Julian Chokkatu
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Julian, what about you?
Well, I broke my leg in like two months ago.
And so it's been this opportunity to call in some stuff that are things that I would not usually test, accessibility-minded stuff.
And one of which is a electric wheelchair, which actually debuted at CES earlier this year.
Wow.
It's called the Strut EV1.
It is very expensive, but it's equipped with LiDAR.
So the same sort of sensor technology on autonomous cars.
It can detect obstacles around you.
So you just push the joystick forward and it can sort of navigate around those obstacles without you having to manually, you know, drive the wheelchair yourself.
There's like a follow me mode.
There's different speeds can go up more inclines than your usual mobility scooter.
So it's it's actually been very, very nice in being able to just even take the dog out for, well, not really a walk, but for him, a walk, but me a roll.
I just remember I was in college.
I was very into tech.
I wasn't graduating in anything related to tech, but I was just super interested.
And I just watched Google I.O.
as a fan, not as a journalist.
And I, at the time, was super excited at Google Ads because I think they debuted it.
It was the one where...