May 21, 2012, Opem Source Business Conference, San Francisco—Elliot Garbus from Intel presented “Sparks of intelligence: where smart devices connect mobile users to open data centers”. He noted that systems need to change to adapt to the emergence of big data. One of the first drivers for today’s data explosion was a pack of gum. [...]
April 16, 2012, NAB, Las Vegas—Blackmagic Design introduced a host of new products for video capture and production. The highlight was a cinema-quality camera for $2995. The Cinema Camera touts a 13 stop dynamic range, 2.5K sensor, built-in SSD recorder, and Canon EF or Zeiss ZF lens mounts. Other features include a Thunderbolt connection, and [...]
April 11, 2012, FlexTech Workshop, San Jose, CA—Jeffery Ashe from GE talked about the nature of health care and the issue that the healthcare system is increasingly complex. Changes in the systems will require the application of many new technologies and a different way to look at all of the healthcare issues. The domain experts [...]
We talked with Renesas about their latest products at Design West, formerly the Embedded Systems Conference. Among the new releases were a low power microcontroller, a motor control kit, a capacitive touch evaluation kit, and new software support for the various products. The 32-bit RX62G group are optimized for digital power control applications, including motor [...]
March 14, 2012, Common Platform Technology Forum, Santa Clara, CA—Juga Jagamather from IBM moderated a panel focused on future semiconductor innovations. The panel members were Michael Liehr from College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, Simon Segars from ARM, Subi Kargen from Global Foundries, TC Chen from IBM, and Dongwon Kim from Samsung. Low power? Chen [...]
September 22, 2011, 3-D User Experience Technical Summit, Hollywood–Sophie Janicke from Florida State University described her work on the relative advantage of 3-D technology to transport viewers into a narrative world. The changing technologies in displays are also able to induce psychological effects in the viewer. These effects open opportunities for academia, creators, and technologists [...]
Development of the law and its manner of application to new facts is a process far slower than advances in technology, or the changes in the manner of social interactivity. Courts are limited to addressing issues that arise from an actual “case or controversy,” are constrained from offering advisory opinions, and must function at the [...]
Solid-state NAND-flash memory is transforming data processing in numerous ways. Good examples are video capture and digital video workflow impacts. This transformation has only begun and promises to affect the media industry in surprising ways for years. But, right now it’s presently a bit complicated. So, we’ll have a follow-up post on that subject in [...]
Recently the Homeplug AV specification as part of the IEEE P1901 power line modem specification has been updated for Green applications. The Homeplug.org group has released a new Green PHY spec that is targeted for smart grid & smart meter/appliance applications under a 1Mb/s data rate, rather than the typical 200Mb/s data rate that is [...]
Andy Melder, VP at Gigle Networks talks about the evolution of power-line communications as an alternative to WiFi and Ethernet for home networking on an IP-based protocol. In the past, power line networking was restricted to simple command and control functions like turning on lights and small appliances. The difficulties were in the pervasive noise [...]
