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physical AI. All right. So, um I think you're going to hear this phrase a lot and I think people when they normally say it, they're saying it for robots. They're talking about Optimus. They're talking about uh the figure robot. They're talking about like humano robots. I'm talking about something different. I'm talking about almost like these gimmick devices where you can you just put AI in anything. So, here's an example. Uh have you ever seen uh ads for this thing called Plaude? No, no. >> Could use a better name. P L A U D. I bought this thing. I don't use it. Just this is like an anti-endorsement. I don't use it. I think it was kind of junk. But this company has done $100 million in revenue on this device. >> Oh, I have heard of this. I The promise of it is amazing. So, and maybe it's better now. I maybe ordered the early version and it was definitely like the Wish.com like type of experience. But the premise of this is it looks like a business card almost or this is what it did. It looked like a business card, but it basically is like a physical meeting recorder. So, you could bring this to any meeting. You could put this on the table and it'll record your conversation. It's something you could use for your own notes, just talking out loud at your home office or um again, if you're at a at a at a meeting with somebody, I think the big use case actually that they say is student notes. So, students bring this to class lectures. And I think that's where they found like really fast growth was, "Oh, cool. If I go to class, this thing will record it. It'll transcribe it." It's like what uh Fathom and some of these other like um meeting recorders are doing for the business world they were doing for classrooms. So this thing kind of took off and I think there's a lot of things in this genre. So there's teddy bears where um now your teddy [clears throat] bear comes with essentially like chat GBD inside. So um I have a couple of these like for my kids. Again, still all in the janky state. Nothing that I would be like, "This is good yet, but it's definitely where the puck is going." >> This was Wasn't one of them incubated in your buddy's uh >> Yeah, Fank has one that that that was being incubated there. >> It had the best launch video I've ever seen. It was basically this like like nerdy engineer type uh a guy like sitting there and the bear was saying like, "Farcon, you're you're such a nerd. You're always talking to a bunch of robots." And he's like this like nerdy guy's like having a conversation with a robot. It was hilarious. >> Yeah. Uh that's the idea. So, um, it's a talking toy. I think, uh, Fatine is the guy who's put in it. It's called magical toys.com is the name of theirs. >> They gave me like a really early prototype of this thing. Like, you could literally it's like the bear on the front and then there was like a control board like dangling out the back like open wires. So, you know, it I got like the earliest prototype. So, I don't know how good the newest one is, but again, this is where the world is going where your toys are going to be able to talk to kids, to teach your kids. They're going to be interactive in a openw world way. So a lot of toys today are interactive, but it's just hardcoded. Like you push this button, it's saying itsybitsy spider. You push this button, it's going to say hello. Well, these toys can do anything. And so once this works, it's going to be kind of amazing. When my kids ride in our car, we have a Tesla and Tesla has AI built in. And so I would say on half the rides, we just pop her pop the AI open and we're like, "Hey, we're playing guess the animal." Like come up with, you know, come up with animals. going to guess or uh how does like you know where does the earth come from right like the questions my son has and I'm like h this is pretty hard to say like what's older the you know the sun or the moon [laughter] you know things like that and then she explained where who invented chocolate we learned this the other day did you know who invented chocolate by the way >> no idea >> so this is kind of a crazy story thank you AI for telling me this story in the car so was uh initially they took the cocoa beans or it was like where does chocolate come from it's like oh these like cacao trees like a nasty bean, right? It's like >> you think it's nasty bean. It's bitter, but then if you roast it and you did whatever and then you add sugar, you add butter, you add all this stuff, it becomes like milk chocolate that we all like. So, I was like, "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa." >> Yeah. >> Who would have thought of that? Who would have took the nut and like got to chocolate bar at the end? Like, that sounds like an insane leap. And AI was like, "Well, here's the progression." Actually, first they took the the cacao thing and then they put it just in a drink and it was a spicy kind of bitter drink more like a coffee but they thought it had these like benefits and so it was really popular for that. So then this doctor named like something fry he believed in the the the medical benefits of the drink and then his he had stopped being a doctor and his family had made a industrial plant to make the drink but in order to increase demand he had this idea to experiment to turn it into a bar like a snack bar and then the bar was too bitter. Like the bitterness was okay in the drink form but it wasn't that good in the bar form. So he's like we'll just add a [ __ ] ton of sugar to this and like see if we can make this good. and he created the chocolate bar. >> That's pretty awesome. Um, >> so physical AI, small little either, you know, oneoff devices, baking chips into toys, chips into different different objects in the house. I think this is going to become more and more popular. >> When you said physical AI, there's this guy who uh just applied to join Hampton. It's called the handy.com. Have you seen the handy? >> I think I've been to this website. Might be saved, bookmarked. [laughter] >> All right. Uh, I'm here. What am I What am I looking at? Someone male interact. Oh, okay. All right. It was It was what you were joking about. I thought that was like a >> Yeah. >> Get your mind out of the gutter. It's actually going to save lives. Nope. It's not. >> Uh, no. I'm like, I'm being as clinical as one could be. I'm just going to read you exactly what it says. The number one male interactive stroker. The top rated male sex toy with perfect sync to adult videos on VR. >> Top rated how and where is what I [laughter] want to know. Let's get some source cited on that. But it says that it says they've sold 200,000 of these things like on on the website. >> So this guy applies to Hampton and you're like instant acceptance. Skip the application process. Come on in. [laughter] >> Well, we like do these weekly meetings where we discuss like who who who has applied and like do we have a good group for them or not? And it's pretty funny to be like yeah like uh the handy guy. Uh [laughter] it's just kind of a Yeah, it's definitely weird but it's pretty funny. >> There's a tab on their website. So, it's like products, bundles, accessories, and then the last tab of the navigation menu just goes, "Oh, [laughter] >> oh man, this is weird." Oh, I think I know what they're saying this is. >> So, I don't think this is AI, [laughter] but uh but maybe could be someday.