Tech Table

Description Hosts Kevin Harwood Ryan Considine are joined by guest Jose Puente from Flexdrive, an automobile subscription service that’s shaking up the idea of car ownership. In this episode, they’ll discuss how car ownership is transforming, and what it means for the future. Hosts Kevin Harwood | https://twitter.com/kevinharwood Ryan Considine | https://twitter.com/ryanconsidine Guests Jose Puente | https://twitter.com/FlexdriveIT Show Notes 01:55 - Flexible car ownership 03:45 - One payment to rule them all 05:35 - Freedom, flexibility, finally! 07:00 - Associated costs of owning a car 08:40 - Miles versus dollars 10:15 - Not renting Ferraris, yet 12:00 - “Your car is ready sir.” 15:45 - Autonomous car conversion kits 19:30 - A three trillion mile road trip 20:40 - Apple Car! 21:35 - Traffic is ruining my life 22:30 - Down with cars! 25:20 - A $200 Uber ride?! 29:25 - Infrastructure for autonomous cars 32:45 - A virtual commute? Hot Links Flexdrive www.flexdrive.com

Tech Table: Episode 033 - IoT on the Farm Description Hosts Kevin Harwood Ryan Considine are joined by guest Ben Craker from the agriculture equipment company, AGCO. They discuss how current technologies are impacting the agriculture industry and where it’s going in the future. Hosts Kevin Harwood | https://twitter.com/kevinharwood Ryan Considine | https://twitter.com/ryanconsidine Show Notes 02:00 - Self-driving tractors! 03:08 - Telemetry: New things on the old farm 04:15 - What do your tractors know? 05:45 - Farming from the office 07:10 - How accessible is this technology? 08:15 - Painting the picture of the modern farm 11:36 - Internet of Farms? 17:10 - Netflix and Till 21:00 - Big DATA! 23:25 - What’s in the secret Secret Sauce? 28:50 - An efficient farm is a happy farm 30:30 - The buzz of the Drones 32:08 - Uber tractor Hot Links AGCO http://www.agcocorp.com

Host Kevin Harwood returns from this year’s CES with an abundance of knowledge about the future of connected homes, connected fitness trackers, VR headsets, drones, autonomous vehicles, 8K TVs, and so much more. Co-host Ryan Considine grills him on all of his findings, as well as how he fared at the casinos. Spoiler alert, Kevin will not be retiring anytime soon. Hosts Kevin Harwood | https://twitter.com/kevinharwood Ryan Considine | https://twitter.com/ryanconsidine Show Notes 02:17 - Painting the picture of CES (verbally) 04:35 - CES from afar 06:07 - A year of iteration (not innovation) 06:40 - HomeKit 10:01 - Android’s fragmented home 12:21 - Connected Fitness keeps trucking 14:13 - Whirlpool’s Connected Kitchen 19:08 - VR virtually EVERYWHERE 23:25 - Drones. Drones. Drones. 29:43 - The force is strong with 3D printing 32:22 - Autonomous cars are on their way 34:45 - 8K displays 37:40 - Product rapid fire 40:22 - Kevin gets negative 42:05 - CES crystal ball Hot Links CES http://www.cesweb.org/ HomeKi

For our second edition of Tech Table Live, we join Chris George of Vinli and two post-grads from the University of Texas Computer Science (UTCS) AI-Lab (Michael Albert & Guni Sharon) to discuss the future of autonomous vehicles. Michael and Guni will be discussing the connected car projects they’ve been working on to reduce congestion in Austin and other cities plagued by traffic. Hosts Blake Burris - Chief Hacktivist, Vinli | https://twitter.com/blakeburris Michael Albert - UTCS AI-Lab | https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~malbert/ Guni Sharon - UTCS AI-Lab | https://sites.google.com/site/gunisharon/home Show Notes 00:45 - Welcome and What is Vinli? 03:08 - What are Michael and Guni working on? 05:17 - Intersection Management System 07:25 - Mixed Reality Simulation Model 09:36 - Auction Based Intersection Management 12:43 - Adaptive Micro Tolling 17:25 - Main Takeaway from Autonomous Vehicles Hot Links Vinli https://www.vin.li/ UTCS AI-Lab https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/ai-lab/ Autonomous Intersection Manag

Our TechTable panelists sit down with John Kestner of Supermechanical to talk about all things connected kitchen. They’ll cover smart appliances, software requirements, refillment services, and every other ingredient we’ll need to bring the IoT to our kitchens. Bon Apetit. Hosts Kevin Harwood | https://twitter.com/kevinharwood Ryan Considine | https://twitter.com/ryanconsidine John Kestner - CEO, Supermechanical | https://twitter.com/johnkestner Show Notes 00:57 - Who is Supermechanical? 02:22 - What’s cooking in the connected kitchen? 04:00 - Friction points with kitchen apps 05:04 - Smart Kitchen Summit Recap 07:45 - Chaos of Best Buy’s IoT section 09:30 - Who’s currently winning the connected home? 12:03 - The perfect smart kitchen 15:56 - What is a smart fridge? 19:49 - Smart ovens 23:13 - Smart refillment services 26:31 - What do smart kitchens look like in 2016? Hot Links Supermechanical http://supermechanical.com/ Range Dial https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/supermechanical/range-dial-connect