If you thought action cameras like the GoPro were aimed at a niche market of sports enthusiasts looking to capture a moment, the designers of the Nixie hope to launch an even more niche product. Nixie is a wearable flying drone. It straps to your wrist like a bracelet until you lift your arm and […]
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Nixie is a wearable drone (prototype)
Nixie is a project that aims to combine two of the latest trends in mobile tech: selfies and wearables. No, it’s not another selfie hat. It’s a drone that you wear on your wrist like a bracelet until it’s time to let it fly. No, seriously. Here’s the idea: The Nixie is a quadcopter with […]
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Intel’s low-power Edison PC module now shipping for developers, hobbyists
Intel is now shipping the tiny Edison PC module the company first unveiled in January. It’s a small, low-power device that basically has the guts of a simple computer. Edison is powered by a 500 MHz Intel Atom Silvermont dual-core processor and feature 1GB of RAM and 4GB of eMMC flash storage as well as […]
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Intel’s first chips for wearable will be Atom, not Quark
Intel introduced a new family of tiny, low-power chips aimed at wearable devices and other pieces of the “internet of things” in September, 2013. But apparently the Intel Quark system-on-a-chip and Edison platform for wearable devices isn’t quite ready to go, so Intel has announced its expanding its wearable platform to include Intel Atom chips. […]