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Central Nervous System for the Earth

The New York Times had an article on HP labs activities to gather information on a massive scale . It's a research and development program to show an example of building a planet-wide sensing network, using billions of "tiny, cheap, tough and...

Published 11-23-2009 6:45 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Sensors, Business value generation , Edge computing , Emerging technologies , Energy , Trends, Technology adoption, Analytics

Autonomous car to climb Pikes Peak at racing speed

Looks like Stanford is going to tackle climbing Pikes Peak . It will not be the first autonomous car to climb Pikes Peak (a challenging 12.4-mile ascent that includes 156 turns and ends more than 14,000 feet above sea level) but they'll try to do...

Published 11-09-2009 9:46 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Sensors, Robotics , Adaptation

Robotics capabilities for the next decade

This video provides some impressive examples of the kinds of sensing and robotics capabilities being demonstrated today (e.g. throwing and catching a cell phone). If it takes a few years to make it into production, there are still some tremendous advances...

Published 10-30-2009 4:30 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Sensors, Robotics

Web 2.0 four years later and five years out

There is a good interview of Tim O'Reilly that validated many of the posts we've made in this blog over the last 5 years. He also published a white paper that goes into more details . The way business value is generated in the future will be changing...

Published 10-09-2009 3:19 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Sensors, Business value generation , Edge computing , Emerging technologies , Technology adoption, Web 2.0, Social networking, Semantic

Augmented Reality in a Contact Lens?

A week or so back I did a blog entry on augmented reality possibilities , and in this month's IEEE Spectrum there is an article on the placing displays right on the eye . This is done by having the display and possibly sensors integrated with a contact...

Published 09-03-2009 11:29 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Sensors, Edge computing , Emerging technologies , Trends, Vision , Pervasive computing, User Interface

Augmented reality moving into general availability

The BBC has an article: Mobile phones get cyborg vision that got me thinking about the number of times I've seen examples of augmented reality demonstration projects recently. This article states: "Via the video function of a mobile phone's...

Published 08-25-2009 1:47 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Sensors, Business value generation , Edge computing , Emerging technologies , Trends, Technology adoption, Pervasive computing, 3D

Optical Fiber Fabric Gathers Images

An IEEE Spectrum article describes a new optical fiber technology that can be used to gather an image. "Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have created a polymer fiber that can detect the angle, intensity, phase, and wavelength...

Published 07-28-2009 1:20 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Sensors, Emerging technologies

Enabling plants to call for a drink

In a recent IEEE spectrum article a technique was described that allows plants to call the farmer to say they need water. A company came up with the product that measures the moisture level of the plant and then water the plant accordingly. It consists...

Published 06-09-2009 8:55 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Sensors, Agriculture, Edge computing , Emerging technologies , Mobility

Sensor power source

One of the technologies mentioned in this blog many times is the role of sensors and edge computing in the next wave of computer business value generation. A big issue is how to ensure that these sensors will have the power to gather their information...

Published 04-30-2009 5:00 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Business Value Generation, Energy, Green IT, Sensors, Business value generation , Emerging technologies , Energy , Green IT

Sensors the Foot Solder of a Revolution

I was looking at the Dallas Morning News this morning a saw a story Sensors may Revolutionize Everyday Life . I've mentioned before about how sensors will start to be in just about everything. I just found it interesting to be in a main stream media...

Published 04-08-2008 12:37 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Sensors, Emerging technologies

Further thoughts on the economy of abundance and nano-technology

Back in October, I had a couple of entries about molecular manufacturing and the age of abundance having implications far beyond the capabilities of mass customization. I've been thinking about the fact that almost the entire semiconductor industry...

Published 02-16-2006 5:17 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Sensors, Nanotech

Pattern recognition and false positives - a personal experience

I had an experience that resonated with me personally about some of the elements I've been discussing in this blog. Since scenarios can many times convey information better than just facts and supposition, here goes... A few months back, I had to...

Published 12-16-2005 10:35 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Sensors, Business value generation , Trends, Technology adoption, Context, man-machine interface, knowledge-driven process

The edge and the interconnection of things

This article from the BBC talks about UN predictions about the use of RFID and other techniques for putting computing in things that will change the world. It looks at the issues from more of a global perspective. Discussing how multi-national business...

Published 11-19-2005 3:35 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Sensors, Edge computing , Singularity

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