Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Jeffy's Corner: Christmas Tech Stuff

Episode Date: December 5, 2015

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What are you waiting for? A disaster? Do it right now. 8-88-4-1-7-4-40. Kim Commando. I mean, everyone knows who Kim Commando. It wasn't. Apparently she's writing some big article on USA Today now. Good for her. But she talked about if you have neighbors stealing your Wi-Fi. I don't know that that's been a problem much anymore.

You know, I can remember going to my parents' house and them, of course, not having Wi-Fi and having to borrow the neighbor's Wi-Fi and, you know, jump in on the signal. and Kim is giving you advice on how to get rid of that if you have problems with neighbors stealing your Wi-Fi. And some of the things I really didn't, you can log onto your router and check the section that shows what gadgets are connected to the network. Of course you can do that. Who doesn't do that like once a week just to make sure? and she gives you a link to download the digital company of your instructions for your router and I bet you I would almost be linked about that my wife does this logs into our router and sees what devices are scheduled and no question and then it can

give it'll give you the list of the gadgets that are connected to your Wi-Fi and you can check off the list now I think that it most of the gadgets that they tell you, it doesn't say like, your TV in the downstairs bedroom. The Xbox in the kids' room. I'm sure that they don't, it doesn't give you that. It gives you IP addresses,

so you've probably got to, you know, figure out what is what. So it would take you a little time to get it going. But once you figure it out, it would be pretty easy to find out that, hey, that's a different one. That's my neighbor. But here's another idea that I have come up with.

And like I, you can't put the, the whole article doesn't mention this in Kim's article for USA Today. But, um, I'm guessing that you could, hello, how you doing? Good to see you. Um, if you're using my Wi-Fi, um, you know, let me know. And, uh, you know, I'll give you a password and you let me know when you're using it so that, you know, we can work it out. out. And if you can't afford your own Wi-Fi, you know, dude, listen, we can work something out. But how about you to just, you know, unhook your machine right now, okay? Or another idea. I don't know. Change the password. Don't let people jump in on you.

Right? Okay. No problem. But I really find it fascinating that you just log into your router. Very easy. Simple. Just log into your router. And you can see what devices are hooked up to your, to your, to your Wi- 5. Oh, yeah, okay. Yeah, okay. It's going to say right at the bottom of the list. Neighbor bills, front room TV. No, it's not going to say that.

And the new app, let's do some text. A new app called Slice. Slice app for easier returns and price drop notifications. This is a good time of year to hop on to a slice app. It's kind of a pain. I was looking through it, what it does. It does. It will help you in the process of returning the item you bought, keeps your receipt, records all your purchases.

It doesn't record your purchases, though. While you would think that you would be able to, like your, whatever bank card you use, you go along and your bank's cans it. But you snap the photo of the receipt and send that to the Slice app. and then the Slice app then we'll email you the receipt, keep an idea of the dates, the times, all of that. And for the most part, it's not for Android yet. iPhone and Windows only, but it's kind of a good idea. But you can do that.

Most retail outlets now have a package where you, and you can obviously ask them about it, but I know that, you know, you snap, you take a shot of the receipt, and then you have that, or you can send it to their website, or you've sent up an account on that particular company's website, and they give you bonus, or they know that you've purchased there, which makes it easier to return if you wanted to return. I mean, heck, you buy something at Walmart.

You buy, like, the voodoo accounts for your TV. the streaming service. If you buy, I mean, last time I bought a DVD at Walmart, I bought the wall, go through the line, check it out, pay for it. By the time I'm home, it's already on, it's already in the Voodoo app on my television. I don't even have to open the DVD, which I like, okay? I like a lot. I mean, that's kind of, I like it.

I know they're inside my world. I know, but it's made my life a lot easier. I mean, really, if you had that Voodoo app, you don't really need a DVD player. I mean, obviously, there's extra and bonuses they throw in there from time to time. But for the most part, you don't even need the DVD player. What you need is just the app. Buy it, download it, boom, you're there. And if you, I mean, go through the line, you've already set up the account.

It's already, it's on your television in the app by the time you get home. Yeah. Yeah. Nice. Now, you could, you know, maybe get a refurbished phone for a gift. Or maybe you have a refurbished phone just because you wanted a refurbished phone and you, you know, you didn't want it. Now, do you know the history of your phone? Because some people like Rocky, who claims his phone caught on fire in his pants pocket.

said that he discovered his phone had a previous owner who resold it to another company, and then Rocky bought the refurbished version of the iPhone in October of 2015. So he bought the refurbies. Come on. I mean, if you're going to get a phone, I can't tell you. I would not purchase a refurbished one, I don't think. But maybe if you have an insurance on it and you break it and they send you another one, And that's part of the deal, I think. But I like the idea of, first of all, there's no snapshot.

There's no shot of this guy standing in a Home Depot parking lot with his pants off, looking at his phone or taking his pants down or his pants burning, this snapshot of the pants. Okay, I know that his iPhone was not the only iPhone in the parking lot of Home Depot. An intense burning sensation in your pants is rarely something you want to experience in public. I don't know about that, Rocky. In Atlanta, this is precisely what happened in a store parking lot. Rocky was forced to take off his pants in the middle of a busy lot.

And now, he wants an apology from the Apple Empire. Shut up. I just want somebody from Apple to call me and say, sorry. According to Rocky, he was in the midst of loading his car with his Home Depot purchases on Tuesday afternoon when he suddenly felt an uncomfortable heat in his front pocket. And when the area started smoking in earnest, he knew something was really wrong. When I saw smoke, I undid my belt, I undid my pants. I pushed it away, turned my head hoping it wouldn't explode. It burned pretty much the whole front pocket.

Burned my boxer. It started to burn my leg. And I had moved it away in time so it wouldn't burn me. Now, it claims he told a news outlet this. Why haven't we seen? I mean, the news didn't get a picture of his burned pants. This story that I'm looking at now does not have a picture of the news shot, I don't think. And that's very disappointing because if I'm walking through a Home Depot parking lot

and there's a guy ripping off his pants telling me that his phone is on fire in his pants pocket, my Samsung is snapping a shot. Okay, I got news for you. My Samsung is snapping a shot. Just let me get a picture of the pants, you know, so you have it. So you can make sure that they know it's true. And, you know, I mean, accidentally you'd get a shot of him standing in the parking lot. I mean, come on.

Social media would be all up about that. This is kind of tech, which is kind of cool. These heat sensitive mugs. Have you seen these? Do you read about these in the paper? Really kind of cool Christmas gifts. You know, it is the holiday season. It is Christmas time. And if you're looking for special gifts for that special someone,

you'd give them the ISIS Radio app. It will blow you away. I believe over the holidays I'm going to come up with my own programming for ISIS radio. That may be the first broadcast of 2016, Jeff Fier. your ISIS radio. You never know. Heat sensitive mugs. You can connect with the stars. Really cool. It's just a sky

of stars and then you pour your hot liquid into it and it has all the you can see Aquarius and Pisces and you can see your sign comes up in the stars highlighted on the cup. You've got one for the kids, the dinosaurs. For you Jurassic Park fans,

although it doesn't say Jurassic Park because they have to get the rights for it. It's just dinosaurs. And then when we pour hot liquid in it goes to the fossils. That's kind of cute. I like the battery one, recharge your mug, kind of cool, a blank mug with just a blank empty battery, you know, like your phone has.

And like everything you have, when you're remote to your television is going dead, it comes up on the screen. Low battery, low battery, no battery. I got it. But then you pour your hot liquid in and a fully charged battery. That's kind of a cool gift. If you have a pack, these are really kind of slick.

I'm going to post these. I'm going to tweet these right now. These are kind of cute. These are really kind of cute gifts for Christmas. That's what we're doing here right now at the Jeff Fisher Radio show. This one is Pac-Man. Yes, it's an empty Pac-Man screen like the machine used to be. You go up and put your money in and start playing,

and then you'd have the dots, and you'd be able to chase the dots, and get the fruit, and stay away from that nasty little Pac-Man. Tetris cup. Yes, an empty Tetris cup. Put hot liquid in, and the walls start coming down.

A Doctor Who traveled the galaxy mug. Although I don't think it says Doctor Who on it, because they'd have to pay the rights, but you see the phone booth, and you see the stars. This is just enough to be like the... Be like what you want, but we're not paying the rights, okay? Got it?

Got it. Although they do have a Cape Mug Crusader, the Batman, so they might be paying the rights for that. They have the little cute kids for the hot chocolate with the dark hair, and then they heat up, and they're all in color and everything is cute. So those are cute little gifts you can give, the heat-sensitive mugs. Those are got a good Christmas gifts if you'd have someone. If you have that special someone that's hard to buy them,

for the doggone it has everything. You don't know what to get your grandkids. Not sure what to get your son-in-law. Don't give him a mug. I mean, give him some cash. Your son-in-law. Not the special someone. So I told you about the iPhone burning in the guy's pants at a Home Depot parking lot,

which we have seen no pictures of, by the way. He just wants an apology from Apple. He's got a new phone. It was refurbished. Thousands of hoverboards. are being impounded by the United Kingdom over a fire risk. I mean, come on now. You think about your iPhone starting fire in your pants pocket,

and then all of a sudden the hover around goes, you're riding down the sidewalk on your little hoverboard, and then that starts on fire, hello. It causes some problems for everyone. So be careful out there, okay? So we talked about drones. And Amazon has been wanting to do drone delivery for a while now. And they're really close, 30 minutes or less.

They have same-day delivery already for the Amazon Prime customers. And I mean, the Amazon Prime, we have this big, I don't know how many. I could obviously look and Amazon would probably have their list out of where their main distribution centers are. But they've got a huge distribution center not far from here. So this is, you know, one of the ground zeros for Amazon Prime and their same-day delivery. I mean, same day? You get that stuff in a couple of hours here, man. I mean, you order something, you order, you know what?

We really need a new blender. Whoa, man, we're out of a blender and we're having a party tonight. We need to order a new blender. Here's your new blender. I mean, Amazon Prime has got it there. So drones, five pounds or less, 30 minutes or less. I mean, that's pretty cool. What isn't going to be kind of cool is,

I want to see some, you know, they're waiting for the go-ahead from the FAA and wondering, I'd like to be sure that we're not going to have Amazon drones and all kinds of other little drones. I mean, they've got to be able to have, even then you've got flight paths of airplanes. Now, the delivery drones are not going to be flying as high

as the flight path of the airplanes. So you're going to have to have a space for the drone deliveries, right, until they come down. And then they're going to have to, you know, you have to bring them back. And you're going to have to keep track of them, right? And now they're saying that, you know, people over the holidays,

are going to get drones for Christmas. All they want for Christmas is drones. And I'm sure they've got them on sale at ISIS Radio. Brand new drones. And the feds want, you know, the drone drivers to get license and register so they can track you and your drones. Okay. And they sent up a functional, you know, plan. So they've got a, now the registration process.

I hope it is kind of easy. They don't even know how it's still going to work. Really? The government doesn't know how to make that happen? Big surprise. But the FAA published online that recommendations from a task force set up by the FAA to work the details on how people could register their on-maned aircraft systems. So if you get your job,

drone for Christmas. Look to make sure that that thing is registered. And what happens if it's not registered? And they find out that it was yours. Oh, no. You could be in big trouble. And what happened if a non-registered drone crashes into my blender being delivered by the Amazon Prime Zone? drone. Now the Amazon Prime

drone is pretty big. So it's not as if it's, you know, it's pretty good size. It's delivering packages that are, you know, up to five pounds. So it's not going to be one of the little drones that are flying around the airport, you know, that are flying around the malls that you're going to buy for Billy for Christmas. However, those could affect

the delivery drone in some way. I don't know if the delivery drone has some sort of lasers. Ooh, a little drone in my area, death. Amazon Prime is building delivery attack drones. I don't know if we want that flying around, right? Do we? No, of course we don't. And of course, self-driving cars.

We talked about it all the time. I love them. And I told you, I told you. and now more and more stories are coming out, it's going to happen faster than you think because they're already saying that, you know, we're seeing the videos of people being saved because it was being, you know,

it was driving, the car was driving itself. It's going to be insurance. They're going to be saying it's safer for everyone to be driving in their driverless cars. and for right now until 2020 or 2022, you'll still be able to get cars that have steering wheels. And you'll still be able to manually go to steering wheel outside of, you know, cities or towns or whatever.

But until, you know, or you pay more insurance if you were driving, if you get an accident and you were driving, your insurance rate probably. quadruples. So, you know, you can take the chance of driving it yourself, or you can just leave it on, you know, let it drive itself with all the computer systems and everyone else and not pay the higher insurance rates. I can see it coming.

I feel it. I feel it. Just agonizing. Now, on the other hand, I'm all about letting one of those drivers cars take me around. Just kidding me. I don't have to drive. I can get some work to be like taking my own private train car

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