New technology always disrupts. This has always been true, whether it was the invention of the wheel, the automobile, or modern electronics. With each new disruption, interactive business and social commerce is disturbed. Established business and social models are suddenly…
I read this article over at Home Cinema Choice and despaired. Despite being based on the same technology, the 3D specs used by Samsung and Panasonic aren’t compatible….unless you wear them upside down. What were they thinking? And why couldn’t…
At TED 2010, Nathan Myhrvold of Intellectual Ventures Laboratory showed off its Photonic Fence proof of concept. Basically, this is a very capable mosquito killer, which uses lasers to shoot the wee monsters out of the sky at up to 100 times a second.…
So we had this pretty big snowstorm pass through the Midwest. Over a foot of snow, added to a plethora of horrible conditions. But one forseen issue happened that simply came from making the planet greener. Light Emitting Diodes. Green…
I, like a lot of us, had to travel over the Thanksgiving weekend. In my case, I had to travel to Grand Haven Michigan ( about 150 miles south of where I live ). I just got the Motorola Droid…
Earlier this week I attended a seminar on “Emerging Healthcare Technologies”, presented by the University of Ulster. The content was fairly high-level but focussed on several areas that are in various stages of development but will reach the market in…
I was out running on the levee this morning and a small fishing boat zoomed by with a man and a small dog. I watched as the dog ran to the front of the boat, started barking and then turning…