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and welcome to episode 32 of the Tecla Buffalo show I'm live your to host for today Sean ani editor-in-chief of techna Buffalo am joined by executive editor or mobile Todd Hazleton everybody you're giving you peace signs like I did I didn't even mean to hey we all just keep peace chains uh so it's been a hot minute since we've been here yeah it's gonna walk yeah all those blasted holidays and then see us finally arrived yep it was crazy it was crazy so look we'll just give a quick break down here of everything that went wrong uh first off I got a message from joey davidson our gaming editor who was going to go this year i get a message from him sunday a few hours before his fighting goes i think i have the flu if he hours later i have the flu so we cancelled him quickly because we did not want him you know to just gift wrap the plague for us and so Joey was actually going to join us on this episode to talk about his first see yes but he never made it so there he go the then came all the travel fun yeah oh yeah so for only the second time in history I had a suitcase Chuck suitcase not make it so that was always fun and but I I'm one of those people that I always believed in I pack all my essentials in my carry-on so I always have one day change of clothes I have any medications I may be taking I have you know over-the-counter medications for headaches and stomach problems and everything else and so I was an okay shape but I got my check bag like what was it I think like 2am whenever you and I parted ways sunday night or saturday whichever night was who knows Saturday night but then when you were traveling home what happened to you yeah well I had mechanical problems I guess the air conditioner on my plane working from Las Vegas to Atlanta so miss the connection in atlanta but my bag just came all the way to New York so I didn't have my bags and unlike you I put everything in them because I was like I haven't lost a bag in a decade and it wasn't lost it just continued on without Rob so then I mean I was in an Atlanta Airport all night I didn't get home until like three o'clock on sunday so i feel like i'm still on CES just still go out I can't believe it's I keep it it's Thursday we've been back yeah I drove home Sunday morning and you know we you know I can't believe I've been home you know for four days it's just mind-boggling to me yeah I still feel like I'm still on that CES like cuz we started what last Sunday and then went through all this sunday i mean this previous sunday and now I just feel like I'm still going on so this weekend will be a good one yeah exactly whole thing away exactly so uh one quick question here from Sasha Mahal is actually I clicked on the wrong one can we talk about what joy was going to cover from CES yes he was going to do smart home stuff which unfortunately we just simply did not have time to do since we were down a man but yeah that was that was the big secret i'm glad i didn't say that before I help it back so yeah that was a wise choice on my part but so moving into CS and we'll get to another question here from social Mahal how does CES 25 2015 compared to years past and I'm sure you and I both have opinions on this so why don't you go first Todd yeah well I think we sort of briefly talked about this you and I yesterday how um it's teams like their what there wasn't like anything major in in terms of consumer electronics like we had some steps we had the G flex 2 right for phones and there wasn't many phones there lenovo had a couple blue as a couple and then we went right into TVs where you know the beautiful OLED screens and they're curved but we've sort of seen those before still super expensive they look awesome you know as they always do so I'd say there's a similarity there and probably priced way out of my budget but one thing that did really stand out to me was a lot of the smart car stuff and not just smart cars but these autonomous cars so how da dhone of the a7 concept for sadies had what I'm sure there were more and that was cool like the a7 concept for example from how he drove itself from Silicon Valley to Las Vegas which I think was like 550 or 560 miles and then we saw the new LG watch that they built for Audi which runs on webos and is it able to start the car and unlock the car with NFC and Bluetooth it's really it was really cool so I feel like many years ago i'd say like five years ago i used to go to CES and see lots of tablets and phones and you know the carriers would be there i mean even last year t-mobile header press conference and this year it just it wasn't mobile focus really I think we have more Congress coming up at the start of March and we sort of just came off of Aoife in September so it's not it's not so much a mole be fun and productive unless right now definitely at I think I was a bit surprised by the number of car related items that were being discussed the the ADI driving itself to Vegas I thought was amazing I think the difference for me this year was it was much it seemed to me to be more about refining existing products and not even iterating existing products but refining current products adding new features to him adding you know things that they couldn't do in the past and but there was no you know it like in years past there was always something you know everyone talked about this one item I did not hear any one thing that was being discussed by everybody this year mm-hmm I take a dick though Samsung and LG had the washer machines with two washers and everybody seem to be talking about that well that L oh and the other thing everybody was discussing was the belle fille yeah oh right right the butt selfie the butt selfie stick which yeah none of us could figure out why that existed but we were talking about it out of just sheer why as for the washers with the ability to do two loads i think that was another why moment as opposed to a oh this is groundbreaking technology but no it was an interesting show it was it was busy for sure it was always good you know working with the the crew for a week and even if we are in a teeny tiny room you know so we get to know each other really well in that tiny little room under the stairs that we work in but hey at least we have a workspace that that's the main thing to me oh yeah it was an interesting show and you know I I believe if the staff had had tomatoes they would been thrown at me when I said remember everyone 51 weeks to CES 2016 yes no one seemed to appreciate my comment but that's just too bad but I so was there any one thing Todd that you know be it even on a personal level was there any one thing it's he is that really screamed up to you you were excited about this um I think it was probably that Audi self-driving car because and it was something I saw towards the end of the show but to me that's just sort of incredible and it's not something I'm used to seeing hi you know I don't usually cover cars for technobuffalo I just sort of we went over the audi booth to find the the new LG watch and so I talked to them for just a while and checked out these things so I think for me it was just super exciting because you know I'm a guy it's mostly focused on mobile and gadgets and stuff like that so when I see something like here's this car that just drove itself and there was somebody in the seat that's just incredibly exciting to me so I think I think that's what stood out like when I think back at CES you know when people are like what was it that you saw it was really cool i think that's it and the mercedes concept which just looked at me saying I mean it had that before seeds that can swivel and look at each other and that drives itself too but that's a concept and so is a seven but I mean that was already on the road there is nobody more excited about self-driving cars than me as somebody that absolutely despises driving yeah you know but the same thing as i know yes it's exciting that all this stuff is coming along but you know that the first couple years you know there's no way the average consumer is going to be able to afford this technology yeah so at this point considering i am 43 I'm just hopeful that it's at an affordable price before I die so i can only say I saw them you know but yeah the ADI are not the adi the mercedes you know that was very cool I I didn't get to see that one in person because I didn't make it over there on Tuesday but the I there's something a little disconcerting to me about the idea of like here i'm going to reroute 8am i share hiring 80 degrees so buy backs to the road i mean i've got all this reliance of my software that it's great to get me there safely let's chitchat you know that that's maybe pushing the concept a little too far I at least with the ADI there's the ability to take over the the steering you know if need be the the Mercedes might be getting a little little to automated for my days have to see but yeah that was a terse I'd say for me and this was a very very minor thing I was excited about the announcement that the nest thermostat can now talk to the Ummah I think that's interesting to me because as I look at smart home stuff there's so many different platforms that are competing and you don't know if you know this product is going to work with this product and the way Nest has got about it by opening up their AP I is allowing people to build on top of that and use the nest thermostat as their hub I think that's very interesting the fact that it integrates with Dropcam and integrates with uma that's pretty much the extent of it right now but it's a great start and that's the sort of thing I want to see oh so now you can have these competing brands or not even competing but just different brands all coming together under one umbrella right and so I really want to see where nest is going to take those down the road and where other companies are going to take those down the road as they work with ness to improve their integration it's not only how we like we keep talking about the hub of these smart homes and in a lot of ways to me like yes Ness is a thermostat but it's becoming that up without even like like it's just connecting everything yeah it's not been the goal of it I don't think what's interesting yeah exactly a question from saha Raja how many CES have you been to uh how many have you I know you've been do more than me Todd um I think it's just my seventh I'm not positive okay this this was definitely my fifth yeah so it met many CES is she misses from Sasha Mahal changing gears a little bit what do you guys think of the project our stuff that was shown off of the developers conference I thought it was cool I didn't know you know I've been following it as much as I guess a lot of people but I didn't know all these kind of boundaries that they're hitting so for example they were talking about magnetic interference because if magnets to attach these modules to the phone and then also they were talking about how spiral to latest prototype is only 3g right now and like and it's like this big step for them the place a 3g call over this and i didn't realize that that was such a big roadblock you know I would have thought this was 4G LTE right now I think by the second quarter so you know anytime between March April May time frame they were going to get out of 4G LTE model but you know it seems like it's progressing really quickly they announced their their market pilots going to occur in Puerto Rico which is interesting but they said it has such a diverse wireless landscape between local carriers and US carriers that are down there and and really want to target that for its first I guess kind of soft launch which was me and they're gonna selling out of like food trucks which I thought was cool at least in some areas not a unique way to do something like that I mean they had a partnered with two carriers in Puerto Rico too so I'm really impressed it's coming along it's a moonshot like they say so there's no definite you know that this is gonna happen but it seems like it will so ya know I am I i think that the Puerto Rico was the big surprise to me I it was I didn't see that one coming although when they listed their reasons it made a lot of sense yeah I like the free trade for you know developer models comporting and stuff I thought that was interesting and I guess working with a local university and they said there's a big artist community so you know one of the things you're trying to do is sort of get these phones of customizable I think with different art on the back and stuff like that so it sounds like a neat place ya know and I the idea that they still don't have LTE support lee i mean if this was a consumer product I'd be screaming bloody murder at this point still developer product yeah you know but yeah it seemed it is interesting to me that they're still fussing with how to get LTE to work in it ie they said it's coming but just the fact that it's not there yet is very very odd to me yeah and one thing well they say they have 11 modules right now for developers like to toy around with as examples one was up ooh you should never want this on their phone but the whole point is you can if some developer creates this neat module that does something that maybe you know a small select few amount of you want they can still buy it put it on there thought that was neat but they also said right now the hot swappable battery is not quite hot swappable the devices to be in low-power mode but by spiral 3 it will be so presumably there's like a little Bank of power in there and you can pop a battery off and pop the new one on so that's kind of neat here is possibly the most important question ever asked on this show relating to a Twitter conversation you and I had what is your favorite pitch perfect scene and how excited are you guys for pitch perfect 2 hahahaha uh what is my favorite senior so many two words vomit angel uh uh yeah I don't know I don't know what my favorite scene I just like the whole movie I think it's just kind of stupid silly but wait what's the guy when he comes down he sees like the acapella guys and they're old and he says something new home I always laugh at that part oh yeah for those that don't know what's going on I i was watching pitch perfect in my hotel room the night before I left for CES and I I tweeted a picture about you know don't judge me and Todd replied how can I judge you it's my one of my favorite movies and so now the world knows about our love of pitch perfect as for being excited for the sequel I've to see if it works that that's going to be a hard thing to do without make it just feel like you really left at this in the first one so we thought we'd do it bigger to this time right yeah I don't think I've really follow along with what's going to happen fish perfect to you I mean comedy sequels to me are always difficult because they want you well you found this really funny so if we just do this again you laugh again right yeah you know you have to have a reason for the sequel to exist in my opinion right so I all see it but I know if I'm excited for you yet but uh uh yes we need me to not reveal many more of our movie loves on on Twitter yeah but keep it to ourselves a question here from Sasha Mahal about a question more towards me what goes into planning before going to a big show like CES and how does working at CES compared to a regular day of work well I can speak to the planning portion months in advance we start getting emails about the the different press day events press day for those that don't know there's actually a day before CES officially starts called press day which is just press conferences and on that day we work from a different location than CES itself last year and this year we were at the mandalay bay for press day and so what it involves is we get the schedule of all the press conferences and i take a look at who i've got going to the show and i start arranging i'm ok these two people will go to this one this next press conference butts up against the back of that one so i guess and two different people to that one by then the first two should be ready to go to another one and i can start moving them around and that that's why i don't remember who first called me this but at CES i I've known as the air traffic controller because I'm trying to keep everyone flowing in different directions at different times and trying to make sure that they never collide but uh so that's what a lot of playing goes into and then as technobuffalo has gotten bigger it's nice because a lot more companies approached us about you know do you want a meeting at CES and we tend to not take too many official meetings at set times because something inevitably comes up at CES and you end up having to cancel your appointments but we we do set appointments with the bigger companies and the other ones were like we will stop by and see you we just can't guarantee you a locked time that will come by Ryan first or the booth when you know we have a moment to get over there exactly now as for how my workday differs at sea yes it's a lot of I we have a small room which we were able to fit nine people into although it feels like you will never fit that many and I primarily just sit third the entire day because everyone kinda uses me as the hub you know they drop stuff you know ok I'm done filming I'm dropping an SD card off with you so that when Ron comes back Ron can start editing so I tend to sit right there so my day really is that different i said here all day how is it different for you god i walk a lot more i'd say i think i hit 20,000 steps on one day there at CES the arm it's a lot of meetings so and it depends on where they are sometimes there are other hotels I know that one day I had to grab a taxi back to make sure i was back in time what is it's a lot of you know meet with company a take pictures film it run back give it to shun me the company be repeat so it's a lot of that it's it's similar to do a lot of the shows we do fo mo whole congress and stuff like that um and oddly i think we'll see es is a little more manageable actually because there's so many of us there so you know if i can't get to something somebody else can it's a team experience it's good yeah now that is nice it's nice actually working with the team as opposed to you and I work you know by ourselves in home locations you know so it is nice to actually work in a team environment EO and have some very random conversations in the middle of day that you're like how did we even get on this occasion who brought this up and why but yeah it's a very different experience going back to travel for a moment from Dallben raji I'm sorry if I mispronounced your name what's your worst hate about traveling oh I have so many mmm i think it's just you know not knowing where you're going to end up the end of the day like hopefully you get from point A to point B and everything's fun and usually that happens you know finding out that you're gonna be spending a night did Lana like that's probably the worst thing you think you're going to be home uh well I mean for those of you who may have noticed my voice sounds slightly different that's because I came back from Vegas not with a cold or the flu or anything else I simply cannot breathe through my nose I haven't been able to breathe through my nose since i left vegas and i have no clue why sometimes uh yeah so i would say probably for me I every I've been I've traveled for enough years now and that pretty much any situation comes up I'm just like okay sure why not no I know something's going to go wrong this might as well be it yeah I think that yeah same thing I mean you saw just like there's nothing you can do you try your best to do it and not yell at the airline but for example it was crazy I was caught in Las Vegas he said I was put on an eight o'clock flight I go to my gate to print that out and they're like no you're on this flight get on it right now and like is that kind of that part of traveling I'm like wait what okay well he or he could be like the guy from do who was on the delta flight and he was alone food although did I did here finally they did pull back to the gate and get one more perler guy so two of them up that's hilarious on one one giant plane uh first question from the same gentleman what do you guys think of the news is it zomi is that how they pronounce show me show me the show me me note and the pro I just thought it was interesting I mean I I saw the specs I'm not overly blown away a little four gigs of ram sounds pretty enticing I haven't used it yet the thing that is just crazy is it looks like an iphone but they're stealing a name from samsung the note it's like come on guys it just seems like they just don't care anyway I mean show me is the company that's long been copying apple and whatever but you know it's a popular brand in China it's increasing increasingly popular increasing market share and I just wish I think they would do something a little more original but you know who am I to judge right no I understand yeah it's although I that does bring me back the LG G flex 2 s.d support mm-hmm up to 2 terabytes yeah isn't that crazy but they don't even exist so I don't know what the limitations are on that in terms of software but hardware happy 120 till the max I think great yeah 120 it will at least that's commercially available i'm sure there's no special ones out there but yeah I am yeah that's cool that's awesome I I'm glad you can boast that but yeah how many years is it going to be before we get a two terabyte card and I appears that we have lost Todd off the show so hopefully he'll be able to rejoin us here in a moment he just imed me and OH his mac broke Oh his macbook just turned off so we may have just lost the audio version of the show um I actually think we're going to cut this a little shorter than everyone I apologize for that once again the wonders of technology we thank you all for joining us and we will be back next week and again my apologies and hopefully we'll get this figured out until next week take it easy as always you can find us on iTunes stitcher and all those places and we'll talk to you then thank you very much and talk and talk to you next week bye bye