January 27, 2010 – 5:56 pm
EETimes writer R. Colin Johnson has posted an excellent article on MEMS manufacturer InvenSense’s foray into the smartphone market. (For more on MEMS gyros taking off, see Colin’s article, “Five Apps That Will Make 2010 the Year of the Gyroscope” in Smarter Technology.) The article notes: Estimated at $115 billion, the smartphone market is very [...]
January 25, 2010 – 4:53 pm
Just a quick blog post today on an upcoming conference: the U.S. Department of Energy’s ARPA-E (Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy) is hosting an Energy Innovation Summit in Washington D.C. this March 1-3.
January 19, 2010 – 4:30 pm
Robert MacManus posted an interesting piece on ReadWriteWeb recently (see 2010 Trend: Sensors & Mobile Phones) in their series on the “Internet of Things”–where devices are connected to the Internet to provide us with more data and functionality. Although he doesn’t call it MEMS by name, he makes the point that cell phones are becoming [...]
January 12, 2010 – 4:50 pm
This will appeal to the hardcore cycling enthusiasts amongst us: Analog Devices recently demoed an electronic mountain bike suspension system featuring its iMEMS® accelerometers.
January 8, 2010 – 8:49 pm
There have been some really exciting announcements for the MEMS community coming out of CES 2010. Here are four that stuck out: Microvision SHOWWX™ – Microvision is generating a lot of buzz with its SHOWWX™ Laser Pico Projector. Based on proprietary MEMS single scanning mirror technology, Microvision’s pico projector can turn a mobile device into [...]
January 5, 2010 – 5:09 pm
Tech writer R. Colin Johnson thinks so and has laid out 5 apps that could push gyros into the limelight. Colin has been attending MEMS Executive Congress for a couple of years now, so it’s no surprise that some of the really cool MEMS apps discussed there have made it onto his list. “Gyroscopes have [...]
