Hello and welcome to 2011! And an exciting final year for Dogear Nation as we know it. Back at Dogear Nation labs, we’re cooking up something interesting that we’ll be ready to announce around about our milestone episode 200, which is only a scant few weeks away. If you want to speculate or suggest what it should be, tweet us or drop us an email.  We have a ton of great tags after our long break so sit back and enjoy the show. (George… I will hug him, and pet him, and squeeze him! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JlVqfC8-UI)
What’s cool?
Andy P — Voice Search in Google Chrome – now live on eightbar, Dogear Nation and mqtt sites :-)
Michael R — News Anchor 2 avatar reads the RSS news and at $29.95 I won’t be buying it.
Michael M – Lego Universe
(and Andy helped to build the LEGO Taj Mahal!) COOL!!!

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Why Augmented Reality on the Phone is really nifty — Rock’em Sock’em Robots! — 0xdeadbeef via twitter
Augmented Reality Magic Mirror via @rwang0
Avatar Kinect @ CES 2011 — epredator
Now your avatar goes where you go / Windows 7 Phone ad
Xbox Engineering Blog on Kinect: how you become the controller — epredator
Serious Games 2010 Showcase & Challenge winners – epredator

Tech-no-tronic
Monitor2go — for that imax multiple monitor experience on the road — lx5
Mapnificent Mandelbrot London — via @LDN
D-BOX movie theater seats that move you — heidigoseek
Preventing regifting by proactive patent — heidigoseek

etsy for all your handmade cratfy gifting needs – andyp
Talking Moose – michael m

Mac-a-rooni
Blood pressure dock — allerhed

Android-a-rooni :-)
Get your bugs out of my Gingerbread! – billsweeney1
Android 3.0 Honeycomb preview — richfowler
Amazon announces Android app store – andyp

Final thoughts
MM — Gagalicious Goggles via epredator
AP — Mac App Store – @andypiper discussion :-)  (MR) me too!  :) and Moderation Town the web series
MR — CES this week.. What’s coming in 2011?

bonus links
Quora
Google mobile blog
Techcrunch on Honeycomb
Baby Monitor and Blood pressure from Withings Scale company
Extend Display to iPad

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