The three of us are not true gamers like our kids are, but we couldn’t help but notice the wildly successful game Pokémon Go and how it is seemingly taking the world by storm. Though it had barley a mention in our podcast toward the end, this game appears to be the first augmented reality app that is likely to change the paradigm for this category. If you haven’t seen it in action (or yet downloaded it yourself and played it) you can do so right now for iOS and Android.
Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson.
Music: Angry by Doug Barrs under a CC BY-SA 3.0 License
The Podcast
Past Week’s Top Minnesota Stories
* In police shootings, live-streamed video can be the ‘ultimate watchdog’
* DocuMNtary, The Story of TECH in Minnesota, To Be Released
* Leadpages buys marketing-tech company in first acquisition
* Forbes: Target CIO Mike McNamara’s Priorities: Digital And Supply Chain Innovation
* Manufacturer Red Wing Shoe steps into B2B e-commerce
Other Top Tech Stories
* Juno has begun its tour of Jupiter after a five-year journey
* One Giant Leap For Apple TV: NASA Now On Board
* Amazon’s Audible Goes Long on Short-Form Audio
* Project Gutenberg
* Librivox
* Will Amazon Prime Day for 2016 Live Up to Its Billing?
Cool Thing of the Week
* Phil: Spector
* Tim: The PocketCHIP Is An Excellent Intro To Absurdly Cheap Computing
* Steve: Nikon D500
Upcoming Events
* The Complete List of 250+ Tech, IT, and DevOps Conferences in 2016
* The list as a Google spreadsheet
* 32 conferences for Mac and iOS professionals in 2016
* Mobile Twin Cities, July 12th BuzzFeed Office
* MinneDemo23, Pantages Theatre, Thursday, July 14th
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