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…
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.