Hey everybody its Lon Seidman, I am in New York City for one night only
We are at the Pepcom digital experience. This is their Holiday Show and
Inside are about 70 companies that sell the kinds of things that we review and talk about on the channel
So I figured I would come down and check out what's going on
So let's head on in and see what some of the new stuff is for the holiday season
So we're here at the Logitech booth
And you all know I love keyboards and they've got a new one here called the Kraft now. This is going to cost about
$200 but it has a dial on this one here
And this is useful if you're doing video editing and other creative stuff
So you can do kind of a jog dial for your video editing application?
And there's some other stuff that it can do as well
So that's pretty cool
Backlit as you can see it's Bluetooth or it works with a dongle and the other thing I found interesting just because my dad's been
Using one for the last 20 years is this is their first new
trackball in
20 years it's a modern device here. It's wireless, and it's adjustable because they said that people were
Propping up their trackballs with stuff so this track ball has some economically
Appropriate ways to adjust it and it's got all the buttons that you would expect from a modern Mouse
That's going to sell for about a hundred bucks, and they got these cool looking Bluetooth speakers
We can't hear what they sound like because it's so noisy in here, but they have some motion controls on them
so it detects when your hand gets closer to
Adjust the volume and everything. There's a couple of gaming things here at the Logitech booth. They've got a new wireless mechanical keyboard
This is the g613, one hundred and fifty bucks, and it is completely wireless
and then this was interesting so this is their light speed gaming mouse and
What this has is a mousepad that charges the mouse as you're using it, so there is a little battery in here
Maybe you can I'll have to hope it's not here get that out of there
But this little thing will interact with the mousepad while you're using it was to
Breaking everything here to allow you to charge the mouse while you're playing so you never actually have a dead mouse
anytime when you are looking to play a game or whatever else like that so they've got the
Creme de la creme here 150 bucks, and they have a less expensive one
$99 and it's a pretty thin mousepad right. It's uh
So that's the whole thing right here, so this is the capacitive pad underneath it
And then you use the mouse on top of this surface here
So it slides nicely here and charges up from the bottom, and then if you're looking to spend a little less
This is not an auto recharging Mouse, but it runs on doublea's 70 bucks for this one
and it is a high performance mouse they say it's got a similar sensor to the
Top-of-the-line one and it will last 18 months in its non-gaming mode
And then a little less than that when you're doing the hardcore gaming
But a pretty good battery life because they are double a's and replaceable and rechargeable so over here at the
Epson booth in about a year ago, maybe two years ago
We looked at their eco tank printer and last year
It was a kind of a retrofit where they put a big tank of ink on their existing printing technology
And now they've got something new which are new eco tank printers. We're going to start with the low-cost one here
this is
$299 and
It basically comes with they say two years of ink and one of the issues that they had with it last year was that
The ink wasn't keyed to the color
So you could accidentally put the wrong color in but what they've done now is
Keyed every color they also put a valve on this too
So you have less likelihood of putting the wrong ink in the wrong tank
And it also won't spill as easily
These bottles are a lot less expensive than an ink cartridge might be on a traditional printer
And it might be a good way to go. I think $299 is a good price point for consumers
they also now have a 5 color ink printer here this looks like a
all-in-one and this one goes for $599 5 colors so be a little better with
Photos and whatnot we'll see if we can try to get one of these in for a review coming up soon so ever here at
The Hasbro booth and as you know I have two daughters, and one is crazy about play-doh. This has a tech angle though
I promise so this is their new system called play-doh touch and what you can do is construct play-doh
Creations I made this one earlier on this little pad here
And then you image it with an iPad and then when you do this
It will actually render this thing that you made into the universe and try to figure out
how to make it in a
Active, so we made this guy with one leg earlier
He had two legs in a head and everything else
And it really allows these kids to create something and give it life, and it will live forever
Inside the app here it's really neat
And it seems like it can very effectively render what the kids intention is as they're putting it together
And then you have some mold so for example he can scan this butterfly here
And then use that mold as an attribute for our creature here, so you can take that
butterfly there and drag it onto the creature and now he's got wings and they have this world the kids can explore so they can
Play with play-doh make these creatures and then go and explore a virtual world with them after they do it
I thought this was pretty cool, and if you've got kids
I think you might find it pretty cool, too, so we've been doing a lot of Internet of Things devices
And I figured I would stop by the Yale booth. This is their real living luck now. It's cool about this
Is that it doesn't require any kind of computer, so you could set it up with just the PIN pad here?
And you can type in a pin code
I don't know how to get it to turn on but you can use a pin code and nothing else or you can add a
module to the back of it here
And this will allow you to connect it up with a number of home hubs that are out there
So that's kind of a good choice
You can go with a smart lock or just make it a pin code lock, but there's no physical key
And you might be wondering what happens if you lose the battery that's on this thing that you say gives you a lot of warning
on the bottom
I don't know if we Antonio can get in here and see that you'll do it from the side here you basically plug a
9-volt battery into the bottom of this that will give it enough juice so that you can unlock it
So if you are locked out after ignoring all the notifications
You can run out by a 9-volt battery plug it in here. Type in the code and get back in your door this one cost
170 dollars without the home hub component the module, which you can buy separately later or together
All in it's $220, so not too bad for a complete lock replacement again
No physical key, and then they've also got a doorbell product, and this is a hundred and eighty dollars
I think they said it was $179
No subscription, and it records onto an SD card built into the monitor here
So you get local record with it, and it'll also
Ding your mobile phone to let you know something is going on it wires in with your existing doorbell
And then the module here on the back is USB charge chargeable, so it has a battery on the monitor
But the doorbell itself is connected to your doorbell wiring to power it
But nice to see something without a subscription and local recording which is something
We're not seeing a lot of these days in the IOT space so over at the anchor booth who are known for batteries
But now they're branching out
This is called the nebula capsule and what this is is a projector I can project onto myself here
but it might be easier to see it on the
Screen and this projector has an Android computer essentially built into it running Android 7 so you can go to?
YouTube or whatever else you want to go to on this thing because the apps are integrated
But it also has an HDMI input and of course because it's made by Ankur
They've got an anchor battery in there, too
so it should last a couple of hours on a
Charge which is pretty neat so I kind of like this concept of integrating an Android device a full media device
Into a projector like this. It's pretty bright
We'll have to get it into tests, but we are under some pretty bright lights right now
It looks pretty decent on this screen. We projected it onto the ceiling earlier. It does have a pretty good throw to it
It's a 540 P sensor, so it's in line with a lot of other pico projectors
But I am impressed with the brightness on this right now. This is 199 if you pre-order on their IndieGoGo page
299 afterward not usually a big fan of some of the IndieGoGo stuff
but
anchors a company that I've been following and have been buying products from for quite a while they tend to pull things off and they've
Met their goal on this, and it is a product that exists
And we're playing with it so that is why I am comfortable talking about it
So there's a couple of different colors here. Also. They got a red one and a black one here really cool looking device
We'll have to get one in to test it soon so one thing
I wasn't expecting to see today is the essential phone. This is a new Android phone from the creator of
Android a lot of people have been talking about this phone very
thin thin bezels on this thing and a lot of people were asking about the notches both on this phone and on the
the new iPhone X and what they did here was actually put enough screen real estate at the bottom
So you can run a movie sixteen by nine without that notch getting in the way
So let's pull up a video for my YouTube channel here, and if I go full screen with it
You can see that the video is
Not being notched out because the aspect ratio below the notch is sufficient for a sixteen by nine video
So that's kind of a neat way to get around that so if we go back out to the front here
You can see that now attached to this only put the mic down here for a second
It's a 3d camera that attaches to the back of the phone it attaches magnetically
So you can do 3d or 360 excuse me live streams
Wherever you go pretty small little device here that just clips on the back. Let me show you
Like so and it's you know secures itself with a magnet and off you run with this a pretty cool phone
I really like the way it looks and feels pretty nice. I'll try to get one of these into review
It's kind of hard to get these right now, but I really like what I see here alright
So we're at a boost for a company called hexa, and they've got this creepy robot here looks like a spider
I'm gonna put it down on the table here if you don't like spiders
You might want to turn away, so when you think about the robot uprising?
this might be what happens when it finally takes place, but what's cool about what this thing is is a
prebuilt robotic platform
So if you're going to try to learn how to program
Robotics you can get a robot out of the box that has all the sensors and is
Balancing and you can learn the basics of the software
design without having to build your own hardware first that might be a good first step for a lot of people because after all when
You buy a computer, or if you want to learn how to program a computer?
You don't build the computer first you learn how to program so here. They're trying to get people into robotics by
purchasing this thing out of the box getting a complete robot ready to go and you can learn how to code this robot and then
as your hardware skills improve you probably have the skills you need to
Program your own robot - and as you can see he does a lot of movements here
He's got sensors all over him and he goes for about a thousand dollars
And I think it's probably not so unreasonable
Especially if you're trying to learn robotics and looks like it might be a pretty accessible platform for folks some over at the HyperX
Booth and they've got a new headset here
And this is one of those things you have to feel but they've got this new like leatherette here
It is so soft. It feels like suede
They are calling this the most comfortable gaming headset in the world
So I'll have to get went into tested to put it to the test, but feels pretty solid to me
It's like mostly metal here. Got a nice feel to it, and it's $99 as you see it
They're advertising some really good range of sound again
We'll have to get it into a quieter place than where we are right now to play around with it a couple things that are
Kind of neat about it is that the mic here can detach you can just pull the entire mechanism out
I think let's see it's like that so you can not worry about the mic when you don't need it
And then of course on the bottom here, you can unplug the cord
So if you're worried about snagging this thing as you're running around
You don't have to worry about that anymore so kind of a nice little headset here metal band on the top feels really solid
Ninety-nine bucks not all that expensive. It is analog. It's not a USB thing, but because it's analog
It'll work on everything and they put a little volume control on here, too
So maybe we'll try to get one of these in I don't do a lot of headsets on the channel
But I know some of you would like to get some insights on them
So we'll see if we can get one to test it out in a couple of weeks that was just a small sampling of some
Of the things we saw at the pep comm Holiday Spectacular
And this is the kind of video we'll do from CES a little later in the year so stay tuned. This is lawn Simon
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