About Us
Traveling Geeks is a consortium of entrepreneurs, thought leaders, authors, journalists, bloggers, technology innovators and influencers who travel to countries to share and learn from peers, governments, corporations, and the general public to educate, share, evaluate, and promote new, innovative technologies. The initiative was founded by Renee Blodgett and Jeff Saperstein in 2008.
Trips are funded by sponsorships from corporations, organizations and governments. The first tour was sponsored by the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a trip that successfully marked the proof of concept that could expand to other countries around the world.
Read MoreRap to Celebreate Darwin 200th Anniversary
As I was dining with a group of technology innovators, scientists, professors and entrepreneurs in Cambridge at Kings College on Friday night, someone played a rap from the previous night, which was in celebration of the Darwin 200th Anniversary Dinner. Click below to listen.
Handhelds for Doctors
Innovator of Handheld Digital Medical Records
At the Cambridge University Pitt Building, in a program led by Omobono Digital Services, we viewed show and tell presentations by some of Cambridge’s most promising start-ups. Among several good ideas was a great one presented by Dr. Al-Ubaydli. Conversion to digital medical records has been an American national quest for the past decade and a priority for the Obama Administration. Dr. Al-Ubaydli has been working with the Feds (NIH) for the past six years to bring his hand-held medical records download program to fruition. He suggested that University of Cambridge is a great incubator to work from and he collaborates with doctors and engineers in the States and elsewhere to bring the technology to market.
Great example of global technology development, incubated in university labs, solving big problems through collaboration of doctors, hospitals, governments, and industry.
Photo Credit: Renee Blodgett http://www.downtheavenue.com/
Traveling Geeks at eConsultancy
Traveling Geeks at the eConsultancy roundtable in London this week.
a Perfect Duck, on the River Cam
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Punting on the Cam: Grand finale of Travelling Geeks trip
A great finale for an intense week with the Travelling Geeks in the UK: I streamed video from the Nokia N79 phone I had on loan while I punted on the Cam River with TG organizer JD Lasica and his family in Cambridge, UK:
Cambridge’s Nokia Labs Key Research Areas
I’m at Nokia Labs in Cambridge England looking at their latest innovations under the hood. Four Key research areas for them include: rich context modeling, new user interfaces, high performance mobile platforms and cognitive radio.
We looked at smart surface materials that externally control color change as well as nano sensing in future mobile devices.
Consider the mobile opportunities with over 3 billion mobile subscribers today. The Labs folks tout an outstanding statistic: up to 90% of the 6 billion people on earth will have mobile coverage by 2010. Note the adjective coverage, not mobile phones.
We also covered physical and digital worlds from personal to global sensor information.
Below Nokia’s head of social media worldwide: Mark Squires in Cambridge.
“Saint Omobono is the future Saint of Business,” Ben Dansie.
“Omobono creates tools, apps and services that help large business build better relationships with customer,” Ben Dansie, Omobono.com.
Ben Dansie, Omobono.com
“I share what we do so we can do it the way folks want to use it – better/together,” Mark Squires, Nokia.
Mark Squires, Global Social Media, Nokia – Cambridge, England
