Highlights From Embedded Systems Conference

Tetravus writes "The Embedded Systems Conference at Moscone Center in San Francisco is winding down. The finalists for this year's Best of Show include a Trek Style communicator that uses 802.11b, a home healthcare robot, and some crazy giant household remote."

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The Effect

[mao che minh]

They better hope that their web server won some kind of a "best in show", because here we come!!

Segway vs. VCB, Round 1

[Theodore Logan]

The Segway was, according to tech gurus and investors worth billions of dollars, going to be one of the greatest inventions ever, on pair with the wheel and the fire. Eventually we would design cities to fit the needs of the Segway, and not the other way round, we were told.

This was two years ago. Now that it's finally here it can't even claim the Best of Show prize at the Embedded Systems Conference, an honor that instead goes to some unheard of gizmo called the Vocera Communications badge, which appears to be nothing more than a wearable intercom telephone with built in voice recognition.

Makes you wonder...

Finally, I can go home

[confused philosopher]

"Trek Style communicator that uses 802.11b"

Beam me up Scotty. What! You aren't Scotty? Why the hell are you on my network!

Trade show loot!

[kirkb]

I use "trade show loot" as a baromoter for how well the industry is doing. 3 years ago, I topped out at about 15 t-shirts for a single day at ESC.

This year, I only got one. And it was from Microsoft. Everybody else was giving away pens and candy and garbage like that. I guess we know who's dominating the embedded systems space nowadays.

wakamaru == Dalek

[docbrown42]

Does anyone else thing that the wakamaru looks a bit like a Dalek?

Someday, some hacker is going to reprogram these robots to run around screaming "Ex-Ter-Min-Ate" like a demented Hitler (until they fall down the stairs, at least).