ViodiTV Videos About Broadband, Technology, & More
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The Endless Spring – 24/7/365 Garden in the Home
“Spring has sprung” denotes the time of year when new growth occurs in the plant world. With Gardyn, every day is the first day of spring, which also means that every day can be peak fall harvest. In the above video, Lindsay Springer, Ph.D., Gardyn’s Director of Plants, Nutrition, and Digital Agriculture, explains how combining…
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The Virtual Seeing Eye Dog – Autonomous Tech for Humans
.Lumen has developed a groundbreaking device that could revolutionize the lives of visually impaired people: a virtual seeing-eye dog. The device, worn as a headset, uses technology found in self-driving vehicles (think Nvidia GPU) to guide users around obstacles and to their destinations, both indoors and outdoors. The company was founded by Cornel Amariei, who…
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Extending Wi-Fi to Hard-to-Reach Places #CES2025
Wi-Fi HaLow is a potential game-changer for broadband service providers needing to extend their signals to hard-to-reach places. It’s a long-range Wi-Fi technology based on the IEEE 801.11ah standard. Example applications range from single-family residences with massive yards to homeowner associations with sensor needs, to commercial and industrial buildings to the unique IoT needs of…
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CES2025: Tech Breaking Down Barriers
Leveraging humans’ capabilities by using machines was a central theme of CES2025. Some of the machines took the form of electric vehicles. These vehicles were not just cars and included electrified surfboards, drones, and multi-passenger shuttles. Although all of these vehicles might not make it to the mass market, they point to how electric drive…
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The Best Telecom Entrance Ever – #FiberConnect24
What do a Big Dog Chopper and Fiber to the Home have in common? The answer is Jimmy Todd, the CEO/General Manager of Nex-Tech. In 2024, Todd also served as the Chair of the Fiber Broadband Association (FBA).1 His entrance at the FBA’s Fiber Connect conference on the chopper was impressive and, perhaps, the best…
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Exit Interview with Gary Johnson
It must have been the winter of 2000 when I met Gary Johnson. He was a relatively young engineer with a remarkable grasp of technology and the needs of Paul Bunyan Telephone’s members. He was part of a group of Minnesota telephone companies exploring video-on-demand.1 Fast-forward to today and Gary is retiring from the company…