July 11, 2013, Motion Tracking Developers’ Conference, San Francisco—Sam Massih from Invensense described the various market segments and applications for wearable sensors. The latest wearable devices are becoming consumer friendly and moving to populations outside the hard-core fitness adherents. Although originally designed for sports training and the elite athletes, the latest activity tracking gadgets are…
July 11, 2013, Motion Tracking Developers’ Conference, San Francisco—Jean-Christophe Eloy from Yole Development presented the trends in MEMS and their applications. The mobile space and many consumer devices are now including MEMS. The mobile space, while requiring a full set of sensors, is looking for greater differentiation in their products. This push is driving the…
June 4, 2013, Augmented World Expo, Santa Clara, CA—Ben Cerveny from GAFFTA described AR as space woven with meaning. The semantics on the street to make objects and services exist in a space will make AR pervasive. Augmented reality will move data into a built environment. For example, map making expanded our consensual model of…
June 4, 2013, Augmented World Expo, Santa Clara, CA—Amber Case from ESRI presented “The Future of Wearable Computing”. The drivers and conditions for adoption are changing as the technologies improve. Among the issues the AR community has to address are constraint, context, and location information. We are still waiting for a realistic wearable display and…
June 4, 2013, Augmented World Expo, Santa Clara, CA—Bruce Sterling, author and futurist described the emerging technologies and directions for the augmented society. The nature of people is changing, and the rate of change in various technologies is accelerating those changes in the society. The technology industries are getting more involved in augmented functions. Google’s…
May 17, 2013, Music Meets Science Forum, SwissNex, San Francisco—Brennon Bortz from Virginia Technical University presented their research results in music, sensors, and emotion. The work involves many sensors and other technologies as well as a range of experiments. Controlling music from biofeedback is now relatively easy. The difficulty is in tracking gestures and emotion…
May 14, 2013, Uptime Symposium, Santa Clara, CA—Kevin Brown from Schneider-Electric proposed some evaluation criteria for supporting a make or buy decision for new data center capacity. The primary pieces for evaluation are cost, cash flow, and strategic factors for upgrade, build additional capacity, or outsource. Existing evaluations are based on rigid financial models and…
April 29, 2013, Open Source Business Conference, San Francisco—Martin Fink from HP discussed the need for open source in cloud computing, and the issues and challenges going forward. The community-driven cloud projects are providing more than just source code. Cloud projects have been in the works at HP since ’05, and are now mainstream within…
April 7, 2013, National Association of Broadcasters, Las Vegas—We talked with Wohler about challenges and opportunities for the industry. The market and financial systems have seen difficult years, and the company is working on increasing automation for systems operators to help in both areas. A-V monitors are moving to file-based flows, and the latest EU…
April 3, 2013, Ethernet Technology Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Jane Li from Huawei projected the possibilities for Ethernet in the next 40 years. She offered a range of possibilities and extrapolated from current prospects and possibilities. Some trends from the present will be factors in future evolution. When Ethernet was developed 40 years ago by Bob…