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The Gear Patrol Podcast is our weekly roundtable discussion focused on products, their stories, and the culture surrounding them.

Today we begin with a talk about future tech: Apple is working very hard to replace your physical wallet with a digital one; specifically, they’re pushing to introduce digital driver’s licenses. We’ll address the ideas and concerns surrounding those. Then, automakers are introducing a spate of compact pickups. Trucks have gotten more popular and much larger, are these smaller variants an antidote to that segment literally growing too much? Finally, we end with a discussion about working from home–it’s been 18 months of COVID, and we explore the role of products in our WFH environments these days. What works, what we really need, and some new tech aimed directly at folks with newly permanent home offices.

Show Notes:

Episode Navigation:

03:10 – Apple’s Forthcoming Digital Driver’s Licenses

16:00 – Compact Pickup Trucks: A Welcome Automotive Segment?

27:20 – The “Logi Dock” and Our Relationship with WFH Products 18 M0nths post-COVID

Featured and Related:

• The new digital driver’s licenses from Apple sound slightly creepy – VOX/Recode
• You’ll soon be able to use your iPhone as ID at the airport – The Verge
• New York’s Vaccine Passport Could Cost Taxpayers $17 Million – NYT
• Pandemic gives boost as more states move to digital IDs – AP
• How governments can deliver on the promise of digital ID – McKinsey & Company
• Digital IDs Might Sound Like a Good Idea, But They Could Be a Privacy Nightmare – ACLU
• Digital IDs Are More Dangerous Than You Think – WIRED
• How National Digital IDs Benefit Both Citizens And Businesses – Forbes
• Facebook admits “trust deficit” as it looks to launch digital wallet – Axios
• The Technology 202: Facebook’s latest attempt to build a crypto empire meets familiar skepticism in Washington – The Washington Post

• The Mighty Pickup Slims Down – NYT
• The Ford Maverick Is a Whole New Kind of Pickup Truck – Gear Patrol
• Nissan Titan vs Ford F-150 vs Toyota Tundra vs Chevrolet Silverado – Nissan
• Alpha Motors Wolf Electric Pickup Truck – Alpha Motors
• 2022 Hyundai Santa Cruz compact pickup is terrific, but who will buy it? – Detroit Free Press
• Compact 2022 Ford Maverick Pickup Shows Its Size Next to Ranger, F-150 – The Drive
• Stop Saying The Ford Maverick Is Small! It’s Not – Jalopnik
• 2022 Hyundai Santa Cruz Second Drive: Truck-ish? – The Truth About Cars
• The Unlikely Return of the Compact Pickup – Edmunds
• The Comeback of the Compact Pickup Truck – Good Car Bad Car
• America Needs More Compact Pickup Trucks Like the Hyundai Santa Cruz – Motor Biscuit
• “Car Bloat” New Cars Are Heavier Than Ever, But Also More Powerful – The Drive

• Logitech’s new dock is designed for a work from home world – The Verge
• Discussion on the Logitech Logi Dock – Reddit
• Consumer Brands Bet Working From Home Is Here to Stay – WSJ
• All the WFH products that we now can’t live without – CNN
• The Essential Gear You Need to Stay Productive While Working From Home – Gear Patrol, 2021
• The Best Home Office Products of 2020 Made WFH Less Miserable – Gear Patrol
• Future Of Work: What The Post-Pandemic Workplace Holds For Remote Workers’ Careers – Forbes
• It’s time to reimagine where and how work will get done – PWC
• Companies’ Post-COVID Dilemma: Will the Rise of Remote Work Become a Permanent Pandemic Legacy? – Cision

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