Episode 155 – Holiday Potluck

Gearing up for the festive season, Michael and Michael serve up a veritable smorgasbord of holiday potluck delights. Starting with well, um, leftovers from last week, Fitbit has indeed acquired the technology, software assets and intellectual property of Pebble and many of the people from Pebble will be joining Fitbit to continue their work on wearable technology. This brings up an interesting point on the nature of cloud services and the integration with physical devices — that one without the other does not work, as products and services are becoming more and more intertwined. Moving on to appetizers, Cortana now … Continue reading

Episode 139 – It’s All About The Rings Baby!

This week Michael and Michael look at another example of NFC Rings, this time by Visa for the athletes of the 2016 Olympics. We also investigate a new way to combine AR and VR with Occipital’s new purchase. And talk about a few of our new games we are playing. Check it out! Show Links Visa’s Olympic NFC Rings Occipital buys Replica Labs Magic Leap The World’s most secretive startup Games we are playing: Star Trek – Timelines Shark Evolution http://media.blubrry.com/gamesatwork/op3.dev/e,pg=6e00562f-0386-5985-9c2c-26822923720d/gamesatwork.biz/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/5-139-Episode-139-Its-all-about-the-rings-baby.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (28.7MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Android | … Continue reading