It’s Monday, and you know what that means; another Engadget HD Podcast. We hope you will join us live when the Engadget HD podcast starts recording at 8:30PM. If you’ll be joining us, be sure to go ahead and get ready by reviewing the list of topics after the break, then you’ll be ready to participate in the live chat.

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Sick of the present? Good, us too. We’ve gathered together a number of futurists and other thinkers to prognosticate on what’s coming next in the world of technology. Let’s meet back here for Expand 2 and see who got what right. Deal?

For a full list of Expand sessions, be sure to check out our event hub.

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Can’t get enough of futuristic peripherals? Hey, neither can we — so it’s a good thing we’re here at SXSW this week. We’re kicking off a series of liveblogs today with a conversation with Leap Motion co-founders David Holz and Michael Buckwald. Utilize your favorite input device and join us after the break, won’t you?

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Electric cars and commercial space flight — what more could a person want? The Tesla / SpaceX founder is bringing all of that to his keynote on this, this second day of South By Southwest Interactive. The exec has never been on to mince words, so this ought to be an interesting one. Join us after the break, won’t you?

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Al Gore: former Vice President, environmental activist, author, voice-over artist, gadget freak — and psychic? The politician and supporter of all things green will be looking into his crystal ball today, with a little help from The Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg here at SXSW. Join us after the break for all the robots, lasers and flying cars.

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Robots confused about what they encounter in the world of humans can now go online to get help from a web-based ‘brain’.
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What? You didn’t think we’d make it out of the first day of SXSW without some gaming coverage, did you? We’re here at the show’s Gaming Expo, a room full of the latest and greatest offerings from companies big and small. We couldn’t help but do a doubletake when we saw the lineup for the rather verbose Virtual Reality: The Holy Grail of Gaming. The panel’s got Cliff Bleszinski (Epic), Palmer Luckey (Oculus Rift), and Chris Roberts (Wing Commander) — an impressive offering moderated by Oculus’ Nate Mitchell. Strap on those goggles and come talk VR with us after the jump.

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Hannover might not be as famous as Hamburg (Beatles), Berlin (politics) or Frankfurt (erm, meat-based cuisine), but for one week in March, it’s home to one of the world’s biggest tech events. Unlike our jaunts to MWC and CES, we’re never quite sure what weird and wonderful things we’re likely to find at this Teutonic tradeshow, but we’ll be sure to bring you something new and exciting. Even better, thanks to some corrupted Michel Thomas Method MP3s, we’ll be getting by with what remains of our high school German, a nice smile and a heck of a lot of pointing — so wish us luck.

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Sprint was clearly up to something good when we noticed LTE in parts of San Francisco. It turns out that this was just the tip of the iceberg — the carrier has since confirmed that it’s also flicking the switch in New York City, parts of New York state, Washington DC, and Florida cities that include Jacksonville, Miami and Tampa. The faster access is going live on a site-by-site basis in given areas rather than all at once, which bears out what we’re hearing from readers and a Sprint spokesperson we reached for comment: LTE appears to be available in pockets in at least New York City and San Francisco. Sprint won’t have a formal news release until it believes the coverage is complete, but we suspect most customers will be too busy testing the speed of their long-underused EVO 4G LTE or iPhone 5 to notice.

[Thanks, Derek and Revie]

Update: The full Sprint statement is after the break.

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Imagine our surprise when, upon firing up Sprint’s Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 earlier today for some routine app updates, we saw the 4G logo light up (!) for the first time ever. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it appears that sometime in the past few days, Sprint’s finally deigned to flick the LTE switch in a significant market — namely beautiful San Francisco. We immediately grabbed our Optimus G and EVO 4G LTE review units and hopped in the car for some quick nearby tests. The verdict? We found pockets of LTE in Potrero Hill and SoMa, and nothing but CDMA in the Mission District — that’s two out of the three neighborhoods we checked. Speeds reached peaks of 16.7Mbps down and 9.4Mbps up with full signal but performance varied wildly, even block to block. Sprint had already enabled LTE in parts of Silicon Valley and had marked the city by the bay for one of its upcoming rollouts. Do you use Sprint and live in SF? Hit the comments and let us know if you’re enjoying the sweet nectar of LTE in your area.

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