We roundup some of the major electronics news stories from CES (Consumer Electronics Show) 2013, which runs 8 - 11 January in Las Vegas.
Thursday 10 January
CES: LG unveils curved OLED TV
LG debuts a curved model of its OLED TV range at the CES show in Las Vegas. The EA9800 features proprietary WRGB technology, and has an inward flex so the entire screen surface is equidistant from the viewer's eyes.
Wednesday 09 January
CES: Microchip teams with Movea on 3D sensor platform
Microchip Technology and Movea are working together to demonstrate embedded motion sensor platforms at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week.
Tuesday 08 January
CES: Qualcomm samples latest Snapdragons
Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processors will deliver up to 75% "better" performance compared with Snapdragon S4 Pro, said the firm as it announced sampling at CES.
CES: Novel home energy monitor is tiny, and designed in Cambridge
Cambridge-based smart meter firm Sentec announces a tiny home energy monitor that threads onto the pins of a mains plug.
CES: Raspberry Pi Z-Wave daughter card controls homes
Z-Wave Alliance member Z-Wave.me introduces a home control daughter card for Raspberry Pi. Called RaZberry, the hardware module pushes onto Raspberry Pi’s I/O connector.
CES: Allwinner's quad ARM Cortex-A7
Chinese chip firm Allwinner is expected to discuss its quad ARM core A31 SoC at CES. At its heart are four ARM Cortex-7 processors with 256kbyte L1 cache and 1Mbyte L2 cache.
Monday 07 January
CES: Nvidia shows quad-core Cortex-A15 for gaming
Nvidia introduces its fastest processor for mobile devices, the Tegra 4, and has designed it into its first gaming portable gaming platforms.
CES: Atmel recognised for touch sensing
Atmel has won the 2013 CES Innovations Award in the Embedded Technologies category for its XSense flexible touch sensor.
CES: Low power gesture control for mobiles
Murata Electronics announces that Elliptic Labs, the developer of ultrasonic touchless gesturing for consumer electronics devices, will be using its transducers.
CES: Ingenic adds MIPS and Imagination to Android tablet SoC
Ingenic Semiconductor, the China-based mobile processor developer, introduces an Android 4.1 tablet system-on-chip (SoC) device based on a MIPS processor and PowerVR SGX series5 graphics IP from Imagination Technologies.
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CES: TI goes big on gesture control
Texas Instruments is working with a designer of 3D sensor and gesture recognition middleware, called SoftKinetic, to develop gesture control technology for televisions and PCs.
CES: Plessey to demonstrate contactless gesture recognition
Plessey will demonstrate its contactless gesture recognition technology at CES next week. Called imPart, it is designed to fit around computer monitors, laptops and tablets to sense gestures such as swipe, flick, up and down.
CES: One year battery life from Bluetooth wireless keyboard design
Nordic Semiconductor has revealed a wireless keyboard and mouse reference design that gets over one year of operation from 2xAAA batteries in each device.
Source:
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2013/01/10/55309/consumer-electronics-show-2013-news-roundup.htm
