Welcome to the VRTcast, the flagship podcast of Chargers, not included in the box.

I'm your friend David Pierce, and I'm at the gym, because I was on vacation for a week,

and pretty much all I did was sit by a pool and drink beer, and it's just time for

me to get back to the gym.

So today's plan is to walk slowly on the elliptical while I watch the office on my phone

until I feel good enough about myself to leave.

Anyway, we have an awesome show today.

We're going to talk to Jen Tully about Amazon's big iRobot acquisition, and what it means

both for Amazon and for the floor plan of your house.

We're going to talk to V-Song about the best non-smart watch wearables, and why sleep

tracking is all the rage right now, and then Alison Johnson and I are going to try to figure

out how to make the perfect mid-range phone, and which trade-offs are actually worth

making in the name of saving a few hundred bucks.

All that's coming in just sec, but first I have to go look busy near an exercise bench

for five minutes before I can give up on the gym and knock them back for three months

or so.

Yes, see you in a second.

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