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GBTV #779 (small) | Bloopers, Gaffs, and Gibberish

Bloopers, Gaffs, and Gibberish We all make mistakes.  And I'm no exception.  Here's some of my... shall we say.... less appealing moments.

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GBTV #778 (small) | iOS4 Update, emPower, Hospital Robots

The iOS4 update is out with iTunes 9.2. I'm liking the multitasking ability, but my experience with the battery hasn't been great so far. I lost 10% of my battery in 20 minutes. emPower glasses are the glasses of the future. They have electronic lenses that focus quickly with less distortion. A hospital in Scotland is going to use robots to serve food, administer medicine and carry clinical waste.

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GBTV #777 (small) | GAEMS Entertainment System, iPhone4 Orders Cancelled, WireTape, WordPress 3.0

The GAMES Portable Console Gaming and Entertainment System is a hard case that houses your Xbox 360 along with an LCD and speakers for easy traveling and gaming. AT&T and Apple are canceling iPhone 4 orders. It might just be that they're canceling EXTRA orders from the website hiccups last week, but we might not know for sure until actual launch day. WireTape cables are going to be super flat cables that clean up the cable clutter. (via Scott Ellis) WordPress 3.0 is out a ...

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GBTV #776 (small) | Dropcam Echo, My Passport Studio, Willow Garage, Droid X

The Dropcam Echo is an easy to setup home monitoring system that alerts you via SMS when there's activity. I recently bought and love the Western Digital My Passport Studio. It has an eInk display that tells you the name of the drive and how much space is left. The display is customizable. You can buy it here on Amazon. Willow Garage taught their PR3 robot to play pool. You can see the full video here. Next week we should know about the Droid X and hopefully the Droid 2 ...

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GBTV #775 (small) | YouTube Video Editor, ClearSpot 4G & 4G+, Vaio's Share My Connect

YouTube is making it easier to share better video than just whatever it is you recorded with YouTube Video Editor. You can trim, add music and combine videos. Clear announced the ClearSpot 4G and 4G+ WiFi hotspots for $99 and $224 respectively. The 4G+ Mobile USB Stick is available for $114. Sony Vaio Z and Y series laptops have a Share My Connect feature that allows you to share your Internet connection with up to 5 people. You can use my promo code GEEK at AngiesList.co ...

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GBTV #774 (small) | iPhone 4 PreOrders, New Mac Mini, Nintendo 3DS, USB Typewriter, Swype

The iPhone 4 preorder process turned out to be somewhat of a disaster. There were security flaws and errors and lots of frustration, but it all seems to be straightened out now. Apple released the new Mac Mini with HDMI. Nintendo's 3DS has a 3D screen that's adjustable. The USB Typewriter is a mod that makes any typewriter powered via USB. You can buy the kit to do it yourself, or you can buy one already done. Swype is an Android app that promises to increase the speed of ...

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GBTV #773 (small) | Microsoft Kinect & New Xbox 360

Project Natal has been officially renamed Kinect and will be available for sale on November 4th. I have some demos and additional information for you in the video! The new Xbox 360 has 5 USB ports, 802.11n WiFi, a 250GB hard drive and a special port for connecting Kinect. Use ACLens.com with discount code GBTV in the Special Instructions box to save 10%.

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GBTV #772 (small) | Google Voice in Gmail, Rockband 3 Keyboard, A Waterproof Kindle Case, Pico Projector Robot Arm

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GBTV #771 (small) | WD TV Live Plus HD, Evo 4G Macro Lens, Proscope, Panasonic 4K 3DTV

The WD TV Live Plus HD media player lets you stream from your Netflix, plus more. GoodandEvo.com put a macro lens on the Evo 4G and got some really great results! Bodelin Technologies released the first digital microscope that works with the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. Panasonic's 4K 3D TV will be shipping in the fall. You can save money on contact lenses and glasses at ACLens.com when you enter code GBTV in the Special Instructions box.

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GBTV #770 (small) | Ford Sync & Google Maps, Sub-Tub Whirlpool Bathtub, Safari 5, Notebook USB Audio Station

Ford Sync and Google Maps are syncing up so you can send your destination to your car FROM Google Maps on your computer or phone. The Sub-Tub Whirlpool Bath & Washbasin Unit is an all in one bath, sink, vanity and TV. Safari 5 was released, and it's most notable feature is Safari Reader. It declutters the page so you can focus on the content. The Notebook USB Audio Station is a laptop rizer that includes three USB ports and two 8 watt speakers. You can use discount GE ...

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GBTV #769 (small) | iPhone 4 from WWDC

At WWDC 2010, Steve Jobs announced the iPhone 4. You can reserve it on June 15th and buy it on June 24th. The 16GB version will be $199 and the 32GB will be $299. A few important things to note about the new iPhone 4: The resolution has been increased. It's now 960x640, known as a Retina Display. The Apple A4 chip and bigger battery life means 7 hours of talk time. The antenna is actually built into the design of the hardware, and you'll notice it on the sides. There are two came ...

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GBTV #768 (small) | AT&T Data Plan Changes, doubleTwist Android Player, Zoom H1, PLEASE

AT&T changed their rate plans for data usage. Details are in the video. doubleTwist released a media player for Android that beats the built in player and gives you more control over the song's information. The Zoom H1 is a great, portable audio recorder. It'll cost $99. PLEASE is a new device in Europe that will administer medicine via lasers. I just put in my last pair of contact lenses, so I'll be ordering from ACLens.com to get some more at a 10% discount using p ...

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GBTV #767 (small) | Pulse, Lumix DMC-FX75, Perching Drones

The Pulse iPad app organizes your RSS feeds in a more visually stimulating way than most news apps. Panasonic's new Lumix DMC-FX75 does HD video, with 14 megapixel stills and has "Intelligent Resolution". Researchers at Standford University have created Perching Drones. It looks like a small toy plane that you'd throw around your living room, but this one has special powers and can perch on walls for days or weeks for recharging or surveillance.

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GBTV #766 (small) | WindPad 100 & 110, EeePad, Sanyo Xacti Underwater, Snapfinger, Skype Calls on 3G, Music for Deaf People

The MSI WindPad 100 is a 10" tablet running Windows 7 with the Wind Touch UI on top. The WindPad 110 is an Android version, also 10". Asus also announced a tablet at Computex, the EP121. It's a hybrid with a dock and keyboard. The Sanyo Xacti DMX-CA100 will go underwater, up to 10 feet. It'll record 1080p video. Snapfinger is now an app on your phone. It'll allow you to place food orders ahead of time so it's ready when you are. Skype 2.0 on the iPhone gives you the ability to make ...

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GBTV #765 (small) | Iota Flex, Fring, Sell on iBookstore, OLPC Tablet, AppleTV Update, OpenCamp

The Iota Flex will give you the ability to add voice and text to your Android tablet or eReader. Fring released an update giving Android phones video calls. Apple opened up the iBookstore to any author who want to sell their book to multiple countries. The OLPC effort is moving into the area of tablets. The AppleTV should be getting an update soon that will allow cloud storage and 1080p playback. Don't forget that the OpenCamp early registration discount ends on Mond ...

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GBTV #764 (small) | Comcast 105Mbps, NEC 3D PC, USB Cufflinks, Ford Motion Capture Systems, Wired iPad App

Comcast will soon be offering 105Mbps download speeds along with 10Mbps download speeds. It'll cost $200/month. NEC's Valuestar N VN790/BS is a 3D PC with Blu-ray. It comes with glasses and can switch between 3D and 2D. There are $200 USB drive cufflinks. They look good and give you 4GB of storage where ever you are. Ford is working with motion capture systems that the gaming industry uses to figure out what will work and what won't before parts get to the assembly line. Wired ...

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GBTV #763 (small) | PowerV Duo, Wii Gloves, Smartphones & Hotels, Sony Rollable Display, Anybots

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GBTV #763 (small) | PowerV Duo, Wii Gloves, Smartphones & Hotels, Sony Rollable Display, Anybots

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GBTV #762 (small) | International iPads, EyeTV HD, Animal Robot, Free AT&T WiFi

The international launch of the iPad is on May 28th! The EyeTV HD allows you to watch your TV shows and movies from your DVR on your Apple laptop, iPhone or iPad. A research team at USC is working on a cool robot project, mimicking robots after animals to maximize their ability to walk on unstable terrain. , AT&T is offering free WiFi in Times Square to alleviate some of the strain on the 3G network.

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GBTV #761 (small) | Google I/O: Google TV, Chrome Web Store, Android 2.2

Google TV aims to bring the Internet and TV video content together and easy to find. It has speech recognition built in and will run Android apps. You'll see TVs with Google TV built in by next fall. The Chrome Web Store will give you a one stop shop to get web apps like TweetDeck and Plants & Zombies. Froyo, Android 2.2, will be faster, backup better, can be used as a WiFi hotspot, and run Flash 10.1. Early registration and the discount that goes along with it for OpenCamp ...

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GBTV #760 (small) | Immortal Sunglasses, L5 Remote, Starbucks Incentives, Lego Bridge

The Immortal Sunglasses are the first pair of glasses that I'm aware of that have a video camera built in so you can record everything you see. The L5 Remote is now shipping. It's a dongle for your iPod Touch or iPhone that turns it into a universal remote. Starbucks is embracing Foursquare by offering the mayor of each location a $1 discount. There's a small vehicle made entirely out of Legos that can lay out a bridge in front of itself, cross the bridge, then pick it up behind ...

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GBTV #759 (small) | Lasers' 50th Birthday, EeePC 1015P, Mobilicity, Electrochromic Panels

In 1917, Albert Einstein thought lasers were possible, and yesterday marked the 50th anniversary of when Theodore Maiman demo'd the first working laser. Asus announced their 1015P and 1015PE models have 13.5 hours of battery life. If you're in Toronto, Mobilicity is offering an alternative to Rogers and Bell by giving you the choice of prepaid, no contracts and unlimited plans, starting at $35/month. Aaron Schild and Rafael Cosman, students in San Diego, showed off a cool protot ...

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GBTV #758 (small) | Sharp 3D Module, Mind Controlled Prosthetic Arm, Evo 4G Price, OpenCamp

Sharp announced their 3D module that shoots 720p 3D video for use with portable devices. The mind controlled prosthetic arm is ready for the public, and Christian Kandlbauer is the first European to have it installed. The EVO 4G has a date and price. It'll be available from Sprint June 4th for $199 with contract. I'm very excited to announce a conference I've been planning in Dallas called OpenCamp. The goal of OpenCamp is to encourage everyone, regardless of which CMS platform ...

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GBTV #757 (small) | Samsung U200 & U250, Creative ZiiSound Speakers, ProPrompter HDi

Samsung's new all in one PCs, the U200 and U250, have multitouch displays and will be running Windows 7 Home Premium when they're released...I don't know when yet! The ZiiSound D5 Bluetooth Wireless Speakers from Creative comes with a dongle for controlling it from an iPhone or iPod, and hopefully an iPad. I've featured Bodelin Technologies a few times over the course of this show. Their new project, the ProPrompter HDi is made for an iPad and they updated their controller app to wir ...

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GBTV #756 (small) | Pioneer XW-NAC1, Sony NEX3 & NEX5, Twitter Business Center, Molecular Computing

Pioneer's new speaker system, the XW-NAC1 is a dual dock for your iPods and iPhones and can play from either device. Sony announced their NEX3 and NEX5 cameras. They look really good, have small bodies and interchangeable lenses. The NEX3 shoots 720p and the NEX5 shoots 1080. They promise good low light performance. The new Twitter Business Center allows businesses to add a verified account tag, receive DMs from any customer regardless of if you're following them, add multiple cont ...

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GBTV #755 (small) | Sony VAIO P, Fujitsu E-Paper Improvements, HyperMac iPad Batteries, Facebook Privacy

Sony updated their VAIO P laptops. They're 8" displays with touchpads on each side and an accelerometer that lets you move between webpages by tilting the device. Fujitsu improved the quality of the color e-Ink paper to be more vibrant and faster. HyperMac came out with new external batteries for iPads, ranging from $200-$500. Facebook Privacy issues have been going on for a while. I'd love to hear what you guys think about it. Are you paying attention to it? Do you care? Are you ...

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GBTV #754 (small) | Humble Monkey, i-LIMB Pulse, Clear Rollout & New Phones

I've been playing with the Humble Monkey 360-T2 Camera Truck. If you need to shoot images or video low to the ground with some movement, this is key to getting good shots! Touch Bionics' new i-LIMB Pulse prosthetic hand uses high frequency electronic pulses to control individual limbs, like fingers, more precisely. Clearwire is rolling out to 19 new cities over the summer. They're Kansas City, KS; St. Louis, MO; Salt Lake City, UT, and the core area of Washington, D.C.; Nashville, TN; ...

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GBTV #753 (small) | BenQ E1260, Wii Controll Demo, Own Voice, Secret Knock Detector

The BenQ E1260 camera has HDR technology built in. I'm a bit skeptical about the results, but it could be a step in the right direction. Ryan Frawley created an app called Wii Controller Demo that lets you pair an Android phone with a Wiimote and log movements on the display. Nokia's Own Voice lets you download your own voice into the Ovi Maps system so you can listen to your own voice (or someone else's) give you directions. Steve Hoefer made a secret knock detecting gadget. Th ...

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GBTV #752 (small) | HTC Incredible

I've had some time with HTC Incredible, and I'm really enjoying it! It's a very good option if you're looking at an Android phone or iPhone alternative. Android 2.1 HTC Sense UI 1GHz Snapdragon Processor 3.7" 480x800 AMOLED capacitive touchscreen 8MP camera, dual LED flash, auto focus 8GB memory Virtual keyboard only Bluetooth WiFi FM Radio .47" depth microSD slot (up to 32GB) Optical trackpad This episode was brought to you SquareSpace.com. If you're looking to build a ...

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GBTV #751 (small) | Google & BumpTop, Best Buy in the UK, Magimix Vision Toaster, Balanced Robot

Google bought BumpTop, and inevitably it'll be going into hiding for a while while Google "works on it". You have a week to get it before that happens! The first Best Buy in the UK opened Saturday in West Thurrock, where you can get a peek at the Tesla Roadster. The Magimix Vision Toaster is a toaster with glass sides for $300. Dr. Masaaki Kumagai is working on a project at the Robot Development Engineering Laboratory that's focused on balance. This episode was brought to yo ...

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GBTV #750 (small) | Microsoft Courier, Windows 7 Not on HP Slate, Textie, Steam

Microsoft announced they wouldn't be bringing the Courier to market. It was a research and testing product, so we may see parts of it in some future products, but don't expect to buy a Courier, ever. HP is canceling their Slate running Windows 7. It's very likely we'll see a tablet with webOS. Textie saves you money on SMS fees by bypassing the courier. You can use it even if other people don't use it and still save money. The Steam online gaming marketplace is opening up to Mac us ...

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GBTV #749 (small) | Nokia N8, HP & Palm, AT&T 3G Plan, Hallmark Star Wars Card, Brizzly Picnic

HP bought Palm, most likely for Palm's WebOS, which they might be thinking about combining with HP's tablets. Nokia announced their flagship phone, the N8. It has a 12 megapixel camera that can shoot some pretty fantastic video! Example in the show above. AT&T gave some more information about the iPad 3G data plan. Most notable, you'll get notifications before you run out of data if you're on the limited plan. Hallmark created a Star Wars greeting card for Father's Day. It p ...

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GBTV #748 (small) | Zomm Review, No Touch Typing

I got a Zomm in for review. It's a device that attaches to your keyring and buzzes at you when you get too far away from your phone so you don't loose it. It also serves as a speaker phone, an alarm, and will make emergency calls. Masatoshi Ishikawa, a professor at the University of Tokyo, wants you to be able to type and operate devices just by moving your fingers in front of it. The system uses a small camera that shoots 154 images per second and they're looking to target the 3D app sp ...

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GBTV #747 (small) | OLED Wallpaper, Driving Technology, Ceramic Speakers

A company called Lomox in the UK is working on flexible OLED film, and they're showing it off as an OLED wallpaper that'll brighten up the room without light bulbs. Students at North Carolina State are developing software for cars that will recognize street signs, objects in the road and the edges of lanes so the car can drive itself. I've had a chance to play with the Ceramic Speakers I >talked about before My promo code GEEK at AngiesList.com will save you 25% when you sign u ...

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GBTV #746 (small) | Dell Smoke, Thunder, Lightning & Looking Glass, Hulu Plus, Power Skin, New Salt Crystals

Dell announced a lot yesterday! Their Smoke and Thunder phones are running Android, the Lightningslider phone is running Windows Phone 7, and the Looking Glass is a 7" multitouch tablet with a TV tuner. Hulu will be implementing their subscription model, Hulu Plus in May. You'll need it if you want to watch more than 5 episodes of certain TV shows. The Power Skin from MiLi is the thinnest iPhone battery pack, but still offers double the battery life for $74. PepsiCo is working ...

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GBTV #745 (small) | Temple Bags, Panasonic 3D Sales, Steampunk Goggles, Pioneer Blu-ray Players, Biotech Sensor Wristband

Steve Opperman at TempleBags.com has a manly iPad case called the Leather & Canvas iPad Case, that looks a little like something your grandfather might have given you. Panasonic is increasing their 3D HDTV production units by 30% because sales have gone so well. The Steampunk Goggles might make 3D a bit more fun! Pioneer's new Blu-ray players, the BDP-330 and the BDP-LX53 allow you to control them via your iPhone with the free app, iControlAV. Scientists at Fraunhofer IZM res ...

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GBTV #743 (small) | Holocube Touch, Netflix Subtitles, Zeiss Cine Lenses, Ping Clothing, Robot Population

The Holocube Touch is a small box that displays a hologram, and you're able to manipulate the video with touch. Netflix is offering subtitles on certain TV shows and movies. It'll be available on more titles soon. Carl Zeiss announced their line of CineLenses , the Compact Prime and the Lightweight Zoom lenses each have interchangeable lenses. Ping Clothing, from Jennifer Darmour, wants to give you Facebook updates by small electronics embedded in the clothing. The Robot Pop ...

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GBTV #742 (small) | Surround Vision from MIT

Surround Vision is a concept by Santiago Alfaro from MIT. His idea is to give layers to your TV viewing experience with multiple screens. Check out the video above! Americabargrill.com used my discount code GEEK at SquareSpace.com and saved 12%. It's simple and easy, and you don't have to know any code!

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GBTV #741 (small) | New MacBook Pros & MiniDisplay Port, WarGames Computer for Sale, Mitsubishi Diamond 82, iPad Delays

Apple updated their MacBook Pros, as we've been expecting. The 13" MBP is available with either a 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor and a 250GB hard drive for $1200, or with a 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo and a 320GB hard drive for $1500. The 15" MacBook Pro is $1800 for a 2.4 GHz Intel Core i5 with a 320GB hard drive. For $2000, you can get a 2.53 GHz Intel Core i5 with a 500GB Hard Drive. For $2200, you can get a 2.66 GHz Intel Core i7 with a 500GB hard drive. The 17" doesn't get the Intel ...

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GBTV #740 (small) | Neflix Wii Streaming, Opera Mini was Approved, Google Docs Update, Nook at B&N Stores

The Netflix Wii Streaming test is over and now it's open to the public. Just go to netflix.com/wii and click the big blue button to get your DVD that will allow you to stream Netflix movies over your Wii console. The Opera browser was approved for the App Store. It'll be free and will give you another option for browsing on your iPhone. Google Docs released an update that gives them the ability to update more efficiently, and give you faster load times as well as more collaborative ...

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GBTV #739 (small) | Canon XF305 & XF300, Chat on iPhone OS 4, Asus EeeKeyboard, Memristors

Canon is releasing two cameras with their XF Codec. They're the XF300 and XF305. They have three 1920X1080 CMOS sensors. Another camera Canon's believed to be working on has the same sensor as the Canon 5D Mark II. iPhone OS 4.0 might have iChat capabilities, according to 9to5mac.com. We've been waiting for the Asus EeeKeyboard, with a HTPC built in, and it looks like it'll be shipping soon. Memristors allow scientists to store data without an electrical current, so they're lookin ...

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GBTV #738 (small) | iPhone OS 4.0

Apple announced the features of newest iPhone OS update - 4.0. It'll be available to developers today, and users will be able to download this summer. All the features will be available for 3GS and latest iPod Touch, but some of the features, like multitasking, won't be available for iPhone 3G and earlier versions of the Touch. The iPad will get the update this fall. Multitasking is the most exciting announcement. You'll be able to play music in the background in apps like Pandora, not ...

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GBTV #737 (small) | ARRI 4K Camera, Allegro WiFi Radio, Squeezebox Touch, Element 117

The makers of the camera the TV show House uses normally, ARRI, are coming out with a 4K professional camera called the ARRI Alexa. It's a camera made for movies and supports formats Apple ProRes 422 (HQ) and ProRes4444 that are compatible with Final Cut Pro. The Allegro WiFi Radio has support for Pandora, Sirius Internet radio, Live 365, CNN, NPR, BBC and more. Or you can take a look at the Squeezebox Touch from Logitech. It gets audio via WiFi, but also can play off an SD card or USB ...

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GBTV #736 (small) | I'm an Action Figure!, Drobo FS, Slate PC, iPhone OS 4

Country Music Television turned me into an action figure! They're premiering a couple new shows on Friday, April 9th, Danger Coast and Gator Country. The previews I got were fun, take a chance to check them out on CMT and WelcomeToAdventureCountry.com. Data Robotics released the Drobo FS. It does file sharing over your network, and it works very smoothly. You can enter to win a Drobo FS. They'll announce a winner Thursday, April 8th at noon Pacific time. Better hurry! Apple will be ...

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GBTV #735 (small) | iPad Sales, Sub-25nm flash memory, [H]ouse using 5D Mark II

Apple says they sold 300,000 iPads by the end of Saturday, April 3rd, 250,000 eBooks and over 1,000,000 apps were downloaded. Toshiba is working on packing more storage into smaller packages, and they're spending $160 million to do it. I visited the set of the TV show House a few weeks ago where they were shooting an entire episode on a Canon 5D Mark II. No TV show has ever done that, and it's very exciting to see technology impact the way our entertainment is being made. You can fo ...

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GBTV #734 (small) | The iPad Has Landed

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GBTV #733 (small) | HMTL5 on iPad, Wolfram|Alpha App, Google Envelope, Unvarnished

HTML5 is about to blow up thanks to the iPad. When you browse to Flickr and Ted.com on the iPad, you'll be automatically switched over to viewing videos with HTML5. Netflix will have a free iPad app, with the ability to switch devices (iPad to TV, or vice versa) in the middle of watching a movie. Wolfram|Alpha just lowered their iPhone app from $50 to $1.99. If you paid $50 for it, you can get a refund. Unvarnished allows you to rate and review people, just like Yelp does for businesse ...

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GBTV #732 (small) | Bionic Vision Australia, Desk Phone Dock, Email Tshirt, App Store Facebook Page, Bacon Fans

Bionic Vision Australia is working on a bionic eye and it's almost ready to bring out into the real world. It has a lot of growing up to do, but it's a start! The Desk Phone Dock charges your iPhone while letting you talk on your iPhone like a desk phone. Like or not? Leave a comment below! One day all kinds of electronics will be built into our clothing. Chris and Madeleine Ball don't want to sit around and wait. They made a T-Shirt that tells anyone looking at his chest how much Gm ...

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GBTV #731 (small) | iPad Guided Tours, Coby MP570, Aegis Padlock Pro, Portable GuideLight, Cloak Bag

Apple released guided tours for the iPad. Take a look at how apps will work, starting on Saturday, April 3rd, when the iPad is released and ready for purchase! How Numbers will work on iPad How Pages will work on iPad How Keynote will work on iPad How YouTube will work on iPad How Videos will work on iPad How iTunes will work on iPad How iPod will work on iPad How Photos will work on iPad How Mail will work on iPad How Safari will work on iPad How Books will work on iPad The Coby MP570 ...

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GBTV #730 (small) | Mythos XTR-50, Gifting iTunes Apps, 4G HTC Evo

The Mythos XTR-50 is a speaker meant to be hung on the wall that's only 1.5" deep, and is designed to deliver high fidelity audio with clarity and the dynamic range you'd expect from a full-sized speaker tower. You can now gift iPhone or iPod Touch apps from the iTunes store. I found out it wasn't possible back in December when trying to gift the Cat in the Hat iPhone app. Zosh is an app that takes away the need for a fax machine by allowing you to sign and fill forms out on your iPhon ...

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GBTV #729 (small) | 22 Megapixel Display Wall Featuring a Gigapixel Image

Tor-Magne Stien Hagen, Daniel Stødle and Otto J. Anshus, students at the University of Tromsø, Norway are working on a 22 mega pixel display wall constructed from 28 projectors and driven by a display cluster of 30 nodes. Each projector creates a 1024x768 resolution image and the 28 images are tiled together to form a 7168x3072 resolution display. The goal is to provide a way for people to interact with massive gigapixel photographs. The image the students were working with was creat ...

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GBTV #728 (small) | WePad, Gowalla, QuantamFilm, OWLE

The WePadis an iPad alternative with an 1.66GHz Intel Atom N450 processor, a webcam, two USB ports and more. Some of you may like it more than the iPad. I met Josh Williams, the co-founder ofGowalla, and interviewed him right before Gowalla won two awards. You can see the full interview at calilewis.me/gowalla. I love the OWLE! It's a cradle for your iPhone that gives you interchangeable lenses, a mic and a cold shoe. Brief 728 was brought to you by Angie's List. You can find co ...

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GBTV #727 (small) | Phone 7 & MIX Updates, Kindle for Tablets, JVC GZ-HM550

A couple updates on Windows Phone 7 and my MIX trip with Microsoft. I talked to developers at MIX about the announcements, >Claudio Sanchez Amazon is building Kindle apps for all Tablets, including the iPad, if Apple will allow it in the App Store. JVC's GZ-HM550 camera has bluetooth allowing you to monitor audio wirelessly and use a smartphone as a wireless remote. This episode is brought to you by SquareSpace.com. KYwoodenbowls.com was built with SquareSpace, using my discou ...

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GBTV 726 (small) | Ooma, Hydro Floors, Surgical Sponges with RFID

A while back, I tweeted that I had set up and was using Ooma . I have since gotten many requests for me to give an update on my experience. Ooma allows you to skip the bill with regular phone service, get free calling and just pay a one time fee of $250 for the device. Hydro Floors are moveable floor that covers a swimming pool. One minute it's a floor you can walk on, the next...or okay, probably about twenty minutes later...it's a pool! ClearCountmakes surgical sponges with RFID in ...

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GBTV #725 (small) | FreeAgent Theater+ HD, JuicedLink CX431, oMoby, Touchless Paper Towel Dispenser

The Seagate FreeAgent Theater+ HD media player is an easy way to move digital movie files around to watch on your TV. The JuicedLink CX431 Ultra Portable Mixer allows you to use any camera with an 1/8" mic input and get 4 XLR inputs. oMoby is an iPhone app that does some of what Google Goggles does. Take a picture and let oMoby recognize it and give you options for finding that product on a variety of online stores. The Touchless Paper Towel Dispenser isn't new, but the IR sensor ...

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GBTV #723 (small) | Windows Phone 7 Series

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GBTV #722 (WMV) | qTweeter, Google Reader Play, Playstation Move, PrimeSense

qTweeter gives you a way to quickly and easily tweet while in the middle of another task, like reading mail or browsing Safari, without ever leaving that application. Google Reader Play is a visual look at favorite websites and links in a slideshow format. The Playstation Move Motion Controller is very precise and has very little latency. PrimeSense creates a 3D grid for a computer to recognize gesture controls.

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GBTV #721 (small) | Hug, 3DTVs at Best Buy, Kindle Browser, Black Swan, HP Slate Video, Microflown Sensor

he Case-mate Hug is a wireless induction charging system for $100. Best Buy will begin selling Panasonic 3DTVs in 300 locations for about $2500. Amazon looks to be hiring someone to possibly work on a new Web browser for the Kindle. Black Swan is a Web app, or Weblication, for Google Voice that looks and works like a native application. We have new video of the HP Slate, in which we see more of the UI. You can see the entire video at geekbrief.tv/hpslate. Microflown is workin ...

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GBTV #720 (small) | Pandora Thriving, Joey Roth Ceramic Speakers, Martin Jetpack Update, Code Organ

One of my favorite companies, Pandora is thriving lately. They've gone from the founder driving around the country spreading the word about the service, to 48 million users and an expected $100 million in revenue this year. The Joey Roth Ceramic Speakers are cool looking speakers made of porcelain and baltic birch plywood, cork, aluminum and cast iron. I talked about the Martin Jetpack on Brief 692, and now I have an update for you. They're going to be making 500 units available fo ...

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GBTV #719 (small) | Rapportive, World's Smallest Computer, Panasonic G2 & G10, Kojiro Robot

I've always said I don't want my Gmail and my social networks to collide, but with the release of a browser plugin called Rapportive I change my mind! Rapportive replaces the ads on the right side of your email with information about the person you're talking with. USmart claims to have the world's smallest computer with a 4.8" screen, 1GB of RAM and 4GB of storage. Panasonic announced another round of Micro Four Thirds cameras. The DMC-G10 and DMC-G2 both shoot 720p video and have ...

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GBTV #718 (small) | FLPR Universal Remote, ASUS Thin Router, Kingston Low Voltage RAM, RealDVD, Belkin USB Hub

New Potato Technologies has an IR remote for iPhones called FLPR. It has access to 14,000 codes. ASUS' new RT-N56U is a super thin router with a modern design. Kingston is working on RAM that address the issue of RAM that consumes lots of power and generates lots of heat with the LoVo HyperX DDR3 High-Performance memory line. RealNetworks settled the dispute with Hollywood, agreeing to not sell RealDVD and pay $4.5 million in legal fees. It's a sad day. Belkin's newest USB hub ...

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GBTV #717 (small) | TiVo Series4, HP EliteBook, Wordy.com, Daily Show & Colbert Report Leaving Hulu

TiVo announced their Series4 DVRs, which include a Flash-based HD interface, and the Premiere XL has THX. All of our TiVo and AppleTV issues should now be fixed. Please let me know if they're not for you. Thanks for hanging in there!! The HP EliteBook 2740P is a convertible tablet notebook with a 12.1" LED backlit display and 8GB of RAM. Wordy.com is a service that gives you access to professional copy-editors who will check your writing for grammar, spelling, punctuation and structur ...

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GBTV #716 (small) | iLuv Clock with Bed Shaker, CondeNast Magazines on iPad, Infinite USB Memory Drive, MorphPad

iLuv has an alarm clock dock with what they call a bed vibrator. Put it under your pillow and wake up differently. CondeNast is working hard to make their magazines available on the iPad. We're going to be talking a lot more about the magazine and newspaper business in coming days, but until then, I want to hear from you. Do you read newspapers or magazines in paper form? Will you switch to digital versions? Even more important, will you view the sites on the mobile browser or will you p ...

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GBTV #715 (small) | iLet Mini HAL, PowerA IR Case, Shuttle Barebone XS35, Q Speakers

The iLet Mini HAL looks like it'll be an interesting tablet device, but tell me...because of the iPad, do you care? Leave a comment below! Power A has an iPhone case that adds remote IR control so you can use your phone to control devices around the house. Shuttle announced their Barebone XS35 mini PC meant to be mounted behind an HDTV. A major plus is the lack of a fan so you know it'll be quiet! QSpeakers.com were developed in collaboration with the sound engineer for the Red Hot ...

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GBTV #714 (small) | A Closer Look at Bing & I'll Honor the Embargo

Today, I take a closer look at Bing and why you'd want to use it. For a more detailed look and to see the video where Bing answers your Twitter questions, read my post on CaliLewis.me. A video about PR relationships posted on TechCrunch made me laugh, and since it's one of the things you have to deal with if you're interested in doing something similar as what I do on GeekBrief.TV, I wanted to share it with you! Brief 714 was brought to you by ACLens.com, where you can save 70% on co ...

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GBTV #713 (small) | HTC Legend, Wireless File Transfer, LG Multi-touch Screens, Habey BIS-6620, MSI 3D HDTV

The HTC Legend has always looked promising, and it's looking even better now with the removable battery.  Nokia is working on a new wireless file transfer technology that's extremely fast.  LG has a 13.3" Capacitive In-Cell Multi-Touch LCD Panel for notebook PCs running Windows 7. They promise no compromise on the display's image because of the technology. The Habey BIS-6620 is a tiny little PC that's powerful enough to play hardware-accelerated 1080p video.  The MSI All-in- ...

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GBTV #711 (small) | Jazari, Sigma DP2s, Samsung Pocket & Compact Camcorders, Smart Car iPhone App

Patrick Flanagan hacked the Wiimote to control Jazari, a robotic drumming system. The Sigma DP2s compact digital camera has a 14 megapixel FOVEON X3 direct image CMOS sensor and lots more, but only shoots 320x240 video. Samsung's new line of HD Pocket Camcorders include the HMX-U15 and the HMX-U20. They have a similar option to the Sigma DP2 called the TL500. It's supposed to have one of the brightest lenses on a compact camera. The Smart Car has a package with an iPhone app, a ...

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GBTV #712 (small) | LCD Control for DSLRs, WalMart Purchased Vudu, Mark the Spot, Typeface

Pixel's LV-W1 Wireless Live View Remote Control allows you to control your DSLR camera remotely by working with a 3" display. Walmart bought Vudu, making the possibility of Internet enabled TVs more widespread. Mark the Spot is an iPhone app from AT&T that lets you report dropped calls and failed attempts directly to AT&T. I've been using it a lot! Typefaceis a concept that creates a custom typeface from your facial expressions. I'd like to welcome a new sponsor on board to ...

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GBTV #710 (small) | DIY 3D Video System, Google Docs Update, HTC Legend, Square, Panelfly Comics

Ron Proctor and Amy Jo Proctor created a 3D video system that you can do yourself for only $250. Google announced an update for Docs. The clipboard will be on the Cloud, so copy and paste will give you more functionality. The HTC Legend is a unibody Android phone with a couple cool features like the ringer sensor and ability to silence your phone just by flipping it over. Square is an attachement for your iPhone allowing your to swipe credit cards and process them over the Internet ...

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GBTV #709 (small) | Windows Phone 7, USB 3.0 4-port Hub, Quasi Robot, Aikon 2 Robot

We finally have video and pictures of Windows Phone 7, and it's certainly interesting! Buffalo announced the first USB 3.0 4-port hub. A couple robots came out of the Toy Fair. The Quasi robot is wirelessly controlled from a Tablet PC and Interbot is looking to be able to offer it for sale this year. The Aikon 2 robot draws people's faces. Square Space gives you the tools you need to easily build a website without having to know how to code or load in plugins. It's drag and drop. ...

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GBTV #708 (small) | The Internet Bus, Savant & iPads, SublimeVideo HTML5 Player

A school district in Vail, Arizona decided to test what would happen if they put WiFi in a schoolbus that has a 140-mile round trip. The results? The students are quieter and more productive. Savant President, Jim Carroll says the iPad will change the business model for home automation. The SublimeVideo HTML5 Video Player is a great looking HTML5 video player that is being demo'd at www.geekbrief.tv/sublime I know a LOT of you watch on your TiVo box, and many of you are experienc ...

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GBTV #707 (small) | PaperShow, SkyFi, U-Socket, Autopark, ShowWX Laser Pico Projector, Kanex HDMI to Mini DisplayPort Adapter

PaperShow combines a special pen and special paper with a computer screen. What you write on the paper appears on the screen and then what you write on the screen can be printed out on more paper. SkyFi is a Wireless Telescope Controller that when combined with the SkyVoyager iPhone app, will give astronomy geeks the ability to control a GoTo telescope from an iPhone. The U-Socket AC/USB power outlet from Fastmac picked up a Best of Show prize. We've already talked about the outlets ...

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GBTV #706 (small) | Android 2.1, Google's 1Gbps Test, Spy Video TRAKR, T1 Pitstop Spider

We have more details for Android's 2.1 release. It'll include multitouch, 3D galleries, Google Goggles and more. Google's testing what happens when a community gets 1Gbps speeds. The Spy Video TRAKR encourages kids to create and share new routines for the spy toy. Lian Li built a chassis meant for benchmarking but created an awesome video. You can see the whole video at geekbrief.tv/pitstopspider.

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GBTV #705 (small) | Google Buzz, Tunebug, Netgear 3G Router, HTML5 Sketchpad, LG GD880, Panasonic 3D HDTVs, British Library eBooks

Google Buzz is kind of Google's version of Twitter built into Gmail. Will you use it? The Tunebug Vibe plugs into a portable device and turns any flat surface into a speaker. Netgear's MBRN 3300E 3G Wireless Router is like a home router, with ethernet ports and WiFi and can deliver up to 270 Mbps. The HTML5 Sketchpad gives you a look at what could come to our browsers soon. The LG GD880 is 16:9 with a 5 megapixel camera and face detection. Panasonic announced pricing on t ...

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GBTV #704 (small) | Canon Rebel T2i, Qisda QCM-330, iPad Price Drop, ZoomIt SD Card Reader, Locus OS

Canon's new Rebel T2i is a bridge between entry level and prosumer cameras. The Qisda QCM-330 has the highest resolution of any other mobile phone, at 1280x1024, but it only has a 3 megapixel camera. If no one buys the iPad, Apple says they're going to be willing to be flexible with the price. ZoomItis an SD card reader for your iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. The Locus OS borrows from the Zune user interface to reveal one way we might interact with a device of the future. What do ...

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GBTV #703 (small) | Sling Player on 3G, Nexus One & Droid get Multitouch, eBook Prices Rising, Twitter Makes Popcorn

Google advertised during the Superbowl. The ad wasn't new, but it was cute. I asked you guys on Twitter what you thought. Was it worth it for Google to spend this kind of advertising money? Most of you liked the ad and were happy to see it. Some of you thought they should be promoting other services or the Nexus One instead of Search. Moosimus Maximus said "Google's advert was great! Smart, funny, and touching. Google is the king of search. Eat your heart out, Bing." and Mr Bijoy said "I l ...

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GBTV #702 (small) | Olympus PEN E-PL1, Nikon COOLPIX Releases, HP Touchsmart 600, Motorola DEVOUR

Lots of camera news today!!!  The Olympus E-PL1 is a Micro Four Thirds camera that improves on the first two generations of PEN cameras and has a lower price.  Nikon has several releases. The COOLPIX L21 and L22 are point and shoots with electronic vibration reduction.  The COOLPIX S3000 and S4000 are also point and shoots, but have touch screens. You get great macro shots and a built in HDR option with the COOLPIX P100. HP upgraded the TouchSmart 600 all in one desktop PC ...

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GBTV #701 (small) | GZ-HM340 HD Camcorder, Displax Multitouch Film, Thiel SCS4 Loudspeaker & Bryston Components

The newest JVC Everio GZ-HM340 camcorder introduces an advanced image stabilization feature that helps to overcome shaky video while walking.  Displaxturns any surface into a multitouch input device using a polymer film.  We got to spend the whole month of December trying a pair of Thiel SCS4 Coherent Source Loudspeakerswith a Bryston 100SST Integrated Amp and a Bryston BCD-1 CD player . I've always said I'm not an audiophile, and I can't really tell the difference between good ...

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GBTV #700 (small) | TouchMouse App, Intuos4 Tablet, JooJoo Appeal, GM-1 Drum Kit, Bravia NX800

Logitech released their TouchMouse App. It turns an iPhone or iPod Touch into a multitouch trackpad for a Mac or PC. Wacom's new Intuos4 bluetooth wireless tablet has a range of 33 feet and sells for $400. Fusion Garage, maker of the JooJoo filed a motion to dismiss Mike Arrington's lawsuit. The Omega GM-1 drumkit increases accuracy for game play. The Sony Bravia NX800 HDTV is a beautiful piece of design with a 1080p backlit LCD, Motionflow 240Hz, WiFi and supports Internet vi ...

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GBTV #699 (small) | Amazon Drama, 80 Port USB Hub, VoIP over 3G, JVC's DLA-SH7NL, Texting Underground

Amazon and publisher Macmillan got into a disagreement over what eBooks should cost you. The argument resulted in all Macmillan books being taken off the Amazon store, then put back at a higher price. Will you pay $15 for a digital book? Leave a comment below! If you have enough gadgets to fill this 80 port USB hub, I have to know who you are and what those gadgets are! Apple is allowing VoIP calls over 3G. One of the apps allowed is Fring. JVC's DLA-SH7NL projector has a resolution ...

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GBTV #698 (small) | Clamshell Projector, iPad Accessories, TouchCam N1, Ford Made a Profit

The Clamshell Projector has one of the best press releases ever. Thanks @DavePeterson!  Apple is releasing a couple iPad accessories, one of which is a keyboard dock connector. One has a camera connection kit that makes it possible to connect a camera via USB and read SD cards. The FVTouchCam N1 captures and sends 720p video and has an H.264 encoder built in. Ford had its first profitable year since 2005. SquareSpace allows you to easily build a great looking website, and y ...

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GBTV #697 (small) | Google Voice back on iPhone, Comcast's 3DTV Channels, Leica M9, Privacy Icon, Puppy Tweets

Google has found a way to get Google Voice back on our iPhones using HTML5. Comcast wants to be one of the first ones to offer 3DTV channels with 3D specific programming. Leica announced the M9, which is claimed to be the world's smallest full frame digital camera.  The advertising industry is starting to roll out a privacy icon so you know exactly when you're being served targeted ads. Leave a comment below with your thoughts or @reply me on Twitter!  Puppy Tweets will tran ...

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GBTV #696 (small) | Apple iPad

Today, Steve Jobs took the stage to satisfy the cravings of thousands of geeks. We've been hearing rumors about the Apple Tablet for well over a year now, and the past month has been sheer torture with all the speculation surrounding this unicorn of a device! It's called the iPad . I'll get to the price in a couple minutes, but first let's take a look at what it does.  Steve talked about having a spot to fill between the iPhone and a laptop. There's a gap there that netbooks have tried ...

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GBTV #695 (small) | AudioTechnica Headphone Amp, TuneCast Transmitter, Oppo Blu-ray Player, Sorenson Squeeze 6, doubleTwist & T-Mobile, Apple Tablet

AudioTechnica has a new headphone amp with a built-in iPod doc called the AT-HA35i.  The Belkin TuneCast Auto Live FM Transmitter uses location information provided by the iPhone to determine FM settings likely to provide the best transmission experience. I'd be interested to try the Oppo BDP-80 Blu-ray player. Oppo has really well reviewed players.  A lot of you have followed our quest to find the right compression software for producing the four formats of GeekBrief.TV. Sorenso ...

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GBTV #694 (small) | Thom Filicia Design & Savant Home Automation

Savant and one of my favorite designers, Thom Filicia teamed up to create an amazing showroom in New York. The HVAC system, security system, computer network, lighting and entertainment system are all connected. Everything can be controlled from various touch screen controllers installed around the house. There are controllers in the walls, controllers accessible from any TV or projector in the apartment, and like we talked about on the Brief before, there's an iPhone app that makes it pos ...

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GBTV #693 (small) | Apple Tablet on Verizon, Tablet Face Recognition, Kindle Dev Kit & Free Promotion, Saygus Vphone

We've heard it before, but we're getting more concrete information that the Apple Tablet will be subsidized by Verizon. It may also have face recognition with the ability to share the device between all of the family members.  Amazon released a Kindle Dev Kit that'll allow developers to create apps for the Kindle. They also are giving certain users the chance to buy a Kindle at no risk. If you don't like it, get your money back and keep the device. The Saygus Vphone specializes in video c ...

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GBTV #692 (small) | Free Shuttle Engines, Windows 7 Support on BootCamp, Silicon Power CF Cards, Qik App Update, Martin Jet Pack, Bill Gates on Twitter

NASA is offering free space shuttle engines. Just like an infomercial, all you have to do is pay the cost of shipping. Apple released support for Windows 7 on BootCamp. Finally. Silicon Power announced a 128GB 400X Compact Flash card with write speeds of 90 MB/s. It's ideal for pro shooters using their DSLRs to capture HD video. Qik released an update for their 2G and 3G iPhone App that includes real time effects and landscape mode shooting.  The company behind the Martin Jet P ...

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GBTV #691 (small) | Apple Event, Asus DR750 eReader, Kodak Slice, AirStash, Mahru-Z

Apple finally confirmed their January 27th event, where they're expected to announce the Apple Tablet. I'll be live on Ustream at calilive.tv at 10:00 AM Pacific during the event. The AirStash is a new kind of solution for dealing with all your files. It's a USB drive with tricks up it's sleeve. Asus announced the DR750 eBook reader. It's full color and plays flash video. The Kodak Slice Touchscreen camera shoots 720p HD video at 30 frames per second, and has optical image stabili ...

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GBTV #690 (small) | RCA Airnergy, Mikey, ASUS NX90Jq, Eye-Fi Pro X2, Arc Keyboard, Samsung C9000

The Airnergy WiFi Power Harvester harvests energy from WiFi to charge a battery. The Blue Mikey has been updated with custom capsules for bootlegging loud concerts. It has a line-in jack and USB. The ASUS NX90Jq notebook has Bang & Olufsen speakers on the sides. Eye-Fi has a new SD card with 802.11n, as well as Endless Memory. Microsoft showed off their Arc keyboard with a great design. Samsung's WiFi Video Remote lets you control your TV, of course, but also allows y ...

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GBTV #689 (small) | HDTVs from CES, iType Keyboard & Skype HD

The ION iType iPhone Keyboard allows you to type on a full sized keyboard and that text will go into the ION app. There was a lot of HDTV news from CES: Haier Wireless HDTV Panasonic UHDTV LG UHDTV Vizio Ultra-wide HDTV Skype announced Skype HD and a partnership with Panasonic and LG to bring Skype HD to your TV.

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GBTV #688 (small) | eBook Readers

A look at the eReaders from CES: Samsung E6 and E101 eBook Reader Plastic Logic Que enTourage eDGe Mirasol Semi-Color Motion Reader Display Skiff Publishing Platform and eReader

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GBTV #687 (small) | 3D Technology from CES

I saw Avatar on Friday to prepare for this episode. James Cameron says 3D is the future of filmmaking. Do you agree? Samsung showed off a transparent OLED display at CES. 3D glasses could become more stylish with these Gunnar Optiks. The consensus seems to be that the best looking 3D HDTV at CES was the Panasonic VT 25 Series. Mark Wilson has a great article on CES 3D tech. Panasonic showed off the first Solid-State HD 3D Camcorder. I want it! :)

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GBTV #686 (small) | HP & Dell Slate, Sony Blu-ray Player, Sprint Overdrive, A.R. Drone

Last night, Microsoft announced Slate PCs in their otherwise disconnected keynote presentation, and pinpointed the HP Slate. Dell is also coming out with their own version. The BDP-S770 Blu-ray player from Sony has an iPhone app already to go so you can use your iPhone as a remote. Sprint announced their 3G/4G Overdrive mobile broadband hub. The Parrot A.R. Drone is a WiFi enable helicopter that uses an iPhone to control it. GeekBrief.TV CES coverage is brought to you by Angie ...

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GBTV #685 (the REAL 685) | OEM Products from Sling Media, Boxee Box Remote, Microsoft CES Keynote

Sling Media announced a bunch of new products, but they're all OEM products that you can't get unless your cable provider makes it available. The Boxee Box Remote is awesomeness with a keyboard on the back! We'll be live tonight with coverage of the Microsoft Keynote at 8:00 PM EST on www.calilive.tv. CES coverage is brought to you by Angieslist.com/geek where my code GEEK lets you join the list for 25% less.

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GBTV #685 (small) | WSJ Apple Update, Nexus One Reveal, Light Touch, L5 Remote

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple will be shipping the Tablet in March. Google revealed the Nexus One at their press conference today. Watch the video for the specs! You can read Engadget's hands on review here. The Light Touch Interactive Projector uses holographic laser projection to give you a full color, 10" touch screen on a flat surface. The L5 remote allows you to control anything in the house with an IR receiver from your iPhone or iPod Touch.

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GBTV #683 (small) | CES Coverage, Olympus EP-1, ZOMM, Popbox, Touchless Phone Navigation

Since we can't make it to CES this year, we'll go live and stay live to cover the news as it happens. Follow me on Twitter for CES updates. I've been testing the Olympus EP-1. The last test before having to send it back was at the Japanese Garden at the Fort Worth Botanical Gardens. You can see pictures and video on my blog, www.calilewis.me. ZOMM hasn't been released yet, but when it is, it'll serve as a wireless leash for your phone by beeping at you when you get too far. The Po ...

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GBTV #682 (small) | Top 10 Favorite Gadgets List for 2009

This is my Top Ten List of Favorite Gadgets from 2009: 10. Dyson Air Multiplier 9. Olympus E-P1 8. Pogoplug 7. Canon 7D 6. iPhone 3GS (viewer tied for #1) 5. Kindle 2 4. Booklet 3G 3. NeatDesk 2. DroboPro 1. Droid (viewer tied for #1)

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GBTV #681 (small) | Nokia Booklet 3G Review, Tricaster TCXD300, Adesso Bluetooth Keyboard, CES Coverage

I've been playing with Nokia's Booklet 3G for the last couple weeks. It's the only netbook I've ever been able to say I love. Check out my review in the video. I told you about the Tricaster TCXD300 last week, but today I bring you a closer look at what it can do. Adesso's WKB-4000BB Bluetooth Keyboard is great for those of you with HTPC. It works with Windows 7, XP and Vista. We'll be live at CaliLive.TV next week during CES, starting January 5th. Join us in the chatroom! Squares ...

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GBTV #680 (small) | DirecTV HD 3D Channel, Ford's HD Radio Integration, Le Toaster Vision, i-SOBOT

DirecTV is launching an HD 3D channel. They'll be making more details available with their announcement at CES in about a week. Ford is bringing WiFi and HD radio with iTunes tagging to their cars in 2010. They're the only car company I'm aware of working hard to make really usable tech available in cars. The Le Toaster Vision is a clear toaster so you can toast your english muffins exactly the way you want them. THESE are the robots I want in my army! Brief 680 was brought to ...

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GBTV #679 (small) | Apple Tablet Rumors & Event, Eee PC T101MT, Lenovo Remote with Keyboard

There are lots of rumors about Apple's unicorn, the Tablet. The Financial Times Tech Blog confirms Apple rented a stage at the Yerba Buena Center for January 26th. Boy Genius has a source that's telling him there definitely is a 7" tablet. Apple also has iSlate.com registered. I hope that's not the name of the final product! Asus announced a multi-touch netbook called the T101MT . It's a 10" convertible tablet. The Lenovo Multimedia Remote with Keyboard might be something some of y ...

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Happy Christmas | How to Make Marshmallows from Scratch, Part 2

How to Make Marshmallows from Scratch, Part 2

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Happy Christmas | How to Make Marshmallows from Scratch, Part 1

This Christmas Eve, we're doing something a little different. I learned two things this holiday. I found a recipe for making homemade marshmallows, I learned that they're AMAZING, and that most people didn't know you can make them from scratch very easily! This is a brief in the kitchen, where I show you how. You'll need.... 1 cup powdered sugar 3.5 envelopes of unflavored gelatin 1/2 cup cold water 2 cups sugar 1/2 cup light corn syrup 1/2 cup hot water 1/4 teaspoon salt 2 egg whites 1 t ...

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GBTV #676 (small) | Tricaster TCXD300, Nexus One, Nook Hands On, One Touchpad per Child

Last night was our 3rd Annual Streaming Holiday Party with Geoff Smith. Philip Nelson from NewTek let us borrow the new HD Tricaster (Tricaster TCXD300). It's an amazing improvement over the Tricaster Studio, which we use currently. Jason Chen from Gizmodo got a look at Google's Nexus One and says if you're looking for an Android phone, this is the one to want. Thanks to GadgetyTech.com, I got to play with the Barnes & Nobel Nook. Nicholas Negroponte has a new idea for One Lap ...

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GBTV #675 (small) | LaCie 2Big, Blu-ray 3D, Notion Ink, Ataque de Panico

What is your favorite gadget of 2009? Leave a comment below or @calilewis on Twitter! LaCie's 2Big is a USB 3.0 dual hard disk RAID drive that will be available in capacities up to 4TB. The Blu-ray Association has finilized their specs for Blu-ray 3D. It'll deliver 1080p images to each eye, and requires IR emitters and electronic glasses. Notion Ink will be announcing a multi-touch device that may blow the JooJoo/Crunchpad out of the water. It'll run Android, play back 1080p video and ...

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GBTV #674 (small) | Type N Walk, Neato Vacuum Robot, Belkin Bluetooth Receiver, McDonald's WiFi, Psystar Injunction

The Type N Walk iPhone app is perfect for people like me, who have iPhone Zombieism. It overlays the text you're typing over the camera so you can see what's going on in front of you. The Neato Vacuum competes with the Roomba, and it can map out a room, then determine the best way to clean it. Belkin's Bluetooth Music Receiver lets you stream audio from any audio device. McDonald's will be offering free WiFi at 11,000 locations in January. The US District Court issued a permanen ...

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GBTV #673 (small) | Nexus One, Philco PC Concept, Stephen Covey's eBook Move, PiixL HTPC

The Google Phone is finally about to arrive. It's called the Nexus One and rumor is there will be two versions - an unlocked one and one on the T-Mobile network. The Philco Predicta inspired PC is something I'd love to own. It's just a concept, but you can see more at Schultzeworks.com. Stephen Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, chose to move away from Simon & Schuster and give Amazon exclusive eBook publishing rights. He'll make more in royalties than he ...

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GBTV #672 (small) | Cowboy Stadium HD Display in 3D

We were invited to the football game at the Cowboy's Stadium, where HDLogix was premiering their technology that turns a 2D picture into 3D live, in real time. The audience wasn't exactly thrilled with it, but it was great to see it in action. Engadget Post About the 3D Premier Angie'sList.com/geek helps you find service providers you can trust and promo code GEEK saves you 25% when you join.

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GBTV #671 (small) | Photosynth

visited Microsoft in October and got to learn more about their Labs project, Photosynth. David Gedye gave us a tutorial and some tips. Give Photosynth a try for yourself at Photosynth.com, and check out the one from the show below.

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Quick Note from Cali

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GBTV #670 (small) | Gimbald Air Jet Control, Boxee Box, Simon & Schuster's eBook Plan, Ustream Broadcast App

Aaron Becker, Robert Sandheinrick and Timothy Bretl are working on a project called Automated Manipulation of Spherical Objects in Three Dimensions using a Gimbaled Air Jet. It's pretty cool to watch in action! The Throwed Rolls restaurant is here . The Boxee Box is tinier than I imagined. Keep those comments coming! Simon & Schuster decided they want to follow the film to DVD timeline and delay eBooks by four months after the hardcover is released. Ustream finally released th ...

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GBTV #669 (small) | Chrome for Mac & Linux, Vostro V13, JVC Everio, Boxee Box & Beta

Google made a few announcements today. Chrome was released in Beta for Mac and Linux. PC users now have extensions . You can download Chrome here: Google Chrome for Mac Google Chrome for Linux Google Chrome for Windows XP, Vista and 7 Dell's new notebook, the Vostro V13 Slim starts at $450. The JVC Everio GZ-HD620 claims to be the smallest HDD camcorder. It should cost around $1000 in Japan on December 9th. Boxee moved from Alpha to Beta today with a slicker interface. They als ...

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GBTV #668 (small) | CrunchPad now the Joo Joo, Google Real Time Search, Google Goggles, Trolley Scooter, Smart Swipe

The CrunchPad soap opera continued today when Chandra Rathakrishnan from Fusion Garage held a webcast to tell his side of the story. He said repeatedly there was never a contract in place and gave a demo of the renamed Joo Joo. It's a 12.1" capacitive touchscreen device that boots directly into the Internet instead of an OS. CNET got the first Joo Joo hands-on and says it's awesome ... but not $500 worth of awesome. Google announced Real Time Search today. It'll roll out to everyone o ...

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GBTV #667 (small) | TruePower Outlets, fitPC2 PC, Rocketfish Wireless HD Adapter, 3 Port USB Hub, CrunchPad Soap Opera

I love the TruePower AC Outlets with USB Power from FastMac.com. Replace your regular AC outlets with these and add USB power all throughout the house. The fitPC2i is a very small PC (4"x4.5"x1"). It'll run Windows 7, Windows Server or Ubuntu. The Rocketfish WirelessHD Adapter will transmit a 1080p signal wirelessly to maybe an HDTV or a projector. If you need more USB power while traveling, the 3 Port USB Hub is a good option. It'll only work during charging, not syncing though. ...

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GBTV #666 (small)

I'm not writing about how we decided to deal with the Lord Voldemort of numbers. You'll have to watch! Cali's Shirt Courtesy of Jinx

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GBTV #665 (small) | 27" Cinema Display, PogoPlug, Drobo S, Eye-Fi, Kindle

Apple's 27" Cinema Display is a great bargain. It's almost as big as the 30" Display, it's LED back-lit, it's thinner, the resolution is almost as high (2560 X 1440) and it costs $100 less than the 30" Cinema Display. PogoPlug makes the files on a USB connected drive available for you to access from any computer anywhere in the world. The new version includes four USB ports. Data Robotics released a new Drobo last week, called the Drobo S. It adds eSATA and a fifth drive bay. I'll be g ...

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GBTV #664 (small) | Chef Knives, Microplane Grater, Rösle Food Mill, Fissler CookStar, Zojirushi Rice Cooker

Foodies know how important a great knife is, and Bob Kramer is the best. Consider upgrading your foodie's kitchen knife this holiday. The Microplane 45002 Medium Ribbon Grater is a good stocking stuffer. Everyone needs a good cheese grater, right? If you're into soups, a food mill is a must and the one we recommend is the Rösle Food Mill. For college students and family members living in a small apartment, the Fissler CookStar Induction Pro Portable Cooktop is a great option! It ...

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GBTV #663 (small) | NeatDesk, Sunnan Solar Lamp, Kodak Zi8, Gorillapod, Livio Radio

The NeatDesk is more of a practical gift, but an awesome one (at least I think so!). It's a digital filing system. You can scan 10 double sided documents, 10 business cards and 10 receipts at the same time or 50 documents. NeatWorks, the included software will help you organize everything and even help with taxes. For every Sunnan Solar Powered LED Lamp that's purchased, IKEA will send one to a third world country to enable women to read at night without electircity. It's a great way to ...

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Happy Thanksgiving! Drive Safe!

This was shot on the Canon 5D Mark II (may it rest in peace) during our road trip in October. The song is one of my favorite road trip songs, "Drive Away" by Matthew Ebel.

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GBTV #662 (small) | Casio Exilim, Stuck in Motion, Battlestar Galactica Toaster, Bucky Balls, Neo Cub, Scientific Grill, HD TiVo

Casio's Exilim cameras shoot high speed video. There are three, ranging from $299 to $999. They're the EX-F1, the EX-FH20 and the EX-FS10. The reason these are so cool is what you can do with them. Take a look at Trey Ratcliff's Stuck in Motion technique. Trey is the guy who shoots the pictures we use as backgrounds. If your dad loves Battlestar Galactica, consider getting him the Battlestar Galactica LED Toaster. There are only 2,000 of them and it has a Cylon on one side with "Frak O ...

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GBTV #661 (small) | Fretlight Teaching Guitar, GeoSafari Digital Recording Lab, Boe-Bot Robot Kit, Lego MP3 Digital Camera

The Fretlight Guitar will help teach kids how to play the guitar and where to put their fingers. Teaching kids about audio is important, and it's a goal the GeoSafari Digital Recording Lab aims to do. With 59 projects, kids can learn about transistors, capacitors, resistors and wiring. My first robot was from Parallax. They offer lots of robot kits, from beginner to advanced. The Boe-Bot is for kids 12 or older and teaches electronics, circuits, robotics and micro-controller program ...

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GBTV #660 (small) | Hands on with the Nokia N900

Apparently, I left out an important detail when I've talked about the N900 in anticipation of it's arrival because Neal, my husband who is with me all the time didn't know that the N900 is able to make phone calls. Go figure. Let's start by looking at the industrial design. I have an iPhone 3GS here along with a Motorola Droid and the Nokia N900. The iPhone and Droid are almost exactly the same height and width. The Droid is a little thicker than the iPhone to accommodate the slider ke ...

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GBTV #659 (small) | Chrome Mac Beta, Project Natal, Yeti USB, Xbox 802.11n Adapter, Rovi Automotive Solution, New York Meetup

Looks like we'll get the beta for Chrome on the Mac by December. If you're using Chrome on a PC, 4.0 was released today. Project Natal from Microsoft looks to be launching late 2010 with a sale price of between $50 and $84, with 14 Natal-ready games. Blue Microphones announced a USB mic that's also the world's first THX Certified Mic called the Yeti USB Microphone. Microsoft has an 802.11n adapter for the Xbox 360. Parking your car in your garage may turn out to be much like d ...

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GBTV #658 (small) | Google's Free Wi-Fi, Kindle PC App, Intel Reader, Sparkz, N900

Google's getting in the holiday spirit. They want to provide free WiFi for travelers in 47 airports across the country. The only downside is being asked to download Chrome (do it!) and if you want to set Google as your default search engine. Amazon released the Kindle PC App, which uses Whispernet, so you can switch between devices and always pick up where you left off. Intel is developing an eReader for the visually impaired. I has a text scanning camera and a text-to-speech synthe ...

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GBTV #657 (small) | Motorola Droid Review

As you know, the hugely anticipated launch of the Motorola Droid was on Friday. I went to a press event held at a Verizon store to get a hands on with the Droid and some footage to share with you guys. Boring, but I'll take what I can get. Surprise, surprise, Verizon was nice enough to let me hang on to a Droid for two weeks so I'm able to give you a more in-depth review. The Droid runs Android 2.0. Android is an open source mobile operating system, originally developed by, and heavily ...

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GBTV #656 (small) | USB Breast Warmer, Droid ERIS, Sony Ericsson Kurara, E-P2 Micro Four-Thirds Camera

The USB Breast Warmers may have been created just so engineers could look at women in bras, but I'd like to know if I'm missing something here. We'll be gettting a hands on with the Droid tomorrow. The HTC Droid ERIS is also launching for $99 after a $100 mail in rebate. Sony Ericsson's new phone is called the Kurara. The OS is Symbian S60, it'll have a 3.5" touch screen with an 8.1 megapixel camera capable of 720p video. We're having a meetup in New York on November 20th. Details ...

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GBTV #655 (small) | Robomantic, The Movie

I was really excited when I first learned about the Robovie-PC, the little Robot with a PC built in. Students at Electro-Communication University in Osaka competed in a princess rescue challenge and demonstrated that a robot can be romantic if you're willing to buy-in a little bit. Neal played around with SoundForge to create the soundtrack. Brief 655 was brought to you by SquareSpace.com, the easy way to build an inexpensive, great-looking Web site. Sign up using promo code GEEK and you ...

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GBTV #654 (small) | TwitterPeek, Atheros AR6003 Chip, HomeFinder, Remote Controlled Tissue Box

We've talked about the Peek before, a device dedicated to email. Now they have the TwitterPeek, completely dedicated to Twitter. The idea sounds great! I'm a Twitter addict, but the only issue is, before purchasing a device, I want to know what the interface is like, and I can't get a good sense of that from the website. The Atheros AR6003 is an 802.11n chip that uses 20% less power than current chips and still delivers 85Mb/s data transfer. If you have people coming to your house ...

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GBTV #653 (small) | RED Epic X and Scarlet, Creative MediaBook, Droid's Lack of Multitouch, Ideum 100" Multitouch Table, iTunes Subscriptions

RED gave us some more details on the Scarlet and Epic X cameras. The Scarlet is expected to be popular with independent film producers and the Epic X is capable of 5K video. Creative announced they're working on an eBook Reader called the MediaBook. They don't just want to give you books and newspapers to read. They also want to be an all in one media device, complete with pictures and video capabilities. Mobile-review.com has a video that shows multi-touch being available on Droids t ...

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GBTV #652 (small) | Official Droid Details, MSI Multitouch PC, Foldable Kitchen Scale, SCOTTEVEST

The Motorola Droid will be released November 6th, and we have more details! It'll be running Android 2.0, with a large customizable screen. It has a 5 megapixel camera and some camera enhancing features. It also has free Google Maps Navigation with turn-by-turn voice guidance. MSI has a line of Windows 7 Multitouch all in one PCs. There are three of them, ranging from $660 to $900. If you're in the market for a kitchen scale, take a look at the Foldable Kitchen Scale with a tare fun ...

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GBTV #651 (small) | Needle Slim HDTV, Vuzix Wrap 310, Vivitar DVR 510, Petman Robot Legs, Windows 7 for Netbooks, The Grammar Devotional

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In Bed with Chad Vader

I ran into Chad Vader on the show floor at Blogworld. For those of you not familiar, he's Darth Vader's younger brother who is a day shift manager at a grocery store called Empire Market. We talk about his goals, his passions, and of course his brother. If you didn't see the Chad Vader promotional video I was a part of for Blogworld, it's embedded below. Chad Vader's Site

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In Bed with Victor Cajiao

In Bed with Victor Cajiao Victor Cajiao has been podcasting longer than Neal and I have even known about podcasting, and we started at the beginning, so that means Victor's been around forever! :) We talk about the changes in new media between 2005 and now, and his two shows Typical Mac User and Typical Shutterbug. Typical Mac User Typical Shutterbug Twitter Facebook

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GBTV #648 (small) | Apple Updates: Magic Mouse, iMacs, Mac Mini, MacBook

Apple pre-empted the Windows 7 Launch with update announcements of their own. The thing I'm excited about the most is the Magic Mouse. It looks kind of like a Mighty Mouse, but it's multi-touch. It'll be available at the end of October. They updated the iMac. There's a 21.5" and 27" version in true 16:9 aspect ratio. There are two Mac Mini versions. One runs OSX Server, has two 500GB hard drives and no optical drive. The MacBook is going unibody. It'll have an LED backlit display ...

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GBTV #647 (small) | TruLED HDTV, Alex eBook Reader, inPulse SmartWatch, Droid

Vizio released the TruLED HDTV. It uses LEDs and has a contrast ratio of 2,000,000:1. The Spring Design Dual Screen eBook Reader is called Alex. Like the Barnes & Noble eReader, it's Android based and allows for full Internet browsing. A Blackberry accessory called the inPulse SmartWatch displays incoming calls and RSS headlines from your phone. I'm very much looking forward to the Droid. The Boy Genius Report got his hands on a unit and says it's the most impressive han ...

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In Bed with Chris Brogan

I grabbed Chris Brogan for a chat. He's very popular, and spends a lot of his time trying to help businesses take advantage of social media and integrate it successfully in their business model. We talk about the dos and don'ts of marketing and how what matters now more than anything is just being real and nice. Chris' Website Twitter Facebook

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In Bed with Don McAllister of Screencasts Online

You guys have spoken! I know a lot of you don't like floor interviews when I'm at expos, so we wanted to do any Blogworld interviews at a little different. One of the things I always try to accomplish is to create a comfortable, casual environment. What better way to do that then get really comfy! Don McAllister is the producer of Screencasts Online, where you can get informative and educational screencasts about Mac software. If there's anything you need to know how to do, check here f ...

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GBTV #644 (small) | B&N eReader, Dyson Bladeless Fan, Wi-Fi Direct, Nikon D3S, Video Monkey

Gizmodo has a first peek at the Barnes & Noble eReader. We'll have more info next week, but we can see that it has a multi-touch screen at the bottom, and Gizmodo says it'll be running Android. Dyson showed off their Air Multiplier Fan. It doesn't have blades! There will be a 10" and a 12" version. Wi-Fi Direct is a technology that will make it possible for devices to communicate with each other without a router. Nikon's D3S has a maximum ISO of 102,400 which means it's almost n ...

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GBTV #643 (small) | Sidekick Outage, Nokia Booklet 3G, Google Voice Invites, Xacti Cameras Use iFrame

There was an outage on T-Mobile's Sidekick, and they're working hard to restore service and data. If you lost data, T-Mobile is offering you a free month and a $100 gift card, or letting you out of the contract. You can keep up with details at geekbrief.tv/sidekickoutage. Nokia's Booklet 3G will be subsidized by AT&T in the US. You can pick one up for $599, or $299 with a 2 year contract and $60/month data plan. People with Google Voice invites will start to see invites rolling in ...

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GBTV #642 (small) | I Like Windows 7 as Much as OS X

Kylie likes it. Mossberg likes it. Maximum PC says, "Windows 7 is unquestionably the best version of Windows ... ever." CNET says, "Windows 7 is stable, smooth, and highly polished." Gizmodo gives permission to, "Upgrade without trepidation, people. With excitement, even!" I second that emotion, Windows 7 is not only a worthy upgrade, I've had as much fun using Windows 7 this past week as I did when I switched from PCs to Mac. I did a clean install on a Gateway One with an Intel Core 2 ...

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GBTV #641 (small) | A Tale of Three Cameras

I get asked a LOT about the best cameras to buy for this type of shooting or that type of video. On today's Brief, we're taking a look at three different cameras to show the strengths and weaknesses of each. Panasonic HVX200A Great quality camera Shoots to P2 Cards Expensive JVC GY-HM100 Great size Creates Final Cut ready files Removable XLR inputs Didn't have great results in low light Kodak Zi8 Smallest HD camera with mic input and image stabilization Very inexpensive No zoo ...

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GBTV #640 (small) | Kindle Goes International, AT&T Allows VoIP Apps, New Android Phones, doubleTwist Adds Amazon MP3 Store, Gateway One ZX6810

The two complaints I hear most about the Amazon Kindle is the price and that international users can't take advantage of Whispernet. Amazon announced the Internation, GSM version of Kindle is available for pre-order now for $279. The US version has dropped in price to $259. AT&T is allowing VoIP applications on the iPhone to be used on its 3G and 2G networks. Previously, users could only use apps like Skype or Vonage on WiFi. Verizon and Google are teaming up to launch open Android ...

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GBTV #639 (small) | Microsoft's Mice Prototypes, Robovie-PC, Toshiba Cell Regza 55X1

We might get a multi-touch Mighty Mouse from Apple, but Microsoft has their own ideas. In the video, we take a look at the FTIR Mouse, the Orb Mouse, the Cap Mouse, the Side Mouse, and the Arty Mouse. I'm sad to say I bought the Wacom Bamboo Pen & Touch tablet, but had to return it. The cursor didn't move smoothly, even after some time and messing with settings. , br I'm excited about Vstone's Robovie-PC. It's a 15" robot that runs Windows or Linux. It has WiFi, USB, VGA and a cam ...

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GBTV #638 (small) | Dell Z600, EyeTV App, BlackBerry TiVo App, FOTOBOX, Fastest Blu-ray Burner, Bacon of the Month Club

Dell's Z600 is beautiful and brings some new ideas to the top of your lap. EyeTV released an iPhone app that will let you record and watch your recordings. It's $5. BlackBerry users got an app for TiVo, but you'll only be able to schedule and view recordings, and not watch. It's free. FOTOBOX is an SD card reader that will turn your photos into an animated slideshow, that you can then burn to a DVD. Pioneer released a 12x Blu-ray burner, called the BDR-205 Blu-ray Disc Computer Wri ...

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GBTV #637 (small) | Hanvon, Microsoft Courier Update, Sony CD/DVD Burner, DoubleTwist, Electrocuting Pickles

We've all been expecting Apple to release a touch screen tablet, but they may not be the first to market. The Hanvon should hit China later this year. We saw a video showing us Microsoft's Courier last week. This week, we have an update and more information about what the device should be. How interested are you guys in the Courier? Sony's DRX-S70U-W is a very small CD/DVD burner for those netbooks that don't include an optical drive. I'm expecting DoubleTwist to start working for iP ...

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GBTV #636 (small) | Vue Personal Video Network

You know when I love a product? When it simplifies a process that has historically been complex by just working. The iPhone does that for mobile phones. Drobo does that for redundant storage. The 5D Mark II does that for shooting photos and video without great lighting. The PogoPlug does that for sharing a hard drive, and now the Vue Personal Video Network does that for home surveillance. Believe me. I was nervous when I ordered my Vue kit from Amazon because I've tried other wireless ...

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GBTV #635 (small) | Spawn HD-720, Verizon 4G, Livepack, Livebrush

Spawn is offering place-shift gaming with the HD-720. While traveling, you can play games from your consoles at home. Verizon wants to rollout their 4G coverage mostly "all at once", in 25-30 markets next year. The Livepack from Livestream gives people the ability to live stream HD video while on the move. I would LOVE to try this on a road trip! I'm loving Livebrush. It's a free Adobe Air drawing app, and great for useful purposes in a presentation, or just to waste some time. ...

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GBTV #634 (small) | Bamboo Tablets, MiniDisplay Port to HDMI with Audio, Vue Personal Video Network, Bionic Restoration of Vision

Wacom announced a series of Bamboo Tablets that brings multitouch and gesture control to any PC or Mac. The collection ranges from $70 to $200. I love Monoprice's MiniDisplay Port to HDMI Adapter. They just released a new version that includes the ability to transfer audio, so it's perfect for adding a Mac Mini to your home theater. I've been anticipating Avaak's Vue Personal Video Network for a while, and it's finally here. I'll let you know if it works as promised next week. AT ...

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GBTV #633 (small) | G.I.A. Mission Details, Microsoft Courier

I'm back from my secret G.I.A. mission! If you follow me on Twitter, twitter.com/calilewis, you got a peek into what I was doing. I was on a panel along with Amber MacArthur, Brian Tong, Peter Rojas and Ryan Block at an Alcatel-Lucent event where we spoke candidly to to telecom and cable companies. Gizmodo got an exclusive demo from Microsoft of a tablet Microsoft calls the "Courier". I'm looking forward to this coming to market! Disneyventures.com is another site built by a Geek Brie ...

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Quick Note From Cali (Secret G.I.A. Mission) small

I'm on a secret mission. I signed an NDA. I'll tell you what I can on Twitter (www.twitter.com/calilewis) until I get back on Wednesday.

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GBTV #632 (small) | Google Voice Update, win741, HP Dream Screen, Messless Charger

We have an update on the Google Voice and Apple situation. Google said they do believe Apple rejected the app because of similarities to native features on the iPhone. Apple says it's still under review and hasn't been rejected. Microsoft is giving students the chance to get Windows 7 for $30. It's a limited time offer. Details are at win741.com. HP's Dream Screen digital frame has 802.11g Wi-Fi, 2 Gigs of memory and a remote control. You get access to real-time weather, Snapfish, read ...

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GBTV #631 (small) | Media Decor Eclipse Art Lift, Kaleidescape, Control4, AIWX Loudspeakers

The Media Decor Eclipse Art Lift covers up displays with a piece of art when it's not in use. The TV is installed in the wall, and you can lower, raise or move the art to one side. You can find different sizes and options at mediadecor.com. If you've been watching GeekBrief.TV for a while, you've heard me talk about Kaleidescape. I finally got to see it in action and I loved what I saw! Control4 is offering a low cost automation system. The UI is displayed on an HDTV. Unfortunately, yo ...

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GBTV 630 (small) | Weather Proof Speakers, Water Proof Shower TV, SÉURA TV Mirrors, CuddleBag

Terra was showing off Weather Proof Speakers. They're designed to work in all climates and withstand snow, wind, heat, ice and rain. MB Quart Entertainment has made an entirely water proof TV. It can even be entirely submerged under water, unlike some other waterproof TVs. SÉURA's ONE mirror is perfect for the bathroom. The TV is integrated into a part of the mirror. They also have TVs completely hidden behind mirrors. I didn't mean to go to CEDIA and actually buy anything, but I co ...

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GBTV #629 (small) | Thiel CS3.7, HT6000, First Impressions Theme Theaters, JVC 3D TV

We came to CEDIA in Atlanta this year, and began to cover it as we normally do tradeshows, but instead of the normal booth interviews, we wanted to find a way to cover CEDIA without causing viewer fatigue. We decided to do this year a bit differently. Let us know in the comments below what you prefer! Today's Brief is all about the outrageously expensive products! Thiel was showing off their CS3.7 speakers at CEDIA signed by Les Paul. The money from these special editions go to charity. ...

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Pop, Pop, Suck

On Friday, we posted our first video from CEDIA. We had to pull down the video because there were two very loud audio spikes. Something happened during compression. It wasn't in the original, exported version. While we're trying to figure it out, we wanted to apologize to those of you who had to deal with the first uploaded video!

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GBTV #628 (small) REPOST | Savant TrueImage & Protege

Amber MacArthur interviewed me recently for her new show on XBox LIVE called Girls Go Geek. She asked me what I would build if I could bring to market one thing. I said that I want a low cost system to automate my entire house. Today, I saw exactly what I was asking for at the Savant booth. If you're looking to do home automation, you'll spend at least $10,000. Savant's system is called Protege. It's a box with a Mac Mini that will control a mid size home for $5,000, and you can control e ...

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GBTV #627 | What? The Apple Event Wasn't in Mississippi?!?

We're on our way to Atlanta for CEDIA and kept up with Apple's "It's only Rock and Roll" event while in the car. Forgive the low quality video. It's the only way to get it uploaded while moving down the road! :) iPhone 3.1 -- Genius will make suggestions for apps you might like based on apps you already have -- 30,000 ringtones will be available for $1.29 each iTunes 9 -- Genius Mixes will pick out and play songs from your music library that it thinks go together -- Improved syncing includ ...

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GBTV #626 (small) | Nokia N97 Review

About a month ago, my iPhone shattered. I don't know if it was the heat or if the bike repair shop accidentally smashed it. It happened around the time Apple dropped Google Voice apps from the App store, so I wasn't too keen to buy an iPhone replacement as long as Apple was saying no to innovation that matters. It just so happened, I had a Nokia N97 at the P.O. Box! I decided to go without an iPhone for a month and just use the N97. Brief 626 is my review. Nokia N97 You can save 12% wh ...

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GBTV #625 (small) | PenCam HD Trio, Asus Reader, Spotify, Monopoloy City Streets

The PenCam HD Trio from AipTek is a small camera about the size of a sharpie that shoots 720p video. Stills are 5 megapixels and it has a voice recorder. Asus will be showing off their digital reader by the end of the year. Their goal is to make the world's most inexpensive reader, and it does a lot more than hold books. It'll be full color, and have a webcam and mic. Perhaps they should be aiming at the touchpad market instead. Spotify I'm excited to see the online game that Google ...

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GBTV #624 (small) | Amazon 1984 Update, 3-in-1 Battery for iPhones, JournE, JVC GY-HM100U

Amazon is still aiming to make up for their mistake with the 1984 debacle. Customers who got their copy of 1984 stripped off their Kindles can choose to get a legally published version of the book redelivered for free or an Amazon gift certificate or check for $30. USBfever.com has an interesting twist to the external battery pack for iPhones. The 3-in-1 External Battery gives you a built in USB cable and the ability to carry around two SIM cards safely. Toshiba's JournE is a 7" table ...

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GBTV #623 (small) | Fart Detector, DMC-GF1, Snow Globe Fram, BookArc, 2nd Gen Vado HD

Robert Clain and Miguel Salas created the Fart Detector as their Senior Project at Cornell. I'd prefer to stay far away from this one! Panasonic announced the Lumix DMC-GF1. It has 12.1 megapixel stills and artistic presets called My Colors to give you film-like beauty without post work. Unfortunately, it doesn't have a mic input. Gadgets and Gizmos has a frame that has a proximity sensor. You put in a real photo, and when someone gets close, snow will swirl in front of the picture ...

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GBTV #622 (small) | Skype Ownership, Windows Phones, Canon 7D, Opera 10

Skype was bought by eBay, but eBay hasn't been able to do what they wanted with it. 65% of Skype is now owned by a group of VCs, and eBay will keep a 35% ownership. Microsoft announced Windows Phones will be available October 6th, running Windows Mobile 6.5. The Canon 7D is a great alternative for anyone drooling for the 5D Mark II but not ready to pay that much. Opera 10 was released out of beta today and with it comes Turbo mode, an option that compresses Web pages for faster b ...

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GBTV #621 (small) repost | Medion All-in-One PC, Mobilzy App, Daily Edition eBook Reader, Snow Leopard, LaptopCase Against Crime

Medion announced their 24" Multi-touch All-in-One PC. It runs Windows 7, has a Core 2 Quad Q9000 processor, 4GB of RAM and a GeForce GT240M graphics card. Mobilzy brings augmented reality to your phone by overlaying turn-by-turn directions when you point your phone's camera at the road. It's still being tested before release. Sony's Daily Edition eBook Reader offers 3G wireless connectivity without a monthly fee, just like the Kindle. Unlike the Kindle, it'll natively read PDFs that you ...

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GBTV #620 (small) | Nokia Booklet, XM SkyDock, Lineout Mini USB Dock, Pretty Link, Snailmailr

I'm back from the staycation and have a lot to cover! Nokia announced their Booklet 3G. It's a beautifully designed netbook with WiFi, built in 3G and GPS, plus an HDMI port. Sirius announced the XM SkyDock, which turns an iPhone or iPod Touch into a Sirius XM Radio tuner. It'll charge your phone and broadcast audio from it, either stored or streaming for $120. The newest PocketDock from SendStation adds line out and a mini USB port to you iPhone or iPod. I'm loving my latest Wor ...

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GBTV #619 (small) | SixthSense

The third and final segment from my Las Vegas speech for Fiserv is another of Pranav Mistry's projects called SixthSense. It's a wearable gesture interface that allows a person to interact with As a public speaker, I talk about the impact of technology we experience today, amazing research that will become the technology we'll use in the future, the importance of social media, and video production tips and tricks. If you're interested in having me speak at your event, please contact m ...

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GBTV #618 (small) | Yowza

Brief 618 is the second segment from my speech in Las Veags for Fiserv. I've covered Yowza on The Brief before but I go into a little more detail about it and show exactly how it works. They're constantly updating the coupons and adding companies. You can get more information at GetYowza.com. As a public speaker, I talk about the impact of technology we experience today, amazing research that will become the technology we'll use in the future, the importance of social media, and video pro ...

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GBTV #617 (small) | Quickies

I'm taking a few days off for a staycation to organize the house, but in the meantime I wanted to share a few clips with you from a recent speech I did in Las Vegas at a private event for Fiserv. In this particular speech, I talked about future technologies that will change the way we interact with computers and present technologies that can save us time and/or money. The first clip is about Pranav Mistry's project at the MIT Media Lab called QUICKIES. QUICKIES are an electronic version ...

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GBTV #616 (small) | Slimmer PS3, Glass, DualView ST225 & ST220, Logitech Mice

The first week of September, we'll see a new slimmer PS3 with a lower price point at $300. It'll run cooler, use less power and run quieter. Cloud Telecomputers is working on an Android Desktop Smartphone called Glass. It has an eight-inch color touchscreen, with Outlook integration, Bluetooth, speakerphone and an API for adding additional features. Samsung is thinking different with their DualView ST220 and ST225. They added a secondary LCD screen on the front of the point and shoot ...

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GBTV #615 (small) | Canon Announcements Galore!

Canon released lots of new cameras and printers today. Take a look: Canon VIXIA HF S11 Dual Flash Memory Camcorder Six New Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras Four New Canon Printers Use my promo code GEEK to sign up for an AngiesList.com membership. The short cut is angieslist.com/geek and my code saves you 25% when you sign up, but much more after you're a member, both in terms of money AND headaches.

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GBTV #614 (small) | LifeCam Cinema, Spacers, John Gruber Post, CRISTAL

Microsoft's LIfeCam Cinema Webcam is 720p and shoots at 30 frames per second. It's USB 2.0 and requires a 3GHz dual core processor and 2GB of RAM. Spasers are a new kind of laser that can be concentrated to increase performance speed in our electronics. John Gruber from Daring Fireball is encouraging companies to build an Android phone that is as good or better than an iPhone to encourage competition. CRISTAL stands for Control of Remotely Interfaced Systems using Touch-based Action ...

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GBTV #613 (small) | Summer Gadgets

I've covered the Outcast Ultimate Wireless Speaker before and have been using it ever since. I love it more the more I use it. It's weather resistant and fireproof. They released it's little brother, the Outcast Jr. It has a 6.5" down firing woofer and four 3" high frequency drivers in an omnidirectional array. If you have two Jr.'s, one can receive only the right channel and the other can receive only the left. You can plug the AudioCast Transmitter into your home theater or your lapto ...

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GBTV #612 (small) | Double Enders

We've been doing double enders in audio since we started, and have wanted to do a video double ender, where we record our end and the other person records their end. We just realized this week that the technology has gotten to a point where it's easy, rather than a hacked together solution. On Brief 612, I walk you through the setup we used to do a couple double enders, one for Channel 9 in Denver and the other for Amber Mac's Girls Go Geek on XBox LIVE.

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GBTV 611 (small) | Motorola "Sholes", PRC, New Battery Technology from Sony, Shoot It!, Harmony 900

Motorola will be releasing an Android phone codenamed "Sholes" with a 3.7" 854X480 touchscreen with a slider QWERTY keyboard. It'll have GPS, Wi-Fi, USB and Bluetooth. The PRC is a swinging chair that costs $4200. Sony is working on new technology that gives batteries long life and rapid charging. It can be charged to 99% within 30 minutes. Shoot It! is an iPhone app that makes sending postcards much easier! Take a picture, write a note and send the company prints and sends them fo ...

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GBTV #610 (small) | Optoma H20, The Julie Julia Project, Sony S-Series Walkmans, Onkyo TX-NR807 & TX-SR707, New Google Search Engine

Optoma announced their attempt at making 1080p projection more accessible with their H20 1080p Projector. It's only $1000, and has two HDMI ports. The Vivitek H1080FD is another good option if you're in the market. Julie & Julia is, I believe, the first movie about blogging. I loved it, and hope you guys go see it too! You can see Julie Powell's current blog here. Julie's original blog called The Julie and Julia Project is here. Sony has two new Walkmans, the S-series. There are 8 ...

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GBTV #609 (small) | Visiting the Largest HD Display in the World

We've talked about the Cowboys Stadium 60 yard HD display a couple times before on The Brief. It's the largest HD screen in the world. Today I got to see it in person and we brought the cameras along to share it with you! It's pretty incredible to look at and I hope it comes through on video. In addition to the displays, the stadium has a lot of other technology built in, including RFID, 2800 smaller displays with their own IP addresses, and antennas for Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mo ...

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GBTV #608 (small) | Control iPhone with a WiiMote, New Ustream App, TomTom Car Kit, Sony Party-Shot, Cyber-Shot TX1 and WX1

User mringwall on YouTube is playing with the possibility of a virtual WiiMote on the iPhone. Ustream released a mobile app. On the 3GS, it will allow you to record video and upload it. For Nokia phones, you can stream live The TomTom Car Kit is priced in the UK. The Sony Party-shot mounts to a tripod and will take pictures for you while panning and tilting. You can concentrate on your guests while knowing moments are still being captured. There are two new Cybershots. The T ...

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GBTV #607 (small) repost | Parasync Dock, Square iPhone Credit Card Processing, Intensity Pro Card

I've always loved Griffin PowerDocks that charge two or four iPods or iPhones at a time. I'm blown away by the Parasync Dock that charges up to 20 iPods or iPhones using one USB cable! Self Edge NYC is testing the Square iPhone Credit Card Processing app to process retail transactions and allow for signatures right on the iPhone. The receipt would then be emailed to the customer. Alex Lindsay suggested the Intensity Pro HDMI and Analog Editing Card for our Mac Pro. We'll keep you upd ...

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GBTV #606 (small) | Eric Schmidt Resigns from Apple's Board, My iPhone is Toast, LG-BL40 Commercial, S1000pj Coolpix, Humanoid Robot that Runs

Apple announced today that Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google is resigning from Apple's Board of Directors due to conflicting interests. If you follow me on Twitter, you saw on Saturday that my iPhone was shattered, so I've been thinking about which phones I might like to replace it with. The LG-BL40 is one option, which we've talked about a couple times on the Brief. Now there's a commercial that shows us the potential of the widescreen. Will you embed this video on GBTV and then lin ...

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GBTV #605 (small) Repost | Nikon D300s, D3000, LG BL30 Chocolate, 2TB Time Capsule, Windows 7 Beta Testers

Nikon announced two cameras we've been waiting on. The D300s shoots 720p video, has an external mic jack, and does autofocus during video shooting, which the Canon 5D Mark II doesn't do. The D3000 is an entry level DSLR with a guide mode and stitching software. It doesn't shoot video. The LG BL40 Chocolate is a high definition wide touchscreen smartphone. The display is 800x345 and will be available later this year. Apple released a 2TB Time Capsule at $499. The 1TB is still availab ...

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GBTV #604 (small) | New Twitter, MobileMe iDisk App, Apple Pulls Apps, Ricoh GR Digital III

Twitter is working on its self image for newbies. Lots of people hear about the service, go to the website and get confused about the question "What are you doing?" They've changed that to "What do you have to say?" Apple released the MobileMe iDisk App, but they pulled the Google Voice apps. I'm none too happy about that! Ricoh announced the Zi8. It's a 1080p Pocket Video camera. It hols up to 32GB of storage, you can edit video and upload to YouTube, it has smart face tracking and ...

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GBTV #603 (small) | Data Recovery...I have bad sectors

I met Mark Taylor from TAYLORMARK a couple years ago when I had a hard drive failure. He watches The Brief and invited us over to his office to see if he could recover it. He recovered that one, and then a little later, I had another failure and he recovered that one. This is now my third drive to bring to him. I like him because I'm cheap and he charges between $499-$799 for most recoveries. That's about half of what other places charge. I wanted to share Mark with the Geek Brief audi ...

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GBTV #602 (small) | SwitchingGranny

We've been doing GeekBrief.TV since December 23, 2005. I don't remember exactly when, but I know it was early on that I met SwitchingGranny (Martha Garrett). She told me I was one of the major influences in getting her to switch to the Mac, but as we began to talk, what drew me to her was her obvious love for technology. She's a grandmother who didn't appear to feel the overpowering hurdle that technology can present to some of our parents and grandparents. She didn't understand everything ...

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GBTV #601 (small) | Jeff Bezos Apology, Augmented Business Card, Zoom Q3, RUSE on Surface

Jeff Bezos issued an apology on the Kindle Community forum for last week's ordeal. We're seeing a lot more augmented reality come to reality lately. Jonas Jager will be releasing the source code for an Augmented Reality business card. It'll turn the card into a 3D image when a webcam is shooting. The Zoom Q3 Digital Audio Recorder records high quality audio plus video. The audio is 24-bit, 48kHz and the video is just 640x480 at 30 frames per second. I'm looking forward to seein ...

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GBTV #600 (small) | Final Cut Studio, Lexicon BD-30, The Orb, Windows 7 Released to Manufacturing

Apple announced an upgrade to Final Cut Studio and Logic Studio. There are over 100 new features, and I'm really excited about the changes to the way exporting is handled. The Lexicon BD-30 Blu-ray player promises to load discs in under five seconds, but it could cost $3,000 when it's released. If The Orb Bluetooth Ring Headset actually comes to market, I think I'll be getting one. It's a bluetooth headset made as a ring for your finger. It'll display caller ID and other information ...

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GBTV #599 (small) | ClearPad 3000, Hybrid IS, Freestyle Soda Fountain, P6X58 Premium ASUS MOBO

Synaptics has a new multitouch developer kit called the ClearPad 3000. It can read input from up to 10 fingers simultaneously and offers greater precision. Canon is releasing new technology in lenses coming out by the end of the year, called Hybrid IS. It's an acceleration sensor that determines the amount of shift-based camera shake. Coke is testing a Freestyle Soda Fountain that will let you try different mixed fountain drinks. There are 100 flavor options. The test markets are G ...

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GBTV #598 (small) | Behind the Scenes at the Production of a Concert DVD

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GBTV #597 (small) Repost | Amazon Takes Back Kindle Books It Sold, HTC Hero, CinemaView TV, Samsung HMX-U10

Amazon caused all kinds of controversy today when it took back books Kindle users had bought. The books in question were George Orwell's Animal Farm and 1984 from publisher MobileReference. Amazon later released a statement saying that the books in question were unlicensed and they wouldn't do the same thing in the future. John Biggs over at CrunchGear has his hands on an HTC Hero and it looks good from the intitial unboxing. He'll have a full review next week. In January, Collins A ...

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GBTV #596 (small) | Apple Sales Drop, CDs vs. Downloads, EVGA InterView Dual Display, Apollo 11 Realtime Recreation, Two New HD Cameras from Canon

A study by The Leading Question says 66% of teens prefer CDs to digital downloads. It may be due to the economic downturn, but Apple's sales dropped 12.4%. The EVGA InterView Dual Display has two 17-inch displaces mounted on each side of a single stand. The displays can be rotated to face either direction so that two people can work across from each other. In celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch, www.wechoosethemoon.org is recreating the mission. It'll inc ...

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GBTV #595 (small) | PingWire, Meeting Ticker, Black Wii, Telepresence in the Living Room, Ringtone Feeder

Allan Grinshtein was bored on Monday so he decided to write an site called PingWire that shows all the pictures posted to TwitPic in (almost) real time. It was too much for the TwitPic servers to handle, so he switched to YFrog. Warning: may be NSFW Meeting Ticker is a result of a GitHub.com collaborative project. You enter the Number of Attendees, Average Hourly Salary and the time the Meeting started. It'll keep a running total throughout the meeting. Nintendo is releasing a Black ...

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GBTV #594 (small) | Messless Charger, Jens Stoltenberg's Desk O' Monitors, Cordless Rechargeable Margarita Machine, Ratio, Solar Power e-Ink Display

The Messless Charger looks like a futuristic fruit bowl, but holds phone and other portable electronics. It looks like it's only available in the UK at the moment. Jens Stoltenberg, Norway's Prime Minister, deserves some geek cred. Take a look at his monitor setup! The Cordless Rechargable Margarita Machine will give you up to 70 margartias before needing recharging, and you can adjust the slushiness factor to suit your preferences. Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Ever ...

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GBTV #593 (small) | Drobo Pro

If you've been watching GeekBrief.TV for a while, you're familiar with my love of Data Robotics, the company that made Drobo (the first storage robot). Their newest edition is the Drobo Pro. Data Robotics makes data redundancy easy. Shortly after I fired up my first Drobo, I asked them for a Pro version (http://m.podshow.com/media/13917/episodes/91078/gbtv-91078-12-14-2007.mp4) with double the drive bays. Two days ago my wish to have a Drobo Pro came true. I had 13 external and internal dr ...

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GBTV #592 (small) | Chrome OS, Juicy Pink Keyboard, Yoostar, Frolicat BOLT

Google finally officially announced Chrome OS. It's meant for netbooks at first, is built on Linux and uses Web apps to keep things simple. Juicy is selling a pink silicon roll-up keyboard with their logo on it. You can get it at Nordstrom for $45. Yoostar has potential, but I'm afraid there isn't enough information on the website to get me excited. It's a kit that includes a camera, a green screen, software and movie scenes that you can insert yourself into, then upload to the Yoosta ...

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GBTV #591 (small) | VAIO W Netbook, Bristol Interactive PC/TV, Quattro Case, Balanzza Luggage Scale, Trace of Time Clock

Sony announced their VAIO W netbook. It has a 10.1-inch display, a 1.6GHz Atop processor, 1GB of RAM, runs Windows XP and a resolution of 1366 X 768. Bristol Interactive is adding PC power to their ViewSurfer TVs. The 22" and 32" TVs are powered by an Intel Atom processor, have a gig of memory, a 160GB hard drive, four USB ports, and an Ethernet port. Google Translate gives us a good laugh with the Quattro for iPhone Case. What's really cool about it is that it allows you to screw on ...

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GBTV #590 (small) | PogoPlug

The PogoPlug is intended help you easily access your files from anywhere, whether you're at home or out and about. Plug the PogoPlug into the wall, attach it to an ethernet cable plugged into your router, then plug an external hard drive or USB stick to it. Once you activate it online, you're set and ready to go. The interface is simple and intuitive. I was surprised to see that not only do you get preview images of your files, you can click to watch a movie, view a photo, or listen to a s ...

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GBTV #589 (small) | gdgt, Star Wars Force Trainer, bing Photo Contest, Kiddo Kidkeeper, Energizer USB Charging Clip

We heard about gdgt last year when Peter Rojas and Ryan Block announced it and have been looking forward to finding out exactly what it'll be. Now we know. It's a cross between social network, wikipedia and a database. You can create an account and associate yourself with gadgets you've owned and you currently own. You can rate those gadgets and you can edit specs if you see a mistake. You can follow me at user.gdgt.com/Cali and see an introductory video by Veronica Belmont here. The St ...

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GBTV #588 (small) | neoHD Media Controller, NAS-Z200iR Remote, The Man Wall, VholdR Countour HD, Liquid Image Video Scuba Mask HD320

Yamaha's neoHD Media Controllers are aiming to simplify your options. You get the choice of Watch, Listen or Play, and then more options as you go through the menu. There are two models. The YMC500 (without Wi-Fi) is $599.95. The YMC700 (with Wi-Fi) is $799.95. Sony's NAS-Z200iR is a beautiful, crazy and expensive iPod dock and remote. It has a 3.5" LCD touch screen and will cost 400 Euros. The Man Wall is the ultimate for any sports guy and HDTV lover. It has a 52" HDTV as well as tw ...

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GBTV #587 (small) | Maximum Movie Mode, ASUS USB Blu-ray Drive, Cool Drive U360, MyDeskFriend, US Debt Clock, There I Fixed It

When Watchmen comes out , it'll have a special feature called Maximum Movie Mode, where the director will stop the movie in various places and show you the scene being shot raw and compare the scene to panels from the comic book. ASUS announced a USB Blu-ray drive, the SBC-04B1S-U. It's Windows only and the glowing X on the side is dimmable. The Cool Drive U360 offers USB computer to computer file transfer, as fast as 17MB/second. The MyDeskFriend is a robot penguin that will be ...

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GBTV #586 (small) | WordCamp Dallas, PogoPlug, iJector, MiLi Evolution, X-mini Tiny Speakers

I had an awesome time at WordCamp Dallas this weekend. Thanks to everyone who helped John P. and me organize the event, and to everyone who came! You can see a full write up on my blog, CaliLewis.me. Dave Curlee will be cleaning up the recordings and I'll post them right here on GeekBrief.TV. The best way to know when they're up is to follow me on Twitter, where I'll post the links. PogoPlug is now Mac friendly. It makes external hard drives accessible on your local network and over the I ...

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GBTV #585 (small) | Behind the Scenes

Kino Flow Diva-Lite 400 LitePanel 1X1 Spots LitePanel MiniPlus Spot and Flood American DJ LED Megabar Rosco Ultimatte® Blue Chromakey Paint Panasonic HVX200A ProPrompter (small prompter setup) Electrovoice RE20 Mics Mac Pro Mackie Onyx1220 Presonus HP 60 Headphone Mixer dbx1066 Compressor Limiter Gate Marantz PMD 570 Solid State Recorder Tricaster Studio Wealth Nation Radio You can see the Quicktime VR movies at my blog, www.calilewis.me.

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GBTV #584 (small) | HTC Hero, Mimo Mini, CF Adapters, Viore PLC7V95, Vizio VBR100

The HTC Hero will be an Android phone designed with a slight curve to make it more like a real phone. It has a 3.2 inch screen, 5 megapixel camera with autofocus, GPS, a compass, a gravity sensor, standard headphone jack and a dedicated search button. We've known about the Mimo Minu USB Monitor for quite a while, but ThinkGeek.com started selling them and sold out almost immediately. Their price is $130 vs. $200 everywhere else. PhotoFast is attempting to dissolve the disadvantage of ...

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GBTV #583 (small) | Remote App Adds Gesture Control for Apple TV, Vizio HDTVs with Social Integration, Cello HDTV with Built in Tuner, WildCharge

Apple updated the Remote iPhone App. I haven't had a chance to give it a try yet, but it'll let you control an Apple TV with multi-touch gestures. Vizio is adding WiFi to HDTVs along with social network integration and Internet streaming. You'll have Facebook, Flickr, Yahoo Widgets, and Twitter integrated and streaming from Vudu, Netflix, Blockbuster On Demand, Amazon Video OnDemand or Rhapsody. Cello Electronics introduced an HDTV with a built in tuner and records to SD cards. The vid ...

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GBTV #582 (small) | A Bedtime Story

Today's Brief is the real life story of a real live geek adventure, starring The Intermittent Kevin and his friends, Ryan and Mark.

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GBTV #581 (small) | Layar Augmented Reality Browser, Samsung Telepresence System, Olympus PEN E-P1, Native Multitouch on Linux Kernel

We've been talking about Augmented Reality for a couple years on GeekBrief.TV. It's exciting to see future tech begin to become reality. SPRXmobile has an A.R. browser called Layar. The excitement will reach the Dutch market first, and spread out from there. The Samsung VC2400 is Telepresence even small companies can afford. It has a 24-inch LCD display and a 5-megapixel camera with a noise-canceling mic. Everyone's talking about the Olympus PEN E-P1. It's a classic-looking Micro Fou ...

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GBTV #580 (small) | Hillcrest Labs Loop Pointer Review

The Loop Pointer was first announced at CES in 2007. We covered it on GeekBrief.TV and I was excited about it. It didn't come out and I forgot about it. Monday, Hillcrest Labs finally released it an I ordered one from Amazon.com and I've been playing with it for about a day now and it rocks! On screen tracking was very precise. It doesn't require very much motion to move the cursor around the screen. The best part is the thumb scroll wheel. I wish every remote control had one. Unfort ...

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GBTV #579 (small) | Archos 9, Blu-ray Manage Copy, Virtual Home Controller, Twitter Downtime, Opera Unite

The Archos 9 will have a lot of the same functionality as the CrunchPad, but it'll have a 9" screen and will cost twice as much. It will run Windows 7 with an 80GB hard drive. In 2010, there will be a Blu-ray standard, Manage Copy, that makes it legal for consumers to rip a single copy of a DVD. Is this a good thing? Movies like Marley & Me offer a good compromise between consumers and the movie business. It costs a little more, but it offers a Blu-ray disk, a standard def dis ...

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GBTV #578 (small) | iPhone OS running on a Mac Pro, CrunchPad Unboxing, Power Seeking Robot, Hillcrest Loop

Dreamfield Labs Running the iPhone OS on Mac Pro Loic Le Meur's Video of a Previous CrunchPad Prototype Power Finding Robot from Willow Garage The Hillcrest Loop Pointer is Finally Out! Buy from Amazon: bit.ly/loopcontrol Welcome Brookstone! Save 10% with Promocode SHOWGEEK

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GeekBrief.TV #577 (small) | Review: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 with the Wii MotionPlus

Brief 577 is my review of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 with the Wii MotionPlus.

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GBTV #576 (small) | iPhone 3GS Oleophobic Screen, Billion Year Carbon Nanotube Memory Chip, Eye-Fi Pro, xpPhone, NFiniti Wireless-N Dual Band Ethernet Converter

iPhone 3G S has an Oleophobic Multi-Touch Screen The Joy of Tech on the 3G S The Billion Year Carbon Nanotube Memory Chip Eye-Fi Pro xpPhone Buffalo NFiniti Wireless-N Dual Band Ethernet Converter

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GBTV #575 (small) | DIY 130-megapixel Scancam, iPhone 3G Early Upgrade Pricing, N97, Smell of Books in a Can, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 with WiiMotion Plus

A guy decided to make a 130 megapixel camera out of a 1200 dpi Epson GT-S620 scanner. You can see his experiments on his Flickr Stream. I've decided I won't be upgrading to the iPhone 3GS due to the upgrade pricing structure. Early upgrade pricing makes the 16GB version $400 and the 32GB version $500, and if you don't qualify for that, the full price is $600 for the 16GB and $700 for the 32GB. The Nokia N97 is being sold now and it comes preloaded with Qik. If you love the smell ...

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GBTV #574 (small) | 13-Inch MacBook Pro, Safari 4, OSX Snow Leopard, Tom Tom for iPhone, iPhone 3Gs

Today at Moscone Center in San Francisco, Phil Schiller delivered the annual WWDC keynote and introduced a couple new products including a 13-inch MacBook Pro and a faster iPhone 3G that Apple is calling the 3GS. New 13-Inch MacBook Pro Safari 4 Out of Beta OSX Snow Leopard Available in September for $29 Tom Tom for iPhone iPhone 3G S

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GBTV #573 (small) | BH-905 Bluetooth Headset, NEC CRV43, CrunchPad Launch Prototype, ioXtreme

Nokia thinks they have the best bluetooth headset ever made with the BH-905. It wil be compatible with a wide range of phones, has eight microphones dedicated to active noise cancellation, and two microphones dedicated to capturing your voice during phone calls. Nokia BH-905 Bluetooth Headset with Active Noise Cancellation NEC CRV43 Surround Display CruchPad Launch Prototype Launch Windows in a Second with the ioXtreme from Fusion-IO WWDC09 Cali

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GBTV #572 (small) | WordCamp 2009: It's Chris Pirillo!!

I got to chat with Chris Pirillo at Wordcamp San Francisco about new vs old media.

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GBTV #571 (small) | WordCamp 2009: Daniel Brusilovsky & Dave Moyer

I've been trying to get Daniel Brusilovsky on Geek Brief for two years. I finally caught up with him at WordCamp San Francisco. I want you guys to meet him because he'll be doing great things. He already is on his way with Teens in Tech, a company he founded to help teens get started blogging. Dave Moyer is a name I've been hearing over and over for the past six months, so I was excited to get to meet him. He's the top WordPress Podcaster with his show WordCast, and the founder of Bitwire ...

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GBTV #570 (small) | Microsoft Project Natal

Microsoft announces Project Natal for the Xbox 360

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GBTV #569 (small) | DSLR Remote Demo, Hulu Desktop

I told you about the DSLR Remote iPhone App on yesterday's Brief. Today I can show it to you in action. It's awesome!! Hulu released Hulu Desktop, an app that you can control with a Windows Media Center Remote or an Apple Remote, or a keyboard. Nicely done!

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GBTV #568 (small) | Zune HD, American Idol Vote Influenced by AT&T?, Mobile Broadband Speed Tests, New Specs for 13" MacBook, DSLR Remote

Microsoft has finally announced the Zune HD, meant to compete head to head with the iPod Touch. It'll have an OLED screen, and Internet Explorer browser, and will be using flash memory. The American Idol vote was allegedly influenced by AT&T. We're hearing they provided Kris Allen fans with phones with free text-messaging services and lessons on how to submit 10 text messages at once. Engadget put all the mobile broadband companies to a head-to-head speed test. AT&T won for ...

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GBTV #567 (small) | Vista SP2, Jorge Columbo's iPhone Art, Nokia Ovi Store, Panasonic DMP-BD15, Boxee Dev Challenge

Windows Vista Service Pack 2 is available for download. You can get the 32-bit version here, or the 64-bit version here. Jorge Colombo has begun creating iSketches using an iPhone app called Brushes. Instead of setting up an easel in the middle of the street, he "paints" on his iPhone, and sells archival prints. The June 2009 cover of New Yorker Magazine is one of his iSketches. Nokia phone owners have access to the Ovi Store as of today, where they can get a variety of app ...

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GBTV #566 (small) | BenQ GP1, DC Power Splitter with USB Ports, World's Largest HD Display, Sharp Aquos DX, Powerloo

The BenQ GP1 Pocket Projector is the first to use LED lights. It weighs 1.5 pounds with a 20,000 hour lamp life. Santok released a DC power splitter that includes two USB slots, and it's designed in the Wall-E/Minoru cute little robot looking way. The Dallas Cowboys unveiled the world's largest HD display. It cost $40 million, is 180x72 feet (actually there are two of them) and uses LED lights. Sharp's Aquos DX 20-Inch HDTV has Blu-ray but only a resolution of 1366x768. People ...

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GBTV #565 (small) | B&D Automatic Jar Opener, Sanyo PCL-WXU700 Update, Pirates vs Ninjas, Pentax K-7, Kindle iPhone App Update

The Automatic Jar Opener from Black & Decker will open your jars with just a push of a button. I could see this being very useful for people with arthritis or any kind of disability. I talked about the Sanyo PLC-WXU700, the first Wireless N equipped projector, on Brief 559. The price when it comes to the US will be $3000. Pirates vs. Ninjas sounds like the only way to play a game of dodgeball, and it comes in the form of a Wii game. The Pentax K-7 camera records in 720p with a ...

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GBTV #564 (small) | Authentic Captain Kirk Chair, Electroluminescent Star Trek T-Shirt, Panasonic HDC-TM350, 3G Netbooks Subsidized by AT&T, Intel IVI

How cool would this be to have on the GeekBrief.TV set??? It's an authentic Captain Kirk chair that plays sounds from the original Star Trek. It costs $3,000. Or, I could just get an electroluminescent t-shirt. The Panasonic HDC-TM350 shoots 24 frames per second in 1080p. It has 64GB of storage, line in and a mic in. AT&T is testing out a new program, for now just in Atlanta and Philidelphia. You can get a netbook with built in 3G subsidized with a 2 year contract. Intel is w ...

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GBTV #563 (small) | Glympse, Palm Pre Arrives June 6, BD390 Blu-Ray Player, Solar Hybrid Mobile Phone

I'm excited about the possibility of an app called Glympse . It allows you to share your real-time location with a selected person for a limited time. It's perfect for when you're part of a group attending a concert, or fair, or any large event where you might need to locate other people in your group. So far, it's only for Android phones, but will be available for iPhone, Blackberry, Windows Mobile and Palm. We've all been waiting for the Pre. The official release date is June 6th in ...

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GBTV #562 (small) | WolframAlpha, Acer Aspire Netbooks, Toshiba Portege, Casio EX-FS10

We've talked about WolframAlpha before . It soft launched over the weekend. The goal of WolframAlpha is to provide you with answers to your search queries rather than results that will provide you answers. Acer announced two new netbooks, the A0751h and AOD250 with full size keyboard, between four and eight hours of battery life, and multi-touch gesture ability. Toshiba's Portege R600-ST4203 has a 512GB solid state drive, 3GB of RAM, and Wireless N, but it's priced at $3500. T ...

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GBTV #561 (small) | Ped3 Auto, eFizz HiFi, TriaBeauty, ProPrompter Wing

Today's Brief is all about the gadgets I have lying around the GBTV Studios. I've always loved the products from Thoughtout.biz. The latest is the Ped3 Auto. It has suction cups so you can mount it to the windshield or your dashboard to use apps like Google Maps easily. eWoo made some interesting design choices with the eFizz HiFi Station. Overall it's a beautiful design with a down firing subwoofer. I can't give you a review of the TriaBeauty Laser Hair Removal System just yet, bu ...

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GBTV #560 (small) | SlingPlayer Mobile, JVC 8K Projector, SO-10 Skype Phone, PoV USB Cam, Kaleido R7 Photo Frame

SlingPlayer Mobile is finally in the App Store! However, AT&T has disabled using it over 3G, so you'll only be able to access TV via WiFi. We've been thinking about IMAX since the new Star Trek movie was released. Mark Wilson from Gizmodo went into some detail about IMAX projection. The JVC 8K Projector would be perfect for IMAX. It has 10,000 lumens brightness and a contrast ratio of 5500:1 and it's 8192 X 4320. IPEVO is my favorite Skype VoIP handset maker and they have a few c ...

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GBTV #559 (small) | Harmony PS3 Adapter, E Ink AM-300 Prototype Kit, WeraMouse, Wireless N Projector

Logitech's Harmony PS3 Adapter uses bluetooth to communicate with the PS3 and give you more elegant control. E Ink is offering a kit so you can build your own eBook Reader. It costs $4000, but if you're the type who would rather make your own than buy one, this is for you! At WeraMouse.com, they're offering something to those of us who are waiting for gesture control to take over. It's a hand held controller where you use your thumb to navigate. It charges via USB and works with all ...

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GBTV #558 (small) | Kindle DX, High End Speaker Market, PermaFLOW, Automower 260 ACX, Boxee Dev Challenge

I'm back from Australia! I missed pretty much everything that happened in tech for the last two weeks, but the one thing I did hear about during the craziness was the Kindle DX. Its larger size makes it ideal for textbooks, newspapers and professional documents, and it comes with PDF support. If you're not familiar with the higher end speaker market, I've got a couple for you to take a look at today. The CAT MBX Speakers cost $560,000 per pair. Or, for about half the price, check out t ...

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Quick Note from Cali | On my way back to work!!

Ben Southall from the UK was the successful candidate for the Best Job in the World contest. I'm thrilled for Ben, he really was the right person for the job! I'm also VERY excited to head home and get back to work and regular Briefs. Thanks for all your support throughout this process. It's been an amazing experience, and I loved my time in Queensland!

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GBTV #557 | Best Job in the World

As most of you know, I'm in Australia for The Best Job in the World interviews, with 15 other amazing and talented people. We're all having a great time and learning a lot. Today are final interviews and at 3:00 PM local time, they announce the successful candidate. Keep an eye on Twitter, traditional channels and www.islandreefjob.com for the announcement!

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Quick Note from Cali | Hamilton Island

I'm safe on Hamilton Island and having a great time! I have very little time to get online, but I'll get Twitter updates and blog posts and pictures to you ASAP!

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GBTV #556 (small) | Scalable MultiTouch, Anywhere MultiTouch, 3D Computer Interface

I'm in Brisbane, Australia for The Best Job in the World competition. If you're not familiar with it, I blog about it over at CaliLewis.me. Moto Development Group is working on scalable multitouch with their Sensing Screen. It uses an LCD display unlike the Surface. You can find out more at labs.moto.com. Sensitive Object's Anywhere MultiTouch wants to extend touch beyond the screen. The 3D Computer Interface is a project being worked on by Northeastern University students. The ...

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Note From Cali | Vacation

Decided to take a couple vacation days. When we arrive in Australia, we'll get to work on the next Brief!

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GBTV #554 (small) | SprintCam V3 HD, Drobo Drive Failure & Giveaway, ARAnet Research

If you're not a sports fan, you may not come across the SprintCam V3 HD. It captures images at 500 to 1,000 frames per second and is designed to replay them without delay. You know I love my Drobos, but I had yet to experience a real life drive failure with my own data....until now. I take you through what happens with a drive failure if you have a Drobo. I'll be giving another Drobo away on Twitter soon, so don't forget to follow! ARAnet did some research about web advertising and f ...

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GBTV #555 (small) | Amazon VOD, AT&T Revenue Increase, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10, Town Hall for Hope, Tweetie for Mac

Amazon.com Delivers HD On Demand is upping their quality to HD. HD movies will rent for $3.99-$4.99 and TV Shows will be $2.99. AT&T and Apple sold 1.6 million iPhones the first quarter of 2009, giving AT&T a 38.6% increase in data revenue. There are rumors that they don't want to the SlingPlayer for iPhone app to be approved because they're worried about not being able to support that kind of load. Here's hoping they use the increase in revenue to build out their infrastructure ...

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GBTV #553 (small) | Panasonic AG-HMC40, Panasonic 3D Full HD Camera, P2 Cards Price Drop, SmartFaucet, Micro Auto Charger, Twitter Experiment

Panasonic announced that their AG-HMC40 camera will be released in August. Pro Web video producers are going to be very interested in this camera! They're also working on a 3D Full HD camera that uses P2 cards. There are two lenses spaced about the same distance as a person's eyes so that it captures the same stereoscopic data our eyes see. We use P2 cards for GeekBrief.TV in our Panasonic HVX200A. The prices will drop by August to be more affordable. The SmartFaucet adjusts to each ...

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GBTV #552 (small) | Adobe Flash Platform, Color ePaper, iStubz, Spy HandBag Camera, BLACX SATA Dock

At NAB, Adobe announced the Adobe Flash Platform for the Digital Home, which will bring Flash to HDTVs. Bridgestone Corp is working on color ePaper that will allow input from a pen and decreases refresh time. iStubz iPhone/iPod charging and syncing cables give you some length options at 7cm and 22cm. The Spy HandBag Camera is perfect for those of you who are familiar with the cheesy backstory of GeekBrief.TV (which is here). The bag has a camera with a hidden pinhole lens. We've ...

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GBTV #551 (small) | SpacePilot Pro, HMX-R10 HD Flash Memory Camcorder, Time Warner's Data Cap

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GBTV #550 (small) | Livio Radio, Nikon D5000, HD Mouse, ProPrompter Wing

The Livio Radio takes a design cue from my favorite radio, the Model One, but it's meant to stream Pandora music. There are Thumbs Up and Thumbs Down buttons on the radio and the remote to ensure you're taking full advantage of the Pandora service. DSLR users who want to up their game but aren't ready for pro gear might be interested in the Nikon D5000. It shoots 720p video at 24 frames per second and 12.3 megapixel stills. They included a swiveling view screen that helps you see what y ...

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GBTV #549 (small) | Yowza!!

Yowza!! Greg Grunberg is more than a twittering Heroes celebrity, but through Twitter, he was able to make an idea come to life. His idea was Yowza!. It's an iPhone and iPod Touch app that uses your location to find deals near you. If you're out shopping, you can find out what stores are offering deals near you, in either a 5, 10 or 15 mile radius. The app also lets you search by city to enable you to plan ahead and still save money. Greg explains how small or large businesses can offer ...

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GBTV #548 (small) | MediaSmart Server Firmware Update, iRiver P7, Cube B52 HD, nanoTouch

If you have an HP MediaSmart Server ex485 or ex487, there's a firmware upgrade that includes the ability to convert video and stream to an iPhone over WiFi or 3G. The app you need on your iPhone is called iStream. There are two alternatives to an iPod that look promising. The iRiver P7 has a 480x272 LCD touch screen, supports a wide range of formats, and comes with 16GB of exapandable memory. The Cube B52 HD has a 5" touch screen and has the ability to output 1280x720 video. Pat ...

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GBTV #547 (small) | Mitsubishi 3D-Ready Displays, W200 Wearable Computer, AK Rock Box, Corsair 256GB SSD, SafeHouse

The film industry is very excited about 3D technology, and Mitsubishi announced a new line of 3D-Ready TVs. Glacier Computer built the W200 Wearable Computer, a tiny PC for your wrist that has Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS and it'll run either Windows CE or Linux. The AK Rock Box is perfect for people who want or need to hide their Rock Band equipment when it's not being used. Unfortunately, Amazon is currently out of stock. Corsair's new Solid State Drive (SSD) is 256GB and $749. HotHar ...

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GBTV #546 (small) | BumpTop

BumpTop is a fun and useful Windows download that we covered when it was only a concept. It's now available in two versions, free and Pro ($29). It gets you closer to using your desktop like you use a real desk. You can group and pile documents and folders, hang photos and stickies on the wall, and tweet easily without opening a web browser or application. It even supports multi-touch if you have the hardware and Windows 7 to support it. Brief 546 is a demo of BumpTop, which you can downlo ...

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GBTV #545 (small) | Boxee API and Apps, iTunes Variable Pricing, DVD Ripping, Australia's Broadband Initiative

Boxee released a new version of the software with a workaround for Hulu, a new API for developers, and a Pandora app and Radio Time app. You can download the new Boxee here. iTunes variable pricing is now active. Amazon is still charging a flat 99 cents for non-DRM'd songs. Opinion Research Corporation did a survey and found that 90% of consumers believe they should be able to rip DVDs like they do CDs. Australia's prime minister announced a public private partnership to build a ...

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GBTV #533 (small) | Terrafugia Transition Flying Car, PowerVR SGX543MP, Psystar Open(3), Pandora for BlackBerry, Internet Explorer 8

Terrafugia Transition Flying Car, PowerVR SGX543MP, Psystar Open(3), Pandora for BlackBerry, Internet Explorer 8            

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GBTV #532 (small) | iPhone 3.0 Features, Adamo, Woopra, Android Live Folders

Apple's announcement was Tuesday. iPhone 3.0 won't come out until this summer, but it'll bring some much desired features, including cut and paste! Last week, I tweeted about the Dell Adamo, and now it's been launched. At first, we thought it would a MacBook Pro competitor, but it's actually more comparable to the Air. It'll sell for $2000. If you were in the Geek Brief family last year, you saw my breaking story about Woopra, a live web analytics program. I've never experienced an a ...

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GBTV # 531 (small) | Lenovo Pocket Yoga, Boxee iPhone App, Apple Announcement, EdsJunk.net

We've seen pictures of the Lenovo Pocket Yoga, a netbook that can used as a Tablet PC. Is it just a concept, though? The Boxee iPhone Remote Control App has the ability to track your finger movements and control Boxee. Here's a demo thanks to TapCritic.com. Apple has some announcements Tuesday. If my hotel has good broadband, I'll be on Ustream to chat about it. EdsJunk.net has a MacBook Logo Mod that will soon be availalbe. You can save money on domain name registrations and r ...

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GBTV #530 (small) | Fish Tank PC Part 3

On Brief #530, I finish building the PC in a fish tank, otherwise known as the Aquarium PC Kit from Puget Systems. I finish it out by adding a mild laxative! Here are the components: Aquarium Kit XFX GeForce 9300 mATX Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Processor 4GB OCZ Reaper RAM with Heatpipe Cooling OCZ Core Series V2 120GB SSD Corsair VX 550W Power Supply Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Windows Vista

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GBTV #529 (small) | Fish Tank PC Part 2

On Brief #529, I finish building the PC in a fish tank, otherwise known as the Aquarium PC Kit from Puget Systems. I finish it out by adding a mild laxative! Here are the components: Aquarium Kit XFX GeForce 9300 mATX Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Processor 4GB OCZ Reaper RAM with Heatpipe Cooling OCZ Core Series V2 120GB SSD Corsair VX 550W Power Supply Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Windows Vista

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GBTV #528 (small)| Fish Tank PC Part 1

On Brief #528, I start building a PC in a fish tank, otherwise known as the Aquarium PC Kit from Puget Systems. Here are the components: Aquarium Kit XFX GeForce 9300 mATX Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Processor 4GB OCZ Reaper RAM with Heatpipe Cooling OCZ Core Series V2 120GB SSD Corsair VX 550W Power Supply Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Windows Vista

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GBTV #527 (small) | Have you seen apps open this fast?

We've all had the desire to have the fastest computer in the world, but this guy did something about it! He put 24 Samsung Solid State Hard Drives in a PC and in this promotional video demonstrates just how fast it is in today's video. It doesn't matter how fast your computer is, you know what you ultimately want is instant response. You click an icon and the app is instantly up and running for you. This is the closest thing I've ever seen to that. You can save money on domain name regi ...

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GBTV #526 (small) | WolframAlpha, Cydia Store, Intel Research, Largest Media Center Remote

Vote for Cali Stephen Wolfram has been working on WolframAlpha for years and is attempting to change the world of search. Rather than offering results based on documents and sites that might contain the answer to your question, WolframAlpha wants to actually give you an answer. In my quest for information about streaming to Ustream from your iPhone, I found out about the Cydia Store, which will give iPhone owners the ability to download apps that aren't approved by Apple. Elgato's ...

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GBTV #525 (small) | Eye-Fi Video, Everio X, PrecisionHD, Maemo 5, Auto Kindle eBook Converter

Vote for Cali Eye-Fi announced their new cards have been doubled in storage to 4GB, and you can transfer video now. The JVC Everio X shoots 1080p video and 9mp stills. The most notable feature is a slow motion option for slowing down four seconds of video to 24 seconds. Tandberg's PrecisionHD USB Camera streams 720p video to the Web, and lets you adjust the quality you send based on your available bandwidth. If you're an "adventurous developer", take a look at Nokia ...

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GBTV #524 (small) | Kindle iPhone App, WePC, Shell, EeeNAS PC, Eee PC Keyboard

Amazon launched their Kindle iPhone App. It's free, and will keep your place using Whispersync. Set down your Kindle, leave the house, and continue reading on your iPhone or iPod Touch. I tried it and I love it. WePC.com is ASUS/Intel project where you can share your ideas for a dream computer with engineers who can bring the best of those ideas to life. The first product to come out of the project is a dual screen notebook on display at CeBit 2009. ASUS also announced their "S ...

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GBTV #523 (small) | Apple Product Refreshes, Best Job in the World Contest

Today is a big product refresh from Apple. They've updated iMacs, the Mac Mini and the Mac Pro. Very little has changed on the outside of any of the machines. It's all about faster, better more effecient performance. The Mac Pro internal system architecture has been re-designed to make upgrades even easier. Out of everything that's changed, I'm most excited about the new Airport Extreme. It now simultaneously and separately supports 2.4GHz data Wi-Fi AND 5GHz Wi-Fi. That means your need ...

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GBTV #522 (small) | Nokia Phones Found in Odd Places, DEMO '09, Touch Book, Vue Webcam, Apple Event

People keep finding Nokia phones in the oddest places. In the UK, Glen Kerley found a mobile in the belly of a fish and in Wisconson, Emma Schweiger found a Nokia phone in a freshly opened bag of Clancy's Ripple Potato Chips. DEMO 09 is happening in Palm Desert, CA and also live on the Internet starting at 8:30 AM PST on March 2 and March 3. The Touch Book from Always Innovating will debut at DEMO 09. It's a netbook AND tablet computer with a touch screen for under $300. The specs ha ...

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GBTV #521 (small) | Blooper Special

Most of you love bloopers on GeekBrief.TV, but I've been doing this for a long time, and I don't make many anymore. One morning, we woke up to shoot at 6:00 AM, and we found a guaranteed way of getting bloopers out of me!

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GBTV #520 (small) | Apple TV Update Breaks Boxee, Safari 4

The latest Apple TV update (2.3.1) breaks Boxee again. Sales of the Apple TV surged in the last quarter of 2008, and my guess is that Boxee was a factor. Boxee is a killer app for Apple TV and I would love to see Apple open up the platform. If you already have Boxee installed, you can update Apple TV and just use the patchstick to re-install. It's inconvienient, but not the end of the world. My "Leave Boxee Alone" segment is a parody of Chris Crocker's "Leave Britney Alone& ...

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GBTV #519 (small) | Kindle 2

There is a reason Kindle 1 is a success. It did what it was supposed to do without frustrating users. Kindle software and services are so good that the industrial design flaws in version 1 were easy to overlook ... at least for early adopters. Kindle 2 is ready for everyone. It combines great software, great service and a very nice little piece of hardware. Kindle 2 feels better to hold. It's softer and there are plenty of possible ways to hold it without accidentally turning pages. Wit ...

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GBTV #518 (small) | Schlage LiNK, QuikPod, Linksys Conductor, Samsung TL320

You no longer have to wait around for the cable guy to show up between the hours of 8:00 AM and 5:00 PM. If you're away when he shows up, you can unlock your door via an iPhone app with the Schlage LiNK Z-Wave Locks. Can you say, "Freeedom!!!" We've talked about the QuikPod before. Wayne Fromm is an inventor who made his dream come to reality. The extendable arm for your digital camera took off immediately. QuikPod v3 is out and now and it's better than ever. The Linksys Co ...

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GBTV #517 (small) | How to TweetDeck like a Pro

I've been using TweetDeck for a long time, and have been getting a lot of questions about how to get the most out of it. This is a quick tutorial showing the features and shortcuts in TweetDeck. Download TweetDeck Follow Cali on Twitter

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GBTV #516 (small) | Hulu & Boxee, 4G, Bushnell HD Torch Flashlight, Samsung Omnia HD

Hulu is being taken off Boxee's available content. No one is happy about the decision, but Jason Kilar's approach to the situation is commendable. I get the impression that he realizes having to do this is as boneheaded as we all think it is. A year ago, I hosted a panel on 4G. Back then, no one was really talking about it except for a select few, but now we're beginning to see some action. Verizon Wireless chose Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent as network vendors for deployment of 4G in the U ...

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GBTV #515 (small) | LG-X120, HTC Magic, DSC-T900, The Tapster, TinyChat

LG Electronics announced the LG-X120 Netbook at Mobile World Congress. You'll be able to access frequently used apps within five seconds of turning your computer on. The HTC Magic will be the second phone to sport Google's Android OS. It has some good features, but also a couple odd choices on their part. Sony's Cybershot DSC-T900 has intelligence built into auto mode. It's not supposed to take your photo if your eyes are closed and quickly adjusts to conditions. I think this has ...

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GBTV #514 (small) | Bag O' Schwag Contest

Instead of an unboxing, today I'm unbagging my bag of schwag from Macworld. One of you are going to get the entire bag!!! Contest details are below. Here's what's in the bag: MCA CherryB Nano case Marware Eco Runner Nano Armband NekFit Sportsband for Nano Marware EcoVue iPod Touch Case Pogo Stylus Matias MiniRizer MobiGrip Griffin PowerJolt SE Griffin iTrip Auto MacScan (Trial version) Parallels Desktop 4.0 (Trial version) Cover Scout I'm exchanging Freeway Pro because I want to test th ...

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GBTV #512 (small) | Savant Systems

On Brief 512, we go back to Macworld where we talk about Savant, my favorite home automation system. We've talked about Savant a few times on GeekBrief.TV and did an interview on Geek Brief Radio, but Macworld was my first chance to see the gorgeous onscreen interface in person. Because the Savant system is built on top of OSX and uses Mac hardware, they take advantage of core animation and the result is a navigation system that looks really, really nice.

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GBTV #511 (small) | Mophie Juice Pack Air, LaCinema Black Max, Miro 2.0

Mophie announced the <a href="http://www.mophie.com/products/juice-pack-air" target="_blank">Juice Pack Air</a> that looks more like an iPhone case than what it is...a battery pack. It's the best looking battery pack I've seen so far, and will sell for $80 in the spring.<BR><BR> The <a href="http://www.lacie.com/download/datasheet/lacinemaBlackMax_en.pdf" target="_blank">LaCinema Black Max</a> is an HD Media Serve ...

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GBTV #510 (small) | Amazon v2, Wireless Mics, Nikon Lens, Pionner News, Microsoft Ad

We've been anticipating version 2 of the Amazon Kindle pretty much since the first version was released. The newest feature I'm excited about is called Read-to-me. It's text to speech so you can listen to your books when you can't read them. I've pre-ordered mine and will have an unboxing and my initial thoughts as soon as it arrives! With the transition to Digital TV, anyone like schools, churches, community organizations who use devices like wireless mics that operate in frequencies be ...

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GBTV #509 (small) | Gibson Robot Guitar

We covered the Gibson Robot Guitar when it was announced. Sean Carruthers from Butterscotch.com got to see it do it's thing at CES 2009. David used promocode GB1 to save money at GoDaddy.com when he registered t577.org. You can save money on domain name registrations and renewals from GoDaddy.com with discount codes GB1, GB2 and GB3. For an explanation of each code, click here.

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GBTV #508 (small) | The DSLR Journey

Sam from SmugMug gives me a lesson on the Canon 5D Mark II, and shows me how to take my shooting to the next level. You can see Sam's photography at sams.smugmug.com. My favorite photos are from his Moab Gallery. Follow along with my effort to get the most out of the 5D Mark II at cali.smugmug.com.

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GBTV #507 (small) repost | LG71 Series: Wireless HDTVs

Andy Walker from Butterscotch.com gives us a sneak peak at the LG71 series of HDTVs. They get their video wirelessly, broadcasted through the radio frequency. They'll be out sometime this year. Unfortunately, they're not giving us any information on price. You can save money on domain name registrations and renewals from GoDaddy.com with discount codes GB1, GB2 and GB3. For an explanation of each code, click here.

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GBTV #506 (small) | PlusDeck Ex USB Cassette Deck, BT-1 Webcam, Interactive Toy Concepts

The PlusDeck Ex USB Cassette Deck is the ultimate audio conversion box. Not only will it convert your cassettes to MP3, you can use it to convert your vinyl, record radio shows and capture audio from your voicemail. If you find the iSight to be limiting, you'll want to take a look at ecamm's BT-1 Wireless Webcam. It's bluetooth, with a range of 10-30 feet, and it has tripod threads for attaching to your tripod when the top of your monitor just isn't cutting it. You can save money on ...

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GBTV #505 (small) | The Google Glitch

This morning started like a typical morning for me ... with a google search. I searched for Bruce Williams, a broadcaster who does a business advice show and got the results I'd respect along with warnings on every search result. The warning says, "This Site May Harm Your Computer." I went to a different Mac and did a search. Same thing. I used different search words and phrases. Same thing. I did a search from different browsers and from a PC and got the same warning message. ...

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GBTV #504 (small) | GestureTek, 7-in-1 MP4 Player

Sean Carruthers from Butterscotch.com shows us a demo of GestureTek from CES. It's using a webcam to sense motion and control devices. He also has a great interview with Jacky Pang showing us a 7-in-1 MP4 Player. You can save money on domain name registrations and renewals from GoDaddy.com with discount codes GB1, GB2 and GB3. For an explanation of each code, click here.

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GBTV #503 (small) | Kindle v2, Offline Gmail, Verizon Hub, Pulse Smartpen

On February 9th, Amazon is holding a press conference. We're expecting to see version 2 of the Kindle, and I'm hoping it will look something like this. Gmail announced Offline Mode finally! More details here. The Verizon Hub is a VoIP phone meant to help your family manage their lives. It has visual voicemail, contact list management, text message calendar alerts and it's all managed on a color touch screen. I've been playing with the Livescribe Pulse Smartpen the past couple week ...

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GBTV #502 (small) | Edge Motion, TheWrap.com, TechCrunch Tablet

Emo Labs are working on something pretty cool called Edge Motion. It's a clear membrane on your display that's meant to give you better sound than we currently get with our notebooks. For a full explanation of the technology in play, visit Technologizer.com. TheWrap.com seems to be a good source for people interested in the business of entertainment, both old media and new media. I've talked before about the touchscreen tablet Mike Arrington and his team have been working on. They have ...

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GBTV #501 (small) | Palm Pre & Multi-touch on the G1

So far, smart phones launched in answer to the iPhone have disappointed. The Palm Pre looks like it's combination of hardware and software is elegant enough in functionality to provide consumers with a real choice. Tim Cook, COO at Apple even offered a warning to competitors after the Pre was announced: We approach this business as a software platform business. We are watching the landscape. We like competition as long as they don’t rip off our IP. And if they do, we will go after any ...

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GBTV #500 (small) | A Celebration in Steel

John P. is back on the Brief. This guy is fascinating to us because he retired at a young age with enough money to do whatever he wants. He choose to spend time learning to do interesting things like forging knives out of steel, welding and the list goes on and on. He learned to use and bought a plasma torch. This thing cuts through steel like a hot knife through ice cream. We're not that gung ho about celebrating round numbers, but 500 seemed round enough to merit something special. It's ...

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GBTV #499 (small) | Automator

Sal is an Apple Script and Automator Guru, Number 1. Number 2, he's a really cool guy! We talked about Mac OS X Automation and his latest book, Apple Training Series: AppleScript 1-2-3.

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GBTV #498 (small) | Pinger Phone

My favorite iPhone App I saw at Macworld is Pinger Phone. Greg Woock explains how it works. You can save money on domain name registrations and renewals from GoDaddy.com with discount codes GB1, GB2 and GB3. For an explanation of each code, click here.

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GBTV #497 (small) | MacSpeech

I've been using a speech to text app called MacSpeech for the last few months. I've tried different apps in the past, but found them too buggy to really be helpful. On Brief 497, I talk to JeffGanyard about MacSpeech Dictate, which has the distinction of actually working well! You can save money on domain name registrations and renewals from GoDaddy.com with discount codes GB1, GB2 and GB3. For an explanation of each code, click here. Jacob registered www.bribriny.com and saved money w ...

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GBTV #496 (small) | SmugMug

I like most companies I get to interact with in the course of producing Geek Brief, but I LOVE small family-run businesses that have leveraged the power of the Internet to have an international reach. SmugMug is a great example. It was founded byDon MacAskill and he later hired Dad and brothers to help. It keeps growing and growing and best of all they're a profitable company in Silicon Valley. I talked with Don about starting SmugMug and the resent relationship between them and Vincent ...

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GBTV #495 (small) | Inside the Data Center

It isn't typical that someone is allowed to bring a camera into a secure data center. John P., the CMO at Layered Tech either broke some rules or pulled some strings so that we could take a tour and bring you along. The part we couldn't show is the layers and layers of security we had to get through to get to the server rooms.

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GBTV #494 (small) | Roboticized Data Center (repost)

Layered Tech is one of the top enterprise-level Web hosting companies in the world. Most viewers of Geek Brief are probably familiar with consumer level, shared hosting where you order hosting and it's ready for you almost right away. It's not quite so simple for large businesses and Web 2.0 companies. Ordering a dedicated server to host a Web site from a secure data center that provides redundancy and many layers of physical security has traditionally taken about 3 days from the time ...

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GBTV #493 (small) | Dr. Kiki

I've always loved how Dr. Kiki Sanford explains science! Check out the show that made me drool, Food Science. You can find out more about Kirsten Sanford and watch The Science Word at her website, KirstenSanford.com.

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GBTV #492 (small) | Macworld 2009

Blue Microphones' Eyeball & Mikey Xtreme Mac's new MicroMemo

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GBTV #491 (small) | Macworld 2009

Fastmac's U-Charge, ThermaPAK Laptop Cooler, Yojimbo

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GBTV #490 (small) | Spatial View

Spatial View  @ Macworld 2009

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GBTV #489 (small) | John C. Dvorak *repost*

John C. Dvorak, aka Mr. Cranky Pants, is one of our virtual mentors and I caught him on the show floor at Macworld. We talked about his crankiness, his blog dvorak.org/blog, his show Tech 5, his show No Agenda, his aggregator site channeldvorak.com and the future of Apple beyond Steve Jobs. If you want to promote yourself or your business online, John is one of the best people to study.

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GBTV #488 (HD) | MacWorld 2009

Have to upload! Shownotes coming soon!

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GBTV #486 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

I got a lot of questions about the Federal Reserve vault that we talked briefly about in Brief #485. This is the rest of the story. We met this guy backing something called Woopra. Needless to say, we fell in love with Woopra, and we adopted the guy behind it, John P., as kind of a dad. John P. wrote the first version of CSS. We didn't know that when we adopted him. We just thought he was kind of smart and pretty cool. John P. retired around the age of 30, and then he went back to work for ...

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GBTV #485 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

IDG (the company that organizes Macworld) is holding a town hall meeting at Macworld. This is your chance to give them your feedback on what you want from future Macworlds. What should it be post-Apple involvement? In Brief #485, I talk about what I want to see in 2010. Leave your thoughts in the comment section below! If you follow me on Twitter, you know I finally got my Canon 5D Mark II! You can see the full HD video I shot and pictures at cali.smugmug.com. I'll be posting all sorts ...

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GBTV #484 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

After we quit our day job at Extra Space to do Geek Brief full time, we moved to the familiarity of our home town. We moved into a loft in an old building and if you were around during that phase, you might remember that we were sick a lot. We pretty much coughed for the whole time we lived and worked there. During that time we met William, the Geek Brief Intern and I built my first computer from scratch. We moved from there to a townhouse where we hired our first employee, Emily. She marr ...

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GBTV #483 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

When we talk about starting Geek Brief, we use the term "laser focus". It fits because we were determined to make producing the show our full-time job. For the first time in our lives pretty much, failure wasn't an option. We absolutely believed it would happen, but since we didn't know what we were doing exactly, we expected it to take some time. Three weeks in, we were shut down by our hosting company for using too much bandwidth. Again we were watching what PodShow (now Mevio) ...

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GBTV #482 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

It's December 23, the third anniversary of GeekBrief.TV, and this is our story. First, the back story. Long, long ago before the bubble burst ... the Internet bubble, not the housing one ... Neal and I were freelance Web developers. He did the design and I did the code. There was a cable channel called ZDTV that later became TechTV. We kept it on all the time while we were working, kind of like the way some people keep a news channel on all the time. Tech TV introduced us to Leo Laporte ...

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GBTV #481 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

You saw our excitement over the Wicked Laser we received a couple weeks ago, so imagine our excitement when we got the Spyder II GX in the mail! This laser is the one The Woz has used. The military grade casing is waterproof and airtight (and might I mention...it's huge!). In Brief #481, we put the laser through some tests and fun experiments. Be very careful with lasers! They can be dangerous, so avoid people's eyes and planes in the sky!

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GBTV #479 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

2009 will be Apple's last year exhibiting at Macworld. The shocker announcement also lets us know there will be no Steve Jobs on stage at this year's keynote. Phil Schiller will be taking his place. CBS will be redeveloping TV.com, an asset they bought in the CNet deal. TV.com will be competing with Hulu. I asked for your opinions on Gamerox. It's a chair meant to provide health benefits to kids playing games. What do you guys think? Leave a comment below. IKEA is offering a mode ...

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GBTV #468 (small) | Behind the Scenes with Geoff Smith

Tonight is our Live Streaming Christmas Party in Nashville. It's the most technically challenging thing we've ever produced. It's being held at The Big Bang Bar with Geoff Smith. This behind the scenes look will give you a taste of some of the challenges we were working on today. You'll hear a buzz in the audio. Also, Neal was switching on the Preview Channel for the first few minutes of this conversation instead of the Live Channel, and he wanted me to put an apology in the shownotes. If ...

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GBTV #477 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

Mercedez is the first one bringing to market technology that lets two people watch two different things at the same time. The driver will be able to see controls and navigation information, and the passenger will be able to watch whatever they want. If you have a small point and shoot camera, take a look at the Wrap-up Tripod. It wraps around your camera to protect it, then unfolds into a tripod. MiFi gives you a hotspot for all your devices and multiple users, so you can connect on th ...

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GBTV #476 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

We're going retro on today's Brief! Sleevefacing is a fad that could (perhaps) be helping the vinyl record industry. There is even a book! The AV Room Portable USB Turntable has built in stereo speakers and USB so you can digitize all those records. The Nomad Portable Speaker looks like it's from the 1930's. If you've been around Geek Brief for a while, you know how much I love the Model One Radio, designed by Henry Kloss. It sounds great, and it looks good wherever you put it. ...

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GBTV #475 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

Here are 11 amazing, interesting or downright crazy USB Hubs! Century USB 2.0 Hub Thanko's Gold Ingot Darth Vader USB Hub USB Telephone 4-port Hub TARDIS USB Port Engine USB Hub LaCie Hub USB Triangle Thanko's Scotch Tape Dispenser USB Hub Urban Outfitter's USB Hub Boynq Swing

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GBTV #474 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

The TiVo and Netflix partnership is getting better and better. Now, if you have a TiVo Series 3, TiVo HD or TiVo HD XL, you can stream HD content with a Netflix account. The Logitech Lapdesk is meant to keep your lap from burning up and allows air to flow through. It won't be out until January. Black and Decker announced a Thermal Leak Detector that will help you find heat leaks in your house. It's also not due out until next year. aTV Flash has a new version. If you're not familia ...

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GBTV #473 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

I've missed you all while I've been sick! Thank goodness for Twitter, which allows us to keep talking even when I don't release shows. :) Brief #473 is a wrap up for the week. Nokia released the N97 and had bloggers all ablaze. It has a touch display, a QWERTY keyboard, and expandable storage. HDguru.com is a great place to start with your search for the perfect HDTV. Check out their Holiday Guide. The one thing I'm curious about with Gary Merson's choices is why there aren't any Vizi ...

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Geek Brief Radio | Cali Sounds Funny

We talk a little bit of tech, but mostly people on Twitter just wanted to hear what I sound like!

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GBTV #472 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

The Nikon D3X uses a new imaging processing system called EXPEED. The camera works to improve image quality, processing speed and reduce power consumption. The Imation Wireless Projection Link makes it easy for you to send what's on your laptop screen to a projector. It's perfect for conferences and presentations. Mac users will like the Targus Bluetooth Laser Mouse. In place of the scroll wheel in the middle, there's an optical sensor, allowing for four way scrolling. It also works ...

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GBTV #471 (small) | Top 10 Favorite Things from 2008

Brief #471 is my Top 10 Favorite Things List for 2008. 10) Bacon Salt 9) Dell Crystal Display 8) MacBook & MacBook Pro Glass Trackpad 7) Drobo Firewire 800 6) Hulu 5) Griffin Simplifi 4) Boxee on Apple TV 3) App Store 2) Neat Receipts 1) Canon EOS 5D Mark II

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GBTV #470 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

If you've been wanting a router with that looks less like a router, take a look at STC's Wireless Router. Mac Rumors published a chart that compares Black Friday Mac sales. If you've received your Canon 5D Mark II (lucky you!!), leave a link in the comments below with any video footage or pictures you take. The Golden Shellback Coating System protects gadgets from the weather, and perhaps even water (although they won't guarantee it). It's available for a select few gadgets now, b ...

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GBTV #469 (small) | Geek Brief Live

Today's show was shot on Saturday during my presentation at the Leadership Symposium on Digital Media in Healthcare. It was hosted by USF Health, in conjunction with Apple. Since the conference had a medical theme, this Brief is Shiny, Happy Medical News. The iPill is designed to help patients take smaller dosages of medicine, to reduce side effects, by targeting the right part of the body. GlucoBoy was developed by a father whose son has diabities and kept loosing his glucose monitor. T ...

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GBTV #468 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

This is part 3, the final part of my conversation with Leo Laporte at the TWiT Cottage. This part of our chat might not be interesting to most Geek Briefers because it's very "inside baseball." I asked Leo to talk about how he thinks the economic slowdown might impact new media, especially as it relates to people just getting started. He has hope that it's ultimately good for new media because advertising on new media is proven to be extremely effective. If you're interested in t ...

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GBTV #467 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

The latest Apple TV update breaks Boxee. I'm sure Boxee will come up with a fix soon enough, but I'm disappointed, as I am in the copyright protection on the MacBooks and MacBook Pros. Thanks to Jeff McCord for the tip. The Bottle Top Tripod could potentially be used as a steadicam for a point and shoot camera. If you try it, leave a comment and let us know how it works! Vizio announced a new 55" LCD HDTV to it's Vizio XVT line. It may just be my first 1080p TV. The VSB210WS is ...

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GBTV #466 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

HP released the first multi-touch notebook for consumers. It's called the TouchSmart tx2 Notebook PC. There are some drawbacks, but I'm happy to see it come to market, and it'll only get better from here. The VUDU XL2 is rack mountable and offers 1TB of storage, with SD and HD video from the VUDU library. Thinking about frying a turkey for Thanksgiving this year? The Oil-less Turkey Fryer offers all the goodness of a fried turkey without all the fat. I've been super excited the p ...

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GBTV #465 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

The team at Oblong is getting closer and closer to bringing Minority Report like gesture control to the market. This is awesomeness! Thanks to the HP MediaSmart Server for supporting The Brief. To find out where you can order one, click here.

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GBTV #464 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

If you're thinking of switching to a Mac and think it might be just too difficult, take a look at the Belkin Switch-to-Mac Cable. It'll help you move your email, settings, photos and music over to the Mac. We keep talking about VisualHub. Thanks to AutomatedHome.com who found Format Factory, a Windows video conversion tool. HDClone 3.6 is designed to create copies of software and OS installs. I'm looking forward to trying it. Start looking forward to USB 3.0, which launches next Monda ...

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GBTV #463 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

RED announced two new cameras to their line. The Scarlet is $2,500 and the Epic is $28,000. I'll be getting a Flip Mino HD soon to review. It shoots in 720p for $229.95. I think the Blackberry Storm is the first phone that has a chance at competing against the iPhone. If you're like me and don't like to keep your downloaded email locally, Stash My Mail is worth a look. You can download all your email in a zip file for safe keeping, and since zip files don't take up much space, y ...

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GBTV #462 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

I've been thinking about loading Boxee on my Apple TV for a while. I finally got to it, thanks to encouragement from John Mahoney at Gizmodo. He published a step-by-step guide. It's was extremely easy. The difficult part was finding my missing Apple TV so I could install the Boxee app. If you don't already have a Boxee account, you can fast-track an invite with this link: Boxee.tv/geekbrieftv Thanks to the HP MediaSmart Server for sponsoring The Brief. To find out where you can order ...

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GBTV #461 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

We've met our neighbors before, but we're not really the bonding with proximity types. Then on Saturday, we experienced serendipity in living technicolor. We left the apartment take our dogs out. As we passed our neighbor's door, he walked out carrying a T-Rex 600 RC Helicopter. I'm pre-dispososed to adore RC helicopters. I've never seen anything like it. I had a faint understanding about the existence of serious radio controlled toys, but honestly, the really impressive stuff was completel ...

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GBTV #460 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

Ralph de la Vega said AT&T would be sanctioning tethering for the iPhone soon. Macrumors suggests it could be with the 2.2 update. Many iPhone users have wanted this feature since the beginning! I've been trying out the Outcast, an outdoor wireless audio system, and I'm impressed. Soundcast has done wireless audio right. They even built the Outcast to withstand fire and a car wash. Mgestyk Technology is getting us closer to a Webcam Gesture Control System. It's PC only. You've h ...

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GBTV #459 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

I've been testing out the Vuzix iWear AV920 for the past few days. The personal video viewing experience has come a long way since these devices first came out. What I liked the most is how it kept distractions out and let meconcentrate on the task at hand. The iPhone 2.2 firmware update is out in the field for testing. When it's released, we should have the ability to download podcasts wirelessly, but there's a limit of 10MB for each download. Brando has a brilliant little gadget ca ...

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GBTV #458 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

We finally have a price and ship date for the Pico Projector. It's a handheld projector that you can quickly hook up to your iPod for showing off videos on thego. Bacon Alert! Bacon + Mayonnaise = Baconnaise. It's from the same makers as Bacon Salt. I can't wait to meet these guys! Marware announced the Game Grip, an iPhone/iPod Touch accessory that we knew was bound to come to market. The wheel holds your iPod Touch or iPhone and has routing for a USB cable and earbuds. We tested ...

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GBTV #457 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

Remember when I had the Mophie Juice Pack on GBTV? I've been testing the FastMac iV and give you a comparison of the two options. Amazon is working with companies to reduce the amount of packaging on the products they ship. This should reduce shipping size and frustration as you try to get to the awesome toy you're waiting anxiously to play with! My package opener is OpenIt. The Zoom Room offers a more automated approach to Murphy Beds. You've heard me talk about the Rovio, a mobi ...

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GBTV #456 (small) | Leo Laporte Part 2

This is Part 2 of my conversation with Leo Laporte when I visited the TWiT Cottage on our Little Big Trip. We talk about live streaming and Flash Media Encoder. If you missed Part 1, you can find it here. Thanks to the HP MediaSmart Server for supporting The Brief. To find out where you can order one, click here. Paul Thurrott's in-depth review is here.

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GBTV #455 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

HP announced a new line of netbooks. The most notable is the Mini 1000. You might have heard of Axiotron Modbooks. If you have an existing MacBook you would like turned into tablet Mac that you can write and draw on, they now offer a service called Modservice. For pretty much as long as I've been an adult, Elmo has been the highly demanded Christmas gift. This year, will it be the Alive Cubs? It's on my wish list! A lot of teachers show GeekBrief.TV in the classroom. For that, I a ...

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GBTV #454 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

Poladroid is a great free Mac application. When you drag a photo to Poladroid, it creates a Polaroid-like photo on your desktop. A Windows version is expected by December. Windows users can take control of your Send To menu when you right-click on a document. Send to Toys allows you to edit what appears in that menu. WindowShop has to be the future of shopping online! Check it out at windowshop.com. I wrote about the Griffin Simplifi when it was released, and now I have it in the ...

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GBTV #453 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

Google Earth is now available for the iPhone, and it's a great experience. For more iPhone talk, head on over to iCali.tv. Qik released alpha versions for the BlackBerry Pearl 8120, BlackBerry Pearl 8130, the Blackberry Curve 8320, and the BlackBerry Bold. You can download from qik.com/sign_up. If you're not aware of Qik, it's a live streaming service from mobile phones. My Qik page is qik.com/cali. Netflix streaming will work on Macs by the end of the year. This will probably cause ...

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GBTV #452 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

Brief #452 is the last stop on our Little Big Trip, this time in Turner Falls, Oklahoma. Thanks @Farren for the suggestion! Road Trip Effect Pro allows you to create an animated route through...well, whatever your imagination can take you. Driving through Wyoming, we drove through snow. It will probably be the only snow we see this year. For those of you who get to experience it all winter, check out the FrontGate Heated Traction Maps. They melt snow, creating a path for you to get fr ...

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GBTV #451 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

I probably wouldn't be doing GeekBrief.TV if it wasn't for Leo Laporte. Before the dot com bubble burst, Neal and I did Web development and we had ZDTV and later Tech TV on all day long every day. We reconnected to Leo Laporte when podcasting came along. I've gotten to know Leo and consider him to be a friend and mentor so every time I get a chance to do a Leo update on Geek Brief, I take it. For about the last year, Leo has gotten serious about streaming live video on TWiTlive.tv. He's ...

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GBTV #450 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

Last Tuesday, I tweeted that I was at Data Robotics seeing something super secret. I'm pleased to be able to share it with you today! In July, they released an SDK, and developers have been hard at work making apps for your Drobo and DroboShare to make it even more useful for your every day life. The first set of apps are now available at drobo.com/droboapps. I'm most excited about three apps in particular. The FireFly Media Server is an open source server for iTunes. Yoics gives you acces ...

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GBTV #449 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

The Minoru 3D Webcam looks a lot like Wall-E. Each of the robot-like eyes are cameras that can deliver 3D video over video chat clients, take photos and video. Uncrate featured the World's Greatest Flashlight, which can shine light for hundreds of yards and for up to 11 hours using halogen bulbs. We're wondering what John P., President of Woopra, will think about it. Is the FlashPoint Exo-Stove a real product? If it is, it's supposed to heat up your food and drinks in seconds. Let m ...

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GBTV #448 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

I got my hands on a new, unibody 15" MacBook Pro. This is the unboxing and a closer look at the design. This model is 2.53GHz, a 320GB hard drive and 4GB RAM. As I mentioned before, it has the GeForce 9600M GT Graphics Processor, however the 17" design is NOT being made with the new unibody design. The MacBook Pros have an ethernet port, one firewire 800 port, two USBs, a Mini DisplayPort, and ExpressCard slot. The MacBooks have an ethernet port, two USBs, and a MiniDisplayPo ...

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GBTV #447 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

CEIVA announced two new digital photo frames. The CEIVAlife is 640x480 and the CEIVAshare is 800x600. As with all CEIVA frames, their PicturePlan service is available for uploading photos. The Hover Q claims to be the worlds smallest infared R/C hovercraft. Fusion announced a new car radio with an iPod dock. It's called the CA-IP500. Here at GBTV HQ, we use VisualHub to compress each Brief into different formats so you can the show however is most convenient for you. The develope ...

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GBTV #446 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

Martin Sargent from Internet Superstar asked me to come on the show while I was in the Bay Area, so we headed to the Revision3 studios on our way out of town. That episode will drop next week. While I was there, I grabbed Patrick Norton from Tekzilla to chat about the Apple announcements. There's a new generation of MacBook Pros, MacBooks, a new Cinema Display, and a few updates to the MacBook Air. We also talk about decision not to support Blu-ray. There are two new 13" MacBooks, ...

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GBTV #445 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

We're on the road, and today we shot from Slide Rock just north of Sedona. It's beautiful there!! If you've never been, definitely put it on your list! Nikon has a new and very different opinion of what your MP3 player should look like. It's called the Media Port UP, and it reminds me of Thad Starner's wearable computer. Keith Loutit produced a tilt-shift time lapse video that looks really cool! I would love to know how to do this. You can see Keith's Vimeo page here. There's an ...

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GBTV #444 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

Marji Smith talks to me about women engineers and her experience growing up as the only woman in a crowd of men.

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GBTV #443 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

We're on The Little Big Trip, heading to Cupertino, Redmond and Portland. We stopped at The Big Texan Steak Ranch, where they will give you your meal free if you can eat a 72 oz. steak plus a salad, and roll, and other stuff all in under an hour. I gotta tell you, nothing compares to Chef Dave's ribeye at Bluegrass in Highland Park, Illinois!! On today's Brief, Marji Smith shows me the MVP 8400, one of the controllers available for the AMX systems. We also take a look at the automation ...

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GBTV #442 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

On Sunday, we had a meetup at the Great State Fair of Texas. Friends of the Brief got together so we could all eat way too much. Some of the braver souls in the group tried Chicken Fried Bacon for the first time while those of us with Chicken Fried Bacon experience stuck with our "Never Again!" position. We were invited to visit a Smart Home exhibit at The Women's Museum. A team of women engineers were heavily involved in the tech used in the exhibit. Marji Smith, Director of Pro ...

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GBTV #441 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

In an interview with CIO Magazine, Steve Balmer said they're working on porting the Zune software to Windows Mobile. Sony's eBook reader, the PRS-700, was announced today. It'll have a touch screen, allowing you to "flip" pages with the swipe of a finger. It'll be available at the end of October. Wii Speak is a new channel on the Wii. With a Wii mic, and you and three other people can voice chat. The Nerd Girls are a group of women with the goal of encouraging girls to em ...

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GBTV #440 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic rumors were true. It includes something they're calling Comes With Music, which gives you access to two million songs. The new Nintendo DS is the DSi. We're seeing two cameras and the ability to alter playback speed of audio. For details of the State Fair Meetup on Sunday October 5th, click here. We'll be shooting at the Smart Home, designed by women engineers, and we'll be using the DVRig Pro, an inexpensive camera stabilization system. The smaller vers ...

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GBTV #439 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

I've got three reviews for you on today's Brief. I start off with the Mophie Juice Pack. It's a battery pack that doubles the battery life of the 1st gen iPhone and the iPod Touch. A version for the iPhone 3G is coming October 30th. Sometimes WiFi isn't enough. Not every device that wants to be connected to the Internet has WiFi built in. When you don't want to lay a new Cat 5, there's the Netgear Powerline. A couple weeks ago, I tweeted about NeatReceipts. It's a small, portable sca ...

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GBTV #438 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

I've eaten octopus before, but I've never heard of Octopus Balls, otherwise known as takoyaki in Osaka. The Automatic Octopus Ball Maker makes it easy to make your own. TiVo partnered with Nero a few months ago, and out of that partnership, we get the Nero LiquidTV, which let you turn your PC into a TiVo DVR. Thanks to AutomatedHome.com for finding Jaikoz. Using MusicBrainz and Acoustic ID, it works to tag your music files to fill in the missing blanks. The Jupiter Mouse is a ni ...

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GBTV #437 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

If I could keep fish alive, I would be buying the R2 Fish Training School Kit. Train your fish to do tricks. If you try it, let us know!,b, The Electronic Drum Kit Shirt has audio built in, so you can tap away and make music while you walk down the street. Asus announced a new eeePC with seven and a half hours of battery life, Windows XP, 3G mobile broadband and more. You can save money on domain name registrations and renewals from GoDaddy.com with discount codes GB1, GB2 and GB ...

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GBTV #436 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

The 5800 XpressMusic phone might be Nokia's answer to the iPhone. The translation got a bit screwed up, but we do have some details about the phone. The Apollo Pro WX is the first wireless USB hard drive, with capacities of 250GB to 1TB. Sony Ericsson announced three bluetooth enhanced watches for women. Control music on your phone, see who's calling, and answer or ignore the call. They're the The Sparkling Allure Edition, The Contemporary Elegance Edition, and The Evening Classic E ...

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GBTV #435 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

Vincent Laforet's short film that we mentioned yesterday is online at Canon. He used the 5D Mark II to shoot the film. The behind the scenes footage is online at SmugMug. We've all been waiting to see a real live phone built on Android, an open source platform. Today, T-Mobile, HTC and Google showed us the G1. It doesn't have multi-touch, but it has a physical keyboard and a trackball. More pros/cons in the show. Sony announced the VAIO TT, an ultraportable notebook with Blu-ray inc ...

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GBTV #434 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

If we ever have kids, I really want the Origami Stroller. It automatically folds or unfolds at the touch of a button. It's powered by a generator that charges a battery when the stroller is being pushed. Vincent Laforet had the chance to use the Canon 5D Mark II camera I told you about last week. He shot a short film with a $5,000 budget and thinks the camera is fantastic. He says it's so good, it will change everything. Definitely take a few minutes to read about his experience. SmugMug ...

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GBTV #433 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

Fitbit is a small device that monitors your fitness activity and your sleep at night, and automatically uploads information to the website for you to see how you're doing. There have been several crowdsourcing ventures that haven't made it, but let's hope FairSoftware does. It was a TechCrunch50 finalist. MagHound takes the idea of Netflix and applies it to magazines. Switch around the titles you receive each month, or keep receiving the same ones. Up to you. CRAY intends to make sup ...

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GBTV #432 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

Hotels.com released a technology (in Beta) that uses image psychology to find hotels you might like. All you have to do is choose between photos based on your desired vacation and Hotel Visualizer will give you some options. KATA has a Multimedia Backpack designed for photographers, videographers and filmmakers. It has tear-resistant fabric, foam padding and protects gear from bumps and weather. Hammacher Schlemmer is selling the Laser-Guided Pool Cue, the first of it's kind that's ...

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GBTV #431 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

The Canon EOS 5D Mark II DSLR is getting the most buzz out of all the announcements Canon made today. It has a 21.1 megapixel camera and captures full 1080p video. It's actually pretty speced out. Kodak is showing off the first digital photo frame to use an OLED display at Photokina (photography trade show). It has WiFi, a 7.6" display, 2GB of internal memory, a built in card reader and a USB port. The Iomega eGo Helium portable drive gives you 320GB of storage and weighs less t ...

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Geek Brief Radio #430 | Home Automation by Savant

We have an audio conversation with Jim Carroll, the founder of Savant. They the only company (that I'm aware of) that builds home automation systems on Apple hardware. You can check them out at SavantAV.com. I don't see the iPhone/iPod Touch app in the App Store. As soon as I get the link, I'll update this post. We also officially announce the 2008 Christmas Party in Nashville with Geoff Smith. Last year, we did it virtually over Ustream. This year, we're inviting everyone to come to Th ...

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GBTV #429 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

You could have watched every episode of GeekBrief.TV and not know that we have a helicopter fixation. Radio Controlled helicopters, actually. The Wow Wee Bladstar Flame Indoor Flyer has built in sensor detection to help it avoid obstacles. The HTC Touch 3G site is live, but hidden. It certainly wants to be an iPhone killer with touch and zoom features. You can also shoot video with the 3.2 megapixel camera. If the site is still playing hard to find when you read this, click here. Cra ...

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GBTV #428 (small) | iPod Unboxing

Unboxing of the new Nano 4G and iPod Touch

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GBTV #427 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

The Ikonoskop A-cam dll Digital Motion Picture Camera (what's with the supercalifragilisticexpiladocious long name?!) captures footage without compression. It shoots in 1920x1080 and you get 12 minutes of video on an 80GB memory cartridge. Peek is a device meant to do one thing. Email. It's $100 and $20/month for unlimited use. David Pogue's review is here. Panasonic announced the Lumix DMC-G1, the worlds smallest and lightest Digital Interchangeable Lens camera. Hulger VoIP handset ...

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GBTV #426 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

We saw the Microsoft ad for a laser free mouse last week. Now we have the details. Three mice have been introduced using BlueTrack. They're the Explorer, the Sidewinder and a mini Explorer. Ion Audio releases a large range of analog to digital converters. If you're looking for a turntable for those old records, take a look at the Ion LP2 FLASH. RIM and TiVo announced a partnership, allowing Blackberry users to program their TiVos remotely. Advanced Windows users running the .NET ...

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GBTV #425 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

Microsoft announced an update to the Zune. The most exciting of the features is the ability to tag songs from the FM radio to buy over WiFi or later when you're connected to your computer. The Nano predictions were right, curved screen and all. Apple also updated the iPod Touch to make it thinner, with a contoured back. Both have the new Genius technology that will suggest songs and playlists. iTunes 8.0 is now out. The Grid view is fantastic! TV shows will now be offered in HD for $2. ...

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GBTV #424 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

Scientists at CERN have been working on the Large Hadron Collider. It's a 17 mile ring with the initial intention to test the theory of how mass happens. Some scientists are worried that the experiment will cause the world to end. I'm not worried. We'll be live on Ustream, watching the CERN webcam while the experiment takes place. Join us if you can! When: Wednesday the 10th CERN Webcam: http://webcast.cern.ch Our Live Stream: Ustream.tv Times: 7:00 AM UTC 3:00 AM Eastern Daylight Tim ...

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GBTV #423 (small) | CEDIA Expo #7

CEDIA Update #7 is full length today. Toshiba's XDE DVD Players are another option to Blu-ray. They're working on upconversion like we've never seen. I've been learning a lot about how Hz effects your TV viewing experience. Philips announced their new Aurea II 100Hz Displays at IFA last week and Sharp announced their Aquos 120Hz Displays. You can save money on domain name registrations and renewals from GoDaddy.com with discount codes GB1, GB2 and GB3. For an explanation of each co ...

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GBTV #422 (small) | CEDIA Expo #6

CEDIA Update #6 covers the LG DP889 Digital Photo Frame. The thing that makes this frame different is the built in DVD player and twin earphone jacks. There are some downsides, as there are to every digital photo frame I've seen. What have you guys bought? What do you like about your choice? What don't you like? Leave a comment! The 1394 Trade Association and HANA got together to demo Firewire 800 data distribution via standard coax.

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GBTV #421 (small) | CEDIA Expo #5

CEDIA Update #5 covers THIEL Audio's zöet. It's a plug and play home theater system, and is meant to be simple to setup and easy to use. You can save money on domain name registrations and renewals from GoDaddy.com with discount codes GB1, GB2 and GB3. For an explanation of each code, click here.

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GBTV #420 (small) | CEDIA Expo #4

CEDIA Update #4 covers the Madison Fielding Lowboy, a low sitting console designed for a flat panel display, all your home theater components, and speakers built right in. This is the last update for Tuesday. You can save money on domain name registrations and renewals from GoDaddy.com with discount codes GB1, GB2 and GB3. For an explanation of each code, click here.

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GBTV #419 (small) | CEDIA Expo #3

CEDIA Update #3 covers the Avoca Semiconductor Voice-Enabled Multi-Modal Interface, or VMI. It's a controller for playing your music collection, and is supposed to understand plain English phrases without needing to be trained. For example, "Play Frank" will begin playing your Frank Sinatra collection.

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GBTV #418 (small) | CEDIA Expo #2

CEDIA Update #2 covers the CLO Systems T2:Tilt wall mount. It automatically tilts your TV down when you're ready to watch it so you don't get a glare. When you're done watching, it will automatically move back into an upright position.

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GBTV #417 (small) | CEDIA Expo #1 repost

CEDIA Update #1 covers the Triad InWall Silver/4 Omni Sconce Loudspeaker. It's a speaker system and LED light source in one. You can save money on domain name registrations and renewals from GoDaddy.com with discount codes GB1, GB2 and GB3. For an explanation of each code, click here.

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GBTV #416 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

The Custom Electronic Design and Installation Association Expo (CEDIA) starts today in Denver. We want to use the week to experiment with how we cover trade shows. Producing video takes a lot of time, and because of that we're not able to get information out quickly during big events like CEDIA, Macworld and CES. The experiment is this: we'll release several shorter shows throughout the week. Let us know what you think throughout the test by leaving comments! Also let us know if you run ...

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GBTV #0415 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

IFA 2008 is taking place in Germany and Philips Electronics announced enough beautifully designed products to fill a weeks worth of briefs. I picked my top three favorites: Cinema Ones an all-in-one home theater system that includes an upscalling DVD player, CD player, an iPod dock, a five channel amplifier, six speakers and a subwoofer. The Phillips DVD Home Theater System provides 9.1 surround from four towers, a dedicated center speaker and a subwoofer. The NP2900 Network Music P ...

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GBTV #0414 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

Finally! Details on the Nikon D90. Same D-Movie footage is here. Microsoft releases IE8 Beta 2. Ubiquity is my latest favorite Firefox plug-in. The Space Cube is the worlds smallest PC. MXW1 wireless earphones from Sennheiser offer uncompressed CD-quality audio using Kleer wireless audio technology.

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GBTV #0413 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

Shelfari is a social network and virtual bookshelf for book lovers. The Josh and Shelfari announced today that the site was acquired by Amazon.com. Canon announced several new cameras a two new all-in-one printers today. InsideTrip.com is a travel site that finds flights based on price and then uses a slider to adjust the price based on flight quality preferences you might have. Panasonic has three new Plasma displays with 1TB DVRs built in. The Navigon 7200T is the next GPS syst ...

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GBTV #0412 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

Robotic breakthroughs are entering our lives quickly in the form of useful by-products. As scientist work to build safe, humanoid robots, the technology they discover shows up in cameras, cars, video games and more. The final Brief for Innovation Week is a couple days late because we did a little Chicken Fried Bacon thing with Kat from RealCookN.TV and it left us feeling a little ill. It tasted great, but two slices of deep-fried battered bacon isn't all that different than eating 50 pi ...

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GBTV #0411 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

GBTV Innovation Week continues and Brief 411 is all about HID. Human Interface Design is all about improving how people interact with machines. Mice and keyboards have been useful Human Interface Devices, but there seems to be a common longing for something more natural. When we saw Tom Cruise moving images around with gestures in the movie Minority Report, lots of us wanted to be able to do the same thing. At the TED conference in 2006, Jeff Han showed us we could. Multi-touch is now a ...

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GBTV #0410 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

When Apple released the iPhone, the praise was consistent and so was the criticism. The praise was about the revolutionary interface and the criticism was about the lack of 3G, GPS and Copy and Paste. Apple made 3G and GPS happen, but they said Copy and Paste isn't a priority. The first place we saw copy and paste for iPhone was on an application called MagicPad. The guy behind that app, Juviwhale, met a college student, Zac White. Zac White figured out how to implement copy and paste on a ...

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Geek Brief Radio | Copy and Paste for iPhone

Interview with Zac White about bringing Copy and Paste to the iPhone via OpenClip.org

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GBTV #0409 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

The Discovery Channel has Shark Week. GBTV has Innovation Week. I frequently get asked to explain more about what we mean when we talk about things like Augmented Reality (AR) and Human Interface Design (HID). On Brief 409, I cover Augmented Reality. Augmented Reality is all about added a layer (or multiple layers) of real-time data on top of what's happening all around us. You can look at a building or a car in front of you. With augmented reality, your phone (or another device) will h ...

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GBTV #0408 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

NBC is failing to live up to the Olympic ideal. We want what we want, where we want it, when we want it. Old media seems to be hanging on. They're using technology to inch them forward, but it's slow going. The PhotoFast CR-9000 offers a work-around for getting a solid state drive for under $900. Research is getting us closer to real live invisibility cloaks. Harry Potter may be a reality soon. Okay, I'm joking...but, seriously! Here at GBTV HQ, we've been tracking the Alter Ego ...

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GBTV #0407 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

A UK Web site called Mobilefun is selling an iPhone case with a solar panel built in. It also works with the iPod Touch. I got a DearCali.com question about backing up Firefox bookmarks. We use a plug-in called Foxmarks that synchronizes bookmarks for any computer you add it to. The Chaos Computer Club created a tool for reporters and athletes traveling to China. It's a USB drive with applications that allow travelers to override Chinese blocks. The CamBall is a video camera and r ...

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GBTV #0406 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

A GeekBrief.TV viewer who traveled to China told me Geek Brief is banned there. I don't know if that's still true, but I've decided the Olympics being in Bejing is more of a good thing than a bad thing because the world is paying attention to Chinese restrictions of freedom. I also don't want to miss the girl's gymnastic competition. This Brief is an interview with Mike Mann from Digital-Rapids.com. Digital Rapids is providing the streaming technology to NBC that will make live coverag ...

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GBTV #0405 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

Sunday, I clicked a link from Twitter friend, Daynah, the PHP Princess . It took me to a Seesmic video posted by Eric Rice. The video is an augmented reality demonstration that gives us a glimpse into the future. Eric also blogged about the potential of augmented reality at ericrice.com/spin. This kind of stuff is what The Big Trip is all about. I'd travel the world if I could, capturing innovation in HD and sharing what I find. I want to be Indiana Jones in reverse! Buying a bus is a ...

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GBTV #0404 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

It took 40 minutes to update my iPhone with the 2.0.1 update, but so far, it's been good. The most annoying issue fixed by the update (for me) was how hitting the delete button once would activate delete, delete, delete, delete, etc., until my whole line of text disappeared. John Carmack, anything but an Apple fanboi says the iPhone is more powerful than the Nintendo ds and PSP combined. The Boynq Swing is possibly the greatest design for a USB hub ever conceived. Planon, the com ...

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GBTV #0403 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

NetShare is an iPhone app that allows you to use your iPhone as a modem to connect a laptop to the Internet. It's been on and off the App Store. Hopefully by the time you see this, it'll still be available. You can download it here. Neal, my husband and co-producer, has been asking me to show him how I use gmail filters to keep my inbox organized. I figured, if he doesn't know how to do it, he's probably not alone. I posted my tip on iCali.TV. TechCrunch says Amazon has sold 240,000 ...

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GBTV #0402 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

I asked for video of Microsoft's Sphere at the Research Faculty Summit. Todd Bishop provided it. Dell's Studio Hybrid Desktop PCs provide a design alternative to the Mac Mini. You get your choice of 6 color sleeves or a bamboo sleeve. Brando released the SATA HDD Multimedia Dock, which lets you connect it to a TV. It's a great price for a media center, even if it is a little unattractive. Slydial gives you the option of calling someone and going straight to their voicemail so you ...

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GBTV #0401 (small) | Ones and 0s

One of my friends, Jeff McCord recently wrote a post on his blog about the nastiness of comments on YouTube. I keep hearing the same thing about Digg.com users too. The Web is very much an extension of who we are as people and it's really sad when we forget that. I think I'm guilty too. The episode where I made fun of Gary Krakow for saying Steve Jobs should "put the BlackBerry on the iPhone" was a perfect example of me not thinking about Krakow as a fellow human being. Even thou ...

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GBTV #400 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

About 35 people joined us at the Emergency BBQ Meetup at Bluegrass Restaurant in Highland Park, IL. Thanks to Jim Lederer and Dave Teichman for their hospitality. John Pozadzides was also in town for Hosting Con. John Stopped by and let us know Woopra 1.2 RC2 is now available for download. Here are the links: Windows Version Mac Version Linux Version Google has been the top search engine for years. Some new kids are challenging the search giant. We looked at Viewzi a while back and I s ...

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GBTV #399 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

We're having a Chicago meetup this weekend. Details are at www.Carnivore.tv. When: Sunday, July 27th Where: Bluegrass Restaurant: 1636 Old Deerfield Road, Highland Park, Illinois Phone: 847-831-0595 More Details: www.Carnivore.tv I'll be getting Beats Headphones in the mail soon to review. Early reviews look very good! Ion's USB VCR allows you to convert your old VHS and prepare the video for watching on portable devices. If you have a Blackberry and you have playlists in i ...

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GBTV #0398 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

I can't do shownotes because it would give away the joke, but this episode is Max at Mac News Weekly fault.

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GBTV #0397 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

I'm continually impressed with research coming out of Georgia Tech. The latest accomplishment is a project by Dr. Maysam Ghovanloo and his students. It's called Tongue Drive System and it allows people who have been paralyzed to control their wheelchair or a computer by a magnet on their tongue. Google Maps released Walking Directions to get you from point A to point B on foot. Lifehacker pointed me to a great work around for using Google to search all cities in Craigslist. When y ...

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GBTV #0396 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

Mike Arrington has an idea and I like it. He wants the tech community to build an Internet tablet that is inexpensive and that does one thing well...he wants it to browse the Internet. He's laying out the specs and for the most part, I like his specs. Mike wants an Internet tablet that isn't meant to do much beyond browsing the Web. Simplicity should lower the cost. He wants it to be Macbook Air-thin, with a touch screen that runs Firefox and Skype on top of a Linux kernel. He just want ...

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GBTV #0395 (small) | Blooper Special

It's been a really, really long time since we released a bloopers special. Friends of the Brief (affectionately known as Fothbas or Briefers around our house) ask at meet-ups and in email for a new one. Neal was moving archives from 500 GB My Books to a Drobo this week and he found 5 unreleased blooper reels with about 20 minutes of non-stop giggles. These are the ones that made us laugh the most. Thursday was a big day for domain name purchases at GoDaddy.com because it was the first t ...

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GBTV #0394 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

I noticed I was bending to the will of some iPhone critics and restraining myself from talking much about iPhone 3G. Since GeekBrief.TV is primarily about what excites me in the world of technology, I realized why I was so willing to hold back on the show. I'm not exactly excited about the iPhone 3G. I like it. There isn't really anything I don't like about it other than it's tied to AT&T. The thing that excites me most about iPhone is the 2.0 software and the App Store. I've been doin ...

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GBTV #0393 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

TuneUp is an app for Windows iTunes users to keep iTunes clean and organized. The Hacked OH! *#% Flash Drive make geek 2GB or your data safe in a completely unique way. The HomeSeer HomeTroller is an energy efficient home automation appliance that can controll your lights, appliance, climate, security, telephones, irrigation, window shades and home entertainment equipment. Thanks to AutomatedHome.co.uk for the heads up! N-Gage has a FIFA football game that's free through August, b ...

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GBTV #0392 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

Nintendo announced the Wii MotionPlus. It's an ad-on to your existing remote that will make it more responsive and more accurate. xBox 360 will also have some changes to the dashboard. Microsoft announced a deal with Netflix that's pretty exciting! Tell me what you think about the changes in the comments below. Mosquito repellent sounds coming to Korean phones. There's a Battlestar Gallactica Toaster at the NBC Store. We talked about the NeoCube a while ago. We finally got it a ...

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GBTV #0391 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

Today was the launch of the iPhone 3G and the 2.0 software. Large groups of people lined outside the Apple Stores quickly before the 8:00 AM sale time. AT&T got involved in the activation process and decided they wanted all customers' purchases to be activated in-store. Instead, the servers weren't ready for the demand. Transactions couldn't be handled, and a 10-15 minute process turned out to be twenty minute to an hour per customer. I eventually got my iPhone untouched by the App ...

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GBTV #0390 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

I woke up this morning to a flurry of activity in the tech world. The iPhone 2.0 software had been unofficially released, and the App Store was in iTunes. I downloaded some apps quickly before heading to the airport to pick up Dave Peterson. Some of my favorites were PhoneSaber, AIM, Super Monkey Balls and HoldEm. Seagate released their first 1TB hard drive. Belkin's BreakFree incorporates a Magsafe adapter with 1/4" TRS cables, and the FlyWire streams HD video across the ro ...

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GBTV #0389 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

On Brief #374, I put out a call to action for an affordable live switching application that would work with services like Ustream.tv and Stickam. After that, we began working with Mike Versteeg, the developer of Vidblaster. Vidblaster has actually been around for two years, but in the past couple weeks, Mike has been working hard (and amazingly fast!) at making it accomplish what we were looking for. There's a growing need in the market for this application, and Mike is now offering it at ...

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GBTV #0388 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

The Microsoft and Yahoo! saga continues. Google is launching a new feature to allow you to close sessions left open on other computers so you can make sure no one has access to your account. Lots of people asked for it, and we finally got it. Drobo released v2 today and this version has two firewire ports. Pioneer has a prototype 400GB Blu-ray, read only, drive. Massive storage on an optical drive is on its way. XBMC is changing their name to Plex Squared to avoid assumptions ...

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GBTV #0387 (small) | Hello, Hello

The release of the iPhone last year was one of the most fun days of my life. We waited in line for ten hours and bonded with the people waiting with us. We're not expecting the same magic this year, but we still want to make it an unforgettable day. Friday, July 11, 2008 People are flying and driving in to buy their phones with us at Northpark in Dallas, and then we'll all have lunch at Buca di Beppo (Park Lane). The music video is from the launch of the iPhone and the song is Hello, He ...

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GBTV #0386 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

We're giving up DV tapes in our production flow with the Firestore FS5 release. Matt, or Multiple Account Twitter Tweeting, is the first service I think I might continue to use to post my tweets to multiple accounts. The only downside that I've found is that posting isn't immediate. AT&T is working to make purchasing the iPhone 3G seem as complicated and unpleasant as possible. My t-shirt was provided by Allmightys.com.

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GBTV #0385 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

Drobo released an SDK today. Developers can build apps to make Drobo do more after joining the Drobo Developer Community. Fontstruct is a free, Web-based app for future typography rock stars. I want the creator of the next Helvetica to be a GeekBrief.TV viewer. GoLive2 is releasing a Wiimote inspired series of controllers for PC gaming and they're calling them Stix. Philippe Starck designed a small wind turbine that might generate 20% to 60% of the energy needed to power a home. I ske ...

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GBTV #0384 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

After trying multiple iPhone cases, I finally found one that I'm happy with. It's called the Naked Case. The Dock Extender from SendStation is a universal dock extension kit that lets you plug your iPhone in a dock without removing the case. RuinediPhone.com has a petition to try and get Apple to intervene for Canadians and make Rogers offer a more acceptable rate plan. The PlantSense GardenGro offers a more high tech approach to growing plants. Neal is finally starting to use ...

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GBTV #0383 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

Bill Gates says goodbye. Rogers Wireless is still crap. Princeton is making textbooks available on Kindle. The Monsterpod, apparently, sticks anywhere. The Super Side Bar is a Liquor faucet. VidBlaster is working with Ustream. Test tomorrow at 4:00 PM Central time at www.CaliLIVE.tv.

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GBTV #382 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

We're on our way back home from the Bus inspection and this is one last show show in a hotel room. ICANN will begin allowing vanity domain name extensions next year for a hefty fee. NeoCubes are now shipping. Bluraymods.com announced the first region-free Blu-ray DVD player. HP Labs has a new idea in private Beta. MagCloud is a print-on-demand magazine service that makes it possible for anyone to become a magazine publisher. Yes! I've seen the Terra Wind Amphibious RV! :) Uncrate ...

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GBTV #381 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

Today's Brief comes to you from a hotel room that looks like a grandma's house. Tnkgrl solved the problem of why MacBook Air super drives only work with MBAs and she explains how to get one working with any Mac or PC on her blog, tankgrl.wordpress.com. SmugMug has a new service for unlimited storage of any type of file. The service is called SmugVault and it's built on Amazon Web Services. Storage costs pennies per GB. D-Link dropped an update for their DNS-323 NAS. The update turns i ...

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GBTV #380 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

Based on what I've seen so far, Spy Pens haven't surpassed novelty quality. OhGizmo.com pointed us toward a new one called the DVR Pen Recorder that stores up 30 hours of audio and video, but only at a resolution of 352x288. Sony's HDR-CX12 Memory Stick Handycam camcorder uses "smile shutter technology" to automatically take photos of people when they smile. SpotCrime recently got TechCrunched. It's a google map mashup that gives you a graphical representation of crime acti ...

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GBTV #0379 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

Kaleidescape released two new movie players. The 1080p upscales stand definition DVDs to deliver a viewing experience that rivals Blu-ray. Information about the Kaleidescape court case is here and a review of the player is here. The Aztech WL850MS HD Media Streamer uses wireless N to stream 1080p video wirelessly over your home network. The Cuisipro Ice Cream Scoop & Stack produces 3.75 oz., perfectly cylindrical scoops. Rogers Wireless may match AT&T pricing for the iPhon ...

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GBTV #0378 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

Mozilla surpassed the goal. They got more than 8 Million downloads of Firefox 3. 15% of visitors to GeekBrief.TV have upgraded. 30% are still using Firefox 2. 22% are using Safari and 20% are using IE. The rest are using much, much older browsers. Optoma is the first company to release a projector based on the Texas Instruments DLP Pico chipset. Their project is smaller than the average smartphone, but it won't be available in the U.S. until next year. Texas Intruments is also working ...

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GBTV #0377 repost (small) | GeekBrief.TV - Zune 2

Today was Download Day and at the time I'm posting this episode, Firefox 3 has been downloaded 2,205,910 times. It was also the release date of the Spore Creature Creator, the heavily anticipated precursor to Spore the game. Sony Ericsson's C905 is mostly a 8.1 Megapixel Cybershot camera and a little bit a phone. It's beautifully designed and is probably following the best anti-iPhone stratagey a phone maker could. If the camera is the most important part of the phone to you, the C905 is ...

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GBTV #0376 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

I put up a survey earlier this week asking GeekBrief.TV viewers to help me narrow down the best gadgets stores to a top 10. Just before we shot the show, I tweeted asking if anyone else wanted to chime in. By the time we finished shooting, the results had changed somewhat. On the show the list is as follows: #10: A tie between ShopFosters.com and Tigerdirect.com #09: A tie between Newegg.com and Perpetualkid.com #08: SharperImage.com #07: Brookstone.com #06: Hammacher.com #05: Fire ...

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GBTV #0375 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

People have been asking for it, and now it's inevitable. Qik will be available for the iPhone. HP released v2 of their TouchSmart all-in-one computer. Through their Voodoo line, they also announced the Envy, a MacBook Air competitor, and the ever-so-expensive and sexy Omen Gaming PC. The Microsoft Surface has been installed at the iBar at the Rio in Vegas. I don't think I'm cool enough to really understand if this is going to work out for the club crowd, but I am interested in watchi ...

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GBTV #0374 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

Producing a technically good streaming show isn't something we need to do for any reason beyond the difficulty of making it work without spending thousands of dollars on equipment. The challenge has driven us to distraction. We've spent days researching options and talking to developers. We've spent nights dreaming about possible solutions. Streaming doesn't scale like podcasting, but it's a lot of fun to go live whether it's on QIK or On Location or in the studio. Leo Laporte is doing t ...

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GBTV #0373 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

This is our recap of WWDC08. What can I say? Monkey Balls, but that could be perceived as inappropriate. I could say Cromag Rally, but then people may think I'm pro-caveman. I'm ambivalent about cavemen, so ladies and gentleman, Steve Jobs and the 3G iPhone.

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GBTV #0371 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

QIK.com, the camera streaming service announce support for two Windows Mobile phones. Sanyo upgraded the Xacti to include a 300fps Slow-motion feature. The HDD Stage Rack now supports two SATA drives and connects via eSATA or USB 2.0. LocatePC phones home when a PC is stolen. Superlame is a free Web app that lets you add cartoon balloons to your photos. I'll be live with Woopra President, John P. Saturday, June 7th at 12 PM Pacific time on CaliLIVE.tv.

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GBTV #0372 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

It's not usually my nature to be snarky about a person, but on Brief 372, I make an exception. Yesterday, Peter Ha from CruchGear posted a video from TheStreet.com, and I had to bring it to your attention. In the video, Gary Krakow, apparently an old-school tech journalist, is asked what Steve Jobs needs to do to get the iPhone competitive in a corporate environment. His answer is crazier than anything my favorite Mr. Cranky Pants, John C. Dvorak has ever said about Apple.

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GBTV #0370 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

Pandora has an AIR app that give you the option to see what's playing, pause and radio station buttons. Finally, Starbucks is offering free WiFi for two hours. I think it's about time. A new study tells us the PS3 and Plasma TVs use more power than a refrigerator over the course of a year. Canned Bacon. Uh...okay. Small Worlds is a new site in beta. What do you think? I'm on the skeptical side of the Remote Control Finder. Big Trip T-Shirts

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GBTV #0369 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

Asus is pretty good with the cute names. Their new tiny desktop PC will run Linux or XP and they're calling it the Eee Box B202. It'll be available in the States in July. Western Digital has a new WD Scorpio Black 2.5 inch SATA hard drive for notebooks that's 7200 RPM. It's supposed to be available today, but we couldn't find it anywhere. JBL's Control NOW speakers are specially shaped to be mounted at 90 degree intersections like corners and ceilings. The iClooly is a little desk ...

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