Headworx

Latency in the smart / connected world is what frustrates us the most. You click and nothing happens... for a while... The phone is coming out of the dormant state of the data connection... The occupancy sensor is trying to reach for the Cloud to determine whether it should turn on the lights... Or simply the uplink of the ADSL connection is saturated and the requests are buffered waiting for the green light. I visited this subject some time ago ... Lag can simply make it impossible to stabilize the circuit. If the reaction is too slow it may simply be wrong. Because when delayed, is is no longer the proper reaction to fast changing conditions. Exactly this was causing the robotic arms linked to the brain's motor cortex were failing. They reactions were too late. Re-linking the arms to the posterior parietal cortex allowed them to reduce the overall latency of the system to the level that guarantees timely reactions. We live in a software defined world. Which means it is fu...

The best User Interface is one that does not exist. Imagine not having to tell a software application what to do. Imagine not having to tell your hand to move a mouse to click a button that tells the software application what to do. Imagine the software captures your intentions. Directly. When computers are able to couple directly with our brains, capturing the intentions, we will enter the new era. Screenless, touchless , direct, men and machines, together. We are entering this era now: a new device was implanted in the posterior parietal cortex (PPC), a part of the brain that controls the intent to move, not the movement directly . The latency introduced by our muscles, finger movements, touch clicks and misses and the 150-years old QWERTY UI (specifically designed to throttle the speed of data entry) is several orders of magnitude higher than the latency of the global communication network. Imagine being able to exchange 10x, 100x or 1000x more information with other p...

We keep telling the World the Silvair products are software defined. What does this mean? Well, it means the products, without the software running inside of them, do not exist. This by the way has become the reality we live in. A car is a software product. Surprised? Try to remove the computer inside and you will end up with a dead pile of metal, glass, leather and plastics, you will even have have difficulty opening. Not to mention starting the engine. Software gives these products all the smart details we love and expect. Software defined products become simply smarter. We like them more. Staying with cars, Saab has always been my favorite example. Back in 1990s there were some lovely features in Saabs, among them the rear view mirrors that were lowering themselves when reverse was engaged. And the engine giving you extra thrust (exceeding the rated bhp) for 30 seconds, just enough to safely overtake. The same concept applies today to objects as simple as lights. Lights can tune ...

Among the formal announcements at the Bluetooth World Event has been our Silvair Mesh network. Mesh is the Smart Home Keyword in 2015 with the two most influential standard organizations (The Bluetooth SIG and the Thread Group) building their connected home vision around it. While capable of running on top of any radio transport, Silvair is different. It may even be a little counter intuitive for many network engineers. The Silvair Mesh is based on source addresses and is designed to form loosely coupled broadcaster - subscribers relationships. We do not want to have any central network coordinator / hub / server on the network. Everything is distributed. Messages are multicast. Devices are autonomous and decide what to do - nobody tells them. Let's take a light bulb as an example. The bulb can turn itself on or off, depending on various conditions. The simplest condition is a message from a switch. So the bulb listens to messages from a switch and whenever there is a ...

Dreams do come true! 5 years ago, when my sister was helping me creating the HoloLens vision, which I presented at TEDx Kraków back in October 2010 and later at eComm 2011 , we did not know how close or how far we were from the actual product. Now it looks like we were damn close! Of course it was a speculation then, but one that I backed with my own money. I enjoy putting my money where my mouth is. This makes the story so much more credible. So during my preparation for the TEDx talk I did a lot of research on the technologies necessary to build such product. One of them was laser microprojection. Doing the research I got in touch with Lemoptix , the Swiss - based laser microprojector startup. In a few months (June 2011) Lemoptix was raising a financing round I participated in. Then in March 2015 it was acquired by Intel . There is no public information on what exactly is inside the HoloLens, but considering the facts: The HoloLens is powered by an Intel processor and Intel ...