Viodi View – The Bridge Between the Heartland and Silicon Valley

  • Viodi View – 03/31/21

    Viodi View – 03/31/21

    The conversion of supply chains to supply webs was the theme of a recent Wall Street Journal article by the ever-insightful Christopher Mims. The premise that companies that rely on single points of failure are vulnerable to outside events applies to the telecom world. From a national security perspective, competition in the last-mile network provides…

  • Coordinating Robots Across Town and Across Country

    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…

  • Sleep Better

    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…

  • A Bike Points the Way to a New Way of Manufacturing #CES2022

    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…

  • Viodi View – 02/28/22

    Viodi View – 02/28/22

    In the face of darkness, the leaders and people of Ukraine are inspirational. Time will tell if we are seeing a modern David versus Goliath story. Amazingly, the Internet continues to function, allowing the entire world to see history unfold in real-time. And with Elon Musk turning on the Starlink network and sending terminals to…

  • 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…