Emerging Technology

What 35+ Years at IBS/KBIS Taught Me About the Importance of Showing Up

After 35+ years at IBS/KBIS, Steve Hanson shares how trade shows, digital transformation, and the power of showing up continue to shape the building products industry.

After 35+ years at IBS/KBIS, Steve Hanson shares how trade shows, digital transformation, and the power of showing up continue to shape the building products industry.

How Codacy Helps Hanson’s Development Team Up Their Game

Learn how automated code scanning with Codacy improves security, code quality, and long‑term maintainability for modern web development.

Human-Centered Innovation: How Great Lakes AI Week Is Shaping Our AI Journey

Hanson reflects on insights from Great Lakes AI Week—highlighting responsible, human-centered innovation and how AI can elevate work, creativity and value.

Mobile Vision, Part 3: Image Recognition

In part three of our series on mobile vision, Director of Mobile and Emerging Technologies Josh Jacob details image recognition.

The future of Augmented Reality for selling complex products

The Treehouse is the blog of Hanson Inc., a digital agency in Toledo, Ohio.

Why manufacturers need to take a serious look at Augmented Reality

5 reasons why now is the time for manufacturers to invest in augmented reality to help mitigate barriers to purchase.

Mobile Vision, Part 2: Augmented Reality

In the second part of his blog series on mobile vision, Director of Mobile and Emerging Technologies Josh Jacob explores augmented reality.

Mobile Vision, Part 1: Face Detection

In this mobile vision series, we explore common computer vision tools and their potential uses in mobile apps, starting with face detection.

Designing an Interactive Experience

Software Engineer David Williams and Visual Designer Chris Hatfield on how they collaborated to create an interactive experience at the Toledo ADDY Awards.

Powering Paid Media Through Machine Learning

How advertisers can utilize machine learning for optimized paid search campaigns with Paid Media Strategist Angela Linares.

iPhone X: The devil is in the details

Director of Design Chas Ryder reviews the iPhone X and how it's noteworthy features impact design.

The User Experience of Apple’s 3D Touch

Evaluating Apple's 3D touch from a user experience perspective with user experience architecture intern Kelsey Lortz.

The Current State of VR

Software Engineer David Williams reports on the current state of virtual reality in the midst of upcoming 2016 consumer releases including the Oculus Rift.

Developing Custom Apple Watch Apps: A Hanson Demo

You already know that the Apple Watch is Apple’s entry into the blossoming smartwatch and wearable category. It works like this: the computer-on-your-wrist has a symbiotic relationship with your iPhone. Health data read from the watch sensors flows to your phone’s activity tracker. Incoming notifications for apps on your phone are routed to your watch, where a click glance removes the need to pull the phone from your pocket. How do you create custom watch apps that enhance existing iPhone apps? Let’s walk through the process.

Director of Mobile and Emerging Technologies Josh Jacob on the process of developing custom apple watch apps.

En Guarde! Couch Knights and the Oculus Rift at PAX East

While there were a lot of cool things demoed at PAX East 2014, the most exciting part of my experience there was getting to try the latest version of the Oculus Rift. The Oculus Rift, for the unaware, is a head-mounted virtual reality display. VR headsets have been forgotten about or made fun of since the mid-90s (rightfully), but the Rift shows that technology can now do the concept justice.

Hanson software engineer David Williams writes about his experience testing the Oculus Rift dev kit 2 and Couch Knights at PAX East 2014.

The Evolution of Web Hosting

Hanson often provides hosting recommendations, solutions and services to our clients. Like most technologies we deal with, this is a rapidly evolving part of web development. The hosting options available today would appear alien to developers and system engineers from only a few years ago. So for those interested in a little technology time travel, I present: the evolution of web hosting.

Steve Bumbaugh of Hanson Inc. presents the evolution of web hosting, from workstations (Hostopithecus) to cloud computing (Hamazon Sapiens) and beyond.

Beyond “HTML5,” Part 3: The Future of the Open Web

So far in this blog series we’ve explored the meaning of “HTML5” and the road to the Open Web, and we’ve reviewed Open Web technologies supported by today’s browsers. Now it’s time to look at some exciting Open Web features that will shape the web of tomorrow, and their current alternatives...

What Open Web features are coming, and what are their current alternatives? Dave Rodriguez of Hanson Inc. concludes his 3-part blog series.

Beyond "HTML5," Part 2: Open Web Technologies You Can Use Today

In part 1 of this series, we discussed some myths and misconceptions about HTML5 and proposed the term “Open Web technologies” as a more accurate alternative. Today we’ll explore some Open Web features that have widespread support in desktop and mobile browsers today...

Dave Rodriguez, Hanson's Director of Front End Development, looks beyond HTML5 at open web technologies you can use today.

Beyond “HTML5,” Part 1: The Present and Future of the Open Web

In April 2010, Apple CEO Steve Jobs wrote about his decision to ban Adobe’s Flash plugin from the iOS operating system. He voiced a number of concerns including battery life, performance, and touch incompatibility, but above all the closed, proprietary nature of Flash...

Dave Rodriguez, Hanson's director of front end development, introduces a blog series on HTML5 and the present and future of the open web.