AwesomeCast: Tech and Gadget Talk

Spinning Kitty Box Of Death | AwesomeCast 400

June 13th, 2018  |  54 mins 32 secs

400 episodes, 8 years, animoji, anniversary, april fools’ day, awesome cast, awesomecast, cardboard, cube, data center, fire tv, fortnite, google, impossible ball, legendary luminaries, litter box, marketing, memoji, memories, microsoft, nintendo switch, podcast, reminiscing, rob de la cretaz, soccer, sony, steam, technology, valve, vr, world cup, wyze

It’s hard to believe it’s been 8 years since we picked up our microphones and video cameras and started this podcasting about tech thing. For the occasion, we’ve got Mike Pound, Chilla, Sorg, and Katie in studio to talk about a few things.

High-End Technology...For Poop Jokes | AwesomeCast 399

June 5th, 2018  |  1 hr 6 mins

#wwdc18, apple, apple tv, apple watch, apps, ar, awesome cast, awesomecast, bumblebee, cable, century iii, developers, fortnite, ibm, ios, just a line, macos, mega man, moovit, movie trailer, nerf, nerf war, pittsburgh, podcast, podcasting, tech talk, technology, u-stream, ustream, video games, videogames, walkie talkie, wwdc, wwdc 2018

Sorg is all by himself in studio as he’s joined remotely by Chilla from Studio C and Alex Kahrs coming in from Long Beach. This week has some great updates following WWDC.

Pause Your VHS Tape For This | AwesomeCast 398

May 29th, 2018  |  56 mins 55 secs

ai for good, apple, apple watch, apple watch 3, ascender, awesome cast, awesomecast, box lunch, cordcutter, cordcutting, dishtv, doorways to horror, hololens, house flip, iphone, kenny chen, open data, pebble, podcast, pornhub, post-quantum cryptography, public source, renovation, special olympics, tech talk, technical.ly, technology, the broadcast podcast, vcr, vhs, vpn, xbox

We return after a week hiatus as Kenny Chen joins us for the main show. Kenny is joined by our usual cast of characters, Sorg, Chilla, and Dudders, as we talk about this week’s topics.

The TiVo Big D Button | AwesomeCast 397

May 15th, 2018  |  1 hr 1 min

ads, alarm clock, ariana grande, awesome cast, awesomecast, awesomechat, boston dynamics, cordcutter, creepy, deadpool, dvr, esports, honeycomb credit, hub, hub 2, jimmy fallon, labo, microsoft, millvale music festival, mmf18, nest, nintendo, pctv, podcast, robot dog, ron krause, ryan reynolds, sensor wake, smell, smellavision, snapchat, surface, tech talk, technology, tolin fx, unicorn, vhs

Krause returns to the big purple couch this week to show off some of his new toys. He is, of course, joined by our in-house gadget hounds Chilla, Katie, and Sorg.

Thanos Dancing | AwesomeCast 396

May 8th, 2018  |  1 hr 45 secs

#predictivelyfunny, alexa, android, android p, ar, avengers, awesome cast, awesomecast, bugs bunny, build, burger king, chris whitlatch, cortana, cynthia closkey, developers, fortnite, gameboy, gameboy advance, google calendar, google lens, google maps, infinity war, may the fourth, microsoft, nintendo, nintendo switch, parental control, pittsburgh, podcast, pornhub, predictively funny, samsung, star wars, star wars day, subservient chicken, technology, thanos

Cynthia Closkey is back on the show this week joining Katie, Chilla, and Sorg as they talk tech news.

BobbyCherry.app | AwesomeCast 395

May 1st, 2018  |  1 hr 4 mins

3d, alpha lab, alpha lab gear, amazon, app, atari, awesome, awesomecast, battery, bobby cherry, cal tech, coffee, double dare, drone, echo, eharmony, facebook dating, google, harry potter, kennywood, movie maker, moviepass, nickelodeon, oculus, pittsburgh, podcast, restrictions, sprint, t-mobile, tech talk, technology, thrifty podcast, tinder, vcs

John Carman joins John Chichilla and Mike Sorg to talk about what’s new in the world of technology.

Car Tech of Future Past | AwesomeCast 394

April 24th, 2018  |  1 hr 7 mins

amazon, amazon echo, avengers, emulator, google search, ipad, iphone, nintendo switch, otterbox, pittsburgh, podcasting, porn company, red tube

This week’s episode brought to you by Slice on Broadway, Alex Kahrs Design & Media, and The Millvale Music Festival!

This week Brian Crawford of The River's Edge rejoins our regulars Katie, Chilla, and Sorg as they talk this week’s tech news.

The Tinder of Podcast Hosts | AwesomeCast 393

April 18th, 2018  |  1 hr 4 mins

This week marks the return of Scot MacTaggart of Pitchwerks. He is, of course, joined by our usual co-hosts, Katie, Chilla, and Sorg as they talk this week’s tech news.

Arts Festival at Millvale Music Festival 2018 | Awesome Cha

April 12th, 2018  |  15 mins 9 secs

We talk about Mike Zickefoose about the NEW Arts Festival as part of the Millvale Music Festival, what was awesome about the 2017 edition and more! Find more at millvalemusic.org !

Zuckerberg Magic | AwesomeCast 392

April 11th, 2018  |  1 hr 9 mins

This week’s episode brought to you by Slice on Broadway, Alex Kahrs Design & Media, and The Millvale Music Festival!

Shoe Pizza | AwesomeCast 391

April 4th, 2018  |  58 mins 25 secs

360, 360 photos, alexa, amazon, apple, ar, awesomecast, dns, dvr, echo, echo show, elgato, facebook, firefox, ipad, messenger, mozilla, pittsburgh, pizza, pizza hut, portal, ready player one, silicon valley, smart shoe, snapchat, streamdeck, streaming video, tech talk, technology, twitch, vr, waldo, wearable tech, wearable technology, where’s waldo

We’re back on schedule after last week’s brief interruption. Katie is in Studio A with Sorg and pizza, while Chilla joins us from Studio C to talk this week in technology.

Krissy DeShetler | Awesome Chat

March 29th, 2018  |  21 mins 12 secs

Krissy DeShetler is the Shared Services Manager with Family House, a non profit helping to house those coming into Pittsburgh for medical services. Krissy shares with us her venture into being an "accidental techie" for a non profit as well as a large project upgrading her organization to the cloud.

Hands Free in the Bathroom | AwesomeCast 390

March 27th, 2018  |  50 mins 27 secs

This week’s episode was pre-recorded due to a scheduling conflict with our regularly-scheduled Podcast Day events, but we were able to get Sorg, Katie, and Chilla together to talk about some of this week’s tech news.

Watch Notch | AwesomeCast 389

March 20th, 2018  |  1 hr 4 mins

api, app, ar, awesome cast, awesomecast, big list of pittsburgh podcasts, carpool, cmra, concepts, developers, fortnite, freemium, google, google maps, hp, inside, lg, linea sketch, microsoft, one cast, open source, pittsburgh, playstation, podcast, porn, ps4, raspberry pi, raspberry pie, sega genesis, streaming, streetfighter, tamagotchi, technology, the incline, waze, web os, xbox, xbox one, youtube

This week’s episode brought to you by Slice on Broadway, Alex Kahrs Design & Media, and The Millvale Music Festival!

It may be the first day of spring, but we’re not sure Pittsburgh got the memo. While Chilla is tucked away all nice and warm in Studio C, Sorg and Dudders braved the snow to make it into the Sorgatron Media studio for this week’s tech talk.

Karen Alexander of XRConnectEd | Awesome Chat

March 15th, 2018  |  18 mins 31 secs

Karen Alexander joins us to discuss 360 video, VR and AR as we talk about her experience as the winner of the 2018 Social Justice Innovation Weekend pitching a program to get 360 cameras in the hands of kids and her company XRConnectED working with these new technologies and education.

We're Not As Bad As Uber | AwesomeCast 388

March 14th, 2018  |  1 hr 2 mins

360, 360 camera, alexa, amazon, awesomecast, baseball, beat saber, dogs, esports, facebook, google, google maps, knights of steel, laughing alexa, mario, mario time, microsoft, miroir, mlb, movie, movie pass, pittsburgh, projector, s-mode, selfie stick, streaming, tech, tech talk, technology, windows, windows 10

The couch is full. Our bellies are full of Slice on Broadway pizza. All is good in podcasting world as we talk with Katie, Chilla, and Sorg.