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Liquid Nitrogen Cooling for Processors
EVGA is using liquid nitrogen to push test bed processors to extremely high clock speeds.
Surround 3D Gaming
NVIDIA wants you to combine multiple monitors with 3D for an exceptionally immersive gaming experience.
Audiophile Quality for Gaming
ASUS has developed an extremely high-fidelity sound card for gaming PCs – it’s getting raves from audio magazines!
Special thanks to Edgar Griggs for guiding us around QuakeCon! You Rock, Edgar!
More details at http://geekbeat.tv/workshop
QNAP has donated a multi-bay, Gigabit Ethernet, NAS unit for each workshop attendee! We'll show you how to work it, and you'll take one home at the end of the weekend for fast, reliable and redundant storage.
Belkin has donated a new WiFi router for every participant! You can use it to get your QNAP NAS online!
ProPrompter is donating an iPad prompting bracket for every attendee as well! So you can get your prompt on, after you learn how to use it.
I’m interested to know whether or not you get permission to broadcast people or not when you film out of the studio. At times video podcasting doesn’t seem to be subject to the same sort of controls as there is in boradcast media, and yet it is as powerful and at times more powerful. What I mean is imagine I bunked off from work and took a sick day to go to QuakeCon, and you caught me in the background. If I had asked to be blurred out would you? I didn’t BTW, but I am interested in what sort of controls you are operating under.
Keep in mind that we are in the era of social media. With social media, the degrees of separation are much less, and with lower barriers to entry. So even if a TV crew were to blur you out of their video, it is still very possible to be in the background of a picture that someone takes, and then posts to their facebook account. As luck with have it, that picture could become very popular, and shared from person to person until it is shared with someone from your office.
In this day, it is much more likely that you would get busted for doing something that was posted to youtube, or facebook, than being caught on camera for a television program, or video podcast.
Matthew, I know where you’re coming from. I’m the leader of my company, so if I covertly attend something like this & get caught, I’ll be made fun of by my guys for weeks, maybe even for ever. But with my crazy crew of techs, they know most of the time, I let them go off for events like this, because we’re all crazy techno geeks. I love the LN2 coolant concept for PC gaming, kind of expensive, but that’s *exactly* what I’d do if I were a big time gamer. “B”
I could be wrong, but as far as I’m aware, online shows as well as TV shows are never subject to getting the permission of a crowd. Individuals, yes, but you wouldn’t appear in an interview type situation if you didn’t want to be seen.
For example, there were a couple TV crews at OpenCamp shooting the crowd, and they didn’t ask anyone permission. The general rule is… if you’re in a public place, you could get caught on camera.
Do you even have blurring equipment Cali?
I don’t know how that’s done, so that’d be up to Dave Curlee!
Hope Cali will do more gaming news. Plenty of gadget opportunities in the coming months with Playstation Move and MS Kinect being released.
I recall Cali saying back in the day that she doesn’t play much games? If we only could get you to start playing games we’d even get news on games themselves
I have a feeling she’d like the excellent Patapon series (on PSP).