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This is Better Offline. That's all right.

That's right. We're here in New York City, New York State, and we've got a great guest, Lisa Edecico from CNN. Thank you so much for joining us, Lisa, on this horrible wet day.

Truly one of the ugliest days in New York history. But nevertheless, we're going to talk about consumer tech today. And everyone says, oh, Ed, you've got to be nicer. You've got to be like things more. But what's a gadget you've actually liked this year? Like, what's some stuff you've been enjoying? Yeah, and it's kind of funny because I feel like when I think about gadgets, I think about them two ways. There's one, like the gadgets I would actually buy and that I actually use every day. And then two, the ones that are, I think, interesting for what they say about the industry or that have been fun to write about and fun to cover. And for the things that I have enjoyed using this year, I would say it's a lot

of the things you'd expect. Like the Nintendo Switch 2 was a fun one this year. The new Apple Watch,

because I'm a big Apple Watch user, things like that. And then there's the other category of

things that I think have been really fun to write about. And for that, I would say the Galaxy XR definitely stands out.

So what is the Galaxy? So that's the Vision Pro Conventator, right? Yes. So how comfortable is it? Start there.

I would say, I mean, none of these things are super comfortable, to be honest. It's still this thing that's

bigger than a pair of glasses, bigger than something you're used to wearing on your face. So it's always going to be a little bit uncomfortable. I do think the Galaxy XR was very easy to adjust and get to fit correctly. For me, I feel like a lot of these headsets usually are a little too big for me or might like fall off my head or something like that. I have a giant bonz, giant head. And that thing, try to get that thing on was like balancing a cup of tea on my head. Exactly. It's never, it's never that comfortable. It's kind of weird. Yeah. I do feel like it was easy to adjust. It wasn't the most comfortable thing to wear.

And I only wore it for maybe about 20 minutes at a time.

So I do feel like wearing it for extended use cases, the kinds of things that Samsung and Google think you'll use it for, like productivity and entertainment.

I think that's, I don't know how comfortable it would be to wear it for like, you know, if I'm working on a project or watching a movie or something. So you wouldn't do like your actual work inside it. I would try it. I think it would just take some time to get used to, you know, wearing that thing for like an hour or longer. Because as like a Vision Pro truther, and I think I mentioned this in person previously, but I can't use my Vision Pro right now.

I can use it, but I can't update it unless you keep it on your head during the update, which is one of the most insane ideas ever.

But I genuinely like that, when I was trying it, I was so torn because 85% of the time I fucking hate it. I really, I was just like mad at it because like it would, something would like my cat would brush my head and now it would be out of focus. But there were these times on getting out and be like, this is actually really cool. I'm like writing. I wrote a whole thing on it. Like it was back in the earlier days of the show.

I was like, I really like this got some music in the background.

And then again, like, Babu, my cat would knock me in the head because he's very affectionate. That's what cats do. No, he's a lovely affectionate cat. Massive part of the show. And then I'd need to readjust it and then I would start to get a headache. Yeah. Did you find that the software was good on the Galaxy one?

Like, how was it in comparison?

Yeah, so there's a couple of big things. start to get a headache. Did you find that the software was good on the Galaxy 1? Like, how was it

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