Product engineering organizations face the incredible challenge of ever shrinking market windows for innovation in 2012. Due to globalization, increasing competition and rapidly changing technology, there are many risks and uncertainties facing the new product development path. These opportunities if missed, can lead to huge costs and overwhelming complexity that can compromise quality and lead →
Are you interested in seeing how light propagates? Filming light reflecting off objects article tells about a method for capturing “light in flight”. Making videos of light passing through and around objects has been done before, but this system is much cheaper (few hundred dollars) than those earlier systems ($300,000). Light-in-Flight Imaging page on that →
A video wall is a collection of video displays tiled together to create a large single screen, often used to view large amounts of data. Video switchers and converters are indispensable tools for video professionals. Video switchers and converters are essential tools in the realm of audiovisual production, broadcasting, and multimedia content creation. I have →
Video switchers and converters are indispensable tools for video professionals.Video switchers and converters are essential tools in the realm of audiovisual production, broadcasting, and multimedia content creation. I have worked on the field and own devices on this category myself. Video switchers, also known as vision mixers or production switchers, are extensively used in live →
Venerable Ethernet provides the backbone of the internet. Ethernet has risen to complete dominance for local area networks over its forty years of existence. The first Ethernet experimentals versions started in 1972 (patented 1978). The commercialization of Ethernet started in 1980′s. At first Ethernet technology remained primarily focused on connecting up systems within a single →
Nowadays it is possible to buy passive and active device to run Ethernet over Coax – some products support data transfer over larger distances then you can get on regular Cat5. The passive converters are typically limited to 100 Mbps maximum speeds up to 100-200 meters distance maximum. If you need faster speed or longer →
There’s no doubt that the audio visual industry has proven its ability to survive and thrive in trying times. Global events have facilitated the rapid evolution of audio visual technologies, and these only continue to advance. Here are some audio visual trends for 2022 collected from many sources (click the link colored to text to →
Nothing is more difficult than making predictions. Instead of trowing out wild ideas what might be coming, will be making educated guesses based on what has happened during the last 12 months and several years before that. The past year has seen a rapid increase in the adoption of up-and-coming technologies. Everyday items are getting →
Electronics technology and market trends for 2019: Markets: The Future of the Semiconductor Industry is Bright. Demand is rising for AI and automotive, flat for mobile phones, with trade uncertainty looming over everything. Foundries see growth and new issues in 2019. WSTS industry forecast projects annual global market growth of 2.6 percent in 2019. Politics: →
Here are some audio and video trends for 2019: The global Hi-Fi Systems market was valued at million US$ in 2018 and is expected to grow. EISA Awards has selected Hi-Fi product category winners, but I did not see anything really fancy new innovations that would excite me there. The Hi-Fi speaker market has seen considerable →