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Summary:

A fantastic way to play pong… if you have a skyscraper available to you. Plus news about some routers that just aren’t secure. Do you have one? All this and more, including our mobile app pick and the week in nerd history.

Hosts: Tom Kresic, John Kresic, Mike Kresic

Running Time: 30:48

Mobile App of the Week:

• Videoscope App – video processor app with various special effects. Kind of neat way to take some pics. Here’s one of me getting scanned into the Grid.

Nerd News:

• Are those long slow drives home from work boring you to tears? One company wants to ease your gridlock pain by putting a drum kit in your steering wheel. Who needs air bags?

• Get you a$$ to Mars! That’s what Arnold said. But in July the search will begin for astronauts to go on the Mars Colony Project.

• Some of the most popular home routers are not secure. How vulnerable is your home router?

• Want a cool way to have kids learn Java programming language? Check out what Codespell did.

• Philadelphia provided the biggest pong game ever. On skyscrapers no less.

This Week in Nerd History:

• April 22, 1864 – The U.S. Congress passes the Coinage Act of 1864 that mandates that the inscription In God We Trust be placed on all coins minted as United States currency.

• April 21, 1934 – The “Surgeon’s Photograph”, the most famous photo allegedly showing the Loch Ness Monster, is published in the Daily Mail (in 1999, it is revealed to be a hoax)

• April 22, 1970 – The first Earth Day is celebrated.

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Summary:

We’ve got lots of amazing new gadgets to talk about, even if we can’t afford all of them. We’ve got a couple of handy real estate apps and our week in Nerd history.

Hosts: Tom Kresic, John Kresic, Mike Kresic

Running Time: 32:07

Mobile App of the Week:

• Trulia app – real estate app

• Zillow app – real estate app

Nerd News:

• Need to get around town and don’t want to mess with the size and cost of a Segway? Then its time to go solo. wheel. Solowheel.

• If you don’t like one wheel, how about 4? Zboard, for the skating elite.

• OK so growing up, I thought the Emperer’s chair in Empire Strikes Back was cool, but I don’t think it was as useful as this: The Emperor 1510

• I thought Turbonium was cool. Germanium? What?

• Got a need to scan some stuff for your 3D printer? Check out the Matterform.

• Solar panel charger that sticks to a window. XDModo.

This Week in Nerd History:

• April 15, 1924 – Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.

• April 15, 1955 – McDonald’s restaurant dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois

• April 14, 1956 – In Chicago, Illinois, videotape is first demonstrated