Wired Wednesday: Google Parking, Elgato Aqua & self-driving pizza delivery

ByJohn

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

  • Google rolls out feature that shows how difficult it is to find parking in Toronto and Vancouver (source)
  • Elgaot Eve Aqua: Water your lawn with Siri (source)
  • Domino’s & Ford team up to trial self-driving pizza delivery (source)

Listen here

Related Posts:

Similar Posts

|

Tech Tuesday: ArduSAT & a phone charging belt buckle

ByJohn

This week on News 1130 in Vancouver, I talked about these items: ArduSAT – a fantastic Kickstarter project to put a private satellite in space that you can control. Based on the amount pledged to the campaign you can get to control the cameras onboard, run experiments or even broadcast your own message from space…

|

Using a Nikon P6000 with remote flash triggers

ByJohn

Thanks to a tip I came across on a Flickr group, I discovered that my Nikon Coolpix P6000 could use off camera flashes (Strobist style) via my cheapo Cactus Triggers (aka Poverty Wizards). These are a cheap set consisting of a transmitter and receiver for any flash that I got off ebay for about $25…

|

Penny Arcade Expo 2009

ByJohn

This past weekend, I had a chance to attend the 2009 Penny Arcade Expo (aka PAX) in Seattle, Washington. I’ve always wanted to attend but it’s usually been on the same weekend as my anniversary so it just didn’t work out before now. PAX is pretty much SXSW for the videogame set….including conference sessions, a…

Back home from Austin

ByJohn

SXSW 2007 is over and I’m back home now…I already miss the Texas BBQ. This year exceeded my expectations and was bigger and better than last year. Hopefully I’ll get a chance to make it a hat trick next year. There were apparently something in the neighbourhood of 6000 geeks in attendance. I wonder how…

Tech Tuesday: Crowd Cam & Wireless communication without batteries
|

Tech Tuesday: Crowd Cam & Wireless communication without batteries

ByJohn

This week on News 1130 radio in Vancouver, I talked about these items: CrowdCam: With nearly everyone capturing events in real time with their smartphones, a new conceptual app could change the way we view these events. CrowdCam is an idea from Aydin Arpa (MIT) that figures out the location of each camera relative to…