This week on News 1130 radio in Vancouver, I discussed these items: GameStick: A new Kickstarter campaign that hopes to bring the Android gaming experience to your tv this April with the most portable game console ever. About the size of a USB stick, it has already doubled it’s funding goal. It plugs into the…
I wasn’t planning on doing a year end post but thankfully, Steve Dotto asked me to join a couple of the smartest guys I know (Mike Vardy & Tris Hussey) to share my thoughts with them as we looked back at the tech of 2012 as we saw it. We only chatted for an hour…
Last night I had the opportunity to shoot the Contact Winter Music Festival at BC Place for Miss604. Some of my favorite artists in one giant venue including Deadmau5 (just Joel and his machines), Alesso, Nero, Chris Lake and Lazy Rich.
Recently I picked up a Lytro Light Field Camera. I’ve only ever seen one ‘in the wild’ and that was at SXSW earlier this year. So what is it? A light field camera is basically a new(ish) form of photography that allows the photographer to change the focus of an image after the fact as…
This week on News 1130 radio in Vancouver, I talked about these items: MeterPlug: A simple, tiny, $45 device that you plug into the wall and then plug any appliance or device you’d like to monitor it’s usage for. By using a database of location based electricity prices, the MeterPlug can tell you in real…
This week on News 1130 radio in Vancouver, I talked about these items: Popslate: another in a long line of clever iPhone cases, the Popslate adds a 4 inch e-ink screen to the back of your iPhone 5. This screen can be customized to give the back of your phone a unique ‘wallpaper’ or you…
Earlier this week I got a unique invitation to check out the operations centre at Paladin Security in Burnaby. One of my favorite things about being a photographer is occasionally getting to go places that not everyone can and was quite (happily) surprised when this opportunity presented itself to me. Upon entering the non-descript office…
You know 3d printing is hitting the mainstream when…
This week on News 1130 radio in Vancouver, I talked about these items: Scanadu’s Scout tricorder: an entrant in the Tricorder XPrize contest, the Scout is Scanadu’s crack at bringing the famous medical diagnosis device from Star Trek to a reality. The $150 device due out next year packs a lot into it’s 2 inch…
Recently I had a chance to check out a bunch of new Windows related products including the latest mobile phones with Windows Phone 8 and tablets with Windows RT. I only had a few minutes to play with each device but a few things stood out that struck me as nice departures from the typical…