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Tan Le: A headset that reads your brainwaves

Peter — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 23:15:55 +0000

ARM, Globalfoundries outline 28-nanometer plans

Peter — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:59:05 +0000

“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.

IEDM 2009: IMEC’s piezoelectric energy harvester, plastic transponder circuit

Peter — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 18:08:39 +0000

December 14, 2009 – At this year’s International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), IMEC and partners TNO (a Netherlands-based research group) and the Holst Center (IMEC-TNO joint center set up in 2005), disclosed their latest work in creating a MEMS-based piezoelectric energy harvesting device with record power generation, and a “world-first” organic transponder circuit with bit rate of 50kbits/s, nearing requirements for Electronic Product Coding (EPC) standards.

Full article.

Open Source Licensing

Peter — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:39:12 +0000

References:

Department of Defense New Guidance On Open Source Software

Peter — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:38:10 +0000

The Department of Defense CIO office has released a new guideline which is aimed at easing open source software adoption.

Department of Defense CIO David Wennergren’s revised guidance (PDF)

High Speed Robotic Hands

Peter — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 19:46:52 +0000

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.

Colors of the Wind by Mia, feat. Mac Diddy

Peter — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 05:15:54 +0000

Beauty and the Beast by Mia and Jamie feat. Mac Diddy

Peter — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 05:02:59 +0000

IMG_9249

Peter — Sun, 10 May 2009 17:48:42 +0000

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.

Spoofing your Phone Number

Peter — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 04:35:32 +0000

I stumpled upon this site today that provides a service which allows you to change the phone number that is displayed on the receiver’s Caller ID. Check it out.

http://www.telespoof.com/freecall.php