TechnologyWorld09
Video highlights of TechnologyWorld09
Sunday, November 29th, 2009Electronics Link Japan builds footprint at TW09
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
Electronics Link Japan is a UK company that offers services to UK technology firms to help them develop business in the Japanese market. Its business has been built following on from the good work that the UKTI does when they introduce companies and have their first meetings. The company then offers services following on from that to take the business to an advanced level.
Steve Crane, CEO, said, “I’ve taken the opportunity to meet with all the Japanese delegates and the one-to-ones have proved so valuable. I’ve had 6 meetings which have given me time with absolutely key people, which would probably have taken me months to organise outside of an event like this”.
Crane explained that his second objective was to meet with a number of clients exhibiting at TW09, and to connect with others who might be a good fit for the Japanese market and let them know what Electronics Link Japan does in the Far East.
“There are so many high value, key people in the same place at the same time that it makes for a really efficient couple of days”, he added. “I wouldn’t claim that I’ve already broken deals, but certainly I’ve made some fantastic connections that will allow this”.
From iPods to Brains: UkTechnologyLIVE spoke to Professor Peter Hall
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
Many of us are already using onboard body communications channels, its just that we don’t realise it yet. Take your Nike+iPod for instance. Yes, the little bit in your trainer that allows you to track your running data and calories burned whilst listening to your music.
“Well thats an on-body communications channel in its simplest format,” explains Professor Peter Hall from the University of Birmingham. “And it appeals to people because they understand it.”
However, although sport has been a good entry to market for some like Nike, it’s the medical side of things that Hall is more fascinated with.
“We’re interested in doing antenna and radio wave propagation, related to the human body,” he adds. “We call it body centric wireless communications and people putting medical sensors on the body is where this is going.”
At the moment this involves devices talking to some central kind of base station fitted to a belt, but this really is heading towards the realms of Star Wars and Terminator – fascinating stuff indeed.
In his work Hall is trying to figure out the energy that’s coming off the antenna and solve problems like drained batteries for these type of applications. After all, as he points out, batteries and wires coming out of your head and other parts of your body aren’t particularly pleasant or comfortable, or good for your social life. (more…)
Dan Ilett, founder, Greenbang and chairman of Low Carbon southwest chats to UKTechnologyLIVE about the Carbon Reduction Commitment
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
With business and public sector companies generating more than one third of UK CO2 emissions, this new emissions trading scheme should deliver carbon emissions reduction and cost savings to boot. The idea is to reduce carbon emissions in large non-energy intensive organisations by 1.2m tonnes of carbon per year by 2020.
UKTL: So, what’s happening with this right now?
DI: “The carbon reduction commitment is a very interesting one because there are a lot of companies – about 6000 from the public and private sector that are going to be put onto this billboard. It’s a scoreboard to show how well you’ve done in terms of your carbon output. Next year is benchmark year so there isn’t any incentive for companies to do anything different to what they’re doing now because in year two they can obviously do better when they start doing things. Saying that there are some companies that have already done most of their stuff, but they won’t get recognised for that. So they are going to have to work harder than those who have done nothing so far which is kind of odd. (more…)
BBC: London 2012 is once in a lifetime opportunity
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
When the Olympics arrive in 2012 it will be the third time the games have been to London with the BBC having covered them for the first time there back in 1948.
However, in the ensuing years coverage of the event has changed beyond all recognition and the advent of digital and of course mobile has opened up opportunities that were seen as futuristic and merely ‘pie in the sky’ back then.
As Ben Gallop, head of interactive and Formula 1, BBC Sport, explained to a packed room at TW09, “This is genuinely a once in a lifetime opportunity for us.”
Gallop was speaking alongside the Mobile Data Association and revealing how the advent of new digital and mobile technologies would transform the spectacle for us all.
During Sydney 2000 the host broadcaster produced 4000 hours of coverage while the BBC managed just 300 hours, he explained. But when Athens came around these figures had gone up to 4000 and 1250 respectively thanks in a large part to the advent of the Red button and the move towards interactive at the BBC. (more…)
Praise for TechnologyWorld 09 from Kevin Buckley of Cambridge Design Partnership
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
Praise has been flooding in for this year’s TechnologyWorld09 conference, and no-one has been more vocal in his admiration than Kevin Buckley of Cambridge Design Partnership.
The Cambridge Design Partnership specialises in outsourced product development, and was instrumental in the development of both the Dulux Paint Pod and the Road Angel speed camera.
Kevin was particularly impressed with the range of suitable companies to talk to. “We’re meeting quite a few delegates from Japan, which is an area of interest for us. This year all the people we have met have been looking to find UK companies to do business with. All the people here are business development people with an expectation of actually talking to you. So even if you’re queuing for a coffee, you can turn around and talk business to a reciprocating, interested representative.”
“If you put this event on twice a year, we would come to both!”
Interview with David Mooney from Drallim Industries
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009David from Drallim Industries describes the products he creates, and how innovation is a key aspect in his work.
Interview with Paul Williamson from Cambridge Consultants
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009Paul from Cambridge Consultants discusses innovative way to make products new and exciting.
Interview with Professor Furber, from the University of Manchester
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009Professor Furber from the University of Manchester discusses his latest project, Grand Challenges.
Cambridge Wireless Healthcare – The Mobile Continuum of Healthcare
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
Cambridge Wireless Healthcare have been leading a series of seminars at this year’s TechnologyWorld09 conference. This afternoon they led a discussion on the future of telemedicinal health care.
Telemedicinal services represent a huge part of future health care developments. From remote monitoring of patients through to improvements in the care of those who require assisted living, there are many opportunities for telemedicine to both benefit the health care of the poorly and ease the strain on overburdened health care workers.
However, a bias towards traditional monitoring tools still remains in the health care sector. Often times secondary arguments such as agreeing upon standardised communications channels hinder progress within telemedicine services. As Justin Pisani of Hidalgo LTD states, “Unfortunately 2.5ghz doesn’t really have any healing properties.”
