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VESA and DisplayPort

VESA, the Video Electronics Standards Association has been responsible for defining many video-related standards, starting with SVGA in the late 80s. More recently VESA has been defining and promoting DisplayPort, the latest video interconnect. Andy and Dave chat to Craig Wiley, VESA Chairman, to understand the technology. In developing DisplayPort, VESA has worked to ensure that the standard meets the

CourseSmart On-Line eTextBooks

CourseSmart is a higher education content delivery system that delivers e-textbooks to over 2.5 million students and faculty members. Sean Devine, CEO of CourseSmart talks to Jeffrey and Andy about the system. CourseSmart brings together content producers and content consumers, typically publishers, lecturers and students in over 7,000 universities and colleges. The organisation is owned by a group of publishers but

Ford Inventing for the Future

Jeffrey Powers and Andy “Hardhathead” Smith talked to Johannes Kristensson of Ford about the research that Ford is involved in now and into the future. Ford showed off the Evo Concept car at CES 2012. It shows off the technology that they are working on and maybe in their full line of cars five to seven years from now. For

Ford Focus Electric

Ford showed off the Focus Electric Vehicle at CES 2012. Instead of starting from scratch, they took a vehicle that was both familiar and popular with the consumer and the critics and turned it into an electric vehicle. Unlike many of their competitors electric cars which can take up to 8 hours to do a full charge on a 240

Vitallink Keeping the Elderly Connected

Did you know that there are 78 million baby boomers in the US and over 1 billion world wide. That the fastest growing age group are adults over the age of 85. Many of these adults are separated from their children and grandchildren and live alone often in isolation. A coalition called AgeTek was created to try to solve this

ComplyFoam Replacement Earphone Tips

If you've got a pair of earphones or earbuds that just don't quite fit your ears properly, then you'll want to take a look at this interview with Nate from ComplyFoam. ComplyFoam produce replacement tips for earphones and earbuds from a huge range of manufacturers - SkullCandy, Monster, Shure, Sony to name but a few. The difference between the OEM tips

Mionix and the Indestructible Keyboard!

From time to time you may feel like pounding your keyboard in frustration, but Mionix has actually invented a keyboard that makes that possible.  Now, we aren't recommending that you take out your rage on an inanimate object, just pointing out that they claim that this thing is pretty much indestructible. Every key on this new keyboard is mounted on a steel