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Today we're talking about the Galaxy S 10 Way most new partnership and your comments, but first up, let's talk Google at CES on to the Garden of Google.
Those everywhere at CES to help us out what to get a handle on everything that's been going on.
We've Dragged In cnet's editor seen that editor Andrew Gebhardt.
He's been going from place to place seeing all kinds of things.
Okay, Andrew, let's get the ball rolling.
What were the most important developments?
So Google is everywhere at the show.
They are plastered on the monorail.
They have a ride, a Small World-style ride.
It's pretty fun, they're trying to make a big presence.
And [UNKNOWN] some pretty significant announcements.
Their interpreter mode Is a really cool piece of tech that's gonna be built into their home hub and all their smart displays.
And it's gonna allow basically if it's like set up at a hotel, a person can speak one language to it.
It'll translate and then the concierge at the hotel can speak an entirely different language and It acts as the interpreter between those two people.
So that's rolling out to Google Home Hub and third party displays-
Yep.
As well as other Google products, but it's not gonna be on phones right away, right?
I think it's just smart displays to start.
Okay.
They want to bring it to phones.
They wanna bring it to everywhere that Google Assistant works, but Smart displays is where it's gonna get tough.
It seems like a pretty brilliant idea, actually.
But it makes sense for that screen, cuz you could also correct it if something goes wrong.
Yeah, right, you're able to sort of see.
And then I was having a demo with it in the Google booth, and somehow It interpreted something.
And the guy speaking in Italian asked me if I was pregnant.
So I'm pretty sure that wasn't what he intended to say.
Wait, we gotta find out.
Are you pregnant?
Not that I know of.
Okay, good to know.
But, yeah, it could be a really cool thing.
And it's gonna speak 27 different languages.
They obviously gotta polish it a little bit.
But some of the demos have been flawless.
It's looked really cool.
That's pretty impressive so far.
Google with a lot of different products.
We've also got Assistant Connect.
So basically making it way easier for third parties to have Google Assistant built in, right?
Yeah.
So they had an [UNKNOWN] display.
They had a button.
Those are just concepts.
Those are prototypes.
>. Okay.
In theory we're not gonna see those on store shelves.
The.
Idea is that someone can make a piece of hardware and then have Google handle all of the cloud stuff, handle all of the processing, handle all the set up.
So the hardware is gonna have like a chip built in or something that sends a query or a signal To a nearby Google Home Mini and then the Google Home Mini sends that question to the cloud and sends it back to the E ink display which shows traffic or weather or what not.
So the E ink display isn't pulling that info, it's the Google Home Mini that's nearby.
So it's almost like a client, those devices are like clients to this PC that actually makes everyting work.
That's pretty interesting, that looks like those E-Ink displays remind me of those price tags you would see in certain fancy stores, when there were retail stores.
But that would be great to have a bunch of these little displays around the house, because they're not bright, they're not lighting up like a smart clock, or anything like that.
Yeah, right.
You don't want, newcessarily, something super bright in some places in your house.
But Google actually did introduce a smart clock but it thankfully has adaptive brightness.
This is the Lenovo though, right?
The Lenovo's got the smart clock?
It's the Lenovo Smart Clock with Google Assistant built in.
That's the full name?
I think it's just called the Lenovo Smart Clock, but the The Google Assistant part is pretty important.
They worked with Google, it's integrated and has all the voice commands of Google Assistant right in there.
This thing intrigues me the most out of all the Google stuff so far actually because it's really tiny version of Google Home Hub but it doesn't work the same.
Watching the video it says, you said there is not the Home Hub controls You have an interface set for a nightstand.
Yeah, I thought it was just gonna be a shrunken-
Yeah.
Google Home Hub, or Lenovo has a smart display called the Lenovo Smart Display, so I thought it was just gonna be that, but small.
It's not.
It has no videos on it, it has no camera, the Lenovo Smart Display has a camera, and no smart home touch controls.
You can do all the things with voice that you could do with a Google Home Mini, but they trimmed off a lot of the extra stuff in order to bring the price down.
And to really focus on what info you would need when you're going to bed, when you're waking up in the morning.
This is an $80 device.
$80.
And it, that didn't seem outrageous to me, for some reason.
It.
Something like the Echo Spot.
I'm like, this is kitschy, and nice, and round, but.
I don't see the purpose of this.
The way Google's integrated with all kinds of calendars and all kinds of your data.
Right.
Seeing your agenda ahead of time when you're waking up, that seems like it's a built in perfect match.
So the price fits nicely between Google Home Hub, 150, and Google Home Mini, 50, which makes sense.
It's a little more robust than the one, a little less than the other.
And yeah, so this thing can suggest When to set an alarm, based on when your first appointment is, which is kinda cool.
It's gonna gradually get brighter as your alarm gets closer to speaking of having bright things in there, try to wake you up gently.
Speaking of smart displays, Kitchenaid came out with their first smart display, as far as I know, I have not been paying attention very much to Kitchenaid's display technology.
But I think this is their first smart display and the kitchen has always been An incredibly hard place to get a computer in there, cuz it's dirty, it's messy, what's their solution?
Water resistance, full-on splash-proof water resistance.
And yeah, it's their [UNKNOWN] display.
It's actually the first time KitchenAid's been at CES at all.
They So Whirlpool, their parent company is at CES all the time, but this is the first time KitchenAid's made a presence and yeah, this smart display is pretty cool.
So it's gonna have a lot of the same functionality in the ones we've already talked about Google Home Hub
Yeah.
Lenovo Smart display, the water resistance sets it apart and then it also has Yumly built in, which is a Food app that they own for making really specific recipe recommendations.
Now I know in your previous reviews of smart displays, you've called it this excellent assistant for Recipes.
Yeah.
That seems to be a killer feature for these displays.
Right which is why I'm slightly worrid about the Kitchen A Smart Display standing out because the Goggle Home Hub is already great at recipe assistance.
It walks you through step by step, you can multitask, play videos and all that sort of stuff and then when you want hop right back into the reciepe where you left off.
So Kitchenaid is doubling down on that which is cool and if you use Yummly anyway this product could make sense.
And Yummly's pretty smart about making recipe recommendations and they have a new advanced service where a celebrity chef can show up and walk you through a few steps.
So there is gonna be some cool extra stuff for working in the kitchen on this one.
So on the outside we saw the Sonos 1
working here with both Google Assistant and Alexa compatibility, but it's not exactly all it's cracked up to be.
You can't just choose one or the other anytime you want.
Right.
Supposedly you have to pick whether you want Alexa or Google Assistant at the start, like when you're first setting up the device.
You might be able to get around that with a factory reset, but still they're, Google and Alexa are in everything except the one thing they haven't learned how to do I think is share.
They could literally be in the same box as long as you reset the thing over and over again.
That seems absurd.
There must be some kind of weird contract issues where can't simply go, hey Alexa and hey Google, and I'm really sorry for setting off anybody's smart home devices by saying that.
But yeah, it seems like We're gonna get there eventually, but we're still not there.
I have to imagine it's Amazon and Google dragging their feet.
I mean they've been in a fierce competition for taking over the smart home space as represented by all this stuff we're seeing, and CES but and for the most part that competition has been good for customers, it's pushed features and stuff forward but it's also meant that Something like a Kohler smart mirror.
You have to buy a separate mirror, if you want Alexa, and you have to buy a separate mirror if you want Google Assistant.
And again, I'm sorry if I set off your smart [CROSSTALK]
I just realized, it's a dual-boot machine, that's what it is.
You can't have these concurrent systems, that's so wrong.
Real quick, you were in the Google booth, you were on the ride.
Yes, sir.
What was the ride like?
It was called The Ride
Yeah it's just the right it was sort of it's a small world but thankfully a little less creepy.
It tells a story about a dad who needs to rescue his family because the mom's out of town and he needs to get a cake and everything and their pitch forward is how Google assistant can
Take you through the twist and turns of life.
It was kinda corny but in a self aware way, it was fun.
So last year, they had the slide, this time they had the rides, so the next one is gonna be a thrill ride?
It's gotta be a roller coaster or a free fall.
Free fall, that's gonna be the next one, that's my guest.
A free fall would make me Nervous.
I'll vote for rollercoaster.
Alright.
So thank you Andrew, that was really helpful.
Do you want to stick around for the rest of the show.
Sure, I'll be here.
Alright let's go to Uptown Updates.
Samsung has made it official.
These companies holding an unpacked event for the Galaxy S 10 on February 20th in San Francisco.
The invite shows to gradient colors meeting in the Middle with a black line separating them.
Is it two different phones being butted up against each other?
I don't know a Wall Street Journal article says Samsung would show off its foldable phone on the same day.
This will see.
What in February?
Right?
February 20th, that's correct.
[UNKNOWN] Meanwhile, the S10, it looks like the S10, might have leaked.
Even Blast posted this picture on Twitter, which he says it's the S10 in the wild, take a good look at this picture.
It looks like what you've expected, there's a nice little Infinity O display Very thin bezels.
Obviously everything is blurred out.
This would be the standard S10, not the plus and not the light.
Excited about the S10?
I mean kinda.
Samsung has to up their game with Google making their own Android phones, so, they've got to find something new and interesting to do.
The foldable might help do that if that's true.
But yeah, folding phones, whatever, note bezels, either way something's happening on the 20th.
Waymo's partnering up with a number of companies including GM and Toyota to perform PAVE.
PAVE stands for Partners for Automated Vehicle Education.
The group has several goals.
One, to get the public and policymakers in cars that have self driving tech, Two, PAVE will hold educational workshops on the tech, for lawmakers.
And three, offering educational materials to car dealers and service centers.
Let's go to Comment Cove.
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