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"Mobile video is shaky by definition," says Norman Winarsky, VP at SRI Ventures, part of Silcon Valley-based SRI International, a nonprofit performing sponsored R&D for governments, foundations and businesses. "A shaky image affects bandwidth and reduces the experience," he explains.

But with the technology Google has licensed from SRI, image stabilization will no longer be a concern ... at least on Android. Google is implementing the SRI tech in its Google Talk application, to deliver better video on Android 3.0+ devices. And that may be only the beginning of Google's computer vision plans.

Right about now, Rise of the Machines, a conference taking place in London on the Internet of Things, is about halfway over. Earlier today, one of the speakers, David Orban, sat down with another speaker, David Wood, for a five minute talk about the current state of IoT. As the conferences progresses, we'll post more interviews by Orban with other key players who are at the event.

If you like your Internet rammed into things - lighting systems, automobiles, art, books, crookedneck squash - you'll light-up like a Japanese robot when you lurch into the mashup Internet of Things conference in London.

To refer to the conference by its full name (my hand to God), "Internet of things: Rise of the machines" takes place off the Strand at the headquarters of the British Computer Society on Southampton Street. It runs from May 4 through May 6, from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.