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2010 Will be The Year of the Tablet!

By Ian | January 3, 2010

In all likelihood 2010 will be the year that tablet computers (and activities that belong on such a device) will become mainstream.
A large part of this is due the the (expected) announcement of Apple to release a large(er) factor iPhone or iPod Touch device, which has a chance of doing what the [...]

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Using an iPod as a travel device and the what could be (aka the tripPad™)

By Ian | December 6, 2009

This fall I was lucky to travel to Berlin and Paris on vacation, but as I geek I of course brought along a computer or 2.
On last years trip to Los Angles I had a NetBook (Aspire One) and using our friends WiFi was able to keep up on email and access the locations I [...]

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The Meta Photo Album

By Ian | August 15, 2007

Via Mark Evan’s discussion of Newspapers Aren’t Doomed; It’s Their Business Models, (which is huge and juicy topic all by itself, I can across this TED video demo of Seadragon and Photosynth, by Blaise Aguera y Arcas.

It is Seadragon (acquired by Microsoft in 2006), the visualization technology that gives Photosynth its amazingly [...]

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Recent Links for August 9th : space launches using lighter-than-air vehicles ; Japanese Mottainai Furoshiki wrapping

By Ian | August 9, 2007

A vision of cheap space launches using lighter-than-air vehicles essentially balloons built specifically to carry light payloads to the stratosphere, from which a larger space-going vehicle could be launched.- first stage would use a lighter-than-air ascent vehicle to reach a stationary craft hovering above the earth at about 140,000 feet.
Remember : “slow is cheap, [...]

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Is North America ready for Bar Codes Aware Cellphones?

By Ian | April 6, 2007

The Sunday New York Times (in /: New Bar Codes Can Talk With Your Cellphone, on the front page, abet under the fold) talks about the latest effects to launch in north america something almost mainstream in Japan : 2D barcodes known a QRCodes (Quick Repsonse Codes), also know as Semacode’s. (Both ISO standards)
~30 [...]

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Kurzweil’s handheld reader

By Ian | April 14, 2006

snap a picture of some text and have it read back to you

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TorDemoCamp 4 : Geeks Gather in Toronto for Show and Tell

By Ian | March 28, 2006

a great success with 150 signed up folks, plus many more..

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Freescale Acquires Ottawa’s Seaway Networks

By Ian | August 22, 2005

and has a new Freescale Ottawa Technology Center! Congradulations!
Seaway was mentioned back in Feburary : Startup digs out network worms and is/was an Ottawa-based fabless semiconductor company founded in 2001, is a leading supplier of high-performance, silicon-based content processing, security and traffic-management solutions to manufacturers of next-generation networking and security equipment.
Freescale was [...]

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