On The Verge, Episode 011 - John Underkoffler and Thorsten Heins

What a way to end a season! It all starts with news from best actor nominee Joshua Topolsky and best supporting actor nominees Paul Miller and Nilay Patel (also nominated for his role in "Jerk Bosses").

Ross Miller took a trip to Oblong industries to check out their work in multi-screen hand gesture computers à la Minority Report. Then John Underkoffler — Oblong co-founder and chief scientist, as well as the science adviser for Minority Report and Iron Man — talks in-studio with Josh. Fascination, awe, even an ounce of fear — you won't believe Josh's range of emotion. Lastly, from the west coast, Dieter Bohn sits down with RIM CEO Thorsten Heins to figure out what really is going on with BlackBerry right now.

The episode ends as finales are wont to do — with a twist. Thanks for watching, we'll see you next year!

Director: Billy Disney
Senior Producer: Nina Sokoler
Technical Director: Jordan Oplinger
Media Director: John Lagomarsino
Head Writer: Ross Miller
Segment Producers: Billy Disney, Jordan Oplinger,
Sam Thonis, John Lagomarsino, Jason Miller, Jimmy Shelton
Editors: John Lagomarsino, Billy Disney, Jordan Oplinger
Production Coordinator: Talia Keren-Zvi
Executive Producers: Chad Mumm and Joshua Topolsky

Special Guests: John Underkoffler, Thorsten Heins
Host: Joshua Topolsky
Featuring: Nilay Patel, Paul Miller, Ross Miller, Dieter Bohn

Cameras: Nate Chapman, Sean Hanley,
David Chalfant, Sam Thonis
Jib Operator: Abad Rosa
Sound: Brendan Murphy, Dan Joseph
Projection and Recording: Manhattan Center Studios

Key Production Assistant: Anderson Rolf
Production Assistants: Eliot Banks, Ian MacInnes
Front of House: Josh Cherkes, Jacob Kastrenakes, Tyler Gold

Opening titles: Misha Shyukin

Sponsored by: Ford

Special Thanks to:
Jim Bankoff, Marty Moe, Oblong Industries,
Bryan Bishop, TC Sottek
Tarte Cosmetics, Manhattan Center

Recorded at The Manhattan Center

• Category

  Science & Technology

[Daniel Gomes Veiga]

@TheVerge Hello, I don't know If you have another channel but I saw a channel called TheVergeGadget using your videos and claiming is their.

[TheVerge]

Yeah, that's not us. Thanks for letting us know.

[Aryan Aneja]

The blackberry part was so boring I actually skipped it. Rest of it was amazing!

[Bryon Letterman]

I agree. I've never owned a BlackBerry, but I'm heavily considering checking it out later this month.

[Pete Smith]

bit late on this but great show! I really like what Paul did with the sponsorship section, it was classy and personal not to mention the car was neat.

[arcangeljp]

man... unfortunately I had to stop watching... Josh interrupts his guests and sidesteps conversation into witty banter way too much.

[Confucius0ne]

Yea, I hate anyone who doesn't share my beliefs, too.

[alphie20]

Totally agree.

[Anth]

the ford video is kinda gay haha! dont know if it was intended to be funny tho :)

[GeekBlogTV]

he was trying to be ironic.

[theGiantAngryRobot]

that Thorsten Heins interview was great. I really had no expectations for RIM to ever come back but that was impressive and the new os sounds really interesting

[ricya1982]

You don't have to be gay to go to the movies with ONE guy friend or open doors for people.

You've been in the ghetto too long...