My guest this week is MAKE IT IN LA and the host of the Art of Manufacturing podcast Krisztina "Z" Holly, who is trying to help makers become manufacturers.

I spoke with Z about LA manufacturing, the fear of automation, and what it takes to MAKE IT IN LA.

In the last few weeks there have been a deluge of stories surrounding sexual assault and in light of this I was looking to find some technological solutions that may help address this problem and I came across "Callisto".

Callisto was started by Jessica Ladd after she experienced a sexual assault in college, Callisto creates technology to combat sexual assault on college campuses. It’s an encrypted, online, trauma-informed reporting system that offers survivors three options, to record the incident, to report it electronically to their school, or to enter into matching, so the assault only reported to the school if the same perpetrator is named by someone else.

My guest this week is Stephanie Angeles the product designer for Callisto and we talked about their redesign, plans for the future, and the potential for Callisto to be used outside of college campuses./n/nCallisto envisions a world where sexual assault is rare and survivors receive the support they need.

My guest this week is Andrew “Bunnie” Huang. He is one of the most celebrated hardware hackers, from his 2003 book, ‘Hacking the Xbox: An Introduction to Reverse Engineering”, to building the open source computer Novena, to suing the US Government with the EFF for Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

Bunnie co-wrote a paper with Edward Snowden, "Against the Law: Countering Lawful Abuses of Digital Surveillance". We talk about working with Snowden, building the Introspection Engine, coming across an easier solution: The Silent Phone, and where they are at with the project now.

Digital Village is the oldest running technology radio show in Los Angeles. Rebooted in 2020, it brings new voices to the airwaves covering topics like advancements in AI and Biotech, as well as special segments on technology with A View from the Outside and new publications like, The New Modality.

Everybody goes to the bathroom, everyday. It turns out there is a lot of useful information in our collective waste (urine specifically). From it we can measure things like drug use and even food consumption.

Dr. Mariana Matus co-founder and CEO of Biobot Analytics, is starting to work with public health officials to see what is actually happening with the population, starting with the opioid epidemic.

You can follow them on twitter @BiobotAnalytics.

The government is slow… when interacting with local governments it can feel like you’re using technology that’s outdated 10 years. My guest this week, is Catherine Geanuracos, CEO and co-founder of City Grows who is helping local governments modernize.

David Hertz is an architect and founder of Skysource the winner of Water Abundance X-Prize, was able to create water from air using 100% renewable energy sources, for under 2 cents per liter. They started with Skywater, which was able to take water out of the air, but it required humidity - what they won the prize for was WEDEW (wood-to-energy deployable emergency water), which is essentially a rainforest in a box.

Oh CES 2019, there’s so much to see. From suitcases that follow you, robots that bring you your order or ones that look like sharks and film underwater, so much surveillance tech, lots of massage chairs, chocolate printing pens, fetus cameras… it goes on and on.

I caught up with a few exhibitors there including a foldable phone, a breadbot, snoring masks, pain management devices, and much more.

It has been a big year for 314 Action, we spoke with Shaugnessy Naughton, Founder and CEO, about some of the scietists coming into office in 2019.

InSight , INterior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy, and Heat Transport, launched on May 5th, 2018 and on Monday, November 26, 2018, NASA-JPL successfully landed InSight on the Elysium Planitia on Mars.

The lander, because it won't be moving, has a lot of unique science it will be doing. I spoke with Emily Lakdawalla , the senior editor and planetary evangelist for the Planetary Society about the science and what we hope to uncover about Mars.