Cool Tech - Back Lighting

I was on stage at my church on Wednesday night. I noticed that we have lights positioned just in front of fabric sheets at the back of the stage. The lights, which are made up of probably 50 to 100 bulbs, change colors and light up the fabric panels behind them. It really cool to watch the effect. I'm going to talk with our technicians to get some more details, but just watching the lights work produces an always changing, almost never ending background on stage. It's pretty cool to watch!

Great Tech - Wrinkle Free Living

I really like simple technology that has a certain, WOW, to it. I was amused by my wrinkle free dress shirts this week. You might be asking yourself, "What does a dress shirt have to do with technology?" It's really simple. Someone recognized a problem with needing to iron or press all those dress shirts that men and women wear to work. The idea that a shirt (blend cotton and polyester - another great tech product) could be 'wrinkle free' just seemed too good to be true. The reality is that a wrinkle free shirt really is in all respects wrinkle free. You have to follow the laundering instructions to get the right result. Truly this is great technology!

Separating the Work from the Play

I recently opened a new blog on Wordpress.com to talk specifically about continuous process improvement. I want to keep the fun technology posts separated from the more business like posts related to process improvement. If you read the blog for process improvement, there will be a link on the right side of the page to the new blog.

A Bad Weekend for Retro-Tech

Like so many things in modern life, retro-tech took a beating this weekend. We have an air handler which houses a set of cooling coils. Come to find out, when the system is low on freon, the A/C stops working! The coils freeze up and the fan stops moving air altogether. Thank goodness for friends in the business who get you back to 78 degrees in Miami during the late spring.