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Minnov8 Gang 386 – Vintage Jewelry Meets VR

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This week we interview Katie Jones from Atique to learn more about their combination of vintage jewelry and virtual reality. We also run-down the week’s tech news including Julio’s picks for Minnesota-made holiday tech gifts, A Klingon Christmas Carol and why everyone should have a Ring doorbell.

Hosts: Tim Elliott, Phil Wilson and Julio Ojeda-Zapata (Steve Borsch is off this week)

Music: Wings by Nicolai Heidlas under a CC by 4.0 License

The Podcast

Past Week’s Top Minnesota Stories
  • Shop for tech gifts that just happen to be very, very Minnesotan
  • ‘Star Trek’ aliens return in Mounds’ ‘Klingon Christmas Carol’
  • Piper Jaffray’s top Apple analyst Munster leaving to start VC fund
  • Iowa disputes $1.6 million in charges from troubled software vendor
  • Medtronic teams up with Fitbit on diabetes-tracking app
  • Minneapolis man helplessly watches from Hawaii as parcels taken off doorstep 
  • Want to catch a package thief? Here’s the latest tech
  • Package thieves swarm local porches — and residents fight back
  • Don’t live in fear of porch pirates. Here are tips to protect yourself.

    • This Week’s Guest
    • Katie Jones from Atique
      • Jeweler R.F. Moeller spins out antique jewelry e-commerce startup
      • Virtual Reality: The Next Frontier in Jewelry and Watch Marketing
        • Other Top Tech Stories
        • The Gadget Apocalypse Is Upon Us
        • Fitbit kills the dream:
          • Fitbit formally announces that it is buying smartwatch maker Pebble
          • Fitbit’s Pebble acquisition risks alienating loyal users
            • Cool Thing of the Week
            • Phil: Side Curtain Airbags 
            • Tim: Plume’s pint-sized Wi-Fi pods are now available
            • Julio: Google Pixel and Daydream VR 

              • Upcoming Events
              • The Complete List of 250+ Tech, IT, and DevOps Conferences in 2016
                • The list as a Google spreadsheet
                • 32 conferences for Mac and iOS professionals in 2016
                • 1 Million Cups – St. Paul: Weekly at the James J Hill Ctr
                • TIES 2016: Dec 10th – 13th, Minneapolis
                • IoTFuse.monthly Meetup – Dec 15th, TBA
                • Gamer’s Rhapsody 2016, Nov. 18th, Bloomington
                • MinneHack, January 28-29, 2017
                • DevFestMN 2017 – Google Developer Event, Feb 4th, UST Mpls campus
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