Enjoyable Blog of Possibilities

Today, I used up a much asked break to go to a Microsoft Research talk by Paul Dietz , who is a scientist at the Mitsubishi Galvanizing Research Lab (MERL ).

In discovering one of his inventions, a system that automagically pinks your waitress when your glass is half empty-bellied, Paul identifyed RFID tags as a “inactive, non-interactive component”. He and then went to draw how he and his associates at MERL have forecast out how to enable two devices to convey employing low-pitched cost LED lights , at hundreds of bits per second. But I’ll pay off backward to that, in a second.

Suddently, it hit me: a speedy and unproblematic way to distinguish microformats to my friends and colleagues!

A microformat waits on the same function on the Web as an RFID tag in a Walmart warehouse ! Microformats are descriptive but inactive. They simply sit out at that place and waitress to be discovered by an concerned agent. They are little and gentle to overlook, unless you’re seeking them. Microformats, like RFID tags, talk to everyone.

What is a microformat? A microformat is an RFID tag for Web pages. Do you attend any problems with this analogy?

At present, backward to LEDs and Paul Dietz… I ask over you to chew on this for a second:

LED a + LED b = communication medium

Think about the hundreds of LED lights that you run across on a day-to-day basis: on your keychain, desktop, dashboard, keyboard , outside control, auto, kitchen appliances, telephone, TV, computer, and still your kids. Paul Dietz is not simply another Spilling Head.

Someday, you may rule yourself swallowing a inexpensive cell phone…
And you may rule yourself, concording that inexpensive cell phone to the tail light of a big automobile…
And you may regain yourself, uploading information about that magnanimous automobile to your mechanic…
And you may regain yourself, connecting to the Web by unfolding your laptop under an LED light.
And you may need yourself, “How do I puzzle out this?”
And you may say to yourself, “MY GOD, WHAT HAVE LEDs BECOME?”

Paul Dietz is an engineer who endeavours to create graceful circuits and systems that land a smile and progress to the world a slightly best place. He is best known for his work on interactive systems including DiamondTouch (an naming, multi-user touch screen), iGlassware (RFID-free-based, level-feeling glassware that mechanically takes refills) and Pal Mickey (a location-interactive plush toy sold at Walt Disney World). In his free time, Paul runs for the Animatronics Workshop – an adulterous activity for kids 11-14 years honest-to-god where they establish accomplished robotic presents. He haves a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon and is presently a Fourth-year Research Scientist at Mitsubishi Galvanising Research Labs.