It has been said that ‘He who dies with the most toys, wins.’ But not all toys are created equal. Some spark joy, trigger endless hours of replay, and bring smiles to parents and children alike. Others sit, untouched, lonelier than the island of misfit toys citizens. A few are still in their packages, never inciting […]
Remember the elation on signing up for that Coursera coding class? Your dreams of finishing your Snapgram app even before the course finishes, publishing it to the app store and retiring by the age of 27. The first class was awesome, you were able to make a little dog run around on the screen. The […]
Headed out the door the a conference yesterday. Got all packed, extra business cards, backup battery charged and extra cables just in case. Where are my keys? Where did I leave them? Did my kids move them? Find a new secret hiding spot? What if we had our home security cameras track our […]
We had some minor thunderstorms in Silicon Valley yesterday, a rare occurrence. Given our dry summers, Cal Fire crews were on alert to see if any of the lightning strikes resulted in fires. Turns out more than a few did. Imagine if we had used smart microphones around the area to triangulate the location […]
Amazon Alexa is all around and factored heavily in the success of last week’s CEDIA annual conference in San Diego. Tying into the community garden of Alexa has become the “we’ve got an app for that” of the second decade of the 21st Century. So imagine how many Echo’s will be lounging at the booths […]
Remember Guitar Hero, the game that that spun out of the MIT Media Lab? You could almost play your favorite hits. Then came Smule’s Ocarina which spun out of Stanford’s CCRMA that connected muscians across the world via their virtual instrument apps. So why not combine the two? Why not leverage IoT to connect stringed […]