http://via-venture.over-blog.com/ 2005-12-16T15:36:20Z over-blog.com Atom 1.0 Generator http://accel6.fdata.over-blog.com/99/00/00/01/img/avatar.png Trends Technology Ventures AdVentures http://via-venture.over-blog.com/article-5839156.html 2008-06-05T14:39:51Z 2007-12-22T17:44:00Z Emmanuel facovi & Via venture team http://www.over-blog.com/profil/blogueur-215367.html <img src="http://idata.over-blog.com/0/19/45/33/hitachi_rfid1.jpg" />In an earlier article (here)  I introduced the upcoming of RFID products and applications that will invade our daily Lifes. I briefly remind that RFID is an &quot;electronic Label&quot; made of a chip and an antenna, that contend Identification information  and  communicate via Radio Frequencies A new step in development<a href="http://via-venture.over-blog.com/article-5839156.html http://via-venture.over-blog.com/article-13792796.html 2007-11-16T12:05:33Z 2007-11-14T15:30:00Z Emmanuel facovi & Via venture team http://www.over-blog.com/profil/blogueur-215367.html       It is possible, Motion Portrait of  Tokyo in Japan has developped the technology that permits  to bring your face picture to life. Using a technology originaly developped by Sony research center, a picture is converted<a href="http://via-venture.over-blog.com/article-13792796.html http://via-venture.over-blog.com/article-6219790.html 2007-08-01T15:47:08Z 2007-03-26T14:41:19Z Emmanuel facovi &amp; Via venture team http://www.over-blog.com/profil/blogueur-215367.html <img src="http://idata.over-blog.com/0/19/45/33/before.jpg" />Beauty or not Beauty   The reign of Beauty  is all around us: in Magazines, TV commercials, series , Media world , models are everywhere.....to be successful you must be beautiful. But was is beauty ?  a subjective perception? maybe, maybe not.....some believe<a href="http://via-venture.over-blog.com/article-6219790.html http://via-venture.over-blog.com/article-6070300.html 2007-08-01T15:47:08Z 2007-03-18T18:26:09Z Emmanuel facovi &amp; Via venture team http://www.over-blog.com/profil/blogueur-215367.html <img src="http://idata.over-blog.com/0/19/45/33/drop_shadow_provence_scents.png" />Takamichi Nakamoto from Tokyo Institute of Technology has invented a a device that can detect, record, digitize and then replicate any smell.The 15 sensors of the machine analyze scents, record a recipe and convert  in digital format that can be used to store libraries of smell. It then can be reproduced  by<a href="http://via-venture.over-blog.com/article-6070300.html http://via-venture.over-blog.com/article-5535448.html 2007-08-01T15:47:04Z 2007-02-05T16:40:44Z Emmanuel facovi &amp; Via venture team http://www.over-blog.com/profil/blogueur-215367.html <img src="http://idata.over-blog.com/0/19/45/33/billgates.jpg" />HEC Paris - Feb 1st - 2007Togheter with some French executives and HEC Alumni I was invited by HEC Paris to participate to a conference and debate with Bill GatesMicrosoft is currently launching Vista with a $500 million  campaign This was a great occasion to exchange on visions of the future, but also to know<a href="http://via-venture.over-blog.com/article-5535448.html http://via-venture.over-blog.com/article-5432053.html 2007-08-01T15:47:08Z 2007-01-28T18:04:42Z Emmanuel facovi &amp; Via venture team http://www.over-blog.com/profil/blogueur-215367.html <img src="http://idata.over-blog.com/0/19/45/33/table.jpg" />Very certainly you remember Walt Disney movies Merlin the magician where objects lift up and float in the room. Dutch architect Anjaap Ruijssenaars from Universe Architecture has made it in collaboration with Bakker Magnetics : A floating Bed. This project started in 1999 and a prototype<a href="http://via-venture.over-blog.com/article-5432053.html http://via-venture.over-blog.com/article-5249992.html 2007-08-01T15:47:05Z 2007-01-13T15:47:28Z Emmanuel facovi &amp; Via venture team http://www.over-blog.com/profil/blogueur-215367.html <img src="http://idata.over-blog.com/0/19/45/33/quatar_islands-1.jpg" />What is the ultimate dream of people in regard of living places ? Maybe you could find some hints by looking what is going on in the persian Gulf countriesQuatar for instance: a 2,5 Billion dollars project called the Pearl  is planning the building of an artificial island<a href="http://via-venture.over-blog.com/article-5249992.html http://via-venture.over-blog.com/article-4864116.html 2007-08-01T15:47:03Z 2006-12-11T16:54:06Z Emmanuel facovi &amp; Via venture team http://www.over-blog.com/profil/blogueur-215367.html <img src="http://idata.over-blog.com/0/19/45/33/space_elevator.jpg" />Magnetic levitation : Do you know what this is for ?If you travel to Shangai in China , maybe you will have the chance to experiment this magnetic  technology also called MaglevThe fast train at the Pudong Airport  will bring you at a  speed of 430 km/hour to Shangai downtown thanks to the magnetic levitation.But an other<a href="http://via-venture.over-blog.com/article-4864116.html http://via-venture.over-blog.com/article-4778389.html 2007-08-01T15:47:07Z 2006-12-03T14:07:13Z Emmanuel facovi &amp; Via venture team http://www.over-blog.com/profil/blogueur-215367.html <img src="http://idata.over-blog.com/0/19/45/33/underwater_hotel-1.jpg" />A new type of  hotel resort will start populating our oceans in the near futur : the Underwater HotelsOnce again Jules Vernes vision comes true The first 220-suite hotel , Hydropolis  is due to open in Dubai at the end of 2007. Currently under construction (it started<a href="http://via-venture.over-blog.com/article-4778389.html http://via-venture.over-blog.com/article-4706714.html 2007-08-01T15:47:07Z 2006-11-25T11:32:15Z Emmanuel facovi &amp; Via venture team http://www.over-blog.com/profil/blogueur-215367.html <img src="http://idata.over-blog.com/0/19/45/33/augmented-reality-hud.jpg" />Your cell phones will tell You EverythingNew Intelligent functions are invading our PhonesGeovector is developping  New applications around mobility devices and  intelligent functions for Mobile Phones.The company  software permits to  create 3 D images from a  mobile phone picture <a href="http://via-venture.over-blog.com/article-4706714.html