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More April Fool’s Amazing-ness from ThinkGeek

Brian Wyrick — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 15:08:15 +0000

ThinkGeek always does a bang up job of creating April Fool’s Day product, but this year they outdid themselves. Here are my favorites, but if you want to see them all, head over to this web version of their email.

Of note, but without videos is the shrinter and the Playmobil Apple Store.

For my birthday I got Google Maps 8 Bit for NES

Brian Wyrick — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 02:31:15 +0000

Every year Google does something funny for my birthday. Everyone thinks it’s for April Fool’s day, but I know Google knows everything about me, including my birthday & what color socks I am wearing today. It stands to reason that they know of my love of video games as well, and this year they made this!

Hilarious. They even made 8 bit versions of street view, complete with little avatar.

Kids Playing – A New Video Shot with my new GoPro Hero 2

Brian Wyrick — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:04:27 +0000

This is the first video I've created with my new GoPro Hero 2 HD. Essentially I set up the camera on the window with the suction mount while my son and his cousins played on a Sunday afternoon. I dropped the footage in, sped it up, dropped in a generic iMovie jingle, and this little gem popped out. I like it and I hope you do too.

Raidious Social Media Command Center for Super Bowl XLVI featured on Mashable

Brian Wyrick — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 03:56:05 +0000

Raidious was featured on Mashable today. For those not in the know, Mashable is a pretty big deal on the internet. Taulbee Jackson and I were interviewed last week for this story on our Social Media Command Center for this year’s Super Bowl.

Read “Super Bowl XLVI Gets a Social Media Command Center” on Mashable.

The Raidious team has done a great job gearing up for the next two weeks in the past two years. I’m glad to work with such amazing folks every day.

Hello Two Thousand Twelve.

Brian Wyrick — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0000

Here it is – 2012. Another year has passed and I find myself rushing to put some sort of holiday / recap of the year together while watching New Years Eve specials on TV. This year it is was a mashup of the Coldplay special and Dick Clark.

I seem to have been privy to an incredible amount of amazing during 2011. For starters – this post began at my kitchen table on my iPad 2 with my 4 month old son on my lap. In the background Christmas Songs played from my wife’s iPhone 4 wirelessly through our AppleTV while photos taken with my iPhone 4S display on-screen via iCloud. Upon the realization that this has become part of my life makes me miss Steve Jobs that much more. His passing this year has been something I’ve been mulling over for the past two months, unsure how or if I even should document my thoughts on the passing of someone who I’ll admit has been a huge inspiration.

Steve Job’s death was one of the biggest downsides of a year otherwise full of pure awesome. The team at Raidious moved into Raidious Control, and our staff has grown with some amazing and talented staff. This March I saw my first SXSW, where I met some truly amazing people and enjoyed some truly memorable music. Late summer and this fall has been full of new baby rad-ness. My youngest son continues to be quite honestly the happiest baby I’ve ever seen. I’m truly blessed to have such a ridiculously cute family. Mostly I have my wife to thank for that.

The new music project continues to go quite well. I am enjoying playing heavy music again, and I’ve been learning a lot while recording this time around. We should be wrapped up by the first of the year and will be playing out soon.

I’ll keep it short and sweet. Happy holidays and happy new year!

Neil Gaiman & Amanda Palmer are Going on Tour

Brian Wyrick — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 13:00:57 +0000

I was fortunate enough to hear Neil Gaiman talk in Indianapolis, and it was enchanting, to say the least. I just backed this KickStarter project, and I recommend all fans of either artist do the same. For one dollar you can get a recording of the shows!

Plush Star Wars Vehicles

Brian Wyrick — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 13:00:39 +0000

Crash land one of these into the side of the death star and just try to stay awake!

SD Star Wars Plush Vehicles

When Luke Skywalker was a kid, he wasn’t allowed to fly his T-16. He was too small. So, he played with plush versions of spaceships and vehicles. They were safer, softer, and didn’t have any blasters he could shoot his eye out with. After doing a lot of research (and some back alley deals with villainous scum), we found the original manufacturer and made them a deal. One kidney later, we can offer these SD Star Wars Plush Vehicles to you! Seriously, look at these SD Star Wars Plush Vehicles – they are adorable? They are also really fun to fly (or walk) around your office. Just provide your own noises and sound effects, and you’ll amuse (and/or annoy) everyone in your workplace. And then when they get mad at you, just chuck your Millennium Falcon at their head. It won’t hurt them because it’s plush. YAY. SD Star Wars Plush Vehicles – just like the real thing, only plushier. SD Star Wars Plush Vehicles Super cute plush forms on your favorite Star Wars vehicles.

Three styles to choose from: X-Wing, Millennium Falcon, and AT-AT.

Dimensions: X-Wing: approx. 6.25″ x 7.75″ x 2.25″ Millennium Falcon: 6″ x 8.25″ x 2″ AT-AT: 3.25″ x 6.5″ x 6″

You Could Ruin My Day – Fourtet

Brian Wyrick — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 14:00:02 +0000

This song was released in 2001, but earlier in the week it came on via iTunes DJ and I was just floored by it, so much, that I am now sharing it days later.

Enjoy “You Could Ruin My Day” by Fourtet.

Induction Powered Cereal is for Kids.

Brian Wyrick — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:00:15 +0000

Well, I guess the cereal isn’t powered, but the boxes are! Thanks to Ben Traub for hitting me up with this – and I thought my induction powered charger from ThinkGeek was cool!

This is some amazing stuff, moving us right into the crazy sci-fi future everyone between the ages of 28 and 37 have been dreaming of.

Wanna know how it works? Me too.

This is powered by eCoupled. Their website explains it best, I grabbed part of this page below:

eCoupled is intelligent wireless power. It removes the age-old constraints of inductive coupling (magnetically induced flow of current). How? It has an intelligent control system. eCoupled can adapt to meet the specific needs of each device it powers by communicating with it in real time. eCoupled assesses and determines not only power needs but also factors in battery or device age and charging lifecycles. It provides only the power required to maintain optimal safety and efficiency.

This is some cool stuff. Now, where are the jet packs?

Super Awesome Hologram of Seattle

Brian Wyrick — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:12:48 +0000

This thing is simply amazing. Thank you to Jeremy Azevedo for sharing this Engadget Article.