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This week we enjoy giving Michael M. the Heebie Jeebies as we talk about Augmented Reality contact lenses, proving that we won’t all need glasses one day. epredator provides us with the most challenging game ever, and Douglas Adams’ wisdom continues to be right, 10 years later. We also pick up a few new reviews of the podcast from The Thinking Man’s Podcasts, Anne and the Podcast Place – Thanks guys!

What’s Cool
Andy — The Thinking Man’s Podcasts, The Podcast Place and Anne is a Man review Dogear-Nation.
Michael R — Lenovo A600 All-in-One desktop
Michael M — Noobs ain’t a word ’cause it ain’t in the dictionary

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Operation Unholy Rage (kiambogo)
Mannahatta project — Manhattan in 1609 AD (lx5)
Augmented contact lenses (andypiper)
Augmented contact lenses (kevinaires)
Bonus Link — Michael Hedges — Great Guitar musician with Augmented reality
One button jumper (epredator)

Tech-no-tronic
Sony Ericcson Ap Store / Open GL ES 2.0 (uncommonman)
But will it run Windows 7? — Restoration of the Harwell (1951 computer) (kevinaires)
Microsoft Requirement for 1280×720 resolution being dropped (wideawakewesley)
What hole has Michael M. been in? (billsweeney1)

Social Networkin’
Douglas Adams on the Internet (rickmans)
Knoyce +1 (duckboxxer)

Final thoughts
Michael R — Windows 7 Launch Party on Dogear-Nation
Andy — Star Wars Force Trainer and Lego Escher
Michael M — Lego house

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Our good friend Matt Simpson (formerly a regular on Dogear Nation) has started a podcast called Sweettt, co-hosted by another friend of the show (and Internet non-email celebrity), Luis Suarez. I was listening to the latest episode the other night and spotted a Dogear Nation reference, so I thought I’d mention it over here.

Sweettt is a conversational podcast where Luis and Matt discuss various topics – it’s a very different style to DN and for me it took some getting used to, but the insights that the guys come up with are really very interesting. In the most recent episode released on the site, they talk about social software within the enterprise… and how corporate firewalls can affect the ways that people converse online. In particular Matt talks about Dogear Nation’s transition from the inside to the outside of a corporate firewall (about 10 minutes in to the episode), so it may be of interest to those of you wanting to learn a little bit more about the history of the podcast.

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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