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00:00:26.000Anything you'd see at like a Fry's or Best Buy, from all the way down to anything that would be in a car, anything in a kitchen, anything in a bedroom, anything consumer electronics, basically.
00:00:35.000So the show is essentially everything that's coming out, all the stuff that's on its way out?
00:00:41.000Things that have just been announced, I think, and then I think most of the stuff that's supposed to be coming out for sale this year.
00:00:47.000Okay, so some of it is, we were just about to get into it, but we're like, God, you gotta save it for the podcast.
00:00:52.000You were saying that some of it, you think they're kind of bullshitting?
00:00:55.000I saw a lot of things that I just, they might not be ready, or they're prototypes.
00:00:59.000And just like at a car show, too, there are some things that are just showing you, like, this is what we can do right now.
00:01:03.000This isn't even what's going to be available.
00:01:06.000Maybe if there's a lot of interest, we'll make it.
00:01:08.000For instance, there was this really cool laptop that has three screens on it now.
00:01:13.000So it's a gaming laptop that you can get some sort of crazy, but they were just prototypes too, and two of them just got stolen last night or two days ago after the event, so they're trying to get them taken back.
00:01:32.000Wouldn't you like to think that whoever you have to be to be an innovator in technology and electronics, you would have to be some super fucking smart guy.
00:01:43.000You would think you'd just leave every room open with people like that.
00:02:38.000It's the dumbest shit ever is discussing a show.
00:02:42.000You know, like today, in this day and age, it's not like you could talk about Lost because it was just on the air.
00:02:49.000When we were watching Lost, that's how recent this DVR thing and this streaming thing has become.
00:02:56.000When we were watching Lost, that wasn't that long ago, man.
00:03:00.000And everybody waited until it came on the next week.
00:03:02.000And you could DVR it, but you didn't binge watch.
00:03:08.000They even did things weird where they would show three episodes and then take a four-week break and then show two more and then take another break.
00:05:01.000That's the one I haven't lost any enthusiasm for.
00:05:04.000But I gotta tell you, Westworld was so good, I got sucked in so quick, and the possibilities are so fascinating.
00:05:12.000Because their timeline jumping, and it's really interesting to me.
00:05:18.000They weren't up for many Golden Globes on that, but HBO didn't win anything, and I only remember seeing one or two Westworld people even up for anything.
00:05:38.000Well, it just shows you, if that is the case, maybe it's just there's a lot of other shows that are even more awesome that we're just not aware of yet.
00:05:45.000This seems like the golden age for TV shows.
00:07:04.000I don't even know how often that happens when you're surprised on something you see.
00:07:07.000It's so hard to tell because people's tastes vary so much.
00:07:11.000It's almost like they're watching something different than you.
00:07:16.000Who you are, like, as a person, your life experiences, and what that show means to you when you're watching it, it's so different for all of us.
00:07:25.000Like, for each one of us, it's different.
00:08:21.000They could just play whatever they wanted to.
00:08:23.000Because if you were a DJ right now and you had a bunch of records, and you had an internet radio station, if they let you do it, I don't think you can, but if they did let you do it, you just play those records and play whatever the fuck you want.
00:11:34.000You stop and think about what that means for another 30 or 40 years.
00:11:40.000If it's going to go up another 100 million, where are we going to put all these fucking people?
00:11:46.000I mean, they say that it peaks off though.
00:11:51.000When cities and countries start doing better because then they start having less children because their economic situation turns up and then a lot of women get careers and they're more reluctant to give up those careers to have children and they have less children when they do have children.
00:12:10.000And so they think that if you looked at, like, the trends towards urbanization, there could potentially be a time in the future where we worried about a decline in population, like a natural decline.
00:12:27.000I feel like I've heard it that it's happening now, that it's not, that we've almost, not peaked, but it's on a decline in some places for sure, I think I've read.
00:12:36.000I think people are just moving out of those spots and coming here.
00:13:12.000I did this thing before my Showtime special in 2005. Where I was comparing like mountains and lakes and rivers to what you see when you see a city, how it looks like a growth.
00:13:27.000And then it's like a lot of other growths.
00:13:29.000Like even if you burn it, like you got to burn it all off.
00:13:31.000Otherwise it just comes back and it gets bigger and stronger.
00:13:35.000And if you could look at it as something, if you were outside of Our understandings and our knowledge of what cities are and people and languages and communities and cultures.
00:13:48.000If you could look past all that, you'd look at these things that are growing on this planet.
00:13:53.000You'd look at this concrete, weird fucking growth.
00:13:58.000And when you break it down, if that's a real number, if we need 100,000 houses a year, I saw this picture.
00:14:05.000This was on Reddit yesterday, or the other day.
00:14:07.000This is a 60 square foot flat, it says, in Hong Kong, I believe.
00:14:36.000Why would people choose to do, like, if you, if you weren't a person and you were looking at this, you'd be like, why don't they spread out?
00:17:35.000I don't think it was a spelled out thing.
00:17:37.000I wish I could remember the explanation they gave for it.
00:17:41.000But I think it was like what that word represents.
00:17:44.000You know, like so the intent of that word...
00:17:49.000And, like, so the person on the other side, like, knew the word, like, no, or knew the word not, or whatever the word was.
00:17:55.000It says they were able to send the words hola and chow from India to France, and subjects saw messages of flashes of light in the peripheral vision.
00:18:05.000The results described as a remarkable step in human communication.
00:18:42.000What I've been thinking, this sounds like total bananas, but I've really been thinking a lot about it lately, is that, you know, the internet kind of allows everybody to communicate together.
00:18:53.000You can have your Twitter account and your Facebook and all that jazz.
00:18:57.000I feel like what's going to happen with this kind of technology and this sort of hive mind technology is if they can transmit Signals from one person to another person through the brain with this technology.
00:19:14.000This is real similar to like when they first started putting things on message boards in the internet and bulletin boards and like someone would put it up and then you'd have to check it and that was like the only method of communication.
00:19:25.000Like my friend Andrews talked to me about that a lot.
00:19:27.000He was on in the really early days of the internet and so these bulletin boards were like really primitive and this was like one of the first things that people had devised to communicate with online.
00:19:39.000But now here we are 20 years later and it's fucking...
00:19:42.000You're streaming live on Instagram, and you're doing Facebook Live, and people are taking pictures, instantaneously uploading them.
00:19:52.000They're going to be able to, some way or another, allow us to interface with our brains the same way we interface using these phones and using computers.
00:20:15.000In this scenario you're bringing up, like, what if you sent me a message I didn't want, or I didn't want to have right then, I didn't want right now, I'm busy, I'm doing something else?
00:20:37.000Well, I mean, we're probably going to be able to opt out of it, but how many people are going to opt out of it?
00:20:43.000And even if you do, maybe you could turn it off, like airplane mode, you know, just like you do with your phone at night, if you're watching a TV show or something.
00:20:52.000I think that if you're really going to keep going with this, and it seems like they're going to, I mean, if they're doing things like this, it's not going to stop right there.
00:23:30.000It didn't, it wasn't, there was nothing good about it.
00:23:34.000There was nothing good about being there.
00:23:36.000Like that, it was, I don't want to use the words grotesque, but There's something severely damaged about the idea behind it.
00:23:49.000It was like, I felt like I was watching some crazy ritualistic shit, you know, that was like reenacted from the primitive days of early man.
00:24:00.000I mean, looking down at this spray painted shell of a human, it's just, it's bizarre, man.
00:24:09.000You could tell that's not, he's not really there.
00:29:16.000Bernard Hopkins, like, one thing you got to give the guy, as amazing as his career has been, even at the very last fight, he takes the toughest fight he can find, or one of the toughest ones.
00:36:09.000I remember when I was younger, there was supposed to be a big event where Shaquille O'Neal was supposed to go one-on-one on pay-per-view with this other big player named Hakeem Olajuwon.
00:39:33.000But some of this video is pretty cool on the stabilization.
00:39:36.000And then I went over to the Samsung booth, and they have what they're kind of showing here is this flat, flat hanging TV, which the only way it's different from the things now is like when you hang a TV up on a wall,
00:39:52.000it's kind of hanging off about four to six inches.
00:40:44.000That connector, you use it for sound, like with your earplugs, your earbuds.
00:40:49.000You use it for an external microphone.
00:40:52.000You can use it for the, it charges it.
00:40:56.000You can split it off so it charges it, and at the same time, you're also listening to music, so both things can go through at the same time.
00:41:04.000Another interesting thing that was being shown is some transparent LCD screens.
00:41:11.000So, I'm trying to show you this one a little bit.
00:41:14.000This one right here in the middle, this guy's trying to show you.
00:41:17.000This screen right here is actually a full LCD screen that I'm pointing at in the corner.
00:41:22.000But there's an art display shown over top of it, like an ink art display.
00:41:26.000So when you're not using it, when you're not using the TV, it looks like a piece of art hanging on your wall with the rest of the art.
00:44:17.000There's a lot of drastic weight reduction when it comes to those things, but I just feel like for laptops, it's not that hard to carry one around, and you put it on your back, and to me, features and hard drive space and speed,
00:45:36.000I don't know how it came out today, or not today, but this week someone made a or showed video of how one of the ways an iPhone was supposed to originally work, and it was using that scroll wheel that used to be on the old iPods.
00:46:14.000I mean, it's a working prototype, so I'd have to say someone at least thought it might have been a good idea.
00:46:20.000Well, it has to be that they went through a bunch of different ideas before they came up with the Yeah, I mean, I heard they're going through 10 different phones right now just to try to figure out what the next iPhone they're going to go with is.
00:46:33.000Do you think that they've hit that point of critical mass where it's like, unless something really huge comes along, like hologram projectors or something really bananas, you've got everything now.
00:46:56.000What are you going to do that's going to make people want a next generation, and a next generation, and a next generation?
00:47:02.000There has to be some sort of a leap, because it seems like for all the technology we have today, people are almost over-computered and over-phoned, right?
00:47:22.000To stop and spend five minutes at a particular, I don't know, pod or product or even just let someone talk to you to take your time for that five minutes is insane because there's just so much to look at.
00:47:40.000Well, I kind of lost what I was doing there, but...
00:47:43.000I just kind of looked over at this thing I wanted to show you, which was this thing called Vertify, which is this 3D virtual reality program.
00:47:53.000They showed this guy over here doing a demo for it.
00:47:56.000I really didn't want to wait in any lines there because there were so many people, and I didn't feel very good to stand somewhere for 30 minutes and sweat.
00:48:04.000Young Jamie got the same stomach flu that I had.
00:48:07.000But what this shows right here is this...
00:48:09.000I'm pretty sure that this thing on top here is the camera that records the event.
00:49:29.000Which I kind of like pulled into the comedy world.
00:49:32.000You could bring the comedian into your living room and just have him perform in your living room instead of at the comedy venue that they were at, which would be interesting.
00:50:49.000It usually does, but we've done so many demos today, it kind of fucks up a little bit.
00:50:53.000That could have been happening too a little bit.
00:50:55.000But there is a lot of things going on here where they're just trying to show you an idea and hope someone with a lot of money walks by and is like, ah, that looks like a good idea.
00:51:17.000I just walked by the Intel booth and randomly saw a guy walk up to one of the workers and say, like, I have some patents on baseball Wi-Fi technology.
00:52:08.000It was this company called Huawei, I believe is how you say it.
00:52:12.000They paired with this really well-known camera company called Leica and have a 20-megapixel camera.
00:52:18.000Yeah, Leica makes binoculars and stuff, too.
00:52:23.000But I tested that out to see how good it was, and I wasn't sure if I was holding the actual correct model, which was the one that had all the best features in it, because I had a couple different models out there.
00:52:34.000There's just so much going on there, it was really hard to get a grasp of.
00:52:39.000That's really interesting you bringing this up.
00:52:41.000It's making me think, like, when you get to a certain level of this virtual reality stuff, you're going to want to look through, like, the best lens available.
00:52:50.000You know, you're going to want, like, one of those high-end binocular companies to come along and craft something.
00:55:44.000How did you think that you could just fly that helicopter right next to people?
00:55:49.000Well, with all this drone stuff, I'm going to ask you this question, because...
00:55:55.000I don't know if it's an actual trend I see happening or if it's just something they're forcing or what, but there just seems to be a lot of camera equipment being made available for the individual to use to make really high-end stuff.
00:57:06.000They fixed it apparently now, but I haven't bought another one since then.
00:57:10.000Because I found out that the Fitbit app on my iPhone works just about the same.
00:57:14.000And there's also the built-in Apple iPhone apps now, too, that do the health stuff.
00:57:19.000But what is everyone doing with all that data, or are they doing anything with it, mostly at all, besides really, really, really into fitness people, like personal trainers?
00:57:29.000Well, I think there's some technologies that, even though they keep getting better and better, they're kind of ignored after a while.
00:57:34.000Like, here's one of the most bizarre ones, is voice sound quality.
00:57:39.000Nobody gives a fuck about when anybody's voice sounds like on a phone.
00:57:43.000It's like it almost never gets discussed.
00:57:45.000Isn't that one of the most important things about a phone?
00:57:47.000You should be able to listen to someone on a phone and it should sound like they're talking to you.
00:58:23.000If they could get you to listen better now, with a better sound now than the rotary phones, the 1960s, they could improve on the sound quality, but there's no demand for it because people hardly talk on the phone anymore.
00:58:36.000So it becomes one of those things where it just hits a certain point, nobody gives a fuck about it, and then the market goes where people give a fuck.
01:00:26.000It's like, yeah, I know it has 4K video, but I've barely done anything with the 4K video.
01:00:30.000And the 4K video I do have, like with this GoPro I just got, the new GoPro 5, you have to convert all the footage so that you can actually edit it.
01:00:47.000You can do a little bit of editing in their program, but to take it in a final cut or to do what I did just to show you more than 30 seconds at a time, I had to Spend, whatever, 12 minutes per 8 minute video converting all of it.
01:01:00.000That's only because that's the capabilities of my computer.
01:01:02.000If I had a faster one, maybe it would have been faster, but there's slower computers too.
01:01:06.000And it's just like, what's the need of the 4K video then?
01:01:09.000I couldn't even show the 4K video out because I can't broadcast to YouTube.
01:01:13.000How big are these files we're talking about?
01:01:31.000And that's just so I could have two hours of GoPro footage of me walking around CES to whittle that down.
01:01:37.000And it's like, what is the normal person going to do with all that?
01:01:40.000If they went to shoot their kids, it's like, they're going to have to have so many hard drives, they're going to become digital hoarders for sure.
01:02:28.000The distribution of this content now becomes the next step and the next hurdle you have to get past.
01:02:34.000I was looking around a lot of 360 cameras because I just got that 360 camera and did the test footage with the weigh-in that we did last week.
01:02:42.000I didn't personally just like how the footage looked.
01:02:45.000There was a smudge on the screen which transferred over and it doesn't look very good and it wasn't at eye level.
01:02:52.000I believe I was shooting that in 4k and it just looks a little grainy and messy.
01:02:58.000And so I was looking around that whole event to just try to find, because there were multiple 360 cameras, and there was 4K streaming 360 cameras, and they all have their own proprietary software to run it off of.
01:03:11.000But I did find one really good one, which does 3D... 360 video.
01:03:39.000That's when you're getting into really bizarre stuff, right?
01:03:41.000When you're talking about 8K video, and then you're talking about 360-degree 3D. Yeah.
01:03:48.000Because it seems like if we're going to enter into a real virtual realm any time in the near future, all this ramping up Of the specs, you know, going from 4K to 8K and then, you know, 32K is just around the corner.
01:04:00.000They're just going to keep getting better at this shit.
01:04:02.000And when you're talking about something through like a high-end glass, like a really high-end, like a, you know, binocular-type glass, and then having insanely high-definition video.
01:04:15.000And then having this exponential jump in this virtual technology where they figure out a way to really lock you into something that is not...
01:04:25.000It's not invasive to the point where it's not like fucking with your experience by you feeling it on your head.
01:04:57.000Do you know what it's going to be like?
01:05:00.000An Avatar world that you could go for a journey in?
01:05:05.000I mean, imagine if movies, if what they become, because, you know, think about how these serial shows like Sopranos and then ultimately, you know, Game of Thrones and a lot of these other great shows, they catch you and they rope you in and they bring you into a world.
01:05:24.000And then you follow that world episode after episode and you get sucked into it, right?
01:05:30.000It's very different than a regular movie.
01:05:34.000What if they start doing these serial...
01:05:36.000I mean, I think of, like, Game of Thrones as a serial movie, right?
01:05:40.000There's a hundred parts to this movie, but it's a big, giant-ass movie.
01:05:45.000I mean, it's so much better than a regular television show in terms of, like, its special effects and the grandness of it all.
01:05:52.000If they can figure out how to film something like that but let you participate in it, I mean, let you strap on to some 3D treadmill type thing.
01:06:08.000And move around in this fucking weird world and follow these people on their journeys.
01:06:15.000Be right there when the orcs slaughter the people.
01:06:18.000Like the blood splatter in front of you.
01:06:58.000Well, that looks like it's a small world with psychedelic colors.
01:07:00.000It's going to be a little bit like that, but they're going to have some VR stuff where you're going to be able to float through and go on the...
01:07:19.000But what you're saying, what if they just took the extension of that and just, instead of making the Avatar movie, they just went, look, Avatar 5 is Avatar World, and if you want to come live it out, you've got to come to Disney World and pay $50 or $100 or $150 or $300.
01:07:40.000You construct that world, and then, once you're in that world, then you put on the VR goggles, and it turns everything into fluorescent neon greens and blues, like the Avatar world.
01:07:52.000You can see everything, and then you actually watch the movie play out in there.
01:08:33.000If they could figure out a way to do a virtual world where somehow or another you could change the textiles on the ground or change the way it feels.
01:08:44.000The tactile sensation of what you're stepping on.
01:10:02.000So they just made some announcements, too.
01:10:05.000They're not going to make a new Vive yet, but they showed a new headset attachment that makes the Vive fit on your head a little bit more comfortably.
01:10:13.000And they showed what they're calling a tracker, which is essentially the end of the controller, which can be attached to...
01:10:19.000They said anything, so it depends what a developer makes it work with.
01:10:22.000But one of the things they showed is on the end of a gun, to play different gun games, they put it on the end of a baseball bat.
01:10:29.000And the baseball bat, then you could...
01:10:32.000You could see the bat in the Vive game that you were playing or the baseball simulation you were playing, but they could pull in real Major League Baseball pitches, actual data, because they have them all from the last, I don't know, five to ten years.
01:10:44.000Any pitch from any pitcher you want to see, you can have now come at you and you can go ahead and try to hit it.
01:11:06.000I would think that if you were going to do something like that, you would want to do it with a bat that's like the same weight as a real bat.
01:11:38.000There's no actual resistance pulling the bow back, but just holding your arm straight in front of you and doing this over and over again, my arms were killing me, man.
01:12:18.000It's not worth me pulling up the video, but there was a haptic feedback, essentially a backpack slash chest thing you put on for VR that would give you some sort of shocks or you'd feel something.
01:12:37.000In the video I watched showing the data trackers that they were adding onto different devices, they put it on a fire hose.
01:12:44.000And they also put a jacket on you that had heaters in it.
01:12:47.000So you're putting out a fire and it's giving you feedback of the hose.
01:12:51.000It's also getting warmer and you're getting hot.
01:12:55.000That's not really a game as more of it as a simulation or it is a training tool for an actual fire company.
01:13:01.000Well, it's also to let you know what's the potential for a Doom game from 2024. Maybe two years from now, hopefully.
01:13:10.000We'll see what happens at E3 this year with what these companies are going to announce with the new Xbox that's supposedly going to have a VR. As soon as someone comes up with a haptic feedback suit, You know, that's able to get hot and cold and vibrate and jolt and even give you a little bit of pain.
01:13:33.000You know, where you're really feeling it.
01:13:35.000Remember that, was that a, I don't know which James Bond movie it was, where they're holding on to the, there's some sort of like stick they're holding on to and like the loser, it just gets more painful and like they're trying, it's like a man, man versus man contest, but there's a bunch of, it's like at a cocktail party.
01:14:23.000You go to see The Terminator, or you go to see Predator, you don't think that Arnold Schwarzenegger is going to get killed by the alien at the end.
01:14:30.000You think, that's actually really bad for us, isn't it?
01:14:36.000It's really bad to have the good guy win in all of them.
01:14:39.000That's why I think No Country for Old Men is probably important.
01:14:43.000It's important to know that sometimes the guy who you think is going to live gets shot in the last couple minutes of the movie and the other guy just wanders off.
01:16:39.000They did it thousands of years ago, man, if you're fucking guessing, thousands of years ago.
01:16:44.000I mean, I wonder if there really is like a cycle where civilizations just, they get to a point where all the monkey shit that led them to scratch and scrape and dominate and procreate and get to a point where they have a city.
01:17:02.000And finally get a little bit of safety.
01:17:35.000That's going to be one of the things that I think technology is probably going to neutralize first.
01:17:43.000I think that when you get a hive mind type scenario, which is a hive mind or a virtual world scenario where it's literally preferable to this world.
01:17:58.000Like, why would you want to hang around and just go to West Hills and get lunch at some shitty place and wait in this thing and then go to the movie?
01:18:06.000Why would you even want to do that when you get all your food through an IV and you're going to live in the Avatar world for a couple of weeks?
01:19:19.000You're throwing up all over the place.
01:19:21.000Your whole body's so baffled because you've been up in space for six months.
01:19:26.000Those guys make a tremendous sacrifice so that we can understand what happens to people's bodies in zero gravity.
01:19:35.000Like, all these people that are signing up to go to Mars and want to go on all these journeys into space, like, settle the fuck down, okay?
01:19:43.000We might be able to go to better spots if we just stay right here.
01:21:14.000But one of the things they were talking about is people going to Mars And if they did colonize Mars, the genes on Mars would not be in contact with the genes back here on Earth and would human beings go off in different directions.
01:21:27.000And then on top of that, genetic manipulation.
01:21:30.000Once genetic manipulation gets perfected and they start really fucking with people's DNA and really changing what people look like and how they can perform and how their brains work, What is it going to be like in comparison, like the guys that are doing that on Earth versus the people that are doing it on Mars?
01:23:53.000I don't think anybody's been able to do that.
01:23:54.000Maybe they have, but like when you're streaming, like you're streaming, I guess if you were streaming to a computer, there might be a way to do it.
01:24:05.000I don't know, because they have it built into the, well, I guess it's streaming.
01:24:09.000A lot of the HDMI cables now, if you're, when you have your Xbox or your another system hooked up to something that you're trying to do game capturing on to, like, broadcast on Twitch or something, if you bring up a video or, like, your TV turns on, it goes black because it knows that that signal is bad.
01:24:42.000But I feel like there's got to be a way to take Apple, like when you're using your computer, you can use a regular computer and watch things on iTunes, correct?
01:25:18.000You can't record to that, or it'll put a big watermark on if you try to do that, or maybe not, and then someone will hack away against it, and that's like a battle probably going on, too.
01:25:28.000A battle that will go on forever, right?
01:25:30.000They'll just make a new file format and then videos will be in that file format for the next five years until it gets hacked.
01:25:38.000Keep playing cat and mouse games, I think.
01:25:41.000It's just really interesting when we're looking at that video or the article rather about the people that were transmitting hola and chow back and forth through the internet and then think about this kind of stuff that you're talking about like really high level digital management you're putting out 4k imagery you're streaming movies and people are trying to steal it and you know Think about all the bit torrents and all the different files that
01:26:11.000are available online when it comes to all these movies that Hollywood Studios spend millions of dollars to make and then boom, a screener's online moments before it's released.
01:28:57.000One of the BMW, I think it was an i8, they had it inside the event.
01:29:00.000There was a long line for this, so I 100% wasn't waiting.
01:29:04.000You put on the, I think it was the Microsoft Surface with it, which I don't know why you would have this on while you're driving, but maybe in the future we'll be doing that.
01:29:12.000And you're getting all sorts of extra information, at least, but it's still just a prototype, so I don't know.
01:29:19.000You weren't driving down the street, so I don't know what they were showing to you.
01:29:22.000They're just blasting stuff in your face on what it might look like.
01:29:27.000I don't know what you would be wanting to see, though, also.
01:29:30.000Well, it just seems like whatever possibilities they have now, you just try to extrapolate, you try to add up the steps between now and five to ten years from now.
01:29:59.000The new inventions over the next 12 months are just going to blow people's minds.
01:30:06.000So apparently they're working on some really heavy duty stuff when it comes to neural implants.
01:30:12.000Things along those lines I think he was mentioning.
01:30:17.000Darpa's biotech chief says 2017 will blow our minds.
01:30:25.000The Pentagon's Research and Development Division, the creative force behind the internet and GPS, retooled itself three years ago to create a new office dedicated to unraveling biology's engineering secrets.
01:30:38.000The new Biological Technologies Office has a mission to harness the power of biological systems and design new defense technology.
01:30:52.000Over the past year, with a budget of about $296 million, it has been exploring challenges including memory improvement, human-machine symbiosis, and speeding up disease detection and response.
01:31:15.000If someone comes along and one of the first pieces of artificial intelligence is a soldier, a machine soldier that makes no mistakes, feels no emotion, does everything it's told, can send back data in 4K in real time,
01:31:31.000and you watch on a screen through its eyes and tell what to do and it's invincible.
01:31:50.000Like I saw a couple of those, you know, they're not brand new but like robot assistants essentially where it's like a laptop or an iPad screen that's attached to a droid or a little robot and there's someone on there talking to answer questions or whatever and they can control it moving around the room.
01:32:07.000I kind of just walked by and I thought it was funny because there was three of them people were talking to and there's just one guy no one was talking to and he just looked bored just like moving around like someone talking like someone talked to me.
01:32:20.000What was the most impressive thing for you at the event?
01:32:31.000But again, I'm not sure if what I was seeing was the rendered video, because that's specifically what I kept asking to see when I would walk up to one of these guys.
01:32:47.000Most of what I was seeing wasn't great or didn't look better than what's currently on the market except for that.
01:32:53.000Then a couple didn't even do audio or you couldn't mix audio into it and for our purpose, which is I was looking for it to help here in the future, I was trying to knock that out.
01:33:03.000There were a couple car things, mostly just the BMW 750, the coolest one.
01:33:32.000I didn't take it on a test drive myself, but they had one sitting out that you could get in and just sit in and whatnot with all the extra screens everywhere.
01:33:41.000But the back seat, which probably is...
01:33:56.000I don't know if it's hot technology right now or if some companies are very smart knowing people are walking around this event tired and need a massage.
01:34:06.000But the lines for massage chairs at CES were insane.
01:34:43.000You know, I mean, it's got to be really fucking hard.
01:34:47.000If you're really poorly fed, you know, you're eating a bunch of shitty food, and you're out of shape, and you're overweight, and you're walking around CES geeked out of your mind on caffeine, it's probably a good start for the new year.
01:37:48.000Lemons happen with cars from time to time.
01:37:49.000There could have just been some component in here that was bad that we've gotten around working with that now it's just not going to work anymore.
01:37:57.000Cars are another interesting thing along the same lines that we were talking about earlier about technology is that it's reaching this point where, like, there's way too much car for, like, what you need.
01:38:06.000Like, they're putting out these cars, like, right out of GM, right?
01:39:46.000If you bought a real 1969 Mustang Mach 1, I mean, they're a gorgeous car.
01:39:55.000I mean, it is a stunning piece of art.
01:39:58.000But if you had to drive it today, you would be terrified.
01:40:02.000You'd be thinking the entire time, like, oh my god, I'm driving a death machine.
01:40:06.000Like, they're so bad in comparison to a brand new Mustang.
01:40:11.000Like, if you bought a brand new Mustang GT, which I think you can get for $35,000, I think a new Mustang GT is like between $35,000 and $39,000.
01:40:21.000And they are way faster, handle way better than anything top of the line from, you know, the 1970s.
01:40:49.000See, like, what they've done by continuing to ramp up the specs, ramp up the regular car that you buy from a dealership, is equivalent to, like, one of the best cars ever just 10 years ago or 20 years ago.
01:41:04.000So the technology is so ahead of its time that you go back to 97 and you look at the cars that were like the top of the food chain back in 97, like they don't even compare.
01:41:17.000They're just nothing like these things.
01:41:21.000The only thing that, like, there were some cars from 97 that have some attributes that people like, like those old Land Cruisers.
01:41:31.000If you bought a Land Cruiser from Toyota in, like, 97, you essentially got an off-road vehicle.
01:41:37.000They had two solid axles, solid front axles, solid rear axles.
01:41:40.000You could take those things and Just drive up the side of a fucking mountain in it with the right tires.
01:41:46.000They were crazy beefy, like right out of the bat.
01:41:49.000And so people to this day, they take those cars and they jack them up and put bigger tires and wheels on them and they put Corvette engines in them just because the configuration is so durable.
01:42:00.000Like, they don't really make too many...
01:42:03.000I mean, there's only a few companies that'll make like a real, a car that you could actually take right now and just go drive, like a Jeep.
01:42:10.000You could take a Jeep kind of like right off the factory floor and drive to most places that most cars can't get to.
01:42:16.000Or at least drive to places that most cars can't get to.
01:42:20.000But when you want to get further and further into it, they start doing all these crazy modifications to these things and make them so that they could literally just drive through the woods.
01:43:36.000These cars today, man, it's really interesting because they're backed into this weird corner where how much better can they keep getting?
01:43:44.000And how long before they're all automated?
01:43:47.000Because it seems like just a matter of time.
01:43:49.000It seems like just a few years from now, they're all going to be automated.
01:43:52.000That's what a lot of the companies were showing off their automation, like Mercedes, I think, Nissan, Toyota, even NVIDIA, the video game card company, was showing off, I don't know, exactly their software, I think,
01:44:07.000or their hardware that was being put into cars to show you how things were being read.
01:44:11.000Like, this is a car, this is a light, this is a person, just how it's being recognized and whatnot.
01:46:39.000So, you know when they do a car show, they'll show, let's say if they're going to do one this year, they'll show a car for 2020, and it's going to look super high concept.
01:46:47.000By the time it comes out, it won't look that way.
01:46:52.000Yeah, well they smooth out edges and make things cheaper to build and there's a lot of cars that start out in concept form and then when they get ultimately delivered, they're disappointing.
01:47:02.000You know, come out with a bunch of different things that they add to them that just turn out to be too expensive.
01:48:17.000It really gets into this weird area when it comes to these cars, but they also have to be stunning in terms of their ability because cars today are off the charts.
01:48:28.000What you could buy from a Subaru WRX, just one of those little Subarus, that is an insane little car, you know?
01:48:36.000And I don't think those are very expensive either.
01:48:38.000I think that's in, like, Mustang GT range, right?
01:49:11.000You know, the computer programmer, or the programmer, rather, that's running the car runs a traction control system, the lane change system, you know, accident avoidance system.
01:52:03.000I've had, let me tell you this though, I've had two of those Lexus, those big Toyota Land Cruiser trucks, the Lexus FF5750, LX5750, no, 570, LX570, that's what it is.
01:54:27.000And I think just sitting on your fucking back porch, smoking a cigar, drinking a glass of lemonade, I think that's a thing of the past in just a few decades.
01:54:35.000I think we're going to enter into some super bizarre world that's, like DARPA's talking about, symbiosis, human-computer symbiosis.
01:54:45.000I mean, people complain now that kids don't go outside.
01:54:47.000They're sitting at home every day playing Xbox.
01:54:50.000Just imagine what it's going to be like when we get to these really intense augmented and virtual reality spaces.
01:55:58.000On the whole thing like that, I'm just going on specifically a technology run.
01:56:04.000If I took all my computer knowledge I have now and had an iPad when I was in high school, and we could communicate with everyone throughout the whole high school all day at any time we wanted to, whereas we were writing notes.
01:56:20.000I found a note from a girl in high school not too long ago in a box.
01:57:49.000There's a new one that's blowing up right now called House Party, which you can have eight people on, and everyone can be having a video chat.
01:57:56.000Yeah, but that's an app that you have to download.
01:58:55.000Everyone wanted an answer, there is an answer, and it's like, well, now you're not necessarily happy with the answer, but you got one.
01:59:02.000It's a very weird company in that regard, because it's also, like, the loyalists, the Apple loyalists are so extreme.
01:59:10.000Like, people who worship at the cult of Mac and Apple, like, I had a conversation with a dude who was sincerely bummed out that I started using a Windows computer.
02:01:29.000I wonder what they'll do there, because smoking weed passed, right?
02:01:33.000So how do you think they might handle that there in the future?
02:01:36.000Well, they're going to have to handle the extreme paranoia of a bunch of stoners going in there like, Dude, I don't want to lose all my money!
02:02:06.000It might have been Russell the other night because, you know, Russell hates those electronic DJs because he's into, like, old-school hip-hop DJ, and he is a DJ. But when you hear how much money people pay to get into those things, like, some dudes are paying,
02:02:21.000like, 500 bucks each to get into those things.
02:03:38.000It's like, if you could light people up, if a little thought light bulb popped up on their head when you looked down the dance floor and all the different people that are on MDMA, what is it, like 30%?
02:04:13.000If you're a casino, okay, and you know that all these people are in ecstasy, and you start counting all the 20 bucks pills, you start counting, we're missing out on $150,000 a night in ecstasy sales.
02:04:51.000These rooms where people just get together and dance with a guy on a turntable that's just sort of pressing play and all this electronic music and lights.
02:09:31.000Because if you work every day like Joe Smith on that fucking construction site, and you show up even with your gold WBC belt, and every day is hammering nails and picking up wood and thinking of the time you have off, sometimes you can go to a place like this And you just experience joy and laughter and fun and partying.
02:09:52.000And you start to think about your job job, your real job, and you start to dread it.
02:10:13.000I've got to figure out a way to open up a shop.
02:10:15.000And then maybe something like this, just these moments when you're away from the grind and you're just in this fantasy land and you hear and everyone's on ecstasy and people are walking by touching everybody's chest and everybody's laughing and you just realize like this is all temporary.
02:10:35.000This whole experience is temporary and I'm wasting so much of my temporary time doing bullshit.
02:11:03.000I mean, all these people that we have to rely on, that we keep, you know, go to CES every year, all those people that you have to rely on, like, all those people pretty much had to take a chance.
02:11:14.000Pretty much everybody that's doing any of those things where they're putting out these new technologies and showing all these new inventions, all of them had to be, like, disenfranchised or disenchanted with something and just, I gotta take a chance.
02:11:26.000This is what I want to do, and then this is what I'm gonna pursue.
02:12:11.000I was asking this guy a question about it because what it does is it has a really good lens on it, or two lenses actually.
02:12:20.000And so it's doing this thing called aperture And I forget what it was actually calling it, so I'm hitting this button here and trying to see what was going on.
02:12:26.000So I was trying to figure out if it's actually doing lens blur, which is what a lot of people are always after when they're taking pictures.
02:14:03.000Most people, obviously, are leaning forward.
02:14:04.000They also have extra pads in them, so you can kind of have your back in certain spots.
02:14:09.000But what's going on here is on this screen above them, their gameplay is being rendered above their heads so that you can be viewing this in 3D space.
02:14:18.000So if you had a VR headset on too, you'll be viewing these situations all differently in the future.
02:14:24.000It's kind of just like a concept I'm pretty sure they were showing.
02:14:26.000Dude, these chairs we use are so good.
02:14:28.000I look at everybody sitting in other chairs.
02:15:11.000What they're saying this camera does, it's made specifically for shooting outdoor astronomy photos.
02:15:16.000It's got the Google Star Maps built into it, and...
02:15:21.000The reason I'm not sure on this is because I've tried personally to take photos of stars and the moon and different things in the sky at night.
02:15:31.000For one, if you're trying to take a picture of what they have down here, which would be like the galaxy where you can see the different gases and whatnot, you have to leave your aperture open for a long time, a couple seconds, and let the light get in there.
02:15:44.000Opposite of that, if you're trying to take a picture of the moon and get a detailed picture of the moon, you've got to go really quick because there's so much light coming off of it.
02:16:25.000Filters, which would be reducing noise on your photo in sort of post after the fact, which I don't know if it's tricking it or if it's just removing some of the data from your picture to make it look like a better picture.
02:16:38.000But it was being advertised on lots of different outlets as this is.
02:16:42.000Maybe they actually got hands-on and I didn't and they got to see that it was proven.
02:16:46.000Well, it'd be really interesting if it was true.
02:16:48.000If you could just point a camera up and take a picture of the galaxy, that would be the shit.
02:16:53.000But you would have to have no light pollution, correct?
02:16:55.000I mean, there's no way it would see through the light.
02:17:25.000It didn't look like the most comfortable thing.
02:17:29.000Yeah, see, he's leaning on his forearms, and he's steering himself with his own body weight.
02:17:35.000Well, that would be a fucking vicious workout, man.
02:17:38.000But when you're flying, I don't think you'd be laying on something, really, either, unless you were flying on, like, a carpet or, you know what I mean?
02:17:50.000So you'd have to really develop your...
02:17:54.000I bet a lot of people are going to hurt their back on that.
02:17:56.000Because you're going to do it, and you're going to strap yourself into that thing, and you're going to get to a point where you're too exhausted to keep planking.
02:18:03.000What it says up here in the corner underneath their little banner, it says it's good for exercise.
02:19:15.000What it is, folks, is you know that the way a frog looks when it's moving across water, when it has those kicks with its back legs and its forelegs, and they come together and then they go apart.
02:19:29.000And this thing is this weird, it's got wheels on the front and wheels on the back, and you connect your feet to the base of it and your upper body to the front of it.
02:19:39.000Scooch ahead so we can see these guys doing this.