Virtualise yourself

Originally written to Satama Resarch Blog

In end of 1990’s one of the leading dotcom’s was Boo.com. One of their original business ideas was to create virtual models of yourself and thus be able to buy the clothes that woud exactly fit you. Moreover, it was targeted allow to you profile holders to try out these clothes in a virtual dress room. 1990s was all about internet via modems – thus no way of succeeding…

P2P to the next level

(Originally for Satama Research Blog)

Though the movie, software and record industries are fighting to gain control over ever growing P2P traffic there is no stopping of development in this phenomena. Few very interesting innovations are popping up in here:

1) The LamaBox

The LamaBox is an intelligent mediaplayer, connectable to the internet. The player is special because it’s fully integrated with the internet, including connection to the big Peer-to-Peer networks*. Choose from an impressive collection of audio and video. The latest movies and televisionshows, playable on your television at the press of a button. Watch live video- and audiostreams (with time-shifting), top-10 previews of movies in the theatre, the latest weather forecast or watch photo images from your digital camera and share these with friends and family.

Price: 300-500 euros, based on the size of the harddrive. Interested? Order yours online – if you dare

2) AllPeers – Firefox P2P extension

AllPeers is a free extension which combines the strength of Firefox and the efficiency of BitTorrent to transform your favorite browser into a media sharing powerhouse.

Price: free. Coming soon to your FireFox.

So what? Well, I would like to state with this kind of innovation, there is less and less doubt of the victory of P2P networks. Yet, there is the bandwidth challenge. If all would download all the time, would the networks sustain that? Good question. What do you think?