Henry walks around the Toshiba IFA 2014 booth and checks out their Chromebooks, their Intel Laptops, Intel Tablets, Sports camera, 4K TVs, smart mirrors, and experimental 4K TVs.
Category: Exclusive videos
HDMI 2.0 is 4K 60fps at 18Gbit/s
Posted by – September 20, 2014
HDMI is to be the standard for 4K, supporting 18Gbit/s bandwidth for uncompressed 4K at 60fps, every major 4K TV includes HDMI 2.0 support.
Linaro: User space perf counters, ARMv7 and ARMv8
Posted by – September 20, 2014
Direct access to perf counters for Networking/ODP domain really helps to budgeting lower CPU cycles to Benchmark Data Plane. Demo shows POC about Accessing Perf counters with Perf syscall Vs Direct access of perf counters from Userspace. Implementation has been shown for ArmV7 ( Arndale ) Board and ArmV8 ( Juno ) Board. Yogesh Tillu, Linaro/Cavium Engineer has demoed 1st cut implementation of concept.
8K 120Hz demo by NHK Japan
Posted by – September 19, 2014
Japanese NHK public broadcast R&D group shows their 120Hz 8K display and camera (at 144Gbit/s through optical) by Hitachi (red/blue/green prism sensors) and Astro (single image sensor) that I filmed here. Japan wants to just leapfrog 4K and go directly to 8K testing 8K broadcasts starting in 2016, with full massive deployments targetted for 2020 where everyone in Japan will maybe be able to receive 8K TV.
$129 Firefly RK3288 Development Board release
Posted by – September 17, 2014
Category: Set-top-boxes, PCB Design House, Development Boards, Exclusive videos, Rockchip, Android, Ubuntu
T-Chip launches the Firefly Development Board on RK3288 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A17 with Mali-T764 runs Ubuntu and Android. Firefly-RK3288 provides some external expansion interface, including LCD interfaces and some other standard interfaces such as: Double MIPI, Double LVDS, ISP, EDP, PWM, SPI, UART, ADC , GPIO, I2C, I2S. Standard configuration is 2GB RAM and 16GB eMMC with a high configuration version possible with 4GB RAM and 32GB eMMC. It has dual band Wi-Fi AC, Bluetooth 4.0 and Gigabit ethernet. In this video you can see the Ubuntu and Android demo on Firefly RK3288, and a tour of the T-Chip offices featuring their PCB Design engineers, Software engineers, sales staff and more.
The Firefly RK3288 is now available for $129 each (you can order 5/10/15/20/25 units at $129 each by sending an email to firefly@groupgadgets.com add $30/$33/$40/$45/$50 respectively for fast 3-5 day shipping to USA/Europe).
You can contact T-Chip here:
Candy Feng candy.feng@nagrace.com
West mqy@t-chip.com.cn
http://www.t-firefly.com/html/en/home/
teefirefly@gmail.com
weibo.com/teefirefly
twitter.com/TeeFirefly
facebook.com/TeeFirefly
Dr. Ken Morse, Cisco CTO of Connected Devices and Video Infrastructure
Posted by – September 17, 2014
Cisco offers cloud to set-top-box services, enabling Internet Speed for Service Providers to provide video-on-demand, video streaming, smart TV functionalities. Dr. Ken Morse, previously of Scientific Atlanta (aquired by Cisco in 2006), talks about Cisco working with Linaro to enable ARM Powered Set-top-box and home gateway solutions through open source.
Here you can watch his 1-hour keynote at the Linaro Connect 2014:
“As we move into a world where consumers expect to access all their video services on amy device, at any time, in any place, this requires major changes to the architecture of video delivery. In addition, the expectation is for new services to be launched at Internet Speed and not the typical 6 months or longer cycle taken by many new service introductions.”
Google Project Ara Keynote: Paul Eremenko
Posted by – September 16, 2014
Google works with Linaro to enable hot-swappable hardware modules in modular Android smartphones of the future.
Speaker: Paul Eremenko – Director of Project Ara at Google
Keynote Title: “What if hardware was more like software? Google’s Project Ara and the democratization of the hardware ecosystem.”
Paul’s Bio: Paul Eremenko is currently director of Project Ara at Google, in the Advanced Technology & Projects (ATAP) organization. Previously he was an associate vice president at Motorola, where he led the development project of Ara, a project to create a modular hardware ecosystem—rivalling the mobile app ecosystem in pace and level of innovation–around smart phones in an effort to deliver the mobile internet to the next 5 billion people. Paul is also research affiliate at MIT in the Engineering Systems Division.
Prior to joining Motorola and then Google, Paul directed the Tactical Technology Office (TTO) at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Pentagon’s principal engine for disruptive innovation. TTO is DARPA’s systems office responsible for all X plane, spacecraft, ground vehicle, and robotics programs, totalling approximately $500 million annually. Previously, Paul developed and led DARPA’s advanced design and manufacturing program portfolio, and also served as program manager for several space efforts, including the 100 Year Starship.
Earlier in his career, Paul was an aerospace design engineer, the chief engineer for an unmanned aircraft program, and management consultant focusing on technology, innovation, and M&A strategies. He has undergraduate and Master’s degrees in aeronautics from MIT and Caltech, respectively, and law degree from Georgetown University. Paul is also licensed pilot.
Linaro Connect USA 2014 Opening Keynote: Linaro CEO George Grey
Posted by – September 16, 2014
Category: Exclusive videos, Linaro Connect
Linaro is going to try to help at getting affordable 64bit ARM development boards to developers soon, Linaro CEO George Grey talks about Linaro’s Past, Present and Future.
Teclast P98 Air Factory Tour
Posted by – September 16, 2014
Tour at the factory in Guangzhou that is now mass manufacturing Allwinner A80T based Teclast P98 Air tablets selling in China.
You can contact the factory C&Q here:
http://cqteq.com
sales@cqteq.com
Phone: +86 20 32299590
TCL shows 55″ 4K for $1600, Kids TVs, set-up-boxes and more
Posted by – September 12, 2014
TCL Corporation is one of the biggest TV companies in the world. They are showing their latest products at the Shenzhen Electronics Fair including 4K TVs, smartphones, set-up-boxes and more. They are showing their Alcatel Onetouch branded phones series TCL Idol, TCL Pop and TCL Hero. A 55inch 4K TV from TCL is sold for about 10,000RMB(~$1,600) One of the phones of Hero series has an octa-core CPU and costs 1,016RMB(~$165). They are showing a set-up-box with RK3066 CPU with a Metro-style interface and 28inch Smart TVs for kids. These kids TVs have a kids design and a protective film over the display in order to protect their eyes. Some washing machines with a different design than others and Smart TVs with Mstar hexa-core CPU are some other products from TCL.
Samsung Gear Fit SDK Kit for developers
Posted by – September 11, 2014
Samsung Gear Fit is a fitness band from Samsung. The Gear Fit needs to be connected to a Samsung smartphone to exchange information. This fitness band has tracking capabilities and also a heart rate sensor which can tell whats your current heart rate. It also has GPS capability for tracking location. Gear Fit has a low power and low-end CPU. It runs a Samsung’s custom wearable OS which isn’t based in Android neither Tizen. Samsung has released the Gear Fit SDK for developers. The SDK comes with an emulator that animates what you can do with the device and emulates your custom built apps.
Silver Nanowire Transparent Conductors From Cambrios for Touch Screens, Solar Panels, Lighting and Flexible displays
Posted by – September 11, 2014
Cambrios CEO John LeMoncheck at IFA 2014 gives an update on the great progress they are making with AgNW transparent conductors for touch screens, enabling flexible touch, thin and light form that is suitable for wearable devices. With the latest launch of thin iPhones and Apple Watch, the race for thin, light, curved, flexible electronic devices has begun and material such as Cambrios ClearOhm silver nano wires are key to enable these technologies. In this video you will see their latest, never shown before 7” single layer touch screen that is highly conductive, transparent, very thin and light and suitable for bezel-less device designs. Apart from touch screens they are also enabling transparent solar cells, OLEd lighting, flexible displays like ePaper and OLED.
Allwinner A83T launched at IFA 2014, Mass-market Octa-Core for Full HD Tablets
Posted by – September 10, 2014
Allwinner Technology announces its brand-new high performance octa-core processor A83T for full HD tablets. Based on TSMC’s new 28nm HPC process, A83T is designed to be a high performance but extremely power-efficient octa-core processor packing eight highly energy-efficient ARM Cortex-A7 cores that can run simultaneously at 2.0GHz implementing advanced ARM big.LITTLE architecture to maximize battery life. Imaginations PowerVR GPU is also included to deliver the best balance between graphic processing performance and power consumption.
“Octa-core is leading the market now, so after the remarkable UltraOcta A80, we’re here to release another extraordinary octa-core A83T for middle range tablet market,” said Jack Lee, the Chief Marketing Officer of Allwinner, “The system performance of Allwinner A83T octa core is definitely impressive, but that’s not all. Our customers and consumers will be amazed by its extremely low power consumption as well, which even outperforms most quad-core tablet processors in the market.”
Another noteworthy feature of A83T is its implementation of Allwinner’s next-gen SmartColor technology, Allwinner’s latest achievements in display technology, which helps to deliver splendid image quality with higher resolutions, providing tablet consumers with eye-pleasing visual effects.
The first octa-core tablets featuring Allwinner A83T are to hit in Q4 2014 with several designs to be shown at the Hong Kong Fairs next month.
Related articles
- Allwinner unveils A83T octa-core processor (liliputing.com)
- AllWinner Announces A83T Octa Core Processor for Tablets (cnx-software.com)
Berlin Tour in Trabant Limousine
Posted by – September 9, 2014
Trabi-XXL provides unique Trabant stretch-limousine tours in Berlin driving around most famous sights and getting so much attention, it’s hard to get more attention in Germany. Watch me with my cousins taking a tour of Berlin in the Trabi-XXL.de stretch Limousine!
Find out more at:
Sebastian Schneier
info@trabi-xxl.de
+49 (0)174 150 50 20
http://trabi-xxl.de
http://facebook.com/trabixxl
https://plus.google.com/115212798474838630990/posts
This video was edited with Henry my 12-year old cousin, look forward to his IFA 2014 booth tour videos to be published in the days to come, you can see his previous videos with me at: http://138.2.152.197/?s=Henry
UyeSee SoundMate M2 ($30 samples available)
Posted by – September 6, 2014
SoundMate is a Wireless HIFI Music Steaming Receiver, a wifi upgrade solution for HIFI System. It streams using the DLNA, AirPlay protocol using built-in Atheros WiFi module and Wolfson DAC for ultra-high quality sound through to optical and 3.5” earphone mini jack output. You can turn your old analog HiFi system into a modern Smart HiFi system. UyeSee SoundMate supports Streaming local or online music from Android, iOS, Windows, Mac to any speaker, it supports Lossless format: FLAC, APE, WAV, it support to play music from USB pen drive, it supports streaming of spotify/pandora through a 3rd party app that supports streaming all system audio to DLNA (may require rooting on Android), SoundMate supports Multi-speaker /Multi-room music streaming by 3rd party app also (see below). Support Multi-people online, share music one by one, multi-Enviroment: home, hotel, outisde, car.
Samples (available for shipping now) can be purchased by sending an email to uyesee@groupgadgets.com in quantities of 5/10/15/20, to the price of $30 per unit (temporary promotional price for minimum-5 bulk orders only through ARMdevices.net) you have to add the estimated 3-5-day shipping cost to Europe/USA: $50 for 5 units, $75 for 10 units, $100 for 15 units and $125 for 20 units.
Contact info :
inquiry@uyesee.com
Skype: nice__ryan
Mobile: +86 18688703923
http://www.uyesee.com
Multi-room streaming demo:
Li Rui RK3288 Factory Tour
Posted by – September 2, 2014
Li Rui is about to release a range of RK3288 Tablets at 7.85″, 10.1″ and 9.7″, now being lauched to distributors. In this video, Lirui is assembling their Rk3188 with 9.7″ Retina panel, they sold about 100K of that one, they also do 7.85″ and other. Li Rui has engineers optimizing the BOM cost, Tooling designs of the Rockchip based Tablets that they manufacture for several customers, some of them famous in the Shenzhen Tablet world.
You can contact Li Rui here:
Jason, Marketing Director
Shenzhen Li Rui Electronic Co., Ltd.
svencpw@gmail.com
sales@liruitech.com
http://liruitech.com/en/
Skype: Jasonw3390
Phone: +86 75523229903
Mobile: +86 13422896521
Pipo P8, 7.85″ Retina RK3288 with 3G ultra-stick
Posted by – September 1, 2014
Pipo P8 is the first 7.85″ 2048*1536 Retina RK3288 Tablet with 3G/4G ultra-stick compartment, 8 megapixels back-camera now selling in China for $162 (999CNY) with 16GB and $179 (1099CNY) with 32GB.
Related articles
- Rockchip 3288-Based Pipo P8 Goes On Sale (mikecanex.wordpress.com)
UyeSee RK3288 Android TV Box (you can buy $120 samples)
Posted by – September 1, 2014
UyeSee shows their Rockchip RK3288 Android TV Box (which you can order 5/10/15/20 samples of, read further down), the most powerful MiniPC, 4K Media Player and Gaming Box on the market! With a Quad core ARM Cortex-A17(or A12) with a DMIPS of 28800, Mali-T764 Quad-core GPU, HDMI 2.0 with 4K@60fps, Android 4.4, HEVC UHS hardware decoding, Gigabit ethernet, 5.8Ghz WiFi and Bluetooth 4.0. UyeSee also shows their ultra compact RK3288 PCB design and UyeSee is able to also design a RK3288 mini-pc design (if customer orders a minimum quantity) with VGA, series port, and a big capacitor stores your data when power is suddenly cut off. Audio in and audio out.
Samples (to be available for shipping by the end of September) can be purchased by sending an email to uyesee@groupgadgets.com in quantities of 5/10/15/20, to the price of $120 per unit you have to add the estimated 3-5-day shipping cost to Europe/USA: $50 for 5 units, $75 for 10 units, $100 for 15 units and $150 for 20 units.
Luckystar RK3288 Tablet shipping soon
Posted by – August 31, 2014
Luckystar is about to mass produce their RK3288 Tablet, here showing their 7.85″ tablet prototype. Luckystar is a pretty big factory making millions of tablets, you can see my 40-minute Luckystar Tablet factory tour here.
You can contact Luckystar Aoson here:
Anson Yi
Mobile: +86 13510992428
Telephone: +86 755-83495999-657
ydxgps@luckystar.com.cn
http://luckystar.com.cn
http://szaoson.com
Highcharacter Allwinner A33 PCB Design House Tour
Posted by – August 30, 2014
Highcharacter Science and Technology Development Co., Ltd. makes PCB Designs using Allwinner here showing off how they make the Allwinner A33 designs, including also doing software optimizations, hardware design, tooling designs and more.
You can contact the Highcharacter PCB Design House here:
http://www.szhklt.com/
lilisuo@szhklt.com or szhklt@szhklt.com
Phone：+86 755-83759988 or +86 755-86699016
Mobile: +86 13923781353
QQ: 1019628089
