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Everyone seems to be talking about this as the year of the wearable. I don’t think so. Even if Apple does introduce a watch, and Google widely releases Glass, will they really go mainstream and sell hundreds of millions of units? I don’t think so. At least not for a few years. IMHO there needs to be a few major…

I spent last week at CES in Las Vegas. What a show! The big keynote speech was the night before the show started and was given by Brian Krzanich, Intel’s new CEO. His talk was focused on Wearables, and he demonstrated 3 wearable devices (charger, in-ear, and platform architecture). The platform demo included a live on stage use of speech…

Sensory’s PR firm set up an interview for me with Blogger Robert Scoble a couple of weeks ago. I showed up in their SFO office a few minutes early, and like clockwork Robert came through the front door, grabbed me and took me to a videotaping room (surprise to me…He’s a Video Blogger). They hooked up a mic and Robert…

Android introduced the new KitKat OS for the Nexus 5, and Sensory has gotten lots of questions about the new “always listening” feature that allows a user to say “OK Google” followed by a Google Now search. Here’s some of the common questions: Is it Sensory’s? Did it come from LG (like the hardware)? Is it Google’s in-house technology? I…

Radio Rex. There’s always something special about the first one - this was from almost 100 years ago! Rex was a toy dog that lived in a doghouse, and the waveform from calling his name would vibrate a spring at a certain frequency that would make Rex exit the doghouse. Basically, a mechanical speech recognition device! Radar the Robot. Sure,…