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Tag: Cool Products

Interest Networks are at a Tipping Point

Posted on October 20, 2008 by Nova

UPDATE: There’s already a lot of good discussion going on around this post in my public twine.

I’ve been writing about a new trend that I call “interest networking” for a while now. But I wanted to take the opportunity before the public launch of Twine on Tuesday (tomorrow) to reflect on the state of this new category of applications, which I think is quickly reaching its tipping point.…

Posted in Technology, Web/Tech Tagged: Artificial Intelligence, Collaboration Tools, Collective Intelligence, Cool Products, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Networking, Microcontent, Productivity, Radar Networks, Semantic Blogs and Wikis, Semantic Web, Social Networks, Software, The Future, The Semantic Graph, Twine, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, Web 3.0

Favorite Site of the Week: Slideshare.net

Posted on November 23, 2007 by Nova

Slideshare is a site where people post and share their Powerpoints. You can watch the powerpoints quickly with a little viewer widget that let’s you click through them in your browser. There are some really interesting, creative, and informative presentations there.…

Posted in Web/Tech Tagged: Cool Products, Things I like, Web 2.0

A Video and an Audio Cast About Twine

Posted on October 25, 2007 by Nova

Last night I saw that the video of my presentation of Twine at the Web 2.0 Summit is online. My session, "The Semantic Edge," featured Danny Hillis of Metaweb demoing Freebase, Barney Pell demoing Powerset, and myself Demoing Twine, followed by a brief panel discussion with Tim O’Reilly (in that order).…

Posted in Technology, Web/Tech Tagged: Collaboration Tools, Collective Intelligence, Cool Products, Group Minds, Groupware, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Networking, Productivity, Radar Networks, Semantic Web, Social Networks, The Metaweb, The Semantic Graph, Twine, Web 2.0, Web 3.0

What a Week!

Posted on October 20, 2007 by Nova

What a week it has been for Radar Networks. We have worked so hard these last few days to get ready to unveil Twine, and it has been a real thrill to show our work and get such positive feedback and support from the industry, bloggers, the media and potential users.…

Posted in Technology, Web/Tech Tagged: Collaboration Tools, Collective Intelligence, Cool Products, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Networking, Radar Networks, Search, Semantic Web, Social Networks, The Semantic Graph, Twine, Web 3.0

Radar Networks Coming Out of Stealth – Friday, October 19

Posted on October 15, 2007 by Nova

News Flash!

My company, Radar Networks, is coming out of stealth this Friday, October 19, 2007 at the Web 2.0 Summit, in San Francisco. I’ll be speaking on "The Semantic Edge Panel" at 4:10 PM, and publicly showing our Semantic Web online service for the first time.…

Posted in Business, Technology, Web/Tech Tagged: Conferences and Events, Cool Products, Groupware, Knowledge Management, Radar Networks, Social Networks, The Future, The Metaweb, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, Web 3.0

Steorn Set to Demo "Free Energy" Device Tomorrow

Posted on July 4, 2007 by Nova

Steorn, the Irish company that claims to have invented a mechanical device that generates unlimited free energy with no fuel, is scheduled to demonstrate their device publicly for the first time in London tomorrow. A panel of 22 independent world experts has been recruited to study the device.…

Posted in Business, Science, Technology Tagged: Alternative Science, Cool Products, Environment, Fringe, Physics, The Future

Wow! Watch this Multi-Touch UI Demo Video

Posted on February 10, 2007 by Nova

If you are interested on what computer user-interfaces are going to feel like in the future — you must see this video of a demo of a new multi-touch computer monitor. This is amazing technology — and the various demos themselves are interactive artworks in their own right.…

Posted in Technology, Web/Tech Tagged: Cool Products, Productivity, Software, Television, The Future, Virtual Reality, Web 3.0

Very Cool Desktop Interface Prototype Video — Bumptop

Posted on January 27, 2007 by Nova

Check out this very impressive user-interface prototype for a desktop that works more like a real desk — a messy desk in fact. Very delightful design work that makes want to use it now!…

Posted in Science, Technology, Web/Tech Tagged: Cognitive Science, Cool Products, Knowledge Management, Productivity, Search, Virtual Reality, Web 3.0

Glass CDs Promise Crystal Sound Quality

Posted on October 22, 2006 by Nova

An invetor in Japan has created the world’s first glass CD. Because of glass’s exceptional clarity and durability it not only provides better sound quality than plastic, it lasts "forever." The catch: it costs a hefty amount yen to buy one since they are presently made by hand.…

Posted in Technology Tagged: Cool Products, Digital Music Devices, Music

LOST: My Newest Obsession

Posted on October 22, 2006 by Nova

I know, I know. I’m several years late to the party on this one, but I have become quite obsessed with the television show, Lost. It’s possibly the most addictive show on TV. Ever. You have to start from the beginning though.…

Posted in Wild Speculation Tagged: Cool Products, Fringe, Television, Things I like

My New Tivo Series 3

Posted on October 22, 2006 by Nova

I got the TiVo Series 3 box today and installed it. It takes 2 cable cards and can record simultaneously on two channels at once, in HDTV. It also connects to my wireless network instead of using regular phone lines. Nice.…

Posted in Technology Tagged: Cool Products, Digital Music Devices, Television

Two Other Artists I Really Like — Aimee Mann and Sia

Posted on October 22, 2006 by Nova

I’ve been listening to a lot of music today. Two other albums that I have that I highly recommend are the Magnolia soundtrack by Aimee Mann, and Colour the Small One by Sia. While we’re on the subject, if you like these, you’ll probably also like Dummy by Portishead, even though it’s quite different from them.…

Posted in Miscellaneous Tagged: Cool Products, Music

Scrybe — A Beautiful Ajax Organizer App

Posted on October 22, 2006 by Nova

This online video preview of the upcoming Web-based organizer, Scrybe. The app has an unusually elegant and innovative AJAX interface. It’s beautifully designed. Watch the video.…

Posted in Business, Web/Tech Tagged: AJAX, Collaboration Tools, Cool Products, Knowledge Management, Productivity, Software, Web 2.0

Moments of Past Geekiness: Shatner Commercial for C-64

Posted on October 21, 2006 by Nova

This is a nice, VERY dated commercial for the C-64 computer starring none other than William Shatner! …

Posted in Technology Tagged: Cool Products, Fringe, Humor, Television

Pandora is Great But…

Posted on October 21, 2006 by Nova

The online music recommendation service Pandora is really cool in all ways but one. Due to what they report as a requirement of their music license the user is only allowed to skip a small number of songs per hour. This can be a problem since the whole point of Pandora is that you give it feedback as it plays songs for you and it learns what you like.…

Posted in Technology, Web/Tech Tagged: Artificial Intelligence, Cool Products, Digital Music Devices, Music, Things I like, Web 2.04 Comments on Pandora is Great But…

Help Me Destroy My Treo 650

Posted on September 23, 2006 by Nova

My Treo 650 has been an endless source of frustration. It’s probably one of the most annoyingly bad devices I’ve ever owned. First of all, the form factor is such that it’s almost impossible to grab it when it rings without dropping it or flinging it across the room.…

Posted in Technology Tagged: Cool Products, Fringe, Humor, Things I Don't Like

Touch Screens that Touch Back

Posted on May 18, 2006 by Nova

This is cool — the next generation of touch screens will touch back —

Immersion’s new TouchSense Technology for Touch Screens combines vibro
feedback with finger-position recognition and interpolation to deliver
tactile feedback on standard touch screens. This feedback can register
as bumps, low vibrations, ticks, clicks, slides, you name it.

…
Posted in Technology Tagged: Cool Products

Location Awareness — The Next Big Thing

Posted on March 27, 2006 by Nova

Japanese cell phone company KDDI is offering a new GPS-enabled 3D navigational tool to their 17 million subscribers (see article and picture). Their system helps consumers navigate city streets and even within buildings, using an innovative 3D map and audio directions.…

Posted in Best Articles, Technology Tagged: Cool Products, Mobile Computing, Search, Search, Security, Social Networks, Software, The Future, Travel, Wireless Technology

New Underwater Scooter Technology

Posted on February 24, 2006 by Nova

Check out the Scoobadoo — a new underwater scooter that lets anyone scuba dive, without wearing a mask, tank or weights… Cool. …

Posted in Technology Tagged: Cool Products, Travel

New Touch Sensitive Display Detects Multiple Fingers

Posted on February 24, 2006 by Nova

Check out the photo and video of this cool new display right out of Minority Report. It detects multiple fingers at once, enabling a wide range of new gestural interactions.…

Posted in Technology Tagged: Cool Products, Television

Colored Bubbles

Posted on November 17, 2005 by Nova

After 11 years of painstaking research and inventor has finally achieved the "holy grail" — colored soap bubbles that don’t stain anything. But that’s just the beginning — his invention is based on a completely new kind of dye chemistry that could open the door to a wide range of new products.…

Posted in Science, Technology Tagged: Cool Products, Games, Things I like

New Low Power Broadband Wireless Networking Technology May Spark Revolutionary Advance

Posted on November 7, 2005 by Nova

This article just came in (via Kurzweil)

A little-known start-up has demonstrated wireless broadband 1000
times more efficient than WiMax – and claims the technique could also
make wireless LANs that will run for years on watch batteries.

xG
Technology, based in Sarasota, Florida, used a transmitter not unlike a
cordless phone base station, operating in the unlicensed – and crowded
– 900MHz band, to send a 3.7Mbit/s data signal to a radius of 18 miles
across the suburbs of Miami, using 50mW and an omnidirectional antenna.

…
Posted in Business, Technology, Web/Tech Tagged: Cool Products, Mobile Computing, Wireless Technology

The Semantic Web on Your Desktop — Open IRIS Announced

Posted on November 6, 2005 by Nova

Following in the footsteps of Douglas Engelbart’s pioneering work, SRI has announced the upcoming open-source (LGPL) release of Open IRIS — an experimental Semantic Web personal information manager that runs on the desktop. IRIS was developed for the DARPA CALO project and makes use of code libraries and ontology components developed at SRI, and my own startup, Radar Networks, as well as other participating research organizations.…

Posted in Technology, Web/Tech Tagged: Artificial Intelligence, Collaboration Tools, Cool Products, Groupware, Intelligence Technology, Knowledge Management, Productivity, Radar Networks, Semantic Web, Web 2.0

Working Quantum Computer in 3 Years

Posted on June 22, 2005 by Nova

D-Wave, a Canadian startup, claims it will have a working quantum computer within 3 years. Unlike other quantum computer designs which are based on the principle of quantum entanglement, the D-Wave design is based on quantum tunneling. While this makes it less powerful, it is still ideal for complex calculations such as the "traveling salesman problem" and simulations of physical systems.…

Posted in Business, Science, Technology Tagged: Cool Products, Physics

Silent Speech Technology

Posted on May 12, 2005 by Nova

NASA’s research on subvocalization technology is moving forward. Their system intercepts nerve signals to the vocal cords before the speaker makes a sound and then figures out what words they signify. This technology will enable people to speak silently on the phone or to their computers, without moving their lips or making a sound.…

Posted in Science, Technology Tagged: Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Cool Products, Mobile Computing, The Future

Brain Stimulation Helmet for your PC

Posted on March 10, 2005 by Nova

Years ago I read about Persinger’s work on the induction of unusual states of consciousness using magnetic stimulation of the temporal lobe and always wanted to try it — unfortunately the only way to do that was to go to his lab (assuming you could get invited).…

Posted in Technology Tagged: Alternative Science, Cognitive Science, Consciousness, Cool Products, Fringe, Religion, Virtual Reality

New Sony Creation Box Makes TV's Better

Posted on January 13, 2005 by Nova

Sony has released its new Creation Box in Japan — it processes regular TV signals to make images clearer, flicker free, and more vivid — and it enables zoom functions. Pretty interesting idea — but why bother? Aren’t we all going digital anyway?…

Posted in Business, Technology Tagged: Cool Products, Television

You've Got To Hear This Album…

Posted on January 3, 2005 by Nova
My friend, Bari Koral, just released her new album, "Confessions of an Indie Girl." Bari is an incredible talent — and this is her best album yet. She tours most of the year and has a large following, but she is still undiscovered by the mainstream.…
Posted in Miscellaneous Tagged: Cool Products, Interesting People, Music, Things I like

More iPod Playlist Features I Wish I Had…

Posted on November 27, 2004 by Nova

Here are some more features that I wish the iPod offered:

Side-Trips From Current Playlist

When I’m playing through one of my playlists and I get to a song I really like, I wish I had the ability to take sidetrips to other related subjects, accessible from the trackwheel or menu button:

  • After this song, side-trip to more songs by this artist (plays all songs on iPod by artist, starting with highest-rated, even if not in current playlist; when you end the side-trip it returns you back to the previous point in the playlist you were at when you started it.)
  • After this song, side-trip to more albums by this artist (plays all albums on iPod by artist, starting with cumulatively highest-rated, even if not in current playlist; when you end the side-trip it returns you back to the previous point in the playlist you were at when you started it.)
  • After this song, side-trip to a different playlist (plays that playlist; when you end the side-trip it returns you back to the previous point in the playlist you were at when you started it.)
  • After this song, play related playlist.
…
Posted in Technology Tagged: Cool Products, Digital Music Devices, Knowledge Management, Things I Want

TV2ME Unveiled

Posted on October 30, 2004 by Nova

Think outside your cable box! My long-time friend, the legendary Ken Schaffer, has finally come out of stealth with his new project, TV2ME. In a nutshell, it enables you to watch your own cable subscription channels live from anywhere via broadband over the Net.…

Posted in Technology Tagged: Cool Products, Interesting People, Television

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