Headworx

Last week's Strategies in Light Europe, colocated with Lux Live 2016 , brought fierce discussions on the future of wireless lighting. One very evident trend was Bluetooth Low Energy, showcased by several companies (including us), each proposing their proprietary mesh network based on the Bluetooth LE standard. The voice of the lighting industry has been clear: "Give us an interoperable, full stack solution that works. Wireless audio has had it for years. Why wireless lighting cannot have the same?". Could not agree more, and believe me, this is my personal priority, leading the Bluetooth Mesh Working Group: unite and deliver. It is also our mission at Silvair : make wireless lighting fly! And we know and completely understand why a full stack, open, standards - compliant solution is the only answer. I have been repeating this for years, stressing the importance of the application layer, as well as the " Layer-0 ". Yes, the full stack is 8 layers, not 7. ...

Grab your smartphone and (provided you're using a Chrome on Android or Safari on iOS) open this link: https://www.panomoments.com/m/grand-central . It is a pretty jaw dropping experience, how - what seems to be - a simple web image reacts to movements of the mobile device. Immediately you can envision how being able to capture such panoramas would become the future of personal photography. PanoMoments plans to offer both the hardware and software to make this happen. I have to say this is one of the most exciting Kickstarter campaigns I've come across this year. Considering my recent fascination with wide angle lens and encouraged by the on-time delivery and great performance of the Zero-D 12mm Laowa lens, it didn't take me too much time to decide on backing this project. Startups seem to be driving the innovation in prosumer photography space through Kickstarter. PanoMoments - if it delivers - not only on the hardware side, but also on the software end (much more...

One of the unintended consequences of [Apple] dropping the 3.5mm headphone jack may be an increased adoption of Bluetooth beacons. For beacons to be effective, phones need to have Bluetooth enabled. Which still many users don't do. Either because they don't have a reason or because they believe it eats battery fast (the latter is a habit from the Nokia 6310 times, when phones lasted for a week and has virtually no effect today). When an audio jack is no longer available and other wired options are still not compatible (Lightning on iPhones and USB Type-C elsewhere), many users will bet on the only safe and prevailing wireless audio standard: Bluetooth. More Bluetooth audio accessories will cause more Bluetooth adapters turned on permanently, opening more opportunities for beacons. It looks like smartphones are firmly settling now on three radios: cellular (for outdoor), WiFi (for indoor data streaming) and Bluetooth (for all kinds of accessories and IoT). Bluetooth clearl...

I'm facing a very busy year-end period with lots of travels. And while the iPad Pro is a very handy form factor for in-flight content consumption, I was struggling with proper preparation of content to study while airborne. Until a friend reminded me about Pocket . I had tried Pocket before but probably not thorough enough to appreciate its virtues. On a second try now it shapes entirely different, addressing exactly what I need. AFter having installed "Save to Pocket" extensions everywhere (on a phone, in Feedly, in desktop browsers...), it is just a subsecond click during busy hours to send content to Pocket. And then, when a proper moment for digesting comes, Pocket on iPad has it all, in offline / "article" mode (without disturbing ads and active gadgets). Beautiful! It is not entirely perfect - I cannot for example send PDFs and other more heavy content, such as Slideshare presentations or network videos with a single click (that'd be awesome, ai...