Tri-Folds and Orion Glasses: Welcome to the Future?

This week, David is off so Marques and Andrew talk about everything from the Epic vs. Google decision to the Huawei Mate XT triple folding phone which Marques got mere minutes before sitting down to record. Besides that, they also talk about their experience trying out the Meta Orion glasses and make a few predictions about the Tesla event which happened Thursday night. Of course, we wrap it all up with some trivia. Enjoy!

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
02:14 Epic Vs. Google
09:03 YouTube Shorts up to 3 minutes
11:49 Huawei Mate XT
25:25 Trivia question
27:37 Ad break
27:38 Meta Orion experience
01:03:30 Trivia question
01:04:14 Ad break
01:04:15 Tesla Robotaxi event predictions
01:23:43 Trivia scores
01:25:14 Outro

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[Kwezi_]

14:47 Adam’s “You’re doing great sweetie” as Marques unfolds the last screen 😅😅😅

[hughhaynerproductions]

Was listening to the audio version, but had to switch to see that tri-fold phone. What a crazy piece of tech.

[gryeyes]

Unironically preferred the energy of this episode; felt super casual. Perhaps due to sleep deprivation lol

[txl]

The joy that Ellis feels knowing we are only a few hinges away from Crumple Phone being a reality is infectious. His dreams are coming true.

[keco]

A “fold” is a section. It comes from old English “fald” meaning “stable” or “animal pen/stall”. It’s called a bi-fold because it has 2 sections or “stalls”. Similarly there’s the saying “x has increased by 2-fold” meaning it has doubled as in there are two folds/stalls for each original fold/stall

[dfllifuran]

FYI, the Mate XT comes with a protective cover which has a stand on the back and holds the phone on any direction.

[TechSpaceCowboy]

It’s called a trifold because it folds into three sections.

When you bisect something you don’t cut it twice you cut it into two items.

[Loukoumakias]

I wish I could watch The Wild Robot over and over in the theater. I love this movie.

[shaymcgee]

23:20 Marques palming this tri fold phone like it’s normal sized 🤣

[SumayyahA]

Thanks for telling David to watch The Wild Robot again

[mattjgraham]

It’s finally the weekend guys! Birthday weekend for me! 39 tomorrow. 😮🎉. But we start with the Waveform as always!! ❤

[parthiv]

Adam and Ellis sitting in the big boy seats

[mrjacobws]

I read it as The Onion Glasses thinking they’d sarcastically narrate what’s in front of you

[forrestallison]

"You're doing great sweety" when he almost drops it. Looool

[Afy-uzfo]

For a first generation product that huawei tri fold is incredible

[adam-k]

That tri-fold looks crazy thin when unfolded.

[sfisosg]

This episode was like if the whole crew had taken brownies and then started the podcast😂😂😂😂

[man_shooo]

One of the supervisors in our publically funded computational neuroscience lab actually left to join Meta AI to work on these EMG wrist bands. He visited us back after a few months to give us glimpse into what he has been doing at Meta.

He told us that it is super hard to personalise these bands for a given user and that it takes several hours of data for both the user AND the model to learn to do more complicated gestures accurately. These complicated gestures include for example, typing on a keyboard, handwriting etc.. The problem is that having enough data for the given user is the only bottleneck they keep hitting for this wrist band. So having say a short calibration session when a customer buys the product would probably not be enough. So I am guessing that a accurately working wrist band tech is quite faaaar away.

[Andrei]

Absolutely love hearing Adam and Ellis more. I love *this* specific hosts composition. More of this.

[rompastompa]

The energy this episode felt way better, just friends talking about stuff they all like. Might be the sleep deprivation