Reduce time-gap between innovations

BANGALORE, INDIA: Dr. Sudhir Dixit, Director, HP Labs, seems to be a little bit concerned about the huge time gap between innovations. He, while speaking at a session at EmTech 2010 here today, emphasized on the need to bridge that time gap.

Elaborating on this, he gave the example of mouse and keyboard, which was invented around 45-35 years ago, but the next level of innovation of touch came just a few years ago.

Another concern he raised was, out of the 500 million users of cellphones in the country, around 50 million was the users of PCs. He attributed the penetration of the PC in the country compared to the cellphones and television to the low value proposition of the product and the complexity of the mouse and keyboards.

Sudhir started the special session on Innovation for the next billion with a small brief on HP Labs, the corporate research lab of the company with seven location including the latest in Singapore.

He said, “The Bangalore center, with its focus area of rich and intuitive user experience, works at bringing ideas for the one billion customers, and in order to follow that mission it has been following four themes at work, namely simplifying physical interaction, enabling web tasks, delivering personalized information and media and lastly leveraging familiarity and ubiquity of paper.

He said that the next generation innovation should focus on making the human computer interaction as seamless and easy.