Demo2004 Tuesday Afternoon

First up...Speechi...very cool stuff, need to go look at their site. Great e-learning or distance learning tools.

Next up...Total Immersion...Augmented reality. Brilliant product! Merging 3D into Video. French company. Seeing their stuff blows you away. Stuff that could revolutionize game software programs. One of the things they did was fly a virtual helicopter around the room, so that it truly appeared that the helicopter was actually flying over head.

Next up DataPod. Problem solving, where is my data? Israeli company. SPN, secure private network. Allows you to sync up your data from and across all devices. Allows you at a remote computer to create a secure and encrypted environment. Also allows you to create a "share", which appears to be a shared workspace that again is pretty locked down.

Major screwup, I failed to save my postings, and when I went to look at Demo companies website, about 3 paragraphs had gone away.

One thing before I forget. There are a number of people blogging. My good friends Doc Searls and Robert Scoble have a bunch of stuff, but Mitch Ratcliffe has even more. I had lunch with Mitch yesterday and really enjoy getting to know him. I have been reading his stuff for a long time, and would recommend him both as a writer and a great guy.

N-Valence just demoed the second half of their stuff relating to new battery technology. I have been a fan of their idea, and haven't tried their product yet. I pitched them on allowing me to test it. My three year old Acer 340 T. notebook is dying for one and only one reason. The battery is toast, and a new battery is prohibitively expensive. N-Valence tells me that their battery will give me ten hours of battery life. The price seems to be about $300, and hence if it is, I am a customer. Walking into a meeting, and looking on the floor for a plug is just not fun. Bringing something that looks like a hardcover book, with ten hours worth of power would be a plus.

Blue Vector Systems...seems to be right in the middle of the RFID highway. Hard to imagine that Wal-Mart is going to change an industry by mandating that anyone who does business with them will have to use this type of technology, but I heard the other day that they do 12% of the retail sales in America. The privacy implicatons of RFID are a little scary to me. I recognize that privacy is history, but this type of technology really elevates the game.