tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70124392664774695482024-03-05T08:52:57.403-08:00The ArraY by George KriegerI regularly challenge myself to take the unusual image, or shots that teach us something about the world we live in. I fly drones, do live broadcasting, and love Photography, Technology, Conferences and anything else that keeps me walking. Photography started out as my physical therapy during recovery from a head-on collision.. My story is in this entry http://georgekrieger.blogspot.com/2013/03/man-survives-head-on-collision-with.htmlAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541898551567344435noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7012439266477469548.post-86001292710130767052015-02-15T22:30:00.000-08:002015-03-26T21:16:28.119-07:00Drone Gallery CES 2015 (Part III)<h3 style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All seen at the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show.</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We saw many varieties of unmanned systems on the show floor in 2015. I took images of every one that I could over the four days in Vegas. Here is a gallery of those images. It is a good resource for years to come. We can look back upon this gallery and see how the market evolves.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The DJI Inspire1 was the star of the unmanned systems group. The booth drew the biggest crowds and garnered the most attention from attendees and buyers.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">AirDog lead the pack of Follow Drone projects as the first in that space....</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">but Hexo+ took all the honors for the category of Follow Drones. Visit http://hexoplus.com/ for more information.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unmanned Systems is a group of devices that are not all Aerial. Here is TTRobotics TTR-SB Seawolf, underwater GoPro platform.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Special Projects, like SkySpecs anti collision avoidance system will be vital to commercial use safety. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are tons more in the gallery. CES2015 was a blast for a geek like myself. This was my 4th year in a row at the show. Expect me to continue this spotlight next year at the Consumer Electronics Show. </span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541898551567344435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7012439266477469548.post-7440723202360377782015-01-25T07:57:00.000-08:002015-01-25T18:53:21.461-08:00Drone makers become Camera makers and compete with GoPro.<h2 style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The #CESdrones have leaders and followers. Last year there were only a few OEM's. This year there was a mob of them. Drones were seen in almost every hall. The market for consumer drones is growing exponentially. It has revealed a clear winner in these early stages of unmanned systems. It has shown that DJI Global has captured the largest market share of the consumer business. Most consumer drones are purchased for capturing imagery and DJI has risen to the top of that segment.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><b>DJI </b><b>Phantom</b> series <b>Vision+</b> platform with proprietary camera and RAW image support.</i></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I saw drones everywhere f</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">rom the first hour I walked around the show floor, which was during setup on the day before the show opened to the public. In every building and almost every show hall until the show ended. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The only place drones were not seen, was in the skies over Las Vegas. The area has very strict and well known rules forbidding unmanned systems from flying there. Inside the Las Vegas Convention Center flying was allowed for those who had a protected area, designed for safe demo flying. (Attendees</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> were not allowed to fly) </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><b>DJI Global</b>'s <b>X3/ FC350</b> camera mounted on a prototype handheld gimbal</i></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Over the past 2 years DJI has actually specialized in photographic drones so much, that they are now a camera OEM, as well.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> It started with their FC40 camera. Then they released the Vision+ camera, and now it is the Inspire1's camera called the X3 model #FC350. This is the companies first 4k offering and they even showed a prototype handheld gimbal for it at their CES booth.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><b>Sprite Limited</b> is an action camera OEM and new Drone manufacturer</i></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is kind of ironic that DJI has become a small sensor camera manufacturer, because they are being treated very much like GoPro. Other manufacturers are copying DJI Global product's look and features. When I asked one booth attendant what the difference was from the DJI model, she said "It's Cheaper!!!" That is probably a very true statement. Companies that copy product designs and release them as cheaper alternatives, are not good at making them work as well as the originals. They lack the software and user design features that make the original worth owning. Some drone OEM's even fail to include basic safety features that are key to making the original a good seller.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The only other major manufacturer at CES this year was Parrot. With 3D Robotics not showing and Walkera having a very small booth, with a useless crew, not much else was here from the top players. It was like DJI scared them all away. Several specialized OEM's represented this year, including Harwar and Hubsan. The biggest contingent on the 2015 CES show floor were crowd funded & award winning drone companies like Nixie, Hexo+, AirDog, Ghost, and Zano.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><b>Hexo+</b> is a crowd funded follow drone system. (A drone designed to follow and image you)</i></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Why was 3D Robotics a no-show for CES2015? There have been a few speculations, but most likely it is a combination of product cycle and money. 3DR had no real new products to show this year, and CES is expensive, as well as time consuming. Many companies take a year off the show floor, when they are in development cycles. The other expected new OEM was GoPro, but they did not offer any news of a drone in their future. The interesting thing was that they also did not deny that they were working on one. That is not much to go on, but since DJI is making their own cameras and testing handheld gimbals, GoPro might be losing aerial purposed sales. I guess there is only so much you can assume about things</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> that were NOT at CES. You never know what is coming next in this arena. I hope we see less copies and more innovation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Parrot is not just a drone OEM, they are born from an Automotive Infotainment group that also makes consumer products for smartphones and tablets. Now they are a camera OEM, as you can see from their Exom and Beebop products.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If the CES booth told us anything, it is that Parrot is getting into mapping this year. They showed several platforms that can use their SenseFly system, including the Ebee Agricultural Mapping fixed wing platform.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Parrot showed their mapping and camera prowess with realtime 3D mapping demo based on the Nvidia Tegra Chipset. The project uses 2 BeeBop cameras to do stereo-imaging, and provides a real time visual output of the image building. Mapping is the next big thing for unmanned aerial systems. 3D and "4D" mapping are going to be a huge part of the mapping innovations coming out. (4D mapping is 3D mapping with a 4th dimension of information) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Walkera was at the show, but had a very small booth. They did present a new flagship product called Voyager3. The booth attendants were not very helpful and knew almost nothing about the new offering. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From what I was able to find out, the new platform will have a 4K camera and retracting landing gear. The proprietary camera will lower as the legs raise providing a 360 degree unobstructed rotation. The final configuration of this new aircraft looks very similar to the Inspire1 from DJI. The features are very different and do not seem to be as good as the Inspire1. In their defense, Walkera did say that this product was still under development.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">DJI shipped their first batch of pre-ordered Inspire1 drones just days before the show. The Inspire1 was announced and demonstrated back in the fall. The expected release date in December was missed due to something going wrong with the production. The exact reason was never really specified, but the result was surely a better released product and a lot of angry customers. Those angry customers would have been much worse off if DJI did ship on time. It was a hard time for DJI, but a good decision in the long run. Now Inspire1 is shipping the production unit and I have been told by several Beta unit pilots that the new one is much better at everything. I got to fly an Inspire1 Beta unit about a week before writing this. I saw some of the issues with it and it was still one of the best machines I have ever flown.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Harwar was one the specialized OEM's on the show floor, but they really don't make consumer aircraft. Their main business is commercial use drones for surveillance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hubsan showed off quite a few drone models in their booth. They had minidrones, fixed wing styles and this curious model called the X4 Pro. The main feature was 4K live video that you can share. Considering that there is no way to transmit true live 4K video I am sure the transmission is not 4K just the source. They could give me no information to back up this hand written sign.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To summarize the consumer drones at CES this year, I would have to say that there is starting to be a real crossover between the unmanned systems space and the action camera space. The biggest thing I saw in drones was new cameras. Less and less aerial platforms are using GoPro's and are instead starting to make their own cameras. There is even a couple of camera manufacturers that are now making drones, like Sprite Limited and AEE. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These two markets are going to become more and more blurred over time. A drone is nothing more than a tripod for a small sensor camera. But a tripod that you can move in 3D space. The two products are in need of the other. A drone without a camera is as bad as a camera without a view. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After seeing all this camera and drone crossover happening, it is hard to imagine that</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> GoPro is not making their own drone platform. There were also news stories that popped up back in November on the Wall Street Journal that hinted about this possibility.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Action camera OEM <b>AEE </b> is now a drone OEM as well.</i></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Stay tuned for my next report on the drones of CES. We will talk about the crowd funded drone phenomena.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><b>Trace Live Networks </b>claim to be a content company whose main product is a social network and a camera platform. It was easily the most forward thinking camera OEM's that had a drone aspect. One of their cameras is mounted in a follow drone. Their main focus is the live aspect and sharing live streams through their social platform. I think that this combination of social content and drones is here to stay. DJI already has one such project, www.skypixel.com.</i></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">George Krieger is a tech enthusiast, teacher of Aerial Imagery as a Master at TheArcanum.com and a photographer, that has used capturing imagery as a way to do physical therapy. All images copyright 2015 George Krieger.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541898551567344435noreply@blogger.com0Las Vegas, NV, USA36.1699412 -115.1398295999999835.7602007 -115.78527659999999 36.579681699999995 -114.49438259999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7012439266477469548.post-61293456256479411282015-01-14T02:32:00.000-08:002015-01-21T19:19:21.038-08:00Unmanned Systems take over the CES Show in 2015 (#CESdrones) Part I<h2 style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Part I The Future is Automated</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This year was a breakout year for Drones at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. The main section called Unmanned Aerial Systems was huge, compared to last year's group of only 2-3 OEM's. This year saw so many drones, in so many areas, that I still do not have a good number on how many I saw. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Let's get right into it and show you what I found, that flies, at CES this year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of the most interesting projects at CES was a Kickstarter called <b>Spiri. </b>Created by Patrick Edwards-Daugherty it was successfully funded on September 11th 2013 to the tune of $140K beating their $125K goal soundly. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start;">Spiri </b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; text-align: start;">on the CES show floor</span></i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Spiri </b>is designed to be a flying API. It will provide a stable flying platform for programmers to utilize. From my talk with Patrick, I found out that they built this with gaming and Geo-spacial Perspective in mind. They want to augment coding to be safe for flight by making a safe hardware platform. The programmers would need to know nothing about drones to utilize this platform. The functions of stability and safety would be built in, and part of every available command. This way the program may fail but the unmanned autonomous system would stay in flight and not be affected by a fatal error in the added software. Certainly this will advance innovation by taking many of the hurdles away from adding drones into your code.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: start;">Spiri </b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: start;">is already a successful Kickstarter and they are getting support from large operations like here at the Freescale exhibit, where </span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: start;">Spiri</b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: start;"> was featured.</span></span></i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Another amazing project that I saw at CES 2015 was the Collision Avoidance project by <b>SkySpecs</b>. Daniel Ellis, CEO of <b>SkySpecs</b> was walking this DJI S900 </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">version of their system through the halls of CES. We chatted for a few minutes, and now I can see their vision. The Guardian system from SkySpecs is an automated co-pilot that senses potential collisions and gently takes control, just long enough to correct the flight path, then returns to operator control. The pilot of the craft should hardly notice that they have been assisted. For things like inspection drones and search and rescue operations, being able to forget about colliding into anything and focus on your objective is vital. The result should be safer flights with less focus on flight paths and needing a spotter and more immersion into the core focus of the project the drone is doing. It is an infrastructure that could be built into most platforms as it gets smaller and lighter. See their site www.skyspecs.com for more information and if you want your company to be an early adopter the application is here http://www.skyspecs.com/earlyadopter/</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">UPDATE:</i><br />I spoke with SkySpecs today about their early adopter program. From the questions they asked me and the information I was told, they are choosing a limited number of testers to fly a S900 with their collision avoidance prototype on-board. Since they are providing the aircraft, and not just the added features, they will charge a monthly fee to "rent" the system and test it. The current whisper price is $400 per month on a 6 month contract. They claim the system can stop an S900 from hitting a wall, while going full throttle. They said it would stop it dead in its tracks. Using 270 degree LIDAR, SkySpec's collision avoidance system is able to detect objects in the same plane as the aircraft. It can then take control of the system and make navigational commands to "avoid" the object it is tracking. It then returns control to the pilot, allowing continuation of the flight. There is a 90 degree gap in the coverage which is well within the view of the cameras we use. For most purposes collision avoidance is not needed forward while using FPV. You should be able to see what is in front of you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This system will allow pilots to immerse themselves into their flight's purpose and concentrate on their professional, creative, or scientific goals. Scientists will be able to collect water samples, and not have to worry about hitting the trees. Inspection crews will be able to focus on the inspection, instead of worrying about the airborne unit hitting the crane boom. Search and rescue will be able ti use goggles and keep their attention on finding and rescuing rather than flight paths and tricky terrain or crowded environments. Cinematic pilots will be able to film, instead of filming half the time and hoping to keep the shot in-frame when using line of sight to check where the camera drone is. In addition, the system will augment the fail safe return to home functions, by adding collision avoidance to the path.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The first follow-drone was a huge kickstarter success. <b>Airdog</b>, the Auto-Follow Drone was seeking $200K and got over $1.3 million vaulting them into aerial legends. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>AirDog's </b>basic concept has been copied by several other unmanned projects, but they are the original as far as I can tell. Their features are basic but well rounded and seemingly functional. The arms can fold and the frame is made for very rough use. Features include:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Follow me with your eyes.</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Trace Live Networks was showing a follow-drone called the <span style="font-size: 13px;"><b>FLYR1.</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> The difference in their technology was that it only uses the camera for this function... no gps or electronic beacons. Nothing to home in with except the camera. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After the Trace loses view of its objective it will gently land and wait for you to get it. Trace is focused on action sports capture but is not limiting the Trace device to be a drone. There are 2 other options for Trace. It can be tripod mounted and they have a little RC style car they can mount it on top of too. Another thing about Trace and their Live Network, they are not calling themselves a drone or camera company. They consider themselves a content company. Pre-order signup is available but there is no set price yet. Go to http://www.trace.com/ for more information.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In this space there is another Kickstarter legend called the <b>Hexo+</b>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>HEXO+</b> went for $50k in crowd funding and got over $1.3 million just like AirDog. They call themselves "Your Autonomous Aerial Camera-Drone" They had a rocky time at CES, from what I heard. They crashed their only prototype during an interview before the event even started. Then they came in and won 2 awards for their efforts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here are their detailed specs to compare with AirDog:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dimensions: 62 x 52 x 12 cm - 24 x 20 x 5 inches</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Total weight: 980 g - 2.2 lbs </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hexacopter design with 30° tilt propellers </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Speed range: up to 70 kmh - 45mph</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Flight time: 15 min with 3S battery, gimbal and GoPro attached</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Trajectory anticipation </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Get yours pre-ordered for $1149usd here </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So in summary, the unmanned aerial systems of tomorrow, will have more autonomous features than manual control. Having a drone camera follow you during action sports activities will be the norm. We also learned that drone platforms will include a flying API platform and collision avoidance to allow you to focus on the goals for flying in the first place. Safety and stabilized programmable flight with more functions than most piloted aircraft will be the norm. Aerial sensors are going to change the way we live and how much we know about our surroundings. Remember this is the Consumer Electronics Show, so we are not seeing the purely B2B drone operations here. I suppose that will be most evident at the NAB show in April.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541898551567344435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7012439266477469548.post-66157697312144862182014-10-25T17:15:00.000-07:002014-10-29T15:50:21.129-07:00A Drone's unique perspective shows us the Real Shape of a Rainbow.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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A new perspective can show us things we never knew existed. . . and it can change how we think of even common things like rainbows</h3>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This happened at dawn just before the rain started falling. I took 3 perspectives of this double refractive beauty to see if I could show you something special about rainbows that you probably did not realize. You will see that perspective is everything to how things look in our mind."</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The main things we were taught about rainbows as kids was that what we see is the same thing that a prism does. Which is not the whole truth. Rainbows are caused by water droplets which are not prisms but have prismatic qualities. The science teacher always showed us a prism that split light into the different frequencies we see as color just like a rainbow does. The problem is that rainbows are based on spherical water droplets with a "prismatic" bending effect rather than a light straightening triangular prism which directs light differently. Most importantly they never told us that rainbows are not "rainbow shaped".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The best explanation I could find about rainbows states that they are actually shaped like cones and that there are almost always double rainbows if you look hard enough:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>From the URL http://mysite.du.edu/~jcalvert/astro/bow.htm</i><br /><span style="font-size: 15px;"><i>The variables influencing the rainbow are the altitude of the sun, and the size of the raindrops in which the rainbow is seen. The rainbow is a cone making an angle of 42° with the antisolar direction, which is normally beneath the horizon for an observer on the surface. When the sun is at an elevation of 42°, only a little arc at the top is visible at the horizon. As the sun sinks, the arc of the rainbow rises in the sky, until at sunset it forms a semicircle. The eye interprets the light arriving on the cone as a circle somewhere in space, though the rainbow is really only a direction. If the observer is at a slight elevation, some of the rainbow can be seen beneath the horizon, in front of not too distant objects, which gives the impression of a physical existence not too far away. The story of the "pot of gold" at the end of the rainbow takes advantage of this illusion to send fools on a quest. The rainbow just keeps receding as they try to approach it. We should realize that the rainbow is a cooperative effect of many raindrops, with considerable depth, and that our visual impression is the best the visual sense can do with its data. When you see a rainbow, try to estimate its apparent distance from you, or its apparent size.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Let me show you what a rainbow really looks like. The following three perspectives demonstrate the science behind this basic optical effect. <span style="font-weight: normal;">H</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">ere are the images followed by my explanation of what you are seeing and where it was taken from.</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Image No.1:</b> (Ground Level) To us a rainbow is a 1/2 spherical arc generated by sunlight refracting through water droplets in the air. We see this only because our visual perspective is too close to the earth. If we go further up we can see more. Here we are limited visually to the true magnitude of this phenomena. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Image No.2:</b> (200 ft Elevation) Here is a clue as to what a rainbow really looks like. Look at the shape it is clearly more of a circle than in image No.1 and the only thing that has changed is the elevation of your perspective and the drone was flying about 20 feet away from the original picture to the left. But we are still too close to earth to see what is really happening when we get a rainbow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Image No.3:</b> (390 ft elevation) Now we are just high enough to see what I wanted to show you. Here you can plainly see that a rainbow is indeed a more circular shape (actually it is a conical projection made when light passes through a mass of spherical shapes and refracts its light in a common direction). It is sort of like a large bubble where you can see the optical effects around the edges but not in the middle. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Again the only thing that is different here is elevation and your perspective. This is what the light bending event we call a rainbow really looks like. If we were higher up (and still at a viewable angle) we would see the rainbow as a complete circle looking just like lens flare (they both work on the same principle of optics called refraction).</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541898551567344435noreply@blogger.com0Monterey Bay, United States36.878192 -121.9473110000000136.4712495 -122.59275800000002 37.2851345 -121.30186400000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7012439266477469548.post-27170037418557693412014-06-08T21:49:00.004-07:002014-06-08T22:09:27.464-07:00ISS Star Trails Time Lapse<h2 style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thanks to everyone for their interest in this project and special thanks to the ISS crew for taking the time to look at my imagery of them passing by one night and my crazy friends for getting me interested in this. More to come...... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A few months ago I was asked if I wanted to participate in a project to take long exposures of the International Space Station when the next crew was aboard in late May. It sounded like a tough challenge and a creative joy to do an image like that so I agreed with enthusiasm and little thought as to how hard it might be. As the time for this project neared I did a little research on the ISS. It travels at around 17,500 MPH in a low orbit ranging approximately 260 miles altitude above sea level. The ISS orbital path is visible from 95% of the inhabited land on earth and as it is the second largest object in orbit it reflects the sun in the same way as the Moon does becoming visible after dark. The speed and altitude of the orbital trajectory means that the ISS is visible for only about 6 minutes from horizon to horizon. There are web sites and smart phone apps that can help you find where the ISS is but to figure out where it will be in the sky before it gets there is a little more difficult. Ok so this was a tough challenge but not too tough. I started finding the Apps and sites I would need to predict and capture the images which were stacked to make the image above.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On launch day I watched my friend Romeo Durscher who had asked me to participate resharing all the launch images and links to watch the docking to the ISS. Now it was time to shoot this thing. I used the web site http://www.heavens-above.com/ to find the next ISS passes and trjectories then used Google Earth to figure out where I wanted to go. The weather made the decision easy as Fremont Peak would be the only place I could get to above the fog and low clouds. I got there in plenty of time and after flying an aerial video of sunset relocated down the road a few miles to get the view of Hollister and setup may cameras and started taking images waiting for my 6 minute window. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By the end of the day I had found out that my image was seen in space and they wanted to use it as well to help spread the work about #SpotTheStation. Reid Wiseman wanted me to tweet the image to him so he could share it from space! How cool is that? Well for a geek like myself ....Wow what an honor! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But this was only part of the image I was making. You see I kept on shooting for another 90 minutes until the ISS made a second pass. I had taken over 300 images on my main camera before it was all over. I captured two ISS passes from the same spot and all the star movement in between them as well. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The final image I was working on was about to begin while the first 7 shots were being shared around the world on twitter and the local news. I wanted to get this done and publish it so folks could see what I was really making. The process I had to use to do this took me a lot of time to get right. Many of my exposures had plane trails in them or car headlights over exposing areas of the image, those had to be removed as well as any other annoying frames. After culling I took the image count from 309 to 148 and started to simultaneously stacking them and building the necessary images to create a timelapse video as well from the same imagery. After processing, stacking, time lapsing. reprocessing and getting the final still image finally done I still have a video to make for this too! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">UPDATE: 2014-10-29 @Astro_Reid retweeted my latest #SpotTheStation image from space! Making my second this year!!! Here is the newer image taken in Big Sur, California.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It tracks the sun giving you 30% more energy than rooftop solar, folds up at night, looks like a Lotus Flower and can charge your Tesla Roadster....So why not combine all three and make the show at CES a little more interesting.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSRVl4TclwGGPZFwi5-mWj_ZYXfiySnHIce6Z6J05LOn3nKxqiQi4zqF4vsLwoCGmgpf8l6d0iPvjMaTXBsDMxfIJhsdSM21k0lj9u71DpU2u9OwA1ais6aXO_sYBwVpODS32Fwd4V0ZY4/s1600/DSC_3085.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSRVl4TclwGGPZFwi5-mWj_ZYXfiySnHIce6Z6J05LOn3nKxqiQi4zqF4vsLwoCGmgpf8l6d0iPvjMaTXBsDMxfIJhsdSM21k0lj9u71DpU2u9OwA1ais6aXO_sYBwVpODS32Fwd4V0ZY4/s1600/DSC_3085.jpg" height="614" width="640" /></a><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Professor Joseph Hui is the man behind the odd looking Tesla you see here. His company Monarch Power created this Lotus Flower inspired solar power system for houses. The unique structure of the supports for the solar panels allows for less weight and cost than traditional roof mounted panels while providing more power by tracking the sun all day and folding up at night.</div>
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Obviously this is not a practical use of the panels but somehow it still works for me :) I like that it was inspired by Nature... things that are made this way usually have an edge over more technically based design efforts.<br />
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This car looks like it has one of those straw umbrellas stuck in it from a distance but what it really represents is a vehicle that has its own power collection system. Almost a perpetual motion of energy...almost. I love seeing crazy renditions of a product done just for the sake of doing it and this was a great site to see at the <a class="g-profile" href="https://plus.google.com/114786898916421737866" target="_blank">+International CES</a> #CES2014 </div>
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Interesting fact: Joseph Hui is featured on a Facebook page entitled Solar Man</div>
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Technical specifications for the Lotus Mobile System are available from Monarch here including prices and CES specials</div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I walked out of the Las Vegas Convention Center tonight, the evening before the <a class="g-profile" href="https://plus.google.com/114786898916421737866" target="_blank">+International CES</a> show starts, I was "Sway"ed to check out this new angle on transportation. It is called the Sway Motorsports "Sway Lithium", a prototype vehicle currently in a BETA testing production. With a front end that looks like a Piaggio MP3 and a riding stance like none other, this 3 wheeled electric motorcycle is actually steered primarily with your feet. This gives you better turning radius and traction, as well as a safer position while cornering.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They are testing the market for 2 different base models, one Lithium (seen above) and the other a cheaper slower and range reduced version that will run on Lead Acid batteries. Here are the specs of the two proposed models:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Powered by a high quality LiFePo4 battery pack for superior performance and longevity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Range: 40 Miles</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Recharge: 3.5 Hours</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Length: 60" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Range: 20 Miles</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Joe Wilcox, founder of Sway Motorsports, said they are taking reservations for preorders on his site </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.swaymotorsports.com/">http://www.swaymotorsports.com/</a>. The pre-order reservation costs $100 but is refundable.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sway is not here at CES but Joe is out there riding around showing people his crazy cool electric 3 wheeled street surfer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">....CES starts tomorrow morning.... so I am gonna go out and shoot some nighttime shots on the strip. What did you think? that I was gonna sleep or something? :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The DJI press conference is tomorrow, should be one of the highlights for sure!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On December 16th in the middle of the night a fire started in Big Sur, California. When I heard I knew I had to go photograph it but I never knew that it would be the emotional ride it has been. I have never photographed a wildfire before but I have worked on imaging Fire quite a bit. I was focused on finding the beauty that exists in all fire ...but in the environment of a destructive wildfire burning homes in a legendary resort area.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many of my photographer friends were contacting me asking if the fire was blocking access to Keyhole Rock, a place where the sun sets in the Keyhole only for a short time around Winter Solstice. I had people I had never met on Facebook asking if their home was in the path of the fire. Stories about people affected by the fire started hitting the wires. Another story was also written that I missed about a local photographer who had lost everything. This was a horrible disaster and not much beauty was there to find either photographically or emotionally for me at the time but I kept making the trip down to Big Sur each day taking images and talking to people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During this whole ordeal I had been corresponding with many folks online about the fire and one of them was with a friend and shooting buddy that had decided to make a difference and try to help. When <a class="g-profile" href="http://plus.google.com/115304232819929344853" target="_blank">+Barry Blanchard</a> told me he was ordering a new camera for "Kodiak" I knew I had heard the name but with all the focus on the fire I could not recall where. <a class="g-profile" href="http://plus.google.com/113819367749033437066" target="_blank">+Kodiak Greenwood</a> is an extremely talented photographer and photographic historian of the Big Sur Area that had been out of town when the fire started. He drove over 11 hours to get back home to find nothing but ashes and shattered bits of his collection of cameras and equipment. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> So "Paying it Forward" was what <a class="g-profile" href="http://plus.google.com/115304232819929344853" target="_blank">+Barry Blanchard</a> called it. He was determined to get to Big Sur and put a new cameras in Kodiak's hands ASAP. Here is the message thread between Barry and myself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kodiak Greenwood had lost not only his passion but his way of life. He was a preeminent photographer and artist in Big Sur, ironically well known for his images of the 2008 Big Sur fire on Apple Pie Ridge. He had over $50k dollars worth of equipment and priceless works of art in his house that burned. His antique cameras, lenses, specialized and rare equipment all lost forever. But that pales in comparison to some of the known art like the Ansel Adams silver prints his father had given him. They were all gone now. All this just before the holidays and the day he returned to find his house burned was also his birthday. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I understood why Barry organized this way to help him. I told you that I had heard Kodiak's name before and it was during Burning Man that I had heard it. Kodiak and his team had built an art car out of an old school-bus and the reclaimed flooring from the Monterey roller skating rink. The vehicle is called the Anostraca named after the tiny shrimp that can be found in the Playa dust where Burning Man is held each year. One of my camping partners Michael Troutman wrote an article about his project and him during Burning Man, yet we never crossed paths. So I should know this guy but somehow, I did not .... I was definitely behind the idea of helping Kodiak.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had just become involved in the most wonderful Christmas scheme I have ever experienced in my life. I joined a group of amazing people that I am proud to have called friends for a while before this even started.... you see Barry had also enlisted the help of shooting buddy <a class="g-profile" href="http://plus.google.com/117937415022745482256" target="_blank">+Cameron Siguenza</a>, <a class="g-profile" href="http://plus.google.com/110334215429099763864" target="_blank">+Laurie Rubin</a> form Google's Nik Software, <a class="g-profile" href="http://plus.google.com/115407434446501784769" target="_blank">+Jim Weise</a> and <a class="g-profile" href="http://plus.google.com/118074930118880730333" target="_blank">+Mark Gvazdinskas</a> from Really Right Stuff, a tripod maker in San Luis Obispo, and <a class="g-profile" href="http://plus.google.com/111362871146909657550" target="_blank">+Russell Preston Brown</a> from Adobe to join him. The goal was to keep <a class="g-profile" href="http://plus.google.com/113819367749033437066" target="_blank">+Kodiak Greenwood</a>'s creative force from being muffled any longer. A plan was developed and put into action. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was now Friday and the fire fight is going in the right direction. Mother Nature helped out with a little rain and the people were talking about getting back into their homes. Those gifts that had been ordered for Kodi were arriving and plans were being made to meet him in Big Sur before the fire was even put out. Sunday was the day and then due to scheduling it was determined that we need to make it a 2 day event as not everyone could be free on the same day. So Sunday and Monday plans were made to meet Kodiak at the Fernwood Resort located in the heart of Big Sur.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Group One included <a class="g-profile" href="http://plus.google.com/115304232819929344853" target="_blank">+Barry Blanchard</a>, <a class="g-profile" href="http://plus.google.com/110334215429099763864" target="_blank">+Laurie Rubin</a>, <a class="g-profile" href="http://plus.google.com/117937415022745482256" target="_blank">+Cameron Siguenza</a>, <a class="g-profile" href="http://plus.google.com/115407434446501784769" target="_blank">+Jim Weise</a>, <a class="g-profile" href="http://plus.google.com/118074930118880730333" target="_blank">+Mark Gvazdinskas</a> and myself. The cargo was a new Canon 5D Mark III, tripod, software and accessories to give to <a class="g-profile" href="http://plus.google.com/113819367749033437066" target="_blank">+Kodiak Greenwood</a>. The scene in the restaurant was surreal. Remember this guy does know any of us at all.... Barry just got in touch and said Hey we are doing this for you, when can you be there? It was 2pm on Sunday December 22nd 2013 that we all gathered. It was an honor to meet Kodi and hear his story about the fire and his place burning to the ground before he had a chance to even get back into town. The only things that survived the fire were his 2 cats and both were burned but alive. It was evident that he had really not taken in what had happened yet. The fire had been contained 100% the night before but it was nowhere near being put out yet. The best estimates at this point were that it could be another 5-7 days until they considered the fire to be out. He was still fighting this common enemy with his neighbors every day, there had been no time for him to really grasp what was happening.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When he spoke about the items that he had lost you could see the amazement in his eyes " My jade and stone bowls were all cracked... there was just so much heat" he said "I also lost a ton of antique (camera) lenses to the heat and flames, there's nothing left at all." We asked about the property he lived on and if anyone else lived there </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"I am the caretaker of the property for a doctor who lives out of state, and both the main house and the place I lived burned</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> to the ground" Kodiak also told us that there was no one on the property at the time of the fire just those 2 cats he found wounded but alive later.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After we all got to know one another and Kodiak was able to setup his camera we followed him into the burn area to check out the damage first hand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We all marveled at the fact that we were the only ones on the beach except a few firefighters, locals and birds. This weekend that we were there normally would have seen close to 100 photographers angling for a place to put their tripod. Due to the fire we were the only ones who were able to get there. As the sun set on the horizon it was evident that this was one of those few days each year that the sun sets directly in the keyhole, adding to the emotions and imagery. It was a very emotional and pleasant experience to see Kodiak lose himself in his photography for a couple of hours. He was smiling and starting to realize that he could start over more easily now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Too many people read or listen to the news and do nothing about the bad things in this world. Barry Blanchard made a decision to help a stranger who shared similar passions by giving him a new camera. "If I had to max out a credit card doing it I still would have done it" Barry told me after the first time we met Kodiak. Jim and Mark passed a hat around at the RRS headquarters in San Luis Obispo to buy a Tripod everyone did whatever they could and the combined efforts made a complete set of tools that was gifted to Kodi. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I asked Kodi what was next for him and he replied that he had to first regain his identity and life with new paperwork for his truck deed and other papers lost in the fire. He must continue his job as caretaker for the property and make sure that the insurance company has what they need to reimburse the owner so they can rebuild. It will be a while but the property owner told Kodiak that they would rebuild the main house and a "caretaker's place" as soon as the Insurance came through. Until then he has friends to stay with and will most likely be hopping from spare room to spare room for a while.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The good deeds will not stop with these days Kodiak wrote this to all of us:</span></div>
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What a wild ride. I have been so blessed by this support. I have learned so much.
Sometimes I pride myself on doing things on my own, my own way. The most powerful thing I have learned is to rise above that, to accept help and support. Not only do I have a new beginning, a clean slate, a revitalized outlook, but I have also gained great new friends. I am humbled, and moved. I am looking forward to creating and photographing extensively in this new year. Thank you for helping me hit the ground running. Marry Xmas and I hope to see you soon.
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Just wanted to wish everyone a happy holiday. Your outreach, support and kindness have given me one of the most moving experiences I have ever felt. Thanks for inspiring me and showing me what we all can achieve. When we help each other and put our minds together we can do anything. This experience has taught me so much. I look at the act of giving in a new way. The time will come when I have the opportunity to give to others as you all have been giving to me. Cheers to a new beginning. I hope to see you along the way. Much love. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My first trip to Burning Man is my next journey. I will be credentialed media for still imagery and I also picked up a gig working for the Burning Man Project Group helping recreate and support the very popular Ustream Webcast from it's recent demise. I cannot begin to explain how excited I am because i am so stressed getting out of here. This will be my first Burn and I am working the event. I will challenge my knees and legs to carry me through the dozen days of abuse and torture. I will survive!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Preparations have been made hasty and I am running late due to many issues that life has presented me with of late. The main distraction has been my father's recent stroke and subsequent hospitalization. He is getting out now and I am focused on the show ahead. I will seek out the technology and art of the Cargo Cult theme as well as help bring the video feed to screens worldwide. (www.ustream.com/burningman)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well back to packing and loading the PT Cruiser with way too much stuff. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Please watch the event via the Webcast that I will help support this year you can see it starting this Saturday at www.ustream.com/burningman If you are heading to the Burn find me and say hello! You can find my contact information in my profiles at Google+ and Facebook.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am about done resting up from a long weekend of walking, photography, Jazz, and Ingress. The photowalk was arranged by <a class="g-profile" href="http://plus.google.com/108189587050871927619" target="_blank">+Chris Chabot</a> to welcome and meet <a class="g-profile" href="http://plus.google.com/101793532287583914396" target="_blank">+Dave Powell</a>, of ShootTokyo.com, to the city for his visit from Japan. Now most photowalks are a bit unplanned and there is never a preplanned route so you never know how far you might go. This walk was much more a walk with some great photo opportunities than most walks I have been on. I covered about 8 miles from 2pm until about 11pm with most of the distance being walked by dinnertime.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I plan on doing Fremont peak many times after this and there are a couple of other places I am now putting on my list that I thought I might never be able to do like Burning Man. I am so lucky to have found a way to keep up my physical therapy, and so happy it opens up opportunities to feed my addiction for photography. Thanks to Dave and Chris's winging it I had my longest photowalk ever and here is the 8 mile path we took <a href="http://goo.gl/maps/F6653">http://goo.gl/maps/F6653</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you have never been on a photowalk, then go on one soon even if you only have your cell phone camera. (yeah thats ok too) Anything goes and sometimes it keeps on going and going and going...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A few good resources for finding walks are below:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a class="g-profile" href="http://plus.google.com/102470903825077260906" target="_blank">+The Photowalk Alliance</a> </span></div>
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<a href="http://worldwidephotowalk.com/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://worldwidephotowalk.com/</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here are more images from that day...</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cynthia Pyun could not attend but her cookies did</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Last week I went to a new conference that will be held bi annually by Engadget. The Expand conference is about technology and particularly devices and gadgets. Held at the Fort Mason Festival Pavilion, which holds 5000, the event was well attended. The location was perfect for the event providing ample parking and room for everything, even some quad-copter flying and Tesla Test Drives. </span></div>
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The on-stage portion of the event was amazing and featured some of the leading edge technologies most people only speculate about and the people who are spearheading them now. We saw Robots that ran like cheetahs and some that flew in swarms. We found out how something as simple as a thermostat can be brought into the current era and save you money. They talked about space elevators and They even had a competition for product development for $25,000 dollars. Talks about gaming, crowd funding, Automobile electronics, mobile devices, 3-D printing, a conversion of military technology to civilian uses, and even an overview discussion about The Apple Corporation populated the schedule. Between each and every speaker they had a giveaway... with really good prizes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unlike many conferences sponsored by a group like Engadget this one was produced</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> in-house and not outsourced to an event group.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> This gave it a personal touch that really was obvious and pleasant. The folks you know online from Engadget were there on the floor and had been working for months on setting everything up. As far as a first event goes this was a smashing success. The Engadget folks and their on-stage guests were often outside chatting between speakers and were very approachable for any questions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I saw a few very amazing things at Expand this year and the most amazing one was from Ekso Bionics. This device allowed a paralyzed lady to walk and is being used for physical therapy on wounded veterans as well. It is these type of projects that make technology my favorite overall passion.</span><br />
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The show finalized with a segment about Engadget and it's history. Having that segment really brought home how personal this conference was to the whole staff. They discussed mostly the history of the company but it was also their personal history and spoken from the heart. They included lunch and breakfast and served it openly for long periods of time so no one missed a meal. This show was well worth the ticket price and I highly recommend you check out the next one in NYC during the fall of 2013 or the one next year here on the west coast.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>If you want to check out the sessions they are now online for you to see at Engadget's site for Expand <a href="http://www.engadget.com/expand/videos/">http://www.engadget.com/expand/videos/</a></b></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541898551567344435noreply@blogger.com0Fort Mason Center, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Marina Boulevard, San Francisco, CA 94123, USA37.8060471 -122.4317927000000237.4046276 -123.07723970000002 38.207466600000004 -121.78634570000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7012439266477469548.post-26681535653186141052013-03-09T13:05:00.000-08:002014-11-17T20:35:40.632-08:00Man survives head-on collision with 150k pound construction crane at 60mph<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">About a decade ago . . </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">March 9th 2005, at 3:15pm on River Road near Salinas California a 1998 Town & Country Van smashed head-on into a 150k pound construction Crane at a combined impact speed of 60 mph. There was only the driver in the vehicle, he was nearly dead and conscious</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> as well as completely lucid and coherent. The firemen and police worked for 90 minutes to free his mangled body from the vehicle. Twenty minutes into the extraction, the jaws of life broke something that shook the whole van..... the engine had still been running and no one noticed. They had moved part of the frame and the engine started shaking the van violently. The injured driver reached up and turned off the ignition and soon after passed out while being removed from the van and was put into a comatose state for the trip aboard Stanford's Life Flight helicopter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">During the flight most of his blood was replaced with plasma and it took about 12 hours to stabilize him for initial surgery. The injuries were severe, compound fracture of the femur, both knees broken at every place bones meet, a broken hip, broken wrist, extreme trauma of the chest and lower body, and a staph infection in the wound, every rib broken in 3 places each, and completely torn ACL & PCL with partially torn MCL and meniscus, just to name the major ones. After several surgeries and a month in a comatose state<b> I woke up.</b> Yes this is my story, and this was my accident..... (warning images are graphic, but they are only images... I lived and was conscience through this)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, that was 8 years ago today. I consider that day the day my first life ended and my second one began. I was coming home from bringing my wife who was Type I Diabetic to the hospital due to a life threatening high sugar situation called Diabetic Ketoacidosis. We both ended up in the hospital that day, she went home a lot quicker than I did. March 9th 2005, seems like a lifetime ago, and I guess it kind of was. So much has changed now in our lives. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After the accident and the initial hospitalization, I endured several more surgeries and issues lasting over 2 years before returning to a point where I could get a job and live a daily life of some normalcy. During this time of recovery, my amazing wife and family did so much to give me the best chances possible mentally and physically of recovering. It was also during this time we found that Margo qualified for a medical research procedure being tested at UCSF medical center for Type I Diabetics to get away from needing insulin. This research eventually lead to her being recommended 4 years later for a full organ transplant to resolve her Type I diabetes. When she had her first surgical procedure was just 21 days after my last surgery. We transitioned back and forth over the next few months taking care of each other until we were both in pretty good shape.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Two and a half years after the accident I came to a point where I thought I could work a job and get myself off social security disability as an income source. This was a pretty large leap for a guy who was given very small chances of living, standing, walking, working, and dealing with the pain. I knew that if I could find a job that was mildly physical and mostly relied on my technical skills, that I would adjust and be able to cope at least. I had just kicked the terminal patient dosages of fentanyl patches which I was given for over 2 and one half years for pain when I secured a job where I was volunteering. My physical therapy for recovery was to go to every race at the local sports car track and volunteer in the media center helping the press get connected to the internet. So on November 14th 2007 I started a job as the IT & Technical Services Manager for Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. I was so glad someone was willing to hire a handicapped person, I had just migrated from a wheelchair to walking in a brace a couple of months before. My second life was off to a great start, getting a job exceeded most everyone's expectations even just a year before. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For the last 5 years I have lived a very high paced and motivated second life. I was the Technical Services and IT department head for Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, one of the top sports car racing venues in the world. We hosted an annual MotoGP Championship race each year along with 4-6 other major sports racing and historical events. The facility is over 500 acres and it really put my physical abilities to the test to take care of all the technical equipment and services offered property wide. During this time, my wife Margo, had her pancreas only transplant. (which is a very rare transplant) and has been cured of Type I Diabetes. To say we feel lucky is an understatement. She is on her second life too since the day of her transplant.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So we figured it was time to change the rest of our lives now that our health was in check finally. We spent 6 months buying a house on a short sale and finally closed the deal on September 13th 2012, just 11 days before our 13th anniversary of marriage. We had a lot to celebrate that month and planned on doing it for our anniversary September 24th. The day turned out to be far from what we imagined. That morning I was called into the corner office and told that my position was being removed, that I would receive a severance package and unemployment. After breaking the news to Margo about not having a job on our anniversary, you would think that things could not get any worse??? Wrong, this was also a day that would change my fathers life for quite a while as he fell and unknowingly broke 4 ribs, one of which punctured a lung and landed him in the hospital just hours later. All in all, a pretty bad week. That was another one of those days, in which, one life ended and another began. The last few months have been like a recovery from the affects of my second life, but much more pleasant than the recovery I endured after my first life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So the last 6 months have been very different for me. Instead of working long and late everyday at work I put the time into some relatively new passions, a house remodel, photography and beta testing as many cool new technologies as I could get the ability to. Reconnecting with my family and other parts of my life set aside to recover from that accident 8 years ago today. I have realized so much over the past few months... amazing what some time off and a new passion or two will do for a person. This will be a new life for both my family and I. A new house, new city, soon a new job and sending our son off to college the next chapter in his life. I worked hard this past few months to prove to myself that my physical condition could be maintained without a job that pushed me to walk all the time. Photography and Augmented Reality gaming have become replacements for help desk support calls and running cable for connectivity. I have continued to go to the tech conferences like CES where I walked the entire 1.9 million square feet of display booths and additional miles each night on the Vegas Strip. I walk on sandy beaches and climb large rock formations almost every day taking pictures of our beautiful California coast. I have been beta testing a new type of gaming which must be played out in the real world called Augmented Realty Gaming. The game is by Google and called Ingress. because of these changes in my life, Physical therapy is the funnest part of any day for me now!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Daily physical therapy and careful use of my legs are how I have been able to beat the odds. If I had not started working my legs the week I woke up from my induced coma, I would probably not be able to do what I love to do now. I have found a fun way to deal with my daily requirements while enjoying my passions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I should not be able to do anything I mentioned above including walking with these knees. I also am missing two ligaments in my left knee, both the ACL and the PCL were torn over 90% and had to be removed. This puts a lot more work on my muscles to take up the slack. Just about everyday I either walk the rocks and sand of the beaches taking pictures or I am driving and walking from landmark to landmark playing Ingress as a Level 8 agent for the resistance. I continue to walk the conference floors to see great technology being released each year, returning to, and finding new conferences for gadgets and geeks. These old and new passions have made this 3rd life of mine extremely enjoyable in just the first few months.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So what is next? We are going to start fresh and new with a new place, and a new life. We are literally going to try to throw out as much of our old lives as possible when we move, only take what we cannot part with. Then at the new place, we are going to be able to host gatherings and have friends over on a regular basis. I will continue to go to conferences, play Ingress and take the images I have fallen in love with making this past year and a half. The people I have met doing these activities are the other great part about our new lives. It has been so long since I had groups of friends like I do now in each activity... I can't wait to move and start having friends over and enjoying our new and better lives with the house warming party!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All the X-rays in this post were taken a few months ago, the ones from the time of the accident are much worse. Someday I will post the comparisons of before and after, the differences are quite amazing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had broken the ball of the hip joint completely off which was put back together with a rod which was later removed. This is how it looks now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In this view you can see all the additional bone and even where the rod used to be.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you look at my left leg in this view you can see where the compound fracture of my femur was about half way between my knee and hip.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thank you to all who have invited or joined me on a photowalk. My abilities as a photographer were derived from my interactions and learning through all of you in person and online through all of your images and comments. I used consumer point and shoot cameras with no real love for still photography until I started learning how to use a DSRL I was given by my father when he got a new one. My first photowalk was here in Monterey less than one year ago with Trey Ratcliff, Karen Hutton and Cliff Baise as our guides. My best images that day came from my cell phone and a Lytro Camera I was given to try as Eric Cheng and the Lytro gang were sponsoring the walk. Since then I have participated avidly in many Google+ Photo-activities and this has become one of my favorite places to meet people and enjoy one of my biggest and newest passions. My Google+ photography friends have been the single most influential force in my new life's happiness. The activities we meet and do are great but it really is the people and the community I enjoy the most. Your encouragement and tips and comments always make my day, and your friendship means the world to me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thank you to all who have invited me to tech conferences and gotten me tickets to shows and exhibits I would otherwise have not gotten to walk around and enjoy so much. This is my oldest current passion. I have been going to tech conferences since shortly after my Dad and his team launched the Zip drive at COMDEX. I have been running production on them for nearly 15 years as well. I try to attend every tech exhibit hall that have free tickets available and sometimes I am honored to be invited as a guest for one reason or another to the ones I could never afford to just go to. I occasionally even get to be a guest in a special lounge or back area which gives me a place to rest my legs and hang out with my friends and colleagues. You folks have enabled me to continue to walk further to see the gadgets and devices I love. It is such a privilege to be able to hang out with and follow all of you during these shows. Walking the entire show floor of CES each year would never be possible if I did not have as deep of a passion and as many good friends in the realm of technology and conferences.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thank you to all who have played with and against me in this new type of Augmented Reality Gaming we now have with Ingress. I am part of the closed beta group for this new type of gaming. The Friends and "Frienemies" I have met here are my newest but the passion for advanced forms of gaming goes back to the very first Id Software games and movies like "Lawnmower Man". Since this type of gaming is only a few months old the interactions between folks I know in this world are very different and a bit awkward still, but I love these people as much as all the rest I now call friends. Here we are seeing that Augmented Reality is very different on interactions between players than Virtual Reality and much conflict still exists as that works its way through. Ingress is truly addictive once you get into it and I have always loved beta testing games. I am still not sure about a few of you new friends in this world .....but again that is the nature of this new type of gaming. This game takes play wherever you go so you cannot hide behind a keyboard. These friends are truly people to me unlike other gaming friends where I only know them online not in person like these folks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All in all I have many people to thank and I will do it by living life to its fullest and enjoying every moment and person throughout. 8 years ago today my life almost ended... 2 years ago my wife got her transplant.... this summer my son will head off to college and this year we will all start a new life and all of you are invited to tag along! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Last day of CES and time to Burn Rubber with the CES Auto Show! I saw more cars and wheeled exhibits 2 and 4 wheels this week than ever before at CES.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Consumer Electronics have made their way into cars for decades but this year things are getting different as the cars are adapting mobile operating systems like android and IOS to the vehicles for more than just entertainment. We will now be able to operate the vehicle with these devices controlling things like the climate and the different camera views currently. Functionality will spread quickly, as we will see next week at the Detroit Auto Show, I am sure. Expect to be able to do much more with android and ios in the car than just GPS. The Tesla has a large 11" tablet in the dash and more are coming.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We saw some new 2 wheeled vehicles for the IOS system mostly that looked like this (and several variations) but seemed useless for anything but a single level room or office the only one with a defined purpose was medical and allowed the doctor to do rounds remotely. Siri on Wheels!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Some electronics exhibitors did not bring a car so they had a dashboard on a stand like this</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Many of the manufacturers found themselves with a CES booth the week before Detroit's huge auto show and inviting the tech bloggers to continue on the the auto show after CES</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Most of the better tech outlets will have auto show representation and some will even do shows from there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> The coolest car on the floor was the Audi R-18 E-Tron Quattro. This was Audi's 2012 entrant for the 24 hours of Le Mans and in the American Le Mans Series Le Mans Prototype (LMP1) Class. It is also the first closed cockpit LMP that Audi have released in decades.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Today we saw that the infiltration of technology into automobiles has reached the point where it reaches the consumer level. Prior to this time electronics were in cars mostly to help the engine run better and to give more stability and control to the drivers standard controls. These days the functions of in-car electronics are more accessible to the consumer and finally they are helping us control facets of the vehicle and its environment. They are providing less static and more dynamic real-time feedback or displays providing the driver with more information and therefore and better experience overall. Out with the "idiot lights" and in with the touchscreen data display to visually inform you. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I can imagine a few advances you will see in the near future from shows like these. If you take the Vuzix future product which is an eyeglass peripheral for your smart phone and build it into the windshield as a Heads Up Display linking all of your apps and mapping on your phone to your car as a control and viewing platform we would have a really cool way to interface with our data while driving. Adding an augmented reality layer can give us driving vacations that are not boring drives to the destination, but rather an informative educational background on the location as you drive and letting you know when to look or stop on the way to see the important sights you may pass by otherwise. For now we are driving the vehicle ourselves so this limits out ability to utilize some forms of mobile computing in the car. In the future when we are all in self-driving</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> cars then the whole trend will have even more context in our daily lives. Bottom line we will see many more consumer and safety products in our vehicles going forward. Expect the north hall of CES to become more of a car show every year for a while as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just before it was time to go and leave the CES show floor for the last time in 2013 we stopped at our base camp for resting posting and regrouping the Samsung Smart Lounge. What a great program Samsung has built over the past year. These lounges were an experiment at first but now they seem to be part of Samsung's profile and image at these events like CES and IFA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you want to see videos of many of the devices I saw in person then head over to MobileGeeks where Nicole Scott, Sascha Pallenberg, Carsten Drees and the whole MobileGeeks team made over 100 videos last week. Nicole will show you all the coolest things and give you a hands on look in most cases. Just head over to <a href="http://www.mobilegeeks.com/">www.mobilegeeks.com</a> or the German edition <a href="http://www.mobilegeeks.de/">www.mobilegeeks.de</a>. This was their first CES as a team and a site and they kicked butt all week long. Judge for your self, but I think these guys are on their way up as a resource for mobile device news and information year round. It looks like Ford and Intel agree as they are sponsors for the site along with a host of other household names in tech.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some things here at CES you will never see again and this is most likely one of them. it is kind of a modern "Lawnmower Man" setup so that you are suspended while playing a game. (no one wants to look like this while playing anything, it is just not cool) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not much could possibly top this other beast from eatART a Canadian Based Engineering Art Group called TitanoBoa. This 50 foot long remote controlled snake is an amazing thing to see and feel the 2,000 pound art project crawl across the ground a couple of feet in front of you. Credit to Lenovo for sponsoring this to come here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We had tickets to the Tweet House Party sponsored by Chevy which was held at the HYDE night club in the Bellagio Hotel. This place is famed for this view and the fact that the water show goes off every 15 minutes right in front of you! Except tonight... we were sad after an hour of waiting we realized it was not operating.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We walked around the PMA@CES in the Las Vegas Hilton convention center which is a short walk from the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC) where the main exhibitors are. PMA@CES is where the largest concentration of Photo/Imaging products and services are found, but the major camera manufacturers like Canon, Nikon and Sony are not there. This area seems to be getting smaller year to year which is also weird as photography seems to be growing. I think that cameras are so different now and video cameras never really fit in the PMA area that this section needs to be re-branded and structured to match the current environment. That being said it is where we found our find of the day, the Image 363D TopShow 3D Compact.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This system produces 3D images as a single process, place the product in the sphere and start the imaging. A few minutes later you get a 3D image that can be rotated and viewed from almost any angle. With online retail growing so fast this seems like a good product at a good time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We also walked some of the south LVCC halls and saw more cell phone cases and water resistance methods. There are more 20 gallon aquariums here than at a tropical fish convention, and they all have phones in them. There must be a lot of business as there are more phone and tablet case booths than you could ever imagine here at CES. There are a lot of things you might not think about here at the show and would never see anywhere else like TabletMan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After the Kingston party we went over to the Paris Hotel for a concert featuring Alicia Keys at the Paris Ballroom presented by Monster Cable. The CEO of Monster Cable is a very pumped up guy during these shows and again this year provided CES with a great after party. Guests there included Janet Jackson and Sheila E</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> All in All a great day and night. We do it all again tomorrow and tomorrow night.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The first thing today I ran into Paralympic Medalist, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/blake1leeper" target="_blank">Blake Leeper</a>. This kid is definitely an inspiration and he was so happy to be at the show. We only chatted for a minute or two before he had to head off for an appearance at the Panasonic booth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am a guest again this year in the very cool Samsung Smart Lounge. This is a special booth next the the Samsung primary display area for bloggers to post their stories get a drink and sit for a while </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">during</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> the show. Samsung really knows how to treat their guests and I am honored to be a part of the lounge again this year. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So what is on the floor? Too much for any one person to convey, but here is what I saw today. TV's are once again center stage with the largest, the highest definition, and the smartest ones in history all making appearances. Tablets are also everywhere and for every niche as well including a slew of kids android tablets. Cameras are also everywhere and they all look like either the Contour HD or are knockoffs of the industry leading GoPro Hero Cameras. Because of the wearable camera craze GoPro has become the fastest growing camera company in the world. Home entertainment seems to be making a comeback, and I saw more record players than I have in over 30 years anywhere. YES Turntables with needles and vinyl discs playing scratchy sounding music just like when I was a kid!!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The parties are plentiful and we have invites to the Kingston mixer, Monster Cable Concert, and the Entertainment Matters party at the very chic Lavo nightclub, all tomorrow night one after another. Thursday is even crazier after the show.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> The 2013 International Consumer Electronics Show began with </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the Qualcom keynote and a slew of embargoed media events,</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. I have loved electronics since I was a kid and this spin-off of the COMDEX shows I used to attend, is like a technical amusement park open a few days a year. It could be considered a combination of Burning Man and SEMA focused on consumer electronics. Tonight we heard the vision Qualcom has for the future of mobile computing, and there are dragons in our future. Between their Snapdragon processor and mobile specific firmware advancements they sound like they will lead the charge to put mobile on par with laptops and desktops, adding a passion for mobile functionality and location combined with personal awareness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mobile, Social, and and completely connected to everything that is you, consumer electronics are moving at a lightning pace. When the convergence of these key elements combine seamlessly we get products that amaze us and inspire designers to do even better. This show is all about the new the future and the ideas that might be. Sure many of the products we see this week will never see the light outside of the show, but they will have an impact on the future of the industry anyway. It is quite an achievement to bring a new device to market. While devices have changed over the years and prototyping has gotten faster, you still have to manufacture it and sell it. Any product that made it to the CES show deserves to have its chance to fail, and if it happens to hit it big and get good press then, well, CES has done its job.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My wife Margo and I celebrated the new year in San Francisco and above is the scene just after the fireworks were over. The dark cloud from the fireworks symbolizes the dark year 2012 was for most, and seeing it drift away and clear to show the city in its true glory was inspiring.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>So 2013 will be a year of change and milestones.</b></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I will attend the CES show in Las Vegas,</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I will find my next career in one of my passions,</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We will move to Seaside, California a few weeks after CES</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Margo will celebrate her 2nd full year being cured of Type I Diabetes,</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Margo will also celebrate 2 years with no rejection of any kind for her new Pancreas (very rare to not have an initial rejection in the first year),</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My son will graduate from the Monterey Academy of Oceanographic Science MAOS and be accepted into a University,</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My son Ian will move away to college</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I will celebrate or loath my 48th birthday</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I will celebrate and enjoy my 14th anniversary of marriage and 16th year with my wife Margo</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I will celebrate 8 years of extended time after my head-on collision</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It will be an amazing year and I hope yours is too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Starting off will be the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. I will post pictures and daily updates from the show here. The road-trip begins Friday morning January 4th 2013. Maybe I will try to do some G+ hangouts from the show floor to share the experience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks to everyone who has helped and supported me in 2012 especially my Wife and family, 2013 will be a better year for us all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Check out my photography site and watch for some great CES images coming next week. <a href="http://xarray.smugmug.com/">xarray.smugmug.com</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My domain is called XarraY.com which is derived from mathematical array terms. This blog will be called <b>The ArraY</b> as it will most likely have an array of topics and directions. I will first focus on CES as a topic. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is a typical boring first post that has little meaning or substance, as no one will probably ever see it. If you do see this please give me grief about it in the comments section....</span></div>
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