January 22, 2012, SPIE BiOS Conference, San Francisco—The BiOS conference had number of sessions that highlighted technologies that may be transferable to areas outside of formal medicine. Most of the sessions were about specific applications of optical and photonic in formal medicine and biological research. Topics included photonic therapeutics and diagnostics; clinical technologies and systems; [...]

 January 17, 2012, Real-Time & Embedded Computing Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Michael Anderson from The PTR Group described the “Internet of Things- living in a connected world” in the keynote address. The Internet has evolved beyond its creators wildest dreams. What started as the Arpanet for government contractors seemed to be more than able to handle [...]

 January 17, 2012, Medical Electronic Device Solutions Conference, Santa Clara, CA—The FDA described the latest guidelines for mobile medical devices. Bakul Patel, a policy advisor for the FDA, provided a general overview of the thought processes going into policy guidance issues. The technology world is changing very rapidly and now consumer devices are moving into [...]

 January 17, 2012, Medical Electronic Device Solutions Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Alan Boucher from Care Innovations, an Intel-GE joint venture, opened the conference with the question, what can medical device technology learn form the mobile revolution? The wireless world is growing and driving the scaling of technology across all mobile platforms. These devices expose consumers to [...]

 January 10, 2012, At the PEPCOM event that accompanied CES and also at the main show support for sports and activities with electronics was growing. While the medical pavilion housed most of the biometric measurement for these sports, under the basis of exercise management, these other areas focused on media capture and delivery. For the [...]

 January 11,2012, CES, Las Vegas—Bang & Olufsen presented an outline for the company for the next five years and introduced new products. The company is looking to reinvigorate itself after a few years in the doldrums. They stated that sales were up 22 percent in the past year to $500M. Some company changes included a [...]

 January 10, 2012, CES, Las Vegas—VESA previewed the Mobility DisplayPort standard. They also showed off products that include the features of V1.2. the organization considers DisplayPort to be the main, next-generation display interface. The various standards for interfaces include DisplayPort v1.2 a high-performance, external interface for displays, embedded DisplayPort v1.3 designed for embedded display applications [...]

 January 10, 2012, CES, Las Vegas—Renesas Mobile Corp. released a new family of LTE-based platforms for mobile devices. They also showed off a graphics engine. The SP2531 comprises a highly integrated baseband modem, an RF subsystem containing the RF integrated chip, front end module, a power amplifier and a power management sub-system. The company received [...]

 January 9, 2012, CES, Las Vegas—Steve Venuti, President of HDMI Licensing presented information on the growth of HDMI in electronics. The HDMI forum also detailed plans for the release of updated specifications. Unit shipments of HDMI devices was 440M in ’09 and has grown to over 685M in ’11. The growth is expected to continue, [...]

 January 9, 2012, CES, Las Vegas—Corning made a number of announcements before the show opened. They also invited attendees to visit their booth to see some prototype applications. A new version of Gorilla Glass enables up to a 20 percent reduction in glass thickness, while maintaining damage resistance, toughness, and scratch resistance. The thinner Gorilla [...]