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Nifty Mini Drive
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Nifty Mini Drive

I’ve been having great success with Kickstarter lately as all of the projects I’ve backed have shipped their rewards (albeit almost all have been late). The Nifty Mini Drive is the latest to land in my mailbox. They had originally wanted $11,000 to fund the project but was wildly successful and raised nearly $400,000. It’s…

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Tech Tuesday: 3d printed airplanes and a $99 videogame console

This week on News 1130 in Vancouver, I discussed these items: Airbus designing the next generation of airplanes to be 3d printed: Currently just in the concept stages, Airbus is looking to build it’s next generation airplanes over the next 20 years. Using large scale 3d printers (80m x 80m) which use additive layer manufacturing,…