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Want to guarantee that your next product is a huge success? Ask Apple’s Siri
Troy Wolverton is a News Columnist for the San Jose Mercury News and this morning’s paper carried his fascinating column on his growing infatuation with Siri, the intelligent assistant that lives...
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Friday Video: Apple iPhone 4S teardown by iFixIt
If you’re curious about a range of Apple iPhone 4S technical topics from what’s changed from the Apple iPhone 4 to why can’t “lesser” iPhones run Siri, then take a look at this video from iFixIt:
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Man, Mahler, Marimba, cellphone. Two of these things do not belong.
MSNBC.com just published a story about a cell phone that stopped a performance of Mahler’s Ninth symphony last night at the New York Philharmonic. The offending phone was playing a marimba ring tone...
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Friday Video: Two minutes of system-design expertise from Matt Rogers, VP of...
Nest is a company that’s tackling mundane technology like a thermostat and asking why these products can’t be sleek, beautiful, and smart like an iPhone or iPad. Matt Rogers, the VP of engineering at...
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After Silicon, SoC, and System Realization comes Dynasty Realization
The EDA360 vision document divides the world of electronic design into Silicon, SoC, and System Realization. It’s a product-oriented view and it has pushed all EDA vendors to embrace what designers...
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[Friday Video] iFixit tears down an iPad 3 4G LTE using spudger, heat gun,...
Those folks at iFixit stop at nearly nothing to be the first to tear apart shiny new toys like the new Apple iPad (the iPad formerly known as the iPad 3). They flew to Australia to get a new iPad hours...
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Friday Video: IKEA solves the two big problems with HDTVs—remotes and wires
The following video shows how much IKEA understands about selling high-tech HDTV. Build it into the furniture so it looks good. Make the furniture modular, like all IKEA offerings. Make the cables...
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Friday Video: How the iPhone saved a Corning glass factory in Harrodsburg,...
Here’s a video about a completely non-electronic product that’s intimately interwoven into the success of a highly electronic product. The non-electronic product is durable, scratch-resistant Corning...
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Vizio (!) introduces line of high-end Windows PCs and notebooks. Didn’t they...
Today, “America’s #1 LCD HDTV” vendor Vizio launched a line of sleek notebook, ultrabook, and all-in-one desktop PCs. Howzat? Isn’t Vizio familiar with the term “post-PC era”? What have they been...
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Daniel Nenni at SemiWiki publishes a [very] brief history of the SoC
Daniel Nenni has just posted a very brief history of the SoC, with heavy emphasis on SoCs for mobile products. The emphasis is probably warranted because mobile designs really have driven SoC design...
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