Life & Technology – 2GB 14th February, 2016

Happy free data day! If you’re a Telstra mobile customer, you can use your smartphone’s or tablet’s data to your hearts content today, as an apology for the outage earlier this week. Read more about this here.

 

Photography is hard to master, but one of Panasonic’s new cameras makes getting the perfect shot easier than ever. This week I spoke to award-winning photographer Ken Duncan to learn about a camera that’s a little bit like magic.  After you listen to the interview, you can read our review of the camera here.

 

Fitbit has two new trackers on the horizon, the Blaze and the Alta. This week I spoke with Harvey Norman’s Mick Boman about what we can expect from them.

 

In other news, ASUS is bringing an $8,000 laptop to Australia next month, and Optus is expanding its contactless payment system to iPhone users.

 

One Education wants to make computers for students more accessible and more affordable for schools. This week I spoke with founder Rangan Srikhanta to learn about an amazing new PC called Infinity. Read more about One Education here.