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GIANT TOYS AND HIGH-TECH TAXIS
That pretty much sums up my trip to Taipei earlier this week.
Here are the toys.
And here are the taxis.
The back-seat screen on the right is a new thing – about a thousand taxis have been outfitted with these touch-screens that are linked to a wireless network called Wimax (similar to Wi-Fi, but it can cover a whole city instead of yr favorite coffee shop – if you have Clearwire service in yr area, it’s the same thing) and the onboard GPS unit. So you can watch music videos while tracking yr location. Which is handy.
The laptop rig was even more interesting since it was basically an ad hoc set-up – the driver bought a laptop with Wimax built into it and mounted it in the passenger seat. He was running GoogleMaps and a local live TV channel at the time.
It sounds dangerous, I know. But we never even came close to so much as a fender bender, so who am I to be critical of the future?
Anyway, that was pretty much Taipei for me – I spent almost all of it working or sitting through PowerPoints ... which is how I learned that one local Wimax operator tried out wearable Wimax webcams for police who can stream live POV video during crowded events.
The quality was decent. Which is why I think dashboard Web TV is the least of our problems.
And now it’s time to hit the road yet again – first to Singapore, then straight to Shenzhen in mainland China. This will take about a week. Broadcasts may be limited, but will likely be ongoing.
Keep the meter running,
This is dF
Here are the toys.
And here are the taxis.
The back-seat screen on the right is a new thing – about a thousand taxis have been outfitted with these touch-screens that are linked to a wireless network called Wimax (similar to Wi-Fi, but it can cover a whole city instead of yr favorite coffee shop – if you have Clearwire service in yr area, it’s the same thing) and the onboard GPS unit. So you can watch music videos while tracking yr location. Which is handy.
The laptop rig was even more interesting since it was basically an ad hoc set-up – the driver bought a laptop with Wimax built into it and mounted it in the passenger seat. He was running GoogleMaps and a local live TV channel at the time.
It sounds dangerous, I know. But we never even came close to so much as a fender bender, so who am I to be critical of the future?
Anyway, that was pretty much Taipei for me – I spent almost all of it working or sitting through PowerPoints ... which is how I learned that one local Wimax operator tried out wearable Wimax webcams for police who can stream live POV video during crowded events.
The quality was decent. Which is why I think dashboard Web TV is the least of our problems.
And now it’s time to hit the road yet again – first to Singapore, then straight to Shenzhen in mainland China. This will take about a week. Broadcasts may be limited, but will likely be ongoing.
Keep the meter running,
This is dF