Printing 2.0 Has Arrived
Printing has moved from mass production into low-cost, individual customization. Now with its Print Automation technology developed by Alexander’s Print Advantage, a single, personalized book is created for an individual buyer.
Examples of this technology include a national home builder who creates a single, organized “user manual” to a home buyer with paint details, appliance manual, home safety instructions, important phone numbers, community details and more. Another example is how FranklinCovey, the planner company, uses Alexander’s to offer their “Design Your Own” Planner.
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iPodCalifornia’s Title 24 and the Green Smart Home
California’s Title 24 presents implications for those engaged in new and retrofit home construction. While there are many different ways to look at power conservation and consumption, Paul Nagel, Control4’s VP of Engineering, talks about how home automation systems create a “greener” home. Not only does a smart home give more options to manage power consumption, but a smart home will also offer new levels of convenience for the home owner.
Since home automation allows the home to be aware and communicate, a home owner can receive notices or reports of actions taken to conserve energy, long before the power company steps in. Whether it’s lighting control, heating and cooling or cost-based management, a home automation system provides proactive management. California may take the lead here in the States, but “Green Fever” is a world-wide interest, with the Europeans becoming far more conscious due to higher prices for energy.
Bungee Labs and Their Ajax-Based IDE
After years of working with developers at Microsoft, Alex Barnett thought the pitch from Bungee Labs was too good to be true. A web-based development environment with the richness and power of a fat, local IDE but with a easier way to share, test and publish applications to the web? Then he saw it. Seeing lead to believing. Now Barnett is sharing the story with others as the community manager at Bungee Labs.
Bungee Connect includes an IDE with loads of Ajax goodness that makes it feels like your using a desktop application. More importantly, Bungee Connect offers a system to make it easier than ever for developers to mash-up web services, program entire applications, share with other engineers and deploy applications to the grid. And unlike other development environments, Bungee Connect works from within a standard Internet Explorer or Firefox or Safari web browser.
Demo: Creating Hello World with Bungee Connect
Brad Hintze, Product Marketing Manager at Bungee Labs, shows Brad Baldwin the benefits of Bungee Connect, a rich Ajax and browser-based development environment. Hintze quickly mashes up the Rhapsody service showing how easy it is to create and deploy web apps with this next-generation IDE.
Larry Dalton on Photonics and Electro-Optics
Dr. Larry Dalton, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the George B. Kauffman Professor of Chemistry & Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington and Nobel Prize nominee, talks about his work with polymers, photonics and electro-optics.
Electro-optics and photonics play an enormous role in our lives. However, people know little about them. As Dalton explains, “In the future, electro-optic technology could play a critical role in next generation defense, computer transportation, medicine, entertainment, information technology, communications and energy.”
Dalton’s research projects can be found at http://depts.washington.edu/eooptic.
This podcast is redistributed with permission from Lumera Corporation as part of their series on nanotechnology.
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v100 Show: Zonder Into a Perfect Vacation Property
Where do you look if you want to rent a vacation home on a beach in South America? That was the question that led serial entrepreneur and vSpring v100 recipient Bob Barnes to start Zonder, a new web and eCommerce-based travel service that connects owners with great vacation rental properties to vacationers.
If your looking for a perfect vacation home, Zonder offers up a similar service of other travel and vacation sites, but does it based on owners who rent out their properties. You can search by location (ex: Kauai, HI), attraction (ex: Disneyland), or use our interactive map to drill down to your favorite region. Enter the dates you want to stay, your price range and the number of people in your party. Then, select from a list of amenities (ex: beach front, hot tub, cabin, ski-in/ski-out, etc.) to find properties that interests you most.
If you own a vacation home, Zonder brings shoppers to your front door. Owners can present their property along side other homes and let interested renters check availability and book their property.
ConnectCast Weekly – 11 May, 2007
Backcountry.com was acquired by Liberty Media Corp. The deal will be finalized this quarter. Backcountry.com will continue to expand and add 1250 employees this year. Utah gets $5 million from WIRED program to train future workforce in biotech and information technology. And the winners were announced for the Utah Innovations Awards, including Altiris in the software category.
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TaylorMade Golf’s CTO: The Inside of Club Design
Since it’s introduction in 1979, TaylorMade’s metal driver has been at the heart of golf’s revolution. Today technology and science are pushing distance and performance for both tour players and weekend warriors.
Benoit Vincent, TaylorMade Golf’s Chief Technology Officer, talks with Brad Baldwin about how technology and innovation are driving golf club design. Computer Aided Design (CAD) and sophisticated analysis and monitoring tools allow designers to create, “play” and even hear a club in a digital world long before it’s crafted into titanium or steel. Borrowing manufacturing processes from the aerospace industry, TaylorMade is stretching the limits of what a driver should look like and how it will perform. Vincent shows the engine inside the club head with the use of his cut-out models.
ConnectCast Weekly – 4 May, 2007
In this week’s ConnectCast, Rocky Mountain Voices‘ Cydni Tetro and Connect Magazine Executive Editor Colin Kelly discuss the top stories of the week.
This week’s highlights include:
- Coherex closes on a $8.5M round of funding from vSpring Capital and Oxford Bioscience.
- Seth Godin is Coming to Utah May 24th, 2007. Register to attend at WordMob.com.
- UVEF Accepting Nomination for Top 25 Under 5 Awards.
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TaylorMade Golf’s Product and Brand Man
Sean Toulon, TaylorMade Golf’s Executive Vice President of Product and Brand Creation, is passionate about delivering the best performance golf equipment in the world. When Toulon wrote the plan for what would become the number one metal wood on tour, the R7 Quad, a lot of interaction and experience from tour players like Sergio Garcia and Retief Goosen went into the strategy. But more than that, there was an amazing amount of science and technology that allowed TaylorMade to mass customize a golf club to fit virtualy every player.
Toulon shares his thoughts with Brad Baldwin about working with the best players in golf and building the TaylorMade brand into a $1B revenue line for Adidas Group by following the founding CEO’s “triangle of influence” strategy. Despite the United States Golf Association’s (USGA) recent driver size cap and spring effect limits, Toulon shares a “secret” that he knows of 25-30 more yards that will come to golfers in the next five years through innovation and technology. I’m sure there’s a lot of golfers like me saying, “bring it on.”
Are You a TechStar Candidate?
Brad Feld and David Cohen go into detail about their summer project, TechStars, which is bringing 10 startup companies to Boulder, Colorado for an intensive three-month period of education and mentorship from over 30 of the best entrepreneurial minds in Colorado. Each company gets up to $15,000.00 in seed funding plus a chance to pitch to angel investors and venture capitalists at the end of the summer.
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