Category Archives: Other markets

Minority Report in Action

Light Blue Optics is delivering commercially viable technologies that allow us to manipulate beamed images. This brings augmented reality to a whole new level as we can now interact with data on a heads up display or simply beamed on a wall or table. I would guess the military is already a big customer with…

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Starbucks Via – Defense or Disruption?

My brother called from the west coast to tell me that Starbucks was pushing its new Via coffee pretty hard in a store near his Silicon Valley office. His first assumption was that Starbucks was trying to keep customers that were cutting down on in-store coffee purchases. I believe he was part right. Starbucks has…

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The Importance of Understanding Disruptive Innovation

The term “disruptive innovation” is starting to become more commonly used, especially in the tech sector. However, I am finding that many people I talk to don’t understand it well and few have incorporated it into their corporate culture or product development lexicon. Given the state of the economy and the rapidly changing business landscape,…

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