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Coming up in this episode... * New Star Trek * A WalkMac * ...and what have we been up to during our break? Listen below with the audio player or Click Here (http://wp.me/pe53l-133) for complete show notes and video from the show. http://youtu.be/1qEB-gJ2g3k Feedback * Technorama has been nominated for a Parsec Award. Thank you! Introducing the team... * Shout out to the chat room * Happy Birthday to: * 06 - Adam Larson (UncleAdam) * 06 - Grandma Grace (1921) * 08 - Bobby Irvin * 10 - Tim (from Australia) * 10 - Weber (BTW June 10 - AA was founded 1935) * If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our Wiki. * Join us on the Google+ hangout every Sunday night at 9:30PM ET to see and hear the show raw and unedited. Just circle Technorama Podcast, Kreg, or me and you’ll see the announcement when we join the hangout. On This Day In History for June 5, 2013 This is June 5, 2013 is the 156th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 209 days remaining in 2013. * It was on this date in 1817 that the first Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac, is launched. * Also today in 1851 – Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly, starts a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper. * The first regularly scheduled Orient Express departs Paris started on June 5, 1883. * That same date in 1956 – Elvis Presley introduces his new single, "Hound Dog", on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements. * DSV Alvin is commissioned 49 years ago today. * It was June 5, 1976 that saw the collapse of the Teton Dam in Idaho, in the United States. * The Apple II, one of the first personal computers, goes on sale today in 1977 * And in 1995 – The Bose-Einstein condensate is first created. Happy Birthday goes out on this day to: * Bernardino Baldi, Italian mathematician born on this date in 1553 * Italian mathematician, Elena Cornaro Piscopia, was born today in 1646 * also born on that same date in 1819 – English mathematician and astronomer John Couch Adams * American sheriff Pat Garrett, famed for killing Billy the Kid was born today in 1850 * and finally Hungarian-English engineer and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate Dennis Gabor,  was born 113 years ago today And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for June 5, 2013 What have you been up to? * Chuck * Orlando, Singapore, Vegas, and London * Watching “Arrow” * Bought Bose QC-15 headphones for traveling * Kreg * Went to Alaska News * Matt Smith is leaving Dr. Who (http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/doctorwho/articles/Matt-Smith-to-leave-Doctor-Who) Hacks & Strange Stories * The 1960s Office Desk of the Future Was More NASA Than Mad Men (http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/the-1960s-office-desk-of-the-future-was-more-nasa-than-510658591) * 3D Printed hands help Kids without fingers (http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57587027-1/3d-printed-robohands-help-kids-without-fingers/?ttag=gpwl) Remember When * Wait, What? The WalkMac? (http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-18438_7-57586890-82/walkmac-revisited-the-inside-story-of-the-first-portable-mac/) Media Corner * Mini Review of Star Trek into Darkness * and Iron Man 3 Geek Library * A Full Scale Lego T-800 Terminator Sent Back In Time To Blow Our Minds (http://gizmodo.com/a-full-scale-lego-t-800-terminator-sent-back-in-time-to-510497642) * Star Trek: The Wine is now a thing that exists (http://io9.com/star-trek-the-wine-is-now-a-thing-that-exists-510744425) * Oh and the last of the show.... * Best Black Widow Cosplay Ever (http://imgur.com/MZCmYXC) * CntrySigns sent in Dog Thor (http://anilol.com/thor)   End of Show Stuff We appreciate your support. If you like the show, there are many ways to show your love: * Call the Listener Line: 206-222-CHAT (2428)

Here is a special message from Technorama's CEO, CFO, and GEEK Chuck Tomasi informing all the listeners that we are not dead yet. In fact we are so not dead that we offer this audio message as proof that we still exist and are operating on this common plane of existence we are all sharing. (http://www.chuckchat.com/technorama/files/2013/05/DigitalHeart.jpg) Now that I think about it, this isn't real proof since we could have simply recorded this at any time. Regardless, don't saddle yourself looking for proof and wasting your valuable time. Just take our word for it similar in the way you believe in Love. You see, you can't hold or touch love. You can't smell or hear it, but you see the effects and the results of it. Following that logic and since there is no Technorama, you can't hear us or touch us then that means Technorama is like love. So, love us while not seeing or hearing us and we will be back soon. Yes, Technorama is love.  

Coming up in this episode... * Insert film cartridge * Advance to first frame * Click shutter to take blurry picture of your feet Listen below with the audio player or Click Here (http://wp.me/pe53l-12b) for complete show notes and video from the show. http://youtu.be/m3aJONywhUU Introducing the team... * Shout out to the chat room * Happy Birthday to: * April 14 - Danny Harnish * April 18 - Skaifey (Anthony) * April 19 - Amanda (SusietheGeek's daughter & Geek in Training) * April 23 - Runtime * April 29 - Shepherd Thom from outside of the known universe * April 30 - Julio Diaz (JulioTijuana) * May 03 - Keao Wright * May 03 - Leon * May 05 - Joe Mieczkowski host of Onthepodcast * May 06 - Amber Pace (not really a listener, but a mother and a wife of listeners) * May 06 - Bill Barbour * May 06 - Steve Bickle * If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our Wiki. * Join us on the Google+ hangout every Sunday night at 9:30PM ET to see and hear the show raw and unedited. Just circle Technorama Podcast, Kreg, or me and you’ll see the announcement when we join the hangout. On This Day In History for April 10, 2013 This is the 100th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (101 for leap years). There are 265 days remaining in 2013. * It was on this date in 837 that Halley's Comet and Earth experienced their closest approach to one another when their separating distance equalled 0.0342 AU (3.2 million miles). * Today in 1815 – The Mount Tambora volcano begins a three-month-long eruption, lasting until July 15. The eruption ultimately kills 71,000 people and affects Earth's climate for the next two years. * 197 years ago, the United States Government approves the creation of the Second Bank of the United States. * The first Arbor Day is celebrated in Nebraska April 10, 1874. * The Titanic leaves port in Southampton, England for her first and only voyage 101 years ago * Today in 1916, the Professional Golfers Association of America (PGA) is created in New York City. * The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is first published in New York City, by Charles Scribner's Sons. on this date in 1925. * Exactly 60 years ago today – Warner Brothers premieres the first 3-D film from a major American studio, entitled House of Wax. * and sadly, 50 years ago today 129 American sailors die when the submarine USS Thresher sinks at sea. If this is your birthday, then you share it with the likes of: * English clockmaker and scientist John Whitehurst, born on this date in 1713 * also born today in 1762 – Italian physicist Giovanni Aldini * One of my favorite actors Harry Morgan, would have been 98 today * actor Omar Sharif turns 81 today * and finally tough man, and (ahem) actor, Steven Seagal turns 61 And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for April 10, 2013 News * Future of organs? Synthetic tissue built with 3-D printer - latimes.com (http://www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-faux-synthetic-tissue-3d-printer-self-assembling-20130404,0,6286611.story) Hacks & Strange Stories * Student balloon photographs final shuttle launch from the edge of space (http://i.imgur.com/uAWnH3S.jpg) * Even LED Keychain Lights Have Gesture Controls Now (http://gizmodo.com/5993589/even-led-keychain-lights-have-gesture-controls-now) - What else could use Gesture Controls? Remember When * Your First Computer Love Deserves a Place in Your Heart and On Your Wall (http://gizmodo.com/5993606/your-first-computer-love-deserves-a-place-in-your-heart-and-on-your-wall) * Kiss the 5¼ Floppy Disk Goodbye! (http://i.imgur.com/2JJlIn1.jpg) * 12 Computers Who Are Complete Bastards (http://io9.com/12-computers-who-are-complete-bastards-470182756) Media Corner * Could Kickstarter Revive “Farscape”? — Slice of SciFi (http://www.sliceofscifi.com/2013/04/05/could-kickstarter-revive-farscape/)

Coming up in this episode... * It’s not about being Happily Ever After * The more you give, the more it gives back * and...It can change the world Hey...check out Chuck and Kreg on the episode Lost Waters (http://www.ministryofpeculiaroccurrences.com/2013/03/26/podcast-volume-2-eleven/) that Kreg wrote for the Tales from the Archives at the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences. Listen below with the audio player or Click Here (http://wp.me/pe53l-120) for complete show notes and video from the show. http://youtu.be/C7zT9tU1QcQ Feedback * Bob in LP MI (in response to Bone Fone, scouting, and Shatner’s world) HI I do believe that I still have my bone phone.  It is with the rest of my stuff  from my youth.  How bad do you want it? Kreg  It makes a leader feel good when the boys cross over.  I had my son and two others cross over this year. In the winter do your scouts do any kind of Klondike events? My wife I and I just see Shatner's world.  It was a great show  He came out and talked for an 1:45 or so well worth the money. It was the story of his acting career. If you get the chance go for it. 101 Bob M in LP MI * Julio in Tijuana Google decided to stop life support for Google Reader. It has only a few more months to live. Over the years I have learned countless things from the feeds Reader kept an always vigilant eye on for me, never did it complaint: "Why don't you delete all these dead feeds?" It is as if it knew that I kept them to mourn all those blogs on eternal hiatus. It never mocked me: "Why do you keep reading Unconsumption? You are never going to build a sofa out of a scrapped wooden pallet. You barely manage to recycle your plastic bags!" It was a discreet and helpful friend. I'm going to miss good ol' Google Reader. Introducing the team... * Shout out to the chat room * Happy Birthday to: March * 23 - Steve Riekeberg a.k.a. MissingIntellect of Geek Cred (http://www.geekcred.net/) * 23 - Richard Parkman * 25 - Nicholas St Gabriel * 26 - Chuck Tomasi * 26 - Brina Baird in Hampton, VA April * 04 - Brian K - My Blog * 04 - Joel McLaughlin (aka Gorkon) * 05 - Chad Davis, Jon Issler (hsteckylf) * 05 - Griffin Sylvester (Ildreancipher) * 05 - Martine Tysmans - citytrips, travelling, jokes... (in Dutch) (http://martine-tysmans.skynetblogs.be/) * 05 - Ringmaster Greg from Dancing With Elephants (http://dwithe.com/) * 06 - Trevor Litecky (future Geek) * 07 - P.C. Haring * If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our Wiki. * Join us on the Google+ hangout every Sunday night at 9:30PM ET to see and hear the show raw and unedited. Just circle Technorama Podcast, Kreg, or me and you’ll see the announcement when we join the hangout. On This Day In History for April 3, 2013 This is April 3, 2013 is the 93rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 272 days remaining in 2013. * It was on this date in 1860 that the first successful United States Pony Express run from Saint Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California begins. * Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for his engine design today in 1885. * 84 years ago today the RMS Queen Mary is ordered from John Brown & Company Shipbuilding and Engineering by Cunard Line. * On this date in 1933 – A British expedition, led by the Marquis of Clydesdale, and funded by Lucy, Lady Houston made the first flight over Mount Everest. * Today in 1936 – Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the baby son of pilot Charles Lindbergh. * 52 years ago today, the Leadbeater's Possum is rediscovered in Australia after 72 years. * It was April 3, 1973 that Martin Cooper of Motorola made the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs, though it took ten years for the DynaTAC 8000X to become the first such phone to be commercially released. * The Osborne 1,

Coming up in this episode... If there is no net force on an object, then its velocity is constant. The object is either at rest (if its velocity is equal to zero), or it moves with constant speed in a single direction The acceleration a of a bo...

Coming up in this episode... Scalpel Forceps Clamp (look, this isn’t brain surgery!) ** Note ** I am an idiot. It would help if I were to remember to attach the show to this blog post so you fine people could download and listen to it. ~ Apologies. Listen below with the audio player or Click Here (http://wp.me/pe53l-11x) for complete show notes and video from the show. http://youtu.be/1PmrZSxCQ00 Introducing the team... Shout out to the chat room Happy Birthday to: 29 - Paul Dove a.k.a Eilmer Of Malmesbury UK If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our Wiki. Join us on the Google+ hangout every Sunday night at 9:30PM ET to see and hear the show raw and unedited. Just circle Technorama Podcast, Kreg, or me and you’ll see the announcement when we join the hangout. News Woman dies by “shooting range” (http://gizmodo.com/5986248/a-florida-woman-was-shot-by-an-oven-in-her-pursuit-of-waffles) Sorry Neil, 300 billion elephants may have been wrong (http://io9.com/5985161/sorry-neil-degrasse-tyson-but-youre-wrong-about-thors-hammer) Hacks & Strange Stories An Amish tech trade show (http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/02/22/172626089/inside-an-amish-trade-show) Police inform woman of son’s death over Facebook (http://gizmodo.com/5985605/police-informed-a-mother-about-her-sons-death-over-facebook) Remember When Remember when “twitter” used to mean? (http://gizmodo.com/5985069/twitter-has-changed-a-lot-since-the-1700s) Media Corner Emoji Dick is now in the Library of Congress (http://www.dailydot.com/culture/library-congress-emoji-moby-dick/) Available at: http://www.emojidick.com/ (http://www.emojidick.com/) Restoring the Delorean from BTTF (http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/19/4004022/back-to-the-future-delorean-restored-universal-studios) Geek Library Are you likely to spontaneously combust? (http://io9.com/5986417/are-you-in-danger-of-spontaneously-combusting-the-risk-factors-according-to-a-1799-physician) How many digits of Pi do you really need? (http://gizmodo.com/5985858/how-many-digits-of-pi-do-you-really-need) End of Show Stuff We appreciate your support. If you like the show, there are many ways to show your love: Call the Listener Line: 206-222-CHAT (2428) Email at technorama@chuckchat.com We are also on... Twitter at @Ctomasi (http://twitter.com/ctomasi), @Steppek (http://twitter.com/steppek), and @technorama (http://twitter.com/technorama) on Facebook at the Technorama Page (https://www.facebook.com/technoramapodcast) And even Google Plus (https://plus.google.com/u/0/114344045273696987673/posts) Links are in these show notes and on our website www.chuckchat.com (http://www.chuckchat.com/) How about a donation to the tip jar: one time or monthly micro-payment. Or a review on the iTunes music store. Also Thanks to Mad Marv for providing the great blog content Everyone who sent us links during the week Those who joined us in the hangout You, for downloading and listening This show is a member of Friends in Tech. Find out more at FriendsInTech.com (http://friendsintech.com/) We're also affiliated with FarpointMedia.com (http://farpointmedia.com/)  and all the great podcasts over there. Check them out, we know you'll  find something you'll enjoy. There are new shows coming on board all the  time. If you're getting this show by clicking on the link on the website (http://chuckchat.com/technorama), consider subscribing to get the show automatically delivered to you for free. Drop either one of us an email if you would like more information. Tell a friend about Technorama and... binary high five

Coming up in this episode... An Elevator Bubbles ...and Lunch Listen below with the audio player or Click Here (http://wp.me/pe53l-11o) for complete show notes and video from the show. http://youtu.be/w1XaURj64BE Feedback From St...

Coming up in this episode... Ocean found on Mars The related Beach found on Mars Earthlings pack for a vacation on Mars Listen below with the audio player or Click Here (http://wp.me/pe53l-11i) for complete show notes and video from the show. http://youtu.be/TTApamJhZ8M Feedback John Van Seters Last podcast Craig mentioned he'd like a beer extension for evernote. I came up with myBeerNation    http://2012.devcup.evernote.com/submissions/8653-mybeernation-beer-journal-and-brewery-finder (http://2012.devcup.evernote.com/submissions/8653-mybeernation-beer-journal-and-brewery-finder). please pass it on 2 VM from TJ Siri punctuation Cosplay Introducing the team... We have published the Technorama Calendar on the website. Subscribe with Google Calendar, iCal, Outlook, your mobile devices, etc. Shout out to the chat room Happy Birthday to: 14 - Douglas E. Welch of Career Opportunities Podcast (http://welchwrite.com/career/) 14 - Andrew, the new VP in Illinois 15 - Philip from Australia 19 - Scooter in Connecticut 19 - Steve in Sumter If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our Wiki. Join us on the Google+ hangout every Sunday night at 9:30PM ET to see and hear the show raw and unedited. Just circle Technorama Podcast, Kreg, or me and you’ll see the announcement when we join the hangout. On This Day In History for February 13, 2013 This is February 13, 2013 is the 44th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 321 days remaining in 2013. It was on this date in 1633 that Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition. Also on that same date in 1880, Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect. Israel obtains 4 of the 7 Dead Sea scrolls today in 1955. February 13,1961 – A 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug. The last original "Peanuts" comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies just 13 years ago today. Today in 2004 – The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announces the discovery of the universe's largest known diamond, a white dwarf star (designated BPM 37093.) Astronomers named this star "Lucy" after The Beatles' song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds". Four years ago today at 23:31:30 UTC the Unix system time (time_t) number reaches 1234567890 seconds. and exactly one year ago, the European Space Agency (ESA) conducted the first launch of the European Vega rocket from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. Happy Birthday goes out on this day to: Happy birthday goes out on this date to German mathematician Peter Gustav Dirichlet, born today in 1805 also born on this date in 1834 – German Chemist Heinrich Caro The man who broke the sound barrier, American fighter plane test pilot, Chuck Yeager is now 90 years old Norwegian computer scientist Arne Sølvberg, turns 73. Born in 1942, American musician and actor Peter Tork from "The Monkees" is 71 sharing his birthday is American astronaut Donald E. Williams and another American astronaut, Stephen G. Bowen turns 49 Finally, this is World Radio Day And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for February 13, 2013 News How many elephants does Thor’s hammer weigh? (http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2013/02/09/finally-the-real-weight-of-thors-hammer/) New unit of measure: 1 “Tyson” = 300 billion elephants = Thor’s hammer Speaking of numbers, the worlds longest prime number is found to be 17 million digits long. (http://gizmodo.com/5982034/the-worlds-newest-longest-prime-number-is-over-17-million-digits-long) Seti calls long distance and gets no answer. (http://io9.com/5982820/seti-conducts-first-ever-targeted-search-for-intelligent-life-on-earth+like-planets) Hacks & Strange Stories That spark plug from 1961

Coming up in this episode... * Fuel * Heat * and some Oxygen Listen below with the audio player or Click Here (http://wp.me/pe53l-115) for complete show notes and video from the show. http://youtu.be/0Bqat8SJYi0 Introducing the team... * Shout out to the chat room * Happy Birthday to: * 07 - Chad W. Smith from Chattanooga, TN * 07 - Bryon the Big BS in PA, Williamsport PA * 08 - Jan Scott from Yorkshire, UK * 08 - Blake Noble * 09 - "Podcast" Mike Wills (http://podcastmike.com/) from Minnesota * 10 - Zach Akgulian - Appleton, WI * 10 - Drace (Shari from ND) * If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our Wiki. * Join us on the Google+ hangout every Sunday night at 9:30PM ET to see and hear the show raw and unedited. Just circle Technorama Podcast, Kreg, or me and you’ll see the announcement when we join the hangout. On This Day In History for February 6, 2013 This is February 6 is the 37th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 328 days remaining in 2013. * It was on this date in 1815 that New Jersey grants the first American railroad charter to John Stevens. * 95 years ago today British women over the age of 30 get the right to vote. * Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments files the first patent for an integrated circuit today in 1959. * That same date at Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished. * Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport 15 years ago today. Happy Birthday goes out on this day to * Mario Bettinus, Italian philosopher, mathematician and astronomer born on this date in 1582. * Also born on this date in 1695, Swiss mathematician Nicolaus Bernoulli * Swiss bridge engineer Robert Maillart was born today in 1872 * Dmitry Pavlovich Grigorovich, the Russian aircraft designer was born 130 years ago today * The 40th President of the United States - Ronald Reagan was born Feb 6, 1911 * One year younger than Ronald Reagan was Adolf Hitler's girlfriend, Eva Braun * British anthropologist Mary Leakey was born today in 1913 * Jun Kondo, Japanese theoretical physicist, turns 83 * And finally, our list has been "Rick Rolled" - happy 47th birthday to British singer Rick Astley And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for February 6, 2013 News * New Antarctic station is mobile (http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/03/new-antarctic-research-lab/) Hacks & Strange Stories * The Kitchen Thing (http://arbroath.blogspot.com/2013/01/this-is-thing.html) * Home made bag pipes (http://www.geekologie.com/2013/01/bagpipes-made-out-of-pvc-duct-tape-shopp.php) * An infrared TV that uses remotes as pixels (http://gizmodo.com/5980449/an-infrared-tv-which-uses-remote-controls-as-pixels) Remember When * The Sony mini-disc is finally dead (http://gizmodo.com/5980785/sony-minidisc-is-finally-dead) * How Dialup Handshaking works (http://7.asset.soup.io/asset/4049/7559_e892.jpeg) Media Corner * Joss wants Serenity 2 (http://www.sliceofscifi.com/2013/01/31/joss-still-wants-serenity-sequel/) - So do we! * Lost TNG Espisode (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Esv07yUMSU) Geek Library * Chuck’s new app: Brew Gene (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/brewgene/id403047077?mt=8) * Also trying out: Evernote Hello (http://evernote.com/hello/) (available in Apple App Store (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/evernote-hello/id484359282?mt=8) or for Android (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.evernote.hello&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDMsImNvbS5ldmVybm90ZS5oZWxsbyJd)) End of Show Stuff We appreciate your support. If you like the show, there are many ways to show your love: * Call the Listener Line: 206-222-CHAT (2428) * Email at technorama@chuckchat.com * We are also on... * Twitter at @Ctomasi (http://twitter.com/ctomasi),

Coming up in this episode... Space Monkeys Monkey butlers and Monkeys that are super-smart and secretly run the US Government Listen below with the audio player or Click Here (http://wp.me/pe53l-10W) for complete show notes and video from the show. http://youtu.be/5CuHita7Msk Introducing the team... “Technorama - it’s the smartest thing you’ve done all day - yeah, you’re having one of THOSE days again, aren’t you?” Shout out to the chat room Happy Birthday to: 01 - Matt Baum aka Racer X, Pittsburgh PA 01 - Brandon Kirkwold - MN 02 - Chuck Provenzano aka podlurker aka Chuck's evil twin 02 - Oreo Cookie Monster 03 - Euan Campbell McGregor - Scotland, UK 03 - Adam Steppe If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our Wiki. Join us on the Google+ hangout every Sunday night at 9:30PM ET to see and hear the show raw and unedited. Just circle Technorama Podcast, Kreg, or me and you’ll see the announcement when we join the hangout. Feedback Mark in Memphis On This Day In History for January 30, 2013 This is the 30th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 335 days remaining in 2013 It was on this date in 1790 that the first boat specializing as a lifeboat is tested on the River Tyne. Also on this date in 1806 the original Lower Trenton Bridge, which spans the Delaware River between Morrisville, Pennsylvania and Trenton, New Jersey, is opened. Edward Bransfield sights the Trinity Peninsula and claims the discovery of Antarctica today in 1820. The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales, is opened on January 30, 1826. 151 years ago today – The first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor is launched. MS Hans Hedtoft, said to be the safest ship afloat and "unsinkable" like the RMS Titanic, struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sank, killing all 95 aboard on this date in 1959. Ranger 6 is launched 49 years ago today. Today in 1969 – The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police. Happy Birthday goes out on this day to: Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States born today in 1882. also born on this date in 1912 – German physicist Werner Hartmann Lex Luther, or at least the one I grew up with, actor Gene Hackman, is 83. Musician Phil Collins, turns 62 today And finally Batman, actor Christian Bale, turns 39. And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for January 30, 2013 News JJ Abrams to Direct Star Wars? Finally we can get settle that, “Who will win in a fight. Star Wars or Star Trek” Now with more lens flares. Kind of gives a whole new meaning to “Bad Robot” FDA Says It's OK to Have Robot Doctors (http://gizmodo.com/5978614/fda-says-its-ok-to-have-robot-doctors) Speaking of Robot surgery...Robot With A Chainsaw Carving Stools (http://www.geekologie.com/2013/01/wtf-was-that-robot-with-a-chainsaw-carvi.php) Why Lego Is Awesome: The Heartwarming Story of a Kid Who Lost a Minifig (http://gizmodo.com/5977665/another-reason-why-lego-is-awesome) Hacks & Strange Stories Earth Was Hit by a Massive Gamma-Ray Burst in the Year 775 (http://gizmodo.com/5977566/earth-was-hit-by-a-massive-gamma+ray-burst-in-the-year-775) Remember When Atari filing for Bankruptcy (http://gizmodo.com/5977558/atari-files-for-bankruptcy-protection) Ten 80s Tech inventions that never caught on (http://www.popsci.com/gadgets/article/2013-01/10-80s-tech-predictions-never-came-true) Geek Library Not affiliated with the calculators (http://imgur.com/r/funny/bjDdVgz) Thanks Mark Payne for loaning me his Farscape DVD collection! End of Show Stuff We appreciate your support. If you like the show, there are many ways to show your love:

Coming up in this episode... * Research results from MMORPGs vs. AT&T DDoS * We take you behind the scenes of one of your favorite movies * A message from 20 years ago still holds true Listen below with the audio player or Click Here for complete show notes and video from the show. http://youtu.be/TniNH4iIb_c Introducing the team... * Shout out to the chat room * Happy Birthday to: * 23 - Kathie Luke, IL * 23 - Chris Moody from PodioMedia Chat * 25 - Kreg Steppe * 26 - Will The Computer Guy * 27 - Mark in Memphis * If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our Wiki. * Join us on the Google+ hangout every Sunday night at 9:30PM ET to see and hear the show raw and unedited. Just circle Technorama Podcast, Kreg, or me and you’ll see the announcement when we join the hangout. On This Day In History for January 23, 2013 This is the 23rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 342 days remaining in 2013 * It was on this date in 1656 that Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres provinciales. * Also on this date in 1849 – Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her M.D. by the Geneva Medical College of Geneva, New York, becoming the United States' first female doctor. * It was January 23, 1855 – The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens in what is now Minneapolis, Minnesota, a crossing made today by the Father Louis Hennepin Bridge. * 104 years ago today the RMS Republic, a passenger ship of the White Star Line, becomes the first ship to use the CQD distress signal after colliding with another ship, the SS Florida, off the Massachusetts coastline, an event that kills six people. The Republic sinks the next day. * Today in 1957 – American inventor Walter Frederick Morrison sells the rights to his flying disc to the Wham-O toy company, who later rename it the "Frisbee". * 53 years ago today the bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a depth record by descending to 10,911 m (35,798 feet) in the Pacific Ocean. * Final communication between Earth and Pioneer 10 was exactly 10 years ago today. Happy Birthday goes out on this day to: * English mathematician John Landen born on this date in 1719 * also born on this date in 1745, English canal engineer William Jessop * German physicist Ernst Abbe was born today in 1840 * January 23, 1855 marks the birth of American inventor John Moses Browning * Buck Rogers, or rather the actor who portrayed him on the TV series, Gil Gerard, turns 70 today * Finally, MacGyver, and Colonel Jack O’Neill, actor Richard Dean Anderson, turns 63 And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for January 23, 2013 News * Once in a century comet heading our way (http://io9.com/5976499/once+in+a+century-ison-comet-could-be-visible-from-earth-during-the-daytime) * Time for Stephen Hawking to get an upgrade (http://gizmodo.com/5977369/intels-trying-to-help-stephen-hawking-get-his-speech-back-up-to-speed) Hacks & Strange Stories * Metric system?! Some thing we need base 12! (http://io9.com/5977095/why-we-should-switch-to-a-base+12-counting-system) * I now know the final piece of my death plan (http://www.geekologie.com/2013/01/an-urn-that-lets-you-rise-from-your-ashe.php) - as a tree * Introducing the “shovel drive” (http://gizmodo.com/5976759/a-usb-drive-on-a-shovel-sure-why-not) Media Corner * TOS Captain Pike had no clue about the show (http://io9.com/5976507/back-in-1965-the-original-star-trek-captain-thought-the-show-was-about-mans-relationship-to-woman) * Spiderman window washer brings smiles to children's hospital (http://www.geekologie.com/2013/01/good-people-theyre-still-out-there-windo.php) * Stan Lee is a real superhero (http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2013/01/19/no-need-for-superheroes-when-stan-lee-is-there-video) What the Chuck! * Doctors really don’t follow their own advice

Before we go too far, we want to send our thoughts and prayers out to the friends and family of Aaron Swartz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz). Coming up in this episode... Star travel cuisine We look at the wonderful world of Silly Putty Nasa uses spirograph to predict the end of our spiral galaxy Listen below with the audio player or Click Here (http://wp.me/pe53l-10B) for complete show notes and video from the show. http://youtu.be/p9xecPohFhA Introducing the team... Shout out to the chat room Happy Birthday to: 21 - Michael Rabalais - Stingray42 22 - TAW012294 23 - Kathie Luke, IL 23 - Chris Moody from PodioMedia Chat 25 - Kreg Steppe If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our Wiki. Join us on the Google+ hangout every Sunday night at 9:30PM ET to see and hear the show raw and unedited. Just circle Technorama Podcast, Kreg, or me and you’ll see the announcement when we join the hangout. Feedback From Dean Jenson: Chuck and Kreg, You know your raising a geek when you hear from the back seat of the van..."Its Power Pill...not Power Button" during your conversation about PacMan. Raising a geek that even corrects the famous Chuck and Kreg.  I now know I'm doing something right. Thanks, Dean On This Day In History for January 19, 2013 This is the 19th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 346 days remaining in 2013 It was on this date in 1788 the the second group of ships of the First Fleet arrives at Botany Bay. Captain Charles Wilkes circumnavigates Antarctica, claiming what became known as Wilkes Land for the United States today in 1840 Today in 1883 – The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey. January 19, 1915 – Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising. Coopers Inc. sells the world's first briefs on this date 78 years ago. 76 years ago today, Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles, California to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds. The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's plant in Emden on this date in 1978. Beetle production in Latin America continues until 2003. It was today in 1983 that the Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer from Apple Inc. to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, is announced. 27 years ago today, the first IBM PC computer virus is released into the wild. A boot sector virus dubbed (c)Brain, it was created by the Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan, reportedly to deter piracy of the software they had written. And today in 2006 the New Horizons probe is launched by NASA on the first mission to Pluto. Happy Birthday goes out on this day to: Scottish inventor James Watt, born on this date in 1736 Also born on this date in 1813, English inventor Sir Henry Bessemer Dutch astronomer Jacobus Kapteyn was born 162 years ago today John Lions, the Australian computer scientist would have been 76 And finally, the woman who gives her voice to Leila on Futurama (among other things), actress Katey Sagal turns 59 And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for January 19, 2013 You know when people say “it works like magic”? News flash: Magic isn’t real so what does that say about the metaphor? News White house shoots down Death Star (https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/isnt-petition-response-youre-looking) Hacks & Strange Stories Windows Phone’s Black Screen Of Death Tells You To ‘Insert Installation Disk’ (http://goo.gl/mag/N13YKeQ) If you weren’t creepy enough walking around the house in your Rebel underwear... Star Wars Chewbacca Robe (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AGLSHBM/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=bkgas-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00AGLSHBM)

Coming up in this episode... * Wookies wookies everywhere * Cell phone app saves boy’s life * Conspiracy theorist: Felix Baumgartner’s jump was done in a sound stage Listen below with the audio player or Click Here (http://wp.me/pe53l-10q) for complete show notes and video from the show. http://youtu.be/gMJoxWsXETs Introducing the team... * Shout out to the chat room * Happy Birthday to: * 09 - Lingo (http://www.thebritandyankee.com/) from the Brit & Yankee pubcast (http://www.thebritandyankee.com/) * 14 - Glynne Tolar * 15 - Ralph Whitfield (aka GoofyRalph) * 10X more geeky fun stuff is going on our Technorama Facebook page. If you haven’t liked it, you’re missing out! * If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our Wiki. * Join us on the Google+ hangout every Sunday night at 9:30PM ET to see and hear the show raw and unedited. Just circle Technorama Podcast, Kreg, or me and you’ll see the announcement when we join the hangout. On This Day In History for January 9, 2013 * It was on this date in 1768 in London, England, Great Britain, Philip Astley stages the first modern circus. * That same date in 1793, Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first person to fly in a balloon in the United States. * Sir Humphry Davy tests the Davy lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery today in 1816. * January 9, 1839 – The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process. * New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts on this date in 1894. * 104 years ago today, Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag 97 nautical miles (180 km; 112 mi) from the South Pole, the furthest anyone had ever reached at that time. * On this date in 1923 – Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro flight. * First flight of the Avro Lancaster. was today 72 years ago. * And today in 1960 – President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser opens construction on the Aswan Dam by detonating ten tons of dynamite to demolish twenty tons of granite on the east bank of the Nile. Happy birthday goes out on this date to * Russian mathematician, Vladimir Steklov born on this date in 1864 * Also born on this date in 1886 – Lloyd Loar, Acoustical engineer and inventor of the Gibson F-5 mandolin * Former Green Bay Packers quarterback and coach Bart Starr turns 79 today * Bob Denver, the actor who played Gilligan on the TV show Gilligan's Island was born today in 1935. * American singer and activist Joan Baez turns 72 * and finally, the iPhone was announced 6 years ago today on January 9, 2007 And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for January 9, 2013 News * New Arizona bill could outlaw parody twitter accounts (http://gizmodo.com/5972828/new-arizona-bill-could-outlaw-parody-twitter-accounts) * The U.S. should go metric! (http://gizmodo.com/5972438/its-time-for-the-us-to-go-metric) * Thinking of smuggling dino-bones? Think again (http://io9.com/5971753/whats-the-penalty-for-smuggling-dinosaur-bones-a-lot-more-than-youd-think) Hacks & Strange Stories * Scientists ask “What would dino-meat taste like?” (http://www.geekologie.com/2012/12/scientist-asks-which-dinosaur-would-tast.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+geekologie%2FiShm+%28Geekologie+-+Gadgets%2C+Gizmos%2C+and+Awesome%29) Media Corner * Engineer petitions White House for feasability study in to building the Enterprise (http://io9.com/5971494/engineer-petitions-white-house-to-conduct-a-feasibility-study-on-building-the-starship-enterprise) What the Chuck! * How did you do on your 2012 goals? * What do you have planned for 2013? * Any predictions? End of Show Stuff We appreciate your support. If you like the show, there are many ways to show your love:

Coming up in this episode...(http://www.chuckchat.com/technorama/files/2012/12/under_construction_animated.gif) * Our reactions to Windows 95 * Toy Story Trailer * Star Wars back again... Listen below with the audio player or Click Here (http://wp.me/pe53l-10b) for complete show notes and video from the show. http://youtu.be/-IOtKo_QK0I Introducing the team... * Shout out to the chat room * Happy Birthday to: * 30 - Maximilian Björsten, Stockholm Sweden * 31 - Tim Downing from The High Potency Music Podcast (http://blog.highpotencymusic.com/) * If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our Wiki. On This Day In History for August 29, 1995 * It was on this date in 708 that copper coins are minted in Japan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan) for the first time. * Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_induction) today in 1831. * The Mount Washington Cog Railway (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Washington_Cog_Railway) opens on August 29, 1869, making it the world's first rack railway (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rack_railway). * The Goodyear (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodyear_Tire_and_Rubber_Company) tire company is founded 97 years ago today. * Also on this date in 1907 – The Quebec Bridge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_Bridge) collapses during construction, killing 75 workers. * August 29, 1915 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1915) – The US Navy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Navy) salvage divers raise F-4 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_F-4_(SS-23)), the first U.S. submarine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine) sunk in accident. * Today in 1922 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1922) – The first radio advertisement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_advertisement) is broadcast on WEAF-AM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNBC_(AM)) in New York City (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City). * The Soviet Union (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union) tests its first atomic bomb (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bomb) on this date in 1949, known as First Lightning (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Lightning) or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semipalatinsk_Test_Site), Kazakhstan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakhstan). * The Gemini V (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_V) spacecraft returns to Earth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth), landing in the Atlantic ocean (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_ocean) 30 years ago. * One year later in 1966 – The Beatles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles) perform their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candlestick_Park) in San Francisco (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco). * And on this date in 1982 – The synthetic chemical element (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_element) Meitnerium (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meitnerium), atomic number (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_number) 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesellschaft_f%C3%BCr_Schwerionenforschung) in Darmstadt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darmstadt), Germany (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany). Happy Birthday goes out on this day to: * Polish Mathematician Jan Sniadecki, born on this date in 1756 * Also born today in 1632 John Locke, English philosopher and physician * American engineer and founder of Delco Electronics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delco_Electronics) Charles F. Kettering was born today in 1876 * Werner Forssmann, German physician Nobel Prize laureate born today in 91 years ago * English director Richard Attenborough, turns 72 * “Lifestyle of the Rich and Famous” Robin Leach celebrates his 54th birthday * American scientist James Glennon turns 53 * and English physicist and mathematician Stephen Wolfram turns 36 Finally,

Coming up in this episode... * Scientists discover new use for salt * The secrets of the universe, as told by children * Luke demands DNA test from Vader as proof Listen below with the audio player or Click Here for complete show notes and video from the show. http://youtu.be/fH1bbfYy-cc Introducing the team... * Shout out to the chat room * Happy Birthday to: * Nov 28 - Ben Sweetser (http://thesweetsers.blogspot.com/) * Dec 01 - Claudio Miranda (ClaudioM) * Dec 02 - Ben Fryxell from the MacMania Podcast * Dec 06 - SuperMoonMan * Dec 07 - Peter aka Zzippster from the Zzipp and Co. Podcast, Weymouth, Dorset, UK * Dec 08 - DanDman * Dec ?? - Gydian (Michael H.) * Dec 09 - Steve Kite (BigUnit62) * If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our Wiki. * Join us on the Google+ hangout every Sunday night at 9:30PM ET to see and hear the show raw and unedited. Just circle Technorama Podcast, Kreg, or me and you’ll see the announcement when we join the hangout. On This Day In History for December 5, 2012 * It was on this date in 1492 that Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola, now Haiti and the Dominican Republic. * Also on that same date in 1766 – In London, James Christie holds his first sale. * December 5, 1848 in a message before the U.S. Congress, US President James K. Polk confirms that large amounts of gold had been discovered in California. * German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa today in 1932 * Flight 19 is lost in the Bermuda Triangle 67 years ago today * Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) is inaugurated on this date in 1958 in the UK by Queen Elizabeth II when she speaks to the Lord Provost in a call from Bristol to Edinburgh. * Also on that same date, the Preston bypass, the UK's first stretch of motorway, opens to traffic for the first time. It is now part of the M6 and M55 motorways. * The last of the ARPANET Nodes closed today in 1969. Happy Birthday goes out on this day to: * American General George Armstrong Custer born on this date in 1839 * Also born today in 1879, American airplane manufacturer Clyde Cessna * Austrian born film director Fritz Lang was born today in 1890 * Walt Disney was born 111 years ago * Sharing his birthday with Walt Disney same birthday, German physicist and Nobel laureate Werner Heisenberg * And finally American radio personality Doctor Dre turns 49 And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for December 12, 2012 News * Merry Christmas to me! Man builds bot to send himself random crap from Amazon (http://gizmodo.com/5961888/this-guy-built-a-bot-that-sends-him-random-crap-from-amazon) Hacks & Strange Stories * The Star Trek communicator is on its way (http://www.lockergnome.com/mobile/2012/12/02/commbadge-brings-star-trek-communicators-to-life-on-android-or-ios/) * Man builds X-Ray backscatter machine (http://gizmodo.com/5963870/guy-builds-an-x+ray-backscatter-machine-in-his-garage-doesnt-have-to-take-his-shoes-off) Remember When * 1936 LA Electrical Expo (http://www.retronaut.com/2012/11/girls-dressed-as-appliances-at-the-los-angeles-electrical-exposition/) * In the 20s, some sellers fake TV’s in the display windows (http://io9.com/5964809/in-the-1920s-businesses-tricked-shoppers-by-putting-fake-television-sets-in-their-windows) * {edit 27:19} * 61 year old computer comes back to life (http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/21/tech/innovation/witch-computer-restoration/index.html) What the Chuck! * Here’s a Christmas idea: A $14K lego brick! (http://www.brickenvy.com/Shop/p-482-14k-Solid-Gold-LEGO-Employee-Brick-2x4-Brick-in-Display-Box.html) Geek Library * Ben Vaughn idea: Monthly book review - (2 min per book TOPS) * Chuck: * The Evernote Bible - Brandon Collins and Tyler Collins * The Brilliant Disaster - Jim Rasenberger