Everybody’s talking about Pokemon Go, so we decided to add to the conversation this week as well. Matthew got a 3D printer (temporarily) and James didn’t get any new smart home accouterment (bummer). James and Matthew developed an app idea to get on Apple’s Planet of the Apps (it’s amazing). Tesla tried to keep their company on the road this week. Hyperloop had a dramatic week. We also talked about Tech Evangelists, Apple’s music royalty gambit and we even quickly covered a weekly VR update.
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138: Moon Shots
Sometimes you need to take crazy bets. Sometimes those bets work. Sometimes they don’t.
Matthew shares his trip to the Maker Faire and talks about the products they’re developing, Twitter lets you mute people, cheap smart phones are going to take over the world, Monster’s CEO isn’t happy about Beat’s payday, Wearhaus will make silent discos more awesome, Jawbone gets bluetooth connectivity right, Microsoft unbundles the Kinect, Google Glass suffers a loss and the head EE head’s over to Oculus Rift, Uber puts the breaks on Breeze, and Formula E charges ahead with electric race cars.
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- Why Twitter’s Newest Tweetstorm Trend Must Be Stopped
- Another way to edit your Twitter experience: with mute
- Monster CEO Disappointed Over Beats Acquisitions
- The Silent Disco
- Jawbone Updates Jambox Mini With Some Cool new Features
- Microsoft Dis-Kinects
- Lead Google Glass EE Defects to Oculus VR
- And Google Replaced Him With Ivy Ross
- Uber deactivates drivers who rent their cars from Breeze, continues to push its own rival financing plan
- Formula E Cars Are Read To Go
- Don’t Diss Cheap Smartphones. They’re About to Change Everything
- Google’s Self Driving Cars Are Anything But Simple
- Apple And Google Put an End to Their Patent Battle
- Apple Must Be Furious With Xiaomi
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110: Android’s Game
With KitKat, Android looks to win this fight, and all other fights in the mobile phone market. This is one game, nobody can afford to lose.
Specifically, we talk about Google new Glass hardware, Kumu Networks fast network, Motorola’s Project Ara with Phonebloks, Android 4.4 KitKat and the Nexus 5, Cisco’s battle to make H.264 the video standard, Netflix’s big screen idea, the FAA’s relaxed rules on using devices, the badBIOS, Intel’s acceptance of ARM, and using the Kinect for sign language.
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- Motorola reveals ambitious plan to build modular smartphones
- Netflix Flirts With a New Idea: “Big” Movies at Your House, the Same Day They’re in Theaters<
- Google shows off [UGLIER] second gen Google Glass w/ mono earbud coming later this year
- Google adds location sharing, animated GIFs to Hangouts, integrates SMS
- Doubling mobile Bandwidth: Another reason for me to study noise canceling headphones
- Mozilla will add H.264 to Firefox as Cisco makes the codec open source
- Intel to start manufacturing ARM chips
- Android for all and the new Nexus 5
- Nexus 5 launches
- All the New Stuff in Android 4.4 KitKat
- Android 4.4 KitKat and Google’s quest to take over the world
- Google Play Services: How Google has defragmented Android
- BadBIOS
- New FAA Guidelines Permit More Device Use, All The Way From Take-Off To Landing
- JetBlue and Delta Now Let Passengers Use Gadgets During Takeoff and Landing
- The Kinect is bring a voice to the voiceless
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99b: Microsoft and Google continue to fight their passive-aggressive war on YouTube’s turf
Microsoft wants YouTube, but not the way Google want’s them to have it. What happens next can only be described as amazing.
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99: BirthTechDay Bonanza
Elon Musk gives Matthew a birthday present: The Hyperloop.
We also talk about Blackberry’s willingness to sell, the Microsoft and Google fight over Youtube, Apple’s iPhone 5S, Microsoft’s Windows for any surface, Samsung’s Galaxy Gear and Note III, Elon Musk’s Hyperloop, Title for iOS and Sony’s leaked camera.
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- The Hyperloop
- Here are some hurdles the Hyperloop could face
- Now it’s not even close – Elon Musk is more important to society than Steve Jobs ever was
- Elon Musk Explains the Hyperloop, the Solar-Powered High-Speed Future of Inter-City Transportation
- Elon Musk’s Hyperloop: Why He Dreams So Big
- On The Future of iOS and Android
- BlackBerry Officially For Sale
- BlackBerry’s Patent Portfolio Ripe for Picking
- Q&A: Lenovo CEO on Smartphones and BlackBerry
- The Case For the iPhone 5C
- Samsung to Launch Note III and Galaxy Watch on Sep 4th, One Week Before iOS 7/iPhone 5S
- Microsoft’s ‘touch screen’ for any surface goes on sale
- Microsoft blasts Google over YouTube block, claims reasons are ‘manufactured’
- Inside the bitter YouTube battle between Microsoft and Google
- Find Lost Keys Fast With a Teeny Tiny Tile
- A Printer That Eats Its Way Down a Stack of Paper
- New Sony Camera Will Use the iPhone as the screen
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89a: Both Bell Labs and WiSee strive to put you into focus
Bell Labs does it with a fancy new camera. WiSee does it using Wi-Fi. Pretty slick!
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89: Post Republican Islamic Surveillance Mechanism
Like most technology, the really innovate ones tend to test the bounds of your privacy. This week is no different with the revelation that the NSA is watching you thought some slick tech. Don’t be scared, we got your back.
We also talk about Bell Lab’s new camera, the WiSee wi-fi sensor, Whistle for your pet, Feedly’s latest improvements, a Rickroll on Vine, and Google Glass privacy concerns.
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- Bell labs wants to eschew the lense
- A truly impressive Rick Roll
- Google Bans Facial Recognition apps on Google Glasses
- Feedly is listening: the roadmap you helped us shape
- Why Google Reader Really Got the Axe
- Wi-Fi signals enable gesture recognition throughout entire home
- The quantified pup: Whistle wants to create the world’s largest database on dog behavior
- Meta Data, PRISM and the NSA
- Here’s how PRISM works
- XBone’s always on Kinect
- Google bans Glass from shareholder meeting
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Trans ition
This week we talking about transitions! iTunes match, Dreamworks RT animation, Kinect for the blind, iOS 5.1, Star Wars, batteries, more bad RIM news, the Surface 2, DocuSign, AT&T speed, iPad 3, and FB IPO rumors.
The stories we talked about today:
- iTunes match launches today
- Katzenberg says DreamWorks will render in realtime to speed up animation 50x
- Students hack The Kinect to allow the blind to navigate
- iOS 5.1 = Siri improvements!
- Alarm apps don’t work with iOS 5
- Star Wars Arcade: Falcon Gunner for iPhone. Amazing! (iTunes link)
- Future Gadget batterys could last 10 times longer
- iPhone passes BlackBerry as the most prevalent phone in business
- Surface 2 Up For Pre-Order
- DocuSign
- iPhone fastest on AT&T
- iPad 3 rummors
- Competitors to conceded the tablet market to Apple in 2012
- Facebook IPO 2012 rumors
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Learn about the Kinect SDK, the Kindle’s future, Voice/Text/Data => Data Dumb Pipes, Gmail != iPhone, Twitter’s online ID, a quick Nest Thermostat update, no real news for HP, and more talk about Siri.
Recorded on Nov. 6, 2011