Topic: Personal Technology
Through the extended metaphor of the current 'Slow Food' movement, Stefan Agamanolis presents Distance Lab's ideas for the future of telecommunications. He discusses future and more personalized methods of communication, including immersion tank 'isophones,' platforms to simultaneously watch movies and interact with the audience, and music players that allow listeners to broadcast, share, and interact, just to name a few.
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with author Howard Rheingold about how to prosper in the post-internet world and his new book, NetSmart: How to Thrive Online.
No infrastructure, no electricity. No electricity, no cable lines. No cable lines, no coaxial Internet connection. No coaxial Internet connection, no problem, because this is how, on the continent of Africa, Android and cell phones become the solution, according to Claire Hunsaker. Her mission is to cultivate consumer market within poverty-stricken areas of Kenya by focusing on access to practical data, developing payment systems, and efficient networking utilizing Google's Android operating system.
Dr. Moria Gunn talks about the trend of building a global medical team in order to make better health care decisions with IDBS' Vice President of Corporate Development, Chris Molloy.
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with author and entrepreneur, Linda Bernardi about the her new book Provoke, where she discusses new insights on female entrepreneurs and the steps to forgetting the past.
Presenting ten key features of the Android in less than ten minutes, Square Inc.'s Bob Lee discusses key innovations that Android has had since the beginning. With themes from individual multi-tasking to global corporate use, as well as some background into the creation of the platform, Bob Lee quickly and clearly summarizes the best of what Android has to offer.
The number of calling minutes in the world is growing since it was created in 2003, but their shift towards Skype is growing faster. Sten Tamkivi, chief spokesperson for Skype, looks behind this trend, sharing what Skype has learned about simultaneously serving both the most and less developed markets in the world and why this is important. Skype handles one-third of all call minutes, is the only quality video conversation provider with a global footprint and sees increased growth due to video cameras on mobile phones and notebook computers.
In the day and age of "fast", every online entity seeks to make their user experience faster. Michael Kuperman and Ronni Zehavi announce a few bits of news for Cotendo before presenting their subject. They have developed a program suite for both desktop and mobile websites and applications to accelerate performance and thus foster a positive user experience.
Skills that were thought to be old fashioned relics of the 20 century, such as sewing, stitching, or needle point are still relevant in the 21st century thanks to the Arduino LilyPad. Massimo Banzi, co-founder of Arduino, talks about and displays some of their fascinating developments, which include the LilyPad, an electronic component made to be sewn into fabric with needle and thread, rather than soldered, to facilitate the embedding of circuits.
If Moore's Law is the basis of your religion, Johnny Lee of Google warns that you might find what he has to say heresy: Convergence won't happen in consumer electronics. In fact, he says the darwinism of free-market competition drives diversification among device species. The mouse and keyboard remain the stalwarts of the productive machine, while computer capacity increases the function of devices large and small.
