Bigger Than Electronics Boutique | AwesomeCast 412

Sorgatron Media — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0400

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

It may be a slow tech news week as we head into the big Apple announcement next week, but we can still talk some interesting things! Sorg, Krause, and Chilla are talking about:

We’re getting into our Awesome Things of the Week with Chilla talking about lojacking your devices with Samsung Smartthings. But does this open up privacy concerns?
Sorg continues the tracking discussion with a sweet wallet with slim Tile tracker from Nomad.
Krause talks about a drone built batteries first for longer flight time from Impossible Aerospace.
Listener Brandon shared with us a grandfather with 11-phone Pokemon Go bike setup!
Brandon also shares the Netflix and Snack Melon Bowl.
Listener Dave looks at the Google Maps elevation feature.
Rizz lets us know Valve has approved it's first porn game on Steam.
It is estimated that half of US homes will have smart speakers by the end of the year.
There have been 1.5 million installs of Fortnite on Android, but Krause still has issues with it on his Pixel.
Nerf to add Fortnite and Overwatch guns.  And we go down the "Nerf Arsenal" Youtube rabbit hole.
Apple to stream iPhone event on Twitter.

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Spinning Kitty Box Of Death | AwesomeCast 400

Sorgatron Media — Wed, 13 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0400

This week’s episode brought to you by Slice on Broadway, Alex Kahrs Design & Media, and Dark Forge Studios!
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:

Shout out to Rob de la Cretaz. We miss you, buddy. Happy Podcast Birthday!
Chilla (physically) stole Sorg’s Awesome Thing of the Week – his Wyze security cam.
Katie is sharing an awesome luminary from Legendary Luminaries as her Awesome Thing of the Week.
Uncle Crappy’s Awesome Thing of the Week is the World Cup presence on Google.
BTW: The official soccer ball for the World Cup has some tech integration.
Amanda is sharing her Awesome Thing of the Week – the Impossible Ball and the fun tech integration this little soccer(ish)ball has.
Sorg must be holding a grudge against Chilla – he skipped over his Awesome Thing of the Week! (Just kidding. We’re talking about Fortnite.)
Fortnite on Nintendo Switch does have some issues that are angering some Sony users.
Brian has joined the VR age with his discount cardboard!
Microsoft sunk their recent data center – into the ocean – to help with cooling.
Speaking of Fortnite, it’s opening new doors for marketing opportunities.
Katie is super excited about iPhone tongue tracking for animojis and memojis.
OH: I’m not going to do anything dangerous. I just want to stick my tongue out!
Let’s make a giant spinning litter box – AND GIVE IT EARS!
Sorg is sharing some gaming upgrades – thanks to some thrifty finds.
Sorg thought the Fire TV Cube was an April Fools Day joke at first!
The Steam store will accept anything that isn’t illegal or trolling thanks to Valve’s new policy.
And, we devolve to reminiscing about where we all were 8 years ago…other than podcasting here.
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