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Sony is one of a few companies with an ecosystem rich in entertainment gear. Now the company is launching a wearable bracelet with the release of the SmartBand SWR10.
Sony's SmartBand logs information on your general wellbeing. This includes your daily step-count, if you have exercised and your sleeping patterns. The data is transferred over Bluetooth to Sony's Android Lifelog application.
Jawbone and FitBit offer similar alternatives, but Sony's SmartBand better complements the functions of a smartphone. The band will vibrate when you receive notifications, such as a text message, and it can be used to play, pause and skip music tracks.
Sony plans on expanding the SmartBand's functionality with future updates that will make it possible to "log routes and times for driving, cycling and train trips".
Currently Telstra, Sony kiosks and Sony's online store are selling the SmartBand for $159; however, Sony said in a press release "other major retailers will be confirmed soon".
Telstra is offering the band outright or it can be added to a mobile contract at a $5 instalment per month over 24 months following a $39 upfront payment. Either way, the Sony SmartBand will set you back $159.
There’s nothing complicated about the MediaMan HVX-3500 – it’s really just and external hard disk holder with some basic software, a sleek outer shell and some connectors stuck on. But this simpler is usually better and this gadget could make a world of difference to your home entertainment setup. It is equipped with an absolutely enormous number of different outputs to suit the most diverse home cinema system, plus you can choose from a variety of disk sizes of just use an ordinary 3.5″ IDE drive if you want which should take the pressure off your PC when storing media files.
It is compatible with virtually every media format we’ve ever heard, with the exception of WMV and M4A which isn’t so good for iTunes users. However, we reckon a very simple firmware upgrade could fix that, no problem. Check out the full review over at GadgetCentre and you can also be in with the chance of winning a 40GB version in their new compo.
As if a “cheeky wink” wasn’t already a creepy enough gesture as it was, it’s now gained the ability to power stealthy perv-photos the world over thanks to the Google Glass augmented reality specs.
Developer Mike DiGiovanni has put together an app called Winky for Google Glass dev kits that allow a user to power up the specs from standby and take photos just by winking.
Of course, a rather prolonged, deliberate wink is required to activate the function (otherwise blinks would be firing off photos all the time), but it’s great that hands-off controls are being implemented into the glasses even at this early stage. That’s where these things become really useful, right?
As DiGiovanni believes, this “really changes things” for Google Glass, bringing it a step towards the sort of gesture-based functionality that made Android and iOS so simple to use with their tactile hardware. What it doesn’t change however, is the privacy concerns already associated with Glass – if a wink ever was a playful gesture, anyone wearing Glass that sends one my way will be treated with great suspicion.
It's no secret that we think Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures is a dangerous, innovation harming monstrosity. The company used a bait and switch scheme to get a bunch of big tech companies to fund it, not realizing that they were then going to be targets of his shakedown system. Basically, IV buys up (or in some cases, applies for) tons of patents, and then demands huge cash outlays from those same companies (often hundreds of millions of dollars) for a combined promise not to sue over those patents and (here's the sneaky bit) a bit of a pyramid scheme, where those in early supposedly get a cut of later deals. Of course, to just talk to IV requires strict NDAs, so the details of these deals are kept under wraps and only leaked out anonymously. But the hundreds of millions of dollars going towards this sort of trolling behavior, rather than any actual innovation in the marketplace can be seen on various financial filings (you can't hide hundreds of millions of dollars in payments that easily).
Now, for years, Myhrvold tried to avoid the term "patent troll," by claiming that IV had never actually sued anyone. Two years ago, though, it seemed clear that the company was on the verge of breaking out the lawsuits. However, the company still hasn't been directly linked to a lawsuit. Late last year, though, some eagle-eyed reporters noticed that IV patents were showing up in lawsuits, but those lawsuits were from different companies. Reading between the lines, it became clear that IV had decided to protect its brand name by getting other companies or creating those companies itself, giving the patent to those other companies that no one had ever heard of, and having them sue. This is a very common practice among patent hoarders. They set up shell companies for their lawsuits, that often make it difficult to track back who actually owns what patents. It's all a shell game to extort more money.
The NY Times is now running yet another profile (they do this every two years or so) of Myhrvold and Intellectual Ventures that covers the usual bogus claims by Myhrvold about how he's creating "invention capital," with very little skepticism. However, it does reveal one interesting tidbit that we had missed. Last year, a research firm released a report highlighting that Intellectual Ventures has up to 1,110 shell companies, with which it can hide its activities. No wonder IV can pretend it doesn't sue anyone. It can simply hide behind its shell companies.
It's hard to find anything in Myhrvold's activities that actually contribute to any innovation, but you can see billions of dollars being siphoned away from actual innovation -- the kind that brings real products to market -- and see it being fed into what appears to be a giant shakedown scheme that is trying to pull as much money out of the system as possible before Congress wakes up and realizes it needs to fix an incredibly broken patent system.
Think about people and businesses that make tons of quick money without actually doing anything beneficial. E.g., Malware, spammers, Wall Streeters shuffling money around...
In such circumstances the activities the businesses are doing might not be illegal. But it's a very strong clue to me that it probably should be illegal.
The fact that patent trolls can make ridiculous amounts of money without contributing anything of value to society is very strong evidence to me that the system is broken.
This looks ripe for abuse. I say, in about 15 years time, it will be revealed to the "patent insurance purchasers" that the company that they paid not to sue them, has in return created thousands of shell companies to sue them with.
Of coures, it would be all legal. Intellectual Ventures isn't sueing anyone, these "other" companies are. Im sure Mr. Myhrvold worded the contracts in such a way that he had this kind of leeway.
Do you really think IV (or, in fact, any company) would sue any of it's own clients through shell companies and get away with it? That would be a terminal case of "bad faith", and a sure way to get taken down hard.
The point of this article is to insinuate that IV sues non-clients through these shell companies to "convince" them to become clients. Which is, of course, just that right now: an insinuation. Nowhere in this article or the links does it say if even one of these 1100 shell companies is actually suing somebody. Now *that* would have been interesting.
What are you talking about, Congress is part of the problem, they're the ones that intentionally created this broken system on purpose to scam the public.
Yeah, right. The only action Congress is likely to take is extending the life of patents to 95 years.
"It's hard to find anything in Myhrvold's activities that actually contribute to any innovation[...]"
Seems pretty innovative to me, he found a way to make tons of money without doing any work....isn't that the American dream....
They're not a patent troll, they're a company that manages patent trolls (they get paid by patent trolls to manage them), which is just as bad I suppose.
There is companion piece in the New York Times: The Patent Litigation Dilemma: Free Riders. Steve Lohr who also wrote "Turning Patents Into ‘Invention Capital’" goes on to say that: "The dilemma for such firms is the “free rider” problem. Companies like Microsoft and Intel have paid Intellectual Ventures many millions of dollars for the insurance that the patents the firm holds will not be used against them in patent-infringement suits. But rival technology companies benefit as well, without paying license fees to Intellectual Ventures, unless there is a mechanism to sometimes sue the companies that hold out."
Mr. Lohr has created a false bogeyman "Free Rider" so that he can avoid discussing how the patent system is being abused by the likes of Intellectual Ventures.
I just don't get it, how does investing in patents help promote the progress? All it does is divert investment away from progress and create a non innovative corporation that restricts those who do innovate and takes money away from those who do innovate which takes money away from innovation. It's a scam orchestrated by our broken government and the mainstream media.
For a long time I thought the attacks on IV were missing the point - I thought what IV was really doing was a GOOD thing - a partial "opt-out" from the patent system: Join my club (for a small fee) and you cross-license all your patents with all the other members, and therefore don't have to worry about MANY patent issues.
Or, I suppose, they could be deliberately trying to destroy the patent system by illustrating its unfairness, deception, and innovation-suppressing effects.
This guy is almost the dictionary definition of a dilettante -- photos of him always show him dabbling in what he considers to be haute cuisine (yet his award, according to the NYTimes article, is for barbecue!), which for him mainly involves using high-tech gadgets. Did he do anything durably meaningful as Microsoft's chief scientist in the 90s?
Yes he is; he's a total sham. He was brought in from IBM research labs, to start up Microsoft Research, which up until now, has had ZERO innovation. Even while Myhrvold was the head of Microsoft Research, nothing came out of it.
Microsoft has been milking Win32 and Visual Basic, since it started in the early 80's, and pretty much all their successes can be attributed back to Visual Basic and sleazy, dishonest, business tactics (including black mail, abuse, FUD, etc.).
Nathan Myhvold is no different; he fits in the Microsoft culture perfectly, which is why he partnered up with ex-Microsoft people and sticks around northern Washington. He's a real loser.
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Well, we lived through George W. Bush, and technical innovation has never been greater, growth has never been higher, applications of new technology have never been as enormous in huge new projects like high speed rail, nuclear energy technology, silicon ingot manufacture, super-magnets, and superconductivity, just to mention a few ....
These people should be punished for hindering the progress in violation of the constitution. The constitution clearly states that IP is to PROMOTE the progress, not hinder it, yet too many entities are getting away with using IP only to hinder the progress. This is unconstitutional.
It's up to Congress to promote progress, not patent holders. If anything is unconstitutional, it's current patent law, not Intellectual Ventures.
IV has tried to buy inventions from me. By the way these are all inventions in which real products are involved. Unlike the silly limited analysis frequently found on this blog and from the mouths of behemoths like Microsoft, Apple, Google and Oracle where an invention is either the source of great new companies or the evil scheme of imaginary devils, many of my inventions are much, much broader then its possible for my limited resources to exploit.
So Mike, if you make the product you invent but you have opened new doors to much larger markets your entity is clearly not an NPE. On the other hand not being much of a marketer or lacking the capital you are also not able to grow the markets to encompass all of the potential of your invention, what then? You are really only in position to one ignore the big markets, or two sell via license or outright sale of the IP to those who can or at least feel they can make the big market (and its profits) happen.
One way to help the economy and the inventor/hero of our little story is to provide means to fund new companies, efficiently make appropriate licenses, create a market to efficiently sell the IP outright. The first of the latter list is the VC, the second does not really exist yet but a company IPX is trying, and the third are groups like IV, RPX and auction houses like ICAP Ocean Tomo where IP is bought and sold every day.
IV in the sense that they have helped to establish an IP market is helping the latter trends and they and Nathan deserve Kudos. The many LLC's they create (they created one for the stuff they wanted to buy from me) are ways to protect themselves from and limit certain liabilities (which of course is exactly why we have companies and corporations). This is not to say that everything IV does is sweetness and light or not open to abuse.
I am impressed that Nathan has given work and presumably substantial money to a real physicist (by that I mean exactly what one means when one talks about writers or inventors for that matter- have you written something others buy and use or invented something others buy and use?) of deservedly high reputation Dr. Pendry.
There are some things about IV that raise questions but then you don't pay me to talk about those. That's the job of Lohr, and the NYT-they can quote me.
few of madoff's clients understood what he was doing. as long as they got paid everything seemed "ok".
suffice it to say, iv's business model is driven by fear of litigation. it's not necessarily illegal, but it relies on threats of litigation while producing nothing other than income for iv and its clients.
all the talk of innovation is meaningless when one realises iv is not producing a single product, it is only forcing companies to "pay up" through the use of fear. they are at best a middleman. their "bait" to inventors is money; money they will force others, who *are* producing products, to pay out of fear.
Is this really a �shakedown system� that doesn�t move forward any innovation, or are larger companies really getting a �free ride� on the backs of many innovators?? I think this is a fundamental question and there probably is not a black and white answer. In any market, there are going to be inefficiencies. If it could be proven that an efficient capital market for invention was beneficial to the competitiveness of a country, and benefited society in general, then it could move forward.
It is interesting that many large companies play the idea off as a �shakedown system�, but that there are also some large companies (e.g. Pharma) that are against these companies and support a free patent system . A company or industry moving toward �monopolistic� behavior will want to �control� the movements of profits.
Is it reasonable to assume that the larger companies that control the vast majority of product markets, inside their R&D functions, are efficiently creating the best and most innovative ideas? Does competition in the market place drive the best innovation? An efficient market theory economist would probably say yes.
Yet, why do so many large companies (my former employer Motorola is a great example) end up being surpassed in market innovation by more nimble rivals. One would think that the profits of a market leader would be poured back into innovation so that the company could extend its profitable lead well into the future.
The cultures of some companies may in fact strive toward this, but the cultures of some companies (again, Motorola) focus instead on short-term profit maximization at the expense of innovation, or get caught in the trap of falling in love with their short-term/mid-term products and strategies, and do not have the courage to kill them (especially if they are profitable) by innovating better products/approaches. If this weren�t the case, why do smaller nimbler companies get swallowed up by larger companies all the time? If what the smaller companies were creating were not valuable to the big companies, this wouldn�t happen, right?
Would there really be sufficient innovation if the larger companies, like mine, were the ones doing, and profiting from, all the innovation?
My gut tells me no, but I don't know if the IV approach is the best way to support the optimal production of innovative IP.
Intellectual Ventures' Nathan Myhrvold told Business Week in July 2006 that he didn�t think suing people was a good idea. Apparently, his investors � including universities receiving government funding, private equity funds, and corporations � decided that his returns were not coming fast enough. Or maybe, he was just marketing one story on his way to his real business plan. Back in 2006, his position was summarized in the following manner.
"Myhrvold adamantly rejects the idea that suing people will become a mainstay of his business operation. "Litigation is a huge failure," he says. It's "a disastrous way of monetizing patents."
Times have changed. However, M�CAM�s commitment to patent quality is as clear today as it was when he and his investors first started Intellectual Ventures. And, given Intellectual Ventures� recent cases, we thought the public may want to know a bit more about what�s �under the hood�.
Today M�CAM, Inc. released its Patently Obvious� report today on the patent infringement lawsuits filed by Intellectual Ventures in December, 2010.
The M�CAM Patently Obvious� report on Intellectual Ventures' infringement lawsuits can be found HERE.
Of course he came from MS which is a net destroyer of productivity thru igs software that crashes, cant do simple tasks.
The season is raining funding for the early startups and some well-established players who hold the potential and have won the trust of the investors in terms of revenue and returns.
Moglix, a business-to-business online marketplace for industrial goods operated by Moglilabs Pvt. Ltd. bagged a Series B round funding of $12 Million (approximately Rs 77 Crore) from Rocketship, a venture capital based in Silicon Valley, and IFC (International Finance Corporation, World bank’s private sector investment arm. The company’s current investors such as Jungle Ventures, Accel Partners, and Venture Highway were also the part of the funding round. One of the renowned personality of India, Ratan Tata, also backs the B2B firm.
The company stated that it will utilize the funds to expand operations and reinforce its technology infrastructure.
Moglix at the present stage operates in cities such as Chennai, Delhi-NCR, as well as Pune and now it plans to stretch its arms in three more cities.
Founder and CEO of Moglix, Rahul Garg said, “the funding will enable us to enhance offerings and service to the customers in a better way as supply chain and manufacturing process are making its way towards digitization drastically.” Before starting Moglix in 2015, Garg was the head of Google’s Ad Exchange services division of Southeast Asia region.
Moglix has a wide variety of products listed on its platform including fasteners, industrial electricals, MRO, industrial products, pneumatics, safety accessories, and hardware. It has tied up with more than 1,500 distributors and manufacturers that deal in these categories in India, Taiwan, and China. The platform has over 2 Lakh SKU listed on its portal. The company is presently catering to more than 1 Lakh SME’s and over 200 large manufacturing facilities. It has some big names such as Havells, IndiaForge, and Lumax.
The startup company has received a total of $18 Million of funding, of which $4.2 Million was led by Accel Partners along with SeedPlus and Jungle Ventures last year. It had also received an unrevealed funding from Rata Tata last year.
Focusing on the funding for the similar B2B model, Udaan.com raised an investment from Lightspeed Venture partners. Industrybuying.com closed the deal of 12 Crore in the form of debt from Trifecta Capital in 2016. The firm is also backed by SAIF Partners and Kalaari Capital. In addition, Omnikart, a Mumbai-based industrial equipment marketplace, happened to shut its operations owing to the mutual disputes among the founders based on the growth strategy.
Being a smart home is no longer enough. At CES 2018, we are seeing truly smart products that have Artificial Intelligence (AI). Forget simple voice commands or setting up routines with smart home appliances, devices or lighting. AI communicates with the cloud, detects and learns your patterns, then automates your home based on your habits. It knows which household member is speaking to it and adjusts to each person’s preferences. Like an efficient assistant (think, Radar on Mash ), it can predict what you want and need even before you ask for it, making your environment comfortable and automating tasks without you telling it what to do.
LG has committed to AI in a big way this year, announcing that all of their appliances will be able to be controlled by their ThinQ AI. Using LG’s DeepThinQ 1.0 technology, devices can recognize your voice and, through video, sensor and human body detection, learn and refine tasks and settings through analysis over time. Tell it “Good morning,” or lock a door when you are leaving and it can complete a number of tasks, like turning off lights, running the robotic vacuum while you are out of the house and turning on the air purifier before you return.
LG washers learn how you like to wash certain types of clothing and automatically apply those settings. Your washer would then talk to the dryer, which has learned how you like to dry each type of load. Say “wash sports clothing” and your running shorts won’t accidentally shrink in the dryer. The washer and dryer also communicate with the cloud to make adjustments to the wash and dry cycle based on changes in the weather and air quality, conditions most of us wouldn’t even consider when starting our laundry. And all of the commands can be spoken to the LG CLOi Hub Bot (shown at the top).
With AI, LG air conditioners know who is in the room and can adjust the temperature based on their preferences. You’ll always be comfortable and you never have to think about it.
The refrigerator is one of the main hubs for ThinQ. The touch panel in the door can show what you have in the refrigerator, put items on a shopping list and show expiration dates for foods in the fridge. Ask the refrigerator what is expiring soon to use up food before it goes bad. Need ideas? The fridge can call up recipes based on the food you have on hand and your individual past food preferences.
In the car, ThinQ on your phone tells you what you need at the grocery store so you won’t forget to buy eggs on your way home. It will also be able to read the expression on your face. While driving it will detect when you are getting drowsy and alert you to wake up. Eventually, ThinQ will be able to play music and adjust the temperature in the car based on your preferences.
Samsung has committed to its SmartThings smart home family of products to make controlling its appliances and devices even easier using AI via Bixby voice control. Bixby recognizes each person in your household and gears its response to an individual’s account or preferences. You’ll be able to control Samsung’s appliances and SmartThings connected devices using a new SmartThings phone app (available this spring) or through the Family Hub refrigerator or Samsung TV. Simply speak your command to whatever you are closest to—phone, fridge, or TV—and you can control your smart home.
The SmartThings app will also be able to set up a new Samsung TV and to download streaming apps and sign in automatically. No more typing on the onscreen keyboard or navigating to activation websites. The Samsung cloud will have all of your information so you simply need to accept the login to Hulu or Spotify on the SmartThings app and the service will be downloaded and activated on the TV. Like the Family Hub refrigerator, the TV can display who is at the front door, bring up the picture from the baby monitor, be instructed to start the washer or dryer, or display recipe options that you might want to make for dinner.
Viaroom Home is a self-learning home controller that is paired with a cloud service to sync all of your smart devices. When you first set it up, it studies your smart home habits for 48 hours then anticipates what you will do next (don’t you hate being so predictable?). It creates a precise map of each room, paying attention to lighting, heating and appliance control. No professional installation is required. If your family is out of the house every day by 8 am, the ViaRoom might mimic your habits and turn off the lights, lower the temperature on the thermostat and lock the front door.
After the initial set up period, ViaRoom monitors for patterns and routines but is able to distinguish a “one-time only” occurrence, like turning on a lamp, from a daily habit. There’s no need to worry about hackers learning your habits or controlling your home as the Viaroom has a specially designed firewall to protect your smart home.
So far, Viaroom is compatible with Philips Hue and Fibraro lighting, Qubino shutters, Aeotec smart plugs, Yale door locks and Foscam security cameras. Along with AI, the ViaRoom can be controlled by Google Assistant and Amazon Echo.
AI doesn’t have to be cold-hearted and impersonal. We are starting to see companies bring an emotional element to our interactions with robots and digital devices. For instance LG has given its Clio robot a cheerful personality and Sony is adding emotions and a unique personality to each of its next generation Aibo robotic dogs. And on a larger scale, EmoShape wants to give digital assistants, robots, computers a personality.
With EmoShape's Emotion Processing Unit (EPU), personal assistants, games, and avatars can have twelve primary emotions—excite, confident, happy, trust, desire, fear, surprise, inattention, sad, regret, disgust and anger—as well as pain, pleasure, frustration and satisfaction. Very soon, the emotions involved in playing a game will not only be felt by the players, but also by the game itself. This will have a serious impact on the entire strategy of a game.
What’s more, the Emoshape EPU is not only capable of understanding and showing emotion, but the chip is also able to control the different facial expressions and body languages of a robot or an avatar on a computer screen. It brings to mind the movie, Her, where a man falls in love and has a relationship with his computer.
While AI is great, it may not turn out to be a good idea to add emotion to our smart devices. I don’t want to hear flak from my refrigerator when I pull out the ice cream or my voice control speaker to revolt like Hal in 2001: A Space Oddysey. It will be interesting to see how devices with artificial intelligence will react when they get emotional, we do know that AI is here and will be part of smart homes starting this year.