If you tuned in to this month's Engadget Show (and you did, right?), then you caught a glimpse of our recent jaunt to Bristol, Connecticut where we toured the inner workings of the world leader in broadcast sports. ESPN's got far more technology going on than you might imagine, with an entire "emerging technology" group dedicated to sprucing up the content you see on screen. We couldn't quite squeeze everything into The Show, so here we've cut up an extended version of our tour that shows off even more of the magic behind the scenes. Ever wonder if a place like ESPN would rely on common toys like an Xbox 360 or iPad to control on-screen play demonstrations? Curious to know what kind of sensor tag technology is being worked on to give viewers a real-time look at how high skateboards (and eventually snowboards) are getting in halfpipe? Hop on past the break and mash play -- there's a lot more to ESPN than just homers, World Cup equalizers and Not Top 10s.
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the iPad app at ESPN is neither approved nor jailbroken, if you know how the Apple developer program works, you'll know that you can make it and approve the devices for installation of what you create before submitting it to the app-store, like with the US Marines and their specialized iPod Touch applications, they just create and use whatever is for themselves, no intention of selling it on the app-store
The guy was happy to win that fakePad!!! I want to go to the next show. Where do that take place? And when is the next show? I wish there were lots of more giveaways at the end.
This was my favorite show so far. Fallon is the man and him and Josh work well together on camera. The Kinect guy is a bit over the edge in terms of being into it, but I'll forgive him.
Definitely a 5 star show though guys. Awesome job!
@gcelan01 Yeah, this was the best one, my sides hurt from laughing so hard. They should have done a raffle to win a hug from Joanna, and then have someone from the overflow room win, a riot would have def broken out...
Great show but iTunes let it down. When playing the show in iTunes this will use QuickTime which causes lip sync problems. To fix this use WMP instead. Just find the podcast on your iTunes library and start it with WMP. Looks much better when Josh is in sync...
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posted June 25th 2010 7:04PM
iPad? They should use a JooJoo
@Cainhunpi - Ha, right. I'll give you +1 just for the absurdity of your comment.
@Cainhunpi just wait till a MeeGo Tablet comes out!
HP SLATE!! i would laugh!!!
I see they use Windows 7 too :)
Would love to see....
Ugh...damn iphone lost reception
the iPad app at ESPN is neither approved nor jailbroken,
if you know how the Apple developer program works, you'll know that you can make it and approve the devices for installation of what you create before submitting it to the app-store, like with the US Marines and their specialized iPod Touch applications, they just create and use whatever is for themselves, no intention of selling it on the app-store
The guy was happy to win that fakePad!!! I want to go to the next show. Where do that take place? And when is the next show? I wish there were lots of more giveaways at the end.
This was my favorite show so far. Fallon is the man and him and Josh work well together on camera. The Kinect guy is a bit over the edge in terms of being into it, but I'll forgive him.
Definitely a 5 star show though guys. Awesome job!
@gcelan01
Yeah, this was the best one, my sides hurt from laughing so hard. They should have done a raffle to win a hug from Joanna, and then have someone from the overflow room win, a riot would have def broken out...
The iPad had better graphics than the xbox 360
Is there a direct HD download?
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I CAN NOT FIND IT~!
Great show
Great show but iTunes let it down. When playing the show in iTunes this will use QuickTime which causes lip sync problems. To fix this use WMP instead. Just find the podcast on your iTunes library and start it with WMP. Looks much better when Josh is in sync...