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hey folks welcome back to the 359 coming to you live from the CES 2018 see that stage in Las Vegas Ben are you we're writing about some interesting news yesterday with Google and smart assistants and you got a little goodie here for us yeah check it out this is the Lenovo smart display it was just announced yesterday it's one of four new smart displays which are Google assistant enabled touch screens that you could basically do anything that you might be able to do with smart speaker right you've also got what yes it's very much it's very much like an echo show so the things that you could do with this that you wouldn't be able to do with the smart speaker or look at photos actually do like recipes like you can watch the recipes see you to do early look at it we got so yeah yeah it looks very much like an echo show but the speakers on the side instead of the bottom also it also looks a lot like a tablet but you know I talked to them a lot about this and there was a big intention to try to make it not a tablet it doesn't have 4G LTE connection it always needs to be plugged in and everything that you see on it you kind of have to or its you're able to see it from afar this isn't meant to like have you hold it and be up front all day because it is it's bulky I mean you can you can tell by lifting it it's a little bit heavier yeah and it's got this back design here that allows it to go this way that way but it's book it's definitely not a tablet you can't like carry this around like that like I'm good but it's that'd be really weird that's not the point at all yeah taking the bedroom or the kitchen it's very much supposed to be like plugged in so like you or is it portable too no it needs to be there I go on button you have to plug in some interesting aspects on this there's some you know some parts that's done with privacy yeah yeah so this is an actual physical switch that you can use to hide the camera you switch it off is it like actually cover the case yeah you'll see a little red cover over it to show that it's the cameras no longer working yeah so that's just like an additional peace of mind kind of thing because like it's my functional yeah able to mic the microphone there's also a switch for the microphone so I think there was at least an awareness that people are concerned that there are gonna be these always listening always on either microphones or cameras and so they're trying to at least make some effort to make people a little bit more comfortable with this stuff whether people actually want to shell out to buy this thing this starts at $200 there's a bigger version for 250 will we'll see but there are a lot of bets on whether people are actually going to purchase this funny timing of this announcement considering at the end of the year there was a little bit of problems with Google's relationship with Amazon yes there was a bit of a dust-up with Amazon the timing of this is definitely a little difficult or a little awkward with Google and Amazon's relationship anymore on Amazon's products yeah yeah well removed YouTube from the echo show which is a lot like this product it's a computing device and also from fire TV displays or from fire TV streamers Amazon decided to bring back Google chromecast streamers to amazon.com that was a central problem that Google had and that's why they wanted to pull YouTube in the first place and now there are negotiations so I think you is gonna come back but now if you want YouTube on a device like this you might have to buy this for now and right now right now outside of the the convention center in the parking lot both Google and Amazon have a little display Google was I think the first one we're outside right now actually there's the the Google booth hey Google they believe the treasure chuck is right around there amazon treasure truck is right around there but yeah that's a pretty big deal that like Google not only decided to like show up but show up pretty big yeah and I mean I don't know if it was there but I remember either one of them having this big of a present this no I think a lot of what they're trying to do is really show that like hey we're at CES because we want to be good partners it's like you know maybe it might have been like we're the cool kids we don't want to show up to CES like we can do our own events but there are all these other major players here and to create these ecosystems Google and Amazon I think need to show up and keep showing up to say hey we're here to be your partner right because you hear them all the time at these shows but it's about the physical showing up is what you mean like like last year Amazon elects oh we've saw it a lot now okay still a big part of the show I mean so many products on day one we're about does it have the Google assistant or does it have Amazon Alexa I know what struck me is interesting was hearing how much of Amazon Alexa was in the bathroom for the Kohler have you have you heard about this toilet know what tell me that was your smart toilet I knew it I knew this bug on there what there so we have a video of some of the smart things oh my gosh they're putting a lexan tile 'it's so you can have it flush hands-free and also you know have it warm you dry you off give you a little spritz all right Amazon in the faucet when you want to be a faucet you could change the temperature too it's in the shower so okay I kind of like the toilet though that thing looks pretty awesome you want to warm it for you you can do that yes does it warm my butt I mean not everyone likes a warm toilet come on I don't know I it's one of those moments where I'm like have we reached have you reached that moment where the amazons ever but yeah it's about we had the assistant and I think some of those products also were able to work with Google's assistant so it's gonna be a bit of a battleground there - I don't know is it really that hard to flush a toilet I understand the interest if your hands are on your phone right maybe yeah you could just push the button your phone you get to go right I wanted to talk about also some of the favorite things we've stuff because I'm a couple press days we've had wheezes a lot of quirky stuff out there there's a lot of weird stuff favourite things from each of us I'll start off add unveiled one of my favorite things that totally terrified me was a smart luggage that was able to follow me around wherever I went it had facial recognition technology in the suitcase yes here it is oh so this is the CX won by a company called Ford X this is a prototype but it worked I was surprised how fast that got it set up it was able to map my body and then as I was in the back area just kind of walking around it's like seven miles an hour's chasing me a bit I'm trying to run away a bit it doesn't recognize you doesn't have to recognize your face but I recognizes your body well here it's able to kind of like pinpoint me and they're not really talking a lot at this stage about how it can make sure another blonde you know five foot five girl doesn't walk away with it but it kind of locks onto me and if I like zip out that wristband is supposed to also help if I slip out of you know range of the you know it's gonna video getaway or another or someone picks it up from behind I guess my wristband will also give me an alarm but yeah cameras and all the things facial recognition it's serious I find that facial recognition thing isn't going more and more things I saw this really awesome concept car the Bosch booth I mean this is this was their vision of what the car will look like in four or five years but take a look at it it is it's got crazy lights that actually will change colors depending on if it's self-driving versus manual driving but the coolest feature which I didn't actually to try yet is some called air haptics it's the idea that of haptic feedback but with your fingers a couple inches off the screen so you don't actually even have to touch the screen you're just in the air you're feeling like you're touching buttons it's like when it is like Minority Report air keyboard exactly the idea being that you you don't necessarily need to take your eyes off the road and look at the dashboard you could sort of feel for it and different tactile responses for radio if it fires it fires off ultra ultra sound signals basically mimicking or creating the illusion that you're pushing something it's crazy and I don't know if it's entirely safe but it's crazy that all right without you event there's this thing called hip air I knew it so basically it's like these air cushions for your hips and it looks really goofy it looks really weird but the thing is is that's a good that's a good look yeah but like here's the thing every now and then there is a piece of technology that actually comes along that might actually be able to help people out and isn't just like a must-have or isn't just a nice about this is this to me it could actually be somewhat beneficial if it actually helps out one person then fully fully on the company way to go so does it activate as you fall or on the leaps out yeah it works like an airbag all right so it's it's but maybe they're bad wife maybe they have to work on the design or at least make it a little less green like you know it does it really have to be so obvious looking I think that's the reason right like you see someone with like a fluorescent green Patti you're clearly in trouble right something went wrong in their life that this green balloon is activated yeah my favorite is the headline that we could you know help I fall in I know you can't get up yeah class right well we're gonna wrap it right now you can find the 359 on iTunes SoundCloud Google Play and of course Tina calm for the 359 podcast I'm Bridget Carey I brought her Jane I'm Ben Fox Mary Beth and thanks for watching but don't go anywhere because RJ has just begun CES 2018 is the place to be for the whole week and we have you 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