Miel Van Opstal

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Posted By: Miel Van Opstal | Feb 22nd @ 1:15 PM
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A little while ago, on the quarterly company meeting, we've had a 'mystery guest' - just like 'we' always do. This time it was a promising startup with a technology that blows away all competition. Meet SoftKinetic, a Belgian company with ideas that will rock your world!
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Posted By: Miel Van Opstal | Feb 21st @ 2:13 PM
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We've had another cool Circle of Media where we announced the DreamSpark program and a new partnership for Media Center with RTBF, a French spoken national broadcasting company. I've also done a 10 minute demo of InkSeine, a brilliant application for tablet PCs. The demo is recorded by Luc Van Braekel.[Click to read the full post ]
Posted By: Miel Van Opstal | Dec 8th, 2007 @ 9:13 PM
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Another glance in the future and at the same time an example of a real experiment in South Africa, this time coming from the Cambridge department of Microsoft’s Research heaven. In this demo, we’re being introduced to how mobile communication can help spread information in regions where broadband is not as penetrated as it is in the Western hemisphere, through content delivery over the mobile network. Another part of the demo takes us through the concept of ‘living tomorrow’, focusing on how families would communicate.[Click to read the full post ]
Posted By: Miel Van Opstal | Dec 8th, 2007 @ 7:21 PM
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One of the coolest things I saw at the Innovation Day was a demo done with a Lego box. A software program was preset with the characteristics of the object that needed to be shown, in this case the contents of the Lego box. The a camera was set up to film the box. The software then interpreted the box and rezzed the contents on top of it.[Click to read the full post ]
Posted By: Miel Van Opstal | Dec 8th, 2007 @ 7:17 PM
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Below is an interview with the rep from MS Research Asia (Bejing, China). He brought with him an impressive piece of software that is called ‘Video Collage’. What it does is: it analyses the movie you upload into the tool, then it makes an image of all significant frames in the video and blends them in nicely so it forms some sort of thumbnail cloud.[Click to read the full post ]
Posted By: Miel Van Opstal | Dec 8th, 2007 @ 9:05 AM
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A demo with Kris Hoet, showing you how to get the most out of your Nokia with Windows Live Services For Nokia. The video shows you exactly how to integrate these superb tools, and it also shows you how fast it goes and how well it works. Have fun pimping your Nokia Smiley[Click to read the full post ]
Posted By: Miel Van Opstal | Dec 8th, 2007 @ 8:54 AM
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So, here is an interview with Tim Van der Zijden from NXP, who came to the Inspiration Playground with a mobile phone, a printer and a digital picture frame. That might not be so inspirational at first sight, but the WoW factor is in the speed and ease of use of the devices. Just look at the video, and it’ll be all clear Smiley
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Posted By: Miel Van Opstal | Dec 8th, 2007 @ 8:47 AM
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At the Inspiration Week in The Hague, the booth next to mine was the one of the DelFly team. Booth keepers Bart Remes and Filip Saad stole the show with their 17 grams light weight devices that looked a lot like a dragonfly. DelFly is a project of the Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands.[Click to read the full post ]
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