Episode 61 of The pause.com Entertainment Podcast is live!

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At the beginning of the show, the guys start out by reading some listener mail in a segment still entitled “Fred” (until somebody suggests a better idea that Tony doesn’t veto, which nobody has yet, although it’s been tried)

In this episode, Tony talks about the Xbox Live Game Room, as well as Bird Strike on the iPhone. Miscellaneous video game news follows.

In TV (~16:45), the guys talk Lost, V,  and American Idol. Tony talks about Glee a bit. Lou talks about Chuck, 24 and Stargate Universe. Random TV news tidbits after that.

In Movies (~52:05) Tony hasn’t had time to see anything, and neither has Lou. Miscellaneous movie news follows the nothingness.

In the Mash-Up segment (~1:06:55) the news this week includes:

• The whole “lost iPhone 4G” saga has gotten ugly, with police illegally raiding Jason Chen’s home and seizing all of his computers despite a California law that says that warrants can’t be issued to seize the computers of journalists
• In other Apple news, the WWDC starts on June 7
• The last space shuttle launch will be in November, as Discovery will blast off on its final voyage, ending the era of the Space Shuttle program.
• Top Gear’s Jeremy Clarkson hates BMW’s new X1 crossover so much that he actually called it Rubbish. In short, he didn’t like anything about it. Read the full article via the link on pause.com (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/driving/jeremy_clarkson/article7105825.ece) 
• DARPA lost it’s Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 (HTV-2) 9 minutes into its maiden voyage. It’s a hypersonic glider capable of traveling at speeds over Mach 20, and is designed to deliver a payload of conventional weapons anywhere in the world in under an hour, without being mistaken for a nuclear missile
• Sony will officially discontinue the 3.5″ floppy disk next year, after 30 years
• McAfee Total Protection ended up being a Total Disaster last week as it identified a crucial Windows XP system file as malicious software and deleted it, sending affected computers into an endless reboot cycle.
• Volkswagen is holding an App My Ride contest in which contestants can submit Flash apps that showcase concepts for a next-generation infotainment system
• A Russian lunar rover missing on the moon for about 40 years has just been located
• The new MacBook Pro with a Core i7 processor is reportedly running at up to 100 degrees Celsius
• Some chemists have figured out how to change the shape of salt crystals to make things taste just as salty while actually using 25% less sodium. Lay’s will start using it next year.
• The JooJoo, formerly the CrunchPad, is now available in Europe
• YouTube has officially opened it’s video rental store, where you can watch high-quality movies for anywhere between 99 cents and 3.99. You can only watch the movies for up to 48 hours, and there aren’t a ton of movies on offer yet.
• The San Francisco Chronicle published a great article on how long it would actually take for hybrid cars to pay off in fuel savings.

As always, the end of the episode is when Tony & Lou reveal their votes for this week’s Best & Worst entertainment moments. See Tony & Lou’s collective best entertainment moment here.

The pause.com Entertainment Podcast is hosted by long-time friends Tony Incopero and Lou Zucaro. Join them as they discuss all sorts of fun things in the world of entertainment, gaming, gadgets, cars and more with a healthy dose of their sense of humor.

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Not the review, the car. According to Clarkson. As always, reading one of his reviews is infinitely more entertaining than having somebody tell you about it, so go here and enjoy: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/driving/jeremy_clarkson/article7105825.ece

Episode 60 of The pause.com Entertainment Podcast is live!

The pause.com Entertainment Podcast is sponsored by MenuMinder, Chicago’s best restaurant search site. MenuMinder lets you search for exactly what you’re in the mood to eat or drink. MenuMinder: Find Food for Your Mood

NOTE: To subscribe to the pause.com Entertainment Podcast on iTunes Click here to open iTunes to our podcast, then click the SUBSCRIBE button.

At the beginning of the show, the guys start out by reading some listener mail in a segment still entitled “Fred” (until somebody suggests a better idea that Tony doesn’t veto, which nobody has yet, although it’s been tried)

In this episode, Tony talks about the Splinter Cell: Conviction demo. Lou talks about starting Borderlands. Miscellaneous video game news follows.

In TV (~17:50), the guys talk Lost, American Idol, Top Chef Masters and Tony talks about Celebrity Apprentice. Lou talks for a bit about 24 and Stargate Universe. Random TV news tidbits after that.

In Movies (~39:05) Tony hasn’t had time to see anything, but Lou saw Shutter Island. Miscellaneous movie news follows.

In the Mash-Up segment (~51:35) the news this week includes:

• The iPad is out. Super.
• A volcano erupted in Iceland on April 14th and pumped so much ash into the atmosphere that only now, five days later, are European test flights suggesting that it might be ok to start flying again.
• Seagate and Paramount have an agreement whereby select Seagate FreeAgent Go portable hard drives will be pre-loaded with Paramount movies. For instance, you can buy a 500GB FreeAgent Go right now with last year’s Star Trek pre-loaded and available for activation for no charge.
• The latest iPhone 4G rumors…are meaningless, now that somebody found an iPhone 4G that some (very in-trouble) Apple insider lost at a bar in California: New form factor with a flat bottom, glass or clear plastic or ceramic back, front-facing camera for video calling, bigger lens on the back for the regular camera and the camera now has a flash, higher-resolution screen, new location for the micro SIM card, separate volume up and down buttons, and a much bigger battery.
• A line of clothing called Ping has embedded electronics that can “sense what you’re doing” and send out updates to Twitter, Facebook, etc.
• Dell will be releasing a couple of iPad competitors called Streak…one 10″ version and a 7″ version. The smaller of the two could be out later this year.
• Light Peak may be coming to computers as early as next year. Again, it runs at 10 Gbps, which is fast enough to transfer an entire Blu-ray movie in 30 seconds.
• NASA and GM will be seinding a robot called Robonaut 2 (aka R2) to the International Space Station to help astronauts with stuff. And things. R2 is a humanoid-type robot, and will be heading to the ISS in September.
• Flip is finally releasing a camera with a widescreen, called the Flip SideHD. It’ll record 12 hours of video on the internal 16GB of storage, and has a 2-hour battery life. $280 when it comes out.

As always, the end of the episode is when Tony & Lou reveal their votes for this week’s Best & Worst entertainment moments.

The pause.com Entertainment Podcast is hosted by long-time friends Tony Incopero and Lou Zucaro. Join them as they discuss all sorts of fun things in the world of entertainment, gaming, gadgets, cars and more with a healthy dose of their sense of humor.

iTunes subscribers! If you’re not seeing this episode on our iTunes page (linked at the top of this post) never fear! Just make sure you’re subscribed and your iTunes software on your computer will retrieve the latest episode. Just hit the refresh button in your library’s Podcasts page if you don’t see it!

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Episode 59 of The pause.com Entertainment Podcast is live!

NOTE: To subscribe to the pause.com Entertainment Podcast on iTunes Click here to open iTunes to our podcast, then click the SUBSCRIBE button.

At the beginning of the show, the guys start out by reading some listener mail in a segment still entitled “Fred” (until somebody suggests a better idea that Tony doesn’t veto, which nobody has yet, although it’s been tried)

In this episode, Tony talks about finishing God of War 3. Lou talks about starting Dragon Age Origins as well as World of Warcraft‘s Trial of the Champion. Miscellaneous video game news follows.

In TV (~22:05), the guys talk Lost, American Idol, Flash Forward, Modern Family and The Office. Lou also talks for a bit about both Chuck and 24. Random TV news tidbits after that.

In Movies (~44:50) Tony talks about seeing Alice in Wonderland in 3D, and Lou saw Repo Men. Miscellaneous movie news follows.

In the Mash-Up segment (~1:03:25) the news this week includes:

• HTC’s Evo is the first 4G cellphone, and it’s got some fantastic features, including the ability to be a mobile hotspot for computers and other phones, a front-facing camera for video calling, and the ability to stream HD video to an HDTV as well as stream HQ videos from YouTube; on Sprint’s WiMax (Clear)
• Adobe’s new Content-Aware Fill is so amazing that it almost looks fake. Check out the video here.
• Tata has had a few issues with Nanos spontaneously catching on fire while parked.
• Best Buy will open its first UK stores in May
• RCA has discovered a way to absorb power from WiFi sources to recharge electronic devices.
• The British military is bringing the future one step closer with new technology that will enable fast-recharging forcefields for their tanks, unleashing a burst of energy just as a projectile is about to hit
• VirginGalactic’s Enterprise (SpaceShipTwo) completed its maiden voyage the other day
• Apple will begin selling the iPhone without a contract for unsubsidized prices; the phones will not, however, be unlocked
• According to Steve Jobs, a future version of the iPhone OS will let you check any and all e-mail accounts you have set up on your phone through a single screen
• Kalamazoo has released their Artisan Fire Pizza Oven…an open front, open flame pizza oven that, after taking 20 minutes to get to the right internal temp, can bake a neopolitan style pizza in about 2 minutes; $6500
• Samsung’s new Galaxy S and Wave phones can shoot & play back DivX-certified 720p video
• Toyota has actually had issues with electronic acceleration since 2002, and even issued a service bulletin to dealers about it back then, contrary to their position that they’ve never known about such issues
• The USB ports on the Xbox 360 will soon be able to be used for memory storage
• The Ferrari 458 Italia will be featured as an Autobot (the good guys) in Transformers 3
• The Commodore 64 will be making a comeback, complete with a shiny new case, DVD drive, memory card readers and trackpad; it’ll still be a “computer in a keyboard”; no word on guts or OS version as of yet
• Nintendo’s 3DS glasses-free 3D version of the DS will make its debut at E3 this year
• The App Store is now integrated into Facebook
• BMW revealed that 80% of 1 series owners believe their cars are FWD; this sort of solidifies my personal opinion of 80% of BMW owners
• James Cameron “has a deal with Fox” that any time his movies make over a $1 billion, the DVD / Blu-ray will be released without any annoying trailers or ads. Score 1 for Cameron.
• A “slip” in a Microsoft job posting specifically mentioned the forthcoming Courier journal device. Which means it’s real. Or Microsoft’s HR department are all morons. Or both.
• FedEx will roll out the first four all-electric vehicles in its fleet in June, in Los Angeles
• GameCrush is a new service where you can pay a minimum of $8.25 to play video games with hot chicks (who get to keep 60% of the fee), then rate them on their hotness and video game playing abilities. You can play Flash-based games like checkers or Xbox 360 games; For much more info, read the Kotaku article here and then get out your credit card

As always, the end of the episode is when Tony & Lou reveal their votes for this week’s Best & Worst entertainment moments.

The pause.com Entertainment Podcast is hosted by long-time friends Tony Incopero and Lou Zucaro. Join them as they discuss all sorts of fun things in the world of entertainment, gaming, gadgets, cars and more with a healthy dose of their sense of humor.

iTunes subscribers! If you’re not seeing this episode on our iTunes page (linked at the top of this post) never fear! Just make sure you’re subscribed and your iTunes software on your computer will retrieve the latest episode. Just hit the refresh button in your library’s Podcasts page if you don’t see it!

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Ok, I know I’m being lazy here because I haven’t even bothered to look up the origin of this trailer (sorry) but I wanted to share it, because it’s actually pretty nicely done. And I think the classical music really is MUCH better than the original compositions (no offense to Wendy Carlos):

If you’ve never used Photoshop, you might think this sort of thing is already going on. The truth is that image manipulation to the degree illustrated here is really tricky & time consuming, and takes a lot of skill. Or at least it used to. Amazing.

If you’ve seen Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, you’ve probably seen this, but since I haven’t yet, I hadn’t. And now I have. Bruce Boxleitner overacts. There’s somebody in white doing something that looks like playing the guitar, but not with a guitar. Those things scare me. The rest of this makes me pretty excited for this to come out.

Episode 58 of The pause.com Entertainment Podcast is live!

NOTE: To subscribe to the pause.com Entertainment Podcast on iTunes Click here to open iTunes to our podcast, then click the SUBSCRIBE button.

At the beginning of the show, the guys start out by reading some listener mail in a segment still entitled “Fred” (until somebody suggests a better idea that Tony doesn’t veto, which nobody has yet, although it’s been tried)

In this episode, Tony talks about finishing Heavy Rain as well as starting Assassin’s Creed II. Miscellaneous video game news follows.

In TV (~22:05), the guys talk Lost, American Idol, Modern Family and The Office. Lou also talks for a bit about why the last episode of Chuck was great, and mentions Human Target again. Random TV news tidbits after that.

In Movies (~44:50) Tony talks about seeing Precious and Year One, and Lou saw Green Zone and an old Michael Crichton classic, Runaway. Miscellaneous movie news follows.

In the Mash-Up segment (~1:03:25) the news this week includes:

• London’s Strata is the first skyscraper to have turbines built-in from the design up
• Discovery Store has a 10″ globe that uses electronic induction to float above its base and turn, while also showing nighttime lighting density across the world
• The JooJoo just got an OS makeover, likely in order to compete with the iPad.
• Some of Fuji’s new cameras not only include face detection for people, but for cats & dogs as well.
• Rumor: iPhone 4.0 software will include actual multitasking
• Video game streaming service OnLive is launching on June 17th, but it won’t be on TVs yet.
• Rumor: The Zune HD2 will be like the iPod Touch in that it’ll be both a PMP and run apps, presumably running Windows Phone 7
• Google’s Apps Marketplace is open, with about 50 apps available already.
• Cicso’s new CRS-3 system aims to improve the foundation of the internet offering a claimed 322 Terabits of data routing per second
• If you want one of TiVo’s new Premiere boxes and you have an HP MediaSmart Server EX490 or EX495, you’ll be able to move TiVo recorded programs onto your MediaSmart server and back again
• Kojiro, a robot from JSK Robotics Lab at Tokyo University, is sorta seen as the future of robotics
• British scientists claim to have figured out a way to extract hydrogen from water with 60% efficiency
• Check out pause.com for new videos of Microsoft’s Courier dual-touch-screen tablet computer, which looks like about the coolest portable gadget in history

As always, the end of the episode is when Tony & Lou reveal their votes for this week’s Best & Worst entertainment moments.

The pause.com Entertainment Podcast is hosted by long-time friends Tony Incopero and Lou Zucaro. Join them as they discuss all sorts of fun things in the world of entertainment, gaming, gadgets, cars and more with a healthy dose of their sense of humor.

iTunes subscribers! If you’re not seeing this episode on our iTunes page (linked at the top of this post) never fear! Just make sure you’re subscribed and your iTunes software on your computer will retrieve the latest episode. Just hit the refresh button in your library’s Podcasts page if you don’t see it!

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It’s just…so…cool…

…and…

Tokyo University’s JSK Robotics Laboratory demonstrates this extremely cool robot that uses about 100 tendon-like control devices to make Kojiro work and move more like a human than other robots.