The Chris Voss Show - The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Kids’ Tech Revolution: myFirst Tech Unveils Safe, Fun Gadgets at CES Show 2025

Episode Date: January 7, 2025

Kids' Tech Revolution: myFirst Tech Unveils Safe, Fun Gadgets at CES Show 2025 Myfirst.tech About the Guest(s): G-Jay Yong is a representative from G-Light, the innovative company behind the brand myFirst. With a focus on creating technology products tailored for children, G-Jay Yong is at the forefront of bringing safe, interactive, and educational gadgets to younger audiences. The company is dedicated to redesigning advanced technology like smartphones, cameras, and wearable devices specifically for young users, ensuring a fun and educational experience. G-Jay Yong shares his expertise and insights into the company’s approach to child-friendly technology on the Chris Voss Show. Episode Summary: In this enlightening episode of The Chris Voss Show, host Chris Voss delves into the fascinating world of child technology with G-Jay Yong from G-Light, the company behind the myFirst brand. As they gear up for their presence at the CES Consumer Electronics Show 2025, G-Jay Yong unfolds how myFirst is pioneering the kids’ tech market by transforming adult technology into child-friendly versions. Listeners will be guided through the creative journey of launching innovative children’s products that prioritize safety and engagement, ensuring that kids enjoy a tailored technological experience. Throughout the episode, G-Jay Yong explains how myFirst is breaking new ground with products like wearable smartwatches that double as smartphones, digital cameras designed with dual lenses for selfies, and much more. By infusing artificial intelligence into their devices, the company not only prioritizes functionality but also aims to enhance learning and safety. This discussion sheds light on how technology can be responsibly introduced to children, helping them safely explore the digital world under parental supervision. Keywords like "kids tech products," "wearable smartphones," and "safe social circles" underline the company’s mission and innovative solutions presented at CES. Key Takeaways: Child-Targeted Technology: myFirst develops tech products specifically for children, such as cameras and wearable smartphones that enhance learning while ensuring safety. Safety and Parental Controls: The products are designed with safety in mind, featuring controlled social features and GPS tracking to give parents peace of mind. Affordable and Durable: These kid-friendly tech products are crafted to be affordable, robust, and less prone to damage compared to high-end adult devices. AI and Innovation: myFirst incorporates AI into its products, enabling features like automatic photo compilation and personalized video creation, emphasizing creativity and innovation. Retail and Future Endeavors: The company actively seeks retail partnerships and explores new technology markets to expand their reach in creating safe tech ecosystems for families. Notable Quotes: "The inspiration came from my daughter. I wanted her to have a decent camera, not just a plastic toy." "We created a wearable smartphone for kids that includes GPS tracking and parental control features." "Our products offer a safe social environment for kids, where parents approve contacts and monitor interactions." "We designed a camera with AI systems that can turn your content into a music video based on your emotions." "Our ecosystem connects children with their parents and even grandparents, ensuring a safer digital start."

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We also don't loan you money, so stop asking, darn it. This week, we're going to be doing our coverage of this CES show, Consumer Electronics Show. We just interviewed, for the sixth year in a row, our good friend, the leader of the CES show, Gary Shapiro. So be sure to check out that interview, which is from earlier today. And it's going to be exciting. CES show 2025, Gary Shapiro. So be sure to check out that interview just from earlier today. And it's going to be exciting. See a show 2025. I should mention for those of you watching this broadcast years from now, as you tend to do on the, our YouTube is only 18 years old.

That's all. So today we're talking with a exhibitor who will be at Eureka park and you'll be able to check out some of their really cool technology. We'll get into some of the details and what they're building and how they're bringing innovation in the future to CES and to your life as well. We'll be talking today with MyFirst.Tech. That's their website. The company is G-Lite.

And we'll be talking with GJ. GJ, welcome to the show. How are you? Hi, everyone. Nice to meet you meet you pleasure to have you as well so give us a doc we did the dot tech right is there any other places people need to look you guys up on the interwebs yep at the moment you just visit my first dot tech my first dot tech so give us a 30 000 overview what you guys do there? Wow. Yeah, my first SG is a KidsTag brand, which we create a different kind of KidsTag product for kids. We try to bring kind of like all the tag products that adults have,

like growing up, right? We have all the technology products like smartphones, Bluetooth headsets, et cetera, cameras and stuff. So we try to redesign all these things actually for the kids. Ah, so it's targeted towards children? Yep, targeted towards children. It's got multi-colors and different fun sort of looking products, as it were? Yep, you're right.

We have some wearable smartphone, a watch, but it's actually a smartphone that can make phone calls, video calls. We also have like digital cameras and other products that cater for the kids. Kind of redesign some things that are safer and more suitable for the kids. Ah, safer for the kids. It looks like the concept of MyFirst is basically giving them their first access to certain pieces of technology. Do I assume that correctly? Yep, you're right.

So the brand name is quite straightforward. It's just MyFresh. So we have like different product categories, like my first camera, my first phone, my first 3D pen, my first headphones, etc. That's cool, man. Technology for the kids and it's fun colored and fun sort of factor built into design, as it were. So kids can have fun with it and also learn new technology. You know, when I was growing up, before they came out with technology, they would just give us, as kids, a box of razor blades and broken glass

and tell us to play in it. Yeah, that's true. But after going to the ER multiple times, they stopped doing that, I guess. I don't know what's going on. But I feel ripped off that I didn't have all these fun things when I was a kid. What's that about? So when we were young,

we used film cameras. And now when we're grown-ups, we use digital cameras. While the kids don't have such thing in the markets. So the inspiration came from my daughter. When she's pretty young, she's two years old. I use DSLR, a Canon DSLR.

I take photo for hers. And she kind of wanted take my heavy dsr to take photo for me i got like 5 000 pounds it's a heavy camera yeah you know and it's expensive too you're right i worry she drop it herself or my few thousand bucks are gone right yeah yeah yeah i've I've had about $10,000 or $20,000 worth of lenses and stuff from Canada. I tried to research online and try to get her cameras. I couldn't find any decent one. Probably something that I can find is just plastic cameras with sound and light. Yeah. I don't think that I'm using a DSLR and she deserves just a plastic toy.

So that's how actually we came up the ideas of coming out of a decent digital camera for the kids. And eventually we found out something like this. It's a dual lens with a front and rear selfie lens. It's cute. It looks sort of fun. It's more funner than my Canon. I think it's pretty decent.

You can print up to like the photos at the back. Oh, so you can print the photos out. You can print the photos out, which you can take by the cameras. It comes with 16 megapixels. Wow, so they can have fun with their friends and all that good stuff. Yeah, I might. I'm not that great a photographer. I'd probably take better pictures with your technology than I do with the Canon.

The Canon is so high- of, it kind of highlights all my flaws. It's because I have sex and photography. So along the way, we designed more products. Like, we found out the kids

want to call their moms and call me. And we found that mobile phones, the smartphone is not so suitable for the kids. They might drop it or might be addicted

to it. Oh, yeah. I mean, now those iPhones are like $1,500 bucks or something aren't they and also they might just keep watching the youtube yeah and play games so we kind of created like a wearable smartphones that they can uh they can call us contact us and we also have gps tracking we know where are they and even the contact that not everyone actually can call to watch because we have a widely systems

that the parents got to approve the contact which is creating a safe environment for the kids and parents to to stay connected lots of fun there lots of fun the and i imagine they they probably survive a couple drops at the very least i know those iphones don't do well throw it away and it's drop proof yeah don't worry oh yeah totally man totally yeah so it's crazy what we guys have now now is there ai built into some of this oh yeah it's of course the trend is ai right now and when we start to have a normal cameras which is five years ago we started started this kind of cameras. And when the AI came out, we designed new cameras that come with AI systems. These pretty decent cameras that push a larger screen. And you can take photos and videos through these cameras.

Right after you take the photos and videos, you can choose the content and you can talk to the device. What? Like here, you can just press and hold. You can talk to the device. What you want. I'm having an interview right now in LA, blah, what, like here, you can just press and hold. You can talk to the device, what you want. I'm having an interview right now in LA, blah, blah, blah. You can just use different content.

You talk to the device, how is your feeling. After that, you can just post to the server, and it will actually compile everything into music videos. Based on your email, you know what kind of emotion you have, what kind of feeling you have, kind of feeling you have and we'll choose a suitable songs to match every content together become like a music video oh wow probably play a bunch of sad songs on my video why doing nothing pictures are lame he takes pictures of his espresso machine he's so sad anyway i just got an espresso machine, so I've been filming the espresso coming on, prepping espresso. And everybody on Facebook is, you have no life, do you?

That's how it works. But no, kids are having fun. So they have all this fun technology. Looking over the website, there is, you have a voice speaker, microphone, and wireless speaker. They have Care Buds, so you can have the, you know, like the Apple Buds, Sketch Pro Neo. That's a Care Buds. The camera, the phone, watch, it's all in one wearable smartwatch, so they can start recording their runs and heartbeats early on. That's always important.

3D pen artist, so you can do STEM learning. You can STEM learning. And I guess maybe it's supposed to encourage maybe some of that STEM learning, maybe. Yep. So there's some 3D pens that you can draw to become like a 3D object. It's pretty simple.

You just draw it out and it forms like that. There's a doodle frame, frame doodle, something like that. Yeah, we have quite a lot of different frame products, a display screen, a photo frame that you can see different photos. Oh, wow. Oh, so it will play like the photos from the camera and stuff? Yeah, so you can post the photos that you're taking from the cameras. So the photos you can take actually from our cameras

and also from the watches. And you can actually post to the safe social circles and you will share among all the devices, like the frames, the cameras, also on your mobile phones. Oh, wow. It's kind of all-inclusive in the thing. And I imagine you can watch stuff and listen to it on your dealio there.

So you've got to have a whole ecosystem of different things that kids can play with. Yep. Then if they break it, is it fairly expensive? Do you want to give me some price ranges maybe on it? No, it's pretty decent price. We have $199 for the watches. It's much cheaper than an iPhone. It's much cheaper than an iPhone.

It's much cheaper than an iPhone. And it also has the cameras. And everything is within $100, plus minus. Wow. Now, some of the stuff runs on a SIM card, I guess. So they have access to Wi-Fi. You can maybe figure out where your kids at sometimes if you ever lose them yeah so for cameras around on wi-fi and a watch is running on

lte e-sim so you come with connectivities and you need to put in the sim cards because it's built in easy like this the kids can partake in the technology without the expense of you know you're like hey what happened to the samsung i gave you it was fifteen hundred dollars i gave it to a friend oh okay i dropped it in the sand and you know whatever i don't know and even all toilet and now it doesn't work in the toilet so even if come with music functions so you can pair with our, our CareBuds, which is wireless headphones, they can actually use this to listen to the music and we also built in some safety features, you know, when you plug into the earbuds, you might not aware of the environment sound, especially

it's quite risky, dangerous for the kids. If they're walking the street, some bicycle might bump into them. So what we did is we added some some sensor motion sensors that we detect when the kids are moving we actually fit the noise from our sites to the music kind of like automatically turn on the transparency mode that fit the environment sound to to to to the headphones oh i like I like that. That sounds very cool. No, I kind of like increase the safety for the kids to aware of the environment. That sounds pretty cool. Yeah, you got to have the, I forget what they call it. There's noise canceling and then there's-

And transparency. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. But what are some other technologies you guys are utilizing in the me we haven't talked about? You mean the whole systems? Or any place, anything we haven't touched on that we want to tease out there to people. Oh, we do have some printing cameras that come with instant print.

Oh, you can print right out of them? It's just a Polaroid that you can just take a photo of. Polaroid's still alive. It's one of the hit products during these Christmas seasons in Walmart and stuff. It's still alive. It's one of the hit products during these Christmas seasons in Walmart and stuff. It's quite cool. You guys are going to be displaying at a booth there at Eureka Park. Do you guys know the booth number off the top of your head by chance?

We are actually located at 54542 in Venetians Expo. It's a level up on top of Eureka Park. You'll be above Eureka Park. As we go out, tell people final thoughts. Tell them how they can come by the booth to get to know you guys more, what website to go to and all that good stuff. Yep, definitely. See us

in Vegas. Las Vegas. Yeah. As they say. And so people can check you guys out there. They can go to myfirst.tech and learn more about the cool stuff you guys have there and what are some of the are you looking for retails just places to place the products is that what you're doing there at cs you're looking for investors you're looking for i don't know other people that you can do technology with so we are currently with

some of the retailers in in the state best by walmart and samscar and of So we are currently with some of the retailers in the state, Best Buy, Walmart, and Sam's Club. And of course, we are still looking for more retail partners to work together to launch more products to the markets. That's what we are trying to do. We do have some art and craft products,

quite suitable for the bookstores, stationary shops, and we also have wearable smartphones catered for the bookstores, stationary shops. And we also have wearable smartphones catered for the carriers. And we're also launching some new technologies. Like we launched a new watch in the CES shows. They're coming with higher-end technologies and more features.

And also start to have pre-orders right now in our website. And yeah, we start to have pre-orders right now in our website. And yeah, we wish to actually meet others to discuss more about our new technologies and new products and also explain

the whole ecosystems that how we link the families from the children's to the parents as well as the grandparents. Oh, that sounds pretty fun. So,

cool stuff you guys have going on there. Cool stuff so we kind of like using this device to allow the kids to create content and from there actually they can share the contents it's videos photos as well as editing of the photos and videos and the grandparents can actually see them on a much larger screen, like a photo frame. Oh, okay. It's to the device. And for parents, they can use their smartphones to actually assess to the circles. Can I have the smartphone?

So what we do is there's like applications here. So you can actually, it's kind of like a hybrid of Instagram. Oh, it's got the feed from the kids. Yeah, there's a feed here. You can see all the images and photos. Oh, wow.

Yeah. And of course, there will be also like group chats that you can do with your friends. Family chat. Yep.

And it's probably a much safer place than Facebook, right? Or Instagram. Definitely. Because they'll be getting weird messages from strangers. Because every context

needs to be approved by the parents. And even that, you can choose who you want to share the content to. You can share the content to just your family, your best friends, or your friends. I like that. It's really scary that

when kids get on instagram or facebook and usually right away they start getting hit up by weirdos and and stuff yeah so that's that's quite crazy right so because of that we we kind of create a safe social circles for the kids you know yeah that's pretty awesome they can share all their stuff and they can get their first their first taste of technology without being caught up in some of the bad stuff. Something that's safer for them to start with or more suitable for them,

more rugged, more durable and features that too much of entertainment we might remove. There's no games, but they'll still be teaching them how to stay connected or be social with their friends connected or be a bit social with her friends but not not a bit too much yep i like that i mean it's really important it's you

know my my my brother his two kids he had really he didn't want them anywhere near instagram or facebook he and all that he didn't trust them I think he waited till they're like 12 or 13 before they finally got him to relent. But, you know, this is something where kids can have a much safer sort of access and, you know, they don't have to worry about a bunch of weirdos on the internet. Yeah, but you know, even we don't allow them

to assess like the Facebook or Instagram, but among the family members, we still hope to actually keep in touch with them. The grandparents hope to actually know what the grandson's doing, how is the updates. And this platform becomes pretty good options for them so that they can post their updates, update some of their moments, and create some video content as well. Yeah. I blocked my grandma off Instagram a long time ago. Really?

Yeah, she's trolling my posts. She's pretty mean. She's like, you look stupid in that hat. You know, that sort of thing. She's not a nice grandma. I'm just kidding. I don't have a grandma like that. So everyone should check you guys out at the CES show 2025

down there in Eureka Park. And they can check you guys out at the CES show 2025 down there in Eureka park. And they can check you guys out at my first.tech website. That's my first.tech. Thank you very much for coming to the show. We really appreciate it. Thanks, Chris. Thank you. And thanks for tuning in.

Watch for our continuing coverage of CES show 2025. Thanks for tuning in. Be good to each other. Stay safe. We'll see you guys next time. See you guys. Bye.