GeekBeat Live #66

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First up…

From Wicked Lasers – Lasers

From WedgeStand -

Jam Wireless Portable Speakers

Kaboo Bags

 
Griffen Stylus

Cadillac SuperCruise

Cadillac demonstrated its new robotic steering wheel control
–Part of a new cruise control system
–On sale by next year

8hrs to Crush Mustang

480 minutes of ownership
–2012 GT/California Special Mustang
–412 horsepower V8
–turned off traction control
–80mph through a corner
–luckily, driver was only one in car
–he only got cuts and bruises

Robot Plays Operation

epic battle of man vs. machine
–unskilled human battles doctor using daVinci Surgical System
–MultiCare Tacoma Gen. Hosp.
–Tacoma, Wash.
–have used the robots there since 2005
–surgeons are specially trained to use the robots
–have performed more than 2K surgeries using the robot

Chicken Deboner

-Intelligent Cutting and Deboning System
–developed at Georgia Tech Research Institute
–uses 3D imaging technology
–judges internal structure according to outer appearance
–robot has 2 arms
–1 is cutting arm w/ 2 degrees of movement
–1 is holding arm w/ 6 degrees of movement
–arms include forced-feedback system
–uses that to tell difference between meat, tendon, ligaments, bone
–could save poultry industry millions by reducing costs & waste

YouNameIt – “Best Toy Ever!”

sneak peek of awesome toy from WowStuff
–robot spider with multiple weapons
–choose your weapon
–ultra controllable
–contest to name the toy
–they choose your name = you get one free
-Destroyable Armor

Catcopter

Dutch artist Bart Jansen had cat named Orville
–named after famous aviator, Orville Wright
–cat run over by car
–Jansen stuffed Orville
–then teamed up w/ RC helicopter flyer Arjen Beltman
–built specially designed flying mechanism to attach to cat
–now he’s “Orvillecopter”
–on show at Kunstrai Art Festival in Amsterdam
–’half cat, half machine’
–part of a visual art project
–more powerful engine, larger props coming

The Oatmeal Sued by FunnyJunk for “Damages”

FunnyJunk hosted dozens of The Oatmeal’s webcomics
–1yr ago, TheOatmeal blogged about the use of his copyrighted material
–few days ago, FJ sicks lawyer on TheOatmeal
–sent cease&desist letter w/ ‘give us money’ demand at bottom of it
–what??
–they had demanded K
–so instead, TheOatmeal raised that much and LOTS more
–half to Nat’l Wildlife & half to Am. Cancer Society
–The Oatmeal’s “philanthropic, kind-spirited way of saying EFF off”
–has now made 7K
–now FJ’s lawyer trying to put a stop to the fundraising & prevent the charities from getting any money

Viral Video: Reset Your Password

-keeping track of passwords can be hard & confusing
–resetting them can be a nightmare

Plant Voice

Wi-Fi Plant Sensor from Koubachi
–measures soil moisture, temperature and light
–uses low power Wi-Fi
–transmits data to the Koubachi Plant Care Engine
–based on scientific plant care models
–diagnoses the plant’s vitality
–tells you exactly how and when to care for your plants

E3 2012 Coverage

Nothing too exciting: some fun game announcements

More details on neat technology:
Microsoft Smart Glass
- “Airplay Competitor?”
- Smart Phones and Tablets into 360 controllers
- “What we’ve done is create a platform” so open to developers
- Sees to compete with the WiiU GamePad

WiiU
- Speaking of, Many more details on WiiU Console, GamePad, games and more.
- Takes idea of Dual Screen gaming from the DS, brings to TV
- Resistive touch screen – no multi touch, uses a stylus
- built in rumble, gyroscopes and accelerometer for motion controls.
- built in camera for video conferencing

Spider-Man Wall Climbing Invention

Utah St. Univ. engineering students – “Ascending Aggies”
–invented Personal Vacuum Assisted Climber (PVAC)
–vacuum motor that powers two suction paddles
–powerful enough to support 700lbs, depending on the altitude
–created it for nat’l competition sponsored by the Air Force
–did so well, Air Force is investing 0K toward further dev.
–contest – who could get 4 soldiers up 90ft face in 20min w/ a device that weighed less than 20lbs

WWDC 2012 Announcements

MacBook Air
- Ivy Bridge processors(2 GHz dual-core i7)
- 8GB of memory with 60% faster graphics
- 512GB of flash storage.
- 2x USB 3.0 ports
- Prices begin at 9

MacBook Pro (Line Refresh)
- 2.7 GHz quad-core i7 & turbo boost that will take it to 3.7GHz
- 8GB memory and 60% faster graphics and all
- USB 3.0

Next Generation MacBook Pro (no 17″)
- trimmed the case down to 0.71 inches and it weighs 4.46 pounds.
- Retina Display (2880×1800)
- 2.75GHz quad-core i7, and up to 16GB of memory
- 768GB flash drive.
- Battery life is up to 7 hours of use or up to 30 days on standby.
- Ports include USB 3.0, FireWire 800, and Thunderbolt.
- Pricing begins at 99
- Dubbed “Least Repairable Computer” by iFixIt due to soldered Ram and unique SSD

OSX Mountain Lion
-Tons of new confirmed features
- Dictation and Game Center getting built into the operating system.
- Mountain Lion is due next month at a price of .99 to upgrade any version back to Snow Leopard.

iOS 6
- Even more new confirmed features!

Domain Name Gold Rush

ICANN revealed the list Wed. of the new suffixes sought by applicants
–none are yet available
–”.sucks” is one of those sought
–1,400 proposed options
–will be the biggest expansion ever of URL real estate
–5K application fee per name
–Google applied for 101 domains
–Amazon applied for 76 domains
–most popular name among all applicants – .app
–then .home and then .inc
–Donuts Inc. (donuts.co) had most applications — 300
–Donuts Inc. spent M in application fees

Comics on Kindle

periodicals like comics have only been ava. to Kindle Fire
–but now children’s books, graphic novels & comics will be…
–…ava. for Kindle for iOS, Android, and cloud reader
–over 1,000 comic & children’s titles available
–kids’ books use Kindle text pop up feature for easier reading
–Kindle Panel View (panel by panel) for comics & graphic novels
–iOS app users can now search their library by title
–iPad users now have smaller margins, to see more text
–Android tablet users, cloud readers, those w/ widescreen can now use two-page view

Court Dismisses Petition

Petition filed to drag Zuckerberg and crew into court for discovery
–Judge said NO. You gotta have evidence, no fishin expeditions.
Wanted to ask:
-If Facebook failed to make public negative information given to its underwriters?
-If the defendants sought to artificially increase the price of the offering for their own benefit?
-Why the IPO price was selected?

Aussie Site Kogan imposing Internet Explorer tax

manufacturer and direct retailer of consumer electronics that’s projected to hit over 0 million in sales this year
-  it’s actually costing him money. In fact, he was willing to go further: “It’s not only costing us a huge amount, it’s affecting any business with an online presence, and costing the Internet economy millions.”

Yelp + Bing

co-branded relationship just announced
–will bring Yelp’s local biz content to Bing’s local search pgs.
–the pgs will display “Powered by Yelp”
–Yelp brings its reviews, photos, biz attributes, more – to Bing
–help Microsoft take on Google Place pages
–Bing has also partnered w/ Qwiki, Encyclopedia Brittanica and Facebook integration

The Famespot question of the day is “What, if anything, do you wish your cell phone/tablet could do?”..

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Cali is Skyping in from the LaGuardia Airport. This is a first and see how this will go..

John, Norm and Mark are going to be heading up to NY in a Cadillac Escalade with the Streaming Across America tour for
the CEA Line Shows.

John and company will be streaming live during the trip, look for the live video announcements on Twitter.. Plus Giveaways!! Lots and lots of Giveaways!!!

At the CEA Line Show we will be streaming live the 27-28 June.. Keep out for the tweets for that as well.

On Today’s show John has a robot he can love.

Internet Explorer is going to get expensive

John says its almost time to buy 1,000 domains

Did you know oatmeal can be fun

And The Nightmare Before Stripmas, and it all starts now!!!

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