Tech Table

Description

Hosts Kevin Harwood Ryan Considine are joined by guest Jose Puente from Flexdrive, an automobile subscription service that’s shaking up the idea of car ownership. In this episode, they’ll discuss how car ownership is transforming, and what it means for the future.

Hosts

Kevin Harwood | https://twitter.com/kevinharwood

Ryan Considine | https://twitter.com/ryanconsidine

Guests

Jose Puente | https://twitter.com/FlexdriveIT

Show Notes

01:55 - Flexible car ownership

03:45 - One payment to rule them all

05:35 - Freedom, flexibility, finally!

07:00 - Associated costs of owning a car

08:40 - Miles versus dollars

10:15 - Not renting Ferraris, yet

12:00 - “Your car is ready sir.”

15:45 - Autonomous car conversion kits

19:30 - A three trillion mile road trip

20:40 - Apple Car!

21:35 - Traffic is ruining my life

22:30 - Down with cars!

25:20 - A $200 Uber ride?!

29:25 - Infrastructure for autonomous cars

32:45 - A virtual commute?

Hot Links

Flexdrive

www.flexdrive.com

Tech Table: Episode 033 - IoT on the Farm

Description

Hosts Kevin Harwood Ryan Considine are joined by guest Ben Craker from the agriculture equipment company, AGCO. They discuss how current technologies are impacting the agriculture industry and where it’s going in the future.

Hosts

Kevin Harwood | https://twitter.com/kevinharwood

Ryan Considine | https://twitter.com/ryanconsidine

Show Notes

02:00 - Self-driving tractors!

03:08 - Telemetry: New things on the old farm

04:15 - What do your tractors know?

05:45 - Farming from the office

07:10 - How accessible is this technology?

08:15 - Painting the picture of the modern farm

11:36 - Internet of Farms?

17:10 - Netflix and Till

21:00 - Big DATA!

23:25 - What’s in the secret Secret Sauce?

28:50 - An efficient farm is a happy farm

30:30 - The buzz of the Drones

32:08 - Uber tractor

Hot Links

AGCO

http://www.agcocorp.com

Host Kevin Harwood returns from this year’s CES with an abundance of knowledge about the future of connected homes, connected fitness trackers, VR headsets, drones, autonomous vehicles, 8K TVs, and so much more. Co-host Ryan Considine grills him on all of his findings, as well as how he fared at the casinos. Spoiler alert, Kevin will not be retiring anytime soon.

Hosts

Kevin Harwood | https://twitter.com/kevinharwood

Ryan Considine | https://twitter.com/ryanconsidine

Show Notes

02:17 - Painting the picture of CES (verbally)

04:35 - CES from afar

06:07 - A year of iteration (not innovation)

06:40 - HomeKit

10:01 - Android’s fragmented home

12:21 - Connected Fitness keeps trucking

14:13 - Whirlpool’s Connected Kitchen

19:08 - VR virtually EVERYWHERE

23:25 - Drones. Drones. Drones.

29:43 - The force is strong with 3D printing

32:22 - Autonomous cars are on their way

34:45 - 8K displays

37:40 - Product rapid fire

40:22 - Kevin gets negative

42:05 - CES crystal ball

Hot Links

CES

http://www.cesweb.org/

HomeKit

http://www.apple.com/ios/homekit/?cid=wwa-us-kwg-features

Thread Group

http://threadgroup.org/

Under Armour HealthBox

https://www.underarmour.com/en-us/healthbox

Whirlpool Connected Kitchen

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/whirlpool-brand-debuts-new-connected-kitchen-suite-at-ces-2016-300198326.html

Oculus Rift CES

http://www.businessinsider.com/huge-oculus-booth-at-ces-2016-shows-how-popular-rift-has-become-2016-1

DGI Drones Booth

http://www.dji.com/newsroom/news/dji-at-ces-four-new-products-announced

Drone Registration Site

http://federaldroneregistration.com/

Parrot Fixed-Wing Drone

http://www.parrot.com/ces/

CES 3D printed storm trooper

http://3dprint.com/115046/3d-printed-stormtrooper-ces/

Toyota Concept Cars

http://www.carscoops.com/2016/01/toyota-showcases-future-of-mobility-at.html

Canon 8K

http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/7/10725492/i-was-taken-for-a-ride-by-canon-s-8k-experience

USB Rechargeable Batteries

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3020072/hardware/the-eco-usbcell-is-the-slickest-rechargeable-aa-battery-youve-ever-seen.html

Netatmo Connected Weather Station

https://www.netatmo.com/en-US/product/station

For our second edition of Tech Table Live, we join Chris George of Vinli and two post-grads from the University of Texas Computer Science (UTCS) AI-Lab (Michael Albert & Guni Sharon) to discuss the future of autonomous vehicles. Michael and Guni will be discussing the connected car projects they’ve been working on to reduce congestion in Austin and other cities plagued by traffic.

Hosts

Blake Burris - Chief Hacktivist, Vinli | https://twitter.com/blakeburris

Michael Albert - UTCS AI-Lab | https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~malbert/

Guni Sharon - UTCS AI-Lab | https://sites.google.com/site/gunisharon/home

Show Notes

00:45 - Welcome and What is Vinli?

03:08 - What are Michael and Guni working on?

05:17 - Intersection Management System

07:25 - Mixed Reality Simulation Model

09:36 - Auction Based Intersection Management

12:43 - Adaptive Micro Tolling

17:25 - Main Takeaway from Autonomous Vehicles

Hot Links

Vinli

https://www.vin.li/

UTCS AI-Lab

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/ai-lab/

Autonomous Intersection Management System

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~aim/

Mixed Reality Simulation Model Vehicle

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~chiu/images/marvin.png

Our TechTable panelists sit down with John Kestner of Supermechanical to talk about all things connected kitchen. They’ll cover smart appliances, software requirements, refillment services, and every other ingredient we’ll need to bring the IoT to our kitchens. Bon Apetit.

Hosts

Kevin Harwood | https://twitter.com/kevinharwood

Ryan Considine | https://twitter.com/ryanconsidine

John Kestner - CEO, Supermechanical | https://twitter.com/johnkestner

Show Notes

00:57 - Who is Supermechanical?

02:22 - What’s cooking in the connected kitchen?

04:00 - Friction points with kitchen apps

05:04 - Smart Kitchen Summit Recap

07:45 - Chaos of Best Buy’s IoT section

09:30 - Who’s currently winning the connected home?

12:03 - The perfect smart kitchen

15:56 - What is a smart fridge?

19:49 - Smart ovens

23:13 - Smart refillment services

26:31 - What do smart kitchens look like in 2016?

Hot Links

Supermechanical

http://supermechanical.com/

Range Dial

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/supermechanical/range-dial-connected-food-thermometer-that-lets-yo

Smart Kitchen Summit

http://www.smartkitchensummit.com/

HomeKit

http://www.apple.com/ios/homekit/

Nest

https://nest.com/

Brillo

https://developers.google.com/brillo/?hl=en

Instacart

https://www.instacart.com/

June Intelligent Oven

https://juneoven.com/

Smart Sous Vide

http://www.wired.com/2015/11/chefsteps-joule-immersion-circulator/

Amazon Dash Buttons

https://www.amazon.com/b/?node=10667898011&sort=date-desc-rank&lo=digital-text

ChefSteps Classes

https://www.chefsteps.com/classes

The Food Lab

http://www.amazon.com/The-Food-Lab-Cooking-Through/dp/0393081087/ref=zg_bs_14494_1?tag=serieats-20