Shopping at the local Safeway is becoming an increasingly annoying experience. The number of human-staffed checkout lines steadily diminishes, replaced by self-checkout stations guaranteed to cause my blood pressure to skyrocket. Assuming the card reader correctly scans the magnetic strips on my frequent-shopper and credit cards (always a crapshoot), the optical scanner is invariably unable […]

  Last October, shortly after Apple's unveiling of the latest-generation iPhone 4S cellular handset, I published an analysis of the system's capabilities (both absolute and relative to predecessors and competitors) as an embedded vision application platform. Five days ago, for those of you who haven't already heard, Apple launched the "new iPad" (colloquially the iPad

Those of you who have visited the Embedded Vision Alliance's member page in the past few days may already have noticed what I'm announcing here; that the Alliance has a new member! It's CogniMem Technologies, a company who I previously mentioned back in early January by virtue of their presence in Freescale Semiconductor's product suite