Sailing, Mountains, Music, and Technology
Introduction: As my colleague Mark Christensen and I were sailing across oceans double-handed (just two of us on a fast high tech sailboat), chasing and beating records, we discovered that we were both so busy that neither of us slept much more than 30 minutes at a time for weeks on end. And it worked. […]
Philippe Kahn and Sonia Lee wish a prosperous year from Fullpower MotionX for the year of the Apple Watch, Google Wear, Jawbone Up
Hand model: Sonia Lee Jewelry by: Kirsten Merrill Sleep and Activity tracker by Jawbone
New A-Cat DNA Z-Boards, now single handed foiling. Wind and waves behind the storm today… Right off Steamers. Bumpy ride, great photography. Thanks Mischa and Bruce!
A prolific inventor argues that we are on the cusp of an explosion in truly useful and unencumbering wearable devices Scientific American, July 2013 Issue Forum by Philippe Kahn SCIENTIFICAMERICAN ONLIlNE Comment on this article at ScientificAmerican.com Click here to read the full article in PDF format
We look around, everything is in motion. When motion slows, life pauses. Motion shapes our lives and gravity defines motion. We want to use gestures to control mobile devices: ShakeShake to roll virtual dice in the iPhone, TapTap to adjust the volume on the headset, Tilt ‘n Roll to navigate Google maps. We use motion […]
People use AI as a buzz-word to promote the Roomba vacuum cleaner: That’s a great sign! To be fair, it does fit into a definition of AI of a system that perceives the environment and can make intelligent decisions. The kind of decisions that a reasonable human would make. Now imagine if every camera-phone had […]
People are asking what’s next in wireless technology? It’s sensor-based camera-phones that integrate motion, light and touch technology and will do for camera-phones what the Wii has done for game consoles. Opportunities like this only come around every 5-7 years and it’s here now. For the last 5 years, Fullpower has been building breakthrough sensor-based […]
Q and A with Philippe Kahn, CEO of Fullpower, Creator of the first camera-phone solution What’s next for user-handset interaction? Philippe Kahn>> Motion is coming next . Shake your camera-phone to pick-up a call. No buttons, not fingers. Simple natural gestures. Tap it to advance songs in the media player. What can we learn from devices […]
This whole weekend, NPR (National Public radio) runs a big piece on the camera phone and its impact on society. I have to say that all business partners, friends and family members have had a great impact in shaping the camera phone. Click here to listen