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28,000 Sensors? That’s one really smart building.

The Edge in Amsterdam is the world’s greenest building. BREEAM – the Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Methodology, a British rating system – awarded The Edge a sustainability score of 98.4, the highest ever given. It may also be the world’s smartest building.
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One step at a time: how Jawbone counts steps

For my fitness tracker, I have a Jawbone UP3, which bills itself as “the most advanced tracker you can buy.” I like it, but I’m still waiting for some of the more advanced functions that they promised to implement with it when they launched it back at the end of last year. Anyway, I was looking at Jawbone’s blog, and they have a couple of recent posts on step-counting, which is one of the core features of pretty much all fitness trackers.
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Embedded Barbie

My daughters are well beyond Barbie age, but a recent article in the NY Times still managed to catch my eye. Thanks to AI, speech recognition, and embedded technology, Barbie, it seems, is getting smart.
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ARM and the Internet of Things

Dave Blaza, on the ARM Connected Community, had a couple of interested articles on the topic of ARM and the Internet of Things.
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A new twist on sensors

A week or so back, I saw in the news that the U.S. Department of Defense is funding the FlexTech Alliance, a consortium of 162 academic institutions, researchers, and that will focus on “flexible hybrid electronics, which can be embedded with sensors and stretched, twisted and bent to fit aircraft or other platform where they […]
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To boldly go where no man* has gone before

Somewhere along the line, I bookmarked an article on a robot used to study volcanoes. I finally got around to reading it, and thought it would make for an interesting blog post. So here goes. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is using 3D vision-enabled robots that are dropped into volcanoes so that scientists can get […]
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The impact of robots on development

Altera's Ron Wilson seeing he increase in robots as having an impact on development hardware and timetables. He cautions embedded systems developers to plan carefully. (That said, embedded systems development has always required thoughtful planning.)
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Obsolescence

While products are becoming obsolete all the time, the technology underlying digital products stays remarkably stable. Processing gets faster and more powerful, but the fundamentals stay the same.
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