Flipping Tables

Apple's WWDC event happened and that means Lyons and Mike are here to pick it apart! We also pour one out for the Apple TV that wasn't. Also: somehow we found a way to bash Microsoft and we feel appropriately contrite about it.

Mike learns sneezes can be forced. Lyons has a magical Uber experience. And oh yeah, Google I/O 2015 happened! Lots of amazing tech, and more steps to return to the true developer conference Google I/O is supposed to be.

Lyons is living the fingerprint unlock life. Smartstraps try to make Smartwatches smarter. Podcasts are coming to Spotify, but only if you're a special snowflake. The Void is VR 'laser tag on steroids' and Nintendo is making theme park rides for Universal Studios!

Followup inception creates its own followup. Microsoft proves old habits die hard while Apple creates a web crawling bot. 3D printing is even more amazing than we thought. And what is up with this Spiderman toy?

Lyons finds his place outside the modder community. Konami's Playable Teaser disappears from the PlayStation store. Kickstarter is sometimes great but other times it just funds mojitos. And a gamer beats Mega Man X and X2 at the same time on the same controller.

Mike and Lyons gush about hardware. Valve apologizes for paid mods on Steam. Tons of awesome (and skepticism) came out of Microsoft Build. Elon Musk and Tesla are trying to save the world. And Mike is delighted by Miyamoto being delighted.

Lyons gets called out on geek naming sins. Google fi is happening and all the rumors were true. Google Contributor is happening and Mike is unsure if it’ll take hold. Are there too many hamburger menus in apps and at Burger King? And Mike’s first days with the Apple Watch.

Pseudojustin of The Pseudo Show joins us to talk making saving money as easy as the Amazon Dash Button makes spending it. Reddit has their own Button. Lyons admits he's hooked on HBO Now. The BB-8 droid from Star Wars is real(ish). Info about Google's cell service is leaked. And the FCC is unsurprisingly being sued over net neutrality.

The Grid wants to make web design algorithmic. The Basilisk wants to make managing humanity algorithmic. Adobe refuses to buy TLDs defensively. And Mike tried on an Apple Watch and has some things to say about supposedly 'intuitive' interfaces.

John Oliver and Edward Snowden make the American people care about government surveillance with dick pics. Nintendo continues to hate people who advertise their products for them. Amazon brings 1-click ordering to your house. And someone staples a gameboy camera to a handgun.

Even we make mistakes sometimes. Luckily it wasn't anything important. Food robots are surprisingly hilarious. We finally found out how the Daily Show collects all those amazing clips. Neptune may be the future of computing. And live streaming! Spoiler: it's dead. Or isn't. Or is.

OneShot forgets how Twitter works. Nintendo partners with a pay-to-win company. Good guy Microsoft plans to bring Cortana to Android and iOS. And USB-C is a standard worthy of our love (and maybe fear.)

Lyons comes clean about his feelings for Apple. Nintendo may or may not be doing something great at some point in the future. Disney does The Internet of Things the right way. And Meerkat, we hardly knew ye.

The Apple Watch is here, but that new Macbook is way more interesting. Valve is killing it with Steam Machines and the Steam Link. And there's a smart pocket watch running Firefox OS. Yes you read that correctly.

The Dress is blue and black and that's all there is to that. The FCC does right by the people. WordPress and Google make some big changes. And Stop! PebbleTime.

Some say you must listen to podcasts at normal speed as the artist intended. We say thanks for listening at whatever speed you want. SUPERFISH is the latest scary thing to break the internet in the name of ads. And Edward Snowden wins big at the Oscars, on Reddit, and in our hearts.

People are still modding DOOM. Samsung gets punished for doing the right thing and the wrong thing. And we talk about (The Onion's version of) the Apple Car.

Net Neutrality wins! Maybe, sort of, we'll see... also Nintendo has a new 3DS coming out and Comcast is still insulting its customers.

In early 2014, we started a podcast called Flipping Tables. Every week we released a new episode through sickness, blizzards, and whatever else life sent our way. After nearly a year of non-stop episodes, we realized this was no longer just a hobby, but something we wanted to grow beyond one show. With Michael's killer designs and Lyons hacking away in vim we built a sleek website and launched Sunrise Robot as a whole network of shows for technologists, gamers, artists and cultural enthusiasts.

It's still a speedrun even if you use exploits. In fact that's kind of the point. Blackberry wants to win through legislation. Comcast and Twitter; still terrible after all these months. And as Google sunsets the Glass Explorer program, Microsoft debuts HoloLens.