Infineon Gets Musical With MP3 Jacket
News The Munich-based company on Friday showed off new prototype wearable chips that it says can be sewn directly into clothing and other textiles. A wide range of companies are researching wearable electronics and so-called plastic chips, which could...
[April 27, 2002, 7:31]
Infineon Weaves Deals For Wearable Computing
News Chipmaker Infineon says it has seen "huge" interest from the textile industry in its wearable computing technology, paving the way for everything from identification chips to MP3 players that can be built into ordinary fabrics.
[July 24, 2002, 15:52]
Wearable Computers Soon To Be Everywhere
News Wearable computing has so far been little more than a curiosity, but new technology and falling prices will mean dramatic growth for such products in the next few years, according to a new report. The Global Market for Wearable Computers, published...
[September 5, 2002, 13:47]
Video Projector On A Chip Focuses On Eyeballs
News The display is designed to be held up to the eye, either as a screen in a handheld device or as part of a wearable headset. Potentially, it can be made not much larger than existing silicon chips. See Chips Central for the latest headlines on...
[February 12, 2002, 15:40]
Intel Touts Month-long Battery Life For Mobiles
News Ron Smith, vice president and general manager of Intel's Wireless Computing and Communications Group, predicted the process would enable such futuristic form factors as wearable computers and video watch phones.
[May 18, 2001, 8:42]
Fifteen Years Of ThinkPad Highs And Lows
News Wearable ThinkPads, Transmeta-based ThinkPads, methane-powered ThinkPads, flaming ThinkPads, butterfly ThinkPads and even — briefly — coloured ThinkPads. A year later, IBM was showing off its prototype of a wearable ThinkPad, "shrunk to the...
[July 20, 2007, 14:56]
Smart Jacket Handles Mobile Calls And MP3s
News Semiconductor maker Infineon continued its adventures in wearable computing on Monday by showing off a men's jacket that includes a built-in MP3 player and can link up with a mobile phone over Bluetooth.
[July 26, 2004, 14:20]
IBM Cuts Research Jobs
News IBM Research, where more than 3,000 employees work to hatch new ideas on everything from chips to wearable computers, is at the heart of the high-tech company, which lays claim to introducing the first magnetic hard disk, the Fortran language and...
[June 21, 2002, 7:32]
Smart Chips Get Under Our Skin
News There is nothing you can do with embedded chips that you can't do with wearable ones, and I can't imagine there will be queues of people lining up to get chips embedded," he says. He predicts the idea of wearable identity chips could be implemented...
[January 23, 2001, 14:08]
Under-skin ID Tags Generate Concerns
News The overriding idea behind tagging people with chips -- whether through implants or wearable devices such as bracelets -- is to improve identification and, consequently, tighten access to restricted information or physical areas.
[August 23, 2004, 15:05]
ZigBee Product Flood Defies Sceptics
News It is due to ship next month and already being used for applications including a wearable health monitor for the elderly, in development at AFrame Digital in Virginia, US. ZigBee chips are now widely available, including low-power devices designed...
[September 14, 2005, 14:15]
Webpad Maker Switches To Windows
News Elsewhere in Asia, Korea's Samsung has released a Web tablet, while Japan's Hitachi has launched a wearable PC based on Windows CE and Casio has announced a PDA based on Windows CE 3.0. Click on the TalkBack button and go to the Chips Central forum
[November 6, 2001, 16:32]
