Category: Innovation
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Worlds Thinnest Hologram
Holograms Holograms are the product of Holography. This sounds rather self referencing. You can think of this as recording light the way you record sound. So you can have monophonic sound or full surround sound. A 3D Hologram allows you to see the original object from different directions as you move around it even though…
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Light at Work
Putting Light to Work Light is a really interesting thing. It has so many different aspects. And it took us a long time to work out exactly how it functioned. And in many ways that is still an ongoing process. So this post is a brief survey of some recent advances in our understanding of…
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Connect Expo 2017
Connect Expo The Connect Expo is on each year around late March in Melbourne at the Exhibition and Convention Centre. I had gone to previous events but this was our first time as an exhibitor. This was by far the best Connect Expo I have been to. The mix of software vendors, web platform vendors,…
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Miller Puckette and New Music Creation
Making Music is Creative Making music is a creative process. At every level. There is not only composing and playing, but there is the instruments themselves and also how we record and play back music. Technology and creativity abound at every level. I’m a musician. That is how I ended up in Electronics Engineering.…
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Design Led Innovation
Design Led Innovation Traditional Product Development comes up with the product idea, does the development, gets it into production and then tries to find customers to sell it to. Design Led Innovation tries to turn that process around so the actual needs of the customer or user become part of both the product definition and…
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Embracing the Digital Future
Digital Tomorrow is Today The most recent Casey Cardinia Business Group breakfast heard from Chris Riddell, futurist. This is a summary of what he said. The future is already here. The digital revolution has happened. So what about tomorrow? This is the question Chris posed to the room at the start of…
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Light Cameras
DSLR or Digital Single Lens Reflex Camera Ignoring the play on words, the light camera is a major breakthrough in the use of multiple optical viewpoint cameras to create synthetic images that can be taken with something the size of a smart phone and rivals DSLR Camera photographs. And spoiler alert, I’m getting one…
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Mechanical Gears Breakthrough
Mechanisms Mechanisms are important in many aspects of modern life. They adjust the focus on your smart phone camera, put the wheels down when a plane is coming in to land, allows automobiles, trains, trucks and ships to move and even allow probes to roam about on the surface of Mars. So I was…