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
- Minnesota Interactive Marketing Association (MIMA) Summit recap
- MIMA Summit Keynoters
- U.S. Internet has plans for a broader Twin Cities broadband
Other Top Stories
- The Streaming Wars Have Begun:
- Apple
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.”
Cool Thing of the Week
- Julio: Microsoft Universal Mobile Keyboard
- 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
Tim’s “Cool Thing of the Week” inspired this week’s show name and image, but we had a lot more interesting stories to cover and did. Some serious, some not so much.
This week’s episode touches on our usual wide variety of topics, but one focus is on the “Bash Bug”, or what 
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Lots of rumors about Apple’s upcoming September 9th new product announcement. We discuss the iPhone 6 rumor, how big it is, how these new, big smartphones (dubbed “phablets” for phone/tablets) may be negatively impacting tablet sales, and a whole lot more.
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We got a chuckle this week out of a 
Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
A handful of important stories are covered this week as well as a goofin’ around reference to someone you may know: 