Episode 265: HI-SEAS – Sept 11, 2013

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First we’ll look at the latest tech news and happenings in Hawaii and beyond. Then joining us today is Leigh-Ann Miyasato from the Entrepreneurs Foundation to tell us about the upcoming panel, FailWhale: What We Learned From Our Biggest Mistakes. Finally, we talk to the crew members from the Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation to find out what its like to live under a Martian dome for 4 months.

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Episode 264: Energy Excelerator – Sept 4, 2013

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First we’ll look at the latest tech news and happenings in Hawaii and beyond. Then joining us today is Iris Terashima and Karl Kim from the National Disaster Preparedness Training Center (NDPTC) to tell us about the upcoming Natural Disaster Awareness for Community Leaders workshop. Finally, we talk to Ibis Networks and Gen-X Energy Developments to find out how the Energy Excelerator is helping energy companies get jump started.

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Episode 263: Common Core Standards – Aug 28, 2013

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First we’ll look at the latest tech news and happenings in Hawaii and beyond. Then joining us today is Matt Lynch from TEDxHonolulu to tell us about the upcoming TEDxHonoluluSalon. Finally, we learn about the Dept of Education’s Common Core Standards with Stephanie Shipton and Petra Schatz and find out what it means for technology and media literacy. (Also in photo is Donalyn Dela Cruz)

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Episode 262: Monk Seal Cams – Aug 21, 2013

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First we’ll look at the latest tech news and happenings in Hawaii and beyond. Then joining us today is Tate Kaneshige from the Girl Scouts of Hawaii to tell us about the International Space Station Project. Finally, we find out how scientists are using technology to understand the habits and behavior of monk seals. We are joined by Charles Littnan from NOAA who is the lead research for the Hawaiian Monk Seal Research Program and Kenady Wilson, whose PhD. research at Duke University is on monk seal behavior.

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Episode 261: Asteroid Hunting – Aug 14, 2013

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Today in the news, we’ll hear from the Uber team as they prepare for the official launch of their on-demand black car service here in Honolulu. Then joining us today is Mary Donohue from the UH Sea Grant Extension to tell us about the upcoming Rainwater Catchment Workshop. Finally, we talk to former astronaut Ed Lu and astronomer Rob Jedicke about scanning the skies for asteroids, especially the ones on a close encounter collision course with Earth. You can also sign up for Ed’s talk tomorrow (8/15/13) here.

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Episode 260: Virtual Reality – Aug 7, 2013

 

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First we’ll look at the latest tech news and happenings in Hawaii and beyond. Then joining us today is Todd Ogasawara from DCCA to tell us about the Hawaii Broadband Map Campaign. Finally, we talk to two VR enthusiasts, Ka’i Kau and Emil Reyes, to find out about new advances and the practical applications of virtual reality. We’ll also get to demo Oculus Rift.

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Episode 259: Exemplary State – July 31, 2013

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First we’ll look at the latest tech news and happenings in Hawaii and beyond. Then joining us today is Ed Teixeira and Deborah Mellom from Chaminade University to tell us about the upcoming CyBiz Forum. Finally, we’ll talk to Major General Darryll Wong, Kevin Montgomery and Ken Kaneshiro and find out about the Exemplary State and Collaborate.org, an ambitious project to form groups to gather and analyze data about our environment.

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Episode 258: Video Gamification – July 24, 2013

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First we’ll look at the latest tech news and happenings in Hawaii and beyond. Then joining us today is Dawn Lippert from PICHTR to tell us about the next round for the Energy Excelerator. Finally, we learn about video gamification and its applications in education and marketing. We’ve invited two local companies, parWinr and Hyperspective Studio to shed light on this new technology.

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Episode 257: Google Glass + Ingress – July 17, 2013

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First we’ll look at the latest tech news and happenings in Hawaii and beyond. Then joining us today is Jeffrey Loo from the Hawaii Health Information Exchange to tell us about the upcoming HHIE IT Summit. Finally, we’ll get a distinctly local view of ‘augmented reality’ as we talk to Hawaii’s first “Google Glass” users, Brendan Brennan, Todd Cochrane and Paul Lawler as well as players of Google’s geolocation based “Ingress.”

Thanks to Brendan Brennan, here is the show as seen #throughglass.

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Episode 256: CanSat – July 10, 2013

 

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First we’ll look at the latest tech news and happenings in Hawaii and beyond. Then joining us today is Eric Nakagawa back from San Francisco, to tell us about some of this latest projects. Finally we’ll talk to the team at Kapiolani Community College who won the NASA CanSat competition for sending a payload into space and bringing it safely back to earth.

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