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Radisurf high-performance bonding, Adhesion Technology

Posted by – October 28, 2019
Category: IDTechEx

RadiSurf’s Adhesion Technology
Want high-performance bonding of metals to dissimilar materials?

Say goodbye to glue. At RadiSurf, we’re re-thinking adhesion.

We create nanometer-thin surface coatings on metals so they can be secured with plastics & other dissimilar materials through sub100 nm long polymer brushes. The adhesion interface is almost invisible but the material joint is very robust.

Chemically clean & environmentally friendly, our extremely strong yet seamless bonding can withstand even extreme.

BILIANA K. at IDTechEx Show Berlin 2019 Quantification of Data as Art Work

Posted by – October 28, 2019
Category: IDTechEx

The process of Quantification of Data, created by Biliana K. is an Unique Artistic Concept, that transforms any ordinary Data Input, into new state of the matter, as Digital Mass, by introducing the Digital Mass Particles, that literally attributes Mass and Energy to Data. BILIANA K. introducing the process of Data Quantification as unique Artistic concept, at IDTechExShow, Berlin 2019, the core of powerful new Technology that transforms #Your_Data_As_Art_Work. For the first time an Artistic Concept generates a pure technological artifact with unique technical characteristics and parameters as Mass, Digital Mass Particles, Object, Energy, combined with unique poetical and Human Dimensions, as the Constant A, The Artist, that generates the uniqueness of the process of Data Quantification and the impossibility to be replicated and reproduced. The process of Data Quantification and the resulted unique Art Work, aims at delivering to people an unique personal product, with which you can develop affinity and ultimately fall in LOVE. Powerful Artistic concept that gives birth to a new potent technology, in order to generate a technological artefact with pure poetic dimension. Nothing is accidental.
Your Data As Art Work is the mission of BILIANA K. Your Data, genuine and authentic to each person, will be transformed into pure Art Work, where desire and necessity to transcend reality, inhabit this virtual and physical artefact of Quantified Data. So you can leave with it, so it can last forever and remains relevant for the future people that will leave around it. NON REPLICABLE APPROACH Combining COMPUTING and MEMORY, Biliana K. creates and unique ArtWork from the personal Data of each individual and the memory that it encapsulates at each individual moment in time. Each Art Work is containing different aspects of what makes as humans, emotions, thoughts, desires. The personal data contains all these different aspects of human existence and experience, being captured at any given time. With humans, perhaps what’s uniqueness we have is self-awareness, we are able to reflect on our own awareness. By the actual fact of commissioning an Art Work from Biliana K, and entrusting me with your Data, you exercise the ultimate human act of self awareness, ultimately empowering and exercising the ultimate human experience of transcending your own reality, independently of where you are, who you are, old or young, reach or pure, educated or not, gender, race. The Art Work is the fusion of the Physical Self (Body, environment parameters) Digital Self (Data parameters) and Human Self (emotional parameters) Technology had always had to serve a practical purpose. As far as Art was part of it, it was and it is, in a terms of design, functionality and purposes. Art however, is making sense exactly because it has no practical purpose. Deconstructing and taking out of context reality it where the magic of transcendence of reality takes place. Because of the ultimate peculiar nature of Data, as almost immaterial Substance, it actually caries within the possibilities of fundamentally different perspective and reading of reality. From Art point of you it is the perfect entity to use if you want to make absurdly unique objects/ArtWork
To commission Your Data As Art Work go to:
Tweeter: @bilianak_
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www.bilianak.com
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NXP i.MX RT106A Arm Cortex-M7 MCU for Alexa

Posted by – October 28, 2019

Turnkey, low cost i.MX RT solution speeds time to market. Cloud-based voice assistants, led by Amazon’s Alexa, have become common in many homes, embedded in smart speakers like Amazon’s Echo products. Soon, the newly emerging trend to build voice assistants directly into smart devices such as light switches, ceiling fans, appliances, smoke detectors, and thermostats, will make voice control ubiquitous throughout the home. Voice assistants conveniently and unobtrusively located throughout the home enable a family’s entire network of connected smart devices to be controlled by voice commands from any room. For example, “Alexa, turn off all the lights,” or even more powerful routines can be created such as, “Alexa, good morning,” which can turn on music, start the coffee pot, adjust the thermostat settings, and more.

Today, a few smart home device and appliance makers are introducing versions of their products with built-in voice assistants. Until now, the technology required to embed cloud voice assistants has required a powerful multicore microprocessor unit (MPU), similar to the application processor in smart phones, with large Flash and SDRAM memories, and complex power management. Such implementations have not been a fit for cost sensitive consumer devices, which has impeded the proliferation of smart home devices with built-in voice.

At Embedded World this week, NXP Semiconductors announced the first MCU based implementation of an Alexa client, based on a new member of NXP’s popular i.MX RT crossover processor family of devices. This new solution enables device makers to build Alexa into products using a low cost, low power microcontroller unit (MCU), a device that is typically already required in any connected smart home product, meaning that OEMs can now add voice to their products at very low incremental cost (not much more than the cost of the microphones). Running on Amazon FreeRTOS, NXP’s new MCU-based AVS solution leverages the power of AWS IoT Core to minimize the processing resources needed to build Alexa into a product. Compared to previous implementations running Linux with large memory footprints, requiring more than 50 MB RAM and several Giga-Bytes of Flash, NXP’s MCU solution needs less than 1 MB of on-chip RAM and fewer than 16 MB of Flash, significantly reducing cost and size.

The i.MX RT106A (“ten-sixty-a”), has a 600 MHz Arm™ Cortex-M7™ processor, 1 MB of on chip SRAM, an LCD display, camera interface, advanced security and flexible communication, combined with a complete turnkey AVS software solution and a production ready hardware design, to enable OEMs to quickly and easily add Alexa to their product designs.

With this solution, device makers realize further benefits of shorter time to market, lower development and lifetime costs. It brings together the Alexa Voice Service, AWS IoT Core, and Amazon FreeRTOS to provide complete and best-in-class security, deployment, and device monitoring.

NXP’s i.MX RT MCU-based AVS solution is available as a complete kit for evaluation, development and prototyping. The hardware consists of two small, 30 mm x 40 mm (1.2” x 1.6”) boards. The MCU system on module (SoM) carries the i.MX RT106A processor, 32 MB of HyperFlash memory, a Wi-Fi/Bluetooth module and an optional NXP A71CH secure element. The audio board has three MEMS microphones and connects to a speaker driven by NXP’s TFA9894D smart audio amplifier. The hardware ships with software that includes everything necessary for a developer to, out-of-the-box, connect to the Alexa Voice Service and immediately start prototyping. This one-stop-shop software package includes far-field voice processing (echo cancellation, noise suppression, beam forming, barge-in), an Alexa wake word inference engine, an AVS client application, API and all necessary drivers.

Samples of the i.MX RT106A processor and the SLN-ALEXA-IOT solution kit are available to qualified early access customers now.

Renesas SOTB (silicon-on-thin-buried-oxide) Low Power ARM microcontrollers for energy harvesting

Posted by – October 28, 2019

Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today unveiled an innovative energy-harvesting embedded controller that can eliminate the need to use or replace batteries in IoT devices. Developed based on Renesas’ breakthrough SOTB™ (silicon-on-thin-buried-oxide) process technology, the new embedded controller achieves extreme reduction in both active and standby current consumption, a combination that was not previously possible to achieve in conventional microcontrollers (MCUs). These extreme low current levels of the SOTB-based embedded controller enables system manufacturers to take a step further and completely eliminate the need for batteries in some of their products through harvesting ambient energy sources such as light, vibration, and flow. The use of extreme low-power and energy harvesting gives rise to a new market of maintenance-free connected IoT sensing devices with endpoint intelligence for applications in industrial, business, residential, agricultural, healthcare, and public infrastructure, as well as health and fitness apparel, shoes, wearables, smart watches, and drones. Renesas has already begun supplying the new embedded controller to beta customer.

Renesas’ first commercial product using SOTB technology, the R7F0E embedded controller, is a 32-bit, Arm® Cortex®-based embedded controller capable of operating up to 64 MHz for rapid local processing of sensor data and execution of complex analysis and control functions. Consuming just 20 μA/MHz active current, and only 150 nA deep standby current, approximately one-tenth that of conventional low-power MCUs, these industry-leading characteristics make the R7F0E perfectly suited for extreme low-power and energy harvesting.

$399 Weibu Snapdragon 850/8cx/835 Laptop and 2-in-1, Windows 10 ARM Powered

Posted by – October 22, 2019

Weibu is the Shenzhen design house ready to work with brands to mass produce affordable Qualcomm Snapdragon 835/850 and soon (from Q1 2020) also the Snapdragon 8cx based 13.3″, 10.8″ and 14.1″ and other sizes from FHD to 3Kx2K displays, for long battery, built-in LTE.

https://youtu.be/u5tTo4-lSlw

Cosmo Communicator shipping now to backers, Dual Display Backlit Keyboard Phone, MTK P70+STM32

Posted by – October 22, 2019

Cosmo Communicator is right now being mass produced and shipping out to the nearly 4000 backers of the nearly $2M Indiegogo project at https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/cosmo-communicator#/ here is an extensive interview with Janko Mrsic-Flogel, CEO of Planet Computers, the creator of the awesome Gemini PDA Clamshell Keyboard Phone (which I used for 9 months in 2018 as my main phone) and now following that up with the Dual Display Cosmo Communicator, integrating dual-SIM 4G LTE, supports Android 9, Sailfish and other Linux operating systems to come with a multi-boot support, a full physical backlit keyboard, dual colour touchscreen displays, 24MP camera, external 1.91″ touchscreen when the phone is closed and a large 6″ internally when the phone is opened in full productivity mode. It also integrated a toggle switch with backside fingerprint reader for quick secure unlocking. In this video, Janko shows some of the features supported on that secondary 570×240, 300ppi, 1.91″ external display which runs Free RTOS separately on an STMicroelectronics STM32 processor. With supported interactions such as music control, phone dialing, quick dialing, notifications and much more. The new processor is the MediaTek P70 Quad Arm Cortex A73 with Quad
Arm Cortex A53 with an Arm Mali G72 MP3 GPU.

NEC Drone Taxi, 5G, Face ID, Smart City

Posted by – October 22, 2019

NEC shows some of their technologies at #CEATEC2019 including a Drone that has flown about 3 meters thus far, but it’s just a prototype. And it’s not meant to carry any human being, so it’s actually not a drone taxi, it’s unmanned for cargo only.

Video-coverage from CEATEC 2019 sponsored by Semiconductor Energy Laboratory, watch my videos with SEL here.

Takenaka Robots in Construction, MR, VR, AI, Smart City planning, architecture, CO2 sensing and more

Posted by – October 21, 2019

Takenaka Corporation is one of the largest architecture, engineering, and construction firms in Japan. Its headquarters is located in Chūō-ku, Osaka, Osaka Prefecture. Takenaka has 8 domestic offices in Japan and overseas offices in Asia, Europe, and the USA.

Video-coverage from CEATEC 2019 sponsored by Semiconductor Energy Laboratory, watch my videos with SEL here.

Lillycover Muilli skin microscope AI analyser for Diagnosis Analysis and Skin Trainer

Posted by – October 21, 2019

Lillycover Muilli skin microscope with AI analyser offers Diagnosis∙Analysis + Skin Trainer, advice on beauty skin creams and care, serum, lotion, foundation and other products also available customized targetted at each user.

Domiwear 2.8″ Android Smartwatch, 2800mAh with LTE

Posted by – October 21, 2019

Domiwear shows some really big Smartwatches, larger screens to do more on your wrist, here featuring their 2.8″ Android Smartwatch with 2800mAh battery, LTE sim card slot, runs on an MediaTek chipset. They also have a large rounded display smartwatch and a large Apple watch style Smartwatch too.

Remaxlife IoT, Smart Home, pillows, lamps, luggage and much more

Posted by – October 21, 2019

Wise choice happy life, vehicle ptoduct, personal care, creative life, lighting.

Utopia Power Banks, Fast charge, Wireless, stick-on, compact

Posted by – October 21, 2019

I first filmed with Li Xing 9 years ago, he also manages the power bank brand Veger you can see my factory tour video in his power bank factory here: https://www.youtube.com/user/Charbax/search?query=veger

Livall Smart Bicycle Helmet

Posted by – October 20, 2019
Category: IFA, Exclusive video

Livall unveils its new Smart Bicycle Helmets with safety features, LED turn signals, calling SOS contacts when fall is detected, audio passthrough and more. This video also features part of CEO press conference event unveiling new product, and interviews with UK distributor and Germany distributor too.

Groove X Lovot Hugging Robot Pet

Posted by – October 19, 2019

Groove X Lovot from https://groove-x.com/en/ MISSION

Bring out humanity’s full potential through robotics.
VISION

Build trust between humanity and robots,
to create companions for more enriched and secure living.
PHILOSOPHY
NEW X, BESIDE YOU.

The one and only robot in this universe that heals your heart…. It is possible to be loved as your family, partner, or your loved one,

instead of praised just because of its convenience or functionality. GROOVE X pursues to create a robot that touches your heart.

“Does this advancement benefit human beings?”

Message from the CEO

Has technology made people happy? Without a doubt technology has made our lifestyles affluent and enhanced efficiency in many ways. But if you ask if it has really made human beings happy, I believe you will likely find that not many people can answer “yes” with conviction.

The reason why is that along with technological advances we have seen a growing gap between our plentiful lifestyles and our emotional engagement and sense of satisfaction. Groove X has created LOVOT in order to help bridge that gap.

All the more because technological progress has provided us with an abundance of material possessions, we have become increasingly aware that experiences and memories are more important than objects. LOVOT provides something that previous robots have not been able to deliver. With our world-first innovative robot, we believe we have set a new course and taken the first step towards the creation of a new sense of values in which technology itself facilitates emotional fulfillment and caring. In the kind of society that we have in mind, robots for a new age will be able to make people happy while enhancing their performance.

We Want to Invigorate Japan. The Future Envisaged by GROOVE X
GROOVE X would like to become a catalyst for restoring dynamism to Japan in two ways. First, we believe that a Japanese startup that proves able to join the ranks of global players could help reinvigorate Japanese industry as a whole. A startup that makes it big would also encourage adventurous would-be entrepreneurs to take risks, and thereby accelerate new developments in various fields of industry.

Secondly, it should boost financing—the lifeblood of startups—at the global level. Increasing the number of Japanese startups which can earn foreign exchange and achieve a global presence is an important task.

Promotion of reinvigoration of Japanese industry and the appearance of Japanese startups committed to making their mark in world markets could help restore vitality to Japan. GROOVE X has taken the initial step on that road to renaissance.

ANA shows ShadowRobot Dexterous Hands, Humanoid Robot, Telepresence Robot, Fishing, Forest walking

Posted by – October 19, 2019

Shadow http://shadowrobot.com Dexterous Hand takes a truly anthropomorphic approach to robot manipulation, with 20 actuated degrees of freedom, absolute position and force sensors, and ultra sensitive touch sensors on the fingertips, the hand provides unique capabilities for problems that require the closest approximation of the human hand currently possible.

The Shadow Dexterous Hand uses industry standard interfaces and can be used as a tele-operation tool or mounted on a range of robot arms as part of a robot system.

See the hand in action at http://www.youtube.com/user/srcteam

Approximating the kinematics of the human hand was our top priority when developing the Dexterous Hand. The Hand has 20 actuated degrees of freedom and a further 4 under-actuated movements for total of 24 joints. Each joint has a movement range again the same as or very close to that of a human hand, including the thumb and even the flex of the palm for the little finger. A model of the Shadow Hand for use in Blender was developed by Shadow and UPMC and is available from here: https://www.shadowrobot.com/downloads/ShadowHandEnvelop_2012-07-22.tar.bz2

Video-coverage from CEATEC 2019 sponsored by Semiconductor Energy Laboratory, watch my videos with SEL here.

Ellcie Healthy Smart Glass, eye tracking, drowsiness sensor, LED, sound and more

Posted by – October 19, 2019

Our smart connected frames have been designed to look after you without any discomfort  and look after you everyday. It will evolve thanks to software updates, and you will be able to benefit from new features with the same connected eyewear your purchased. Today our connected eyewear detects drowsiness; tomorrow it will detect falls, and even prevent them, allow activity tracking and a lot more.

HOW DOES ELLCIE HEALTHY EYEWEAR WORK ?

The idea is to integrate a number of sensors to the eyeglasses’ frames, send the collected data (physical, physiological or environmental) via smartphone to Artificial Intelligence algorithms to be processed into information and / or predictions on the wearer’s health and  safety. All this being done thanks to a massively adopted object that are the frames of eyeglasses. The Ellcie Healthy frames are divided into two main product categories, the “consumer” frames on the one hand and the “medical devices” frames on the other hand that are subject to stricter regulations in France, Europe and the rest of the world.

OUR EYEWEAR PRODUCT SHEET

CONNECTED GLASSES YES, BUT ADAPTED TO MY EYESIGHT !

Ellcie Healthy’s Smart eyewear is compatible with correcting lenses. Simply go to your optician with your eye doctor’s order to get the lenses adapted to your sight on your Ellcie Healthy smart connected eyewear.

HOW TO TAKE CARE OF ELLCIE HEALTHY EYEGLASSES

Nothing’s easier ! Ellcie Healthy glasses maintain themselves almost like less sophisticated glasses. You can wash them with wipes soaked in disinfectant, or by wetting a cloth. Be careful not to wash them under water.
For the proper functioning of the glasses and their longevity, we recommend not to leave them in the car in case of hot weather.

Ellcie Healthy is a startup created by Philippe PEYRARD (25 years’ experience in the Optical field) which designs and sells smart connected eyewear. Our technology brings valuable data to individuals in order to protect their health and increase their wellbeing and safety.

Video-coverage from CEATEC 2019 sponsored by Semiconductor Energy Laboratory, watch my videos with SEL here.

TDK at CEATEC 2019, Solid-state battery, Piezo speaker, capacitors, ToF sensor

Posted by – October 18, 2019

Here introducing TDK products at #CEATEC2019 contributing to the attraction of a happy future society in seven markets, MEMS motion sensors(inertial measurement unit)

Battery

Solid-state battery CeraCharge

Motion SensorsIoT

Take a look here at the TDK Group’s abundant product lineup relating to IoT and motion sensors (inertial measurement units).

Piezo Speaker PiezoListen™

Piezo Actuators PiezoHapt™

Ag-stacked Transparent conductive film

MEMS microphone

UltraPrint™ ultrasonic fingerprint sensor

TMR current sensor / Hall sensor

Highly reliable passive components for automotive (capacitor, inductor, varistor)

In-cabin wireless charging pattern coil

Smart Crystal

Comfort

Take a look here at the TDK Group’s abundant product lineup relating to comfort.

Wearable biosensor Silmee™

Ultra high sensitirity magnetic sensor pT-MR

Silmee™Ultrasensitive
magnetic sensor

Take a look here at information relating to SilmeeTM and super-high-sensitivity magnetic sensors.

5G array antenna

Micro Point-of-Load(μPOL™) DC-DC Converters

Chip varistor for audio system

5G

Take a look here at the TDK Group’s abundant product lineup relating to 5G.

Film capacitor

Isolated Bi-directional DC-DC Converters EZA series

Programmable Power Supplies GENESYS+series

Film capacitorPower supplies

Take a look here at the TDK Group’s abundant product lineup relating to film capacitors and Power supplies.

TMR angle sensor for motor control

Industrial robots

Take a look here at the TDK Group’s abundant product lineup relating to industrial robots.

Ultrasonic Time-of-Flight (ToF) sensor

MEMS motion sensors(inertial measurement unit)

Piezo Haptics PowerHap™

Piezo Switch

Motion SensorsPowerHap™ Actuators

Take a look here at the TDK Group’s abundant product lineup relating to piezo actuators and motion sensors (inertial measurement units).

µPOL】
https://www.tdk.com/corp/en/news_center/press/20190318_01.htm

【CeraCharge】
https://www.tdk-electronics.tdk.com/en/373388/company/press-center/press-releases/press-releases/rechargeable-batteries–ceracharge—-first-rechargeable-solid-state-smd-battery-/2166280

【MEMS Sensors】
https://www.tdk.com/corp/en/news_center/press/20190625_01.htm

【PiezoListen】
https://www.tdk.com/corp/en/news_center/press/20190521_01.htm

【Inductors】
https://www.tdk.com/corp/en/news_center/press/20190212_01.htm

【TDK booth at CEATEC 2019】
https://site.tdk.com/ceatec2019e.html?elqTrack=true#ancor02

Video-coverage from CEATEC 2019 sponsored by Semiconductor Energy Laboratory, watch my videos with SEL here.

E Ink CEATEC 2019 booth tour, Ricoh 42″ white board, Linfiny 13.3″, 10.3″, Ratta Supernote and more

Posted by – October 17, 2019

Booth tour at E Ink #CEATEC2019, featuring Ricoh 42” Interactive Digital White Board, Linfiny 13.3” / 10.3” eNote, Ratta Supernote 10.3″, 7.8”, GDS Bus Signage, 28.3” Bar Display, E Ink JustWrite, E Ink JustPrintIt, E Ink JustTint, Battery Less Tag from Tag makers NJRC, SK Electronics, Takaya, Denso Wave Reader/Writer, Takaya, E Ink Evaluation Kits, 13.3”ACeP, 1.43”, 1.1”, EPSON Display Controller, ACeP (Advanced Color ePaper) 13.3” / 26.6” / 4.3” eBadge, CREA 42” 4pcs Tile Up Signage / 32” Signage.

Video-coverage from CEATEC 2019 sponsored by Semiconductor Energy Laboratory, watch my videos with SEL here.

Colorii Type-C Touch Display, Type-C Hubs, Mac Mini Hub and more

Posted by – October 17, 2019

Vsoontech V-Touch table Projector, Pico Projector, Voice Translator

Posted by – October 17, 2019

Producing mini projectors, translators, Android TV boxes and remote controllers
200+ R&D staff | 10+ years of manufacturing experience | OEM/ODM services

More than a Decade of Manufacturing Experience
Vsoontech is an innovative company based in Guangzhou and Shenzhen, China, which parent company is established in 2007. We are specialized in developing AI hardware and software turnkey solutions fitting to the requirements of our customers. We have more than 10 years of manufacturing experience for our AI series product line which includes DLP/LCD mini projectors, translators, Wi-Fi display receivers, TV boxes and voice remote controllers. Most of our products are based on Android OS.

Owning More Than 6,000-square-meter Modern Factory
We have built up a modern factory in Guangzhou with more than 6,000 square meters, which can output about 100,000 sets monthly. We have self-developed auto-inspection system and facilities to do 100% quality checking for each unit.

Backed by More Than 200 R&D Engineers
We have offices in Guangzhou and Shenzhen. Our R&D head office is located in the center of Guangzhou University Town surrounding by the Top 10 Universities in Guangdong province. There are more than 200 R&D engineers working on our hardware and software development.