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Tech Tuesdays: Use your smartphone with your bike and your ski poles

This week on News 1130 radio in Vancouver, I discussed these items: Neva – Evolution of the ski pole: New ski poles keep you informed as you hit the slopes by wirelessly connecting to your Android iOS device, giving you updates on weather conditions, elevation, temperature, incoming calls/SMSs, and has an open API to allow…

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Tech Tuesday: Hobbit backlash & cardboard Ikea digital camera

This week on News 1130 radio in Vancouver, I talked about: Peter Jackson screens 10 minutes of the new Hobbit movie and gets some surprising feedback: Jackson got a fair amount of pushback about the visual quality of the 10 minutes he shared with theater owners and selected folks recently. The main issue was that…

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Tech Tuesday: Anontune & GoPayments

This week on Tech Tuesday, I discussed these stories: Anontune – the social music platform from Anonymous: a decentralized music discovery and sharing service that finds music from numerous sources around the internet and easily aggregates their sources in one place. You can import a playlist and Anontune will create a listenable version you can…

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Tech Tuesday: Electric Deloreans and dream manipulation

Every Tuesday I discuss the latest technology on News 1130 radio in Vancouver. Here’s what I’m talking about this week: Want to manipulate your dreams? There’s an app for that: A psychologist and professor at the the University of Hertfordshire has created an iPhone app called Dream:ON (iTunes link) that you run before bed and…

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Tech Tuesday: Project Glass is real, Magic Gloves & a Sushi making robot

This week on Tech Tuesday, I discussed these stories: Photo by Thomas Hawk on Flickr Google CEO spotted wearing Project Glass prototype in real life: the tech world has been abuzz with Google’s latest concept that had more fuel added to it when it’s CEO, Sergey Brin, was spotted at an event wearing a prototype…

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Tech Tuesday: Tattoos & seats that vibrate and posing for your playlists

This week on News 1130 radio (live at 11:05am PST), I’ll be talking about these stories: Flutter – Kinect-like gestures for controlling iTunes or Spotify on your Mac – using the built in camera on every Apple computer, a new app, currently in beta, will allow you to use gestures to navigate your music library…

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Tech Tuesdays: vibrating steering wheels, Instagram for Android and body scanning Kinects

For the past couple of weeks I’ve been doing a live ‘Tech Tuesday’ segment on Vancouver’s News 1130 radio station. It’s a weekly spot where I’ll round up what’s going on in the tech world. I even did one live from Austin during SXSW. It airs Tuesdays at 11:05am PST and portions repeated throughout the…