|

Wired Wednesday: Flytrex, Electronic Skin & Microbot

ByJohn

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

  • Commercial drone delivery trial begins in Iceland (source)
  • Flexible ‘electronic skin’ patch provides wearable health monitoring anywhere on the body (source)
  • Microbot: make that dumb remote smart (source)

Listen here

Related Posts:

Similar Posts

A Week with the Pebble Smartwatch
| |

A Week with the Pebble Smartwatch

ByJohn

It’s been a long journey from when I first backed this Kickstarter project in May 2012 until arriving in my hands after raising over $10 Million and becoming a crowdsourced superstar.

|

SXSWi 2010 Recap

ByJohn

It’s been a few weeks since I got back from Texas and I’ve finally had a chance to put into words my experiences at this year’s annual ‘geek summer camp’. This time around, unlike previous years that I’ve attended SXSWi, I had no plans beyond my own panel which fortunately was on the first day…

Tech Tuesday: Interactive Mirrors and 3D printed Lego Mini-Figs
|

Tech Tuesday: Interactive Mirrors and 3D printed Lego Mini-Figs

ByJohn

This week on News 1130 radio in Vancouver, I talked about these items: Posh View Interactive Mirror: I recently got to see the Posh View Interactive Mirror in person at the Calgary MakerFaire. This mirror is meant for the home and provides an interactive display built into the glass of the mirror. A user simply…

The Evolution of Gaming
|

The Evolution of Gaming

ByJohn

The Centre for Digital Media hosts the Evolution of Gaming exhibit featuring arcade and console games from the early years that shaped videogame history.

|

The 3d printer that keeps on giving

ByJohn

I bought and assembled my first 3d printer kit last summer, a MakerBot Thing-O-Matic (the device in the middle). Since then, it’s printed the Reprap Prusa Mendel printer (on the left) which I assembled and gives me a bigger build area. Both of those printers have contributed different parts (in ABS and PLA plastics) for…

|

Tech Tuesday: InstaCube & Charge your phone while you bike to work

ByJohn

This week on News 1130 radio in Vancouver, I discussed these items: InstaCube: stream in realtime, all the photos from your Instagram account, to this wifi enabled digital photo frame. It’s touchscreen and tactile buttons let you like photos as they appear on the cube as well as configure which photos get displayed on it….