The smart glasses era is (kind of) here

The Vergecast

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🗓️ 18 October 2023

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Today on the flagship podcast of glassholes: The Verge’s David Pierce chats with Victoria Song about her experience using the new Ray-Ban smart glasses from Meta. Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses hands-on: in pursuit of content The Verge’s Sean Hollister and iFixit’s Kyle Wiens join the show to discuss the latest legislation in the right to repair and what’s next for the future of fixing your own gadgets. Right-to-repair is now the law in California The Verge’s Nathan Edwards answers this week’s Vergecast Hotline question. The iPhone 15 and 15 Pro launch with ‘future Qi2 wireless charging.’ Here’s why. Email us at [email protected] 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 Verge Cast, the flagship podcast of Glassholes.
0:06.4	I'm your friend David Pierce and I am currently in my, I don't know, we call it the utility
0:11.0	room, but it's the room with like my washer and the furnace and also it's like where we
0:15.7	keep all of our extra paper towels.
0:17.5	Whatever you call that room, that's where I am.
0:20.1	I just finished my latest home improvement project, which was to replace a bunch of
0:25.4	door knobs.
0:26.4	So of course the last two years since we've had a house, I've gone from like I can put
0:30.1	together IKEA furniture and feel unnecessarily proud of myself for a week level handy to
0:35.9	I can watch a bunch of YouTube videos about that and probably figure out how to take it
0:39.7	apart and out of the wall and put it back together and back in the wall again.
0:43.5	Feels like big progress.
0:44.5	I'm not really sure it's actually all that big progress, but anyway, I just replaced
0:48.5	a bunch of door knobs, which I truly cannot recommend enough as a project to give you
0:53.3	more pleasure than it was work.
0:55.7	Like now every time I hold onto that door knob, I'm like, I did this even though it was
0:59.5	like unscrewing four screws and screwing four screws back in again.
1:03.0	And by the way, if you have more ideas for home improvement projects that are very little
1:07.9	work and make you feel very proud of yourself for a long time, please send them my way.
1:12.0	I'd love to hear all about them.
1:13.6	Anyway, we have an awesome show coming up for you today.
1:16.3	We're going to talk about the right to repair fight that has happened in California.
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