Hardware

February 12, 2015Gadgets, Hardware

Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS): Covering The Basics

Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), the preferred industry term by the UAS Association for what the public sometimes refer to as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) or unmanned drones, are clever works […]
January 17, 2015GIS_Software, Hardware, Software

Soft AI (artificial intelligence) and Spatial Technologies

As the Wall Street Journal has stated yesterday, “‘Soft’ Artificial Intelligence is Suddenly Everywhere” Also called weak or narrow AI, soft artificial intelligence is the ability of a computer or […]
October 1, 2014Data, Education, Hardware, Remote Sensing

DigitalGlobe introduces PERSPECTIVES Magazine

DigitalGlobe, a commercial high-resolution earth imagery company, launched its aptly named e-magazine, PERSPECTIVES, today. The trade magazine provides 52 pages of stunning imagery and detailed information on the satellite imagery and […]
December 28, 2011Hardware, VirtualWorlds

Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

It’s always fun to compare the modern marvels of yesterday to their technological equivalent today. I spent about an hour on Charles Shopsin’s blog “Modern Mechanix: Yesterday’s Tomorrow Today” reading all of […]
October 13, 2011General, Hardware, Software

And Another Great Tech Pioneer Leaves Us

The news around the Internet today is that Dennis Ritchie, inventor of the C programming language and the UNIX operating system, passed away over the weekend. I think it’s a […]
October 12, 2010general, General, Hardware, Human Geography

Google Funds Offsite Windfarms on East Coast

Any of our long-time readers/listeners can tell you I’m a HUGE fan of offshore windfarms. I think they flat out just make the most sense for sustainable energy production. Apparently […]
August 3, 2010Hardware

UI, the next hurdle in LBS

This is a great example of a rudimentary, but effective, UI for navigation. We played around a little with some heads-up devices back in the day, but we never had […]
April 30, 2010general, Hardware, Human Geography, Physical Geography

First US Offshore Windfarm

Anyone who talks to me about energy will quickly learn I’m a HUGE fan of offshore wind energy. So this news item in the New York Times caught my eye […]
April 1, 2010general, Hardware, LBS, Software

Internet Operating System?

A couple of days ago, Tim O’Reilly published an interesting piece entitled “The State of the Internet Operating System” I’m not going to say a whole lot about it, other […]
November 13, 2009Gadgets, general, Hardware, Human Geography

Broadband Stimulus Money Going, Going, Almost Gone!

Ars Technica is reporting that the Obama administration has decided to ramp up the broadband stimulus money outlays into one more round instead of the planned two. The monies appear […]