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Tech Tuesday: Scanadu’s Scout tricorder and create your own GPS watch apps
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Tech Tuesday: Scanadu’s Scout tricorder and create your own GPS watch apps

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…

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Tech Tuesday: Track your daily activities by GPS and transmit 70 dvds worth of data a second

This week on News 1130 in Vancouver, I discussed these topics: Twisted light: New tech can transmit 70 DVDs worth of data per second: Researchers at USC have found a way to send data at up to 2.5 terabytes per second (the equivalent of 70 dvds) by twisting the light used for transmission. Regular fibre…