If Mr Idei wants to forge new synergies among the rest of the electronics team, he will find it hard if he also wants to follow the example of PlayStation.Apple is the teacherWith Mr Ohga having just retired, Mr Idei is now sole chairman as well as chief executive, and he seems to be planning more moves to restructure the firm.
Over at the electrical team's lab benches, the work is similarly varied, as the Electronics team is responsible for all sensing, computation and power delivery systems.
The researchers are also looking at possible applications which their process can be tried out on.Janos Veres, who manages PARC's printed-electronics team, says roles could include printing devices, such as sensors, directly onto components.
Because printers can deposit materials on different substrates, this technology could be used to make high-performance flexible electronic devices, tiny sensors festooned with dense arrays of diverse sensors, or 3-D objects with computing functions woven in, says Janos Veres, who manages PARC's printed-electronics team.
As well as tinkerable electronics, the team develops their own OS (called Pi-TopOS Polaris), running on the Raspberry Pi engine powering the hardware, as well as learn to code software and STEM-focused games (such as a Civilization-style MMORPG called CEEDUniverse).
L.A.'s local NPR radio station, KCRW, and Apogee Electronics have teamed together for a series of privately recorded "live" concerts and interviews that later broadcast on NPR's "Morning Becomes Eclectic" and tonight the understated rock legend Patti Smith was about to perform.
The murky DVD waters were roiled even further when Circuit City Stores, a Richmond, Va.-based chain of 460 electronics stores, teamed up with the Los Angeles entertainment law firm of Ziffren, Brittenham, Branca & Fisher to announce Digital Video Express (Divx), a pay-per-view DVD video standard.
Star Electronics'* top team "measured everything": bookings, backlogs, margins, engineering milestones, cash, scrap, work-in-process.
Martin Zwierlein, professor of physics and principal investigator at MIT's NSF Center for Ultracold Atoms and at its Research Laboratory of Electronics, says his team's results and experimental setup can help scientists identify ideal conditions for inducing superconductivity.
To eliminate these wrinkles, which can interrupt contact between the tissue and the electronics, Efimov's team built the devices on a 3-D-printed plastic model, designed using an image of an individual heart.
Since October 2003 he is with Supélec in Rennes where he leads the Signal Communications and Embedded Electronics (SCEE) research team.
