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Monthly Archives: January 2012

10 things to know about APEC 2012 before you go

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

by Paul O’Shea I thought this was worth sharing from the good people that run the Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC). Being a Floridian I can tell you that this is our time of year for fantastic weather. So here are the ten things you should know: Weather It’s always sunny in Florida! Check out [...]

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The Internet of Things connects your cat

Thursday, January 26, 2012

by Jim Harrison One application I saw at the Real-Time Embedded Conference – as part of the ‘Internet of things’ – was a cat door that read the cats implanted ID chip and only let him/her in. A good idea – except I think the implant is NFC, which means you would have to train [...]

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California Puts Battery Chargers on an Energy Consumption Diet

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

The California Energy Commission (CEC) has started off 2012 all charged up and ready to reduce battery charger system (BCS) energy waste. On January 12th, the Commissioners voted to adopt limits (proposed in last December’s 15-day Language) as amendments to the Appliance Efficiency Regulations (Title 20). That makes the CEC the world’s first government agency [...]

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Necessity is the Mother of Invention

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

That old saying is proving to be true once again. In this case, the necessity is to address the energy being used by products when they are in standby or off mode. To do this, people are coming up with all sorts of unique approaches. One innovation that recently caught my eye is the “popping [...]

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Job fair at Photonics West show

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

by Jim Harrison There were quite a bunch of companies looking for engineers and scientists at the SPIE Photonics West show this week. At least 35 of them had recruiting booths in the Job Fair area and lots of conversations were going on. Microsoft was there and so were Honeywell, Ocean Optics, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, [...]

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More of the same at CES

Sunday, January 15, 2012

by Jim Harrison For me, CES this year was mostly just more of the same. OLED TVs, the supposed star of the show, we saw three years ago and now they are larger and still way too expensive. The other star, ultrabooks touted by Intel, are now available with the thin format, fast graphics, and [...]

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Samsung optical smart hub at CES

Saturday, January 14, 2012

by Jim Harrison The clever SE-208BW Optical Smart Hub optical disc drive from Samsung Electronics was shown at CES. The device is for wirelessly backing up and accessing of media files from multiple laptop, tablet, smartphone, and smart TVs. Up to four devices can access it simultaneously. Acting as a personal cloud, the Hub allows [...]

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