[Fun project] Star Trek voice activator for Apple Siri
Ever since "Scotty" comically spoke into a Macintosh mouse trying to get the Mac to respond in Star Trek movie 4, I have been fantasising about getting Siri to work the exact same way.
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No "Hey Siri".
No tapping my Airpods in my ear.
No having to p...
Posted on May 12th, 2021
[Update] Deadbolt Anti ransomware
5th May 2021: We are nearing completion of the code for the first hardened version of the Deadbolt technology for 3rd party assessment.
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The technology is a modification of an operating systems kernel so that it does not load binaries (applications) t...
Posted on May 5th, 2021
[Update] Byron Shark project
5th May 2021: Just an update with the latest on the Shark mitigation project that I keep hammering away at over many years. After 4 years and early $90k in expense, the approach of using sonar for shark detection was dumped. Not because it didn't work ...
Posted on May 5th, 2021
It’s been a twisty twiny year. What for 2021? Predictions.
It's been a year of... let's be polite and say disruption. So whats next?
Here are some things to aim for this year. Even if one of them happens it will have been a good year for me but all the projects I talk about here are on the move. An end to ran...
Posted on December 19th, 2020
Are Biometrics a dead-end technology?
FaceID, thumbprints, Iris scans… they are all so convenient. Nothing to remember, always present and they work… most of the time. And they must be secure… well aren’t they?
Sad fact. Biometrics are getting hacked. And at an increasing rate. But aren’t...
Posted on November 1st, 2020
What is Ric doing Now...
18th May 2021
Ric is applying for an advisory role in the NSW identity working group for the Minister of Services.Ric is working with Industry Strategist Woody Buckner on an identity and privacy architecture for the future.Just about to publish the boo...
Posted on July 1st, 2020
Inventor
I've been an inventor my whole life but for the first 30 years I didn't know it... I just thought everyone invented stuff. It took me a long time to start calling myself an "Inventor". Every time I walked up to an immigration officer of some country I'...
Posted on June 17th, 2020
[Idea] A ‘fact checking’ browser concept
How about this for a timely idea. A web browser where every page on the web can be tagged with keywords and votes for experts to volunteer fact checking notes.
An icon at the top next to each page shows how much interest in the subject matter ie votes...
Posted on May 5th, 2020
why you should
Contact
I love hearing from people, so please email me at derek@sivers.org and introduce yourself.
Why? For two reasons:I love getting to know people around the world. (Many of my best friends and even great loves are people who I met when they emailed...
Posted on May 5th, 2020
Ric as CEO...
"As a CEO, I'm a really good Inventor :)"
This I learned after 12 years as CEO of Uniloc and trying to handle 50 employees and contractors at one stage. I'm just not cut out for the rough and tumble of hiring and firing and leading and cajoling...
Whe...
Posted on April 13th, 2020
Shark Detection experiment using LIDAR
After discussing my frustration with solving the shark problem for Byron Bay a fellow inventor Ted Bye (his LinkedIn page) suggested I have a look at LIDAR (see wikipedia). Research has begun and it looks promising. After a considerable but failed inve...
Posted on February 11th, 2020
Bush fire blanket project
The bush fire blanket project involves the use of robust but light fire resistant blankets of up to and over 100m square metres for the complete temporary coverage of homes threatened by fire as well as active fire fighting of grass fires and low bush ...
Posted on January 29th, 2020
Want to work with Ric?
Do you have a big problem you would really love to solve? Maybe you have the seed of an idea that could benefit your whole industry? An idea that is resisting your attempts to make it real?
A manuscript that’s collecting dust because you can’t get it...
Posted on December 1st, 2019
Australian Story guest
The television program called "Australian Story" is a very popular and culturally important TV show loved by most Australian's.
Amazingly, I've been the subject of two episodes of this classic Australian show. Not because I'm anyone special but mainly...
Posted on December 1st, 2019
Inventor Ric Richardson
Inventor, known for inventing software activation used by the worlds biggest software companies.
He’s also invented password-less logon systems for banks and large corporations.
InventionsUniloc (what started it all)Password killer (now a major comp...
Posted on October 27th, 2019
Haventec
I founded Haventec with good friend Tony Castagna after considering why we use public keys to secure all our web communications ie https) but then refuse to use it as a way of verifying the connected persons identity.
It was a mystery to me why peopl...
Posted on August 30th, 2019
Frank Zazza’s advertising blockchain
New York veteran advertising exec Frank Zazza asked me to help him work out how to link advertisers to consumers to basically stop click fraud and make online advertising conpanies more transparent and accountable.
Aug 2019- nearly ready to file.
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Posted on August 26th, 2019