Successfully funded with over $1.2 Million on Indiegogo, the Gemini PDA dual boots Android and Debian Linux, comes with a nice keyboard, dual USB Type-C, HDMI output through Type-C, USB Host, option back facing Camera module, 5megapixel front facing camera for video-chat. They have a whole bunch of keyboard shortcuts and a nice UI for shortcuts at the bottom. One SIM card slot and a second eSIM support, LTE it runs on the MediaTek X27 with LTE.
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ELIX Wireless EV charging using their Magneto Dynamic Coupling (MDC) technology
Posted by – January 8, 2018
ELIX Wireless has developed Magneto Dynamic Coupling (MDC) technology and has been deploying wireless chargers for automobiles. They are in trials with EV companies in China and USA. Their solution uses low frequency, so no heat, no EMI, safe to use, has the ability to work in the rain, can push aside debris. They have built and deployed 7.7KW chargers, these are undergoing trials, the company is also making 3.3KW and 22KW chargers which will be beta tested in 2018.
Tacterion shows Highly Flexible Stretchable Sensor for Smart Clothing of the future
Posted by – January 4, 2018
Tacterion shows their innovative and unique capacitive+resistive technology is a highly flexible and stretchable sensor called sensorskin which consists of silicone polymer material and is completely stretchable. Sensors can be deployed on the surface of 3D-curved and even deformable objects for detecting and characterizing interaction and pressure on any surface. The technology is optimized for environments that require the products to be sensitive and extremely robust at the same time. The target markets are Robotics, MedTech, Automotive, Industrial applications and HMI (e.g. Consumer Electronics). Filmed at the IDTechEx Show!
ThinSkin Movable wall for Hotels and Exhibition
Posted by – January 4, 2018
Category: Exclusive videos, IDTechEx
ThinSkin makes movable wall for exhibition and for home.They claim that we can change or add the new capacity of electricity and water to the house any time after the installation.They claim that they can build the hotel and room very fast without rebuilding the entire housing plan. Filmed at the IDTechEx Show!
3D Printed Pendrive from TNO
Posted by – January 4, 2018
TNO is the research institute who helps to decrease the gap between the university and Industry.They are working in additive manufacturing since last 20 years.They are showing the selective laser 3D printed part along with the stereolithography processed part as a 3D printed pendrive case.They can perform shared research for the company where they develop new material and new method of manufacturing for respective industry. Filmed at the IDTechEx Show!
Smart T-shirt with heart rate monitor by AiQ
Posted by – January 4, 2018
AiQ is showcasing their wearable apparels with the sensors like heart rate monitor,motion sensor,temperature sensor. Here they are showcasing the heart rate monitor and logger T-shirt which sends the data to the server via Bluetooth. Filmed at the IDTechEx Show!
NHK Super Hi-Vision 8K with 22.2 surround multichannel sound system
Posted by – December 22, 2017
NHK presents their vision of the future with a very large ultra-thin 8K display and with 22.2 channel audio surround depth system, the best video and audio system in the world. All these features are to be included in HDMI 2.1 which is being released now also and you can see my videos on HDMI 2.1 here.
Hisense $799 65″ 4K HDR, $499 55″ 4K HDR, ULED, Quantum Dot, HDR Supreme
Posted by – December 22, 2017
Hisense presents their latest range of affordable 65″, 55″ and many other sizes 4K HDR TVs such as the new Hisense H65N6800 with quantum dot sub-€1000, Hisense H65N5750 is a 65″ 4K HDR at sub-€800 or possibly sub-€700 without quantum dot. Hisense H55NU8700 and H65NU8700 that can do up to 1000nits brightness and BT2020 with HDR10 and HLG. Hisense H55N5700 is a very entry level 55″ 4K HDR TV possibly sold at sub-€500. Hisense ULED LED65NU7700 uses Hisense’s latest ULED technology. Hisense is a sponsor of the Russia 2018 Fifa World Cup, selling 4K HDR TVs ready for the upcoming football World Cup. Hisense HZ75U9A is a 75″ ULED with Quantum Dot with up to 2200nits brightness, wide color gamut 75″ 4K HDR TV. Hisense has their own VIDAA Linux based smart TV UI, not Android TV for now. Hisense also shows their 8K ULED LED65MU9800V not for sale yet. LED75NU7700 ULED narrow frame, HDR Supreme.
Skyworth 100″ 4K HDR Android TV, 77″ OLED, cheap 55″ Android TV
Posted by – December 22, 2017
Skyworth shows their latest and upcoming 4K HDR TV range with Android TV. Including a 100″ Android TV. Skyworth also sells 77″, 65″, 55″ OLED TVs (probably manufactured by LG) with JBL audio. Skyworth 65″ 65Q8 LCD LED. 55″ 55G7 and 55G6 with Android TV with HLG support, cooca sound bar.
Huawei Hisilicon Kirin 970, 10nm, AI computing
Posted by – December 22, 2017
With 5.5 Billion transistors, this is one of the most advanced ARM Processors for smartphones in the world, included in the Huawei Mate 10, Huawei Mate 10 Pro, with a quad-core ARM Cortex-A73, quad-core ARM Cortex-A53, Mali-G72MP12 GPU, featuring the built-in neural network processing.
Geniatech Tablet Dock for 96Boards
Posted by – December 11, 2017
Category: Tablets, Development Boards, Exclusive videos, Qualcomm, Linaro Connect, Geniatech, Android, Ubuntu, Windows
Geniatech shows their Tablet Dock for use with 96Boards compatible/sized development boards, where the board can just be swapped into the Tablet Dock to power it, including with touch support. To be distributed by Arrow at an affordable price.
Geniatech also provides a range of 96Board sized open source Qualcomm 410, 820 based development boards which you can see some of them featured in this video filmed at Embedded World 2017:
Andrea Gallo, Linaro VP Segment Groups talks open source AI, copyrights, ARM servers, DRM and more
Posted by – December 11, 2017
Category: Exclusive videos, Linaro Connect
Andrea Gallo manages the Linaro Enterprise, Home, Mobile, Networking, IoT and Embedded Segment Groups focusing on their specifc market applications around ARM servers, smartphones, home entertainment, networking. Reporting to Linaro members about resource usage, technical achievements, upstream objectives, planning the next Linaro Connect.
Linaro Core Development Group
Posted by – December 11, 2017
Category: Exclusive videos, Linaro Connect
Mike Holmes is the director of The Linaro Core Development Group, to to help evolve key GNU/Linux upstream technologies across the kernel, power management, security, and virtualization fields with a long-standing experience submitting code upstream, they develop, improve, and maintain these open-source technologies in tight collaboration with the open-source software communities. The Core Development Group coordinates engineering teams and provide management support, Interface and coordinate with other Linaro groups and engineering teams, Support Linaro Members at the engineer level (in their areas of expertise), Execute through the Kernel, Power Management, Security and Virtualization engineering.
Interview with Matt Grob, Qualcomm EVP, Technology at Linaro Connect San Francisco 2017
Posted by – December 11, 2017
Matt Grob is Executive Vice President of technology for Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and a member of Qualcomm’s executive committee. Matt Grob joined Qualcomm in 1991, In 1998, Grob was promoted to lead the Company’s R&D system engineering group and in 2006, he became in charge Qualcomm’s Corporate R&D division, now known as Qualcomm Research. Grob also served as Qualcomm’s Chief Technology Officer from 2011-2017.
You can also watch the video of his Keynote at Linaro Connect San Francisco 2017 here:
Naresh Kamboju QA Service Expert at Linaro
Posted by – December 11, 2017
Category: Exclusive videos, Linaro Connect
Naresh Kamboju, based in Hyderabad India, started working from Linux 2.x kernel and now is working on Linux Kernel Validation and is an active Open Source contributor. Majorly he works on Linux Test project (LTP), Kselftest, Android CTS, VTS, and SystemTap test suites. By using Linaro Automation and Validation Architecture (LAVA) he validates Linux kernel Trees which includes Linux-mainline, Linux-next, Linux-term-stable(LTS) 4.14, 4.9 and 4.4 and sending test reports to Linux kernel Mailing List aka LKML. Naresh Kamboju played a major role in validating ARM big.LITTLE Architecture on Versatile Express TC2 and Juno for measuring Power vs Performance on ARM and ARM64 architectures. he is involved in user space validation building Debian and RPM packages. He started his career at Deference Research and Development Organization (DRDO), Patni computers, Sony and Wipro.
Qualcomm Dragonboard 820c runs Debian Radios streaming with VLC, Icecast
Posted by – December 11, 2017
Here’s the upcoming Qualcomm Dragonboard 820c shown off doing some multimedia streaming running Debian with VLC, Icecast and a USB Radios dongle. Filmed at the Linaro Connect.
Keynote: Heather Meeker (O’Melveny & Myers LLP) at Linaro Connect San Francisco 2017
Posted by – December 11, 2017
Category: Exclusive videos, Linaro Connect
Keynote: Heather Meeker (O’Melveny & Myers LLP) Read more at http://connect.linaro.org/resource/sfo17/sfo17-300k2/
Cavium Octeon TX CN83XX 24-core 64bit ARMv8 for 5G Cellular Backhaul
Posted by – December 11, 2017
Cavium engineers are showing the Cavium Octeon TX 24-core 64bit ARMv8 platform handling the IPsec tunnel for future base stations to be used for the 5G backhaul, to increase bandwidth, increase coverage for cellular networks around the world. Filmed at Linaro Connect.
RISC-V Linux Port is Upstream, interview with Palmer Dabbelt of SiFive, binutils and gcc maintainer
Posted by – December 11, 2017
Category: Exclusive videos, Linaro Connect
RISC-V Linux port has been accepted into Linus’ tree and is slated to release as part of 4.15. While this is a major milestone for RISC-V, they’re far from done in Linux kernel land and there’s a whole lot of work left to be done in userspace.
RISC-V is an open instruction set architecture (ISA) that began in 2010 at the University of California, Berkeley, based on established reduced instruction set computing (RISC) principles, it can be freely used for any purpose, permitting anyone to design, manufacture and sell RISC-V chips and software.
Terrafugia Flying Car Interview
Posted by – December 8, 2017
Terrafugia’s The Transition is the world’s first practical flying car. It offers the convenience of driving and the speed of flight, and will incorporate autonomous technologies that will make the Transition safer than any other small aircraft in the sky. Terrafugia has already developed and flown two full-scale prototypes, and has received all of the special legal approvals necessary to bring the Transition to market in the USA. And for the the Future, Terrafugia’s plans to later release the TF-X, a mass-market flying car with the potential to revolutionize the way people get around. An all-electric vehicle with vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) capabilities and computer-controlled flight, the TF-X is the flying car of the future. This video was filmed at the IDTechEx Show! You can also watch Terrafugia’s presentation video here.
