How a personal digital twin could help improve our health and make diagnosis and treatment of medical issues easier and more effective. And perhaps lead to the eventual development of a device like Star Trek’s tricorder for medical analysis. With a quick scan using a tiny handheld device, Doctor McCoy quickly identifies what is wrong…
Long before AI assistants, the first voice activated solution for changing channels on the TV was shouting at the youngest child in the family or the person sitting closest to the television screen. And while it may have little effect on the eventual outcome, shouting at the TV is still the couch supporters’ preferred tactic…
Three years ago today, I went into cardiac arrest. Fortunately, I was in the best place possible for this to happen: The Cardiac Care Unit (CCU) of my local hospital. I had been there for four days because a common-or-garden virus had attacked my heart. Apart from some worrying chest pains (are there any other…
I recently saw this cartoon on Facebook. At first it made me laugh, but then it made me angry. It made me angry because it kind of misses the point about electric vehicles and renewable energy, but at the same time hits right at the heart of the issue. The problem is that the electric…
Happy New Year and best wishes for 2018 from all of us at Pyramidion! 2017 was a year of change! From ‘The Donald’ becoming president of the USA to Twitter extending the length of tweets to 280 characters to reduce the number of tweets he posted. For Pyramidion, our biggest change was moving to the new…
Pyramidion has a new home. On 1st of October we moved out of the Boomgaardstraat, which had been our home for more than 15 years and moved into our new offices at Fosbury & Sons in the WATT (Working Apart, Thinking Together) building on the Mechelsesteenweg. Our full new address is Mechelsesteenweg 271, bus 1.1,…
What is the difference between a good product and a great one? What makes the mediocre, magical? These were some of the thoughts that ran through my mind during the Creativity World Forum 2017 in Aarhus, Denmark. As someone with a technical background, I appreciate function. I want it to work well, whether it is…
Marketing is transforming into an increasingly technical discipline. Especially since the advent of digital, having the ability to take a look under the proverbial hood has gone from a nice extra to a bare necessity for most marketers. Thankfully, a lot of great tools exist that help us do just this. But out of a rapidly…
Social media has grown dramatically since it’s early beginnings in the mid 2000’s. Today, social media has expanded to cover multiple types of content and applications and is being increasingly used by companies to engage with their customers 24/7. Why use social media for business? Social media for business is not just about getting your…
Unless you’ve been living under a rock lately, you’ve probably heard a thing or two about “fake news” and how we are living in a “post-truth society”. Now, there are several views to take and sides to choose when it comes to this phenomenon. For the sake of relevance and brevity, however, today we will only examine one…