What’s coming in 2016. (One man’s view, anyway.)
At Critical, we’re optimistic about 2016. We predict that we’ll be doing interesting work that uses the latest technology, and that we’ll be working on big important applications, not silly, useless ones.
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Season’s Greetings
Tis the Season for Tech Toys
With our youngest just off to college, we’re well beyond Santa at our house, but I still like to do a bit of virtual window shopping for toys, the techie, gadgety ones.
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The Kitchen of the Future (according to IKEA)
I recently came across an article (published last spring) on IKEA’s “Concept Kitchen 2025”, a collaboration between IKEA, IDEO and some university student designers. It’s all a bit Jetsons, but quite interesting, that’s for sure.
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Securing the IoT
One of the downsides of the Internet of Things (IoT) is the often flimsy security that comes along with them. This is especially true on the consumer side.
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Engineering and the VW Scandal
As an engineer who’s also a “car guy”, I’ve monitored the VW emissions scandal with some degree of sadness. I’ve always been proud of being an engineer, and one of my points of pride has been that our profession has a reputation for honesty – almost to a fault (as in being blunt, which some might say is an engineering characteristic). Sure, there are black hat hackers who use their engineering smarts to no good end, but mostly we’re an honest bunch.
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More on ARM and the Internet of Things
We didn’t attend last week’s ARM TechCon, so I didn’t get to hear Mike Muller, ARM’s CTO give his keynote. One of his focuses was on the security issue, but he also talked about the adoption of ARM-based servers and other ARM-related topics.
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Electronics obsolescence and military technology
Since today – November 11th – is Veterans Day, it's as good a time as any to focus for a bit on military technology - and on how obsolescent components may be impacting it.
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Kangaroo Collision Avoidance
Kangaroo collision avoidance is a big problem in Australia. Up until now, drivers could install roo bars – metal grills – on the front of their vehicles. But there’s now a more high-tech solution on the horizon. Volvo is studying kangaroo behavior so that it can fine tool its sensors to better respond to how kangaroos behave:
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Trick or Treat
Let’s face it, few holidays are as much out-and-out fun as Halloween is, especially when you throw in the spooky projects highlighted on Makezine.
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