Weekly Vodcast

What better venue for an episode of Crave than the annual Maker Faire in San Mateo, Calif.? We rub elbows with robots, learn the art of making a Master Chief costume, and meet a group of teens who take Rock Band to its fiery extreme.

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This week, we check out the latest lid-swapping laptop from Dell, a slick new Asus Windows tablet, and the long-awaited iCade arcade cabinet for the iPad.

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Self-service checkout is for suckers. The future of grocery shopping is a robotic clerk/bagger developed by Willow Garage. Eric and Donald also argue over the best way to spend $500, the best ball-based game machine to alienate you from your loved ones, and the cheapest X-Wing fighter ever made.

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This week: We search for the elusive 11-inch version of Samsung's Series 9 laptop, which is allegedly in-stock at a single online retailer, check in on the still-ailing PlayStation Network, hear a bit about NYC's plan to become a leading "digital city." Then it's quiz time, as we stump the gang with some ThinkPad trivia.

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This week: We bemoan the unending PlayStation Network downtime, see who's winning the tablet vs. laptop fight, and debate business plans for digital magazine subscriptions. Guest @davidcarnoy joins in to win some prizes for the live chat room audience by answering e-book trivia questions.

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This week, we debate the ongoing PlayStation Network outage, guesstimate the arrival of new iMac desktops, and salute AMD for grabbing a solid share of the low-end laptop market.

If you're watching this episode a little later in the week than usual, note that we had a little problem with the magical render monkeys who typically lovingly encode each frame of our weekly videocast in a more timely fashion.

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It's a throwback episode of Crave this week as we reminisce about Lego figurine space helmets, vintage Atari computer keyboards, and Disney's Star Tours merchandise. Also, Darth Vader puts his star power behind a new line of coffee and an adorable coin-operated robot brings panhandling into the 21st century.

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Crave alumna Jasmine France makes a cameo this week to promote Sonos for Android. Meanwhile, Donald and Eric waste no time taking the show straight down the toilet with the latest Kohler Numi. Plus, robots to help you train for the robocalypse and a drink that leaves us with mixed feelings.

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As Dan hustles his way back to the studio, we (somehow) begin with Scott's hands-on of the $6,000 Kohler Numi toilet. Then, the conversation gets weird as we contemplate on what features would be included in our dream toilet that's worth dumping that kind of cash into. Blue jokes aside, we also debate Democrat Jesse Jackson Jr.'s argument to congress, on his belief, that the iPad is killing American jobs. Dan sheds some light on the self-publishing and distribution logistics of releasing an album (if you are so inclined to go indie and bank on those "royalty" checks). Finally, more iPhone 5 rumors explored.

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