This week Michael and Michael welcome Sandy Kearney and Harry Karidis, co-founders of the “Open ThinkTank 3D”, which specializes in developing innovative ideas around the use of all things 3D. ePredator provides us a great link on Next Gen virtual worlds, while kiambogo provides us a link on how games are getting into our every day activities. How fit will the Wii Fit actually make us.

What’s cool?
Harry — Open Thinktank 3D
Michael R — I’m a Tweetaholic
Sandy — Gametech conference and NSF TAxonomy of virtual worlds
Michael — functioning on lack of sleep

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Next gen virtual worlds (epredator)
Data visualization of urban landscapes
Infiltration of play (kiambogo)
Magnificent Mind at Any Age: Natural Ways to Unleash Your Brain’s Maximum Potential

Social Networkin’
Corporate social networking (epredator)
Why the kids don’t use twitter (andypiper)
Tweepme (andypiper)
Social collider (andypiper)

Final thoughts
Michael R — Space Bat (comcipher)
Sandy — all the stuff is integrating closely & tightly together
Harry — Sense of Humor is important
Michael M — Tracking dementia patients with GPS (kevinaries)

Great tags that we didn’t get to in today’s show:
Tech-no-tronic
Current cost software (mardibloke)
Flying cars (kevinaires)
Jotnote (kevinaires)
IBM develops tech to talk to web (huskiesct)

Mac-a-rooni
New iphone OS tech (kevinaires)
iPhone as a modem
Apple’s 99% (jtonline)