In less than a week, I’ll be making my annual trek to Austin, Texas for the South By Southwest Interactive conference (aka SXSW). I said last year I likely wasn’t going to go again, but things changed when they added a DIY/Hacker/Maker category which meant I could pitch a talk about 3D printing. I was…
My pals Steve Dotto, Mike Vardy and a few of their friends are putting on a one day workshop about working smarter with technology. Steve and I are both self proclaimed geeks but even I learned a few things when attending an earlier iteration of this workshop…he even helped convince me to use Evernote after…
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.
This week on News 1130 radio in Vancouver, I discussed these items: Graphene super capacitors: Researchers at UCLA, while working on an unrelated project with Graphene, they discovered that their process essentially made a super capacitor out of carbon. This is like a battery except that it charges and discharges a hundred to a thousand…
I’ve been having great success with Kickstarter lately as all of the projects I’ve backed have shipped their rewards (albeit almost all have been late). The Nifty Mini Drive is the latest to land in my mailbox. They had originally wanted $11,000 to fund the project but was wildly successful and raised nearly $400,000. It’s…
I was on the radio for another fun App Wednesday with Steve Dotto, David Hathaway and Art Factora and was hoping that my pick would take the crown for best app and it appears that it did. The video and photo above were showing Cycloramic in action. I found the app a few weeks ago…
This week on News 1130 radio in Vancouver, I talked about these items: Ubuntu based smartphones are coming: Later this year, a new smartphone platform is expected to debut. Smartphones running on the Linux based Ubuntu operating system will be available. Basically a desktop computer in a handheld form factor, you’ll be able to dock…
This week on News 1130 radio in Vancouver, I discussed these items: DNA Gun will tag felons for weeks: The UK based Selectamark has created a DNA gun that is being used by law enforcement and the military to tag felons using non-lethal pellets that are similar to paintball rounds. These pellets will leave specifically…
This week on News 1130 radio in Vancouver, I discussed these items: Neptune Pine Smart Watch: Smartwatches have been around for awhile now but have always been used as an extention to your smartphone. The Neptune Pine wants to be the watch that replaces your smartphone with it’s integrated Android operating system, wifi, built in…
This week on News 1130 radio in Vancouver, I discussed these items: 3D printed building: Coming in 2014, 3d printing goes to a whole new level as Dutch architect Janjaap Ruijssenaars plans to make the worlds first 3d printed home using the Italian designed DShape printer. This is the same printer that made the Rygo…