Interviewing recently for a new role got me thinking about the bigger challenges for autonomous vehicles, an area I've been working on for the last year or so. Currently almost all R&D effort in this field is concentrated on replacing the need for a driver, and...
Earlier this week Mary Meeker of KPCB presented and published a 213 slide dossier on Internet trends for 2016. A good chunk of this was devoted to the rise of ‘Voice as Computing Interface’, which I found particularly fascinating. Mary’s presentation centred largely on voice, and voice...
WWDC rapid approaches, and with it a rash of rumours about new products and offerings. Siri is perhaps the most topical on the rumour mill with talk of an Amazon Echo competitor, the opening of the Siri SDK, along with an uplift in features courtesy...
Earlier this year I started experimenting with Google's Vision API and a few other pieces of tech to make cataloguing photos easier. That has continued to work well, albeit, somewhat glitchy. Today, one of my favourite tech/photography start-ups based in Berlin launched a new smarter...
I wrote recently about how repurposing technology to fix new issues was the real innovation. One of the great things I love about science & technology is its jigsaw puzzle nature. Someone somewhere usually has a fix for a piece of your problem, and innovation...
It's often said "necessity is the mother of invention", but quite often an 'invention' is not so ground breaking, it's just a thing we've adapted from something we've seen elsewhere to suit a different need or desire. Even Leonardo Da Vinci adapted from his own experiences. Perhaps "necessity is...
Having spent the last year or so talking to a variety of businesses as I search for my next corporate adventure, I continue to be amazed by the pace of progress being made by most start-ups over cash rich enterprise. Just look at FinTech. There are...
I've spent the last few months trying to find a simple task management/collaboration tool to assist with a couple of projects and ideas I've been working on with others. This hunt for Nivana has brought me across the current popular apps Wunderlist, Slack, Evernote etc....