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Low Cost Understanding of Visual Attention
From The Eponymous Pickle

Low Cost Understanding of Visual Attention

Ron Wright, colleague,Entrepreneur and Angel Investor, brings this to my attention: ... Neurons Inc Releases NeuroVision - A Cloud Based Tool for Creatives, Retailers...

Amazon Opens Store for Wearable Tech
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon Opens Store for Wearable Tech

In Retailwire: " ... Amazon's new store features the "Learning Center," which includes buying guides and product videos, as well as the "Editor's Corner" for wearable...

UC Analytics Summit 2014: Real World Impact
From The Eponymous Pickle

UC Analytics Summit 2014: Real World Impact

ANALYTICS SUMMIT 2014: Real-World Impact from Business AnalyticsThe Center for Business Analytics in the Lindner College of Business at the University of Cincinnati...

Thoughts on Gamification
From The Eponymous Pickle

Thoughts on Gamification

In Smart Data Collective:  Useful ideas about considering game dynamics driven technologies.  In our own experiments these could have been useful to direct our...

Brain Science and Mind Reading
From The Eponymous Pickle

Brain Science and Mind Reading

In Wired:  Good, non technical view of brain science and its application to the most asked of all  question: Can we read minds?

Progression in Autonomous Vehicles
From The Eponymous Pickle

Progression in Autonomous Vehicles

In IEEE Org:  Work by Google in trying to make autonomous vehicles better than ever.  Gets back to the problem of 'autonomy' and how it can be delivered with increasingly...

Humanoid Fire Fighters for the Navy
From The Eponymous Pickle

Humanoid Fire Fighters for the Navy

Navy testing humanoid firefighters.    Particularly interested in how these devices can be truly collaborative with humans, both other workers and decision makers...

Editing Hyperbolic Headlines
From The Eponymous Pickle

Editing Hyperbolic Headlines

In Language Log:  Word of browser plug ins that will convert hyperbolic viral headline language back to reality.  Amusing and so true.

Using and Building Mobile Assistants
From The Eponymous Pickle

Using and Building Mobile Assistants

The idea has been around for some time, and mostly publicly with the Apple Siri.  A mobile assistant. Now more recently have found myself using them more freqently...

Smartstones
From The Eponymous Pickle

Smartstones

Brought to my attending by a former colleague and correspondent.  The startup Smartstones:  " ... Stay connected and in step with loved ones, simply by touching...

ROI in the Age of Integration
From The Eponymous Pickle

ROI in the Age of Integration

Colleague Kim Medynsky writes in Marketing, Media, Advertising and PR in Canada: Kim Medynsky, MBA, is principal at Medynsky & Associates" ... The return on investment...

Amazon and the Last Mile
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon and the Last Mile

In Retailwire:  Amazon plans to own the last mile.  " .... Authenticating rumors in the marketplace, Amazon is indeed testing its own delivery network in the U.S...

Taking Notes by Hand
From The Eponymous Pickle

Taking Notes by Hand

In Fastcompany:  Taking notes by hand is better for memory.  ' ... The Best Way To Remember Something? Take Notes By Hand.  People who write notes by hand remember...

Parallel Coordinates Visualization
From The Eponymous Pickle

Parallel Coordinates Visualization

From ZoTero:  Examples using parallel coordinates, a method we integrated into the toolbox of standard methods for similar data.  " ... Data Visualization Experiments...

Seeking Touchy Data Visualization
From The Eponymous Pickle

Seeking Touchy Data Visualization

From Carnegie Mellon:   " ... Two researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are exploring how touch devices, such as Apple's iPad, can be used in data analysis...

AR TV and Programming
From The Eponymous Pickle

AR TV and Programming

In Mashable: Augmented television. " ... A new venture in television created by a San Francisco-based startup combines web content with television programming in...

IBM and MS,  Building on their Legacies
From The Eponymous Pickle

IBM and MS, Building on their Legacies

I attended some of these announcements this past week. How much does this change the direction of mega IT companies?  Not too much I think. In GigaOM:  A somewhat...

Blogging Today
From The Eponymous Pickle

Blogging Today

An interesting view of how blogging has changed.  What we have gained and lost.  I have blogged, sometimes in several places, for several companies, from nearly...

Oculus Neuro Gaming
From The Eponymous Pickle

Oculus Neuro Gaming

Have had several conversations recently about the Oculus virtual reality system.  A head mounted, but very visible form of wearable computing.  So what is all the...

More Views of Millennials
From The Eponymous Pickle

More Views of Millennials

I like to see attempts at segmentation of population groups, especially with regard to their commercial habits.  But also have considerable caution about the use...
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