January 2012, Las Vegas NV – At CES the WISA was demonstrating an overview of their interoperability system for self configuration of wireless surround sound. The system uses the 5GHz U-NII band at low power to broadcast both configuration information and audio data. At this time, the 7.1 surround system that is supported can broadcast up [...]

 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 [...]

 January 10, 2012, CES, Las Vegas—Zeo showed off an EEG monitor with software optimized for sleep monitoring. The product measures and tracks brainwave patterns and delivers them wirelessly to a bedside display or Bluetooth-enabled device. The hardware is a small module that uses a headband or an adhesive strip to mount the module on the [...]

 January 9, 2012, CES, Las Vegas—Sharp celebrated their 100th anniversary and 50 years in the USA by introducing a number of 80″ displays. Watch the full press conference at http://youtu.be/4ItzT1p8Oco. One product family is an 80-inch e-board with integrated Windows computer and touch controls. This is an interactive office product to replace whiteboards. Other models [...]

 January 9, 2012, CES, Las Vegas—Sandisk introduced a number of new storage products for consumer use. The most interesting announcement was the iNAND Ultra embedded flash memory which will be built in a 19nm process technology. The latest parts are still using the 2-bit per cell architecture from previous generations. Early testing shows that the [...]