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Over the past few months, we have not been able to record the show we do with Rick Castellini of HelpMeRick.com. Finally, we were able to get it done this month.

We discuss Google Buzz, Windows Mobile 7, wireless Internet, and much more.

Here’s the show.

• Hey everyone! Give a shout out to my new friend @Frank_Sinatra_ let's give him a warm #gjco welcome #
• No WebOS 1.4 update. @precentral points out that 02-15 was also the expected Pre release date. Hope it's not June before we see 1.4 #
• A very exciting review of Windows Phone 7 by Gizmodo http://bit.ly/cewR1y #
• RT @urbiztopranked: Facebook: Shocking Reality Grand Junction, Colo. http://bit.ly/9DHBb5 #
• Why hasn't Mesa State College come up with their own hashtag #gjco #
• Why hasn #
• Twitter folks in #gjco – please help me block and report as spam all of the "work from home" tweets that have been posted lately. #
• I am not hearing much about the #webOS 1.4 update. I was really hoping it would be out today. #
• TED motivates me to work hard to be rich, not to whine about being poor. http://bit.ly/9tFkti #
• Too bad the Samsung i8520 is GSM (won't work on Verizon or Sprint) http://bit.ly/bqPHoW. Very cool phone. #
• I'm at LDS GJ West Stake Center (2542 G Rd, Grand Junction). http://4sq.com/bnsdD6 #
• I'm at Borders (2480 Hwy 6 and 50, Grand Junction). http://4sq.com/bIuafK #
• The world would like to thank Canada for resetting expectations in Olympic opening ceremonies. #
• RT @extralife: "All Good Things…" http://bit.ly/ahgIlY <- SHOCKING PODCAST NEWS! #
• RT @todayinsocial: You can watch Gadgets and Games live just by going to this web address at 2PM eastern… http://www.foxnews.com/strategyroom #
• At the Kids Voting banquet, waiting for festivities to begin. http://bit.ly/brl3FG #
• FB UNLIKE 1. Find a post you don't like. 2. Click the LIKE button under that post. 3. POOF! An UNLIKE button will appear. 4. Click on it. #
• I would pay $10+ per month more on my cell contract if it allowed me to change phones twice a year at the discount price. #
• Yep. Ben Stein is coming to Mesa State on April 14. Got my tickets, now I can spread the word. http://bit.ly/cZLijk #gjco #
• RT @GJEconDev: Mesa State's Entrepreneurship Day. Ben Stein is the keynote speaker! http://bit.ly/1PpDdV #
• Is there any way I can hack my blog to post something to Twitter that will buzz it up on Yahoo Buzz and feed it to Google Buzz? #
• Google Buzz, the latest in along list of cloud services that are incompatible with the Palm Pre. #
• RT @HelpMeRick: Citizen journalist's guide to field reporting tools http://bit.ly/cauHPq #podcast #
• I am waiting for my class to show up. Teaching Photoshop Elements. There's still room if you have $35. http://bit.ly/d3jXvn #gjco #
• I am waiting for my class to show up. Teaching Photoshop Elements. There's still room if you have $35. http://bit.ly/d3jXvn #fb #
• I am waiting for my class to show up. Teaching Photoshop Elements. There's still room if you have $35. http://bit.ly/d3jXvn #

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We saw the Pineapple Rumble K headphones at two booths during our trip to CES 2010. Both times the sound of the crowd was too noisy to really give the headphones a good review.

When Pineapple sent us a pair to review, we were excited. The Rumble K headphones use “bone conduction” technology to create sound using air and vibration. The claim is that this technology creates deep bass and no harm to your ears.

In all honesty, we were less excited to see how they sounded in our ears than against our teeth. Since the sound is generated via vibration, the sound can not only be heard by putting them in your ears, but you can also hear the sound via “bone conduction” when you place the backs of the headphones against your teeth. Yes, it’s weird, but impressive to kids of all ages.

Once the coolness of holding them against our teeth was over, we began to use them in our ears.

Sadly, the $80 Pineapples sounded worse in our ears than a $5 set of Koss headphones we purchased at Wal-Mart. At low levels the Rumble Ks were alright, but at higher volumes (anything over 50 percent) distortion was so bad we couldn’t understand the lyrics of Chris Isaak.

The headphones were better for podcasts, but there was still obvious distortion.

These headphones would be great for someone with sensitive years who lives or works in a very quiet environment, but if the sound needs to play over even moderate ambient noise, these headphones simply won’t work.

We thought that maybe we just received a defective pair so we read several reviews around the web and it appears that this is typical of the Rumble Ks.

For $20 they would be cool simply for the “bone conduction” aspect, but at $80 we were unimpressed. It’s too bad, because we really wanted to like them.