Talking Your Tech: Sara Underwood

By
Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY
July 8, 2012, 9:44 PM ET
3 min read

— -- Sara Underwood is a host of G4's Attack of the Show (AOTS), the live cable program where she reports on tech news and gadgets and tweets to the audience during commercial breaks. Fans of Underwood, who was the 2007 Playboy Playmate of the Year, took control of Esquire's recent online vote for "Sexiest Woman of 2012" to award her the nod. Starting Thursday, Underwood and AOTS will telecast live from Comic-Con, the huge comic book and pop culture convention, in San Diego.

Tweeting to snag fan votes

Underwood urged fans to vote for her as the "sexiest woman." "Am I that gorgeous? No. But I have a lot of Twitter followers (more than 500,000 between @saraunderwood and @aots), and I asked them every week to vote for me. … I have as many (followers) as I do because we interact with them so much, we talk to them."

Her most prized possession

An iPhone encased in a Michael Kors "wristlet," that houses her phone, driver's license, credit cards and keys. "People say to me all the time, 'You're talking to your wallet again.' I would die if I lost this. You don't need a computer anymore. This is my computer. It's my life."

Favorite apps

Nike+ FuelBand (free) is tops. "It helps me set my 'fuel' for the day, set my goals. It tells you how many calories you're burning and syncs with the iPhone." But she also likes Twitter, Pandora, Daily Butt Workout, Flipboard ("it's where I get my news"), Flixster ("I go to movies three times a week") and Google Maps. "I don't even own a GPS. I survive on Google Maps."

Music

Underwood listens to country stations in Pandora — and music by the Eagles and Garth Brooks— with her Sennheiser Bluetooth headphones. "I work out a lot, so it's nice not to have wires hanging."

Games

"I love whatever's hot for the moment and people are talking about —Draw Something, iSlash and Bejeweled." She's says that she is "addicted" to the 99-cent Bejeweled game from PopCap. "I wake up in the morning when my alarm goes off…I play it for 10 minutes, then get up and shower."

Living without tech

She grew up in rural Oregon, and when she visits home, "we don't get any cell service, we can't get satellite there. When you first get up there, you get panicky. What if someone's trying to reach me? What's happening in the world? Then you get used to it. This is so nice. Tech is becoming so life-consuming."

So choose — tech or no tech?

"That's not a fair question. Tech is what makes our world go around now, unfortunately."