uBirds displays their vision of the smartwatch, successfully funded on Kickstarter, they conceal the electronics inside the watch strap itself, allowing the user to use whatever watch they prefer as long as they buy the uBirds Smart strap. Based in Warsaw, Poland, uBirds’ concept belt is displayed to be very flexible without breaking, with thickness claimed to go down in the production version. Using an STM32L1 series ARM Cortex-M3 MCU, the uBirds strap also features NFC and input based on taps to the strap to control phone behavior. You can wirelessly charge it, it has a 3 day battery life.
Tricella PillBox Medicament Taking Reminder
PillBox aims to remind users to take their pills and to alert users families and friends to remind them also. Featuring slots for a day of the week or specific types of tablets or for night and day, this nifty-looking piece of hardware is also very power efficient: it uses a standard CR2032 battery and then lasts for a year and four months on regular usage. They display the mechanism for the slots, controlled by magnets. The PillBox connects to smartphones via Bluetooth 4.0 and has its own app, that can even alert family members if another forgets to take a pill or opens the slot for the wrong time/day/pill category.
Fringefy: Visually recognize and annotate the world
Straight out of Tel Aviv, Israel, Fringefy is a startup backed by two professors and a venture company that aims to make devices capable of recognising any storefront in a city using a phone’s camera. Implementing machine learning and image recognition, the demo app showcases the simplicity of the entire design – one just points the camera to a place and it is recognised irrespective of people moving around it, traffic, and time of day. Fringefy is mature enough to be immediately implemented.
Linaro Lead Projects explained by Mark Orvek, Linaro EVP Engineering
Linaro is a large engineering organization with many complex projects that map across various teams and groups, but there are a number of high-level projects that stand out and attract the most attention. These projects are highlighted in this section: ARMv8, Digital Home, Mobile & Android, Networking, Server, and Test & Validation. Each of these sections are linked at http://www.linaro.org/projects/
Coursera course about IoT using the 64bit Qualcomm Dragonboard 410c
This Coursera Specialization covers the development of Internet of Things (IoT) products and services—including devices for sensing, actuation, processing, and communication—to help you develop skills and experiences you can employ in designing novel systems. The Specialization has theory and lab sections. In the lab sections you will learn hands-on IoT concepts such as sensing, actuation and communication. In the final Capstone Project, developed in partnership with Qualcomm, you’ll apply the skills you learned on a project of your choice using the DragonBoard 410c platform.
Marcello Zuffo, Professor Embedded Computing at Sao Paulo University with Jon Maddog Hall
At Linaro Connect, talking with Professor Marcello Zuffo about how the Sao Paulo University in Brazil could work together with Linaro to advance the state of open source Linux on ARM.
Microsoft Playready DRM integrated with OPTEE, Linaro Digital Home Group
The Linaro Digital Home Group (LHG) has achieved a milestone in the delivery of an open source reference solution for the consumption of premium content on ARM powered devices.
The media solution ulitizes several open source components coupled with a commercial DRM that executes in a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE). The TEE used is the Open Portable TEE (OPTEE) from Linaro, running on ARM TrustZone.
The solution integrates the following key components:
– W3C EME Working Draft (31 March 2015)
– Microsoft PlayReady DRM Porting Kit v3.0
– OP-TEE
– OpenCDM/OpenCDMi
– Chromium v43
The solution is powered by a STMicroelectronics STiH410 ARM Cortex-A9 processor.
96Boards Team Amit Kuceria and Ricardo Salveti
The team at Linaro with focus on 96boards are working to make it upstream friendly, better Quality Assurance, Validation, making the software more stable.
Vimble Smartphone Gimbal,Face Tracking,Panorama Vicam App Control
Vimble is the a smartphone gimbal with face tracking, automatic panorama and night mode through the ViCam app. The intuitive ViCam interface and joystick-based control system give users easily-to-use experience without requiring extensive setup times. Retailer price at $369, estimate start shipping from end of Q1 2016.
Microduino mCookie, Open-source Magnetic Module Compatible with LEGO Arduino
Microduino mCookie is a small open-source module with different sensors(Bluetooth,WiFi,GPS,Audio,Motor etc) inside, it comes with colorful shell ,magnetic connector and pogo pins. support AVR, STM32, MS430, 51,MIPS, ARM, FPGA system, compatible with LEGO and Arduino, Makers can use it for projects like 3D printing, Robotics, Drones, IoT, wearable or any of your new ideas. Retailer price at $299 for mCookie kit.
You can contact Microduino here:
Bin Feng, CEO,Co-founder
bin@microduino.cc
https://www.microduino.cc/
Focalmax Maxphone T1 with Naked Eye 3D Display,Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 MSM8996
Focalmax present lots of interesting products on CES2016, including TI DLP PICO Projectors, Short-Throw TI DLP projectors, Naked eye 3D Smartphones, VR, Sports DV and Car navigation with transparent HUD display.
Focalmax maxphone T1 is the world’s 1st Smartphone with 2K screen and Naked Eye 3D display. powered by 64bit Qualcomm snapdragon 820 MSM8996 Qualcomm® Kryo™ CPU with Adreno 530 GPU, 4GB RAM, 64GB Flash, comes with 5.5” 2K display, 5M front camera and 8M 3D rear camera, with USB Type C and 3000mAH battery.
You can contact Focalmax here:
Fiona Du, Brand Manager
Fiona.du@focalmax.net
HiMedia Q10 Pro, HDR 4K 3.5”HDD Player on Hi3798C V200 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53
HiMedia Q10 Pro is an Android TV box with 3.5”HDD supported up to 6TB, powered by 64bit Hisilicon Hi3798C V200 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 with Mali-T720 GPU, 2GB RAM, 16GB Flash, runs Android 5.1 on 1080p resolution, comes with Giga LAN and dual-band WiFi, supports HDMI 2.0 output at 4K@60fps, 10bit HEVC/H.265 and VP9 video decode at 4K@60fps. Himedia Q10 Pro support BDMV and BD ISO lite navigation, 3D Blue-ray subtitle, Dolby 7.1 HD Audio passthrough. Hisilicon Hi3798C V200 is the world’s 1st TV box SOC to support HDR and Dolby Vision high-dynamic-range technology.
You can contact Himedia here:
james.luo@himedia.cn
AMPware Case, Power Generating Smartphone Case
AMPWARE Case is a power generate smart phone case just unfold and turn the crank handle, every 1 minutes of crank time, you can take 5 minutes talk time or up to 1 hour standby. 5 minutes of crank time can make up to 1 hour battery life of normal use or 5 hours standby. This is really useful in an emergency! AMPware Case now available for iPhone6, 6s. Retailer price at $79.
NovaCentrix PulseForge Demo at IDTechEx Printed Electronics USA
Stan Farnsworth from NovaCentrix gives a tour of NovaCentrix’s PulseForge equipment at the IDTechEx Printed Electronics USA event. NovaCentrix is focused on technologies and materials to enable manufacturing in Printed Electronics. The PulseForge photonic curing tools process high-temperature materials on low-temperature substrates. Applications include drying, sintering, annealing, or reacting metallic, non-metallic, and semiconductor inks, without damaging temperature sensitive substrates such as foils and plastics. For more information see http://www.novacentrix.com and http://www.IDTechEx.com
Mentor Graphics Customized IoT Gateway platform
Mentor Graphics announced end to end IoT system developer kit with software and hardware reference design. The reference design can be customized to meet specific gateway requirements for various business applications. The gateway platform includes data collection, storage with different connectivity options like Bluetooth, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, and USB. The gateway uses Freescale i.MX6 ARM Cortex-A9 processor.
Wind River IoT Helix Lab Cloud, Rocket and Qt VxWorks 7
Wind River is an Intel company that develops embedded systems solutions for aerospace and healthcare. The company’s highlights include the Helix Lab Cloud platform for virtual laboratory management and test automation and Rocket, a free OS meant to be used on MCUs demonstrated on an ARM K64F MCU. They also showcase a working home healthcare system utilizing VxWorks 7 and Qt release 551 (for the UI) such that health test data is monitored, captured, uploaded onto the cloud and displayed.
Bluetooth dice by u-blox
U-Blox is a Swiss based semiconductor company supplying positioning and wireless semiconductors and modules for automotive, industrial and consumer markets. It provides Narrow band IoT connection to connect the device directly with cloud using ARM mbed. In this Video, the U-Blox dice sense their number when you roll them and sends it to a nearby gateway using Bluetooth, that gateway sends the data to cloud for making it ready to display in browser.
Makeblock Headquarters Tour, Design House, Engineers
Makeblock is open-source platform to building robots, 3D printers, artwork or other devices. It can connect with aluminum mechanical parts, electronics modules and even compatible with Legos. Not only focus on Maker and Education market, Makeblock also want to entry Consumer Electronics market. Here is the design house and HQ tour we filmed in Makeblock office based in Nanshan, Shenzhen, with 130 employee most of them are engineers working on hardware and software every day.
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Cardberry The All-in-One Loyalty Cards
Cardberry is an electronic card that can replace the stacks of loyalty cards weighing down your wallet or forgotten somewhere at home. It allows you to upload all of your discount, bonus, miles, gifts and other cards to the Cardberry app so that with just your single Cardberry card. The Cardberry is only 0.5 mm thick and comes with microcontroller,Bluetooth module. Retailer price at $100 at Russian market now, It will be ready at other market soon.
OpenEPC Portable 4G network on Rasbary Pi
Dragos Vingarzan Co-founder and CTO of OpenEPC presents their low power Mobile core network running seamlessly on Raspberry Pi with 2G, 3G and 4G LTE voice and data capability to run a small network at remote island or for disaster relief area. With OpenEPC now it’s easy to make small footprint of Mobile Network in rural and remote location. In the video they are showing an Mobile Network of 4G LTE compatible running on Rasbary Pi powered by Broadcom BCM2836 Quad-core ARM Cortex A7 at 900Mhz.
For more information see http://www.openepc.com