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coming up on today's show we have got the best rumors for the upcoming Galaxy Note 9 rich here is bringing us all the Goss from comic-con and we've got some ghostly happenings all over CNET yes there's so much happening on the scene at UK podcast hello hi rich hi hating I am wonderful although I'd say I'm really warm because obviously it is astonishingly hot in London and indeed the country at the moment but the studio here is so well air-conditioned it's feeling great it's lovely yeah it's I was thinking this was gonna be like a nice quick podcast we'll use crack through the news fairly quickly but I'm thing and actually we drag this one out like there's otherwise we'll have to go back up we'll have to go back outside into the the roiling cauldron that is the outer doors yeah there is London and and hot black tarmac radiating heat Bank art and it is not very nice yeah yeah so stick with us cuz we're this is gonna be a long one folks I know probably a couple of hours I reckon yeah I might even need to put a hoodie on because I'm almost getting chilly I might have a lad lie down anyway so get going yes let's get going straight to wait let's dive in first of all with the Samsung Galaxy Note nine because that is of course some songs let's call it second most important phone launch of the year move to the s9 + now what we do know about this phone is that it's gonna be coming on August the 9th which is note 9 is it a phone this is a tablet Oh somewhere in between it is but we're not discussing my word we're not gonna use that word we're not using that has it long time since the the P word has been on the the P H word has been on this podcast yeah it has and also that we just don't really call it that anymore because I know kind of all phones are big yeah you know but when when they're no first launched I think it was only I can remember exactly but it wasn't very big it was big it was smaller than a lot of phones are now and and then that word was being thrown around a lot because most phones are around sort of orange yes more Lamarck and now all the time most phones are sort of six inches oh you know 5 to 6 inches so it was a little pointless distinguishing between them anymore so I'm glad at that that word doesn't tend to crop up as often the word is phablet obvious that's one that's I did have to skate yeah we already had two phablet some netbooks and all that kind of I had I had an e an AEP see one of the which was a Zeus yeah did the EP times um uh uh yeah bought at university because I thought it would help me my uni work I mean it sort of did except typing and it was absolute pain in the ass and it was one that I bought it ran Linux because which was about thirty pounds cheaper than the Windows version so he's only about two hundred twenty quid which for a laptop is over time was was very cheap still is actually but then I just put a version of Windows on it because Linux no anyway back to the note yes August a knife number nine great earlier August tonight then we'd normally have a no it used to be an ephah product which we're obviously gonna go and cover at the end of August early September so wait April May June July August night yeah they could have done not good done ninety nine they could have done nine nine although that would be putting it right in line with the unveiling of the iPhone which is all the more reason I think I think well it did one they think oh no said the way around Apple I think ended we see I think it was a knock here press conference this was years ago and not maybe was a see yeah I think the first iPhone was announced during at MWC where Apple wasn't at so apparently yeah MWC had whatever press conference it was in those days like some Sony Ericsson or Siemens press conference on me and like the the hall emptied yeah I kind of I like to imagine because it was a few years ago I like to imagine that they're all the journalists in the kind of press conference ran out the back and ran straight into those like glass booths they picked up the phone and they were like we got the scoop yeah we talked about the no nine I'm sure we got a Jag this one out we want to keep one a stake in her eyes basically I know rich that you are a big fan of the note series I mean particularly the note eight so you will be very pleased to know that the note 9 as all the rumors say so far is basically going to be the same phone a couple of tweaks oh good design-wise there have been some lead renders there have been some cases that have sort of come out and it looks like it's exactly this it's basically the same I think the camera orientation on the back might be landscape rather than vertical but who cares at all and size-wise it may not change at all either so one of the bigger rumors and this is one of the bigger rumors it's okay is that the s-pen that's our stylist yeah might be yellow in one of the color colors yeah well this is what we've come to it is well one of the interesting things actually about the s-pen I was leading in with a little bit of okay go on then how might the s-pen could be Bluetooth connected and actually allow you to control the faux and yellow a potentially with this Bluetooth functionality you could control the phone remotely so in one example that was given in this rumor was that if you had the your phone on a tripod and maybe you wanted to take a nice group self-portrait you could use the stylus as a shutter release and you could sort of just sit back hold the stylus and blink the top and it'll take the photo there could be other things may be controlling music or answering calls if you say maybe you got it on a in a charging dark and you're using you know you did anything else but you've just got the you just got the stylus in your hand you can maybe control things so that actually could be quite interesting and it's a sort of thing that Samsung would roll out those sorts of features that you never really knew you wanted and almost then then find the space yeah yeah you still don't want them but it could be interesting I like the idea of first so you've got a pen that controls your watch it controls your phone it controls a computer I love that he's good to walk over in this tap a button on your on yet on your laptop but no no you know you've got the pen watch phone yeah we're living in the future now rejoice some things that we probably won't see is a knotch like we've had in on most Android phones now and following in of course intercepts of the iPhone Samsung has been pretty outspoken against this notch they didn't have it with the s9 answer is unlikely to have it here although I did like not become the buzzword of technology over the past year wasn't a pause it's yeah because Apple did it the word not she doesn't even I mean it's barely even a notch I would say it was more of an outcrop an outcrop yeah an outcrop that you could maybe dive from so I mean is there another thing it's a notch you don't call that nothing that's not no no that's not a notch it's almost like it has not a notch this is a notch it could be like one of those tabs like which I've had something with a knot on it to produce at that point maybe we'll just edit in me holding something not like just Photoshop CG something in here me holding a notch what would that not like thing be I don't know but it's not that all right okay well I'm glad we've covered that yeah you can expect you to have the usual latest call compressors and all that junk mm-hmm and it'll be expensive cork I'll be very pleased technologically miraculous technology described as German junk in a in a you know a group sense rather than a you know a negative sense right taxi smells kind of it that's it yeah and far I'm disappointed because at the rumors because he doesn't seem like this has got much to really get that excited about it looks basically the same as the names a which is a which is a great phone no question but this doesn't really do anything to take the note a who's taking a note line forward that's why well no where's that where's the innovate in motivation motivation you can have that Samsung they probably already use that but I kind of think that they do need to do something a little bit interesting with the note because it was the notate that came after the disastrous yeah bull note 7 well that's it it's maybe a safe pair of hands if they you know maybe they they were like hey let's do something really clever let's try and make was it the batteries let's try make the battery fit yes all the charging it so it would it would charge really quickly in the battery try to expand and couldn't yeah and they went too far they went too far Samsung you went too far and you know maybe there's things they need a safe pair of hands they just need to bit some shift a few units this thing some people forget about the fact that they all one blow up maybe which we just reminded everyone about we have as we always will maybe the note 10 will be a little bit better me I bet they'll do note X yeah well if I change the name cuz when everyone gets to 10 they tend up changing their name usually I don't think is going to be an 11 of anything there you go there's a prediction no which we probably have some 11 people probably going in again dial in and and just be like yeah there's a bunch of Elevens almost certainly been but you know 211 anyway I'm gonna move on from that I think we've we've run all we can out of than more but I but I will say that the launch day is as I say August the 9th yeah the evening of now we will be recording the podcast earlier in the day on the 9th normally on that Thursday okay so we could always push the podcast in the Friday so that they can talk about you know include the note 9 which will be big news or maybe we'll have a few more what are we doing a few more room it's a lemma actually I've got another suggestion yeah but to talk about that off no no let's just realize wring it out we've got to keep enjoying it okay so the aircon well we'll have a full NDA briefing I presume on the phone we'll know about it before then so we'll just record the podcast as though we know all about it oh nice bang what we'll do is we'll be like so if you're listening to this podcast well pretend then it's Friday but it's actually Wednesday and it's to pretend that it's going on yeah but it won't go live until the Saturday so yeah it'll be out this is really live in simulcast our planning meeting for how we're going to do this you really haven't seen behind the curtain on this one and so we're definitely let's move on yeah to comic-con rich because a lot going on with the world of comic yeah that's quite so so the past past weekend and past week was it was all about comic-con it was way we got all the kind of the new exciting sci-fi fantasy bloggers gonna fill up my coffee her stuff okay coffee in this weather is it cold brew no it's hot brew it's hot coffee I mean that's how cool this Eknath podcast studio is look after your pets folks dogs dying hot cars I'm check under your cars for hedgehogs is that is that bonfire night that's bonfire night okay alright you should be setting fire to your car thank you even on bonfire night it's frowned upon and a bad use of resources so so yes so at comic-con in San Diego at the past week there was no Marvel and there was no HBO which is kind of a big deal Marvel had already released Avengers infinity war and black panther and ant-man so they were like we're not gonna have a Comic Con presence and there's only kind of big players at well huge yeah because I mean so that the kasam stone pulling out on BBC it totally is yeah yeah not going to they don't so there you go HBO wall sauce on this that meant no Game of Thrones and Westworld which obviously these two huge sci-fi fantasy shows but that's because Game of Thrones is kind of not on for a while so they didn't really could really like release yeah the new season isn't until next year I don't think I don't think even announced when it's gonna be yeah it's it's they're doing the series in in like sort of mini movies it's gonna be extra long episodes but it's yeah it's gonna be a little while before we see that yeah and there's definitely they're avoiding leaks very very tightly because its final season so there's a lot yeah yeah everything sort of coming to a bit of a climax and I can only assume that that zombie dragon that really its head in the end of last season spoiler a spoiler it is just going to annihilate them all yep I think that's that is the end it's a very short there's been one happy fat dragon getting on the throne like it was me all along yeah there's good there's gonna be like a heat wave across Westeros because this dis track ins just gonna sort out winter stuff I think what's happening here a dragon somewhere it's just it's you see this is how important Marvel on HBO are we've just started talking about Comic Con and then just spent five minutes talking about two people who weren't even there two companies there weren't even there what was there so that meant that because there was this kind of like void Warner and Warner Brothers and DC who worked together to make movies based on DC Comics they were able to step in and actually kind of claw back some of the limelight from Marvel's what are they well they lead to things were Aquaman and Shazam trans Aquaman Aquaman is the is neither booby prize of superheroes absolutely talk to fish though he's played by Jason Momoa now his character is still a joke well I've got to say that this this trailer looks like a lot of fun I mean DC have kind of done it all in slightly the wrong order they tried to do what Marvel had done and they weren't kind of fast forwarded straight to their version of The Avengers which affinity war without doing the kind of individual movies to build up in the first place but now they're doing individual movies and they've been really dark and gritty up to this point with Man of Steel and Batman versus Superman and Justice League and Aquaman I'm actually look like a lot of fun they're colorful fun they they look like they look a bit more marveling but they've got still got kind of that DC flavor so that looks like a lot of fun now Shazam I'm assuming I know Shazam as the app that tells you what song is playing I'm assuming that is not a movie based on that app no but there is a TV show based on that yeah yeah there's a TV show Jamie Foxx presented it is called I don't know like the huns Shazam that song or something the modern version of name that to you it exactly like that yeah oh that's it it's called can you beat Shazam you had to name the tune before Shazam good that's the TV show that was a TV show yeah yeah it's a drinking game so the Shazam is actually the the new name also the old name for Captain Marvel because they were confusingly DC and Marvel both had characters called Captain Marvel dude that do two like copyrights decease II had a character yes because before DC was called DC going way way back to like the I can't remember the exact date was like forties and fifties kind of Golden Age of comics that a character before Marvel's called Marvel and a character called Captain Marvel and then later on Marvel the company began and they invented their own Captain Marvel and there was a back-and-forth about the two and eventually DC kind of gave way and said okay we're going to call our character Shazam which is the magic word that he utters to turn from a a small child into a colorful superhero so there you go so it's called Shazam there you go but actually that actually took a lot of fun it's a chameleon it looks like a funny fun kind of teen superhero movie it looks a bit 80s really so it's got its bit of a throwback but it looks yeah it's kind of the the lightest thing I think what DC have ever done speaking of stuff there's not been very light for DC they're launching this new streaming service called DC Universe where they can have some original exclusive shows and one of the shows is called Titans and it's about Robin and a bunch of other sidekicks basically and it's kind of based on Teen Titans you might have seen the Teen Titans comic cartoon which a lot of people have big fans off that's very light hearted funny it's deliberately kind of a bit of a send-up of superheroes titans the new show it's live-action or it's gritty it's it's it's bloody its gory it's grown-ups where they sweat do they swear oh yeah I mean I can't tell you what they say but if you watch the trailer well there's some blue language in there they say flip it's or they say or even worse than that it's kind of worse and worse than flip so that's kind of interesting but so yes that's part of DC Universe that's the new streaming service Disney is also going to have a new streaming service which is going to have exclusive news shows and one of the things they're doing is they're bringing back the cartoon the Clone Wars which a lot of people were big fans of years and years and years ago I mean it's not that long ago but for some people they were grown up with that so they're bringing that back a little bit other big things that came out of it Freelander one a lot of people were talking about Jack Ryan which is a show that's coming up on Amazon now Jack Ryan had a thing at Comic Con where a lot of people do this they kind of they have these things called activations that are like events right there the people who go to Comic Con the fans and the kind of journalists and the press nobody goes to Comic Con among the panels and the presentations and the new trailers and stuff it seems quite activations where you can go and you can try some kind of experience right so it'll be like an escape room or you know like a virtual reality thing Jack Ryan or that kind of thing yeah exactly yeah and Jack Ryan had this virtual reality thing that sort of put you into the shoes of Jack Ryan and you were like ziplining around with a VR headset headset on and stuff and a lot of people were talking about that being really really exciting so far that sounds more interesting to me than the TV show I don't know who still cares about Jack Ryan and there's been 21 novels about that guy and I just know and they're all bestsellers I don't know why Ryan I don't trust anyone who has 250 names I don't trust anyone who's who's been in for move will thought they've had four attempts to turn him into a movie and it just it couldn't they can do it and they keep coming back to it I guess because the best-selling book I mean being made by Amazon if anyone knows about best selling books it's Amazon they obviously know there's an audience for this as does John Krasinski who I really like but you know maybe maybe loads people excited by this I don't know but yeah if you're up for the fifth attempt to turn Jack Ryan into a thing it is going to be a thing that's gonna miss and facing the the DC Universe streaming service when you so quiet like you know original content is that stuff that they are funding them down yeah absolutely yes so it said DC characters from the DC comics world so that's gonna be Swamp Thing it's gonna be Titans there's gonna be Harley Quinn so yeah a bunch of the people who basically the people who aren't in the movies the DC comic characters who aren't in the movies like Batman or Superman and Wonder Woman are going to be are going to come to TV shows live-action animated TV shows that kind of thing and it you'll only be able to watch if you subscribe to DC you know I'm assuming it's gonna be pretty low budget um no I mean DC's DC's pretty huge so I mean the fact that Titans is a live-action thing means that it's gonna be it's gonna be reasonably up there you know and they also they have all the kind of the the arrowverse shows like flash and arrow which are all like they're a bit cheap because they're telling but printings probably gonna be on that kind of level yeah but the thing is the thing is well with DC you know it's not like you get Netflix and you can just watch movies and TV I think with DC universities you also have access to digital DC Comics which is a big deal for a growing number of comics readers yes so that's you know shout out to anybody who remembers that a lot of these movies were comics first so yeah look out for that and that is pretty much also the thing we're gonna remember though is that it might be seem like a fairly quiet comic-con and you know it sounds like DC had their moment in the spotlight but it sort of felt like a lot of this stuff where stuff we'd already knew is coming there were a big shock announcements or anything I mean Clone Wars was kind of a big shot no one we saw that coming but that's still a show that we'd already heard you know had already existed and so what we're looking forward to is 2019 because Marvel and DC and Marvel and HBO will be back Marvel will be there with Avengers infinity Worf to infinity war two Avengers for whatever the New Avengers movies or something else with another number on the end yeah the post Thanos movie original things from any of these people are we just sort of rolling out the same old with a bigger number on the end oh there's a new many black movie coming out you know that's been rebooted right I know you're a huge fan a longtime listeners will find that that well it's gonna have Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson in it yeah I've heard they were doing some filming in London for that reason and Emma Thompson is it huh yes using that he was into three yes she is gonna be the she's gonna come back and be the news agent said yeah oh whatever she was called yeah I watched Mamma Mia too while we're on films really I just wanted to let you know that there is a film out in the cinema that I have actually been to see well did you enjoy it I did it was great yeah it's a boy who doesn't like have it yeah I went see Mission Impossible fall out the other day I thought that was a lot of fun a lot of fun a lot of fun and one thing that's worth noting that movie as well a lot of that shot in London and you might have heard a while ago about Tom Cruise broke his ankle doing a stunt he jumped off a roof and he broke his ankle and that shot her needs in the movie but they see the moment where he just crumpled trying well the way that he's basically indestructible in this movie he like he's crashing off it's cool fall out because he's just falling out of things he falls out helicopters he falls off motorbikes he falls into holes it's just him just like rolling just keeps rolling and rolling and rolling and there falls off something and keeps running but yeah there so if the scene in London one thing I like about that scene is it's geographically plausible it's not like a lot of these movies that come to London and like Fast and the Furious they they're driving down the street in London they go into a tunnel which is in Liverpool and come back up somewhere else in London which isn't even anywhere nearby but this movie they start at simples in fact they start the first dates restaurant funnily enough and they they leg it through the streets and they wind up at the Tate Modern in a way that is geographically plausible apart from the fact that he's runs across the top of black fire station and runs across the rooftops but the actual like the the route he takes is pretty much plausible okay technically speaking Simon Pegg as a Londoner should probably have known to direct him across the Millennium Bridge rather than the Blackfriars Bridge but no he is in the movie I was saying he's like telling Tom Cruise oh he's literally giving him directions literally giving you directions okay there's a there's a gag about tablet screen lock rotation rotation screen lock which is relevant and that is why we're talking about it on that so there is a Sean keen our new recruit did do a good piece about the gadgets of Mission Impossible it's quite fun to look back over those movies because they started in 1996 and that's a long time like that is a long long time and Tom Cruise been in the mall he's a minister impossible he's always been mr. impossible he gets more and more impossible every time mr. mr. mystic mission is it Mission Impossible is it - it is a double battle is all the punctuation in Mission Impossible titles is ridiculous mission : impossible - fallout it's it's crazy subtly they need our Nick they do join this aircon stretching this out so I know right what are we on it like yeah the script let's let's move on unless you've got anything else that you want to you want to particularly highlight that's coming up all that you're doing you're doing and tanki's hanging out yeah in which case we're going to move on because and this isn't oh yeah actually yeah I can mention something recently I talked to you guys do the visual effects for Sicario to day of salt day of the Soldado right and you might think what visual effects are there in Sicario it's a movie about people in the real world running around doing real-world things like driving cars and dealing drugs and flying helicopters we all do but actually there's loads of visual effects in there and they're all invisible well I mean they're not invisible you can see then that's the whole point you can see them it's just that you don't know their visual effects so I dip into you that was with there was with them about the difference between working on a movie like say a superhero movie a Marvel movie way at all and you know its effect especially effec because a guy flying shooting lightning bolts out of his elbows people can't really do that people even in Hollywood that you can't really I believe apparent I've looked into it and apparently they can't okay so so this is a look at how visual effects are ubiquitous now digital visual effects computer-generated CG visual effects are even in places where you can't well you don't think they're there they go so look out so you have done something I knew you had something to save it which is good yeah I know I'm just literally just sitting there next to your my desk just doing this bashing I'm like my keyboard I'll just ruin the script okay we'll have to wing it talk about well the other thing I wanted to talk about is a piece that Amanda Cuusoo who's one of our writers from CNET in the US has done in which she invited a team of Ghost Hunters to come to her house what and to talk to her all about what ghost hunting involves and what what they do and how they do it and to see if they can find any traces or paranormal activity in her own home which I thought was very interesting and I really made me think about sort of those element and and what's kind of what's involved because there's always been you know in every show you know if you even look at ghostbusters yeah there's always they've got the proton packs and they've got the sort of a shoebox same they throw down and goes drew and they go straight go strap I mean I used to have one of those I used to absolutely love it really I nearly swore because I was so excited by how much I used to like that Ghost I had they had their the the PK meter which goes yep and people watching at home I just did a PK me times you did people listening home though heard noise they'll go straight to youtube to see to see my little mine it was uncanny I'll have to so I thought was really interesting to kind of take a look into Amanda's article is great so she apparently got in touch with them they're called ghost investigations New Mexico yes was that's where she lives yeah and they are a group in a Albuquerque Ghost Hunters and they went round to have a look at a man whose hat now managers say that her like she has an old house indeed she calls it vintage yeah and in America are probably willoughby because it was built in 1942 but obviously in terms of British house I mean like we all read that and well I've got shoes old yeah there's milk in my fridge has been there since 1901 dad's furniture I've got a table I've got I've got a cake in a cake tin and they're both older than that exactly so so we did we did smile a little bit of that but you don't see that is pretty old I mean I'm moving into a flat scene that was built about 10 years ago so yeah but she apparently she's had since I was 10 she liked us about she sat in silence basically with this with this group of people oh yes lates are on a Sunday evening with the ghost hunters you have to go around and unplug anything was making a lot of noise which mostly was of like a fridge and I think are their basic electronic items so the only thing that was actually making any noise apparently was her cat pairings I don't know she had to like annoy a cat or something to make it's not very excited to leave the room but she said like there are rules I have to sit quietly and they were recording audio they're recording video and so if you make a noise and you know that that noise is you you have to audibly say that was me so if you sneeze or your chair squeaks or something you have to point out what it is so that when you listen back to the recordings you can point you can see what different yeah so if your stomach rumbles you go that was me or if you emit some kind of like ghostly high-pitched keening that seems to come from another dimension yeah that was me yeah the sound of like a thousand souls screaming at once and if you make that noise accidentally then you say how's me yeah just so the ghost hunters can rule that out absolutely and at the end of at the end of the evening apparently I'm Amanda and the team haven't really noticed that they'd seen well it does well spoiler alert go read the article but they had apparently well put it this way have you heard on the news that there was definitive proof that ghosts have been discovered no well then I think that yeah how this probably figure this don't have to be I'm going to be Dana Scully to know exactly how this turned out yeah this is true but they did fence a couple of audio anomalies which they said be explained so do go find the article it will be in the will be in the link what if you can't afford to hire the ghost investing in Mexico chinma I'm so glad you you asked because I have been doing some research on kind of what to do if you're interested in your own ghost hunting which is a popular thing in Britain because we are such an old country with old buildings and castles and hotels and all this stuff where people may have died and there are many certainly many that famously say that they have regular ghost sightings so I had a look in spooky stuff Tucker at UK and they said don't worry you don't need giant hollywood-style laser guns to become a ghost hunter I mean firstly grant i mean firstly they're not laser guns they're they're proton packs and they're not they're not guns they actually just shoot charge streams which allow them to to to basically entrap the ghosts and draw them down into the colossi it's like a kind of lesser medicine yeah the best thing that goes but they're not outright murdering the ghosts no they're just locking them up in a in a in a in a big like box in their basement altogether which in which apparently is almost like in the Quizlet Real Ghostbusters it's like another dimension in there which means they're basically just taking all these poor traps out like poor roaming Souls and then putting them in hell in their basements it's kind of like when you capture a poke on with the pokeball like that's where it goes it goes basically into hell yeah I miss the thing I think Walter Peck had a good point the the the guy from the environmental agency it turns up at the end he turns everything off guys got a good point that's what government regulation exists guys startups can't just come along and start messing with the fabric of reality without someone coming along and saying I heard you have a license for this at startup culture they spook yourself say if you want some things to take a notebook and pen yep camera and or a video camera yeah with several sets of batteries because batteries have been known to deplete and usually quickly in the presence of ghosts sometimes even instantaneously Wow that's been my excuse when I've gone on a shoot and I didn't charge my battery to say there's a ghost must be a ghost ghost you may find it necessary to replace your batteries during the session chalk to mark the spots where things happen anything does a torch an audio recorder yeah to record an audio from spirits apparently warm clothing a thermometer because ghosts are said to sometimes tremendous sensation of cold I wouldn't mind that right now in this weather yeah if we were just horribly haunted here maybe then naturally is the air Kahn's been off for weeks but this room is so haunted yeah I'm actually dead I always wondered yeah yeah exactly but I did have a look around and there's a lot of interesting ghost hunting tech that I found on the cheaper end is the Laser grid pen about $40 and this creates a green dotted grid pattern that apparently allows you to detect any apparition or shadow figure moving past it now sure legit if it's a shadow it won't block the light so it's not gonna cause anything it need to be a solid object so I got a disturbance there there is the para force paranormal music box this is $400 and I quote the PMB is a very intriguing and most interesting new instrument exclamation mark it is creating remarkable results in investigations where something unexplainable is setting it off and no explainable scientific reason has been found the engineers behind the PMB cannot explain why it is triggered during paranormal investigations well great sounds legit yes over shape of a coffin because of course is okay yeah and I get it I get it yeah so they've done that and we've got the para knowledge ease electroscope tribo electric field meter and apparently the it was $50 the electroscope detects static fields of the I cannot see during paranormal investigations such as the hair lifting up from one's arm which presumably you could see yeah I mean I can see yeah you'd feel that real extra cope can be used as a handheld unit to detect static fields can be placed on the floor to pick up energy fields and even used for yes/no questioning of a spirit so there we go there's the pair analogies gyroscope digital talking board $400 which is basically a digital Ouija board okay there's a whole thing where you'd have the we do but the letters of the alphabet and you'd put you all put your hands on a on a on a thing and you'd apparently the spirits would talk apparently I mean Warrington's used to make those as a family game you to be able to buy them in near shops and stuff I bought creepy remember when we wrote a story about a Ouija board app and for years and years afterwards this little short story about Ouija brought out had hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of comments on it of people just coming along and saying just talking about Ouija boards and how they thought they were cursed and loads of kids would come along like teenagers would come along and leave their email addresses and say can you tell me more about Ouija boards and there were people who were sort of saying oh I did a Ouija board and now I'm cursed and it's terrible and just hundreds on to comments by just crazy people I don't remember this at all really no will move another objects odd Casa oldest yes I know para knowledge is palter calm intelligent instrument trans community spirit box this is five hundred and ten dollars the politic arm is a custom-made communication device that produces amazing results the spirit box does a motorized sweep through radio stations line the radio tuning to be controlled by sensors that might in the environment again this looks like a massive steampunk log burning stove even complete with those right random copper pipes or stuck to the answers they go nowhere yeah everything's very steampunk because of course it has and then finally there's the spectral observatory didn't really know what this is and that's $700 everything is super expensive apparently from this company if you want to get into finding ghosts but my favorite thing and this was on a website less EMF calm the couple's ghost hunt kit with the tagline romance for the adventurous adventure for the romance or looking to spice up an anniversary impress a date or add drama to your honeymoon imagine bhatia imagine your partner's delight when presented with the idea of a hair-raising couples ghost hunt build trust and lasting memories and the two of you alone in some spooky stakeout look to each other for confirmation or your findings and reinsurance imagine the topics you will have to discuss afterwards and the fun of telling your friends and family about your adventure blimey what you could find could change the course of your life now that's the opposite of boring they say for $256 that's that's absolutely incredible I am doing that oh absolutely yeah I think we should get on the couples ghosts we could do this we could we could go on a couple of ghost hunt together impressive date I love that imagine if you went on a first date with someone I didn't yeah yeah they took you on okay so I bought for two in Japan's this ghost hunt kit yes only they turn up you're like okay hey one's got a hobby would you be brave enough to do that for a first date though if you were taking someone out for first day and you're like okay here's what I gonna do we're not gonna go for a meal I'm not gonna go to a cinema that's boring here's what we're gonna do we're gonna go get a certainly memorable do you think there'd be a second date it depends entirely on the on the person let's face it I mean you know we might find a ghost imagine if you found a guy your first date story was so how did you guys meet we found a ghost imagine that I swear depends on the ghost there's a lot of variables in this video yeah I'm not I'm not really sure it's something that I'd be trying no fair enough but yeah I thought that was really I thought I was interesting basically do you go and have a read of Amanda's article and yeah maybe maybe we'll try and review some of these bits of tech at one point and we'll have to give a star rating based on how it actually works because when I review a phone I will go through its main features of what it says it will do yeah and I will see does it do it properly does it do it better than other things on the market and it gets rated accordingly so with these things if they want to get you know therefore four and five stars they're going to have to do exactly what they say so if I don't find ghosts I think actually having them reviewed by a technology website is probably the last thing that these companies want to actually happen we don't want them rich anyway yeah we might start our own ghost busting startup franchise that is interesting do let us know in the comments below and of course if you are interested in coming on a date with either rich or I with the couple's ghost hunt kit then you can let us know that too and maybe we can set something up absolutely Wayne's here from you I mean it's the thing we've also we've been gently ribbing this whole ghost concept as well but if you have had a ghostly appearance if you had an if you have seen something strange in your neighborhood are you gonna call then you know let us know in the comments something weird and it didn't look good then just let us know in the comments if you have if you've seen something weird or unexplainable or if you have had a then we are waiting for your call let us know in the comments and while you're there like and subscribe rate the podcast yes yeah you can do all of that stuff and you can get in touch with us with seen at UK podcast at CBS I comm rich they can tweet you with rich night well and me with at battery HQ some of the things I do actually have coming up before we wrap up and because I am actually launched a new show with producer J he was off camera behind one of our cameras in fact there's a reason he is off camera yes I need to stress that he is too handsome and he would just pull focus from the to adversity nerds podcasts right here Jay and I have a new show called techadon sui look at the intersection of luxury technology we've got a couple of episodes live already with the diva let $4,000 Bluetooth speaker and a 1,000 pound small SmartWatch both of which are really really cool bits of tech yeah and we can't afford we cannot forward so we take a look at that and we've got a great one coming up on Monday as well with a behind-the-scenes on a photo shoot that I did so make sure to keep your eyes out for that I will of course be tweeting furiously about all these things if you just want to go and find it there that's it that's all I've got rich great that is how I'm gonna wrap up the show so I think we should go and stay cool stay cool it's a hot one out there looking ok keep unbuttoning the buttons as the show but there's another one that has just popped over there and it did sort of detract me from my train of thought yeah that's it yes please do like and subscribe comment anything below and keep your eye on CNET for all of the best tech news