February 19, 2013, ISSCC, San Francisco—Session 11 was a catchall of various technologies that focused on energy efficiency. The integration of non-volatile memory with logic for data retention from TI and Mit, integration of a timing micro-system including crystal oscillators from CSEM in Switzerland, and integration of NEMS resonators from Aalto University in Finland are [...]
March 2013 – Following CES, we had the chance to test the Lantronix xPrintServer home Edition. The device is a simple to connect print server that does not require any apps or software to allow mobile devices (those with iOS and MacOS) to print on existing USB and network printers. Lantronix xPrintServer Home Edtiion The [...]
January 2013 – One of the first co-located press events each year at CES is Pepcom. This year’s event was once again, very well attended, organized and busy. Held a the MGM Grand, the company featured uniform table and booth sizes organized in what seemed like an open pattern. The reality was, several of the [...]
January 2013 – This years CES event was the first one to incorporate the PMA (Photo Marketing Association) expo as part of the show. Held in the LVH conference center adjacent to the main LVCC the expo replaced the historic “international pavilion” booths. The camera area was the most crowded at the show day’s 1 [...]
January 2013 – At the 2013 CES show – the buzz on mobile devices was how to get good sound out of the many mobile devices – phones / tablets / ultrabooks. The new generation of solutions is to get as far away from the little white round “noise makers” that have been known as [...]
December 13, 2012, Churchill Club, Palo Alto, CA—The Churchill Club held their annual gadgets program to review what’s hot and not in consumer technologies. The presenters are people who get to play with new technologies as a part of their day jobs. This year’s presenters were: Walt Mossberg from the Wall Street Journal, Kara Swisher [...]
September 2012 – In a recent meeting with Dr. Paul Kim at CTO for the School of Education at Stanford, we saw the latest results on their SMILE system. SMILE stands for the Stanford Mobile Inqury Based Learning Environment and is a USAID program that is sponsored by Marvell Semiconductor. The premise of the course [...]
May 23, 2012 – The MEMS Tech Symposium had its theme presentation on the MEMS market reaching the $Trillion mark in the future, from Janusz Bryzek of Fairchild Semi. The presentation focused on the MEMS commercialization cycle and the extension of the current 15% CAGR from the $1.5B base of 2012 to ~$1 trillion by [...]
May 23, 2012 – The MEMS Technology Symposium opened with a keynote from Prof. Kristofer Pister of UC Berkeley who talked about Sensory Swarms. These swarms are made of large numbers of wireless sensors that form an information interconnect and communication back to a central compute and analysis location. The vast majority of these new [...]
May 24, 2012, MEMS Business Forum, Santan Clara, CA—Al Pisano from UC Berkeley describes research into Wireless MEMS for harsh environments for energy and power monitoring. These sensors are not something for a smart phone and they cannot use standard silicon. The economic impact of additional sensor capabilities is fairly high. Gas turbines are used [...]
