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Tech Tuesday: Facial Recognition blocking glasses & tiny 3d printable batteries
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Tech Tuesday: Facial Recognition blocking glasses & tiny 3d printable batteries

This week on News 1130 Radio in Vancouver, I talked about these items: Privacy visor glasses jam facial recognition systems to protect your privacy: Currently being developed at Japan’s National Institute of Informatics, these glasses have a number of near-infrared LEDs embedded in them that are invisible to the human eye but blinding to facial…

Tech Tuesday: Graphene Super Capacitors and Use the Force with Myo
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Tech Tuesday: Graphene Super Capacitors and Use the Force with Myo

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…

Tech Tuesday: 3d printing props for the Hobbit & reusing those electric car batteries
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Tech Tuesday: 3d printing props for the Hobbit & reusing those electric car batteries

This week on News 1130 radio in Vancouver I talked about these items: The Hobbit gets 3d printed: Props for the upcoming Hobbit movie from Peter Jackson were largely 3d printed by Weta Workshops. Everything from weapons like the Orcrist and Sting to apparel such as helmets and buckles. Even prostetic pieces likes noses and…