technology

_ Rose Simpson’s column appears every Tuesday morning on the OttawaStart Blog. She also blogs at Rose’s Cantina . _ [ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/marissa.jpg) That girl rocking the red dress is my daughter, Marissa Gagnier, who works for the Soshal Group in Ottawa. ...

** UPDATE: ** The Citizen’s David Reevely tells OttawaStart that the machine on the t-shirt is in fact ** _ not _ ** technically a boring machine, but a roadheader. (Boring machines are perfectly round, like this one . ...

[ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/photo.png) Last week I was watching the Olympic closing ceremony several hours after the fact on my PVR, and I wondered out loud on Twitter: _ “Idea: App that time delays your Twitter feed so you can watch PVR’d shows with accompanying snarky tweets. ...

_ "This is a digital dub of a 7 minute, 45 second 16 mm film produced in 1971 by the National Research Council of Canada, in Ottawa. It demonstrates not only one of the first ineractve computer systems for animation, one used for production, it was also an outstanding example of early user-centred design. ...

_ OttawaStart is on a short summer haitus this week, so we’re re-posting some of our favourite posts from the past few years. This one was originally published on September 12, 2008 , by one of Ottawa’s most creative bloggers, David Scrimshaw . ...

** UPDATE - SATURDAY, 8:30am: ** Sean returns to NYC, and gets his laptop back. [ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/sean-update.png) [ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/stolen-laptop.png) Late last night, Ottawa writer / tech guy Sean Power watched and tweeted as someone logged into his stolen Macbook in a tequila bar in New York City. ...

Chrys and Dom Coballe are husband-and-wife team of designers from Ottawa. They’re working on a really cool product called Deckster : _ We think a naked wrist is a terrible, terrible thing. Good thing we have designed a fun and fashionable remedy for this plague on humanity. ...

Here’s a guest post from Bart Trojanowski, one of the organizers of the 2011 Ottawa IPv6 Summit , an event coming up on April 29. Whenever you use the Internet, you are using the Internet Protocol (IP). More specifically, you are using the 4th version of the Internet Protocol, or IPv4. ...

Check out this cool data mash-up called JunkHunt.ca that takes the geographic information from for sale listings on Ottawa Kijiji, and plots it onto a Google map. So you can see what kind of things people are selling in your neighbourhood. ...

Check out this this cool alarm clock called the DOTKLOK “an open-source, digital clock with multiple time-telling animations: some numeric, some graphic, and others using abstract patterns driven by the passage of time”. DOTKOK rev. 1.0 from The Latest Artists on Vimeo . ...