Nokia gave an interesting keynote speech in it’s IoT plans at Arrow IoT Summit to 19.5.2016. Here are some selected slides: Nokia keynote memo: – Lots of new traffic coming – some cases cellular signaling can take more bandwith than IoT data – Nokia supports many IoT technologies – Too many players in IoT →
Stripboard is the generic name (also known as Veroboard) for a widely used type of electronics prototyping board characterized by a 0.1 inch (2.54 mm) regular (rectangular) grid of holes, with wide parallel strips of copper cladding running in one direction all the way across one side of the board. Stripboard is available from many vendors. Stripboards →
http://thelongandshort.org/society/future-of-archiving Finland is plannning to digitize archives and burn aging paper that is not needed. →
Finnish gaming industry’s two biggest stars are Supercell and Rovio. While Supercell has been the greatest start in mobile games, Rovio has been expanding to a larger entertainment company with large bet on Angry Birds movie that Rovio did with Sony Picture. Angry Birds movie is based on Rovio’s popular Angry Birds game, the film →
http://interestingengineering.com/5-unknown-inventions-thomas-edison-changed-world/ Interesting list of inventions. →
http://www.geek.com/science/portugal-ran-on-renewable-energy-alone-for-four-days-1655150/ Nice milestone without using fossil fuels for electrical power. →
Eurovision Diary 2016 at http://m-m-pr.com/index.php/eurovision-diary-2016 is an interesting technical blog how this year’s Eurovision song contest show was built. There were lots of video,lights and other special effects technology in use. And here is a funny bonus video: Måns Zelmerlöw and Petra Mede find out how to create the perfect Eurovision Song Contest songs →
http://www.sciencealert.com/9-amazing-photos-that-show-how-incredibly-far-technology-has-come Never forget how much information technology has advanced. →
Smart phone cameras are useful in many ways. Smartphone cameras are great, or at least close enough to great that you don’t notice the difference in many cases to traditional camera.Compared to a DSLR, smart phone cameras are still pretty lame. But the camera in your pocket is crazy good considering the limitations manufacturers work →
http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/semiconductors/design/rfonly-logic-could-cut-rfid-size-and-cost This is an interesting idea to make RFID circuits smaller. →