Freescale is one of the leaders in putting processors and technology into cars. Freescale has put as much technology as they can on this concept car to showcase what we might see in the future out of the automotive industry.
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Freescale Automotive: 3 levels of instrument cluster solutions
Posted by – June 24, 2010
Freescale shows what they think future car dashboards will look like. They will be fully LCD based with for example a wide 12.3″ Sharp LCD screen running Linux features on the Freescale i.MX51.
Freescale Power Management and Audio controls through USB
Posted by – June 24, 2010
Micro/Mini USB switch which controls routing of the audio, usb and uart to the processor and also controls the battery charging. Basically this means all kinds of things can be done just using the Mini or Micro USB connector.
Freescale touch sensors on a guitar
Posted by – June 23, 2010
As a demo, Freescale has put some capacitive sensors and combine them with resistive stings to thus combine the effect of a keyboard and of a guitar into an instrument.
Acceleglove by AnthroTronix
Posted by – June 23, 2010
The AcceleGlove™ instrumented gesture recognition glove (“designated iGlove for DoD/NIH applications”) has been developed under SBIR grants from the U.S. Army and Department of Education. Find more informations at: http://www.acceleglove.com
Hugh Herr keynote at the Freescale Technology Forum in Orlando
Posted by – June 23, 2010
Hugh Herr directs the Biomechatronics group at The MIT Media Lab.
Freescale QNX Energy Management Systems
Posted by – June 23, 2010
Freescale and QNX Software Systems are showing their new smart energy reference, a pre-integrated software stack that makes it easier to design, deploy, and extend smart-home energy management systems based on the Freescale i.MX25, i.MX35 and i.MX51.
Self-driven slot cars powered by Freescale
You know the slot cars, you have two little electric cars on a track and two players have a button to decide how much voltage to send over to the car. Freescale has collaborated with universities in Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania to use Freescale sensors and software algorithms to create an automatic self-driven car that is faster than most human drivers. As it learns the track on its first lap, it then speeds away at full speed, knowing exacly how much speed to use in each turn. You can watch this other official video showing the self-driven slot cars at Self-driven slot cars at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv5_g5dVsaw
Freescale low power small size low cost accelerometer MMA7660 for portrait and landscape detection
Posted by – June 20, 2010
Featuring the popular ZSTAR3 (zigbee like wireless sensor demo).
Freescale new 12-bit digital accelerometer MMA8450Q
Posted by – June 20, 2010
Embedded Innovative features like transient detection (High pass filter for gravity offset) and 32 FIFO samples associated with auto wake-up function.
A brief introduction to Freescale pressure sensors portfolio
Posted by – June 20, 2010
Featuring the medical invasive blood pressure MPX2300DT1, the ultra small absolute barometric sensor MPL115A and the water level demo DEMOAPEX.
Freescale ultra low-power controllers simplifies design for capacitive touch solutions
Posted by – June 14, 2010
Featuring pocket size touch demo DEMOMPR031 (4 µA current consumption with ITO pads) and Freescale appliance touch control hob demo. I filmed this at the Freescale European headquarters in Toulouse.
Inventec Kayak, low cost 3G/2G phone with built-in computer
Posted by – June 4, 2010
Based on Qualcomm’s Brew OS, this is a very basic phone for use on wireless networks in developing countries, where copper networks aren’t available but where the 2G and 3G networks already are. This Brew OS is basic and fast even on this MSM7227 based device. It offer Opera Mobile browser, some basic games and a few other basic apps.
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Zinwell adds Opera browser and Flash support
Posted by – June 3, 2010
Zinwell is about to support the Opera browser with Flash Youtube playback and video demand IPTV.
Kingston 64GB SDHC Card
Posted by – June 3, 2010
Getting more data on those SDHC cards is going to be cool.
aiwi, Wii-like gaming controls using iPhone/iPod Touch
Posted by – June 3, 2010
Here’s a new app that turns your iPhone or iPod touch into a g-sensor gaming controller for your advanced PC games.
ARM Powered 3D-TV by Samsung
Posted by – June 1, 2010
Samsung’s latest generation: ARM powered 3D Internet- Tvs, The 3D experience of a cinema is combined with internet. Watch 3D movies and Youtube, check your facebook account and chat with your grannie!
Wi Drive Multi-Function portable Wireless Storage Router
The Wi Drive DX-325 is the first device that combines a router, a wireless network adapter and NAS.
Review: Novatel Wireless Mifi 2352 vs Huawei e5830
Posted by – May 16, 2010
The Mifi is a great solution for bringing a WiFi hotspot with you everywhere in the city and even in the country (depending on HSDPA/UMTS/GPRS coverage in your country). It’s perfect to add 3G connectivity to your Archos, iPad, iPod Touch, Laptops and any other WiFi-only devices that you may have. In this video, I compare the performance and features of the two Mifi adapters that are available on the market, the Novatel Wireless Mifi 2352 and the Huawei e5830.
In this video, I demonstrate a VOIP call taken using Google Voice and Gizmo5 on my $249 Archos 5 Internet Tablet using SIPdroid or any other SIP VOIP applications on the Android OS. This is the vision where you just need a pre-paid 1GB or 10GB of bandwidth per month on a SIM card, just enter it in your unlocked Mifi device, make sure the right profile informations are entered using the control panel and that’s it. You’ve just about got a full mobile phone replacement, but where you don’t need to pay for voice minutes and SMS subscriptions any more.
Although eventually all devices will have built-in unlocked SIM card slots and modems, the Mifi solution is a really great temporary alternative, that connects on 3G all WiFi-only devices. When your city gets White Spaces, LTE or WiMax, you don’t need to buy new devices, just buy a new Mifi.
If you travel a lot in Europe, this is a must have. Then find SIM cards for cheap pre-paid plans, for 5€ to 10€ and get Mifi internet access all over that city and country.
The Novatel Wireless Mifi 2352 that I got was unlocked beforehand, I don’t know if there are online programs to unlock one if you happen to have a locked one. It can be bought unlocked for 214€ at moblix.hu and expansys.com.
I will post further test video of the Novatel Wireless Mifi 2352 once I get to figure out how to use some of the more advanced features. And at Mobile World Congress, Novatel Wireless advertised the functionality of installing applications on their Mifi device (see my video interview about it), to increase the functionalities. Such as hosting a little server in there on the MicroSD card, doing some file-sharing, file caching, GPS tracking and other stuff. The Mifi is the kind of device that I think all busses, trains in Denmark are getting installed to provide free WiFi to all people taking public transportation. If you own a taxi business, drive a bus, own a sausage stand, providing your customers with mobile WiFi is an awesome opportunity.
I bought the Huawei e5830 at the Three store in London for £49 with a compulsory £10 1GB/month first month pre-paid credit. I then unlocked it for 15€ using http://www.dc-unlocker.com/ (it can also be bought internationally from ebay.co.uk for around £80 unlocked) and I installed the latest firmware with full Control Panel, built-in Profile and other Router management features at: http://www.davidicke.com/forum/showthread.php?t=98318&page=2. Consider also I filmed the Huawei E5 version 2 (with faster 3G HSPA+ speeds support and a new display) at Mobile World Congress, see my video here: http://138.2.152.197/2010/02/15/huawei-e5-2-mifi-at-mobile-world-congress-2010/
CERN LHC 7TeV Collisions now detecting!
Posted by – March 30, 2010
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Wow, we are finally able to collide particles at full 7 TerraVolt power! Watch the awesome live webcast at: http://webcast.cern.ch/lhcfirstphysics/
I interviewed several of the core people working at the ATLAS experiment about 3 years ago, Pippa Wells project leader of the ATLAS Semi-Conductor Tracker and Allesandra Ciocio Deputy Commissioning Coordinator for the SCT (worked on ATLAS since 1994) when they were still building and installing all the thousands of cables for the detectors in the Large Hadron Collider ATLAS experiment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RftVXRXPbhM (a picture 2 of Pippa and Allesandra at work a few years ago) and my 1-hour video-interview and walkthrough the CERN GRID Computing project to distribute the computing of the terrabytes of data of the CERN LHC experiments that is now being transfered out to be processed at hundreds of data-centers around the world: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3429406569570342668
Check out my guided tour video that I filmed down at the CERN Large Hadron Collider ATLAS detector about 3 years ago:
Follow the CERN LHC Twitter: http://twitter.com/cern
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