Category: Consumer Electronics
Consumer Electronics
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QuickLogic Goes Wearable
We’ve looked at QuickLogic’s sensor hub solution in quite some detail in the past. It’s programmable logic at its heart, but is sold as a…
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SiTime Adds Temperature Compensation
SiTime came out with a 32-kHz temperature-compensated MEMS oscillator a few weeks back, targeting the wearables market. 32 kHz is popular because dividing by an…
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Muscling Up
We’ve seen gesture recognition before, and the two major modes, if you will, are using cameras (either 2- or 3-D) to “see” and interpret gestures…
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Wireless Power Progress: Efficiency and Distance
We met PowerByProxi recently when discussing wireless battery charging options. Well, they’ve recently announced what they claim to be a couple of milestones both in…
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What is a technology company?
Am I being picky or over-sensitive? A recent report talks about how Europe has produced 30 technology companies worth more than $1bn. They include “Clothing…
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Accelerometer Fingerprints
An interesting paper was published earlier this year by a team from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of South Carolina, and Zhejiang University. In…
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Wireless Power and Heating
We covered wireless power before, and one of the points of differentiation was that of inadvertent heating of nearby items. With systems using the lower…
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A Tale of Two Networks
I was talking to Atmel the other day – they had announced the release of their ATPL230 power line communication (PLC) chip, which was filling…
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Free Markets and IoT Conferences I
In my role, you pay attention to conferences. Ideally, you’d go to them all and sift through the repetition to get interesting golden nuggets to…