Podcast Archive
October 9, 2006
Bose, Microsoft, and Sony confuse and delight us
Topics in this Podcast:
I start the show off with a few clarifications and elaboration on last week's new product showcase. I actually tank a Logitech product and my mouse promptly stops working! Then I cover the JBL Radial iPod dock, and give a little work around tip for Logitech's Z-10 speaker freezing problem.
Business
BestBuy, Real and Sandisk have a naughty threesome. I hear there was a lot of aural!
Rumors of a buyout of Nvidia by Intel spark controversy. That controversy? Why this is controversial.
Google launches the Code Search tool. Guess what it does…
McAffee and Symantec are annoyed that Microsoft isn’t giving them access to the precious kernel bounty, thus keeping them from messing up everyone’s computer in the hope of preventing that one virus you com across every 14,000 years.
Audio/Visual
Logitech tries to scavenge their headphone reputation with the Bluetooth based FreePulse headset.
Canon and Toshiba say SED TVs will ship in 2008. I can’t think of a witty comment for this, so move along!
Hardware
Sony shows off the VAIO Type R, which uses a funky breakout box for connectors and drives, rather than making you crawl around under the desk to get at plugs. Janitors everywhere resume cleaning under desks.
ATI/AMD give Folding@Home a processing boost by offloading calculation to the GPU. Gene for Awesome! promptly discovered.
Peripherals
Need a new DiNovo Desktop? Yes you do. Don’t argue.
Western Digital pretends like it can still fit into those high school jeans with that big 1TB of data in da trunk.
Nokia will bring you Wibree. Wibree will bring you headaches.
Apple
Core 2 Duo Macbook Pros on the way? If Apple wants to stay in business… then yes!
The 23” iMacs sport 802.11N wireless cards. Neato grand spiffy!
Gaming
Nvidia will possibly release the Geforce 8800 line of cards in mid-November. Yes, good idea. Right when they will be of no use to anyone, because DX10 isn’t available. Good idea.
Sony sues a modchip maker. Realizes it is 5 years too late.
Random
Slim down and increase your typos with the Slimgeek bicycle thingy.
Make a suspicious device and learn the meaning of “extensive body cavity search” at your local airport!
Eye tracking interface. Old science tech coming to a consumer device near you. One day. Perhaps.
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