Is it possible to discern trends the have begun shaping the world of app design and will continue into 2018?

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A Chinese firm has created an educational robotic game for the very young which it says can lay the foundations for developing logic and programming skills. Matatalab says the aim of the toy is to address the stage of brain development at around age four when the brain lays the groundwork for development of logic. …

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NI has introduced a PXI chassis with a higher power rating of 58W per slot. This represents a 50% increase in power and cooling per slot compared to previously released NI PXI Express chassis. Fan noise has been reduced in the 38W cooling mode with a 13dB improvement compared to the previously released PXIe-1085 chassis. …

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Aurora Lighting is another firm (see also All Led) that is leaving the mainstream far behind with a 100 lm/W fire-rated downlighter for domestic use. It is the 6W E6pro, which will be available in the new year, producing 620lm at 4,000K (103 lm/W) and 580 lm at 3,000K. It is dimmable and beam angle …

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Take a look at the EksoVest, an “upper body exoskeleton”, finding a role in an industrial, automotive setting.

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Nine years ago the future was looking good for NXP – it didn’t know that nine years of disruption was imminent. Two years before, in the autumn of 2006, NXP had been bought by private equity firm KKR. NXP’s CEO in 2008 was Frans van Houten, now CEO of Philips. In September 2008, I talked …

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Harvard Technology unveiled the next generation (gen 3) of its CoolLED drivers at Lux Live, capable of dimming to 0.1% in some variants. “Smaller, lighter, more efficient and completely flicker-free,” was thew summary provided by a spokesman on the stand,  to which he added that the firm adopted some techniques from automotive electronics to get …

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UK lighting manufacturer TamLight had a big stand at LuxLive, and was promoting its ‘Vision’, lighting control system – used in the Ericsson exhibition hall at the Coventry Ricoh Arena – where automatic dimming and presence detection can be managed via wired or wireless networks. On the hardware side, it was showing some new in-office …

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UK connector maker Harwin was had a stand at LuxLive for the first time this year, showing a product that it developed following conversations with potential customers at LuxLive last year. Clip and Bar is a minimalist connector for electrically connecting led strips in assemblies. The idea is, according to Harwin’s Robert Webber, who designed …

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Toshiba wasn’t at LuxLive to talk about its high CRI leds, but it was in the Bluetooth cluster to promote Bluetooth Mesh and the hardware and software it is offering for Mesh. Bluetooth Mesh does not involve setting up a connection between two devices, but uses a modified version of the Bluetooth ‘advertising’ profile. It …

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