Let's Talk Tech
Just a bit of fun for our channels. Last year TK and I swapped our favorite premium phones of 2018. This year we’re taking a challenge from our friend @FatProduce to spend a week with a CHEAP phone. Who picked the BEST phone under $75? TK finally gets hands on with what I picked out for him! Say hello to the XGODY RS! Continue reading “#CheapPhoneChallenge Begins! TK Bay Meets the XGODY RS!”
Ryan Schlieper from Creative Labs is one of my favorite PR folks to nerd out with. A dude who really knows his audio tech, and we’ve spent HOURS just chatting headphones and vinyl. The team at Newegg let us loose on Creative’s new Super X-Fi Headset, and cut down our MUCH longer conversation.
Let’s chat wireless and audio holography. Enjoy!
Welcome to another creator chat on the SGGQA podcast channel!
There’s just something in the air. I’d almost go so far as to call it an existential conflict. For a number of creators that have been at this game for a while, many of my friends are shifting gears, looking at how to keep things fresh. When you depend on your creativity to pay the bills, it puts a lot of pressure on a very finite resource. Your attention, your skills.
Flo Ion is one of my favorite voices in the consumer tech space. She seems to effortlessly move from corny jokes in a smartphone podcast, to joining heavy political discussions, and she’s not afraid to make a discussion personal. But that’s the trick isn’t it. The people who are really good at hosting and joining a discussion make it look easy. Keeping a regular production schedule while pitching freelance articles. Staying passionate about the subjects you cover. Carving out a little time for family, for friends, and for yourself. It’s a marathon. It takes a respectable amount of discipline. And Flo has a lot to say on that subject…
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Continue reading “#SGGQA 066: Creator Chat – Florence Ion from All About Android”
Welcome to another creator chat on the SGGQA podcast channel!
Let’s talk about getting projects finished. How our own expectations might get in the way when we’re working on our passion projects. In the grand scheme of things, it’s not very common to see someone finish what they set out to make.
This week my guest just happens to represent one of my longest lasting friendships in Hollywood, so please excuse the love that I’m gonna gush all over this guy. As our careers have shifted, and we’ve grown our families, we don’t get to talk as often as we’d probably like.
Yuri Lowenthal is an incredible actor, writer, producer, and all around super cool guy. I rewrote this intro several times, just trying to properly set the stage for his prolific body of work. Animation, television, feature films, video games, web series, building audiences and friendships with every project he works on, in every genre.
Most recently the voice of Peter Parker in Spider-Man on the PS4, and starring in an astoundingly ambitious live action sci fi series called Orbital Redux on The Nerdist, but this guy also has an IMDB credit list longer than my torso.
I could probably spend as long celebrating Yuri as our actual conversation took to record, but he just has that affect on people. So I’m gonna get out of the way here, and let’s talk to Mr. Lowenthal about making cool things for people to enjoy.
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Continue reading “#SGGQA 064: Creator Chat – Yuri Lowenthal on Spider-Man and Orbital Redux”
Welcome to another creator chat on the SGGQA podcast channel! I often think the story of how a creator got started is just as interesting and entertaining as the stuff they make.
This week, we’re talking about changing expectations. It’s scary for an established creator to stray from what works, and sometimes it’s difficult for an audience to adapt to a transition. Expectations. It can get kinda messy.
Logan and Justin are extremely fun hosts on the Tek Syndicate YouTube and Twitch channels, producing entertaining geek commentary and videos examining computer and gaming hardware. Along the way though, TekSyndicate shifted from a commentary and review resource. Logan is now dipping his toes in the waters of video game development, and that change in discussion ruffled more than a few feathers in his original audience.
I’ll let them tell you all about it…
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Continue reading “#SGGQA 062: Creator Chat – Justin and Logan from Tek Syndicate”
Welcome to another creator chat on the SGGQA podcast channel! I think often the story of how a creator got started is just as interesting and entertaining as the stuff they make.
This week, I’m feeling a European flair.
It’s easy to get complacent as a North American tech reviewer, the echo chamber of commentary from a country where only two companies can practically dominate the “tech as lifestyle” conversation.
Damir Franc brings a refreshing viewpoint to the consumer electronics discussion, with a no holds barred approach to top brands and PR relationships. Notable for the fact that he produces videos for a local audience in German, and internationally in English, he has to pull double duty in managing the different expectations of such a broad audience. I’ll let him tell you all about it…
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Continue reading “#SGGQA 060: Creator Chat – Damir Franc The Nitpicker”
I love chatting audio with real professionals in their field. We had the pleasure of interviewing Ryan Schlieper from Creative Labs on Newegg Now. He was game to talk about sound cards, and he gave us the full scoop on the new K3+ audio interface for game streamers and podcasters. I also kept him chatting about Microsoft screwing up audio for us all, and why audio might contribute to people getting motion sick while gaming. I nerded out HARD. Enjoy!
Catch the full episode on Newegg’s YouTube channel, and new episodes of Newegg Now broadcast every Thursday at 10AM Pacific.
Are smartphones making you deaf? The modern smartphone has only been in existence for ten years, too brief a time to properly study all of the behavioral and physiological effects of such a new technology, especially for how quickly it changes and evolves. Yet over this window of time, from the Walkman to the iPod, and through the reign of the iPhone, we are starting to see increasing rates of hearing loss in children and young adults. I had the privilege of sitting down with Dr. Alison Grimes, Director of Audiology at UCLA, to discuss some of the more recent trends in hearing health and lifestyle technology.
Listen to the full half hour conversation by subscribing to the #SGGQA podcast in iTunes, Google Play, or your favorite podcast service, episode 32 – http://goo.gl/oSUjvi