Electronic Design

Videos The Boston Embedded Systems Conference was the largest and most interesting since the start of the decade. Everything is going real time and mobile these days from slot cars to handheld multimedia devices. Tag along while Embedded Technology Editor Bill Wong presents from of the highlights at the show.
	Put it in a pocket. That is about the size of InHand Electronic's platform that uses Intel's latest 800Mhz xScale processor.
	NASCAR fans. Check out the Java programmers that tried their hand at realtime programming to get fast slot cars around the track.
	ZigBee is hot and one of the hottest vendors around is Ember. Ember has a line of ZigBee chips and protocol stacks that push the standard to the edge and then some.
	Portable electronic devices run longer in the field with the right power source and fuel cells are looking to be the wave of the future. UltraCell is delivering it today.
	Seen a Boston taxi lately? Atop these mobile platforms will be a MightySystems GPS-based advertising system with a VersaLogic Gecko inside for displaying position based advertising.