Day 3 of Ford’s Trend Conference #FordTrends

Jun 27 2014

Started off yesterday at Ford’s “Proving Ground”.

Every automaker has one, and I’ve always dreamed to go, just because of the name.

A little track time, but I only cruised around.

Was neither the time nor place to punch it.

More individual posts coming about the robot cars, and some new headers.

But the best part of the day was touring Ford’s factory.

SO rare that media is permitted to take photos. Extremely rare. And since I filmed every robot I could find, that ought to become a good exclusive video.

Nestled into a gorgeous post, just look at this photo example.

As an OCD wackjob, this was right up my ally.

Then it was back to the airport, where next week’s column came from (Ford uses Craigslist to hire men to test its F150).

Passed through this terminal, and folded space and time #NoFilter

Throw in a wing tip photo here, to quickly illustrate I was travelling.

Hoovered up 100 American MBs (since Tuesday afternoon). Thankfully TELUS has good US plans, because I bet many of you didn’t put that much through while here at home.

kk I am OUT of here.

I had 2 deadlines with the paper today, and I’ve been sitting in a booth at a franchise restaurant for hours now, pounding my keyboard.

TTY Monday. I’m not travelling anywhere far next week, so back to normal around here.

Have a great weekend xo

Day 2 of Ford’s Trend Conference #FordTrends

Jun 25 2014

Great day, because I learned a lot from some great speakers who I wouldn’t usually get to see.

I’ll tell you more in-depth in the coming weeks, but it was a day filled with two of my favourite topics:

1 – Pattern Recognition

2 – The Mind

Even got to try out a MindFlex for the first time! I blogged about this game forever ago, hang on I’ll grab the link…. here: February 2011.

It’s a game that uses thought-controlled computing.

The object is: the more you focus and concentrate, the higher the ball raises.

I was a natural, obviously.

Found lots of fodder to make new blog headers.

I toured the testing facility, which I’ll tell you about in next week’s column.

There were ROBOTS.

And Ford’s all-new Edge made its world debut.

And I really need to invest in another dress(es).

Track time tomorrow!

Then flying out late afternoon, and the end.