In a recent interview with author Jonathan Deutsch, I had an opportunity to discuss his new book Time’s Dual Nature (ISBN #1453780998). The book is based on his own 30 years of research and mathematics to address some of the issues of quantum mechanics and create an explaination that is both based on an intuitive [...]
January 7, 2011, CES, Las Vegas– tablets, super smart phones, connected televisions, and smart appliances to fill the smart house were over the place at this year’s consumer electronics show. Although the show had thousands of exhibitors demonstrating many thousands of products, a lot of them seemed to be not quite ready for consumers to [...]
January 7, 2011, CES, Las Vegas—Imagination Technologies is trying to become a full solutions company with the acquisitions of Hellosoft and Caustic. HelloSoft has wireless LAN and multi-function radios as well as connection management software in its portfolio which will enable advanced video-VOIP for 4G phones. The hardware will enable low power, small form-factor video [...]
January 6, 2011, CES, Las Vegas-Quantenna introduced a new wireless video backplane. Their product uses the Cavium wireless chip plus an ASIC to provide full multi-cast, point-to-multi-point services. Their MIMO product is positioned as a replacement for HDMI for long reach applications. They have gotten over 200 feet coverage in non-line-of-sight field tests inside a [...]
July 27, 2010, Santa Clara, CA the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Santa Clara Chapter hosted a panel discussion on serial port memory technology (SPMT) at Marvel Semiconductor’s facility. Steve Leibson moderated the panel comprised of the following members. Jim Venable, President, SPMT Consortium John Heinlein, VP Marketing, Physical IP Division, ARM Arun Akamat, VP of [...]
January 6, 2011 CES, Las Vegas-HDbaseT is a new organization that is looking to move video over Cat5e cables. They have all of the capabilities and speed of HDMI 1.4 without the costs. In addition, they can supply up to 100 W over the cables to power a remote device. The system used a lot [...]
January 5, 2011, CES, Las Vegas-Casio introduced a new on-line editing website and photo repository called Imaging Square that takes any digital image and converts it into “digital art”. The site has two tools for modifying the images that don’t require additional tools and high levels of tool expertise. Digital Craft converts images using decomposition, [...]
