Innovative Tech of the Week | The Programmable T-Shirt

At long last, the “wearable, shareable, programmable and 100% cotton tshirt” is here. CuteCircuit's tshirtOS prototype is a washable tshirt with built in display and camera that can be operated from an app on a smartphone to display images, videos, Tweets, and anything else people will come up with. 

"Audio playback via a headphone jack is supported, and the company claims that the camera used in tshirtOS is the smallest in the world. In fact, it measures 2.5 x 2.9 x 2.5 mm and comes from Omnivision, though only captures at 32 x 32 resolution; still, the chest display itself only runs at 32 x 32, consisting of 1,024 ultrathin RGB LEDs."

Well, we know what we're getting our President for Christmas this year. 

Click here to learn more about the programmable tshirtOS or check out the video below 

Building Socially

By James Benham, President of JB Knowledge Technologies, Maker of SmartBidNet Software
Published in Building & Construction Canada 
May 2012 Issue

Forty-two years ago, the first email was sent between two computers, side by side. Additionally, eight years ago, Facebook was launched. Today, roughly one in every eight people on Earth has a Facebook profile.

Three months ago, during the final 57 seconds of Super Bowl XVLI, 12,233 tweets per second were sent across North America. No matter how annoying the email notifications and constant flood of updates, social media is here to stay. So it’s about time we all got a little more comfortable with using it for personal and professional purposes.

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The Must-Have Technology Tools, Part 3 – Staying Social and Mobile | Construction Today

from SmartBidNet.com

This is the final part of a three-part series.

By James Benham, President of JB Knowledge Technologies

Previously, we’ve discussed Google’s suite of useful freeware and solutions that are revolutionizing preconstruction and BIM. Now I’d like to wrap it up and discuss social and mobile tech, as they are quickly finding their way from your personal life into your work day.

Social Media

For those of you who had hoped to avoid the ever-growing social network scene, it’s probably best you give in now. Not only do sites like LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ help you connect with industry personalities and brands that could lead to business opportunities, they are also very powerful project management platforms. LinkedIn Answers is a human-powered search engine, ready at all times to poll the architecture, engineering, and construction professionals you need insight from, both inside and outside your personal network. I’ve used it to gather opinions on everything from which software providers we should team up with to which apps everyone is most excited about.  Facebook Groups and Pages give project teams an online space to share events and discussions, whether in the design, bid, construction, or follow-up phase of development. Twitter can be a powerful jobsite, project, news and job notification tool to reach internal and external stakeholders. And if you haven’t tried a Google+ Hangout yet for a project team video conference, I highly recommend you do so. With 70 percent of daily mobile device use being social media, it is one of the best mediums to communicate with employees, clients, and prospects alike.

Click here to read the full article on the Construction Today Blog

Cool Technology of the Week | Project Glass

Anything we try to write or summarize about this technology won't do it justice. So we'll just direct you straight to the source.

Click here to watch the video about Project Glass that will quite literally change your view of the future

Cool Technology of the Week | Turning Tweets into Toilet Paper

Alright, so this week's "Tech of the Week" may not increase your company's ROI but it will certainly make for some entertaining bathroom breaks. 

"The service, called Shitter, will take one or more feeds from your Twitter account and print those tweets on toilet paper you can then display and use proudly in your favorite restroom."

Or in your CEO's restroom. At $35 per pack of four rolls, you'll want to choose your Twitter feed carefully. 

"Mashable did the math, and if Shitter’s rolls of TP have the standard 75 sheets you’d be shelling out about 8.5 cents a sheet to drop your latest tweets off at the pool."

Click here to learn more about this new Twitterific technology

October Speaking Events - JB Knowledge President James Benham

Our President travels North America speaking about technology and its role in today's construction industry. Find out where he'll be speaking this month.

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September Speaking Events - JBKnowledge President James Benham

Our President travels North America speaking about technology and its role in various industries and medias. Find out where he'll be speaking this month.

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What technology trends are having a huge impact on risk management?

The latest trends in information technology have a huge impact company-wide, from the IT department implementing new resources to the managers and executives who utilize them. Each office, person, and device add a dimension of risk, cost, storage, and compliance. I’d like to focus on the risk component, and how the information technology trends we are seeing today are challenging risk professionals, more than ever, to know what they are dealing with. And like Charles Tremper once said, “The first step in the risk management process is to acknowledge the reality of risk. Denial is a common tactic that substitutes deliberate ignorance for thoughtful planning.” So let’s get to acknowledging.

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Guest Post - The Cloud Computing Revolution – Are You on Board?

This guest post was written by Matt Saunders. Matt writes for Qubok, a blog which offers help to small companies on how they can grow their businesses and increase productivity by using various technologies.

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