Archive for August, 2010
The future is already here, it’s just not worth distributing yet
In 1975, Steve Sasson of Kodak invented the first portable digital camera. It was a camera that didn’t use any film to capture still images – a camera that would capture images using a CCD imager and digitize the captured scene and store the digital info on a standard cassette. It took 23 seconds to [...]
Why the hell don’t all cameras have SIM cards in them yet?
It’s been half a decade or more since phones started getting cameras, and yet cameras still don’t have cell phone connections. WTF? To me this is classic case of industry disruption. An entrenched industry refuses to take seriously a disruptive new technology. Holding their noses high, no serious Photographer (with a capital P) would shoot [...]
Teksavvy cable is *faster* than advertised
You may remember my experiment a few weeks back with the worlds most desperate way to increase broadband speed while sticking with an indie ISP. (Previously: In Which Tom attempts to bond two DSL lines into single home internet pipe of great power like Voltron). Well the folks fighting the good fight at Teksavvy (thanks [...]
Thomas Purves
is a technology executive specializing digital payment systems, a futurist and sometimes entrepreneur living in the great city of 
