Life in Pixels

Uncanny Valley | WIRED

WIRED

Technology

4.1 • 570 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Even though it’s already October, we are somehow still seeing new products announced by the tech giants. This week, it was Google's turn to show off its new gadgets. There's the new Pixel 7 phone, of course, but Google also unveiled the Pixel Watch, its first smartwatch release since its acquisition of the wearable company Fitbit.

This week on Gadget Lab, WIRED reviews editor Julian Chokkattu joins us to go over all the stuff Google announced this week, including new Pixel phones and Google's entry into the very crowded smartwatch space.

Show Notes

Read more about the Pixel Watch and the Pixel 7 phones. Also read the initial announcement from Google I/O earlier this year.

Recommendations

Julian recommends the Netflix show Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. Mike recommends the book Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky. Lauren recommends the book Meme Wars: The Untold Story of the Online Battles Upending Democracy in America by Emily Dreyfuss, Joan Donovan, and Brian Friedberg and also the 24-part CNN documentary from the 90s about the Cold War.

Julian Chokkattu can be found on Twitter @JulianChokkattu. Lauren Goode is @LaurenGoode. Michael Calore is @snackfight. Bling the main hotline at @GadgetLab. The show is produced by Boone Ashworth (@booneashworth). Our theme music is by Solar Keys.

Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Mike.
0:01.0	Lauren.
0:01.6	Mike, you have what I want.
0:04.8	Which is what?
0:06.2	Which is a pixel phone.
0:08.9	Ah, yes.
0:09.6	That you use all the time as your daily driver.
0:12.3	That's right.
0:12.8	I would use a pixel phone except.
0:16.1	Except what?
0:17.7	The green bubbles.
0:19.3	The green bubbles.
0:20.0	The green bubbles.
0:20.6	Well, you should know that if you get a pixel phone, that problem goes away. The green bubbles. The green bubbles. Well, you should know that if you get a
0:22.7	pixel phone, that problem goes away. The green bubbles cease to become a problem for you and they
0:27.5	only become a problem for your iPhone-own-own-owning friends who see that as a problem. But there's
0:32.7	so much social shaming around that. Yeah, well, it doesn't matter because you have the better phone and you
0:38.6	live in a world where that social shaming is completely moot. I guess I'm wondering whether or not the
0:43.0	new new pixel would be worth that sacrifice. Do you think it would? Like if there was a super awesome
0:48.1	new feature in the new pixel phone that would make you want to buy one, that it would be worth it?
0:52.9	Well, there already is a really super awesome feature on pixel phones that I use on a secondary
0:57.3	device, but that has not yet made me switch my SIM and turn that into my daily driver.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from WIRED, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of WIRED and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.