Peterism

“The companies revealed the details Monday at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Their system-on-a-chip platform is based on ARM’s Cortex-A9 processor and Globalfoundries’ 28-nanometer manufacturing process. The platform will be used in smartphones, tablets, and smartbooks.”

Full story at News.com.

So it looks like we will have devices that consume less power purely on a per-clock-cycle basis.  I’m guessing the new process won’t trickle down to actual commercial mobile implementation until at least 2013.

References:

• Open Source Licensing – Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law by Lawrence Rosen
• Open Source Licenses Comparison

The Ishikawa Komuro Laboratory at the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, University of Tokyo has developed a robotic hand capable of bouncing and catching a ball at remarkable speed.  Perhaps this is what a prosthetic would do in the near future.

IMG_9249, originally uploaded by pcmac77.

The last one didn’t come out the way I wanted. Trying this one, also taken by me in Tokyo this March.