The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #15: Technologies from Orwell's 1984, Cool Gear From the Super Tuesday Primaries, and More

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The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast is sponsored by Kensington.

In today’s episode of the Wired Gadget Lab Podcast, Dylan Tweney, Daniel Dumas, and Jose Fermoso discuss Orwell’s 1984 and wonder whether his vision of technology exists today, including the Speakwrite machine that recognizes human-speech, super-thin telescreens, and a floating fortress (Hello, Alcatraz?).

They also take Rob Beschizza’s lead and decide that that there are indeed limits to the miniaturization process of certain gadgets (like keyboards), and talk about the recently reviewed and THX-enabled Razer Mako speakers, as well as the heavily anticipated Slacker PMP device. Finally, Jose will go over some of the cool gear used during Super Tuesday’s primary election TV coverage, and Danny shamelessly brags about his super geeky Tokyo Flash binary watch.

Once again, thank you for listening. Remember that you can subscribe to the podcast feed by clicking right here. And you can find the fourteen previous podcasts after the jump.

The Podcast (above) requires Quicktime (you can download it at Apple’s page here).

The last few Gadget Lab podcasts are below:

 

The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #14: From Garmin’s Nuviphone to the Linux-based Haier Ibiza Rhapsody MP3 Player

The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #13: Macworld 2008 Review and MacBook Air First Impressions

The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #12: CES 2008, with Pioneer’s Project Kuro, the Dystopian Life Wall, and More

The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #11: The CES 2008 Preview with Touchscreen TVs, Wireless Phones, and More

The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #10: Last-Minute Holiday Gifts for Geeks and Wired’s 2007 Vaporware Awards

The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #9: All Around Smackdowns Between the iPod and Zune 2 Media Players and Kid-Friendly Laptops

The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #8: From Dell’s New Retail Strategy to the Film vs. Digital Deathmatch Controversy

The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #7: From the Blu-ray/HD-DVD Wars to the Exploding Battery Mystery

The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #6: From The Microsoft Zune 2 Release to Warner Music’s Surprising iTunes About-Face

The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #5: From Google’s Android Alliance to the iPhone’s iBricking Firmware

The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #4: From Wal-Mart’s Early Black Friday To NBC’s Word War With Apple

The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #3: From the CTIA Trade Show to the Leopard Launch

The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #2: We’re Giving Away Good Times(Nokia N810 Tablet and iPhone Apps)

The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #1: Listen and Be Amazed (Microsoft’s Zune and the Gateway One PC)