About: Ibrar Ayyub

So, faced with becoming little more than a dusty museum piece, perhaps it was inevitable that watches — like phones, coffee makers, refrigerators, automobiles and even entire houses — would become “smart,” i.e., equipped with microprocessors, software and wireless connections that allow them to perform all sorts of functions beyond the one for which they […]

Just from pure passion to see how low-end PIC exercises AVR, I made this programmer. Basically it is STK500 port on PIC16F1825. I took this http://www.tuxgraphics.org/electronics/ … 5101.shtml one, did some clean-up, wrote new hardware layer for PIC16 and voila – new programmer is born. It was done in one evening and night, ready to […]

Thermochromic inks first hit the mainstream in the 1970s, appearing in one of that era’s lasting icons — the mood ring, which supposedly used the wearer’s body heat as a sign of his or her emotional state. More recently, a microwaveable maple syrup bottle featured a thermochromic label that indicated when its buttery, delicious goodness […]

LG Display, a leading innovator of display technologies, announced today that it has developed the world’s first Quad HD AH-IPS LCD panel for smartphones. At 2560×1440 with 538ppi, the new 5.5-inch Quad HD panel is the highest resolution and ppi (pixel per inch) mobile panel to date, and provides a glimpse at what’s next after current Full HD smartphone panels, critical given the growing trend towards larger displays.

After checking out SoftKinetic’s embedded 3D depth camera earlier this week, our attention was brought to a similar offering coming from Germany’s PMD Technologies and Infineon. In fact, we were lucky enough to be the first publication to check out their CamBoard Pico S, a smaller version of their CamBoard Pico 3D depth camera that […]

The Big Picture The production process for a live action TV show is fairly straightforward. Writers come up with a script, actors perform the script in front of a few cameras and a studio audience, the footage is edited, and the show is ready for broadcast. (This is a simplification, but that’s the production process […]

The new iW3606 and iW3608 single-stage, solid state lighting (SSL) LED drivers from iWatt feature a wide, flicker-free dimming range from 100% all the way down to 1% of measured light, to closely match the dimming performance of incandescent bulbs. This enables the smooth, “natural” dimming, with no light drop-out at the low end of […]

In the U.S., the term “TV ratings” immediately makes people think of “Nielsen” because Nielsen Media Research has become the de facto national measurement service for the television industry in the United States and Canada. Nielson measures the number of people watching television shows and makes its data available to the television and cable networks, […]

Well-proven Piher potentiometers with a dust-proof construction will ensure a reliable operation to your devices. Resistive trimmers of the Spanish company Piher may be familiar to you already from our article – We became an authorized Piher distributor. This time we enlarged our offer with rotary potentiometers of the PC16 series in a wide range […]

These wristwatch-sized computers often come packed with a library of position-based information; it’s possible to buy a GPS watch today that will let you find your location — anywhere on the planet — within minutes of opening the box. But GPS watches go far beyond simple “hey, look where I am” gimmicks. With a little […]