Built to last? Not for some products
At Critical Link, the applications that we get involved with tend to fall into the category “built to last.” But not all products are. Take the Revolv hub, which was acquired by Nest a couple of years back...
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Standardization comes to the IoT
Don’t know whether you caught the news, but earlier in the year a consortium of tech companies released the specs for a new Internet of Things (IoT) sensor platform, M2.COM. The entities include ARM and one of our partners, Texas Instruments
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The Internet of Fishing Fleets
When we think about the Internet of Things (IoT), for most of us, the first thought is probably a Nest thermostat or some other connected appliance or home device, or a fitness application like FitBit....But many of the most challenging, interesting and very worthwhile uses for IoT aren’t going to be in our houses or on our wrists. Some will be in fishing fleets.
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Neuro Computing. (This is some pretty powerful stuff.)
You might want to check out a recent article in EE Times on IBM's TruthNorth neuro-computing technology.
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Exploring TCO: Single Board vs. SOM Solution
We've done another article for the ARM Connected Community forum. In this one, we explore the TCO of a single-board solution vs. a SOM solution.
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Name that variable!
For all the software guys and gals out there, earlier this week, I saw a somewhat funny, somewhat cranky, and mostly insightful article by Jack Ganssle, which appeared on embedded.com. His topic? How we name things – functions, variables, parameters, macros, identifiers - when we code.
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Bare board cost: the effect of HDI and layer count
As we did earlier in the year, we had an opportunity to post an article on the ARM Connected Community site, an information-sharing forum for those interested in ARM. Our post, the Effect of HDI and layer count on bare board cost, appeared yesterday.
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Fast as lightning! That would be Li-Fi.
I’ve been hearing a lot about Li-Fi lately, which is getting plenty of hype in the tech press. And why wouldn’t it be getting hyped? It promises to be 100x faster than standard Wi-Fi speeds. Which would make it pretty darned fast.
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“Power Plants”
Swedish researchers “have developed a way to create electronic circuits inside living plants.” One of the researchers involved has dubbed the results "power plants." Technology sure does keep getting more and more interesting.
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Driverless cars: not quite ready for winter weather
This is Upstate New York, so it’s too early to call game over with respect to snowfall. It’s only late February, after all, and we’ve been known to have snow in May. Still, the corner has been turned. But when it comes to handling snow, the corner hasn’t been turned quite yet for self-driving cars. As I learned when I saw an article on Bloomberg a couple of weeks back.
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