UltraViolet's progress numbers indicate that people are using the service, but the decision to include free copies with new shipping consumer electronic devices is also obviously designed as a way to promote the service and get it traction with a wider population.
Lithium-based batteries are quickly entering mainstream electronic designs, particularly in consumer, portable equipment and non-volatile memory back-up applications where small size, long life and low cost are the primary requirements.
The user interface of the consumer electronic products was decomposed into specific design elements (defined as human interface elements: HIEs).
Usability defined in this study consists of the following two groups of dimensions: objective performance and subjective image/impression, which are considered equally important in designing and evaluating consumer electronic products.
Barnaby Feder (NYT) Correction: August 9 , 2002 Friday A report in the Technology Briefing column of Business Day yesterday about a plan by MTI MicroFuel Cells to introduce a simplified design for powering portable consumer electronic devices misstated the fuel to be used.
Still today concept cars are an important part of an automaker's design process — a process that consumer electronic makers would be wise to resurrect.
The results of this study are expected to provide a framework for designing and evaluating the user interface of consumer electronic products.
The Xilinx Spartan-3 family was designed focusing on cost-sensitive and high volume consumer electronic applications.
Although 3Com is attempting a comeback with consumer electronic devices such as an MP3 jukebox and Audrey, a home organizer designed for families, investors obviously don't think much of the makeover.
On the technological front, both Sony and Matsushita, the Japanese consumer electronic companies, are to present the experimental products they have developed with BarberOsgerby, a British design group, and Naoto Fukasawa, a Japanese designer, respectively.
