Monthly Archives: January 2008

Weekly digest

I think I’ll start doing a weekly digest where I dump most cool/useful things I’ve seen this week, and that are somewhat relevant to my work / projects. In parallel, I’ll try to blog more in detail about some of the that are much more interesting to me.
BLOGS – Blag’s best blog picks from 2007. [...]

Lather, Rinse, RFID (Shake Well Before Use)

I’ve recently stumbled upon a fantastic idea, actually, I literally fell off my chair. Some guys came up with a new way of using markers for textiles (wash at 60°, dry clean only, do not iron, etc), but instead of printing them, they used an RFID tag into it. The new idea is that rather [...]

Power-assist robot suit for farmers

This is really funny! A new robot to help farmers has been developed (in Japan of course), and comes as an exoskeleton that you can wear and help you carry stuff. It reminds me when I was working with humanoid robots in Japan, in particular with the i-1 humanoid robot (formerly called DB), at ATR. [...]

Gmail and IMAP

Finally it happened. And I think it was about time it happened! Gmail finally opened IMAP access to its mail server (okay may be already a while ago, but still I didn’t know), after billions of people (okay millions) kept crying, praying, chanting, and did hunger strikes (how do you say “grève de la faim” [...]

Workshop proposal at LIFT

I just finished a workshop proposal for the LIFT conference in Geneva next February. It’s about lots of things. The “Internet of Things” to be more accurate.
A short summary of my workshop proposal, which is entitled “Upgrade your company – Industrial opportunities for the Internet of Things”:

Technologies that will form the future IoT will have [...]

The comeback

I finally decided that I should spend more time blogging, for several reasons (10 of them actually) I should write down here:
1) to keep me motivated to work and find cool topics to write about (I say that all the time, but this time is true)
2) to improve my written skills (yeah!! I really should)
3) [...]

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