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Hello and welcome to Better Offline.

I am of course your host, Ed Zittron.

Hello. and we're in a very intimate podcast studio on like ninth avenue and it's a wonderful day the last episode we got lost but it will not be happening this time all of you were very kind with the notes you sent one of you said why don't you take a backup thank you we never thought of that

it's not like there was another issue that could have happened in the fucking radio station

anyway today we have a wonderful gizmos and do dad's episode on my right i have the wonderful

michael fisher mr marball himself ed nice to be back thank you for having me and so happy to have you Gizmos and Do Dad's episode. On my right, I have the wonderful Michael Fisher, Mr. Mobile himself.

Ed, nice to be back. Thank you for having me. And so happy to have you here. Alex Cranes, the wonderful Gizmo and Gadget Queen. Yeah, I'm so excited to talk about the Gizmos. Me too. But not the gadgets. And I'm knocking my phone over. That's staying in the episode. That's where my elbow goes. Yeah, that's what you feel about gadgets.

And there we go.

That's what we do before every episode.

And Kyle Barrow of Gizmodo is here as well. Hello, I exist. And he does exist. So this episode actually came from an idea of I told you all this now. Went on Amazon typed in gadgets. Because I was like, I have, like, I mostly spend money on like diet coke and occasional baseball games and flights. and like weird protein snacks. I don't really, like, so I was like, I have, like, I mostly spend money on, like, diet Coke and occasional baseball games and flights and, like, weird protein snacks. I don't really, like, so I was like, you know what, I want some doodads, I want to see what gadgets are going. Typed in gadgets into Amazon, fuck all appeared. It was like phones and laptops. I'm like, I don't need a new phone or laptop. I'm happy with those. I want something weird and stupid. And I genuinely was like,

wait, why is it so hard to find these? You go on a tech site these days. It's all about

fucking AI. So I brought you all together to talk about the weird stuff you've been looking at.

And Michael, one of my favorite things you do is you've been the flip phone, foldable advocate.

And honestly, I'm deeply jealous you're on Android.

I'm so addicted to my message. It's so much fun. You've got a device in front of you. I do. And the Honor Magic V5. Which you cannot buy it here. One of the world, you cannot buy it here, no. One of the world's thinnest foldables. the thinnest foldable if you decide to lie about it in your spec sheet.

Yeah, it's gorgeous.

And this thing is, and obviously we'll have links in there, but this thing is you can see the crease, but you can't really when you're looking at it. No. I find these things magnificent. I realize that they're imperfect, but I think they're just lovely. And there's rumors that Mark German was tweeting earlier about Apple's foldable.

Please do it.

Please do the Apple. That's all I want. Cosine. Yeah. Big agree. I mean, I want this, but not Android and sold in the United States. Yeah. And no huge camera bump. Oh, see, I like the camera bump. I think it gives it all kinds of character. I mean, it definitely. What's those with the quad orio?

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