Summary
Sam hosted the 48-hour Hamilton Heats screening, while Chris is off to interview filmmakers for Misty Flicks. The duo debate a wild rugby stadium flyover, discuss China’s massive car recall over hidden door handles, and uncover the wasabi smoke alarm for deaf people that won an IG Nobel Prize.
Kickstarter inventions go from pro-grade CNC machines to questionable folding bags, and there’s a Meta patent for AI-powered dead relatives on Facebook. A suspicious Melania Trump email scam and Harvard’s body parts debacle also get a mention.
All this and more in this week’s episode.
Links
E-cars are death traps
Smoke detector for deaf people
Meta’s Creepy Patent
Kickstart or Dropkick – Infimaker K1
Kickstart or Dropkick – Dobrag
Rugby Flyover
Aura Farming
Harvard Pays Out
Show Transcript
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Sam [00:00:22]:
Hello and welcome to episode 596 of the Chris and Sam Podcast.
Chris [00:00:26]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:00:27]:
And I’m Sam. This is your weekly fix of random technology and life. We’re all about it. I don’t know which bit, but it varies. This week, been very busy with stuff. I’m going to tell you about it. Hey, I was the host for the 48-hour screening for the Hamilton Heats.
Chris [00:00:43]:
Yeah. The quote unquote Hamilton Heats.
Sam [00:00:47]:
No, they, they do call it the Hamilton Heats.
Chris [00:00:50]:
Okay.
Sam [00:00:50]:
But the entries are for the rest of Aotearoa. And there was some feedback from some people and they were not happy with it.
Chris [00:00:58]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:00:58]:
They don’t like getting chucked in. And then another person said, hey, the, the amount of entries are down and I don’t know if it’s all part of that or if people have dropped off or we just need more filmmakers. I will tell you a genre that does not work for children that go to high school because I struggled through it, Chris.
Chris [00:01:18]:
The struggle is real.
Sam [00:01:20]:
Uh, one of the genres was POV slash found footage. Mm-hmm. Uh, so straight away it’s usually horror or some serial killer is after you.
Chris [00:01:29]:
That’s the Blair Witch Project type thing, right?
Sam [00:01:32]:
Yep. But, uh, there’s only so much screaming I can deal with. Um, and there was a lot of youth entries. There was a lot of high school teams actually in this, which is really good.
Chris [00:01:41]:
And it was good because, uh, I think, do they get a special price, the students?
Sam [00:01:45]:
Uh, I don’t know.
Chris [00:01:49]:
I just wonder if that’s the reason why there’s a lot more of those, because it’s not cheap to do 48 hours.
Sam [00:01:54]:
No, but something like that. It’s, uh, some very passionate teachers and they will get multiple groups of kids.
Chris [00:02:02]:
Yep.
Sam [00:02:03]:
Um, so that was pretty good. And there was some standout, uh, standout films and some of those filmmakers are part of the Misty Flicks Film Festival Challenge. Yep. So that was good. I had to talk to them.
Chris [00:02:16]:
So yeah, so I’m, uh, I’m, I’m going to be interviewing a bunch of the filmmakers from the challenge and it’s going to be great. We’ll be putting some of that on, um, on the social media and looking forward to that film festival and looking forward to a bunch of people seeing these challenge films because they’re all very different.
Sam [00:02:35]:
They are very different. Yeah.
Chris [00:02:37]:
Which is, it’s so cool because they’re given the same like criteria, but, and no genre, there’s no set genre.
Sam [00:02:43]:
It’s up to them.
Chris [00:02:44]:
And so, yeah, the films are very, very different. So that’s really cool.
Sam [00:02:47]:
Very creative people out there. Anything exciting this week for you?
Chris [00:02:51]:
I went to the doctors. That’s always exciting. It’s a long, long way to the doctors. Then go to chemist. No, no, it’s all right. Basically, she says what you always say, I’m stuffed.
Sam [00:03:04]:
Good.
Chris [00:03:05]:
So yeah, yeah, it’s all good.
Sam [00:03:07]:
Oh, well, that’s all right. Hey, did you see the rugby flyover in South Africa?
Chris [00:03:13]:
I saw an air safety controller react to it.
Sam [00:03:18]:
Oh, okay. So yeah, yeah. So Flightradar put it 12 to 14 meters above the height of the stadium.
Chris [00:03:26]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:03:26]:
It depends on which footage you watch, because it does get worse at one point and then it looks okay on another angle. So you’ve got that. They do, apparently they said they were within the safety guidelines of God knows what.
Chris [00:03:40]:
And, um, yeah, so this one guy, he was like, I loved it. I thought it was great. It looks good. But yeah, he goes, when we do these sorts of flyovers and stuff, usually we do it over the water or we do it over the, um, a big airfield and the crowd’s off to one side. This one, they are going over the stadium full of people. And he said, if there was a bird strike, because chances of birds sitting on top of a stadium are not zero, and that went through the motor, you’d not got a lot of options. It’s not good.
Sam [00:04:24]:
And it’s, you know, it’s bad for the people in the stadium who are just there to watch rugby, not get engulfed in jet fuel. Oh, right. If it goes bad. Yeah.
Chris [00:04:33]:
Oh yeah. If it goes bad.
Sam [00:04:34]:
But I will say like they came out, I can’t remember what they said. I think they gave like a 3 or 4 word answer when it first came out. It was like practice, precision, perfection or something. Oh, right. And then eventually they had to give out a proper thing, but it’s the second plane. I think it is as it flies over and that big Glisser fog cannon thing fires up and I’m like, that’s not good.
Chris [00:04:58]:
Yeah. Yeah. ‘Cause you could see the vortices behind the thing ’cause it’s going through the fireworks or whatever they are.
Sam [00:05:06]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:05:06]:
Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:05:07]:
Anyway, it seemed a bit crazy, but—
Chris [00:05:09]:
That was cool though. It was cool. I mean, I don’t think it’ll catch on. I don’t think people will do that again. I think only the South Africans were that dumb.
Sam [00:05:16]:
Well, yeah, that’s right. Well done.
Chris [00:05:19]:
Yeah. I thought it was cool. Speaking of dumb, China has just recalled 3 million cars, which is a pretty big recall of cars because of the hidden door handles issue.
Sam [00:05:34]:
Oh, you can’t get in?
Chris [00:05:36]:
No, you can’t get out.
Sam [00:05:38]:
Oh yeah, good.
Chris [00:05:39]:
Because the hidden door handles are basically electric. That’s basically what they are. And so If you’ve got electric doors and anything goes wrong, you’re stuck. You can’t get out. And I’ve found out since that something like, I think it’s something like 15 people have died in Teslas in the States because of this. Like one guy who’s 25 and he was ringing emergency services saying, my car’s on fire. I’ve just crashed and I can’t get out.
Sam [00:06:09]:
You need a, you need something to break the windows.
Chris [00:06:11]:
Yeah. And he didn’t get out.
Sam [00:06:13]:
Nah, that’s terrifying.
Chris [00:06:15]:
So yeah, I didn’t realize that was an issue. And I’m like, oh yes, somebody should have thought of this. So the recall thing in China is that every door handle must be mechanical. I mean, it can have electrical, you can turn it, open it and close it electronically, but it’s got to also work mechanically. So, meh.
Sam [00:06:39]:
And the other thing is if they are on fire and you’re in them, that you can’t just put them out. No, they just keep burning. Yeah. Uh, so that’s terrible. And I think, I think it’s happened here locally. I’m sure someone’s caught on, uh, out the back of Takofy, I believe. Oh, really? There was someone. Yeah.
Sam [00:06:55]:
A while ago.
Chris [00:06:56]:
Was that fatal?
Sam [00:06:57]:
I think so. Yeah. Oh, it might’ve been in my past job. That’s how I know about that.
Chris [00:07:00]:
Yeah. Well, that’s what I figured. Yeah.
Sam [00:07:02]:
Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:07:03]:
Uh, I’ve got a really cool story though.
Sam [00:07:05]:
Okay.
Chris [00:07:05]:
Really, really cool story. So this is, um, uh, it may be, they may be putting this up for a Nobel Prize because I think it, I think it’s really cool. And here we go. Oh no, Scoops, the IG Nobel Prize. I don’t know what IG is.
Sam [00:07:24]:
Uh, it’s like the joke Nobel Prize. Oh, is it? Yeah, it’s not, it’s not legitimate, but they do have Nobel Prize winners present it to the people that get the prize.
Chris [00:07:37]:
I think it’s brilliant. Um, so what it is, it’s a fire alarm, smoke detector alarm for deaf people.
Sam [00:07:45]:
Oh.
Chris [00:07:46]:
And what it does effectively is it squirts wasabi into the atmosphere and it makes you cough and choke. So if you’re asleep, you’d be like, what the hell? So yeah, how do you wake a deaf person in the middle of the night if there’s a fire? Squirt a cloud of wasabi at them, of course. Japanese researchers came up with the horseradish-based alarm system as a life-saving piece of work. And that’s what I originally had. And then I found this other story that had Nobel Prize and I just added it and I hadn’t read it, but there you go.
Sam [00:08:21]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:08:21]:
But on Thursday night, they entered the history books with an award of the IG Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Yeah, no, the research was in one of 10 areas celebrated 21st IG Nobel Prize at Harvard University. I thought it was a brilliant idea.
Sam [00:08:36]:
I mean, so there’s a couple of things here. First off, the second article here I put in here.
Chris [00:08:43]:
Oh, you put that one in? Because I was going to say, I didn’t think I’d saw that.
Sam [00:08:45]:
No, no, don’t worry. You just, you think you’re crazy, but no, I put it in there because when you, I saw the link to your one and it was just a LinkedIn post and I was like, is this legit? I didn’t trust that link, but it is. So that’s fine. It’s a spoof on the Nobel Prize. That’s what that thing is. They, one of the 10 areas celebrated. The other winners included researchers who looked at whether people make better decisions when they have a strong urge to urinate, whether yawning is contagious in tortoises— it’s not— and an analysis of why people sigh. So it is some sort of scientific-based merit, but it’s not world-changing, I guess.
Chris [00:09:23]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:09:23]:
But they do, and everyone turns up for these awards. Like, it’s a big thing to get nominated for this thing. The only thing I liked was they tested on 14 people and they’ll It worked on 13, but not the 14th one because his nose was blocked.
Chris [00:09:37]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:09:37]:
And it works between 10 seconds and 2 minutes. So it’s not super instant for some people.
Chris [00:09:44]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:09:44]:
But that’d be a terrible thing to wake up to, like burning nostrils.
Chris [00:09:48]:
Well, yeah. I mean, I do wonder though, how many people would sleep through an alarm?
Sam [00:09:53]:
Well, this is for deaf people. So all of them.
Chris [00:09:55]:
Yeah, no, but you know, I mean, Properly hearing people.
Sam [00:09:59]:
I think it depends on where the alarm is. Yeah. Like if you go have one outside your room down a hallway.
Chris [00:10:05]:
Yeah. Because there are some people that just sleep through all sorts of, like their alarm next to their bed and all that sort of stuff. Yeah.
Sam [00:10:11]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:10:11]:
They just totally sleep through it.
Sam [00:10:12]:
Don’t know what’s wrong with those people.
Chris [00:10:13]:
So, you know, I, I, yeah, I’m not one of those people, but okay. And in my defense, I have added second links to half of my things. So I’m like, I don’t remember adding that link to that, but anyway.
Sam [00:10:26]:
It’s okay. I’ve got something that you can do. You might have to wait until you’ve got your hip replacement. Aura farming. It’s a big craze around—
Chris [00:10:36]:
Aura?
Sam [00:10:36]:
Yep. Aura.
Chris [00:10:37]:
A-A-U-R-A.
Sam [00:10:38]:
That’s the one.
Chris [00:10:39]:
Okay.
Sam [00:10:40]:
Uh, it’s a video game inspired youth trend that’s sweeping Latin America. I’m waiting for it to appear here and you can take part. Uh, it’s aura battles. So it’s like dance-offs, but they’re dressed up as some characters that they like from video games, and they don’t have to be any good.
Chris [00:11:02]:
Oh, so that’s why you thought of me, right?
Sam [00:11:05]:
They get recognition and good vibes from a crowd, and then depending on how big the crowd reacts, you make it through to the next round. They’ve been taking place across Lima, Peru, on the beach, Mexico City, Argentina. Uh, a whole bunch of places like that. And, um, they just want to generate good vibes and improve their aura.
Chris [00:11:27]:
Oh God, this reminds— this is taking me back to something.
Sam [00:11:30]:
Okay, go. We need to know now. What poor decision did you make as a youth?
Chris [00:11:34]:
Oh, it wasn’t, it wasn’t me. It was a friend of mine, a guy in the karate club called Murray. Murray was a baker, not schooled, let’s say. A simple guy. Nice guy. Really nice guy.
Sam [00:11:48]:
Yeah. Solid.
Chris [00:11:48]:
But doesn’t know much, like wasn’t very onto anything really.
Sam [00:11:52]:
Okay.
Chris [00:11:52]:
And he had one passion in life.
Sam [00:11:56]:
And what was that?
Chris [00:11:57]:
Elvis.
Sam [00:11:58]:
Oh, okay. Okay.
Chris [00:11:59]:
And he was an Elvis impersonator.
Sam [00:12:01]:
Did he look good when he was—
Chris [00:12:03]:
Nope.
Sam [00:12:03]:
Okay.
Chris [00:12:04]:
Possibly the worst looking Elvis impersonator you could ever imagine.
Sam [00:12:09]:
Could he sing?
Chris [00:12:11]:
Nope. He tried. He was possibly the worst in every possible idea of what an Elvis impersonator could be. But he was so passionate and so dedicated that you sort of just smiled and nodded and went with it.
Sam [00:12:33]:
Were people booking him for things?
Chris [00:12:35]:
Nope.
Sam [00:12:35]:
Hang on.
Chris [00:12:36]:
But he showed up to everything. There were always competitions with Elvis impersonators. The Working Men’s Club would do one every now and again. Whenever there was anything Elvis, he was there, he had all the sequin jackets, he had all the stuff, he had all the—
Sam [00:12:50]:
He’s committed.
Chris [00:12:51]:
Yeah, he had everything.
Sam [00:12:52]:
Okay.
Chris [00:12:53]:
Um, that’s where all his bakery money went to.
Sam [00:12:55]:
Um, but he was also part of the karate club. Yeah.
Chris [00:12:58]:
Yeah. He, he fought with us. Yeah.
Sam [00:13:00]:
Okay.
Chris [00:13:00]:
Okay.
Sam [00:13:01]:
I wonder what he’s up to these days.
Chris [00:13:03]:
And I think he did it because Elvis had his black belt.
Sam [00:13:08]:
Oh, okay.
Chris [00:13:10]:
Yeah. I think it’s the only reason he joined the club. It’s because Elvis was a martial artist as well, so I’ve got to do karate.
Sam [00:13:16]:
Well, passions are weird. You can’t really judge anyone for it.
Chris [00:13:20]:
They are.
Sam [00:13:21]:
They are.
Chris [00:13:21]:
Anyway, I haven’t thought of Murray in decades, so yeah.
Sam [00:13:25]:
Well, that’s good. That’s good. Uh, Harvard has decided to pay out a bunch of money, $53 million in fact. Ooh. I’m, we may have spoken about this or something similar. Uh, it was the body parts theft lawsuit. There was a morgue, there was a morgue manager, uh, who was sort of supplying or gathering body parts, uh, for Harvard Medical School. ‘Cause I guess from like, even from its inception, like years ago, they were robbing graves and stuff.
Sam [00:13:57]:
Yeah. So, uh, but actually the, the remains were sold to buyers in Pennsylvania and elsewhere. That’s what he got actually done for. Uh, he stole Um, and sold body parts donated for research. Oh, was he the guy that sold the woman’s body and then they blew her up? Do you remember that story?
Chris [00:14:17]:
No, I don’t even remember that story.
Sam [00:14:19]:
Oh, there was, uh, they, they can’t determine precisely which donors were affected, but there was, uh, a while back, I don’t know if it was these guys or not. Um, he was trying to find out what they did with his mum’s body or something, and they sold the body. Because you can get catalogs of people and they sold it to like a defense contractor. And I think they launched like an RPG or something at her. Anyway, that might be a different story, but it’s along the same lines. So naughty, naughty. Yeah. And I guess they split that money out between all the people that had the families.
Sam [00:14:52]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:14:53]:
Geez, Harvard. Geez. Okay.
Sam [00:14:56]:
I’m assuming that’s just chump change for them.
Chris [00:14:58]:
Well, actually, speaking of that, I got a, a, um, an email this week from Someone famous who obviously knows me.
Sam [00:15:08]:
Listens to the podcast?
Chris [00:15:10]:
Must be. That’s where it was. I was trying to, racking my brains, like, how does Melania Trump know me? How does Melania—
Sam [00:15:17]:
How does she know you?
Chris [00:15:19]:
I don’t know.
Sam [00:15:19]:
She felt Chris Eyes activated from across the world.
Chris [00:15:23]:
No, that’s a categorical no. But anyway, so I got this email from Mrs. Melania Trump. I’m going to read it out. I’ll try and do it in her voice, shall I?
Sam [00:15:34]:
No, I don’t think you can.
Chris [00:15:35]:
I hope you are doing well today. She didn’t say Chris, so it’s already got my spidey senses tingling, like, does she really know me? Because she didn’t use my name. But anyway.
Sam [00:15:48]:
Okay.
Chris [00:15:48]:
It might interest you to know today—
Sam [00:15:51]:
She’s too South African. Carry on.
Chris [00:15:53]:
I just thought that. It might interest you to know today that we have completed investigation in the ATM Visa card worth $10. $5 million in your name. And I was like, holy crap, what is the First Lady of the United States doing investigations for? These Trumps, they’re so deep into it.
Sam [00:16:16]:
That should be the concern.
Chris [00:16:17]:
They’re committed. They’re committed.
Sam [00:16:18]:
That’s the problem with that story.
Chris [00:16:20]:
With Bank of America in New York today, and you are hereby approved to receive the Visa card as assigned to Dr. Rafiq Bengali. at FDX Courier Company, as we have verified the entire transaction to be safe and 100% risk-free by the United States of America federal government and White House representatives.
Sam [00:16:47]:
Hang on. Was there a doctor working at the courier company?
Chris [00:16:50]:
Yeah, it sounded like it.
Sam [00:16:52]:
Okay, cool.
Chris [00:16:52]:
Carry on. If you receive this email in your spam junk folder mail, then move it to your inbox before responding to me. So I’ll be able to receive your email. This message is coming to you from Mrs. Melania Trump. I’m writing to inform you about your back— and it’s basically saying it again— and your 2025 Rolls-Royce Cullinan bought by the White House Washington, D.C. agency and has been mandated to be delivered to your address. As soon as you get back to me with the below information, please send 1, your full name, 3, I can’t count, okay? Honestly, I’m just reading this.
Chris [00:17:37]:
1, your first name, 3, your country, 4, your home address, 2, your telephone number, 5, your nearest airport. Your ATM contains the sum of $10.5 million. Kindly help directly to— kindly reply directly to this email you received. I will be waiting to hear from you with your full information Immediately you receive this good news. Thanks and God bless you. Remember to move this message to your inbox mail before you can respond to my email so I can be able to receive your email. Remain blessed. Yours faithfully, Her Excellency, Mrs.
Chris [00:18:13]:
Melania Trump.
Sam [00:18:14]:
There’s got to be better ways of scamming people than writing that crap. You could just—
Chris [00:18:21]:
I mean, AI could do a way better job than that.
Sam [00:18:23]:
You could just go, hey, uh, we just found out that this bank account has, uh, $2,450 in it, uh, from a leftover tax that we need to owe you. Like, you don’t need 10-point-something million.
Chris [00:18:37]:
I got a really good, uh, IRD scam one the other day. It was very, uh, look, look legit. And I just looked at the from address.
Sam [00:18:50]:
They screw that up so badly, the from bit.
Chris [00:18:52]:
Yeah. Although I saw one in, in, uh, LinkedIn that they went, the only reason I caught this one is that it didn’t have the T on government.
Sam [00:19:01]:
Yep.
Chris [00:19:02]:
It was .gov. They don’t normally, uh, take that effort. Yeah. This, this one was like random as, but otherwise it looked really legit. I just, I always forward them onto the Internal Affairs spoof or whatever it is.
Sam [00:19:16]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:19:17]:
One of those. Yeah. I thought that was hilarious when I read it. I was like, who is thinking that Melania Trump is going to email anyone and that she does any work and she’s investigated anything?
Sam [00:19:31]:
No, stop thinking about it.
Chris [00:19:33]:
It’s so ridiculous. Anyway, that’s why I shared that.
Sam [00:19:37]:
Uh, I’ve got some kickstart or drop kicks for you this week, but before I do that, uh, episode 600 is coming up very soon. Uh, we’re going to have something for you next week to tell you about.
Chris [00:19:48]:
Yes.
Sam [00:19:49]:
Just want to say that now. So make sure you listen next week.
Chris [00:19:53]:
Yeah. Because then the ball’s in your court. That’s right.
Sam [00:19:58]:
Something like that. I spent way too long last night working on something. So, uh, I’m going to do something called, uh, InfiMaker K1.
Chris [00:20:08]:
InfiMaker?
Sam [00:20:09]:
Yeah, like the first part of infinite.
Chris [00:20:11]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:20:12]:
InfiMaker K1. Um, it’s a pro, it’s a pro-grade desktop 5-axis CNC machine. Oh yeah.
Chris [00:20:23]:
5-axis.
Sam [00:20:24]:
Yeah. And it’s about the size of a 3D printer.
Chris [00:20:27]:
Okay.
Sam [00:20:27]:
And it can, uh, you know, make stuff, whatever you want.
Chris [00:20:31]:
So you put a block in and it carves it down?
Sam [00:20:34]:
That’s the one. It has multi-tool systems. So it’s got 6 different cutting heads and it’ll switch out and do that.
Chris [00:20:40]:
Oh, so it automatically switches its own cutting heads?
Sam [00:20:43]:
Yep, like the really big expensive machines will do that. This one can on your desk. 0.01 millimeter industrial precision. Got some AI-assisted creation in there. All the good stuff.
Chris [00:20:55]:
That’s pretty impressive.
Sam [00:20:57]:
Now, I don’t know what else is on the market. They’ve got a sort of a comparison with some other tools. And they don’t mention them. They’ve just got like an outline of the box and there’s about another 3. So I don’t know if there’s a huge market for this or not. 23 days to go at the time of recording and to get one early bird, uh, oh, they, sorry, they want to raise $85,000 New Zealand. Yeah. To get one early bird, New Zealand dollars from Hong Kong, they’re $10,000.
Chris [00:21:30]:
It’s going to limit it, but, but, but yeah, it’s pretty cool. What can you put in there? Like, will it work with wood and metal or is it just metal or plastic or what, what does it say anything like that?
Sam [00:21:44]:
It comes with a basic material kit if they reach one of their stretch goals. So it looks like it can do titanium, aluminum, jewelry wax, epoxy tooling, hardwood, jade, Red copper, acrylic, stainless steel, and brass.
Chris [00:22:02]:
See, I reckon this is a great thing for trophy makers to, um, buy because you can do all sorts of stuff with that. So I think there’s a, a revenue model there for, for, for people, but the market’s got to be a bit small.
Sam [00:22:18]:
Yeah. Yeah. Maybe.
Chris [00:22:19]:
Okay. So 23 days to go. Uh, $8,000.
Sam [00:22:23]:
$85,000.
Chris [00:22:25]:
$85,000 going for it. So it’s $2,000 a pop. Um, yeah, I reckon they’ve, I reckon they’ve hit their goal. I could imagine them getting to 25 of those customers. So that’s what, $250,000?
Sam [00:22:38]:
Yeah. $6.3 million.
Chris [00:22:41]:
Holy crap. Good on you, boys. Yep.
Sam [00:22:45]:
So hopefully, you know, I don’t know if this is version 1 or not, but, um, hopefully it’s a good product.
Chris [00:22:51]:
Yeah. So what is the deal with that? Because that’s a lot. I mean, I’ve dropped money on Kickstarter before and never seen anything for it. Several times.
Sam [00:23:00]:
You’d have to be pretty confident in the people behind that. And maybe they’ve done other—
Chris [00:23:04]:
Yeah, so I put 10 grand in. So what’s the, does Kickstarter refund 90% of your money if nothing ever comes of it? Or—
Sam [00:23:14]:
Maybe.
Chris [00:23:15]:
I don’t know. I wonder.
Sam [00:23:16]:
Uh, I’m going to view their profile. Infi Maker is the creator. I think this, yeah, this is the first one. I think this is the only thing they’ve done. Hopefully there must be like really good facts and questions and stuff on this.
Chris [00:23:30]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:23:31]:
Anyway, I’ve got—
Chris [00:23:32]:
Oh, good on them. That’s a good one. I like that one.
Sam [00:23:34]:
I’ve got something at the other end of the spectrum. Some dude.
Chris [00:23:37]:
Some dude.
Sam [00:23:39]:
Uh, it’s called D-O-B-R-A-G. D-O-B-R-A-G.
Chris [00:23:46]:
Don’t brag.
Sam [00:23:47]:
Do brag.
Chris [00:23:48]:
Do brag.
Sam [00:23:49]:
I had to watch the video because I would have just gone, do brag. It’s Dubrag. Um, so this dude, it sounds like he’s done a couple of things in the past. He’s like a product designer in fabrics and, um, yeah, he’s already done 5 Kickstarters and he went, uh, on a picnic basically. And he was like, oh, my bag’s a pain in the ass with all this stuff. So he’s made a round circular fabric thing that unfolds or folds, depends which way you’re using it. And you pull on it and it cinches together and it’s like a sack and it carries all your stuff.
Chris [00:24:25]:
So for those that are in the film industry where you have those, um, light bouncers, it’s like a, a, a, a reverse light bouncer. You put it down there and you flick it and then it ties itself up.
Sam [00:24:38]:
Well, yeah. I mean, you got to pull on the, pull on the, on the, yeah.
Chris [00:24:42]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:24:43]:
Same sort of size, but you got to pull on the thing. Actually, it comes in 3 different sizes. Uh, small, medium, and large, depending on which one you want.
Chris [00:24:50]:
It looks like it’d be pretty easy to make.
Sam [00:24:53]:
It, yes, it looks like it’s easy to make. I would be scared of just losing stuff if I put it down again, but that’s just me. But I think for a beachgoing thing, who cares? It’ll be all right. 40 days to go. They need $7,500 to make this a, um, viable product. And if you want to back the project, you can get 50% off and you can buy the mini or the mini, daily, or jumbo are the 3 sizes, different colors. A 3-pack is $323 New Zealand dollars.
Chris [00:25:32]:
The 3-pack is one of each size?
Sam [00:25:34]:
Yeah, one of each.
Chris [00:25:34]:
Yep.
Sam [00:25:35]:
Uh, the mini is $100. The everyday or daily. $135 New Zealand dollars and the other big one’s $169. There’s a lot of markup, it seems, in this.
Chris [00:25:47]:
Yeah, that seems pretty crap, really. I’m not, I’m not a fan of this one really that much. I mean, you know, it’s a good idea and stuff, but I’ll just sew my own.
Sam [00:25:59]:
Like, you know, like this, this, this, you, I’m already guessing there’s knockoffs of this. Yeah. The fact the other factories in China. are already all over this. And I think you, you must be able to buy something like this already.
Chris [00:26:12]:
Yeah. So it’s really the design thing.
Sam [00:26:15]:
Yeah. And it’s like, and backing, helping this dude out. So anyway, $7,500, $100 plus for one. How much have they raised?
Chris [00:26:24]:
I’ll be, I’ll be generous and say it’s $10,000.
Sam [00:26:28]:
$46,000.
Chris [00:26:30]:
Ooh. All right. That’s good. Way better than I expected. Obviously.
Sam [00:26:35]:
Yeah. Um, that might be the closest you’ve ever been. No, you, you have been closer.
Chris [00:26:40]:
I don’t know. It’s pretty close. Um, yeah, no, I’m, yeah, I’m not, I’m not a big fan of that one. I wouldn’t spend that much money on a bag. Honestly, I don’t think so.
Sam [00:26:49]:
I wouldn’t spend that much on an open circle that then turns into a sack. I’d spend that much on a bag and I have, but yeah.
Chris [00:26:59]:
Yeah, I guess, I guess it has to be a bit specialist. Okay. Got a couple more.
Sam [00:27:04]:
Um, you’ve got time for one. You got 2 minutes.
Chris [00:27:07]:
All right. I had this meeting this, this week with a speaker and he wants some help. He’s doing, um, uh, 7 talks in September. So he needs some help.
Sam [00:27:17]:
Oh, wow.
Chris [00:27:17]:
So that’s cool. And, uh, he was, he’s a compliance attorney in the States. Oh, so helps people. get their crap right. But he’s been talking about, and he wrote a book about AI and he wrote it like a fictional book about 2 paths that AI can take and stuff like that.
Sam [00:27:39]:
Oh, okay, cool.
Chris [00:27:39]:
It’s quite interesting. But basically he mentioned, and this is the thing that stuck in my head over the whole conversation, was he mentioned this patent that Meta has that I didn’t know existed. Maybe you’ve heard of it. I don’t know. A patent that they’ve applied for and got and they own it so that if you die and you have your Facebook account, they now can run that Facebook account and they can put an AI you in there and they can create AI chats so your grandkids can chat with you after you’re gone type thing. Ad infinitum. Plus, part of this whole patent and all that means that they can sell ads to people so that deceased Sam, great-granddad Sam, can be like, I always use this tomato sauce when I’m making pasta, in his chats with his great-grandkids.
Sam [00:28:46]:
Just when you think you couldn’t hate Meta and Mark Zuckerberg anymore, they do this. So have they done it for anybody yet?
Chris [00:28:57]:
No, no, I don’t think they’ve done it yet. I think they’re sort of sleeping on this one. They’re keeping it a bit quiet until people have got used to the fact that the world’s crap and we’re all screwed. I had to moderate my language there. Just so you know. Okay.
Sam [00:29:15]:
Um, well, with that exciting news, luckily there’s a podcast with like a whole back catalog for you. Almost 600 episodes.
Chris [00:29:23]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:29:23]:
Uh, yeah. So tcasp.com. And until next time, I’m Sam.
Chris [00:29:28]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:29:29]:
See ya. Bye.
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