Minnov8 Gang #284 – Breakfast of Champions

Inventor Dean Kamen is on our minds since he was just in town as one of the keynoter’s for the Minnesota Interactive Marketing Association (MIMA) Summit. This guy is incredibly prolific which begs the question: Why isn’t Dean Kamen on a Wheaties box?

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Phil Wilson and Julio Ojeda-Zapata (Graeme Thickins is off).
Music: Deep Blue Sky by Chris Harper. Brought to us by the podsafe Music Alley.

The Podcast

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Discussed During the Show

Minnesota’s Top Stories

• Phil’s live report from IoT Hackday
  • Justin Grammens & Sam Schroeder launch IoTWeeklyNews
• Minnesota Interactive Marketing Association (MIMA) Summit recap
  • MIMA Summit Keynoters
    • About Dean Kamen
      • Kamen documentary called Slingshot debuting this week and is about Kamen and his amazing new invention shown in this clip
    • About Jaron Lanier
    • About Amy Webb
• U.S. Internet has plans for a broader Twin Cities broadband

Other Top Stories

• The Streaming Wars Have Begun:
  • HBO to Launch Stand-Alone Over-the-Top Service in U.S. Next Year
  • CBS to Offer Stand-Alone Web Subscription Service
  • Univision wants to stream to cord cutters as well 
• Apple
  • Everything Apple announced at its iPad and Mac event
  • OS X 10.10 Yosemite: The Ars Technica Review
  • This new “Apple SIM” could legitimately disrupt the wireless industry
    • Apple Quietly Announced A New Technology That Could Change The Wireless Industry As We Know It
    • Why Apple Didn’t Talk About Its Extraordinary New SIM For The iPad
  • Julio’s Apple articles
    • iPhone 6 Plus: My new fave iPhone 
    • 5 Reasons People Over 50 Should Love The Big iPhone
    • TidBITS articles by Julio Ojeda-Zapata
• Google
  • Google Unleashes Android Lollipop, New Nexus 6, 9
  • Google’s Nexus 9 available early next month with Android 5.0, starts at $399
  • Nexus Player is Google’s first Android TV device

Steve’s Security Tip of the Week

• The article by Maurits Martijn which spawned this week’s security tip: “Maybe It’s Better If You Don’t Read This Story on Public WiFi: We took a hacker to a café and, in 20 minutes, he knew where everyone else was born, what schools they attended, and the last five things they googled.”
  • You’re in Danger on Public Wifi! (Steve’s post)
  • Private Internet Access
  • Wifi Pineapple only $99.99
  • Hak 5 Forums how-to WiFi Pineapple University

Cool Thing of the Week

• Julio: Microsoft Universal Mobile Keyboard
  • New Universal Mobile Keyboard works with Windows, iOS and Android mobile devices
  • Freedom Case for Surface Pro and Surface Pro 2
  • Belkin Ultimate Pro Keyboard Case for iPad Air
    • iPad Air 2 version coming in December
• Phil: Makey Makey Standard Kit
• Tim: With This Tiny Box, You Can Anonymize Everything You Do Online
  • Maybe not so cool: Kickstarter Freezes Anonabox Privacy Router Project for Misleading Funders
  • So… Onion Pi
• Steve: The Orb

Upcoming Events

• Ongoing Events
  • INVESTyR’s Fundraising in the Digital Economy, 1st Tuesday of each month 3:30-4:30pm
• October
  • Internet of Things Hack Day, Oct 18th, Minnetronix
  • Cyber Security Summit 2014, Oct 21st
  • Midwest Mobile Summit-Minneapolis, Oct 23rd (teams of three can register here)
  • Medication Management Code-a-Thon, Oct. 24-26
  • Midwest Innovation Summit, Oct 27-28
• November
  • Google Cloud Platform Live, Nov 4th
  • MHTA’s Tekne Awards, Nov 13th
  • MobCon: Where Mobile Minds Connect, Nov 13-14th, Hyatt, Mpls
• March
  • Mobile March Twin Cities (Mar 2015 date TBD)
• April
  • Twin Cities TechPulse 2015 – Apr 21, 2015