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Tech Tuesday: North America’s largest 3d printed object & an autotracking camera for solo adventurers

This week on News 1130 in Vancouver, I talked about: North America’s largest 3d printed object comes to Vancouver: The Rygo exhibit will be unveiled at VanDusen Gardens on Thursday, July 26 and is currently the largest object ever produced by a 3d printer in North America. JF Brandon worked with designer Bathsheba Grossman to…

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Tech Tuesday: 3d printed airplanes and a $99 videogame console

This week on News 1130 in Vancouver, I discussed these items: Airbus designing the next generation of airplanes to be 3d printed: Currently just in the concept stages, Airbus is looking to build it’s next generation airplanes over the next 20 years. Using large scale 3d printers (80m x 80m) which use additive layer manufacturing,…

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Tech Tuesday: Track your daily activities by GPS and transmit 70 dvds worth of data a second

This week on News 1130 in Vancouver, I discussed these topics: Twisted light: New tech can transmit 70 DVDs worth of data per second: Researchers at USC have found a way to send data at up to 2.5 terabytes per second (the equivalent of 70 dvds) by twisting the light used for transmission. Regular fibre…

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Tech Tuesday: Bioprinting and the rumored Higgs Boson discovery

This week on News 1130 in Vancouver, I talked about these items: Penn researchers 3D print vascular networks with sugar – bioprinting organ research hit a milestone when it was recently discovered that printing a structure out of sugar made it much easier to print living cells in that can actually support blood flow. The…

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Tech Tuesday: ArduSAT & a phone charging belt buckle

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…

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Tech Tuesday: growing touchscreen buttons and no more bad gear shifts

This week on News 1130 radio in Vancouver, I discussed these items: Tactus touchscreen buttons – one of the biggest reasons people didn’t like the iPhone when it first launched was the lack of a physical keyboard. A new concept from Tactus Technology could make that a moot point with their new tech that makes…

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Tech Tuesday: Toughest iPhone Case & digitizing a museum

This week on News 1130 radio in Vancouver, I talked about these items: Toughest iPhone case yet – A recently funded Kickstarter project from Snow Lizard is now shipping one of the most protective and advanced iPhone 4/4S cases I’ve ever seen. Waterproof to 20′ and can sustain a drop from up to 20′, the…

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Tech Tuesdays: Clothes that tell you how many people ‘Like’ it & create an iPhone case on your iPhone

This week on News 1130 radio in Vancouver, I talked about these items: CaseApp – a new iPhone app lets you create & order a customized hardshell case for your iPhone, on your iPhone for about $30 using your own photos (source) Clothes hangers that tell you how many people ‘Like’ it – a clothing…