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So far the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) has spawned the such terrifying beasts such as the Terminator-esque Atlas. So it's comforting to see that Nasa's entry looks like it would probably fight on the side of superheroes. 
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The fifth generation of mobile communications technology will see the end of the “cell” as the fundamental building block of communication networks. Via S. Diez de Medina Ph.D.
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(from the Curator of IoT & Wearables): 5th Generation Mobile communications, important to understand and know about if you're in mobile / ioT and dare I say wearables too
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Everyone has struggled to plug a device into a USB port at one time or another. There’s a 50/50 chance of choosing the correct orientation, and we usually manage to pick the wrong one every time.
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Get this a new USB connector, that is incompatible with down rev versions of USB how lame is that? Coming out 2014.
This is what sucks about designing by committee of multple companies, all looking to get additional revenue, but not really looking out for the consumer. Is a limit to this kind of unecessary crap, yep someone out design the knuckleheads that came up with this mess
Sometimes you just get a professional to design it, make it done right and then everyone is forced to get on board.
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(From the Curator of IoT & Wearables): This is where the Quiet Revolution got started for IoT & Wearables and continues to explode in factories and how the handle and manage the materials and logistics of their resources, materials and products. Great case study stuff for other applicability outside of industrial applications as well, well if you know how to think analogously / metaphorically
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(from the Curator of IoT & Wearbles): Previous scoop but better artitcle
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One of this year's Nobel Prize laureates says learning how to handle failure is key to becoming a successful scientist.
Richard Platt's insight:
Oh Ok now I'm glad I'm an Engineer because I'm never wrong (obviously BS). But the interesting thing to note about this, is that making a mistake in your initial assessment, and then having to go back to the drawing board, isn't a bad thing, it is to be expected as you dig into the details of a problem that you're solving. That's just about gaining clarity, I don't understand why people get so upset about this failure thing, It really is just rapid proto-typing for the mind.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Need a hand lifting something? A robotic device invented by University of Pennsylvania engineering students can help its wearer carry an additional 40 pounds.Titan Arm looks and sounds like part of a superhero's costume.
Richard Platt's insight:
Did I just see this in the movie Elysium? And there was the kid (see picture) who built a robotic arm for $250. Geesh these kids, actually making stuff that helps people, go figure
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Check out the first part of this three-part series!
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Definitely watch this video - that is if you want to stay competitve.
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Companies are employing new outreach, technologies and training methods to help ensure that millennials don't become manufacturing's lost generation.
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The iGeneration, which means the innovation Generation,
A new day has arrived folks, train your people to be innovative with good methods in problem solving and problem finding or you won't be able to provide them the capability for your firm to compete, it is that simple..
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IBM researchers have developed a new polymer-like material to treat fungal infections.
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Just cool tech being developed, we like this
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The arms merchants of the cloud and a new wave of developers armed with APIs are going to cause massive technology disruption. (Arm yourself: The API wars are coming! Excited by the future of software defined technology!
Richard Platt's insight:
(from the Curator of IoT & Wearables): Another front of the Silicon Wars, this one has 2 fronts, ARM - silicon technology and platforms as well as Applications from the software product technologies that lay on top of the hardware product layers.
Competition is heating up on multiple fronts, and those who do not manage their innovation life cycles will be the losers. And we are taking bets
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Talk given at BES Asia in Kuala Lumpur on December 9th 2013. http://www.bes-asia.com/ (slides up for my upcoming talk at #BESAsia if you're interested in #iot and how to build an ecology local to you.
Richard Platt's insight:
(from the Curator of IoT & Wearables): Nice presentation even if it is UK centric despite the name on the link. Check it out, and let us know what you think if they have it right?
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This paper introduces a methodology based on Virtual Prototyping Environment, developed using simulation models of all the components of the target architecture.
Richard Platt's insight:
(from the Curator of IoT & Wearables): We have long advocated the necessity to do virtual prototyping of designs before any manufacturing is undertaken, our colleague from MIT Michael Schrage has also adovcated this approach. Read on how to do this for SOC's and the integration w/ Software validation with the hardware.The only thing this paper misses is the necessity to do rapid prototyping of the DFM envelope which is a major miss to not do. Happy innovating
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The cost of quality can be much higher than most realize. The term is widely - and even loosely used - throughout the manufacturing and services industry.
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We've been involved with the Quality movement since we were in college, and that is all that we've ever done is tie a quality approach to innovating, but for the rest of you who don't think there is a connection to innovating, I can assure you that you are wrong.
Dr. Deming said so, as well our own ongoing analysis uncovered the same at Samsung (we began that analysis back in 2003), the link here is (http://www.slideshare.net/rplatt/systematic-corporate-innovation-methods-overview) presentation tells the story of what they did and how they did too, and that is why they did it.
Samsung also understands the Cost of Poor Quality is directly tied to its own process and why they developed the Samsung Design for Six Sigma which is a 2nd Generation version of Six Sigma that many miss. (welll and outside of innovation circles you won't here them talk about it, I had to get my information mining Japanese and Korean websites where they do present more openly on the topic)
We are also do competitive intelligence as a firm competency as well. - (shamless plug for the S+IG)
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University of Oregon chemists studying the structure of ligand-stabilized gold nanoparticles have captured fundamental new insights about their stability.
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Good to know if you're working in semiconductor technology / R&D when it comes to nanotubes, nanoparticies, nano-anything at this rate. A good read on what of all places, University of Oregon, (WTH, when did they get better at this than Oregon State?)
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Why isolation testing matters
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(from the Curator of IoT & Wearables): Not the only solution that I can see to the issue, but a move in the right direction, important if you do wireless in any kind of way
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Today on Meaghan's Minute, brought to you by Memory Protection Devices, we are discussing high-efficiency wireless power antennas from NuCurrent.
Richard Platt's insight:
(from the Curator of IoT & Wearbles):We love Meaghan's enthusiasm for high tech, and the concept she talks about today, wireless antennas is important for IoT and Wearables too.
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Experimental evidence and computer simulations suggest how to grow structures with the best trade-offs between three desired characteristics: strength, flexibility, and the ability to dissipate heat.
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(from the Curator of IoT & Wearbles): for my semiconductor R&D buds, where is the best place to put those finicky carbon nanotubes? Read to understand
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Among the most common tools in electrical engineering and computer science are rectangular grids of numbers known as matrices. The numbers in a matrix can represent data, and they can also represent mathematical equations.
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Now I'm pissed, CS Engineers just figuring out that they need Linear Algebra, (the only math I liked in college, besides Diff E Q)
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Last week, we talked with Paula Ramos of MFI International. Ramos discussed the competitive advantages of manufacturing in Mexico and the interconnectedness of the Mexican and American economies as it relates to jobs. This week, we focus on...
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Follow on article for folks to read on what we just scooped about staying competitive with your manufacturing. They just forgot to mention the EVP (Employee Value Proposition) as a part of the analysis, do that too.
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Dopo la banda magnetica sono i chip Rfid ad aver cambiato il futuro dei pagamenti elettronici, ma la differenza la farà la tecnologia Nfc.
Richard Platt's insight:
(from the Curator of IoT & Wearbles): This article on NFC (Near Field Communications) from an Italian website is quite good, worth a read. Just make sure that your Google translate is turned on. Enjoy the read if you are working on products and services of IoT and Wearable products
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The direction that a light wave is oscillating changes as the wave is reflected by a sheet of graphene. This changing direction of oscillation --- also known
Richard Platt's insight:
(from the Curator of IoT & Wearables): We like Graphene for a number of uses not the least of which is application in high tech and semiconductor applications. Nice to see that IR can see through the stuff, which means tools are being developed to use Graphene more widely
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The Internet of Things will encompass a huge number of connected devices and drive economic value.
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(from the Curator of IoT & Wearables): This article is summarized as such: "The Internet Of Things represents a major departure in the history of the Internet, as connections move beyond computing devices, and begin to power billions of everyday devices, from parking meters to home thermostats.
Estimates for Internet of Things or IoT market value are massive, since by definition the IoT will be a diffuse layer of devices, sensors, and computing power that overlays entire consumer, business-to-business, and government industries."
Check it out if you aren't fully up to speed on your own strategy for IoT and Wearable device markets
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There are more than 1.7 billion mobile devices in the world -- and in 2013 for the first time, smartphones outsold feature phones. The mobile revolution is h... (What happened when I took the stage at @salesforce ?
Richard Platt's insight:
(from the Curator of IoT & Wearables): Good video chat about IoT and the Cloud and focusing on the customer, worth a check
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(From the Curaotr of IoT & Wearables): An excellent primer on IC's for those who don't know, we meet far too many senior exec's who DO NOT know what is actually going on inside of the components that their companies and engineers actually build. Here you go
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This is what Engineers on Steroids do over at DARPA, What about your engineers can they build cool stuff like this? - yeah I'm talking trash because these guys over at DARPA just got way more funding to do cool stuff than the rest of us.