CES 2012 roundup and photos, Monday
Due to other major events that we at EDN are prepping for, like DesignCon later this month and Design West (a new event bringing 7 specialized conferences under 1 roof), as well as some other stellar things in the works (more to come), I’m not at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show. But the team we have at CES - EDN’s Patrick Mannion, EE Times‘ Junko Yoshida and Sylvie Barak, and Design News‘ Alex Wolfe - is sharing such amazing coverage it’s like being in Vegas this week (expect without the crowds and without having to pay $12 for a bottle of water).
You’ll find all their CES coverage here. Meanwhile, here are a few stories that particularly relate to the design engineer:
TI scores another OMAP design win
Bosch offers smallest triaxial gyroscope for CE industry
Atmel to launch new MCUs for next-gen touchscreens
Invensense tips single-chip inertial navigation unit
Freescale widens eReader and tablet coverage with i.MX 6 expansion
NXP validates MEMS timing market
And here are a few photos from the show:
ST-Ericsson’s new generation of multimode mobile modem (LTE, HSPA+ Fual Carrier and TD technologies) on the palm of hand. The module shown here consists of baseband, RF, memory and others. The modem, called Thor M7400, is currently sampling among ST-Ericsson’s customers, scheduled for mass production in 2012. (The company is not saying when in 2012 yet.) What everyone wants, though, is a version of a chip that integrates this M7400 integrated with ST-Ericsson’s applications processor. -EE Times
Zomm has shown off a one-touch personal safety device called “Lifestyle Connect.” The key here is that the device leverages both traditional Bluetooth and Bluetooth Low Energy. In an emergency, the heart strap (based on Bluetooth Low Energy) sends an alert to the Lifestyle Connect, with the information being wirelessly relayed to a smartphone (based on classic Bluetooth), calling for assistance from a personal safety service and from a network of the patient’s close friends and family members. -EE Times
Haier, one of China’s top five TV manufacturers, doesn’t just make TVs. Haier in China, in fact, is best known for its home appliances. The company claims that its global appliance revenue - as large as $23 billion a year - is bigger than that of General Electric’s home appliances business. Here, Haier is showing one of the connected home apps - with a smartphone taking a photo of barcode of a wine bottle, keeping the record to organize your inventories in your wine cellar. -EE Times
Called “Piano apprentice,” this one lets a user to plop his/her iPad in a box shaped like a keyboard. The student follows lights on the piano apprentice’s keys to learn how to play the instrument. -EE Times
For more photos, check out the slideshows on this page.
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