005: Augment Your Reality: Google Glass, Porn Blocking, and the Gameification of Health and Fitness

The Upgrade by Lifehacker

Lifehacker

Tech News, News, How To, Education, Self-improvement

4.6 • 688 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2012

⏱️ 46 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

This week on Ask Lifehacker we're debating the feasibility of Google's futuristic augmented reality glasses, protecting ourselves from hacks and viruses, blocking porn in every possible way, and fitting our big hard drives on small SSDs. Also, we take a look at a few downloads that can turn your diet and exercise routines into games, make Windows 7 feel like new, and turn the pages of PDF documents with your face. It's an action-packed episode this week, so come check it out! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Audible brings your wildest adventures to life, delivering heart-pounding thrills at the touch
0:05.8	of a button.
0:07.0	Take Richard Osmond's The Thursday Murder Club, where four retirees turned amateur sleuths
0:11.8	solve crimes in the most unexpected ways, brilliantly performed by Leslie Manville.
0:17.1	Ready to unleash your adventure aside, from pulse racing suspense to epic quests, from supernatural
0:22.6	chills to far-off romances, every story comes alive through world-class narration.
0:28.5	Explore exclusive audible originals, chart-topping new releases, and unforgettable bestsellers
0:34.4	that transport you from the very first word, because the next great
0:38.2	adventure is just a listener way. Start your free 30-day trial at audible.com slash
0:43.9	Wondery, UK. That's audible.com slash Wondery UK. Welcome to this week's edition of the Ask Life Hacker podcast.
1:17.2	I'm Whitson Gordon.
1:18.6	I'm Adam Dachis.
1:19.6	And this week we are missing the lulling voice of Adam Pash.
1:24.0	He is in The Big Apple.
1:25.7	But with us we have...
1:26.7	Look at that.
1:29.2	The awesome Alan Henry joining us via Skype. So thanks for joining us, Alan. Oh, thanks for having me.
1:35.1	All right. So we got a lot of stuff to talk about today, so let's jump right into the news.
1:44.1	So as some of you might have known, there was a credit card, major credit card hack recently.
1:50.5	This is actually something Alan knows a lot about.
1:52.3	So, Alan, do you want to tell us a little bit about the credit card hack that happened last week?
1:57.0	Yeah, so this company called Global Payments handles credit card transactions for Visa, MasterCard,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Lifehacker, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Lifehacker and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.