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hey what's up everybody I'm note from technobuffalo calm here at Google i/o 2011 make sure to get the Android backdrop over my shoulder there it's day one keynote this morning focusing a lot on Android talking about Android 301 honeycomb coming out today for zoom owners ice cream sandwich coming out for for google music beta google movies all that kind of stuff tomorrow a second keynote probably going to talk about chrome we'll see but in the meantime walking around the show here it's not really a show so much as developers conference so it's not like a full-on tradeshow environment but in but there are a bunch of vendors here hardware vendor software vendors and then just some kind of neat interesting stuff so let's go walk around take a look so we can find alright so here's one of the more eye-catching things they demoed this when we came into the keynote this morning this area was all covered by a big tarp but now it's open they demoed it during the keynote pretty cool it's a giant labyrinth I mean this thing is probably about Oh bad with these things but you know there's a person there's a panel five six panels so I don't know 30 feet by 30 feet something like that and it's giant wooden labyrinth there's a little ball on it rolling around and it's being controlled via the Android adk so somewhere somebody's got a tablet marry that person up there on the michalak i'm not sure if somebody's got a tablet controlling this thing trying to roll the ball around to get some of the whole showing what you can do you know the whole Android accessory thing that talked about this morning and Google opening up the ways that you can use Android not just on a device but using it from one device to control another device whether that would be you know a hook into the exercise bike at the gym or I your home automation system with your lights or a giant wooden labyrinth all we need now is for David Bowie to come out of the catwalk and walk around the labyrinth all right so here's some stuff going on from Hasbro I've got some robots robots conceived a robot imagine if you know and this is a snap developed for the filling head towards the robotic cradle into a cute little character in bed with their stores you can fire made it looks for people and interact that's why we work on the software side of the app is utilizing around from google cloud service prototypes so things like face recognition object detection this is another program to the chapter various objects and respond roadway we need an android is important or we have we need well don't walk off little buddy all right and here's the company called a farm box and they've got a smartphone control develop a plan factory I you can have anywhere and your refrigerator to TN document your roof data in the cloud check it out pitched the other hand we go to the supermarket to get safe and cheap vegetables by car even if it's too far all right here's something else that was shut off during the keynote today lifefitness they've got a prototype of an android based game you hook your smartphone into the life cycle here and this reminds me a lot of the older arcade games scramble except instead of trying to blow up enemy bases and rockets and stuff you're just trying to pull your way to healthy glory so it's all synced in with your smartphone and your life cycle there one of the things that seems very interesting we'll see where it goes is the accessory development starter kit the whole accessory kit protocol that Google was talking about in the keynote today that will allow companies to build and possibly home hobbyist Santa to go around and build accessories to work with Android devices to connect via looks like via USB so you know things like the life cycle we saw but all kinds of other things possible and this is one of the whole open source nature of Android could become really cool kind of a throwback to the days of you know building the first home computers and home radios in that kind of stuff and red robots enough said lighting science showing a web-based pro motivation lighting control being controlled from an Android device thank you did if we saw the keynote this morning said they did a demo where they had an android device controlling and lighting all over the stage and in the theater all kinds of android games being shown off here it's kind of cool they have these little hubs the Android robots they did a really nice job this year making the making the whole conference a little more yeah that the presentation side of things the keynote I thought was the best google it wasn't a press only event but the best kind of presentation big you know keynote address your president thing I've seen Google do in a while is very entertaining still you know Google geeky Google at heart which it should be but a little more kind of slicked up which was nice great but a whole bunch of gaming demos going on over here why can't see so they kind of like turns around there's glue hi whos da shown off Scrabble Oh SPV showing off their their shell for android alternate user interface Zen studios they make some very cool pinball games you see it running here on a zoom gameloft and then a bunch of other app demos madness not definitely not all games all kinds of stuff I to it make a lot of business software like to feel ya evernote very popular in for business coupons com I'm just walking around some random stuff over here to the developer sandbox area I've got some little lounges set up so here's a NBA digital I may have to hang out here for a while why some clips of the Lakers getting bounced from the playoffs but as John said you know my warriors didn't even make it in and the Knicks got got swept in the first round so but here is this last night's game this was an epic game this is last night's game triple overtime thriller yeah yep yep that was a great game NBA gametime on the Google TV platform there there's the ESPN well I hop all kinds of stuff just give me a little bit of flavor of google i/o 2011 in case you couldn't be here we'll go over here to the wallet device it's pretty cool they had this last year this is just a whole slew of Android devices in a nice little green case with a mantra Tory robots phones you've seen tablets you've seen some you may never have seen and then of course that you're probably wearing shouldn't be a cool little droid robots and the devices you've seen all the devices like in the style that one with the are a gal that one's pretty cool with the Android behind the roulette wheel the driving wheel cupcake chattanooga noogler sorry about here with so there you go a little bit of the flavor kind of mellow up here they they opened up the third floor last year it was only a two floor event this year the third floor so things are a little more spread out it's actually kind of nice not super crowded over the place also it's lunchtime so most of the devs are down getting their lunch on so there you go with the big will end with the big the big lineup here of android robot showing off all the apps live from google i/o 2011 in san francisco get myself back on camera wish you were here what can i say i'm known from technobuffalo calm lots of coverage all week long what's going on the google world right here on TechnoBuffalo see you next time