( music playing )
The Netflix series "Black Mirror"
combines social media and sci-fi technology
to create dystopian nightmares
that makes great television if you're me,
and creepy, unwatchable television if you're my wife.
It's a little bit of a sticking point,
but we'll discuss that later, baby.
Either way, you should go put another piece of tape over your webcam
because we're about to find out if Link can tell what's...
Uh, I have not seen the television show "Black Mirror,"
and I frequently check myself out of the real world,
so I have no advantages here on either front.
Okay, yeah, this is gonna be trouble for you.
And I've never watched "The Real World" either.
- On MTV. - But you watched my audition for it
in 1996, remember that?
Yeah. ( laughs )
Rhett auditioned for "The Real World."
We should dig that up.
And then rebury it.
There's a reason why it's buried.
Ever want to hear voices in your head besides your own?
Well, now you can. This invention allows you
to experience a mysterious voice from a device
creating a beam of sound directed exclusively at you.
It's been used to deliver information to shoppers
when standing in front of a product.
Customers have reportedly said the voice
sounds like it's coming from their own conscience.
Is this technology from the real world or the TV world?
So, really I'm trying to ascertain
whether technology is currently capable of it, because it will happen.
Yeah, but is it being implemented somewhere in the real world now
or is it just on "Black Mirror"?
I don't think--
I know that you can have a listening device
that, like, sucks audio from a certain place.
And can you reverse that thing?
I don't think it sucks audio, but I know what you mean.
( slurps, spits )
I-- I think this is not yet happening in the real world.
This is a "Black Mirror" premonition.
- Wrong, Link! It's real! - Really?
It's called the Audio Spotlight. Let's see it in action.
Woman's voice:
You're the only one.
Look around. No one else can.
See?
Know who I am? I'm that inner voice.
No, you're not the inner voice.
Don't say you're the inner voice. That's just wrong.
You're-- you're a speaker that's targeted.
I should've gotten this one right because, you know,
there's that thing on NC State's campus--
- The ears. - The ears. If you sit in the right place--
in one ear and someone talks from the other ear,
all you can hear it like it's in your own brain. It's really freaky.
- I got my wife to fall in love with me... - You can harness that.
...by telling her to sit over there
and then I whispered things to her from a distance.
"It's your conscience saying to love
that awkwardly tall, lanky boy."
Exactly, I made her think that it was her idea to like me.
- Okay, Link-- - I know you keep talking about her,
but she's not watching.
No, no, she watches--
she watches the third video every day.
( laughs ) That's the only one.
She watches the red border video.
She watches the red border. She said, "I like that red border."
What you got for me in that red border?
Waiting three minutes for at-home pregnancy test results can be so boring.
There's got to be a better way.
Instead of a plus sign, this electronic pregnancy test
entertains you in the result window
with a digital dancing baby.
Real world, TV world?
This seems outrageously lame
to be written into "Black Mirror."
- Mm. - I mean, just to have a dancing baby?
- Yep. - Really?
I mean, this is something that would be at the 99-cent store.
I'm saying this is-- this is--
this is real world and it shouldn't be.
Wrong, Link, it's on "Black Mirror" and it's been there twice.
Watch.
( chiming )
She's so happy. She's so happy she's pregnant again.
Whoops.
You know what? If you're not pregnant,
it shows a picture of you getting a good night's sleep
and going to the movies whenever you want.
- I'm not doing great at this. - You're not.
Everyone's favorite part of "Snow White"
is the mirror that throws shade at a grown woman
for being less attractive than a teenage girl who talks to birds.
Now you can own an interactive mirror
that judges your appearance, too.
This mirror informs you of problem areas
like wrinkles, discoloration, and even health issues.
Real world or TV world?
And what color is that mirror? Ha! Right?
( laughs )
This was season one, episode one,
and this is why it's called "Black Mirror."
- Mm. - ( laughter )
What y'all laughing at?
This is from season one, episode one
- of "Black Mirror." - Wrong, it's real, Link.
It's called Hi, Mirror. Let's watch it.
This is real?
Woman:
-
...gives you personalized beauty advice,
and tracks your progress.
( imitates woman ) "It tracks your progress."
How awesome is that?
How does it track your progress?
I don't understand.
It gives you beauty advice?
You're doing so bad, Link.
You know, technically I don't need this
because I already have technology that tells me how I look.
It's called You Tube comments.
( normal voice ) I don't know why that made me angry, but it did.
You can't win now.
I don't want to win your silly
technology-based game.
This next technological advancement
is for everyone who's faked a phone call
as an exit strategy on a first date.
I didn't like you either, Sharon.
I didn't know Sharon.
I just made that up.
Yeah, that didn't ring true for me 'cause...
- Similar to Tinder... - ...I don't know a Sharon either.
...this software finds you a date,
but it also provides the amount of time you should date them.
So it tells you-- matches you with somebody
and says, like, "You should go with this person
for six months, 12 months, whatever."
A dating app with an expiration date.
You get this one wrong, it'll be four wrong in a row.
- And that's what I'm going for. - Right.
So I say that this--
in order to get it wrong--
already exists in the real world.
You're wrong, but right, Link!
It's from "Black Mirror"!
- Yes! - Let's watch.
Okay, so, on three, two, one, go.
( chimes )
12 hours.
( chuckles )
You can get a lot done in 12 hours.
That's-- that is a short relationship, is what I was gonna say.
Yeah, if only there were only a device
that told you how long you should host
an Internet show with somebody.
Oh, good Lord.
Lastly, if a scientist came up to me
and asked, "Do you want a robot replica of your wife"
I'd say, "No! Wait, maybe-- no!"
She isn't watching.
Link, what if I told you there was a software
that allowed you to upload a loved one's memories,
beliefs, and feelings into robot form?
Would that be real something
or something I saw on "Black Mirror"?
I think this happens in a lot of movies, actually.
If "Black Mirror" was doing this,
they wouldn't be as original
- as they're-- supposedly are. - Mm-hmm.
- The grammar fell apart in that sentence. - Yep.
So in order to get this wrong,
I think this already exists in the real world.
Well, you couldn't miss this one
because it exists in both places.
Sorry to ruin your streak.
Oh, I couldn't get it wrong?
Here it is on "Black Mirror."
Ew, what's that?
What the crap is that?
That's her old boyfriend.
He comes in a package and it's-- it's awesome.
Oh, that is...
And here it is in the real world.
Anytime soon, immortality is accomplished
by creating consciousness and self-replicating machines
that can be distributed throughout the cosmos.
Mm-hmm.
That's right.
( laughs )
The conversations with your digital self are incredible.
"Mm, that's right."
"Mm-hmm. Look at me with both eyes, girl."
That was actually a doctor who developed
a version of her wife,
which was the woman sitting there
talking to the replica of herself.
And, apparently, her wife thought
that she needed her eyes to be crossed a little bit more
than they are in real life.
'Cause she's into that.
That is so scary.
Link, you know what? You didn't win.
I'm glad I didn't win.
But I'd love for you to have this black mirror anyway.
Oh! Thank you so much.
As long as it doesn't talk to me or try to sell me anything.
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- I don't think we've got Frisbee dogs. - No, we don't.
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