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this episode of technobuffalo is brought to you by goto meeting welcome back to another episode of ask the buffalo i'm jon rettinger this is the show where you can ask any question that you have from the world of consumer electronics this week we're going to talk about the crazy futuristic google glass we're going to talk about when the best time of year to get a new cell phone is and i'm going to answer some personal questions about my life and what brought me to being a consumer electronics journalist this is asked to Buffalo let's get started so our first question comes to us from Esteban Hernandez who wants to talk about google glass he asks hey John what do you think about Google's glass project do you think will be as good as a video suggests so we first saw a google glass last week it's been rumored for quite a while that Google is going to take advantage of augmented reality technology essentially try and put it on a little tan a futuristic screen you get aware in front of your I think Terminator but without trying to kill you we haven't seen augmented reality sort of fulfill its promise of being a useful everyday tool but Google glass is really trying to take that to next step so what are the uses for going to be and that's really going to be the termination of success without the developers can find awesome uses for it so certainly you could you know look at a restaurant and see Yelp reviews right there you know that's one way you can do it you could wear it while you're driving and see directions actually on the road the potential for it is incredible there's also potential to look super silly well we're in this thing over your eye and talking about John Connor so I think it's going to be a success I think it's going to be a paradigm-shifting a device about how we use information so yes I'm excited I think it's going to be awesome and I can't wait to look like a cyborg alright so our next question gets away from tech for a minute and talks a little bit about my personal life in my history that got me to where I am right now ben de Angelo asked John what did your in-law sink when you told them you're going to start making videos for a living I've been pretty candid about my life and I've been very open about what brought me tier if you guys don't know I was working in software development I was running a marketing department back in 2009 making videos as a hobby I've always loved technology consumer electronics has been my passion and something I realized that there might be a way to use what I love and do it for a job I hated what I was doing it got to the point where I almost hoped I got in a small car accident every day so I didn't have to go in nothing serious just like maybe I'd hit a stop sign where no one would get hurt but I had an excuse to call in and not have to show up so I'll never forget when I had to sit down with what was going to be my future in-laws my wife and I weren't married yet we were just talking about getting engaged and tell them that I was going to leave my job it's 2009 so super bad economy to make videos for a living you have to think about what people thought about YouTube then has really changed all that much people thought YouTube was a place for posting videos that people getting kicked in the business and cats playing piano I was pretty much what people thought about YouTube so she was and my father-in-law worth I mean just aghast about it on that sort of shown the adaptation the change in perception of new media and how YouTube has become a viable business tool just over the past three years and created a whole new class of career ah they were very supportive they were shocked they probably didn't tell many friends what I did for a living for for a few years but you know just kind of goes to show you that jobs change careers change and if you find something that you love pursue it because you never know if you could find a way to make it a career I wake up every day with a huge smile on my face getting to talk about electronics for a living this is my passion is what I love and I think the audience for giving me a chance I make my mother-in-law for not killing me all right so our next question comes from here who wants to ask John when's the best time of the year to get a new cell phone seems like cell phones come out every time you blank soon cell phone 8 comes out few months later you get cell phone a tu cell phone a 2 HD cell phone a 2 HD max with 2 x's it's hard to pick the best time of year to get a new phone you don't have to get a new phone the day your two-year contract and you can wait traditionally it's been hard to predict when the best time of year is however if you have to pin one month or a 30 or 60 day period it would definitely be around the holidays November to December is definitely the best time to get new phones usually we see updates to Apple products of that at that point androids flagships have usually just come out whether their Nexus devices seeing new operating systems get teased whether it's an update to Android or Windows Phone perhaps Windows Phone 8 will be out that's when the big rush to buy is November December is definitely the best time to wait to get a phone which might not be the answer you want to hear now that we're in April and you're looking you know nine ish months away to get a new phone but it's definitely going to be the best time for you to pick one up so technobuffalo whea staff all over not only the country but the world we got junk watch who's filming this in Canada but he's here right now we have folks in Europe and in South Korea sean is literally in the middle of nowhere Missouri it's hard to keep track of everybody and see where people are at Goku meeting really has the answer for this with colleagues working from home or traveling for business getting everyone together for a meeting can be quite a task not only that could be very expensive plane tickets ain't cheap but I've got a 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working on TB generally i'm working on TV all the time if i'm not in the office i'm thinking about TB i got buffalo on the mind but when I'm not thinking about gadgets generally I like to do is I like to watch a lot of sports you can probably guess that by the for lakers part of my youtube name I'm big into the Lakers angels Southern California guy mostly i wish i could get into hockey I respect the athletes but I'm just not interested in it I feel the same way about soccer football depending on where you are I think it's one of those sports you have to be good or grow up with I played as a kid but I just can't watch it that much anymore I like to some sort of boring I like to sit at home with my wife and my puppy and just watch TV I like to go ahead and here we can I like to talk to Ralph on occasion and see what Ralph has going on and what he's doing and how he's feeling on an emotional level and see if he needs counseling I like to inquire about Ralph's lucky plant and find out why that plant is so lucky to Ralph I like to watch TV when i get time i like to try and go stuff shut at me when i get time i like to go to the gym try and run a little bit keep my heart rate up and going try and pump some weights no big deal yeah i'm not the biggest guy in the world but like to try and stay as much in shape as I can mostly that's about I like to read when i get a moment but I'm generally pretty boring and i usually have tech on the mine hopefully that helped answer your questions this has been another episode of ask the Buffalo until next week i'm jon rettinger from TechnoBuffalo i'll see you soon sometimes Ralph cries and we try and try not to say that on camera I don't want people to know yeah good I maybe we should use that