Technogaze

6 Sep 2014

Ned Kelly, 3D printing, Apple Rumours and Creepy Apps

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Ned Kelly, 3D printing, Apple Rumours and Creepy Apps

This week the studio was packed like sardines with Mark, Raena, Donna & Michael looking at Freeview’s new catchup TV service that allows you to watch shows previously broadcast across all free to air channels.

Paul Mignone from the University of Melbourne was in the studio talking about the upcoming 3D printing showcase. He brought along a 3D printed head of Ned Kelly, made from his death mask, as well as a printed model of a patients bronchial tree that surgeons used to practice an upcoming surgery. Paul refused to be drawn as to when we could expect to have a Star Trek type replicator.

The countdown to Sep 9 has truly begun with more rumours abound of the iWatch, iPhone screen sizes & NFC chips as well as possible new retina displays. Samsung also released some new devices last week with the release of the Note 4, Galaxy Edge with the curved display, the Gear S watch and an Occulus VR that uses your phone as the snap in display.

In creepy stories, we looked at a promo video of a Google Glass app that analyses behaviour, blink rate, gender and so on. Grindr’s location revealing api call was dramatically demonstrated by a developer who dynamically showed Grindr users plotted on a map. Grindr’s response has been to turn off location identification in countries where it is illegal to be gay. This led onto a more general discussion about technology and how it can be used, usually against women, to monitor and physicaliy track their location, to their detriment. The Domestic Violence Resource Centre has a program called Smart Safe, that aims to educate in how to detect and avoid such situations.