As each year goes by, all the gadgets and gizmos get smaller and smaller. And more and more start to become obsolete. You would never think that the cable box could disappear. Well, think again.

The wonderful folks over at Microsoft has showed us that the process of elimination has begun. With the most recent update, the Xbox 360 will now be able to do more than just play video games, watching movies using Netflix. Besides Hulu Plus, there will be more selections of what you can watch now on your system. MSNBC’s The Today Show and Epix, cable movie channel, are a couple of the first channels to be added. More are expected to join, such as Youtube, DailyMotion, and HBO GO (coming sometime in 2012) are just some the the channels coming.

Of course, not all are free. You need an Xbox Live Gold membership to be able to use the new features, which is understandable. That is the easy part. There are, and will be some channels that you will need separate service accounts to use, such as Netflix and HBO GO. Now if you think you can get rid of you cable provider, hold on for now.Verizon FIOS and Comcast Xfinity will be bringing their services to Xbox, but not until later. Verizon will be using the gaming system as a limited set top box, which will start later this month. Comcast is hoping to have their system ready by early 2012. They will be offering ther “On-Demand” services, but not live television.

The other part of this update is for the Kinect. With advanced terchnology now at hand, you will now have the ability to search through your xbox using voice activation. The system uses Bing search engine to find what you are looking for. With everything squeezing into our Xbox 360, certain products like Boxee and Google TV might have some good competition.

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great tasting news and a few sour notes. We touch on Verizon’s horrible decision to go with tiered data, we hit on a few sweet notes of New Wordpress installs, a geeky fourth, and free games

Tags: 3d printing, att, Balance Bar Cafe, bear paws, cmybacon, Duke Nukem Forever, gummy bear, meat tea cup, tiered data, verizon

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We touch on the recent Hacker Crackdown / Backdown. A bit of Lulz, a bit of Sneakers, Converse Sneakers. We talk about social music and social networks. Google+ and beyond. We also discuss the fun and interesting ways in which tiered data plans will be the death of all of our wallets.

Tags: Anonymous, Converse, Google, google plus, Google Social network, Lulzsec, turntable.fm, twitpic, unlimited data plan, verizon

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Tonight’s show is a wrap of of stuff that caught my eye from CES, a run down of stuff you have already heard about, and tons of awesome bits that slipped through the cracks. We have funny comments, witty one liners and other jokes. Non by me, so you’re all safe. Lego, Dino and Roomba Oh My!

Tags: angry birds, apple, AtandT, att, CES, Coffee Break, Cookie Spoon, Cyberdyne, D&D, facebook, Hal, iphone, logo, Mugs, Musical Cactus, Norbert Davis, pac-man, Pixel Craft, Pleo, roomba, Southpark, Starbucks, verizon, Whitney hoffman

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Tonight’s show has a bit of things you may hear elsewhere, Like Net Neutrality and Facebook Places A bit you may find intriguing like Coffee toothpicks and bits that just had to be shared because of their sheer awesomeness, like a set of filing cabinets… Wait…. Doesn’t sound too awesome? Well you need to listen in to find out why they ARE!

Tags: android, apple, bubble tea, charbucks, chrome os, coffee toothpick, dislike button, Droid2, facebook places, foursquare, French Press, Google, homer, immortal trees, ipad, iphone, R2D2 edition, silly bands, Simpsons, Snuggie, Starbucks, tablet, verizon

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Life is still throwing curveballs and I’m still fouling them off. But I think I’m wearing the pitcher down a bit. So Sports metaphors aside. Its late, the show must go on and I have a ton of great things to share. Trying to keep the tone light and fluffy, way too much doom and gloom in the world. We need more fluffy, bright shiny and fun news.

Today’s selection is filled to the brim with awesome. I’m going to be working on a couple videos this week and some product reviews so While the stuff isn’t out yet I have big plans! So for tonight i collected the best of this past week’s news and shared it in one easy to enjoy format.

Tags: ad copy, Coffee, duct tape, Espresso, fcc, Google, monopology, Net Nuetrality, rtech chet, rumor, steak, temperature, thermometer, verizon

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Tonight’s show we talk about Star Wars, again! propaganda again! and steampunk AGAIN! The topics are staying the same but the content just keeps flowing. The good thing is that the content, like a grape left on the vine through a frost, is only getting sweeter. We have plenty of cruft from all different angles pouring in so sit back, grab a mug and enjoy the ride!

Tags: att, beer, costume, cruft, drinks, Halo, iphone, nintendo, propaganda, pub, spiffy, Star Wars, Steampunk, thomas, transformer, tron, verizon, Victorian

Here again we find ourselves looking down the barrel of yet another fantastically full episode of the CaffiNation Podcast. However as has been our custom these past two weeks the news that is still awesome enough to share, but unfortunately we just simply don’t have enough time to engage in ends up here. This is the Didn’t make the Cut for Episode 213

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