areas of innovation in LED Lighting

I have written a few things here and there about LED lighting.  These articles were inspired more by news releases at the time than a deep exploration of the technology of LED lighting.  That said it might be worth considering where technology development might occur within the LED lighting market.  For this I turn to [...]

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apple’s hybrid notebook or “wireless display for electronic devices”

It might actually be an illness.  Maybe one named titleclickia or something like that.  It would be defined as the uncontrollable clicking on a link based on the title.  In extreme cases the afflicted will read the whole article at the end of the link.  Now that I have admitted the problem I can move [...]

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Apple’s A5 version 2 after seeing the A5 version 3

There were a number of threads I did not have time nor space to fully pursue in my recent EETimes article (“the article”) on the A5_3.  The first was the question: was the Apple TV overpowered with the A5_2?  The short answer is yes.  The long answer leads into the second question: for what was [...]

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the iRing, iWatch and apple rumour mill

The Apple rumour mill has not been all that exciting lately.  A bit of mini-this and a bit of inexpensive-that, but nothing really “out there”, nothing on which one can spend some cycles.  At least that was the case until this morning. We have all heard of the Apple iTV rumours.  Today’s rumour came from [...]

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Cree’s new light bulb

Cree® garnered some headlines today with a Press Release  that jointly introduced a new family of LED light bulbs and revised guidance for the quarter.  I want to touch on the “bulb” portion of the release here.  The first thing to strike the reader when looking at the supplied photo of the bulb is that [...]

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Apple and the 8,368,654 patent: where does it fit?

Over the last few days I have read articles about Apple’s 5,368,654 (’654) patent on cnet, Forbes and AppleInsider.  Patents assigned to Apple seem to get attention.  AppleInsider’s coverage was  a day ahead of the other two.  Each of the articles had their own interpretation of the disclosed technology, and each presented the sort of [...]

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arctic sand part 2: a bit more digging

So the first go did not lead too far.  There were however a few more leads in the first round of articles that could be pursued.  The original Press Release told us that the company is an MIT spin-off and the technology field is DC-to-DC power conversion.  What about the Technology Review article?  In the [...]

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