What Makes It Tick. And Talk. - Motorola Droid 4
Here's the Droid 4 in all its glory. It's a bit bigger, shinier, and packs more features than the original, but the essence of the Droid 1 is preserved. Tech specs: • Android 2.3.6 OS (Gingerbread) • Dual-Core 1.
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What Makes It Tick. And Talk. - Tearing Down the Nook Tablet
We present to you the Nook Tablet, the only tablet (other than the Nook Color) cool enough to have a carabiner clip built into it. But what's this? It also has other cool features: • 1 GHz Dual-Core Processor • 1 GB of RAM • Up to 48 GB of storage (16 GB internal) • 802.
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What Makes It Tick. And Talk. - Elster REX2 Smart Meter
Elster REX2 Smart Meter The electricity meter is one device that no household connected to the grid can escape, and the technology utilized by analog meters (the most common type) dates to the late 19th century.
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What Makes It Tick. And Talk. - Apple iPhone 4
Apple iPhone 4 We have confirmed that the iPhone's A4 processor has 512 MB RAM, unlike the iPad's more limited 256 MB. This decision may have been made fairly late in Apple's development cycle, because early leaked prototype phones only had 256 MB.
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Controller Kits Tap Into High-speed PCIe Bus
Two new controller kits for the ScanWorks platform for embedded instruments from ASSET InterTech can, according to the company accelerate test throughput by plugging into the high-speed PCI Express (PCIe) bus in the personal computer where ScanWorks is running.
Power Modules Meet Increased Power and Energy Monitoring Demands
Ericsson has announced a new series of Power Interface Modules that save board space for core processing functions and enable system architects to design equipment with energy monitoring features, enabling the use of optimization algorithms to reduce overall board power consumption.
Industry’s First SAR ADC with SPICE Model
Texas Instruments Incorporated today introduced a successive-approximation-register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) with a downloadable TINA-TI SPICE model, enabling system designers to simulate and characterize the full analog signal chain in software for the first time.
