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Edlekrone rig system.  Awesome rig.  we’ll have a review of all this sweet stuff later.

Super slider

pocket rig

http://www.edelkrone.com/

irobot zumba 770

http://store.irobot.com/product/index.jsp?productId=11305110

Facebook Gift from Brent

Huge box..little thing of sea salt candy

D-link travel router

I’ll get info soon

Marware axis ipad mini case

http://www.marware.com/axis-ipad-mini-case?sc=70&category=51748

Unboxings …we have a ton of stuff

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Elon Musk Offer Boeing Battery Help on 787
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ifPCarjAmI
- Elon Musk is CEO is both Tesla Motors and Space-X.  Also started PayPal and SolarCity
- He is offering Boeing assistance ob battery tech for beleagured 787 Dreamliner
- According to Musk, Neither Tesla nor Space-X have had a fire with a production battery
- Space-X Lithium Ion Batteries are designed for higher loads than the Panasonic sourced commercial batteries on the Dreamliner
- The Space-X batteries are designed for any environment from sea-level to vacuum
- Musk insists the current battery pack structure is inherently unsafe

Car Fuel Cell Alliance
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- Daimler AG (Mercedes), Ford, and Nissan-Renault form three-way partnetship for fuel cells
- Plan to introduce production electric Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles by 2017
- Automakers note while this is a technology alliance, there will be no platform sharing.
- Technology will be implemented into each automaker’s independant vehicles
- Alliance speeds up adoption of technology and lowers costs for all involved through economies of scale.

MeCam social helicopter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=M-2hgsdeYyo
- Palm sized quadcopter
- planned shelf date for partners, 2014
- Reference design for sale to other companies
- Designed around Commercial Off The Ahelf cellphone hardware.
- SoC designed around ARM Cortex A9 CPU 1.0-1.5ghz
- 1GB of RAM, bluetooth, dual band Wi-Fi, and a SD Card slot.
- Streams video to iOS or Android device
- no remote control.  works by voice commands or an automatic follow mode.
- Open source and Open hardware
- in other words, a bit like a flying Raspberry Pi.

RASSOR mining robot

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- RASSOR or Regolith Advanced Surface Systems Operations Robot
- pronounced like Razor
- Prototype design for a rugged off world soil excavater
- Designed to be lightweight (100lbs) yet perform its mission
- normally propelled by tank treads, but can use its excavation drums to traverse large objects
- Drums shave soil instead of excavating large chunks like terrestrial earthmovers
- NASA already working on an improved version RASSOR 2 to correct shortcomings of original design

Stinger Missile Launcher Turned in
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV1v15th5I0
- Fired and now inert FIM-92 Stinger launcher turned into Seattle Police
- Turned into during police gun buyback.
- controlled military weapons system, not availible for surplus purchase to civillians
- lightweight IR Surface to Air and air to air Missile system.
- Actively used by All branches of the US military (save the Coast Guard) and over 25 allied nations
-Seattle Police plan to turn the launcher over to the Army for further investigation

Iranian Space Monkey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSlqmNCsSX0
“-The Iranian Space Program launched a Monkey into space.
- Successful recovery of animal
- launched 75mi into space.
- Module called “”Pishgam”" which is Farsi for Pioneer
- First step towards manned spaceflight program with a planned lunar landing in 2020.
- Long history of using animals as human, analogs, especially apes.
- Internationally, 1957 a dog named Laika was the first space traveller of any species aboard Sputnik 2 aka “”Mutt-nik”"
- NASA followed up with Monkeys Gordo (1958) and the first animal to survive re-entry Sam in 1959
- Manned spaceflight 1961

Driverless Car Prank
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=RjiqJObs6eI
- Prank pulled by Illusionist named Rahat
- Is Sitting under a cover that looks exactly like the standard seat in his Nissan
- Looks to fast food employees like the car is empty
-Just watch the vide

Weather report Green Screen Error
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6P5mqVx2zw
-This is what happens when you wear green to a green screen.
- Weatherwoman Ericka Pino wore the wrong color to work
- chroma keying deleted her clothes with the background only leaving her head and arms
- Beach Background

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Blackberry 10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on2V5sh6_pM
- Company Formally changed its name from Research in Motion to Blackberry
- Introduced Blackberry 10 Operating system
- Also Introduced two BB10 phones Z10 and Q10
- Z10 4.2″” touch screen only.  1280×768 display at 326 ppi. 1.5ghz DC Snapdragon CPU 16GB Storage with MicroSD slot.  LTE and NFC Optional.  8mp rear and 2mp front HD cameras
- Q10.  Traditional physical keyboard blackberry with 3.1″” 720×720  display
- z10 available now in the UK, Feb 5 in Canada, and US on All four national carriers in March

AppleTV 5.2
- iTunes in the Cloud Streaming (select markets)
- Bluetooth support for Keyboards (720 and 1080 models have previously dormant BT chips)
- Airplay enabled audio on video.  Send stereo audio to airplay enabled speaker systems, AirPort Express, or even other AppleTVs
- customary bug fixes and improvements

128GB iPad 4
-Launching February 5
-9 for Wifi, 9 for Cellular
-Black or White
-Ships with Newly Released iOS 5.1
-No known update in specs, but Press release featured professional CAD and Audio recording Apps
-Matches storage of Surface Pro

4K coming to 2014 World Cup….in Japan
- According to Asashi Times
- Japanese Government to broadcast 2014 world cup in 4K UltraHD through public broadcaster NHK
- World cup takes place July of that year in Brazil
- Because of bandwidth concerns, they will use the communications satellites instead of broadcast satellites
- 2016 was planned launch of UltraHD content in Japan.

Barnes and Noble Store Closures
- Company plans to close ~20 stores a year over the next decade
- amounts to roughly 1/3rd of all B&N retail stores
- Company was rapidly expanding just 4 years ago.
- Competitor Borders Shut down in 2011
- reason for closures pinned on the success of Amazon’s Kindle against both print books/magazines and B&N’s own Nook readers

JJ Abrams to direct next Star Wars
- JJ Abrams to Direct Star Wars Ep VII
- His company Bad Robot will co-produce with Lucasfilm
- Lucasfilm vets Kathleen Kennedy, Lawrence Kasdan returning
- JJ’s TV series include hits Alias, Lost, Fringe, and curently airing Person of Interest (CBS) and Revolution (NBC)
- Movies include Mission Impossible 3 & Ghost Proticol, Cloverfield, Super 8, as well as much notably the relaunched Star Trek and its sequel ST Into Darkness
- 3D versions of Ep II & III nixed in favor of new film(s)”"
-insert lens flare

CEA fires CNET as coverage partner
- CEA to name DiSH Hopper co-best of show award winner after CBS stripped CNET award from it.
- They Have officially stripped CNET of Best of show Award duties and are expected to issue a Request For Propsal for a new coverage partner
- They are also exploring legal options under their agreement with CNET
- According to CEA SVP Karen Chupka, The CEA has concerns that CBS’s new review policies in reguards to CNET could negatively impact the brand of The International CES show and the CEA
- CEA President Gary Shapiro scathed CNET over the damage to CNET in a USA Today Op-Ed on wednesday

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Leo sent them to Starbucks to see an expensive coffee maker.  Give me the pumpkin spice latte please.

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