Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips Google Glass is causing a panic in some circles as wearable computing is considered by some to be a threat. We all missed the boat as wearable computing has been here for years in the form of hearing aids. Google Glass is going to be the end of civilization as we know […]

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by Dwayne Phillips We are now in the age of the device that allows us to see the pictures and hear the audio of the greater television system. Years ago, I read a book in which the author referred to his television as a televisor. I don’t recall the book or the author – rats! […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Recent backlash against Google Glass is the first round in the war against the sensors. Is the first round, however, too late? The war has already been lost. Google Glass has not reached the public, but it has already been banned from here and there. The Glass wearer has a a video […]

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by Dwayne Phillips The rumors are that Apple is building a wristwatch. Will they learn from the experience of Texas Instruments? Apple is supposed to be building a wristwatch. Some call it the “iWatch.” Here is just one of hundreds of posts about it. This has happened before: a really smart, really successful tech company […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Hurray for the engineers. We are the new champions of civil rights. What happened to the lawyers? What happened to the justice system? There is a new champion of civil rights: the engineers. We understand the flow of information on the Internet and everywhere on earth. We see denial of basic human […]

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by Dwayne Phillips The FAA continues to ban electronic devices on parts of commercial flights. Technical: they cannot test all devices for EMC. Political: they cannot withstand the fallout of a mistake. The FAA continues to ban electronic devices during the takeoff and landing portions of commercial flights. This continues to exasperate just about everyone. […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Handheld computers sell in the millions, a.k.a., smartphones. The folks who produce the videos and the apps, however, need something else. We’ve all see the numbers on smartphone sales – millions. I am still astounded at how many of these things sell in the U.S. and around the world. And we’ve seen […]

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by Dwayne Phillips A tribute to the single-board computer. The engineer looks at the growing block diagram of a yet-to-be-built system and says, “Put a computer here.” What eventually goes there is a single-board computer. We don’t design computers from scratch as the would be wasteful. Instead, we buy an already built computer, write software, […]

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by Dwayne Phillips I look at a $3 program that enables making video explanations using the iPad. Two days in a row, I bump into a presentation program. This time it is called Explain Everything. It costs $2.99 and runs on the iPad. In the program, you create a few “slides” which become the background […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Following the suggestion of several friends, I take a look at Prezi – a new(er) presentation-making application. Several friends hit me recently with, “prezi prezi prezi.” First, I didn’t understand what they were saying. Second, I didn’t know how to spell what they were saying. I can’t mimick their pronunciation in my […]

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