Taking motion gaming to new heights, Microsoft Kinect uses a combination of 3D depth sensors, microphone, and camera technology to let players hold onto nothing and still feel like they’re part of the game. We got to go hands on with this exciting new development (not out until November!) so we’ll tell you what we think first!

We’re also taking a look at a device that can bring the Internet to you wherever you are. No, it’s not your mobile phone, but it is a pocket wifi router from Huawei.

All of that plus news, banter, and music coming your way in this broadcast of The Gadget Grill.

So with that in mind, we decided to look at what you can get your dear old Dad next weekend for Fathers Day. Whether you want to spend a very little or a lot, we’re looking at a variety of things.

We’re also checking out Microsoft who had us up the coast this past week to show us all their new ideas. Yes, one of the chefs at The Gadget Grill was allowed in to see new tech and toys, so we’re looking at Windows Phone 7, Kinect, and a bunch of other things.

Plus there’s news, bad jokes, a competition that you probably missed, music dedicated to the great city of New Orleans, and more.

And have you ever made pasta? You might want to when we get through with you because we’re finally bringing a food gadget into the grill!

Yes it’s a pasta maker. Find out more by listening below!

All that and multiple mentions of the word hung, some news, music, and random segues.

On this show, we’ll be taking a look at exactly what viral video is and even play a song from one viral video.

All of that plus news about Facebook privacy concerns, new phones from HTC poised to take on the iPhone, where bicycles meet technology in New York City, and a whole bunch of new and surprising music to get you in the whole gadgety spirit. Ok, we’re kidding about that. Music doesn’t do that. Gadgets do.

We also gave away another pair of headphones this week, so if you missed out, make sure to tune in next Sunday at 9pm to go in the running for another prize!

But if digital TV surprised you, the move to digital radio might not enter your wavelength.

On this show, we’re aiming to change all of that because we’re talking about digital radio in Australia. If you’ve ever heard of DAB+ and wanted to know about it, sit tight because we’re talking to someone who knows more than we do about this.

And with an election coming up, it would be pretty strange of us not to tackle technological issues that each of the major parties are talking about… so we will!

All of this plus a whole bunch of news, a whole bunch of fun music you won’t find on a Top 40 station, and the opportunity to win a digital radio (although, being that the show is over, you’ll have to wait until next Sunday at 9pm).

Made from 12,500 plastic bottles – the same sort you get when you buy a soft drink or bottle of water - this boat managed to make its way from San Francisco to Sydney. We’ll hear from the people on that expedition as well as our own Gadget Gorilla Gary Stark who checked it out this past week.

We’re also looking at the future of internet security. That’s right people: it ain’t going away. From your phone to your computer, security is moving forward in ways you’ll have to hear to believe.

There’s also a bunch of news, random jokes, new music, and something about an island.

And if you missed our competition, make sure you tune in next week!

But is 3D dying already?

It disappeared from the movies in the fifties and the eighties… will it disappear again? Continuing on from an article we read over at Gizmodo, we’ll look at if 3D will die sooner than expected… or if it’ll continue and just how we think that’ll happen.

We’ve also been playing with an HP projector and the new shiny black Xbox 360, so we’ll give you our thoughts on each of those.

All of that plus a bunch of news, some great new music to bop your head to, and the opportunity to win some headphones. Obviously, you can’t win the headphones over a podcast, but tune in next week when we might be giving away some more.

We also looked at a new side of Google that’s been bothering us lately: overly assertive security.

We’re seeing it in Google Docs – an office suite we use quite a lot and have talked about previously – and we had to ask… is Google paranoid?

We’ve also started giving away some headphones with a pair of T-Jays Two headphones going to one lucky listener. All they had to do was listen during the show and call us (or tweet one of the GadgetGuy team) what they didn’t like most about their headphones to go in the draw. Next week, we’ll be giving away another pair so tune in then.

Plus there’s a whole bunch of useless gadgets as well as some useful ones, and some really good music. Check it out below!

Okay, that’s probably not quite right. What we are looking at is how Australians are changing their habits with video games, something that is happening as families begin to gather around the Wii instead of the board game that used to occupy after dinner time.

We’re also taking a look at the Sony NEX 3, a new camera that we’re liking quite a lot. There’s also news, some great music, and a bunch of other stuff. Plus, stay tuned because in the next few weeks we’ll be letting you win stuff.

We got to talking with internet security group McAfee recently about a story that affected at least one Australian looking for love online in a bad way.

There’s also a bunch of news including a flying car – yes, we’re serious – and blimps. Who doesn’t like blimps?

Plus we’ll take Nikon’s biggest camera out for a spin, hear about one of the most unusual gadgets ever, and listen to some great music. All that and more (mostly bickering) on The Gadget Grill.

Saying that, we promise to never say it again here at the Grill.

On this show, however, we have to reference it because right now is the perfect time to get the most value out of a new PC purchase. To help with this, we spoke to Intel about how to get the most bang for your buck when it comes to grabbing a new PC this year.

We also took a look at some new gadgets from Huawei, a company you’ll know if you’ve ever bought one of those 3G USB modem dongles for your computer.

Plus there’s news, music, and two gibbering idiots occasionally yelling at each other.

It appears that parents are growing with the web and learning to respond to their children differently.

We’ve also got a vuvuzela in the studio to annoy the living bits out of you as well as a Winter-y theme to move us into the  whole proper Winter season.

Oh, and did we mention we’re back online with podcasts and a whole new format?

It’s the one and only Gadget Grill.

On this show, we’ll tell you all about them and even go in-depth with this whole 3D thing that’s making people drool right now.

And while most of our news is from CES, we do have the odd item that isn’t, plus a plethora of ridiculously useless gadgets that you’ll want to hear about. Like the Star Trek wetsuit.

All that and more on this episode!

Here at The Gadget Grill, we aim to provide you with an entertaining show packed with great music. Our playlist for this show is below so if you liked the tracks, support the artists and buy their stuff!

1. Mark Boulle and the Haba Dudes – Fee Fi Fo Fi Fum (from “Music Will Make You Go Insane”)
2. Bertie Blackman – Smoking Gun (from “Black”)
3. Alice Russell featuring Nostalgia 77 – Seven Nation Army (from “Tru Thoughts Covers”)
4. Cady Groves – A Town Like This (from “A Month Of Sundays”)
5. Wayne Shorter – Night Dreamer (from “Night Dreamer”)

See you next week on The Gadget Grill!

On this show, we’re talking about the future of downloading on the web. Between FTP, torrent, and the new file-sharing networks like RapidShare, we’ll look at what the future of downloading files.

Plus we take a look at a new Blu-ray player and big-screen TV from Sony.

And there’s news on the credit card reader for your iPhone, training wheels for snow… sort of, a music copyright battle worth watching, and a bunch more!

Our first show of the year had some great music in it. If you liked any of the tracks you heard but wanted to know who performed & recorded them, check them out below!

1. Katie Noonan – Eleanor Rigby (from “Blackbird”)
2. As Tall As Lions – Is This Tomorrow? (from “You Can’t Take It With You”)
3. Imogen Heap – Headlock (from “Speak For Yourself”)
4. Emiliana Torrini – To Be Free (from “Love In The Time Of Science”)
5. The Oscar Peterson Trio – Soft Winds (from “Live At Zardi’s”)

Next week, we’ll be bringing you the best of the Consumer Electronics Show 2010 in Las Vegas. Catch you then!

What will they be? Will there be an iPhone? Or a useless gadget? Find out.

Plus some debate over the millennium, a cure for tinnitus, will there be no electronics on flights?, new OLPC designs, and more. Check it out…

Sadly, this is our last playlist for the year. Fortunately, we’ll be back with new playlists next year!

Here’s what we played on this show:

1. Jeff Beck featuring Imogen Heap – Rollin’ and Tumblin’ (from “You Had It Coming”)
2. Emiliana Torrini – Easy (Tore Johansson Mix) (from “Easy”)
3. Willy Porter – Angry Words (from “Kink Live Five”)
4. The Black Atlantic – Reverence For Fallen Trees (from “Reverence For Fallen Trees”)
5. Jack McDuff – Time’s Marchin’ On (from “Brotherly Love”)

We’ll see you in the new year on the next Gadget Grill!

On this episode of The Gadget Grill, we’ll be talking about ideas you can grab from the tech & game world that work as last minute gift ideas. Stay tuned for some great tips on how to best spend your bucks!

We’re also road-testing a new mobile internet device from Virgin & Huawei that lets you connect to the web while on the go and connect more people to your connection.

Plus a whole new waterworld, your privacy rights at work, issues with LED traffic lights, the reinvention of the wheel, the gold-plated super expensive Nintendo Wii, plus a whole bunch more. This could only be The Gadget Grill!

Being a few days before Christmas, we made sure all the songs on this show were in the Christmas spirit… though they’re the Christmas song you’ve probably never heard before. Take a peek below at our Christmas playlist:

1. Jenny Owen Youngs – Things We Don’t Need Anymore (from “Things We Don’t Need Anymore”)
2. Barenaked Ladies – Carol Of The Bells (from “Barenaked For The Holidays”)
3. Winterbloom – The Riddle (Tumbalalaika) (from “Winterbloom: Traditionals Rearranged”)
4. Aimee Mann – Calling On Mary (from “One More Drifter In The Snow”)
5. Kermit Ruffins – Crazy Cool Christmas (from “Havy A Crazy Cool Christmas”)

Next week is our last episode of the year so we’ll be taking a look back at the best tech of the year. See you then!

While the term and its practices may still be in its infancy, on this show we’re talking with some of the people that made sure Obama could literally reach out and connect with his people while he was on the campaign trail.

We’ve also got two new devices to show you from Viewsonic. One’s a very small computer and the other plays movie in a fairly big screen. We’ll tell you about both in this episode.

All of that plus voice to text finds another home, how Australian minimum broadband speeds are changing, more Apple tablet rumours, how much gadgets cost to make, and a whole ton more!

We may be a technology show, but we play a lot of music. If you’d like to hear what we played on this episode, check the info below:

1. Emiliana Torrini – Tuna Fish (from “Dead Things”)
2. Barenaked Ladies – One Week / I Have A Little Dreidel (from “Snacktime! Live At Massey Hall 12/07/08″)
3. Jenny Owen Youngs – Hot In Herre (from “The Take Off All Your Clothes EP”)
4. Snow Patrol – Workwear Shop (from “One Night Is Not Enough”)
5. Christian Scott – Katrina’s Eyes (from “Anthem”)

Next week, we’ll don our Santa hats and be all semi Christmas-y for you in the second last Gadget Grill of the year… see you then!

And what are we broadcasting from this ridiculous place?

We’re talking about online shopping and what you need to be on the lookout for this holiday season. Hackers & scammers are out in full-force this year so we’re talking to Symantec’s David Hall to hear how you can protect yourself when you’re online and shopping.

We’ll also get Snoop Doggy Dogg to guide our cars, find out how to make an invisibility cloak a complete and utter waste of money, and interrupt Facebook with our own wedding tweets.

All that and more on this episode of The Gadget Grill!

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If any of the music took your fancy in this episode of The Gadget Grill… speak now. Or don’t. Maybe you could just read this playlist instead…

1. Elana Stone – New Life (from “Your Anniversary”)
2. Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova (from “The Swell Season”)
3. Juliana Hatfield – Just Lust (from “How To Walk Away”)
4. The Beatles – I Me Mine (from “Let It Be”)
5. Dave Brubeck Quartet – Take Five (from “Park Avenue South”)

From MySpace to Facebook to Twitter and more, it’s certain that the new area that lets the public communicate with the media is here to stay, a corporations are beginning to jump in and learn all about it so on this show, you will too.

We’ll be talking to John Kembal from RightNow Technologies about what social media is and how it’s affecting businesses online.

Plus we’ve got news on USB 3, a man who was arrested for not Tweeting, a cheap HDTV coming soon that could run on solar energy, the sound of an electric car to a blind person, a bunch more. Check it out in The Gadget Grill!

Like what you heard on this episode of The Grill? We mean the music, because of course you love how we speak.

Our playlist is below. If you loved the tracks, feel free to check them out on iTunes or your local CD store and support the artist.

1. Boy & Bear – Mexican Mavis (from “Demo”, found at “Who The Bloody Hell Are They?“)
2. Janet Jackson featuring Q-Tip & Joni Mitchell – Got ‘Till It’s Gone
   (from “The Velvet Rope”)
3. Dave Carroll – United Breaks Guitars (from “United Breaks Guitars”)
4. Joe Henderson – Lazy Afternoon (from “Power To The People”)
5. Dexter Gordon – Cheese Cake (from “Go”)

Join us next week for more chaos, danger, mayhem and madness… well… maybe the madness bit… probably not the other three… but join us next week for more madness here on The Gadget Grill!

We’ve done enough of these things to know that this show is just as important as the others because today we have two experts talking to us about what’s happening in security.

Plus we’ve got news about converting crap to energy (oh yes, it really is what it sounds like), NASA create an almost Star Trek-like tricorder for the iPhone, water on the moon, Windows Mobile Marketplace hacked just as the iPhone was with its own little virus.

All of that and… IT’S LEIGH’S (the host of The Gadget Grill) BIRTHDAY… and you can guess he’s not going to let this recording go by without some cake. Lots of cake. Be there for the cake. Listen for the cake… and the radio show. That’s good too.

The music on this show was a mix of New Orleans and a couple of other bits. If you likes any of it, we’ve got the playlist down below:

1. Frou Frou – Close Up (from “Breathe In”)
2. Crowded House – Fall At Your Feet (from “Woodface”)
3. Dumpstaphunk – Meanwhile… (from “Listen Hear”)
4. Los Hombres Calientes – Latin Tinge II (from “Vol. 5: Carnival”)
5. Christian Scott – Died In Love (from “Live At Newport”)

Next week, we’re all about making computers easier for the older generation. Join us next week if you’ve ever wanted to set your grandma or grandpa up with a computer!

Plus you can learn what a boffin is (and the associated news about the baby translator software they’ve made), the importance of radio compared to mp3s, and digital movies not on an optical media.

And we’re obsessed with Bumblebee this week. Or Leigh is anyway. Lots of buzzing in this episode and a whole lot more!

Like the music we played? Here’s what it was…

1. Yoko Kanno & Tim Jenson – GET9 (Naked) (from “GET9″)
2. Dot Allison – Colour Me (from “Afterglow”)
3. Under The Influence Of Giants – Mama’s Room (from “Under The Influence Of Giants”)
4. Alison Krauss – The Boy Who Wouldn’t Hoe Corn (from “New Favourite”)
5. Joey DeFrancesco – My Foolish Heart (from “Organic Vibes”)

Next week, we’re delving back into the world of security. See you then on The Gadget Grill!

On this show, we’ll be talking about how one game spurred research into how many Australians use their imaginations and why. You’ll also hear about the game itself and just how it goes about getting your imagination up and running again.

Plus we’ve got a big monitor in the studio… which was stupid because we could have just left it at home and talked about it. Regardless, we’ll be talking about the new Dell U2410 monitor which displays over one billion colours. Let’s see your laptop screen match that.

All of that plus online shopping by a dog, online shopping by people, the death of the n-gage, useless shirts, and a whole heap more. Check it out below or on iTunes!

As usual, our playlist is a blend of stuff on top of things with the occasional dash of sound and volume. Here’s what all of that meant for this show:

1. End Of Fashion – Lock Up Your Daughters (from “End Of Fashion”)
2. Bird – Bad Connection (from “Girl And A Cello”)
3. John Mayer Trio – Another Kind Of Green (from “Try!”)
4. Galactic featuring Trombone Shorty – Tuff Love (from “From The Corner To The Block”)
5. Ray Brown Trio & Herb Ellis – Blues For Junior (from “Some Of My Best Friends Are… Guitarists”)

Join us next week for more gadgets, games, and absolute lunacy here on The Gadget Grill!

The follow-up to Microsoft’s Windows Vista – which doesn’t exactly have the best reputation – was launched this week and we were on hand to talk to Microsoft’s Jeff Putt about what’s changed in this new & important release. Plus, we’ll do what no other journalist dare would and ask about Clippy!

We’re also taking a new camera out for a spin. It’s got a touchscreen on the back and an extra screen on the front to make sure you always get those self portraits. Sadly, we can’t guarantee you’ll look like the people in the picture above, but we can give you our thoughts on the new Samsung ST550!

All of that plus celebrity tweeting, new multitouch monitors, electric motorbikes, e-book readers, and more. Oh and laughter. Lots of laughter.

Like music? It’s ok if you say no. We’ve even met some people who were like that. Regardless, if you liked the music we played on this show, the playlist is below to make it easy for you to find the tracks!

1. My Chemical Romance – Dead! (from “The Black Parade”)
2. Bluejuice – Broken Leg (from “Head Of The Hawk”)
3. Charles Mingus – Cryin’ Blues (from “The Complete Atlantic Recordings 1956-1961″)
4. Jonny Lang – Lie To Me (from “Lie To Me”)
5. Herbert – The Audience (from “Bodily Functions”)

Next week there’ll be more mayhem so join us then on The Gadget Grill… see you then!

So on this show, we’ll be talking to Janice Chaffin from Symantec (the people who make Norton) about some of the ways you can protect yourself as well as what’s going on in the world of Identity Fraud & Theft.

A new gadget has made its appearance in the studio this week with the Flip Mino HD, a pocket video camera that’s arriving just in time for Christmas. We’ll be talking about this great little thing that we don’t want to give back in the show.

We’ve also got lots of news including a possible sighting of the lost city of Atlantis off the coast of Greece, the new Olympic medals, and copyright fees for ringtones. All that plus the host going barking mad and more this week on The Gadget Grill. Woof.

We play lots of music on the Gadget Grill, but sadly can’t include it all in our podcast. But if you liked any of what you heard in our show, here’s the listing of what it all was…

1. Nelly Furtado – Try (from “Folklore”)
2. Chuck Berry – Johnny B. Goode (from “Johnny B. Goode”)
3. Monsieur Camembert – Kiss Of Fire (from “Absynthe”)
4. Memory Tapes – Green Knight (from “Seek Music”)
5. Roland Kirk with Jack McDuff – Skater’s Waltz (from “Kirk’s Work”)

Next week, we’ll have more mania, madness, and mayhem here at The Gadget Grill so join us then!

But what are the costs for Australians buying books in the digital format? We found it out before anyone else last week so we’ll report to you about what you’ll currently have to pay for a digital book, and why that’s different from Americans.

We’ll also give you our opinion on the Wacom Bamboo with touch capability… because we’ve been putting our greasy hamburger-ridden fingers all over it because, well, that’s what we’re supposed to do!

All of that plus news about mobile problems,when Rupert met Google, new types of clouds, and even news on Windows 8  just as Windows 7 prepares to launch!

Like the sound of any of the songs we played? Here they are…

• Colour – Those Things That Mean So Much (I’ve Had Enough) (from “The Grey EP”)
• Mayer Hawthorne – Shiny & News (from “A Strange Arrangement”)
• Thelonious Monk – Round Lights (from “Alone In San Francisco”)
• Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers – Along Came Betty (from “Moanin’”)
• Trombone Shorty & Orleans Ave. – Orleans and Claiborne (from “5 Songs Live EP “)

Next week, there’s more random gadgety goodness so join us then… same gadget time (9pm), same gadget channel (Radio 2RDJ)… The Gadget Grill!