The perfect product is hard to make. It can be even harder to find a catchy name. I spent countless hours trying to decide what to name my show, and Mike Thinks what just the best I could do. In retrospect, maybe theres a reason I don’t work for a promotions company. I can honestly say that I would never have names my next big thing the iPad.

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Its not that I think iPad is a bad name, its not…assuming your designing a new feminine hygiene product for the hipster crowd. But how in the heck does Apple pass on names like iSlate but lock onto a name that makes the Nintendo Wii seem downright normal? Now sure, we will get used to the name, not not before rev 2 at least. So this week I give you my detailed take on what I will go out on a limb and call the biggest miss of 2010…and its just barely February!

We also have out regular segment on weird news and this week in history on this weeks Mike Thinks News.

It happens…not very often when you consider there are hundreds of millions of them out there, but it is a real fact that lithium batteries can go bad.  I don’t mean they start pushing over cows, robbing liquor stores and writing bad checks, but they can go bad, and especially if damages (lets say by a small fall), have a cascading reation and fail in dramatic fashon.  How dramatic you ask?  Lets just say that the picture above while it is an artistic rendering of potential…its not so far from the truth.

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Also this week

iPhone exclusive

Arachnophobia circa 300million bc

Keep on making those mistakes

Solar pay to play

Glasses that look stupid and cost too much

AP shake down

XKCD book