Remember the Phonograph

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Mark & Wes back in Lafayette, California at Swad.
Wonderful Indian flavors again at Swad Indian Cuisine. Mark shares a lot about old technology and surprises me with his findings regarding the Philco Radio Phonograph, DJ's at Chris Bernay's Wedding, methods in the past for figuring out what song you heard on the radio, reradiation & reflection statistic tracking, Roku NetFlix Player, Nano Technology Robots are becoming a reality, a 1927 GPS Watch.

Sites of Interest:

• http://www.jitterbuzz.com/indrad.html - Antique radios.
• http://graphic-design.tjs-labs.com/show-picture.php?id=1133814455&size=FULL - Play records on a beam of light!
• http://www.kurthanson.com/HTM-RAIN/NewsArchives/Feb-00/022300.htm - Xenote iTag helped identify songs on the radio.
  
• http://www.sonyericsson.com/product/trackid/ - Cell phone software for identifying songs you hear
  
• http://www.immi.com/howItWorks.html - Using cell phones to track what songs/commercials/movies people listen to.
  
• http://www.roku.com/netflixplayer/ - RokuLabs Netflix Player.
• http://facelogon.xidtech.com/index.htm - Computer security using webcam face recognition
• http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/05/20/nanosoccer-at-robocu.html - Nano-bot soccer!
  
• http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-564133/Fancy-driving--earliest-wind-sat-nav.html - 1927 GPS Watch.