After a day of hosting q&a sessions during Fan Expo, the main ballroom at the Vancouver Convention Centre was transformed into the venue for the 2013 Canadian Videogame Awards. I was back again on the red carpet capturing all the nominees, celebrities and VIPs as they entered the ballroom.
This week on News 1130 radio in Vancouver, I talked about these items: Samsung Galaxy S4: Samsung is set to unveil the latest version of their wildly popular Galaxy smartphone, the S4 on May 3rd. Smaller and lighter than the previous model, with a beautiful, larger screen thanks to a smaller bezel, the S4 is…
Day one of Fan Expo Vancouver was crazy. Tons of great costumes and celebrities invaded the Vancouver Convention Centre. Highlights included Michael Rooker (Merle from the Walking Dead), Sean Astin (Lord of the Rings), Stan Lee’s awesome Q&A (he got a standing ovation when he came out), David Prowse (Darth Vader) and my personal favorite,…
Episode 3 of my Tekeh podcast has me chatting with Canadian tech pioneer and broadcaster, Steve Dotto. We sat down in a little cafe in Kerrisdale with a latte to record the episode. We talked about the origins of his television career, the impact of change on our need for new technology and a bunch…
This week on News 1130 radio in Vancouver, I talked about these items: Port Coquitlam gets Canada’s first Digital Classroom: Last week, Samsung Canada unveiled their pilot program, “Samsung Class”, the first digitally connected classroom in Canada. Using 31 Galaxy Tab 10″ tablets, a 65″ digital e-Board and custom software, the program at Riverside Secondary…
Epsiode 002 of Tekeh has Duane Storey, co-founder of BraveNewCode joining me on his birthday to talk about WordPress development, clients that don’t pay, being an entrepreneur, travelling the world, the challenges of staying connected, moving away from DSLR based photography and the fine art of making beer. Listen to this episode here or at…
I recently had the chance to check out a prototype model of Sony’s new Xperia ZL Android smartphone. It was an overview of their soon to be released smartphone and I’ll have a review unit soon to put it through it’s paces. But what I did see, was pretty impressive.
I’m happy to announce that a podcast project I’ve been wanting to do for a while has finally come to fruition. Earlier this week I recorded the first episode of TekEh which is my technology podcast with a Canadian spin…get it? Tek, eh? What can I say, you make do with the domain names that…
This week on News 1130 radio in Vancouver, I talked about these items: Turn Your iPhone Into A Satellite Phone: A new product from Thuraya called the SatSleeve allows you to turn your iPhone 4/4S/5 into a global satellite phone. You simply slide your iPhone into the sleeve and it connects to the Thuraya network…
Yesterday, our 3d printing club, 3D604, finished our fourth day of 3d printer demos at Science World over two weekends during Spring Break. We had 16 printers the first weekend and 13 the second one – a pretty impressive turnout! It was a lot of fun showing the 3d printing technology to thousands of people…