Renesas at ESC-SV
We talked with Renesas about their latest products at Design West, formerly the Embedded Systems Conference. Among the new releases were a low power microcontroller, a motor control kit, a capacitive...
View ArticleGE Considers Wearable Medical Monitoring
April 11, 2012, FlexTech Workshop, San Jose, CA—Jeffery Ashe from GE talked about the nature of health care and the issue that the healthcare system is increasingly complex. Changes in the systems...
View ArticleBlackmagic Design Unleashes a Torrent of Products
April 16, 2012, NAB, Las Vegas—Blackmagic Design introduced a host of new products for video capture and production. The highlight was a cinema-quality camera for $2995. The Cinema Camera touts a 13...
View ArticleSmart Devices and Open Data Centers
May 21, 2012, Opem Source Business Conference, San Francisco—Elliot Garbus from Intel presented "Sparks of intelligence: where smart devices connect mobile users to open data centers". He noted that...
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Visual Inspection System from Olympus
July 9, 2013, Semicon West, San Francisco—Olympus showed off an interesting example of a marriage of high-grade optics and computers. The DSX500, and sister DSX100 for larger objects, automates many...
View ArticleMotion Tracking and Medical Devices
July 11, 2013, Motion Tracking Developers' Conference, San Francisco—Herbie Kim and Josh Rabinowitz from Articulate described their efforts in integrating sensors into remote patient monitoring and...
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New Terry Gilliam movie THE ZERO THEOREM
What is the reason for human existence? What brings us happiness? The latest Terry Gilliam film, "The Zero Theorem", might not give us a definite answer, but searches for one with spectacular and...
View ArticleInfrastructure Re-imagined Panel
October 1, 2014, ARM TechCon, Santa Clara, CA—A panel moderated by Ian Ferguson from ARM looked at the changing functions and needs of current infrastructure. For example, five years ago Google started...
View ArticleAES Analog Preservation Panel
October 10, 2014, Audio Engineering Society Convention, Los Angeles—The problems of saving analog audio content is a big issue for researchers, historians, and anthropologists. Konrad Strauss from...
View ArticleAES Give Peaks a Chance: Loudness Wars Panel
October 9, 2014, Audio Engineering Society Convention, Los Angeles—A panel of experts considered the issues associates with loudness. Thomas Lund moderated the panel comprised of Florian Camerer, Bob...
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