Monday, March 31, 2003
The Sound of Things to Come A NY Times piece that serves as a nice profile of serial inventor Woody Norris, even if the profile of his HyperSonic Sound (marketed by American Technology Corporation) is really not new. The tech is at least five years old and there is even a competing technology the NY Times fails to mention. See a better article Wired from 2002: Point-'n'-Shoot Sound Makes Waves for talk of both technologies. Still no news if they infringe on eachothers patents or how the two companies implementations differ.
Shirky: Permanet, Nearlynet, and Wireless Data Why 3G fails in implementation, and WiFi just might work. About the economics of connectivity and about two competing visions for access to our various networks. One of these visions is the one everyone wants -- ubiquitous and convenient -- and the other vision is the one we get -- spotty and cobbled together.
Those that strive for the perfect ubiquitous solution (think airplane telephone calling, ubiquitous 3G broadband, iridium satellite phones) that cause incredibly high priced, closed systems to be developed (and fail). Take that versus grass-roots, works just well enough, and low barrier to entry.
Thursday, March 20, 2003
Could 802.11 Link 'Smart Dust'? The motes fit into a larger Intel dream of "proactive computing" (never mind that there's no such word). This would be the next step after ubiquitous computing: With so many computing devices surrounding us, we're going to want them to talk with each other rather than having to interact with a human all the time, says David Tennenhouse, vice president of Intel's corporate technology group
