Editorial

Crowd Control By Kirsten Nelson, February 26, 2010 As an image, the theater marquee has long represented one’s making it to the big-time. Countless movies, still photographs, and songs celebrate the glitz and glamour of seeing a name “in lights.” These twinkling icons of success More..
Step By Step By Kirsten Nelson, January 6, 2010 As the new calendar year begins midwinter, we are all looking for signs of spring. Not specifically the season welcomed with tulips and robins, but rather the advent of an economic recovery. The signs that trigger hopefulness More..
Picture Perfect By Kirsten Nelson, December 18, 2009 We’ve all had a good chuckle at the oversized electronics of the not-too distant past. Often, those self-coconscious giggles erupt when viewing films or TV shows from way back in the 1990s, the first decade where technology began More..
Mental Tune-Up By Kirsten Nelson, November 18, 2009 “Too much rock and roll” is one of the common refrains heard at crowded cocktail receptions, on busy trade show floors, or anyplace where members of the professional AV industry find themselves unable to hear properly.But one More..
Non-Stop Robot By Kirsten Nelson, November 4, 2009 In popular culture and in manufacturing the quiet efficiency of robots is a mainstay in the collective vision of the future. Working tirelessly in factories and potentially even helping out around the house someday, our robotic More..
Place Your Order By Kirsten Nelson, October 21, 2009 There are certain business transactions which continue to occur no matter what the state of the economy. The list of these is too varied and numerous to detail, and thus accountants, shopkeepers, and those who cherish archaic More..
Look Twice By Kirsten Nelson, August 17, 2009 History is littered with inventions that were ignored for their apparent insignificance, only to be “discovered” later by someone else, or else rescued from obscurity by an enterprising soul who couldn’t let a good idea gather More..
Turn It Up By Kirsten Nelson , June 22, 2009 Whenever you get in the car and start the engine, probably the very next thing you do is hurtle your hand toward the radio volume knob and turn it down. This is not always a consequence of aging, or the evidence of a conflict More..
Doctor's Orders By Kirsten Nelson, May 18, 2009 It's recently been speculated that music has a fountain of youth effect on listeners. Founded on the principles that came into being during the "classical music makes you smart" era a few years ago, further research has shown More..
Secret To Success By Kirsten Nelson, April 16, 2009 There’s a new coffee shop in my hometown which was once a greenhouse. This is fairly obvious even to those who never knew of its former life, because attached to the little rectangular building there is a huge plastic dome More..
Big Screen Heroes By Kirsten Nelson, April 15, 2009 Not too long ago, the death of movie theaters was widely reported. Ticket sales were way down and cinema conglomerates were desperately trying to rent out their empty venues for meetings and parties. Today, that trend has More..
A Question Of Tradeshow Scale March 3, 2009 What Reasons Lie Behind The Size Of InfoComm Asia?As the industry prepares for the Info- Comm Asia tradeshow in Hong Kong, it is all too easy to become distracted by statistics. There’s no doubt that, on paper at least, the More..
Nowhere Reacts Faster Than Asia March 3, 2009 Systems Innovation Is Born When Engineering And Marketing CombineI’ve spent a number of column inches eulogizing about the ability of the Asian AV marketplace to delight and inspire us with its courage, scale, and diversity. On More..
Beyond Presentation February 27, 2009 In the three years (well, almost) since the last Integrated Systems Asia exhibition took place in Singapore, something very significant has happened to the market for professional AV in this region. I can vividly remember walking More..
In It Together By Kirsten Nelson, February 26, 2009 It’s difficult to track the amount of headline- making controversy and even jobs being lost over social networking websites and the personal revelations made therein. Not too long ago, if you had a bad day at work, you’d go out More..

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