|

Wired Wednesday: Nuraphone, Face scanning checkpoints and Pixel Buds

ByJohn

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

  • Nuraphone: Headphones that adjust to your actual hearing (source)
  • Dubai Airport is going to use face-scanning virtual aquariums as security checkpoints (source)
  • Pixel Buds: Google’s answer to Airpods with built in translation features (source)

Listen here

Related Posts:

Similar Posts

| |

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…

| |

Griffin PowerJolt Reserve for iPhone [Review]

ByJohn

Just a quick review of this handy gadget I picked up for my iPhone. Battery power is always an issue for iPhone users that use their phones alot. I had looked at things like the Mophie Juice Pack and the InCase Power Slider but found these to be too bulky. I rarely need to double…

3D Book Update: Launch Party June 2nd!
|

3D Book Update: Launch Party June 2nd!

ByJohn

Just a quick update about my book, 3D Printing with Autodesk. Firstly, you can read a chapter for free here (PDF). It’s one of my favorite chapters as it covers using 123D Catch to 3D ‘scan’ an object to make a printable 3D model like the cactus above. My friends at Zen Maker Lab have…