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Varta Microbatteries

Posted by Charbax – November 16, 2016
Category: Exclusive videos, IDTechEx

Varta shows off their new microbatteries, including lithium-ion rechargeable coin cells for higher energy densities for wearables, IoT and other applications. Varta also shows their Powercaps for server backups, energy harvesting and other applications that require a large amount of power over a short timeframe. They are also working on printed batteries, and the next generation of lithium-ion batteries.

VARTA AG is a German company manufacturing batteries for global automotive, industrial, and consumer markets.

For more information, see http://www.varta.com/eng/ and http://www.idtechex.com.

Novacentrix Showcases Accessories for their PulseForge 1200

Posted by Charbax – November 16, 2016
Category: Printed Electronics, Exclusive videos, IDTechEx

Stan Farnsworth of Novacentrix discusses the PulseForge 1200 and its accessories, including the EX1 Controlled Environment for photonic curing at the IDTechEx Show! in Berlin. Novacentrix also shows their roll to roll print and curing systems, which can be used for a range of printed electronics applications, including wearables.

NovaCentrix offers industry leading photonic curing tools, material and expertise enabling development and production of next generation printed electronic devices – some already on the market. PulseForge® tools utilize photonic curing which is a cutting edge technology that dries, sinters, and anneals functional inks in milliseconds on low-temperature, flexible substrates such as paper and plastic. PulseForge tools can save time and money, and enable new types of products in applications like solar, RFID, display, packaging, and circuit.

For more information, see http://www.novacentrix.com and http://www.idtechex.com.

Ilika Solid State Battery Technology for the Internet of Things

Posted by Charbax – November 16, 2016
Category: Internet of Things, Exclusive videos, IDTechEx

Meeting the demand to power 15billion + sensors in the IoT
Self-charging using photo voltaic, piezo electric or thermo electric energy harvesters
No cabling or maintenance
4 x longer lifespan than conventional lithium ion batteries
40% improvement in energy density (compared with alternative solid state battery technology)
Increased temperature range: up to 100 degrees C plus (30% higher than existing products)
No free lithium – non-flammable

Moto Z, Projector, Camera, Speaker, Battery MotoMods

Posted by Charbax – November 15, 2016
Category: Smartphones, Projectors, Cameras, Speakers, Development Boards, Exclusive videos, Qualcomm, Android

Lenovo Motorola Moto Z is an amazing new Smartphone, with Greybus (watch the video that I filmed with Greg Kroah-Hartman on their Greybus development for Google’s discontinued Project Ara) based data and hot-swappable power pogopin docking technology on an ultra-thin Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 Smartphone design, with options to dock a TI DLP Pico Projector MotoMod, a Hasselblad True Zoom Photo/Video Camera, JBL SoundBoost Speaker and the Incipio offGRID Power Pack, all MotoMods that customizes and expands the functionalities of a Smartphone. An absolutely fascinating potential evolution for the Smartphone market, Motorola is developing a potentially amazing ecosystem for future-proof MotoMods that can turn your Smartphone into a Project, into a point-and-shoot quality Camera, into an amazingly loud Speaker and that can expand its battery life easily. All these MotoMods are magnetically locked onto the back of the Moto Z. Now Motorola is also releasing the Moto Mods Development Kit to enable third parties to develop new MotoMods for the Moto Z, for example I hope someone makes an ultra-thin E Ink Mobius (flexible, plastic and non-glass) display for the back-size of the smartphone, a Kent Displays CH-LCD based notes taking back case and a LapDock Laptop Dock to use the Moto Z to power the Ultra-thin Laptop dock and desktop dock. The functionalities of Moto Z can also expand through the TurboPower fast charging USB Type C which I have used with USB Type C to SD card adapter, for example to upload videos from my SD card to YouTube. The possibilities with the Moto Z ecosystem are very, very interesting. But for these to get the attention of the consumers worldwide, I think that Lenovo/Motorola needs to lower the price of the bundles to around $599 for the phone including the Projector MotoMod, $699 including Projector and E Ink MotoMod, $349 or $399 for the Moto Z by itself (instead of the current $699). $699 should also be a bundle to include an ultra-thin and ultra-light small bezel 13.3″ Laptop Dock and Desktop Dock MotoMod and with the appropriate Remix OS like Android implementation through Android Nougat to support full Android Powered Productivity on the external display.

Trump is a Democrat (Tech Talkshow)

Posted by Charbax – November 15, 2016
Category: Exclusive videos, Opinions

Trump scammed the Republican party. Gridlock in the US congress might be over by Trump forcing through policies that Republicans might embrace yet not really be that conservative. Change might be coming, also to Google/Twitter/Facebook unblocking in China. Here is a video-hangout with Jay Umaretiya, AKA Stromium, who is posting texts for hundreds of my videos being posted on http://ARMdevices.net over the past several months, and he will also be posting many more in the year to come as we post an average of 3 new tech videos per day on http://ARMdevices.net every day, the whole year.

E Ink for Productivity, Onyx N96ML, 9.6″ E Ink Android Reader with digitizer

Posted by Charbax – November 15, 2016
Category: E-readers, Exclusive videos, NXP, Onyx, Android

One of the potential segment for devices that I am quite excited about, is the E Ink based large screen connected stylus touch e-reader. Provided it gets the perfectly smart implementation, it can unlock a world of being more productive reading and annotating all kinds of texts, in all kinds of fields of study, professionalism, creativity and curiosity. Reading on an E Ink display has already been proven by Kindle to be an awesome experience. Make use of customized Android for E Ink devices, WiFi and Bluetooth, and the potential for this device can be really great and for me is quite exciting. This is the Onyx N96ML, a 9.6″ 1200×825 E Ink Pearl display with stylus touch and front light, running on the NXP Freescale i.MX6Solo Lite for E Ink, running Onyx’s advanced customized Android UI for E Ink. You can buy it for $379 at Amazon.com

iNet Smart Sonic Toothbrush, Smart Food Scale, Smartwatch, VR and POS with Datamini

Posted by Charbax – November 15, 2016
Category: VR, Internet of Things, Smartwatch, Cars, Health, Exclusive videos, Allwinner, MediaTek, NXP, Broadcom, China Sourcing Fair, Android

iNet is one of the leading design houses in Shenzhen, here presenting their latest IoT Smart Devices, their smart connected toothbrush, their smart food scale, smart kitchen scale, for potentially healthier more accurate better tasting cooking, smart doorbell with camera video call, the smart weight scale. iNet also shows their all-in-one VR using the octa-core Allwinner H8vr. iNet also shows their special VR which is powered through the gamepad remote controller. They also show the smart car mirror, also showing bluetooth temperature and pressure monitors for car tires, smartwatches with transparent display. An NXP54101 powered classical smartwatch with bus payment, NFC/smartcard, wireless charge. MIPS ingenic Android Smartwatch. And also a POS system with fingerprint, smart card reader, nfc, and more developed with Datamini on MediaTek and Intel x86.

Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II

Posted by Charbax – November 12, 2016
Category: Cameras, 4K UHD, Exclusive videos

Clare Harvey-May of Olympus UK shows the new Olympus E-M1 Mark2 camera, with 121 all cross-type On-chip Phase Detection focus points for fast and precise auto-focusing, 20.4M Live MOS sensor, TruePic VIII Image processor, Cinema 4K 24p at 237mbit/s, 4K 24/25/300 at 102mbit/s, Olympus engineered 5-axis Image Stabilization, all in 500 grams in the Micro Four Thirds format.

360 video: China Sourcing Fair 2016 part2

Posted by Charbax – November 8, 2016
Category: Tablets, Laptops, Smartphones, E-readers, Cameras, VR, Robots, Exclusive videos, Rockchip, MediaTek, Intel, China Sourcing Fair, 360 video, Android, Windows

Watch this video in your VR headset or use your phone with a cardboard/VR adapter for best experience! Walking around the China Sourcing Fair AsiaWorld Expo showfloor from filming the JingTeng turning head security robot, filming at the Veidoo booth showing their $28 All-in-one VR headset, Foxcom, Appscom Smartwatches booth, the latest Alldocube 2-in-1 Laptops and Snapdragon 210 Phablets and finishing off with the 10.3″ E Ink mockup at the Boyue booth. Filmed using the Shuoying 1080p dual-lens Panoview 360 VR camera, see my Interviews and my Factory Tour with Shuoying here: http://138.2.152.197/category/companies/shuoying/

10.3″ E Ink Mobius Reader Mockup at Boyue

Posted by Charbax – November 8, 2016
Category: E-readers, Exclusive videos, Rockchip, China Sourcing Fair, Android

Boyue (previously known as Boeye) makes E Ink readers, here showing their latest Rockchip based E Ink Android e-readers, also showing off a non-functioning mockup of their 10.3″ Mobius flexible E Ink ultra light reader that might come next year if E Ink starts the mass production of the 10.3″ Mobius display by that time. Then Boyue shows their 6″ and 8″ Carta or Pearl based E Ink readers retailing $110 in China.

$28 All-in-one VR and $63 Tablet by Veidoo

Posted by Charbax – November 8, 2016
Category: Tablets, VR, Exclusive videos, Allwinner, MediaTek, China Sourcing Fair

Veidoo shows some of their latest MediaTek Tablets and their Allwinner powered All-in-one VR headets starting at $28 for “just a player” and $40 for the Android enabled All-in-one VR for a 1000 pieces minimum order.

JingTeng Monitoring Security Robot

Posted by Charbax – November 8, 2016
Category: Cameras, Robots, Exclusive videos, China Sourcing Fair

JingTeng shows their little robot that turns its head with a security IP camera inside. They also have a Cloud Companion little remote video broadcasting car.

$29 Ourspop PocketHuB, 5-in-1 Dual-display USB C Dock for Samsung Chromebook Pro and Macbook

Posted by Charbax – November 6, 2016
Category: Laptops, 4K UHD, Exclusive videos, China Sourcing Fair, Colorii

Ourspop PocketHuB is a USB Type C dock for Samsung Chromebook Pro, Macbook and any other Laptop with USB Type C. It comes with aluminum case, weighs 38gr, is quite compact. It features 1x USB Type C (for Charge and for other Docks), supports power pass through to charge the Laptop, data transfer, video output, 1xHDMI 1.4a (up to 4K@30fps video output), to extend Samsung Chromebook Pro or Macbook with dual display with external monitor, connect with projector to do presentation at a meeting by a HDMI cable. It is also equipped with 1 x USB 3.0 A host with fast data transfer and to power charge your phone, tablets or other USB device. It also comes with SD card reader and micro SD card reader, supporting up to 128GB. Ourspop PocketHuB comes in 4 colors, silver, pink, gold, grey, early bird price from $29 on Indiegogo: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/pockethub-5-in-1-macbook-dual-display-usb-c-hub/x/13423932#/

Here is the official Ourspop PocketHuB youtube video:

Distributors can contact Ourspop here:
Gennie, Sales Manager
Mobile/Whatsapp/Wechat: +86 1501 3777 080
sales@ourspop.tech
http://ourspop.tech

Mentor Graphics at ARM TechCon 2016 shows Games, Industrial Robots, Medical Devices and Security

Posted by Charbax – November 5, 2016
Category: Internet of Things, Cars, Health, Exclusive videos, ARM TechCon

Ricardo Anguiano of Mentor Graphics describes a memory wall game demo built with the Nucleus RTOS and thirty six NXP FRDM-K64F boards and touchscreens, plus a Boundary Devices BD-SL-i.MX6 game controller which also runs the Nucleus RTOS. Phong Chau of Cepheid discusses their new GeneXpert Omni, a point of care molecular diagnostic system built with Mentor Embedded Linux. Also covered in the video is a Mentor Graphics industrial automation robot demo which runs both the safety-critical functionality and the HMI control running on the same SoC using hardware enforced separation with implications for safety certification feasibility and safety certification cost control. The video ends with a brief computer security discussion, how security doesn’t lend itself to soundbites, and how the industry still makes the same security mistakes we were making since the 60s and how security applies to the Internet of Things and to the Automotive market.

Egreat A5, Egreat A10 4K HDR TV Box on Hisilicon 3798C V200

Posted by Charbax – November 5, 2016
Category: Set-top-boxes, Exclusive videos, HiSilicon, China Sourcing Fair, Android

Egreat A10 and A5 Set-top-box supports 4K with HDR on Hisilicon 3798C V200 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 with Mali-720 GPU, supports Blu-ray Navigation Menus, system to automatically match movie poster and cover art from IMDB internet, Dolby True-HD/Atoms and DTS-HD MA/DTS X passthrough, HDR10 and Dolby Vision, HiVXE2.0 video decode engine H.265/HEVC hardware decode, HDMI 2.0a up to 4K 60Hz 3840x2160p resolution output, Compatible with XBMC scraper resources, deep color up to RGB444 10Bit, HDD, U-Disk, Samba, NFS file share & play, preferred subtitle function, preferred audio function, SATA 6GB/S, runs Google Android 5.1.1.

Distributors can contact Egreat here:
Morgan Lee, Overseas Department
sales1@egreatworld.com
Skype: lijuan19890320
wechat: alexlee0
whatsapp: +86 13128851772

Red Hat on ARM Servers, growth opportunities at ARM Techcon 2016

Posted by Charbax – November 4, 2016
Category: Servers, Exclusive videos, Ampere, Cavium, ARM TechCon

Jon Masters, Chief ARM Architect at RedHat and Yan Fisher, RedHat Hyperscale Platforms Product Marketing Lead, talk about the traction in the industry for the ARM Servers, where Red Hat talks about running the same unmodified OS on 10 different ARM SoC vendor’s hardware, where Red Hat expects significant adoption in the next 12 months as customers ask for Linux on ARM, Red Hat can help these customers deploy, support and upgrade. As next generation better ARM Server solutions are getting ready to be deployed. ARM was talking about 20% of new servers by 2020 could be ARM Servers, Red Hat is bullish and thinks it could be higher.

360 video: China Sourcing Fair October 2016 part1

Posted by Charbax – November 4, 2016
Category: VR, Exclusive videos, China Sourcing Fair, 360 video

Watch this video in your VR headset! Follow me at the Hong Kong Fair, China Sourcing Fair, Asiaworld Expo October 2016, look around from my hat as I walk from Pipo to filming at Evomotion 360 cameras booth, to Effire, then passing by to film at Pimax 4K VR’s booth, then Phonemax, Blackview, Ubtel, Firstview, Alldocube, Aikun, Emdoor, Neostra and Maysun finally. Filmed using the Shuoying 1080p dual-lens Panoview camera, see my Interviews and my Factory Tour with Shuoying here: http://138.2.152.197/category/companies/shuoying/

Hermann Hauser, Acorn and ARM, UK’s future

Posted by Charbax – November 2, 2016
Category: Exclusive videos, ARM

Hermann Hauser, co-founder of Acorn Computers, which spun-out ARM Ltd in 1990. Vice-president for research at Olivetti, founder and investor in many companies such as Active Book Company, Advanced Telecommunication Modules, NetChannel, Plastic Logic, Solexa and many other, start-ups which he guides through the industry with Amadeus Capital Partners his venture capital company. (sorry I set my MKE440 microphone at +20db by mistake, the audio recording is quite loud, please turn down your volume level a bit for best experience)

ARM Powered Shoe Kiss & Tell

Posted by Charbax – November 1, 2016
Category: Wearables, Development Boards, Exclusive videos, ARM TechCon, ARM, 3D Printers

Kiss & Tell, an ARM Powered Shoe. Kiss & Tell was a concept that turned into a reality all done on ARM Technology. The idea, a shoe that can change the patterns on the straps based on the touch of a finger from an app on your mobile. For example, if you were invited to have tea with the Queen, the Union Jack could be displayed in seconds; if it was Valentine’s Day, hearts could be flashing. The sole, upper, and interchangeable heels were designed in Tinkercad on an ARM Powered Chromebook, printed using an ARM Powered 3D printer, and then spray painted with custom car paint. The circuitry and the LED designs were both done on Raspberry Pi 3. The shoe is powered by an ARM Cortex-M0+ that sits on an Arduino MKR1000 board that is hidden in the shoe’s upper. You can contact Sandra Larrabee of ARM Marketing to learn more about ARM or Kiss & Tell here: sandra.larrabee@arm.com

ARM Cortex-M33, ARM Cortex-M23, Thomas Ensergueix interview

Posted by Charbax – November 1, 2016
Category: Internet of Things, Exclusive videos, ARM TechCon, ARM

Thomas Ensergueix is the ARM Cortex-M Product Manager, talks about the launch of ARM Cortex-M33 and ARM Cortex-M23, based on the latest ARMv8-M architecture with ARM TrustZone security and digital signal processing. You can read more at https://www.arm.com/products/processors/cortex-m/cortex-m33-processor.php and https://www.arm.com/products/processors/cortex-m/cortex-m23-processor.php