By Yves Legrand – The global wireless charging market is projected to grow an astonishing 1500% in just 5 years, reaching $7.161 billion in 2017 from $456.86 million in 2011, according to a recent Wireless Charging Market research report. Even the U.S. Army wants to arm its troops with wireless charging everywhere. The research is out. The use cases exist. So, [...]
By Yves Legrand – Within a week, both Samsung and LG announced that their new flagship Android-based smartphones, the Samsung Galaxy S3 and the LG Optimus LTE2, will include the wireless charging feature. Japanese operators and handset makers already adopted wireless charging for new smartphones used in Japan, and we can add Korea as the [...]
By Glen Burchers “My three year old daughter has been playing with her iPad too much. When she walks in front of the TV, she tries to interact with it by pushing on the screen. The new generation is expecting new user experience across their different devices. People should not worry about where their content, [...]
By Michael Stanley – No, the title does not refer to the forces of good versus those of evil. Nor am I referring to my stance when chopping firewood with an axe. Instead, let’s see if we can straighten out some of the terminology that you’ll hear when people start to talk about sensors. Even [...]
By Robert Thompson — With approximately 500 million smart phones, 60 million tablets and 25 million eReaders shipping in 2011, the mobile revolution swept into full force. So what’s next? Well, there’s still a long way to go, as Eric Schmidt suggested in his keynote at Mobile World Congress, only one billion of the world’s [...]
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By Michael Stanley – Last week, Freescale made its eCompass and 4 and 7 element magnetic compensation routines available in (drum roll please!) source form. Getting access is easy. Let me take you through the steps…. Open your web browser to http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=eCompass Click on the “ECOMPASS_SW: eCompass Software” link. This will take you to the [...]
By Michael Stanley – I admit I was tickled to see the Freescale MPL3115A2 win the embedded AWARD 2012 (in the hardware category) at Embedded World 2012 in Nuremburg, Germany. I’ve blogged on this sensor before (Xtrinsic Pressure Sensor/Altimeter Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3). This is the device that can either operate as [...]
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