Comments on: Google Versus the Hospitality Industry? http://www.viodi.tv/2007/05/29/google/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=google Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:39:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ken Pyle http://www.viodi.tv/2007/05/29/google/comment-page-1/#comment-53 Ken Pyle Sat, 23 Jun 2007 00:43:19 +0000 http://www.viodi.tv/2007/06/01/google-versus-the-hospitality-industry/#comment-53 Maybe Thinking will soon be the best way to travel. If the work for Hitachi's Advanced Research Laboratory is soon commercialized, it may be possible to control things simply with one's mind. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/J/JAPAN_BRAIN_REMOTE?SITE=WIRE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT In this brief video, a model train is being controlled by a girl only by thinking. This isn't the first announcement like this, but it does point to the further integration of man and machine. The video is here: http://video.ap.org/v/Default.aspx?partner=en-ap&g=0fe13753-7aca-4a1c-874c-32155092851e&t=m326&p=ENAPbusinesstechnology_ENAPtechnology&f=WIRE& Maybe Thinking will soon be the best way to travel. If the work for Hitachi’s Advanced Research Laboratory is soon commercialized, it may be possible to control things simply with one’s mind.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/J/JAPAN_BRAIN_REMOTE?SITE=WIRE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

In this brief video, a model train is being controlled by a girl only by thinking. This isn’t the first announcement like this, but it does point to the further integration of man and machine. The video is here:

http://video.ap.org/v/Default.aspx?partner=en-ap&g=0fe13753-7aca-4a1c-874c-32155092851e&t=m326&p=ENAPbusinesstechnology_ENAPtechnology&f=WIRE&

]]> By: Ken Pyle http://www.viodi.tv/2007/05/29/google/comment-page-1/#comment-52 Ken Pyle Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:41:20 +0000 http://www.viodi.tv/2007/06/01/google-versus-the-hospitality-industry/#comment-52 Move Over Google – Microsoft Does Virtual Travel In the last issue of the Viodi View, there was an article suggesting that Google could someday be in the virtual travel business. Based on this article from Wired, it looks like Microsoft could have similar long-term plans. The amazing part of their technology is something they call Photosynth, which can takes common elements out of photos to create 3D representations. The photos can come from professional or amateur photo sharing sites; more about this sort of technology in a future issue. Move Over Google – Microsoft Does Virtual Travel

In the last issue of the Viodi View, there was an article suggesting that Google could someday be in the virtual travel business. Based on this article from Wired, it looks like Microsoft could have similar long-term plans. The amazing part of their technology is something they call Photosynth, which can takes common elements out of photos to create 3D representations. The photos can come from professional or amateur photo sharing sites; more about this sort of technology in a future issue.

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