Podcast - This Is Only a Test
Episode 432 – Just for the Taste of It – 1/18/18
Norm is still away at WETA workshop in New Zealand, so Kishore and Jeremy are joined by TekThing co-host Shannon Morse to discuss the Great CES blackout of 2018 (12:40), her hands-on impressions of the new Vive Pro (22:15), the potential Studio Ghibli themepark (1:09:40), and to celebrate Shake Shack expanding to San Francisco, we rank our favorite chain burgers (1:12:00). And yes, Kishore is still reeling from the huge Diet Coke announcement. Check out Shannon on TekThing (https://www.youtube.com/tekthing) and Hak5 (https://www.hak5.org/shows/threatwire). And special shout out to Danica Chan for designing our new podcast set!
Comments (5)
The Building Design and Construction industry is in dire need of durable flexible displays. We go through so much paper printing check sets and sets that go out to owners and contractors. If everyone had their own ‘roll’ that could just display the drawings, there could be so much savings!
I’m with you on the Egg in burgers Jeremy.
Tobii is finding it’s way onto Alienware laptops. The technology seems interesting, but a little twitchy, especially with glasses on.
Five Guys fries would be better if they didn’t over cook them. LOVE the burgers.
Would love it if Kishore & the team could discuss the future possibilities of Sodium Battery technologies – esp in terms of mobile computing/cellphones and Electric vehicles being researched by Prof John Goodenough at University of Texas?
I’ve seen more recent reports stating 8-10 times energy density of comparable lithium battery and “charges in minutes”. Could this be the game-changing technology to make Electric Vehicles more attractive in terms of range and charge time? And what would people prefer with mobile devices – would it be a longer lasting battery – or a smaller battery (with current equivalent energy output, since people are used to charging daily) and room internally for more components? I’d be very interested in the resulting discussion?
http://www.star-telegram.com/news/business/article138414863.html
This would be a great “Science in Progress” topic. Battery technologies have really changed in recent years. Last I saw there was a Li battery that could safely get cut up without catching fire, then there was the manganese (or was it magnesium) based battery that was better than the current Lithium Iron batteries.