Category: Consumer Electronics

Consumer Electronics

  • Some People Get It

    Electronics retailer Best Buy is known for catering to mainstream America, not niche audiophiles. So I was surprised to see the company offering an HDMI…

  • Zigbee 3.0 Released

    Zigbee rolled out their latest revision late last year: 3.0. I sat with Zigbee Alliance CEO Tobin Richardson right as he had arrived back in…

  • Monolithic Plastic… Or Not

    With semiconductors, we have this expectation that, at some future time, we’ll be able to integrate everything onto a single chip. Analog, digital, MEMS… you…

  • Towards Smaller Solar Inverters

    Inverters are getting smaller. We’re talking here about the inverters used in solar cells to convert the DC that they generate into AC for the…

  • Audio-Grade Bits!

    If you store your music digitally — and don’t we all? — you want audio grade bits. Apparently bits aren’t just bits. An audiophile site…

  • A Microphone for Gestures and Canines

    A while back, when looking at Elliptic Labs ultrasonic gesture recognition, we mentioned that they were able to do this based on the fact that…

  • All the News on IMUs

    Inertial measurement units (IMUs), once cool and shiny in their new MEMS editions, are now familiar old friends. We’ve become accustomed to motion sensors in…

  • Gestures Stalling?

    The Touch Gesture Motion conference (TGM) covers various technologies related to up-and-coming human-machine interface approaches. And its middle name is “Gesture.” How we doin’ there?…

  • IoT Business Objects

    We do this thing here where we try to take occasional stock of the structure of the Internet of Things (IoT) to try to make…

  • The Power of the Pen

    This year’s recent Touch Gesture Motion (TGM) conference had a surprising focus on pens. Which I like, actually. While most of my professional time is…