GeekBeat Live #45

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Unboxing Time

First up is the Harmony iPad Case

Next up is a Kickstarter project the Packlight

GuestGate Hotspot Gateway

ClamCase ipad case

electric vehicle shaped like a fish
–207 mile range & 93mph top speed
–hard to see out the back and in side mirrors, so 9 inch monitor in front dashboard of the rear view
–and small monitors on top left and right side of dash to compensate for smaller side mirrors
–planned production sometime in 2013

partially self-balancing electric unicycle called “Bullet”
–’partially’ self-balancing because it only balances along one axis (forward/backward)
–rider must balance left and right
–MIG welded steel body, two 7Ah 12-volt batteries, an ATmega328 chip and a 450-watt electric motor
–made by MIT student Stephan Boyer
–goes 5 miles on single charge

Car Tech Time

A carbon fiber train

six car high speed train shaped like an ancient sword

–310 mph
–reinforced w/ carbon fiber
–has a maximum tractive power of 22,800 kilowatts
–the Chinese test unit part of trillion $$ effort to build 8,078 mile rail by 2012

Cali gets her way and we get to unbox one item before Car Tech

Its the Rhode video mic pro

MyRobots.com – social network for robots
–Signup your robot, include photo & name
–You do the initial work, the robot updates status themselves
–Updates shared between robots can make them smarter
–Robots can pool info. which could lead to more intelligent decision-making
–Examples: stove & fridge notice lots of usage, humanoid patroller robot notices lots of people in the house, next day robot vacuum realizes it should clean from all the updates the others shared about all the activity in the house

iRobot packbot named Scooby Doo worked in Iraq with a Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit,disposed of 17 IEDs, 1 carbomb, and 1 unexploded bomb, Soldiers drew hashmarks on head unit for each completed mission. Scooby Doo was killed when an IED he was trying to defuse exploded

Hacks and Cheats this week..

Here are some things to make your life easier

Fix scuffed wooden furniture w/ walnuts

 
Use wire to make a space to store gift wrap rolls against the ceiling

Find tiny lost items like earrings by putting a stocking over the vacuum hose

 
Bake cupcakes directly in ice-cream cones

Bread tags make the perfect-sized cord labels

Don’t forget to leave us a Famespot.. Do you use social media sites while at work?

New yarn composed of a combination of reclaimed carpet fiber, salvaged fishing nets and postindustrial waste
–29% recycled
–/square yard

Have you ever wondered exactly what happens when a soda can explodes?

YouTube Slam

Categories: dance, music, bizarre, cuteness and comedy
–Vote on competing videos
–Choose most popular? Get 2 points. Better you choose, more points you get
–Earn a spot on the Slam Leaderboard

Priests and monks fighting with brooms

Have you eaten too much over the holidays? Take a look at this new desk

Armstar Bodyguard 9XI-HD01 Kevlar & Nomex arm, flame resistant 300,000V electric arc has HD camera, Flashlight, New release: iPod dock and was created in response to lots of mountain lion attacks.

In Japan, Asahi Soft Drinks rolling out WiFi Vending Machines sell drinks, but also have open WiFi anyone can use, no registration, no purchase use for 30 min then reconnect.

A new type of flashlight

–Flexible, silicon mat

–16 Lumen Tech LEDs
–the frame holds the shape you give it
–magnets

Over 1 million Notes sold in Europe and Asia and they’ve confirmed it’ll be coming to US, but no date.

4 million Kindles were sold this holiday season..

CES is about to start in Las Vegas Jan 10.

And Geekbeat.tv will be there showcasing as much as we can. The entire crew will be there covering the show. So if you can’t go, don’t worry Cali and John will make sure you get all the news and the top new products.

Top things we will see at CES:

4K displays
Wii U
Ultra-thin Notebooks
Android 4.0 ICS devices
OLED & Flexible screens
4G devices
Windows 8 Tablets

Google+ has been growing at 60% a month

62 million users estimated (in about 6 months) and from September to November, 118% increase in overall online activity

Noah Kravitz left PhoneDog (TechnoBuffalo, fellow Revision3 site)

had 17,000 followers under “@PhoneDog-Noah”, changed to “NoahKravitz”

PhoneDog suing for 0,000 – total of .50/follower per month for 8 months
now over 24,000 followers

“The lesson for employers is to make sure you define these things in advance for your employees,” Heels said. “Don’t make any assumptions because you may end up on the wrong side of the lawsuit.”

We have a bunch of giveaways… go to http://geekbeat.tv/giveaways

Laptop and Kindle Fire could be yours..

Also make sure you check in on GetGlue..

And finally the Famespot for this week is: Do you use social media sites at work? Go record your Famespot 

Have you seen our new website yet?

Tell us what you think.. Leave us a comment below, Tweet us or leave us a comment on Facebook

Thanks Scott Ellis and the rest of the staff for such great work…

And we are live..

Clever ideas to make your life easier

A sword shaped train

Get WiFi from a vending machine

The rise and rise of Google+

And we have a new website!!

Welcome to GeekBeat.tv Live show Episode 45..

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