A triumvirate of Craig Wilson, Stafford Masie and Simon Dingle form your panel in this week’s high-quality episode of everyone’s favourite podcast. Their words, not ours. Aside from a side-discussion involving steroid sport leagues we manage to discuss several technology topics, including:

• The quantified self movement.
• Broadband promises from politicians.
• PS Vita and the future of gaming.
• Content blocks and licensing.
• The future of the future.
• Hoverboards.
• Kickstarter.
• Social identity curators.
• Samsung Galaxy Nexus launch and pricing.
• Technology agnosticism.
• Apple’s OSX Mountain Lion.

Our technology picks this week:

• Craig Wilson: Fingle for iPad.
• Stafford Masie: Code Year.
• Simon Dingle: SwiftKey X, Pizza vs. Skeletons, Gmail app for iOS.

We focus our conversation this week on what are likely to be the big areas of tech news in 2012. Simon Dingle is back from CES in Las Vegas, joined by Sam Beckbessinger, Craig Wilson and Ben Kelly to discuss:

• The future of television and the hints provided at CES.
• An overview of the Consumer Electronics Show 2012.
• New tablets on the way.
• i’m Watch and i’m Core.
• The Google-Mocality debacle.
• Online content.

Our technology picks this week:

• Sam Beckbessinger: OpenSignalMaps and Minecraft.
• Ben Kelly: Grand Theft Auto 3 for iPad and The Trenches.
• Craig Wilson: PocketHipster and F.Lux.
• Simon Dingle: Yamaha RX-A1010.

Fresh in from Nokia World, Brett Haggard and Simon Dingle are joined by Ben Kelly to discuss:

• Nokia’s new device lineup.
• Sony buying out Sony Ericsson.
• Motorola’s new RAZR device and Android Ice Cream Sandwich.
• Bendy-screen gadgets.
• Ubuntu coming to smartphones and tablets.
• Cellular roaming tactics.

Our technology picks of the week:

• Ben Kelly: The new iOS app for Ancestry.
• Brett Haggard: execMobile and Sony W-series.
• Simon Dingle: imWatch.

• Twitter users halting a suicide in SA.
• Diablo 3 enabling real-world purchasing of virtual items.
• 3D phone screens and how much we don’t need them.
• The survivalist cult of PC gaming.
• Amazon halting Android app sales because it’s being sued by Apple.
• The “badgeification” of Google News.

Our technology picks of the week:

• Andy Hadfield: The 4-hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss.
• Simon Dingle: Tripit and Flight Update Pro.
• Brett Haggard: Spotify.
• Steven Ambrose: Sony STR-DN1020 receiver.

Our studio is a bit of a lab this week, but we don’t want to talk about it. Sam Beckbessenger, Toby Shapshak and Simon Dingle are your panel this week. We discuss;

• The launch of DStv BoxOffice.
• Spotify launching in the USA.
• Amazon tablet rumours.
• The new music industry.
• Toshiba and glasses-less 3D – in studio.
• FNB’s mobile announcement.
• Microsoft’s prospects.
• Apple Bluetooth in the Apple TV 2
• And more!

Our technology picks of the week:

• Sam Beckbessinger: Decode JZ and iPad accessibility.
• Toby Shapshak: Sony Vaio Z Series.
• Simon Dingle: Plex.

Trying hard to focus on the serious issues facing technology this week instead of talking about foreign love interestes and wine, Andy Hadfield, Stafford Masie and Simon Dingle discuss;

• LulzSec and its fallout.
• 8ta’s new mobile broadband bundles.
• Mobile content strategies.
• The new Ster-Kinekor website’s #fail.
• Windows Phone.
• Nokia’s N9.

Our technology picks and pick-ons this week:

• Stafford Masie – Picks: Dropbox for its awesomeness.
• Andy Hadfield – Picks: Getting Wicked for its thoughtfulness.
• Simon Dingle – Picks: Nokia’s N9 for its significance.

Covering a surprising amount of ground given the circumstances, involving rum, Brett Haggard, Nic Callegari, Simon Dingle and Toby Shapshak discuss;

• Telkom’s 8ta expanding its network.
• ADSL full of fail in South Africa.
• The Sega hack.
• Duke Nukem Forever.
• The Kinect SDK.
• A new, lighter PS3.
• IBM’s centennial.
• Playbook launching in SA. Kinda.

Our technology picks and pick-ons this week:

• Toby Shapshak – Picks: Apple iPad (yes, yes. We know).
• Nic Callegari – Picks: Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 for iPad.
• Brett Haggard – Picks: Cambox.

• Microsoft’s XBox announcements at E3.
• Android tablets and how Honeycomb stacks up against iOS.
• Apple’s Lion, iOS 5 and iCloud announcements.
• Console gaming.
• Microsoft Windows 8 and rumours of an nVidia acquisition.
• Google’s Chromebooks and prospects in personal computing.
• The City of Tshwane’s initiatives and fibre rollout in SA.
• Oracle’s OpenOffice.org decision and general take on open source.

Our technology picks of the week:

• Ben Kelly – Picks: Sparrow.
• Duncan McLeod – Picks: GoToMyPC.
• Simon Dingle – Picks: FNB Connect.

We switch to water as our in-studio drink this week thanks to the presence of Aki Anastasiou and Toby Shapshak on our panel. They join Brett Haggard and Simon Dingle to discuss;

• Microsoft’s acquisition of Skype.
• BlackBerry’s make or break situation.
• The Endeavor space shuttle launch.
• Sony restoring Playstation Network.
• Neotel’s new consumer telephony service.

Our technology picks and pick-ons this week:

• Toby Shapshak – The joy of retro (don’t look at us).
• Aki Anastasiou – Picks: Apple TV.
• Brett Haggard – Picks: Seamless.
• Simon Dingle – Picks: BlackBerry Tablet OS.

Andy Hadfield, Sam Beckbessinger and Simon Dingle settle down to some organic wine and discuss;

• The white iPhone rush.
• BlackBerry’s make or break.
• The Webby Awards.
• Sony’s ongoing hack saga.
• SA’s new pay-tv service VOD:TV.

Our technology picks and pick-ons this week:

• Andy Hadfield – Picks: Storify and Settlers of Catan.
• Sam Beckbessinger – Picks: Game of Thrones and the fantasy gamers of SA.
• Simon Dingle – Picks-on: Apple.