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04:50, by Dave Herwig

Well thats it for this week. We hope you enjoyed the show.. Leave your comments and suggestions below.

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04:48, by Dave Herwig

Make sure you wish Cali a Happy Birthday on 25 Jan…

 

Its Unboxing Time!!

From Schlick a new razor..

The Alupen Pro stylus from Just Mobile

The Dot from kogeto

The ConnectyHD from Warpia 

 

 

04:41, by Dave Herwig

 

 

 

 

 

 

Worlds fastest plane was the previous version, Cessna Citation X was fastest civilian aircraft since retirement of Concorde
–new version, the Citation Ten, took its first flight
–9 passengers, 2 pilots
–two Rolls-Royce AE 3007C2 engines
–max cruising speed of 527 knots (606 mp/h)
–altitude of 51,000 ft–max range 3,242 nautical miles– Garmin G5000 avionics suite: (3) 14-inch LCD primary and multifunction displays, (4) touch-screen control panels

 

04:38, by Dave Herwig

 

 

 

 

 

BASF and Philips first to develop OLED lighting for use as a transparent car roof

 

 

04:35, by Dave Herwig

Its Planes, Trains, and Automobile Time…

General Motors explores WOO – Windows of Opportunity
–Augmented Reality on your windows!
–Social Media applications
–Learn about landscape in an interactive and fun way
–share and stream music with other cars on the road
–free form creativity

 

04:28, by Dave Herwig

ScalyBot 2

Rectilinear locomotion
–no turning needed – lift and move
–point? move long distances without much energy

 

04:26, by Dave Herwig

 

 

 

 

 

Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing, Engineering and Automation in Stuttgart, Germany
–robot to build 2270 square mile solar farm in Sahara
–hangs like robotic cameras on football fields
–picks up 7-ton reflectors, sets down
–Antartica – currently shift fuel across 1040 miles
–instead of skiis and sled dogs, this will crawl 5-12mph, 24 hrs/day
–will take just a week and a half instead of 2 months
–(10) 3000 gallon fuel bladders, uses 2 in transport
–cameras to determine snow from a snowmobile from a person to a hole
–ARS-300 Radar to find its way through storms
–Laser scanners

 

04:25, by Dave Herwig

Berkley researchers engineered e.coli bacteria that turns seaweed’s sugars into ethanol
–80% yield, converts 28% of dry weight
–better because most biofuels are from crops like corn, sugar or oil palms
–interferes with food production

 

04:24, by Dave Herwig

 

 

 

 

Chemically powered micro machine

- no fuel
–tiny self-propelled motors that can zip around an acidic environment, like the human stomach, without the need for any external fuel
–powered by hydrogen bubbles, created by a reaction by acidic solution and zinc in the rocketv
–target drugs non-invasively

 

04:23, by Dave Herwig

Website of the week..

Awkward Family Photos.com

#1 You would think it’s easter, but she’s holding a reindeer..

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#2 She’s in good hands…

 

 

 

 

#3 Happy Weird Holidays

 

 

 

 

 

04:20, by Dave Herwig

 

 

 

 

The new thing with Teenagers is to share passwords.. Not a good thing to do..

 

04:18, by Dave Herwig

And we are back from the commercial break..

Its Web Time…

 

 

 

 

 

 

Google has added Record straight to G+ “record video”

04:11, by Dave Herwig

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Miguel Caballero Bulletproof Men’s Polo Shirt
–cotton exterior
–inside layer is microfiber
–middle layer proprietary bullet proof material
–protection from: 1) 9mm / 40 Smith and Wesson FMJ 2) 9mm / .357 Magnum / 38 Super / Mini Uzi submachine gun 3) Uzi machine gun / MP5,MP9 submachine gun / 44 Magnum SJHP / Stab-proof
–00 – 00

 

04:09, by Dave Herwig

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dock iPad and scan documents
–uses their app
–paper can be 2″-8.5″
–300dpi, JPEG
–0 in Feb

 

04:08, by Dave Herwig

 

 

 

 

 

 

Textbooks from McGraw-Hill now available through Apple (iBooks)
–Instead of now
–Can keep books of course, but not share
–McGraw thinks they’ll sell more over 5 years than physical books

 

04:07, by Dave Herwig

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AT&T giving you more data in each plan

–300MB
–2GB
–5GB
–iPad 250MB sticking around

 

 

04:05, by Dave Herwig

 

 

 

 

Mark Sandhu (Canada) bought wife iPad and turned out to be a slab of clay and 10 others came out with similar stories

 

04:03, by Dave Herwig

A one way window touchscreen and interactive blinds, Weather, Social media.

 

03:57, by Dave Herwig

The Top Picks from CES

John’s Favorites
1. PowerBag

2. Large 3D TV’s

3. Trikke 

Cali’s Favorites
1. H2O 

2. Computers controlled by your eyes

3. Sharp

John’s Bonus Fav

iWatchz

 

 

03:49, by Dave Herwig

 

 

 

 

 

File sharing site like YouSendIt indictment says they cost copyright holders more than 0 million in lost revenue from pirated films and other content and employees charged with piracy

 

03:48, by Dave Herwig

 

 

 

 

Supreme Court ruled that Congress can re-copyright material like books, music that was once copyrighted, now in public domain, can be considered copyrighted again will this be at the request of the copyright holder or what?

 

03:46, by Dave Herwig

SOPA/PIPA

 

 

 

 

On Jan 18th many websites supported SOPA/PIPA by blacking out their sites… 65 supporters, 101 opponents

 

03:41, by Dave Herwig

Todays Famespot question is “What website or sites would you miss if they were taken off the web?”

Leave your Famespot and let us know. You could be on T.V.

 

03:39, by Dave Herwig

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ancient Greeks and Romans believed that one had to yell and curse angrily while sowing the seeds  to grow basil

 

03:38, by Dave Herwig

John is the king of YooToo.com

He is number one in points.. He is bragging that Cali is only number 3

03:35, by Dave Herwig

Cali and John are back from CES..  The team was able to look at all 3100 exhibitors…

03:33, by Dave Herwig

Today on Geek Beat LIVE… the freedom of the Internet is at risk

Interactive car windows

Turn seaweed into energy

The fastest plane that’ll carry humans

And some very awkward photos.

 

02:55, by Dave Herwig

Welcome to GeekBeat.tv Live show Episode 48..

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Dave Herwig

Dave is a Information Management Officer in the US Army. He has worked in the IT field for over 10 years managing Army networks and recently social media sites. He is a gadget junkie and is known to fall from an airplane from time to time. You can follow Dave on Twitter or Circle him on Google+