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Category: Consumer Electronics

Consumer Electronics

  • Managing Context Options

    There are so many stories about the ways in which ubiquitous sensors and The Cloud will transform our lives. Most of these stories come in…

  • Move over Internet toaster: the wireless pan lid is here

    I am sure that it is not April 1st, so the release I got last week from Nordic Semiconductor has to be legitimate. A company…

  • QuickLogic’s Next Sensor Hub Rev

    We’ve spent a bit of energy in the past looking at QuickLogic’s approach to a low-power sensor hub. Well, they’ve just introduced a second round,…

  • Easier Zigbee Remote Controls

    Zigbee recently announced the second version of their remote control standard, ZRC 2.0. The idea is that, in a Zigbee home, with consumer electronics and…

  • Collocated Location Technology

    Location services used to mean one thing: applications that leveraged GPS and other global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) to fix your location and then… do…

  • ProbMe Simplifies Thing WiFi Connection

    Sometime back, we took a look at Econais’s WiFi modules. We mentioned their ProbMe capability, which simplifies connecting these devices to the WiFi network. This…

  • Proximal Networks

    I was keyed into the concept of the “proximal network” by the AllJoyn network, conceived by Qualcomm and managed by the AllSeen Alliance. I started…

  • PowerByProxi Eval Kits

    A while back, we took a look at a couple of new resonant wireless charging approaches, including PowerByProxi. Their charging pad consists of multiple coils,…

  • A New IoT Protocol

    We’ve got a number of ways of getting our devices to talk to each other. Some time back, I opined that Bluetooth Low Energy and…

  • K is for Kit Kat

    You may recall that PNI Sensors has a sensor hub called SENtral. It represents a unique partitioning between hardware and software intended to lower its…