Interesting new research prototype by Plantronics. Some notes:
- 9 axis sensor
- Tracks Head orientation in 3 dimension
- pedometer
- free fall detection
- along w/ current wearing state events
Looks like it has a temperature sensor?
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Friday, August 2, 2013
Friday, March 8, 2013
@jc_1875 notes that the Polycom CX200 is no longer available from suppliers in the UK and is no longer on the UK Polycom listed among the Lync Optimized devices on Polycom’s site (click here) (update: I now note the USA site is same: click here )
It is with a little nostalgia, as the CX200 was the very first OCS/Lync handset I video reviewed, way back in Dec 2009.
The CX200 lead the brave new world of dial pad less USB desk phone in the OCS/Lync hardware eco system. Today we have many USB speaker phones and some handheld devices---but this will mean the end of dial pad less device in an otherwise desk phone form factor. Considering the CX300, with a dial pad, remains, is this a little blow to no dial pad? Just a thought that hit me.
And, will the next dial pad less desk phone look more something like below? Interestingly enough, Lync may soon come to devices like the Mocet Communicator, via the new Lync 2013 Mobile client for iPad. The new Lync 2013 Mobile for iPad will do voice and video over IP, so could conceivably work on an iPad with the $229 device below.
I would say the wide spread federation usage will likely put the nail in the “dial pad” coffin more than driving this from device form factor. Microsoft Lync Server 2013’s native connection to thousands of other enterprise’s using Lync, Office365, Google IM/P and soon the millions of Skype users world wide will certainly move the things towards a dial-pad-free future: but likely not anytime soon.
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My Old CX200 Video Review for old times sake:
http://windowspbx.blogspot.com/2009/12/polycom-cx200-ocs-usb-phone-aka.html
Twitter Post:
https://twitter.com/jc_1875/status/310072912755445760
All My video reviews:
Click Here
Lync <-> Skype articles you might have interest in:
- How Do I Enable Lync <-> Skype Federation from Skype Side? Click Here
- How Much Will Lync <-> Skype Federation Cost? Click Here
- How Does Lync <-> Skype Federation Work Under the Hood? Click Here
- Nov 2012: Lync <-> Skype IM/P Has Started Working: Click Here
- Feb 2013: Lync <-> Skype Voice Has Started Working for Some: Click Here
Monday, March 4, 2013
For some time I have been wondering aloud if Instant Messaging isn’t replacing more voice calls than we suspect. Are voice calls being replaced more with IM or video calls? I’d love to see statistics on this, but that discussion aside, a linguistics professor may be noting why IM is such a natural voice replacement: because it IS spoken language.
According to John McWhorter, linguistics professor at Columbia University:
“Texting isn’t written language, It much more closely resembles the kind of language we’ve had for so many more years: spoken language.”
He goes on to coin a new term: “fingered speech”. He also notes that if speech can become like writing (a written speech), can writing become like speech? (texting, and by extension IM).
Those interesting in the development of Unified Communication will really want to read this interesting TED 2013 article.
TED: http://blog.ted.com/2013/02/28/the-linguistic-miracle-of-texting-john-mcwhorter-at-ted2013/
http://www.wired.com/business/2013/03/texting-isnt-writing-its-fingered-speech/?cid=co6138824
Q&A with John McWhorter:
http://blog.ted.com/2012/07/11/lol-is-its-own-language-qa-with-john-mcwhorter/
Friday, February 1, 2013
NOTE: this has nothing to do with Lync and is just myself keeping my brain cells stimulated. An evening, extra curricular detour…
After reading & thinking about webRTC, my take away is that the most transformative aspect is new “federation” models that webRTC has the possibility of enabling. One of these pointed out by Phil Edholm is a federation method that could be called “point at URL federation”. To envision how this would work I have started to write an extremely simple point at URL communication server (lab/proof of concept/experimental) to test the ideas.
The basic idea is that this type of “federation” (or inter organization connectivity) depends on nothing other than one user “pointing at another user URL” to connect to someone in the other organization. But what challenges will pop up with this? After scribbling on various napkins, I decided to just do a quick mockup app to test the ideas.
Pillars of this experimental Server/Client
- interconnectivity with as little connection “friction” is a foundational goal
- absolutely as little “start a conversation” friction as possible
- IM/P & note is foundational as well
- Note could serve as foundation for decentralized twitter-like social
- with media made possible by webRTC (or something like it)
Some of my initial goals:
- build an extremely simple server
- starting with IM/P and non-realtime modalities
- p2p server and client combined in web interface
- voluntary participating in directory connects many different p2p servers
- see how much can be achieved with GET model
(This is all a hobby/evening project so might take considerable time.)
Below: screen home user sees when logged in:
Below: screen guest user sees
GuestName –or- usernamepassword
Next the “external user” will see a screen similar to above, with themselves and other user (the url they typed in) in the conversation.
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