Andy Walker

Who is Andy Walker?

Andy Walker is a Canadian television personality and journalist.

He is best known as having been a co-host alongside Leo Laporte and Amber MacArthur of Call for Help, a technology help television program on G4techTV Canada in Canada and the HOW TO Channel in Australia. His most popular segments on the show were what he called "food demos" which use household groceries like cheese and whip cream to show how complex technology mechanisms work. In one show he built a transistor out of cheddar cheese and tomato juice.

Walker is also the owner of Cyberwalker.com, a technology advice website, and the author of The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Security, Spam, Spyware and Viruses and Windows Vista Help Desk both from Que Books. He also co-authored the book You Call This the Future? with Nick Sagan and Mark Frary.

In December 2013, Walker announced he had signed deal with Pearson Education to write his 5th book called Super You: How Technology is Changing What it Means to Be Human. It will be co-authored with blogger Kay Svela. Walker is engaged to Svela, who is pregnant with their first child, a boy, due in February 2014.