Category: Mobile

Mobile

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • CEVA Goes for Base Stations

    Mobile communications have been one of CEVA’s focus areas (others being audio and images). If you’re new to CEVA, they do DSP cores for SoCs,…

  • LinkedIn’s Man in the Middle?

    LinkedIn has just introduced a new phone app called Intro that helps provide information to you about LinkedIn members when they send you email. That…

  • New MEMS Oscillators

    Quartz is under attack yet again. While some folks are bringing quartz into non-timing applications, others are trying to squeeze it out of its primary…

  • Stable Video, Easier Development

    There are times when a shaky video can be just the thing. Imagine: where would the Blair Witch Project have been without it? What would…

  • Two Ways to Tune an Antenna

    We’ve looked at a couple of companies focusing on improving the performance of cell phone antennas in real time as conditions change. WiSpry (MEMS) and…

  • A Navigation Demo

    We’ve talked before about indoor and pedestrian navigation and the challenges they pose. As part of the ongoing industry effort to crack that nut, Movea…