Video: Propeller beanies put Design West in a spin
Clive Maxfield
People were clamoring to attend the free training sessions so as to receive their own wireless mesh networked propeller beanie.
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Max the Magnificent
It was every bit as scrumptious as you can possible imagine...
Intel rapidly gaining market share in tablets
Dylan McGrath
Windows 8 tablets did surprisingly well in the first quarter, boosting Intel's share of the market from practically zero to around 7 percent.
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Youself
why is that? I would tend to not argue with you, since Intel has created a monolith org around ...
Robotic ants offer design tips
Ann Thryft
A study of how robotic ants navigate via swarm behavior, and the design of their trail networks, may make human transportation networks more efficient.
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Accidental engineering: 10 mistakes turned into innovation
Suzanne Deffree
10 major discoveries, inventions, and inspirational moments that were, for the most part, serendipitous.
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EREBUS
It's the old addage of "one persons bug is another persons feature."
Ending up with something other ...
Book excerpt: Signal Integrity Issues and Printed Circuit Board Design
Brian Bailey
The primary subject of this book is Signal Integrity and the book starts at the very beginning with introductory text about components and physics...
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Boston bombings likely to boost video surveillance gear sales
Dylan McGrath
If history is any measure, the tragic attack in Boston will spur increase in spending on security and surveillance.
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Bert22306
Yup, we need all the oversight you mention, plus we need more surveillance.
The reason is trivially ...
Cyber security solutions underused
R Colin Johnson
Hackers keep succeeding with the same old tricks for which everybody knows the solution -- namely multifactor authentication -- but users just continue to make the same mistakes over and over again.
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chanj
Call rerouting and CSR legitimacy may be a concern. With the current PSTN, I would not be worried ...
What were they thinking: Drink your dinner leftovers
Brian Bailey
What to do with the dinner leftovers? Well, with this patent you may be able to turn them into a healthy drink...
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garydpdx
This reminds me of the classic Saturday Night Live skit, "Bass-O-Matic" with Dan Aykroyd! :)
Semico looks into the medical world
Brian Bailey
Semico has a new research report that looks into the healthcare industry...
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Michellp
Thanks for the coverage Brian! Just dropping by to let you know we just launched a new website, so ...
Yoshida in China: SMIC rides on China fabless growth
Junko Yoshida
SMIC's five consecutive quarters of revenue growth paint a picture of a new SMIC.
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resistion
It seems impossible to take 28 nm share from TSMC or even GlobalFoundries. Except maybe by cost ...
iPad loses share to Android, Windows tablets
Eric Zeman
Tablets running software from Google and Microsoft continue to steal market share from Apple's tablet.
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docdivakar
iPads still have the largest gross margins which the cheapie and unreliable Android tablets can ...
DESIGN West: 'Big Bang Theory' star pushes STEM
Dylan McGrath
Mayim Bialik, who stars on hit sitcom, also happens to hold a PhD in neuroscience and is passionate about the importance of STEM education.
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resistion
Wait for the ramifications of this. Soon being camera-friendly will be a filter for invited STEM ...
Samsung Galaxy S4 oozes innovation
Fritz Nelson
Handset may be today's best smartphone, with solid hardware and software tricks such as eye tracking and a gesture UI.
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eewiz
Read in the reviews that the hand gesture interface using camera is a totally half a**ed ...
3D print your next headphones
Rich Pell
Here's how one DIYer created a fully functional set of headphones using no traditional manufactured parts - just a 3D printer and a few raw materials.
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WKetel
This is interesting. My understanding is that all 3D printing requires a 3D print of a design, which ...
DESIGN West: Taking embedded market's pulse
Jack Ganssle
Security is next big thing, fewer engineers working on comms and other fascinating data from 2013 Embedded Market Study to be discussed here on Thursday.
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betajet
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While FPGAs in principle are clean and simple, they have a pretty steep learning curve ...
Corporations continue to get away with theft
Brian Bailey
What is the correct punishment for a shoplifter? Why does the same not apply to corporations. Google pays a 24 cent fine...
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The profit
Life isn't fair and the legal system is a leading example.
I'm sure the Google TOS list their ...
EDA/IP weekly roundup – April 24th 2013
Brian Bailey
ARM, Aspen Labs, CEVA, Corelis, Digi-Key, EDAC, IC Manage and Mouser made the lineup today. See here for their news…
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San Jose Calling: AMD will go embedded with ARM
Peter Clarke
AMD is coming off the back of a bet-the-company reshuffle of management and strategy. And its nuanced position on processor architecture means we are still waiting for the ARM shoe to drop.
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jigal
It's not just "unfair" competition. Intel just performs better. Ever since the old days of the ...
Apple's latest supply chain headache: Foxconn
Brian Fuller
Multiple publications are reporting that Apple has returned 5 to 8 million iPhones to Foxconn for unknown manufacturing defects.
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Daniel Payne
My daughter had to return her iPhone because the internal speaker was not working, so yes, quality ...
The Dreamliner saga: When your solution is more than just a software patch
Bill Schweber
Unlike the convenient world of software patches and downloadable upgrades, Boeing's lithium-ion battery fix has serious consequences.
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Loser99
It's still not fixed.
Mentor claims SW teams will not buy modified HW tools
Brian Bailey
When software and hardware people come together there are always interesting differences. Mentor believes that SW folk will not buy modified HW tools…
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garydpdx
Brian, my take on reading this is that Mentor Graphics has taken a more public push on their virtual ...
Industry view: iSuppli on the hybrid memory cube
Kristin Lewotsky
HMC rollout, the future of DDR5 and the memory wall you’ve probably never heard of.
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resistion
The story with Intel is they will do their own thing, and can stay independent of HMC. Check out the ...
Smart-city technology harvests energy from footsteps
Elizabeth Montalbano
Imagine a future in which the energy of people's footsteps is transformed into electricity to power urban infrastructure.
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eewiz
spot on.. they convert human energy to electrical energy. to walk on this floor one need to consume ...
Is Apple looking to replace Tim Cook?
Eric Zeman
Apple's board of directors may secretly be looking for an executive to replace current CEO Tim Cook, according to a Forbes report.
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xz10620
wall street hedge funds are behind all these rumors.
The 'art of engineering' exhibit and book signing at DESIGN West
Patrick Mannion
The true art of design takes center stage at DESIGN West with book signings by famous authors and an art exhibit at UBM Tech's lounge.
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SYSINFRASHandas
I suggest "Art of Engineering" or "Power of Engineering" , "Engineering Best Human Think/Tool" ...
