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Online Insights on FIVEaa Sunday August 14 2011

This month on Online Insights we look at incredible printing technology, furniture planning software that allows you to order your design, troubleshooting bitter coffee and a fun poke at MySpace.

3D Printing

Dungeons and Dragon Dice (Image: 3dfuture.com.au)

Dungeons and Dragon Dice (Image: 3dfuture.com.au)

During a workshop in Murray Bridge recently for Regional Development Australia, I met Andy Ide, a man obsessed by the technology known as 3D printing.

When he mentioned it to me on the night I nodded cautiously, thinking I knew what he was talking about but it was when I walked through his website and watched a video of the process that my jaw dropped and I realised I was listening with a 20th Century mindset to 21st Century science!

In essence, 3D printing is when three dimensional plans are applied to a printer that can spew resins and different substances from its printing head, rather than just ink.

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Online Insights on FIVEaa Sunday May 2 2010

This fortnight in Online Insights, we prepare to make a swap for Fair Trade Fortnight, take some sagely advice from Naomi Simson and some lessons from Iceland’s notorious volcano, and then finish off with some star gazing from a long way away. Enjoy the sites and please share more with me to share with others – huh?

Fairtrade fortnight

Fair Trade Fortnight launched this weekend. The movement has been going many years now and the dividends are starting to come through.

As some of you might know, I have a coffee label, Baristador Coffee, and we launched a Fairtrade espresso blend this weekend and a special deal to help coffee lovers share Fair Trade coffee with their friends. Continue reading

Online Insights with Steve Davis on FIVEaa, Sunday, April 19, 2009

Beer Wars Movie

I talk a lot about wine so I thought I would balance the books here by mentioning this novel event that took place in America last week. A documentary about the US beer market and the battle between small breweries and the big breweries was released and screened in cinemas for one night only.

They actually beamed it in to 440 cinemas live and then held a live panel discussion with the movie maker, Anat Baron, and representatives from the different sides.

According to the publicity, ” n America, size matters. The bigger you are, the more power you Continue reading

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