I am sitting through Day 3 keynotes and now it's the Research and Development keynote session with Justin Rattner. Lots of pictures to load later, but I wanted to post this one because I think it's the big thing out here: wireless power transmission.
Unlike those "wireless power" gimmicks shown at CES, which require special connectors and devices actually touch the power source, this one transmits power over the air - we are talking about 60 watts power over two feet, at 75% power efficiency.
Based on principles proposed by MIT physicists, Intel researchers have been working on a Wireless Resonant Energy Link (WREL).
WREL promises to deliver wireless power safely and efficiently. The technology relies on strongly coupled resonators. Intel says that with this technology enabled in a laptop, for example, batteries could be recharged when the laptop gets within several feet of the transmit resonator. Many engineering challenges remain, but the company's researchers hope to find a way to cut the last cord in mobile devices and someday enable wireless power in Intel-based platforms.
Here are some pictures:
Intel-powered Yahoo! TV Widgets screenshots
These are some pictures I took from the show floor just after the Yahoo! TV Widgets announcement during the Intel Developer Forum San Francisco 2008:
And below a zoom in the Yahoo! TV Widgets area:
And more pictures of different TV Widgets:
This box is based on the new Intel Media Processor CE 3100, pairing an Intel Pentium M processor core at 800MHz and 256K L2 Cache, with multi-stream high-definition video decoding and processing hardware, including support for MPEG-2, H.264 and VC-1 with HDMI 1.3a output, and featuring advanced 4-field per pixel motion-adaptive de-interlacing and 9-tap, 128-phase, independent horizontal and vertical scalers.
It also adds a 3-channel 800 MHz DDR2 memory controller supporting tiled memory mapping and channel interleaving, dedicated multi-channel dual audio DSPs with support for 7.1 surround sound implementing advanced audio codecs, including support for Blu-ray requirements.
The media processor also features a 2-D/3-D Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 500 supporting multi-threaded dual universal scalable shader architecture for pixel/vertex processing, accelerated BLTs/Alpha BLTs, programmable anti-aliasing and compliance with industry-standard APIs: OpenGL ES 1.1, Open GL ES 2.0 and Open VG 1.0.
Spread the world with the Unofficial Tech Ed blog widget
You can help us spread the world about the things happening at the Microsoft Tech Ed New Zealand by using this widget:You can just click in "Options" and use the code to insert it in your page or blog.... (more in the full post)
Clippy for VI: What we all have been waiting for
Here is what we command-line users have always wanted. Microsoft's assistant - Clippy - for VI. I found this animated GIF via reddit on a site called houghi.org. But I have no idea who originally produced this image.Good stuf... (more in the full post)
Jaycar - Please open a shop in the Hutt!
Consumer electronics (Kitsets and so forth) still exists. But if you went into any store of DSE then you'd be hard pressed to get any assistance.
Just one of those stores in question being DSE Lower Hutt. I thought I'd expand my brain cells a bit with a bit of a project. Problem #1, kitset I wanted not available (that, I could accept). Ordered 2x LED Level Meter Kits from OZ to do the job. Went into DSE Lower Hutt to try to get some LED's (A common component by most standards) and going through all their parts bins only 1 or 2 LED's to be found. Sad. Couldn't find any IC sockets or PCB mounts either. Very Sad. One of the un helpful assistants was raised after waiting for some time with the response being 'try Jaycar in Wellington'.
Sad DSE, very sad. You used to be great, but I will now have to save up my gadget/parts shopping needs for one trip and go to your competitor in Wellington. You've lost a once loyal customer.
So this is my plea.. Please, Plleeeessseeee Jaycar.. open a store in Lower Hutt.
The site of your catalogues causes me to break into joy and dribble with delight over your kits, electronics parts and gadgets!
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