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Tech Tuesday: add a real ebook reader to your iPhone & a robot that does windows
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Tech Tuesday: add a real ebook reader to your iPhone & a robot that does windows

This week on News 1130 radio in Vancouver, I talked about these items: Popslate: another in a long line of clever iPhone cases, the Popslate adds a 4 inch e-ink screen to the back of your iPhone 5. This screen can be customized to give the back of your phone a unique ‘wallpaper’ or you…

Tech Tuesday: 3d printing props for the Hobbit & reusing those electric car batteries
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Tech Tuesday: 3d printing props for the Hobbit & reusing those electric car batteries

This week on News 1130 radio in Vancouver I talked about these items: The Hobbit gets 3d printed: Props for the upcoming Hobbit movie from Peter Jackson were largely 3d printed by Weta Workshops. Everything from weapons like the Orcrist and Sting to apparel such as helmets and buckles. Even prostetic pieces likes noses and…

Tech Tuesday: Apple’s shifting product lines & your child’s first email
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Tech Tuesday: Apple’s shifting product lines & your child’s first email

This week on News 1130 radio in Vancouver, I talked about these items: Introducing Maily for iPad from Maily on Vimeo. A brief conversation about the shift post-Steve Jobs that Apple is making with diverse products and services that Jobs may never have approved during his time at the helm. Your child’s first email application:…

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Tech Tuesday: The Chemputer and Tablet Rumour Roundup

This week on News 1130 in Vancouver, I talked about: Print any drug using the Chemputer: Professor Lee Cronin at Glasgow University is working with a modified 3d printer to create a machine that can ‘print’ just about any pharmaceutical with the ultimate goal to allow people to do this in their own home. The…

Tech Tuesday: Easy tire pressure and the ultimate retro cameraphone filter

This week on News 1130 radio in Vancouver, I talked about these items: Tire inflation just got easier: using it’s new “Easy Fill Tire Alert”, Nissan, starting in 2013 will make it much easier to keep on top of your tire pressure without the guesswork. Using indicator lights in the dash, it will identify which…

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Tech Tuesday: Hobbit backlash & cardboard Ikea digital camera

This week on News 1130 radio in Vancouver, I talked about: Peter Jackson screens 10 minutes of the new Hobbit movie and gets some surprising feedback: Jackson got a fair amount of pushback about the visual quality of the 10 minutes he shared with theater owners and selected folks recently. The main issue was that…

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Tech Tuesday: Anontune & GoPayments

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…

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Tech Tuesday: Electric Deloreans and dream manipulation

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…

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Tech Tuesday: Tattoos & seats that vibrate and posing for your playlists

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…