It's a hard disk drive with 5 MB of storage. In September 1956 IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first 'SUPER' computer with a hard disk drive (HDD). The HDD weighed over a ton and stored a 'whopping' 5 MB of data.
Friday, June 11, 2010
Friday, May 21, 2010
Inside Qualcomm SmartDragon -- Panel Event
On Tuesday, March 2, 2010 at the Qualcomm campus in Santa Clara I had the privliage to attend an event on the Snap SnapDragon mobile chipset. Following are my notes from the event.
Panel: smartbook category
Moderator: Tim bajarin, creative strategies
Mark: India one of most tarrif sensitive regions.
To be seccuessful in developing markets in India you need carriers to develop exceedingly low tarrifs.
Carriers are increasing seeing Data usage as an oppportunity
Adam from real networks: how smart book might play a a multi media content vehicle.
- content creation has great opportunity on smart book
Zinio reader. Rich from zinio. Pc mag is on zinio.
Zinio has a Switzerland approach called unity. Idea is publish once and deliver content in sync way to consumer devices around the world
Emergance of smart books and what qualcomm is doing with smartdragon is definitly a catalyst for such delivery high fidelity applications.
Smartdragon is exciting due to it's high grphic acelertor etc.
Different devices r used for diffrebt type of reading ...
By 2050 67% of all phones will be smart phones in the us.
Mark has internal forcast within QCT . It's proprietary. Hoping ipad will do for smartbooks what iPhone did for smart phones.
Mark all user interfaces going forward are going to be 3D based rather than 2D. Thinks user interfaces r going to be more sensor orriented.
See rich 3D graphics, speech, sensors.
Touch is going to get better and better.
Tim, next to yrs is going to be a fundimental discovery. Until people use these smartbooks and tablets we don't know. We could see people using things in a creative manners.
What we are looking at are either markets in web model or app store
Mark: consumer will buy technology with thr right device and usage model. Right device with right user catagory.
Tension in market as screens become higher resolution we have potential of seeing a lot more content.
New platform to throw bits across. Smartdragon is a great technology how ever what's the concern about bluring issue for consumer.
Mark : as an industry if we can't figure out what our marketing messaging is
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Mobile -- the new bubble ...era of Web 3.0
We are at a pivotal junction where the web from the late 20th Century is maturing with acquisitions by the big 500s, and a new space in Mobile Computing as opened.
Today mobile or Web 3.0 is where Web 2.0 was 10 years ago. From computing on a PC we are headed in the direction where your mobile device is fast becoming the go to device for work and play.There are over 4 Billion mobile device in the world, of that 55 million are smart phones. The average smart phone user spends 4 hours per day browsing the mobile web.
From socializing with friends to ordering movie tickets, that's all being done through the little black Device in your pocket. Gone are the days of lugging around bulky laptops -- cafe to cafe, event to event.
The power of your laptop computer can be found on your palmtop.
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The Business of the Brain - VLAB Panel May 18, 2010
It's not every tuesday night that you get to talk about thought controlled machines.Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) promises a quantum leap in human interaction and technology--enabling our thoughts and emotions to control devices and enabling them to be aware of our thoughts, and to some extent our feelings.
Work on BCI begun in the 1970's at UCLA under a grant from the National Science Foundation, followed by a contract from DARPA. Today there are around 300 Million brain toting people in the United States alone, thus paving the path for Entrepreneurial opportunities of far-reach consequence.
BCI is at a critical juncture in it's evolution. Still predominantly finding life at Universities around the country, there are a small, yet growing group of neuroscientists, entrepreneurs representing a number of different traditions and unrelated industries who are teaming up to develop applications out of the already developed BCI technology and research data gathered.
Showed clips from The Matrix of Kiana reeves getting info downloaded into brain -- I know Kung Fu
There's is reaearch going on at SCU and DARPA to download data into say a military piolts brain
But that's still far off. However we can still do things like control Twitter, send an email , etc
BCI have found a way to record impulses in brain and control it
Monkey in a box video
Andrew schwartz motorlab ar Univ of Pittaburg video ....demo of robot arm xo trollled by monkeys brains
Three kinds of bci ...
1 non invasive : where comercial relm is. It's a cap that goes on scalp . Measures brain waves -- EEG. Brain wave and single fidelloty aren't that strong though ...
CBS reporter amazed -- Scott pelley video 60 seconds
Partially invasive -- ECOG
Invasive -- intracortical electrodes impanted in grey matter
The market -- stage of computers before apple. Very new stage
Key presentor - David Dickinson from Zeo
Zeo -- the birth of sleep wellness
Mission to help ppl discover power of sleep
Found by 3 brown students .
Talks about Sleep Wellness.
75% adults trouble sleeping each year
100,000 fall asleep at the wheel
< 5%: 45% chance of heart disease
Zeo is a headband u wear at night . It tracks your sleep pattern.
People go to bed tired but wired , caffienw, laptop, or tv at night
Most of us don't sleep well becauae of our lifestyle.
You were meant to sleep in a cave
Large in home db of sleep data.
Lessons from a bci startup:
- innovation is stuff. It ain't abut technology it's about pgucology and meeting peoples needs.
- business model, test, test, retest. VCs invest in business models
- creating advantage -- it's a layer cake ... Got to have layers of protection against ur product . Get a superior product, UI, get right lawyers, keep Somethings secret, have high quality stds, sc valudation and endorsement , tm'ing
Bottom line find the benefits of your idea and sell to your customers.
Jim -- see opportunity for bci in middleware, opp to provide solns.
, bring the prod to mkt. See opp across board ...think it's bottomless ...
Larry: system he developed for brain figure printing is not user friendly .
What do you say to critics that this isn't find tunned enough ?
Tim -- linking systems to the cloud ... That's were the innovation is
Opportunity for software engr ... 20% business .... Most of opp are at software , database, cloud engineering
Real answer consumer should own Data. Business answer that meta data is very valuable -- Tim
How long before an early dedexition device hits market . Larry Just got issued a patent. Texhnoloy is there, take 3 yrs and a whole lot of money .
Technology exist today , merely pulling them together is the challenge right now .
Tim sees this as consumers taking control of there own health .
Consumer would own Data and equipment .
Moving from health care to health
Giving consumer a scale to measure progress .... James
Other opportunities in bci :
- DARPA uses EEG headsets to calm sharp shooters
- fail safe device for pilots -
-
Zeo third qtr this yr they will have an API
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Work on BCI begun in the 1970's at UCLA under a grant from the National Science Foundation, followed by a contract from DARPA. Today there are around 300 Million brain toting people in the United States alone, thus paving the path for Entrepreneurial opportunities of far-reach consequence.
BCI is at a critical juncture in it's evolution. Still predominantly finding life at Universities around the country, there are a small, yet growing group of neuroscientists, entrepreneurs representing a number of different traditions and unrelated industries who are teaming up to develop applications out of the already developed BCI technology and research data gathered.
Showed clips from The Matrix of Kiana reeves getting info downloaded into brain -- I know Kung Fu
There's is reaearch going on at SCU and DARPA to download data into say a military piolts brain
But that's still far off. However we can still do things like control Twitter, send an email , etc
BCI have found a way to record impulses in brain and control it
Monkey in a box video
Andrew schwartz motorlab ar Univ of Pittaburg video ....demo of robot arm xo trollled by monkeys brains
Three kinds of bci ...
1 non invasive : where comercial relm is. It's a cap that goes on scalp . Measures brain waves -- EEG. Brain wave and single fidelloty aren't that strong though ...
CBS reporter amazed -- Scott pelley video 60 seconds
Partially invasive -- ECOG
Invasive -- intracortical electrodes impanted in grey matter
The market -- stage of computers before apple. Very new stage
Key presentor - David Dickinson from Zeo
Zeo -- the birth of sleep wellness
Mission to help ppl discover power of sleep
Found by 3 brown students .
Talks about Sleep Wellness.
75% adults trouble sleeping each year
100,000 fall asleep at the wheel
< 5%: 45% chance of heart disease
Zeo is a headband u wear at night . It tracks your sleep pattern.
People go to bed tired but wired , caffienw, laptop, or tv at night
Most of us don't sleep well becauae of our lifestyle.
You were meant to sleep in a cave
Large in home db of sleep data.
Lessons from a bci startup:
- innovation is stuff. It ain't abut technology it's about pgucology and meeting peoples needs.
- business model, test, test, retest. VCs invest in business models
- creating advantage -- it's a layer cake ... Got to have layers of protection against ur product . Get a superior product, UI, get right lawyers, keep Somethings secret, have high quality stds, sc valudation and endorsement , tm'ing
Bottom line find the benefits of your idea and sell to your customers.
Jim -- see opportunity for bci in middleware, opp to provide solns.
, bring the prod to mkt. See opp across board ...think it's bottomless ...
Larry: system he developed for brain figure printing is not user friendly .
What do you say to critics that this isn't find tunned enough ?
Tim -- linking systems to the cloud ... That's were the innovation is
Opportunity for software engr ... 20% business .... Most of opp are at software , database, cloud engineering
Real answer consumer should own Data. Business answer that meta data is very valuable -- Tim
How long before an early dedexition device hits market . Larry Just got issued a patent. Texhnoloy is there, take 3 yrs and a whole lot of money .
Technology exist today , merely pulling them together is the challenge right now .
Tim sees this as consumers taking control of there own health .
Consumer would own Data and equipment .
Moving from health care to health
Giving consumer a scale to measure progress .... James
Other opportunities in bci :
- DARPA uses EEG headsets to calm sharp shooters
- fail safe device for pilots -
-
Zeo third qtr this yr they will have an API
Copyright C. WadiBuzz
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Notes from session with Marc Anderseen
I had the good fortune of attending the Entrepreneurial Thought leadership session with Marc Andreesen yesterday at Stanford.
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