Tim Ferriss sent a message on Twitter earlier today about an online service that allows you to analyze, in real time, whether or not the person you are talking to on the phone is telling the truth or is nervous for one reason or other.

LiarCard.com calling cards, is the software that is used on the hit TV show “MTV Exposed”. So, I would presume it is the real deal. I happened to have seen that show on MTV and it seems to work. The system has a unique technology which detects the emotional content of speech patterns and reveals lies and emotional makeup of the person on the other end of your phone calls.

LiarCard is accessible from any phone.
With lie detection so easy and affordable, it wil be increasingly difficult to lie when doing business on the phone.

Let’s say, I call you and I ask you: “Are you using the liar card on me?”

If you are using it, you can’t lie to me because I am also using it, so I know whether or not you are using it. And,if you ask me the same question, I can’t lie either.

Now, with both sides monitoring the other side, everybody has to be honest, or else,develop skills worthy of the best secret agents.

More and more, it seems that a new way of doing business is emerging. We hear words like “transparency”, “reciprocity”, “karma”, “law of attraction”. All these point towards more honesty and less game playing in business.

I, for one,welcomes this new trend where business is less of a war zone and more of a collaborative arena.

Still, you have to know if the other person is willing to play the “collaborative” game or the “war” game. In the words of the last President of the USSR, Gorbachev: “Trust but verify.” . . . 

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For the past couple of years, an unknown brand has made quite a stir in the cheap video camera market. The Flip video camera is super simple to use. Just press the big red button to start recording and press it again to stop. Then, you simply press to pop out a USB plug which flips out off the side of the camera (hence the name flip) and you are ready to download to your PC or laptop. From there, it’s a cinch to upload to the Web.

This little portable camera, that fits in your shirt pocket, has popularized the use of video on blogs and online marketers just love it to get video testimonials to put on their websites.

The Flip is made by a company called Pure Digital and, according to folklore, started out by making a cheap $29 disposable video camera designed for quick download to a PC.  Somewhere along the line, a hacker found a way to reuse the camera over and over. Pure Digital was smart enough to realize that there was a market for a cheap camera and repackaged it into a sturdier and better camera along with more memory capacity and named it “The Flip“.

Now, it seems that Cisco, flipped over that camera and the company to the tune of $590 million.

Cisco is not a household name, they make sexy products like switches and routers but, in order to gain access into the very lucrative market of home electroncs, it has quietly bought companies in the past few years such as Scientific Atlanta, which makes a lot of cable TV boxes.

Now, Cisco has big plans: Why a laptop when you can upload directly from the camera to the web by way of WiFi or 4G wireless ?

Cisco wants to use its expertise in wireless technology to wirelessly connect all knds of small electronics appliances.

For example, you could connect your smart phone or PDA to your printer wirelessly. Scan a document and upload it to your cell phone. Download videos from your Flip cam to a DVD burner. Have all those peripherals work wthout the need of a PC. In fact, Cisco is working on a home storage center for various media such as photos, videos and audio.

With their acquisition of Scientific Atlanta, they have the technology to produce the next Tivo style recorder, which is in fact a PC in disguise. 

How do you see the future of home entertainment, video and the web ?

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As you may know, I have shown some interest in trains, more particularly maglev trains, as per a previous post.

Here is an article I found.

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574.8kph (356 mph). The previous TGV record was 515kph (320mph), set in 1990. The absolute train speed record was set by a Japanese magnetic levitation train is 581km/h (361mph) set in 2003.

See a video of the train here

That is fast! Faster than most single propeller planes such as the cessna 421 which has a top speed of 478/kph (297 mph) and within reach of some jets flying at around 600 kph (373 mph).

Fast trains are a viable alternative to flying. They require a lot less security checks and train stations are usually located downtown, not 50 miles out in the burbs. Any flights of less than 3 hours can be advantageously substituted by a ride on a TGV.

The only speed limitation for trains seems to be the stability of the tracks and wind resistance. Maglev trains have even less of a limitation with the track since they hover above it. Air resistance is the main culprit here, that is why jets fly at high altitude where the air is thinner.

In the future, we may use rapid trains for short distances, supersonic jets for cross continental flights (NY-LA) and hypersonic planes for intercontinental flights such as New-York to Tokyo in about an hour.

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