September 2013. As new products enter the market for both home and clinic-based use for wellness care, they are all converging on the idea of simple operation. For hospital and traditional medical equipment lots of information accompanies the devices and there can be many steps taken for them to complete their tests and even function….
September 2013 – At IDF 2013 in San Francisco, Pericom was showing their new high performance redriver chips that are enabling both the large format CE devices/Network devices and the active cable/expander marketplace. One of the themes at IDF this year were higher bandwidths for connectivity. The increase in images, video and other long run…
September 2013, At IDF in San Francisco, PMC was discussing their Series 8 RAID controller for the 12G SAS interface. This is the continuation of the Adaptec product line targeted at the enterprise marketplace. For the definitions of PMC, enterprise storage includes Hadoop in addition to traditional multi-tiered (hot-warm-cold-archive) architectures. These storage networks are changing…
August 2013, I was a first-time attendee at the Gamestop expo in Las Vegas this year. The show was an interesting mix of presentations on market directions and vendor exhibits. This combination is usually found in standard trade events, not single company events. For the market area of gaming, this worked really well. …
August 2013 – The Casual Connect conference in San Francisco celebrated the F2P (Free to Play) gaming marketplace and the traditional app model casual game for the mobile marketplace. Unlike the console oriented AAA games, these are targeting the 15sec-3 minute a level game play that can played during waiting time on a second task….
August 2013 – The Sands convention center in Las Vegas was crowded with the 5000+ customers, VIPs and Gamestop employees who attended the 2013 Gamestop Expo. The retailer’s pre-holiday training event culminates in an open to the public, of all ages, expo that features open game play time with this year’s major holiday games. The…
July 2013 – At Siggraph 2013, the emerging technologies area had more than just video and graphics. It featured audio and 3D in multiple forms. On the audio side, the Univ of AZ was showing a percussion system that used actuators that mounted on real drums and cymbals and were driven by a Raspberry Pi…
July 2013 – Motion capture is a big part of the Siggraph conference. It is segmented into a number of different technologies for full body motion both optical and sensor based, coupling to rigging systems and facial capture. Facial motion capture is being used heavily for both film and TV CGI and video games. A…
June 2013 – At the monthly meeting of the Santa Clara Valley chapter of the IEEE Consumer Electronics society in June, Dolby Labs in Sunnyvale presented their laptop sized and large format (56″) glasses free Stereoscopic 3D display/TV system to a standing room only audience. The S3D TV marketplace has been rocky, as the hype…