Gadgetory

what's going on everybody welcome back to the episode of Retton just rinse this show where I pick a topic from the tech world sometimes a little bit outside and I get all red in the face and things popping out in my neck mad of this week I want to talk about the Xbox one and how it kind of freaks me out this is Rhett just rants let's get Randy last week Microsoft took the wraps off their new next-generation console which I guess now is this generation console called the Xbox one it's called the one supposed to be the one box I can do everything play your game stream your media takeover your cable box really just do everything that you need from every component in your cabinet so it sounds awesome and it sounds awesome to me too I love gaming on consoles like game on the Xbox ps3 that's what I prefer to get my gaming on but there's some things about it that really creeped me out and grind my gears so to speak so in order for the Xbox one to work it's gonna require Kinect and it's this fancy new Kinect that sends some billion points on your body it's a 1080p camera saw some demonstrations of this thing working it it was really really cool but also lived on the creepy side so Xbox one has voice commands so essentially you can turn on your Xbox you could say Xbox all over the command is it's gonna turn on so what that means is the Xbox one and the Kinect is always listening to you which I'd probably be okay with but then they said hey now it's connected to 300,000 servers which they claimed was the computing power of the world in 1997 so you take a console it's always listening you combine it with 300,000 servers and there's a little bit of potential for some privacy concerns now I'm not a crazy privacy guy I don't run around the tinfoil hat on my head screaming that the CIA put a chip in my brain usually I just don't worry and they honest answer is I don't have anything to hide so I never really cared but I'm not worried about Microsoft could do but I'm worried about what hackers could do I certainly saw anonymous take down Sony's Network you know last year and the previous years and they've had a prolong going feud what happens when hackers can potentially get access to the camera at Sandy you're connect or get access to the microphones in your connect you know I brought up to a question on Twitter everybody's bonded with you know turn it around or put something over it it's not gonna cover the microphones people here and that just really strikes me as creepy and it sort of got me wondering if we're starting to sacrifice privacy for the betterment of Technology and this is the first time I've really actually thought about obviously I've never had a reason to worry about it I never cared and will sing to my cellphone which I guess it's kind of the same thing some reason the Xbox one that Kinect just really rubbed me the wrong way a little uh when it came to what it could do in the capabilities and certainly all beginning something to do was great the back there's a console that can always listen to everything I'm saying could potentially be accessed by Microsoft or a third party if there was a subpoena to get access to it could be just very very very disconcerting to me now nothing I'm doing anything weird in my office and I'm running around naked Bryant eggs I know it was a very specific example but it just sort of got me thinking you know what are we sacrificing as a population for the answer to technologies worth it is it not worth it I don't know I'm still gonna buy an xbox one I'm looking up Kinect so I can sit there right on my counter maybe I'm a parrot that way but I've just sort of started the price I think I know what to have a dialogue with you guys to see what you thought do you care about the privacy concerns heed Xbox one or any privacy concerns in my booth the ps4 once we know more about what it does presumably it's gonna have a similar functionality but I read one of you guys thoughts on it please leave your comments down below it thank you guys for watching episode of renter's rants it's a bit of a melancholy rant so to speak I got kind of cerebral about it let's hear your thoughts again leave them down below check us out at TechnoBuffalo comm please give this video a thumbs up we most definitely appreciate it I'm done right into it I'll see you next video