My favorite thing about SXSW has always been the people that I meet there. I decided to travel light this year and for the first time in seven years, left my DSLR at home and relied on my iPhone and my Lytro to capture my adventures. Although I did bring my GoPro to use at…
One of the things I love about SXSW is all the people you get to meet. With attendance at over 30,000 this year, there was no shortage of great people to talk to. This year was no different. I make a point of not worrying about a schedule because serendipity always comes into play. For…
Most people ask me, upon returning, what was the one ‘big’ thing you saw this year. The last few years have been full of big applications that blew up due to the influx of savvy tech folks in Austin to get exposed to them. This year felt different though…definitely there was no shortage of street teams shoving t-shirts and branded swag in my face for various online services but the obvious vibe I noticed was that it was the “Year of Hardware”.
After a last minute decision, I ended up heading to Seattle for the weekend with my girlfriend. Part of this trip was to check out the Emerald City ComiCon. Turns out I should have planned to spend a lot more time there than I had this time around as the event is massive! I only…
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…