Category: Other

Sony PSP2 to have Quad-core ARM Cortex-A9, available by next Christmas

Posted by Charbax – January 27, 2011
Category: Tablets, Other

Sony unveiled their next generation Playstation Portable console at an event in Tokyo. They say it is as powerful as the PS3:

Here are the specs:

Doesn’t run Android Honeycomb UI between gaming? My guess memory expansion is SDXC cards? Sony could sell this $500+ thus sell it through carriers subsidized? The first Sony 5″ OLED screen? How does it compare with Samsung’s Super AMOLED Plus? HDMI output to actually use this as home console? Playstation Suite means all PSP/PS/PS2 games to come to all Android devices? Subscription plan for official access to unlimited games?

If anyone knows where to find the full length official video of this whole Sony event, please post the link in the comments.

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Which ARM Processor is in the Nintendo 3DS?

Posted by Charbax – January 16, 2011
Category: Gaming, Other

A Nintendo 3DS has been leaked on a Chinese forum, they immediately posted teardown pictures, I am trying to find out what type of ARM Processor Nintendo has decided to use for their next pocketable gaming console. When Nintendo upgrades a console it’s a big deal, as that platform is expected to sell upwards hundreds of millions of units and keep selling for several years after its release which is in February/March, Nintendo are known to choose slower components to keep their costs down and aim for long-term reliability over short-term spec bragging. I already posted the features that I think Nintendo should use, including Android OS, downloadable subscription games, HDMI output, wireless modem module and more. Anyone know what processor it may have? As you can see the processor has a Nintendo logo on it, but that does not mean it’s a Nintendo processor. Please post in the comments what your speculation is for this processor.

According to some rumors, Nintendo 3DS specs may be:

ARM Processor: Dual-core 266 MHz
GPU: 133 MHz
RAM: 64 MB
Video RAM: 4 MB
Storage: 1.5 GB (SDXC expansion slot?)

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USB3 SuperSpeed at up to 5Gbps

Posted by Charbax – January 14, 2011
Category: Other, Exclusive videos, CES

Today there are 165 certified USB SuperSpeed products, and a lot of products that haven’t yet been certified. Here’s an interview with a representative of the USB Implementers Forum about what it means for devices to get a USB SuperSpeed certification.

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Seagate presents GoFlex hard drive with USM (Universal Storage Module) connector

Posted by Charbax – January 14, 2011
Category: Other, Exclusive videos, CES

The Sata-IO committee launched the new Universal Storage Module open standard at CES 2011, it’s a standardized Sata connector slow for devices like desktops, even laptops, media players and TVs to allow for full speed data transfers and one standard for the shape of 2.5″ removable hard drives. This GoFlex design from Seagate allows support for USB 2, USB 3, Firewire and any future connector that might come out, yet maxing out data transfer speed at the speed of Sata and of the spinning hard drive that comes inside. This video also features some description of Seagate’s Mementus XT hybrid hard drive product that speeds up OSes that can benefit from faster Flash based load times in combination with cheaper larger hard drive storage.

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Ford Focus Electric

Posted by Charbax – January 8, 2011
Category: Other, Exclusive videos, CES

Ford is releasing this new fully electric car, in this video I interview one of the product managers about Ford’s electric car strategy.

Ctech Bluetooth keyboards

Posted by Charbax – January 8, 2011
Category: Other, Exclusive videos, CES

China Shenzhen Ctech Science&Technology Co Ltd presents these Bluetooth keyboards at CES 2011, a whole range of sizes and uses and in this video I list their approximate prices when ordered in bulk of at least 1000 pieces.

Jorno foldable Bluetooth keyboard

Posted by Charbax – January 8, 2011
Category: Other, Exclusive videos, CES

Foldable bluetooth keyboards are cool. It let’s you fold a full sized keyboard into a manageable size. This video features Scott Starret, Founder and CEO of Cervantes Mobile who are trying to make this foldable bluetooth keyboard and to launch it.

Celluon Magic Cube

Posted by Charbax – January 8, 2011
Category: Other, Exclusive videos, CES

Here’s their new generation of laser projection table keyboard.

Medapps health monitoring

Posted by Charbax – January 8, 2011
Category: Other, Exclusive videos, Texas Instruments, CES

Provides real-time monitoring for diabetics, congestive obstructive pulmonary disease, congestive heart failure, uses several monitoring equipment with Bluetooth and a GSM system that uploads that information wirelessly to the health monitoring system called Healthcom that doctors can use to monitor up to 400 patients at the same time to provide early intervention in case of health problems.

Bodymedia Fit Armband BW

Posted by Charbax – January 8, 2011
Category: Other, Exclusive videos, Texas Instruments, CES, Archos, Android

It monitors your body 24 hours a day, you strap it to your upper arm, it’s not too heavy but could probably be lighter (I think they should make it a light and compact wrist watch). It has 3 axis accelerometer monitoring all movements, it measures sweat, it’s a pedometer, heart rate and body heat monitoring and based on your height and weight it can calculate calorie output/usage with 90% accuracy (so they say) using clynically approved methods. It’s available on Amazon.com

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Seco srl presents Pico Projector in a Lamp concept

Posted by Charbax – January 7, 2011
Category: Projectors, Other, Exclusive videos, Texas Instruments, CES, Android

Check this out cause it’s actually awesome. This is a concept device, integrating a Texas Instruments OMAP3530 processor platform running Android, WiFi, Bluetooth, into a lamp that takes power from any lamp. It’s a lamp, but it projects Android and apps to the wall, any video. Find more information about Seco at http://seco.it

Seco Q7 OMAP4 dual-core module

Posted by Charbax – January 7, 2011
Category: Other, Exclusive videos, Texas Instruments, CES, Android, Windows

This is the first OMAP4 dual-core module for the embedded form factor market for theindustrial environment for the mobile and automotive markets. Thanks to Seco’s pression on the q7 consortium, people can now swap the x86 module for an ARM architecture, it works for Windows, Android and Linux OS. Find more information at http://www.seco.it/

Freescale Powered MyFord Touch

Posted by Charbax – January 7, 2011
Category: Cars, Other, Exclusive videos, Freescale, CES, Windows

Freescale is powering the Ford Sync system called MyFord Touch, there is an i.MX51 processor in there and Windows CE based user interfaces and features providing in-car system for the Ford cars. This type of ARM Powered solution for the car, voice activated, is becoming a large part of what allows car makers to differentiate their cars in the market.

Parrot Asteroid Android powered car radio/hands-free Bluetooth kit

Posted by Charbax – January 5, 2011
Category: Other, Exclusive videos, ARM TechCon, Android

Here’s a new hands-free Bluetooth kit, voice activated, with 4 USB hosts and a line in audio jack, high quality audio, support for USB 3G dongles, it runs a customized version of Android on an ARM9 processor, uses a 3.2″ screen, it support installing third party applications. They are also showing a version of their Android in-car system on a 4.3″ touch screen for in-car navigation support as well.

Salim Ismail, Executive Director of the Singularity University at LeWeb 2010

Posted by Charbax – December 26, 2010
Category: Robots, Other, Exclusive videos, LeWeb

At the Singularity University in Silicon Valley, 80 students in 2010 (picked out of 1600 worldwide applicants) study futures, law, finance, networks, biotechnology, nanotechnology, medicine, robotics, energy and space to prepare for that point of singularity when artificial intelligence meets human intelligence.

Find out exactly what is going on at the Singularity University at http://youtube.com/singularityu and http://singularityu.org you can also watch Salim Ismail presentation at LeWeb here.

Renault Twizy electric car presented by Matthieu Tenenbaum at LeWeb 2010

Posted by Charbax – December 13, 2010
Category: Cars, Other, Exclusive videos, LeWeb

This compact french-design electric car is to be released about a year from now, it has a range enough for use in cities, and the size is in between scooter and small car, easy to park, it’s actually a two-seater. It can even be configured to be driven without a drivers licence. This is an interview with Matthieu Tenenbaum who is Renault’s deputy program director for all of Renault’s electric vehicles including the Twizy.

Shai Agassi at LeWeb 2010

Posted by Charbax – December 12, 2010
Category: Cars, Other, Exclusive videos, LeWeb

Project Better Place wants to eliminate oil within a few years, in partnership with Renault and other car makers, they are about to mass produce electric cars, Better Place is building out the infrastructure to switch batteries and to charge. You can watch the full Q&A video here. You can also watch Shai Agassi’s recent interview on the Charlie Rose show and on Morning Joe.

Test Driving a Renault Fluence Gen2 electric car in Paris!

Posted by Charbax – December 11, 2010
Category: Cars, Other, Exclusive videos, LeWeb

This is an impressive “full sized” electric car by Renault, soon to be released to hundreds of thousands of consumers in Denmark and Israel, it may be one of the first electric cars to be mass produced! I am a big fan of project Better Place, and I am really looking forward to mass adoption of electric cars all over the world. The driver in this video is Stephan Ehrhardt, race car pilot instructor consultant at Europa-First and car specialist.

Bertrand Piccard presents Solar Impulse at LeWeb 2010

Posted by Charbax – December 9, 2010
Category: Energy Harvesting, Other, Exclusive videos, LeWeb

After a worlds first successful solar powered overnight flight, Bertrand Piccard gives us an update on the project, on technology, on politics and on pioneering. You can watch his 26-minute keynote at LeWeb 2010 here.

New smart refrigerator based on ARM

Posted by Charbax2 – November 26, 2010
Category: Other, Freescale

The brazilian subsidiary of Electrolux, together with ProFUSION Embedded Systems, have developed a new smart refrigerator called Infinity I-Kitchen that runs on a Freescale i.MX25 processor and was developed using Linux and the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries.

Here are features that could be provided in these intelligent fridges:
1. One-click wirelessly add missing ingredients to your Android device’s shopping list. Could also automatically place order for refill or for new ingredients with remote groceries delivery service.
2. It should somehow know what you have in the fridge. Preferably RFID would be used, but since that is not yet available. Somehow it should know. Maybe a built-in camera could figure from normal bar codes scanning, or manual input can be simplified.
3. Generate suggested recipes based on ingredients available, based on perrumption dates, based on calculating a healthy varied diet for each member of the house hold.

More info here, with links to screenshots and a virtual reality demo.