Episode 1088

Showering with DGW
Listener Emchik has long tried to figure out a way to listen to DGW while taking a shower.  Buying a Sonos seems to be an overkill, but his iPhone is too quiet.  A friend suggests placing his iPhone into an IKEA plastic cup which will act as a loudspeaker, and it works.  The tapered bottom keeps the iPhone up and the sound is reflected up.  Of course, there’s the Griffin AirCurve, a TTTT gadget which is an acoustic amplifier (Episode 747), or an FM transmitter which Tim from Australia uses to listen to the show during his morning shower (Episode 47).

IKEA Mugs as Amplifiers for the iPhone

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Episode 1087

Autonomous Lawn Mowers Competition
In Episode 1081, a listener wrote in about the Robomow.  Doug Hanchard then follows up with news of a robotic lawn mower competition, sponsored by Honeywell and the US military.  Read about it on ion.org.  “The mow, the merrier.”

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Episode 1086

A Convenient Change of Plan
Jordan Gollop set up a trip to San Francisco for late August with the help of Eva Laporte so that he could be at the TWiT Cottage on a Tuesday for the recording of net@night and the Daily Giz Wiz.  Then DGW’s recording switched to Saturday.  He lives on the East Coast and wrote to Dick if he could visit Gizneyland.  He’s in Dick’s studio right now for this week’s recording, and will get some of the TWiT memorabilia that Dane Golden has sent along to Dick.

Colleen Leaves TWiT
Colleen Kelly, who basically built the studio and runs TWiT, is leaving TWiT for Google as video streaming engineer.  She will be sorely missed at TWiT and her last task will be making a tribute video for herself.

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Episode 1085

Disney Dream Depot
Michael Mayerling, who contributed today's warehouse gadget, apart from keeping too much old stuff, is a fan of Disney Magic, and runs the website Disney Dream Depot.

The Future of Palm
The Palm Pre has not lived up to the hopes of reviving Palm, and the company is now available for acquisition.  HTC expressed interest, but has now dropped out of the picture, although Lenovo may be interested.

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Episode 1084

College Days with TWiT
Lou Gagliardi is at college himself and wants to congratulate Abby, as going to college is one of the most powerful things one can do.  He also wants to thank Leo for founding TWiT, without which his days at school would be very boring.

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