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usually on TechnoBuffalo talk about technologies it's mobile it's the latest cellphone its latest tablet it sort of new cutting-edge technologies and we talk about stuff but going to becoming generally it's like cloak-and-dagger stuff we got an exclusive from a source we got a water market but very rarely actually get a chance to see prototypes before they hit the market I'm doing a lot of research on new technologies I want to serve start a new series and TechnoBuffalo or you can show these emerging technologies almost before the ready for mass market so you can sort of participate in the technologies going to be I've been doing a lot of research on HTI's or human-computer interfaces for a lot of reasons kind of selfishly I'm developing worse and worst carpal tunnel syndrome in my wrist so many of the reasons I was looking for this technology obviously spent a lot of time staring at a phone and I'm starting to get idea gation in my research I found serve a new technology a new way to interact with computers and things called wolfie so I reached out to the folks to see if they'd let me show it in our first video and they were brightly super eager so they flew down here and actually have the very first prototype there's actually one of four prototypes of the wolfie HCI and it's a pretty cool way to interact with things in general so first it's it's ergonomically in your hand which is obviously nice and from sitting here in my chair on my couch in my living room and you were except my desk like this hunched over I can interact with my computer whether it's Mac or PC wolfie don't care so here's a run-through of the control and I can simulate a mouse you know your left click your right click and being able to scroll around so the top part here is a trackpad and it's also but you can click the top part here is also a button it's another trackpad and it's kind of you scroll up and down like you would if a mouse if you're sort of using your finger you can also click that and then this button on at the side here that is not touch at just a button you can click and also would simulate what your right click would be so this resid stands right now it charges via microUSB the charging should last about a week and the sort of blue ring will give you a battery indicator so as you 75% will start to go down and it'll change colors let you know how much better you have that having to like check in a poor or worry about to die on your so it's always kind of right in your eyesight how much juice you got left so it uses Bluetooth Low Energy you'll pair it like any other bluetooth it doesn't need to install anything it just works right away you can react with your computer so this is a very early prototype this won't be shipping until sometime middle ish of next year but you can see what the future is going to be and it's gonna be less mouse and keyboard I don't think it's gonna replace mouse and keyboard least not yet it's kind of meant to be used in conjunction with so it's going to get started so I'm looking at just a news feed here on Google News I can go ahead and simply scroll just with my finger and we've seen sort of similar technologies before things like an air mouse for example we can sort of move around but then if you want to click something you got to keep your hand there click and if you move your hand you can end up getting the cursor all over the place this is pretty simple my finger naturally rests on the top and I can just sort of do a very sort of simple scroll fine article I want to read like let's see what's going on in the world usually not a fun place right now I just go ahead and click it and it'll just take me there it works extremely well and it's not just limited to computers you can pair it to your Android phone for example and if you use a chromecast or use a Google TV device essentially use your phone plug it in as a substitute for that device and you get full control over your mobile phone there's even a back button so you have to worry about your finding an X or clicking on a home bunch it's very simple to go back so you can play games you can control YouTube you control Prime video or other video apps you want to do Wolfie can control it when it comes to things you do on a mouse and keyboard things like text input you can pull up a virtual keyboard on Windows or Mac X or scroll over and you could tap the letter you know that's an area where I think a mouse and keyboard is going to ring supriya probably for a while but you can't do very simple TextEdit Swift this the best use case in the simplest use case and the most obvious use case think is where the beauty of this product shines it's just browsing content consuming content which I spend a lot of my time doing more more time like to admit on Facebook scrolling through news feed on TechnoBuffalo reading articles researching new emerging technology is sort of what I've been doing spending my time with this is a great way to do it and I'm hoping it's going to save my wrist so what I like about this and bear this in mind as you sort of evaluate the technology in fact they brought this to us as a prototype we are still months and months and months lessons actually shipping so it's exciting isn't necessarily what it can do right now and does a lot it's what I think it can do in the future what the future of human-computer interfaces is going to be so if you guys want to know more about wolfing and what it can do go to wolfy technologies comm will link to their website Facebook there's even a Kickstarter for trying to help fund this thing down below I encourage you check them out so I think a couple questions that I want to ask you guys this is what could you do with something like this how could you envision it working would it be being interact with a combination of all those gestures just talking to it like you would with with an echo is it just touchpad being out of control things using a conjunction in the mouse and keyboard I want to know for me it's content consumption so I mentioned the beginning this is the first in a series of emerging technology videos there's another aspect emerging technologies you want us to check out let us know we're already researching battery technology something new that's going to be coming out but this is cool and something that you guys want to see we'll do the research for you we'll reach out to companies on your behalf and let you know technologies could be what they could do in the future so please leave a comment down below we really nervous making a video like this showing a new technology please give the video a thumbs up we appreciate it till next time I'm John Ranger TechnoBuffalo you