Implantable medical devices usually have to trade smarts for size. The hardest thing to shrink isn’t the processor. It’s actually the radio, says Blaauw. Last week at the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco, Blaauw and fellow engineers David Wentzloff and Yao Shi showed a prototype injectable radio with a volume of just →
In the rock-paper-scissors game of technology, the Internet of Things beats cryptography. This is the conclusion of a new Harvard Law School report focusing on the FBI’s claims that increasing levels of cryptography in consumer devices means that law enforcement loses. The report retorts that even if cryptography closes some doors, new Internet-connected devices and →
I recommend that we start using new term I heard at Disobey.fi event: Internet of Exploits (IoE) is to be used to describe the current and future situation of network being filled exploitable Internet of Things (IoT) and other poorly secured networked devices. We were sold the idea of Internet of Everything (IoE) and what →
Some of my favorite small micro-controller platforms (as you might have seen if you have been reading this blog) are Arduino and ESP8266. It seems that there is going ot be some upgrades to those platforms this year. ESP32 ESP8266 chip is used to build WiFi modules for serial-to-WiFi conversion and Internet of Things applications. ESP8266 →
How to use Amazon AWS IoT services for home auomation? Finnish blog posting Valoautomaatiota AWS IoT -alustalla (check English translation by Google) about building home lighting automation with Philips Hue, Z-Wave and AWS IoT. The idea is to build a solution where the lights go on automatically on arrival to home and they can be →
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http://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/consumer-electronics/gadgets/ossias-cota-wireless-power-tech-promises-to-enable-the-internet-of-everything Posted from WordPress for Android →
http://mobile.geek.com/latest/258968-802-dot-11ah-wifi-will-penetrate-walls-more-easily-and-use-less-power?origref=http:%2F%2Fm.facebook.com Interesting development. 900 MHz unlicensed use works in USA but in Europe 900 MHz band is heavily used in cellular networks (GSM and 3G). Posted from WordPress for Android →
http://mobile.geek.com/culture/258951-amazon-dash-built-into-whirlpool-home-appliances?origref= Posted from WordPress for Android →
Here is my list of electronics industry trends and predictions for 2016: There was a huge set of mega mergers in electronics industry announced in 2015. In 2016 we will see less mergers and how well the existing mergers went. Not all of the major acquisitions will succeed. Probably the the biggest challenge in these →