Lord Sugar shows Stephen Fry the Amstrad archives | Gadget Man

now there's only one person I know who's as big a gadget fan as me and I'm off to his private office to see if he'll be impressed by some of my business gadgets one name looms large when you think of work and Technology a man whose company helped fuel the boom in home computing in Britain the man whose company became the head supplier of set-top boxes in Europe a man also who thought there was no future in the iPod peer of the realm no less Lord Sugar will see me now Oh your lordship hello very good Thanksgivings your time good the first things I want Alan sugar to help me test are a couple of the latest smartphones the sort of things that have become an essential part of this workaholics life I now work 16 hours a day because this thing is beside me all the time yeah and so at night relaxing watching TV at home forever game ping ding ding ding ding ding like this my wife has put that bloody thing who you talking to this time of night here's the funny bit she's now got a Samsung Note and she's worse than me he's playing around and she's talking to all the grandchildren all that stuff no no we have got the latest Nakia Nakia is the second biggest mobile manufacturer in there in the world and this is the 920 in fact it's the first one in Britain this is the new Windows 8 we just have a play with it actually I mean you can see as you slide up it's everything's a tile based so the retire contact tiles yeah so once you've signed in they're already got a blooming advert in there sponsored by a drinks manufacturer don't mess about they don't do that I on the other hand I have this which is the Samsung notebook - and what I thought we'd do is just try to see how easy it is to use without having used before because these days you didn't expect to use a manual to expect things to be intuitive and natural so we're gonna have a race and see who can download Twitter take a picture and tweet it first it's the perfect test of each phones usability area Lord Sugar sneakily takes the lead by accessing Twitter directly from his web browser ah CGT I'm not cheating we first download the official app that's like don't have to do that that's what I've been doing your clever things I'm just a silly boy from Hackney writes meanwhile my app has downloaded and there's a chance for me to catch up to school on the skateboard I can't find the underscore then this is this is ridiculous someone help me here they've got to have an underscore they've got a - no they will have if you press in the hole died from what happened I've got a keyboard here if you press and hold the - but that there yeah press and hold ah good man but then there's another problem that helps put me in the lead complete and pass for ah now that's unfortunate IVA I take advantage of his Lordships unscheduled pit stop and start composing my tweet what's that what is the Twitter password so as I'm going to find a minion who might have remembered it for him allons back in the race now it's time to test the cameras and upload our photographs if you look at me five girls right a second picture of you how about sir amid the stabilization means taking a high-quality picture should be child's play no let's take a picture of me on your right hand where your finger is that but no your right hand there that one I reckon no I had written my tweet and hit Send but Lord Sugar battles on she doesn't seem to sense at all which is fight worried my tweet had got stuck in the system letting his lordship back into the race you have sent it brilliant well done so-called geek this is the biggest comeback since Dunkirk fantastic well this one just hasn't yeah the old boy has done it here it is in black and white in Technicolor yeah well I shouldn't know better than to take on sugar at something technical and I declare you the winner of this particular competition I am truly beaten by oh yeah nice and iPhone nice enough phone but of course no one will ever take you away from your love Apple follow a fashion I am you didn't say have a dog how many tricks could you say how did you love it but what about their aerial Konkan out when you was part of the area one the iPhone fall about that one I'll tell you what we've been bloody Salters Robinson but ever had me over the coals you've put a product on the market and it doesn't work as a phone it was all and the Apple propaganda none of them were taken back there wasn't a single one take game they quickly made a plastic band to put round the bloody elastic but at least we've proved that these days even complex phones can be mastered in just a few minutes together all right we'd better satisfy them and yeah we're fighting the phone I'm with Alan sugar the godfather of work gadgets he's opened up his archives just for me to show off the retro devices made by his company that truly revolutionized how we worked like this word processor that was a game-changer 1984-1985 this was the transition from typewriters in word processing 399 quit with the dot matrix printer offices bought them yeah we really got caught with our trousers down not realizing so you actually who you didn't have enough to go run turns out and then then you've got this rather sort of neat handheld sort of things ahead of its time yeah this is this is the first touch screen where you can write things up while we were so advanced and eat your heart out now have a look at this believe it or not it's what laptops looked like in 1992 football journalists love this they took it to the game and that is there and in the early days of modems they plugged something in there right and lineker scored its famous goal against whoever but there's another retro gadget in his office that's caught my eye this here is the first ipod but basically what it was was a way of putting all your music into one machine what you got here is like a jukebox for the CD so you put your CDs in there as you put your CDs in you press a couple of buttons whatever it is and you play and it starts the play the thing I think is stunning I'd actually love one if we put something down there you can sling it around your neck it's wonderful that you you remember every detail of these as almost as if they're your children and obviously you were not just the the businessman selling them but you were you know but the huge part of the input in actually designed heaven calling for them to be made yeah I mean these are kind of like babies if you like yeah every these were all you know born in born in England born in Brentwood yes the only way was Essex yeah was this I might and by the way your mate Apple yeah he is he was born in Chingford down the road he wants to Johnny eyes absolutely proud Essex only the good boys come from it's all the innovators come from Essex yeah even the train robbers that was very innovative there was one last set of innovations I wanted to show him some stress relieving gadgets are brought with me well the real classic the the icon of executive stress relief is this good old Newton's Cradle isn't it every action has an equal and opposite reaction this is actually designed and brought into the market by a friend of mine called Richard long cream who was a director on tomorrow's world but very a dick yeah but there are more more expensive ones I wonder if you'd be tempted to put these into your offices we've got I've got extraordinary will show you now here's an executive stress reliever companies like Google are installing this kind of thing to refresh their staff a sleeping pod fMRI scanner it comes equipped with a mattress da B radio and magazine rack a true sanctuary so can I tempt you in on it no absolutely no I mean I don't care if Google do use they do may be there but the bloke who was in there when their share price dipped 18 billion pounds when he was there but we had to go in there and relax so I get in and experience it too much that's him gone I seem gone for the day relax take it easy take it easy I'm just looking at your 5th 30 brain the next question you're gonna ask me is would I have this in my organization the answer is no no maybe something like that maybe to store some archives if something like that inventor Tom can you come on the floor I thought it wasn't very you you

Channel: North One

Views: 81,061

Keywords: Stephen Fry, Alan sugar, amstrad, gadget man

Id: noJWkf2zwsY

Length: 10min 34sec (634 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 18 2020