Akustica today announced the availability of their AKU2000 all-digital MEMS microphone. This marks a huge milestone for the company, which was founded in 2001 and was based on Ken Gabriel’s research done while he was a professor at Carnegie Mellon, where he developed the CMOS-MEMS technology that allows Akustica to manufacture their MEMS structures using…
OK, this struck me as a little bit ridiculous. Safeway has redefined the meaning of a dozen: forget the baker’s dozen, fourteen is the new twelve. Apparently even cardinal numbers are not immune to inflation. Will Albertsons feel compelled to respond by forcing the beleaguered Dozen to admit fifteen members? Will the gluttonous Piggly Wiggly…
Yesterday was a good day to be an FOB. That’s a Friend of Brad. Not that it isn’t always good to be a friend of Brad, but yesterday will stand out in my memory for years to come. Our colleague Heidi Roizen arranged a very special visit to the set of Brad’s (and my) favorite…
Another nice award for the guys at Sling Media. The Slingbox was dubbed the Home Entertainment Device of the Year for 2005 by both Engadget and, even better, by Engadget’s readers. Sling has garnered many awards over the past several months, but it is particularly cool that the tech-obsessed folks over there dig it. But,…