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Show Notes: Episode 22b

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This Week in Star Trek

Tyler Perry wants J.J. Abrams to call him about ‘Star Trek 2’

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Nerds on Tech

Holy Shit: Apple Profits up 95%

Double Holy Shit: Apple is Tracking Us All

Intel Producing Android Device Processors

Weird Al snubbed by Lady Gaga, but Not Really

Cloud Burst: Amazon Bites It, Takes Down Reddit

Weird Science

Aussies Invent Rearden Metal

Giant Omni-Slime Eating Titanic May Teach Humanity the Meaning of Love

Arm Chair Psychologists

Measuring Your Weness

Your God Makes You a Jerk

Our Awesome Governments

Nuclear Roomba

Defense Plans Put on Public Website for Like the 4000th Time

Nerd Rage

New York Times has 100,000 Subscribers, But Some Only Paid $0.99

Trashed: Stories Dragged to the End of the Dock

Surfboards Made of Garbage

Salt Water Batteries

Ginger Rapist

Singing for WikiLeaks

Further Reading

The Storied History of Canada & Its Slow March Toward Luke-Warm Freedom

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In Conversation. A talk show for nerds.

Episode 16. Very female. Disturbingly so.

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A patent filed by Apple in April of 2009, recently published by the USPTO, reveals what appears to be a concept for an augmented reality game. Specifically, the document seeks to patent a method for two “interactive game devices” to share locational data and track each other in a “real world, interactive game environment.” Using the “interactive game device” — which looks a lot like an iPhone in the diagrams — each player’s real-world actions would be tracked and their positions would be relayed via an icon on the screen.

A patent filed by Apple in April of 2009, recently published by the USPTO, reveals what appears to be a concept for an augmented reality game. Specifically, the document seeks to patent a method for two “interactive game devices” to share locational data and track each other in a “real world, interactive game environment.” Using the “interactive game device” — which looks a lot like an iPhone in the diagrams — each player’s real-world actions would be tracked and their positions would be relayed via an icon on the screen.

ex-Xserve

Apple: “Xserve will no longer be available after January 31, but we’ll continue to fully support it.”

Augmented Conversation with the iPhone

It runs dozens of google searches continually in the background, displaying result-snippet-bubbles that float past, driven by the whorls and eddies of our conversation. While we’re talking about the beardy guy with the Greek name in The Hangover, a bubble for ‘Zach Galifianakis - IMDb’ looms large, only to be nudged offscreen as we move to debating whether the ‘candied sunchokes’ on the restaurant menu are likely to taste more like sunflowers or artichokes, while the other half of the table engages in a dialog on the nature of catnip.

How Will iOS Apps on the Mac Work?

The whole point of Apple’s success with iOS has been the opposite of “write once, run anywhere”. It’s more like “write a version that is specifically optimized for this particular device”.

7th Guest coming to iOS

OK, so we don’t have jet packs or the ability to vote through our DVRs (you did remember to vote, didn’t you?) but at least you can say this of 2010: A game that once required CD-ROMs to work is now available on your iPhone. Or more specifically, spooky FMV gem The 7th Guest will be available this December on the iOS platform.