Consumer
Top 3 wearable sensor startups - Other
February 05, 2015Slide show -- It seems as though everyone has a wearable these days. From Fitbit to Pebble, they have pervaded the consumer market faster than you can...
Consumer
Force Impact Technologies lays a hit on concussions in youth sports - Other
February 05, 2015In recent years we've become increasingly aware of the long-term effects of head trauma, particularly in contact sports such as football, soccer, and...
Consumer
BeBop Sensors brings sensor fabric from musical origins into the "quantified self" - Other
February 05, 2015Another wearable tech vendor to emerge in recent months is BeBop Sensors (www.bebopsensors.com), a company that CEO Keith McMillen founded, strangely...
Consumer
Smartphones and smart socks make big strides in wearable textiles - Other
February 05, 2015In late 2014 I had the opportunity to meet with Davide Vigano, Co-Founder and CEO of wearable technology company Sensoria (www.sensoriainc.com). Unlik...
Open Source
How the newest IoT spec is more than, well, just another spec - Other
January 30, 2015Another IoT standards group? Say it ain't so! But in this quick Q&A, Samsung's Guy Martin and David McCall of Intel explain how the Open Interconnect...
IoT
Deconstructing the hype machine: Data analytics key differentiator for IoT - Other
January 28, 2015When I pulled up a chair next to Gartner's Paul O'Donovan at the 2015 International CES earlier this year, one of the first things he said to me was,...
Open Source
Open-source MEMS initiative seeks to reduce barriers to sensor development - Other
January 23, 2015Whether working with a single input or fusing data from multiple sources, getting sensors to work in real-world systems can be a daunting task for the...
Consumer
Floored: 2015 International CES - Other
January 13, 2015Slide show -- When you take off in Phoenix and land in Las Vegas, the only indicators that you've actually gone anywhere are the flashing lights and r...
Consumer
Who needs Oculus? PNI puts sensor fusion to work in "poor man's" virtual reality - Other
January 13, 2015Here was another pretty awesome showcase - a piece of card-board and a Nexus 5 phone that coalesced into a virtual reality platform. Okay, it's not ex...
Processing
Spansion sees synergies from Cypress merger - Other
January 13, 2015Always one of my better meetings on the conference circuit, Tom Sparkman of Spansion got right into his company's re-cent merger with fellow semicondu...
Consumer
Texas Instruments Takes the Next Step in Wearables - Other
January 13, 2015Another look at auto and the IoT came from TI, who leveraged sensor fusion technology for a couple of active safety demonstrations and took wearables...
Automotive
QNX concept cars project an ADAS/IVI future - Video
January 13, 2015Hands down one of the coolest booths I visited while at CES, QNX Software had two vehicles on display that were retrofit-ted with their latest technol...
Processing
NXP advances 77 GHz and the plug n' play smart home - Other
January 13, 2015NXP Semiconductor occupied a portable in the show's central plaza, and inside I found out why. The company was exhibit-ing a range of technology, from...
IoT
Open Interconnect Consortium adds interoperability to the Internet of Things - Other
January 13, 2015A few months back when I first heard about the formation of the Open Interconnect Consortium (OIC) I thought to myself, "Do we really need another IoT...
Open Source
Open Interconnect Consortium adds interoperability to the Internet of Things - Other
January 13, 2015A few months back when I first heard about the formation of the Open Interconnect Consortium (OIC) I thought to myself, "Do we really need another IoT...
Processing
ST surges in automotive and wearables - Other
January 13, 2015Okay, this briefing actually happened the day before CES officially opened to the public, but I'm sure you'll give me a pass. Bob Krysiak went through...
IoT
Edge Management System missing link in IoT chain? - Other
December 11, 2014Earlier this week, Wind River announced a new platform for Internet of Things (IoT) device management, the Wind River Edge Management System. The clou...
IoT
Edge Management System missing link in IoT chain? - Other
December 11, 2014Earlier this week, Wind River announced a new platform for Internet of Things (IoT) device management, the Wind River Edge Management System. The clou...
IoT
Full circle with Jeremy Rifkin's "The Zero Marginal Cost Society" - Other
December 01, 2014The IoT is set to usher in an unprecedented age of economic efficiency and drive marginal costs of goods and services down to nearly zero.
Security
Think like a hacker for IoT security - Other
November 25, 2014With so many endpoints in the IoT, security can no longer be an afterthought. This requires a built-in approach to security from the ground up, and ne...