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Health Vault

October 9, 2009 by John Feilen

Microsoft has developed a product called Health Vault. Health Vault combines portal, sensor and Bluetooth technologies creating a tool that can collect and monitor health data, such blood pressure and even weight loss/gain using a wireless scale that transmits your weight to and records it in your personalized portal. Workouts, health records and other health issues can be uploaded and tracked as well.

Watch the video on the following the link to learn more:

http://www.healthvault.com/Personal/index.html

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Google Sidewiki

September 24, 2009 – By John Feilen

Arguably one of the most significant evolutions to come out of Web 2.0 is the ‘wiki’; a website created collaboratively through various users posting information, thoughts, and comments. A great example is Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org), an online encyclopedia, where the users create and post the content.

September 23, 2009 Google launched Google Sidewiki. What makes this wiki different is it allows users the ability to post comments regarding a specific website they are viewing.

Watch a video demonstration and read Google’s official blog entry:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/help-and-learn-from-others-as-you.html

Get Google Sidewiki for yourself:
http://www.google.com/sidewiki/intl/en/index.html

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IP TV and tCOMMERCE: 2 New Smart Home Concepts That Will Change How We Watch TV

September 18, 2009 – By John Feilen

Here are two concepts that I believe will change how we watch television and shop while we do it.

1.IP TV
Watching television/movies and consuming media distributed over an IP network…in short TV shows are delivered to the home via an internet connection vs. the traditional cable model but still displayed on your flat screen TV. This will allow us to have more content available and watch it when we want.

Watch a great video on IP TV:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwzF7vzE0PE

2.tCOMMERCE
As households move to consuming television programming and movies via an IP network, we will also begin to purchase products from our flat screen TVs; or even purchase the shirt we see our favorite sitcom character wear.

See an excellent video example of tCommerce from BNS Touch:
http://bnsltd.com/eng/products/touch.asp

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A Quick Post: Look Who’s Blogging Now!

September 14, 2009 – By John Feilen

My current housemate has given me a bit of (good natured) grief about my ‘archive’ of newspapers. This is an old stack of newspapers, which I’ve either purchased, when I felt like taking the time to read with a cup of coffee or at one time received via daily delivery. As I have stopped all my subscriptions for I never seem to get to them, I like to hang on to the back issues for I believe they still offer interesting nuggets of information. I save them for those rare days when I have time to actually sit with a paper and linger over vs. my usual ‘search and sort’ of electronic news sources.

This morning I pulled from the pile of outdated papers and found this great article in the May 13, 2009 Financial Times discussing corporations using blogs (once dismissed as mere online diaries) to communicate with shareholders.

Read full article: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/33df400c-3e8c-11de-9a6c-00144feabdc0.html

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A Summer Off – but it’s all still there…and more of you are watching TV online!

September 11, 2009 – By John Feilen

As this is my first post since June, it is obvious that I took the summer off from blogging. This was in part because I felt I had lost my voice…I didn’t seem to have a common theme or thread. In short I was writing about what I thought people wanted to hear instead of that about which I was (am) really passionate. Yes, I did find some…most of what I was posting interesting but guess it became more of a labor and than labor of love.

After I walked away, I realized what I find most interesting about technology is the intersection between technology, creativity and the user experience. How we see new ideas realized in products and how these ideas/concepts become part of our everyday lives; the iPhone and iPod for example.

Now after we have celebrated (or mourned) the official end of summer with the Labor Day weekend, we see that it’s all still there, work, the bad economy and yes advancements in technology. As I mentioned in previous posts, I believe the consumption of media and data over an IP network (or watching TV and movies on our computers) is the future. No, we won’t sit in front of our PC to watch Ugly Betty but the show will be delivered on demand to our flat screen HDTV; this is already possible and a lot of people are doing it.

Wednesday (September 9, 2009) the Los Angles Times reported nearly 25% of households in the U.S. now view television programs online. That's up from 20% last year. Also reported, was viewership of Hulu, which offers shows from NBC, ABC, Fox and others online, nearly quadrupled from last year. Hulu debuted March 2007.

Read full article: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-online-tv9-2009sep09,0,3144574.story

Visit Hulu: http://www.hulu.com/

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One last thing, during the month of August I redesigned and rebuilt my interactive portfolio in flash: www.john-fred.com. All comments and feedback are appreciated…as long as they are polite. ;-)

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TV Screens That Bend?

June 12, 2009 – By John Feilen

MIT reports that researchers at Arizona State University's Flexible Display Center and Universal Display in Ewing, NJ have developed full-color OLED (organic light-emitting diode) screens that bend. As a new way to mass-produce flexible OLED displays could mean affordable commercial products, does this mean we’ll have TV screens that bend someday? Will our flat screen TVs become a thin screen that retracts into the ceiling?

Read the full article:
http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22758/?nlid=2100

More on flexible displays from ASU:

http://flexdisplay.asu.edu/

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