Bonjour, Always On ns! Molly Wood visits the City of Light where the future of technology is being discussed at Le Web 2012. Plus, torture tests are back! Molly takes Apples iPad Mini along the Champs-Elysees for a Paris-inspired test.

Created: 10/15/2013 Its been an incredible season and a great run for Always On. This week we bring you the highlights, including a world-class video streaming venue from one of the founding members of the Grateful Dead, the best of our unforgettable torture tests, and Molly rants about Google Glass.

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In this weeks episode, we get a unique peek at a world-class virtual music venue with one of the founding members of the legendary Grateful Dead. We test out the Nokia Lumia 1020 at a popular music festival. And, we unbox a mega phablet.

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Season five. -- -- Okay glass. I am Molly Wood and welcome -- Allie loved the show where we take -- into the real world and this week its the very best moments from season five. It hasnt been -- Really great episodes and were starting up the show with -- behind the scenes look. How to live streaming concert featuring them top performer. The wound team through -- or -- That can handle this. Industry. What we set about to do in building this list was to build the ultimate playpen for musicians. This is how Bob -- and visions of the future of music. The Grateful Dead front man has created a state of the art music and streaming studio. To broadcast unbelievably high quality sound and music over the Internet just ns around the world. Welcome to GR -- Do you want to just change the way people consume music -- experience it does it for you to the musicians are for not answer boss its for everybody. Music is for everybody -- so for the musicians we come here we have a great time for the audience would try to make it really easy. Grateful that set the standard. Back in the sixties and first guys pay attention to create a building and we stream now the highest the consumer can receive an -- on the Internet. On a regular basis both audio and video -- -- only limited now my wife. The consumer can receive sit -- watching at home this is something comparable to getting to see Bob where The Grateful -- or some other bands. Like -- a coffee shop you know the permanent dream its the closest you can ever get to actually being in the band. That this case studio but its a live performance stereo so its not sterile like. A normal recording studios and has built for a live performance. The sound is amazing its a very relaxed laid back atmosphere and evidence in the treacherous one grateful that -- Well this studio is in every sense mind blowing this is. At the center out -- what is the constant deletion or you. Use coordinated years a cutting -- sound system developed by audio engineer John Mayer to enhance the sound that musicians here on stage -- him. Good call me agrees. All around the sides and back there are some eighty speakers hanging that -- that -- hanging down from the ceiling you also cant see him unless you look real close. -- a bunch of microphones for a couple dozen of those. And -- take it up in through software and then put it back out to those speakers at over this. I have I have to begin with I can assure you that -- -- this is how this -- sounds all by itself. -- -- everything. -- His room number one club again. Now were not an hour and a fear. I didnt. The smallest literature -- -- -- -- -- -- Now for him. Its another zero but on -- goes weve got anything from living rooms to -- works and everything in between we havent got the. Grand -- -- so and keep coming here and you guys can player they can play and they can stream coming to town is there anywhere and. And were what were trying to do this right now this -- drawn up on my head here but were trying to get me wrong but were switching. The heart and soul of tiara is this audio control room known as the inner sanctum. Here -- a mix comes in from the studio in this pushed out to the world. And this is where the show all comes together -- live performances then switched and streamed out to. We have a switcher you know -- also -- the -- -- -- -- behind this who wants all the different shots and if they feel like completely new -- -- for the web. The one hiccup in the system is that on the other end a listener have to happen. -- band -- -- and the computer hardware capable of decoding such a high quality signal. Otherwise the music just sound like regular old streaming audio. Can -- -- permanent on on how youre doing that and -- the limitations are policy and understand it -- -- -- well expand with the home to enjoy it but the started with Bob he had been grateful that scinate had an unlimited budget and r exceeded the unlimited budget by getting every possible new -- that can push the -- data rate out of here and. Im not alone and its. We built this place -- Internet broadcast in mind. What were trying to do is make it so people will be able to gather at a friends house and everybody will be able to watch. Basically a concert there without having to drive a long way -- I. Can -- Now do you want to be part of that virtual venue you can find it all of red TR -- studios dot com. Some breast and take a quick break when we come back its the very best of our torture test for -- -- -- stop it wine grapes mingling with the wildlife and doing some fifteen hardcore gaming. -- Welcome back everybody -- you. That our show is mous for our torture test where we take the top gadgets and put them through their durability paces. Lets check out some of the best moments from -- -- bottom. -- -- -- Time for our first ever TV torture test and that brought -- make it ir treatment to help me try to break it. I hope youve been practicing UH put it. I didnt go to high -- really then go to hard. Shattered their -- Theyre telling him power to hopefully it does. Time -- torture test of the galaxy S four active. Okay I -- I havent -- the pool and -- -- -- and well. No -- come on. If youre looking cool. -- -- -- -- Thats ntastic thing. But still totally buying. I think it has some cracking. -- -- -- Standing right on top of the -- around him. Okay Brandon did all the damage. You might have expected and thirteen hundred pounds up to -- -- -- time for our torture test of the Nokia Lumia at 1020. And badly though. Not bad at Windows Phone line. 1020 vintage can come slippery phones get a little slippery. You can -- splashing. Out. A lot of water came out -- son. No physical -- -- a live event right here. It was a valiant efforts. But even. Could -- -- Nokia Lumia -- money cannot survive being made into one. -- -- really no idea. -- have little talk about. Right now we know that the Samsung galaxy S -- -- can take just about everything. Except for the then it. Now the hype around Google glass has been huge but I have a feeling that the reality is very different check out the shows first ever. Mini Molly rant for my two cents. Now when Google first announced its -- project there were a lot of naysayers and mostly what they said it was youll look stupid wearing them. Okay I was one of the few who is in vor of Google -- I thought it would be awesome to have a permanent heads up display with mapping and Twitter and information in this kind of virtual world happening all around you. I am sorry to say that I was wrong it turns out that Google -- represented new frontier in human rudeness inattention and danger. First theres the human interaction ster I mean Im walking down the street but I living in a virtual parallel world -- like I got my Twitter and my -- smug -- my math. And I mean its just. -- that I personally refuse to ever have a one on one conversation with someone wearing Google -- Does that not everybody gets out their phone and starts typing while youre speaking to -- -- -- -- their eyes start wandering slowly so I want them I have to. Relax bud but continues allotted to carve out this giant pineapples awesome and then -- get -- Martin Martin companies like general -- A case that -- Then theres a mobility ctor people in San Francisco actually riding their bikes around wearing these things in ct I once I got crashed into occur urban. Dive into a group of pedestrians and then look around in a panic where is glasses. His Google glasses does anything about this seem like a good idea. Finally theres the stuff that just -- -- against outlaw West Virginia is considering legislation that would. It banned Google glass while driving the UK is thinking about enacting this thing. And I gotta say everybody everywhere. Should be working on the slots there is nothing about driving. While youre distracted by -- -- and maps and all kinds of other crap that is an IP is. A disaster waiting to happen. To me. Now Im not trying to be anti technology here Ive loved the idea. Will glass I dont think theyd look stupid I think othIts the best of Always On Season 5!er -- -- its just that when they come about I think we also need self driving cars and a whole lot of self restraint. So Im thinking and the world is not yet ready. For Google+. -- okay glass. And thats good for the -- everybody coming up next week -- my vorite and your vorite episode number. -- bloopers show about we will have some bonus behind the scenes content to so you can see all the fun and love them. They go than to make you know -- -- thanks for watching everybody see you next week. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Does mean. Muscle and standard -- and I have a.

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