434 - Tech for Mom and Dad

the latest tech i'm alexa i can answer your questions interviews and we are evolving and we are seeing an amazing opportunity that's happening accessibility accessibility is one of the core values it's even the product mission statement this is double tap tv welcome to double tap tv thank you guys so much for being with us each and every single week this one's an exciting one it's because it's that time of year where we celebrate the parents in our lives so if you want to get involved send us an email the email address is feedback amin.ca connect on social media send us something there it's at doubletap canada use the hashtag which is askdoubletap i am marcaflalo and steven scott is with me each and every single week stephen i think that you would not disagree with me if i said that one of the most asked questions we get here on the show is what do i get for this person in my life what do i get for that person in my life because let's face it you know it's not easy to shop for everyone especially people like us who tend to just kind of go out and get whatever we want whenever it's announced or whenever we want to get it it's hard to shop for us right oh it is hopeless to shop for me it is impossible because unlike you you know we we see something i mean literally there was a product that came out the other day and it came out i say on the monday and by the monday night it was in my amazon basket and it was being delivered on the tuesday i mean you know my wife has got no chance when it comes to buying me something because it just appears in a box and she's the same she does exactly the same so you know it is really difficult and i think that's the thing nowadays there's people who are because of the availability to just go and get what you want online especially and have it delivered to you in some cases within hours not even within days within hours you know why wouldn't you just want to jump on and just buy what you want which of course does make it very difficult for gifting yeah no it definitely does you know what so so this week we're going to do something that we do every year around this time which is we're going to break down some some tech themed gift ideas for the moms and texting gift ideas for the dads and while we're at it stephen let's throw in the grads just because it robs moms dads and grads and it's that time of year right we have mother's day that we have father's day and we've got graduation time so it's an opportunity for us to really kind of you know break it down for you guys and give you some ideas and the funny thing is when it comes to saying the words tech themed this really means anything that has a battery right battery or plug attached yeah cool i love it yeah yeah yeah i know it's gonna be fun it's going to be fun so thanks to you guys at home we got a lot of feedback we did the call out on social media we said what do you want what do you want to get for your mom what do you want to get for your dad and we got lots of emails funny enough we didn't see a lot of action on twitter but i got like a dozen emails so we're gonna try to get to as many of those emails as possible and they span really throughout not only the country but there are some places in the world that i didn't expect we'd hear from thanks to social media so what are you guys out there shopping for who are you shopping for and what are those ideas going to be are you ready for it stephen i'm ready okay this is doubletap tv talking all things moms dads and grads get involved if you want to it's feedback ami.ca the email address of course on twitter and all social medias at doubletap canada with the hashtag which is ask doubletap we will be right back for more great doubletap tv content visit ami.ca doubletap this is double tap tv welcome back to double tap tv talking all things moms dads and you know what we're throwing in the grads this time of year because everybody needs to buy a good graduation gift for that child in your life maybe it's a grandchild and it rhymes so you know we're going to add that into the mix moms dads and grads i am marca flallo stephen scott by my side stephen um you got any moms dads and grads in your life i do i've got mom dad a grad i'm no i don't think so but uh certainly mom and dad for sure you know it is really difficult to buy especially for parents sometimes because you know especially when you talk about tech themed gifts because let's be honest some moms and dads aren't really into their tech but that is i think until you buy them some tech what you've got to do is you've got to think carefully about this and i know we're going to get into a whole range of different options for you know mums and dads but i think about my mum first because she's not particularly techy she's not particularly tech savvy but i decided one year to get her a kindle uh not and i should be clear a kindle uh tablet or a fire tablet as they call them now there were kindle tablets at the time but now of course the the fire tablets which are very similar to ipads very similar to your android tablet where you know you can download lots of different apps you can read books you can watch movies play games all the stuff you can do and a much cheaper package than say an ipad i didn't want to spend that kind of money however i get the fire tablet and it sits in a drawer for the best part of a year she doesn't touch it she doesn't go near it i try and spend time with her showing her what she can do with it she doesn't really take any interest the following year i buy my dad an ipad and for some reason and i don't know where it was how this came to be but she must have picked up in conversation that you could play solitaire on the ipad and she loves solitaire she grabbed the ipad from his hands never using an ipad in her life and suddenly she's playing solitaire all night and then it was she wanted to follow me on facebook i didn't like that so much but she did it anyway um you know and so it went suddenly we had you know she was into all these different apps she was into amazon she was buying stuff using my dad's card obviously um you know and that was that was it so off it went and it just seemed to me it was about the right gift and the right application jennifer writes us from toronto she sent an email to feedback at ami.ca like you guys at home can uh says hey guys i'll try and help with a mom idea i'd really like to get one of those massaging thera guns for mother day mother's day i think it'd be really helpful okay you know i can't speak here i think it'd be really helpful for my back does that count as tech i i think that counts as deck it's got a plug on it hasn't it yeah i think absolutely and you know i mean i'm sure i mean i don't know but i i don't imagine it's out with the wit of technology people to have created a smart version of one of these you know what you really want is one you can just you know talk to and say down a bit up a bit left a bit right a bit that's it you know that kind of thing that would be quite cool um but my you know my wife has one she actually bought one i think we got it for her maybe last mother's day um for those of you guys who don't know what we're even talking about the theragun is one of these it's a percussive device it's called an etheric gun because you hold it almost like a gun there's like a nice big handle a black handle to it or depending on the color that you get and there's various levels of percussive or massaging that is intended to basically be a powerful massager for different parts of your body so if you have a knot in your back you can really dig in deep because it has a tip at the end that just kind of just constantly pulsates at incredibly fast speeds so it really does work and and the guys at their gun they make not only the their gun and there's a theragun mini there's there's the medium one there's a larger one they they're rechargeable which is pretty cool and they're super quiet too so it's not like you're gonna you know wake up the entire world by this giant massaging thing so in short it basically stephen it vibrates the hell out of a spot on your body i know that you could take that in many different ways and i'm not gonna let you do that um but there's lots of versions there's lots of sizes they also have the wave roller from thera body they've got the power dot all part of the same family i think it's a pretty good idea especially for moms who suffer from from different aches and pains you know that's a great idea to bring this up because you know often when we get asked about technology everyone's expecting us to talk about you know just buy them an iphone that'll solve everything and hey maybe one day apples i mean iphones do vibrate so arguably you could hold it on this orbit and you know just get someone to call you a few times um that could work but you know i don't think that's really what an iphone's for so yeah perhaps you might want to think about something more applicable to the job and this certainly would do that and i think that's the point there's there's so many of these now you get vibrating chairs i don't know if you've ever seen these i once went to an exhibition where i got the chance to sit in one of these big i you tend to find them at the mall you get these big massage chairs that you you know put a few coins into and suddenly you're sitting there and you're just relaxing and you're all chilled out and um i wanted one of those for the house and i tried one at an event and i fell asleep in it uh which was quite embarrassing because i tend to snore of course you'd like one of those stephen as long as you can lay back horizontal you're a happy man okay lindsay lindsay writes us from regina saskatchewan she writes how about apple watch bands those are always fun to get for any occasion that's a very good point that's a really really i mean there's so many different apple watch bands out there i think that you can make sure that you get one that someone doesn't have right can i just say it's really nice to get some female perspective on this show because you know we are just we think we so focus on the tech itself don't we we're so bad at this we we're so bad at this job mark but we focus on the tech and we don't think about the nice parts of it the watch bands that's a great present idea for someone just make sure just make sure when you're buying it though you make sure you buy the right size you know make sure you check what model the watch is make sure you're buying the right bands be careful of some of the dodgy ones you get on some of the you know dodgy sites or you know less reputable sites because you know they may not be the best material and all of that so just be careful listen i went out and i've got a little secret here guys okay if you've got you know a spouse or someone in your family who has an apple watch try to get them the same size apple watch that you have why that allows you to share in the little gift giving you know you can swap watch bands back and forth now this doesn't work with like the solo loops and stuff that are specific sizes because those are my wife ways or wears a four and i wear like a nine but i bought her this watch band that i'm wearing right now it's this beautiful orange hermes watch band and notice how i say i bought it for her but it's on my wrist hang on a second dear you don't like this batman watch band i've bought well if you don't want it i'll have it stephen uh there's nothing on your wrist yeah there is that yes but let's just move on from that okay wendy writes in with a bunch of ideas for moms and she writes this okay anything from dyson especially hair dryer with all the attachments that's a good one um a wi-fi connected air fryer okay that's a good one and an eve sailing raw just announced a custom lipstick maker called the rouge cirmessio that works as a scanner and then you make the color that you just scanned right there and use it that's pretty cool we're going to have to look into that you know what there was this there was this company uh that made a it was a 3d printer for makeup but you actually you it scanned and actually painted on your face as you actually used it that was a pretty good one this is pretty neat too like if that actually lets you just scan any color in the wild and suddenly make a color lipstick that's pretty neat can i tell you a quick story on this because this is fascinating right the 3d printing materials and the capability now allows people who have prosthetic eyes this isn't fully fledged yet but it's getting there to down the line be able to if something happens to their eye or it's just getting damaged over time they can print out a new one at home i mean how cool is that my wife who has a prosthetic eye has to go to a certain clinic spend days getting a cast made going through the process it has to be hand painted she could literally just get it emailed the design can be emailed to her and she could print it out at home while she's having her cereal i mean it's incredible where this technology is going yeah that's pretty that's pretty pretty insane um dyson you know she mentioned dyson especially their hair dryer i mean we've got a dyson vacuum we've got the dyson hair dryer i think she's got a dyson hair curler they're not the cheapest things in the world but they do last and they are really good um and they use that you know cyclone technology to blow really really strong on the on the hair dryer which is pretty cool an airfryer i mean i don't know do you guys are you into the whole air fryer phase in the uk i don't think so of course like weave at cuba really right of course absolutely i mean look this is not a country that prides itself in any way healthy but at the same token air frying makes it just a little bit healthier so you know you can have exactly the same food but you can have it just a tiny bit healthier less oil i'm just not into it i'm just not into it i haven't tasted anything in the air fryer that tastes incredibly good that i would say oh i i need this anyhow whatever should you come to air fryer with wise i guarantee you come to scotland because nothing here tastes good so it doesn't matter so if it tastes that much better it could be that much better okay we've talked about some mom stuff of course there are more ideas so check out our social media at doubletap canada if you want to get involved the hashtag is doubletap um let's take a quick break let's come back and let's talk about the dads and grads in our lives because you know we're giving you ideas here for mother's day father's day gifts ideas and of course the grads so stick around it is doubletap tv he is steven scott i am marco flallow we'll be back with the dads and the grads stick around for more great double tap tv content visit ami dot ca double tap this is doubletap tv welcome back to doubletap tv talking all things moms dads and grads as we approach mother's day and father's day and graduation time of the year moms are out of the way i am marca flala with steven scott by my side steven the dads tend to be uh i think the most asked about because we just kind of get what we want when we want it right and we have a lot of stuff when it comes to you know any kind of gift so you know ties and belts and those are always fun right that's always rubbish i mean it's always the rubbish that you get i mean that's the thing as a dad you expect to get the worst presents socks belt ties it's always very boring and you know there's so much tech out there you can buy for dads on a whole wide range of categories and i know we've got some questions about that but i'm really i'm really intrigued to hear what people are thinking because i have to say that last segment was incredible we got some great ideas in there from our audience about what to buy for their loved ones listen we've got some honorable mentions coming up too things that we thought of ourselves but as you said the audience really kind of delivered on this one so why don't we dive kind of right into it and go and start with jason from peterborough so jason writes us he goes you can't go wrong with tools and if you're looking for a good line of connected tools look for milwaukee you can control tool settings over wi-fi and even track them that is actually a really great idea because you know what i'm a big milwaukee fan and i remember about three or four years ago they did send me one of their wi-fi connected you know multi-tools like it was a you know a drill that has a hammer drill mode and all this stuff and you can with wi-fi and connecting to the actual tool you can control the intensity of certain things i mean obviously super important and super cool for construction sites and people who manage tools but as just a regular kind of dad at home who wants to use a tool and have some really cool features to it milwaukee's a pretty good brand i um i've never heard of wi-fi connected tools before this is the first time i've ever heard of such a thing that is incredible i will say for me if you're buying me anything what i'd love is a smart hammer and what i'd like the smart hammer to do is to kind of guide me into how hard i should hit something so like you know as you hit it gives an audible ow and then ow and ow you know it kind of tells you uh you know right you're doing this too hard that's what i think would be a brilliant idea does milwaukee do that i they don't have a smart hammer i mean i have seen hammers that do go out when you use them mostly for toddlers and little kids i'm not sure they'd be terribly useful for your particular your particular application though everything in my house if it needs put up in the wall or it needs to be uh you know if it involves a screw it gets hammered every time it just gets hammered that's the way to do it mark that is the simplest way i'm telling you from one diy professional to another this is the way to do diy at home just take a hammer to everything so sandeep writes us from vancouver and says there's a sony camera i want it's smaller than a traditional dslr but lets you use their e-mount lenses i can't remember the exact model but i think there's a zv and a 10 in it sandeep i actually actually know exactly what camera that is it's a camera i have it's above me right now it's it's a sony zv e10 and and as you describe steven it's actually a pretty good camera because it's really compact it's kind of like point and shoot size but it shoots 4k and it does let you use sony's e-mount lenses so if you're into that ecosystem and people tend to be kind of very i mean loyal to camera brands right so we've been using sony's for a very long time this is one of the ones that i said yeah i gotta get because number one it's under a thousand dollars you can get it for 8.99 canadian probably even lower if you shop around for it really really good camera i think you've tried this one too right well i've tried the previous generation and i completely lost the name of what it was but there was a previous version of this the zv1 the zv1 that's it with no no interchangeable lenses on that one that was just point and shoot but still a great camera which i thought was quite good i mean you know it's interesting i've heard in the last couple of months about an innovation sony is making into the camera market for spoken menus on cameras apparently there's a camcorder floating around i haven't seen this but i've heard rumor of it of a camcorder that has actually got in it spoken menus so if you're blind or at least low vision i would say and you want to do i mean i think back to james rath who's on our show talking about being the blind filmmaker and how he always wanted to be able to really dig into the settings of a camera but couldn't because of his vision but actually for him using a camera you know getting his eye up close to that viewfinder really helped him be able to see the world more because that opened up the world to him so if he could just read the menus it would be easier and that's apparently coming so sony doing some interesting work in this space and maybe it'll filter down to cameras like these which i think you know let's be honest these are proper consumer cameras but they're good cameras as well mark writes us in from beaconsfield he goes a new monitor is always a good choice i like that and samsung just released a smart one but i'm not sure the model or the price stephen i'm i'm giggling a little bit because you and i were talking about this a couple days ago off the air when samsung just announced this one tell us about this monitor because it's pretty cool and it almost rivals some of the the uh the mac monitors that are out there oh it's way better in some respects because of the technology built in so samsung launched the m8 m for mic number eight uh that's a new monitor a new smart monitor which is an upgrade from last year's m7 they also had an m5 that was a a 27-inch version and a 32-inch version the m5 being the 27 and the m7 being the 32-inch version don't know where the numbers come from but that's the way it is um the m8 is just one release this year that's a 32 inch version the difference here from previous generations of this is that it has different colors it comes in lots of different styles very imac like you know you imagine you could put this next to one of these new colorful imacs and maybe even a new colorful macbook air if they ever bring them out which it looks like they will um so you know really nice beautiful monitor but here's the thing the samsung m8 and the m7 as well they have really cool features in them so they have all the all the smarts of a smart tv even comes with a remote control you can treat it like a tv but without the tv tuner inside so you can't watch live tv unless you watch it via an app which of course you can do via the samsung tv plus app so you know there are ways to do this you can connect to your your monitor in different ways there are physical connection ports hdmi and there's even a usbc port which can you know actually connect to your laptop connect you up get your monitor from your or your screen from your laptop or whatever onto your monitor and also charge your laptop at the same time but you've also got wireless connection options you can connect via remote desktop if you're on a pc you can even airplay directly from a macbook or an ipad or even an iphone straight to the screen and that transfers the audio as well listen guys i hope you got some ideas from this week's show uh lots of stuff we can throw out there there's a dji mini drone the sc which is 349 if you got somebody who wants to get into the spring and summer mode which is lots of fun and you know headphones from lots of companies like sennheiser and and ultimate ears lots of things we could have talked about and on chromebooks don't forget chromebooks for those grads out there you know acer is making a great line of chromebooks out there that really rival most pc laptops these days so do check them out lots of stuff follow us on twitter doubletap canada if you want to get involved the hashtag is ask doubletap and send us an email like everybody did today it is feedback ami.ca so happy mother's day happy

father's day happy graduation to those people in your life we'll uh hope to see you again on our next edition of doubletap tv hosted by markaflalo and stephen scott editing jordan steves and mark aflalo voice over anna vicino integrated described video specialist ron rickford coordinating producer jennifer johnson director production kara nye director programming brian perdue vp content development and programming john melville president and ceo david arrington copyright 2022 accessible media inc

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