Looking for a new lockdown DIY project? The GetConnected team recently built a high-end custom gaming PC right in our studio. This week, our resident PC build expert joins us on the show to to discuss the build and what you need to know about building your own. 

Later in the show, we learn about cryptoart and why it's all the rage with investors, like Mark Cuban. 

The satellite technology behind Elon Musks Starlink internet service is cool, and it's bringing high-speed internet to users in remote areas in Canada and other parts of the world. But how does the service measure up for real users? Could it be the answer to bringing internet to every corner of the globe? Mike and John speak with one Canadian about his experience with the new broadband internet service. 

As we look to the light at the end of the tunnel of the pandemic, we'll continue to see new challenges and opportunities for both employees and employers. Looking beyond 2021, we'll likely see a move toward a hybrid work model where employees spend more time working remotely than they did before the pandemic, while still meeting in person from time to time. Speaking with Ed Rodriguez, General Manager for Canada of Citrix, makers of software solutions that enable enable remote and hybrid work models, we discuss how technology will support the new hybrid work model. 

As pandemic restrictions stretch on, many of us are working to build new workout routines. Aaron Fader, CEO of TUT Fitness joins Mike and John this week to introduce the company's revolutionary fitness tech, the TUT Trainer and TUT Rower. Developed in Canada, these devices offer an affordable full body workout at home with high intensity interval training (HIIT), resistance training, and time under tension training. Find out how TUT can change your home work outs and what the future holds for this innovative Canadian company as they take on giants in this space, like Peloton. 

Later in the show, we explore the the future of contactless payments with Mastercard. 

Almost a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us have found ways to cope with restrictions and social isolation with the help of technology. In this episode of the GetConnected podcast, Dr. Ron Baecker, Professor Emeritus in Computer Science at the University of Toronto, joins us to discuss his new e-book "The COVID-19 Solutions Guide." He shares unique tips and insights for coping with life in the COVID era. 

Later in the show, Mike and John open up the mailbag and answer your tech questions! 

As Facebook faces more legal trouble from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), we explore the effects of monopolies on innovation. Joining Mike and John, Dr. Mahdiyeh Entezarkheir, Associate Professor of Economics at Western Ontario University, shares some surprising research that might make you look at monopolies in a whole new light. 

Also in the show, John talks about his new favourite tech gadget. 

This week, Mike and John recap their CES experience. They discuss what worked and what didn't at the first-ever virtual Consumer Electronics Show. 

Later in the show we look at how you can get free over-the-air TV using an HD antenna. Ted Kritsonis joins us to talk about the Tablo HD antenna. 

This week, we're unpacking our experience at CES 2021, the first-ever virtual Consumer Electronics Show. Although we're not attending the show in person this year, we're bringing you the hottest tech gadgets from the virtual show floor. Find out what we saw and what we're most excited about from household robots to rolling screens to a single-serve ice cream machine that uses recyclable pods. 

Don't miss next week's show for more CES 2021 coverage. 

The annual Consumer Electronics Show starts on Monday but this year, it's going virtual! As one of the biggest technology trade shows in the world, CES has been brought together hundred of thousands of show attendees annually for over two decades. Steve Koenig, VP Research of the Consumer Technology Association, gives us an in-depth preview at how this year's event will deliver all of the tech without any of the germs. 

Don't forget to tune in next week to hear all about the show and the most promising tech of 2021.

By 2024, NASA will launch the Artemis mission to explore more of the surface of the moon than ever before. On this week's show, we speak with NASA rocket scientist, Derek Dalle, about what it takes to execute a launch like this. Discussing the complex computing required to simulate every step of the mission, Derek tells us about how NASA is engineers are preparing for a safe and successful spaceflight that will land two astronauts on the moon's South Pole, which we know to have water.

Earlier in the show, we welcome a UBC engineering professor to discuss how blockchain technology can help us distribute the COVID-19 vaccine safely given its strict temperature requirements.