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Thanks to ePredator, Michael R. spends a significant amount of time talking about World of Warcraft, while Michael M. wants to play MMO’s by himself. Andy reiterates that Matt needs a Mac. We are all incredibly excited by LX5’s link on molecular printing — Here comes the Star Trek replicator — way cool! Andy reminds us, if you make a website, don’t loop your midi file… it’s really really annoying. We also have started a Dogear-Nation wave on google wave, so let us know if you have a Wave account and we’ll add you to this wave.

Thanks for all the great tags this week: epredator, mattsimpson, lx5, heidigoseek, rickmans, phil_hartman, and wideawakewesley.

What’s Cool
Andy — Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.10 Karmic Koala on Acer Aspire One 110L
Michael R — Emotiv headset Update and Headset in pieces
Michael M — It’s Gobbledygook!

Obligatory 3-D Internet
MMORPG scaling (epredator)
Thriller in SL (MattSimpson)

Tech-no-tronic
Tea, Earl Grey, Hot — molecular printing (lx5)
Tiny living room (heidigoseek)
Why is Wave so complicated? (rickmans)
Pulp Fiction as a Google Wave – NSFW (via Twitter – wideawakewesley)
Temporary disposable email (phil_hartman)
Chronological email (wideawakewesley)
Mind to mind communication (epredator)
Dyson bladeless fan (lx5)

Win-a-rooni
Which version of Win 7 do you need

Final thoughts
Andy — Still waiting to Choose what Version of Windows I need
Michael R — Google hides the Usenet
Michael M — Google Starting Book Store

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Andy and Michael soldier on without Michael Martine this week, but Michael, ever the professional, drops us a few inserts to make sure that he’s cool enough. This week’s tags are a great collection of technology and geekiness including – Spheres, spiral galaxies, and assassins. Thanks to all of you who tag, and come meet us on October 23rd if you are in the RTP area of North Carolina as we do our Windows House Party.

What’s Cool
Andy — Magic Wand
Michael R — MythHackers
Michael M — Red Shirt Cologne And Star Wars at National Mall in Washington, DC

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Spherical Virtual World (epredator)
Augmented Reality showing Twin Towers (wideawakewesley)
Augmented Reality apps to buy now! (kevinaires)
Unlock content by snapping a picture of a logo (epredator)

Tech-no-tronic
MS-Mouse on multitouch (wideawakewesley)
Netflix Prize awarded (lxs)
3-D Stellar wiki (Philip Hartman)

Social Networkin’
GPS Assassins (Philip Hartman)
(Bonus)Halting State by Charles
Top collaboration tools that aren’t Google Wave (Rick Mans)
Analysis of leaked/weak passwords (wideawakewesley)

Final thoughts
Andy — Micro Men on BBC4
Michael R — Emotiv Headset – Developers Kit!!
Michael M — Everything’s L$10 and here’s a voucher

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This week Michael, Andy, and Michael hear Prince, Nena, and other 80’s bands in their heads as they begin episode 99. Or could it be a spy show with Agent 99 from Get Smart? You’ll have to listen to this week’s show to find out. Michael R. gives a big shout out to our good friend Matt Simpson over at Sweettt for a great cup of coffee.

Show Links

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Virtually there (mattsimpson)
Mindreading headsets (epredator)

Social Networkin’
Brain-twitter (andypiper)
Analyze this! (andypiper)
Punch screen (heidigoseek)
GenY no buy? (andypiper)

Tech-no-tronic
e-bomb (michaelrowe)
To Boldly Go to Playstation Home (andypiper)
Braille ebook (heidigoseek)

Social Responsibilty
Blackout europe (andypiper)
Earth day – make it count (lx5)

Final thoughts
Michael R. — Triangle Tweetup
Andy P. — 15 Minutes of Fame
Michael M. — Death of a bookstore

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We welcome back Michael Ackerbauer from IBM’s Metaverse team, as we review your tags this week. It’s been a pretty busy and crazy set of tags, but with the release of iNotes from IBM recently there are more iPhone users getting access to their corporate data. We also look at some really cool historical computing trends and see if we can guess the device. Our Obligatory 3D internet section gives many people a first look at Emotiv’s headset, as seen on the Discover Channel’s “Prototype This” show, while the coffee lover’s out there will get a cool printer. Don’t miss the interview with Ben and Nathan from MyCosm at the end of the show.

Show Links

Compute power!
iNotes
Michael’s iNotes experiences
Turn your iPhone into a laptop
iRex digital reader (dbartek)
MS WW telescope (duckboxxer)
Old computers (matt simpson)

Obligatory 3D internet
Radical collaboration in architecture
Emotiv on Discovery Channel (choose the show — “Prototype this”)
Synthetic reality (matt simpson)

Games / gaming
When will video games be better than life
Mobile games $1b industry

Random stuff
Joe the plumber strikes gold!
Coffee printer (heidigoseek)
Interactive LED wall (heidigoseek)

Final thought
Michael R — VC firm
Michael A — insanity test
Michael M — Morbidity

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This weeks musical interludes are brought to you by Lord of The Rings Online and the Zune. Michael R. gives his perspectives from the Game Developer’s Conference, while Michael M. and Matt S. admire Luis Suarez’s announcement of becoming email free. Free your inbox and get some Swag from Dogear-Nation’s new Coffee Mugs.

Dogear-Nation Coffee Mugs –http://www.dogearnation.com/2008/02/22/added-how-to-tag/

Games and Mind Control:
GDC — http://www.gdconf.com/
Emotiv — http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080220005408&newsLang=en
Computers match human brains — http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/computers-to-match-human-brains-by-2030-782978.html

The Data Center of the Future
3D Data Center — http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Infrastructure/IBMs-Labs-3D-Data-Center/

Entertainment
Nanoscope — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqc4kp5CHKU
Mikael Haglund –>
Zune videoshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRKIDdIaFyE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIk4qTKmKzE
Project Gizmo — http://www.gizmoproject.com/
Luis Suarez — http://w3.ibm.com/news/w3news/top_stories/discuss/2008/chq_lifewithoutemail_022008.html
ODW Next — http://w3.tap.ibm.com/myTAP/offering/viewoffering.wss?offeringId=OFF50161

Obligatory 3D Internet Section
Brian Olore — http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2008/02/bad_avatar.phpVAT in SL — http://secondlife.com/corporate/vat.php
Portal Song in LOTRO — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OFIWagOkGM
Stairway to Heaven — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS3PwQ26eRo

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