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New Glasses at AWE 2018
June 2018 – At the 2018 Augmented World Expo (AWE) one of the major themes was new industrial targeted glasses for AR. While the consumer entertainment segment is focusing on VR, the IT and Enterprise space is continuing with their adoption of new AR viewing products to enhance their operational environments. These products have to…
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Mobile Storage at CES 2018
January 2018 – The annual CES event in Las Vegas showed a rise in the mobile and portable devices that have been enabled with solid state storage, high capacity storage and network integration with the cloud. We had the chance to talk with Toshiba, Western Digital and Kingston on their new storage products they were…
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AES Give Peaks a Chance: Loudness Wars Panel
October 9, 2014, Audio Engineering Society Convention, Los Angeles—A panel of experts considered the issues associates with loudness. Thomas Lund moderated the panel comprised of Florian Camerer, Bob Ludwig, Geroge Massenburg, and Susan Rogers. Lund opened wit comments on the existing cultural heritages. The record business has been moving to hyper levels, resulting in over…
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AES Analog Preservation Panel
October 10, 2014, Audio Engineering Society Convention, Los Angeles—The problems of saving analog audio content is a big issue for researchers, historians, and anthropologists. Konrad Strauss from McGill University moderated this panel with panelists including Mark Hood from Indiana University, Nadja Wallaszkovits from the Austrian Academy of Science, Brad McCoy from the Library of Congress,…
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Infrastructure Re-imagined Panel
October 1, 2014, ARM TechCon, Santa Clara, CA—A panel moderated by Ian Ferguson from ARM looked at the changing functions and needs of current infrastructure. For example, five years ago Google started offering high-sped data on fiber in some select areas. Now, they are delivering video, connectivity, and network functionality in those areas. The panelists…
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New Terry Gilliam movie THE ZERO THEOREM
What is the reason for human existence? What brings us happiness? The latest Terry Gilliam film, “The Zero Theorem”, might not give us a definite answer, but searches for one with spectacular and remarkable visual images. Gilliam, as always, is funny, witty, provocative, smart and surprising. In a futuristic London, Qohen Leth , a computer…
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Motion Tracking and Medical Devices
July 11, 2013, Motion Tracking Developers’ Conference, San Francisco—Herbie Kim and Josh Rabinowitz from Articulate described their efforts in integrating sensors into remote patient monitoring and assistance packages. They consider a combination of sensors and stimulators can provide benefits that exceed the contributions of either separately. As the population ages, we are seeing two disparate…
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Visual Inspection System from Olympus
July 9, 2013, Semicon West, San Francisco—Olympus showed off an interesting example of a marriage of high-grade optics and computers. The DSX500, and sister DSX100 for larger objects, automates many of the setup functions and the optical systems distinguish themselves from simpler digital microscopes through better performance and easier user interfaces. The scope offers multiple…
