A brief update on the build status of my prototype version of Brad’s (aka Sublime) forthcoming Tantillus 3d printer and my Prusa Mendel Reprap printer. Last weekend, Brad & I mounted most of the printed parts, motors and hardware for the extruder and build platform. Part of that exercise was for Brad to see how…
This week on Tech Tuesday, I discussed these stories: Anontune – the social music platform from Anonymous: a decentralized music discovery and sharing service that finds music from numerous sources around the internet and easily aggregates their sources in one place. You can import a playlist and Anontune will create a listenable version you can…
After a disappointing experience with an Android tablet recently, it was timely that Samsung offered to loan me their latest Android device, the Galaxy Note. This is a bit of a strange device though…it’s a 5.3″ tablet that is also a phone…commonly referred to as a ‘phablet’. I got the chance to briefly use one…
Vancouver hosted it’s inaugural edition of Fan Expo this weekend attracting thousands of fans from all genres. If you’ve never been to an event like this, the easiest way to describe it is Halloween on steroids. I’m always impressed to see the lengths some people go to create amazing costumes that celebrate their favorite characters…and…
Every Tuesday I discuss the latest technology on News 1130 radio in Vancouver. Here’s what I’m talking about this week: Want to manipulate your dreams? There’s an app for that: A psychologist and professor at the the University of Hertfordshire has created an iPhone app called Dream:ON (iTunes link) that you run before bed and…
This week on Tech Tuesday, I discussed these stories: Photo by Thomas Hawk on Flickr Google CEO spotted wearing Project Glass prototype in real life: the tech world has been abuzz with Google’s latest concept that had more fuel added to it when it’s CEO, Sergey Brin, was spotted at an event wearing a prototype…
This week on News 1130 radio (live at 11:05am PST), I’ll be talking about these stories: Flutter – Kinect-like gestures for controlling iTunes or Spotify on your Mac – using the built in camera on every Apple computer, a new app, currently in beta, will allow you to use gestures to navigate your music library…