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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 exquisitely sensitive detectors." This kind...
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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 it the fastest. Earlier unmanned cars did the climb...
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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 that will take place early in the next decade...
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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, as we have the intersection of sensors and...
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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 lens . Although Terminator view displays can't...
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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 camera it is now possible to combine a regular...
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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 of light hitting it, information that can be used...
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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 of several sensors wired to a control point that...
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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 and send it on. In the current issue of Technology...
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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 paper on a Sunday morning. I was talking with some...
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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 is based on doping silicon to control one property...
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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 have eye surgery to correct a torn retina . Actually...
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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 are forcing countries to adopt the new technology...