Once a week Future Designs, Inc. rounds up the news that got us talking. Here’s highlights for the week ending December 18, 2015:
- “Paws off my touch screen!” A group of researchers presented technology that uses signals created when a user’s wrist interacts with capacitive touch screens for continuous authentication. (https://bit.ly/1lMvnha) via PlanetBiometrics.com
- Anything you can do I can do better. Android and Apple are back at it again. This time over 3D Touch technology. (https://bit.ly/1SZQPtp) via CBRonline.com
- Software and the IoT go together like biscuits and gravy. Or, more accurately, bread and butter. MindCommerce, a research firm focused on digital tech, released a report projecting software opportunities related to the IoT will ring in at $374B by 2020. (https://bit.ly/1QqR2bd) via DigitalJournal.com
- What to say when a customer wants an OS for the IoT: “We’ve got one for that.” FreeRTOS makes it to a list of open source operating systems for the IoT. (https://bit.ly/1Pdgdg3) via Datamation.com
- Data logging, real-time displays, communication protocols and more for an “intuitive engineering interface” geared to leverage the Industrial IoT. Tatsoft keys in on industry opportunities with its release of FactoryStudio Industrial IoT HMI this week. (https://bit.ly/1Ns1rzF) via BusinessWire.com