Basically the session was a panel discussion and I tried to use this slide as an introduction of my backgrounds and what I'm interested in. (Had a PC problem so I wasn't actually able to show the pictures though...) http://www.fewjapan.com/index.php/events/entries/may_few_meeting_emerging_technology_panel_about_the_hottest_new_it_tech_and/

1. FEW
May Panel
Fumi Yamazaki

2. <Background>
Largest telecom company in Japan
NTT
Typical “Japanese Office Lady of Japan”
NTT East Corporate sales
Internet Marketing Research Company
Data analysis, data mining, Text Mining etc
Localized blog search engine “Technorati”
Blog research, blog promotion etc
Conferences, Joi ito's Lab, Creative Commons,
investment on “emerging technology” companies
Currently freelance traveler, writer, researcher and consultant
Guest researcher at University of Electro-Communications:

3. 10 years ago... my bag was heavy. As a woman, it's not funny.
I had a notebook PC, digital camera, cellphone(company),
cellphone (personal), digital gadget (Zaurus pocket), MD player,
documents, books etc... in my bag.
<photos of people having similar situation>
Photo CC BY-NC-SA by Acid Zebra Photo CC BY JaseMan

4. We always had a dream to have Internet any time, anywhere

5. We always had a dream to have Internet any time, anywhere
Internet while we're standing
.. without hurting our back (@@)
Internet while we're walking
Internet while we're sleeping
Photos by
Hacker's Cafe

6. My long time dream was...
To have a device which is small, light, has network connection
and low power.
Photo CC-BY-N-ND by baldheretic

7. My long time dream was...
To have a device which is small, light, has network connection
and low power.
Photo CC-BY-N-ND by baldheretic

8. Power is the issue
http://www.potenco.com/

9. “ The CPU wars are over; it's the screen wars now”
-Mary Lou Jepsen

10. Ichikawa Lab @ University of Electro-Communications:
-Computer Network: What will happen as the internet grows?
-Ubiquitous Network: What is an access that enables connection
anywhere?
-Large-scale Ubiquitous computing: How do we connect various
Appliances?
-Broadband Internet: mail, videos, and what's next?
-Information distribution platform: What is a reliable platform
technology?
-Security/privacy protection: How do we secure the network usage?
-Technology Management: What is the management skills needed for
the engineers?
-Research on Ultra Low Power technology.

11. Various things are getting consumer generated
Weblog
text
Physical photo
computing
3D/VR/AR video
music

12. Weblog
text
Non-journalists writing
and publishing photo
Amateur cameramen
everywhere
video
Anyone can make a music and
lyric, and make famous musician
music
“Gackt” or girl character Miku
etc sing your song.

13. <3D, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality>
Corporate – Automobile industry using AR for their ads and factories
Workers at the factories can see the virtual instructions
overlaid on the real cars
Art - Louvre museum used AR to overlay the real artworks and
virtual visions of the explanations of those artwork
Entertainment – AR figure “ARis”

14. <Open Hardware, Hardware hacking, Physical Computing>
“Making Hardware” was manufacturer's thing... like SONY, etc.
↓
The new trend of “open source hardware” enables us to
create hardware too!
INPUT brain OUTPUT

15. <Open Hardware, Hardware hacking, Physical Computing>
INPUT brain OUTPUT
Push a Turn on
button LED
Come Turn on
home music
Hot topic Change
on 2ch TV
channel

16. <Making stairs that gives a knocking sound>
<INPUT> <OUTPUT>
Laser to detect when Solénoïde to make
someone passes by a sound when it receives
on the stairs signal from the laser
<BRAIN>
Gainer

17. <Making stairs that gives a knocking sound>
Done! And it's all “handmade”

18. <Make Tokyo Meeting 3 2009/5/23-24>
http://jp.makezine.com/blog/2009/05/mtm03.html

19. Weblog
text
Physical photo
computing
3D/VR/AR video
music

20. Weblog
text
Physical photo
computing <Community>
Twitter
Hatena
NicoNicoDouga
etc
3D/VR/AR video
music