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I started my technology quest many years ago in search of replacing a circular slide rule. Now, I think I spend more time considering the impact of technology on the world around me.  So let’s take on three distinct problems that many people have and see what technology has delivered recently that helps solve the problems.

Thre three problems

  • Capturing audio during a meeting
  • During web meeting images of who is talking
  • Multi-language conference calls

Capturing audio is easy. There have been voice recorders available for the past 40 plus years. You press record and the devices records to tape or a flash drive. There have been solutions in that space for a long time. Now the Senstone product has been released. What is Sunstone? It is a voice recorder that also supports automated conversion to digital documents. You can do this with a standard voice recording and Dragon Naturally speaking. But Senstone is an all in one system that literally can be worn by a user. It is small and works well. Dragon is better at overall voice conversion to digital text, but Dragon operates son your pc it has more power!

Capturing whiteboards just got a lot easier. Now there are two ways this can happen. One is the use of an interactive digital wall (Microsoft and many other companies sell one.) these interactive digital walls run between 6000 and 10000 dollars, so they are not a choice for most of us. Rocketbook has created a product called Beacon. It lets you put the Beacons on the four corners of the whiteboard using your cell phone converting that into a digital (editable) image!

The last tech improvement is the online- transition meeting room or web meeting. There are some products coming, so I won’t mention them, but now you can quickly use your translation device to capture live audio and translate it.

All three of these items do have a cost, but they are significantly less than the more traditional “business” systems.

I hope this helps!

  • Question of

    Do you ever need to record meetings and then share the notes?

    • Yes
    • No
  • Question of

    Analog to digital should be easy right?

    • Yes
    • No
  • Question of

    All three of these products are below 100 dollars is that a good number?

    • Yes
    • No
  • Question of

    would you prefer tech categories? less than 100 dollars?

    • Yes
    • No
  • Question of

    Less than 50 dollars?

    • Yes
    • No

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Written by DocAndersen

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34 Comments

  1. Technology has solved a lot of problems as well as created lots of problems. But it’s not the technology. It’s the people using it. Thank goodness there are people who use technology for the greater good.

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  2. Rarely take part in web meetings & online conferences, but can imagine what benefits arise from the use of of an interactive digital wall & similar technologies. Adore your set of technological articles = step by step to our nearest future!!!

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  3. Q: Do you ever need to record meetings and then share the notes?
    Yes (2 votes) – 22%
    No (7 votes) – 78%
    Q: Analog to digital should be easy right?
    Yes (8 votes) – 100%
    Q: All three of these products are below 100 dollars is that a good number?
    Yes (6 votes) – 100%
    Q: would you prefer tech categories? less than 100 dollars?
    Yes (7 votes) – 100%
    Q: Less than 50 dollars?
    Yes (6 votes) – 86%
    No (1 votes) – 14%

  4. No meetings here, except with the Dude and Brendel reminding them to play nice. And to be quiet when I am photographing the birds. They like talking too much. Seriously!

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  5. Well, I wish everything was very affordable and I also wish that I had a money tree that grew $100.00 in a planter in my house. Until that happens I would guess they are giving a fair price. I have come to love my rocketbook.

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    • I use Rocketbooks whiteboards and notebooks every day. I have been playing with their new beacon product (for existing whiteboards) as well.

      The money tree idea is one I have thought about as well. I as well wish I had a 100 dollar money tree in the house!

  6. Interesting to know about this technology. Right now I wish I had technology of some kind to help me with my online writing otherwise I won’t make a cent. I have been accepted by two teams of writers. The problem? One gives assignments like having to write in Aussie English which I know nothing about and I have to get an article written by some time tomorrow about being a good DJ, in other words, I am writing purely for getting much-needed income but with no a clue what I am really writing about. SIGH

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