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good morning and welcome back to cnet's live coverage of CES 2014 it is day three of the show I'm Donald Bell she's Bridget Carey and this is inside scoop our daily news roundup of everything you need to know for yesterday and today yes mostly was still looking back I mean a day three really everything that has needs to be announced as been announced right there's no we're still just kind of scrambling to catch up all the little sleeper stories it gives us time without having all those big announcements to go test things I'll get hands-on time with all the quirky products on the show floor didn't do the analysis too sometimes it's just just like a scattershot of stuffing thrown at us for the first couple days and then we actually kind of can tie the themes together some stuff that did happen yesterday of note or at least the first thing that happened yesterday of note was t-mobile's announcement that not only are they breaking into a tease parties to see Macklemore but they are also going to buy you out of your contract if you want to leave your your carrier to come to t-mobile they will erase the pain of breaking you're breaking your contract it was early termination fees they'll give you the money for whatever it costs up to six hundred and fifty dollars provided that you also turn in your old device as a trade-in you're probably sick of your old phone anyway so you're going to get a new carrier new phone right and and no pain in terms of determination pieces i think that's always the kicker is like when you're you're in six months into your contract with like a verizon or an 18 teen like ah this is killing me or you learn about something new and you feel like you just can't even make the switch because she's not worth the cost but they're trying to they're being really edgy here this and this has got to hurt the other guys i mean yeah i feel like t-mobile's whole roll aside from being like the badasses of the carriers you always has a leather jacket it just disrupt the whole i mean in terms of the there their whole prepayment for by the way that you're buying your phone through t-mobile by paying upfront for breaking up the cost so you're not locked into a contract with t-mobile but then also just this being able to like actively poach the customers for they're from other carriers to try to get them to come over to t-mobile I think it's smart John ledger thinks he's Batman you know is you know he's always trying to be crazy and disruptive and this is the year that you know they're going to see if it all pays out it'll be interesting year okay also we saw yesterday the razor project christine this is a for gamers for like pc gamers mm-hmm this is a serious tower computer where everything is modular right you can pull you can swap out the drive you can swap out the interface you can swap out the all the system but they're like hot swappable kind of like a one side like that like the hard drive storage systems where you can just kind of swap out the yes even if you don't know how to build your own pc it's just kind of like stick stick the piece you on into the slot you want to upgrade something or upgraded another piece of it it's also interesting it's all cooled by mineral oil I'm like that's kind of like unique to now this is a nice aroma yeah this is something that's a project you know that's not gonna probably go out yet but be interesting to see fake post to another level next CES cuz razor does show us a lot of gaming projects every other year or so yeah i think the drobo is what i was making of its kind of the swappable drive deals that look cooler than they do they really are but it looks neat I mean it's for for as little news as we get out of the tower pc space it looks like a cool product we also saw the avocado if we saw a lot of wearable tech for your face Oh Edwin yes a lot of Google glassy and kind of everyone should put some sort of glass thing on your face yeah and this avah got is kind of like a two in one it's a headset but you take the headset down and put it as a visor and suddenly you have a movie screen in front of you and the screen so good that it could even do 3ds you wore this yesterday yes I did came by the booth and I just solid Bridget sitting here with this hunter face that's a thing and I felt like God Stein next we're just talking about it but like I was at a Star Trek I would say that I was surprised at how crisp it was I didn't feel like I was trying to focus really hard or go cross I trying to see this because in some iterations of this kind of technology it gives you a headache you get you're prone to get dizzy not this also looks a little bulky I mean I'm very fit on your head if the headbands on at the top there's like a smaller headband it kind of keeps its kind of hidden in scotland's hair and the extra but yeah what when I had it on I mean I had a kind of you know hold it up it wasn't exactly all tweaked to the size of my head but I hope that they have a model that's a little smaller because it is a lot of tech just sitting on the bridge of your nose is a lot of trust that people aren't gonna like knock you over when you have that on your face yeah I imagine you might want this when you're sitting on a plane for a while a train but yeah I hope no one like you can't see anything around you so I hope no one like sneak show off with your bag or something but it's a lot of trust all right we also saw an interesting hybrid laptop from Toshiba a proof of concept may come to market may not but the cool thing about this guy was that aside from opening up that and having a tablet touchscreen it also had a detachable keyboard secrets and that detached in such a way that when you flip the base underneath it you can kind of have a separate keyboard you must have like a yes and yes you we've seen a lot of these hybrids were it's part tablet it's part laptop whatever you want just take unclip it take it with you you know kind of started with like you see that in surface and other products sums that like a yoga that can fold in different ways this one folds all the way and also the tablet has a stand so III think it's an interesting trend where people who are buying pcs right now don't know where they want one or the other they can have best of both worlds and here's an example of when a tablet separates you can still stand it up yeah I mean it was still remains to be seen if people are going to still be buying pcs I me it feels like as innovative as this might be this is still doesn't seem like this is the thing that's going to pick people's attention up from actually buying a new laptop this year like everything's been on the decline for this market yeah as sexy as this product might be well it's because it's hoping to get that group of folks who go I don't know if I want a tablet but I don't want to get rid of the keyboard its market so is every PC product that came out in 2013 yeah this one for as great as it is it's awesome it's lacking a trackpad to like it has a little one of those little thinkpad know no nubs no no no you're not going back to the neck I know I can't go back to the nubbins but yeah maybe we'll see this it's an interesting product that's probably for better or worse maybe one of the more interesting laptops we saw from CES 2014 but I think that's speaking a lot about where PCs are right now yeah not exactly a lot of big jumps in differentiation points speaking of hybrids here's an interesting one I don't I don't think I've ever seen before is it very unique a mobile hotspot from ZTE and it's also a projector also a projector it's also a battery charger also a tablet in also yeah for screen android portable tablet screen i mean ZTE i mean they're their phones when we hear about them they're usually the middle of the road kind of phones they had to kind of hit every carrier for like a mid-range model but you don't see a lot of quirky stuff out of this company this one looks interesting this is very innovative so it's about a five by five inch inch box very lightweight and once you pop a sim card in it so you're going to need your own data plan for it yeah it can be its own hotspot for up to eight devices and then because it's Android inside you put any Android app in it whether it's netflix or anything you would do on a android device like your powerpoint presentation and then just display mirrored exactly what's on that screen onto the wall you can so you have families on a trip you do video that way but also for work kind of like the work play aspect if it has an hdmi port so if you don't have a television for your xbox you can plug it in there and display your game that way it's the use cases i still don't buy yet but like it's one of those products where I'm I feel like the whole the whole thing was like we can make this product now we couldn't make it before I don't know if anyone needs it but isn't it cool that we can make it and I yeah behind it i would like to play around with it you don't carry so many things around with you if you're a business traveler that's the sweet spot yeah it's not a projector projector though it's like well well actually it gets up to 120 inches I mean we didn't get to see it I feel like it's the projection would have to like show a movie inside of a tent while you're camping like yeah that kind of thing like for a kid but interesting product NZT not usually want to come out with things that are exorbitantly expensive so if it does come out probably something you could actually yeah yeah hopefully hopefully all right that'll do it for today's inside scoop thanks Bridget because you were not going to be joining me tomorrow right you're you're getting out of here I'm going back I'll be back tomorrow last day of CES joined by UK editor jason jenkins and there's a whole lot more coming your way today at 11am pacific time brian cooley and I will be here for the last of our CES in-depth shows and it will be the final word on the most important trends and products from CES 2014 I'll see you then