Nothing’s gadget renaissance, and our favorite TV remotes

The Vergecast

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Tech News, News, Technology

4.3 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2023

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Today on the flagship podcast of sustainable supply chain economics: 03:27 - CEO of Nothing Carl Pei sits down with The Verge’s David Pierce to discuss the new Phone 2, Carl’s vision for the company, his thoughts on AI, foldables, VR, and much more. Nothing Phone 2 review: the vibes abide Nothing CEO Carl Pei on the Phone 2, AI, and the future of gadgets (video version of interview here) 50:02 - Later, Vergecast producers Andru Marino and Liam James debate with David the best and worst TV remotes, and what makes a good remote design. Watch the YouTube version to see all the remotes we talk about. 3 Kinds of Simplicity :: UXmatters Philips Design - Simplifying TV remote (UX Case Study) 1:25:19 - Keep listening for the Vergecast Hotline question of the week. Email us at vergecast@theverge.com or call us at 866-VERGE11, we love hearing from you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of Sustainable Supply Chain Economics.
0:07.3	I'm your friend David Pierce and I am currently packing up to go on vacation.
0:11.3	I'm off next week and we're going to go visit some family and spend some time relaxing
0:15.3	so I'm getting everything ready.
0:16.7	I don't know if you're like me in this way, but I realized for the first time in getting
0:20.8	ready for this trip that my packing strategy is to basically just like randomly heave a bunch
0:27.1	of shirts and pants into a bag without even looking at it and then spend three days carefully
0:32.8	curating all of my technology.
0:34.5	I might have my priorities wrong here.
0:36.4	I have my laptop, I have my phone, an iPad and a Kindle, all of which I'm going to spend
0:41.8	the next several days making sure are perfectly charged.
0:44.8	The iPad has like 9,000 hours of TV and movies downloaded even though I'm driving and I have
0:50.8	no idea when I'll watch them, but anyway I did that and they're there now.
0:54.9	I bought three new books in addition to the several dozen I already own that I haven't read yet.
0:59.5	I have chargers and backup chargers with me.
1:02.3	I even have an SD card reader in this little bag here despite the fact that nothing I'm bringing
1:07.6	uses an SD card.
1:08.9	I have wired headphones.
1:10.0	I have wireless headphones and I have a pair of Bose headphones that is both wired and wireless.
1:15.5	I might have a problem, y'all.
1:17.4	But I guess if our card breaks down and we have to spend an entire day waiting and watching
1:21.6	all of season two of the bear on Hulu when there's no service, I guess I'm good to go.
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