Archive for the ‘Inventing the Future’ Category
Sunshine Superman
April 13th, 2011 by SmallPlanetMatt
After reading a March news item about a solar demonstration project in Chicago, I made a note to find more data about its market potential. Seems the tallest building in the U.S. (once the tallest in the world) is a test site for retrofit of solar power converting window modules. As reported by InfoGreenGlobal the [...]
Tags: BIPV, photovoltiac, renewable energy, Solar Energy
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Trust in the Digital World
January 20th, 2011 by SmallPlanetMatt
While Silicon Valley for years cultivated a keep government out of our business public face, fact is that technology innovation and government institutions have long had a productive and largely positive relationship. Fortunately (I hope) for all things related to commerce and information exchange on the Internet, a growing cooperation in the area of trusted [...]
Tags: Identity Theft, Infineon, Information Security, Trusted Computing
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Movie Talk
November 5th, 2010 by SmallPlanetMatt
A post on Advertising Age last week reminded me of a start-up we worked with for a while in 2009. While the story was centered on the growth of game consoles as the delivery point for entertainment content in the home, this interesting social behavior crops up about midway through the piece: Within their social [...]
Tags: IPTV, MST3K, New Media, OTT Video, VoIP
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Without Wires…
August 29th, 2010 by SmallPlanetMatt
In the late 1980s (ancient history for technologists), researchers at PARC coined the term ubiquitous computing (UC) to describe a compelling vision about how interconnected devices would enrich our lives in the 21st century. A demonstration project that PARC hosted a few years later was an intelligent office that could respond to its occupants in [...]
Tags: Energy Harvesting, EnOcean, Ubiquitous Computing, ZigBee
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Augmented reality, clearly
July 9th, 2010 by SmallPlanetMatt
By overlaying data streams onto clear glass lenses, a French company named Laster Technologies is completing the technology puzzle for widespread augmented reality (AR). The company recently impressed IEEE Spectrum’s Tekla Perry (Tech Talk Blog, July 2) with its “visual walkman” demonstration. Our client Mechdyne provides large-scale displays and data fusion software that enables AR [...]
Tags: Augmented Reality, Mechdyne
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