Smart Shopper Electronic Shopping List Review

Tiffany Young: Hi there welcome to neo-fight.tv, a technology show for that not so geeky. My name is Tiffany Young. Ben Freedman: And I'm Ben Freedman. And today on the show, our first spotlight today we’re going to be looking at this product. This is? Tiffany Young: What it could be? Ben Freedman: Products Smart products called the Smart Shopper. And so this is for all you housewives out there like Tiffany. Tiffany Young: Exactly. Ben Freedman: That’s right and what this tied us -- Tiffany Young: And housemen like Ben. Ben Freedman: -- housemen, yes. Tiffany Young: Right. Ben Freedman: And this is -- first of all, its magnetic its fits -- its slaps on your fridge. Tiffany Young: Is that something? Ben Freedman: Yes. Tiffany Young: That is the coolest. Ben Freedman: So this sits on your fridge and had a record button in here and it has a list of some grocery goods that you might buy at the shopping market. So, what you do is, you press record and you tell it what you want to record, eggs, bacon, whatever. You do that all week long until you’ve got a list of 50 items you need to buy whatever and then you hit print. And it prints you off a little list. Tiffany Young: That is something. Ben Freedman: Yes. So -- Tiffany Young: And it sorts it by -- Ben Freedman: And sorts it by? Tiffany Young: Category, right. Ben Freedman: That’s right. So it record is in Tiffany Young: Take all the purchases in one Ben Freedman: So saving you time at the -- yes. Tiffany Young: And please -- another. Ben Freedman: Yes. It does more than just add just like errands to like, if you want to put hair cut on that you can get. Tiffany Young: Oh, it does errands too? Ben Freedman: Yes. For instance, what is something you might buy at the supermarket? Tiffany Young: I would buy milk. Ben Freedman: Okay. I'm going to hit record here, you just say milk. Tiffany Young: That’s way, right milk. Milk. Ben Freedman: And it says, which item? In fact you said “what milk or bourbon? I don’t know if you could read that here. Tiffany Young: Bourbon? What's a bourbon? Ben Freedman: Or urban. Tiffany Young: Urban. Ben Freedman: That’s right. Tiffany Young: What I said was bourbon, thank you. Ben Freedman: Okay. Let’s try the other one, what else do you buy? Tiffany Young: I would buy apples. Apples. Ben Freedman: That is it. Tiffany Young: It said apples. Ben Freedman: Apples. That’s right. So after you say it, you press the select button to make sure you have the right one. So and I think you can do all kinds of things like panty hose. Tiffany Young: Can I do with that let me try one, one more. Ben Freedman: You can try, always just few hits put few in here. Tiffany Young: Latex gloves.Lip gloss. Ben Freedman: Lip gloss. Tiffany Young: This is like the -- Ben Freedman: Latex. What if you just said, gloves. Tiffany Young: Okay. Gloves. Tell me like, plug in. Ben Freedman: Lettuce éclairs, okay. Tiffany Young: Can you type it in. Ben Freedman: You can. You can put it in manual. Tiffany Young: Okay. Ben Freedman: Gloves. Balloons, -- Tiffany Young: I guess you can't but gloves in the grocery store. I know if. Ben Freedman: Maybe not. So what else would you buy in the -- there. Tiffany Young: I would buy a yogurt. Yogurt. Ah! You got yogurt there. Butter. Ben Freedman: Blouger is the first thing that it -- Tiffany Young: What's a -- I mean what a blouger is? Ben Freedman: It’s caviar. Tiffany Young: Oh, blouger is caviar? Ben Freedman: Yes. Tiffany Young: Well, I guess you know. Ben Freedman: Right. Yes. Tiffany Young: How about you, is this the champagne for that not? Ben Freedman: So let’s have a few more and now you can do errands in here. So for instance, I'm going to haircut. See, haircut comes out. What’s another errand that you might go on --maybe or -- Tiffany Young: Dry cleaning. Dry cleaning. That isn’t right. Ben Freedman: Mackerel, I don’t know. Let me try dry cleaning. It’s not coming out from here. Say -- Tiffany Young: Am I slurring, stuttering. Ben Freedman: You’re not holding it too close. Here, try again. Tiffany Young: Dry cleaning. Ben Freedman: Duck meat? Tiffany Young: Duck meat? Ben Freedman: Diet pudding Tiffany Young: Where did you manufacture this? Ben Freedman: I don’t know. smartshopperusa.com, let me try that. Tiffany Young: You went say its duck meat. I mean -- Ben Freedman: Dry cleaning. Pipe cleaners.Maybe its just cleaning. Tiffany Young: Oh, they have pipe cleaners. That's nice but latex gloves. Ben Freedman: No, late -- well, let me try. Latex gloves? No, but what if -- could it be rubber gloves? Tiffany Young: Yes, it could be. Sure. Ben Freedman: Rubber gloves? Tiffany Young: Ah! Look at that. Ben Freedman: Rubber gloves. Tiffany Young: Ben, gets a gold star. Ben Freedman: Right. Tiffany Young: Good job then. Ben Freedman: Okay. So, instead of cleaning maybe these cleaners -- Tiffany Young: Cleaners. Kleenex cleaners. Ben Freedman: Kleenex, creamers, clean brush. I'm sure you just said cleaners. Cleaners. Tiffany Young: We have to paste this effect, right. Ben Freedman: Éclairs. Tiffany Young: Yes. I would say like wind -- you know. Window cleaner. Wow! Gold are for Tiffany Ben Freedman: Window cleaner. This is kind of a game show. Okay. It’s like -- okay. I feel like I'm -- what's the guy who does Family Feud? Tiffany Young: Alex Serback. Is that right? Ben Freedman: That’s Jeopardy. Tiffany Young: Oh, oops, oh, yes. Ben Freedman: Okay. So it is like a question is -- Tiffany Young: Okay, get me back Serback. Ben Freedman: -- name something that you would buy in the dairy compartment? Tiffany Young: Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh, I don’t know. I don’t know. Cottage cheese? Ben Freedman: Too late. I'm sorry. Tiffany Young: Run out of time. Ben Freedman: Too late, okay. Tiffany Young: Pass, pass! Ben Freedman: Let’s do another one here. Let’s do, name something that you might find in the vegetable oil? Tiffany Young: Carrot Ben Freedman: Wait -- wait. Tiffany Young: Lettuce Ben Freedman: Survey says? Not recognized. Try it again. Tiffany Young: Lettuce? Ben Freedman: Lettuce! Its there. Tiffany Young: Its similar four in the board right. Ben Freedman: Okay. So, you got the idea and I actually my wife say, it’s much better than we’re doing in here. You know, she will stick on the fridge and just doing it first day of the week. Tiffany Young: Yes. Ben Freedman: You know, you push the button and you say what you need. Oh, when you open fridge and all of a sudden we’re out of grape juice. And so she’ll push the button, grape juice. And apple come -- Tiffany Young: Grape juice. Ben Freedman: Grape juice. It helps I think if you're a little closer. Tiffany Young: So, it wasn’t -- do people come to your house and go, what is that? What is that? Ben Freedman: They do that constantly. My house is full of these gadgets. Tiffany Young: I can imagine. Ben Freedman: Yes. So anyway at the end of the week, you stand at the shopping. You hit this little print button which I'm going to do here. See it printing? Tiffany Young: It is like a receipt and it is still funny. Ben Freedman: This is just before you go shopping? Tiffany Young: You know, I was just thinking this could be great idea. Ben Freedman: What's that? Tiffany Young: Imagine that me coming up another great idea. What are these systems that you hook up to your internet and downloads all your coupons. So, you have a little guide like this. Ben Freedman: Right. Tiffany Young: And then if you -- as you come down the aisle, you find it that if its on sale has any coupons that had been issued. Ben Freedman: Perfect. Tiffany Young: And it prints out your coupons as you go. Ben Freedman: Right. Tiffany Young: Now, nobody take that. That’s my idea. Today is the 21st , oh wait, what's today? Ben Freedman: So, there is our list and you can take that with you. Now, what are we buying today at the store? Tiffany Young: We are getting a haircut. Ben Freedman: Haircut. Tiffany Young: Getting some apples and panty hose. Ben Freedman: Apples. That’s not in the same section. Tiffany Young: No. No, I was helping beauty. Ben Freedman: So it’s categorized that’s right. Tiffany Young: Yes. And under buttons you have small meal. Ben Freedman: Breakfast oatmeal, yes. Tiffany Young: And some miracle whip. Ben Freedman: Miracle whip for breakfast. Tiffany Young: And you got milk and yogurt under dairy. Ben Freedman: Now, you got milk. So, its -- so now, I'm going to go dairy department. I’ll go get my dairy and breakfast, I’ll get all my breakfast and -- Tiffany Young: It’s pretty neat. I would say politics a little of learning, someone like Ben Freedman: So that it does and it comes with a list of every word at notes. Tiffany Young: Okay, that’s helpful. Ben Freedman: It got 5,000 words of notes that come to the lists of it. So I guess if you want to search through that little booklet. But I think, you know, most things it’s just good to know. Doesn’t require any training? You know, I don’t know, what happens if you use like a funky voice. Like can you speak with Hispanic accent or a -- Tiffany Young: I can say a couple of words in Spanish. Ben Freedman: Yes, I don’t think it does Spanish. Tiffany Young: We would say, Leche Ben Freedman: Leche? Tiffany Young: Its milk in Spanish. Ben Freedman: Isn't it Leche? Tiffany Young: Whatever? Ben Freedman: Leche? Tiffany Young: Leche Ben Freedman: Lip cake. Tiffany Young: Yes, this is -- Ben Freedman: Rock candy. Now, I think it does other languages. And I don’t think -- English speakers only for this part. Maybe they make Spanish. Tiffany Young: I thought you make it with her. Ben Freedman: What you think it worth? Tiffany Young: It does not have the ability to learn so it would be -- I maybe annoyed if I have to cut everytime I have to program something in. If this have like a hard drive but if there something for example like latex gloves that wasn’t on here. I guess you get use this -- using something alternative but what's it worth, how much? Say like maybe 30 bucks, $39.99? Ben Freedman: $150.00. Tiffany Young: What? Ben Freedman: $150.00. Tiffany Young: $150.00? Ben Freedman: And there goes the reading. I think you have a odd concept to what things actually worth. Tiffany Young: What the heck? $150.00. Ben Freedman: Yes. Tiffany Young: For $150.00 I better know exactly what I want and you know, like so much have to say at once and a -- I mean, how much is that could replace to the -- Ben Freedman: Paper? Tiffany Young: Paper? Ben Freedman: I don’t know? You can get this paper anywhere I think the rolls. Tiffany Young: Oh, so it’s standing like calculator paper. Ben Freedman: Like calculator paper. Tiffany Young: Are you sure? Ben Freedman: Yes. Tiffany Young: Because that roll wouldn’t look like it would go in here? Ben Freedman: This is just small. You can get small copy like the desktop printing type like this. Tiffany Young: Alright. Okay. Now, I own one. Well. Ben Freedman: So I give this a four out of five. It does have a little trouble with some recognition but my wife loves this. Again, I'd like the fact it magnetizes right to your fridge. And boom and enter whatever products you want. Tiffany Young: You know like? Ben Freedman: And you like at the end of the week -- you press the button. Now, it comes out categorized got everything she needs. Tiffany Young: That is nice. Now, it does have ability to save your previous shopping list, okay. So anyway, that’s three out of five for me. I mean it sort of worked for me, sort of didn’t worked. Definitely overprice, we overprice. Ben Freedman: For 30 bucks, I think it’s too cheap. Tiffany Young: $39.99. Ben Freedman: 40 bucks Tiffany Young: 40 bucks, yes. Ben Freedman: voice recognition with a printer and a display -- Tiffany Young: Yes. That's -- what I mean 40 bucks. I mean its not -- I mean it’s not like a color display. It’s not like you know this is super paper. It’s not like this is made of -- Ben Freedman: Super paper. Tiffany Young: I mean this is a plastic. I mean anyway, yes. It’s forty bucks. Ben Freedman: We have five for Tiffany of four out of five for me, that is seven out of ten for the Smart Shopper which is you get from smartshopperUSA.com. It is a cool idea. Tiffany Young: Lazy Ben Freedman: And we will be back in the second spotlight in just a moment. Stay tuned. [Commercial Part] Ben Freedman: And we’re back on the neo-fight.tv and second spotlight today AL Gore. You'd be an Al Gore fan? Tiffany Young: I would say that I'm neutral. Ben Freedman: Neutral on Al Gore? Tiffany Young: Yes. Ben Freedman: So, Al Gore of course is a big global warming guy and he think we use less energy. Tiffany Young: I think that’s great as long as there is no political -- Ben Freedman: What? Tiffany Young: -- connotations associate. Ben Freedman: Right. Anyway, and although, I'm not sure about the whole global warming thing and who whether it is man made or not man made. I agree that it is a good to conserve power. Tiffany Young: I agree. Ben Freedman: But, we’re loving our iPods here. Tiffany Young: Alright. Ben Freedman: You're going to plug these in to charge them like kind of stuff or do you? Tiffany Young: Oh? Ben Freedman: Oh, so here's a couple of products, pretty cool products that you can use to charge your iPod without any carbon footprint or any electricity used whatsoever. Tiffany Young: It is made of corn and ethanol? Ben Freedman: No. Tiffany Young: Okay. Wrong next okay. Ben Freedman: This is a product. This is called the “Solio Solar charger”. Now what are this is, it’s a device you can use to charge your iPhone, your iPod or any other digital cameras, small portable device. What work on a laptop? Tiffany Young: Okay. Ben Freedman: While we work on anything small. What you do is when you -- it has a battery in it. So, you can plug it into the wall, charge the battery and use that same battery to charge your iPod. But if you're not near a wall maybe you're hiking Everest or something and you don’t want to -- you have the ability to do all that. Tiffany Young: Freeze your fingers and to getting into your backpack, right. Ben Freedman: That’s right. You can take this and this unleaves like that to display three, kind of three solar panels. Tiffany Young: Count them three, yes. Ben Freedman: Count them. Three solar panels and you set this out in the sun and you hook it up your iPod and it charges. Tiffany Young: That’s really good. And it is that -- does it work? Ben Freedman: It works; it takes a quite awhile to charge. Tiffany Young: Okay. Ben Freedman: So, like hours. Tiffany Young: So you mean like, it needs to charge all day long, then use the next day. Ben Freedman: Yes. Now, you can do that or use on this things. It does have a battery built in. So what you're going to do is while you're listening to your iPod. You can have this sitting on the back of your car or sitting out under the sun or whatever. At the back dash of your car be perfect for it right. Tiffany Young: Yes, well especially in Arizona. Ben Freedman: Exactly. It will then charge up its internal battery. And then when your iPod runs out, you can recharge it not from the sun but from the internal batteries. Tiffany Young: Of course. Ben Freedman: That you’ve been charging all day. Tiffany Young: Now what -- okay, so iPod -- so, it comes with some sort of adaptors are for sale? Ben Freedman: It comes with, yes, and a -- Tiffany Young: Yes. A bunch of little adaptors that -- Ben Freedman: Yes. And let me show while you're looking at that one. We’ll pull up this other one and this is another one, it’s from a company called its actually -- I'm not quite sure the company it’s called the “Sunny Solar charger and it was sent to me from Asia, somewhere. And I do not -- I was looking on the internet trying to find a price for it, I couldn’t find a price for it. This cost is about $100.00. This one I couldn’t find the price for it. It is a little bigger but here's the way it works. This actually you can slide it open like this and you'll notice it has two separate panels. I think it’s a little more surface area on this. So, it’s going to charge a little bit quicker have a little more juice. Tiffany Young: Right. Ben Freedman: So this kind of opens up like this and you can when it’s charging, so this is little red light starts flashing on the back, I don’t know if you could see that. There it is with the red light flashing. And this one has a little extra functionality as well and it also has an LED flashlight which is to charge up. I could show you, so if you need a little emergency flashlight. Tiffany Young: Just in case. Ben Freedman: But again it has a built in battery, so you can take this, plug a USB cable into it like so, this time place into your iPod or your iPhone like so, or any device that charges by USB, digital cameras or anything like that. And now, I'm charging my iPod just using the bright lights here in the studio. Tiffany Young: I wonder if that the same test, same technology that they use for the electric cars and that sort of thing. What should special in Nova on electric cars. They talk about always panels and how they work to like made of and like say -- Ben Freedman: I -- do you know the -- Tiffany Young: -- it’s going to be the same technology for it. Ben Freedman: -- the electric cars, mostly electric cars you have to plug in to charge, right? Tiffany Young: Well, not actually you know what's in solar cars that because these are all made from -- Ben Freedman: Solar power cars. Tiffany Young: -- there solar, yes. Ben Freedman: Solar are really small and -- Tiffany Young: Their tiny. There are like a two-seater and I think it was Europe somewhere -- Ben Freedman: Solar -- the promises the solar panels plenty of power coming out of the sun but there is -- the solar panels are not efficient enough. Tiffany Young: They did absorb. Ben Freedman: They can't transfer enough for that power through there. But I do not know which one do you like -- Tiffany Young: Anything. Ben Freedman: -- these are basically perform the same sort of roles. Which shown -- that one kind of girlie, I think of that flower style. Tiffany Young: Do you know if I was going to carry what, carry one that had more juice. Ben Freedman: More juice. Tiffany Young: I mean only because of -- Ben Freedman: I don’t know what the price phone numbers is that? Tiffany Young: If they were at the same price which I don’t know. Ben Freedman: Yes.I'm not 100% sure. Tiffany Young: But you know if I was going to carry one it would be the one that I'm looking for. Ben Freedman: Correct. If you look into you know, get away from the -- Tiffany Young: This is a neat design though, I like it. Ben Freedman: That’s a very cool design. Tiffany Young: See if like a car -- or something, you know.It can hang out from here. Well, not really from your advice of that. Ben Freedman: Again, if either of these you can just lie on the back of your car. Let them charge up while you're doing nothing. Tiffany Young: And it indicates when it’s charged up, right? Ben Freedman: Yes. And the little light sill stops flashing, right. Tiffany Young: Stops blinking, okay. Ben Freedman: And then you can, once you’re done you can plug into your, you know -- Tiffany Young: What about this one? Ben Freedman: -- you can close this up -- Tiffany Young: This one trying when it stops -- Ben Freedman: Yes, it does have -- has a light on the back. Tiffany Young: Oh, there it is. Right there? Ben Freedman: Yes. Tiffany Young: Oh, I see. Ben Freedman: And there it is it starts flashing there. That it light up, that’ll stop charging -- you know, when it is fully charge it will take off there. Tiffany Young: Enough! Charge them both. Ben Freedman: Also, you can whip this people and it will come right back to you. Tiffany Young: Don’t worry it looks pretty good. Ben Freedman: Yes. Tiffany Young: I was thinking of good windmill, you know? Ben Freedman: You know what -- Tiffany Young: Its looks like windmill. Ben Freedman: -- if they had a turbine on here and you could get wind power and solar power? Tiffany Young: Ah, it be like just going through San Fernando Valley, right? Ben Freedman: Right. With all those windmill farms. Tiffany Young: Is that, is that San Fernando isn’t it? Ben Freedman: Yes. Tiffany Young: Yes Ben Freedman: Another very cool technology that doesn’t quite you know use enough -- doesn’t quite generate enough power yet to be economically feasible. Tiffany Young: They keep adding them. I don’t know, I remember when I first came through as a kid. Ben Freedman: The farm with those wind farms is again each one generates extra power -- Tiffany Young: Right. Ben Freedman: -- but also requires maintenance and it has to be fixed and it has to you know, and it takes some power to maintain it. Tiffany Young: Oh! The fuel in the maintenance vehicle to get over to that -- Ben Freedman: The maintenance vehicle exactly. Tiffany Young: Alright, I got you. Ben Freedman: -- so you know what I'm saying. Tiffany Young: Yes. Ben Freedman: So they do generate power but they do a lot of experiments. I do not know if they -- and do you know they take a lot of space. You got you need hundreds of these to generate enough power for a city or you know. Tiffany Young: Now, real quick I just talk sort of related, corn ethanol, what do you think about that? Do you think that’s? Ben Freedman: I gave it up personally. But the -- corn ethanol -- Tiffany Young: Gives me gas. Ben Freedman: -- once again I've heard -- gives her gas, very funny. Tiffany Young: Tiffany made it funny. Ben Freedman: I've heard that again, it takes to much corn -- Tiffany Young: To make it work. Ben Freedman: -- to make it work. Tiffany Young: So -- yes, I heard that too. Ben Freedman: But I don’t know, I'm not a scientist. I just play one on pod cast. Tiffany Young: I see, right. We've got our scientist want to be suit technologist. Ben Freedman: So that’s a couple of different of it. This one called the Sunny, see if you can find -- Sunny solar chargers, see if you could find it. It’s S-U-N-N-Y, Sunny and this is the Solio Solar USB or Solar Power Charger and this one you can find on Amazon and in different places. Tiffany Young: Well, I would recommend this for anybody who has an emergency pack with your band dates and you know all the wires you know whatever. That’s definitely a must have. Could you imagine, if this would be saving your life. Ben Freedman: Yes. If God knows in the middle of an emergency -- Tiffany Young: Went on -- Ben Freedman: -- you would not want to run our off iPod songs. God knows, the last thing you want to do -- Tiffany Young: What would you do? Ben Freedman: The last thing you want an emergency dead iPod. Tiffany Young: I mean your starving to death, you need something to offset the hunger and the thirst, right? Ben Freedman: Right. A musical -- Tiffany Young: Like make AC DC take care of that, right. Ben Freedman: Alright, that’s all the time we have for this week. Please drop by at the website Tiffany Young: Thanks for joining us. Ben Freedman: neo-fight.tv. Yes? Tiffany Young: That’s it! Ben Freedman: And leave us comments there. 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