CNET today announced the panelists for its Next Big Thing SuperSession, taking place Jan. 7 at the 2011 International CES, the world’s largest tradeshow for consumer technology. One of the most popular events at CES, CNET’s “Next Big Thing” brings CNET editors together with thought leaders from various industries to examine the technologies and trends […]
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Gifts for geeks
It’s that time of year again! No, I’m not talking about Jolly ‘Ol Saint Nick, mistletoe, or trees with stars on top. ‘Tis the season for giving, but also for spoiling ourselves with the latest gadgets, gizmos, toys, and entertainment. We’re never too old to experience the joy of opening presents! And geeks can be […]
Google TV for the Rest of Us
Google TV has just launched in the form of new HDTVs from Sony as well as the Revue from Logitech. The Revue is $299 and a 40? Sony Google TV is $799 at Best Buy – about $200 more than an equivalent 40? LED HDTV. Both products require yet another thing to put on your […]
Brainstorm: Holiday Wish List
With the holidays approaching, what product or technology is on your wish list? John Jovalusky, Qspeed Semiconductor, www.qspeed.com With so many incredible scientific discoveries and inventions making news, on a regular basis, it is hard to pick out a tech-toy that I would like to receive for Christmas, this year. By the way, last year’s […]
Dual-edge Connectors Facilitate Board-to-Board Connections Without Soldering
Sullins Connector Solutions expanded its offering of high-temperature devices to include a full series of double-row, Dual Edge Connectors. The new series is engineered to facilitate board-to-board extensions, and to serve as board savers in board stacking and board extension applications without desoldering. The standard dual-row, 0.100″ (2.54 mm) pitch connectors accept a 0.062″ (1.57 […]
Novel Cooling System Enables 1,500-lumen LED Bulb Prototype
Scientists from GE Global Research, the technology development arm for General Electric, GE Lighting, and the University of Maryland—as part of a two-year solid-state lighting program with the U.S. Department of Energy—have announced the successful demonstration of a 1,500-lumen LED bulb (a standard 100-watt halogen PAR38 bulb produces 1,500 lumens) that addresses key barriers to […]
Single-core, Floating-point DSP Asserted to be Industry’s Fastest
Texas Instruments introduced the C6A816x Integra DSP + ARM generation of processors which feature what are said to be the industry’s fastest single-core floating- and fixed-point DSP performance (up to 1.5 GHz) and the fastest single-core ARM Cortex-A8 core with performance up to 1.5 GHz. The combined Integra DSP + ARM architecture is important because […]
Electrofluidics Breakthrough Promises to Improve Display Performance
A new electrofluidics design from the University of Cincinnati and start-up company Gamma Dynamics promises to dramatically reshape the image capabilities of electronic devices. This patent-pending electrofluidics breakthrough by the Novel Devices Laboratory at the University of Cincinnati and partner companies Gamma Dynamics, Dupont and Sun Chemical follows about seven years of work. According to […]
AMOLED Power Chip Empowers Next-Gen Smartphones
STMicroelectronics, a leader in power semiconductors, powers AMOLED and Super AMOLED displays in advanced handheld devices with a family of ICs consolidating all the display module’s power requirements in a single chip. AMOLED (Active-Matrix Organic LED) technology enables sharp and vibrant images for mobile multimedia devices such as 3G smartphones and digital-still cameras. These devices […]
Slim-Block LED Backlighting Tech Enhances LCD Performance
LEDs are arranged to configure a combination block and light guide plate to backlight the S-LED A line of LCD TVs using Hitachi’s new S-LED (Slim-block LED) backlight technology (developed in conjunction with Global Lighting Technologies) was unveiled at CEATEC 2010. The brightness of each backlight is independently controlled by a small block of LEDs, producing exceptionally […]