Voice Recognition Software & Head-Mounted Computers
Are you ready for voice recognition software and head-mounted computers? If so you will be thrilled to learn about all the great things Motorola has in store for us! Get ready to get in line like everyone else who is interested in enjoying him or herself.
Kopin has shown off a Motorola-branded computer built into a Bluetooth headset that provides a virtual 15-inch display by means of a swing-down eyepiece. According to the company, The “Golden-i” incorporates speech recognition and weighs three ounces. You can run it on Linux or Windows CE for more than eight hours per charge.
BlueRadios announced last week that the WiPC portable media player (right) is similar to the Golden-i incorporates Kopin’s CyberDisplay, a “third-generation” micro-display. It provides 800 x 600 – pixel resolution and measures in at 0.6 inches diagonally. It claims to appear much like a15-inch monitor while being positioned near the eye. However, the WiPC features the design of content snacking since you must manually hold it up to the eye. The Golden-i is incorporated into a Bluetooth headset.
The Golden-i uses its Bluetooth 2.0 radio to make a wide area connection through a cellular phone or other host device with a design that provides the user with remote access to their online office desktop computer, according to Kopin. Kopin also claims the headset that runs Windows CE 6.0 R2, offers “full hands-free access to all PC applications, data files, and services,” by the use of Nuance VoCon 3200 speech recognition software. Users can zoom in and out on their remote desktops by operating a cursor with “nearly pixel-for-pixel accuracy” thanks to an integral, six-axis position tracker from Hillcrest Labs. That is pretty impressive!
Kopin, released renderings of the Golden-i that carry Motorola branding. It also provides documentation to the press suggesting that Motorola may bring this device into market. Despite the financial losses of the parent company and the falling market share of the Motorola handset division, Moto’s Enterprise Mobile Solutions group continues to be successful in generating profits.
Kopin does not say if any type of software comes with the Golden-i other than to emphasize a possibility of accessing enterprise computers by means of Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Protocol or RDP. However, according to the company, the headset offers “hands-free spontaneous access to all digital information, broadcast programming and Internet services.” It is compatible with 480p (720 x 480 pixel) video at up to 30 frames per second. Apparently, WiFi is not included in the initial prototypes. However, the company does say that it will later be added for autonomous web browsing.
According to Kopin, the Golden-i’s speech recognition offers “over 90 percent proficiency straight out of the box.” It does not require push to talk buttons and it is always on standby to react to user requests. Additionally, the device can incorporate text-to-speech capabilities, which enables it to read back text documents such as webpages and e-mails as well as other types of displayable screen text.
As mentioned earlier, the Golden-i like the WiPC uses a Cortex-A8-based Texas Instruments OMAP3530 system-on-chip (SoC) clocked at 600MHz. There is no mention as to the amount of memory included on the device. However, the headset includes both a microSD expansion slot and a mini-USB port, according to Kopin. The headset operates for more than 8 hours using a single 1200 mAh battery, according to the company.
WiPC features and specifications include:
- TI OMAP3530 clocked at 600MHz Processor
– Kopin SVGA (800 x 600) liquid crystal micro display LCD Display
– Other I/O –1 x USB
– User Interface that incorporates motion sensing and speech recognition
– microSD slot Expansion
– A Power source of 1200 mAh battery provides more than eight hours of operation.
– Networking: with Bluetooth 2.0 and soon WiFi will be offered
It is compatible with Windows CE and Linux operating systems and weights in at 85 grams or 3 ounces.
More than 30 million micro displays such as those commonly useful devices as camcorders, digital cameras, thermal weapon sights and night vision systems as well as personal video eyewear, has already been shipped according to Kopin. More than 200 global patents and patents pending protect the company’s proprietary displays and heterojunction bipolar transistors or HBTs.
Availability
Golden-i prototypes will soon be placed with “several industrial organizations” for several months of field-testing and evaluation says Kopin. The company also adds that, mass production is expected to begin in 2010.
In conclusion, it sounds as though we are swiftly moving into the next century and will be able to enjoy all the wonders of today’s technology tomorrow!
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Internet Marketing a Reason to Believe
Marketing is simply talking about something in a way that lets others know that it is important to you. If your child is important to you then you will talk about your child. If your spouse means something to you it will not be a burden to talk about your spouse. If your car is significant you won’t pass up the opportunity to talk about it.
That which is important to us will be spoken of. Since this is true one has to wonder if some online businesses really consider their website business to be important.
Maybe they simply haven’t done the math and they don’t see that business + marketing = success. Maybe they wrongly think that business + website = success. A website is a tool, and marketing is the means of getting people to use the tool.
In an online environment there are a variety of ways that you can ‘talk’ about your website. If you have pride in your business idea then you need to find ways to get the word out.
Far too many businesses relegate marketing to something that is unattainable. It is something they don’t understand and don’t know how to do so they simply toss that part of their business plan to the side and hope someone will drop by and buy.
I heard about a specialized library recently. It had been in existence for more than a decade. Yet I was unaware of its existence. The organization behind the library simply relied on word of mouth advertising. While I’m all for this type of advertising it is only one phase of marketing. I wonder where the library would be today if they had made a concerted marketing effort.
Beyond telling people why something is important to you it is also important in marketing to let others know why your idea should be important to them. This is also a missing element in most marketing plans.
It may be possible for businesses to let people know that the business is important to them, but neglect to help customers understand why they should consider the business important, too.
If you can’t demonstrate a reasonable outline for your visitors to consider then you can bet they won’t expend much energy in trying to discover that truth on their own.
Most site visitors want a reason to believe in your site, but they don’t want to hunt for it like a miner seeking gold. If you can’t articulate a reason to believe they won’t believe, they won’t care and they will exit your site quickly.
The mathematics of marketing require simple equations, but many business owners insist on using inaccurate marketing ideas in an attempt to understand their marketing goals. We wouldn’t settle for this in accounting for our business profits so why do we insist on ignoring marketing math in business?
I think the primary reason is it’s easy to avoid those things that make us uncomfortable. Face it, marketing can make anyone uncomfortable simply because it can seem foreign to our sensibilities or that if we use marketing ideas we will be thought of as pushy.
Give everyone a reason to believe.
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