Terrifying Robot Dog

By Jonathan Stark and Kelli Shaver

A weekly podcast about how technology is changing the way we interact with the world. Hosted by Jonathan Stark and Kelli Shaver.... more

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July 03, 2015DUCK!
The potential pros and cons of conversational computing.
DUCK!
July 3, 2015
INTRO
Hello and welcome to Terrifying Robot Dog! Episode 13 for Friday, July 3, 2015. I'm Jonathan Stark - and I'm Kelli Shaver - and we are here to talk about how technology is changing the way we interact with the world.
This week we talk about the potential pros and cons of conversational computing.
Please stay tuned, Terrifying Robot Dog is next...
FEATURE
Recently, Amazon announced Amazon Echo, which their calling a Home Automation Device.
LINKS
Amazon Echo
Be My Eyes
TITLES
Thanks Alexa
The Occasional Millennium Falcon
DUCK!
Illiterate Discourse
CLOSING
That's our show for this week. I'm Jonathan Stark - and I'm Kelli Shaver - and we hope you join us again next week for Terrifying Robot Dog.
POST-SHOW
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30min
June 26, 2015The Stinkeye
How a simple camera could change everything about our relationships.
The Stinkeye
June 26, 2015
INTRO
Hello and welcome to Terrifying Robot Dog! Episode 12 for Friday, June 26, 2015. I'm Jonathan Stark - and I'm Kelli Shaver - and we are here to talk about how technology is changing the way we interact with the world.
This week we talk about how a simple camera could change everything about our relationships.
Please stay tuned, Terrifying Robot Dog is next...
FEATURE
LINKS
Black Mirror: “The Entire History Of You”
Google Glass
Narrative Clip
Pivothead Durango HD 1080p Video Glasses
TITLES
Instragram For Your Mind
The Stinkeye
Hurricane Colored Air
Against The Grain
Grain Feed
Garbage Truck Stream
Two Clicks Away From Girls Kissing
CLOSING
That's our show for this week. I'm Jonathan Stark - and I'm Kelli Shaver - and we hope you join us again next week for Terrifying Robot Dog.
POST-SHOW
Would you'd like to support Terrifying Robot Dog? Just think of two friends who would dig the show and send them to terrifyingrobotdog.com for links to iTunes, Facebook, and rss feeds. If you don't have two friends, you can still help us out by leaving a nice review in iTunes. Thanks!
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36min
June 19, 20153D Bikini
Scott Jenson from Google on dropping our obsession with servant-style automation.
3D Bikini
June 19, 2015
INTRO
Hello and welcome to Terrifying Robot Dog! Episode 11 for Friday, June 19, 2015. I'm Jonathan Stark - and I'm Kelli Shaver - and we are here to talk about how technology is changing the way we interact with the world.
This week we talk with Scott Jenson from Google about why we need to drop our obsession with servant style automation.
Please stay tuned, Terrifying Robot Dog is next...
LINKS
Scott Jenson
Hand of a Stranger
Clark's Law
3D Printed Bikini
Spritz: Reading Reimagined
Jeeves Must Go
Douglas Engelbart
The Internet of Things needs a few SMACS
Aether: Anonymous Reddit Without Servers
TITLES
Hand Of A Stranger
3D Bikini
Seared Into My Soul
Mosaic Delta
Communist Leanings
SlackTorrent
BitBaby
CLOSING
That's our show for this week. I'm Jonathan Stark - and I'm Kelli Shaver - and we hope you join us again next week for Terrifying Robot Dog.
POST-SHOW
Would you'd like to support Terrifying Robot Dog? Just think of two friends who would dig the show and send them to terrifyingrobotdog.com for links to iTunes, Facebook, and rss feeds. If you don't have two friends, you can still help us out by leaving a nice review in iTunes. Thanks!
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29min
June 12, 2015Chill Pills for Elvis
Gadget week! We talk about a holographic tabletop display, a mood altering headset, and active listening earbuds.
Chill Pills for Elvis
June 12, 2015
INTRO
Hello and welcome to Terrifying Robot Dog! Episode 10 for Friday, June 12, 2015. I'm Jonathan Stark - and I'm Kelli Shaver - and we are here to talk about how technology is changing the way we interact with the world.
This week is gadget week! We talk about a holographic tabletop display, a mood altering headset, and active listening earbuds.
Please stay tuned, Terrifying Robot Dog is next...
FEATURE
Holus: The Interactive Tabletop Holographic Display
Thync’s Mood-Altering Headset
Here Active Listening - Change The Way You Hear The World
LINKS
How Microsoft's Oculus Rift Partnership Affects HoloLens
Introducing GoPro’s 360° Camera Array
TENS Units
TITLES
Daddy's On The Counter
Special Needs Hound Dog
Chill Pills for Elvis
Sunglasses For Your Ears
CLOSING
That's our show for this week. I'm Jonathan Stark - and I'm Kelli Shaver - and we hope you join us again next week for Terrifying Robot Dog.
POST-SHOW
Would you'd like to support TRD? Just think of two friends who would dig the show and send them to terrifyingrobotdog.com for links to iTunes, Facebook, and rss feeds. If you don't have two friends, you can still help us out by leaving a nice review in iTunes. Thanks!
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25min
June 05, 2015Hot Robots
Artificial intelligence - what it is, when it's coming, and what it can do for us.
Hot Robots
June 5, 2015
INTRO
Hello and welcome to Terrifying Robot Dog! Episode 9 for Friday, June 5, 2015. I'm Jonathan Stark - and I'm Kelli Shaver - and we are here to talk about how technology is changing the way we interact with the world.
This week! We talk about artificial intelligence - what it is, when it's coming, and what it can do for us.
Please stay tuned, Terrifying Robot Dog is next...
FEATURE
Robots and AI are not the same thing
Robots are a computer peripheral
LINKS
DARPA Robot Challenge
The Nitch Podcast
Ex Machina
Blade Runner
Clone Wars
Daemon by Daniel Suarez
Ender's Game
Don’t let AI take our jobs (or kill us)
Bill Gates on dangers of artificial intelligence
Elon Musk Donates $10M to Keep AI From Turning Evil
Bill Gates joins Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking in saying artificial intelligence is scary
Elon Musk: artificial intelligence is our biggest existential threat
Machine-Learning Maestro Michael Jordan on the Delusions of Big Data and Other Huge Engineering Efforts
Triangulation 146: Jeff Hawkins
Grey goo
Three Laws of Robotics
Google I/O 2015
When Ideas Have Sex
Amazon Echo
TITLES
Any Of Those Stars
Raws of Lobotics
A Virus Called Humans
A Bug With A Machine Gun
Kissmyasskuhtee
Robot Nanny
Hot Robots
CLOSING
That's our show for this week. I'm Jonathan Stark - and I'm Kelli Shaver - and we hope you join us again next week for Terrifying Robot Dog.
POST-SHOW
Would you'd like to support TRD? Just think of two friends who would dig the show and send them to terrifyingrobotdog.com for links to iTunes, Facebook, and rss feeds. If you don't have two friends, you can still help us out by leaving a nice review in iTunes. Thanks!
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34min
May 30, 2015iBoa
The trust vs track debate - should you use smart devices to track your kids?
iBoa
May 29, 2015
INTRO
Hello and welcome to Terrifying Robot Dog! Episode 8 for Friday, May 29, 2015. I'm Jonathan Stark - and I'm Kelli Shaver - and we are here to talk about how technology is changing the way we interact with the world.
This week! We talk about the trust vs track debate - should you use smart devices to track your kids?
Please stay tuned, Terrifying Robot Dog is next...
LINKS
Glympse
Uber Tracking
Disney Magic Bands
Tinitell
Checker
Tile
Smart Tattoos
Rule 34
TITLES
Foursquare For Your Family
Sneaking Tracking
iBoa
Failed Horn Blow
CLOSING
That's our show for this week. I'm Jonathan Stark - and I'm Kelli Shaver - and we hope you join us again next week for Terrifying Robot Dog. Bye. Bye.
POST-SHOW
Would you'd like to support TRD? Just think of two friends who would dig the show and send them to terrifyingrobotdog.com for links to iTunes, Facebook, and rss feeds. If you don't have two friends, you can still help us out by leaving a nice review in iTunes. Thanks!
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30min
May 22, 2015Setting The Whack
Smarthomes: why anyone might want such a thing and how we might get from where we are to where they be.
Setting The Whack
May 22, 2015
INTRO
Hello and welcome to Terrifying Robot Dog! Episode 7 for Friday, May 22, 2015. I'm Jonathan Stark - and I'm Kelli Shaver - and we are here to talk about how technology is changing the way we interact with the world.
This week! We talk about smarthomes: why anyone might want such a thing and how we might get from where we are to where they be.
Please stay tuned, Terrifying Robot Dog is next...
FEATURE
Does the promise of Jetsons even seem that attractive?
Why?
Save money
Decrease tedious upkeep
Water heater story
Powerwall
How?
Smart stores / restaurants / factories will likely come first and prove the model
Sensors vs actuators
"Works with Nest" program is interesting
Kinda like New Relic for your environment
Membrane computing (exception handling model / requires knowing what "normal" looks like / Jeff Hawkins)
Conversational computing
Amazon Echo - always on, hands free computing
Siri
Google Now
LINKS
Wemo
Nest Thermostat
Simple Human Trash Bags
Amazon Dash Button
Dash Replenishment Service
Amazon Subscribe & Save
New Relic
Jeff Hawkins on Membrane Computing
Amazon X-Ray
TITLES
Groped By Robots
Lizard Homes
The Smart Part
Smart Panini
What Whack Is
Setting The Whack
Smart Underpants
CLOSING
That's our show for this week. I'm Jonathan Stark - and I'm Kelli Shaver - and we hope you join us again next week for Terrifying Robot Dog.
POST-SHOW
Would you'd like to support TRD? I thought so! Just think of two friends who would dig the show and send them to terrifyingrobotdog.com for links to iTunes, Facebook, and rss feeds. If you don't have two friends, you can still help us out by leaving a nice review in iTunes. It would mean a lot to us. Thanks!
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39min
May 15, 2015Infinite Notebook
Four clever tech gadgets from Kickstarter and Indiegogo.
Infinite Notebook
May 15, 2015
INTRO
Hello and welcome to Terrifying Robot Dog! Episode 6 for Friday, May 15, 2015. I'm Jonathan Stark - and I'm Kelli Shaver - and we are here to talk about how technology is changing the way we interact with the world.
This week we talk about four clever tech gadgets from Kickstarter and Indiegogo.
Please stay tuned, Terrifying Robot Dog is next...
LINKS
Peeple
Checker
Phree
Rocketbook
Livescribe
TITLES
Finger of Dog
Infinite Notebook
Terrible Robot Idea
CLOSING
That's our show for this week. I'm Jonathan Stark - and I'm Kelli Shaver - and we hope you join us again next week for Terrifying Robot Dog.
POST-SHOW
Would you'd like to support TRD? I thought so! Just think of two friends who would dig the show and send them to terrifyingrobotdog.com for links to itunes, facebook, and rss feeds. Or if you don't have two friends, you can still help us out by leaving a nice review in iTunes. It would mean a lot to Kelli and I. Thanks!
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33min
May 08, 2015Burrito Rain
We prepare to greet our drone overlords.
Burrito Rain
May 8, 2015
INTRO
Hello and welcome to Terrifying Robot Dog! Episode 5 for Friday, May 8, 2015. I'm Jonathan Stark - and I'm Kelli Shaver - and we are here to talk about how technology is changing the way we interact with the world.
This week we prepare to greet our drone overlords.
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FEATURE
This weeks show topic was inspired by the news that the FAA recently reversed their "line of sight" position on drones...
FAA ruling
What if they become legal
Surveilance?
Weaponized?
Burritos!
Noise pollution
Amazon deliveries?
Medical supplies to remote areas
LINKS
FAA drone position
Mythbusters
Les Stroud
White House Drone Crash
Man taken into custody after landing single-person aircraft on Capitol grounds
Tacocopter
Dad's Drone Follows Daughter To School
Flying machines to deliver medicine, food, goods and supplies
Second Life
Oculus Rift
TITLES
Some Other Maniac
Deploy The Emergency Toilet Paper
Taco Copter
Burrito Rain
Tree Rats
CLOSING
That's our show for this week. I'm Jonathan Stark - and I'm Kelli Shaver - and we hope you join us again next week for Terrifying Robot Dog.
POST-SHOW
Would you'd like to support TRD? I thought so! Just think of two friends who would dig the show and send them to terrifyingrobotdog.com for links to itunes, facebook, and rss feeds. Or if you don't have two friends, you can still help us out by leaving a nice review in iTunes. It would mean a lot to Kelli and I. Thanks!
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22min
May 02, 2015Haptic Ceiling
We go deeper into the reality of virtual reality.
Haptic Ceiling
May 1st, 2015
INTRO
Hello and welcome to Terrifying Robot Dog! Episode 4 for Friday, May 1st, 2015. I'm Jonathan Stark - and I'm Kelli Shaver - and we are here to talk about how technology is changing the way we interact with the world.
This week we go deeper into the reality of virtual reality.
Please stay tuned, Terrifying Robot Dog is next...
FEATURE
So, last week we talked about the VR sci-fi book Ready Player One, how it could eventually become reality, and what effects it might have on society. Well, it turns out we might have been underestimating the timeline.
Ernest Cline's reaction to Oculus
RPO came out before Oculus.
EC was invited to try one and his reaction was, "if the RPO movie doesn't come out soon, it's not going to be sci fi."
EC said he underestimated how fast VR would be available
Hardware
Oculus Rift
Millions of dev units sold
Rumoured to launch in 2015
Samsung Gear VR
$199 at BestBuy
MicroSoft's HoloLens
Sony's Project Morpheus (for playstation, apparently)
SteamVR
Haptic vest
3rd Space haptic vest
$129 on Amazon (for pink ;))
360 Cams
Google Business View photog at McBride's (that's me in the lumberjack shirt!)
Facebook "sphere vids"
Second Life is UNREAL
After we recorded last week, I took a closer look at 2life and
BOOM - right there on the front page, Oculus Rift support.
I made an account and - OMG... totally NSFW.
CLOSING
That's our show for this week. I'm Jonathan Stark, and I'm Kelli Shaver, and we hope you join us again next week for Terrifying Robot Dog.
POST-SHOW
Would you'd like to support TRD? Just think two friends who would dig the show and send them to terrifyingrobotdog.com for links to itunes, facebook, and rss feeds. Or if you don't have two friends, you can still help us out by leaving a nice review in iTunes. It would mean a lot to Kelli and I. Thanks! :)
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21min

FAQs about Terrifying Robot Dog:

How many episodes does Terrifying Robot Dog have?

The podcast currently has 153 episodes available.