Gadgetory

what's up Brian song here and welcome to Google ish asst it's all the google that we can pack into a show each week so let's get to it in you know sometimes you'll get the unexpected that keeps the tech world on its toes and Google pulled one of those moves after it officially acquired Boston Dynamics the maker of animal inspired robots now if you haven't seen what this company is capable of these video cliffs pretty much say it all they have robots like the big dog that can carry and transport 400-pound loads or the cheetah that can run over 29 miles per hour it's almost as fast as me now the acquisition aligns with former Android chief Andy Rubens robotic push for google and it's pretty clear this is his love of robots and it's his new focus oh and this guy the pet man that's a robot not someone dressed up in a suit so we'll see what Reubens team brings us in the next few years but i'll just start worrying if they named one of their buildings Cyberdyne the Nexus 5 has rated our top product on the scene at 100 right now that's an algorithm combining seen its own internal and external data reviews and input from our editors and really what's hot right now to create text first-of-its-kind leaderboard now the Nexus 5 is only going to get better or really just slightly adjusted after pictures from the xda-developers forum show subtle hardware tweaks to the phone now if you guys look carefully you'll see larger slightly larger speaker grills because that's obviously important and the volume and power buttons reportedly have been made to be stiffer with the SIM card tray protruding less compared to initial model so good for new users in and that's so hot for the loyal early adopters now the LG G flex phone with its self-healing Wolverine like backing still hasn't officially announced a US carrier but Eveleigh expose of the pic that is destined for sprint according to them now there's no price and no availability information and it really is a unique device but we'll see if consumers care about this flexible type display also software updates are always happening in the Google world we talked about four point two point two rolling out last week and now Google Play editions of the samsung s4 and HTC One are getting them as well including the LG G pad 8.3 inch google play edition that was rumored to possibly be the new Nexus tablet but it's a google play edition instead and a good sign over all Google Play edition models aren't getting the updates nearly as fast as Nexus devices also netflix for Android finally gets the multiple profile support we've seen this on the set-top box versions and iOS so is great to finally see it on Android the update also includes and enhanced search for people and related titles as well as bug fixes and Google is also adding a feature called control room to Google Hangouts on air that are starting to gain popularity it will now allow you to adjust the volume level and video levels of other participants for yourself it will be coming into the next few days and the best part is muting people you don't care about and a few quick stories we don't have any moving shots so you'll just have to use your imagination but this is pretty awesome after a new google glass game called glass hunt just think of it as duck hunt without the ducks or the dog you know that and you'll be shooting clay pigeons for google glass instead and the Moto X is still a popular phone with customization galore and they offered a teaser on their Twitter account for a new wood backing finally wouldn't you know it's what everyone wanted in the first place and check this out a little Easter Egg for Google+ users the big googs added a cool shake feature on Android just shake it up and you'll see some awesome auto snow in fact we added the same feature to this show so just try it right now just shake us shake shake us right now keep shaking and look see how cool we have Auto snow too all right that's going to do it for this week's show now we're going to be gone on a holiday break and going to CES so we're going to be gone for a few weeks and will return in the middle of January we're not going away but we just wanted to let you all know and remember you can email us at Google ishes at cnet com or tweet me a brian Tong and i'll respond to you when I can thanks so much for watching i'm brian Tong and we'll see you next year for some more of that Google Isha's delicious