 Okay, good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host, Krista Burns, here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the commission's weekly online event. Yes, we are a webinar. You can call us that. We won't be too offended. Where we cover anything that may be of interest to librarians. We do these sessions every live, every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. central time. And they are recorded, so if you're unable to join us on Wednesday mornings, that's fine. You can always go to our website and watch all of our recordings that are out there. We do all sorts of things in the show, presentations, many training sessions, interviews, book reviews. Basically, if it's related to libraries, we'll put it on the show. We're not very picky. We'll go with that. It's a little bit. We have commission staff, Nebraska Library commission staff that come on the show, and we do some kinds of guest speakers. Finally, we have commission staff. Next sitting next to me is Michael Sowers, who is the Technology Innovation Librarian here at the Leningvastra Library Commission. Morning, Krista. And anyone who's a regular may know that Michael does usually have a monthly show called Tech Talk with Michael Sowers that he comes on and did, but here I did that earlier this month. This is a, I don't know, special on the fly, an extra, I don't know. Sure. Session that he is doing for us. It is about technology in libraries. It's not as specific as a monthly Tech Talk, though. It's a special presentation type thing. And usually on Tech Talk, you bring someone else on to talk anyway. It's not your presentation. So I'll just hand over to you, and you can go away and do your thing. Great. Thank you, Krista. So what we're going to do today is I, what am I talking about? Technology in libraries. What's next? I gave this presentation literally just a week ago at the Northeast Florida Library Information Network, Neflin, down in Jacksonville, Florida. And Krista was also asking me, hey, you got anything you could do on the show? And I thought, I think this would be a great session to do. It's designed to be a little lighter, a little more fun. Yes, we're going to talk Tech, but not in too much detail. And so I want to start out with a couple of things about the framework of this presentation. One, yes, is called technology in libraries. What's next? But some of the tech I'm going to talk about is kind of out there. And I don't know if or how it could be used in libraries yet. Some of it's not even commercially available sort of thing. So by the time we get to the end of this, we're getting out into, like, seriously, not even cutting edge, but bleeding edge sort of stuff that's coming down the pipe. So part of this, well, you might see something I talk about and go, well, how can I use that in the library? Well, I don't necessarily have a direct answer for you. That's kind of, yeah, yet. Or even, you know, today, that's something that maybe you need to figure out. Maybe it's appropriate for a lot of your library. Maybe it's not. Maybe it will be in five years. So I am going to kind of break this into three different categories, kind of the current stuff that you may not be aware of or may not be used in your library. Then part two is kind of the stuff that's just kind of out and really new and you may have heard of, you may not have heard of. And then part three is going to be the stuff that, in at least one case, I found out about it last week. So, you know, two days before the first time I give this presentation, I'm still updating it. This is why we do a tech talk every month. Yes, because there is stuff to do. So, let me start out by making sure that I can actually change my slides. There we go. Yeah, keyboard works. So this is Douglas Adams and he, in one of his later novels, talked about the three rules of technology. And I know Krista has heard this before. And he said, I've come up with a set of rules to describe our reactions to technologies. Number one, anything that is in the world when you are born is normal and that's how the world works. So you're born with it. We talk about millennials and kids, the iPad generation now. The iPads just always been there for them. They're getting used to it. Number two, anything that is invented between when you're 15 and 35 is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. So this internet thing kind of happened between when I was 15 and 35. I did get my first computer at 13 and I kind of have a career in it. So that pretty much works. Number three, anything invented after you're 35 is against the natural order of things. I don't agree with that. Okay, it varies from people. I kind of said I had three sections to this. The stuff I'm going to talk about in the first section is not literally when you're born, but it's kind of the stuff that's already there and most of us are familiar with, just maybe not using it. Then kind of the really, really interesting stuff and then the, wow, that's really going to change things if it actually kicks in. So that's the kind of thing. And we'll throw in here this wonderful image from 1906 in Punch Magazine about how these students here, it says these two figures are not communicating with each other, the lady is receiving an amateury message and the gentleman, some racing results. If you notice the little antennas coming out of their hats there. Yeah, that's been making the rounds online. So this whole concern about how kids are using technology and how technology is changing the way we interact with each other, it's nothing new. So anyway, so let's jump in here and do part one. And we have Beaker there introducing us to newish, two libraries sort of technologies. So like I said, some of this stuff you may already be aware of. One is content management systems. At this point, WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, I, when I surveyed my audience last week, I asked you how many of your libraries are still hand coding all of their HTML and their CSS on their webpages. And luckily, I only had about four people raise their hand in the room of about 30 or 40 people. So that was pretty good. Content management systems are not really new, but a lot of libraries still aren't using them. And I think as somebody who's even written books on how to hand code HTML and CSS, I really think we kind of need to move away from that a little bit and start automating these processes a little bit. It doesn't hurt to still know how to hand code. It will always help you in the long run, but things like that. And just throwing the pitch here, the Nebraska Libraries of the Web Project runs on WordPress. And we've got now more than 50 libraries here in the state running that with us and no code necessary. Just running their websites and doing a great job with it. Audio-video digital converters. This is actually, I threw this in because it's a project I'm actually working on here at the commission. We have VHS cassettes. We also have one-inch video cassettes, which I don't know where we're going to find a machine for that. But we're slowly but surely converting content that we had from VHS to digital. And this little box, which runs about 50 bucks, does it. You plug one end into the VCR. You plug the other end into your laptop or computer with a USB port. And you play the tape and you hit record on the computer and you get a digital file that you can burn to a DVD or do upload to YouTube or whatever with it. The ultimate thing here I want to kind of imply is that moving that old format content and migrating to newer formats, something that libraries really need to be paying attention to, digital preservation, that sort of thing, archiving. You've got to keep those formats up. So we had to go buy a VCR to even be able to do this project. Yes, you really need one of these. And there are libraries who are actually providing this as a service. They'll have a machine with a VCR hooked up so people can bring in their tapes and digitize them right there in the public library. So I think that's a great little project for that. Now I will also throw in, you know, we're not talking about digitizing commercial videos like Disney tapes or things like that. Make sure you own the rights to that content. It is something that you can legally digitize. So in our case, it's presentations that were given all the way back to the 1970s in some cases. It's been fun kind of digging some of that stuff out. Tablet computers. Most of us, I would assume, if you're on, you know, watching this show, you're familiar with a tablet computer with your iPad or your Android tablet. But how are you, if at all, using them in the library kind of in an organized fashion? Some of your staff may have tablets, but are you using as part of the workflow? Are you using them to actually do reference work? Things like that. You know, there are libraries out there sitting the staff down at a reference desk and expecting people to come up to them. They will actually walk up to people with the iPad and do reference work with the patron right there standing in the stacks. Kind of that mobility, that ease of use. I think it's something that you definitely might want to start thinking about. Square. This is just one example, but mobile payments. A lot of us are doing self-checkout machines, things like that. But what if you could pay fines right on that iPad as you're walking around and saying things like that, or if you are out in an event and can take fines. Square is just one example. PayPal has another one. I actually just at a conference back in March did my first Square payment to anybody. It was really fun. It was also the person who was selling to me their first Square payment. As a receiver, met a fellow librarian. She was an author. She had some of her books with her. She sold me a book. Handed her my credit card. She swiped it through this thing. I signed right on the screen and emailed me my receipt. And it was so easy to do. I'm not sure if any libraries that I'm aware of are actually doing this yet, but mobile payments, definitely something to think about. Also, there are newer payment systems that don't even need this. You kind of wave your phone at the computer and transfer a payment through something called Near Field Communications. There's another mobile payment system that I find even more interesting where you walk into, say, the coffee shop. The coffee shop is using the system, and you have the system on your phone. The coffee shop, by the fact that your phone went in and it's geo-location, they now know you're in the store. And so you just say, hey, I'm Michael. I want to pay for my coffee with this. They look at their screen and they see your picture because you're in the store and they go, yep, that's you. And they just tap your face and it debits from your account. I think that's pretty cool. Nobody here is doing that the Lincoln that I'm aware of or else I'd be trying it out. Smartwatch is hard to see, but I'm holding on my wrist here in a little corner here. I have one of these. This is called a pebble. This does sync to my phone. So you can't do a lot, a lot with it. You can, for example, reply to a text. But if I get a text message, it actually does show up on my wrist. Now you're thinking, well, why don't I just look at the phone? That's what I wondered. Not always convenient car while we're driving. Did a lot of driving last week that was noticeable. Depends on... That's still not cool, no. You've never looked at your watch? Well, no, okay. The screen's always so big. Okay, let me change it up just a little bit. I'm not disagreeing with Krista. That example is too dangerous to me, phone rings. You're driving, phone rings. I can see on my wrist who's calling and I can then ignore it or pull over and answer the call instead of picking my phone up off of the dash and trying to figure out who's calling. I will admit for me this thing is a toy. I mean, I got it because I could, but there are other smart watches coming out. There's another one that's a Kickstarter project right now. This pebble was a Kickstarter project. We'll talk about that in a few minutes. There is actually a microphone built into it so you can actually talk back to it. This one doesn't do that. It's the Dick Tracy. Yeah, kind of a Dick Tracy watch. Something to think about. I'm not saying it's for you. I'm not saying it's for everybody, but it is the smart watch technology. Although it's been tried before, this is kind of the next time around just to see how well it can work and if it catches on enough. The other wrist is something called a Fitbit. This particular version I have is a Fitbit Flex. All of this is kind of leading somewhere. In this case, this is my pedometer. It also tracks my sleep cycle so it can tell me about how fast I got to sleep and how many times during the night I was woken up. It gives me a weekly report of my steps. I can log lots of other things with it manually, such as what I've eaten, things like that. Basically, it's personal data collection. You can also gamify it to see if you've done more steps than your friends, things like this. These have been around for a little while. There are other ones. Nike Fuel Band is another version of this. This is the particular one I have. Ultimately, I track my steps for our state health care wellness program so it gets me a discount on my health insurance. But I can go back and all of this is being logged into an account that I can decide what to do with. I can track things. If I want to, I can look at long-term stats. The most interesting use of this that I read about recently, especially with the tracking your sleep cycle, was a couple where the wife was pregnant. They tracked their sleep cycle and then they were able to figure out the husband. It worked better for him to get up earlier in the night with the baby and her later in the night with the baby because of how their sleep cycles worked. Obviously, that's not going to be directly appropriate to you or probably anybody in the audience at the moment, but maybe it's just kind of a once you have the data, then you can decide what to do with it. You can't necessarily do anything unless you have that data in the first place. If you think this is a little weird, the next one gets even weirder. This is called a Mimodo. This is a $279 device. I do not have one of these. It has no buttons whatsoever. As long as you're wearing it, it takes a photo every 30 seconds of whatever you're looking at out from you. Chris is giving me the stink eye on this one. That sounds like those things where people put a camera around their cat's neck and then let it photograph and they see where their cat went wandering. This is you. It takes a photo every 30 seconds. Geo tags the photo so it knows where you were at the time. Then archives all of those photos for you so that you can kind of log where you have been geographically and photographically. I don't know how I feel about this. If it was $100, I'd probably get one. $279 is a bit much to get something to play with like this. It's just, again, more data. The previous few things, just keep thinking more data, more data, more data. I'll get to a point with that. The Nest thermostat. Chris, have you heard about this? This has been around a little while. This is an online remote controllable, logable and intelligent thermostat for your house. I did finally in Florida last week meet somebody in the audience who said she has one of these and she loves it and has actually saved money on her power bill because of it. I love the programmable thermostats. You can have it turn on, not have your AC on all day long when you really don't need it, have it turn on hours before you come home. This takes it to the next level because it's online so you can control it with your phone. If you're going to suddenly be home early today, you can log in and say, hey, turn on the air, but then ultimately what it starts to do is it starts to learn your cycle and will adjust accordingly because through the app it also knows when you're home and when you're not. Because on your phone, your phone knows where you are. Again, it's getting into a little more smart technology and again it's collecting data about now how you heat and cool your home and where you are in relationship to that. More data. Ways. This is pretty cool. You've used Google Maps for just directions stuff? Just Google Maps navigate. Give me directions on your phone. I used this on a road trip last week. We drove 3200 miles and this is directions just like Google Maps does but on top of that Google will just say, hey, drive from point A to point B, here's how we're going to get there and it does know where you are based on the little arrow it puts you on the map. This does all of that and more. The one thing it does is it also tracks basically your speed based on how fast you're getting from point A to point B. Hold on. Let me finish explaining this then we'll have Chris to share the comment. If you can see in the example there's like a 4 and a 2 towards the middle right there what it's doing is it's keeping track of the fact that other users of Ways are also driving through that area and the average Ways user is only going 4 or 2 miles an hour right now. You may want to avoid that area because there's obviously a slowdown. Because there's obviously a slowdown. Then you can see on some of the other Ways user icons there's a little exclamation points or little cars. People can report traffic jams. People can report vehicles on the side of the road and so as I'm driving down the highway it would tell me hey I've gotten a report that 2,000 feet ahead of you there is a vehicle on the side of the road you might want to pull over and give them some room or there's a cop behind a tree. We've got a couple of reports of those or there's just a cop on the side of the road. You can confirm or deny that the problem still exists as long as it's on your side of the road. There is kind of voice control for this. You don't necessarily have to be tapping on the screen while you're driving. In fact if you try doing that it will ask you to confirm that you are the passenger and not the driver. Now you can lie. But the idea is the passenger should be controlling and reporting and things like that. In two cases it actually did re-route us around things that we did not know were coming up. It was very, very handy. Now the punchline on all this is they were just purchased about a week or two ago by Google. Do you know how much they paid for this? How much Google paid for this? One million dollars. And it's being investigated. Is it? Oh now see I have not heard this. See I've been on the road. The FTC is now investigating the purchase. Interesting. Under what grounds do you know? I'll have to look into it. Antitrust. Why Google's $1 billion ways deal faces US antitrust scrutiny is what time headline says. Interesting. I was unaware of that. I had not seen that star yet. Interesting. There was a comment that came through. Well this is about Ness. Julie Eric says she works from home. My hubby wants to get one so he can turn the heat down remotely when I turn it up. But we haven't got one yet. Dueling iPhones controlling the heat in the house. Julie I think got reaction only knowing what little bit you said outside with you. So I don't know if that will help or hinder your case but I'll side with you on this one. Where am I going with all this? I keep saying data, data, data, data. Big data is just more of a concept than a thing. According to the International Data Corporation in 2012 we reached 2.8 Zeta bytes or trillion gigabytes of data created. By 2015 they're expecting to double that. Now, Krista, since you're sitting here have there been any big data stories recently that you may have heard about? Should I know this? The NSA thing? That's big data. That's just collecting everything. I'm not going to get into the politics of the NSA story. But if you're not familiar with big data as a concept the idea of the NSA just collecting all the data they can get their hands on, that's big data. The idea is that once you have it then you can analyze it. So like I said with the FitBoot Flex and my steps and my sleet cycle. Once I have it then I can analyze it. And so one of the things I want libraries to be thinking about is we've kind of been big data in that collecting lots of stuff and letting people go through it. Well now it's not physical items, it's electronic data. And how can we participate or help people manage that data? You don't have an answer but it is coming. And that screenshot is from a show called Person of Interest in case anybody in the audience watches that. That's a big data show. That's exactly what this show is about. Now it's kind of just past the creepy line and just past the reality line. But it's not that far off. I mean there's no artificial intelligence analyzing all this data yet but we'll maybe get there eventually. Okay so let's get a little bit away from data for just a minute and talk about crowdfunding. Christa have you ever done a Kickstarter or Indiegogo campaign? Funded. Okay cool. Do you care to share what? Sure yeah. On Indiegogo I have submitted, there was a Ferret movie. Someone, a director up in Canada, she has Ferrets as people may or may not know. I had Ferrets in our family. And she did a movie about Ferrets. Yeah. But anyway, she did it through Indiegogo and we submitted it and put money to it. And so we got a copy of the DVD with the Ferrets paw print on it. And she's got a new one she's doing now called The Magic Ferret, another one that she's funding through it as well, a second one. And she's actually got a movie that's this was an independent one that's being done Hollywood movie. Oh great, she's got options for it. But yeah, so I did do it through that. Yeah I funded several books, some art books, some fiction, a couple movies, I've done various things. So people do games? Gaming? They're creating their own board games? The idea, I'm not familiar with it, Kickstarter is one service, Indiegogo is another and there are others out there, but these are kind of the two big ones is that somebody has an idea for a project such as maybe a pebble smartwatch. And so they say okay, but we don't necessarily have the money for it. We don't really have an investor that can give us the anywhere from a thousand dollars to a couple hundred thousand dollars to do this. So we are going to put the project up, say please give us money. And depending on how much money you give, you usually get some sort of reward such as a watch or an autograph on the book, things like that. And I've seen films where if you give a certain amount of money, they'll actually come to you and do your private screening of the movie and things like that, but usually you're giving like ten grand at that point because there's travel and things like that. And so if they it's usually like a 30 day cycle, if they get the money they're asking for then they will actually go into production with whatever the thing is. No, it is not 100% guaranteed. You are taking a chance. If they don't meet their funding goal, you don't pay any money at all. If they surpass their funding goal, they then usually start what's doing called stretch goals which means like okay, we only wanted ten grand, but if we get twenty grand we'll improve the product or we'll give more bonuses to people, things like that. Or the actual thing they're doing as well. The movie that I did it was her own personal thing and then once she broke, she made more than enough, she said well now if you give me this much more, I can actually hire, because there's about a fairy out in the woods and living in the woods being out, I can hire animal wranglers and have other real animals in the movie as well. So like a trained raccoon or a horse or whatever rather than just pretending there was a horse. They made it more realistic. Cool. So bringing back to libraries for just a moment there have been a couple of library projects that I'm aware of. I'm sure there's been more. The FABLAB at Fayetteville Free Library was partially funded through an Indiegogo project and I believe there's currently a Kickstarter project for a public library to put a hulk statue outside of the library. They made it. All right, to promote their graphic novel collection. Somebody donated, somehow it got done. I remember seeing the headline. Wonderful. I don't think I contributed to that one. I did contribute to a bronze HP Lovecraft bust which is going to go in the Anathema Library in Rhode Island, Providence, Rhode Island where he was from. It can be art projects, books, things like that. So if your library is looking to do a project this might be a way to fund it. If you can get enough people in your community or just in a larger community of library lovers to participate is something to think about. One word of warning I would maybe talk to whoever the powers that be city attorney, that sort of thing. Make sure this would be kosher for you to do within your political environment. But beyond that I don't see why more libraries couldn't do this. Library box. We've had Jason Griffey on the show. Do we have him on about library box? We did. Okay. We did a whole show about this. So go back and look through the archives. But it's basically a way to wirelessly deliver content. He put it in a little cut-out book there as you can see. Basically it's a... Last August. Last August. Thank you, Christa. It's about a little $40 box. Maybe a total of about $100 with the materials. You put content on it and then people can connect to it wirelessly and download whatever sort of content that you want to distribute to them. In his case ebooks. I will stop talking about that. People just go back and take a look at that show. 3D printers. We've talked about these before. I'm going to throw them in here. The one in the lower right there is actually a $403 3D printer you can get through the SkyMall catalog called the cube. If it's in SkyMall these things are kind of hit mainstream. There's another I think it's a Kickstarter project to get one down to under $100 actually. The smaller the machine, the smaller the stuff it can make. You either can or will be able to buy one at Staples. The cube. I think Staples also sells that cube one. You can now just go buy these at the store. As much as I know the little rocket chips in that I'm going to throw in here. Anybody here has access to a 3D printer. Somebody just published plans for a TARDIS transformer toy. It's a police box. It opens up into a transformer and it's all 3D printed. You print out the models and put it together. But a little more seriously than that actually this is a 3D printed trachea. They saved a child's life recently. Links to all this will be in the show notes. You can read the story. His airways were collapsing and they actually modeled and printed him a new trachea and saved his life. 3D printing is coming along and getting very, very real in some cases. Wireless charging is new technology. You still have to plug the pad into the wall but then you set your phone on the pad and it charges the phone without physically connecting a wire to it. I would love to see a library starting to offer inductive charging pads for people with those types of devices right in the library. Basically set your phone here and it will recharge. Your phone or your device has to support this feature. This is not just going to work on any phone. But more and more phones are coming out with this inductive charging. That is pretty much the way it's going to go. Wireless charging. Wait until we get to a little further with the wireless power generation. Near field communications I did mention this briefly a little earlier about if you've ever done the wave your credit card at the little pad well this is just now wave your phone at the little pad. It's the same basic concept. You can think of it kind of like RFID but slightly different technology that works at a much shorter distance. So RFID can work up to like I think about a foot. This will work in a matter of inches. So you have to get really close. You can't accidentally walk by it and have something go wrong. Generally not. You really kind of have to you don't have to touch it but you got to get pretty darn close. So I'm just thinking maybe it's mostly used for payment systems right now but maybe eventually self-checkouts. It's going to wave the thing. RFID is kind of a big concept. So I'm not saying self-checkout is available in this format yet but something that if you're thinking about, you might want to consider and see how far off it may be because for all I know somebody could put it out next week. Okay let's talk a little hardware. HDMI Android sticks. These are pretty cool. This particular one from Jennyatech will cost you about 50 bucks and you plug it into the HDMI port of your television. It's got a little antenna there and it turns your television into basically an Android device where you can install apps and wirelessly stream video and watch your Netflix without hooking up a full-blown computer or a good-sized box like a Roku or a popcorn box. This is literally just a little stick. You just plug it in and off you go and it's got a full Android operating system on it and then connect like a wireless keyboard or something like that and your TV is now a full-blown Android home entertainment system. So for 50 bucks, it might be something you want to try out. Okay Arduino. Arduino has been around for a while. Arduino is a microcontroller and basically what it's used for and I'm getting kind of super geeky here even past my skill level. You use it to monitor and control physical world devices. So you get this board. You then program the board and hook extra things to it to do things. The one example I can come up with off the top of my head may seem silly to some people but taking our Arduino board you hook up a moisture sensor to it. Then you program it to say when it reaches below a certain moisture threshold do something. So what you do is you then stick the moisture sensor into a plant, into dirt and then if it gets below a certain moisture threshold send a tweet saying please water me. Okay. I thought you were going to say something more helpful. Moisture sensor in the basement when it starts flooding. That would work too. That actually would be possible. You could do that. Or let us know that there's water in the basement. My sister could use that. You'd have to program it to do that. So for your basement you might want to buy one of the little frog things that sits on the floor. There's moisture sensors you can buy. You just sit on the floor and it sets off an alarm. When you're not home. Send a text message instead of a tweet or something like that. Moving on from there I actually have one of these, the raspberry pie. These are cool. Ultimately this is a $35 personal computer. And it's just a little bit bigger than an Altoids tin. That's it right there on your screen. It comes with two USB ports. An ethernet port. Video port. Expansion board and an HDMI video connector also. And it has a spot on the underside where you can slide in an SD card. The idea is you install an operating system on the SD card. You plug it into keyboard, mouse, monitor and you have a $35 computer. Comes without a case. Comes without an operating system. But you can also connect it then to things like arduinos and cameras and various other things that you can do with it. I've got one I've been playing with it. You could turn this into also a home entertainment system if you wanted to. I've turned mine into an ebook delivery system computer once you hook it up to Wi-Fi instead of plugging it into the wall. There are programming packages that come with it. So if you're looking to teach kids how to program, there's some how to program for kids programs that you can get for it. Teach them various languages. Scratch being one of them. Just somebody asks you seriously, okay, you've got a $35 computer. What are you going to do with it? Well, okay. That's like saying I just bought a $3,000 laptop. What are you going to do with it? It's whatever you want to do with it. Is it the most powerful thing in the world? No. But it's virtually undestructible and it only costs $35. So it's probably about as strong as your cell phone. So just something to play with. Library use that I've thought of is if you're looking to say hook up a large television to run PowerPoint slides behind your reference desk, something like that. Instead of wasting a full-blown $1,000 desktop computer, do it with this. Just set that on the desk or just mount it right on the wall behind the TV. All right. So on the horizon. Okay. So now we get into some stuff that's a little more interesting and kind of coming. Faster Wi-Fi. Currently the standard for Wi-Fi that most people are using is called 802.11G which will get up to 54 megabits a second for 460 feet. Some of us are running N which is 150 megabits a second for up to 200 or 820 feet. Right now you can buy some equipment for what's called AC and that will get you up to a gigabit per second over Wi-Fi and then AD is currently under development and just as a specification 7 gigabits per second of over Wi-Fi. So speeds well past what your wires are probably doing for you right now but over the air. That is coming. They are working on it. The leap motion. Preston, have you seen these things? These are pretty cool. This is a little, you can go all minority report on it basically. Yeah, you set this in front of your computer. I see articles about it. I didn't remember the name of it. Yeah. This is in front of your computer and then instead of touching the screen you just wave at it and it actually can tell what you're doing. ASUS laptops are starting to come with this built in. I might get hired waving at my screen after a while. I don't know but it's just kind of a neat little technology. You can tell where your fingers are where your hands are. You can rotate things and move to the next page and things like that. And $80. So not Oh, it's for the device. Yes, so that little thing in the guy's hand is $80. Not the laptop. No, not the laptop. No, not the $80 laptop. But, yeah, so I don't know if those laptops are out but ASUS is planning on it. Ah, Google Glass. Okay, everybody's probably heard of Google Glass. Right now it's only available for developers and it costs $1,500. So I do not have one. Although I would love one. So, good. Chris is watching your comments. So I don't know what much to say here but it's got a camera it's got the on-screen display you can talk to it. You can touch along the side of your temple there to make it do certain things. It doesn't do a lot yet but it's for developers. Developers are making software for it and making it do things and there are some great online video demos. I think I've bookmarked a couple of those. We'll have the show notes of how it actually works and what you can do with it. So, you know, once those prices come down they are talking maybe about commercial available by the end of 2014. I think they put it off just a little bit. I think if it's under $500 on that one. I think that's about my limit there. A grand would be a little too much for something to play with. And yes, they do like you look like a complete and total dork. I got that. So, there we go. Alright, let's talk TVs for just a minute. Most of us grew up with standard definition television which is 480 lines. Then we have nowadays what's called full high definition which is 1080 lines. So, it's called 1080p. 4K televisions are out. That's 4,000 lines of detail. You're practically looking out a window at this point. There's pretty much nothing being broadcast in 4K. I think like one channel in Japan has tried it out. Things like that. But you can get a 4K TV for under, I think, $1,500 right now. I mean there are some inexpensive models out there. And you wonder though what could I possibly watch at 4K resolution that might look really cool. Well, there has been one movie released in 4K. Ghostbusters! 4K Blu-ray, the first one. It is available. It is out. You can't order it through Amazon. If it's not actually out today, they're taking pre-orders. This isn't like the TV does it. You don't have a special player. You do not have to have a special player. It's my understanding. Not like having a Blu-ray player or a 3D player. You've got to have the TV. It's a TV. I'm 98% sure I'm right on that. Especially on this, it's optimized for 4K. So it will play on a regular Blu-ray player. But you only get 1080 instead of 4000. So, yeah. So, yeah, I'm not looking to upgrade my TV anytime soon. Because actually I'm going to wait for something else. So that was part 2. Really short. Part 3, this is hold on to your socks. This is where we kind of get really, really weird out there stuff that is not exactly ready yet. We're immediately going to go to 8K televisions. They're going to double it again. They are out there. You're not going to buy it in a store. It's going to cost you $20,000 sort of thing. But where 4K TV is 8.3 megapixels, this is 33.1 megapixels. This is probably better than your actual eyesight for most people. I mean, it is that clear. You are now looking not even through a window. You are looking at something but on your television screen. So, I think maybe I'll skip 4K and go directly to 8K. Is there any content for 8K? Not commercially. I mean, they've made some to show on these displays. I mean, you've got to make special cameras to do this stuff, too. So, if you've got to create new content. Just like with 3D. Yeah, exactly. So, another concept that does tie back to big data. The idea is that what every single thing in the world is uniquely identifiable and connected to the network. Right now we have things like RFID and NFC and Wi-Fi and QR codes. But, you know, this microphone is not really connected to the internet. It is just a thing that is connected to a computer that's connected to the internet. My watch is not actually connected to the internet because I have to go through my phone. Just, you know, the picture on the wall over to my right is somehow identifiable on the internet. What are we going to do with this? I have absolutely no idea. But, you can read very interesting articles on this concept. Just Google Internet of Things. And you will get people really like thinking 20 steps out of what you can possibly do with this stuff. All right. So, if you think Google Glass is not geeky enough, contact lens displays actually exist. Now, it's really hard to see. I'm going to bring my mouse pointer here. There's a little dot right there. Let's make sure we can see that. I'm kind of pointing at this little dot. That is a one pixel display. They have successfully made a LED, so LED embedded into a contact lens. What is it? What's it a picture of? Nothing. It's on or off. It's one dot. It's one pixel. You can't have a picture until you have many more. But they've gotten the first one. I'm telling you, this is out there stuff. No, I didn't. At this point, it would just annoy me and make me want to clean my contacts. Yes. But in the future. It's going to be a pixel across, but it serves as a good proof of concepts. So, forget the putting glasses on your face and having to look kind of up to see what's on that display. The idea is they would actually be able to display something directly onto a contact lens on your eyeball. Now, I'm joking, but this is true. My eyes water at eyedrop commercials. I will never wear contacts. All cool this is. I just can't do it. I don't even wear glasses at this point. Glasses I think I can handle. I just cannot envision putting something up against my eyeball. So, this is where now it's against the natural order of things when it comes to me anyways for this sort of technology. But, you know, hey, that's just me. Passwords. How many of you hate your passwords? Can't remember all of them. Well, in this case. Why do we have to change it every third 90 days? This is basically a gentleman displayed this the all things D conference recently and he excuse me the D 11 conference. That's a different concept. He was wearing a tattoo on his arm and take some sort of pill to make it work. I really don't understand this, but biometrics is like scan your eyeball scan your retina or scan your fingerprint. This is just like walk up and wave your arm against this thing and it proves you are you because only you would have this tattoo and taking the drug that goes with it. This is weird stuff. I've linked to all these articles. I barely am able to explain it. I just want you to know it exists. This one guy has basically tattooed and drugged himself into being his own password. We see. This is kind of interesting. You've obviously started to connect where the camera sees you and you move in front of the camera and it can tell what you're doing by the fact that it sees what you're doing. What this is is the fact that we already have Wi-Fi all around us which is radio. This guy set up a system so that by the fact that you're moving and disrupting the Wi-Fi signal by moving through it the computer can figure out what you're doing. No camera. It's just reading the disruptions in the Wi-Fi. You don't even need a camera or that little box, the leap motion thing. The Wi-Fi is already there so if we pay attention to how by your movements you're disrupting the Wi-Fi signal we can tell you since your movements. It was in nine gestures it was about 94% accurate. Limited use but they're kind of getting there because these signals are there. Why don't we actually use them? Project Lune. We're almost done. I've just got a couple more here. Project Lune was actually announced by Google just about two weeks ago now and what they are doing, they're testing this in New Zealand. They are putting up high altitude balloons to deliver Wi-Fi. Think weather balloons in the stratosphere. We are above flight path at this point. By putting up these balloons and you can actually control them to kind of go up and down in their movements just a little bit so they don't ever really stay in position but you can control them so they don't move out of position too much. Then there's a base station. The base station sends the signal up. It then retransmits the signal and the idea is that it's wide area Wi-Fi over poorly station areas but faster than satellite because satellites are even further up. Yeah, there's video. There's pictures. It's really interesting and Project Lune, Balloon, I think had something to do with it. We'll just go from there. I was wondering why Lune. Yeah, I think it's Balloon. Yes, also New Zealand and Lunes and Sinai but I think it's the Balloon thing. Project Balloon sounds silly, I guess. Okay. This is not Wi-Fi. This is Wi-Fi. This is wireless transmission of data using spectrum of light that we can't see out of your LED light bulbs. Okay. We have light bulbs up in the ceiling here. It's putting out light that we can see but they're also putting out light we can't see. Now these happen to be fluorescence, I think, but let's say they're LED bulbs, super efficient, very low power. Well, what these guys have been able to do is actually transmit data over that light using the bulb as kind of the receiver and the transmitter. Wow. Yeah. So forget radio. We're now transmitting via light, which we already do over fiber optics but that still uses little glass filaments to do it. This is actually kind of over the air transmission via light. Yeah. So, hey. Okay. Cell tower on your desk. Qualcomm is working on a little thing where right now when your cell phone to actually make a data or voice call you actually have to connect to a cell tower somewhere in town, usually not that far away, what this is would be a little device which is not quite a cell phone booster. You can buy devices that like in your house you have a cruddy signal so we're going to put this actually is a little mini cell phone tower that anybody within your distance could use to boost that signal instead of being specific to you. It's kind of cool. I think it would be a great thing to put in the library. I mean, you know, just to help people in town get better cell phone reception. Yeah, if you're in a dead zone or something Yeah, exactly. My house used to be a dead zone for years and I was unable to, you know, lots of people were switching, ditching their landlines and going cell phone only. I couldn't do it because I had to walk outside to use my cell phone. So it had to only be like for Oh, wow, right. But at some point somewhere Somebody put it in a tower somewhere. I knew it went up somewhere and suddenly poof, we have cell phone service in the house. Hey, alright. Okay, two more. So, we're in a different city over a distance. This point we are now into the realm of Nikola Tesla, which he did. I mean, yeah, I mean, good for him. So this is not exactly new. But the idea here is, and I guess the best example I can think of is electric car pull into your garage and it just wirelessly recharges instead of plugging it into the wall. You can kind of have direct so you kind of sink the two things and then charge over a distance. But they're also talking distances right now is centimeters to several meters. So you're not talking from the mountains to where did Tesla do it? Somewhere in the Rockies to not boulders, whatever. Anyway, we're not talking town to town. We're talking distance of several meters. But for millawatts to kill a lot. Basically the idea of just instead of setting your phone on a pad which is wireless charging but needs that connection, this is actually sending the electricity over the air. So, interesting concept. And the last one, which I just added Monday morning last week, I think to this, is the idea of transmitting data using you as the transmission source. So for example, if I wanted to say right now and I'll get to why in a second. Transmit something from my phone to my watch. Right now it does do that wirelessly but this concept would be I would touch my phone and the data would go from my watch to the phone through my hand. Okay? Think more security issues. Where you want the physical touch to confirm that you are actually there instead of over a distance. Again, game console is one of their examples they would have there. So, just again something to think about back to the security for just a second. Anytime you send something wirelessly, it's possible to intercept it. So if I wanted to transfer something securely from my watch to my phone I could just touch my phone and it would go through my hand. That's a patent from Microsoft that they just got so something to think about. So it looks like I have filled the hour that's how you can get ahold of me or you can use my email address here at the commission. Whoops, I forgot to change that. That URL will get you all the hyperlinks. Crystal will also be putting them in the show notes. They're already in the show notes so the archive comes up. You'll be able to find those and thank you. I'm done. Any other questions or comments? I hope at least at one point I blew your mind at least once. It just kind of went, huh? That's really all I wanted to do with this presentation. Julie says, super session, thanks for all the info. Oh, good, thank you Julie. Oh, and personal cell towers were in her newspaper today. Oh, hey, alright. Hey, if it's online, send me a link. I'd love to read the article. Or, you know, scan the newspaper article I suppose. Does anybody have any questions, comments, thoughts? Freakouts, you know. This one with a live audience is really interesting because I could watch people's faces kind of be doing the kind of what you did a couple of times. You're like, huh? Why would I do that? There was this one guy in the audience that just like, his head nodding and confusion got worse and worse throughout. I talked to him at the end. But yeah, he was just like, by the end he's just like, stop talking to me. This is too much. Julie Marla, different Julie from California says, wow. Yeah, great. And I could probably do this next week and have different stuff. Yeah, I was going to say, this is just some things and there's all sorts of new technology things coming out, so I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. It's job security. It's job security. Can you help them see if you could use them in your library? Some of them maybe not. Not everything, just like any new thing we've used like Twitter when it was new and Facebook. It doesn't always work for everyone, but you can see if it will. And at the minimum, knowing that these things exist is good for when your patrons come in and say, I've heard about blah, blah, blah. Can you help me find more information and you can at least go in and type in the thing and have some sort of a little knowledge or even knowing that there might be something new out there that I haven't heard of yet. Let's just type in what this person says and maybe they have heard of something that I haven't. And some of the stuff, especially towards the end, nothing may come of it. Microsoft got this patent. Great. Especially the further through the presentation we got, worry less. Just be aware. If it really comes to something commercial, you'll hear about it. Yeah. Doesn't look like any comments or questions or anything coming through right now. That's great. As Michael said, anything that he mentioned that has links with or in his links there, I've already been added into the commission's ones that are always put up when recording this up. This PowerPoint will be up there as well too, so you have that to refer to and the recording will be posted this afternoon, I don't know. Whenever it gets done processing. Thank you very much for joining us today. That will wrap it up for this morning. I hope you'll join us next week when we did just add this to the schedule. I've been working to try and get this presenter on and she finally picked a date and luckily it was in the upcoming dates this next week. What you should be subjecting your teams to the nonfiction switch. This is a library here, La Vista Public Library has at the their teams wanted to make a switch of moving from Dewey in their section to a more subject based classification system. So the Teen Advisory Board and the Teen Librarian, Lindsay Thompson up there worked on doing it. So she and another one of the members of their Teen Advisory Board, Sarah Creaver will be on the line with us. I'm not sure if that's Creaver or Creaver, but Sarah and Lindsay will be on the line with us next Wednesday to talk about how they did this and what's come of it and how it's going there up at the Teen Collection in La Vista Public Library. So hopefully you'll join us next week for that and if you are on Facebook and Compass Live is on Facebook too there we go, you can like us there and you'll get notifications of when we have new shows coming up when recordings are available reminders as you can see here there we go join us right now for the show we're doing so if you are a big Facebook user like us there and you'll get notified when we're doing things so that will wrap it up for today I don't see anything new coming in Julie sent us a link to the news article in the Rapid City Journal I will add that to the show notes thank you Julie, horizon cell phone customers in Johnson and I know it's just I can't read the URL but we'll put a link to it in the show notes for what she found so thank you very much for attending and we'll see you next week, bye bye