To this day, one of the most niche holidays that there are for gifts has to be Valentine's Day. Happy Valentine's Day. When it comes to Valentine's Day, people are going everywhere looking for some sort of gift for their significant other or their partner. Happy Valentine's Day! Valentine's Day lands on February 14th, and right now is the time that you need to start stocking up and getting your store ready for this very lucrative holiday. Now, while Valentine's Day is the holiday for love, we're gonna be celebrating our love for money. With the top 10 products that you can be dropshipping, this Valentine's Day 2024. Now make sure you stick around all the way to the end and watch this video all the way through because I'm gonna give you one bonus that can really help you step up your Valentine's Day game. So without further ado, let's get to it. So kicking off this list, the first item that we're gonna talk about is a Valentine's Day care package or gift box. What this simply is is just a box or a little basket that has a bunch of different little gifts inside.  A lot of the times these care packages or gift boxes are just gonna be filled with your traditional Valentine's Day gifts. These are wildly popular. They come in quite a few different variations in a few different packaging options and with the different types of inserts. Now these do come in quite a few different variations in terms of style. So you can find some pretty basic ones like this one that's just filled with whatever it is you choose to put inside it. Or if you want, you can get really fancy and start charging a little bit extra and do something like this that's just filled to the brim with literally almost everything that you can think of. Now even though there are a bunch of different variations when it comes to these different baskets, I highly suggest that you offer as many as you can. For the simple fact that this one is gonna be at a completely different price point, then let's say this one. Also, another thing is when you're offering these kinds of gift boxes, always reach out to your supplier and make sure that they come pre-filled. You don't want to send an empty care package or an empty gift box. Up next in our second spot, we have another gift box, but this is the explosion gift box. Now these are really cool because a lot of times you're gonna have different layers, you're gonna be opening up in different spots, you're gonna have secret compartments and they're really gonna be able to be filled to the brim with different types of gifts. This is just an example of one where as you can see, it's got a bunch of different images on the side, so it's filled with a bunch of different pictures and in the middle it's got one main gift, which in this case is a ring. And as you can see down here, there's a bunch of different layers to it. It's pretty crazy. It's super overly complicated, but trust me, people absolutely love these. These really leave a lasting impression and chances are if you're able to sell one of these, you're probably gonna be able to sell more down the line because people are gonna absolutely love them. They're gonna take a picture of them, they're gonna post them on their Instagram, you can ask them to tag you for a discount off their next order and boom, you have access to a completely new demographic of people. And again, this is something that really makes an impression. This has a huge wow factor, especially for a holiday like Valentine's Day.  Up next on our third spot, we have one item that has actually been pretty trendy these last two or three years. Every single time that I look online, every single time that I go to the mall, I always see these during the Valentine's Day season. And that are rose flower bears. For the most part, these are just gonna be bears that are made out of roses or a rose design throughout the entire bear. These are wildly popular, especially amongst younger couples and kids. So a lot of the times kids are gonna be getting these for let's say their moms. And I've even seen these in high school. A lot of the times in high school, at least in my whole high school, they used to offer different gifts for Valentine's Day. So you were able to purchase them and then send them to somebody else's class. So you can send them to your girlfriend, your boyfriend or whoever it may be. And that is actually one way that you can potentially get new customers for your store. So you can reach out to different schools in your area or even throughout the entire US and ask them about their Valentine's Day. Ask them if they have any events. And if they do, you can send them a catalog or you can send them on your website and tell them that you can give them some sort of discount if they order in bulk. So that way the school can then resell these items to their students. And let me tell you, when it comes to high school, high school is full of lover birds. Most of which are not shy about showing their love to their significant other. So trust me when I say high schoolers and teenagers will be purchasing these products, left and right. This next item is another one that has been making waves these past few years and is possibly maybe only two or three years old. This is something that's pretty new into the game and that is LED artificial flowers. Now these can come in a few different variations and sometimes they come in different packaging.  Sometimes you can find them single like this where you can just purchase the flower by itself. Sometimes you have a few different variations like this one where it comes in the form of a larger plant. These are actually really nice. I like this style more just because it's a bit more classic. It's a bit more simple. But of course, there are people out there that love the flashiness of the other one.  This really reminds me of a rose from one of those Disney movies. Which one was it? The one that had a black rose in it. I think it was Snow White, Cinderella. I don't know, one of those. But this really reminds me of a Disney princess rose. And the cool thing about gifts like these, like these different rose lights is the fact that they don't necessarily just have to be shown for Valentine's Day. A lot of the time some of these gifts you give, they're gonna be displayed for a few days during Valentine's Day and then they're just gonna take them down.  Now before we continue, I do wanna point out really quick. If you're enjoying this video, if you're finding it informative and if you like it, please make sure you smash that like button and hit that subscribe button so you don't miss out on any future videos. All right, let's keep going. Up next in our fifth spot, we have Valentine's Day inflatables. Now this is a different type of gift. This is something that's really more than anything for show. So I've actually seen these a few different times on TikTok where somebody comes home at the end of the day and they're greeted by this huge happy Valentine's Day, I love you inflatable. These definitely make a huge and lasting impression and are gonna be used from year to year. Now the fact that these have such a huge wow factor, if you make some sort of reaction video like the one that I just mentioned where somebody comes home and they come home to this huge inflatable, something like that if you record the entire process, maybe setting it up or just even the reaction and you post it on social media, on Instagram Reels or TikTok, chances are a video like that can get some pretty good traction and with so many views going in, people are bound to be asking, where can I get one of those? In which case you can tell them, hit up the link in my bio, the link to the store will be there. Just a quick idea on how you can market some of these because honestly, this is something that has a wow factor. This is one of those impulse buys that people are just gonna say, I need this right now. And as I always mention, those are our target demographic. Those are the people that we wanna be selling to. Next up we have Valentine's Day cards, but not just any cards. I'm talking about wooden cards. Now these are definitely a step up from your traditional cardboard cards. These a lot of times can even be customized with certain sayings or even certain names. Most of the times they're gonna be laser engraved, so it gives it that nice fancy look and feel. Also, a lot of the times when somebody receives a regular card, they put it in a drawer or maybe even throw it away. Something like this can be actually put up on display. It's a nice little memory for a specific occasion or just for the simple holiday. But an item like this is definitely something that's good to offer because again, it's not something that people are just gonna chuck or just throw into a drawer and forget about it. This is something that they'll put up on display because it's nice, it looks nice and wooden items are always a hit. Preserved flowers are our next gift and these just like all of the others can come in a few different variations. Now when we say preserved flowers, sometimes they can be dried, sometimes they can be fresh flowers except they're sealed in acrylic, but at the end of the day, it's a flower that was once alive and is now preserved. Now a lot of the times this can be pretty expensive, so another option would be artificial flowers that look preserved. For that you can simply just go on AliExpress or on Amazon and just look up preserved flowers or preserved fake flowers. So just taking a look at some of these, you can see this one right here. These are nice little plants that typically do good during the holidays or during the Valentine's Day holiday or these Boho decor mini dried flowers. But if you want some legitimately preserved flowers, if you want the real thing and if you want some really unique items, then I highly suggest you check out Etsy. Etsy is the place to source these different items. So if just scrolling through these, you can already see some of the different ones.  These look really nice actually. Scrolling down a bit more, you can see the other ones I was telling you about like this one where it's preserved in acrylic. These are absolutely phenomenal. They look gorgeous. They have some pretty cool styles. Then you have some other ones like this one right here where people actually send in their flowers. But of course as drop shippers, this is not something that we can really offer. But just so you get an idea of more or less how these are gonna look. Valentine's Day candles are up next. And just like every other product on here, there's a ton of variations to offer. So for one, you can offer the smaller candles or the larger candles. Some of them set a different mood than others. So for one, you have these tiny ones right here which are actually artificial LEDs. These are really good because they can help prevent fires. But if you don't wanna just offer the smaller, more romantic ones, you can also offer some larger ones that serve as some pretty good gifts. Like some of these right here. Some of these have some pretty funny messages like this one. Just wanted to remind you that I love you and your butt is perfect. This is great for your significant other. So when it comes to candles, you have quite the variations to choose from. You have some more romantic ones, funnier ones. Some that smell sweeter, some that smell a bit more bitter. Some that come in different jars like these or these. So really when it comes to candles and Valentine's Day, you don't necessarily have to stick to just Valentine's Day candles. You can sell practically any type of candle. The next item on this list is gonna be an I love you necklace. Now, this doesn't necessarily have to just be a necklace. You can also offer a bracelet or even a ring with the words I love you engraved into it. Because honestly, when it comes to Valentine's Day, what statement can represent the holiday better than I love you? So when it comes to the I love you necklace, one of the best places I can tell you to source your product from is gonna be Etsy. On Etsy, you're gonna find some of the most unique and authentic products. A lot of these are handmade, which give it that extra little special touch. And some of them can even be customized. The next item on this list is gonna be Valentine's Day pillow covers. Now these you can find with a few different designs. Some are gonna have some sayings. Some can be customized with an image and some text. Some are gonna come in sets and some are gonna come prefilled as just regular pillows, not just covers. Now let's go on over to their bonus product. And as a bonus, one of the products that has been standing out to me in the last few years, regardless whether it's for Valentine's Day, Christmas, birthdays, whatever it is, are pop-up cards. So you can find Valentine's Day pop-up cards, such as this one. So whenever you open up the card, either design or something else is gonna pop up. These are typically known also as 3D cards and they come in a few different variations in terms of designs and actual pop-up design. So as you can see, this one over here just has a simple rose in the middle. So as soon as you close it, it closes flat. They have some more intricate ones like this one, which resembles a wedding and some trees. Here we have one that's like a cherry blossom tree. And then you can also find some more intricate ones like this one right here. Some with some pretty crazy designs engraved into them or carved out. And a lot of them are gonna be like this one where they resemble some sort of love message. And those were the top 10 products for you to drop ship for Valentine's Day 2024 plus one bonus. 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Alright guys so today what I wanted to do is create something a little bit like a quick tip but also a full haircut so what I did was I took a mannequin that we had cut already it was our long layered haircut with the face frame so if you look back a couple videos you'll see it what I wanted to do is take that haircut and quickly turn it into a bob using a carving comb razor so I'll show you guys how to do that and then what we did was I showed you a couple versatile styles with it so let me show you what the curly look like here and then now I'm going to show you what the straight style looks like that way it shows you guys that this haircut can work on both curly hair and straight hair because I knew I was going to get those questions but also the great thing about this is it's such a quick technique so you can use it in the salon on a busy day when you need to establish a shape and then go in and dry cut and detail it so hope you guys like it check it out here we go with our step-by-step alright so we start off this cut with sectioning from the parietal ridge back to mid crown across drawing a horizontal line across mid crown and then back across the parietal ridge so creating a nice rectangle shape on the top and then we section out the temple area directly behind the ear and clip that away so to start this cut we're going to take out about a four inch panel out of the back so pretty much finger width so base it on that and then we're going to use our carving comb at a 45 degree angle and just use quick small strokes to create the line we're drawing a horizontal line all the way across the back of the head and what that's going to do is because of the head shape it's going to create different elevations within the haircut so we're actually creating a bob shape by doing one cut and this works really great on medium to fine hair with thicker hair you might want to take a couple sections but you can see that shape already unfolding this is a quick way to cut a bob in the salon get your shape stamped out in the haircut and then go in and do some dry cutting later so again keeping that carving comb at a 45 degree angle the great thing about the carving comb is that I'm using carving comb fine there's a wide-toothed version as well the only difference is the actual comb that's on the end of it so I'm using the fine teeth to get more precise sectioning and better combing and then I go through and I just slide it's 100% carved side so it'll cut 100% of the hair on one side and then 50% of the hair on the other so as I take down each section I like to use the Donald Scott prepare which is a liquid tool glide it it's conditioning for the hair so it allows the razor to glide through the hair nice and soft and what we're going to do now is create an undercut and this is a quick way to do it you don't have to always shave an undercut what I want to do is create some shorter pieces underneath the bob which would allow the top layers the heavier layers to just sit on top of it and create a little extra shape in the haircut but also remove weight so I just go in cut that bottom occipital bone area a little shorter and then you can see the rest falls over nice and long now we're going to go in with our 50% carve side so the entire cut so far we've been using the 100% carved side which is just like using any type of razor now we're going in with the 50% carved side which is just going to take out 50% of the hair and cut in some layers within the top section so where I like to start that is right around the occipital bone I feel like that's you know a good place where all that weight's going to stack up so it removes that weight and adds that layering and now we just go into the sides we comb them straight down and I just carved the line that I want so if you want a straight horizontal line more of a boxed bob feel then you just draw a straight line that's the beauty of using a razor it's very very easy to create those shapes and it gives you a lot of freedom so a little bit more prepare prepares great to because it also helps with sectioning because it is a little bit of a conditioner so even cutting hair with a scissor it works really well so you can see we're going through sliding medium stroke with the razor I do want to create more of a shattered edge with this haircut obviously any time I use a razor I'm looking for more of a free kind of textured look to the hair so we go through cut the line I go through with the 50% carved side and just remove some of the weight now I'm going through this is 100% carved I'm just bringing that top panel that rectangle that we created on the top over directing it back and connecting it with the back layers but I was saying to you guys earlier this is a previously cut haircut so this isn't a fresh mannequin and this is a very salon reality kind of situation because she had a layered haircut that we had done already so just going through and this is somebody that wants a little bit of a change you can go through and create this bob effect keeping the layers that she already had and now we're just going through I diffuse it I use brocado mousse in there and now I'm going to go through do a little bit of dry cutting this is the tease cutting technique that I've used a lot but I love doing it on curly hair because it's just you're going through you're looking for places that seem a little bit bulky in the cut and then just removing them with the tease cutting for that I use my Mizutani puffin five and a half inch scissor it's my dry cutting scissor so you could see the curly shape and how it expanded out there this mannequin doesn't really have curly hair so I went in and just did a diffuser it did have a little bit of natural wave to it so I hope you guys like the curly style now we're going to get into the straight style so we'll do a quick flat wrap blow-dry polishing out those ends finishing it up with our vibra straight iron and the goal with smoothing out hair is just to make sure that you polish it and follow the head shape with the hair you want to see where it's heavy and where it's not so now I'm going through just detailing the edges obviously when you cut with a razor you're gonna have a little bit more of a shattered edge so I go through there and just soften it with a little point cutting and now I'm going through with the no-thumbs technique which if you want to learn we have on past videos so definitely check those out so finishing up the outer perimeter I just moving into the side still using a point cutting technique so just using the tip of that scissor and going through and deciding what I want that line to look like in the end result keeping a lot of people ask me about scissor length the shorter your scissor the stronger the tip of the blades gonna be so when you want to go in and do this type of detail work the Mizutani puff and works great because it has a sharp tip a sharp point on it and also a really fat blade so it has a lot of power when working with dry hair so we go in we do a little bit of tease cutting I'm doing more on the straight cut as opposed to the curly cut the curly cut I just do a little bit to lighten it up with curly hair you like a little extra weight with straighter hair I like to add in more texture more movement so we just go in with the tease cutting technique and do it that way I use the brocato carve to finish up this technique I love it it's such a salon friendly look so when you guys use this haircut in the salon definitely tag me on Instagram at free salon education so I can see your work I'd love to see what you're doing with all of these videos thanks for watching guys all right guys if you made it all the way through to the end of this video you're seeing this part right here what I want you to do is put in the comments I made it through till the end because I want to see how many of you out there actually watching all the way through and you just 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It's the the musilex, the luminex, the mucinex, there, the French word you see nicks You say it. Yeah, if you say something in English as if you have a stuff, he knows it sounds sort of French Let's go with that. Yes. Absolutely. I said in English. I wasn't trying to say that all never mind I'm ready to do the show Are you? Yes, especially since a couple of people sent me The more you know clips so the more you know and this one has Bill Cosby. Thank you bio cow. Oh boy Political minefield here we go Podcasts about technology in your daily lives from people who like to put pants on frogs and one guy with a trust Where they looking beard the Daily Tech news show with Tom Merritt is brought to you by You and I at Daily Tech news show comm slash donate This is the Daily Tech news for Tuesday September 15th, 2015 I'm Tom Merritt joining me today Because it is Tuesday and they have French Tuesdays. Patrick Beja is here. Hello Patrick. Hey Tom How's it going your is trustee-looking? You know, I was going through a bunch of old photos I'm referring to the intro there. Not just, you know, yes, right now. I get it now. Thank you And and I saw a few photos from that fateful meeting we had at New Media Expo all together In 2008 and you weren't wearing the beard then it was you looked so much I was gonna say younger, but that sounds bad. So I'm gonna say Less trust worthy sounds bad as well different. Yeah, you look different. Look awful.  Yeah, anything to not have to get up and shave every day anymore. That's my motto. Absolutely Well folks, we're gonna talk about AI today in relation to virtual assistants like Cortana and Siri and such There's some interesting developments there that Patrick and I are gonna kick around But we're gonna start with the headlines and there's breaking news that Patrick's gonna bring you I'm breaking the news because Tom was too lazy to rearrange the way that the news were ordered And the breaking news is that CNBC reports mark Zuckerberg told in a Q&A session Tuesday That Facebook is working on a dislike button and is very close to shipping a test of it Zuckerberg said the new feature will allow people to express empathy with their Facebook friends. So, yeah, this thanks for the transparency I didn't want to have to reorder our our headlines, but this this happened I don't know 30 minutes before the show started and it sounds like from what he's saying that they aren't gonna have a Dislike button because they don't want people to use it to harass somebody and say I just dislike you What they want to do and what they've said they want to do for a long time is come up with a way to express Empathy so if someone says, you know having a horrible day, you could hit like a frowny face for instance I'm not saying that's how they're gonna implement it, but that's sort of the idea They say it's really complex, but they're getting close to figuring it out It's really interesting how complicated this this is because obviously when someone says, you know Oh just got divorced.  It's I'm not gonna lose, you know, 15 seconds out of my day But I can click a button and like doesn't feel appropriate for someone who just you know got a divorce So and how do you do it? It's weird It seems like something that should be easy like how complex can it be but exactly, you know figure out yourself like how do you express? sympathy With you know with one word with one click. Yeah remote. I think I expect an emojis situation and dislike is indeed a little bit different and as you were saying it's very easy to then make every post a Barrage of dislikes.  But you can replay one and then and then it still disappears forever But if you're like got distracted, it's good to be able to replay Three of them if you're extra distracted per day Yeah, it doesn't seem it seems like a fair price to me It's a it's a nap that's free in that a lot of people get a lot of views out of a one-time fee of 99 cents Doesn't seem excessive. I'm not I have no clue how many people will pay for this could be tons Could be nobody but seems like the kind of thing that snapchat would look at and say hey We're coming trying to come up with interesting monetization strategies Seems like more people would like to have a few more replays. Let's see if we can get them to fork over some cash for it Yeah, I'm fairly sure that you know more people than zero are gonna pay for it So it's gonna be making money for a snapchat The next web reports Tim Cook told BuzzFeed Apple could let users you've pre-installed iOS apps in the future Cook said some apps are tied into the US but added I recognized that some people want to do this and it's something we're looking at the entire interview with Tim Cook can be found on the BuzzFeed article 20 minutes with team cook very appropriately named Thanks to her mouth for the subreddit post. Yeah, so I get where certain apps maybe weather Maps certainly the browser Phone are very much tied into the operating system and you wouldn't want people to be able to remove them but Tips Just let me turn this. Let me hide them. Just let me let me make the icons disappear from the home screen if nothing else I mean, I would like to save a little storage if I could get rid of them as well, but Doesn't seem like it should be that hard, huh?  They're like, oh, but I want to remove them And I guess if it's an option then you can bring us is simplicity and design and if you have a tips app That you can't get rid of elegantly it ruins the simplicity and design of your experience That's debatable. I think depending on how you run them If you remove them and they can never come back I think it might be a problem for some of the very basic users who you know might do it Mistakenly but if you can bring them back in the settings that there there's a way to do it. It's just a choice Tech crunch passes along the Wall Street Journal report that Facebook has agreed to work with the German Justice Ministry to prevent Xenophobic and racist messages from being posted Facebook also says it's striving to partner with NGO FSM to combat hate speech Facebook is also setting up its own task force inviting local community organizations to cooperate Facebook favors an approach involving counter speech where you just try to outpost anything that is sort of Xenophobic or or hateful, but they're not against removing it if it violates local laws it's a really difficult problem and I know that European countries and France and Germany especially have been faith, you know have bigger challenges there than probably the US do because of the way we approach free speech especially xenophobic and anti-semitic discourse, but it's It's a really difficult problem Who is responsible for handling those because obviously the governments are saying well, this is Illegal so it should be removed, but then who decides what's legal and what's not do you involve the judge? Do you not do you automate the thing and then who sees it once it's hidden? You know that Twitter for example can hide Some elements in the country where it's illegal, but then in the other countries it will still appear and it's a Just like the dislike button. It's a lot more complex than you initially think but I think what Facebook's doing here is saying look It's always been the government would like us to move faster on these sorts of things Then we have so let's try to figure out a better way of approaching it That makes everybody happier because it is especially with the immigration crisis in Europe. It's becoming more of an acute problem Yeah, it's all we talk about here in the past few weeks. It's been very prominent. So Star Fury Zeta posted on the subreddit that open source certificate authority Let's Encrypt has issued its first certificate to beta testers If the test goes well, the certificate will be available for everyone sometime around November 16th 2015 let's Encrypt was founded by the EFF Mozilla University of Michigan In an effort to make HTTPS implementation easier. Yeah It's a nice signpost along the road to encrypting all the things so make it encrypts all the things Qualcomm unveiled new details about its upcoming Snapdragon 820 system on a chip according to engadget the 820 will support the 600 megabit per second LTE advanced standard with upload speeds up to 150 megabits per second and it will come with 802 11 AD Wi-Fi supporting speeds up to 7 gigabits per second snapdragon 820 also comes with Qualcomm's new quick charge 3.0 technology which can charge batteries from 0 to 80 percent in 35 minutes Snapdragon 820 is expected to arrive next year. Although the snapdragon 617 will come out by the end of the year and also supports that quick charge feature as Do the 430 618 and 620 models of snapdragon? You know what's gonna happen with Apple, right? They're gonna come out with in a couple of years with a feature and they're gonna call it Zoom charge and they're gonna charge They're gonna be like this is amazing fast charge 25 minutes. Yeah Facebook announced that its mobile website can receive push notifications in Chrome using Google's mobile web alert standard the this obtained I'm sorry this opt-in Feature is seen as necessary for data-limited users who use the mobile web more than apps Google's notification standard is used by opera and China's UC browser and will come to Firefox 42 in November Yeah, this is something, you know I sometimes a material leader for web apps over standalone apps and I believe there's a place for both There's certain things that that what that standalone apps can do better. That's why software exists But I think we are undervaluing the cross-platform Compatibility that the web is supposed to stand for one of the things that has been an issue though is doing notifications and alerting people Things in your app has been difficult on the web So I'm very happy to see that this alert standard is getting some momentum getting some take-up And that somebody like Facebook in in mostly in developing places where people don't use apps because of data charges Is finding it necessary to adopt it which will push it even farther into the mainstream Every time you go on your spiel about how the web is it's swinging between the web and apps I you did it last week and I wanted to jump into the show and go like but no Tom It's not necessarily the case. There are examples where this and that but that's swinging back with alerts for web Mmm We'll see we'll see Ricard reports nine of the world's biggest banks are partnering with financial tech company R3 to create a framework for using blockchain technology in financial markets These are big names on top of this J.P. Morgan State Street UBS Royal Bank of Scotland Credit Suisse BBVA and Commonwealth Bank of Australia have signed up so far the blockchain works as a Decentralized tamper-proof ledger of transactions obviously most famously Blockchains are used in Bitcoin. It's expected that this blockchain would be used initially in post trade For things such as issuing commercial paper Just sort of it's a kind of oversimplifying it sending a receipt if you will but it doesn't have to be public it can be private information exchange and I think this is one of the things people misunderstand about Bitcoin is there's the idea of Bitcoin becoming a currency and being accepted But then there's the whole underlying technology that makes Bitcoin work that a lot of financial industry is looking at and saying Well, we would like to do that with other currencies with the currencies we deal with every day You know the development of the blockchain Technology has been pretty staggering in the past few years. I know there are people who are trying to create a Sort of website protocol web protocol. I think at least one project is called Ethereum I think yeah, that's right. That sounds right. Yeah And and I still don't understand exactly how it works. I would love to do a show I think it's it's so important I would like to talk about it on my show, but I don't quite under, you know, my French show the only tech I don't quite understand it well enough yet So if you could please do a show where you explain everything about it first then I could you know, maybe one of these Tuesdays We should get a blockchain expert in and we can just kind of get them to explain all that stuff because I I have a very Minimal understanding I get a concept of how it works But I think it's harder for me to answer questions about it because I don't have a fundamental understanding of it Exactly. Yeah, it could be interesting Sony announced a few things at its Tokyo game show press conference today first the morphers the project Morpheus will be officially named PlayStation VR Second for new ps4 controllers will come out in Japan later this year in gold silver steel black and Crystal crystal is just transparent Plastic, but you know sounds cool and three the big news is that starting October 1st The price of the PlayStation 4 in Japan will drop from basically 40,000 yen to 35,000 yen give or take a couple of yen that's around $292 to 258 dollars so sizable chunk 250 euros Yes, oh, I'm sorry. I mean yeah euros the new price at around 300 euros or 250 euros more or less It's an interesting step. I mean the console is basically two years old Right about now. I Wouldn't expect the prices to come down in Europe quite as fast or the US basically in the West Because it's possible that they're doing this in Japan Earlier than they would have wanted to because they're not selling as much as they would have hoped in Japan and in in the West The PlayStation 4 is doing exceedingly well, so they could afford not to bring the price down And maybe they're going to wouldn't surprise me. It's not a guarantee and and to that They're not too many people are doing this, but a few people are like, why is it only for Japan's like? Well, it's the Tokyo game show people That's that's where you announce things that happened in Japan at the Tokyo game show How do you say Porsche or Porsche I? Would naturally say Porsche, but I've heard so many American TV shows or movies where people say Porsche I would be afraid that people wouldn't understand if I said Porsche.  I stand with Patrick European Porsche is showing a concept car. Why it sounded suddenly so Midwestern when I said it Porsche Porsche it's like worse Porsche is showing a concept car at the Frankfurt auto show called mission E The electric sports car has 590 horsepower and acclaimed 310.7 mile range. It's a touch less horsepower But a bit more range than a Tesla Model S if you want to compare the mission E uses two permanent magnet synchronous motors Also uses an 800 volt system that can charge to 80 percent in 15 minutes What is it with everything charging to 80 percent faster today? This is kind of clear It's it's it probably has to do with complicated battery technology that can charge to 80 percent in 15 to 30 minutes Yeah, basically But I think if I if I could venture to I'm not gonna speak for Elon Musk But I would guess that when Elon Musk decided to go high-end sports car With the with his electric cars one of the things he was hoping is that he would spur High-end sports cars to try to make an electric car where they might not have otherwise because it was sort of disdain Does all electric cars are for little putt putt cars? So I feel like this is Tesla's mission being accomplished that Porsche is developing a mission E Yeah, good job, Elon and Finally sleepless in VA. Is that the right way to read? Yeah Sleepless in VA because I think VA is for Virginia. So sleepless in Virginia. Yeah So sleepless in VA sent us the daily dot report that a project loon balloon met its doom While sailing over a suburb of Los Angeles Project loon balloons are part of the Google X plans to provide accessible internet in underserved regions around the world But this one landed in Janet Oliphson's yard in Chino Hills, California medium-income $97,000 a year Google X's parent company alphabet Told KBCW that the loon was intended to land nearby. Yeah, they just missed They didn't stick the landing Good thing Chino Hills is getting that that project loon internet Those underserved mansions have been dying for a little wireless internet Sure, they they need those alerts on their mobile browser versions of Facebook too Now it's I mean There's really no significance to this story other than oh Google was like trying to land project loon somewhere and they missed You know what? It allowed me to say Project loon balloon met its doom. 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All right, so Don Riesinger Great writer writes for CNET writes for fortune writes for a bunch of people writing in fortune was talking about The fact that Apple Microsoft and Google are all competing for control of artificial intelligence Particularly we see it as a fight of personal assistance Cortana Siri Alexa Google now those are all the the products that are trying to take advantage of something called machine learning Bruce Daley principal analyst at Traktica wrote on April 23rd While artificial intelligence has been just beyond the horizon for a decades a new era is dawning systems modeled on the human brain Such as deep learning are being applied to tasks as varied as medical diagnostic systems credit scoring program trading Fraud detection product recommendations image classification speech recognition language translation and self-driving vehicles the results are starting to speak for themselves And there's a ton of news about this Apple recently planning to hire 86 full-time AI experts to beef up Siri Google if you remember back in 2014 started partnering with Oxford University's AI teams Google has a division called Deep Mind Facebook hired Professor Jan Lacoon who's a preeminent person in this field as director of its own AI research Remember we were hearing about project M Which actually combines real humans with AI to provide some kind of personal assistant Microsoft's been working on this forever Xbox one has voice recognition obviously Cortana Skype translation is another example of machine learning and Technology research from Traktica that I was just talking about estimates that deep learning for enterprise Which in 2015 is expected to be a 202.5 million dollar business will be worth eleven point one billion dollars as a market by 2024 so Patrick It's like looking at the tip of the iceberg when we're talking about personal assistance But while a lot of that machine learning is going to be used for lots of other things The most impact it's gonna have on us is in the ability for us to interact with our devices, right? I Think yeah, I think it's it's very easy to look at all of this and to think oh, you know They're need software toys They're kind of cool Then when you ask your phone for the weather it answers and that's funny and sort of discard it as a fun gadget But then you look at who's getting into this and and I don't know if you guys use that acronym of well not acronym But we say gaffa and we just said at the end so it's gaffam, which is Google Apple Facebook Amazon and Microsoft just joined the club recently But they're all all of those are like the most important tech companies in the world supposedly and all of them are interested in that field in the digital assistant and virtual and artificial intelligence so While it they are obviously trying to make something fun and more usable I think there's something more behind it, right? It's it's Supremely important for all of those because they're sinking a lot of money into it and it goes beyond just the funny The the fun toy and the fun sometimes reliable sometimes not super reliable thing and so the first thing I see is The in the you know midterm I see this becoming another another paradigm shift in Ui meaning it could replace in some cases and it's it already is replacing search And obviously we know what makes money on the web now It's content discovery con content is difficult to find and that's where Google is Has made its fortune because it was it became the interface For finding content on the web plaster some ads on that and rake it in that's what Google's been doing in ten years And and so what these digital assistants do is that they replace your interaction with your device In that you don't need to go in and type in a web browser anymore because you ask Siri or Cortana or Google now Hey, when is the movie playing that I like and so better yet Google now notices that you're near the theater and says hey I know you've been wanting to see a beautiful mind. It's playing I don't know why a beautiful I would be playing straight out of Compton straight out of Compton is playing in an hour And and so I think it's easy to think well This is just a web search that the assistant does for us But really it isn't they can connect to any service that they want and they could connect as you know Some of them do directly to I don't know IMDB for example Bypassing the web search initially it was just web search that they did mostly But they can bypass the best web search meaning that when they finally become reliable enough that you can rely on them This can completely bypass the not the entirety but a good portion of Google's business model and become a Portion of the way we search for content. So I think in that already it is super important for the industry because it It is the first thing since the arrival the dominance of Google has been established that could circumvent it Also, I think that's it raises the frightening possibility of your your voice assistant Suggesting things based on advertising Well that that you know, right like oh you're near the theater. I know you want to see The straight out of Compton, which is playing in an hour. You can go get five dollars off a sandwich at McDonald's right now So basically it's the minority report ads that talk to you except they're not in In the street they're in your phone. Yeah, no, it's it's basically again in the same way that Google's technology Allowed for new kinds of interaction and advertising and business models We don't even know where those are going to be taking us and I think it's it's Very important for all of these companies there They're you know, they're seeing it coming and they're thinking if we want to stay relevant We'd better start investing in this now because once they're actually Important in two three four or five years It will be too late for us to get on that train at that point just like it's very difficult to unseat Google now because they're you know, they're established there. They have the first mover advantage now You can take this this analysis to its extreme and I know you were you were going to talk about this It can replace not just search But it can replace a lot of UI elements if you just tell your phone what you want and and that happens, right? Obviously if you want to play a video game, you're not gonna play it with your voice There's if you're typing a document, you might want to dictate it. You might want to type it But how much of the UI do you think it can replace because personally? I don't really like to talk to my devices a lot. I prefer to be silent And I've always been waiting for that that ability to recognize your your your facial muscles So I could mouth words without having to say I'm out loud, but maybe I'm in the minority Well, I think it also has to do specifically for the dictation I think it has to do with the fact that you have to utter the text Exactly the way you wanted to see appear you want to see it appear in order for it to work But imagine that you could talk to it just like you would typist and you would go, you know, all right, so next paragraph Start with I don't know. All right Tom was coming out of his house and suddenly the dogs Left into the garden. Oh, no wait not the dogs the dog He'll only have one dog and you and that person understood that person Yeah, that that AI understands what is supposed to be text and what is it maybe at that point? It might be More usable. Well, that's a little farther down the road Orin Etzioni is a professor of computer science and executive director of the Allen Institute for artificial intelligence In Reisinger's article said real understanding of what a person says and having the kind of dialogue You might have with a hotel concierge are elusive challenges He says you won't see them on your iPhone or your Apple TV anytime soon. So we're we're at the cuss But it's it's it's a little bit of a shell game, right? How much of it is supervised learning where they did a phone tree and they said well if you hear this this and this say this and How much of it can really anticipate based on a little bit of data analysis and machine learning or some kind of unsupervised learning? Where it's where it knows enough about you that it can Suggest and that's that's what Google now is doing. That's what Cortana is doing That's what Siri is beginning to do where they they know your behaviors They know the context. They know the GPS and they can anticipate a little more It's not quite the same as having a conversation with a butler, but it does things before you ask for them Which is extremely helpful There's a privacy trade-off there though, and that's that you have to let that assistant Store a lot of data about you on a distant server because your phone isn't powerful yet enough to do all of that processing Definitely. Yeah, no, definitely. I think but I think we're still in that mid-term phase here, you know the predictive stuff the Semi-phone tree type of interaction is sort of you're right. We're on the cusp of that, but the UI Parading transformation Is where things really start to get serious because I think at that point, you know, there's there's one thing that always amuses me We used to think that everyone would know how to use a computer Right, we used to think that it was a skill that we were going to learn and that the entire world would know Exactly how to do everything will be trained to use computers, right? Yeah, and and the reality is that Us and probably the audience listening to this now is when they go back to their family or when they have a neighbor Who does who has a problem they call us and they're like, oh the mouse thing is misbehaving and You know, so people and actually people don't usually don't really even know how to use a VCR People don't know how Android devices and iOS devices work. So where I'm going with this is the fact that all of those UIs are still too complicated for regular people and the ultimate UI is going to be Disappearance the entire disappearance of the you know the graphical UI or for most tasks and just you talking to the device The way you talk to someone and then or even you not having to talk to it Because it knows enough about you to just present you with the information, right? You're not you're not walking through the airport and saying Siri tell me where my gate is you're walking through the airport and then suddenly in your you know Subdermal Audio chip it says your gate is 82 because it knows you're close enough and you don't have to say a thing No, yeah, exactly. And that's where it becomes I see Ken from Chicago is Saying in the chat room people do know how to use computers for limited tasks. That's exactly my point I think The the they don't know how to operate the machine how it functions right and and for most tasks You actually do need to know that I realized my mom was trying to use her phone and even with her phone She doesn't actually you know know everything and the the the ultimate Point of these Devices is that anyone can use them easily and so whether they anticipate your Your needs or in the information you're gonna need or whether you have to talk to them This is a next step in computer interaction because what is a UI actually? You know it's user interface and the user interface could be really anything It doesn't have to be a mouse and a keyboard or your finger or a screen It could be anything yeah, and and and so no matter Where we go with all of this it will have to do with artificial intelligence and those Virtual assistants so again down the line. It's much further down the line But down the line it is the logical Conclusion of the efforts that all of these huge tech companies are undertaking now So I think they're looking at that and thinking again. We have to start now if we want to yeah We need to have our platform if we're not going to get left behind absolutely All right, let us know what you think about this sort of thing feedback at daily tech new show comm or pick of the day Comes from bill high-tech bill Analyst patron. Thank you bill says my pick of the day is Leapol Paris plum luggage LIP a ULT because they are lightweight 28 inch bags 7.5 pounds. This is great when I'll be gone for a week and need both professional and casual clothes I like a luggage pick My personal pick and I mentioned this yesterday when we had Kevin Purdy on the show is the Briggs and Riley Suitcase, it's not the one single pick from wire cutter But it was one that they said look if you're traveling internationally you need the 26 inch not the 28 inch sometimes You might want to look at that So I'm gonna throw in a pick and say look at the Leapol Paris plum that bill says maybe look at the Briggs and Riley as Well, I don't know if Patrick. I didn't prepare Patrick with a luggage pick well actually I do have a luggage pick it just so happens that I purchased a few weeks ago a few months ago a Herschel What is it Herschel design Herschel something? Bag backpack. It's not a suitcase, but it's a backpack that has a Little pocket for your laptop That is padded so you don't have a you don't have to have the laptop itself In a sleeve and if you use the plus designs, I think they're cold You also have a little padded pocket for your tablet as well, which is very handy Plus those are super hipster ish Bags right now. They're super in so what are they called again Herschel. Wait a second. Don't move H-E-R-S-H-E-L Herschel I'm guessing Herschel for the video people. There you go. Oh, right.  That's the one yeah Herschel supply cool brand Excellent look. I who knew you would get so much luggage Advice on a tech show the day after getting toilet scrubber advice on a tech show We try to broaden our our offerings Send your picks to us folks feedback at daily tech news show calm You can find my picks at daily tech news show comm slash picks one message for today Jeff from Knoxville, Tennessee said on yesterday's show You and Veronica were questioning why Google is offering 34 minutes of high-speed Wi-Fi in India rather than 30 or 35 Or some other more Orthodox number if I know Google and I think I do the limit is probably really 34 minutes and eight seconds or 2048 seconds of high-speed internet Wouldn't be surprised Jeff that's that's interesting because I can't think of any other reason why it makes complete sense And you know what I think that from now on even if it's not the reason I think it is the reason Yeah, that's now become the reason there you go Well, thank you everyone. Thank you Jeff. Thank you Patrick Twitter comm slash not Patrick No T P A T R I C K and of course French spin comm for all of Patrick's English language podcasts of which there are a few and they are awesome Oh, thank you so much. Yeah, I do a few shows. I do a show about gaming. I do a show about international love I dare say because we talk and we talk in a very caring and Friendly manner and we express on love feel alias. Yes Exactly exactly but yeah, and also I Recently read if I went through my personal blog at Patrick Beja comm and I found a few articles one of them was something I wrote it was called true love and it was I wrote it just a few days before my wedding and I just published it for some reason. I hadn't published it and it made a few people happy and I found the blog post which is the most informational piece of text I have ever written called the real secrets of the French kiss Which teaches you how to not the you know, slobbery, you know tongue kiss But how to greet people in France and you know, you have to do that the French kiss got it. Yes, exactly. It's a funny title But yeah, so go to the blog Patrick Beja comm and search for kiss There's a little search field and you'll get everything you need to do to greet people the proper way depending It's actually super complicated if it's a if it's you know, if it's a guide you kiss them If you're not in Paris, is it the same as if you are in Paris? So there you know, who knew you would get such a wealth of different kinds of advice Well, I don't know who knew but if you go read that article you will know. 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Talk to you then This show is part of the frog pants network get more at frog pants comm That was a great show Yeah, it was fun. I'll take music next more often Yeah captain jack and 913 shaking hands is acceptable in France, but sometimes though Women kiss on the cheek most of the time if they at least know each other men kiss women Men sometimes kiss men, but it depends on the situation the relationship a bunch of things I'm sorry and the neighborhood Probably yes Well, I'll make it real simple for you the title is probably gonna be 99 gook balloons Ninety-nine sick gook balloons other suggestions You gotta have a name it when you have a Nina a Nina reference when else are you gonna get that? Oh, yeah, yeah, I lean in and we all so we also talked about Germany, so right It been I'm a jelly donut. Yeah, that's what I that's what the road I was heading down then I was like All right guys, I actually have to go. Oh, okay. No worries And To you as well my dear And big hugs to the chat You are always amazing And I love the pros in like the best thing and the chip doesn't trickle it ever don't move I have to screen grab it. I did not frozen on myself. So all right, bye guys. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye, Roger. Bye Tom Bye Ellie Wow Not say goodbye to the chief happiness officer. I feel like that's a stunning corporate etiquette breach. I Did I said by any he said by Ellie. She was just acknowledging it. Yeah, exactly. He responded. All right. Bye. Bye She's very excited that he said goodbye to her. Yeah, she likes people Probably for another month and that's where'd you get her Roger? I know right If you go by the goodwill and you donate a certain amount a baby That's right. That's where babies come from My wife that if there were a million of these running across the border no one would say Oh my gosh She is so cute It's in a good mood today too, I could tell yeah, I'm just gonna I'm sorry Tom. I'm gonna make my picture Ellie I just like like one of the unacknowledged perks of this job is getting to stare at a cute baby growing up day by day It's pretty awesome. These are the talky stage And by talking I mean making noises She's podcasting She sees you doing it.  Look at this. I don't play Hearthstone. That's crazy Have you played Heroes of the what's the one? Heroes of the storm? Yeah. Nope. I've never played a single blizzard game Have you played Heroes of the storm Tom? Yeah, I've not in a while Wasn't very good at it It's not my kind of game. It does have a high frustration factor initially Chris, I guess I just know what I like I love those almost open world and full open world games and I'm content with that In a way but like that I don't have to play with other people because we play those games to like go away from the World and not to join it in a different way so it's just you know Like right now we're playing the Witcher or Witcher 3 And That's good because you could just it's not quite full open world like it's definitely still driving new places. Yeah but But I enjoy it Yeah, that's why that was the last game I played with Skyrim It was funny. I really enjoyed that game and I tried to pick it up again. It's like I can't get into it Yeah Skyrim. Yeah Yeah, that's a thing certain what you're done And then it's just wandering around doing variations of things and I didn't want to do the DLC just yet. So You know life Life don't talk to me about life. I'm just wait.  I'm so excited. Oh Mass Effect Ken from Chicago. Yes, I played the Mass Effect 3 I played no two Three I three I got stuck No, I got stuck at that beginning Rolling there was some weird thing like really near the beginning where you had to execute like a tuck-and-roll around a corner And I must have done it a hundred times and I just couldn't do it and I gave up and that was it for Mass Effect 3. I Finished it just because I want to see how the story ended. I was very very disappointed in Bioware Yeah, I Gleaned that that was the general sentiment. Well, it got so bad that they just came out with a special download to give you What other option the third option? Which is kind of like a cop out whatever The whole story was better initially in the first and the second one that the way it resolved itself I'm hoping Mass Effect 4 goes back to Slightly more and this is what I call the trilogy effect like you saw it in the Matrix, right? Yeah, the second one was not as great But it was good because he's trying to explain stuff and all that mystery and magic He was like what and the third one really just like okay.  Yeah Brothers didn't plan on making two more than someone dangle a giant pile of cash like oh your first movie did so well Wait, there was another director that that happened to like they made three and they hadn't planned really to make But then I realized there was a giant pile of cash. Yeah Yeah Did you guys see the Creed the second Creed trailer that came out today, I'm pretty excited about that As in Rocky oh Didn't see that. Yeah, it's pretty solid I thought you meant the band and I thought the guy like yeah Yeah, I was like I was think I knew that she didn't mean the band, but that's all that was in my head was like Apollo Creed's son right grandson. Yeah. Yeah Yeah, I'm pretty excited about coming out in November as long as they keep up with the original Rocky formula and not like go No, they're going it looks like from the second trailer. It's crime Rocky Formula they're gonna do a sequel to Mary Poppins What I just read this morning. They're doing a seat. They're planning to do a sequel to Mary Poppins Okay Exactly that was my Mary Poppins fresh A product placement. Yeah Reminds me though That reminds me I have things to fill out All right, the president and CEO of United wrote me a personal email. Did he yeah Dear Thomas. He knows me so well. He calls me Thomas Is this about is this about your recent flight? It's because he just became the new CEO. Oh I know I Want us to be your first choice for every trip you take and we will put in the work needed to get there First we must focus on our customers Getting you to your destination. We guess that would be helpful I Mean for starters, I mean sure first step first step I would be fine. 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