This week on News 1130 radio in Vancouver, I discussed these items: Neva – Evolution of the ski pole: New ski poles keep you informed as you hit the slopes by wirelessly connecting to your Android iOS device, giving you updates on weather conditions, elevation, temperature, incoming calls/SMSs, and has an open API to allow…
This week on News 1130 radio in Vancouver, I talked about: Find your way inside a mall or supermarket: GPS works great for getting from a to b in your car but doesn’t work so well indoors. A new technology will help you navigate your way around inside a mall or supermarket. You scan a…
This week on News 1130 radio in Vancouver, I talked about: Peter Jackson screens 10 minutes of the new Hobbit movie and gets some surprising feedback: Jackson got a fair amount of pushback about the visual quality of the 10 minutes he shared with theater owners and selected folks recently. The main issue was that…
Every Tuesday I discuss the latest technology on News 1130 radio in Vancouver. Here’s what I’m talking about this week: Want to manipulate your dreams? There’s an app for that: A psychologist and professor at the the University of Hertfordshire has created an iPhone app called Dream:ON (iTunes link) that you run before bed and…
This week on Tech Tuesday, I discussed these stories: Photo by Thomas Hawk on Flickr Google CEO spotted wearing Project Glass prototype in real life: the tech world has been abuzz with Google’s latest concept that had more fuel added to it when it’s CEO, Sergey Brin, was spotted at an event wearing a prototype…
This week on News 1130 radio (live at 11:05am PST), I’ll be talking about these stories: Flutter – Kinect-like gestures for controlling iTunes or Spotify on your Mac – using the built in camera on every Apple computer, a new app, currently in beta, will allow you to use gestures to navigate your music library…
For the past couple of weeks I’ve been doing a live ‘Tech Tuesday’ segment on Vancouver’s News 1130 radio station. It’s a weekly spot where I’ll round up what’s going on in the tech world. I even did one live from Austin during SXSW. It airs Tuesdays at 11:05am PST and portions repeated throughout the…
My friend Rebecca is doing some Olympic coverage for News 1130 and went for a quick tour today….I tagged along with my camera: I’m kind of a news nerd…my clock radio wakes me up with News 1130 and I listen to it a lot while commuting. It was pretty cool to meet some of the…
I was recently offered the chance to test drive Microsoft’s latest version of their ‘wish I was an iPod’ MP3 player, the Zune and I jumped at the chance. Despite what some people may think, I’m not *just* a fan of Apple products. I’m a fan of cool products in general and always like to…
This pretty much sums it up (works best if you use Twitter): (via Sean Osteen on Flickr) Despite being in line at 4am, it still took over 4 hours for me to have a working iPhone 3G after physically getting it due to server issues. I’ll elaborate more on the phone in a future post…