Skip to content

Monthly Archives: September 2007

Novint’s haptic sense controller

Saturday, September 29, 2007

Two years ago I got the chance to try out the Novint Falcon’s 3D touch controller while at a press show in NYC. It’s back and finally available to the public through CompUSA and other retailers. I played around with it and found that although big, it’s very effective at delivering that touch feedback that’s [...]

Filed in Electromechanicals, Motors & Controls, Product News, Technology News, Trade Shows | | Comments (1)

Bring Spykee Home for the Holidays.

Saturday, September 29, 2007

This year at the Javits Center (NYC), the Digital Life Convention once again took place to showcase new gadgets and services coming up for the holidays. While there I felt as if this show lost some of its wow effect. The venue was smaller, there were less companies, and quite frankly, it’s turned into a [...]

Filed in Product News, Technology News, Trade Shows | | Comments (1)

Designing for change

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Electronic Products recently spoke with Damon Brown, author of the recently published book Pocket Idiot’s Guide to the iPhone, to find out what his thoughts were on how designers and consumers are dealing with ever-changing technology for devices like the iPhone. Electronic Products: Are consumer devices, such as the iPhone, getting overly complicated for the [...]

Filed in Boards & Peripherals, Opinion, Technology News | | Comments (0)

Single LED matches common light-bulb output

Friday, September 7, 2007

A single LED with a light output of roughly equivalent to that of a standard 60-W household light bulb has just been demonstrated  in the lab by Cree (Durham, NC). A single-die LED, driven at 4 A, produced 1,050 lumens in cool white and 760 lm in a warm-white version. Efficiency (efficacy) for the cool-white LED was 72 [...]

Filed in Industry News, Optoelectronics, Technology News | | Comments (0)

Ear buds that don’t fall out

Thursday, September 6, 2007

When you’re head-spinning to music on your handheld MP3 player, the last thing you want is your ear buds to fall out. To end the all-to-common occurrence of “bud-drop”, JVC developed the HA-FX66 in-ear headphone, which uses a soft silicon rubber air cushion for the earpiece body and comes with three different-size silicon-rubber-and-memory-foam earpiece cushions so you can optimize the fit. The result [...]

Filed in Packaging & Connectors, Product News, Sensors & Transducers, Technology News | | Comments (0)