Hello and welcome to another episode of Connected. This is episode number 570, and it's brought to you by

Opencase, Squarespace, and FitBod.

I'm John Voorhees filling in for one or the other of Mike or Stephen,

and I have with me none other than the Ricky Benchman himself, Federico Vatici.

Hello, hello.

Hello, you're filling in for both.

So you have, you know, you know, but, but.

I feel in the weight of the world on my shoulders. I know, I know, but you can do it. We just had a really interesting conversation in the pro show for connected pro members. The first part was kind

of philosophical, you know, talking about user interfaces on mobile phones as almost video game

rendering engines. And then John wanted to talk about low-tech life hacks, and we had plenty.

So, yes. We, John, thank you for filling in, obviously, Mike and Stephen are busy with the

preparation for the podcastathon. We're going to talk about that in a few minutes.

Before we got to that, John, we have some follow-up.

We do.

Friend of the show, not Mark German, NMG, is back.

Now Mark German is back saying home device with square display and AirPods 5 with cameras shipping next year.

Both the home device and AirPods will include cameras that constantly monitor its surroundings.

How do you guys feel about always on cameras starting to spread more and more outside of

Meadows sunglasses? Interesting rumor and interesting question, especially starting to spread more and more outside of Mehta's sunglasses.

Interesting rumor and interesting question,

especially on the heels of last night's Meta Connect event,

where Meta announced multiple pairs of glasses with cameras,

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