 You Everybody welcome a Circa Baker live the verges gadget show I'm Neil I'm telling the editor the verge Paul Miller's here Hello, you might notice we're not on our set right now for cigarette or live We're actually downstairs on the street in a Tesla Model 3 that Tesla was foolish enough to give us for the day We're gonna make a whole long YouTube video with this car It'll go up later this week our friend Marquez is gonna be in it which is really cool But this car is basically a gadget and we have a gadget show we're doing the show inside again. We're in a gadget So just real basics It's a you know an EV. It's good 310 miles range is a long-range long-range version Tesla says the car starts at thirty five thousand dollars. This is a sixty thousand dollar car It's basically got every option autopilot the red paint is a thousand dollars If you don't pay the thousand dollars, you can only get black. It's a fancy wheels And you can I love cars. So this car is totally spec'd up But the main thing about it that I just wanted everybody on circuit breaker live to see is this screen Well good thing I brought the Paul Paul's got the Paul cam going This is the only interface for the car, right? You obviously you've got a brake pedal on an accelerator and a steering wheel, but there are no vents. There's no ignition key There's no nothing Almost everything in this car. There's no instrument cluster Everything in this car happens on the screen. I feel like the first question is how do you know how fast you're going? Right. Okay, so you can see here the cars in park. I'm a right. It's not on Now what what's supposed to happen is the car is paired to your phone as you approach the car It'll turn on you get in and just drive away Okay, I don't have that set up yet because it's just a it's a it's a review unit basically You have a little key. Okay, like a hotel key and there's a spot right here. There's one on the outside of car, too I just put it here. I Have my phone oh, yeah now the car is on We're in drive and I forgot the buckle my seat belt It's a narking pull out and if I just give it a little yeah, you can see that speedometers right there And you can see these are the front sensors. There's obviously rear sensors as well push that button to go back in park That's it like that those are basically the physical controls there's the gear shift lever here there's a turn signals here There's you know joysticks for the screen here. There's obviously Pretty good horn. I would say But Paul I want you to try to use the screen because it's nuts So a thing that you often do in a car, huh is you change where the vents are pointing the air at your face? Oh sure give that a shot sure just grab the vents There's just a shelf So give try it use the screen. Okay, put that Paul cam down You hold the pole hold the Paul cam for you. Okay. Well, I want a lot of wind in my face. Yep, okay But how do I point them? Let it crank your temperature Okay, just roll with me. All right, it's right here. It's okay turn this down. What and just sound is horrible There's wind in our face. So It's all here. Look at this You do it so if you if you're looking at this on the screen here you can see there's no events There's just this shelf. This area is a vent that blows up and that's a vent that blows out Okay, and when you move this around this is basically the location of the air that's pointing when you move it around The jet that's pointing up and the jet that's pointing out They like interfere with each other and it points a single jet of air at your face, which is crazy town Oh good, like most cars are just like you just point the fins of the vent Tesla's like what if you want one giant thing and like you can just point it that way. This is so cool It's so much more complicated than a normal car, but it's like in the best way. It's so gadgety other stuff If you look this is the radio interface. It's obviously Tesla. There's an LTE connection up here It's set someone's a huge smash mouse falls play with it earlier So you can obviously search if I hold down this button. I Can say play Kanye West? And does voice search it'll just like light up a Kanye song over here, which is pretty cool There you go. That worked pretty well. There's our first copyright strike for the day And then this is pretty cool. So this whole center console. There's nothing here But if you open this up, maybe you can see it. These are phone chargers for Get my thing my case is interfering here. That's a phone charger if my case was on there would work better You can see it's got little USB ports so you can swap them out for USB C or lightning however you want to So I think that's pretty cool. There are no power outlets. Somebody asked me on Twitter about power outlets in the car If you there's a place for a dashcam. I have not yet seen a traditional I've got my first Tesla issue. I believe in you. Oh look it's yelling at me It says close console lid gently Okay, so we're being real nice to the car and then I have one other question from Twitter here I just want to pull it up our friend Sean Hollister says how are the volume controls? Okay There everything's on screen. So there's a volume control here and then there's a volume control Here and if I hit this It's play pause And then and then lastly this is just basic Tesla stuff. You can navigate it's got Google Maps on here And pull that down. So that's nice. And then I want to point this out just because it's circuit breaker live It's really silly. There's Easter eggs in the car right now We can bring up the sketchpad We can But Sir sir cure break breaker breaker. That's it. All right, we got to get out of here Our directors are yelling at us right now We've got a whole rest of the show Jake and Ashley are gonna do the news But literally we have to get out of the car and run upstairs. So take it away Jake and Ashley We'll see you in one second Apple's home pod. Sorry. I'm still practicing the fact that we're doing this show. Oh, no I know that was very Listen to this without any visuals actually. Yeah, I hope I hope they make it. I'm sure they'll slowly Apple's home pod came out last week and turns out this thing is Basically so hard to get into that if you need to repair it, you're basically buying another one So Apple released repair pricing out of warranty. That is 279 dollars that is 80% of the cost of a brand new home pod So you're not really repairing it so much as you are like giving them some parts and getting a slight discount on a new one What do you think someone would do to this home pod? Okay That is the thing like you would have to like knock this from a very high shelf and apparently the thing like do you see I fix It's tear down. I saw some of it. They had to saw it open in order They took a saw and like cut it into Which like suggests it will be hard to break but also explains why it is so expensive to repair That the like slightly good news is if you're worried Apple's warranties only 29 dollars only lasts for two years So you're gonna drop it do within two years don't use this as a portable speaker Essential we've been tracking their progress since one of those exciting way back when they launched and It turns out that they sold less than 90,000 phones during their first six months as a company I think the exact number from IDC was 88,000 So that's not great It's kind of disheartening for anyone who cares about essential cares about having different Android phones available to them They're you know flagship quality and on top of that essential has been going through a bunch of issues where the camera wasn't really working Well when it first launched they continuously are adding updates to the camera Android Oreo still isn't running on essential and they're like, oh we can't actually put 8.0 on we have to now put 8.1 because of stability issues, so All around just watching essential Trying so hard and it's like it tried so many cool ambitious things it definitely like made a statement when it launched but I Mean, it's just so clear that it is like immensely hard to launch a like flagship priced phone Even if you're Andy Rippon, yeah, like it's not especially generation one There's just like not a lot of reason to trust it and buy in until you've like seen the other options, you know And like clearly it wasn't perfect. So yeah, hopefully they get on the show to very difficult perpetual lesson Amazon is actually doing a reset sort of of its discounted phone program It's been going for like two years and basically just like the Kindle you would get a discount if you let them put some ads on Your lock screen Except now they are getting rid of the ads It's gonna the phones are gonna cost more now they'll cost $20 more But if you already own one you get to keep it for you know, whatever you think can't charge you more There's still gonna be some ads on the phone. There's gonna be like a lock screen There's gonna be a widget on the home screen And there are Amazon's pre-installed apps But the lock screen itself is not gonna have ads on it, which means you can You know set your own wallpaper for the first time which is really nice I think it's sort of weird that like this was like that was the defining feature of This program that like there's a lock screen ad and now it's not But I guess it's still good that they're now Like yelling ads, but my god, I would hate to have ads on my phone Like right like you look at the last year your phone so many times a day. It's valuable real estate It's like a magazine's cover. Yeah, you know, that's expensive for advertisers So this I can imagine maybe make good money maybe but apparently $20 a user seems to be like they're like about what it was working for Like about what it was worth, because that's why they're charging more now. So maybe it wasn't that big cool and Last week we talked about the S9 Samsung's rumored new phone We talked about the dual cameras how they're gonna be vertical kind of like the iPhone 10 This week or earlier this week We talked we saw another rumor about the S9 having a headphone jack Which would be a reversal from the S8 and just a totally different idea Than basically all the current flagships on the market now, you can see the headphone jack right here This is actually the Dex pad so when the S8 came out Samsung also launched a product called the Dex which basically lets you use your phone like a computer and This is the version two of it. It should still work with the S8 supposedly rumors But this one lets you lay the phone flat So maybe you can use it as a touchpad or something like we saw Razer had something sort of similar where it slotted into the actual laptop, but it was the idea of the keypad So remember Dan Seifert reviewed the the last version of Dex and like it seemed it was actually pretty good and pretty usable Yeah, I sat next to him while he was listening and I was like that's cool Like it's an interesting idea for people who like bring their phones from home or something For sure, sure. And also I'm just completely all about the headphone jack coming back every time I go to plug in headphones into my Pixel I just like You cry a little bit inside? It's I I perpetually forget that it doesn't have a headphone jack and then just yeah, and then your heart is broken over and over again Yeah, it's worth noting that also it has a Bixby button still So you're getting one thing back, but you're keeping Bixby one day. They will allow it to be reassigned Good for you Jake. Sorry. I just slapped my microphone. I apologize Um, and finally this week we have some incredible dongle news we have a four-way Lightning dongle two lightning out two lightning in all at 90 degree angles This is what's I don't know crazy contraption Okay, let me also just say this product is called node normal name, but it's from a company called I love handles I have no idea if this thing is certified in any way. It only costs 20 dollars. You can't get anything No way, even in white plastic involving apple for 20 dollars. So There's yeah So the idea is you're just supposed to plug all of your devices into this you just mix and match and do whatever you want I don't have any real understanding so you have to have at least one like power cord going into it, but theoretically like Certain like an ipad could be plugged in and then charge a pencil out the other corner, right? So like maybe you don't have to have a power cord come in I the possibilities are either endless or zero because it doesn't work. I'm not sure we have to get this in I'm really excited for this Wow, 20 dollars. It makes the pencil charging look not so you can also infinitely string these together I don't know if that's true. You should not try this. Yeah, please don't explode. It's the office Okay, so this might be our last week of news Maybe all news is ending News will continue to happen. Jake and I just will guide you through the news But next week we're going to try this new thing where Jake and I are going to do ask circuit breaker So if you ask some questions in the comments or in the chat right now Next week Jake and I will try to answer them So give us some we're leaving a super open-ended here. Yeah, ask circuit breaker choose your favorite. Oh and wonderful timing Paul and Eli have made it up I'm glad you put up return. How was the tesla? It was amazing. I've uh, i've been in the youtube chat this whole time I left some great comments about you. Great. It's great. The tesla was incredible Getting up here was incredible. That was super fun. Uh, we're gonna make a whole video with that car Like later literally later today Uh marquez brownlee is on his way to the studio right now We're gonna hang with him in the car. Ashley's gonna hang with me in the car Uh, so look for that on youtube later this week, by the way, thank you. Jake and ashley for covering for vamping We got back here But heim guardberg is here now. What's up, man? Hey, uh, you have brought us. It's just an incredible bundle of wires Well, all I can see is pikachu So so last time on the show we had regular wireless chargers Yeah, uh wireless chargers have mutated since then and now they're weird and now they have hubs. Yeah Wireless chargers are out wireless charging hubs are in i'm into it So i've got a bunch of those here Uh, I guess we'll start with this is kind of your your standard most normal vanilla one. This is the nomad wireless charging hub Yeah, it's a wireless charger on top Uh on the bottom there's a little hub down here. You have a couple usb ports. You have a usb c to usb c port Can I just be honest with you? This thing looks a damn mess. Yeah Just like straight up like this is a product where at anker headquarters. They were like, you know, steve You just gotta try again, man Yeah, so this is nomad which just won an anchor's competitor You could see where they were going with like the cord management and like But then you have everything kind of wrapping around. Yeah, so wait, so there's power in power in And then how does your power in so there's there's a okay. It's a regular plug regular power plug Um, you have usb c port three regular usb ports and the idea is that you can charge up to five devices Wireless on top so down here something plugged in. Yeah, I think so confirmed confirmed Hey, it works. Okay. I'll take it actually has these like a couple lights down here So you can actually figure out what's plugged in where this one costs, uh, this one costs 80 so expensive relative to wireless charging and Hubs, but like if you combine the two together are good hubs like 34 Good wireless chargers 30 40 I would prefer this if they didn't try to manage the cords like trying to hide the cords makes it look messier than it is well Then I have then I have a product for you because Is this officially licensed? I think this is officially licensed game stop is selling it This is the techno fun pikachu and pikachu induction charger Uh, wait, wait now what is happening on the show? You just look at pikachu like this This is the first press photo I ever saw. Yeah, where do you think the the plugs are? Oh god Yeah, see that was a big worry. That's good news. Everybody. They're on the side on the side plugs are on the side So again, you have barrel plug Uh, you have three regular usb ports for for charging your non-wireless charging things Take your phone put it on top Take your phone put it on top It'll charge Is that precarious? Uh, it is a little precarious. It doesn't here it it doesn't It's I feel I feel less good about putting putting my you know You know one thousand dollar phone on top of here than I do on say this Yeah, uh, and I will of course point out the true pokemon future of the cheeks on the pikachu actually light up Uh, so, you know, it's charging are there going to be other pokemon that lend their abilities? to your phone Like we can only hope blast toys How much does that cost so this costs 60? Uh, is the power in on the side? Yeah power in is on the side. This is horrible They got halfway through designing this and getting where do you want to put the power in? Do you like I don't know? Okay, 60 dollars 60 dollars, it's a good like joke gift, um Next up we have the sign of old Uh, this is not a wireless charger sure isn't this is a usb battery pack. It's one of the big ones This is actually a weird thing. This is a prototype that the company sent us. They were doing a thing on indiegogo The indiegogo page is gone. The company does not seem to exist on the internet except for facebook page I'm, still trying to figure out so you have the last one. So this might be the only one in existence, but What it is is it is a modular wireless charging bank. So you can take these sign of old modules And you can just clip them on so you got so that's just a plug that's just a giant plug but It's a you can clip them on both ends you can clip them on both ends. This is this is ridiculous and uh, You doing it? Oh my god. It's horrible. You gotta do the clips this whole this whole idea is horrible Wait, wait, wait. No if you get a call This isn't gonna I don't understand this and I don't know why people are Try to back this. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure they are. All right So this was all just a prelude. This is a prelude though to you saying there's actually a good usb-c charger So there is a good usb-c charger hub. This is the hyperdrive usb-c hub wireless charger It's made by a company called hyper which started on kickstarter back when the first usb-c macbooks came out They make these like aluminum docks aluminum usb-c hubs that kind of like seamlessly clip onto the side of your macbook this is Their next thing which is to combine that with a wireless charger. This is a prototype They are currently running a kickstarter campaign or just finished. Um, this actually no longer is what the product looks like They've redesigned it. They've gotten rid of this integrated cable so that you don't have to be as restricted by it Basically, this is a full usb-c hub usb-c usb-c usb-c us sorry usb's usb-c which can also do power pass-through Ethernet hdmi sd and micro sd So basically every port that is currently missing from your usb-c laptop and then you like flip it up and do one of these guys And then you can flip it up. It can charge flat Oh, you know, it's funny is your computer doesn't have my computer doesn't have ports on that side So i'm gonna put on that side. That's why they've gotten rid of the integrated cable. Come on, man And you just plug that in okay, can I be honest with you And it's gonna charge and it'll charge presumably it works. It'll charge. Yep. It works. I've been using it all week It charges you get all the ports like this is the this is the desk thing for you. Let me be honest with you This product is a repudiation Of everything usb-c is meant to stand for yes, right? Because what you are really supposed to have is usb-c accessories and peripherals not another nasty hub so you can actually connect the The only usb-c port on this is one so you can pass through charging, right? That like when you come to work in the morning, you just plug this into your laptop. Can I just tell you if you want? Like a usb-c ethernet Yeah, I want like actual usb-c devices and then like a just a not just an ever expanding array of Dongles, I feel like this is the this is what usb-c promised you you sit down at your desk You plug one thing in it charges your laptop. It powers your usb-c display You can finally look at pictures off of sd cards You can finally look at pictures off of sd cards Why can't I just have these ports in my laptop? Can I just tell you a story? You want your tiny little laptops with your dainty little backpacks and your little espressos We set my desk at vox media just over there is right next to our it department Which is super fun, right because I get to see all the comings and goings are this company's vp of engineering Rolled up to them the other day and said I just need some dongles because my computer doesn't have enough ports And they just started foisting dongles on it It was the saddest thing I've ever seen So so your dream version of this my juice is one with eight usb-c ports My yeah, the idea of usb-c is that it will replace usb-a And what is happening right now is everything is still usb-a and we're just getting we just live in dongle dongle city dongle city, but if we're living in dongle city dongle cities have a great place to live it is it isn't but Yeah, this is the mayor of dongle already living there. This is this is this is the dongle that you want. Yeah, sure Yeah, great. It's the best real estate in dongle town. Yeah, and that's cool. I just gotta get real quick So actually I asked r.i.t department. There is there is a catch though It is the mayor of dongle town. Just to be clear. This is what you're mad about right neil That there's only one that there's no that there's big usb's there's three No, i'm not those are I want those to be on here Where they belong? Because I need that it's just like go backwards in time So more useful that's the wrong approach though because we need to embrace Usb-c like it is a better spec when it's done, right? Which is another barrel of worms that is a completely different rant, but when it's done right, it's good like you the That broken line everybody Usb-c does this We've all agreed that the pikachu is the must buy right the pikachu is here's the problem with this There is actually one problem other than that It's a kickstarter project and you can't actually buy it yet Is that it was on kickstarter for a 99 early bird and its final price is going to be 160 Which is a lot of money how much it costs for the usba port and a laptop 15 cents What are we doing to ourselves? Just just ease us through the transition. That's all i'm saying. All right. I'm very sorry that Your situation is so complicated. How are those usb-c headphones coming along? Um, not great. Yep. There it is. Okay, we're good Sorry, buddy. Thank you for joining us Uh, I have some exciting news lauren good is coming back with new show. Well, it's real show versus is coming back with lauren good Uh, i've seen some of the early season. It's super funny Uh, we have a quick trailer for that and then we're gonna be back chris welch is going to show us what's going on in wireless earbuds You Hi i'm lauren so am I and we're finally back with a new season of versus You might know this video series is the one in which the right lauren as in the one who's usually correct tries to talk sense into this lauren about gadgets One of the amazing things about the internet of things is that normal stuff is becoming wi-fi connected Like this brita picture. So if you want to do something else like charge your phone or stick an sd card in there at the Same time you need to use a bunch of adapters. I love adapters this is a roomba and this It's clear to me at least which one of these is the better phone You mean the one that doesn't cost a thousand dollars and is still a fantastic phone So you can pair it with bluetooth headphones and have your books read aloud to you. Oh for f**k's sake Just get a tablet then Are you guys fighting over your brita pictures again? Look, it's easy to get overwhelmed by all the gadget decisions. You're supposed to be making these days So our goal is to lay it all out there for you and tell you which are the best products That you should buy and use or when it's better not to buy a new product at all Which is probably at least 80 of the time. Yeah, she's always as much of a downer. I'm a realist Anyway, go check out the new season of versus you can find it right here on youtube and of course on the verge.com You're back Sorry two laurins at once we everyone needed a break A lot to think about uh, chris falch is here. Hey chris. Yes. How's it going? It's going you have brought us A selection of charging cases are very interesting and wireless earbuds. They also contain earbuds Okay, so what is you've reviewed a bunch of these lately AirPods are right here. Everyone knows what those are. What's the rest of the stuff? Well, the air pods are we're talking about first because I mean they work so well It's been 14 months since they came out And you're probably wondering if anyone else has beaten them or put out something better and the answer is no uh, they've gotten close, uh, there's There's a big market right now. Uh, there's some of these that cost 300 some cost 150 There's samsung boos a bunch of brands are taking part in this game, but when it comes to like ease of use Sound quality is okay. It's good enough for most people And the battery life, uh, the air pods are still on their own pedestal also the case sizes They vary a lot. So the boos is my favorite case. I think just kind of the most like a futuristic gadget It's got lights on both both sides Lights are what you want to see you when you but here's I actually like the samsung one better. That's real nice. Look at this Yeah, that's the boos is huge. The samsung is nice. What i'm going to just point out though is all these are huge Yeah compared to air pods. Yeah, because most of the battery inside is going to charge the ear pods two more times So do the air pods though and like they have 24 hours of extra battery life in the case Just like take out those boos ones. Here's an air pod. Everybody knows this looks like here is this generosity Is this just apple as the w1 chip and w1? I think this is for the phone calls and like better voice with siri and things like that and uh, whereas these manufacturers focus on Being somewhat subtle. I mean boos isn't great because these actually stick pretty far out of your ear when they're in But these sound better than the air pods like full stop the sound quality is great And those are the samsung ones the base is excellent on the boos. Uh, they cost around 200 right now These are the motorola ones just like look at the comparative size of all these So i'm gonna say something and youtube you're gonna get mad at me and that's fine And you can tell me that you're mad at me but be polite or i'll just i'll just ban you I'm already mad. You haven't even said anything air pods sound horrible. They're horrible sounding Like I don't I just did the whole home pod review and there's all the apple people there I wear air pods in the street and I listen to the home pod and it's like how can you choose a side? How can you choose I can be like i'm buying this limited speaker because it sounds great But then in my everyday life like a tin can is rattling in my ear. I just like I don't understand that so connection quality aside Do any of these really beat apple on sound quality? Uh, the boos do the base is way better than the air pods They're open designs. You can hear things around you which I don't like if you're a runner You're going to be a fan of that. Uh, but the air pods like I don't know how people use these on the subway or like news Any kind of noisy environment? I don't know how you hear your music. You probably turn it up. This is the bone safe levels Yeah, these are the bows. These are the sound sport free. All right So we got uh, john shipment in the chat saying people should just straight up copy air pods I don't think that is currently possible Right apple developed its own chip. They've got their own software in the iphone It's like the w1 the w1 is in a whole bunch of like beats headphones as well Can anybody else compete with that? I mean I think apple realized that you can't just do bluetooth It needs something on top of bluetooth So like w1 handles pairing and handles battery life Which is why these have such better battery life and everything, but I don't like apple's one size fits most approach I mean, that's why I can't use the air pods because they don't fit my ear I bought them twice first when they came out. I was like, oh, these are pretty cool And I brought them back and then i've tried more of these i've been disappointed So I went back like two months ago and maybe I misremembered how they fit But no, they still have this this whole charging case situation is great though Like if you're a gadget person like that samsung charger is real nice These are the old sony's they're new sony's at css these came out last year yet They just so these are the old sony's they changed the case. I mean that case is just real nice All these charging clips are nasty. Yeah, this has got like a 70s kind of vibe to it Maybe but somebody's got one is like newer nicer ones. This is just pure hilarity This is like a pill dispenser for your grandparents It's like, you know, it's not not the most not the like you're going for these jaybirds like all of this I i'm into all of these like charging cases something pocketable is like what you want like these in the bno These are the most expensive pair that we have 300 for these and uh, the sound quality is great. I mean it's banging olivson So they've got really good so they all have the same bluetooth dropout problem. They drop out Here and there for like a split second, but that adds up over Over a day if that happens like 10 or 15 times during the course of your day That's going to be very annoying. Sometimes they're fine. Like you can be at work Here at the office. They're great at the gym. They're awesome. But like walking down the street They just so if you're not an airpods person you got an android phone But you can use airpods with android phone. They work pretty well. Yeah, but they're not they don't do all the things that w1 does But you can use them But if you don't like the way they sound you got an android phone or you just don't want apple stuff Which one do you get? Uh, I would either go for the braggy dash. These are 150 Uh, these are the this is the company that kind of kicked off this whole truly wireless earbuds trend on kickstarter They risked three million dollars. Yeah. Yeah, and this case actually isn't a battery case So these have one charge and once that's gone, you've got to plug them in but it's six hour battery life Which is one hour better than the airpods. So at least they've got that so you can listen to them for longer Uh the bows are good. I mean one One big issue with these is there's often a delay when you watch video. Uh, the audio is like two seconds behind So it's like you're watching a dubbed version of whatever you're watching on youtube or netflix and because they're doing audio processing Yeah, yeah, so there's one that's how these work is there's one master earbud and there's one slave And so your music goes to one earbud back to the other one back to the phone and most of these don't tell the phone To like sync the video with the audio so you wind up with a super annoying delay Some of these are problems that the slow march of technological progress will solve for us, right? There are some things coming this year Qualcomm so they've got a chip coming that's going to help the situation Help out the situation a bit Once these earbuds once these ear earbuds start to use bluetooth 5 that's going to make a big difference as well because When your phone has that and the earbuds have that that should make for a much much better connection But right now these are all bluetooth 4 point something and all these proprietary Yeah, and they fall and they drop out and uh, yeah, i'm just saying earlier we saw the samsung galaxy s9 leaked We have the headphone jack no confusion there any headphones you want But I will say some of these do you have Some of these charging cases You're not on the plane like headphones you're not like on the plane like hang on everybody Let me open up our case Remember when your dad was like turn down the stereo or put some headphones on you plug that like big quarter inch jack and put the Head now turn down the stereo or boot up your weird little ear computer. That's gonna be great. Sorry I'm not i'm really I like technology, but I will say there's something to be said for actual buttons on your earbuds I like the bose of like actual volume buttons or track controls. Yeah, absolutely So whereas on the airpods you do a bunch of siri a bunch of voice controls A lot of these have actual buttons the braggy have buttons that you actually push into your ear. Yeah Which gets which ones are those comfortable? Those are you mentioned that that hurt? Yeah You've got to shove them in your ear because you push the buttons in So when they're inside your ear that gets pretty uncomfortable. So our producers in my ear pointing out that I like regular bluetooth headphones like cans and they have Regular jacks. I can watch movies on the plane. None of these will work with them Yeah so they're for the gym or For a commute and things like that But if you want to watch video, most of these are going to be ruled out the bno actually do do video pretty well So that's a good recommendation, but they're 300 so you're talking serious money and for that much money They really shouldn't have any any kind of dropouts or any you were saying there's like bluetooth 5 a new chip from qualcomm Have you seen any of that stuff demoed? Not yet. I mean it's all on the way So you just gotta hold out hope that it's gonna be better this year. Someone's gonna compete with the airpods 14 months later They're still failing the bluetooth 5 standard for audio isn't super finalized And once that's finalized then that will show this whole situation should get smoother, but it's taking time. I mean These have been out We've seen these for a couple years now and none of them have managed to top apple I see i'm now seeing airpods everywhere. I never see any of these they still look dumb. They're never gonna look good You see them everywhere. They're accepted now apple's way out of the curve. They pulled it off They don't look crazy. Well, thank you for that frustrating Several minutes of our lives Thank you very much Chris Absolutely Just buy an iphone buy airpods buy a homepod sign up for apple music iCloud does something do something with that just have a great time. Absolutely build those walls man. Okay, uh, paul You did something this week. Oh, yeah. Yeah Sometimes I feel like the news just goes kind of over my head and like what what's the bigger picture? Mm-hmm. So I came up with in this segment i'm calling explain yourself So check it out Iphone battery replacement weights are shortening analyst says like jacob castor I see you jake Are you busy? Well, what do you what do you think about this story iphone battery replacements? Weights are shortening analyst says well You know, I have an iphone 6 and uh, it hasn't shortened for me so i'm gonna say this is a lie Oh, you're still waiting. I am still waiting. Hey jake. Can you hold the mic in a chat? Yeah, I would love to This is a new segment. I'm calling Explain yourself. Okay. What do I do in this segment? You just explain yourself You just explained yourself You wrote an article saying that basically it's easy to get a battery for your iphone. Is that true? Um, it's getting easier like before if you went to an apple store I'm like, hey, I want to get a new battery for 29. They might have been like come back in two months, but now They might go Okay, you know in two weeks you can have a battery so it's not great yet, but it's getting better You still why you might be able to get better. I think it depends on Which model of iphone you have and probably also which store you're in but this is just apple damage control Overall, this is like not great for apple and I think it is good for customers Which is like probably the coolest thing about all this so even if you have to wait It's gonna be better for you Yeah, I mean I think if you have an iphone that you like aren't quite ready to give up But like the battery is sort of giving out at the end of the day like for 29 Dollars, you should totally go and replace it the wait times are getting shorter and shorter as they get more batteries in stock Definitely put it on your to-do list last question Is apple an evil company that was slowing people's phones down on purpose to make them upgrade? I'm a I'm a truther. So yes We heard it here first Jake paid by apple to not say anything the real truth I'm not bound by any You know payments explain yourself with your friend paul miller Good job everybody I feel like the title of your segment is the question. I now wish to ask you All right, ashley's here hi ash hey, we're all dressed up for circuit breakers Yeah, you know, I just really wanted to flex for the show. What what is happening to your face? So, uh the toy fair is this weekend. Oh, yeah, and i've covered it for the past few years and Companies are now getting a little smart in introducing their toys before the toy fair. So this is one I wrote about this week It is hero vision, which is an ar toy from hasbro and marvel So you get to be iron man? I then play a game for several years now. I've wanted to be iron man. I think a lot of people have yeah, yeah, wait, okay So this is basically a The vr headset exactly and your phone goes in and you strap your phone into it and instead of vr It's ar but yeah, it's kind of like snapchat where you see the world around you but like things will pop up What is the situation? So this is called the gauntlet Yes, I just call it the thing on your hand Uh, and so you this basically is how you unlock the game Okay, so you'll notice these stickers and you'll see them here too. The game is able to recognize these stickers So when you load up the game, you're going to hold out your hand to kill enemies But when you first load up the game This is how it unlocks is by Seeing these stickers and registering them. Yeah. Okay. Can we see this in action? Yeah, totally so Okay, because this is an ar game i'm gonna load up two phones one where you'll actually see It how it should look like in a good view and then the other where we can actually put it in here and play Okay. Um, so this is if you want to see before while i'm loading stuff up This isn't a middle of game that I was playing earlier. I'm gonna put this on. Yeah kill some kill some of the bad guys For me. I've never done this before so See it sees your hand. Oh, wow Oh, that's cool, then I can like oh my camera guy you're done for This thing is really yelling at me you're supposed to protect the portal generator I think this game really does work best if you're oh, yeah, that's your shield. Okay So you're supposed to look around and then see the enemy Okay, target it hold up your hand. So this is like we're now starting to see the enemy Yeah, so this actually has nothing to do with like ar kit project tango and nothing like that Uh, this one's really bad This you can run so long as your phone has ios 6 and higher or android 5 and higher And it really can fit like on the bottom of the box here They set it up so that people can just see like you can have a huge phablet So that people can see like you can have a huge phablet They set it up so that people can just see like you can have a huge phablet phone so that people when they buy this Maybe not sure if their phone works they can read about it and also just make sure their phone actually fits inside. Oh my god Yeah So i'm setting this up. This is all set up for me already. So i'm gonna play with it. You guys can play with it later, maybe Okay Yeah, so they say this is for kids eight and up You know be like you're gonna have a kid soon. Would you get your kid a phone? Uh, this is my this is my question like what is the right one's the right time? My my child will be raised in the woods away from all the wired headphones. God damn it Okay, wow, this is like involved yeah, sometimes I get it on the first go and then other times I don't Get in there Hello It's like a breaker This is why we do the things like this is like the bluetooth pairing of toys. I know why? Okay, this is perfect. There it goes. Got it. Okay, so now you're in there so you can make adjustments I can actually take my glasses off because this is a whole mess when I don't Having long hair also not ideal Okay, so now you can see the world because the camera's on yeah, and I can see my hand through here But does your hand look like iron man? Excellent. Okay, so because I look down at that marker now I see a defense base there. Okay, so that You can change the game by changing up where you put the marker So if you put one higher up, maybe you'll have a different experience than if you put one on the ground or something Okay, so we got an image of what oh, yeah, it's a simulation of what ashley's seeing in there. Yeah And now it's beeping again All right, ashley turn to your right Here you go now Okay, so now you're just shooting yeah, so now i'm just shooting um, there's enemies like populating around me But this does remind me like on the circuit breaker show at ces this year Uh, we played with Yeah, so let's listen Here we go so I like So what you were just saying on the circuit breaker? Show at ces lauren good brought on another ar device. That was a gun remember and that was really cool, too So we're seeing some of these more practical applications like for regular Toys and games that I think is really cool. Oh, actually this just like magic eyed and made itself work for me Okay, hold on. I'm just gonna do it. Okay, we're just now you get to try to stick this in there Okay, so you were saying nailed it Hey, wow, and then to tighten it. Yeah, just turn that one. I get the feeling that perhaps my head is larger Either these companies anticipated so we did see a bunch of ar stuff at ces, right? Yeah And then here we'll put this on you This is other way, but yes, there you go, where's my hand can you see it now? Yeah good. Okay So yeah, you have to look around there's paul. Oh, hey, come here come here Um, and there's that okay, I get it. Can you read chat through through? And then I gotta tell you The resolution of this camera Does not does not make up the chat I mean, I totally get how this would be fun if you were a kid. Yeah, and um So there's only 10 levels. They say that should be like several hours of gameplay. Um the way though So the device this whole setup costs 50 But I think the way they're going to eventually make a little bit more money off of it is they have these little stones We have one here. It comes with the game, but they're going to sell stones. Yes What yes infinity stones watching all these movies i'm like what are it's all coming together for you now Yeah, so you can buy those, uh outside of this pack and you'll get extra power. So it changes up how you play the game Yeah, I think I might be dead in this game. You might be dead. I might be in heaven How is it a real chance Iron man heaven like um, this is wild. It's you know, we've seen Every high-end demo. We have a whole vr room full of all the newest stuff and this is actually the most Like I understand why this product exists and what i'm supposed to do with it in the way that oculus doesn't You know, I mean like I just sort of understand what's happening here, right? Why don't they use ar kit and tango? They probably just want to make it inclusive for more people. Yeah, can I say something else though? You look really cool Yeah, i'm gonna say it actually looks really great. How much well done Well done You know what? I want it. I just want a regular iron man mode Where you just like walk around and it shows you invest in companies Yeah, paul, you know what you should do in that mask you should give up your weapons manufacturing business I've been trying to but war it just keeps on finding me How much does this thing cost 50 bucks you're almost there paul Yeah, okay. Yeah, is it 50 bucks because the headsets are cheap Yeah, you don't really that marvel like does that app work with you need this thing? Does it work with other headsets? Um, well, it's all designed. It has this like proprietary clasp and stuff So no, no, but if you just have a regular head second, you just get oh, I mean, yeah You could put your phone in anything. Yeah All right, marvel, but you wouldn't have the math again the poor marvel people are on the controller You're just like freaking out right now. Look don't hack their products. They're very kind to bring them here. Um, anyway, I think That is the show uh people are People are just in the chat. We have time for questions. I'm just like looking through them We need some questions Yeah, we had a ton of tesla questions on twitter i'm just gonna look at those real quick Oh, they're right here in front of me Um people ask how's the build quality compared to my jeep about the tesla Here's what i'll tell you my jeep did not cost sixty thousand dollars, but i've sat in sixty thousand dollar cars before Actually, you reviewed a bmw even in like a rolls royales for us Um, those are like really high-end cars the model 3 for sixty thousand dollars is not Does not feel like an expensive car, right? It's just a very it's a nice sort of mid-size car But like it's it feels like it's base price is 35 000 But it also has a computer in the middle. It also has a computer in the middle. That is true I can't wait to see that Very distinctive the trunk people are adam says how much can you fit in the trunk? Uh, the trunk is huge and there's a frunk and there's a frunk Yeah, like like it's large enough for like a um Like maybe like a carry-on bag. Okay, or like a like a very small gymnast, yeah, uh chrismo says the main screen led or oled It's obviously an led like it's a lcd screen It's not like a 17 inch oled panel, which itself would cost like 60 000. Okay. Yeah It's just nice. Um, if you don't pay for an auto pilot autopilot's really expensive on the car It's not a five thousand dollar option but it has some Features that add sensors It adds some sense. Have you gotten to try autopilot in the city yet? Or no? No, I haven't tried in the city We're gonna drive it. I'm gonna leave here and like run downstairs and play with the car Um, this is a good question. Can you unlock the car through the key in your wallet? Oh, yeah, we'll find out i'll i'll go try it right now and leave an the answer that one in the comments of this video Um, but you said the ideal thing is it just works with the ideal thing It just works with your phone and then here we'll take this last one. Tolu asks How does the base model compare to the upgraded model besides speed and range? I was talking to andy hawkins our transportation reporter and he pointed out that you can not get the base model right now so there's Yeah, I think it's That one um, so the base model To to navigate the complex web of like ed Credits and taxes and they're basically only selling the upgraded model at that higher price So the 35 000 model is like people have ordered it but it's not going to come for quite some time yet But they needed to have a skew the whole point is to get get you in at 35k Can the tesla be hotwired says john shipman in the chat But we're gonna find out i'm worried about hotwiring a car that is full of that many lithium-ion batteries But maybe that'll be a great video too. It's always worth a shot when hot wiring Is there wireless charging in the car? There's not wireless charging in the car There is if you saw in the very beginning of this video and we'll show it again in the next video we make um, it has custom like cables It's got usb jacks and there are custom cables that wire up into the console It was set up with two lightning side by side, but you could run a usb c or yeah And then this one somebody asked is there a place to mount and power a dash cam? I didn't see one I'll look there's no like cigarette. I didn't see a cigarette lighter. I don't think elon wants you to smoke in his car in the future Smoking will be illegal. Yeah, also driving your own car. Yeah But like I said, we are literally we're gonna end this stream right now. I'm gonna run downstairs. Ash isn't with me We're gonna make a whole video with that tesla and marquez actually just walked in the door to help us make that video So that's gonna be really fun Look for it, uh in a couple of days we gotta like shoot and edit a video that was circuit breaker live for today Thank you guys for joining me. I think we did a good job. We did fine Explain yourself. Uh, thank you all for being in the chat I love reading your comments in the chat and responding to them. It helps us drive this whole show We'll be back again next week Tuesday Uh four o'clock eastern It's supposed to say what's going to happen on the show next week on that board But it doesn't so it's just gonna be a series of surprises until we give up and we'll see you next week You
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 Everybody welcome a Circa Baker live the verges gadget show I'm Neil I'm telling the editor the verge Paul Miller's here
 Hello, you might notice we're not on our set right now for cigarette or live
 We're actually downstairs on the street in a Tesla Model 3 that Tesla was foolish enough to give us for the day
 We're gonna make a whole long YouTube video with this car
 It'll go up later this week our friend Marquez is gonna be in it which is really cool
 But this car is basically a gadget and we have a gadget show we're doing the show inside again. We're in a gadget
 So just real basics
 It's a you know an EV. It's good 310 miles range is a long-range long-range version
 Tesla says the car starts at thirty five thousand dollars. This is a sixty thousand dollar car
 It's basically got every option autopilot the red paint is a thousand dollars
 If you don't pay the thousand dollars, you can only get black. It's a fancy wheels
 And you can
 I love cars. So this car is totally spec'd up
 But the main thing about it that I just wanted everybody on circuit breaker live to see is this screen
 Well good thing I brought the Paul Paul's got the Paul cam going
 This is the only interface for the car, right?
 You obviously you've got a brake pedal on an accelerator and a steering wheel, but there are no vents. There's no ignition key
 There's no nothing
 Almost everything in this car. There's no instrument cluster
 Everything in this car happens on the screen. I feel like the first question is how do you know how fast you're going?
 Right. Okay, so you can see here the cars in park. I'm a right. It's not on
 Now what what's supposed to happen is the car is paired to your phone as you approach the car
 It'll turn on you get in and just drive away
 Okay, I don't have that set up yet because it's just a it's a it's a review unit basically
 You have a little key. Okay, like a hotel key and there's a spot right here. There's one on the outside of car, too
 I just put it here. I
 Have my phone oh, yeah now the car is on
 We're in drive and I forgot the buckle my seat belt
 It's a narking pull out and if I just give it a little yeah, you can see that speedometers right there
 And you can see these are the front sensors. There's obviously rear sensors as well push that button to go back in park
 That's it like that those are basically the physical controls there's the gear shift lever here there's a turn signals here
 There's you know joysticks for the screen here. There's obviously
 Pretty good horn. I would say
 But Paul I want you to try to use the screen because it's nuts
 So a thing that you often do in a car, huh is you change where the vents are pointing the air at your face?
 Oh sure give that a shot sure just grab the vents
 There's just a shelf
 So give try it use the screen. Okay, put that Paul cam down
 You hold the pole hold the Paul cam for you. Okay. Well, I want a lot of wind in my face. Yep, okay
 But how do I point them?
 Let it crank your temperature
 Okay, just roll with me. All right, it's right here. It's okay turn this down. What and just sound is horrible
 There's wind in our face. So
 It's all here. Look at this
 You do it so if you if you're looking at this on the screen here you can see there's no events
 There's just this shelf. This area is a vent that blows up and that's a vent that blows out
 Okay, and when you move this around this is basically the location of the air that's pointing when you move it around
 The jet that's pointing up and the jet that's pointing out
 They like interfere with each other and it points a single jet of air at your face, which is crazy town
 Oh good, like most cars are just like you just point the fins of the vent
 Tesla's like what if you want one giant thing and like you can just point it that way. This is so cool
 It's so much more complicated than a normal car, but it's like in the best way. It's so gadgety
 other stuff
 If you look this is the radio interface. It's obviously Tesla. There's an LTE connection up here
 It's set someone's a huge smash mouse falls play with it earlier
 So you can obviously search if I hold down this button. I
 Can say play Kanye West?
 And does voice search it'll just like light up a Kanye song over here, which is pretty cool
 There you go. That worked pretty well. There's our first copyright strike for the day
 And then this is pretty cool. So this whole center console. There's nothing here
 But if you open this up, maybe you can see it. These are phone chargers
 for
 Get my thing my case is interfering here. That's a phone charger if my case was on there would work better
 You can see it's got little USB ports so you can swap them out for USB C or lightning however you want to
 So I think that's pretty cool. There are no power outlets. Somebody asked me on Twitter about power outlets in the car
 If you there's a place for a dashcam. I have not yet seen a traditional
 I've got my first
 Tesla issue. I believe in you. Oh look it's yelling at me
 It says close console lid gently
 Okay, so we're being real nice to the car and then I have one other question from Twitter here
 I just want to pull it up our friend Sean Hollister says how are the volume controls? Okay
 There everything's on screen. So there's a volume control here and then there's a volume control
 Here and if I hit this
 It's play pause
 And then and then lastly this is just basic Tesla stuff. You can navigate it's got Google Maps on here
 And pull that down. So that's nice. And then I want to point this out just because it's circuit breaker live
 It's really silly. There's Easter eggs in the car right now
 We can bring up the sketchpad
 We can
 But
 Sir sir cure break breaker breaker. That's it. All right, we got to get out of here
 Our directors are yelling at us right now
 We've got a whole rest of the show Jake and Ashley are gonna do the news
 But literally we have to get out of the car and run upstairs. So take it away Jake and Ashley
 We'll see you in one second
 Apple's home pod. Sorry. I'm still practicing the fact that we're doing this show. Oh, no
 I know that was very
 Listen to this without any visuals actually. Yeah, I hope I hope they make it. I'm sure they'll slowly
 Apple's home pod came out last week and turns out this thing is
 Basically so hard to get into that if you need to repair it, you're basically buying another one
 So Apple released repair pricing out of warranty. That is
 279 dollars that is 80% of the cost of a brand new home pod
 So you're not really repairing it so much as you are like giving them some parts and getting a slight discount on a new one
 What do you think someone would do to this home pod?
 Okay
 That is the thing like you would have to like knock this from a very high shelf and apparently the thing like do you see I fix
 It's tear down. I saw some of it. They had to saw it open in order
 They took a saw and like cut it into
 Which like suggests it will be hard to break but also explains why it is so expensive to repair
 That the like slightly good news is if you're worried
 Apple's warranties only 29 dollars only lasts for two years
 So you're gonna drop it do within two years don't use this as a portable speaker
 Essential we've been tracking their progress since one of those exciting way back when they launched and
 It turns out that they sold less than 90,000 phones during their first six months as a company
 I think the exact number from IDC was 88,000
 So that's not great
 It's kind of disheartening for anyone who cares about essential cares about having different Android phones available to them
 They're you know flagship quality and on top of that essential has been going through a bunch of issues where the camera wasn't really working
 Well when it first launched they continuously are adding updates to the camera
 Android Oreo still isn't running on essential and they're like, oh we can't actually put 8.0 on we have to now put
 8.1 because of stability issues, so
 All around just watching essential
 Trying so hard and it's like it tried so many cool ambitious things
 it definitely like made a statement when it launched but I
 Mean, it's just so clear that it is like immensely hard to launch a like flagship priced phone
 Even if you're Andy Rippon, yeah, like it's not especially generation one
 There's just like not a lot of reason to trust it and buy in until you've like seen the other options, you know
 And like clearly it wasn't perfect. So yeah, hopefully they get on the show to
 very difficult perpetual lesson
 Amazon is actually doing a reset sort of of its
 discounted phone program
 It's been going for like two years and basically just like the Kindle you would get a discount if you let them put some ads on
 Your lock screen
 Except now they are getting rid of the ads
 It's gonna the phones are gonna cost more now they'll cost $20 more
 But if you already own one you get to keep it for you know, whatever you think can't charge you more
 There's still gonna be some ads on the phone. There's gonna be like a lock screen
 There's gonna be a widget on the home screen
 And there are Amazon's pre-installed apps
 But the lock screen itself is not gonna have ads on it, which means you can
 You know set your own wallpaper for the first time which is really nice
 I think it's sort of weird that like this was like that was the defining feature of
 This program that like there's a lock screen ad and now it's not
 But I guess it's still good that they're now
 Like yelling ads, but my god, I would hate to have ads on my phone
 Like right like you look at the last year your phone so many times a day. It's valuable real estate
 It's like a magazine's cover. Yeah, you know, that's expensive for advertisers
 So this I can imagine maybe make good money maybe but apparently
 $20 a user seems to be like they're like about what it was working for
 Like about what it was worth, because that's why they're charging more now. So maybe it wasn't that big
 cool
 and
 Last week we talked about the S9 Samsung's rumored new phone
 We talked about the dual cameras how they're gonna be vertical kind of like the iPhone 10
 This week or earlier this week
 We talked we saw another rumor about the S9 having a headphone jack
 Which would be a reversal from the S8 and just a totally different idea
 Than basically all the current flagships on the market now, you can see the headphone jack right here
 This is actually the Dex pad
 so when the S8 came out Samsung also launched a product called the Dex which basically lets you use your phone like a computer and
 This is the version two of it. It should still work with the S8 supposedly rumors
 But this one lets you lay the phone flat
 So maybe you can use it as a touchpad or something like we saw
 Razer had something sort of similar where it slotted into the actual laptop, but it was the idea of the keypad
 So remember Dan Seifert reviewed the the last version of Dex and like it seemed it was actually pretty good and pretty usable
 Yeah, I sat next to him while he was listening and I was like that's cool
 Like it's an interesting idea for people who like bring their phones from home or something
 For sure, sure. And also I'm just completely all about the headphone jack coming back every time I go to plug in headphones into my
 Pixel I just like
 You cry a little bit inside?
 It's I I perpetually forget that it doesn't have a headphone jack and then just yeah, and then your heart is broken over and over again
 Yeah, it's worth noting that also it has a Bixby button still
 So you're getting one thing back, but you're keeping Bixby one day. They will allow it to be reassigned
 Good for you Jake. Sorry. I just slapped my microphone. I apologize
 Um, and finally this week we have some incredible dongle news we have a four-way
 Lightning dongle two lightning out two lightning in all at 90 degree angles
 This is what's I don't know crazy contraption
 Okay, let me also just say this product is called node normal name, but it's from a company called I love handles
 I have no idea if this thing is certified in any way. It only costs 20 dollars. You can't get anything
 No way, even in white plastic involving apple for 20 dollars. So
 There's yeah
 So the idea is you're just supposed to plug all of your devices into this you just mix and match and do whatever you want
 I don't have any real understanding so you have to have at least one like power cord going into it, but
 theoretically like
 Certain like an ipad could be plugged in and then charge a pencil out the other corner, right?
 So like maybe you don't have to have a power cord come in
 I the possibilities are either endless or zero because it doesn't work. I'm not sure we have to get this in
 I'm really excited for this
 Wow, 20 dollars. It makes the pencil charging look not so you can also infinitely string these together
 I don't know if that's true. You should not try this. Yeah, please don't explode. It's the office
 Okay, so this might be our last week of news
 Maybe all news is ending
 News will continue to happen. Jake and I just will guide you through the news
 But next week we're going to try this new thing where Jake and I are going to do ask circuit breaker
 So if you ask some questions in the comments or in the chat right now
 Next week Jake and I will try to answer them
 So give us some we're leaving a super open-ended here. Yeah, ask circuit breaker choose your favorite. Oh and wonderful timing
 Paul and Eli have made it up
 I'm glad you put up return. How was the tesla? It was amazing. I've uh, i've been in the youtube chat this whole time
 I left some great comments about you. Great. It's great. The tesla was incredible
 Getting up here was incredible. That was super fun. Uh, we're gonna make a whole video with that car
 Like later literally later today
 Uh marquez brownlee is on his way to the studio right now
 We're gonna hang with him in the car. Ashley's gonna hang with me in the car
 Uh, so look for that on youtube later this week, by the way, thank you. Jake and ashley for covering for vamping
 We got back here
 But heim guardberg is here now. What's up, man? Hey, uh, you have brought us. It's just an incredible bundle of wires
 Well, all I can see is pikachu
 So so last time on the show we had regular wireless chargers
 Yeah, uh wireless chargers have mutated since then and now they're weird and now they have hubs. Yeah
 Wireless chargers are out wireless charging hubs are in i'm into it
 So i've got a bunch of those here
 Uh, I guess we'll start with this is kind of your your standard most normal vanilla one. This is the nomad wireless charging hub
 Yeah, it's a wireless charger on top
 Uh on the bottom there's a little hub down here. You have a couple usb ports. You have a usb c to usb c port
 Can I just be honest with you? This thing looks a damn mess. Yeah
 Just like straight up like this is a product where at anker headquarters. They were like, you know, steve
 You just gotta try again, man
 Yeah, so this is nomad which just won an anchor's competitor
 You could see where they were going with like the cord management and like
 But then you have everything kind of wrapping around. Yeah, so wait, so there's power in power in
 And then how does your power in so there's there's a okay. It's a regular plug regular power plug
 Um, you have usb c port three regular usb ports and the idea is that you can charge up to five devices
 Wireless on top so down here something plugged in. Yeah, I think so
 confirmed confirmed
 Hey, it works. Okay. I'll take it actually has these like a couple lights down here
 So you can actually figure out what's plugged in where this one costs, uh, this one costs 80
 so
 expensive relative to wireless charging and
 Hubs, but like if you combine the two together are good hubs like 34
 Good wireless chargers 30 40
 I would prefer this if they didn't try to manage the cords like trying to hide the cords makes it look messier than it is
 well
 Then I have then I have a product for you because
 Is this officially licensed? I think this is officially licensed game stop is selling it
 This is the techno fun pikachu and pikachu induction charger
 Uh, wait, wait now what is happening on the show? You just look at pikachu like this
 This is the first press photo I ever saw. Yeah, where do you think the the plugs are? Oh god
 Yeah, see that was a big worry. That's good news. Everybody. They're on the side on the side plugs are on the side
 So again, you have barrel plug
 Uh, you have three regular usb ports for for charging your non-wireless charging things
 Take your phone put it on top
 Take your phone put it on top
 It'll charge
 Is that precarious?
 Uh, it is a little precarious. It doesn't here it it doesn't
 It's I feel I feel less good about putting putting my you know
 You know one thousand dollar phone on top of here than I do on say this
 Yeah, uh, and I will of course point out the true pokemon future of the cheeks on the pikachu actually light up
 Uh, so, you know, it's charging are there going to be other pokemon that lend their abilities?
 to your phone
 Like we can only hope blast toys
 How much does that cost so this costs 60?
 Uh, is the power in on the side? Yeah power in is on the side. This is horrible
 They got halfway through designing this and getting where do you want to put the power in? Do you like I don't know?
 Okay, 60 dollars 60 dollars, it's a good like joke gift, um
 Next up we have the sign of old
 Uh, this is not a wireless charger sure isn't this is a usb battery pack. It's one of the big ones
 This is actually a weird thing. This is a prototype that the company sent us. They were doing a thing on indiegogo
 The indiegogo page is gone. The company does not seem to exist on the internet except for facebook page
 I'm, still trying to figure out so you have the last one. So this might be the only one in existence, but
 What it is is it is a modular wireless charging bank. So you can take these sign of old modules
 And you can just clip them on so you got
 so that's just a plug that's just a giant plug but
 It's a you can clip them on both ends you can clip them on both ends. This is this is ridiculous and uh,
 You doing it? Oh my god. It's horrible. You gotta do the clips this whole this whole idea is horrible
 Wait, wait, wait. No if you get a call
 This isn't gonna
 I don't understand this and I don't know why people are
 Try to back this. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure they are. All right
 So this was all just a prelude. This is a prelude though to you saying there's actually a good usb-c charger
 So there is a good usb-c charger hub. This is the hyperdrive usb-c hub wireless charger
 It's made by a company called hyper which started on kickstarter back when the first usb-c macbooks came out
 They make these like aluminum docks aluminum usb-c hubs that kind of like seamlessly clip onto the side of your macbook
 this is
 Their next thing which is to combine that with a wireless charger. This is a prototype
 They are currently running a kickstarter campaign or just finished. Um, this actually no longer is what the product looks like
 They've redesigned it. They've gotten rid of this integrated cable so that you don't have to be as restricted by it
 Basically, this is a full usb-c hub
 usb-c usb-c usb-c us sorry usb's usb-c which can also do power pass-through
 Ethernet hdmi sd and micro sd
 So basically every port that is currently missing from your usb-c laptop and then you like flip it up and do one of these guys
 And then you can flip it up. It can charge flat
 Oh, you know, it's funny is your computer doesn't have my computer doesn't have ports on that side
 So i'm gonna put on that side. That's why they've gotten rid of the integrated cable. Come on, man
 And you just plug that in okay, can I be honest with you
 And it's gonna charge and it'll charge presumably it works. It'll charge. Yep. It works. I've been using it all week
 It charges you get all the ports like this is the this is the desk thing for you. Let me be honest with you
 This product is a repudiation
 Of everything usb-c is meant to stand for yes, right?
 Because what you are really supposed to have is usb-c
 accessories and peripherals not another nasty hub so you can actually connect the
 The only usb-c port on this is one so you can pass through charging, right?
 That like when you come to work in the morning, you just plug this into your laptop. Can I just tell you if you want?
 Like a usb-c ethernet
 Yeah, I want like actual usb-c devices and then like a just a not just an ever expanding array of
 Dongles, I feel like this is the this is what usb-c promised you you sit down at your desk
 You plug one thing in it charges your laptop. It powers your usb-c display
 You can finally look at pictures off of sd cards
 You can finally look at pictures off of sd cards
 Why can't I just have these ports in my laptop? Can I just tell you a story?
 You want your tiny little laptops with your dainty little backpacks and your little espressos
 We set my desk at vox media just over there is right next to our it department
 Which is super fun, right because I get to see all the comings and goings are this company's vp of engineering
 Rolled up to them the other day and said I just need some dongles because my computer doesn't have enough ports
 And they just started foisting dongles on it
 It was the saddest thing I've ever seen
 So so your dream version of this my juice is one with eight usb-c ports
 My yeah, the idea of usb-c is that it will replace usb-a
 And what is happening right now is everything is still usb-a and we're just getting we just live in dongle dongle city
 dongle city, but if we're living in dongle city dongle cities have a great place to live it is it isn't but
 Yeah, this is the mayor of dongle already living there. This is this is this is the dongle that you want. Yeah, sure
 Yeah, great. It's the best real estate in dongle town. Yeah, and that's cool. I just gotta get real quick
 So actually I asked r.i.t department. There is there is a catch though
 It is the mayor of dongle town. Just to be clear. This is what you're mad about right neil
 That there's only one that there's no that there's big usb's there's three
 No, i'm not those are I want those to be on here
 Where they belong?
 Because I need that it's just like go backwards in time
 So more useful that's the wrong approach though because we need to embrace
 Usb-c like it is a better spec when it's done, right?
 Which is another barrel of worms that is a completely different rant, but when it's done right, it's good like you the
 That broken line everybody
 Usb-c does this
 We've all agreed that the pikachu is the must buy right the pikachu is here's the problem with this
 There is actually one problem other than that
 It's a kickstarter project and you can't actually buy it yet
 Is that it was on kickstarter for a 99 early bird and its final price is going to be 160
 Which is a lot of money how much it costs for the usba port and a laptop 15 cents
 What are we doing to ourselves?
 Just just ease us through the transition. That's all i'm saying. All right. I'm very sorry that
 Your situation is so complicated. How are those usb-c headphones coming along? Um, not great. Yep. There it is. Okay, we're good
 Sorry, buddy. Thank you for joining us
 Uh, I have some exciting news lauren good is coming back with new show. Well, it's real show versus is coming back with lauren good
 Uh, i've seen some of the early season. It's super funny
 Uh, we have a quick trailer for that and then we're gonna be back chris welch is going to show us what's going on in
 wireless earbuds
 You
 Hi i'm lauren so am I and we're finally back with a new season of versus
 You might know this video series is the one in which the right lauren as in the one who's usually correct
 tries to talk sense into this lauren about
 gadgets
 One of the amazing things about the internet of things is that normal stuff is becoming wi-fi connected
 Like this brita picture. So if you want to do something else like charge your phone or stick an sd card in there at the
 Same time you need to use a bunch of adapters. I love adapters
 this is a roomba and this
 It's clear to me at least which one of these is the better phone
 You mean the one that doesn't cost a thousand dollars and is still a fantastic phone
 So you can pair it with bluetooth headphones and have your books read aloud to you. Oh for f**k's sake
 Just get a tablet then
 Are you guys fighting over your brita pictures again?
 Look, it's easy to get overwhelmed by all the gadget decisions. You're supposed to be making these days
 So our goal is to lay it all out there for you and tell you which are the best products
 That you should buy and use or when it's better not to buy a new product at all
 Which is probably at least 80 of the time. Yeah, she's always as much of a downer. I'm a realist
 Anyway, go check out the new season of versus you can find it right here on youtube and of course on the verge.com
 You're back
 Sorry two laurins at once we everyone needed a break
 A lot to think about uh, chris falch is here. Hey chris. Yes. How's it going? It's going you have brought us
 A selection of charging cases are very interesting and wireless earbuds. They also contain earbuds
 Okay, so what is you've reviewed a bunch of these lately
 AirPods are right here. Everyone knows what those are. What's the rest of the stuff?
 Well, the air pods are we're talking about first because I mean they work so well
 It's been 14 months since they came out
 And you're probably wondering if anyone else has beaten them or put out something better and the answer is no
 uh, they've gotten close, uh, there's
 There's a big market right now. Uh, there's some of these that cost 300 some cost 150
 There's samsung boos a bunch of brands are taking part in this game, but when it comes to like ease of use
 Sound quality is okay. It's good enough for most people
 And the battery life, uh, the air pods are still on their own pedestal also
 the case sizes
 They vary a lot. So the boos is my favorite case. I think just kind of the most like a futuristic gadget
 It's got lights on both both sides
 Lights are what you want to see you when you but here's I actually like the samsung one better. That's real nice. Look at this
 Yeah, that's the boos is huge. The samsung is nice. What i'm going to just point out though is all these are huge
 Yeah compared to air pods. Yeah, because most of the battery inside is going to charge the ear pods two more times
 So do the air pods though and like they have 24 hours of extra battery life in the case
 Just like take out those boos ones. Here's an air pod. Everybody knows this looks like
 here is this
 generosity
 Is this just apple as the w1 chip and w1?
 I think this is for the phone calls and like better voice with siri and things like that and uh, whereas these manufacturers focus on
 Being somewhat subtle. I mean boos isn't great because these actually stick pretty far out of your ear when they're in
 But these sound better than the air pods like full stop the sound quality is great
 And those are the samsung ones the base is excellent on the boos. Uh, they cost around 200 right now
 These are the motorola ones just like look at the comparative size of all these
 So i'm gonna say something and youtube you're gonna get mad at me and that's fine
 And you can tell me that you're mad at me but be polite or i'll just i'll just ban you
 I'm already mad. You haven't even said anything air pods sound horrible. They're horrible sounding
 Like I don't I just did the whole home pod review and there's all the apple people there
 I wear air pods in the street and I listen to the home pod and it's like how can you choose a side?
 How can you choose I can be like i'm buying this limited speaker because it sounds great
 But then in my everyday life like a tin can is rattling in my ear. I just like I don't understand that so connection quality aside
 Do any of these really beat apple on sound quality? Uh, the boos do the base is way better than the air pods
 They're open designs. You can hear things around you which I don't like if you're a runner
 You're going to be a fan of that. Uh, but the air pods like I don't know how people use these on the subway or like news
 Any kind of noisy environment? I don't know how you hear your music. You probably turn it up. This is the bone safe levels
 Yeah, these are the bows. These are the sound sport free. All right
 So we got uh, john shipment in the chat saying people should just straight up copy air pods
 I don't think that is currently possible
 Right apple developed its own chip. They've got their own software in the iphone
 It's like the w1 the w1 is in a whole bunch of like beats headphones as well
 Can anybody else compete with that? I mean I think apple realized that you can't just do bluetooth
 It needs something on top of bluetooth
 So like w1 handles pairing and handles battery life
 Which is why these have such better battery life and everything, but I don't like apple's one size fits most approach
 I mean, that's why I can't use the air pods because they don't fit my ear
 I bought them twice first when they came out. I was like, oh, these are pretty cool
 And I brought them back and then i've tried more of these i've been disappointed
 So I went back like two months ago and maybe I misremembered how they fit
 But no, they still have this this whole charging case situation is great though
 Like if you're a gadget person like that samsung charger is real nice
 These are the old sony's they're new sony's at css these came out last year yet
 They just so these are the old sony's they changed the case. I mean that case is just real nice
 All these charging clips are nasty. Yeah, this has got like a 70s kind of vibe to it
 Maybe but somebody's got one is like newer nicer ones. This is just pure hilarity
 This is like a pill dispenser for your grandparents
 It's like, you know, it's not not the most not the like you're going for these jaybirds like all of this
 I i'm into all of these like charging cases something pocketable is like what you want like these in the bno
 These are the most expensive pair that we have
 300 for these and uh, the sound quality is great. I mean it's banging olivson
 So they've got really good so they all have the same bluetooth dropout problem. They drop out
 Here and there for like a split second, but that adds up over
 Over a day if that happens like 10 or 15 times during the course of your day
 That's going to be very annoying. Sometimes they're fine. Like you can be at work
 Here at the office. They're great at the gym. They're awesome. But like walking down the street
 They just so if you're not an airpods person you got an android phone
 But you can use airpods with android phone. They work pretty well. Yeah, but they're not they don't do all the things that w1 does
 But you can use them
 But if you don't like the way they sound you got an android phone or you just don't want apple stuff
 Which one do you get?
 Uh, I would either go for the braggy dash. These are 150
 Uh, these are the this is the company that kind of kicked off this whole truly wireless earbuds trend on kickstarter
 They risked three million dollars. Yeah. Yeah, and this case actually isn't a battery case
 So these have one charge and once that's gone, you've got to plug them in but it's six hour battery life
 Which is one hour better than the airpods. So at least they've got that so you can listen to them for longer
 Uh the bows are good. I mean one
 One big issue with these is there's often a delay when you watch video. Uh, the audio is like two seconds behind
 So it's like you're watching a dubbed version of whatever you're watching on youtube or netflix and because they're doing audio processing
 Yeah, yeah, so there's one that's how these work is there's one master earbud and there's one slave
 And so your music goes to one earbud back to the other one back to the phone and most of these don't tell the phone
 To like sync the video with the audio so you wind up with a super annoying delay
 Some of these are problems that the slow march of technological progress will solve for us, right? There are some things coming this year
 Qualcomm so they've got a chip coming that's going to help the situation
 Help out the situation a bit
 Once these earbuds once these ear earbuds start to use
 bluetooth 5 that's going to make a big difference as well because
 When your phone has that and the earbuds have that that should make for a much much better connection
 But right now these are all bluetooth 4 point something and all these proprietary
 Yeah, and they fall and they drop out and uh, yeah, i'm just saying earlier we saw the samsung galaxy s9 leaked
 We have the headphone jack no confusion there any headphones you want
 But I will say some of these do you have
 Some of these charging cases
 You're not on the plane like headphones you're not like on the plane like hang on everybody
 Let me open up our case
 Remember when your dad was like turn down the stereo or put some headphones on you plug that like big quarter inch jack and put the
 Head now turn down the stereo or boot up your weird little ear computer. That's gonna be great. Sorry
 I'm not i'm really I like technology, but I will say there's something to be said for actual buttons on your earbuds
 I like the bose of like actual volume buttons or track controls. Yeah, absolutely
 So whereas on the airpods you do a bunch of siri a bunch of voice controls
 A lot of these have actual buttons the braggy have buttons that you actually push into your ear. Yeah
 Which gets which ones are those comfortable? Those are you mentioned that that hurt? Yeah
 You've got to shove them in your ear because you push the buttons in
 So when they're inside your ear that gets pretty uncomfortable. So our producers in my ear pointing out that
 I like regular bluetooth headphones like cans and they have
 Regular jacks. I can watch movies on the plane. None of these will work with them
 Yeah
 so they're
 for the gym or
 For a commute and things like that
 But if you want to watch video, most of these are going to be ruled out the bno actually do do video pretty well
 So that's a good recommendation, but they're 300 so you're talking serious money and for that much money
 They really shouldn't have any any kind of dropouts or any you were saying there's like bluetooth 5 a new chip from qualcomm
 Have you seen any of that stuff demoed?
 Not yet. I mean it's all on the way
 So you just gotta hold out hope that it's gonna be better this year. Someone's gonna compete with the airpods 14 months later
 They're still failing the bluetooth 5 standard for audio isn't super finalized
 And once that's finalized then that will show this whole situation should get smoother, but it's taking time. I mean
 These have been out
 We've seen these for a couple years now and none of them have managed to top apple
 I see i'm now seeing airpods everywhere. I never see any of these they still look dumb. They're never gonna look good
 You see them everywhere. They're accepted now apple's way out of the curve. They pulled it off
 They don't look crazy. Well, thank you for that frustrating
 Several minutes of our lives
 Thank you very much Chris
 Absolutely
 Just buy an iphone buy airpods buy a homepod sign up for apple music
 iCloud does something do something with that just have a great time. Absolutely build those walls man. Okay, uh, paul
 You did something this week. Oh, yeah. Yeah
 Sometimes I feel like the news just goes kind of over my head and like what what's the bigger picture?
 Mm-hmm. So I came up with in this segment i'm calling explain yourself
 So check it out
 Iphone battery replacement weights are shortening analyst says
 like jacob castor
 I see you jake
 Are you busy? Well, what do you what do you think about this story iphone battery replacements?
 Weights are shortening analyst says well
 You know, I have an iphone 6 and uh, it hasn't shortened for me so i'm gonna say this is a lie
 Oh, you're still waiting. I am still waiting. Hey jake. Can you hold the mic in a chat? Yeah, I would love to
 This is a new segment. I'm calling
 Explain yourself. Okay. What do I do in this segment? You just explain yourself
 You just explained yourself
 You wrote an article saying that basically it's easy to get a battery for your iphone. Is that true?
 Um, it's getting easier like before if you went to an apple store
 I'm like, hey, I want to get a new battery for 29. They might have been like come back in two months, but now
 They might go
 Okay, you know in two weeks you can have a battery so it's not great yet, but it's getting better
 You still why you might be able to get better. I think it depends on
 Which model of iphone you have and probably also which store you're in but this is just apple damage control
 Overall, this is like not great for apple and I think it is good for customers
 Which is like probably the coolest thing about all this so even if you have to wait
 It's gonna be better for you
 Yeah, I mean I think if you have an iphone that you like aren't quite ready to give up
 But like the battery is sort of giving out at the end of the day like for 29
 Dollars, you should totally go and replace it the wait times are getting shorter and shorter as they get more batteries in stock
 Definitely put it on your to-do list last question
 Is apple an evil company that was slowing people's phones down on purpose to make them upgrade?
 I'm a I'm a truther. So yes
 We heard it here first
 Jake paid by apple to not say anything the real truth
 I'm not bound by any
 You know
 payments
 explain yourself
 with your friend paul miller
 Good job everybody
 I feel like the title of your segment is the question. I now wish to ask you
 All right, ashley's here hi ash hey, we're all dressed up for circuit breakers
 Yeah, you know, I just really wanted to flex for the show. What what is happening to your face?
 So, uh the toy fair is this weekend. Oh, yeah, and i've covered it for the past few years and
 Companies are now getting a little smart in introducing their toys before the toy fair. So this is one I wrote about this week
 It is hero vision, which is an ar toy from hasbro and marvel
 So you get to be iron man?
 I then play a game for several years now. I've wanted to be iron man. I think a lot of people have yeah, yeah, wait, okay
 So this is basically a
 The vr headset exactly and your phone goes in and you strap your phone into it and instead of vr
 It's ar but yeah, it's kind of like snapchat where you see the world around you but like things will pop up
 What is the situation?
 So this is called the gauntlet
 Yes, I just call it the thing on your hand
 Uh, and so you this basically is how you unlock the game
 Okay, so you'll notice these stickers and you'll see them here too. The game is able to recognize these stickers
 So when you load up the game, you're going to hold out your hand to kill enemies
 But when you first load up the game
 This is how it unlocks is by
 Seeing these stickers and registering them. Yeah. Okay. Can we see this in action? Yeah, totally so
 Okay, because this is an ar game i'm gonna load up two phones one where you'll actually see
 It how it should look like in a good view and then the other where we can actually put it in here and play
 Okay. Um, so this is if you want to see before while i'm loading stuff up
 This isn't a middle of game that I was playing earlier. I'm gonna put this on. Yeah kill some kill some of the bad guys
 For me. I've never done this before so
 See it sees your hand. Oh, wow
 Oh, that's cool, then I can like oh my camera guy you're done for
 This thing is really yelling at me you're supposed to protect the portal generator
 I think this game really does work best if you're oh, yeah, that's your shield. Okay
 So you're supposed to look around and then see the enemy
 Okay, target it hold up your hand. So this is like we're now starting to see the enemy
 Yeah, so this actually has nothing to do with like ar kit project tango and nothing like that
 Uh, this one's really bad
 This you can run so long as your phone has ios 6 and higher or android 5 and higher
 And it really can fit like on the bottom of the box here
 They set it up so that people can just see like you can have a huge phablet
 So that people can see like you can have a huge phablet
 They set it up so that people can just see like you can have a huge phablet phone so that people when they buy this
 Maybe not sure if their phone works they can read about it and also just make sure their phone actually fits inside. Oh my god
 Yeah
 So i'm setting this up. This is all set up for me already. So i'm gonna play with it. You guys can play with it
 later, maybe
 Okay
 Yeah, so they say this is for kids eight and up
 You know be like you're gonna have a kid soon. Would you get your kid a phone?
 Uh, this is my this is my question like what is the right one's the right time?
 My my child will be raised in the woods away from all the wired headphones. God damn it
 Okay, wow, this is like involved yeah, sometimes I get it on the first go and then other times I don't
 Get in there
 Hello
 It's like a breaker
 This is why we do the things like this is like the bluetooth pairing of toys. I know why?
 Okay, this is perfect. There it goes. Got it. Okay, so now you're in there so you can make adjustments
 I can actually take my glasses off because this is a whole mess when I don't
 Having long hair also not ideal
 Okay, so now you can see the world because the camera's on yeah, and I can see my hand through here
 But does your hand look like iron man?
 Excellent. Okay, so because I look down at that marker now I see a defense base there. Okay, so that
 You can change the game by changing up where you put the marker
 So if you put one higher up, maybe you'll have a different experience than if you put one on the ground or something
 Okay, so we got an image of what oh, yeah, it's a simulation of what ashley's seeing in there. Yeah
 And now it's beeping again
 All right, ashley turn to your right
 Here you go now
 Okay, so now you're just shooting yeah, so now i'm just shooting um, there's enemies like populating around me
 But this does remind me like on the circuit breaker show at ces this year
 Uh, we played with
 Yeah, so let's listen
 Here we go
 so I like
 So what you were just saying on the circuit breaker?
 Show at ces lauren good brought on another ar device. That was a gun remember and that was really cool, too
 So we're seeing some of these more practical applications like for regular
 Toys and games that I think is really cool. Oh, actually this just like magic eyed and made itself work for me
 Okay, hold on. I'm just gonna do it. Okay, we're just now you get to try to stick this in there
 Okay, so you were saying nailed it
 Hey, wow, and then to tighten it. Yeah, just turn that one. I get the feeling that perhaps my head is larger
 Either these companies anticipated so we did see a bunch of ar stuff at ces, right? Yeah
 And then here we'll put this on you
 This is other way, but yes, there you go, where's my hand can you see it now? Yeah good. Okay
 So yeah, you have to look around there's paul. Oh, hey, come here come here
 Um, and there's that okay, I get it. Can you read chat through through?
 And then I gotta tell you
 The resolution of this camera
 Does not does not make up the chat
 I mean, I totally get how this would be fun if you were a kid. Yeah, and um
 So there's only 10 levels. They say that should be like several hours of gameplay. Um the way though
 So the device this whole setup costs 50
 But I think the way they're going to eventually make a little bit more money off of it is they have these little stones
 We have one here. It comes with the game, but they're going to sell stones. Yes
 What yes infinity stones watching all these movies i'm like what are it's all coming together for you now
 Yeah, so you can buy those, uh outside of this pack and you'll get extra power. So it changes up how you play the game
 Yeah, I think I might be dead in this game. You might be dead. I might be in heaven
 How is it a real chance
 Iron man heaven like um, this is wild. It's you know, we've seen
 Every high-end demo. We have a whole vr room full of all the newest stuff and this is actually the most
 Like I understand why this product exists and what i'm supposed to do with it in the way that oculus doesn't
 You know, I mean like I just sort of understand what's happening here, right? Why don't they use ar kit and tango?
 They probably just want to make it inclusive for more people. Yeah, can I say something else though? You look really cool
 Yeah, i'm gonna say it actually looks really great. How much well done
 Well done
 You know what? I want it. I just want a regular iron man mode
 Where you just like walk around and it shows you
 invest in companies
 Yeah, paul, you know what you should do in that mask you should give up your weapons manufacturing business
 I've been trying to but war it just keeps on finding me
 How much does this thing cost 50 bucks you're almost there paul
 Yeah, okay. Yeah, is it 50 bucks because the headsets are cheap
 Yeah, you don't really that marvel like does that app work with you need this thing? Does it work with other headsets?
 Um, well, it's all designed. It has this like proprietary clasp and stuff
 So no, no, but if you just have a regular head second, you just get oh, I mean, yeah
 You could put your phone in anything. Yeah
 All right, marvel, but you wouldn't have the math again the poor marvel people are on the controller
 You're just like freaking out right now. Look don't hack their products. They're very kind to bring them here. Um, anyway, I think
 That is the show
 uh people are
 People are just in the chat. We have time for questions. I'm just like looking through them
 We need some questions
 Yeah, we had a ton of tesla questions on twitter i'm just gonna look at those real quick
 Oh, they're right here in front of me
 Um people ask how's the build quality compared to my jeep about the tesla
 Here's what i'll tell you my jeep did not cost sixty thousand dollars, but i've sat in sixty thousand dollar cars before
 Actually, you reviewed a bmw even in like a rolls royales for us
 Um, those are like really high-end cars the model 3 for sixty thousand dollars is not
 Does not feel like an expensive car, right? It's just a very it's a nice sort of mid-size car
 But like it's it feels like it's base price is 35 000
 But it also has a computer in the middle. It also has a computer in the middle. That is true
 I can't wait to see that
 Very distinctive the trunk people are adam says how much can you fit in the trunk?
 Uh, the trunk is huge and there's a frunk and there's a frunk
 Yeah, like like it's large enough for like a um
 Like maybe like a carry-on bag. Okay, or like a like a very small
 gymnast, yeah, uh chrismo says the main screen led or oled
 It's obviously an led like it's a lcd screen
 It's not like a 17 inch oled panel, which itself would cost like 60 000. Okay. Yeah
 It's just nice. Um, if you don't pay for an auto pilot autopilot's really expensive on the car
 It's not a five thousand dollar option
 but it has some
 Features that add sensors
 It adds some sense. Have you gotten to try autopilot in the city yet? Or no? No, I haven't tried in the city
 We're gonna drive it. I'm gonna leave here and like run downstairs and play with the car
 Um, this is a good question. Can you unlock the car through the key in your wallet?
 Oh, yeah, we'll find out i'll i'll go try it right now and leave an the answer that one in the comments of this video
 Um, but you said the ideal thing is it just works with the ideal thing
 It just works with your phone and then here we'll take this last one. Tolu asks
 How does the base model compare to the upgraded model besides speed and range?
 I was talking to andy hawkins our transportation reporter and he pointed out that you can not get the base model right now
 so there's
 Yeah, I think it's
 That one um, so the base model
 To to navigate the complex web of like ed
 Credits and taxes and they're basically only selling the upgraded model at that higher price
 So the 35 000 model is like people have ordered it but it's not going to come for quite some time yet
 But they needed to have a skew the whole point is to get get you in at 35k
 Can the tesla be hotwired says john shipman in the chat
 But we're gonna find out i'm worried about hotwiring a car that is full of that many lithium-ion batteries
 But maybe that'll be a great video too. It's always worth a shot
 when hot wiring
 Is there wireless charging in the car? There's not wireless charging in the car
 There is if you saw in the very beginning of this video and we'll show it again in the next video we make
 um, it has
 custom like cables
 It's got usb jacks and there are custom cables that wire up into the console
 It was set up with two lightning side by side, but you could run a usb c or yeah
 And then this one somebody asked is there a place to mount and power a dash cam?
 I didn't see one
 I'll look there's no like cigarette. I didn't see a cigarette lighter. I don't think elon wants you to smoke in his car in the future
 Smoking will be illegal. Yeah, also driving your own car. Yeah
 But like I said, we are literally we're gonna end this stream right now. I'm gonna run downstairs. Ash isn't with me
 We're gonna make a whole video with that tesla and marquez actually just walked in the door to help us make that video
 So that's gonna be really fun
 Look for it, uh in a couple of days we gotta like shoot and edit a video that was circuit breaker live for today
 Thank you guys for joining me. I think we did a good job. We did fine
 Explain yourself. Uh, thank you all for being in the chat
 I love reading your comments in the chat and responding to them. It helps us drive this whole show
 We'll be back again next week Tuesday
 Uh four o'clock eastern
 It's supposed to say what's going to happen on the show next week on that board
 But it doesn't so it's just gonna be a series of surprises until we give up and we'll see you next week
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