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it's Tuesday April seventeenth 2012 it's a 44 show on CNN TV i'm jeff beck Allah and I am Justin you and this is the show where Jeff takes a nice nap I snap permanently man you ate it yesterday okay though you know it's funny I don't know what's worse my hip or my allergies cuz I'm struggling man yeah it's my voice you hear that you better cancel that dance class I can't see I can't screw I can't talk what I do every day you're all flamed up your sinuses are bad I'm not stuffed up yeah I could roll are we all are we asked in the pre-show how come when you're sick only work one side of your nostril one nostril gets clear and then the other then they switch back and forth that might be because you're tossing and turning in beds or whatever side you're on that's the one thing so yeah I don't know I feel like yeah I don't i agree with Richard it happens when your stands it happens it happens to me when I'm standing up time like sometimes when I'm walking down the street all of a sudden I'll just feel it go like yeah to the other side of my face yeah it's crazy anyone what have your legs is longer than the other you're leaning toward this and it's just like a gravity thing could be if there's a doctor in the house call us up let us know why the hell that happened we only cover the most pressing questions on the form it's a little abstract piece of trivia like a philosoraptor exactly but nevertheless I would feel better knowing the answer yeah and that's what we do here on the show we get down to the nitty gritty and we find out all the answers tell people where the show title came from I fell down pretty hard yesterday my hockey game and I I'm walking funny huh I'm nice that sounds nice you know that's not nice adjustment is like that came laughs at that oh sorry it's okay but the worst part about is that it was nothing but my fault you didn't get like shoulder checked you know that that just fell I tripped over nothing that's why you don't lost an edge humans don't belong on tiny little pieces of steel rolling around on what these knives that are touching yeah exactly after who invented the eye hole I thought I don't know but it's not I don't want to talk more about that I want to talk about I show us your bruise now it's not bruised not know it's just like it's like the hip bone do you know what I mean it's under its its its there's a and I'm surprised because I have a fat ass please isolate that sound and I would give anything for that sound but so would I and I got one of them and I have booty all those inches and inches of blubber that protect my my hip from you know myself we gotta stop talking about this I'm getting very excited you're getting hungry it's what you gettin tables moving so anyway quick programming note I know Wayne Brady's definitely gonna be in our program we've been switching back and forth the days and I just want to clear the air it does sound like officially he's gonna switch back he's gonna be on Friday because he's getting in a little earlier now and we'll be able to have them on at a proper time on friday cool I think so as of this recording that's when he's going to be on this friday April twentieth ok ok sounds good say so I want you to know I want you to know and I want you to know alright and that's all that matters me you ok just you let's jump into things shall we mr. you I wanted to talk about this yesterday but we didn't get to cover it and now a little older but doesn't matter it's fun talk about it anyway Tupac at Coachella Jeff you've heard about this right so at the big music festival Coachella this year there was a groundbreaking performance Tupac was resurrected from the dead yeah of course he died got shot in 1996 I believe he's been dead for that long he's been dead for a while it's a watch 17-year no 16 years that's crazy yeah yeah but it was this is really cool and I wish we could show a video of this but pictures will have to do because he kind of cusses a lot but it's awesome because uh it looks so realistic and this has got to be the future of musical performances for us I mean okay so everyone thought initially that it was a hologram it's not a hologram it's a holographic image and it's important to note that because it's not you know like this is basically the same technology that will i am from black eyed peas used to display those election results right it's kind of cool though I guess this company AV Concepts is behind it and there's actually a separate room on the side of the stage where they have the image projected and then there's a big sheet of Mylar next to snoop dogg here which reflects that image onto the stage so that's what makes it look so 3d and realistic and it's actually three stacked 1920 x 1080 images and that's what gives it that 3d effect so I'm still confused as to how they display this ok so it's a technique that's like five centuries old did a little research five centuries live centuries all those it was actually invented in the 16th century missions have been using it for a while it's called Pepper's Ghost that's the technique okay right so so there's a stage right that everyone can see there's actually a hidden stage on the right hand side okay where the original image graphic is projected onto okay right and then they have a really thin sheet of Mylar where you see Tupac standing here on the main stage gotcha that reflects the projected image on the side stage okay and that images such high quality that it's actually 2d but the pixels are so fine that him you know the audience kind of get it looks really good yeah do you think people were were freaking out people were free yeah I mean if you watch the video the coolest part about is that he comes out introduces himself and says what's up Coachella how does he do that it's weird I have any points that people have a healthy wait a minute yeah so where did they so what I okay where did they grab this footage where do they grab this original footage is it cg b is cg okay yeah so AV Concepts worked with dr. Dre to bring this image and they what they do is splice together Tupac sold performances right into a montage of it you know that basically creates this new video right of him that's crap he said Coachella in conversation before and some other words some point in his life he said Coachella yeah on and it was recorded but yet so cool i mean that's funny to see snoop dogg unsure of where to look because yeah he kind of goes over to him you like put his hand through rock space it's kind of funny to watch him sort of maneuver around him hehe it looks like he keeps a safe distance the whole time yeah I don't want to mess with the effect there you know it would have been funny if to buckeye gotten on stage have been like what the hell happened to my shirt here I died at 96 with his shirt might be that Chappelle show it yeah yeah oh man that's that's just crazy so two people freaking out the same people who thought who didn't realize i thought that tupac was still alive yeah i mean this looks so good though it looks really looks really awesome you guys should go watch the video and it just kind of got me thinking is this what is going to be acceptable no I performances now I mean for David on ya not to substitute there's still a lot I mean if Biggie and Tupac want to have a concert and go on the road with their but they're like projections I think it'd be I think you're a little weird to pay money to see the projection of a dead person right ah watch that beef you know but hey it's it's uh in in this context using it as a cameo and as a purely a special effects or a spectacle sure I don't know what am I going to get mad and got so much media attention that the company behind it dr. dre said that they might take it on the road so they could do a traveling thing I would maybe not go watch Tupac but I would definitely be up for watching past acts who would you want to see Queen Queen was very freaking mercury that's who I want to see definitely nuff said I mean I don't there's no one else maybe they then they could do like a Nirvana thing I was gonna say i wanna see Kurt Cobain into nirvana why not Michael Jackson I want to see that completed this is it tour I'm serious I just I just I don't know if you go and you see Freddie Mercury yeah you did not see Queen okay you saw queen with an asterisk at the at the end of it and at the bottom it says projection of a dead guy right is what you saw unfortunately it said but I mean hey if if you can feel some sort of like you know if you can just knock another thing off your bucket list right like I got the sorta sequin blonde yeah go for it you know what screw it though I want to have a whole bill and ted reenactment I want like Amadeus I'm sorry Don there you want to see Rufus off at the up there to grab friggin Beethoven all those guys i wanna see sokrates so jam performance that would be cool how amazing with that then I want Ben Franklin in the background compose your Genghis Khan gag his out there Joan of Arc on the ones and twos and then the finale Abraham lling handling is just gonna get like a little monologue talk to you about emancipation for an encore yeah definitely that's crazy but it's funny though man is funny but I could imagine a future you know maybe in like a decade or so when this technology comes into the home or in mobile handsets you could have live performances in your living room wasn't this the plot to that movie Simone with Al Pacino yeah I remember that what like Al Pacino was somehow I didn't see it I just remember what exactly the film was about Al Pacino was involved in some sort of conspiracy where they created this celebrity that wasn't real he acted in movies and issues just cg huh and he took her around and she to the point where they were able to do like in person stuff right yeah they did interviews and stuff I think like she was in movies but her co-worker her co-stars and stuff didn't even realize yes wait a minute cuz she did like all her scenes like separate because she was fake okay but but and did ever realize I don't know it's been a long time since I seen the movie but I remember and Simone and like the one is a the eyes of one and the cereals and hoe and stuff like that yeah that's some own same technology Al Pacino read the script is like okay I'm on boy it sounds like let's do this is in my candy this is it right here hello Oscar yeah it's pretty good it's really cool though I'm into it yeah I'm fully supporting this idea yeah I mean it's tough to get mad at it like I said I just don't like people acting like that's how I saw sublime yeah I mean that's how I saw Nirvana know you just you saw a special effect and how do I feel so okay they get queen right they're like all right the whole band if you know everyone's still around and then okay guys we're just going to project Freddie Mercury as your as your frontman right so what do you do if your do you like if I'm the drummer of Queen and I'm just playing I'm like all right they're just gonna have a holographic framer here singing while play it's sort of weird yet it is weird it's a little strange actually rapping lets you know what you just I guess no maybe behind you it's so weird for stupid or two to just you know I heard they were going back and forth right he like tried to pass him a joint and dropped onto the ground burn part of the stage is weird oh that's pretty terrible and funny at the same time IKEA is making headlines they're announcing furniture with integrated TV speakers in blu-ray and they're not using those fakes plastic stand-ins that they have at their stores is actually real tvs i love those things by the way oh like all the fake the power electronic is like flicking it falls over the guys open house pretty good what kind of furniture are we talking about here so this fall IKEA is going to be releasing their own home entertainment system it's basically integrating a flat panel television an HDTV with a built-in blu-ray player and then a wireless subwoofer the one calling it the up never be what up lever up lleva a know it's some Swedish thing the only catch you gotta build the TV yourself that's good I was that like a Krusty the Clown yeah this will be crazy the first thing you never have to build by yourself right right and I'll just give you that weird allen wrench yeah they're like tiny little thing like here you go build this you know semi-truck cut up your hand with this thing price is going to start around nine hundred fifty dollars presumably for the 24 inch version and then they're going to have a larger one as well they're also in addition to a full screen HDTV I'm sorry flat screen HD HD TV they're going to have a 2.1 surround sound let's not release around but a 2.1 sound system installed as well I don't know really good for like the college person yeah again you know this it's weird because uh last night I was catching up on my episodes of 30 rock and it was the one where they talk about vertical integration and Jack wants to start making couches right because the you know they want to pretty much capitalize on the entire home theater experience right is I cannot try to do the exact same but seriously when I read this I thought it was a joke they're like yeah you know ikea takes a page from 30 rug and then couchy comes out yeah yeah yeah but this is it like you know soon you'll be able to go to ikea just buy everything you need your living you'll just be by your apartment yeah this little pod you know that you put in the back of your SUV right and you bring it home and there's a little spot for the plumbing little spot for the electricity and you're done you have a house would you get I got my house that idea it's cool deliver the whole thing in one day if you put it together with this little average that's it man but you can't ever take it apart just follow you know just disintegrate I key is a crazy place was last time you were there um the one in New York I don't know if a lot of people know this but you can actually take a ferry there oh cool what I mean why cool they might have liked your dresser on your back you can ferry others then yeah it's actually an old Chinese junk ship I kept like you scary man you go in there especially on the weekend you got to follow those arrows yeah you know there's like a very you know meticulously designed path that interweaves in and out of each section very affordable solutions for home modern home living yeah if you if you somehow deviate off the pad you're pretty much screwed yeah because you're hiring experienced yeah is compromised and you can see other people that are equally confused when they did you know as soon as I do very it's like a lost and found receptacle for people just wandering around like they're blind bumping into you all wherever god forbid you try to walk the opposite way on the track yeah men and yellow and blue superman with their fingers dragging no no turn around sir I've got to follow the path I always go straight to the damaged return furniture for you there are some good deals to be had there on three it's tools are they the fourth ones just put together with duct tape my favorite I mean that store is so DIY it's like why does anyone even work there yeah anyone besides the people who need to keep the shelves stocked you go and right at the end right before that meant you hit that massive checkout line there's that warehouse section yeah your tricks up your own yeah that's like what am I did yeah no wonder this couch was forty nine dollars you know I have to build it and load it into my car myself yeah the best of those little dollies you have riding them is so much fun give it later yet the way is perfectly proposed perfect and there's their greased perfectly they have a lot of uh you know attraction it's a lot of fun riding those things very you guys ever eat at the cafeteria hell yeah good meatballs English meatball dish yeah I mean those can you fit in your mouth at once six yeah been there done that yeah yeah we've all have come on now we've all been there oh my god we'll take a break more 404 right after this please stick around this is the 404 mr f'ers the show where we all sing songs you this is greg for new orleans and you're listening to the 404 well one day holographic tupac shakur's before the concert the next he's given election results for see it in yeah that was among the more awkward moments on television yes you have a very out of place an awkward wolf blitzer seemingly talking to nobody he's just like Oh will I am will I on the said right pretty ridiculous was ridiculous yeah but that but at least that wasn't that like that was more like the Star Wars projection message then no I was saying even when we were talking about that Tupac segment it's the same company right yeah so they you know they did pretty much the same but wasn't will.i.am weren't they capturing will.i.am yeah I think so yeah there was any like a different room right there's a live bro he was in the room next door they're just sending him ten feet yes look for two back two boxers were coming to an idea pretty soon please birch veneer there you go man oh man they just at the naming is the best what there was a pro like you there's a product there's an old photo of me holding a box it says 40 g it's just I swear they have something let's go that far T and then G the way the letter G it's probably farting you know look it up look it up but it's it's spelled out in English for TG I'm not joking it was something handheld I'm not joking you're gonna find it man or even spell buddy oh hey you it's a triple ceiling hold on you're good you found it man you're gonna find it it's it's a real product triple ceiling spotlight called the farty g it is where is it do you have a thing there it is far TGI DJ why is that weird there it is the bruising the pleasure you dummy and there's a photo I took someone took me in college cuz kanji always go to hear there's a box hold the boxing is this for DG on like hey oh my god that's awesome hey it's lasted all these years it's all that spotlight I got it from Mikey it's the farty Jesus party but I guess it's the farting farting was that what you would call out of tea I think that's a hockey player to Daniel fart digs yeah it's pretty awesome I want to hear good I want to hear good ikea stories there's nothing like I mean it could be the best or worst day of your life there it really could depending on what kind of mood you're in really all go south real quick I hate it uh let's let's get into some more ridiculousness of the day there's a fragrance modeled around Apple and it's coming to a nose near you speaking of farts oh just spray it right in the face when you walk up to it let's hear about it on this is pretty ridiculous but it's actually part of an upcoming art exhibition in melbourne australia beacons over there have created a new scent based on the smell that emits from when you open a new Apple box okay so this is actually uh we've heard about this stuff before when we watch the morgan spurlock documentary yeah a couple guys crowded around a comic book like a vintage comic book and they were like the smell of it it's delicious yeah and so they're basically trying to recreate the smell of plastic and this will actually encompass that smell the plastic wrap along with the cardboard box and the plastic components within the box as well as the aluminum that Apple uses to make their products and basically I don't just sounds to me like it'll they're trying to recreate the smell of a Chinese factory is this really like uh this isn't Foxconn yeah UD Foxconn you doing Scott spray cologne um I you know think about it we will you no sense in in memory those are all tangled together right like you know when you think about the kind of sense that are available for even like cars like new car scent right you know I mean what's the difference it's the same sort of thing no because the new car smell that's all about like leather yeah but I mean there is something I'm not gonna lie it's okay to enjoy that smell i think right it's not okay to enjoy certain smells that are toxic yeah like oh let me say gasoline glue or glue or magic markers something like that or spray paint or huffing anything terrible like that but I don't know when I you know when I used to buy books there is a certain you know you you can't help but smell it yeah like if you don't go like right up to it you don't mean you still get a whiff of it when you when you go like you know oh oh it smells good I don't know what it is it's just that dress that's what I always said about barnes and noble the only thing they had going for them was that unique smell that your own you walk in the door the smell of leather bound books and freshly printed you know 30 pound you know stock yeah I remember I would always smell new shoes when they came out of the box yeah there you go paper and so special about that there you go Richard you can identify yeah I love the smell of new shoes I've come all so love new tennis balls yes you are smiling way too much but I think he's right yeah tell me how many times have you opened up maybe when you're younger opened up a brand new breaking canister three ball pens it's like hahaha it's weird canned balls and balls let's let's go or I want to hear from our audience there are lots of great unintentionally fantastic smells right in the world I'm sorry you open up a new piece of electronics something comes off of it and it goes into your nostrils and you smile you know what I really always like to as I always got dragged into the sanrio store in the mall what is that with my sister come I do not make me emasculate myself by explaining what sanrio I will never avoid a situation where is the company that makes hello kitty products okay so in the mall it's always like the pink brightly colored store sure and inside they would have it I think I hope our listeners can know what I'm talking about but it's kind of like a jelly sort of smell it's like the smell of plastic wrapped around and jelly and it's weird okay one yeah I really like that store everything has you know now that I think about it everything wrapped in plastic once it's exposed to air for the first time even like I'm going back to like CDs yeah you know there's something in there I don't know what it is maybe that's what's killing us maybe that's why the average age is declining yeah but man oh man what else smells really good I'm trying to think you got a bunch of colognes and perfumes up on your screen yeah excited well there's this company called Demeter that I remember came out like maybe a couple years ago they have like a lot of unique sense like if you want smell like brownies or cannabis flour you can buy that you ever smell someone walking by and they're wearing some cologne or perfume that smells so good that you that the pheromone start to kick in like any sort of thing where you're just like man I want to just you know talk to this person be like what are you what is what is that oh well get some of that you know anything like other dudes yeah wait really or the dudes or you know just like someone smells their cologne or perfume is so good yeah just you instantly identify walking around New York it was 86 degrees yesterday I kind of got the opposite the who you are gross you are right sir yeah no I understand that unbelievable let's talk about your favorite electronic smells hmm but for now we'll get to our calls from the public time to show the love 86 for scenic okay calls from the public time spoilers were a big topic conversation yesterday talked with Katie linendoll about what it's like to have something really really sacred to you important to you and have that ruined by strangers terrible here's another way to avoid spoilers and our buddy has a little topic to talk about what the Hunger Games don't worry he does not spoil anything hey Jay there in from champagne I was callin regards to the spoiler alerts when it comes to movies and books and stuff like that I feel like I kind of spoiled the hunger games for myself i was at walmart and ready to buy all three popes had just seen the first movie and i wanted to read the books i made the mistake of reading it'll slip like comes inside of the cover of the second one what kind of knew what was going to happen in the second one before i was even like a hundred and fifty pages into the first one so then the whole time has it'll just feeling of having the second books let me know what's going on because it kind of gives you an idea what's gonna happen but then just kind of just feeling the whole family the other books that's the worst part yeah especially when you try and you know something's been spoiled and then you have to like crawl limp back into the thing and be like okay I know what's going to happen maybe I can act surprised right and you know and you you get denied that feeling of innocence you know what I mean it's it's so good bother anymore yeah really if somebody ruined Game of Thrones for me episode 9 I'd be the worst thing ever killed that person I would kitna in them and myself that's why you don't read the book first dude serious watch the movie then read the book no well I disagree with that are you about spoiling things for yourself like have year do you know these people that like read the end of the book first and then backtracked the beginning terrible no you know what are you doing you know people that do that I personally do not really heard of people having a lot of people what are you through are these people they're just very impatient people i really like oh god this brand new book let me flip to the back up the Joker kills him yeah well now I know that I shouldn't invest any time and caring right about this character what are you crazy are you five years old how old are you have some freaking patients will you please a woman in tech was a topic we talked about with Katie yesterday and here are some encouraging words from a teacher hey guys press search up to elkhart i was listening to store your show with katie and your talk about women in tech as a electronics professor dealing in high pick situations and classes I only have three girls in our fields of study at the school that I teach at I tell you what though it's three girls it went the floor with all the boys all the time basically all three of them are quick to be vocal about it I've seen in the last couple years a kind of resurgence of what it ain't interested in Texas which is really cool I just like to see dinner a lot stronger foothold thanks so yeah it's it's um it's interesting to hear he said that he has three girls in his class but these girls kill it yeah and they make the boys look terrible that's awesome I like hearing that I love hearing that sort of stuff um yeah I mean you know it was a it was a tough it's a tough thing to sort of discuss especially when you and I are both last time I checked men so it's tough to really you know sort of put yourself in those shoes yeah um and and sort of you know understand here's another call I'm not sure we understand a hundred percent agree but let's hear what he has to say anything also comments on a few other topics that we ran into yesterday hey guys this is salt lake from Lance I'm just calling yep i finished listening to the show today at the podcast with Katie linendoll lonegan I just had a couple things I wanted to comment about number one you guys got to find a way to pay her to be on the show because he/she could totally be Wilson's replacement okay number two you understand what's justins comment about five iron frenzy let's go band of all time and don't even though there I don't three as far as women in tech I guess just mind my own experience whatever I talk to providing neo kind of a tech nerd when I talk to women it just doesn't seem to be something they're interested in let me just don't want to bother with it or learn about it you know like I try and help them out with their like cell phones or iPads or whatever there's like I don't know anything about it they just have other fish to fry or something I don't know so anyway for the call give my two cents you guys are awesome and thanks um I don't know if that specific that's a very vast general is yeah i think the I I do find you know we get a lot I'm sure you get a lot of people ask hitting you up for advice and stuff like that I don't think one sex demands it more than the other right I think it's an equal sort of an equal opportunity annoyance if these people already have iPads and iPhones in there she's invested enough to buy it ya know I but I'm saying like in terms of people asking you for help with stuff right I don't find that it's more guys than girls know personally nobody knows about your college no one knows universally your you all have no idea I mean if you're listening to our show you probably have some sort of idea yeah but most people it has wave bye-bye to them a very long time ago but what about web sites like Pinterest for example that are vastly more popular with women yeah for sure don't think that let's be honest though that it is sort of a phenomenon though I mean for the most part they're the number one you know they've just become up it is what it is i don't know like i said i think it's just a cultural dictation that is uh you know finding its way through but i think the original conversation was more about women involved in technology right female programmers not the women that are interested exactly for sure so yeah you know good to hear that story about the guy with the teachers um so he says oh five iron frenzy that's awesome yeah a lot of respect for that and then Katie replacing Wilson yeah alright man if you got the money let us know yeah Wilson never brought us gifts yes seriously you know I would love for him that would mean she'd have to give us gifts every single day yeah I could deal with that gonna be okay with that yeah jerem saying they wanted Katie linendoll sent that's not creepy at all well yes we'll work on that I'm sure she might have a problem with that though give us a call 866 404 cnet we can email us the 44 at cnet com again pretty sure not a hundred n+ were pretty sure friday Wayne Brady will be back right not a hologram no we're going to have him here have him here no hologram for this guy we'll talk to him about the Vita remember that yeah everybody said it did to him he yeah he got a standing ovation over that he rose to the occasion yes you did so we'll talk to him about that and a lot more so get ready for that and hit us up when you can we'll see you guys tomorrow I'm Jeff Bakalar and I'm Justin you it's the 404 high-tech lowbrow have a great tuesday and will be back with a brand new show tomorrow see you guys you