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Immersive Experiences: Making Life more Engaging with Technology

By Dick Weisinger

Immersive Experiences are encounters with technology interfaces that create or enhance an experience to make it more engaging. Immersive-Experience enabling technologies include Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), Mixed Reality, and Digital Twins. Gartner ranks the Immersive Experience as one…

Emerging Memories: New Technologies Targets AI and IoT

By Dick Weisinger

Artificial Technology and Internet of Things (IoT) devices are driving the development of alternative hardware memory technologies. The use of SRAM and DRAM is expensive and consume large amounts of power. Rob Crooke, senior vice president at Intel, said that…

Supercapacitors: Possible Successor to Today’s Costly and Slow-Charging Batteries

By Dick Weisinger

Batteries have become sore points with products like electric cars and portable electronics. Batteries still are expensive, bulky and slow to charge. An alternative to batteries that is showing promise is supercapacitors. They tend to be smaller than batteries and…

Neuromorphic Chips: Designing Chips that Mimic the Human Brain

By Dick Weisinger

Chip designers are are creating chips that mimic the neurons and synapses in the human brain. The goal is to make chips that are smarter and more energy efficient than today’s standard generation of chips. The chips process data asynchronously…

Data Deluge: Digital Bits Could Outnumber Earth’s Atoms in 200 Years

By Dick Weisinger

We’re awash in data. IDC estimates that humans will store 6.8 zettabytes of data in 2020. The total data stored is now doubling every four years. The increased capture of video and sensor data is behind at least part of…