Guilherme Martins wanted a simple Arduino-compatible board that he could use as a robotics platform, so he designed one. Called the Motoruino,If you are just starting electronics and looking towards robotics, this Motorduino might be a great starting point. Source: Lets Make Robots

Samsung Electronics Co., South Korea’ s largest electronics manufacturer, unveiled a new refrigerator model featuring wireless fidelity (WiFi) capabilities designed by an Italian jeweler, the company said Thursday.The future begins today, and even refrigerators are already using the Internet, say in the Korean Samsung Electronics. The company today unveiled the most hi-tech refrigerator that can [...]

mikroElektronika will be present at Embedded World 2009 in Nuremberg. You can find mikroelektronika  at Booth 12-554, Hall 12. Embedded World 2010 Conference is presenting the leading European event for the Embedded Community covering all areas of Embedded System development.

Communicating wirelessly with your 3D-capable Samsung HDTV, SSG-2100AB Active Shutter glasses lighten and darken their liquid-crystal lenses hundreds of times per second in perfect coordination with the 3D content showing on the HDTV screen, allowing you to experience an incredibly vivid, lifelike, and of course, three-dimensional movie night at home. Source: vanns Other links: which.co.uk [...]

Exhibition Center Nürnberg – Nürnberg, Germany March 2-4, 2010 Hall 12, Stand 12-132 Visit Atmel in Hall 12, Stand 12-132 and meet with our expert technologists to learn what’s new in Atmel’s embedded solutions offering. While you are there, make sure to hear Arild Roedland talk about Atmel’s QTouch Studio. Atmel’s QTouch Studio eco system [...]

Panasonic has launched its first 3D Ready television at an event in Munich, Germany. The VT20 Plasma 3D Ready TV will come with the choice of two screen sizes, fifty (50VT20) and sixty five (65VT20) inches. It will be the first Panasonic TV capable of displaying of 3D images. This TV 50VT20 will cost around [...]

OmniVision today Introduces  a new 1/4-inch, 5-megapixel RAW CMOS image sensor based on its 1.4-micron OmniBSI™ backside illumination (BSI) technology. The OV5647 is a cost-effective, high-performance mobile imaging solution, offering the performance and size benefits of BSI technology while allowing mobile phone designs to utilize existing baseband or applications processors for image processing functions. OmniVision’s [...]

Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller and analog semiconductors, today announced a new member of its popular 8- and 14-pin PIC16F61X 8-bit PIC® microcontroller (MCU) family, targeting cost-effective general-purpose applications. The PIC12F617 MCU features 3.5 kB of self-programmable Flash program memory, and peripherals such as a 10-bit Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC), comparator, Pulse-Width Modulator [...]

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Google working on software that instantly translates phone calls in real time. The application will use voice recognition technology to translate whatever is spoken into it, covering all major languages, and more importantly, attempting to cope with regional accents. Google Translate already handles 52 languages, and Google will be able to take advantage of its [...]

Remember Samsung 14″ transparent OLED laptop? Samsung actually plans to release this laptop as a real product within 12 months. They also reveal that the IceTouch MP3 player will sell for around $330 and will be released in the US in the first half of 2010. Source: OLED-Info