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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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Andy, Michael, and Michael enjoy an all-listener tag show… well, almost, we have to talk about Andy’s gloves again. Questions that could be answered in this show – Do you really need a netbook? Can Lenovo sell more PCs thanks to Virtual Worlds? What stage of Twitter acceptance are you at? What is your Claimr? And Twitter scoops the mainstream media – again.

Show Links
3D Internet
Business in virtual worlds — (epredator)
I want my M -3D -TV! — (jbrown523)

Social Networking
Facebook pulls the flame-broiled plug — (heidigoseek)
Hello, my name is dogearnation, and I’m a Twitter user.  Hi, Dogear Nation… — (ragtag_2)
Andy’s Klout rating

Mac-a-rooni and PC
Show us the glove
The three finger salute — (heidigoseek)
Android netbooks — (duckboxxer)

Grab Bag
NYT reader — (dbartek)
The fine print that’s fit to print — (ragtag_2)
Site for entrepreneurs — (epredator)
TwitPic of US Airways plan on the Hudson

Final Thoughts
Andy — A photo-graph — say no more! — (graham_alton) — iPhone app for tiltshift
Coldplay twittering away
Michael M — Obama’s Blackberry
Michael R — Vista’s all better now

Bonus links
Solargraphs — (tx5)
Multicore iPhone

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The Michael’s squeeze out one more show before the end of the year. With each of them taking a bit of well deserved time off with family and friends, we miss our new co-host Andy Piper, but we soldier on anyway (btw, Andy provided us with a ton of great tags to choose from). In the spirit of helping with the economic woes, we look at a SecondLife live music aggregator with links to where you can buy the music from the in world musicians. We then look at Hype Cycles, a cool new Laptop from Lenovo (but is it cool enough), Panasonic’s iPod killer (not really), Cisco’s Telepresence tools, an iPhone VNC, games, and the top 10 cars we want (AND WE WANT THEM NOW!!!). We wish everyone a healthy, outstanding, prospers, and exciting new year, and Don’t forget to tag it with “Dogear-Nation.”

Show Tags

Obligatory 3-D Internet
iTunes in SL
Greenies
SL hype cycle (is it recumbent?) — (Sweettt)

Mobile computing
Lenovo’s Dual Screen
Panasonic ipod
Nintendo DS
Cisco telepresence

Mac-a-rooni
Jaadu control your desktop from your iPhone
Jaadu review
Refurbished Apple TV
Copy & Paste for iPhone
Space Deadbeef

And other way-cool stuff
Expressway through the heart of a building
Cars we want!
Han Solo Foldo

Final Thoughts
Michael M – Have a great new year
Michael R – And Don’t forget to tag it — “Dogear-Nation”!!!

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