Enabling Technology: Week of 4/30/06
The Law of Mobility talks about value increasing with mobility. The impact of this law is being felt because the cost of adding mobility into products is falling, making it a no-brainer for mobility to be built into everything. Here are examples of technology advances enabling this to happen:
- Tiny WiFi+memory card
- Quantum cascade lasers
- Mobile TV chipset
- Single chip LCD solution
- World’s smallest pointing device
- Predictive text entry algorithm
- Powerful 3D graphics for mobile devices
- Contactless payment solution on microSD cards
- Hand-crank powered cellphones
- Improving mobile web browsers
- Seamless mobility between WiFi and cellular nets