This is Part 2 of Anything But Fruit's Festive Gift Guide for 2017! Stuck for a gift idea? Look no further! We've got a comprehensive rundown of some of 2017's best tech gifts.

Links to the products are here:

Ring.com Video Doorbell 2

Anker Power Banks(s)

Anki Overdrive Starter Kit

Amazon Echo Spot (if you're in the UK, it's not available yet (thank God...))

Tile (Various Options)

Thanks for listening!

This is Part 1 of Anything But Fruit's Festive Gift Guide for 2017! Stuck for a gift idea? Look no further! We've got a comprehensive rundown of some of 2017's best tech gifts.

Links to the products are here:

Philips Hue Starter Kit (and the Mickey Mouse StoryLight Starter Kit. Check out what you can do with IFTTT)

RavPower Wireless Charger (see episodes "Really Want A Semi." & "Let's Be Agony Aunts!" for extended discussion)

Bose QC35 II

Star War App-Enabled Droids by Sphero (R2-D2, BB-8 & BB-9E)

Fitbit Aria 2

On the show this week:

To Start:

Google's fixed their burger emoji!

Luke's used a Wireless Charger and has come round to Jack's way of thinking.

Huawei debuts its Honor V10.

1 Week On: The Internet reacts to the Tesla Roadster 2.0 (and it's brilliant).

Main Topics:

Facebook uses AI to help its community in real time.

Other uses for Facebook's AI.

Uber's Current Predicament: TfL revokes its license & Data Leaks.

You Should Use This:

Luke tells us how we can have easy, secure passwords.

Thanks for listening! We talk all about Tesla's Massive Event this week:

To Start:

Luke's got an iPhone X. Jack's Qi Chargers are clicking (albeit almost silently). IKEA Qi Chargers are here, and the RavPower Charger from Amazon, here. We also talk Twitter change & bad selfie panoramas on Samsung Galaxy S8+.

Main Topics:

The Tesla Semi Truck. One of 2017's most ridiculous, incredible innovations. You can read all about it on The Verge, here.

The Tesla Roadster 2.0. Adding to the insanity of Musk's Top Gear styled event, we go all in on the importance of this product.

You Should Use This:

Jack's turn this week! He infuriates Luke by admitting to using a favourite from last summer...

On the show this week...

 

Jack & Luke both thought they’d escaped the mystical A [ ? ] autocorrect bug, until Sunday... CARROT Weather is sassy about this.

Police Break into flat after Alexa device blasts loud music in ‘party on its own’ | Evening Standard

Facebook wants your nudes!

We break the biggest rule of the show.. by talking the iPhone X. Jack’s had his for a week, and talks through his thoughts on Animoji (see amazing Animoji Karaoke videos here, here & here), FaceID, the new, massive, edge-to-edge display (see Dr Raymond Soneira’s website from the 90s), gestures, the camera & Qi Charging (here’s the charger Jack bought from Amazon).

 

And, of course, You Should Use This is back. Luke tells us all about Day One, and why you should use it now!

 

Thanks for joining us this week!

After five weeks of Ducking It (see Episode 1), Jack’s switched back to Google. We hear your suggestions for #sevenminutes (following WhatsApp’s new 7-minute deletion feature) and Snapchat wades in to Hamburger-gate (You can see Google’s beer abomination here).

 

On the show this week, Jack & Luke talk:

 

Samsung’s Ad Tactics: Following Samsung’s brand new ad, the pair analyse the Korean giant’s move to parody Apple fans & explore if their efforts would be better placed.

TV in 2017: How global players like Netflix & Amazon (we almost went a week without mentioning Amazon...) are changing the way we watch TV, and are leaving behind traditional British Broadcasters (extra reading here and here).

Augmented Reality: Jack & Luke’s Top 6 AR Apps, following iOS 11’s introduction of ARKit (AR Dragon, MeasureKit, Stack AR, Holo Messenger, IKEA Place, CARROT Weather).

 

Thanks for joining us this week!

Anything But Fruit is a Podcast about technology. We’re fans of a fruit-themed technology company, on a mission to understand the wider technology world.

 

This week, Jack & Luke talk:

 

Amazon (yes, Amazon... again...) and their ambitions for a home-based marketplace with their new service, Amazon Key (Funny tweets on this here, here & here). 

 

Hamburger-gate: Google designed its Burger Emoji wrong; Jack & Luke take big issue with it. They also discover it exposes a much bigger emoji problem... (You'll want to read this article, from The Verge).

 

Yet more issues with Google’s Flagship Phone, the Pixel 2 XL.

 

WhatsApp’s decision to allow messages to be deleted after 7 minutes (Make sure you let us know why you think they chose 7 minutes by tweeting us with #sevenminutes).

 

Google & Samsung’s advances in wireless headphone technology.

 

And, of course, You Should Use This is Back this week, it’s Luke’s turn to convince Jack to use something.

 

Thanks for listening! You can reach Jack @JackCully and Luke @lukewilson_95.

Anything But Fruit is a Technology News Podcast. Jack & Luke are big fans of a large, fruit-based company - but they’ve challenged themselves to explore the wider technology world. 

 

In Anything But Fruit, Jack & Luke talk through the week’s news.

 

Join Jack & Luke as they talk new products from Sonos & Ultimate Ears and discuss the omni-presence of Amazon’s Alexa Voice Service on these products. (13.16)

 

They also explore Fitbit’s foray into smart watch technology - their first product since purchasing the original innovators - Pebble. (35.58)

 

And finally, on “You Should Try This”, Jack reintroduces Luke to a beloved app... They talk task management, and Luke gets a little bit too excited... (52.16)

 

Thanks so much for listening! We’d love to hear from you @JackCully & @LukeWilson_95 on Twitter. 

 

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This week, Jack & Luke unpack Amazon’s surprisingly massive range of hardware products. They talk the new Echo, Echo Plus, Echo Spot, Echo Connect, Fire TV & more.

The pair also discuss mindfulness - there’s a huge range of mindfulness apps available today, so Jack test drove a few & discusses his thoughts with Luke.

(You can find Headspace here, and Meditation Studio here).

Finally - The G Suite. Luke makes his case for using it’s many products, and how, in particular Maps & Calendar make life way easier. Is Jack convinced? Listen to find out.

Thanks for listening!

Anything But Fruit is a tech podcast. We just don’t talk about fruit.

Join Jack & Luke this week as they unpack Google’s #MadeByGoogle Event. They discuss the new Google Home products Max & Mini, the virtues of AI in the new Pixel & Pixel XL, the challenges for Google’s PixelBuds, and the expensive PixelBook.

Jack tries his persuasive hand - convincing Luke that DuckDuckGo is way better than Google. Spoiler alert: He succeeded.