The Round Up Podcast #2 with Gilbert, DeLong, & Berrios
Pardon the Ambient Noise For The First Two and a Half Minutes. Better audio will be present in the next podcast.
Featuring
- Hunter Gilbert (Host, Producer, Audio Mixer)
- Blake DeLong (Host)
- Enrique Berrios (Host)
- Kenneth Crowe (Sound, Mics)
Topics Discussed – In Order (Sort Of)
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- Quant nanoFlowCell technology hopes to be an alternative to EVs. It is avaible in two cars, the Quantino and the . There is no battery. There are two giant tanks. One holds negative ion liquid. The other holds positive ion fluid. Quant claims that the quantino will get about 1000 kilometers per fill. The Quant F is a sports car. 0-60 in under 3s. About 800 kilometers. It will compete with EV and Hydrogen cars.
- Mobile World Congress
- Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge
- 8-core Samsung Processor. UHD Screen. Gorilla Glass 4 front and back. no removable battery and SD card slot this time. The edge has a curved screen that wraps around the phone.
- HTC M9. ALmost the same design, but not as slippery. The ultrapixel camera is now on the front. The back camera is replaced by a conventional, high-res camera.
- HTC Vive VR partnership with Valve.
- New Smart Watches. LG G Watch Urbane. What a name. And the Huawei watch. Surprise, they don’t do anything new, but they look way better than last gen watches, and they’re screens are way better. They’re like a half-model upgrade.
- New Pebble Smartwatch. It is called the time. It has a color e-ink touchscreen display. If you don’t know pebble, they started it all with their original pebble on kickstarter. They run their own OS that works with both Android and IOS.
- Even though all of these products are spot on, they’re boring. There hasn’t been any big innovation in this sector recently.
Movie News
- Chappie Out March 4
- Leonard Nimoy passes away at the age of 83, gave up smoking 30 years ago but his death is a side effect of his old habit.
- Box Office results
- http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/
- Oscar movies are getting boosts even though many are currently out on DVD
- Kingsman: The Secret Service will most likely be the best movie in theaters until Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter. It is about a woman who discovers a vhs copy of Fargo and believes it is a treasure map to a large cash treasure. It comes out March 18
- April is going to start big with Furious 7 on the 3rd. The trailers have been spot on. The box office has been dry lately in the past year or so, but with the rise of the international box office and Furious 7’s globe trotting plot, it will be successful.
- Final Avengers: Age of Ultron Trailer. The movie is out May 1. This is our first look at the Vision. (Literally, the first look. He is on screen for like half a second.)
Music News
- New Single- Major Lazer & DJ Snake – Lean On (feat. MØ). I don’t listen to a lot of dance music, but I love MØ. If you like dance or Major Lazer, you’ll like this. She’s a new Danish electro pop artist. No Mythologies to Follow was one of my favorite albums of 2014.
- Brit Awards
- Main Winners
- Mastercard British Album: X by Ed Sheeran
- Nominees: Alt-J – ‘This Is All Yours’, George Ezra – ‘Wanted On Voyage’, Royal Blood – ‘Royal Blood’, Sam Smith – ‘In The Lonely Hour’
- British Solo Female Artist: Paloma Faith
- She is a pop/ soul artist
- Nominees: Ella Henderson, FKA Twigs, Jessie Ware, Lily Allen
- FKA Twigs was really the other contender for her album LP 1. She made a big splash in the hip hop scene in 2014. Her album was consistently on best albums lists.
- British Solo Male Artist: Ed Sheeran
- Nominees: Damon Albarn, George Ezra, Paolo Nutini, Sam Smith
- British Group: Royal Blood
- Royal Blood is a rock duo that formed in Worthing.
- I personally think that Alt-J should have won.
- Nominees: Alt-J, Clean Bandit, Coldplay, One Direction
- International Female Solo Artist: Taylor Swift
- She and Ed Sheeran are very good friends.
- While Beyonce and Lana Del Rey are more famous, St. Vincent should have won in my opinion. Her album was consistently on best albums lists at the end of 2014. She won the grammy for best alternative album.
- Nominees: Beyonce, Lana Del Rey, Sia, St. Vincent
- British Breakthrough Act: Sam Smith
- Nominees: CHVRCHES, FKA Twigs, George Ezra, Royal Blood
- There was no way he wasn’t going to win. His success has been incredible, but that doesn’t speak for the quality of the music. If the award went to the breakthrough group with the best music, the award should have gone to synthpop group CHVRCHES. They formed in Glasgow in 2011. The Bones of What You Believe was released in 2013. “The Mother We Share” was feature in the opening video of 2014’s Commonwealth Games.
- Also…Smith one the global success award so…you catch my drift
Game News
- GDC
- Sony Unveils newer version of VR Headset, 1080p 120 FPS, works through the Dualshock 4. This makes it the most advanced VR headset in gaming that is known to the public. Coming in the first half of 2016
- No Man’s Sky, an indie game that will be on the PS4 first and then PC, developers found out the game world is so large, they made in game probes to explore it for them.
- Nvidia announces their own console, the Shield, streams games through a grid network similar to Netflix, but with a games. The games are run on Nvidia’s servers that use GTX 980 cards. It uses Nvidia’s own X1 chip and runs android TV.
- Nvidia also announced the Titan X, it will be the most advanced GPU on the marke
- Radeon
- PC gamers who use Xbox One Controllers will be able to do so wirelessly later this year.
- Valve releases the price for their Steam Controller, reveals a new streaming format
- Distinct Game News
- Rock Band 4 revealed for 2015
- Homeworld Collection, remastered by Gearbox, a local developer, is a phenomenal recreation of the classic two space RTS Games
- Dragon Ball Xenoverse is getting positive reviews
- Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain will be coming on September 1, 2015 (First big game of the new school year. It will have 3 different editions, prices ranging from $60-$150. Our chief game writer recommends this game and it hasn’t even come out yet.
- The Order is a flop (who would have thought) review will be on the Round Up soon
- Breaking News, GTAV Heists are coming out next Tuesday, March 10. They actually look fun
