It's time for episode 67 of the Clockwise podcast from Relay FM recorded Wednesday, December 17th, 2014.

Clockwise, four guests, four tech topics, 30 minutes.

Welcome back to Clockwise, the tech podcast where time isn't just a magazine.

I'm your co-host Dan Moran and across the country from me, as always, is my co-host, Jason Snell.

Hi, Dan. It's good to be here.

It's good to be back in the last week, I guess, you know, as we prepare to see out the end of 2014.

Happy Hanukkah, by the way.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I lit my first candle last night.

So we have two fantastic guests here today to join us in our weekly perambulations about tech.

Sitting to my left, somewhere north in the country,, freelance writer, tech writer, Jeff Carlson.

Hi, Jeff. Hello. And to my left, also freelance writer. We're a bunch of people who don't have

paychecks folks. It is formerly of ours technica. Casey Johnston. Hi, Casey. Hi, how are you? Good. It's

great to have you here. Yeah, thanks for having me. You're a first time participant. I hope it goes okay for you.

I hope I don't disappoint you. I'm going to try really hard.

So as ever, we're going to blow through four tech topics and spend about five minutes on each one.

I'm going to kick it off since I introed the show today.

And as we are at the end of 2014, I was wondering if you guys had any particular products

or just general technologies that you're kind of excited about coming into their own in 2015.

Jeff, let's start with you.

I am, well, this is something that has actually been bubbling along for years and years and years, but I'm wondering if maybe 2015 is the year that we actually have good home automation stuff. And, you know, part of this is because Apple has home kit, which nothing quite works with it yet, but developers are working on it.

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