What I missed at CES 2018
I’m always curious about what goes on at CES, the mega consumer electronics show held in Las Vegas every January. Consumer is not the market we typically plays in, but the types of technology that make their way into consumer applications are also found in industrial and scientific applications.
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Tech Trends 2018
Like everyone else in the world, when the new year rolls around, I start thinking about what’s going to happen in this bright and sparkling new year. And I’m curious about what others are saying about what’s going to happen.
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Holiday Greetings
Holiday Greetings!
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The Tech Toy Shopping List for 2017
Shopping for tech toys for the holidays? Here's some tech toys - and one not so tech ones - worth looking at.
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An anti-poaching collar: yet another interesting application using sensors
Ákos Lédeczi is a professor of computer engineering at Vanderbilt, and George Wittemyer teaches in Colorado State’s department of fish, wildlife and conservation biology. They’re designing an anti-poaching collar designed for use with big game in Africa, which they wrote about in an EE Times article.
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Filling ‘er up gets the Faraday treatment
Engineers have been playing around with coming up with an alternative way to charge electric vehicles, and what they’ve come up with is a method based on induction
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Sensor Proliferation
Two things that tend to capture my interest in an article are sensors and cars, and Bill Schweber’s entertaining post in a recent EE Times featured both. So I was entertained.
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Looking back on 20 great years
Hard to believe, but it was twenty years ago this past summer that four young (or youngish) embedded systems engineers – John Fayos, Omar Rahim, Dave Rice, and myself – got together and founded Critical Link.
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Weather Forecasting
Over the past month or so, I’ve been keeping my eye on the news about hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Jose, and Maria...What’s most interesting to me in all this is, of course, the underlying science and technology of weather forecasting.
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Some Stats from the 2017 Embedded Markets Survey
A few highlights from the Aspencore 2017 Embedded Market Study.
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