Holiday Greetings
The Critical Link team wishes all of you a very joyous holiday season, and a happy and healthy 2017.
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Holiday shopping? Digital Trends has some ideas for you.
This past September, Simon Hill had an article on Digital Trends on “The 15 Best Tech Toys for Kids Will Make You Wish You Were 10 Again.” If you're holiday shopping, you may want to read up on some “interesting and unusual gadgets” for the kids on your list.
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BP’s New Interactive Gas Pump
I don’t know about you, but I actually don’t mind a little peace and quiet when I’m pumping gas. But with BP’s latest development, going to the gas station may turn into a whole new interactive experience.
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Not your great-great-grandmother’s player piano
A friend of mine recently received an invitation to attend a demo of the Steinway Spirio, a high-res player piano. Anyway, my friend wasn’t able to go and see Spirio for herself, but she thought I might be interested in it from a technical standpoint. So I did a bit of digging around to see how Spirio works.
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What you missed if you weren’t at ARM TechCon, Part Two
Last week, we began summarizing Rich Quinnell’s EE Times article on the new technologies that caught his eye at the recent ARM TechCon Conference. That post covered the first five of Rich’s “ten most intriguing technologies.” Here we’ll take care of the second half of the list.
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What you missed if you weren’t at ARM TechCon
We weren’t at the recent ARM TechCon, but are always interested in hearing about what’s new with ARM. So we were happy to see Rich Quinnell’s account (on EE Times) on the new technologies he saw there. Here’s part one of my quick summary of Rich’s article
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Google’s new OS: Fuschia
Recently, there's been a lot of buzz and speculation about a newly discovered operating system (OS) project on Google Code (mirrored also at GitHub): Fuschia.
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The Future of Test & Measurement
Back in September, Martin Rowe had a very interesting piece on EDN entitled “What will drive test & measurement?” In his column, Rowe combines the answers that two of his readers had given to some questions he had earlier posed on the test industry.
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Eye Spy
As a replacement for passwords, all eyes seem to be turning to iris-scans and/or facial recognition. And one of the technology leaders here is FotoNation, the company that – bless them – came up with the algorithms that cameras and smartphones have been using for years to eliminate “red eye” photos.
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ARM in Space
Like most “science kids”, I grew up interested in rockets and space exploration. I haven’t completely outgrown it – does anyone ever? – so it was not surprising that a recent blog on EDN by Rajan Bedi, Spacecraft data handling using ARM-based processors, caught my eye.
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