Category: Technology
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Smarter, Autonomous, & More Efficient Agriculture #CES2022
Although agricultural productivity may not improve at the rate of Moore’s law, its consistent increases in output have proven Malthusian predictions wrong. Agriculture innovation continues as evidenced by the new product offerings shown at the John Deere pavilion at CES2022. In the above interview, Julian Sanchez, Director – Emerging Technology for John Deere, discusses two…
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A College Job and Its Impact on the Direction of Ethernet
It is a given that Ethernet is a fundamental building block of today’s Internet. From local area networks in the 1980s to cable modems in the 1990s to today’s fiber-to-the-home and WiFi networks, Ethernet is a common thread in the evolution of broadband.1 But would there have been a thread if not for the insight…
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Coordinating Robots Across Town and Across Country
Almost a year ago, Bern Grush warned that cities weren’t ready for sidewalk robots. This was reinforced a few months ago in a post on a neighborhood social media site where some pretty funny comments were made about an unexpected little robot plying the streets. In this neighborhood, like many, the sidewalk infrastructure is decrepit…
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Sleep Better
A good night’s sleep makes all the difference in the world. It’s not just your mother saying this, but science says so as well.* SleepScore Labs makes tracking and understanding one’s sleep performance easy with their smartphone app, SleepScore. In the above interview, filmed at CES 2022, Colin Lawlor, CEO of SleepScore Labs, speaks of…
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A Bike Points the Way to a New Way of Manufacturing #CES2022
[Author’s Note, 11/29/22: The comments made by readers at the bottom of this post regarding their unfulfilled orders have been forwarded to AREVO. AREVO has yet to respond.] As the world’s first 3D-printed unibody carbon fiber composite bike, the Superstrata is an important pointer of the commercialization of the concept of mass customization. As Sonny…
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Electric Flight Taking Off Again at TVF 22
The Vertical Flight Society was back in San Jose in 2022 bigger and better than ever with more than 50 technical paper presentations and 50+ invited talks, plus 20 exhibitors. The hybrid nature of the online/in-person Transformative Vertical Flight 2022 meeting allowed speakers and attendees to join remotely from around the world. The above interview with…