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Category: Consumer Electronics

Consumer Electronics

  • Suddenly Simpler Wiring

    Wiring houses is a lot of work, although we don’t really think about it because it’s simply what we do. Trading off electrification is simply…

  • More Analog

    There’s been a clear trend over the last decade or so: analog is succumbing to digital. More and more, the modus operandi has been, “Sample…

  • You Put That Where??

    Wearable electronics is the coming thing, and fitness-related gear is the most obvious thing to wear. And CES had a huge section dedicated to these…

  • Cloud Computing Deniers

    I’m not a big fan of “cloud computing,” as EEJ readers know. It seems like a stap backwards, to 1970s-era timeshare machines instead of the…

  • Do IMU-Based Remotes Work?

    One of the booths I stopped by at CES was Philips, who was demonstrating their uWand. Turns out, this isn’t that new a product, having…

  • Not-So-New Touch

    These days we talk about touch technology as if it’s a new thing. Actually, we’ve been using touch for years (since 1994, to be specific)…

  • Body Motion Tracking: What’s Old is New

    Health and fitness were one of the major categories of new gadgets at this year’s CES. One of the products being demonstrated was actually announced…

  • Other Gesture Technologies

    There’s a lot of focus these days on the power of computer vision, and much of that is being directed at recognizing gestures so that…

  • Detecting Intuitive

    A little over a year ago I went on a bit of a rant about intuitive design. Now… for those of you running for the…

  • Baby’s Temperature: The Differentiation Paradox

    Consumer electronics is a tricky business. The scale is such that the rewards can be huge, but the logistics of manufacturing at that scale can…