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How to Put Together an External Hard Drive

Tiffany Young: Hi there and welcome to Neo-fight.tv; technology show for the not so Gizmo. My name is Tiffany Young. Ben Freedman: I'm Ben Freedman and Tiffany has no idea what we are doing on the show in this first segment. Would you agree? Tiffany Young: Yes, now I agree. Ben Freedman: I haven't even told her what product we are going to do. Tiffany Young: I asked and he was silent, it scares me. Ben Freedman: Because there is going to be test teaching. Tiffany Young: Oh, great. Ben Freedman: So, a lot of times people have heard about me talking about building computers from the scratch; we did a barebones computer a while back. I've often get a lot of comments, especially my family friends saying, well Ben, that's okay for you to want to build the computers. Tiffany Young: Right. Ben Freedman: But we're not going to want to build computer and like building a computer is a great thing because you get things exactly the way you want it, it's custom tailored to you. Tiffany Young: Right, it's not like the old days either, where there was wires that are all connected to, just looks like a jumble of confusion when you open it up. Ben Freedman: That's right -- these days. To demonstrate how easy it is to start building that sort of stuff, I want to actually - I'm going to have Tiffany today put together an external hard drive. Now you can buy external -- you use external hard drives all the time, USB hard drives, right? Tiffany Young: All the time, yeah. Ben Freedman: But you don't always get to pick the capacity you want or to pick the size you want unless you make it yourself. So, today we got this product here from a company called Zonet and they make hard enclosures for hard drives. Tiffany Young: That is hard enclosure. Ben Freedman: This is a hard drive enclosure and this one is really cook, take a look, it's actually leather, so it's like high fashion. Tiffany Young: So can you pick like pink or blue, or green or? Ben Freedman: I don't know if they have in colors, but they do have plastic ones and metal ones and then also they also have this one, which is leather. Tiffany Young: This is really cool. Ben Freedman: Isn't that nice? Now it must be really hard to make your hard drive right. Well, you can go out to new egg or fries or any resource and buy any kind of 2.5 inch hard drive in any kind of sizes. This one happens to be 120 gigabytes, but you can buy 160, you can buy 250, you can buy 320, in fact they just came up with 500 gigabyte external hard drives this size. Tiffany Young: Wow! 500. Ben Freedman: Yeah, 500 gigs in the laptop size, take look at that. Tiffany Young: Cool, I like it. Ben Freedman: That is a hard drive now. To show you how easy it is, this entire package comes with two pieces. This piece, and this piece, that's it, the entire package. So what we're going to do is we are going to have and this - there is no time limit here, two pieces, no time limit. Tiffany is going to build this hard drive enclosure, so take a look. Here is one piece that attaches to the hard drive, see if you can figure out how that attaches. Tiffany Young: -- this way done. It's got one here, right. Is this suppose to be like a difficult test or -- Ben Freedman: No, it's very simple, there is only one way you can go in. Tiffany Young: Oh! But that's making a sense. Are you doing this on me on purpose? Ben Freedman: No, I thought this would be quite easy. Tiffany Young: Oh, here we go, I got it. Ben Freedman: Okay. Now, she has the two most important pieces attached, was that difficult? Tiffany Young: Oh my gosh, that was embarrassing. Ben Freedman: Okay, I'll now hand over the second piece of the Zonet hard drive. Tiffany Young: I'm not graduated; I'm allowed to another piece now. Ben Freedman: Yes. Tiffany Young: Okay, doesn't matter which way --? Ben Freedman: No. Tiffany Young: So but you think that works, but probably need to be put up this way, okay. Ben Freedman: That isn't probably a very good thought. Now not you -- what about tools I hear you asking. Tiffany Young: This is so neat. Ben Freedman: What about tools I hear you asking. Tiffany Young: Oh, what about tools? Ben Freedman: It even comes with a screwdriver and all gets put together with these -- with a couple of little screws, so why don't you take a couple of these little screws? Tiffany Young: This is so neat. Ben Freedman: And see if you can do the final piece of assembly, which may be difficult with nails, I understand. Tiffany Young: I got it, little Phillips head. Ben Freedman: Little Phillips head. Tiffany Young: I got it. So we got one, then we got the other, just two, where does these other screws go? Ben Freedman: That's it. Tiffany Young: We'll have -- some extra screws. Ben Freedman: I think in case you loose pieces or what happen. Tiffany Young: Okay, we got the idea; the other screw goes in here. There we go. Ben Freedman: The other screw goes in there, prophetic words. Now I believe this will mark the completion of Tiffany Young's first ever, do yourself, build yourself computer project, taken less than four minutes to go from -- Tiffany Young: Taken me four minutes. Ben Freedman: Well, that was including the introduction. Tiffany Young: This is like three pieces. Ben Freedman: Okay, fine. So, now a take a look at -- Tiffany Young: I Promise you, you can probably do it faster than I just did. Ben Freedman: Yeah. Well, they've season it now. Now that they've seen it, it's much easier for them. Tiffany Young: This is really neat. Ben Freedman: What do you think? Tiffany Young: I love it. Ben Freedman: Was that hard? Was that difficult? Tiffany Young: No, not at all Ben Freedman: And that's basically the same as putting a whole computer together. Now you have again beautiful product by Zonet. Tell me what do you think? They sent us this enclosure; tell me what do you think? Tiffany Young: I love it. Ben Freedman: You love it? Tiffany Young: Yeah. Ben Freedman: You said, it was your first, right? Tiffany Young: Yeah, I think it has to. And you know, I have -- on the other hard drive. Now remember the bigger 80 gig that I have? Ben Freedman: Yeah, the bigger 80 gig. Tiffany Young: The bigger 80 gig Ben Freedman: That was like -- Tiffany Young: So, this is like -- Ben Freedman: 80 gig is so small. Tiffany Young: And I always have -- we were just -- Ben Freedman: That's a 120. Tiffany Young: Out a town and my sister on Leicestershire is like, well give me my picture, then I am like, well, okay, give me a thumb drive, well, but I got now. Ben Freedman: Yeah, the thumb drive, you know, you're lucky if you get a thumb drive. Here, you've got 120 gigs. Tiffany Young: Very nice. Ben Freedman: That's not even the biggest one you get and that's leather. Tiffany Young: I leather. I don't think it smells. Ben Freedman: You got the allergies. Tiffany Young: I like the smell. Ben Freedman: So -- Tiffany Young: Nice product. Ben Freedman: How much do you think the enclosure will cost? Not the hard drive, just the enclosure. Tiffany Young: Just the enclosure, probably say, 50 bucks. Ben Freedman: 30 bucks. Tiffany Young: Nice. Ben Freedman: Yeah. You can't get their cheap ones. If you're really -- you can get them for $15, $20 but they're not going to have this nice leather and they're not going to be quite as well built as this Zonet one. Tiffany Young: How much is that, like the 120? Ben Freedman: Well, I can tell you but every week it goes down in price. I think you can get a 120 for $70 or $80 now. Tiffany Young: Then you can just -- Ben Freedman: Yeah, I was looking the other day for 320. 320 was like 149 and 50o ones, when they come out will be like 250, but they'll come down in price as well. Tiffany Young: And that will be same size though if you'll be able to -- Ben Freedman: All the same sizes. Tiffany Young: Wow. Ben Freedman: It's a standard laptop drive. Tiffany Young: Again, I think that really -- what you really need for a computer when you've got such good storage on these little guys. Ben Freedman: Exactly, yeah. So that is the Zonet USB 2.0 hard drive enclosure. Tiffany Young: Very nice. Ben Freedman: That's Tiffany's first do it yourself product. We got another profile coming up in just a minute, so please stay tuned. Welcome back to Neo-fight.tv in this second spotlight today, this week, right now. We're going to be talking about this little guy, which is the Com One Internet Radio, Phoenix; the Com One Phoenix, Internet Radio. So this is Phoenix. Tiffany Young: They are like have one for each date. Ben Freedman: No, and by the way, Phoenix is not a state. Tiffany Young: Well, you said that. Can you -- joke once. Ben Freedman: That's okay. So, I just noticed by the way, this has rubber -- on it, and listen to that. So even before you turn the radio on -- Tiffany Young: That actually makes that exact sound. Ben Freedman: You can play it. Tiffany Young: Everything go with the 80s. Ben Freedman: I like that. So this is the -- okay, it's getting ridiculous. This is the Phoenix. It is kind of a clock radio with a difference. Tiffany Young: Yeah. Ben Freedman: Now first of all, it's -- one thing I first spotted is it's battery-powered. Tiffany Young: Okay. Ben Freedman: So you can't plug it in, but you don't have to. It has two little speakers, but can also plug into big speakers. It's a radio, but it does not take the signal from the air, it's an Internet radio. Tiffany Young: So you can get even our podcast then? Ben Freedman: You can get our podcast and you can get a lot of radio stations. So you'll notice here, it has this LCD display, and what you can do is you can go - well, it has to first connect to the Wi-Fi, so it's Wi-Fi. Tiffany Young: Okay. Ben Freedman: Okay, so it connects the Wi-Fi and it says here, searching. Tiffany Young: Cool. Ben Freedman: And here is why I should remember to turn it on before we start the show. Tiffany Young: Then does it have the audio out port? Ben Freedman: It does. Tiffany Young: Okay, so this would be good. I mean these are all, obviously, speakers. Ben Freedman: They are speakers, but if you want to plug it into your stereo. Tiffany Young: Okay, so what I do at my office is I play - I have this cord that runs from my speakers to my computer, because I am always trying to play Internet radio, because I like the jazz station, that's on like the iTune. Ben Freedman: Right, because there are so many stations. It's kind of satellite radio. Tiffany Young: The sound quality is great and it's instantaneous. It's better than normal radio I think. Ben Freedman: Right. Tiffany Young: So anyway, so I got this cord that drags across my office. Ben Freedman: So I am going to pick here radio stations, I am going to go to -- and it downloads the list of them from their website. Now, by the way, you can also plug this into your computer via USB and download a whole bunch more stations. Tiffany Young: Oh, we can? Ben Freedman: Yeah, so you can hook it up to your computer and do a lot of stuff. Now, by the way, there is no memory on here. So you can't download -- Tiffany Young: -- Ben Freedman: Yeah, you can't like download 100 MP3 songs and then take it in the car or something. Tiffany Young: Okay. Ben Freedman: It has to be connected to the Internet. Tiffany Young: Okay. Ben Freedman: So then we pull up a - here, we will pull up something like, pop music. Here is one hits of the 1990s, it says, it's buffering. That's much pretty much full volume. It's not vastly loud. Tiffany Young: Now I mean -- if you want more better quality, use just speakers. Ben Freedman: Yeah, -- through the speakers. Tiffany Young: There are so many great speaker systems out there that are very inexpensive. Ben Freedman: For this now again, this is getting this from an Internet connection, from our Wi-Fi Internet. Tiffany Young: Yeah. Ben Freedman: This is pretty good for a bed room or a kitchen or a bathroom. Not a lot of base? Tiffany Young: No, but it has base, so when you -- Ben Freedman: Yeah, when you hooked up a big speaker, it will sound right. Tiffany Young: Right. Ben Freedman: It is getting now. Also some Internet radio stations don't broadcast in that high quality. Tiffany Young: Sure. Ben Freedman: Some are better than others and it tells you what the little bit -- Tiffany Young: Like the -- on TV. Ben Freedman: Right. So this is says, 128k bit rate, but if you have one that has a smaller bit rate, then like a 64k bit rate is not going to sound like. Tiffany Young: Does it have a meter on here too, so it tells you how strong. I see your signal here, it's -- Wi-Fi. Ben Freedman: Yeah, that's right. Tiffany Young: But does it have a - how can you tell again, oh, 128, I gotcha. Ben Freedman: 128k is the amount of data it's getting. Tiffany Young: What's the highest and what's the highest you can get? Ben Freedman: I've seen it goes highest 256. Tiffany Young: Oh, really? Ben Freedman: Yeah, then you need a fairly speedy Internet connection to download that, broadband for sure; of course if you are on Wi-Fi, you probably have broadband. Tiffany Young: What's going to happen in network television and network radio, when all this goes Internet and we don't have to pay direct TV or Cox or you know, I mean obviously radio is free now, but -- Ben Freedman: Now you also -- Tiffany Young: Is there commercials in here? Ben Freedman: Well, there are commercials if the radio station puts commercials. Tiffany Young: Yeah, the radio station, but the one that I have. Ben Freedman: But for instance, if go down here, I can pull up a podcast, here is one called a Zee net podcast and we can put our podcast on here as well. So here I am, I can pick an episode and it'll download the podcast. Here is a Zee net podcast. Tiffany Young: Cool. Ben Freedman: This is 64k. Tiffany Young: The talk radio sounds pretty good. Ben Freedman: Yeah, that's why you need, see Zee net news. So there is that. One more thing you can do with it, and let me see if I got this hooked up is, it'll also - if you have a computer on a Wi-Fi network -- Tiffany Young: Technology, it's amazing. Ben Freedman: if you have a computer on the Wi-Fi network like we do over here, you'll notice it pops up and it says, HP laptop. So if you have a computer at home that has a bunch of music on it, I can click on this. Tiffany Young: That's very cool, so it acts like a server. Ben Freedman: It acts like - your computer acts like a server. So here I am, pulling up some Blues. Tiffany Young: Oh, how neat. Ben Freedman: Now this is now not coming from the Internet. Tiffany Young: No. Ben Freedman: It's coming from the laptop set in right here, wirelessly. Tiffany Young: That is so nice. What do you need products? Ben Freedman: Then you can put your favorites all down here. Tiffany Young: Right, it's like -- radio. Ben Freedman: So it's a great product. It took me a couple of times to get it connected. The only worry about this product is it's a little pricy. Tiffany Young: That's because of what it does and the technology is new. Ben Freedman: Yes. Tiffany Young: But what you mean by a little pricy? Ben Freedman: Well, what would you think this product should cost? Tiffany Young: I knew he'd ask me to guess. Well, you've given me the big hands, it's a little pricy. Ben Freedman: Yeah, may be a better question is how much would you pay for it? Tiffany Young: Well, that's a good question. Ben Freedman: Again, it does Internet radio, podcasts. Tiffany Young: -- $100 for it. Am I way off? Ben Freedman: And streams from your computer, and it's battery-powered. Tiffany Young: Well, I still think it's - I don't think it's just quite, 150, 149, 50, 175, 200, do I have 250. Ben Freedman: It's about 250. Tiffany Young: 250? Ben Freedman: Yeah. Tiffany Young: Oh, my gosh. Really? Ben Freedman: Yeah. Tiffany Young: 250, okay, well, you know that's just because it's new. New technology, it's the newest things, it's, you know, it's very, very - I think the price point it need to for to reach more consumers would be about 100 bucks. Ben Freedman: About $100. Tiffany Young: And there is no reason why they shouldn't be able to make this for 100 bucks. Ben Freedman: You know I got to tell you it seems a little overpriced to me, I would go 149. Tiffany Young: 149? Ben Freedman: 250 seems too pricy, and maybe it'll come down in price like because it's new. Tiffany Young: Wow, they are selling the new technology, it's what they are selling. It's not like it's have super-expensive casing right here, it's a little plasticky. Ben Freedman: It is a little plasticky, but I got to tell you, what I like about this, that's really the only fault that I find with this is the price. Tiffany Young: Yeah. Ben Freedman: Because the speakers are nice, it's battery-powered, it came with the rechargeable batteries. You can connect -- with power adapter, you can plug in to bigger speakers if you like. So you just travel about, you can take the speakers -- Tiffany Young: I love the product. Again, yeah price, I may have to agree with you on that. Ben Freedman: Sure, so -- Tiffany Young: But you know, okay, 150, 149, if it come to there, I may stand there in the isle for a while, looking at it. Then it came probably about a 149, but you know. Ben Freedman: So I give it a four out of five. Tiffany Young: Well, I had to give it four it out of five, so -- is price. Ben Freedman: Yeah. No, I think it works pretty well. As you can see, it's nice. It's kind of like just have it on and it's kind of like XM radio, satellite radio, where you get all the different stations, but -- Tiffany Young: That's where they are getting their price point from. The XM radios -- Ben Freedman: Is that what they cost? Tiffany Young: Well, they used to when they first come out. Ben Freedman: Right. Tiffany Young: Now they are about $100 or $50, you know, so. Ben Freedman: four out of five for Tiffany, four out of five for me, that's eight out of ten for the Com One Phoenix Wireless Internet Radio. Tiffany Young: Really, really cool. Ben Freedman: Very cool if you've got the bucks. Tiffany Young: Exactly. Ben Freedman: That's all the time we have for this week. Let us know what you think of the product please and send us a comment on our website www.neo-fight.tv. Tiffany Young: Or if you like to say something on our show, drop us an email, let us know you would go and send the product. Ben Freedman: No, just send cash. 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Tiffany Young: Hi there and welcome to Neo-fight.tv; technology show for the not so Gizmo. My name is Tiffany Young.

Ben Freedman: I'm Ben Freedman and Tiffany has no idea what we are doing on the show in this first segment. Would you agree?

Tiffany Young: Yes, now I agree.

Ben Freedman: I haven't even told her what product we are going to do.

Tiffany Young: I asked and he was silent, it scares me.

Ben Freedman: Because there is going to be test teaching.

Tiffany Young: Oh, great.

Ben Freedman: So, a lot of times people have heard about me talking about building computers from the scratch; we did a barebones computer a while back. I've often get a lot of comments, especially my family friends saying, well Ben, that's okay for you to want to build the computers.

Tiffany Young: Right.

Ben Freedman: But we're not going to want to build computer and like building a computer is a great thing because you get things exactly the way you want it, it's custom tailored to you.

Tiffany Young: Right, it's not like the old days either, where there was wires that are all connected to, just looks like a jumble of confusion when you open it up.

Ben Freedman: That's right -- these days. To demonstrate how easy it is to start building that sort of stuff, I want to actually - I'm going to have Tiffany today put together an external hard drive. Now you can buy external -- you use external hard drives all the time, USB hard drives, right?

Tiffany Young: All the time, yeah.

Ben Freedman: But you don't always get to pick the capacity you want or to pick the size you want unless you make it yourself. So, today we got this product here from a company called Zonet and they make hard enclosures for hard drives.

Tiffany Young: That is hard enclosure.

Ben Freedman: This is a hard drive enclosure and this one is really cook, take a look, it's actually leather, so it's like high fashion.

Tiffany Young: So can you pick like pink or blue, or green or?

Ben Freedman: I don't know if they have in colors, but they do have plastic ones and metal ones and then also they also have this one, which is leather.

Tiffany Young: This is really cool.

Ben Freedman: Isn't that nice? Now it must be really hard to make your hard drive right. Well, you can go out to new egg or fries or any resource and buy any kind of 2.5 inch hard drive in any kind of sizes. This one happens to be 120 gigabytes, but you can buy 160, you can buy 250, you can buy 320, in fact they just came up with 500 gigabyte external hard drives this size.

Tiffany Young: Wow! 500.

Ben Freedman: Yeah, 500 gigs in the laptop size, take look at that.

Tiffany Young: Cool, I like it.

Ben Freedman: That is a hard drive now. To show you how easy it is, this entire package comes with two pieces. This piece, and this piece, that's it, the entire package. So what we're going to do is we are going to have and this - there is no time limit here, two pieces, no time limit. Tiffany is going to build this hard drive enclosure, so take a look. Here is one piece that attaches to the hard drive, see if you can figure out how that attaches.

Tiffany Young: -- this way done. It's got one here, right. Is this suppose to be like a difficult test or --

Ben Freedman: No, it's very simple, there is only one way you can go in.

Tiffany Young: Oh! But that's making a sense. Are you doing this on me on purpose?

Ben Freedman: No, I thought this would be quite easy.

Tiffany Young: Oh, here we go, I got it.

Ben Freedman: Okay. Now, she has the two most important pieces attached, was that difficult?

Tiffany Young: Oh my gosh, that was embarrassing.

Ben Freedman: Okay, I'll now hand over the second piece of the Zonet hard drive.

Tiffany Young: I'm not graduated; I'm allowed to another piece now.

Ben Freedman: Yes.

Tiffany Young: Okay, doesn't matter which way --?

Ben Freedman: No.

Tiffany Young: So but you think that works, but probably need to be put up this way, okay.

Ben Freedman: That isn't probably a very good thought. Now not you -- what about tools I hear you asking.

Tiffany Young: This is so neat.

Ben Freedman: What about tools I hear you asking.

Tiffany Young: Oh, what about tools?

Ben Freedman: It even comes with a screwdriver and all gets put together with these -- with a couple of little screws, so why don't you take a couple of these little screws?

Tiffany Young: This is so neat.

Ben Freedman: And see if you can do the final piece of assembly, which may be difficult with nails, I understand.

Tiffany Young: I got it, little Phillips head.

Ben Freedman: Little Phillips head.

Tiffany Young: I got it. So we got one, then we got the other, just two, where does these other screws go?

Ben Freedman: That's it.

Tiffany Young: We'll have -- some extra screws.

Ben Freedman: I think in case you loose pieces or what happen.

Tiffany Young: Okay, we got the idea; the other screw goes in here. There we go.

Ben Freedman: The other screw goes in there, prophetic words. Now I believe this will mark the completion of Tiffany Young's first ever, do yourself, build yourself computer project, taken less than four minutes to go from --

Tiffany Young: Taken me four minutes.

Ben Freedman: Well, that was including the introduction.

Tiffany Young: This is like three pieces.

Ben Freedman: Okay, fine. So, now a take a look at --

Tiffany Young: I Promise you, you can probably do it faster than I just did.

Ben Freedman: Yeah. Well, they've season it now. Now that they've seen it, it's much easier for them.

Tiffany Young: This is really neat.

Ben Freedman: What do you think?

Tiffany Young: I love it.

Ben Freedman: Was that hard? Was that difficult?

Tiffany Young: No, not at all

Ben Freedman: And that's basically the same as putting a whole computer together. Now you have again beautiful product by Zonet. Tell me what do you think? They sent us this enclosure; tell me what do you think?

Tiffany Young: I love it.

Ben Freedman: You love it?

Tiffany Young: Yeah.

Ben Freedman: You said, it was your first, right?

Tiffany Young: Yeah, I think it has to. And you know, I have -- on the other hard drive. Now remember the bigger 80 gig that I have?

Ben Freedman: Yeah, the bigger 80 gig.

Tiffany Young: The bigger 80 gig

Ben Freedman: That was like --

Tiffany Young: So, this is like --

Ben Freedman: 80 gig is so small.

Tiffany Young: And I always have -- we were just --

Ben Freedman: That's a 120.

Tiffany Young: Out a town and my sister on Leicestershire is like, well give me my picture, then I am like, well, okay, give me a thumb drive, well, but I got now.

Ben Freedman: Yeah, the thumb drive, you know, you're lucky if you get a thumb drive. Here, you've got 120 gigs.

Tiffany Young: Very nice.

Ben Freedman: That's not even the biggest one you get and that's leather.

Tiffany Young: I leather. I don't think it smells.

Ben Freedman: You got the allergies.

Tiffany Young: I like the smell.

Ben Freedman: So --

Tiffany Young: Nice product.

Ben Freedman: How much do you think the enclosure will cost? Not the hard drive, just the enclosure.

Tiffany Young: Just the enclosure, probably say, 50 bucks.

Ben Freedman: 30 bucks.

Tiffany Young: Nice.

Ben Freedman: Yeah. You can't get their cheap ones. If you're really -- you can get them for $15, $20 but they're not going to have this nice leather and they're not going to be quite as well built as this Zonet one.

Tiffany Young: How much is that, like the 120?

Ben Freedman: Well, I can tell you but every week it goes down in price. I think you can get a 120 for $70 or $80 now.

Tiffany Young: Then you can just --

Ben Freedman: Yeah, I was looking the other day for 320. 320 was like 149 and 50o ones, when they come out will be like 250, but they'll come down in price as well.

Tiffany Young: And that will be same size though if you'll be able to --

Ben Freedman: All the same sizes.

Tiffany Young: Wow.

Ben Freedman: It's a standard laptop drive.

Tiffany Young: Again, I think that really -- what you really need for a computer when you've got such good storage on these little guys.

Ben Freedman: Exactly, yeah. So that is the Zonet USB 2.0 hard drive enclosure.

Tiffany Young: Very nice.

Ben Freedman: That's Tiffany's first do it yourself product. We got another profile coming up in just a minute, so please stay tuned. Welcome back to Neo-fight.tv in this second spotlight today, this week, right now. We're going to be talking about this little guy, which is the Com One Internet Radio, Phoenix; the Com One Phoenix, Internet Radio. So this is Phoenix.

Tiffany Young: They are like have one for each date.

Ben Freedman: No, and by the way, Phoenix is not a state.

Tiffany Young: Well, you said that. Can you -- joke once.

Ben Freedman: That's okay. So, I just noticed by the way, this has rubber -- on it, and listen to that. So even before you turn the radio on --

Tiffany Young: That actually makes that exact sound.

Ben Freedman: You can play it.

Tiffany Young: Everything go with the 80s.

Ben Freedman: I like that. So this is the -- okay, it's getting ridiculous. This is the Phoenix. It is kind of a clock radio with a difference.

Tiffany Young: Yeah.

Ben Freedman: Now first of all, it's -- one thing I first spotted is it's battery-powered.

Tiffany Young: Okay.

Ben Freedman: So you can't plug it in, but you don't have to. It has two little speakers, but can also plug into big speakers. It's a radio, but it does not take the signal from the air, it's an Internet radio.

Tiffany Young: So you can get even our podcast then?

Ben Freedman: You can get our podcast and you can get a lot of radio stations. So you'll notice here, it has this LCD display, and what you can do is you can go - well, it has to first connect to the Wi-Fi, so it's Wi-Fi.

Tiffany Young: Okay.

Ben Freedman: Okay, so it connects the Wi-Fi and it says here, searching.

Tiffany Young: Cool.

Ben Freedman: And here is why I should remember to turn it on before we start the show.

Tiffany Young: Then does it have the audio out port?

Ben Freedman: It does.

Tiffany Young: Okay, so this would be good. I mean these are all, obviously, speakers.

Ben Freedman: They are speakers, but if you want to plug it into your stereo.

Tiffany Young: Okay, so what I do at my office is I play - I have this cord that runs from my speakers to my computer, because I am always trying to play Internet radio, because I like the jazz station, that's on like the iTune.

Ben Freedman: Right, because there are so many stations. It's kind of satellite radio.

Tiffany Young: The sound quality is great and it's instantaneous. It's better than normal radio I think.

Ben Freedman: Right.

Tiffany Young: So anyway, so I got this cord that drags across my office.

Ben Freedman: So I am going to pick here radio stations, I am going to go to -- and it downloads the list of them from their website. Now, by the way, you can also plug this into your computer via USB and download a whole bunch more stations.

Tiffany Young: Oh, we can?

Ben Freedman: Yeah, so you can hook it up to your computer and do a lot of stuff. Now, by the way, there is no memory on here. So you can't download --

Tiffany Young: --

Ben Freedman: Yeah, you can't like download 100 MP3 songs and then take it in the car or something.

Tiffany Young: Okay.

Ben Freedman: It has to be connected to the Internet.

Tiffany Young: Okay.

Ben Freedman: So then we pull up a - here, we will pull up something like, pop music. Here is one hits of the 1990s, it says, it's buffering. That's much pretty much full volume. It's not vastly loud.

Tiffany Young: Now I mean -- if you want more better quality, use just speakers.

Ben Freedman: Yeah, -- through the speakers.

Tiffany Young: There are so many great speaker systems out there that are very inexpensive.

Ben Freedman: For this now again, this is getting this from an Internet connection, from our Wi-Fi Internet.

Tiffany Young: Yeah.

Ben Freedman: This is pretty good for a bed room or a kitchen or a bathroom. Not a lot of base?

Tiffany Young: No, but it has base, so when you --

Ben Freedman: Yeah, when you hooked up a big speaker, it will sound right.

Tiffany Young: Right.

Ben Freedman: It is getting now. Also some Internet radio stations don't broadcast in that high quality.

Tiffany Young: Sure.

Ben Freedman: Some are better than others and it tells you what the little bit --

Tiffany Young: Like the -- on TV.

Ben Freedman: Right. So this is says, 128k bit rate, but if you have one that has a smaller bit rate, then like a 64k bit rate is not going to sound like.

Tiffany Young: Does it have a meter on here too, so it tells you how strong. I see your signal here, it's -- Wi-Fi.

Ben Freedman: Yeah, that's right.

Tiffany Young: But does it have a - how can you tell again, oh, 128, I gotcha.

Ben Freedman: 128k is the amount of data it's getting.

Tiffany Young: What's the highest and what's the highest you can get?

Ben Freedman: I've seen it goes highest 256.

Tiffany Young: Oh, really?

Ben Freedman: Yeah, then you need a fairly speedy Internet connection to download that, broadband for sure; of course if you are on Wi-Fi, you probably have broadband.

Tiffany Young: What's going to happen in network television and network radio, when all this goes Internet and we don't have to pay direct TV or Cox or you know, I mean obviously radio is free now, but --

Ben Freedman: Now you also --

Tiffany Young: Is there commercials in here?

Ben Freedman: Well, there are commercials if the radio station puts commercials.

Tiffany Young: Yeah, the radio station, but the one that I have.

Ben Freedman: But for instance, if go down here, I can pull up a podcast, here is one called a Zee net podcast and we can put our podcast on here as well. So here I am, I can pick an episode and it'll download the podcast. Here is a Zee net podcast.

Tiffany Young: Cool.

Ben Freedman: This is 64k.

Tiffany Young: The talk radio sounds pretty good.

Ben Freedman: Yeah, that's why you need, see Zee net news. So there is that. One more thing you can do with it, and let me see if I got this hooked up is, it'll also - if you have a computer on a Wi-Fi network --

Tiffany Young: Technology, it's amazing.

Ben Freedman: if you have a computer on the Wi-Fi network like we do over here, you'll notice it pops up and it says, HP laptop. So if you have a computer at home that has a bunch of music on it, I can click on this.

Tiffany Young: That's very cool, so it acts like a server.

Ben Freedman: It acts like - your computer acts like a server. So here I am, pulling up some Blues.

Tiffany Young: Oh, how neat.

Ben Freedman: Now this is now not coming from the Internet.

Tiffany Young: No.

Ben Freedman: It's coming from the laptop set in right here, wirelessly.

Tiffany Young: That is so nice. What do you need products?

Ben Freedman: Then you can put your favorites all down here.

Tiffany Young: Right, it's like -- radio.

Ben Freedman: So it's a great product. It took me a couple of times to get it connected. The only worry about this product is it's a little pricy.

Tiffany Young: That's because of what it does and the technology is new.

Ben Freedman: Yes.

Tiffany Young: But what you mean by a little pricy?

Ben Freedman: Well, what would you think this product should cost?

Tiffany Young: I knew he'd ask me to guess. Well, you've given me the big hands, it's a little pricy.

Ben Freedman: Yeah, may be a better question is how much would you pay for it?

Tiffany Young: Well, that's a good question.

Ben Freedman: Again, it does Internet radio, podcasts.

Tiffany Young: -- $100 for it. Am I way off?

Ben Freedman: And streams from your computer, and it's battery-powered.

Tiffany Young: Well, I still think it's - I don't think it's just quite, 150, 149, 50, 175, 200, do I have 250.

Ben Freedman: It's about 250.

Tiffany Young: 250?

Ben Freedman: Yeah.

Tiffany Young: Oh, my gosh. Really?

Ben Freedman: Yeah.

Tiffany Young: 250, okay, well, you know that's just because it's new. New technology, it's the newest things, it's, you know, it's very, very - I think the price point it need to for to reach more consumers would be about 100 bucks.

Ben Freedman: About $100.

Tiffany Young: And there is no reason why they shouldn't be able to make this for 100 bucks.

Ben Freedman: You know I got to tell you it seems a little overpriced to me, I would go 149.

Tiffany Young: 149?

Ben Freedman: 250 seems too pricy, and maybe it'll come down in price like because it's new.

Tiffany Young: Wow, they are selling the new technology, it's what they are selling. It's not like it's have super-expensive casing right here, it's a little plasticky.

Ben Freedman: It is a little plasticky, but I got to tell you, what I like about this, that's really the only fault that I find with this is the price.

Tiffany Young: Yeah.

Ben Freedman: Because the speakers are nice, it's battery-powered, it came with the rechargeable batteries. You can connect -- with power adapter, you can plug in to bigger speakers if you like. So you just travel about, you can take the speakers --

Tiffany Young: I love the product. Again, yeah price, I may have to agree with you on that.

Ben Freedman: Sure, so --

Tiffany Young: But you know, okay, 150, 149, if it come to there, I may stand there in the isle for a while, looking at it. Then it came probably about a 149, but you know.

Ben Freedman: So I give it a four out of five.

Tiffany Young: Well, I had to give it four it out of five, so -- is price.

Ben Freedman: Yeah. No, I think it works pretty well. As you can see, it's nice. It's kind of like just have it on and it's kind of like XM radio, satellite radio, where you get all the different stations, but --

Tiffany Young: That's where they are getting their price point from. The XM radios --

Ben Freedman: Is that what they cost?

Tiffany Young: Well, they used to when they first come out.

Ben Freedman: Right.

Tiffany Young: Now they are about $100 or $50, you know, so.

Ben Freedman: four out of five for Tiffany, four out of five for me, that's eight out of ten for the Com One Phoenix Wireless Internet Radio.

Tiffany Young: Really, really cool.

Ben Freedman: Very cool if you've got the bucks.

Tiffany Young: Exactly.

Ben Freedman: That's all the time we have for this week. Let us know what you think of the product please and send us a comment on our website www.neo-fight.tv.

Tiffany Young: Or if you like to say something on our show, drop us an email, let us know you would go and send the product.

Ben Freedman: No, just send cash.

Tiffany Young: Cash is fine.

Ben Freedman: Just sending money is fine too, yeah. If you happen to have an extra 30 seconds take a look at this.

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