Movin' Ahead

Can Big Data Prevent Allergy Attacks?

kenekaplan — Wed, 22 May 2013 03:24:40 +0000

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People use data visualization based on public information to find pollen-safe paths. “Say you’re located in one area of Portland (Ore.) and want to travel outdoors to another area.
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Big Data Makes Invisible Air Pollution Visible

kenekaplan — Wed, 22 May 2013 03:24:17 +0000

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Sensors placed in a Portland neighborhood are sharing air quality data and helping people understand real-time pollution risks.
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From USB to Ubiquitous Computing

kenekaplan — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 01:44:31 +0000

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Ajay Bhatt, the co-inventor of USB, is working to reinvent the PC. “We said let’s make a ubiquitous plug on a computer so that any device that’s plugged in just starts working.
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Video Producers Push Limits of Mobile Devices

kenekaplan — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 19:31:30 +0000

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Tech bloggers balance tradeoffs in video editing between laptops and smartphones, tablets.

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CES 2013: Collision of Touchscreens Big and Small

kenekaplan — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 20:02:48 +0000

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Technology analysts predict convergence of smartphones, tablets and touchscreen computers will capture attention at CES 2013.

kenekaplan‘s insight:

Rob Enderle, principal analyst at Enderle Group, anticipates attention at CES 2013 will center on two points of conflict. “You’ve got the 7-inch tablet and the 4-inch smartphone that are starting to ram together on the one end and we’ve got the 13.3-inch notebook and the 11.6-inch tablet ramming together on the other end,” he said.

This year, convergence will really happen with notebooks and tablets, said Enderle. “A lot of people are arguing that you can get one device that can do both things,” he said, referring to new Ultrabook computers that convert into tablets.

John Jackson, vice president at IDC, expects to see the halls of CES full of what he calls conver

gence experiments. “Convertibles beg the question of the extent to which tablets will remain a distinct or discretely identifiable category over time or whether or not they’re just a logical evolution of the PC,” he said.

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English: Touchscreen (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

LG To Announce New Phones And Tablet At CES 2013 [Rumor] (webpronews.com)
LG’s 5.5-inch smartphone, 324ppi 7-inch tablet to be unveiled at CES? (intomobile.com)
4 Predictions for Tablets in 2013 (mashable.com)
LG bringing high-res tablet, smartphone, and TV screens to CES (ces.cnet.com)
Tech Industry Predictions for 2013 (forums.pinstack.com)

What’s Your Big Data Idea?

kenekaplan — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 22:01:32 +0000

And what are you doing about it?

“If a 15-year old who didn’t even know he had a pancreas can develop a sensor for pancreatic cancer that costs 3 cents and [takes] 5 minutes to run, imagine what those additional 3.5 billion people and just about anyone can do,” Jack Andraka told me in an interview following his speech at the recent TEDx SanJose event.

Speaking on stage at TEDxSanJose December 1, 2012, young scientist described his cancer detection breakthrough. Andraka created a dipstick sensor using diabetic test paper to detect mesothelin, a protein associated with pancreatic cancer, in blood or urine. It has achieved 90 percent accuracy in tests and proved to be 28 times faster, 28 times less expensive and over 100 times more sensitive than current tests.

I walked with Jack down the halls of Intel, where engineers, computer scientists and researchers have played a key role in creating the technologies that Jack uses as if they were as accessible as air. I though that if healthcare is to become the next space race, it will require emphatic, big idea chasing wunderkinds like Jack, the 15-year-old has been called the Thomas Edition of our age, a science prodigy and genius ahead of his time for inventing a faster, cheaper, more reliable way to detect pancreatic cancer.

In the interview captured with my iPhone 5, Jack told me that now he is teaming with two other award-winning teens to develop a disease diagnosis device the size of a smartphone to compete for the $10 million X Prize.

Now that’s drive and inspiration.

Here’s my full story for Intel Free Press: Big Data Key to Disease Detection Quest.

Lenovo Yoga Plays Hard to Get

kenekaplan — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 20:58:43 +0000

Holiday season can be a frenzied time with desires, obligations and talk about winners and losers of the year. With so much clamoring for our attention, things that we really want often slip out of reach.

Despite the business press bashing Best Buy success, or lack there of, my Intel Free Press team did some gumshoe reporting to see if one particular new transformable computer was hot on people’s wishlist.

The Yoga is a full-fledged Ultrabook and tablet in one device

The Lenovo IdeaPad 13 “Yoga,” an Ultrabook that converts into a tablet, was out of stock at several Best Buy stores across the U.S.

“We don’t comment on specific products, but I can tell you that it [the Lenovo Yoga] has been one of our best sellers from a Windows 8 perspective. There’s been a ton of interest. It’s a really cool form factor and product and it’s one you really need to see in person to understand what it can do for you.”

Haydock said they were working to increase inventory in time for the holidays. “We’re doing everything we can in terms of working with Lenovo to increase inventory in stores.”

Anyone else struggling to find a Lenovo Yoga for the holidays?

Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 11 dual-screen Windows RT laptop on sale for $679 and up (liliputing.com)
Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 11 goes on sale early with a momentary price break (engadget.com)
IdeaPad U310 Ultrabook – affordable laptop from Lenovo (US) (lenovo.com)

Google Driverless Car

kenekaplan — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 07:25:44 +0000

Stuck in Silicon Valley traffic again.

I walked the line…inside the Folsom State Prison Museum and escaped Scott free.

kenekaplan — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 07:23:01 +0000

Touchscreen, Sensors Bring Music App to Life – Intel Free Press

kenekaplan — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 06:31:15 +0000

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Twisted Oak Studios ran demonstrations of Element on a Toshiba Ultrabook Convertible at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. Element, an app created by Canadian-based Twisted Oak Studios, lets DJs mix digital …
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