Here’s a solar powered sound system, you can use it on a sunny day in the park or on the beach and the solar powered system and battery should last it playing loud music the whole day. It’s got a little E Ink screen that displays information about status, battery level, volume and other information. You pair your Bluetooth smartphone or other Bluetooth music player to it as the source for the music.
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Freescale shows i.MX6 for auto/aero-infotainment with long term support
Freescale is showing the next generation i.MX6 ARM Cortex-A9 based in-car infotainment system. Freescale promises to provide 15 years of support for the chip, meaning that car manufacturers can feel confident using the i.MX6 in cars and airplanes, as it takes multiple years to make those, Freescale promises to still manufacture the same processor 15 years from now. They optimize features for cars such as using sensors and cameras for better car safety. Freescale is a global leader in producing processors used in cars.
Phaeton DVIP $200 Android Watch uses MTK6516 with dual-SIM
Posted by – January 17, 2012
Shenzhen Phaeton Nice Electronic High-Tech Manufacturing Co Ltd is showing this Android Watch shown at CES 2012. It supports 2 SIM GPRS/voice cards on the MTK6516 processor, soon they’ll use the faster 3G-enabled MTK6573 processor. For now it’s Froyo, the MTK6573 may support Ice Cream Sandwich soon, to be confirmed. So this is not just an Android watch, thanks to the Mediatek processor, it can replace your smartphone. It has a built-in camera, MicroSD card slot, speaker, microphone and more. It uses a 2″ 320×240 QVGA capacitive touch screen, standby battery can be about 1 week, 36 hours active use, to be confirmed. The price is just $200 for bulk orders, minimum order quantity of 500. They also show a $70 1.5″ feature phone watch and a
Status of the Raspberry Pi at CES 2012
Posted by – January 17, 2012
Raspberry Pi expects to have volume devices on the market by the end of the month. That means $25 and $35 (with ethernet) Broadcom ARM11 ARM Powered Desktops are thus just about to be broadly available.
Caseinity Cord-On-Board iPhone case at CES 2012
Posted by – January 17, 2012
Here’s a new iPhone case company, funded through Kickstarter, it includes the cable and does an ergonomic shape behind your iPhone.
Augmented Video-blogging Hangout featuring the Kopin Golden-i at CES 2012
Posted by – January 16, 2012
Category: Wearables, Smart Glass, Other, Exclusive videos, Opinions, Texas Instruments, CES, Windows
Here’s a Google+ Hangout recorded while at the Kopin Golden-i reception held at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas during CES 2012. Demonstrating and talking about my Augmented Video-blogging using their device, and other uses of this headmounted display device and other news from the CES. You can fast forward to about 34 minutes 40 seconds in for the demo by Motorola Solutions’s Product Lead on the Golden-i, Nicole Tricoukes, explaining how the Golden-i headmounted computer works and what Motorola Solutions plans to target it for when they plan to mass produce it and release it in the second half of the year (you can watch her TEDx presentation)
ST Electronics Digisafe, secure hard drive encryption
Posted by – January 15, 2012
ST Electronics show their Digisafe 2.5″ hard drive enclosure that provides 100% secure encription to the enclosed 1.8″ hard drive.
LiftMaster shows Android and iOS powered Garage Door opener
Posted by – January 15, 2012
You install their garage door motor on your garage door and you install the Android or iOS app on your smartphone and tablets and you can then open and close your garage door over the Internet.
Motorola Kopin Golden-i at the Verizon booth at CES 2012
Posted by – January 14, 2012
Category: Displays, Cameras, Wearables, Smart Glass, Other, Exclusive videos, Texas Instruments, CES, Kopin, Windows
The Motorola Kopin Golden-i is being showcased at the Verizon booth at CES 2012, demonstrating hands-free wearable computing user interfaces for Industrial uses such as Construction, Medical, Public safety, Utilities and more. I’ve been using this for the past 2 months to attempt to have a wearable computing augmented video-blogging system, using Google+ Hangouts On Air with the headmounted display showing a live chat and live status updates from Google+, Twitter, Email alerts and more.
Turbo Ace quad copter
Posted by – January 12, 2012
You can fix your camera to it and it’ll fly up and do some aerial photography and video for you, with a gyroscope based stabilizer.
Casio GB-6900 G-Shock, Bluetooth 4.0 watch
Posted by – January 12, 2012
Communicates with your Android smartphone that has an ultra low power Bluetooth 4.0 support. Battery life is about 2 years with Bluetooth synchronized to your phone 12 hours per day. It synchronizes with incoming calls, incoming SMS, with time zone changes, it can sound an alarm on your phone if you can’t find it. They are expanding the functionality to support other apps in Android.
Freescale Xtrinsic sensors in a Tablet
A tablet demo showing Freescale’s magnetometer and accelerometer.
Etón Corporation launches Rukus, the solar-powered Sound system
Posted by – January 9, 2012
It has a large solar panel, an e Ink display, Bluetooth support. Basically, if you want to party in the sun on the beach, in the park, bring this, you don’t need to charge it, it might last the whole day blasting out loud music, all run on solar power and with an E Ink display to navigate through songs, tune into different web radios and do other functionality. I’ll try to film this during CES.
Find more information at: http://www.etoncorp.com/product_card/?p_ProductDbId=1837766
ST Ericsson U8500 runs Ice Cream Sandwich
Posted by – January 9, 2012
ST Ericsson is showing this development platform for their U8500 ARM Cortex-A9 processor running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.
TechNexion announces Freescale i.MX 536 System on Module
Posted by – December 31, 2011
TechNexion announces their upcoming Freescale i.MX 53 based TMX-536 System on Module together with Bachata carrier board.
Development kits will become available in the first quarter of 2012 that will come as all previous TechNexion development kits with source code linux, android and windows embedded compact 7 support backed up with unbeatable documentation to give people all the information that they need to successfully implement TechNexion SoM’s in their project.
Augmented-Magic.com by Moulla at LeWeb 2011
Posted by – December 16, 2011
He was showing some pretty awesome magic tricks at LeWeb, using the Kinect, 3D graphics from 3Dvia and real elements, you can find more videos featuring his magic on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2fyUj1NKyw
digitalarti.com at LeWeb 2011
Posted by – December 16, 2011
They bring digital art to events, companies, find out more at http://digitalarti.com
Aramex Teleportation Technology at LeWeb 2011
Posted by – December 13, 2011
Online shoppers buying stuff in the middle-east sometimes need to be able to ship their purchases to a European or US address and Aramex provides a service that forwards those shipments to the middle-east.
Charbax on Twit
Posted by – December 12, 2011
Category: Tablets, Wearables, Smart Glass, Web, Other, Opinions, Texas Instruments, LeWeb, Android, Windows
Here again, now Twit posted the video on the official http://youtube.com/twit channel, so here it is, when you click the play button below, it should start at the right time-code 35 minutes 17 seconds when I first appear on the show, where I get to talk to Leo Laporte and Sarah Lane on the Twit show at LeWeb 2011!
On Twit, I get to talk with Leo Laporte and Sarah Lane about the legalization of piracy in Switzerland, in France, about the latest Archos G9 and Arnova G2 devices and I get to show off my headmounted Motorola Kopin Golden-i system for augmented video-blogging.
I was on Twit!
Posted by – December 10, 2011
Category: Tablets, Smart Glass, Web, Other, Opinions, Rockchip, Texas Instruments, LeWeb, Archos, Android
You can see me starting at 9 minutes 45 seconds time code in following Twit Live video recorded at LeWeb 2011, I’m interviewed by Leo Laporte and Sarah Lane! This video features some of my talk about Switzerland legalizing piracy, France implementing the global licence to legalize piracy, Archos, my headmounted Kopin Golden-i computer, live stream and augmented video-blogging system.
Source: recorded video on Ustream.tv
I’ll post the YouTube embed if Twit and LeWeb release it separately on YouTube.
