ViodiTV Videos About Broadband, Technology, & More
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Visions of Uncle Fester – A Light Bulb with a Memory #CES2014
Imagine a lightbulb that stays on when power is interrupted? Well, that’s what Charlotte entrepreneur of the year, Shaliendra Suman, not only imagined, but put into action with a Kick Starter campaign that funded the development and production of the SmartCharge LED lightbulb. A built-in battery, coupled with intelligence to detect the position of a…
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Smartly Connecting Rural Cooperatives
On the surface, the Smart Rural Community® Showcase Award from NTCA is about how an operator mixes bandwidth and technology to create new opportunities for their community. The award is more than these elements, however, as it is also a reflection of the operator’s initiative and their “smarts” to continue to find ways to make their communities relevant…
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From Tubes to Semiconductors
Paul Wesling (GTE/Lenkurt), Norm Pond (Varian) and Ted Hoff (Intel) explain the transition from tubes to semiconductors and describe the resulting transformation of the Valley of the Hearts Delight into Silicon Valley. Starting in the early 1900s, this fascinating talk shows how modern concepts, like hackathons and sharing, were a factor in the development of homegrown technology…
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Electronics in the Valley of the Heart’s Delight
Paul Wesling provides an overview of the early days of Silicon Valley and the defining events and the elements that led to growth of the electronics industry.
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Following our Entrepreneurs
Paul Wesling provides insight on some of the early Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who spawned a new generator of entrepreneurs.
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The Tube business in the 20s
Paul Wesling discusses tubes in the decade of the 1920s.