Category: Consumer Electronics

Consumer Electronics

  • On the Scene: Element14 Tour of Boards

    Three little letters that rule the world. They are but the sun and we are but the moon. Oh IoT, where would we be without…

  • On the Scene: EELive 2014 Wrap Up

    We stormed the gates. We took no prisoners. But, we did take home a lot of pens. Most importantly, we learned some stuff. Welcome to…

  • More MEMS Microphone Options

    Everything’s going HD these days, and audio is no exception. That means that everything in the audio chain, from microphone to speaker, has to step…

  • Wide-Ranging Approaches to Ranging

    As I’ve mentioned before, there are constants at ISSCC (e.g., sessions on image processing and sensors) and then there are the circuits-of-the-month. Ranging seemed to…

  • IoT Update: I Give Up

    Last year I proposed an overall architecture for the Internet of Things (IoT). The goal was to clarify the many different pieces required to make…

  • Clearer Phone Conversations

    I recall the few times I was able, for some reason, to take advantage of noise-cancelling headphones on an airplane. Once on your ears, when…

  • Internet of Things- This Season’s Trend

    Later this week I will be reporting on the embedded world conference, where the Internet of Things was the major topic. Just before embedded world…

  • And the Kits Keep Coming

    Not long ago I noted the sudden appearance of various reference designs and platforms and kits intended to take some of the friction out of the process…

  • IoT or M2M or Connected Device?

    In various places where people track and discuss progress in the world of interconnected things, there is a surprising amount of debate over the meanings…

  • “Always On” is for Extroverts

    In one of the early presentations at the Interactive Technology Summit last fall, Sensor Platforms’ Kevin Shaw gave a compelling presentation that wove together the…