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The Michaels have a great show this week, while Andy is out flying around. We are glad, however, that Andy is able to drop us a bit of coolness via Dropbox and edit it into this week’s show. In our 3D internet section we discuss meat space – This is a controversial contention, of course. There are proponents – of course you can have meaningful friendships online – and there are detractors – how on earth can a lean medium full of anonymous users replace the physical and visceral richness of meat-space? Thank you ePredator for a great tag! We also have a whole host of interesting listener tags to talk about, so don’t forget to keep tagging with “dogear-nation”!

What’s cool?
Andy — Lagoa Physics Engine – via @kelisha
Michael R. — Apple – Surprise 
Michael M — Wherebo? – Bo knows!

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Out on meatspace epredator

Tech-no-tronic
Microsoft fun facts heidigoseek
Stuck in a rut? wideawakewesley
The Rise of Consumer Tech billsweeney1
HTML5 – Cool infographic heidigoseek

Mac-a-rooni 
Wired predicted the ipad heidigoseek

Social Networkin’
Games are everywhere, really? epredator
FB hated, really! heidigoseek
Ups & downs of social networking bluebus

Final thoughts
Andy –  Limbo game for XBox 360 and I Write Like via net@night podcast
Michael M — Ford Design 
Michael R — Local Gaming Incubator 

Bonus links
Chore wars from Episode 17 – I want my virtual MTV

Bonus Pics
Farnborough airshow photos

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 48:03 — 16.5MB)

Back at full strength the Dogear Guys have a great big show for you. We enjoy a very full 3D Internet section this week, while trying not to die from 3D. Andy tells us why 3D is crap, even though he loves 3D worlds. Nokia and others give Apple some help in dealing with their attenna problems on the new iPhone 4. While Apple unveils their latest product – the iHand. Andy and Michael even get into a bit of a tussle over wireless network providers.

What’s cool?
Andy — Folding Matter and Dancing Paint
Michael R — Tim Burton’s Art
Michael M — You preserved my Battleship! 3D views of one of the 16 inch turrets

Obligatory 3-D Internet
3-D without the glasses epredator
3D video hazardous to your health wideawakewesley
3D can damage children’s eyes allerhed
Gulf oil spill in 3D epredator via lx5
Rezzable unifies Unity and OpenSim epredator

Mac-a-roni
How to hold a Nokia andypiperuk
Wriststrong bracelet to fix iPhone4 reception heidigoseek
Talk to the iHand! andypiperuk
Windows on iPhone heidigoseek

Social Networkin’
Coffee coupon for you, Buck, buda-buda-buda heidigoseek
6% of people consume 50% of mobile data heidigoseek

Final thoughts
Michael R — Internet is made up of cats
Andy — Help when Checking in your code
Michael M — Waze taps into Geo Tweets

bonus links
Why 3D is so 1950′s
The vSide – That music world Michael talked about
Get your Tomaccos here
It’s the Falcon!
Hippo Remote Pro

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 57:26 — 19.7MB)

The Michaels welcome back John Martin from Reallusion to talk about all the cool new stuff they are doing with iClone and Widgetcast. Because of this we end up having our longest what’s cool section. While we are all caught up in WorldCup fever we begin our trash talking required for the games this weekend. Andy takes a bit of time off, in order to play with his new iPhone 4.0, but he’s kind enough to provide us with a cool video on how to use your TomTom mount with the new phone. And speaking of videos and the Worldcup, YouTube joins the fray with a new Vuvuzela button. So sit back, grab a big glass of sweet tea and fire up the Vuvuzela, and enjoy the show!

What’s cool?
Michael R — Cool 3D Art
Michael M — Canned Unicorn meat
John — iClone 3D output and Widgetcast

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Augmented reality football – epredator
Virtual furniture creation – epredator
App SnapShop augmented reality furniture
Voice Morphing – andypiperuk
Lego Universe – allerhed

Mac-a-rooni
“just avoid holding it that way” – heidigoseek
Andy’s iPhone 4 Tomtom mount

Social Networkin’
YouVuvuzela – lx5

Final thoughts
Michael M — USA Goal in Lego
Michael R — EyeTV Vuvuzella Filter
John M – Oil from Spaaaaaaaaaace!

bonus links
Wolf and Dulci Hour – Machinima Podcast
Daz3D
TurboSquid
Betty White NPR Skit
Everything you want to know about the Vuvuzela
Count Floyd’s 3D House of Beef

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 36:29 — 12.6MB)

Andy, Michael, and Michael must be having a crazy overloaded week and the show title shows it. The good news is we have a great set of listeners who tag some fantastic sites for us to talk about this week. We also, somehow, don’t talk about any tags for some possible upcoming device from a company in Copertino. But our robot overlords won’t let us anyway…so why try. We also see the power of the Dogear-Nation bump see here ->

What’s Cool
Andy — Tungle Me!
Michael R — Star Wars shirt
Michael M — CauseWorld

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Second Life economy grows rickmans
Utah 3D sweettt

Tech-no-tronic
Playing games with your webcam lx5
Visual search engine set billsweeney1
Seesmic Look andypiper

Social Networkin’
Bedwarming Service billsweeney1
SarcMarc rickmans

Final thoughts
Andy — contemplating the announcement of the shiny new device next week
Michael R — Lame accessory
Michael M — Non-Beer Guinness

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 35:15 — 8.3MB)

It’s a black, black Friday as the Michaels both enjoy the long Thanksgiving weekend and Andy rambles his way through the tags on his own.

Obligatory 3D Internet

Skape | Building information modelling for major UK cities – online (epredator)

Procedural Inc. – 3D Modeling Software for Urban Environments (epredator)

Augmented reality rig that turns you into a character in a third-person game – Boing Boing (wideawakewesley) and Avatar Machine (and Wes’ podcast Weekly Geekly)

Future Tech / Technotronic

Teleportation (IBM Research) (phil_hartman)

F.lux: – ergonomic tool for working at night on your computer (lx5)

Gaming stuff

Microsoft patents in-game guide system (epredator)

British intelligence spooking Xbox Live – Xbox 360 News at GameSpot (epredator)

Lunar Lander (epredator) and Roo’s Shift Run Stop podcast

Non-gaming stuff

IBM n.Fluent Translation Tool with a Human Touch (lx5) and IBM Dogear

Is Wikipedia maxed out? (rickmans)

Choose your own adventure visualization (lx5)

The week in space / the year in space (michaelrowe01)

Martian landscapes (michaelrowe01)

Fun

Life In Latin (rickmans)

Final What’s Cool Thought Thing

Trinity – Help!
and Lego Matrix

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 22:22 — 9.6MB)