To a standard silicon layout from ARM, Luminary adds functions like Ethernet connections, flash memory and motion-control hardware.
In OS terms, VMware can now control hardware and run applications.
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You can also add software control to the board, which will work in conjunction with the hardware, bringing universal control interfaces to the otherwise space-limited Arduino.
Based in San Francisco, Leap Motion is a motion-control software and hardware company developing the world's most powerful and sensitive 3-D motion-control and motion-sensing technology.
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The new DeathAdder iteration focuses on improving power, performance and control through hardware tweaks and software upgrades.
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It needs to control the hardware and the software, plus build out an ecosytem around them, if it is to continue to do well.
Working in tandem with Steam's newly beta'd " Big Picture Mode, " Ellsworth's team is creating a hardware solution to the control barriers found in many Steam games.
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Leap Motion, the company behind the revolutionary motion-control software and hardware, is coming to market.
Their quality control over their hardware and outside development keeps their products operating at a high level.
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In the tech industry, that jargon refers to companies that control both the hardware and software of the products they sell.
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But with a 6-year head start in mapping and complete control of the hardware and the operating software, it is plausible bet.
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As a software and hardware designer specializing in embedded control systems I found that the classic USA cubicle office arrangement generated intense stress due to the almost continual hubbub, noise and other interruptive mechanisms.
For one thing, it suggests that the software giant has finally concluded that Steve Jobs was right all along: that in order to make consumer-friendly computers one must control both the hardware and the software.
Soon after the Kinect's 2010 release, hardware hackers wrote code that let them control the device so they could use it for their own projects.
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That includes Kinect control, with next generation hardware that can recognize when viewers have turned their heads away and pause video automatically, with additional features rolling out after launch.
What differentiates them is whether their systems require proprietary hardware and software, the level of control restaurants maintain over the reservation process and how restaurants pay for the service.
The dual touch-sensitive jog wheels on the KONTROL S4 hardware offer extremely precise and responsive deck control due to a new patent-pending electromagnetic technology, complemented through Native Instruments' high-resolution NHL protocol that provides superior performance over conventional MIDI.
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The best way to do this is to control both the software and the hardware.
They also had problems with the digital tape recorder, which were an even more amazing remote fix, but these were more remote control work-arounds to fix hardware issues rather than software patches.
"From early indications, it seems to be within our guidance navigation control system, seems to point toward hardware, " Olansen said.
It also encompasses privacy, so users get to control their own data, and availability, so software and hardware work as they're supposed to.
In other words, you could have Siri-like control of virtually any device, with all of the required hardware and software residing on an iPhone or MacBook, linked with other devices over WiFi or Bluetooth.
The MotionEngine software can be licensed for integration into a customer's hardware, or it can be purchased as part of a module or remote control offered by Hillcrest.
All relevant functions including looping, cueing, effects control and track browsing are immediately accessible on the robust and portable hardware, while dynamic multi-color backlighting, LED status displays and comprehensive level metering allow DJs to focus on their performance rather than on the computer screen.
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Full motion control of all camera views, however, has been tested with the hardware before, Kotkin says, and it's planned for the final version.
Sirius called on Garmin and a company called Heads Up Technologies, which in turn brought control giant Honeywell and avionics specialist Rockwell Collins on board to make the hardware for the cockpits.
However, by using the WACI I have a dedicated piece of hardware that's only function is to send commands to my stuff no matter which interface I create to control it.
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It's hard to get totally excited about a PC hardware peripheral, given the smaller quantity of games (particularly hardware-specific titles) over in desktop land, but with Valve support and what appears to be the perfect control scheme (dual analog sticks, dual fully 3D-sensing motion controllers), we'd say the Hydra has a better shot at winning us over than anything else of its ilk.
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