Category: Consumer Electronics
Consumer Electronics
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UV Index Sensor
Have you been out in the sun too long? OK, yeah, not really the right time of year to ask that question north of the…
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The Case for Zigbee
Not long ago I did a piece on wireless technologies. It was stimulated by the fact that BlueTooth Low Energy (BT-LE) seems to be on…
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New Intersil RGB Sensor
Intersil has announced a new RGB sensor, and they’ve laid out some of the things that it’s good for. But let’s back up a sec…
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Micro-Windmill Surprise
It’s one of those good problems. You’ve been doing some exploratory MEMS work. Your main focus is biomedical – implants for dealing with prostate cancer.…
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Two New Pointing Mechanisms. Or One?
Some of you may have come to this link already; if you did, you read a piece that voiced some confusion about the positioning of…
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Invensense Microphone Skips a Step
The number of microphone output options just got bigger by one. Typically, there have been analog microphones, where you get a real-deal audio signal to…
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Harvesting Microwaves
We have just looked at an approach to wireless power transfer using low MHz electromagnetic field oscillations. But such a concept is only “power transfer”…
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An Environmental Sensor
The sensor market is highly fragmented. Many sensor companies are good at one or a few sensors based on super-secret ways they have of building…
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Paper Harvester?
My skeptic senses are tingling a bit here… Perhaps unfairly; let’s see. Energy harvesting is a big deal these days, with folks off trying to…