Now Kickstarter is an IPO that would be worth backing.
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125: Help Us Google Fiber, You’re Our Only Hope
This week we try to come up with ways to become a monopolistic utility so that, just like Comcast, we can charge ridiculous prices for horrible service.
We also talk about the genius of John Lasseter and visionary leaders, Crunchie winners: Oculus Rift and Kickstarter, VISA and MasterCard’s smart card, the Comcast and Time Warner deal, the new A4WP alliance to bring us wireless charging, and Google’s takeover of Moffett Fields Hangar One.
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- Oculus Rift Takes Home Chrunchie for best Hardware Startup
- Kickstarter wins Chrunchie for best overall Startup
- Google to Lease Moffett Field, Restore Hangers
- Wireless Power Partnerships Are Forming, Standards Are Developing
- What Are “Smart” Credit Cards, and Why Are They Coming to America?
- Comcast To Buy Time Warner Cable Tomorrow
- $45 billion deal brings 30 million customers under one roof
- Netflix and Apple Users Should Hate This
- Comcast and Time Warner Cable: Forget TV, it is all about broadband
- Here’s Why the Biggest Cable Company in the Country Thinks It Can Get Bigger
- The Broadband Market’s Problem, Summed Up In One Quote
- Silk Road 2 “Hacked” 4,000 Bitcoins Stolen
- iWatch Will Use Optoelectronics to Monitor Vitals
- IBM Labs Break A Speed Record for Data Transmission
- Google Promises 10 GPS fiber Network
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120a: CES Monday and Tuesday
This is when all the really cool electronics get shown off.
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120: The Consumed Electronics Show
CES is typically full of technology that will never see the light of day, but that doesn’t stop us from getting excited about what was shared.
Below is the bullet list of everything we talked about along with a direct link to each so you can learn more.
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- Amazon’s true lie
- The Mavericks Adoptions Uptake Rate
- Nvidia’s new 192 core SOC with epic games new engine is unreal
- Pebble Steel: Same Pebble on the inside, Steel on the outside
- Sharp is teasing an 8k glasses-free 3D TV
- Asus announces their 28″ 4k monitor
- AT&T Sponsored Data Lets Companies Like Facebook foot the bill for customers, like a toll free call
- The Polaroid Socialmatic
- Sony teases their “life-tracking” Core
- Sony’s will stream games to PS4, PS3, PS Vita and more
- Razor’s Project Christine
- Biz Stone’s Jell
- Samsung announces 12″ tablet
- Oculus Rift’s new Crystal Cove prototype
- A $499 3D printer
- A simple Gesture Control Solution for iOS
- Vizio announced their P-series Ultra HD TVs starting at $1000
- Samsung’s 98″ 8k TV sneak peak
- 3D printer that prints… sugar!
- Revolv Goes on Sale
- Best of CES
- T-Mobile to pay off your early termination fees
- Intel introduces Edison
- Airtame Wireless Dongle
- Confide: A grown up version of Snapchat
- Archos Smart Home System
- Archos Smart Watch Offerings
- The Faraday Bike
- The Cookoo is a minimalist approach to the smartwatch
- CubeSensor is a fitbit for your home
- Lumus turns it’s military grade eyewear into Google Glass competitor
- ZTE’s modular smartphone could make part swapping a reality in two years
- Engadget’s Best of CES
- Tactus Case Concept Brings A Disappearing Keyboard to the iPad
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117a: Memory Clean saved James $100
For the first time, our show is sponsored. Sure, they don’t know they sponsored us, but that’s OK.
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117: The Uncanny Zeitgeist
This week we take a look back at 2013 tech trends.
We also talk about McLaren’s windshield force field, Console prices of Atari, Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft and Sega, the latency of Oculus Rift, Walt Mossberg’s look back at tech, Nielsen’s top websites, Google’s Zeitgeist, IBM’s 5 trends in 5 years, Cornell’s 3D printer, adding context to messages, Facebook becoming like Yahoo, Apple’s misunderstood commercial, Robinhood’s free stock trading app, Blackberry’s bad quarter, and Apple’s new Mac Pro.
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- Memory Clean
- McLaren to replace windshield wipers with a force field of sound waves
- The 3D printed speaker
- Getting the Oculus Rift out of the Uncanny Valley
- Text messaging will look boring after you try this app backed by Betaworks and Dave Morin
- Tiny Blog Prototype
- Console Launch Prices… adjusted for inflation
- Facebook will become Yahoo
- Top Products in Two Decades of Tech
- Tops of 2013 According to Nielsen
- IBM’s 5 in 5: In the future, everything will learn
- Google 2013 in Search: Heroes, tragedies and the Harlem Shake
- Apple normalizes the glow
- Study: People who take pictures of art remember less about the works than those who don’t
- Zoom While Taking Photos to Remember the Event Perfectly
- Robinhood App Will Offer Zero-Commission Stock Trades
- The new Mac Pro is a Status Symbol
- Blackberry is not doing too hot
- Friday was a bad day, but not a horrible day
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113: Let Me Pinstagram My 3D Dinosaur
Instagram and Pinterest are looking for new ways to grow to help justify their huge valuations. One area they should look into are 3D dinosaur bones.
We also talk about 53’s new pencil, the Museum fur Naturkunde’s 3D bones, Qualcomm’s smart-things chip, Snapchat and Vine competing with Instagram, Valve’s Oculus Rift competiting product, Terrafugia’s new TF-X carplane, Philips smart bulbs, and the Xbox One.
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- Microsoft Wants To Get On The 3D Printer Train First
- Valve Is Working On An Oculus Rift Competitor
- The Moga Game Controller for iOS 7
- Logitech Also Announced Their Version
- FiftyThree, Maker Of Creativity App Paper, Gets Into Hardware With Launch Of Its ‘Pencil’ Stylus
- What’s easier than self-driving cars? Self-flying cars
- Self-driving vehicles still a decade away, experts tell Congress
- The Future Of Fossils: Printing Dinosaur Bones
- Qualcomm makes chips for the Internet of Things
- Phillips is introducing LED carpets
- Pinterest Officially Announces Its Foray Into Travel, With Place Pins
- Pinterest needs growth badly, so it is pinning places
- What is Instagram’s next big thing? Messaging, perhaps
- Instagram left out the photo capture feature of Instagram for Windows Phone
- Xbox One and Done
82a: 36 Oculus Rifts + 36 Omi Treadmills = 1 Furlo Bros Thunder Dome
Welcome to the Thunder Dome! 2 teams of 16 people! Start your workout! This is definitely the future.
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82: The Next Wearable Tech: The Thunder Belt
Wearable and interactive computing is all the rage on this week’s podcast. Companies and coming up with more and more ways to meld our digital lives with our physical lives. It’s an exciting time! Great examples include the Oculus Rift Omi Treadmill, Google’s Glass, Pebble’s Watch, and Leap Motion’s integration with HP PCs.
We also discuss Netflix’s switch to HTML5 video, Microsoft’s next steps with Windows 8, Funny or Die’s iSteve movie, David’s adiction to Kickstarter board games, and James’ crush on Yahoo’s new weather app.
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- Virtuix hooks up Oculus Rift to its Omni treadmill, shows off ‘True VR’ (video)
- Glass Explorer Edition gets unboxed, photographed
- Steve Jackson raised almost $1 million to create the ultimate board game, and that was a problem
- Turn a Printed Page Into a Touchscreen With This Brilliant Concept
- HTML5 Video at Netflix
- Microsoft’s Windows 8 Plan B(lue): Bring back the Start button, boot to desktop
- Leap Motion and HP to embed gesture controls in PCs
- Funny or Die’s Steve Jobs Movie ‘iSteve’ Now Available Online
- Google Glass not fully functional when used with iPhone
- Yahoo Weather for iOS May Be the Most Beautiful Weather App Yet