Thursday, December 25, 2008

Portable Dual-Screen Desktop

Forget laptops. They suck if you're someone dependent on two screens for productivity and have to hop from cubicle to conference rooms. What we need is a mac-style PC with the PC integrated into the monitor - second monitor attached to the first at the hinge and full-fledged keyboard that can be detached from one of the monitors. So, to move, you just fold the thing, press the keyboard on and move. Any yes, it needs to be a 19" screen.

OLEDs will help keep the hardware down by eliminating the backlight. Sony might have its first OLED TV out this year. Now that's leadership.

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Organic Software

Software that grows from within. The name's been coined already, but I'm redefining it here. Now, I do mean a computer program that grows - but not old - like Windows XP - in a couple weeks, you feel like you're talking to an old man. No sir.

What we need is for the program to know its function and know what it needs to get better and become multifunctional. There needs to be evolution. How? No clue. But, once I've given my brain this problem, I'm sure it'll come up with a way to do this - in about 30 days - how long it takes for some neural pathways to be rewired.

You want to leave your computer on, connected to the internet, and, when you come back, at the end of the day, it should be better because the programs have grown. Hopefully, your PC won't try to strangle you when you get back.

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Selling More Camera Phones

made simple. Pass legislation that requires cellphone companies to allocate 10 times the bandwidth during a 911 call and wire the phone to automatically transmit video from the camera - this will help collect evidence and give the cops a more accurate description. The caller can add voice over if he wants. This should increase sales.

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Better WebEx

Hope CSCO's listening.

You're an outfit. You produce training materials to help employees with their careers. Now, the outupt of the WebEx recorder is a file that the employee can download - but hopefully won't save on his PC and keep with him forever. What do you do? You hope WebEx adds this - once you've finalized your presentation - you give it some contact information - if the use is going to play the presentation - he'll get a warning saying this is a secure presentation and a message will be sent to the author with the IP address of the host being used to view it. I think that's fair.