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Tech Tuesday: Apple’s shifting product lines & your child’s first email
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Tech Tuesday: Apple’s shifting product lines & your child’s first email

This week on News 1130 radio in Vancouver, I talked about these items: Introducing Maily for iPad from Maily on Vimeo. A brief conversation about the shift post-Steve Jobs that Apple is making with diverse products and services that Jobs may never have approved during his time at the helm. Your child’s first email application:…

Tech Tuesday: Make your Smart TV Smarter & 3D printers come to a retail store
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Tech Tuesday: Make your Smart TV Smarter & 3D printers come to a retail store

This week on News 1130 Radio in Vancouver, I talked about these items: Roku Smart Stick: Roku is launching their new Smart Stick next month that will plug into a number of different Smart TVs currently on the market and add a bunch of new content options wirelessly. The Smart Stick looks like a thumb…

Tech Tuesday: Interactive Mirrors and 3D printed Lego Mini-Figs
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Tech Tuesday: Interactive Mirrors and 3D printed Lego Mini-Figs

This week on News 1130 radio in Vancouver, I talked about these items: Posh View Interactive Mirror: I recently got to see the Posh View Interactive Mirror in person at the Calgary MakerFaire. This mirror is meant for the home and provides an interactive display built into the glass of the mirror. A user simply…

Tech Tuesday: iPhone 5 rumour roundup and 3d Princesses
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Tech Tuesday: iPhone 5 rumour roundup and 3d Princesses

This week on News1130 radio in Vancouver I talked about these items: iPhone 5 Rumour Roundup: My guesses – same design as 4/4S but bigger screen (4″seems likely), new dock connector (possibly just micro USB rather than new design), LTE, improved camera (no idea what they’ll do here, better sensor?), no NFC (uptake has been…

Tech Tuesday: 3d printers for jewellers & Samsung’s Android camera
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Tech Tuesday: 3d printers for jewellers & Samsung’s Android camera

This week on News 1130 radio in Vancouver, I talked about these items: Jewellers now have a 3d printer for custom castings: 3d printing has begun to affect another industry with the announcement a new 3d printer, the 3Z Studio from Solidscape, which is targeted at jewellers. The desktop printer creates complex wax patterns from…

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Tech Tuesday: InstaCube & Charge your phone while you bike to work

This week on News 1130 radio in Vancouver, I discussed these items: InstaCube: stream in realtime, all the photos from your Instagram account, to this wifi enabled digital photo frame. It’s touchscreen and tactile buttons let you like photos as they appear on the cube as well as configure which photos get displayed on it….

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Tech Tuesday: Using the ForcePad and how 3d printing is changing animation

This week on News 1130 radio in Vancouver I talked about these items: ForcePad is going to change your trackpad: The introduction of the ForcePad by Synaptics is set to radically change how we use the trackpads on our laptops. Unlike traditional trackpads with basic scrolling and multi-touch gestures, the ForcePad can recognize five different…

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Tech Tuesday: remotely automate your home and a camera with smartphone brain

This week on News 1130 radio in Vancouver, I talked about these topics: Wi-Fi controlled power outlet makes home automation easy: Belkin has released a new $49 gadget called the WeMo that allows you to automate your home electronics and appliances using an outlet that has wifi built in and is controlled via a smartphone…

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Tech Tuesday: Nanocoat your smartphone & use it to capture the Olympics

This week on News 1130 Radio in Vancouver, I talked about these topics: Nanocoat your Smartphone: A California company, Liquipel, will make your smartphone (mostly) waterproof with a nanocoating that it applies to your device. While not 100% waterproof, this coat will protect your device from splashes and quick dunks that would destroy an untreated…

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Tech Tuesday: The Chemputer and Tablet Rumour Roundup

This week on News 1130 in Vancouver, I talked about: Print any drug using the Chemputer: Professor Lee Cronin at Glasgow University is working with a modified 3d printer to create a machine that can ‘print’ just about any pharmaceutical with the ultimate goal to allow people to do this in their own home. The…