Technology: September 2008 Archives

This video is about how our brain works... well, some parts of it. This is by an Indian, and it's simply amazing.
Link to Talk

  With pretty much all smart phones these days coming with a GPS and Location based services, a cool thing will be to have adaptive Event Reminders based on location. When we add an event to a calendar, normally we specify a time before the event when the reminder will fire. It's not really useful if you are mobile. For example, I have a meeting at my office, and I have set a reminder at 5 minutes before the meeting. However, I went to a Starbucks to grab a latte, and the starbucks is, say, 10 mins from my office. A 5 minute reminder is not going to do me any good, right (unless I have a jetpack).
  However, the phone I have reminder in knows exactly where I am, and has the ability to calculate the distance and time to reach my office (assuming the event location is also geotagged). So, it should add that time to the reminder and fire it based on that. This will be a cool addition for the Android/I-Phone.

This talk was simply amazing.