consumer electronics
See the following -
Check-In CES: Mapping Your World Countless Applications Could Take Advantage Of A 3D World
Occipital is an extremely clever product which mounts onto the camera of an iPad to map the environment in 3D. There are countless applications for a mobile device which can sense the world in three dimensions. [...] Read More »
- Login to post comments
Collaborative Projects: Transforming The Way Software Is Built
I got involved with Linux and open source in the mid-90s. [...] Nothing had or has since compared with that rate of innovation: I was hooked on open source collaboration, and I’ve never looked back. Read More »
- Login to post comments
How Do You Measure Up? New Health Gadgets Can Tell You
An array of new personal health devices aims to help you beat depression, lose weight, reduce stress or improve your fitness level. Read More »
- Login to post comments
Is Auto The Next Android?
But the auto industry has a big challenge. While consumer electronics (CE), like smartphones, have development cycles as short as three months, automotive IVI development cycles are commonly three years or more. This leaves the auto manufacturers chasing the CE industry, constantly struggling to deliver and keep up.
- Login to post comments
Open Source Challenges A Proprietary Internet Of Things
Linux Foundation believes it has the code for unlocking Internet of Things and bringing success Read More »
- Login to post comments
Samsung Tizen-Based TVs Could Hit Market In 2014, CEO Says
Boo-Keun Yoon, co-CEO of Samsung and head of the consumer electronics business, tells a German publication that the company is working on televisions running the open source operating system. Read More »
- Login to post comments
Softbank’s Humanoid Robot Will Be Great For Tending To Japan’s Elderly
The Japanese telecoms firm Softbank has unveiled a humanoid robot named “Pepper,” promising that it will be able to read and express emotions, and eventually serve as a medical worker, party companion, or even a babysitter...
- Login to post comments
The Internet Of (Hardly Connected) Things
The “Internet of Things” which refers to the billions of devices that are expected to be connected to each other and to the Internet, is a catchphrase that’s hard to escape these days. Even network storage maker Cisco has predicted some 25 billion devices will be connected by 2015, and 50 billion by 2020...
- Login to post comments
The Price of Wearable Craze: Personal Health Data Hacks
...in a year when the world's largest technology, medical device and health-care firms are betting big and fast on wearable technology's role in delivering patients a more precise and cost-effective way to manage their health, experts are worried that the pace of updating data-privacy laws and building infrastructures with optimal levels of security doesn't match the speed of the market's technological rollout. The risks to consumers depend on what type of device they're wielding. In rare instances, weak links or endpoints in a cloud-based network powering something like a wearable insulin pump could be life threatening, as it opens the door to hackers tampering with them...
- Login to post comments
LibreCon 2015
LibreCon 2015 takes over from the previous four editions of LibreCon and the Free Software World Conference, planning an event whose main goal will be the creation of business and employment in all sectors of society, through free technology, innovation and entrepreneurship. With this goal always in mind, LibreCon 2015 wants to show the benefits of a sector that is successfully surviving the overall economic crisis. Open Technologies in general and Free Software in particular, are a real alternative which offer increased competitiveness, great savings and development of local economies to worldwide business and government. This year, LibreCon will deal with consumer electronics and the automotive industry (entertainment systems, connected car), the Internet of Things and new education. There will be an area reserved for e-Commerce.
- Login to post comments