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Wired Wednesday: TempTraq, SmartDuvet & LandLines

ByJohn

This week on News 1130 radio in Vancouver, I spoke about these tech topics for Wired Wednesday with Ben Wilson:

  • Monitor your child’s temperture with this bluetooth patch (source)
  • Smart duvet actually makes the bed itself (source)
  • LandLines: Google’s Mesmerizing Game Turns Scribbles Into Satellite Images (source)

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Last month, I took my MakerBot down to the Get Connected TV studios and taped a segment about 3D printing that aired this week on national tv. Now that it’s aired, I can embed the video right here: We shot a timelapse of the Thing-O-Matic printing the show’s logo and showed off a bunch of…

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Brother MFC-J4510DW All In One Printer

ByJohn

Brother Canada recently offered their latest all in one printer, the MFC-J4510DW, for me to try out. I wasn’t sure what to expect but was pleasantly surprised when it arrived. The first thing I noticed after setting it up is the big touchscreen display. It’s about the size of an iPhone screen with some additional…

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Tech Tuesday: The Chemputer and Tablet Rumour Roundup

ByJohn

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…

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

ByJohn

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…

The one week coffee challenge

ByJohn

Recently, Tassimo sent me a huge box full of new coffee flavors to try out. I’m normally a latte drinker (grande toffee nut soy or 1% milk latte) and never really acquired the taste for straight, black coffee (with or without sugar & milk). I know some of my readers are self-proclaimed coffee snobs…I get…