Deal of the Week

• Immortal Defense for $3
  • An abstract tower defense game with some jamming music
  • There’s a demo 30+ levels
  • Sale ends Oct. 4

Contest

We have two contests running this week… 1 for a pair of iFrogz for iPhone or Blackberry and 1 for a Triazzle iPhone code

For the headphones, the first person to email jeremy puent with what Cole does for a living (imagined or otherwise) gets the pair of awesome earphones

We have 1 more codes to give a way to lucky listeners with iPhones….
so let’s say the first two people who email or twitter me with the costume Cole wore to her Star Trek convention we talked about in an earlier episode will win.
Must have an iPhone and a US iTunes account to redeem the Code for the game. Triazzle, a wonderful puzzle game we have talked about in a few different episodes..

Deal of the Week

• Direct2Drive continues its $5 deals (PC only)
• Mythbuster’s Fans can get the Jacket Adam Savage wears…. for the low low price of just $600.00
  • 100%
    American Made. It is constructed of heavy duty 1000 Denier Cordura and
    comes with a Lifetime Guarantee. The Mark IV has padded rib protection,
    rifle recoil pad, flashlight holster and hands free shoulder cradles,
    spine protecting pads, and of course, countless pockets.  (I actually wish I could afford one of the Mark 1′s… )
    

Contest

We have 2 more codes to give a way to lucky listeners with iPhones….
so let’s say the first two people who email or twitter me with the costume Cole wore to her Star Trek convention we talked about in an earlier episode will win.

Must have an iPhone and a US iTunes account to redeem the Code for the game. Triazzle, a wonderful puzzle game we have talked about in a few different episodes…

Going to have another contest coming up soon for some iFrogz Earbuds w/ Mic. spread the word… the more listeners we get… the more stuff we can get to giveaway to you guys!

• In just 25 Short days…. (Steven)
  • And Another Thing will be released… This is the 6th book, in the ever increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhiker’s Trilogy
    • We all know Douglas Adams passed from this mortal world a while back, so the nod went to Irish Eion Colfer to pen this novel based on notes left behind by Adams.
      • I can not think of a better choice to write this. Colfer is a fantastic writer with a similar sense of humor… I am very VERY excited for this one!

• More Details on COD:MW2 (Stebven
  • Can it just come already? (I’m with you… CAN’T Wait!)
  • Microsoft Unveils Modern Warfare 2 XB360
  • The Perk system on Steroids (even perks for dying too much)
  • More melee type weapons (throwing knives)
  • Glinting blood spatter on the camera when you get damaged too much
  • Looks gorgeous
  • (Steven) I will be taking a vacation week the day it comes out Nov. 10, 2009

• VW 170 MPG Car
  • Is this something you would buy?
  • see the seating? did you ever see a Crosley?? I just don’t see this taking off…
  • Why is it always one extreme or the other…??? either they build hummers getting 7 MPG or they build something like this that gets 170MPG but only seats 2 people one in front of the other…
  • Why can’t they make a decent looking car of average size that gets 80 or 90 MPG??? Where is the happy medium?

U2 Tech

Awesome Concert… but I was blown away by the screen….

This was the screen normal as it appeared throughout most of the event….

Then it went into motion….

It separated into hundreds of smaller parts adn still had images and went in motion…. This is AWESOME Technology in displays…I have seen some really neat displays over the years at concerts, stadiums, etc… but this took the cake!

This was it fully expanded…

Product Reviews:

Tick talk – this is a great idea, an app that is an alarm that reads you the news of (almost) any rss feed you point it to. It does a very decent job with the pronunciation of most things (considering it sounds a little “British”).
One drawback (that is actually an iPhone shortfall not the software) is that it has to be open for the alarm to actually work (no background processes on iPhone yet)
It’s funny, you can change the greeting and sign off, you will be able to add feeds more easily in the nt update which has been submitted to Apple for approval..
When the alarm goes off, you have the choice to Snooze it, or hear the news. here’s a little sample… (turn on Robot!)

• China looking to restrict rare metals
  • Why is this important? A lot of our high tech is based upon rare metals. China supplies 95% of the worlds rare metals
  • A toyota prius takes about 25lb. of rare metals to create (mostly the batteries)
  • China basically ran out of the market in the mid-90′s by dropping their prices on rare metals through the floor, now they are running out
  • Motherboards, circuitry, energy saving bulbs, batteries, IPods, mobile phones, blackberries all use these metals
  • (erbium, dysprosium, yttrium, thulium, and lutetium,  neodymium, europium, cerium, and lanthanum)

• Danny Devito Joins Facebook, Welcome Vid is AWESOME!
  • • This video  takes the cake because he is “TOPLESS” and goes on to talk about his boring life, its GREAT!
    • This comes fresh on the heels of him making his Twitter picture of him shirtless as well, this guy must really love the web alot
    • Why are celebs soooo big in the social networking spaces?
• Star Wars Mod for COD4
  • Totally looks like star wars yet the action is eerily COD4 (complete with scope)
  • Non-Profit total conversion that started with just a blaster model
  • “Our plan is to release a first version of the mod in October. It’s planned to integrate three player models on each side (Rebels vs. Stormtroopers. The “playground” will be Tatooine, and Endor with Bespin following on a bit later. “
  • JP – I am praying and keeping my fingers crossed that LucasFilms/Lucas Arts and Activision and Treyarch take notice…
  • I am sure that this if made as a complete game would be one of the greatest sellers in gaming history..
  • More translated info
• Windows 7 Launch Party “contest”
  • Microsoft is trying to get people to host a Launch Party to celebrate the release of Windows 7 (party must be held between Oct 22 – 29)
  • some themes to choose from, ease of set up, social networking, photo palooza, etc
  • they’ll supply some party favors and you get entered in a contest to win a $750.00 PC and a special edition of Windows 7
    • Does anyone else think this sounds kinda lame? I’m a geek and all…
    • but are you really going to invite friends and family over to demo Windows 7 for them and try to convince them to go buy it?

Product Reviews:

• Flickr App for iPhone arrives
  • (Steven – I’ll intro this and then you can talk about it)
  • I just got this yesterday so I have not had too much time with it. Initial impression:
    • Not too impressed so far, no multiple image upload that I have found yet and it seems pretty slow compared to other image upload apps…
• iGo My Way
  • (Same here)
    iGO My way™ 2009 is a complete door-to-door, turn-by-turn 3D GPS navigation solution for iPhone
  • Quarterly map updates are absolutely FREE until December 2010.
  • Loving this thing, it actually saved my Bacon 2 weeks ago while I was out East…
    • It also narc’ed on my father in law for speeding… (don’t worry you can turn that off!)
  • This is what Apps for smart phones should be like! When Smartphones 1st started to come out, these are the types of things we all envisioned them doing, turn by turn directions, taking us back to whereever we parked in the mall parking lot, giving us helpful information at the touch of a button… This does all that and more…
    • Overall I would rate this a 4 out of 5, close but not perfect yet..
      
      • It’s missing Stopover support (but the dev’s say that is coming a future enhancement as well as announcing the street names and controlling your music from within the interface, and more)

• KOTOR on Steam and Direct2Drive for $10 (Steven)
  • Announced at PAX along with the unveil of Coruscant for MMORPG (The old Republic)