After ridiculing one mosquito-fighting product, I figured it’d be only right to highlight another piece of buzz-reducing tech that was showing off its products at CES this year. Mosqitter is an industrial-scale mosquito murdering machine that attracts female mosquitos before they get a chance to lay eggs. From there, it’s a short zap away from […]
Morphée triples down on your relaxation with the Zen
As a journalist and investor, I’m always a little suspicious of single-product, super-niche companies; there are just so many things that can go wrong, and one of the ways that direct-to-consumer brands do well is having the ability to cross-sell to its customers. Morphée was one of those brands, starting with its frankly ludicrously over-designed […]
x86プロセッサの開発を行っていたCentaurをIntelが買収
台湾VIA Technologiesは、x86互換CPUを開発していたCentaur Technologyをインテルに事実上売却していたことが分かった。11月4日にTWSE（台湾証券交易所）に出された公告で判明したという。事実上の買収で金額は1億2500万ドルだったという。同社は1999年にVIAに買収され、「C3」、「C7」、「Nano」といった製品をリリースしていた。ASCII.jpで連載中の大原雄介氏の記事によれば、11月ごろにCentaur Technologyのウェブサイトが突如“工事中”…
Fire At ASML Could Worsen Global Computer Chip Shortage
ASML Holding has reported a fire at its factory in Berlin, Germany. No one was hurt and the fire was put out on Sunday night, but the incident could exacerbate the current global computer chip shortage. Here’s what ASML said about the incident: The fir…
Alienware’s Concept Nyx is an at-home gaming server that may never exist
Over the last few years, Dell (and its gaming brand, Alienware) has grown fond of showing off concept devices – as a potential look at what may be coming down the road. In fact, it’s a growing trend in the consumer electronics industry at large, taking a page out of the automotive world’s book. Depending […]
オプションの新機能のみがさらに追加される HDMI 2.1a
HDMI 2.1 の新リビジョン HDMI 2.1a では、オプションの新機能のみがさらに追加されるそうだ(The Verge の記事、
9to5Mac の記事、
TFT Central の記事)。
HDMI 2.1 では同バージョンに関連付けられるすべての新機能がオプションであり、HDMI 2.0 の機能のみサポートするデバイスも HDMI 2.1 準拠となる。HDMI 2.1a では HDR トーンマッピングの一部をソースデバイス側にオフロードする SBTM (ソースベースのトーンマッピング…
Let’s talk CES 2022 trends
I spent a chunk of yesterday morning rediscovering the big trends of CES 2012. It’s a strange experience, examining so much technology that feels — at once — extremely dated and very recent. With 10 years between you and an event, the macro trends really take shape. Some items are a clear part of a […]
Mercedes, BMW, more join list of companies opting-out of an in-person CES
Two more auto giants have added their names to the growing list of big companies opting out of an in-person CES with less than a week remaining before kickoff. Yesterday, Mercedes confirmed that it would be skipping the physical event. “As the health and safety of our customers, partners, employees and guests are our highest […]
Voyant raises $15M to scale production of its tiny, inexpensive lidar tech
The future of lidar is uncertain unless, as Voyant hopes to do, its price and size are reduced to fractions of their current values. As long as lidars are sandwich-sized devices that cost thousands, they won’t be ubiquitous — so Voyant has raised some cash to bring its smaller, cheaper, more easily manufactured, yet still […]
The best tech of CES 2012
Consumer electronics are a bad metric for gauging the passage of time. And, frankly, Consumer Electronics Shows are considerably worse. I’ve attended well into the double digits of CES and have largely experienced them in similar manner: as a week-long flurry of news and shiny gadgets, filing news from trailers, press centers, hotel rooms and […]