A couple of days ago in Shanghai, China, some 1500 lighted drones took off and arranged themselves into a huge QR code that lit the sky. Scanning the code from a mobile device allowed people to directly download a videogame that was celebrating its one-year anniversary. Part of a program of airborne animations, the result […]
Augmented reality. Heard of it? It’s basically overlaying something new or different on an image or video to achieve a particular effect. Like, the yellow first-down line on an American football broadcast. Or Pokemon Go. As it happens, this very cool technology is making its way to documents today. The result essentially is a hologram […]
I recently viewed an old IBM commercial (circa 1960s) in which the characters spoke repeatedly about the evils of “paperwork.” Not that there’s anything wrong with that (you’re welcome, Seinfeld fans), and we casually toss the term off even today. But we shouldn’t. Not anymore. And not for a while now. Yes, paper can be […]
It seems that baseball is not the only place there are free agents to be had, as I’m now one as well! After two great years at Valora Technologies (contract plus full-time), I’m now open to new opportunities, be they as a consultant or as a senior exec. So please let me know if you […]