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all right let's talk about wearables because like I said that's all you do here that's it and then you can eliminate me that's it I'm done well cut the break hourglass is running out so tell me about like what is popular with wearables in your life like what are you doing that has you like turning to wearables and saying oh this is the thing I need yeah well they're definitely not popular in my family like if I stopped using them I would do be welcomed sure you know buddy this is going yeah that's one more thing I'm coddling you know in my life so you're saying you like that exactly it's fantastic I did there's definitely a time to wait on getting anything unless you want to spend like $100 but like what I use them for it I kept saying for some use a pebble it's basically like a pager on your wrist okay and I don't think it's changed much since then the best thing a wearable does is buzz you and give you a reminder which sometimes can be really helpful if you think you might miss a call or there's something you know you don't want to pick up your phone right there's also obviously the the fitness tracking part which you know if you stick to a routine the problem is it's a carrot on a stick that it's got to go with like a regular gym regimen right fishing and I'm glad you brought up the fitness thing because I think we this a lot of stuff I don't want to say what I want to say but what I'm going to say is like hey maybe all this fitness crave stuff is not something anyone should really like completely you know rely on for getting healthy yes because well no doctor thinks of these as an answer right they're not medically approved he looks at the charges like look Larry the reason you're a hundred pounds overweight yes you don't have a Fitbit gotta get yourself a fix right it comes down to like when I've been able to lose weight or that gained weight again and I've used two tummies things firstly got to stick to ones if I'm switching from one to the other that's not gonna work yeah and yeah it's just a weighted so it's a motivator it's like if that works if you've got some other system that works but these all cap out generally at the step tracking and they do some things like like you know running or some heartrate stuff but the the deeper you get the more more active you try to get the more fitness trackers tend to fail you sure so if you're just trying to see you oh was i alive and walking it makes me kind of dismissive but it's true that's great really like if you're gonna go to the gym three or four times a week you know that and you know what you're doing watch isn't gonna do so the tracker is just like extra motivation so use it for that use it for those I use it for things like checking the weather which actually things like I mean dark sky is actually a great app let you know like when the weather when it's gonna rain within like five minutes so you seem like Doc Brown and oh cool yeah so that that I love that app yeah I'm saying micro weather reports and I want everyone watching on YouTube Facebook wherever you're coming from comment on what you're seeing right here we're gonna answer as many questions as we can or take your comments or do what we need to do to help you out to ensure that you have a successful July 4th weekend and if you're not in the country and you're celebrating something else you can have a good weekend also so make sure you interact with us and we'll get to some of those as they come in but Scott I want to pivot to specifically the Apple watch the pebble the the smart watches shirt is right now a time to own a SmartWatch new ok moving along we're done you know and basically if you can spend as little as possible right now the reason I say that is because we're expecting all these things to get updates in the fall like pretty much I mean you think Apple watch should Android wear is gonna have observable coming out yeah new pebbles coming out we already know about that you expect all the other watchmakers probably gonna follow suit so you want to kick yourself for spending several hundred dollars and something it's gonna get updated now summer is a good time to wear one because you're probably out and about but just not a great time to buy one unless again pebble actually makes a couple of very affordable ones that's probably a pretty good way to go for something where you're not spending a lot of money or if things on sale like a hundred dollars where do you feel comfortable think if it's buying a pair of shoes right and you're okay with getting a new pair of shoes later but just it's like I don't want to tell you you know don't come to me later tell me that oh there's a new version out that's the problem and I think they all need improvement so there's no perfect SmartWatch right now definitely what are you gonna say Jeff I think I'm one that he's invented that looking forward to is the Microsoft band 3 I just learned that there is something called the Microsoft band 3 tell me about it there the two is current right now right that's what you're wearing but I would like may not be aware of the Microsoft band 1 into it right well I mean in the smart bin smartband sense I like a regular watch on my left and of course and I like something that doesn't look like a watch on my right hand okay but you do look like you do look like some time travel you look like a LIVESTRONG Armstrong now my testing gadgets move you're not fooling anyone I love this because it has GPS and I ride a bicycle and a lot of them don't have GPS except for like some of the other Garmin ones and Garmin wines and then increasingly some of the because I started out with the Nike FuelBand loved it was great for steps it was great because of community it was great because it was great for steps in the community because it had little motivational flags at you yeah you know fortnight right cetera right it was horrible if I rode my bicycle because I would ride my bicycle maybe ten miles and somebody to run two miles and they'd kicked my button in the so-called Nike Fuel measurement system I like this because it actually logs my distance because it has GPS okay I like it it also has UV I can lose my movie do you use the UV future I will this weekend something that appeals to mind where I mean let's be honest it's got it under your wrist I mean you can wear it the other way around the back hold on let me see if it's sunny you are men so the Microsoft band that make your you're kind of meant to wear it flipped around with the band with the screen oh you're wearing your wrong you know no because I'd rather scratch this because I'm typing all the time wise you're like that was ending your arm another reason another another benefit to having it underneath those you even have your text alerts and tech when Scott right you just come on the top and everybody look like my son is always like I gotcha you can like put your note you can use your nose but I would like to see in terms of futures it's great I would like to see a better battery life yeah and maybe a little more refined of design but I'm content with all the all right you're welcome I said as long as you're not the venue oh my god because no because it's because it's a good time but they also had they also added sports community as a sleep tracker so now like like Nick Healy is my only other friend with it piss off too bad so I can see how well Nick did and in the end the community you guys you guys holding another meeting well no because I know you could get competitive yeah Nick's not doing more steps in Australia than I can do a new year olds gravity yeah so total is if you're gonna give those finished band stuff now one of the main points is he do it to compete with people if they had a game of fire yeah game fight and like I mean finally Apple watch is getting on board with that but Fitbit that's the main appeal Fitbit I think is that you say oh you have a friend that does it's alright it was like I mean if you have like 10 friends that all are like using Jawbone's right you're like the job but exactly is they be got the club then join that Club yeah because you you know you got your jawbone club but hopefully it's a platform that a lot of other people are using that's join that job own Club what's like people used to spend all sorts of money on other like diet plans and things everybody buy a gadget just to do those things back in that what 70s or whatever that period of time was I didn't have you know more advanced pedometers but that what I'm just saying is well listen let's hear what that has to say about this fine stuff I believe we have a couple questions from the internet Dominic on Facebook loves his pebble for its long battery charge R&J said he's tried several of the smart watches out there but he likes just an old-fashioned watch for the basics and Jorge had a question he wants to know if if GPS if you think he GPS could come to a future version of an Apple watch or if there's any speculation that you guys have heard about an Apple watch to in the future Scott what do you think about the GPS on an Apple watch biggest problem with GPS the iPhone just wrap that around your wrist these problem of GPS is the battery life hey cuz you're gonna get like what six hours maximum of GPS used before the most of these devices die and so the battery life is already pretty low on the Apple watch er like a day and a half and you know do you want to cut that down further that's the only problem and then you also make it a little bit bigger probably because a lot of these things have to find a way to get that mechanism that I can write like man they just need to make the Apple watch automatic huh huh that's what I think is just focused on making it more automatic and more and more seamless so when I say automatic I mean like powered by the motion of your wrist oh I see you're saying yeah exactly like I get it that's an insane amount of of energy you're producing but like yeah watch isn't kind of neat to have that that's why I like the automatic watches of the world are amazing right and just kind of like laughs in the face of all these smart ones it's charging is the most annoying thing and it's amazing to me how many people seem okay with charging their device the problem is this if we had some sort of universal charging there is there's Qi I mean like a universal charging mat or stand right but what happens is that all of these wearables don't use it or they use it in some way you have to use a special little oh it's or two attachment you can't just you can't just chuck them on the table you're driving - we were promised them that yeah where you just light them in your charging table if you can just take off all your stuff and your shoes your your hat your smart glasses your smart pants wherever you put those on the charge table sure that's great but I'm not gonna hunt around for these dongles and carry them and it gets frustrating pebble I do like is the battery life yeah like that's a thing look full disclosure full transparency i pre-ordered a pebble time - yeah on Kickstarter I backed it I always wanted a pebble but I convinced myself to wait and I feel like I'm finally gonna be rewarded for my patience this pebble time - I think looks like you know I like the size of that screen they really doubled up on that they did uh yeah and I think that they they've been making a lot of these watches of making gains if you do care about fitness tracking right the basic fitness tracking has all been getting better on those watches okay Android wears been getting better over time pebble has been doing automatic step and sleep tracking so it kind of almost does the same thing that you would get out of a Fitbit - again the community uh-huh but some basic features are already in there so you you might find yourself pretty happy with a lot of what it just don't expect again like the idea of apps on a watch if you even want that that stuff's not there some of the things like you know payments return to show up but again like how often do I use this for payments I've always got my wallet and it's not showing up on every terminal so yeah what do you think the next big step smartwatches have to achieve for them to hit this sort of like critical mass Mike had dinner in San Francisco when I was at there last time it was like sitting next to this couple and it's like the classic average you know person they were in text was different right but I thought that their comment was gonna be something about like battery life and basically they just said yeah you tap all by one of those when does it cost $700 as price and yeah price and like I can use it away from my phone yeah what you have to sever that connection yeah so yeah I actually think those two things that actually hits I'm saying its price and you know people the more people realize how much you need your phone around these things do a little bit without your phone but not enough and that really breaks the like magic super watch thought sure what what am I using this for yeah I think you could make do it more with that now 3G connection some of these watches already have cellular Samsung gear s2 3G again your times and other radio it's and other powers so cuts on all these things cut down when I wear them times the last 49 hours it's battery LG has one that it's 3G Android wear but you know you have to pay for the extra data your it they're bigger they they don't really make much sense a lot of a lot of the apps don't really feel hooked into it right so it's kind of interesting idea but it's not really an interesting idea but at some point you do want it to work just just like work and I know that sounds dumb enough but no that's it is that you don't want to spend a lot of time under watch everybody's onto that we're just not there yet no we're just not there and watch faces I think finally somebody said that's a great point but watch the 360 you just make all these things should be your cool wine laces and let me do it on the computer like letting give me the great set of tools pebble motor whatever it is even Apple I'm Hewitt I let me build it let me build it and do what I want and add as many if I want that scream application film yeah with like 20 all the state capitals I don't know I wear I just like a look at the microscope a jeweler's loupe so what I want that X I agree all right we're all right well there's a question from YouTube more smart watch batteries getting bigger like physically or or they weren't specific I guess they have to get bigger if they're gonna get take up more real estate you mean they may have to or I think you're gonna have a hard time making even more efficient process you're up against a bit of a wall right uh they might have to get a little bit bigger yeah I'll come up with this I mean I actually think a way to go would be maybe sauce or a battery wristband yeah maybe more I that makes sense I'm like I don't want to see that apples put batteries in everything put it in the wristband well pebble did that whole smart band thing which I've never really turn into anything and so why don't you have like smart strapped accessories right all right good