Category: Innovation
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Self Driving Cars
Self Driving Cars Waymo, the Google spin out that is progressing their Self Driving Car technology, also know as the Autonomous Vehicle, has released a video showing how the current technology works and what being in a Self Driving Car looks like for a passenger. Enjoy. While this is still an emerging technology, it…
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Light L16 CES Award Winner
Light L16 Wins CES Award Yesterday I wrote an update on the Light L16 and how it was a good example of Disruptive Innovation in Photography. Today I learn that CES agrees and awarded it the CES 2018 Best of Innovation: Digital Imaging. There are now several industry articles recognising the significance of the multi-camera technology.…
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Disruptive Innovation in Photography
Disruptive Innovation Clayton Christensen in his book The Innovator’s Dilemma showed us that the business drivers of our current customers blinds us to emerging but currently unsuitable technology that eventually takes over our market. This has led to a focus on Innovation that looks to be disruptive as its primary goal. And I have come to the conclusion that this…
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IEEE Collabratec
IEEE IEEE, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, is the largest professional engineering body in the world and has a world wide focus. I am a Senior Member and have always found it worthwhile. In the days before the Internet was as useful as it is now, they were the best source of regular…
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CES 2018
CES 2018 The annual Consumer Electronics Show has wrapped up in Las Vegas and a lot of exciting announcements were made. IEEE Spectrum CES2018 put together a summary. Here are some that I found particularly interesting. 5G 5G is expected to launch ahead of schedule with phone manufacturers supporting it toward the end of…
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Satellite Internet
Satellite Internet There are many areas of the world where Internet services are not readily accessible. One of the ideas for providing poorly services areas with Internet was Google’s Project Loon which used high altitude balloons. But there are also Satellite Internet contenders. Theses were nicely covered by recent blogs at CIS 471 and I’ve picked…
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Casey Tech School
Tech Schools Project In Schools of the Future I wrote about the Victorian Government Tech School initiative which is intended to augment existing High Schools with a High Technology facility that is a shards asset for the all the schools in the area. The intent is to improve Australia’s digital readiness, STEM adoption and aid schools…
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Voltera PCB prototyping
Voltera V-One The Voltera V-One is a PCB Prototyping system from voltera.io. And we just got one having put in a pre-order in April 2017. So we made the default “Hello World”project to make sure it works. And it did. Now the first serious assignment is making a single sided PCB with eight channels of third order…
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arcHUB – Agilent Award for Innovation in Analytical Science 2017
Agilent Award for Innovation in Analytical Science We are pleased to announce that our client, The Active Reactor Company, are finalists in the Agilent Award for Innovation in Analytical Science 2017 this coming Tuesday 12 September 2017. This is for the arcHUB Smart Cities device that measures multiple data types that are useful for the…