Mannerisms

The CEA (Consumer Electronics Association) sees all sorts of surprising ways in which people are making a lot of money in the US electronics industry, and much of it is far from being high-tech.

What's the next thing the electronics industry will make disposable? There's a body of thought about which says it's going to be the laptop.

The reason why people are turning away from high-end phones to low-end is now obvious, and it will continue.

Technophobia is rampant as the electronics industry produces more and more products which ordinary people find impossible to use.

XMOS Semiconductor has come up with a new type of chip called SDS (software defined silicon) to give back to the designers of consumer electronics goods the freedom they used to enjoy to innovate.

It looks as if Sneakernet is the answer to the inter-connected home. The huge problem of how you connect your PC to your TV has been solved by a SanDisk USB flash drive which has a cradle which connects into the standard video ports on the TV.

Toronto is going to give the world high speed, high-definition, video transmission over low cost cabling, according to Franz Fink, the CEO of Toronto-based fabless semiconductor company, Gennum.

It’s a software world, according to the professor of computer science at Bristol University.

As we lurch into Christmas, what electronics products are opening the wallets of the British consumer? According to digital analytics company, comScore, based on on-line searches, these are the top ten most popular electronics products in the UK this Christmas.

“The next cycle is actual innovation”, says Sony’s Welsh Wizard, Sir Howard Stringer, who said this week that the company’s financial woes have been fixed, the turnaround plan will be completed by Q208, and that its new products are bringing back what he calls: “The Wow factor”.

The news that one third of all XBox360s is a dud, raises the question: Could it be that the US revival in consumer electronics will fizzle out because of shitty manufacturing?

Today XMOS announces the sampling of its first chip, a four core chip, with each core delivering 400MIPS, selling for $10 in volume.