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I feel a little bit guilty about throwing something this technical out there in the middle of the summer, but Adam Taylor’s recent article in EE Times, “10 FPGA Design Techniques You Should Know” was just too good to pass up.
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I'm intrigued by the technology that will be deployed [in self-driving cars], so I was interested to see an article in Tech Times the other day on Civil Maps. They’re a Silicon Valley startup that does 3D-mapping. The company just announced an investment round of $6.6M. Ford is one of the investors.
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The MIT Media Lab spin-out that’s been getting some press lately is Orisystems, which describes itself as “the brawn and brain of the furniture and architecture of the future.” The systems that Ori designs – and the name, by the way, is taken from origami, the Japanese paper-folding art – are built for micro-living.
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As we’re nearing that great time of year when local farm stands (and neighbors’ backyard gardens) have local tomatoes, I couldn’t resist what appears to be an advertiorial by Analog Devices (a.k.a. ADI) that appeared in a recent Technology Review. I mean, how could I pass up a piece entitled "IoT: The Internet of Tomatoes"?
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Earlier in the year, the UL published a cybersecurity standard “for the testing and certification of connection devices.” UL 2900 aims to address what has been one of the more significant barriers to wider spread IoT adoption: security.
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One reason why the IoT has gotten more traction commercially than with a consumer audience – at least in my opinion – is because they are more immediately useful and understandable, and provide real value. Lowering energy costs by 40% is something we can all appreciate.
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I guess it was inevitable. After all the hype. After all those forecasts of kabillions of connected devices. After all the cool videos showing smart everythings. There seems to be a bit of a backlash forming around the Internet of Things (IoT).
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Patrick Soon-Shiong has invested $70.5 million in the Tribune Publishing Company, which – among other papers – owns the LA Times and the Chicago Trib. But he’s not just throwing good money after bad. Soon-Shiong wants to remake the newspaper reading experience. He recently said that: "…he wants to use “machine vision” technology he’s developed to transform the experience of reading a print newspaper..."
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If you’re thinking that camping gear is still a nylon pup-tent, a damp and lumpy sleeping bag, and a flashlight, well, I guess you’re still living in the twentieth century. Or so I was reminded when I saw an article last week on Bloomberg about some of the very high technology camping products that are out there.
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At the recently-held International Conference on Robotics and Automation, researchers showed off a miniature “origami robot that can unfold itself from a swallowed capsule and, steered by external magnetic fields, crawl across the stomach wall to remove a swallowed button battery or patch a wound.”
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