We’ve all seen examples over the past few years of complex IoT technology solutions to help solve real-world problems from a variety of small companies. In fact, last week while I was at the ARM Holdings annual industry analyst conference and TechCon, a gathering of the ARM ecosystem powers, you
The government has a robotics problem. Government grants for cutting edge robotics research and development typically favor large military contractors. But a lot of the development in robotics these days comes from individuals, startups, and university labs capitalizing on developments in 3D printing and falling sensor prices. Because hardware has
Scientists at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio say they’ve used electronics to get around a paralyzed man’s spinal injury, permitting him to use an implant in his brain to move his arm and hand. The test represents the first time that signals collected in the brain have been conveyed
In a cable car high above Japan, the country’s distinctive architecture unfurls beneath me. I see clay kawara tiles covering rooftops, shimmering as the cable car gently swings. Suddenly everything stops, then goes dim. YouTube is buffering. The implications are real. By making its entire video library workable with Cardboard,
Invite 60 gifted high-schoolers to a week-long supercomputing camp. Train them on how to accelerate applications using GPUs. Organize them into small groups, each with their own stack of Jetson TK1 devkits, and set them loose. What do you get? Packs of teens developing a social networking service to communicate with
An artificial intelligence is incapable of original thought — at least for now. What it can do, however, is collate information in new ways, resulting in a creation that seems original. This is how Scheherazade, an artificial intelligence developed by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, works. Named after
M2M technology is changing what’s possible with farming, so much so that people have coined the Internet of Food to capture all advances in technology under one banner. Farms are starting to connect their crops and livestock to networks using M2M technology. In Napa Valley, wine makers are using sensors powered
VR has made big strides over the past several years. But the basic principle remains the same as when Sir Charles Wheatsone invented the first stereoscopic headset in 1838. Sir Charles put two images of the same scene — drawn from slightly offset angles — inside a box attached to
An alliance led by IBM Research announced that it has produced the semiconductor industry’s first 7nm (nanometer) node test chips with functioning transistors. The breakthrough, accomplished in partnership with GLOBALFOUNDRIES and Samsung at SUNY Polytechnic Institute’s Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (SUNY Poly CNSE), could result in the ability
On April 19, 1965, Electronics magazine published an article that would change the world. It was authored by Fairchild Semiconductor’s R&D director, who made the observation that transistors—the fundamental building blocks of the semiconductor—would decrease in cost and increase in performance at an exponential rate. The article predicted the personal