{"id":8318,"date":"2017-01-23T13:13:19","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T21:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.hellotech.com\/?p=8318"},"modified":"2023-02-06T18:31:27","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T02:31:27","slug":"unplugged-mr-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hellotech.com\/blog\/unplugged-mr-mobile","title":{"rendered":"UnPlugged: An Interview with MrMobile"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Here at The Plug, we aim to provide exciting and easy-to-digest tech news, tips and reviews.  Over the next few weeks, we\u2019ll be rolling out a new series, UnPlugged, featuring the voices of thought leaders and influencers in the world of tech and consumer electronics.  <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To kick off UnPlugged, we interviewed a true renaissance man<\/span>.  He is a video blogger, actor, podcaster, voice guru, and Star Trek enthusiast – he is Michael Fisher.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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Michael is the man behind <\/span>MrMobile<\/span><\/a>, a different kind of YouTube channel producing quality videos for the discerning tech enthusiast. He has been reviewing<\/span> consumer electronics for nearly 5 years, but has obsessed over them for the better part of his life.  In this interview, he gives readers advice on purchasing new products, and tells us about his favorite gadgets, including a few he encountered at this year\u2019s CES.  Can you finally own a real-life tricorder?  Read on to find out!  <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

First things first, as a lover of Sci-Fi, what book, movie, tv show, etc. do you think predicted current and emerging technology the best – barring Back to the Future II as too common of an answer?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Well, I need to qualify my sci-fi fan status. I call myself a “narrowband nerd” because I’m only really <\/span>hardcore<\/span><\/i> about the <\/span>Star Trek <\/span><\/i>universe. That said, even thinking in a broader sense I do think <\/span>Trek<\/span><\/i> got a lot of things right about technology, from the bio-monitor beds in sickbay to the design of the <\/span>Enterprise<\/span><\/i> bridge, which the U.S. military studied for potential command center designs (or so the story goes). Of course, the handheld tech is my favorite: from the obvious <\/span>communicator-as-cellphone<\/span><\/a> analogy to the upcoming manifestation of the tricorder as a real-life medical instrument, <\/span>Star Trek <\/span><\/i>has played a bigger role in shaping personal technology than any other series I’m aware of.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is the one gadget you currently feel you can\u2019t live without?  What is something you can\u2019t wait to replace, and why?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Well, the obvious answer is my smartphone, but that’s such a boring response that I’ll pick something else. My line of work demands that I film a lot of video outside of my studio in the “real world,” and for that, I use a <\/span>DJI Osmo Mobile<\/span><\/a> handheld stabilizer. You pop a smartphone in it, fire up the camera, and the Osmo keeps that sucker steady enough that whatever you shoot looks like it came straight out of a Steadicam. I love companies that put typically expensive technology in the hands of the masses, especially when it’s used to more easily make art. It’s fantastic.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n