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The Software-Defined Home of the Future
KB Homes’ SVP Dan Bridleman discusses the smart home of tomorrow and the work they are doing to make the home the center of a smart ecosystem. Instead of traditional bespoke construction techniques, modularity and off-site construction of building blocks or subsystems is the trend for new construction and is seen in the KB Home…
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More Efficient AV Brains & More #CES2019
A hardware solution that allows Artificial Intelligence algorithms to run more efficiently is what Thinci promises with its Graph Stream Processing (GSP) computing architecture. Shawn Holiday, Thinci’s Senior Director of Product Marketing, explains that Thinci’s founders, who are veteran GPU designers, devised a new approach to graphics processing; one that reduces the need for memory…
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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…
