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The Building Block IC – Or Anyone Can Now Design a Chip #CES2019
Ming Zhang, co-founder & CEO of zGlue, describes his company’s building block approach to integrated circuit development. This approach allows developers to use online design tools to design a custom chip in minutes and have working versions fabricated within weeks with minimal upfront costs. Working with “chiplets”, which are part of a library of pre-configured…
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Giving IoT a New Meaning – The Connected Restroom #CES2019
Bill Strang of Toto and Chris Johnson of Georgia Pacific discuss how the combination of internet-connected toilets and sink fixtures among other devices, combined with easy to use analytics and real-time notifications, can improve the customer experience in commercial restrooms. In addition to the benefits of a cleaner environment, real-time data helps improve operational efficiency…
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Connecting Loved Ones at #CES2019 & Beyond
Finding a way to connect to her bedridden grandmother in a far-off nursing home was the impetus for Nelly Meunier and her sibling to invent a new way of sharing photos and video with people who aren’t able to navigate the smartphone paradigm. In the above interview, Meunier, CEO, and Co-Founder of Sunday, demonstrates what…
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More Than a One Hit Wonder #CES2019
Are the crowd-sourced, funded projects of today similar to the so-called one-hit wonders of the popular music scene? It is easier than ever to turn an idea into a product and prove its viability by finding customers willing to finance its creation and production. But what happens after the initial product run that satisfies the…
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Satellite Texting Without a Subscription #CES2019
[Added 8/26/22 – It appears that the FCC’s order opening the 5.925 to 6.425 GHz band meant the end of Sat Paq. Rob Reis writes on Higher Ground’s website that the service will be discontinued by September 2023.] The ability to send an emergency text with GPS location information is what Higher Ground offers with…
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Educating The Wannabe Cord Cutter #CES2019
Parks Associates reported in their December 2018 study that 13% of U.S. households have already fired their traditional pay television providers. FlexVU aims to grow the number of cord-cutting households. As explained by Anselmo Pilla, Senior Director of Marketing of Pixelworks, FlexVU is an ad-hoc consortium of companies with a goal of educating consumers as…
