GeekBeat Live #85

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Mailbag Cards from yours truly, Benjamin J. Roethig, and Chris Filby

Card and Present from Bruce.  3 t-shirts

T-Shirt from Stephan in Germany and monster heater thingy

Stuck In Customs shirt from Trey Ratcliff  of www.stuckincustoms.com “Camera Sutra T-Shirt”

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1966 Batmobile sold

“-sold for .62 MILLION at 2013 Barrett-Jackson auction in Scottsdale, AZ
-used in 60s Adam West Batman series
-Conversion of 1955 Lincoln Futura Concept car.
-Bought from Ford by auto customizer George Barris who leased it to the production company
-Barris retained ownership until auction.
-cost 0,000 to build as Futura concept. Ford sold it to Barris for .”

2014 Vette Stringray Baby!!!

“-Seventh generation Corvette.
-450hp & 450ft-lb torque from all new LT1 6.2L aluminum V8
-Direct Injected, and Active fuel management for great than 26mpg
-sub 4.0 0-60, 1G cornering grip
-Aluminum and Carbon fiber construction for 50/50 weight balance
-5-position Driver mode reconfigures 12 atributes to the driver’s evironment
-Configurable center dash
-Availible track capable Z51 performance package

Kilobots

“-KILObot Phototaxis
-Designed by Harvard University’s Self Organizing Systems Research Group
-Inexpensive a pop
-Designed to flock together and swarm towards a light source
-Have infared lights to communicate with other Kilobots
-designed to expiriment with swarm behaviors in robots”

DARPA Phoenix Project

“-Robot designed to scavange working parts (such as antennas) from dead sateillite
-Those parts would be reused on modular peices called “”Satlets”"
-satlets would be combined to form the next generation of satellites
-Of 1300 satiliettes, only 500 are currently fuctional.
-Resuse of equipment is far less expensive than rocket launches.
-Robots would be remote controlled from touch screen station
-Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) will hold a meeting with potential contractors looking to build the scanvenger robots, satlets, and associated equipment on Feb 8″

-Landscape house designed by Janjaap Ruijssenaars of Universe Architecture based in Amsterdam
- 12,000 squarefoot house assembled in 6m x 9m built by giant 3D printer
-Frame is made of sand and a type of glue
-Frame filled with Fiberglass,
-Exterior steel and glass.
-infintiy loop configruation
-Would take a year and a half to build
-six months of section fabrication.
-Price tag .3 million
-Technology could be used to create off earth structures.

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Opportunity turns 10

-Opportunity Rover touched down on Mars on January 24, 2003
-Designed for three month survey
still in excellent condition and full functional
-Has travelled just over 22 miles
- Still seeking out signs that microbal life may have existed on mars.
-Sister rover Spirit passed away just short of two years ago.

Glider Robots Find Wales

-Robots called Gliders can operate in weather too rough for boats or aircraft
-Developed by Woods Hole Oceangraphic Institute (WHOI) and launched from U of Rhode Island’s RV Endeavor
-Can recognise 13 calls from 4 different types of endangered whales Right, Fin, Humpback, and Sei
-Mission is to study whale patterns in order to protect them for accidents such as ship strikes
–Having accurate whale patterns protects not only the whales, but shipping companies by creating seasonal speed restrictions
-Can now operate autonomusly and transmit data back to ship every two hours via satillite. Previously had to be retrieved.
-While an excellent tracking tool, cannot replace human observation for indentifying indiviual whales
-North Atlantic Right Whale Population down to ~550″

Giant squid filmed

“–Giant Squid filmed for first time in natural habitat of deep ocean (depth 900m)
-Expedition by NHK (Japanese Public Broadcasting Company) and Discovery Channel.
-Filmed in Northern Pacific, but populations exist in every ocean.
-Filmed squid was 26ft, but can grow up to 43 feet.
-Second largest invertibrate only eclipsed by the Antarctic Colossal Squid
-Once thought mythical, but now beleived to be the basis behind the legendary Kracken
-took 100 missions and 400 hours in 3 man sub to find.”

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Crackle comes to TVs

“-Free (with commercial breaks) competitor to Hulu and Netflix.
-Now availible on LG, Samsung, and Vizio Smart TVs and Samsung Smart Blu-Ray players
-Also availible on smartphones, tablets, Roku, and Xbox Live
-Focuses on action, comedy, crime scf-fi, and horror.
-library includes Underworld, District 9, and Rescue Me
-Says those genres fit the digital audience.
-US, Canada, UK, and Australia.

Nikon Image Space

“-Nikon’s new cloud based photo sharing and storage service
-Replaces “”my Picturetown”" Users and pictures automatically transferred.
-Open to EVERYONE, not just Nikon owners
-2GB for Basic Free Accounts, 20GB for Special Free Accounts
-Special Accounts for Verified Nikon camera owners
-New UI System and faster performance
-Integration with Facebook and Twitter
-January 28 launch”

Vine from twitter comes to iOS

“-Twitter-owned Vine Launched on Thursday
-Records and distributes 6-second videos.
-Does not require Twitter account to join.
-iOS only at launch
-Free
-Launch day not without incident
-Twitter and Facebook sharing were temporarily disabled.”

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Surface Pro

-Release Date Feb 9
-US/ CAN
-9 for base 64gb, 128GB also available (no pricing)
-1080p 10.6” display, intel i5 CPU
-Surface Pen with Palm Block Stylus included with Pro
-Power brick come with extra 5w USB port for charging phone
-front/rear 720 webcams, full size USB 3.0, MicroSDXC Port,
-Mini-DisplayPort for external Monitor
-Touch Cover 9.99
-Special Matching version of Wedge Touch Mouse .99

http://www.microsoft.com/Surface/en-US/surface-with-windows-8-pro/home

Jack Beavers, GeekBeat Writer bought Cali bacon covered cotton candy…it was nasty

Kodak-trying to exit bankruptcy

-Financing approved by federal bankruptcy court for 4 million
-Judge Allan Gropper Southern District of New York
-loan from Centerbridge Partners LP
-Conditional on 7 million digital imaging patent sale to consortium that includes Apple, Google, Microsoft, and basially everyone else
-Plans to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy by the middle of this year

AT&T buys alltel

-AT&T purchasing spectrum, equipment, property, and 585,000 subscribers from Atlantic Telenetwork, Inc
-Purchase price 0 million
-Spectrum in 700mhz, 850, and 1900mhz bands (AT&T uses all 3)
-will convert spectrum and customers from Alltel’s CDMA/EV-DO network to AT&T’s GSM/UTMS/LTE
-Yes, Alltel was bought by Verizon in 2008. Some Alltel assets had to be divested.
-AT&T bought some of those assets, the rest became the current Alltel
-Deal expected to close in H2 2013 after manditory FCC investigation

Apple Q1 2013 earnings

-.5 billion revenue, ,1 billion profit.
-47.8 million iPhones (37 million q1 2012) (projected 50m)
-22.0 Million iPads (15.4m ’12)
-All records
-iPods down to 12.7 million from 15.4 million
-over 75 million iOS devices sold in quarter
-Macs also down to 4.1m from 5.2m
-.65 Divident per share on Feb 14.
-Analysts consider record sales and revenue “”disappointing”"
-Apple stock down 12% billion

John P. is wearing flowers…stop the presses

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Video of Greetings from Scott Kublin, Mark Fuccio, Yukari Peerless, Chris Brogan, Richard Taylor, and others

Team and fans went to Joe’s Italian cafe just around the corner fromt he studio to celebrate cali’s birthday today from 11 to 1

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