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Collaborating on Our Future

December 14, 2021 23:16 - 29 minutes - 40.3 MB

"Colorful" and "fun" aren't usually adjectives people apply to solving the problem of climate change. But Dr. Michelle Maranowski has made them applicable to The Tech Interactive Museum's largest new exhibit, "Solve for Earth" in San Jose. Michelle, who is The Tech's full-time Exhibit and Content Developer, spent five years creating "Solve for Earth". The exhibition comprises five thousand square feet, with fifteen different exhibits, and is designed to keep evolving. And it's all abo...

A New Future in Sight

December 06, 2021 08:01 - 22 minutes - 31.5 MB

THis post and podcast are for informational purposes only, and are not intended as medical advice. Please contact a medical professional with any health-related questions. (Photograph courtesy of GenSight BIologics, and used with permission.) What if someone blind for decades could regain some of their sight? That question's no longer hypothetical. Paris-based biotechnology company GenSight Biologics has now reported this exciting result in their current work--twice, and counting. Rece...

Robotics for Everyone

November 29, 2021 08:01 - 31 minutes - 43.2 MB

Over Coffee® is on Thanksgiving-week hiatus. Please enjoy this rebroadcast of one of our most popular episodes of 2021. "There's room for everybody," says iRobot STEM Program Manager Lisa Freed. She's talking about--coding a robot. And if you've never exactly seen yourself doing that , the programmable STEAM toy iRobot Root® might just change your mind. Because lifelong learning, technology in general, and fun, in particular, are at the core of Root In May, we had the honor of getting ...

“Genius” Every Day

November 22, 2021 18:31 - 33 minutes - 45.6 MB

Photo courtesy of Eileen Pottinger, and used with permission. For Eileen Pottinger, ingenuity is a daily occurrence. And it never fails to inspire her. That's because Eileen is not only a design educator, but the full-time Art and Innovation Lab teacher at Culver City Unified School District. And CCUSD is currently implementing an exciting project: their Art and Innovation Lab, for students! The Art and Innovation Lab is currently in its fledgling stages across the five schools in t...

“Building” Love for Robotics

November 15, 2021 00:45 - 22 minutes - 30.9 MB

How can a five-year-old program a robot? Very easily--as long as they're having fun. And that's exactly what San Diego-based educational startup Robolink has just made possible, with their new robotics kit, Buildy Bots! As Robolink CEO Hansol Hong explains in our current episode, Buildy Bots allow young creatives to build ten different robots. And then--without a computer screen--kids five to eight years old can use an ingenious "block" system to get their creations to move, light up and...

“Scary” Creative

November 05, 2021 18:57 - 15 minutes - 20.8 MB

Royalty-free image by Mayur Gadge from Pixabay Halloween--as in October 31, 2021--may be over. But for fans of horror, it never really ends. Our previous Over Coffee® episode, "Creatives at Halloween", explored creating scary experiences from a maker perspective.This week, for one more "scare" before we move on, we'll look at three other aspects of "scary" creativity. Interactivity, storytelling and the psychology of the scare are in the spotlight--courtesy of Fun Train VR CEO Douglas...

Creatives at Halloween

October 25, 2021 17:26 - 20 minutes - 27.6 MB

An Over Coffee® Halloween special Royalty-free image by Bany_MM from Pixabay Halloween, 2021, finds some venues opening as the pandemic numbers decline. But a number of us are still self-isolating. out of an abundance of caution. If you'd like your Halloween to be a "remote" fun one, here are three creative luminaries with ideas for you! Enjoy these insights from BL4KM4SS co-founder Reyna Velarde, legendary professional haunter Shar Mayer and maker/technologist/educator Mitchell Malp...

MATE’s New Depths

October 18, 2021 00:01 - 53 minutes - 73 MB

How do you re-imagine a project that's already highly innovative? That's exactly what the pandemic forced MATE ROV Competition Founder/President Jill Zande and her colleagues to do. And the result? A highly-successful global competition, with a new, VR component! Now, what is MATE? If you didn't get to hear our earlier interview, that's an acronym for "Marine Advanced Technology Education". The MATE Center, in Monterey, prepares America's future workforce for ocean-related careers. ...

Horror, Fun and Technology

October 11, 2021 16:50 - 24 minutes - 33.8 MB

This Halloween, BL4KM4SS Co-Founder Reyna Velarde may unsettle you. Or, she and her fellow creatives might outright scare you--in your own home. And it's all part of the fun, as BL4KM4SS brings interactive horror to their fans, virtually. Using Zoom, Discord and lots of talent, they'll make you a part of a scary-fun experience. But that's only one aspect of what they do, year-round. BL4KM4SS, pronounced "Black Mass", is a performance art theatre group. Their noir-style productions i...

Discovering the Magnificence

October 07, 2021 04:01 - 27 minutes - 38.4 MB

Sometimes, science can seem absolutely magical. For Logos Education Systems Senior Lead Consultant Henri Shimojyo, focusing on that magic is key. Henri, who will be presenting at both the upcoming STEPCon 21 and at the California STEAM Symposium, gears his teaching style to student discovery, sparking curiosity and imparting a sense of wonder. Teaching, for Henri, is a means of opening students' eyes to the exciting world around them. Rather than "teaching to the test", he engages ...

The Future’s Human Face

September 27, 2021 07:01 - 31 minutes - 42.6 MB

(Photograph courtesy of Dr. Fabienne Cap, and used with permission.) "I'm still as in love with this profession as I was on my first day. It's so cool," says Furhat Robotics Solutions Engineer Dr. Fabienne Cap. And what she's doing is especially so. Furhat Robotics have created the world's first social robotics and conversational systems platform. Their robots can actually make people forget they're talking to a machine! And there are several reasons why this happens. First, the Furha...

Space and Imagination

September 20, 2021 17:01 - 42 minutes - 58.8 MB

Due to a family emergency, we are reposting one of our most popular 2021 episodes. Please enjoy this rebroadcast and we'll look forward to resuming our current episodes next week. Quick! Who was your favorite teacher in high school? If you ask middle-school students in Milton, Georgia, a lot of them might answer, "Mr. Jones". That's because Steve Jones, The Space Teacher, is all about learning by exploring and experimenting. Steve, who teaches STEAM at Hopewell Middle School in Milton...

Ingenuity Beyond Imagination

September 13, 2021 10:01 - 15 minutes - 21.4 MB

The first black-and-white image from NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, April 19, 2021. (Photo courtesy of NASA/JPL, and used with permission.) This podcast and blog are not, in any way, affiliated with, nor endorsed by, NASA nor the Jet Propulsion Lab. For NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, the original plan was, simply, a technology demonstration. NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Robotics Technologist Gerik Kubiak and his colleagues created the four-pound helicopter for an experimental t...

Staying Healthy in Space

September 06, 2021 09:01 - 21 minutes - 29.7 MB

This post and podcast are for informational purposes only, and are not intended as medical advice. Please contact a healthcare professional with any medical questions. Photo courtesy of Cooper and O'Hara Photography, and used with permission. Like her fellow medical professionals, Dr. Shawna Pandya is focused on keeping patients healthy. Unlike many of her colleagues, though, she has to take space dust, zero gravity and radiation into account. And as she practices space medicine, she's...

Engineering “Life-Changing”

August 28, 2021 01:10 - 25 minutes - 35.6 MB

This post and podcast are for informational purposes only, and are not intended as medical advice. Please contact a healthcare professional with any medical questions. "Every single person that walks in the (exoskeleton) is the best experience," says Wandercraft Co-Founder and CEO Jean-Louis Constanza. Paris-based medical device company Wandercraft has developed the world's most advanced robotic exoskeleton, or "exo". Called "Atalante", the exo is self-balancing, designed to emulate a r...

Creativity and Your Brain

August 18, 2021 02:50 - 31 minutes - 43.7 MB

This podcast and post are for informational purposes, and are not intended as medical advice. Please contact your medical professional with any clinical questions. (Photograph courtesy of Jason Voinov, and used with permission.) Your brain and your creativity are static, right? What you were born with, is the best you'll ever have. Not true, says cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Julie Fratantoni. As Head of Operations for The BrainHealth Project, Dr. Fratantoni leads a team of resear...

Learning By Hologram

August 13, 2021 20:14 - 22 minutes - 30.5 MB

When Perception Founder/CEO Dr. Sirisilp Kongsilp first saw VR, he was fascinated. And it started him thinking of ways to create something new. Today Dr. Kongsilp, or Rabbit, as he prefers to be called (that's what his name means) has just entered into an exciting new partnership, that will benefit students worldwide. And he and his team will be creating new, free resources for educators! What Rabbit and his team came up with was desktop AR. This is a plugin to Unity Technologies' pl...

“A Springboard to the Future”

August 02, 2021 07:07 - 35 minutes - 48.1 MB

(Royalty-free image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay.) How do you make the future your own? Especially with technology radically transforming the workplace? That's exactly what bestselling authors Cathy Hackl and John Buzzell cover in their new book, "The Augmented Workforce: How AI, AR and 5G Will Impact Every Dollar You Make". And their goal: to provide a guide for those of us that don't consider ourselves tech-savvy.   If you don't care about "how many pixels" or "why does it work", but w...

Playful Exploration = Learning

July 26, 2021 07:01 - 37 minutes - 51.9 MB

Learning about the world by making things and experimenting?  Playfully combining art. science and technology to make some incredibly cool stuff?  Crafting both educational experiences and interactive art? That's exactly what Los Angeles-based design studio Wonderful Idea Co. is all about. And so is A Tinkering World Tour, their popular online hands-on workshop, which premiered in April!  Currently, Season Two of A Tinkering World Tour is in the funding stage on Indiegogo. And when Season...

The Futurist and Her Music

July 18, 2021 07:01 - 31 minutes - 43.5 MB

When it comes to a great time, futurist Celeste Lear is a triple threat. Not only is she a musician/performer: she’s a VR/Virtual event producer, 3D artist as well as a professional DJ of 13+ years.  So far, Celeste has released five albums and ten singles of her original music. And she’s taking her gifts to the metaverse. “DJ Celeste” as she’s known, is one of the first of a new wave of futuristic DJs to build 3D modeled nightclub and festival venues and perform as an avatar in virtual r...

Next Stop: The Moon

July 12, 2021 07:01 - 21 minutes - 29.3 MB

An Over Coffee® special-edition podcast (Graphic courtesy of NASA, and used with permission.) As the world applauds Sir Richard Branson's successful flight aboard his own spaceship, NASA continues exciting work on another front.  For the NASA Artemis mission, the first step is to return humans to the Moon. Colonizing the Moon comes next.  Along with exploring the surface--while looking forward, possibly, to future Mars flights. As NASA Mission Design and Planetary Science specialist Matt...

Capturing Worlds in 360

July 05, 2021 07:01 - 33 minutes - 46.1 MB

You enter a workplace.  You've never been here before.  But you know exactly what to do--and you execute the tasks competently. This is one of the goals of Bit Space Development.  They're an interactive digital media studio, based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. And their mission says their goal is to build "the best, most innovative and creative interactive learning experiences we possibly can". Bit Space Development Owner/CEO Dan Blair created his startup in 2015.  Since then, Dan, who describes...

Zappar: A Sense of Wonder

June 30, 2021 17:43 - 32 minutes - 44.6 MB

    "So much awesomeness out there," says Zappar CEO and Co-Founder Caspar Thykier. And he and his team are simultaneously adding to that awesomeness--and democratizing it. With their recent project, LEGO® Mythica, London-based augmented reality/creative studio Zappar was instrumental in creating  the first amusement-park experience of its kind. Visitors to LEGOLAND® Windsor get to visit different "portals" through augmented reality.    LEGO® statues come to life in augmented reality.  ...

UgoVirtual: Hybrid Creativity

June 21, 2021 07:15 - 37 minutes - 51.9 MB

"It can't just be because it's cool," says UgoVirtual CEO and Co-Founder Michael Cohen.  "It's got to be effective." He's talking about what works--and what doesn't--for hybrid events. Focusing on the human experience, Michael explains, is key to engagement.  That applies to real-world use of XR for conferences, seminars, job training and much more, And if you're creating a conference, festival, workshop or other onsite event, there are ways virtual, augmented or mixed reality can help ke...

Technodramatists: XR Alchemy

June 14, 2021 07:01 - 31 minutes - 42.9 MB

You're watching a live performance.  Suddenly, one actor becomes twelve.   Animated rain begins falling.  Colorful virtual sparks fly from a saxophonist's instrument. And it's all part of the magic of Technodramatists. Founded in 2018, New York-based Technodramatists is an innovative live-entertainment company.  Their shows incorporate emerging technologies, including AR and motion capture.  Virtual props, characters, effects and costumes can all be included in the experience. These are a...

Components of (XR) Magic

June 07, 2021 07:01 - 29 minutes - 40.3 MB

Over Coffee® is on hiatus this week, due to our attendance at the VRARA Global Summit Online. In honor of the summit, here's a special-edition rebroadcast of one of our favorite episodes of 2021, starring Antonia Forster of Unity Technologies. "I would say that the most important learning I've had, is not specific to XR," says Unity Technologies Senior Advocate and XR Technical Specialist for Industry Antonia Forster. And that creative lesson is, in fact, a crucial one.  It's also applicab...

Next Steps of Innovation

May 31, 2021 22:33 - 26 minutes - 36.4 MB

(Photo courtesy of Cybera, and used with permission.) Merging Realities 2021 is just about to happen. Hosted by Lethbridge College, in Alberta, Canada, this free annual virtual conference is a groundbreaker. Speakers explore the latest developments in the virtual and augmented-reality fields. This year's conference, themed "Impact", will showcase different aspects of the use of these technologies in daily life. "(VR is) not just for gaming. It has many applications,"says Lethbridge Colle...

XR’s Time to Shine

May 25, 2021 17:51 - 39 minutes - 54.1 MB

As the VR/AR Global Summit Online is just about to demonstrate, now is an exciting time for XR.  From Wednesday, June 2nd through Friday, June 4th, speakers from all over the world will explore new applications of augmented, virtual and extended reality.   And there's never been a time when immersive technology is more relevant to daily life.   Even as the pandemic ebbs, both consumers and businesses are using VR, AR and extended reality--XR--in new ways. Accordingly, this summer's all-vir...

The Tech: A Spirit of Innovation

May 17, 2021 21:48 - 36 minutes - 49.4 MB

  "Everybody is an innovator," says The Tech Interactive President and CEO Katrina Stevens. And she and her staff have been living that statement. Since 1998, San Jose's STEAM-oriented science center, The Tech Interactive, has been introducing small visitors--and tall ones!--to science and engineering concepts.   These activities are fun- and exploration-oriented.  Often, visitors to The Tech don't even realize how much they're learning. But with 2020, Katrina, and her staff, faced a uni...

Imagination, Passion and Robotics

May 10, 2021 22:39 - 33 minutes - 46 MB

Programming a robot, and "fun", were once two unrelated concepts. iRobot's Root® Coding Robot brings them together. Root® teaches coding by engaging the imagination of students, "ages 4 to 99".   Interacting with the robot, they may not realize just how much they're learning. They're busy playing  games, getting the robot to draw, write, climb, make music, and a host of other beginner-friendly coding activities. "Students need to be exposed to (STEM in elementary school), even pre-K," sa...

Tetavi: A Sense of Presence

May 03, 2021 07:01 - 27 minutes - 37.7 MB

3D holographic video used to be the stuff of science fiction. So did the concept of having it platform-agnostic.  And so did the idea of interactive holograms. Today, thanks to Israel-based Tetavi, all of these have become a reality.  And the technology continues to evolve, to something even more exciting for content creators. Tetavi, founded in 2016,has created breakthrough technology which allows users to create and share 3D holographic content for both AR and VR.   Performers, storytel...

Robotics, No Limits

April 27, 2021 19:38 - 29 minutes - 40.9 MB

  "Success for anybody looks (different)," says Unified Robotics creator Delaney Foster. And since 2015, her first-of-its kind robotics program has allowed students of all abilities to explore their personal definitions of success. As a high-school student, Delaney had discovered her passion for robotics through First Robotics competitions.  But these opportunities weren't available to her sister, who has autism.  Nor were her sister's friends able to compete in the robotics-team events. ...

Starting Point: The Moon

April 19, 2021 07:01 - 24 minutes - 33.8 MB

(Graphic courtesy of NASA, and used with permission.) NASA's current work on its Artemis lunar exploration program may seem like the stuff of science fiction. Which makes it that much more mind-blowing. Plans and preparations continue for the multiple-mission project, designed to return humans to the Moon within the next few years.   But rather than a final objective, that return will be the beginning of more far-reaching research. Currently, NASA is at work on the Gateway: a lunar outpo...

GBE: Cultivating Initiative

April 12, 2021 07:01 - 30 minutes - 41.2 MB

What if YOUR science class could provide valuable data to NASA? What if they could research new areas--with no "textbook" answers?  And, what if students' ultimate discoveries could benefit astronauts aboard the International Space Station? That's exactly the opportunity which Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden's Director of Education Amy Padolf has implemented, with Fairchild's innovative "Growing Beyond Earth" project. Operating in partnership with NASA, this classroom-based citizen scie...

The Wild: VR Travel, Plus

April 05, 2021 21:25 - 26 minutes - 37 MB

Over Coffee® is on Easter-week hiatus!  Please enjoy this update of one of our favorite VR episodes of 2020 as we look forward to the second annual VRARA Global Summit, in June, 2021! (Photo courtesy of The Wild, and used with permission.) Maybe you can't physically travel, right now.  But with The Wild's virtual and extended reality, you can go anywhere. And once you're there, you can play, collaborate and even host a party! In June, 2020 The Wild Founder/CEO Gabe Paez gave a keynote, "T...

MetaVRse: XR Magic

March 30, 2021 01:53 - 30 minutes - 41.9 MB

  "We've really tried to design this, so it's not just for hard-core coders," says MetaVRse Co-Founder Alan Smithson. He's talking about the MetaVRse 3D content creation engine.  Designed by Alan and his wife and company co-founder Julie (who is Chair of XRWomen.com), this web-based platform enables anyone to design interactive 3D experiences. No code is necessary, and the MetaVRse engine has both free and paid accounts available. The MetaVRse engine, meanwhile, is a means to accomplishi...

Our XR World to Come

March 22, 2021 20:27 - 32 minutes - 44.8 MB

"Does the pandemic mean the death of the office?  No, of course not," says futurist, author and XR consultant Charlie Fink.  But he does foresee a world where we work, learn and play remotely, much more extensively than we did before the pandemic. In his new book, Remote Collaboration, Virtual Conferences and the Future of Work, Charlie offers a comprehensive look at current VR and AR applications we can use today. A number of them are free or low-cost.  Some are XR--or extended reality--c...

Virtually Remarkable

March 15, 2021 07:01 - 29 minutes - 40.4 MB

You have to plan a virtual event.  You want it to be fun, memorable and relatable.  AND, you have to compete with what's going on with everyone's lives as we all connect remotely. Sean Specie, Chief Strategy Officer of Alpharetta, Georgia-based Elevate Experiences, can tell you exactly how to make it remarkable. That's because Sean is both an event planner and an emcee.  He loves what he's doing.  And like many other events professionals, he's had to pivot, with the past year's pandemic. ...

Looking Back, Looking Forward

March 08, 2021 18:09 - 24 minutes - 33.7 MB

An Over Coffee® special-edition podcast In March, 2020, futurist, author, XR consultant, educator and speaker Charlie Fink was researching his third book. The coronavirus pandemic had taken hold.   Beyond the devastation of the virus itself, unpredictable changes were taking place, worldwide, in almost every aspect of life, work and education. At the time, we talked about some of these changes and where Charlie saw them going.   Charlie cautioned that no one could predict what would happe...

Space (Classroom) Exploration

March 01, 2021 16:37 - 42 minutes - 58.8 MB

Have you ever done a science experiment? "Sure," is the most likely response, from anyone, to that question. But if we were to define "experiment" as Steve Jones, "The Space Teacher" does, the answer would be "no".   Steve, who teaches STEAM at Hopewell Middle School in Milton, Georgia, is a lifelong space-science enthusiast.  He is both a NASA Solar System Ambassador and freelance Principal Investigator for experiential STEM learning organization Magnitude.io. What that translates to, i...

Empowering With XR

February 24, 2021 05:17 - 31 minutes - 43.6 MB

"XR...is for everyone," says Unity Technologies XR Technical Specialist Antonia Forster. And she can show you how to use it to create something amazing.  You don't have to spend a lot of money. And, you don't have to know how to code! That's because Unity, the leading platform for creating immersive content, is highly accessible.  They offer free downloads to individuals, and have a number of free tutorials and educational events.s Now, just in case you're unfamiliar with it--what is XR, ...

STEAM for Valentine’s Day

February 13, 2021 05:55 - 40 minutes - 56.3 MB

An Over Coffee® Valentine special Flowers and candy are great, for Valentine's Day.  But how about something more creative--and more long-lasting? Here is a rebroadcast of our 2018 special panel, recorded with three maker/educators.  We went live onsite from Pipe & Thimble Bookstore, in Lomita, and talked about STEAM and creating Valentine gifts and projects for the kids (and big kids) in our lives. Panelists were Masterful Creations STEAM Academy founder Mitchell Malpartida (far right), P...

Desktop AR For Your Life

February 08, 2021 08:01 - 25 minutes - 34.5 MB

"I just want to share the coolness of desktop AR," says Perception Founder/CEO Rabbit--a/k/a Dr. Sirisilp Kongsilp. And that's exactly what he and his team at Bangkok-based startup are doing. They've come up with a desktop augmented reality plugin, Holo SDK, which works without a special headset.  They also provide a developer kit with free tutorials on how to create desktop AR. And much more is coming.  Currently in beta, the Holo-SDK plugin is part of a much larger vision. Rabbit, who ...

A Sense of Wonder

February 01, 2021 21:26 - 32 minutes - 44.9 MB

  "Everyone is an artist.  Everyone is a scientist," says Saddleback College Dance Department chair Deidre Cavazzi. Her work reflects that interconnectivity. Deidre is a choreographer, dancer and Founder/Artistic Director of Orange County-based modern dance company Architexture Dance. And she is also a marine scientist, multimedia creator, photographer and general creative researcher.  Her passion for exploring the connections between science and art have led to some highly intriguing cr...

Taking AI-m At Mosquitoes

January 28, 2021 04:36 - 21 minutes - 29.5 MB

Ben Resnick displays Bzigo at Eureka Park™ during CES® 2020, Las Vegas. We remember summers on the East Coast. Sun-soaked days, blooming roses, fireflies.  Plus itchy, fiery mosquito bites that lasted for weeks.   But we had the "easy" part. According to the World Health Organization, malaria led to more than 400,000 deaths, globally, in 2019.   Many of the victims were children under the age of five. Israel-based startup Bzigo is preparing to attack the mosquito problem with artificial ...

Time, Space and Learning

January 18, 2021 08:01 - 26 minutes - 35.7 MB

(Royalty-free image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay.) Remember some of your toughest subjects in school? What if you'd had a personal AI tutor, to help you learn them?  And what if that tutor had been able to spot your weakest areas, and tell you when you were forgetting concepts? That's exactly what Magma Learning Founder/CEO Maxime Gabella has now made possible.   Maxime. who is both a theoretical physicist and an artist (he has a Ph.D. in string theory and a fine-arts/philosophy backgrou...

Bringing Another Classic to Life–in 360

January 11, 2021 08:01 - 26 minutes - 35.7 MB

"At some point in everyone's life, they've (played Tarzan)." says filmmaker and Fun Train VR Founder/CEO Douglas Nabors. He's explaining how he and his team came to decide on their second VR project, Tarzan VR™, released in December, 2020. In 2017, Fun Train VR had their hit first release, The Exorcist: Legion VR.   While the classic horror title garnered rave reviews, Douglas says Fun Train VR is producing various other genres as virtual-reality experiences. Tarzan VR™, based on the Edga...

Winning–for the Environment

January 04, 2021 08:01 - 9 minutes - 13.6 MB

Over Coffee® is on holiday hiatus.  Please enjoy this reposting of one of our top episodes of 2020, as we count down to CES® 2021! CES® will look vastly different, this year. The pandemic has forced the show to go all-virtual.  But we predict that the show will maintain its mix of pure innovation, creativity and excitement. Exactly as we observed when we met Pleasant Robotics Founder/CEO Gabriella Pleasant. At the time of our conversation, in Las Vegas in January, 2020, Gabriella, or Gabi...

HYPERVSN: The “Wow” Factor

December 28, 2020 08:01 - 27 minutes - 38.3 MB

Over Coffee® is on holiday hiatus.  Please enjoy this reposting of one of our most popular episodes of 2020, and we'll see you as CES® 2021 goes virtual! HYPERVSN USA Regional Director Ed Teller(Photo courtesy of HYPERVSN, nad used with permission.) HYPERVSN has a tendency to wow anyone who sees it. Just ask Ed Teller, who is USA Regional Director for the London-based company.   Upon his introduction to the technology, Ed says he couldn't stop looking at it! So, what is HYPERVSN?  The wor...

Restructuring Travel–Digitally

December 21, 2020 22:00 - 25 minutes - 35.4 MB

Over Coffee® is on Christmas hiatus.  Please enjoy this rebroadcast of one of our top podcasts of 2020, and we'll see you in the New Year! (Photograph courtesy of The Wild, and used with permission.)   Suppose you needed to present a special creative project in another city. Even without considering the current pandemic, you would still have to deal with: reservations, check-in, luggage, delays, possible jet lag, potential mix-ups... What if, instead, you could simply offer your project ...

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