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The Meditation App & Headband
With the buzzing of text message alerts, the temptation to check social media and the knowledge that an answer to a fleeting thought is a search away, the conventional wisdom is that technology can be distracting and an impediment to focus. Ariel Garten has a solution that uses these same tools to help people improve…
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Smart Dubai Through WiFi
Anchored by the world’s tallest building and world’s largest mall, Dubai is a major tourist, event and business destination that aims to become even smarter and improve the quality of life for citizens and visitors. As Paul Taylor points out in the above interview, WiFi is a key building block in realizing Dubai’s Vision 2021 plan for…
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Everyone’s a Sure-Shot with a Linux-Based Rifle
Giving a novice the ability to shoot a bullet through a pizza pan-sized object from a mile out is what John McHale, Chairman of TrackingPoint, says his company’s rifle can do. What he describes is really a Linux computer that includes a rifle. According to McHale, the rifle accounts for 23 ballistic variables to direct the bullet…
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Higher Quality Governance Through ICT
San Jose, the 10th largest city in the U.S., recently hosted the WBA’s Conference. As pointed out in the above interview, San Jose and its greater Silicon Valley region is a hotbed of innovation, boasting more patents per capita than any other region. As Khanh Russo, who spoke at the WBA event, explains, the reason…
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A Network of Networks
With over 80,000 route miles of middle mile fiber and hundreds of points of presence, INDATEL and its partners have become an important part of the Internet infrastructure that connects the rural and urban parts of America. In the above interview, INDATEL Executive Director, Max Huffman talks about the importance and challenges of interoperability with so…
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The Internet of Beer #CES2015
[12/27/24 Update – According to this article from a competitor, BEERMKR, PicoBrew is no longer in business]. Given that this week saw a return to the future depicted in the classic movie, Back to the Future 2, it seems fitting to air a video interview with an inventor of a device that would make the fictional Dr. Emmett Brown…
