By Peter Bernstein, Senior Editor
A quick show of hands, how many of you remember the famous Sun Microsystems tag line, “The Network is the Computer”? For those of you unfamiliar, here is a link to a that will fill in the blanks, but it looks very cloudy to me. After watching Ericsson President and CEO Hans Vestberg’s keynote at CES which was chock full of insights into game changing things that devices will be able to do over next-generation networks, it seems like a new tag line in the form of, “The Network Is Me,” could be in the near future.
Watch the video for excerpts from Vestberg’s address. Toward the end, he demonstrates a new technology called “capacitive coupling.” Vestberg puts one hand on a photo on a standard Android phone and his other on a magic box in front of a screen. Then using only his body as a connector, the photo is transferred from the phone to the large screen on the stage without using radio signals. “Ultimately, we are the network”, he says.
While this research project is still in the early stages, it makes the mind wander. Ericsson says it’s “Connected Me” of which this is a part, is aimed at enabling all of the possibilities that this and other technologies are allowing for which will help to make devices more functional and utilitarian in terms of executing our volition. The opportunities do appear to be endless... Read More >> http://www.tmcnet.com/topics/articles/254685-ces-ericsson-demonstrates-network-me.htm
