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and welcome to the eighth episode of the TechnoBuffalo show online your three huster this week Shaun ani editor-in-chief of TechnoBuffalo i'm joined by executive editor mobile Todd Hazleton everybody and executive editor of gaming joey davidson so guys what uh don't you dare oh why not let's bring the 90s back wasn't that wasn't that like his son Budweiser like the son of CEO of the CEO Budweiser that everyone hated and thought was a total mess came up with that was up campaign really yeah it was like a story about that man like he was like the eternal partier frat guy everyone wanted him out of the company and then he was like I have an idea for a marketing campaign and it made them chameleons like mr. D's yeah yeah man I would thought about that moving along oh well anyway on this week's show we're going to be discussing a couple different things starting off with the announcement this morning of the LG g3 press conference Todd want you discuss what we're going to be seeing from LG yeah so the press conference I guess is happening on May 27th in New York London in San Francisco than other parts of the world too and I think what we'll see is probably the g3 right like they LG already confirm that it's coming during the second quarter which it is right now what we don't yet know is if it's gonna launch that day like HTC did with the HTC One m8 they launched it the day they announced it or if it's going to come later UQ two stretches till the other cute so it could happen then to don't like it when they announce stuff following I I hate to throw us off yeah do you like it when they launch stuff like right after the announcement I mean that seemed I think it's cool be good because if you look back at like palm and then HP sort of what killed webos I think was that HP would announce these devices and even i forget the president the time he would say like oh we're gonna get them out now sooner you know right after we they'll hit the market and of course they never did so that was sort of one of the big problems for something like when they announce something they're like here it is go buy it now though it's like it's starting the hype train and then boarding right away yeah exactly first is like oh here it is and then I think it kind of like I guess it go to fold right like people can get really excited but as a standout feature and this is supposed to have a qHD display which would be a standout feature so in that case that could be good people are talking about there waiting and then I go buy it but I think in a lot of cases when you announce a phone early and then wait a couple months people early and I don't really care anymore or I mean you really coming up to September you kind of get in danger zone too because people are like you start to hear iphone 6 rumors and then yeah I think that's yeah you have to stand out really yeah yeah so I think it would be a good strategy of LG to sell it right away but I've got a little come soon if not that day you know by the image here still and i think we're still going off weeks so it sounds like we're going to see a similar sort of back side to what we saw on the g2 the volume buttons and stuff and hopefully like an edge-to-edge display looks kind of cool and if it does have qhd it'll be but you're probably well I guess one of the sharpest on the market so so out there as to why you'd need that but yeah because I think that's sort of what we're expecting from LG right now and then and we can go into like Nexus 6 which we didn't report on in the home page because I don't really know the source but there's a rumor that the nexus 6 is going to be based off of the g3 that sort of follows there it kind of counterpoints what we saw from the information yesterday a website that published information that says we're going to move into android silver devices and Google's going to move away from the next yeah what was that and that was a weird yeah it almost sounds like if you think about nexus silver on they're saying they're working with manufacturers and actually we said wireless carriers number four which was interesting Google right now goes direct to consumer on premium high-end devices which today that sort of the google play edition device where you spend you know 650 blocks and get the HTC One m8 or any of the other phones versus the Nexus program where you spend you know 350 you get a nexus 5 but sort of lower I don't want to say lower quality but I think Google is trying to say that they want these super premium quality phone see it sounded to me android silver drives home the idea of metal I don't know why um and to go after why I mean clearly but I don't know with like for example you look at the galaxy s5 there's no metal involved and then I started thinking to myself well does that mean this galaxy s5 is prime the one that we keep hearing about this metal version or something is maybe an Android silver device I have no idea yeah but there's a lot to think about right now we're going g3 and then into the Nexus either well we actually have a question related to the g3 right now from future game dev hey Todd what do you think LG will have to do to make the g3 you really take off and stand out from the market um that's a good question and LG we just saw that I'd have to bring it up but IDC had a report today they're behind now and have been for a while but Samsung Apple huawei and Lenovo on the global smartphone market so they're really not shipping the quantities that anyone else is there Eloise behind huawei yeah on the global scale I blame China for that right i mean exactly so the smartphone market in china start taking out so i would say and actually will to stand out you know they can do anything they can toss it a quad HD display on this on the g3 and stand out but for LG to stand out in general it's really i think was it has to push the L Series three phone so it has out now a lot harder in markets like China because if you look at where Samsung success is coming from I'm according to IDC it's in the low to mid range smartphone market and that's sort of where LG's putting its focus we learned that whole world congress and now the g3 really its flagship but i think yeah well you can do anything on a flagship and make it stand out that doesn't mean you're gonna I thought I'd Mabel some anecdotal here that would be worth feet off of but and I obviously I have the less out of this phone call even I have infinitely less phone knowledge than you guys do but as a consumer with passing interest in the market space and also wanting to partake in it myself I couldn't name currently an LG flagship phone I could five years ago mm-hmm but right now I couldn't and I could name a motorola phone I could name a samsung phone and an HTC phone and all that with LG I couldn't and I think that that is a problem yeah that is especially because the the flag should out right now sort of it's the g2 and it's still really great phone these about amazing phone and so it actually is kind of crazy that they're replacing it already but I think LG feels a need to now at the s5 and the one that made her out right they want to keep pushing the boundaries but I think there's a misconception out there among consumers and some smartphone fans that a flagship makes the company because that's not true at all I mean in the case of Apple yes because they only really I mean they push their flagship model and kind of sell the lower and wants to but when you look at successful market leaders in the smartphone market like Samsung and Kwame and what HTC is trying to do an HTC is not even at LG's level crime is trying to push really compelling phones in every market segments so low and low and mid-range are really popular too right well we as enthusiasts look at the G theorem like you know if it flops we would say oh you know LG is dead or something like that that's not true you can't really I mean so the g3 can do whatever it wants but I think you know it should be a great device that needs to be a great device issue that LG still pushing the boundaries i love my g2 there you go but i still am not a fan of these buttons yeah you never get on board with them either what's on there I don't know that that's the the buttons the volume and the power on the back Joey oh why I feel like I'd hit those all the time I do do they they said they felt it was a more natural way of holding your phone and that's where your finger rests when you're on the phone well yeah and that means I hit those buttons all the time when I'm talking yeah you don't want it to be in the natural location you want it to be in a location you have to reach for and they said that was market research to which I have a hard time believing I mean yeah right hold the phone like this right and I want the volume right where my thumb is I don't know yeah cuz I mean when I hold the phone yet my finger my index finger goes on the back here and that means I'm right on top of the power and volume buttons at all times now my middle finger sister I'd on the volume rocker actually lies yeah well that's the thing my middle finger this show is getting very weird your phone on today's episode how to hold your phone this isn't the apple vodka all your boy Oh 2 points the time of it antennagate now I think the g3 I mean the pictures we've seen you know should they be real which I think they are you know they're keeping the buttons there they look a little bit the lower profile so maybe they won't be as easy to hit when you don't mean to so Todd is it our sean is it a screen size preference is that reason why that's still your your your daily driver yeah it is because I really really consider going to the Moto X but I just I like the screen size of the g2 yeah right make sense yeah gorgeous job Owen mm-hmm well i mean i do i also have a galaxy mega 6.3 and i do use it but like when I'm in England that was the greatest phone ever for traveling because you know I had the you know I I went bought a local sim card so I had UK data and if you're walking around the city you don't know that screen size was awesome for Google Maps yeah yeah sure yeah but I don't carry this the 6.3 on a daily basis even if you know I'm 6 foot 4 and even for me I'm like this phone is way too big Giants exactly it's it's the phone designed specifically for Shaquille O'Neal you know I saw speaking of large bones which which is crazy I saw my sister on Easter and she was saying that people look at her one m7 or like what is that a tablet and I'm like this thing you know I only got one a4 4.7 inch display yeah the sevens knowing makati yeah so that's crying you know you know people are used to nerds yeah well Joey you also had a whole lot of unexpected news this week from Nintendo what's going on over there which part man the last few days they've just they've just kind of like dropped a crapload of info on us so monday was it monday or tuesday i can't remember at this point to history Tuesday was when the treehouse was announced okay so nintendo announced their e3 plans again they are skipping the stage presentation in favor of live streaming and this is awesome they are holding their their first-ever nintendo officially sponsored smash brothers invitational tournament for the new game which is sweet this is a company that has a history of for better or worse ostracizing the tournament community for smash like they don't do things that help the tournament community and now with the new smash brothers they announced the final destination stages they announced the forgot our for glory for fun modes and now they're saying like a d3 the biggest week in the games industry we are giving the best smash brothers players in the world the spotlight in the nokia theatre and like live streaming the match that's awesome they're also doing a thing where anyone who wants to try smash brothers globally and lives close to a best buy will be able to go out and play the game for themselves during e3 week so that's an awesome idea it's really good i mean they did it last year with the wii u as well there were several games at the kiosks this year they're just putting smash on the kiosks i'm now that's all that's been announced so far i I wouldn't be terribly surprised if they also put the zelda tech demo on those kiosks as well we'll see what happens i know that there's going to be a new zelda announced at e3 it's just a matter of what it is but it will be for wii u so beyond that i mean people were really pissed off the nintendo skipping the stage presence again and I'm personally not i don't i think it's an exorbitant waste of money for a company that really can't afford to waste it and the way that mainstream media covers III now has changed they don't worry about the press conferences they just put out one or two articles recapping the stuff on the show floor and that's it so nintendo will be there for me there there's a two-fold reason why i prefer them not to be on the stage number one being yes it's got save them a ton of money i don't see the point to your hiring flo rida aisha taylor to come in and you know wow you know and i'm using air quotes there wow you guys when you're saying there the second thing is there's no way to write when you're in that event no yeah i mean they're you could you could I've done it before it's awful although so you're getting a couple years as coverage from press when you have a stage show like that doesn't help anyone yeah well last year you know you tried you know working from inside I think it was the Sony presentation your wife I dropped out in seconds yeah it's bad out there I was there once yeah so Ron Eric and I were covering remotely so yes we had a presence in the theater for the sony presentation but Ron Eric and I were actually the ones doing all the coverage from the live stream because you couldn't connect to the internet at all right right right even my even my 4g at the time was totally blown up on itself yeah I think you got like three texts it through to me throughout the entire presentation there Sean dying send help it's crazy how companies do that these days you know like yesterday I was at an acer press conference and I walked in about 20 minutes before it started no seats left you know and like I'm just sitting in the back like why didn't you know there's no reason for me to be here there's no purpose for this at all and I think that's a salute lick and then afterwards you know you mostly there for the hands on stuff and afterwards they even have hands on I mean most of the new products that were cool weren't even there here's how it went down last year if you're curious for Nintendo and I imagine will be the same thing and and maybe this is why I'm not the upset or disgruntled by the news the press conference will be at the same time as it always is 9 a.m. pacific time tuesday that has been like rock solid for the last 10 years so instead of being a press conference on stage it'll be a live stream video that nintendo digital event they've added YouTube that's good news no more you stream which was such the silliest platform to do this on was ustream YouTube's a little bit better and more stable so immediately after that I get on a bus I go to the e3 convention center before the show floor opens and I have two hours with of hands-on time with everything that it that they announced and then every 15 minutes in between demos they gather the press up around a table the developers come out and talk to us to like I own mother guy who directed Zelda he's out there Miyamoto's out there last year he was out there for Pikmin 3 it's awesome and then I just go about my business so we still have the same hands on we still have the same presentations and then this time they're doing they're going the extra mile and making it so that the fans can play the games that they want to play that's awesome yeah that's great I think this is the more logical way to do it I mean as you wrote in your editorial yesterday Joey I mean especially when it gets to the car games a what was it last year the year before the guy that went on and on about his love of cars oh that was last year they got from forza 5 all right he was gonna take the car out for drinks afterwards right yeah her head together I mean I get it cars are cool I like cars too but like I don't I'm not all I need to see you gush for 15 minutes over the rare McLaren on stage like I don't care you know yeah i did it i didn't moment i thought it was going to become an adult's only show i disturbing turn the lights down bring out my candles oh shoot so do you come here often there now and so I I have no problem you know and they bring out your these celebrities and all that I don't care i'm i'm watching these e3 live streams were the games I'm watching them for the demos I want to hear the news I want to hear about the new ip's i want my gaming information i don't want bad jokes from Aisha Taylor or flo rida you know coming out singing for just dance and so I think Nintendo's handled this perfectly I mean they're their shows are always concise yeah they'll throw in a tiny bit of humor but it's not anything ever over the top and it just flows and you get all your news and you're done yeah mmhmm yeah I don't get it I I don't understand why people are upset that they're not going to be live on stage the game informer ran an article yesterday kind of like right after my article went up actually I'm not just coincidence but yeah um their stance on it was that you don't get to hear the audience reactions and you don't even you don't need a laugh track to know whether or not something is funny you know yeah exactly I I don't need a guided if I like something I'm gonna like something I'm not gonna like I'm not gonna like it doesn't matter what the audience is doing right exactly so and to be completely honest when Flo Rida was on stage if you I was in the room for that at UB sales presentation if you watch the video like it turns to the audience and everyone that isn't a Ubisoft developer is just like sitting there like god kill me I actually I saw a clip of it again yesterday and when the girls ran up to the front and they're like trying to get everyone to clap all the press is just say they're staring at him cuz it's like why am I clout like I don't I can't clap hey nice man dude that's like when you're on the yesterday when you're in a press conference with all the employees and they're the ones clapping you're like oh come on yeah yeah that debt I don't know if you guys know this the guys watching but nine times out of ten the huge applause that comes from those press conferences is from employees yeah library used to be famous for that all of what he's doing orrible about that EA they have an moving against da I'm just is just an example they have EA wraps peppered in through the crowd and they just like everyone claps so that that raucous cheering you're hearing isn't normally coming from the press yeah yes look at that photo oh my god meanwhile you currently trying to take pictures right notes yeah yeah I mean whenever I've gone to like CES and I've been in you know the press conferences I'd like I see people clapping I'm like I'm juggling a camera in writing a note and I'm like I might stamp my foot once in a while I'm sorry it uh uh Joey for from future game dev will you be in the smash brothers tournament Joey yeah I'm not one of those 16 players no I'm certainly i'm sure i will play the game over the weekend or the week but definitely not in that tournament scope ya know I as much as i admire Joey's gaming prowess I I don't see him being one of the 16 that smash rather Invitational now you know well we have a third topic for this week and it's a little out of our normal area there's tons of questions about it already noticed that that's why I'm go ahead and moving us over there so the big news in the geek world yesterday was the announcement of the Star Wars Episode 7 cast and Joey who is very fond of constantly telling me what the giant nerd I am dude don't shun this is it today this is my coaster on my desk well I I always know you say very lovingly I know it's never out of being any sort of bowling or meanness Oh is laying hey so yes the Star Wars Episode 7 cast was announced I I will admit this I tweeted it out so I can admit here I got a little choked up seeing the picture yeah that was my childhood coming back you know that saying you know Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher even Peter Mayhew and Anthony Daniels and Mark Hamill all sitting there and the fact that I know I'm going to get another story in this universe even though the prequel sucked even though I know I should at this point going I don't trust you I still was just unbelievably stoked I uh it was surreal it was it was it was completely surreal yeah I mean Sean you you probably heard me the other night gushing with my buddy Mike about it just just you know it's Star Wars played a huge role growing up for me I'm sure for you guys too so seeing that was crazy crazy well you have to remember and I saw it I didn't see it until September of 1977 so I was already 6 and the reason i did not see it until September was because the lines oh yeah remember at this time theaters were one screen it was September 77 we got to the theater at 6pm we didn't get in till the midnight showing whoa right yeah now and September in Phoenix sitting outside for six hours is awesome why did you use down yeah yeah toilet I just helped now here's here's the funny part Todd I still to this day have no clue how my uncle did it I had a pirated copy on beta by Christmas Wow nice about what's funny is it because beta tapes were a certain length it was split on 22 tapes so the scene where obi-wan feels the the disturbance in the force in Luke talks to him that's where I had to switch tapes so even to this day I'm like is it time for a bathroom break this way oh my gosh that's where I would swap the tapes out I yeah it was a huge part of my childhood now Todd I know before the show you were saying you didn't have a whole lot to say about Star Wars I watched as a kid like with my father who's a big star Wars fan but I don't know like I guess I didn't watch it as much as some people i stopped counting how many times I saw a new hope at four hundred eighty five times whoa a little bit more than me yeah and that was when it was still just me watching the pirated tape yeah I I just finally one day stopped counting I was like oh yeah I don't know somewhere over 500 now and yeah I it for me it was life-changing it was you have to remember in 1977 there was nothing nothing that it looked like this and you know I can remember walking out of the theater just my mind exploding and yeah you know I i I'm sorry for the kids today because they'll never have that experience because there's so many amazing looking films now but you know for those of us that have been around and grew up with this still the idea that we're finally going to see what happened after Return of the Jedi is just mind-boggling yeah yeah the funny thing is though last night my mother asked me she part of the reason she felt I was disappointed with the prequels was because I had 16 years to think about what happened in those three of films and she goes the same thing is going to happen to you with seven eight and nine I said actually no I never really gave a whole lot of thought to the seven eight nine it was one through three that I always thought about well your brain naturally I mean six could have been the end of the story period your brain absolutely naturally decides that one two and three needs to happen yeah yeah I I think what's what's interesting about Star Wars for a lot of people is that the end and someone asked I've sashing Bohol's such in bohol City Hall ah asked on the side something about the which one being our favorites and stuff and I know that it fluctuates it goes all over the place but what's interesting about Star Wars to me is that that amongst most Star Wars fans and I'm not counting kids today kids today uh the prequels are like universally hated it's different layers of disgust and different levels but most people hate them and I I don't think JJ Abrams is the most talented creator in the world but I do think he has the ability to return Star Wars 2 it's simple popcorn flick status that's all it was I mean people who try to elevate it to something more crazy it wasn't anything more than just a summer blockbuster with really pure and simple characters and then the prequels came in george lucas i think was drinking his own kool-aid oh yeah and just decided to go balls out like this is this is going to be amazing this is going to be amazing amazing faster more intense Yeah right up I just I just I don't see I don't know yes which ones are favorite film I Sean why don't you start that I you know I I know everyone says empire strikes back because it was actually the strongest writing of the series but it for me it's episode for a new hope simply because that was what introduced me to this universe and these characters and set my imagination on fire right if you go back to episode 4 and that that's such a simple line about you fought with my father in the Clone Wars my brain exploded at train fare out what the clone wars were yeah I obsessed about that as a six-year-old you know and so yeah I episode 4 is my favorite simply because of what it set me down a life path essentially Todd you now you say you know you haven't you you're not as I do you don't even know like I honestly don't even good I've watched them but I could I don't think I could like walk by a TV like that's this one Wow yeah III don't know if I've ever met anyone well no Drive no no are people that were like oh yeah I've seen him yeah like yatra media was just sort of like like I said my dad would watch him growing up and I watch him with him so I seen them all for sure I just like that's sort of where it stopped watch them again all right guys but I'm still catching up on the wire at the wire first yr to express it in we've got a question from future game Deb about not knowing anything that's in the books I is there anything the writers are following or are they writing this from scratch they actually are following Lucas had written 20 page treatments for seven eight nine and they're working from those treatments and what a treatment is basically just an outline it's not a full script so it says you know it's like the story beat CEO this is going to happen then that will lead to this and this will set this up and so on so forth and Lucas is consulting but he is not writing he's not directing both of factors which I'm thrilled for yes so so they are working from George Lucas's original notes but they are not working from any of the Expanded Universe novels which I'm also thankful for because a lot of those were really bad some of them are real good too there there were some that were good but the majority work yeah but the yeah I'm there working from that and yeah I ice also here in a question I'm not sure where went here there was one about a are they going to introduced Jaina solo and that was from viola minium I guess I think I saw yeah thatthat's it's technically no but we're not sure what Daisy Ridley is playing and from her placement in the cast photo sitting in between Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher the assumption is that she is Han and Leia's daughter but that does not necessarily mean she's Gina from the novel I would love it if she was on and lay his daughter and she was the main character I've talked about this before already but that would be amazing ya know I I think she is definitely there kid but we just simply don't know to what level she's playing in the movie but I'm all for her being the main character I have no problems with that yeah it'd be sweet none yeah bring it on you know and that's the thing I mean there was a lot of talk yesterday about the diversity of the cast and all that and Joey you and I talked about this offline and I agree with you a hundred and ten percent we can't judge anything yet we don't know what's happening yeah i mean it is it i will admit that it is troubling to see only two females in the cast and one black guy that's problematic but the rest of the cast has not been revealed and we don't know what roles these people play yeah just seeing it just seeing a billing list doesn't mean anything no you know it doesn't even tell you it we have no Harrison Ford could be in the movie for ten seconds he could be like Steven Segal an executive decision yeah para gone first five minutes yeah exactly exactly yeah it's we have absolutely no concept of what's happening we don't know to what degree the original cast is going to be in although the fact that Peter may who's there kind of makes me think it's gonna be more than 10 seconds I mean to bring Chewie back for yo and chewy walks through the scene but out it's gonna be interesting i I'm excited I you know I will more likely walk out of the theater and go oh it could have been so much more rats yeah it's still it's part of the Star Wars saga and that means I automatically will watch it yeah we got a year and a half so yeah I know now I just got to try to find a way to be an extra yeah I told you I tried Parling that painting that one dime into an extra roll it yo now darn it Lucas isn't in charge so I can't you know use that as a bargaining chip now but darn it so we're going to open it up to questions to the floor here as we usually do at the end of the show we've got a bunch coming in here let's take a look here hey Todd from Sasha Mahal what are your thoughts on the Samsung Galaxy K zoom you've actually gotten to play with a little bit was it it's cool samsung was really specific to say like this is not the galaxy s5 zoom they're trying to break away from the mentality of the sort of the galaxy s4 zoom was a galaxy s4 product so what they're saying is this is basically a phone first with the gray camera and I think it lives up to that name from my 10 to 15 minutes with the phone it's cool it's not sort of a powerhouse like the galaxy s5 you make sacrifices in the way of the screen and stuff like that it's also still pretty bulky and and yes I saw some comments on the YouTube video from our hands on every time you're going to take a picture the whole lens pops out and everything so it's a big device and sort of in my opinion more of a camera than a phone versus what Samsung saying but it's cool no plans for the US and it should be launching elsewhere soon though a question here from techno geek which is actually something I forgot to talk to you about Joey and I mentor superior thoughts Oh guys love the show and the site and over the weekend I hear that the Atari et games are found what are your guys reaction Joey how did you feel about them finding the ETS I mean it was inevitable right like it's something that a lot of companies do getting rid of waste is what most corporations have to worry about on a day-to-day basis I think it's awesome I think it was great that they're in such pristine condition relatively speaking but now I wasn't surprised not really at all I I wasn't surprised either it just it was kind of gratifying to have the urban legend finally confirmed yeah i mean i buy it I totally bought that it happened I knew I was just convinced that they were actually buried out in the desert desert get all companies get rid of stuff there was the in the forties when universal and the other film companies they used to burn movies not just because they didn't have the storage space to keep them and they weren't going anywhere so they just burn them companies do weird stuff with it wasn't entombed in cement I don't even know I've not heard if it did have the cement layer on the top of the from what I've heard though the Atari manager that was on site said that yes they did put a cement cap on it and it was simply because they knew kids were sneaking into the garbage dump to get the games when they were first dumped yeah hmm so I don't know I saw it there were some people that were like this has to be fake there's no way they could have survived in this condition if they were at the bottom of a pile yeah it's totally possible in the desert in an arid climate underground they'd be fine yeah well it's just like why the airplane graveyard is out in Arizona because the planes are kept in great condition due to the climate mm-hmm no so it's no different with the video game not the one cell to sonya's davis-monthan air force yeah yep and that's good oh it's I I've driven past I've never been in it but yeah it's amazing just lines and lines and lines of yeah it's not but yeah it was interesting to see it finally happening and looking forward to the the documentary and the shock of the worst video game ever designed which is a matter of opinion yeah it's not there it's up there but I've played some pretty pretty sucky ones as well from rockster 103 do you think wearable devices might be more successful in the future Todd what do you think yeah I think so i think right now we're in like the very start of seeing what they can do and I think that's because the chips inside the processors and stuff are just now taking off um I can measure steps although not accurately which is really annoying like if you see you up Brandon's here fit review he talks about how the inaccurate was and neither galaxy whatever s5 and the one I made you can like when you install the apps you can just shake them and get the get the footsteps so they need to fix the inaccuracies to make them really useful and in case you that's in case of fitness right and I think for alerts and stuff yeah I mean look at what couples do it done a fantastic job and I hope that anyone building devices in Android wear it sort of usually using that as a model for moving forward yeah I that is a prior just shaking I mean they have to be more accurate you can't just sit there and yo look I'm making I'm walking steps i'm walking steps yeah exactly sounds that that son Brandon was saying the discrepancies were like thousands of feet a day I mean what's the point if you really are you walking miles or you're not walking miles and if you're not then that it's useless right it tells you the wrong calories burned and everything so but I think that's what people are attracted to write the fitness idea i think is what for is what attracts me to wearables I like the pebble but I don't like all the constant notifications I'm more attracted to just learning about myself question from rahul / top cadet Chompy ani are you wearing the pebble smartwatch yes I am how is it I love it it's I I honestly I mean I love it it makes my life easier is it something that I think everyone needs to run out by now I I enjoy it's nice you know to especially like when you're driving at that this is somewhat horrible while you're driving yo if I get an alert you know if i get a text i can just go like that real quick and see the name of the person and then I know if I need to pull over which I do pull over if I need to text but that way I never have to pick up my phone or anything deal so that's nice but yeah I enjoy it but it's not anything that I think the mass consumer needs as of yet a couple generations from now I think it's going to be a lot better I see at first I loved getting those notifications and stuff and then they started driving me nuts sort of like blackberry back in the day you know like it's just constantly buzzing here like leave me alone I took it off and I think that's sort of my issue with wearables like I don't want them they're not intrusive in terms of their form but they can be intrusive in terms of their feature set that gets annoying from Sasha Mahal is a traditional for technical buffalo staff to wear a hat during google hangout yes sure there no they're episodes of me not wearing a hat I don't yeah yeah there are there episodes of and here by may or so I'll stop wearing those I don't have warm weather which will make John extremely happy as he hates the set why I don't know he absolutely despises this hat and thatthat's just you know the way it is it's my favorite head and I word a lot future game dev wants to know how the Hermit is living behind my sheet I forgot to feed him last week so we'll see you still there let's go my coffee let's see here what else do we have some of these we've already covered a little bit guys last I was just flipping through someone asked about the macbook air what did ya thank you like at yeah I'll find the question while we're here it is from rockster 103 what are your thoughts on the new macbook air oh the price I mean 899 that's awesome I think people have been looking for apple to enter that price target for a long time and me 99 for macbook air is a great deal I mean you're getting 11 inch screen so it's like the lowest and only 128 gigabytes of hard drive right and that's what i have right so you think about the macbook air that version of the macbook air at least as a more casual consumer might think of it i know my wife right now is really on the market for a new computer she's been weighing a Chromebook but she's always had apple stuff that might be attractive to her right and she could give a rat's about 128 gigabytes of storage space its basis by our internet book sweden france the book machine what what do you think though Joey will she think about the screen only being 11.6 inches she will not care really she does not care my wife does not care about anything she's like a two hours of battery life that's what bothers me I have a 2012 model and it's got about two hours of battery life she does not my wife died I think a lot of consumers don't care as long as the price points in their wheelhouse their golden for me for you Todd Sean we probably look at that thing and go not enough yeah but it's not for us you know it's it's the budget line app it's that it's the iphone 5c of MacBook Airs yeah and I think Apple Apple could use one and it's very it's ridiculous that all of their laptops even even that laptop is cheaper than my gaming PC yes that's silly the fact that i can go build a top-of-the-line gaming pc for less money than their cheapest macbook is why Syria saying you're seeing the other way ya know I I think though it's great that they're finally again you know the the plastic macbooks have been gone for a while but you know finally we have a macbook again that is under a thousand dollars truly under a thousand dollars you know it's been a long time since we've seen that and yeah for your average consumer I just the screen size really more than the hard drive space the screen size is why I'm like it's only eleven point six inches yeah that's kind of hard did you work on at least for me 13s is where on that you gotta remember that that this is the same marketplace that actually was excited about the netbook you know and and that's really a silent in netbook sure I'm not knocking in that book I'm just saying that I don't think screen size matters as much to to normal people as it does to us like it they just don't care the normies admit will use a 17 inch pro right yeah I have a sub advantage but I couldn't even deal with that man 3904 travel and stuff I can't see it it's too big yeah well I and look I got it right as were about to announce that the 17 was dead I didn't realize it when i bought it and so i'm glad i got in under the wire and i'm going to use that thing until it's on its last absolute breath i mean yeah that's where I am with my 13 inches it's a mid-2010 and still whoa yeah dude i upgraded the the ram 28 gigs once and haven't touched it since wow i'm on a 2012 arrogance on its way out oh no man i take care of this this thing's been all over I guess not enough yes it's best oh its center Oh Santa see Apple back in this market vo this price range so it's going to be interesting to see what it does I think that now Joey here's a question if your wife is just concerned about the 0 facebook machine or whatever would she be better off with the tablet no my wife likes my life likes a keyboard and and all that stuff why has a tablet you know but she doesn't she uses your tablet for work stuff and for reading and games that's like all she does on it and it's also our toddler distraction device enlarged but like the g she likes having a laptop and I don't blame her do it is a lot harder to be productive on a tablet than it is on a macbook no I totally agree but i'm just i'm curious to see you know as we get further down the road if we really are going to start to see tablets cannibalized that casual market of people that are only interested in email and social i think they already have I think that's why people are calling the pc market day well that's just the pc market is not as we know just to clarify the pc market isn't dead it's just shifting exactly yeah especially for you when you define it as personal computer i mean then he order the smartphone that's right my buddy dave has totally kicked his pc to the curb and he just has that he just has a phone he has a galaxy s4 and that's it no he's living the dream so what does he know some people dream of you cord-cutting he he went way over the book oh no but he does have cable and running water right and running right cut that one yet that'll be a foam blocks at on yeah picking up foam blocks we have a well do one more question here and then we'll we'll be at the end of the show for today from rope row top Deb what are your thoughts on ghouls project ara and foam blocks we've covered this in previous episodes yeah I'm so first right so go back and find that episode first cuz that we had a whole episode on it yeah I talked about yeah I'm still excited yeah me too and no development since our last episode so mad I almonds still excited nothing to account I'm hoping you will hear some more at Google i/o so I hope it doesn't it I hope it doesn't turn into like their google wave or even their cars program it's just becomes like vaporware remember google wave yeah plus is pretty much on its way out it seems like right the guy who created google+ is gone but still no there's talk that they're gonna replace like their Universal login with just Google log instead of google plus and I don't know it's 480 depart the thing that stinks is like photos inside Google+ is amazing it's really cool dude I don't know if you guys I did not know this existed i just have a quick anecdote over the weekend my son who is two and a half going on three was at a birthday party with another two-and-a-half going on three year old they're like best friends they do everything together in daycare um they're like there's just this moment when erickson the other kid is getting ready to get his cake and I'm trying to get a picture of both of them and I don't know if you've ever try to take pictures of two-year-olds it's like herding cats why can't i gotta can really like say cheese one of them says cheese one of them is like completely oblivious XO i took like five pictures in a row just like trying to get them both a smile at once and it didn't happen auto-awesome whatever nighttime happens crash out wake up in the morning I'm checking my computer and he'll pop up from google that's just like hey your smile photo is ready so Google took all those pictures found the one like ones where they both had good smiles and then merge them into one picture yeah auto awesome it's really cool dude that's why it does it makes like panoramas for you to like you did notices that you think the only thing Todd that it's ever done before for me is it detected that I was taking a picture in snow and it added a stupid Oh flakes gif that's terrible I was like this is not auto awesome this is Otto awful yeah that's awesome awful but it does really some awesome stuff ah the smile thing man I was like this is the creepiest and greatest thing that Google's ever done that is pretty darn cool that it was able to merge them like that alright well that brings episode 8 of the TechnoBuffalo show to end do you have any final thoughts for this week nah nope so basically we're all thoughtless final thoughts yeah we're thoughtless jerks I as always we appreciate you joining us I have been Sean ani I'm the editor-in-chief of technobuffalo I've been joined by executive editor of mobile Todd Hazleton hi everyone and the executive editor of gaming joey davidson see you guys until next week take it easy and as always you can find us on the itunes store you can find us on the stitcher app you can subscribe via RSS feed you can find this pretty much anywhere we'll see you back here next week for episode nine till then take it easy bye bye