Tom Purves – Product Management, Fintech & AI

I had to pass this one on before it gets too stale. It was a scoop but nonetheless ought to been nonetheless a humdrum regarding revealing intel’s next great brand initiative. Instead the writer fills us in and then takes it just a step further. or two. For those who haven’t read them before, I love tabloid style of the inq, who says you can’t be both highly factual and irreverent?

could you imagine cnet or msnbc carrying this line?

“And we agree that it is fantastic that Intel has at last decided to drop the idea of CPUs as the brains of a computer. Even bumble bees have bigger brains than CPUs. Although their hearts are humbler.”

and there’s more. (same link)

Had the good fortune yesterday to share a coffee with Leila from Idée Inc. They are a company with some very cool technology for finding and tracking images. Leila mentioned about how she find herself on a “web 2.0” panel at Mesh. She joked with me that she’s struggling there with what she’s going to say as what first comes to mind for her is “Web 2.0 equals no revenue model”. Reminds me of a few other CEOs I know who also bristle at the label. Should be an interesting pannel 🙂

Just caught this news story over on Anandtech. “Apple Patents Method to Create Displays that Can Take Pictures and Videos“. Okay a bit scary, but also very exciting. If it ever works, I think camerascreens could be nearly as big a change for how we build software and interact with each other and computers as was the mouse. Two potentially killer applications mentioned:

1) Video conferencing where you can actually make eye contact with someone

Just think about that for a second, imagine the changes to the way we work and live if video conferencing could go just that little bit further to have almost the same quality and immediacy of real face-to-face interaction?

2) computer screens and content therein that could recognise gestures. Imagine scrolling or clearing those windows off your desktop with a wave of your wrist. Gestures I think have enormous potential. Sure it exists today to some extent, but with a mouse gestures are a bit clumsy. With my tablet though, being able to point and “flick” links to open in a new firefox tab is a beautiful thing. I’d love to see gestures used more widely on a larger scale. Of course, nintendo is also a company that is about to show us some very cool things you can gestures.

now, just one little issue to get out of the way, are you ready for your computer to be watching you at all the times?

I’d love to see apple try to launch this another great advertisement referencing 1984…

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