Category: Consumer Electronics

Consumer Electronics

  • Your Wall As a Touchscreen

    Pico-projectors sound like an absolute dream for anyone who has to travel with a standard projector in tow. Being able to attach a small device…

  • IntrinsicID and InsideSecure Come to DropBox

    We’ve taken an occasional look at physically-unclonable functions (PUFs), and, in particular, IntrinsicID’s implementation of them, as they seem to have gone further in productizing…

  • A New Piezoelectric Oscillator

    A few months ago, we looked at Sand 9’s initial announcement. They had laid out 3 families at that point: a basic resonator (TM061), a…

  • Automotive IMU

    At the recent MEMS Executive Congress, Bosch Automotive announced a new 6-axis automotive IMU. It’s not for use as part of the automotive control systems,…

  • Next-Generation Image Signal Processor

    Imagination Technologies has announced a new image signal processing architecture that they’re calling “Raptor.” The overarching concept is that the image signal processor (ISP) should…

  • A Quality Rant

    This year I’ve gone through a couple of electronics upgrades: phone and computer. Actually, the phone was supposed to be an upgrade since I wasn’t…

  • Touchscreen Response

    My whimsical piece regarding an airplane touchscreen caught the eye of Touch International. They make touchscreens for airplanes and cars and other high-rel applications; they’ve…

  • Miniscule IR Subsystem

    As part of their recent announcement of FPGAs for sensor management, Lattice also introduced a couple of new devices for their iCE40LP family. From a…

  • And the Handoff Goes To…

    When you think semiconductors, who comes to mind? Intel? What about back before Intel’s heyday? IBM? Fairchild? The baton got passed in the 80s, and…

  • Gesture Progress

    At the recent Interactive Technology Summit (erstwhile Touch Gesture Motion), gesture was featured more on the day I was checking out the TSensors summit. But…