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The next disruption in transportation is coming to a car near you soon. We walk through the history and evolution of personal transportation and look to the future.With Vic Hudson and John Chidgey.Related TechDistortion Articles: Setting The Bar High Working From Home is a Privilege Podcasts Referred to: Asymcar Storming Mortal Ep17: Nutella and Voting in Australia with John Chidgey Stickers Direct Links: Pragmatic Sticker: Small Pragmatic Sticker: Large TechDistortion Sticker: Small TechDistortion Sticker: Large Related Links: Trolleybus Tram deaths San Francisco cable car system Flight plan Head-up display Autonomous car Google driverless car SA flags new road rules, as driverless cars head for Australia Support Causality on PatreonEpisode sponsors:Lynda.com: Lynda.com is the easy and affordable way to learn where you can instantly stream thousands of courses created by experts in their fields of business, software, web development, graphic design and lots more. Visit the URL below to get a free 10-day trial. If you’ve ever wanted to learn something new, what are you waiting for? Visit lynda.com/pragmaticto learn more.Extrasensory Devices: Extrasensory Devices are an innovative company based in Palo Alto, California and they’ve recently released their all new Luxi For All: an incident light meter attachment for your smartphone or tablet. Taking better pictures starts with your Luxi. Visit esdevices.com/pragmatic and use the Coupon Code TECHDISTORTION for 15% off the total price of your order.

My wife joins me as we discuss our recent experiences with being obese and undergoing weight-loss surgery. It's extreme but it works though it's not without serious risks.With Kirsten Chidgey and John Chidgey.Related TechDistortion Articles: How Did I Get Here? Stickers Direct Links: Pragmatic Sticker: Small Pragmatic Sticker: Large TechDistortion Sticker: Small TechDistortion Sticker: Large Related Links: Poor denied lap band sugery Story Of Obesity Surgery History of Weight Loss Surgery Your ‘Hunger Hormones’ Adjustable gastric band Sleeve gastrectomy Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy is a Safe and Effective Bariatric Procedure for the Lower BMI Population WHO | Obesity and Overweight Continuous Positive Airway Pressure The Science of Stapling and Leaks (PDF) Support Causality on PatreonEpisode sponsors:Extrasensory Devices: Extrasensory Devices are an innovative company based in Palo Alto, California and they’ve recently released their all new Luxi For All: an incident light meter attachment for your smartphone or tablet. Taking better pictures starts with your Luxi. Visit esdevices.com/pragmatic and use the Coupon Code TECHDISTORTION for 15% off the total price of your order.Many Tricks: If you’re looking for some Mac software that can do Many Tricks remember to specifically visit the URL below for more information about their amazingly useful apps. Visit manytricks.com/pragmatic and use the Coupon Code (listen to the episode to get the code) for 25% off the total price of your order. Hurry it's only for a limited time!

Brianna Wu is the CEO of GSX and is one of the women behind Revolution 60. Join us as we talk about gender imbalance in Engineering and Technology, and how we can help bring balance to the force.With Brianna Wu and John Chidgey.Briannas Other Podcasts: “Isometric” (5by5.tv/isometric) Rocket Debug 44: Brianna Wu, Amanda Warner and Revolution 60 Related TechDistortion Articles: Pragmatic T-Shirts Pragmatic and TechDistortion Stickers T-Shirts and Stickers Direct Links: TeeSpring: Pragmatic T-Shirt Pragmatic Sticker: Small Pragmatic Sticker: Large TechDistortion Sticker: Small TechDistortion Sticker: Large Related Links: History of Feminism Women’s suffrage in the United States Women’s suffrage in the United Kingdom Gender Equality Issues in Nursing Careers Gender Equality in a Female Dominated Work Field Gender pay gap in Australia Male/Female income disparity in the United States The Gamergate Controversy Sexual Harassment Brianna’s Wikipedia Page No skin thick enough: The daily harassment of women in the game industry Support Causality on PatreonEpisode sponsors:Extrasensory Devices: Extrasensory Devices are an innovative company based in Palo Alto, California and they’ve recently released their all new Luxi For All: an incident light meter attachment for your smartphone or tablet. Taking better pictures starts with your Luxi. Visit esdevices.com/pragmatic and use the Coupon Code TECHDISTORTION for 15% off the total price of your order.Lynda.com: Lynda.com is the easy and affordable way to learn where you can instantly stream thousands of courses created by experts in their fields of business, software, web development, graphic design and lots more. Visit the URL below to get a free 10-day trial. If you’ve ever wanted to learn something new, what are you waiting for? Visit lynda.com/pragmaticto learn more.

Privacy online is becoming a bigger issue with more servers hacked every week our personal data has never been at more risk. Seth Clifford joins me to talk strategies to reduce your exposure on the internet.With Seth Clifford and John Chidgey.You should also check out Seths new venture at Hey Derby and their iOS app Stringer. Related TechDistortion Articles: Pragmatic T-Shirts T-Shirt Direct Link: TeeSpring: Pragmatic T-Shirt Previous Pragmatic Episode Links: Episode 42: Hopefully They Don’t Burn It Episode 42a: Hopefully They Don’t Burn It Follow-up 1 Related Links: Privacy technology everyone can use would make us all more secure What Is SSL? EFF Warns of Untrustworthy SSL, Undetectable Surveillance 4 Simple Changes to Stop Online Tracking Safari Extensions - SSL Everywhere Disconnect.me How to Ditch Big Brother and Disappear Forever Verizon’s ‘Perma-Cookie’ Is a Privacy-Killing Machine Verizon Opt-out for Super Cookies Why passwords have never been weaker and crackers have never been stronger 25-GPU cluster cracks every standard Windows password in <6 hours | Ars Technica Sony Pictures Entertainment Hack Cloak VPN Virtual Private Network Government Tracking: Tax File Number Social Security Number Social Insurance Number PRISM Support Causality on PatreonEpisode sponsors:Hover: Hover is a domain registrar that’s simple and easy to use with a valet service for your existing domain transfers and an amazingly accurate and helpful new domain suggestion search making it simply the best way to buy and keep full control of your domain names. They won’t upsell you on essentials like others often do, they offer bulk discounts and also offer EMail, storage and forwarding services too. Let Hover valet your domain stress away, today. Visit hover.com/pragmatic and use the Coupon Code PRAGMATIC for 10% off your first purchase at Hover.Many Tricks: If you’re looking for some Mac software that can do Many Tricks remember to specifically visit the URL below for more information about their amazingly useful apps. Visit manytricks.com/pragmatic and use the Coupon Code (listen to the episode to get the code) for 25% off the total price of your order. Hurry it's only for a limited time!

The Apple Watch promises to make Apple Pay even easier and safer than traditional credit card transactions. We look at the history of Credit Card data transactions and consider the practicalities. Of course.With Vic Hudson and John Chidgey.Related TechDistortion Articles: Pragmatic T-Shirts T-Shirt Direct Link: TeeSpring: Pragmatic T-Shirt Previous Pragmatic Episode Links: Episode 1: Faraday’s Cage Episode 44: Order A Steak and Get A Piece Of Rat Episode 47: Interrogation Signal Related Links: "…removed Google Analytics from my site…" Marco Arment Which wrist to wear your watch on Handedness Right- and left-hand traffic Hacker’s Demo Shows How Easily Credit Cards Can Be Read Through Clothes And Wallets Shielded wallets not necessary Credit card World’s first magnetic strip credit card to go under the hammer The Codabar Check Tokenization Support Causality on PatreonEpisode sponsors:Lynda.com: Lynda.com is the easy and affordable way to learn where you can instantly stream thousands of courses created by experts in their fields of business, software, web development, graphic design and lots more. Visit the URL below to get a free 10-day trial. If you’ve ever wanted to learn something new, what are you waiting for? Visit lynda.com/pragmaticto learn more.Many Tricks: If you’re looking for some Mac software that can do Many Tricks remember to specifically visit the URL below for more information about their amazingly useful apps. Visit manytricks.com/pragmatic and use the Coupon Code (listen to the episode to get the code) for 25% off the total price of your order. Hurry it's only for a limited time!

There is a growing trend to eliminate the wires and go wireless for data and for power. Can it work? Is it practical? Dive in.With Vic Hudson and John Chidgey.Previous Pragmatic Episode Links: Episode 1: Faraday’s Cage Episode 38: Watch This Time And Space Episode 47: Interrogation Signal Episode 50: Accidental Clicking Related Links: Wireless power physics - Is there any data on how efficient Tesla wireless power transmission was? - Skeptics Stack Exchange OET – RF Safety FAQ’s SCI-TECH … The cool site for hot science The Best Powerline Networking Kit | The Wirecutter Apple Desktop Bus RS-232 USB Power over Ethernet Apple’s Next Major Mac Rendered By Someone That Hasn’t Seen or Touched It | 9to5Mac SAR Values Crystal radio Tile Support Causality on PatreonEpisode sponsors:Lynda.com: Lynda.com is the easy and affordable way to learn where you can instantly stream thousands of courses created by experts in their fields of business, software, web development, graphic design and lots more. Visit the URL below to get a free 10-day trial. If you’ve ever wanted to learn something new, what are you waiting for? Visit lynda.com/pragmaticto learn more.Igloo: If you’ve ever worked in a corporate environment, you know how painful intranets can be. Often times they are poorly designed repositories of stale information, and people wind up avoiding them by just emailing file attachments back and forth. Igloo Software is an intranet you’ll actually like. It’s built with easy-to-use apps, like file sharing, blogs, calendars and task management, and it works on any device – from your laptop to your tablet to your phone. Best of all, you don’t need to hire a team of developers for just one small change. The drag-and-drop interface and WYSIWYG editor make it as easy to update as the consumer apps you use at home. Sign up today - It’s free to use with up to 10 people. Visit igloosoftware.comto learn more.

Are electric cars going to save you money? We look at all electric and plugin hybrids, charging habits and being energy independent.With Vic Hudson and John Chidgey.Previous Pragmatic Episode Links: Episode 2: The Battery Problem Episode 2a: The Battery Problem Follow-up Part A Episode 2b: The Battery Problem Follow-up Part B Episode 2c: The Battery Problem Follow-up Part C Episode 2d: The Battery Problem Follow-up Part D Episode 46: Out of Steam About Steam General Links: Nissan Leaf Fast and Ultra-fast Chargers - Battery University The Price Of Electricity In Your State USA and Canada Current Average Gas Prices By City/State/Province AIP Retail Petrol Prices Nissan prices replacement Leaf battery at $5,500 Mazda3 Mazda KL Engines For Sale Tesla Battery Swap PHEV - Vehicle to Home Support Causality on PatreonEpisode sponsors:Shopi: Shopi is a collaborative shopping list app that’s simple and easy to use with great features like pocket-lock, smart ordering and real-time collaborative updating. A shopping list is a special To Do list and Shopi addresses that use case very well. It’s ad-free for the first month so why not check it out. Visit sapient-pair.com/pragmaticto learn more.Igloo: If you’ve ever worked in a corporate environment, you know how painful intranets can be. Often times they are poorly designed repositories of stale information, and people wind up avoiding them by just emailing file attachments back and forth. Igloo Software is an intranet you’ll actually like. It’s built with easy-to-use apps, like file sharing, blogs, calendars and task management, and it works on any device – from your laptop to your tablet to your phone. Best of all, you don’t need to hire a team of developers for just one small change. The drag-and-drop interface and WYSIWYG editor make it as easy to update as the consumer apps you use at home. Sign up today - It’s free to use with up to 10 people. Visit igloosoftware.comto learn more.

Automation in OSX, iOS and the PC can save lots of time for users prepared to invest some time up-front. We delve into the history on these platforms, where it can be useful and when you should use it.With Vic Hudson and John Chidgey.Related TechDistortion Article: Tweaking Workflows Previous Podcast Episodes Referenced: Pragmatic Episode 37: The Sledgehammer Solution Pragmatic Episode 35: Written by Kernel Hackers for Kernel Hackers Addenda 4: Before Pragmatic Episode 49 General Links: Doug’s Scripts for iTunes AppleScript: Resources MacScripter AppleScript AppleScript - Mac Guides HP WinRunner Action(s) MacStories: Pythonista Workflow for iOS Vic’s Workflow for Finding Workflows Vic’s Workflow for Tweeting Overcast Episode Playing with Artwork Automated Workflows Support Causality on PatreonEpisode sponsors:Many Tricks: If you’re looking for some Mac software that can do Many Tricks remember to specifically visit the URL below for more information about their amazingly useful apps. Visit manytricks.com/pragmatic and use the Coupon Code (listen to the episode to get the code) for 25% off the total price of your order. Hurry it's only for a limited time!Shopi: Shopi is a collaborative shopping list app that’s simple and easy to use with great features like pocket-lock, smart ordering and real-time collaborative updating. A shopping list is a special To Do list and Shopi addresses that use case very well. It’s ad-free for the first month so why not check it out. Visit sapient-pair.com/pragmaticto learn more.

John Siracusa joins me to discuss RSI in depth, drawing on both of our experiences we look at what works, what doesn't and why you should care. Keyboards, trackpads, trackballs, mice, chairs, we cover it all.With John Siracusa and John Chidgey.John Siracusa Related Links: 5by5 | Hypercritical #6: Frivolous Things Hypercritical RSI Links: Dr. Pascarelli’s Complete Guide to Repetitive Strain Injury: What You Need to Know About RSI and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: Emil Pascarelli M.D.: 9780471388432: Amazon.com: Books ASSH.org and Hand-e > Home Repetitive Strain Injury Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Fact Sheet: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) Repetitive Stress Injury (RSI) Types of repetitive strain injury Preventing and Managing RSI UCLA Ergonomics - Standing vs. Sitting at Work Typing Errors - Reason.com Cornell: Effects of Chair Armrest Design on Wrist Posture Keyboards: Fact of Fiction? The Legend of the QWERTY Keyboard | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian Click this: All about mechanical keyboards and why you need one | PCWorld Mechanical Keyboard Guide Scissor Switch Keyboard Technology Comparing Mechanical, Membrane and Scissor-Switch Membrane Keyboards - Ergopedia.ca, the Ergonomic Encyclopedia ripometer - MechanicalKeyboards Apps To Help You Get Up: App Story Apple - Apple Watch - Health and Fitness Trackpads and Mice: Analyzing the Ergonomics: Trackpads Versus Mice | Mac|Life The Trackpad(tm) - A Study on User Comfort and Performance POSTER Evoluent Vertical Mouse 4 for Mac (Right-hand) - Apple Store (U.S.) Support Causality on PatreonEpisode sponsors:Igloo: If you’ve ever worked in a corporate environment, you know how painful intranets can be. Often times they are poorly designed repositories of stale information, and people wind up avoiding them by just emailing file attachments back and forth. Igloo Software is an intranet you’ll actually like. It’s built with easy-to-use apps, like file sharing, blogs, calendars and task management, and it works on any device – from your laptop to your tablet to your phone. Best of all, you don’t need to hire a team of developers for just one small change. The drag-and-drop interface and WYSIWYG editor make it as easy to update as the consumer apps you use at home. Sign up today - It’s free to use with up to 10 people. Visit igloosoftware.comto learn more.Lynda.com: Lynda.com is the easy and affordable way to learn where you can instantly stream thousands of courses created by experts in their fields of business, software, web development, graphic design and lots more. Visit the URL below to get a free 10-day trial. If you’ve ever wanted to learn something new, what are you waiting for? Visit lynda.com/pragmaticto learn more.

With holiday cheer Vic and John dive into some of the finer details of Christmas and the Holiday season looking at wrapping paper and sticky tape, what to wrap, what you shouldn't and why, and a bit about Santa (warning for young kids POSSIBLE SPOILERS!)With Vic Hudson and John Chidgey.Related Links: Pressure Sensitive Tape Scotch 25 MultiTask Tape How Wrapping Paper is Made Thomas Nast I Solved The Santa Theroem Spy Magazine January 1990 Yule Sinter Klass Jingle Bells - Joe Williams - Bombay Dub Orchestra Remix - iTunes Iron Man 3 The Gift - Season 2 Episode 1 - Dilbert Support Causality on PatreonEpisode sponsors:Mandrill: Mandrill is a transactional Email service that easily ties into your website and apps when you need to send one-off Emails like responses, password resets, acknowledgements and so on. Integrate, deliver, track and analyse using email infrastructure from Mandrill. Visit mandrill.com and use the Coupon Code PRAGMATIC to get 50,000 free Email transactions per month for the first six months.Harvest: Harvest allows you to track your time quickly and easily with the ability to quickly turn those timesheets into invoices for your clients with built-in support for both PayPal and Stripe. Visit the URL below and sign up for a free 30 day trial today. Visit getharvest.com and use the Coupon Code PRAGMATIC and you’ll also save 50% off your first month but be quick - this offer expires on January the 15th, 2015!

Follow up (Part A) to Prevailing Wind Direction where we address different personality types and how they cope with remote work, safety cultures around the world and recent FIFO suicides.With Vic Hudson and John Chidgey.Depression/Suicide Helplines by Country: Beyond Blue (Australia) Suicide Prevention Helpline (USA) The Calm Zone (UK) Support Causality on PatreonEpisode sponsor:Harvest: Harvest allows you to track your time quickly and easily with the ability to quickly turn those timesheets into invoices for your clients with built-in support for both PayPal and Stripe. Visit the URL below and sign up for a free 30 day trial today. Visit getharvest.com and use the Coupon Code PRAGMATIC and you’ll also save 50% off your first month but be quick - this offer expires on January the 15th, 2015!

SCADA User Interface design has many things in common with other graphical design methodologies. We look at how SCADA works, what it does, the limitations of the human eye and colour perception, buttons as buttons, indicators as indicators and more.With Vic Hudson and John Chidgey.Previous Pragmatic Episode Links: Episode 29: You Can’t Fight Physics Episode 47: Interrogation Signal Related Links: SCADA History (DOC) Abnormal Situation Management Colour Blindness Rods & Cones of the Human Eye Cone Cell Human Vision: Contrast Sensitivity (DOC) Skeuomorph Support Causality on PatreonEpisode sponsors:Lynda.com: Lynda.com is the easy and affordable way to learn where you can instantly stream thousands of courses created by experts in their fields of business, software, web development, graphic design and lots more. Visit the URL below to get a free 10-day trial. If you’ve ever wanted to learn something new, what are you waiting for? Visit lynda.com/pragmaticto learn more.Harvest: Harvest allows you to track your time quickly and easily with the ability to quickly turn those timesheets into invoices for your clients with built-in support for both PayPal and Stripe. Visit the URL below and sign up for a free 30 day trial today. Visit getharvest.com and use the Coupon Code PRAGMATIC and you’ll also save 50% off your first month but be quick - this offer expires on January the 15th, 2015!

Follow up (Part A) to Watch This Time and Space where we address durability of mechanical watches vs quartz watches, accuracy, using the band as a charging point, batteries and cameras and whether a smartwatch without an always-on face is a failure.With Vic Hudson and John Chidgey.Related Links: Railroad Chronometer Support Causality on PatreonEpisode sponsor:Harvest: Harvest allows you to track your time quickly and easily with the ability to quickly turn those timesheets into invoices for your clients with built-in support for both PayPal and Stripe. Visit the URL below and sign up for a free 30 day trial today. Visit getharvest.com and use the Coupon Code PRAGMATIC and you’ll also save 50% off your first month but be quick - this offer expires on January the 15th, 2015!

We delve into Barcodes and RFID tracing their history and dissecting exactly how they work and where the future of identification technology is headed specifically for shopping experiences.With Vic Hudson and John Chidgey.Previous Pragmatic Episode Links: Episode 16: One Man’s Hopes and Dreams of an RF Bubble Episode 39: Look Ma, No Wires Related Links: Dewey Decimal System Barcode Barcode Reader How Barcode Readers Work - TalTech How Barcode Scanners Work Barcode History Photosensitive Devices Photoconductivity Light Sensors QR Codes UPC-A Symbology QR Code Versions Information Capacities of QR Codes RFID Tesco Scan as you Shop Calgary Co-op RFID Information Support Causality on PatreonEpisode sponsors:Audible: Audible is the Internet’s leading provider of spoken audio entertainment, providing digital versions of tens of thousands of audiobooks for download to your computer, smartphone and MP3 player. Visit the URL below to get your free Audiobook today! Visit audiblepodcast.com/pragmaticto learn more.Mandrill: Mandrill is a transactional Email service that easily ties into your website and apps when you need to send one-off Emails like responses, password resets, acknowledgements and so on. Integrate, deliver, track and analyse using email infrastructure from Mandrill. Visit mandrill.com and use the Coupon Code PRAGMATIC to get 50,000 free Email transactions per month for the first six months.

We delve into energy conversion efficiencies of solar photovoltaics, fuel cells, the Hydrogen Economy, steam and hydro-turbines and ways you can conserve energy in your home.With Vic Hudson and John Chidgey.Previous Pragmatic Episode Links: Episode 2: The Battery Problem Episode 2a: The Battery Problem Follow-up Part A Episode 2b: The Battery Problem Follow-up Part B Episode 2c: The Battery Problem Follow-up Part C Episode 2d: The Battery Problem Follow-up Part D Solar System Design Presentation Embedded Episode Links: Episode 2: The efficiency of coal vs combustion engine Episode 2: Gas heating efficiency Episode 2: Photovoltaics Episode 2: Aurora PV inverter Generator Efficiency Links: Max Efficiency of Internal Combustion Engine - Physics Stack Exchange Diesel Engines Efficiency Energy Conversion Efficiency Shockley-Queisser Hydroelectric Power Generation PV Cell Efficiencies Electric Generator Fuel Cell Basics Fuel Cell Efficiency Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Fluid Mechanics Equations Home Energy Efficiency Links: Glazing Your Home Tubular Skylights Insulate A Floor Building Insulation Where To Insulate Your Home Building Material U-Values Best Insulation Material Conservation of Energy U-Values Support Causality on PatreonEpisode sponsors:Lynda.com: Lynda.com is the easy and affordable way to learn where you can instantly stream thousands of courses created by experts in their fields of business, software, web development, graphic design and lots more. Visit the URL below to get a free 10-day trial. If you’ve ever wanted to learn something new, what are you waiting for? Visit lynda.com/pragmaticto learn more.Igloo: If you’ve ever worked in a corporate environment, you know how painful intranets can be. Often times they are poorly designed repositories of stale information, and people wind up avoiding them by just emailing file attachments back and forth. Igloo Software is an intranet you’ll actually like. It’s built with easy-to-use apps, like file sharing, blogs, calendars and task management, and it works on any device – from your laptop to your tablet to your phone. Best of all, you don’t need to hire a team of developers for just one small change. The drag-and-drop interface and WYSIWYG editor make it as easy to update as the consumer apps you use at home. Sign up today - It’s free to use with up to 10 people. Visit igloosoftware.comto learn more.