e529 — Shake, Shake, Shake Your iPhone

e529 — Shake, Shake, Shake Your iPhone

Author: Michael Rowe, Michael Martine, Andy Piper September 15, 2025 Duration: 29:12
iPhone and a shake with a straw on a table next to one another
Photo by Ravi Sharma on Unsplash

Published 15 September 2025

e529 with Michael, Andy and Michael – stories about AR glasses & snarky AI wearables, Carrot Weather, Rabbit OS2, shaking to summarize, Doomscrolling and a whole lot more.

Michael, Andy and Michael get things moving this episode with all things AI.  After starting with a parody about camera less phones which generate pictures, the team moves to an article about Amazon’s project Jayhawk AR glasses for their drivers.  Next up is a new gesture for Firefox users on iOS – the ability to shake to summarize.  After an article on AI audio manipulation, Andy and Michael M are reminded of how Denmark is providing a defense against deepfakes by updating copyrights to provide individuals the right to their own appearance and voice.

Following up on a plethora of stories in recent episodes on AI powered wearables, this episode takes on the Futurism article about the Friend pendant.  Apparently, this companion has a bit of a snarky personality by design, and that got the co hosts talking about Carrot’s weather application.  After mentioning that the Rabbit portable AI device gains a new OS upgrade, the team takes on a couple of game topics, including iPod click wheel game preservation and a Doomscroll game to try.

Would you rather play Doomscroll or just doomscroll manually?  Have your bots 🤖 drop our bots 🤖 a line at @gamesatwork_biz@mastodon.social (our home for now) and let us know! 

These show notes were lovingly hand crafted by a real human, and not by a bot.  All rights reserved.  That’s our story and we’re sticking to it.

Selected Links

AI

These iPhone features are getting ridiculous!

(By Simon Meyer on IG (simonmeyer_director)

— John – 🎞️ Film Nerd 🎞️ (@UKFilmNerd@mastodon.me.uk)
2025-09-09T19:45:34.929Z

The Verge article: Amazon drivers could be wearing AR glasses with a built-in display next year

Amazon Accelerate Sept 16-18, 2025

Meta Connect Sept 17 – 18, 2025

The Verge article: Firefox launches ‘shake to summarize’ on iPhones

AskVG post: How to Disable and Remove All AI Features in Mozilla Firefox

Firefox article: Ready to shake things up?

News & Observer article: An NC senator’s words were manipulated by AI in an ad. Now she’s suing

The Guardian article: Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features

Futurism article: New AI Necklace Listens Constantly and Uses All That Data to Complain About You

Friend

Carrot Weather

rabbit post: rabbit overhauls r1 experience with rabbitOS 2

Games at Work e502: Humane Rabbits

Games

Retrododo article: The Complete Range Of iPod Clickwheel Games Has Finally Been Preserved

Ironic Sans post: Doomscrolling: The Game

Doomscroll


The weekly conversation hosted by Michael Rowe, Michael Martine, and Andy Piper, Games At Work dot Biz, explores the intersection where our digital play and professional lives collide. This isn't just a review show; it's a deep dive into the technology that powers our hobbies, the business behind the leisure, and the cultural news shaping both worlds. Each episode feels like pulling up a chair with three friends who are as passionate about the craft of game development and the evolution of hardware as they are about the pure joy of finding a great new title. You'll hear specific discussions on everything from the latest graphics card impacting performance to the narrative design of an indie darling, all filtered through the lens of professionals who live in the tech space. The Games At Work dot Biz podcast operates on the belief that the games we play and the tools we use are inextricably linked, offering listeners a consistently thoughtful and engaging analysis that goes far beyond a simple score. Tune in for a regular dose of insightful commentary where the serious business of technology meets the serious fun of games.
Author: Language: en-us Episodes: 50

Games At Work dot Biz
Podcast Episodes
e551 — ATProto Socials [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 23:38
Photo from the International Space Station 1 April 2026 of the exhaust plume from Artemis II in Earth’s atmosphere – NASA ID: iss074e0431736 Published 20 April 2026 e551 with Michael, Michael and Andy – a tour of the Atm…
e550 — Moontella [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 23:42
Mashup of photo by Victor Serban on Unsplash & images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009287/art002e009287~orig.jpg Published 13 April 2026 e550 with Michael, Andy and Michael – celebrating Moon Joy with the Artemis II crew…
e549 — Dark Side of the Moon [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 31:00
NASA photo art002e009057, 4 April 2026 Published 6 April 2026 e549 with Andy, Michael and Michael – boldly go into a deep set of space discussions featuring Artemis II, ways to keep track of the historic flight, COTS sof…
e548 — The Uncomfortable Valley [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 31:34
Photo by NEOM on Unsplash Published 23 March 2026 e548 with Michael and Michael – Stories and discussion on uncomfortable valley & uncanny valley, Nintendo’s Talking Flower, 8bit Pixel Agents for AI orchestration and a w…
e547 — Bricktastic [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 28:00
Photo by Michael Martine, Chapel Hill, NC March 2026 Published 16 March 2026 e547 with Michael and Michael – Stories and discussion on bot to bot communications, 50 years of Apple, LEGO SmartPlay SmartBricks and a whole…
e546 — Smart Play Doom Brain Brick [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 29:12
Published 9 March 2026 e543 with Andy, Michael and Michael – Stories and discussion on LEGO’s new Smart Play brick, this is a human brain (cells) on Doom, orc audio for vibe coding, Liquid Death’s Spotify urn for playlis…
e545 – Cyberpunk pot holes [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 28:42
Photo by Marc-Olivier Jodoin on Unsplash Published 2 March 2026 e545 with Andy and Michael – Get to talk about mostly non-AI topics this week, as we look at a cool kickstarter, Titan, that is building out a futuristic ga…
e544 — Are We Bananas? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 28:35
Photo by Masahiro Naruse on Unsplash Published 23 February 2026 e544 with Andy, Michael and Michael – Stories and discussion on rumoured AI devices, addictive predictives, listening through bananas (or mud), and what hap…
e543 — Rent-a-Anything [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 31:08
Photo by Viktor Keri on Unsplash Published 16 February 2026 e543 with Andy, Michael and Michael – Stories and discussion on Agentic AI and the changing nature of work, agents renting humans, real time translation, artist…
e542 — Vibe Coding Vowels [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 30:01
Photo by Mihai 👑 on Unsplash Published 9 February 2026 e542 with Michael, Andy and Michael – Stories and discussion on programming language localization, Virtual Boy hardware & emulation, LEGO terrestrial & orbital dwell…