Ep 14: Survival Tech
Are you a minimalist when it comes to survival skills, or are you into the latest and greatest tech to keep you safe? Is there survival tech (things that require power) that you think is worth carrying? This week Rob…
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Ep 13: A Life Well-Logged
This week Rob shares his experiences with life logging from the perspective of a documentarian and a father. Life logging provides a way to record and remember the mundane. What are the unanticipated situations a wearable camera brings? Are you…
Ep 12: The Rise of Smartphones
What would you do if you lost your cellphone on a trip? You’re in a strange city with no tablet or computer to fall back on. In the span of a human generation, smartphones have changed the way most of…
Ep 11: Online Dating, Hot or Not?
We might be dating ourselves referring to Hot or Not, but that got us thinking. Are we too old for online dating? What are your thoughts on letting an algorithm suggest potential matches for you? This week, Rob shares some…
Ep 10: The Singularity n’Stuff
Rob and Christen try to imagine a technological singularity, something they have zero experience with, and that might be a good thing! By definition, what lies beyond the singularity is unknowable. We aren’t even sure how it comes to pass,…
Ep 9: Slurry, 3D Printing, and Tidally-locked Planets
This week Rob installs smart blinds, tries VR exercise, programs NFC chips, flies an FPV drone, and tries to make a snowplow, and Christen falls out of her shower. They also look at some interesting applications for additive manufacturing, aka…
Ep 8: Ubiquitous Computing and All the Internet Things
How often do you think about the network-enabled things that surround you? How many sensors, microphones, and cameras are in your vicinity as you read this? This week we remember a time when ubiquitous computing was talked as something that…
Ep 7: Rrrrobots
If you could have your own robot what kind would it be? Rob holds his breath for a robot butler, and Christen wants one to keep pests away. Humans have imagined automatons for hundreds of years, but is robotic technology…
Ep 6: Biohacking – Ways to Hack a Human
Do you ever think about becoming a cyborg? This week we talk about biohacking through the lenses of transhumanism, human augmentation, and performance enhancement as a multidisciplinary approach to improving the human individual. Would you improve yourself if the technology…
Ep 5: Virtual Reality
Do you watch Netflix in VR on a virtual couch? Would you? This week Rob and Christen talk about personal VR experiences, the Reality-Virtuality continuum, and imagine what’s next for VR. Are we moving rapidly toward a world where VR…