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Revisiting Toon Paint
I spent a great weekend in Squamish recently for their annual music festival. I was shooting for Rebecca and she has a couple of posts with my photos from the event. You can also view my entire set on Flickr. I started playing around with Toon Paint again on my iPhone to give some of…
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Tech Tuesday: Turn Your iPhone Into a Satellite Phone & Google’s Keep
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…
Tech Tuesday: Lytro Reinvents The Camera, Again & Task One iPhone case
This week on News 1130 radio in Vancouver I talked about these items: Lytro Reinvents The Camera Once Again: The Lytro Light Field Camera is a unique camera that captures photos and lets you change the focus within the frame, recently updated their software to add two new stunning features – perspective shift and living…
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…
Tech Tuesday: Toughest iPhone Case & digitizing a museum
This week on News 1130 radio in Vancouver, I talked about these items: Toughest iPhone case yet – A recently funded Kickstarter project from Snow Lizard is now shipping one of the most protective and advanced iPhone 4/4S cases I’ve ever seen. Waterproof to 20′ and can sustain a drop from up to 20′, the…
Tech Tuesdays: Clothes that tell you how many people ‘Like’ it & create an iPhone case on your iPhone
This week on News 1130 radio in Vancouver, I talked about these items: CaseApp – a new iPhone app lets you create & order a customized hardshell case for your iPhone, on your iPhone for about $30 using your own photos (source) Clothes hangers that tell you how many people ‘Like’ it – a clothing…
Why I love Hipstamatic
Let me start by saying I don’t hate Instagram, I’m just not a fan…this post is why I love Hipstamatic (for the iPhone) and use it constantly. This post also isn’t about the sharing community that is behind Instagram (which is pretty impressive)…anything that inspires people to take more photos is awesome in my book….
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Use your iPhone as a 3D scanner with Trimensional
I first saw this app a few months ago, well before I had decided to get into 3D printing. Trimensional is an iPhone app that lets you take 3D photos. I thought it was just a fun camera app to make animated gifs like these: That is until they added the ability (via a modest…
Toon Paint for iPhone
I stumbled across a very interesting iPhone app today called Toon Paint. It lets you take or process iPhone photos into line drawings and then gives you the ability to paint them. I love the look of the converted images and actually prefer the high contrast black and white output rather than the painted images…possibly…