As a part of Project54, we have a newly formed Radio Testing Lab which is used for performing tests on projects related to the usage of Land Mobile Radios. Currently we are working on two projects that attempt to solve problems associated with the utilization of mobile radios. While the first project provides a solution …
Monthly Archive: July 2008
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30
My God, It's Full of Small Simulators
The title of this post was the first sentence that popped into my mind, when I figured out that our DriveSafety simulators can be divided into many small, so called SingleBox, simulators. The title is of course an hommage to Clarke and Kubrick‘s timeless work 2001: A Space Odyssey. In this movie Dave Bowman realizes, …
Jul
29
Visit to Microsoft Home
At the end of the Intelligent Environments 2008 conference we were treated to a visit to Microsoft Home. The people who work at this facility attempt to see 10 years into the future in order to predict the technological landscape Microsoft will have to compete in. Our host was David Baumert, Program Manager (see picture …
Jul
28
Jamaican problems with electricity
Hello ecebloggers, As some of you may know my wife and I were on a two week vacation in Negril, Jamaica. This beautiful island has many things to offer: sea, landscape, cuisine, culture… There isn’t a person in the world who hasn’t heard of Bob Marley and The Wailers. Although there’s a lot to write …
Jul
25
Project54PDA Imaging
Over the past few months I’ve spent much of my time developing the Project54PDA imaging applications. Finally, after some coding revisions and a small in-lab experiment, we’re just about ready for deployment. From the results, it seems as though tagging of images using handheld devices has a bright future, along with the note-taking and memo-recording …
Jul
18
Automation solution
Hello, As you know, we have multiple computers that we use during our experiments. We have to prepare every computer before the experiment and then collect the data after the experiment is done. The usual procedure is to use a check list so we do not forget something. NASA have been using this approach for …
Jul
17
Tinyurl.com – a great tool for simplifying web addresses
Check out www.tinyurl.com. It allows you to create tiny URLs out of long and winding ones. This is neat when you want to send a link in an email to someone without having to worry if their email client will interpret the multiple lines of the link correctly. It’s also neat if you want to …
Jul
16
PTT Glove Featured on talk2myshirt.com
You might know, from previous posts, that I’m working with different kinds of push-to-talk (PTT) activation solutions. One of those is the PTT glove, which I will present at the Intelligent Environments Conference next week (07/21/08). Today, we just got the first media attention event for the glove: it is featured on a very interesting …
Jul
15
AutoHotKey – free, open-source utility for Windows
Hello, AutoHotKey is a handy utility that can be used for automation tasks. This program can move the mouse or send key events to different applications. It also can show dialogs. I mostly use it as a macro recorder that works across all the applications. It supports a simple (as in easy to learn), but …
Jul
13
What's on your reading list?
I recently set up several reading lists on Amazon – check them out here. Andrew Kun