<img src="https://elroycdn.twit.tv/sites/default/files/styles/twit_album_art_144x144/public/images/shows/the_new_screen_savers/album_art/audio/tnss_albumart_audio.jpg?itok=WBAbuCeJ" align="right" hspace="20" vspace="20" border="0" title="The New Screen Savers (Audio)" alt="The New Screen Savers (Audio)"/>On 'The New Screen Savers' recorded on Saturday, November 3, 2018, with Leo Laporte and Patrick Norton:<ul><li>Leo and Patrick discuss how passcodes are protected under the Fith Amendment; and the new iPad Pro, MacBook Air, and Mac mini that was announced at Apple's October event.</li><li>Apparently, iPhones can be rendered useless by helium so Leo tries to drown his iPhone XR with a balloon while talking to iFixit co-founder Kyle Wiens, who has done tests of their own and explains what causes it to happen.</li><li>Patrick reviews Caavo's 2nd-gen Control Center which unifies your home theater with a voice-activated universal remote.</li><li>Leo gives his review for two Acer laptops. One is 'the world's thinnest notebook,' the Swift 7; and the other is a large 15" Chrome OS 2-in-1, the Chromebook Spin 15.</li><li>OnePlus continues to push the envelope in getting flagship features in an affordable phone with the OnePlus 6T. Jason Howell gives his review.</li></ul> 
Hosts: <a href="https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte">Leo Laporte</a> and <a href="https://twit.tv/people/patrick-norton">Patrick Norton</a> 
Guests: <a href="https://twitter.com/kwiens" target="_blank">Kyle Wiens</a> and <a href="https://twit.tv/people/jason-howell">Jason Howell</a> 
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TNSS 181: Can Helium Break Your iPhone?

The New Screen Savers is a variety show for tech on the TWiT network. The show stars Leo Laporte and is co-hosted by Megan Morrone, Jason Howell, and Fr. Robert Ballecer. Viewers get live tech help, interesting guests, insights into the latest innovations, products, scientist, and trends, plus lots of fun things thrown in, too. There are special guest co-host appearances from Patrick Norton, Kate Botello, Kevin Rose, Martin Sargent, and more.

The New Screen Savers is produced every Saturday and available for download on your favorite podcast subscription service.

Records live at https://twit.tv/live every Saturday at 6:00pm Eastern / 3:00pm Pacific.