HTA-0615: High Tech Reporter Gabe Slate — Tech Segment

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Henry introduces KRON's high-tech reporter Gabe Slate for a technology segment on KRON4 News Weekend.

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Welcome back, Cronforn News Weekend.

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Our high tech reporter Gabe Slate joins us here at Celebration Weekend.

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Okay, Gabe, turn around and tell people or show people what that is.

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Okay, well before we got to some ideas for Father's Day gifts,

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I wanted to show you one cool kid toy thing.

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I think this is the greatest kid toy I've ever seen.

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This is a Batman costume cape for a 5 to 10 year old.

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I shouldn't be wearing it, I'm too big.

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And it has this quick release lever you pull and the wings come out.

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I kind of half did it there. That was lame.

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But if you pull it hard, the wings come out.

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And then how do you put them back?

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Turn around and show them something.

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And then, yeah, isn't that kind of cool?

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Then it has these cranks.

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Turn around so they can see.

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Oh, yeah.

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It's got these cranks so you can crank it back up

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and then, you know, pull it again.

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OK, that's great.

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What is this?

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And then this is the travel rest pillow.

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This is a good idea for people who travel.

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It's a $20 gift.

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Instead of those pillows that go around your neck,

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this is a new idea for airplane travel headrest.

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You sleep like this, and this nice latch

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will go over the seat belt to keep it in place.

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And it has these strings that will run behind the airplane

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seat so just a new idea i actually did travel with it once and i thought it was better than

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those rings around your neck what's it called idea travel rest pillow travel like 20 bucks pillow yeah

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so i want to show this is you know people probably heard about this now the new nook

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simple touch glow light it's 139 you know it's a new e-reader that lights up we can't see it

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because we're outside in the daylight but i have found this has really helped my marriage because

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i read for about an hour in bed at night and those book lights or the the bright tablets you know

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to bother your partner and this will light up the screen

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without bothering your partner.

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So if you have a husband or a father that reads in bed,

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this is a great idea to not disturb the partner.

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- I'm glad your marriage has been saved.

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- These tech gadgets have saved the marriage, Henry.

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- See this?

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- This is awesome.

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- This looks just like one of the pitcher plants

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that we showed earlier.

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- Oh, it is?

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- It does look like a pitcher plant.

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- What is that?

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- This is called the GoPano and what you do

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is it's an accessory for the iPhone.

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It records, so you record video like you normally would

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and now let's go ahead and roll the video

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back at the station if you can

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and we'll talk over this.

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So this is the Go Pano.

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It's an accessory you attach onto the iPhone.

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You record video as you normally would.

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You stand in place.

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And then when you watch the video, you can see it in 360.

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So it's recording video in 360.

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And you can pan around the video, turning it left and right,

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kind of like the Google Street View video.

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I saw one where they were on a motorcycle, for example,

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going down the street.

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And the viewer gets to choose, do I

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want to look backwards, forwards, left side, right side,

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and just follow it around.

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Really interesting.

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A lot of dads play with their iPhone and record video and send out these videos.

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So 80 bucks, GoPano accessory.

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Really cool.

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What's this?

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This is something that's really catching on and hot.

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Now, I'm going to hit play on this iPhone here.

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I'm wirelessly playing music from my iPhone to this speaker.

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This is a Bluetooth speaker.

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Oh.

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Not Wi-Fi, Bluetooth.

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Anything with Bluetooth.

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So iPads, tablets, smartphones, anything with Bluetooth, you can play what is on that device.

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Can you play something more hip or is it required that you play something from the...

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I have to play something TV appropriate.

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Okay, one last.

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So wait, I want to say this is the Big Blue.

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You can get a Brookstone for $150, high-end, high-quality.

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And then this?

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Great Bluetooth speaker.

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Oh, this is great.

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Does this look familiar, the tangled earphone?

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We all deal with this.

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Yeah.

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And it's such a pain.

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So this are our earphone headphones, and when you want to use them, you just pull them out.

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Okay?

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And then when you're done, to keep the cord straight, you pull the cord cruncher, $20.

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slates facebook page for more details yeah cron4 gabe slate you'll get more details there okay yeah

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great thank you gabe slate yes have a wonderful sharing it with us marty isabel back to you

03:32
thank you henry great gadgets huh wonderful well before we say goodbye we want to say goodbye to

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one of our longtime photographers dean kendrick in fact he was the gentleman behind shooting where

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there you go hi dean thanks dean we want to thank you for your take the camera here just second oh

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Well, we want to thank Dean for his enthusiasm, for being with us for 19 years,

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and also, you know, having worked with him personally over the years,

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I always appreciated his commitment to good journalism.

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Thanks, Dean.

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Thank you, Channel 4.

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Thank you, viewers of the Bay Area and beyond.

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See you tomorrow.

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- Tomorrow.