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Wired Wednesday: Smarthalo, Ataribox & Kunkun Body

ByJohn

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

  • Smarthalo gives your bike navigation and more (source)
  • Atari returns with a new videogame console (source)
  • Kunkun Body: device tells you that you smell (source)

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Use your iPhone as a 3D scanner with Trimensional

ByJohn

I first saw this app a few months ago, well before I had decided to get into 3D printing. Trimensional is an iPhone app that lets you take 3D photos. I thought it was just a fun camera app to make animated gifs like these: That is until they added the ability (via a modest…

Tech Tuesday: Turning E-Waste into 3d printers & Diapers that tweet
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Tech Tuesday: Turning E-Waste into 3d printers & Diapers that tweet

ByJohn

This week on News 1130 Radio in Vancouver, I discussed these topics: Turning E-Waste into 3d printers: A designer from Togo, a country that receives a large amount of old computers and related ‘e-waste’ from all over the world, begin to think about ways of upcycling the e-waste. He found a way to turn the…

Tech Tuesday: 3d printed hand and wearable superhero tech
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Tech Tuesday: 3d printed hand and wearable superhero tech

ByJohn

This week on News 1130 radio in Vancouver, I discussed these items: RoboHand: After losing his fingers in a work accident, South African carpenter Richard Van As set out to design replacements that could be made on a desktop 3d printer. Working with a designer in Washington State, Ivan Owen, they collaborated over the internet…

Newspapers, magazines and radio…oh my!

ByJohn

Thanks to Warren, who interviewed me recently for my thoughts on the upcoming iPhone App Store and what it will mean for people currently enjoying Installer on their iPhones. I think it just hit newstands today, so check out page 15 of the August issue. I guess I’m officially an iPhone expert because it’s in…

Tech Tuesday: Leap Motion controller & Pebble Smartwatch
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Tech Tuesday: Leap Motion controller & Pebble Smartwatch

ByJohn

This week on News 1130 in Vancouver, I talked about these items: Leap Motion controller: Gathering a huge wave of interest lately is the Leap motion controller which is little bigger than a flashdrive and set to ship early this year. Not unlike the Kinect for your Xbox except the $70 Leap allows you to…

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Replicating Stephen Colbert

ByJohn

Recently I printed Stephen Colbert’s head on my MakerBot (in ‘John Boehner orange’ as someone in the comments on Flickr pointed out): and made a timelapse of the nearly 2 hour print process: and then Cory Doctorow blogged about it on BoingBoing.net (thanks to Darren for submitting it). Which then lead to my “A few…