Dogear-Nation

It’s yet another edition of Dogear Nation, recorded Friday April 1st 2011!

This week, Michael Rowe is hiking in the Australian outback and has no Internet access (but we think he will enjoy catching up on his Kindle reading and photography). So, your hosts for this episode are the masterly Mr Michael Martine, and the dastardly Mr Andy Piper. Enjoy.

What’s (April) cool?
Andy P — own your own Apple Store! and Angry Birds, the movie.
Michael M — angry nerds and Willy Wonka Nerds

Tech-no-tronic
Paranga – tactile feedback for ebooks — heidigoseek
Lifting ketchup / catsup off a surface — lx5
iMobot the modular robot – allerhed
playing catch with a quadrocopter — allerhed
Kinect-style interaction on android tablets — heidigoseek (… and remember The Road Ahead – Bill Gates, 1995?)
World Backup Day — lx5

Data Visualizations
awesome cats — UncommonMan

The Gadget Spot / weekly discussion
Nintendo 3DS
Amazon cloud
Palm Pre / webOS – can HP be successful

… and some screenshots from Andy’s webOS device, for those interested in the look-and-feel

Final thoughts
Michael — Sensus & Better Place
Andy — Yalta on Lanyrd vs Instant / Realtime and history on the web

bonus links
April Fools!
Gmail Motion (now made into reality!)
Comic Sans Pro
YouTube’s 100th anniversary 1911 top viral videos
LinkedIn
XKCD in 3D