IoT tagged posts

A new modular compute platform called the Compute Card

We may be about to enter a brand new age of tiny computing. Tech blog MSPoweruser said on Thursday that “At CES 2017 today, Intel announced a new modular compute platform called the Compute Card.” A BBC presenter points in the video to a “fully functional Windows 10 PC. “And when I say this, I actually mean this.” He reaches for a small slab, and tells viewers that it is a complete computer. Processer, storage, memory, Wifi, there. “It is about as powerful as an ultra-thin laptop,” he said.

The Intel Compute Card can operate as a PC or act as the brains of other electronics. The card does not seem to have—anywhere to plug anything in...

In this example, the speed of the spinning tag on the pinwheel is mapped to onscreen graphics. Credit: Eric Brockmeyer/Disney Research

Researchers have created ways to give a piece of paper sensing capabilities that allows it to respond to gesture commands and connect to the digital world, IoT. The method relies on small radio frequency (RFID) tags that are stuck on, printed or drawn onto the paper to create interactive, lightweight interfaces that can do anything from controlling music using a paper baton, to live polling in a classroom.

The technology – PaperID – leverages inexpensive, off-the-shelf RFID tags, which function without batteries but can be detected through a reader device placed in the same room as the tags...

Schematics of structures for three kinds of spin-orbit-torque-induced magnetization scheme. (a) The first previous structure where the magnetization is perpendicular to the film plane. (b) The second previous structure where the magnetization is in-plane and orthogonal to channel current. (c) The new structure where the magnetization is in-plane and collinear with the current. Credit: Shunsuke Fukami

Researchers have developed a new-structure magnetic memory device utilizing spin-orbit- torque-induced magnetization switching. For these 2 decades, much effort has been devoted to the development of magnetic random access memories, which store information as the magnetization direction of a magnet...