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Cisco’s business “iPad”

maz — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 09:11:03 +0000

Cisco pretends to market a real business tablet device (with Google’s Android OS):
The innovative Cisco Cius is an ultra-portable, mobile collaboration business tablet that offers access to essential business applications and technologies. (Cisco Cius)

credit: spiegel online

But the really interesting question is if someone needs a business edition of Apple’s status symbol. Just think about video conferencing … it’s not that widely accepted – all the more sitting on the airport. Or working on your mails … reading is possible on nearly any mobile device but writing – most people prefer to write on a “real” keyboard. So let’s see if Cisco can change these habits.

xmas & innovation

maz — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:22:30 +0000

Some things do not need an innovation. “Events” like Christmas are innovated enough by far calling them “Xmas”.

credit: Manuela Michalski (via The Design blog)

Other – even incremental – innovations concerning Christmas (like this type of tree) are imho not necessary – although I really like the design

Merry Christmas and a happy New Year!

the most important future innovation

maz — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:37:26 +0000

Daniel Terdiman discussed the question “What innovations are most important to world’s future?“.
His conclusion: a cost-effective, massively deployable desalination technology to master the global water crises.

credit: IDE via CNet

I also recommend you to read the discussion in the comment area of Daniel’s blog entry.
To my mind the generation of “green energy” could be at least as challenging as the difficulties concerning the lack of drinking water. Green in this context means not polluting the environment during the energy generation as well as during the production and disposal of the needed equipment. Well, the ultimate perfection of this technology would be the perpetual motion machine. So we have to search for an asymptotic solution.

The Anti-SUV – source: open innovation

maz — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 08:31:34 +0000

This year Peugeot holds it’s 5th design contest an invites (hobby) designers from all over the world to participate. Currently the 29 finalists are elected an one project attracted my attention:
ego by Emre YAZICI (Turkey)

credit: Emre Yazici

It is easy to own, easy to maintain, and easy to operate. And, most importantly, it is easy on the environment. The majority of the vehicles at the rush-hour in a big city, carry a single passenger.
It reminds me a bit of a next level version of the BMW C1 motorcycle but imho this could be one of the future transportation concepts: not at least because of the individuality aspect!

high tech for slow motion

maz — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:07:27 +0000

Photron announced that it’s Fastcam SA1 will be used at the Olympic Games in Bejing. Capable of over 5,000 full frames per second (fps) at mega pixel (1K x 1K) resolution, the brand new CMOS sensor provides true twelve bit pixel depth and is now capable of reduced resolution faster than 650,000 fps!
Eventhough the innovation step is just an incremental one I really recommend to watch this video. Another proof for the good old saying: “A picture is worth a thousand words!” And now you may guess how cool it might be if there are 5,000 pictures every second – in contrast to 5 million words

youtube video (Embedding disabled by request):
High Speed Camera of Balloon Full Of Water Popped