Welcome to the Tech Meme ride home from Monday, February 25th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, there's a whole slew of headlines from Mobile World Congress, more foldable phones, dates for 5G chipsets, and 5G coverage rollouts, and Microsoft unveiled its hollow lens 2.

Plus, why Wikidata proves the bots still need us.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

Over the weekend, world Congress kicked off in Barcelona and yes there was a lot of 5G talk

more foldable phones we're gonna get to all of that in a second, but before we do, Microsoft made a bunch of interesting

headlines yesterday, centering around a different aspect of the term mobile. Microsoft has debuted its hollow lens too,

what looks like a more comfortable lighter arm-powered mixed reality

headset available for pre-order starting at $3,500.

Thederbone at The Verge had a pretty detailed look at this, and his initial take is

interesting. This is an iterative device where everything about

version one was improved with an eye towards greater adoption. And according to Deiter,

Mission Accomplish, quote,

I saw a hologram off to the side

because the field of view in which they can appear

is much larger than before.

I bent down and didn't worry about an awkward headset shifting around

because it was better balanced on my head. I pushed a button

just by pushing a button because I didn't need to learn a complicated gesture to operate the

hollow lens too. Those three things might not seem all that remarkable to you, but that's precisely the point.

Microsoft needed to make the HoloLens feel much more natural if it really plans to get people to use it,

and it has, end quote.

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