his head people now it's it's always been his fist and that's how you write on the lamp yeah you know it's a capacitive activated lamp or a touch lamp and it makes the sound and on and on eight every eighth hit you get the one up sound yeah which we were telling us at Super Mario Brothers purist where it kind of upset because it is not every eighth every hundred yeah stinks up the window she's like chuck it through a glass window um but no he's a cool story like brian has a day job and he just likes to do these kind of DIY projects on the weekends but he has two kids and he's like I'm never gonna have time / do this but as he sent himself another thing do this one day right he was talking with Adam is that all it takes to sing yourself a note yes what I was doing wrong okay never 77 you Mia future me is doing so many cool things oh my god to me is it's awesome and I think you are present day eric franklin know yeah but anyway he he met up with brian and or with adam and they've been making these Liam yeah they're cool guys yeah they were it was a cool story young young guys thank you buddy embarrassingly young for me nursing for us yeah exactly like I've done nothing exactly you've created super mario blocks that people can punch and make sounds that's more than I've done in my entire 38 years of existence yeah yeah so you can pick them up on etsy yep or if you're me you pick them up after the meeting you have to hay makers help them they found preassembled or you can buy a DIY kit which is what Donald have you know the spot that you do that did you put it yeah yeah I it's almost done okay not long story but it says you have like a workshop in your garage or something like that on the tube did you can go into an and kind of work in the kind of stuff no I just put a tarp over my head and then I get soldering and I get kind of buzz on the fumes and then and then these magical visions start happening yeah and I think that I've made them right but it's it really I just have a bunch of unassembled kits in the back of my house right basically you just on the floor drooling your kid comes in he has a see that every time yeah it's but it's a is better than the actual work involved in trying to learn how to actually do this stuff yeah well I mean there's some well I mean is it better it's probably yes it's a yes a path of keeps your life simple yeah yeah fun yeah it's a good way to spend an afternoon yeah except when your kids crying over you and you're under the tarp and yeah happy was doing all the soldering iron Bernie's on my fingers from when I pass out to is it's all we've been waiting again I should probably just really learn how to do this stuff where is panza that's Eric Franklin alright so that's cool and you should check out the article that Bonnie wrote up on these guys and the the the ? lamp not the Mario Brothers lamb pending litigation but the ? lamp block lamp lamp yeah it's cool also techshop the place where did the interview go I want to go back there again yeah be crafty the mp3 DJ doorbell is my next topic of conversation nice transition well actually these two go together well because the Mario lamp is this thing where you touch it and then it makes that special Mario block sound right this is another one where you have this touch device and you can program it to ring whatever sound you want you load up your own mp3's up to 10,000 different songs and when people ring your doorbell you can be delighted to hear any number of these 10,000 songs that you program into it for just one like a ring tongue forward doorbell yeah yeah what would your doorbell be um well I think it would probably be best if it was like who let the dogs out and then I automatically triggered Doberman Pinschers to come and inhabit the person would actual release the hell yes just uh like blood stain yeah keep human Marines human Marines sounds like it sounds great one of those donors love it so much yes that's a new flavoring I like that I know that should be like that the remake of our sterling green that was a movie whatever yeah yeah it's made from people perfect how are we feeding this exploding population with tasty desserts secret uh no this is cool i think especially i have kind of a dumb old doorbell that I've broken accidentally so it just goes I can tell from that weird broken not quite connecting to the chime sound that someone's ringing my doorbell either someone's ringing your doorbell or there's like a creepy old man outside yeah plus it's only fifty bucks fifty dollars you can upgrade to this mp3 doorbell technology not too shabby I like the way it looks yeah so go get it I'm craving it you crave them yep for these next two stories I'm bundling these up under the Thank You Japan tagline very nice okay first one is a Japanese hand-cranked vending machine that takes a long time to charge up but once you crank it for about like five solid minutes and your arms about to fall off in and wanting why you're doing it you then have enough charge in the vending machine to dispense at least a dozen drinks do you have to pay for them yes oh well this is designed for emergency situations so like an earthquake or something in need so there's no electricity yeah Ukraine well you still got to pay for it even an earthquake or something that's half well well oh yeah yeah it goes it goes for a while wow that's ministry to work here water huh well here's the thing right as soon ami or earthquake knocks out electricity and then you've got these streets in Japan they're just lined with vending machines that you can actually use because the power is gone yeah down just break them open well maybe they're too hard to break open or the Japanese are too polite to do that sure so on so this is a way you can get it up and running on its own power and then get the delicious be rule out of it and and you know me globally it's about your post-apocalyptic day yeah what you're here right zombie apocalypse would be bad because all the hand crank sound would probably track the zombies yeah yeah and then you get bitten in the neck from beyond Anderson yeah alright well we'll have to find a better way to zombie pretty patties technology yeah but uh pretty neat I just love hand crank anything you know sounded really you're having hey yeah just the jokes is writing hey Megan so making the hole digging silent yeah oh man would you dig in the whole one it's a simple question Donald and I'm making this dirt digging machine your problem is Oh Terry mine I don't know there's no there's no dirty angle on this next one this is I'm going to build myself out all right the Panasonic rice cooker now responds to your smartphone oh you can wave your smartphone over your certain kind of rfid compatible smartphone over this panasonic rice cooker and it will automatically start cooking your rice to your preferred you know specifications and and it will also apparently beam up a number of rice recipes apparently there's over a hundred or it will download up to a hundred rice recipes to your phone we have to wave it over the rice cooker can you just like is it like a remote control no apparently have to wave it that's what I was hoping for it was like you be on the bus or something by extra my rights act ly be home between waving it no you just text your wife that usually cook my rice Emma lemon meringue you know this is me right I'm not gonna start cooking myself Donnell it's it doesn't work this looks like a printer I don't know it like so what's what's the convenience again you have to still have to put the rice in you to your rice cooker right like it doesn't actually the phone doesn't it's not some kind of automated it's saving you a couple steps instead of you having to press the button and put in the selected time and duration all the different you just an settings on the street is kind of a dangerous yet I over it yeah but now I'm I mean how it is very Japanese for this to be a rice cooker but this could trickle over into the American markets right for our more Americanized George Foreman grill e-type appliances right Eric deep fat fryers sure barbecue I loved affairs um donut makers do not yeah yeah sure I guess yeah yeah yeah I i know i don't think that those things what is it was like complexes right well I don't really agree that needs to be like our fate especially since they're really not a lot of phones yet to have RFID yeah little things own you said RF it I know dude what you're talking about I didn't know that there was RFID yeah yeah yeah but you could have like an airplay enabled a toaster or something right for your iphone sure like you in this world I like your idea what he with the beam on the bus yeah yeah yeah instead of being rude to your wife you yeah yeah i mean that's that seems like that will be well they have those commercials now were like you can make sure your garage door is closed on when you're on vacation in Hawaii somewhere like oh my god we left the garage door open at least we know yeah should we leave the vacation or did was to see no but then you can remotely close it oh yeah close it ok well the you know the the scum have already interviewed your your house I'm sure at that point right it's too late you know because soon as you maybe but you could trap them yeah you chop them in then becomes like home alone shot the man with your 10 year old son I don't I'm just reaching here you know it is I'm just spare ya know this is a region O'Donnell let it go but the hand cream oh alright but I just I think this is kind of name the connected appliance deal I like I like where it's going alright like weird I know agree but its trajectory is it's on the right son right path yeah funny I feel same much what is over thinking everything was I'm sure it's not perverted I can't be dogged him paralyzed oh yes um yeah so so well that was the job that was the Japanese segment that I had organized woman um we have a follow-up to last week when we were looking for craves most most dedicated Star Wars fan that's right we have a winner we found one did we find me I don't I think we've gone beyond below the winner is Brian Roland from Atlanta Georgia yay and he has most of his body covered in Star Wars tattoos that's his that's his hand think on these other handy as r2d2 but I don't have that picture I can't imagine him in a fight he's like which one do you want Darth Vader artoo r2d2 uh but he's had over 600 hours of work done on his tattoos yes yeah that's a giant Darth Vader in the back yeah um but we got lots of great and wanna thank you everyone for entering I gotta say I like next year you're gonna have to tattoo your face if you want to lay it out train set the bar bricked yeah is it just me and I'm not trying to I'm glad he won thank you for entering and uh I'd say the that back tattoo yeah other than the Darth Vader there I don't know that space doesn't look very Star Wars II to me like that let the big planet with the Rings with it and the nebula that doesn't look very Star Wars II to me Star Wars is always just like when I imagine Star Wars yeah it looks like oasis it looks like a Star Trek space yeah it does it does looks something more akin to you know the Milky Way galaxy or something I when I think of Star Wars I think of just stars and I know it like the new movies you seem a little bit more variety but the new movie sucks oh I don't care about those but do you know how much black ink had to be put into this guy's skin to make Darth Vader like is the inside of that Cape alone hey can what do you guys drop the link and in the rundown cuz I don't have his back tattoo oh I put in the run guys right there's two links in our I put it in the rundown though um yes I see I see your point yeah and then dude I hope you're doing regular checks on your liver cuz um that ink is well there's like you know that's not me poisonous we put too much stuff in there I especially the black ink is like so thick and the your kills our guys have problems with this is what I'm saying this visit like there's it's like they're ruining their livers by putting these like giant tattoos in our backs I know I'm telling prick now cuz we owe you one well here is the other side of that you got your liver yeah exactly you're dying slowly cuz you have a bad tattoo of Darth Vader on you know yeah way to bring it down yeah thanks i mean i don't know you don't just you just come down here with me enjoy me well on that downer tip here I've got daya I've got the do not crave segment of grave right this one is a iphone charger that's powered by your breath specifically harnessed by this horrible looking mask you wear on your face hmm the air mass it looks like a hairy mask it looks like the League of Shadows mass from Batman Begins it kind of to me it looks like um like an original Battlestar Galactica Oh Cylons island yeah yeah I get that so you start saying that I get that on the why I guess they have like that right there yeah I guess I do have that they have that original kind of yeah um so yeah you can get this and just breathe your way to recharging your iPhone yeah but yeah it's actually just a concept so you can't get this oh oh you can ok well the concept yeah I think then this this is not I don't think we're gonna find kickstarter funding for this particular concept yeah I don't know that thing that mass is look too comfortable now no and I like the idea yeah that renewable energy sure the idea is great yes again again on the right path yeah well we have tons of great ideas in you know in this world but it doesn't like sector inside that's more coming alright we have some fan mail yay play the fam and music not well oh yeah Kevin no it's like a little herb alpert kind of a melon trail Donald social today we're no I herb alpert makes me happy this is from Joseph you'll see it's like Joseph but with the c.e.o he says hello great podcast crew and almost every single one of your episodes you guys always say that you barely getting emails where I'm writing you guys to get the word out that you guys are making a freshman in college in Las Vegas Nevada very happy when watching the crave podcast I wonder who this / the stretch Minh is in Las Vegas yeah okapi makes probably Joseph that make sense Joseph ok I love love love crave I believe is a good complement to the create blog which which is where I learn and find out many interesting things week by week and get to hear you got your guys thoughts about the highlights of the week that was posted on the blog and when I found out that Bonnie cha would be leaving dialed in for the Craig podcast I was thrilled but Donald and Eric should be proud of themselves for representing the geeky individuals such as myself on the podcast he loves Eric's geek news segment he's been pleased with the recent episodes that have been longer and that we fill his day with craves geeky jokes laughter and lucky funny perverted comments keep up the good work well we definitely got you covered on perversion yet this particular episode so Donald Donald that is the well Donna has himself covered human boomerang with his tarp and his crank crank crank good Thank You Joseph that was a very nice yes yeah thank you for that and also to our star wars a winner you know yeah exactly them definitely no i'm not back on i mean i think they think is great that he did that I just I wonder I worried about his safety that's all this is hell turned yeah well concern fire that's all anyway he knows what he's doing he's a grown man all right I know what you talk some more in our favorite segments called meanwhile o came back really I expected was just about pick my nose um I mean you can it is not you before yeah it has no stops make the campers okay what are you talking about um you should speaking of being picky yeah yeah there is a growing group on the internet that are dissatisfied with the ending to Mass Effect 3 mass victory is the latest game in Mass Effect series and um there are a few people on the internet who play through the game and didn't like where their Shepherd ended up I guess I haven't played through the whole game so far and I'm trying to avoid spoilers I don't want to spoil for me I got a little small piece of a spoiler research in this today now massive factory isn't that the game we were just talking about it a few weeks ago where like we you have so many different paths that you can rate yes so I would it would make sense that you have a lot of different endings given all the way from path supposedly there there are a lot of different endings depending on your your your Galaxy at War readiness you're trying to get like this whole huge group together to fight you know the main enemy and based on that and base how much resources you guys have gathered is going to affect the ending but I'm that is but people i think i feel like people have different problems with the ending like some people have problems with the story some people have problems with the execution some people have problems with you know it just it is not what they would have picked for their character they've been playing through three games with and i can feel that I can feel like people have problems you have problems but I really have a hard time with Bioware the company made the game considering changing the ending to appease fans I have a problem with that I don't know what the Indians and I guess if it's it some mechanical jess is in another castle yes exactly right now sorry Shepherd but um our miranda is in another castle no I'm so you think my I should just stick to their I think they should stick to their guns i like i said i don't know what the ending is but doesn't really matter I I feel like like like succumbing to this kind of pressure um from fans who like this one guy filed a filed an FFT possibly with FTC saying like I pay for this game is not satisfied it's like come on man really this this this reeks of just like just uh out of control ego huh in my opinion like someone's is like well I I won't stand for this bioware I paid sixty dollars game and I expect the ending that Ike's expected you know is this yeah I'm gonna fly if it I hate anything I wouldn't be like I do understand like when you invest that much of your life in these games now where it's like months of your life go into playing them then getting developing your character in getting to the end you want the payoff to be something yes yes surprising and worthy of your time yes you want it to be worthwhile you want to be satisfying right I agree complete with that and I and I everyone is entitled to their own opinion I don't even know what the ending is so if you're dissatisfied with the ending yes more power to you but asking the company to change the ending that just seems like it's going a step too far do you guys like planted you I mean is that something that you would support like change I'd be like okay that is anything it sucked but yeah I wouldn't change it for me right i don't like that's the way it is that's not my expectation yeah manas i don't feel like that's why people got so annoyed with lucas it was like look man I know today you have kids and stuff and back then you didn't have kids he you wanted to change it make it more kid friendly and whatever but you shot the movie that you shot in 1977 or whatever was for reason it's that it's the way it is because of who you were when you shot that movie and because of who you were and because the way it is it's affected me in a certain way so if you're gonna go and change it now then it it changes my perspective on that movie like it if I don't have you know hon shooting first is it's as a feel I would say to both to in both cases the the punishment for having a crappy ending for something you've built up so much is that people just aren't going to buy the next one you know or like you're going to lose the hardcore fans that supported you all all this way sure I think in George Lucas's case there's it was just there's so much momentum of Star Wars fandom damn like life's and tattoos that been built up into a Star Wars identity that you can probably afford to disappoint them a little bit without getting sued but in the case of mass effect i can see that i mean i'm sure they want a mass effect 4 and if they disappoint fans and get people thinking like well if you're going to screw me over this bad i'm not gonna stop investing in this mass of that franchise do you think that'll happen isn't is math isn't that a really popular gaming level it is a very popular game series they've said that the mass effect this is the end of the trilogy this is the end of the trilogy doesn't necessarily mean this is the last mass effect game right like with the character even using Shepard this is probably that characters last game maybe um but I think the franchise will continue in the years to come because it's a popular fange franchise so they do have to protect that that IP you know and if you look like metacritic and sub like that this guy it's got really low ratings from users but really high ratings from critics um because of just sticking points i think when something gets really really popular it's kind of easy to kind of pick at it you know I I and I think it's almost expected these days when something's really anticipated comes out and maybe it's not the and nothing can ever live up to everyone's expectations and when we have really high expectations you're bound to be disappointed um and when that happens people you know people react people react emotionally because they're like he said they're mostly they've been playing these characters for a long time they're mostly connected to the universe and the character so I understand I understand being upset about it I don't support trying to make Bioware change anything all right there you go um I agree that okay yeah yeah sure okay yeah in Bonnie well I don't know Danny I mean I would never have that expectation if the ending is like suddenly you know rainbow bright pops out of a space capsule and tells you that the universe is meaningless in you should you know you shouldn't have wasted all your time playing this game then I'd be a little bit upset and I would sue them but at the same time I would love that I would I be upset people I'm like that is the ball like this boom nyan cat if it's just like half hour of like Mankad could then I feel like that's going too far you're definitely toying with me at that point yeah no I see what you're saying but if that's their choice in this which was at the apt live with it it's the art yeah yeah yeah it's live with the consequences all right what else do we have um what else we have a speaking of consequences the characters of the new Prometheus trailer have to deal with some really really dire consequences of their curiosity and their kind of assumptions about the universe here's the new trailer we're gonna check it out right here right now King has his reign and then he dies it's inevitable we Thea says that these are ancient civilization that were separated by centuries and yet this same Victor gran was discovered in every one of them you're smiling I think they want us to go to fight we're all here because of Matthew two kids found in a cave not summer an invitation from please tell me you can read them prometheus are you saying this whatever that probe is picking up it's reading laughs for what do you mean like me oh the head changing changing into what ship they're leaving to go where this he was so wrong home you go back to you I big things have small beginnings I want to panic attack god damn hands I I think that trailers really well done has a requisite Brown fine inception you like those are the two instruments I want to take up now is like the bassoon trumpet or whatever that is like power and then the whatever that screaming tiny baby bird call yeah really well done like I don't know if that's in the soundtrack oh that's from smaller property or something but yeah that looks that looks awesome I like like I like all those actors that are in it and it just looks with all your the effects look great from you know the things we've seen and we don't have enough for science fiction movies and space or movies like event horizon and alien and stuff like that and aliens was great but not really a horror movie you know so aliens is not a little aliens is an action movie come on that is it what does an action movie alien is a horribly aliens is an active say aliens did I I said alien you did yeah but then I said alien yeah and then get back to your hand all right Oh human meringues anyway that's it for guidance alright that's it for the great podcast then thank you for joining us we'll be back next week until then you can read more of the stories will be talking about on cnet scrape blog you can email us at crave at cnet com and we'll see you again next week you