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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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Is it just my imagination, or are there fewer news articles on DSP these days? Anyway, I was interested to see a recent article in embedded on Cadence Design Systems, which is promoting a DSP-based approach to neural networks.
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Chiron Global has invented a new martial arts category. The Unified Weapons Master uses a "suit of armor" that lets combatants use weapons without fear of serious injury. Sensors in the suits measure the force being used, and algorithms are used to calculate just how much damage would have been done if weapons were being used without protection.
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A young Boston woman was killed recently in an accident wtih a duck boat. Rather than banning duck tours, what might be better is equipping these vehicles with cameras and sensors that would alert the driver to something that they couldn’t see. These could even be connected to a braking or sound-warning system. The technology exists, and there are already many commercial products on the market that address the problem of vehicular blind spots.
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Off and on, I’ve been seeing articles on energy harvesting, which captures energy from ambient sources like wind and solar. One of the articles that I saw a couple of months ago, which was sitting on my blogging back burner, was one on the development of artificial “trees” to do the capturing.
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