Ford Changing the World -- Updated

Those spinning gizmos will be replaced with tiny little LiDAR units.

GM Doesn't want to be left out. 
“Everything we are doing is geared to speed,” G.M.’s president, Daniel Ammann, told journalists at an event showcasing the cars on Tuesday.

To emphasize the company’s progress, Mr. Ammann said the cars would be ready for consumer applications in “quarters, not years.”

Meeting that goal would probably give G.M., the nation’s largest automaker, a jump on other companies developing self-driving models.
Career Day (This is old, and it hasn't been updated, FYI)






At about 1:07 in the video below you can see the infrared scanners working...

Microsoft Campus Expansion

KOMO News

Fortune

While Amazon is looking to set up a second North American headquarters to complement its Seattle mothership, Microsoft is taking a different approach to growth: it’s taking advantage of its existing 500-acre grounds in nearby Redmond, Washington and launching a major revamp of its existing campus.

The scheme will create enough space for a potential 17% expansion of Microsoft’s Redmond-based workforce, accommodating a maximum of 55,000 people, up from the current 47,000 headcount. Microsoft has been in Redmond since 1986, and this is the largest expansion of its campus in over a decade.

The software giant announced late Tuesday that it would begin the five-to-seven-year modernization program next fall. The project will give Microsoft 18 new buildings, along with 6.7 million square feet of renovated workspace in 12 existing buildings (the campus currently has a total of 125 buildings).

New Fund buying in

Lincolnian

Teachers Advisors LLC bought a new position in shares of Microvision, Inc. (NASDAQ:MVIS) in the second quarter, according to the company in its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The firm bought 120,798 shares of the electronics maker’s stock, valued at approximately $256,000. Teachers Advisors LLC owned about 0.18% of Microvision as of its most recent SEC filing.

Other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also recently made changes to their positions in the company. Geode Capital Management LLC boosted its stake in Microvision by 92.5% in the first quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 465,339 shares of the electronics maker’s stock valued at $1,158,000 after acquiring an additional 223,582 shares during the last quarter. Bank of New York Mellon Corp boosted its stake in Microvision by 416.2% in the second quarter. Bank of New York Mellon Corp now owns 226,812 shares of the electronics maker’s stock valued at $480,000 after acquiring an additional 182,877 shares during the last quarter. Schwab Charles Investment Management Inc. purchased a new position in Microvision in the second quarter valued at about $250,000. Finally, Rhumbline Advisers purchased a new position in Microvision in the second quarter valued at about $139,000. 30.62% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

Green Orange MP1

Yes, that's MVIS in there.

GREEN ORANGE

Interactive projection

So this a taste of what interactive projection could do for you in a smart phone



Thanks Tom.

Opportunity India

The Opportunity in India is amazing. Apple is treating its retailers in India shabbily, the demand for smart phones is huge.

Top this off with them loving their movies, and a shortage of movie screens... 

Things are looking good for the Voga V in India. INDIA SCREEN SHORTAGE

Voga V Phablet in India (Money symbol in Rupee)

Patently Apple

Now a new bone of contention has surfaced. According to a new report out of India, "Apple has reduced retail margins on the iPhone X by nearly 30%, frustrating large format chain owners and small-scale retailers that are crying foul that the Cupertino-based company does not want its retail partners to benefit while the company itself profits from the massive margins it makes.

Some like Bengaluru-based Sangeetha Mobiles have stopped taking orders of the new flagship, even as the costliest iPhone ever faces huge supply-demand mismatch in India, leading analysts to say that Apple should slot India far higher in its priority list and bring in larger shipments of the iPhone X."

Subhash Chandra, managing director at Sangeetha Mobiles, which has 400 stores across the country said that "Apple has cut margins on the iPhone X from 6.5% to 4.5% for large retailers like us, and if a customer pays by card, which is usually the case, the margin reduces to almost 1.5-2%."

Chandra added that "Apple gives the least margins… How on earth do they expect the retailer to work for them for free -- our overheads are anywhere around 10%."

The Economic Times report further noted that a "Industry insiders reveal that typically, brands such as Samsung or Xiaomi offer more than double the margin that Apple offers, around 12-15%. To gain share from competition, players like Oppo and Vivo were also giving higher than usual margins to retailers, but Apple has refrained from this practice.

Thanks for the heads-up Ron!

Quantum V -- Brazil

Recoil Laser Tag -- Augmented Reality Game

Like Pokemon Go, this may get kids playing outside again. I expect great enthusiasm for AR for productivity and for fun.

At NerdStash.

Recoil Website

Starter Set at Best Buy

VogaV @ China Mobile

VogaV China Mobile

Translated by Google Translate

On November 23, 2017, the annual China Mobile Global Partner officially opened in Guangzhou, continuing the strategic goal of "connecting Dalian" last year. This year's Global Partnership Conference highlighted everything under the strategy of "Dalian Connection" The concept of interconnection, with the theme of "Creating a New World with Wisdom and All Things", fully demonstrates the grand vision of a smart future. As an important cooperative partner of China Mobile, the Green Orange mobile phone took the VOGA series of brands participating in this conference with great attention and evaluation by virtue of the ultra-high quality-to-price ratio at this year's conference.

Compared with the previous congress, this conference includes many forums, exhibitions, signatures, series of special topics, exhibitions and many other links. For the first time, the online and offline conference has been held in a synchronized manner with a richer form and more diversified channels. The participating VOGA V laser projection mobile phone is more for the General Assembly to add a different kind of light.



The VOGA V laser projection mobile phone is the first flagship product of the VOGA series produced by Green Orange Mobile Phone. The most prominent feature is the incorporation of a laser projection module with MEMS technology that can be projected anytime, anywhere without the need Focus that is open that vote, than the traditional projection technology such as DLP more power, longer life, as well as trapezoidal automatic correction and other special features. Not only that, the orange mobile phone has also developed a VOGA UI system for it. The unique projection function keys can quickly switch projection, select the projection content, and can meet the needs of mobile KTV and multi-person code scanning. Such a special novelty projection mobile phone has attracted the attention of audiences and industry professionals from all over the world. After that, they all went to the VOGA booth to manually operate the projection mobile phone, praising it that they had not seen such an interesting product for a long time. Subsequently, the top leaders of China Mobile Group also came to the booth, while listening to technical staff to explain at the same time, personally tried the VOGA V laser projection mobile phone, and expressed his affirmation.

The conference for the first time organized the 5G Future Museum to show all the audience the latest ecological innovation achievements of China Mobile and 5G Lianchuang Partners as a new generation of cutting-edge communications technology, 5G will bring a new round of domestic mobile phone market changes and As historic moments such as opportunities, artificial intelligence, smart ecology and visual revolution are coming, VOGA, as the representative of the innovative brand, has been at the forefront of the trend and I believe we will soon see a whole new era of smart communications!

Thanks Tom

MoviPhone -- VOGA available in the USA.

I'm sure we'll learn more in the next few days, and this post will be updated... 

MoviPhone

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VOGA V AT China Mobile

Thanks Tom!