This Week in Sensors
and a few articles I’ve missed over the last few weeks: Robots with odor sensors alert you to bad breath not exactly sensor related, but an increasing number of airlines are looking at charging passengers by weight. Samoa Air is already charging by weight. With the broad digitization of everything, one could imagine that in the […]
The Future of the Newspaper and the Modern Colonial Tavern
There has been much written about how digital is broadly changing news dissemination, but beyond simple replacement of the paper alternative and an acceleration of “news” to satisfy an always-on consumer, I think there is a deeper change afoot. Yes, “traditional news” is undergoing significant change through the direct and indirect influences of digitization – […]
The Direction of Curation
Several changes are underfoot which could be shifting the direction of curation. Over the last 24 months major content distribution platforms have been steadily moving towards becoming more curation focused. Curation feels like the natural evolution of content. As companies try to move up the value chain they become more focused on curation. As they seek […]
How More Cameras Could Stop Terror
Jonathan Turley wrote last week that more surveillance would not likely stop the type of violence we witnessed in the Boston Marathon bombing. Turley writes, “as a thousand papercuts from countless new laws and surveillance systems slowly kill our privacy, we might want to ask whether a fishbowl society will actually make us safer or just […]
Kids Coding and Why I’m excited about Tynker
I’ve written before about kids & coding. The programs I’ve tried with my oldest child (currently 9) haven’t been a great fit. Which makes me excited to try Tynker (see here and here).
The Great Promise of Technology
At rare times in our collective history a tech product is introduced – one that is so new it doesn’t have a market. It’s capabilities and functionality are largely undefined – left to others to uncover. These devices and services offer tremendous promise. They offer promise about what can come to fruition through the right application of […]
The Impact of Globalization on Competitiveness within the Consumer Tech Market
The world is truly becoming flat when it comes to consumer tech and that has had (and is having) profound ramifications on the competitive nature of the global marketplace for consumer tech. The global tastes and preferences of consumers are becoming homogeneous and while some subtleties still exist between geographic markets, these differences are quickly becoming marginalized. Take for example […]
The Value of Mirroring
I’m a fan of mirroring. At least I’m a fan of the idea. I’m not a heavy user. Actually, I don’t really use it at all. I guess I’m not alone. According to a recent study from NPD, only about seven percent of tablet or smartphone owners actually use screen sharing technologies. NPD suggests the […]
Monetizing Digital Structure
In the last year or two there has been an explosion of massive online open courses (MOOCs). These have come from a wide assortment of institutions. To date there has been tremendous experimentation but business models are still forming. As Cisco’s executive director for AsiaPac Andrew Thomson recently suggested one potential business model “could be that the content […]
Digital Safety Nets: When our Devices Know More about Us then we Know about Ourselves
At the end of January, Facebook announced they would partner with the suicide prevention group Save.org. The goals of the partnership are to research the online behaviors of suicide victims in the days and months leading up to their deaths in order to identify and detect patterns of potential suicides. If successful, the research will identify […]
