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  • Blog Post: Insights from CES 2013 - Health and fitness at a new level

    It was exciting and fun working CES 2013! TI HealthTech took health and fitness management to another level this year. TI is one of only a few companies where innovators can shop for semiconductor solutions and expect to walk away with 90 percent of what they need to get started. At CES, TI HeathTech...
  • Blog Post: Live from CES 2013 – Smart amplifier technology

    The final day of CES is upon us and I’ve saved the best for last. Seriously! Imagine driving your home audio speakers at peak power levels without damaging them, and achieving the ultimate bass performance at all volume levels. Sound like a dream come true? Well it is, and TI is bringing it to...
  • Blog Post: Live from CES 2013 - HDTV with gesture recognition

    Imagine a big-screen HDTV user interface (UI), viewable from your couch up to 10 feet away, and controllable by simply waving your hands. TI’s living-room experience brings this to life, showcasing various industry leading technologies. Dan Harmon, Business Development Manager for the Sensing...
  • Blog Post: Live from CES 2013 - Mobile tablet interface

    Need a “processor to LCD panel” bridge chip family that can support low to high resolution screens without making hardware changes? You’re in luck! Wes Ray, Systems and Applications Manager for Consumer and Computing Interface products at Texas Instruments, showcases a family of...
  • Blog Post: Live from CES 2013 - HD haptic mobile devices

    Imagine feeling the rumble of the road in the palms of your hands, or the feel of strumming guitar strings on your smartphone, portable gaming device or tablet computer. Haptics enhances the user experience in digital devices by appealing to the one sense that often goes overlooked -- touch. Haptics...
  • Blog Post: Live from CES 2013 – Capacitive touch smartphone

    It’s only day 1 at CES 2013, and TI is off to a great start showcasing its products to customers and the media. The weather’s perfect, the crowds large, and TI is boldly demonstrating how it’s engineering the future! For starters, Eric Siegel, Touch Screen Business Development Manager...
  • Blog Post: CES 2013 Preview: Waving in the next big thing!

    We’re less than two weeks away from the start of CES 2013, and TI is already making a splash. How, you say? Well, imagine controlling your PC the way they do on TV and in the movies – just by moving your hands in the air without having to touch a mouse or keyboard. TI is bringing the next...
  • Blog Post: Ask an Engineer: CES Edition Part 2

    We continue our CES edition of Ask an Engineer with Eric Siegel by discussing questions asked by Bill Schweber of EETimes . (Please visit the site to view this video)
  • Blog Post: Live From CES 2012: Spatial Audio

    As fantastic as tablets and their kin are, they still suffer from a fairly common problem: the audio often suffers at the expense of thinner form factors and lower power. Now, that problem is solved with a simple chip and a small soundbar. TI's spatial audio technology, the LM48901 , can significantly...
  • Blog Post: Live from CES 2012: speaker protection

    Speaker protection is (and always has been, really) a hot issue as consumers continue to demand louder volumes from ever-smaller speakers. The loudness isn't necessarily the problem, but for many speakers, playing audio at such a high volume can quickly damage speakers from being overdriven. We're...
  • Blog Post: Live from CES 2012: No resistance for touch screen controllers

    Unfortunately, we can't say a lot about the device running the demo in this video, but Eric Siegel, product marketing engineer for touch screen controllers and haptics solutions, was so excited about it, he just had to show it (from his hotel room, of all places). For those of you who like a good...
  • Blog Post: Live from CES 2012: the TMP006

    It's only Day 1 of the 2012 CES, but we're already having a blast in Vegas showing customers and editors our demos and all the cool and innovative solutions TI has to offer. For those of you that couldn't make it out, we've been taking some videos to share with you so you can get a feel...
  • Blog Post: The TMP006 roadshow comes to Vegas, and some applications we hope to see created

    One of our most popular devices in 2011 was without a doubt the TMP006 , the industry's first monolithic passive infrared MEMS temperature sensor with integrated signal conditioning and data acquisition. The device is a ridiculous 95% smaller than all competitive solutions currently on the market...
  • Blog Post: CES 2012 Preview: Haptics and Touch Screen Controllers

    Every year, we bring some of our best and most innovative technologies to CES in Las Vegas, and 2012 will be no different. In this short video, Eric Siegel talks about the technologies and demos we'll be showing, including ones with our DRV8662 piezo haptic driver, and some of the things he's...
  • Blog Post: The TMP006 is now award-winning and more robust than ever

    In June, we announced the addition of the TMP006 to our extensive product portfolio. The device is the industry's first monolithic passive infrared MEMS temperature sensor with integrated signal conditioning and data acquisition. It enables contactless temperature measurement and is an astounding...