Here’s a solar powered sound system, you can use it on a sunny day in the park or on the beach and the solar powered system and battery should last it playing loud music the whole day. It’s got a little E Ink screen that displays information about status, battery level, volume and other information. You pair your Bluetooth smartphone or other Bluetooth music player to it as the source for the music.
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Freescale shows i.MX6 for auto/aero-infotainment with long term support
Posted by – January 19, 2012
Freescale is showing the next generation i.MX6 ARM Cortex-A9 based in-car infotainment system. Freescale promises to provide 15 years of support for the chip, meaning that car manufacturers can feel confident using the i.MX6 in cars and airplanes, as it takes multiple years to make those, Freescale promises to still manufacture the same processor 15 years from now. They optimize features for cars such as using sensors and cameras for better car safety. Freescale is a global leader in producing processors used in cars.
Phaeton DVIP $200 Android Watch uses MTK6516 with dual-SIM
Posted by – January 17, 2012
Shenzhen Phaeton Nice Electronic High-Tech Manufacturing Co Ltd is showing this Android Watch shown at CES 2012. It supports 2 SIM GPRS/voice cards on the MTK6516 processor, soon they’ll use the faster 3G-enabled MTK6573 processor. For now it’s Froyo, the MTK6573 may support Ice Cream Sandwich soon, to be confirmed. So this is not just an Android watch, thanks to the Mediatek processor, it can replace your smartphone. It has a built-in camera, MicroSD card slot, speaker, microphone and more. It uses a 2″ 320×240 QVGA capacitive touch screen, standby battery can be about 1 week, 36 hours active use, to be confirmed. The price is just $200 for bulk orders, minimum order quantity of 500. They also show a $70 1.5″ feature phone watch and a
Status of the Raspberry Pi at CES 2012
Posted by – January 17, 2012
Raspberry Pi expects to have volume devices on the market by the end of the month. That means $25 and $35 (with ethernet) Broadcom ARM11 ARM Powered Desktops are thus just about to be broadly available.
Caseinity Cord-On-Board iPhone case at CES 2012
Posted by – January 17, 2012
Here’s a new iPhone case company, funded through Kickstarter, it includes the cable and does an ergonomic shape behind your iPhone.
Augmented Video-blogging Hangout featuring the Kopin Golden-i at CES 2012
Posted by – January 16, 2012
Here’s a Google+ Hangout recorded while at the Kopin Golden-i reception held at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas during CES 2012. Demonstrating and talking about my Augmented Video-blogging using their device, and other uses of this headmounted display device and other news from the CES. You can fast forward to about 34 minutes 40 seconds in for the demo by Motorola Solutions’s Product Lead on the Golden-i, Nicole Tricoukes, explaining how the Golden-i headmounted computer works and what Motorola Solutions plans to target it for when they plan to mass produce it and release it in the second half of the year (you can watch her TEDx presentation)
ST Electronics Digisafe, secure hard drive encryption
Posted by – January 15, 2012
ST Electronics show their Digisafe 2.5″ hard drive enclosure that provides 100% secure encription to the enclosed 1.8″ hard drive.
LiftMaster shows Android and iOS powered Garage Door opener
Posted by – January 15, 2012
You install their garage door motor on your garage door and you install the Android or iOS app on your smartphone and tablets and you can then open and close your garage door over the Internet.
Motorola Kopin Golden-i at the Verizon booth at CES 2012
Posted by – January 14, 2012
The Motorola Kopin Golden-i is being showcased at the Verizon booth at CES 2012, demonstrating hands-free wearable computing user interfaces for Industrial uses such as Construction, Medical, Public safety, Utilities and more. I’ve been using this for the past 2 months to attempt to have a wearable computing augmented video-blogging system, using Google+ Hangouts On Air with the headmounted display showing a live chat and live status updates from Google+, Twitter, Email alerts and more.
Turbo Ace quad copter
Posted by – January 12, 2012
You can fix your camera to it and it’ll fly up and do some aerial photography and video for you, with a gyroscope based stabilizer.