Category: Technology
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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…
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Orchestrating Multiple Transportation Modes in Boring Places and Familiar Streets, Paths, & Sidewalks
Transportation and communications networks are really one and the same. Instead of transporting invisible bits like telecom, mobility networks have to carry bottoms and boxes. Another parallel between these two types of networks is the need for orchestration to manage the different types of traffic and, potentially, different service providers.1 In the above interview, Bern…
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ITNCountry and ISPs – A Conversation about Better Mobility & Building Community for Rural America
“Around 40% of rural counties in the U.S. have no public transit services whatsoever,” according to Michael Sena in his January 2022 newsletter, the Dispatcher.1 Affordable mobility is a huge challenge, particularly for seniors and it is even a bigger challenge for seniors living in rural areas. In the above conversation, Katherine Freund explains how…