2018: Life on the Net…. A Video

This panel at Fortune Brainstorm titled “2018: Life on the Net” caught my interest. The 19 minute video (below) was moderated by Quincy Smith, CEO of CBS Interactive. On the podium was Lawrence Lessig, professor of Law at Stanford Law School, Joichi Ito, CEO of Creative Commons and Chairman of Six Apart Japan, and Philip [...]

Microsoft’s Surface Sphere Prototype

Microsoft researchers have taken the wraps off a touch based sphere prototype that uses an internal projection and vision system to bring a round computer display to life. People can interact with the surface with multiple fingers and hands to manipulate photos, play games, spin a virtual globe, or watch 360-degree videos.
Sphere, as it’s known, [...]

The Ups and Downs of RSS Feeds and What I Did To Overcome them… (For Now) Pt. 2

Overcoming Twitters New RSS Access Restrictions
In doing my investigation of RSS authouring tools that I outlined in Part 1 of this blog I came accross an obsure posting at a site called Get Satisfaction. In reading the posts it turned out that Twitter RSS feeds were changed to require authentication. When my Yahoo Pipe went [...]

The Ups and Downs of RSS Feeds and What I Did To Overcome them… (For Now) Pt. 1

For the past few days I’ve been rained out of the video shooting that I had been planning to do. I decided that this would be a good time to develop a few more skills in understanding RSS feeds for both my blogging and digital signage work. The skills will probably come in handy when [...]

Hitachi: Dawn of the Tera Era

To anyone who is close to this business, storage systems that contain terabytes of information is common. However terabyte hard drives are now becoming mainstream in the consumer space so Hitachi released the video below to outline the advantages of the technology. It’s a pretty funny video and kinda reminds me of the old Peter [...]

InfoComm 2008 – Projector Technologies

Projectors From Canon
About the only standard projector(s) that I’ll post on from InfoComm 2008 are Canon’s. At the conference Canon released the WUX10, the world’s first WUXGA (1920×1200) projector using LCOS technology along with the SXGA SX80. Both of these projectors feature LCOS (Liquid Crystal on Silicon) and the WUX10 is the highest resolution of [...]

InfoComm 2008 – Odds and Sods

The following is a series of links to some of the other things that we saw at InfoComm 2008.

InfoComm 2008 – Podium and Presentation Technologies

Intellerum
Intellerum was a company that we spent some time with at InfoComm 2008. They make storage components for Academic use including laptop carts. We talked to the designer of the product and he had come out of the Academic environment so we had a lot in common. He had added a few advances over that [...]

InfoComm 2008 – Neat and New Technology

VBrick InfoCaster Partnership
From our perspective it was great to see that Harris and VBrick got together around digital signage by announcing a strategic partnership where VBricks technology is being designed to interoperate with Harris’s InfoCaster product. VBrick will provide the encoding hardware that will interoperate with InfoCaster to deliver live video streams on a digital [...]

InfoComm 2008 – Light Emitting Diode (L.E.D.) Technology

One area that’s been growing at InfoComm over the past few years that I’ve atteneded is the area LED’s. I thought rather than write a post about it, I’d edit some of the video that I shot as LED’s are more of a visual thing;