Consumer Electronics Spending 2013

Accenture’s report is based on a quantitative online survey among more than 11,000 consumers across 11 countries including the United States, Germany and the BRIC nations among others. The results show that, in terms of personal electronics, consumers from China, Brazil, Russia and India significantly outspent their counterparts from the United States and other traditional markets in 2012. Moreover, BRIC consumers reported very optimistic purchase plans for 2013 as well. While the American respondents on average expect to spend $970 on consumer electronics this year, Chinese respondents plan to spend $1,489.

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FAA grounds all Dreamliner Boeing 787

Boeing's 787 Dreamliner began joining US airline fleets last year, but a fire started by the plane's lithium ion batteries last week put it on the docket for a review by the FAA. After a second mishap caused by the bird's batteries, the FAA is now requiring US airlines to temporarily ground all 787. 

                              

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Wi-Fi eXchange

Stoke Wi-Fi eXchange is a gateway application that automatically authenticates Wi-Fi attached subscribers and securely links them to their 3G or LTE cellular network services and/or to the Internet. Wi-Fi eXchange enables operators to maximize the benefits of service provider Wi-Fi while limiting traffic loads on the mobile core through dynamic, selective traffic steering. Wi-Fi eXchange is an important catalyst for operators seeking to transition from Wi-Fi as merely RAN congestion relief to Wi-Fi as a new service delivery medium.

The intelligent traffic steering capability of the Wi-Fi eXchange gives operators many options for defining and implementing routing optimization schemes without impacting existing core network elements. The Wi-Fi eXchange can maintain thousands of traffic options, defined by the operator by any combination of destination, subscriber class, traffic type, and other parameters. With this increased flexibility, operators can direct their uniquely defined traffic flows either through the mobile core or directly to the Internet or other destination.

Mobile High-Definition Link

Mobile High-Definition Link (MHL) is an industry standard for a mobile audio/video interface for directly connecting mobile phones and other portable consumer electronics (CE) devices to high-definition televisions (HDTVs) and displays. The MHL standard features a single cable with a low pin-count interface able to support up to 1080p high-definition (HD) video and digital audio while simultaneously charging the connected device.

Ophelia

Dell and Wyse unveiled the project Ophelia. Ophelia is a USB memory stick-sized thin client that will plug into any compatible TV or Dell monitor. The device will boot into an Android OS and turn any TV into a portal to access a computer somewhere else. Ophelia works by taking advantage of the MHL protocol and works with any MHL-enabled display. Over 100-million MHL-compliant chipsets have already been shipped, so the opportunities for this type of interaction are growing.

MHL, along with established standards such as USB and HDMI or even future short-range wireless standards, will enable consumers to plug their cell phone into any monitor or TV and consume content via their phone on a larger display.


Wi-Fi-D

Global Wireless Research (GWR) research predicts that the Smartphone Era will end once several new technologies are in place, which include ubiquitous LTE data speed, wearable wireless devices, peer-to-peer communication (via LTE Direct, WiFi Direct and others), and Augmented Reality.


RF Implantable ICD for Heart 


Sorin a global medical device company and a leader in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, announced today the first implant of PARADYM RF in Canada at the Montreal Heart Institute. The PARADYM^TM RF family of implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) and cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT-D) devices is fully supported by the recently launched SMARTVIEW^TM remote monitoring system.

Touch-Less Gesture Recognition

The MLX75030 from Melexis is a universal active light sensor interface which has been designed to allow easy implementation of robust multi-channel, close range optical sensing systems into difficult operational environments. It incorporates four independent simultaneously operating light measurement channels;two taking care of reflection and the other two for ambient light measurement. This makes the device highly optimized for inclusion in human-machine interfaces (HMI) requiring proximity detection or touch-less gesture recognition in environments subject to wide variation in background lighting levels, especially in automotive infotainment systems, white goods and consumer electronics devices.

This IC features 2 active light reflection measurement channels with integrated ambient light suppression. The active light sensing section is complemented by two logarithmic current sensors which can measure the photocurrent signal from externally connected photodiodes for ambient light sensing. Internal control logic, configurable user registers and SPI communication enable simple, programmable operation. More channels can be added through multiplexing. A built-in temperature sensor can be used to compensate any heat effects.

The MLX75030 controls the LED current and measures the resulting photodiode signal, which is translated into digital form by an integrated 16-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC). This data can then be transferred to the system microcontroller via the SPI interface. The optical light intensity of both active light channels can be used to detect proximity of an object close to the detectors, independent from the background light level. Human gestures (such as swipes or zooms) can then be determined by use of software algorithms. HMI response times of 30 frames/sec are supported. 

MGI Global Investment

McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) said on Thursday Jan 17, 2013..

MGI estimated that the world needs to spend $57 trillion on infrastructure - between now and 2030 simply to keep up with projected growth. That is nearly 60 percent more than the $36 trillion spent over the past 18 years.

MGI cited South Korea, Ontario and Singapore as having model infrastructure organisations that others can emulate, while Switzerland shows how to develop a joined-up national strategy.

It commended Seoul and Stockholm for the integrated approach they took to easing clogged traffic and said Denmark had reduced its road maintenance bills by 20 percent.

Smart mail Manager

Sanebox

Our algorithms determine the importance of each email, move unimportant messages out of the Inbox into a separate folder, and summarize them for you. Now you can focus on what's important.

We will notify you when an email you sent was not replied to by a certain time, so you can follow up on it. It's also a great way to send an email reminder to yoursef.

Attachments are hard to find and take up lots of storage space in your email. Sane Attachments scans emails in your Inbox for attachments, puts them on Dropbox, and replaces them with a link.

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Water Management

Ricardo Radulovich, professor of water science at the University of Costa Rica, points out that in Africa irrigation is a very limited option, due to lack of water, and rain-fed agriculture is affected by prolonged dry seasons and rainfall variability during the rainy seasons. A case in point is the Sahel in west Africa, where drought has grown increasingly frequent and where emergency aid was needed last year to forestall famine.

Yet Radulovich believes that Africa's lakes can be part of the solution to the continent's agricultural limitations. Several African countries are endowed with lakes, some very large, that occupy a surface of more than 150,000 square kilometres. Why not use that water surface to grow food and aquatic plants, and for fisheries, asks Radulovich, who began his career as an agricultural water scientist 10 years ago.

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Power Optimization

Reduce Power Consumtion per Transitor Design

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Hillol.Sarkar@ago-inc.com
www.ago-inc.com

America has been producing more CO₂ than any other country, and leads the industrialized world in per capita emissions. Even though China now produces as much CO₂ annually, the US still produces many times more carbon per person than China, India, and most other countries. And America has blocked meaningful international action for many years. Now we need help from around the world to persuade both the U.S. and the U.N. to continue the process.

China and India and the rest of the developing world need to be involved. But since per capita they use far less energy than the West, and have been doing so for much shorter periods of time, and are using fossil fuels to pull people out of poverty, their involvement needs to be different. The West is going to have to use some tiny percentage of the wealth it built up filling the atmosphere with carbon to transfer technology north to south so that these countries can meet their legitimate development needs without burning all their coal. A great resource for thinking about these questions is the paper prepared by the Greenhouse Rights Network, which can be found here.

Medical Device Technology

Active Implantable Medical Devices

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Future outlook

Mauron sees the future of electronic implantables in less invasive devices with increased functionality. “Implants will be less one size fits all and more custom,” says Mauron. “A neurostimulator could be designed [to treat] one specific ailment, for instance.”

According to Diston, further integration of the functions of conventional and wireless pacemaker technology is coming. “Ultimately, leads could be eliminated completely, but further development and clinical testing will be needed,” he notes. “More widely, implants can carry out a host of other functions in addition to improving the health of people’s hearts. Major advances in neuromodulation have resulted in systems that act on the nervous system and brain to control pain and motion, eliminating the tremor in Parkinson’s patients, for example. Systems also can control a patient’s mood and help with clinical depression,” Diston continues. “We will see ever increasing uses of electronics in implants in the coming years, a result of Moore’s law by which computing power doubles every two years.”

www.emdt.co.uk/article/active-implantable-medical-devices-winning-power-struggle

ECG SoC

Cardiac disease is a major cause of death. Wearable heart monitoring sensors could become an important tool for cardiac patients, ensuring continuous monitoring during daily life. This is essential for an accurate diagnosis of heart problems and for life-saving interventions.

Due to this large market potential, companies and research institutes are developing products and research prototypes of wearable heart monitoring sensors. The aim is to make wearable, easy-to-use and ultralow- power (ULP) sensor systems with a long battery lifetime.

www.emdt.co.uk/article/listen-your-heart

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Holst Center  www.holstcentre.com

Istanbul Hospital

Molecular Medicine

Genetic Diagnostics Using Wireless Systems for Global Health

Syed A. Hashsham, Ph.D.,

Center for Microbial Ecology, Michigan State University 

Genetic diagnostics can leverage the vast network of cell phones which will 

reach 1.4 billion by 2015. In this presentation, potential of low cost point of care 

genetic analysis systems will be discussed. Performance data related to Gene-Z, 

a hand-held gene analyzer, will be presented. 

Two other devices with lower and higher level of target and sample multiplexing will
be introduced.

www.triconference.com/Bioinformatics-Genome/

Intellectual Property Trend 2013

IP Management

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As the use of patents for competitive advantage is still evolving, we encourage firms to invest in developing robust IP strategies to protect their own innovations and shareholder value.

IP Life Cycle Management

Intellectual Property (IP) is essentially the core asset of a modern corporation.  While IP is typically associated with the legal rights (such as copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, know-how, and patents) that define the ownership and bounds of intangible assets, in reality IP has a much broader scope. It is the sum product of the collective corporate intellect. It encompasses all technical innovation and other creative expressions of the human mind and is typically represented by the corporate technology and legal rights portfolio.

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Solar Power

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New data released by the Environment Ministry shows that Germany installed a record amount of new solar power in 2012, with a massive 7.6 Giga Watt of newly installed capacity.

Mosaic, an online marketplace that connects investors to high-quality solar projects, sold out its first four projects in less than 24 hours with over 400 investors putting in between $25 and $30,000. In total, investors put in over $313,000 with an average investment of nearly $700.

Water Treatment by Grundfos provides the smartest, high-quality products and services for water treatment. Our development and manufacturing of booster, transfer and dosing pumps, disinfection systems, dosing systems and control technology allows us to be the premier provider of water treatment solutions. And with our vast knowledge of the markets and processes of water treatment, we possess the ability to adapt to customer requirements and tackle nearly any problem with a SMART solution.

IP Strategy

IP Strategy 2013

Patent Enforcement Entities (also known as Non-Practicing Entities or NPEs) will broaden their reach by seeking new industries such as medical and automotive where patents they control may be asserted.

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Automotive


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10G/400G


LTE


Consumer



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PCI, USB, DDRn

Denali has been started in the mid 90’s with this primary charter, develop and sale Memory Models. Nobody ignore that Denali has been acquired in 2010 by cadence for a record $315M, or about 7X the 2009 company revenue, and that Denali’s port-folio was based on: Verification IP Interface IP like PCIe, USB and so on, DDRn Memory Controller IP and… the Memory Models.

Home Automation

Home Automation

                       

In most homes today, you can easily find some simple forms of automation such as Garage door openers ,Remote Controls , sprinkler control systems ,Motion activated lights ,Security systems ,Programmable thermostats ,Programmable light timers If you want to keep going, you can throw in dishwasher, clothes washers and dryers, ovens, microwaves, cars, lights and switches…. The list goes on and on.

You may not think of a dishwasher or light switch as home automation, but compared to washing dishes by hand and striking a match to light a candle ever time you enter a room, it's defiantly automation. However, each of these things was designed to help us do some complicated, strenuous, unpleasant, or repetitious action automatically. The term 'Home Automation' today applies to the next level of automating home electronics.

The simple answer is just to make life easier. We invented TV remote controls so we didn't have to get out of the chair to change the channel. Some people now own complex media systems that require the owner to press 10 different buttons on 5 remotes just to watch Oprah.

Press one button on a remote control and have it dim the lights, set the volume level, and start playing a movie and music which you desire. Not have the sprinklers turn on if it just rained. Get emails sent to you at work or on your cell phone if a motion detector or security system is tripped while out of the house. Get emails sent to you with the caller ID information of a call received at your house when out. Automatically turn the lights on in the house when the garage door goes up and it's after sundown. Automatically turn the front porch lights on 1/2 hour before sundown every day and automatically adjust for daylight savings. Automatically close the garage doors every night. Automatically turn on holiday lights at specific times. The full list is limited to imagination and a family's lifestyle.