In these last few days we have been flooded by tech news from CES 2020 in Las Vegas. No point in repeating all of that on this post. If you missed something just google for CES 2020 (at the time of writing of this post a Google search on CES …
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In this blog I often discussed Cloud, Sensors, AI, VR, 5G, WLAN, 3D printing and the various use cases, may be never considering all of them together. Indeed, there are plenty of application areas for these technologies and the more they evolve the broader their application areas become. Having said …
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If you want to see what an autonomous system can be don’t look any further than the new Roomba. Its model S9+ has all the defining characteristics of an autonomous, smart, system. I have been impressed by Roomba from its very first “edition” back in 2002. I should say I …
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I bought my Airpods just 2 weeks ago and of course now there is a new, and better, model. That’s life in this never ending tech evolution. You have probably read about them. What stimulated this post it’s not the Airpods per sé but a new sensor that has been …
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6. Internet of Things Internet of Things is no news. Sensors (most IoTs are sensors) are everywhere and a city with a million people has probably over hundred million sensors (a smartphone has some 14 sensors, a car can have 200 sensors, a home can have a hundred or more …
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3. Autonomous vehicles, BleuTech in its announcement of their new (mini) smart city construction (starting December 2019), BleuTechPark, in the Las Vegas Valley have indicated the intention of using self-driving vehicles for public transportation. They are not alone. It is now quite a few decades since the first automated metro …
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The sensors area is so big that it makes little sense to provide a single market value aggregate. There are estimates on sensors for smartphones (a huge market that is levelling out as smartphones are reaching a maturity point in terms of penetration, expected CAGR 2019-2023 0f 2%), on automotive …
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Neurograin chips contain a coil-shaped on-chip antenna at their perimeters. The antenna surrounds uplink and downlink circuits that transmit and receive at megabits-per-second data rates. Brain Computer Interfaces have been around for several years and have benefitted from evolution in both sensors, communication and signal processing domains. Underlying these evolutions …
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The Apple watch, in its latest release, can perform a scaled down electrocardiogram. You place your index finger on the crown and rest it there for some 30″. The sensors in the watch detect the tiny spikes of electrical currents that are making your heart beat (and its various parts …
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Human Machine Symbiosis My personal bet, and the conclusion of the study carried out in 2018 by the IEEE-FDC Symbiotic Autonomous Systems Initiative, is that by 2050 it will be difficult to separate living from non-living things. Notice that today there is still a debate going on among those considering …
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IEEE Future Directions
