Tech Break (Audio)

Leo Laporte and Nathan Olivarez-Giles are joined by Jeff Powers, the co-founder of Occipital. Jeff shows off the Bridge, their mixed reality headset for the iPhone that does positional tracking.

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Guest: Jeff Powers

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MIT researchers say that it would be possible to replace all 13,000 taxi cabs in New York City with 3,000 ride-sharing vehicles thanks to dynamic repositioning of the fleet in real time.

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Host: Jason Howell

Guest: Ron Richards

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Megan Morrone and Georgia Dow from iMore talk to Harrison Weber, Executive Editor at VentureBeat, about the rise and fall of Project Ara, Google ATAP's modular phone. Tech news moves fast, and often the articles we read and talk about are a few paragraphs, just a snippet of what's really going on with no context. That's why we were excited to read Harrison Weber's VentureBeat piece called "The dream of Ara: Inside the rise and fall of the world's most revolutionary phone." Weber writes that Project Ara was a modular phone concept that at one point was supposed to start at $50 and was intended to give you the power to decide what your phone does, how it looks, where, and what it's made of, how much it costs, and how long you'll keep it. That sounds fantastic. We find out why it failed.

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Fr. Robert Ballecer met up with 3M at CES 2017 to learn about their non-electrically conductive 3M Novec Engineered Fluids, which may help revolutionize data center design in the enterprise.

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Leo Laporte and co-host Alex Wilhelm help one of the founders of HandkerchiefPro.com level-up his video production game in the 'Call for Help' segment.

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Leo Laporte gives you his review of the Apple AirPods with co-host Alex Wilhelm on The New Screen Savers show.

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Leo Laporte and Alex Wilhelm talk to Dr. Zhong Lin Wang, a Regents' Professor at Georgia Tech's School of Materials Science and Engineering. He and his team developed a new type of hybrid textile that can harvest energy from sunlight and motion.

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Megan Morrone and Jason Howell discuss the many reasons that any sane person might spend $189 for a smart hairbrush by L'Oreal called the Kerastase Hair Coach.

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Hosts: Megan Morrone and Jason Howell

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Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone look at the Pair app, Houzz, Zillow Digs, and other apps that let you remodel the inside of your home with your iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV.

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Hosts: Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone

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Father Robert Ballecer, SJ had the chance to speak with James Ouellette, Senior Market Manager with LG, at CES. LG has announced its newest line-up of ultra-thin TVs, the W Series. The signatures series has a 4K OLED display and supports HDR10, Dolby Vision and HLG. The TV is comprised of two components - the display and a Dolby Atmos soundbar connected by a very thin cable. The TV is so thin, less than an inch think, that it has to be mounted on a wall, and it so light and flexible it is attached using magnets. The TV has deeper blacks and is also 25% brighter than previous models.

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Host: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ

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