Awesomecast: Tech And Gadget Talk

Sorg, Chachi, and Frank are talking about the change to the Nexus phone OS, Apple vs Samsung fallout, how NFC is going to change things, how Apple's self checkout put a kid in jail, Microsoft is throwing a party for ex-Onlive employees, and more! So check it out. And, if you like it, join us live Tuesdays at 7:00 p.m. EST on live.sorgatronmedia.com! Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook and be sure to follow us on iTunes in both video and audio formats, as well as YouTube, Boxee, Roku, and Blip.tv! As always, you can chime in with news, thoughts, or comments at Contact@AwesomeCast.com or 724-25-A-CAST.

Sorg, Chachi, and Rob are joined this week by Scott Simmons from The Scare House as they talk this week's things geek. The guys are talking about Rob's distaste for Fancy, a brief recap of The Scare House's SXSW pitch and social media usage in business endeavors, and more Kickstarter projects that are making the Iron Man playboy Tony Stark's house and tech a possibility. But, things take a sudden left turn as discussion turns to Star Trek bathrooms and Mars rovers, before pulling back on track with an online gaming company discussion. And, of course we wrap up the show with an E-Bay change of terms of service to do away with sales of various metaphysical services. So check it out. And, if you like it, join us live Tuesdays at 7:00 p.m. ESTon live.sorgatronmedia.com! Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook and be sure to follow us on iTunes in both video and audio formats, as well as YouTube, Boxee, Roku, and Blip.tv! As always, you can chime in with news, thoughts, or comments at Contact@AwesomeCast.com or

The boys are back for this week's episode as we talk this week's things geek. On this week's show the guys offer some support for The Scare House's SXSW panel push, more of Sorg's Kickstarter love, Microsoft Surface, RealPlayer, Google Hangout studio mode, App.Net, and Terms of Service simplified. So check it out. And, if you like it, join us live Tuesdays at 7:00 p.m. ESTon live.sorgatronmedia.com! Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook and be sure to follow us on iTunes in both video and audio formats, as well as YouTube, Boxee, Roku, and Blip.tv! As always, you can chime in with news, thoughts, or comments at Contact@AwesomeCast.com or 724-25-A-CAST.

Frank Chynoweth and AJ Kuftic join Sorg, and Chachi for this week's episode as we talk this week's things geek. On this week's show the guys talk iPad/iPhone cases, troll patrol, Mat Honan hacked and the importance of backing your shiz up. We wrap up the show with a discussion of the Mars rover and some commentary regarding NBC's Olympic coverage. So check it out. And, if you like it, join us live Tuesdays at 7:00 p.m. ESTon live.sorgatronmedia.com! Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook and be sure to follow us on iTunes in both video and audio formats, as well as YouTube, Boxee, Roku, and Blip.tv! As always, you can chime in with news, thoughts, or comments at Contact@AwesomeCast.com or 724-25-A-CAST.

Frank Chynoweth joins Rob, Sorg, and Chachi for this week's episode as we talk this week's things geek. On this week's show the guys talk phone glam with a glowy iPhone case and a local Pittsburgh artist's rendition TMNT iPhone case, journalism and the problems faced with twitter, the Olympic games meet social media, and Uplay's potentially harmful software among other things. So check it out. And, if you like it, join us live Tuesdays at 7:00 p.m. ESTon live.sorgatronmedia.com! Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook and be sure to follow us on iTunes in both video and audio formats, as well as YouTube, Boxee, Roku, and Blip.tv! As always, you can chime in with news, thoughts, or comments at Contact@AwesomeCast.com or 724-25-A-CAST.

PodCamp organizer and all-around awesome guy, Norm Huelsman joins Rob, Sorg, and Chachi for this week's episode as we talk this week's things geek. On this week's show the guys talk tequila, PodCamp Pittsburgh kick-off event, more awesome Kickstarter projects, buyouts, acquisitions, and freebies among other things. So check it out. And, if you like it, join us live Tuesdays at 7:00 p.m. ESTon live.sorgatronmedia.com! Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook and be sure to follow us on iTunes in both video and audio formats, as well as YouTube, Boxee, Roku, and Blip.tv! As always, you can chime in with news, thoughts, or comments at Contact@AwesomeCast.com or 724-25-A-CAST.

Chachi, Frank, and Rizz discuss the games inside of games (gameception?), what video game character would make an interesting supervisor or boss, and turning the tables on video game concepts. Who's the real bad guy? Plus we discuss last week's challenge of Bloody Trap Land, and this week's challenge of "I Wanna Be The Guy" Letâ??s Play is the InsertCointoBegin.com writerâ??s chance to get together and talk games every week. Join us for the live recording and join our chat room at live.sorgatronmedia.com Tuesdays at 8 PM ET.

This week, Brian Snyder joins us in studio as we talk about Android iterations, catch up on AJ's view on the Amazon down time, the return of the Furby, Kickstarters for Android game consoles and Penny Arcade going ad-free, Time Warner's bamboozling plan to limit your internet, Twitter pulling the reigns back, and much, much more! Join us live Tuesdays at 7:00 p.m. EST on live.sorgatronmedia.com! Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook and be sure to follow us on iTunes in both video and audio formats, as well as YouTube, Boxee, Roku, and Blip.tv! As always, you can chime in with news, thoughts, or comments at Contact@AwesomeCast.com or 724-25-A-CAST.

This week, we Frank Chynoweth joins us to talk about all of the new tech out of last week's Google IO conference, including the Nexus 7 tablet, Nexus Q, skydiving with Google Glass, Google Now vs Siri, and more. We also touch on the Windows 8 update price, Source Film making, and debit cards being posted publicly. On purpose! Join us live Tuesdays at 7:00 p.m. EST on live.sorgatronmedia.com! Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook and be sure to follow us on iTunes in both video and audio formats, as well as YouTube, Boxee, Roku, and Blip.tv! As always, you can chime in with news, thoughts, or comments at Contact@AwesomeCast.com or 724-25-A-CAST.

This week, we talk about Twitter charging rumors, Facebook frat boys, Facebook email changing ways, that aren't really that bad, Windows Phone 8, and if anyone cares, iOS 6 Beta so far, the new Podcasting app on iOS, and Louis CK wants to kill the event ticket industry. Join us live Tuesdays at 7:00 p.m. EST on live.sorgatronmedia.com! Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook and be sure to follow us on iTunes in both video and audio formats, as well as YouTube, Boxee, Roku, and Blip.tv! As always, you can chime in with news, thoughts, or comments at Contact@AwesomeCast.com or 724-25-A-CAST.

This week, we welcome back Bryan Snyder as we take a look at the Microsoft Surface, the leaked Xbox 720 documents, the Draw Something show signed for CBS, suggestive kickstarters, and much more! Join us live Tuesdays at 7:00 p.m. EST on live.sorgatronmedia.com! Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook and be sure to follow us on iTunes in both video and audio formats, as well as YouTube, Boxee, Roku, and Blip.tv! As always, you can chime in with news, thoughts, or comments at Contact@AwesomeCast.com or 724-25-A-CAST.

This week, AJ Kuftic returns to the show as we analyze the WWDC 2012 announcements, and what it all means as we look at the new Macbook Pro, updates to the Macbook Air, Mac Pros, iOS 6, Mountain Lion, and more. We also take a look at Verizon's newly announced data sharing plans and if they even matter, because they don't seem to save you money, and the legal battle The Oatmeal is finding itself in. All of this and more! Join us live Tuesdays at 7:00 p.m. EST on live.sorgatronmedia.com! Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook and be sure to follow us on iTunes in both video and audio formats, as well as YouTube, Boxee, Roku, and Blip.tv! As always, you can chime in with news, thoughts, or comments at Contact@AwesomeCast.com or 724-25-A-CAST.

We are back to basics as Rob de la Cretaz returns after his New Orleans trip to talk E3. We break down Xbox Smart Glass, WiiU's controller methods, and try to figure out how Sony's Wonderbook is good for anyone. All of this and more! Join us live Tuesdays at 7:00 p.m. EST onlive.sorgatronmedia.com! Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook and be sure to follow us on iTunes in both video and audio formats, as well as YouTube, Boxee, Roku, and Blip.tv! As always, you can chime in with news, thoughts, or comments at Contact@AwesomeCast.com or 724-25-A-CAST.

We are joined by fellow insertcointobegin.com staffer Frank Chynoweth, AKA @Fuzzwad, as we talk about the news fit to pontificate, including Google finally pushing an update to the Verizon Galaxy Nexus, the first video from Google Glass prototypes, Googleâ??s new Chromebook and Chromebox, Facebook wants to dabble in phones, browsers, and home invasions, Russians want to go to the moonâ?¦baseâ?¦, Obama wants some online updates, Steve Ballmerâ??s sweet 80 inch Windows 8 tablet, and the guy who squatted at AOL Palo Alto to get his start up off the ground. Join us live Tuesdays at 7:00 p.m. EST on live.sorgatronmedia.com!

We are joined by our very own Burgher in Beantown, Jim Lokay this week. The show kicks off with a touching story about a man, and his iPad's journey throughout the Northeast. That heartwrenching story is followed-up by an e-mail from our Southern compatriot, AJ, as we do an East Coast comparison of cable service. In a related story, we touch upon news of Comcast raising their data caps in test markets. While we're on the topic of customer service and data usages, we segue into discussions of AT&T and Verizon reworking their "grandfathered" data plans. And, we wrap things up with some lighterhearted stories about saving money on a more accurate Kinect-like device for the XBox, and about Space X's first launch over the weekend. So check it out. And, if you like it, join us live Tuesdays at 7:00 p.m. EST. Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook and be sure to follow us on iTunes in both video and audio formats, as well as YouTube, Boxee, Roku, and Blip.tv! As always, you can chime in with news, thoughts, or co

We have a Carman! John Carman joins us for this week's episode as we talk this week's things geek. We start off the show with a story about a man, a man who installed mini magnets into his wrist, mini magnets that will hold his iPod Nano! As if that story isn't awesome enough, we follow it up with another man's quest to make the voyage to the stars in the Starship Enterprise a reality! Yes, you read that right. There is a man who has designs to build the Starship Enterprise! As if the Enterprise isn't enough to get your geek on, we also discuss the potential New Mexico ghost town, aptly labeled an "unspoken playground for the scientists." And those are the stories from the first half of the show! We also touch upon some Assassin's Creed III, Comcast Xfinity net neutrality issues, Xbox as the most popular video player in the U.S., Flipboard coming to the Android market, the new Google + app, and the status of the much hyped Google Glass project! So check it out. And, if you like it, join us live Tuesdays at 7:

Rob, Chachi, and Sorg are joined by a couple of the longer running guests, Mike Pound and Cynthia Closkey. We touch on everything from Xbox 360 $99 subs, what could save Nintendo, the Google Maps Cube game, Discovery purchasing Revision3, Hulu's anti cord cutting measures, Kinect holograms, Google Hangout On Air launches, and much more! Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook and be sure to follow us on iTunes in both video and audio formats, as well as YouTube, Boxee, Roku, and Blip.tv! As always, you can chime in with news, thoughts, or comments at Contact@AwesomeCast.com or 724-25-A-CAST.

Rob, Chachi, and Sorg are revisiting the iTunes in app purchasing and kids matter with new lawsuits surfacing, the Internet Hall of Fame, James Cameron, and others, going to space to mine asteroids, and where the space program has gone, and Google Driveâ??s just launched and itâ??s already making some people mad. Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook and be sure to follow us on iTunes in both video and audio formats, as well as YouTube, Boxee, Roku, and Blip.tv! As always, you can chime in with news, thoughts, or comments at Contact@AwesomeCast.com or 724-25-A-CAST.

Rob, Chachi, and Sorg get feedback on the Windows Phone and Google Glass discussions from the week before, dive into a first look at what CISPA is about, talk about cord cutting and the culture shift happening along with it, Hulu Plusâ??s 2 Million subscribers, and more! Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook and be sure to follow us on iTunes in both video and audio formats, as well as YouTube, Boxee, Roku, and Blip.tv! As always, you can chime in with news, thoughts, or comments at Contact@AwesomeCast.com or 724-25-A-CAST.

Rob, Chachi, and Sorg are joined by Will Rutherford of Monster Haiku, Thoughtful Riot, and Wrestling Mayhem Show to talk about cancer robots, the $1 Billion Instagram purchase by Facebook, Robâ??s tip for departing Instagram, Lumina 900 flubbed launch, Marvelâ??s play at Augmented Reality and Digital first comics, Netflix and Pandora blocking at work, and much more! Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook and be sure to follow us on iTunes in both video and audio formats, as well as YouTube, Boxee, Roku, and Blip.tv! As always, you can chime in with news, thoughts, or comments at Contact@AwesomeCast.com or 724-25-A-CAST.