Category: Consumer Electronics
Consumer Electronics
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…