Attune plans to license the gadgets to Web sites, which will sell them at $90 each.
I had licensed one other product in the meantime, a cooking gadget called the Chef Scoop, so I had some experience with the process and terms.
For a while, Sean Connery was James Bond, but then showed he was dramatically licensed to do something other than kill, flirt, seduce and handle gadgets.
The chips, which have been licensed to and are being manufactured by Murata, become identifiers for the gadgets they're installed in.
The designs it produces have been licensed and used to build processors at the heart of many of today's bestselling gadgets.
Electronics giant Sony, along with two of the top three wireless phone makers, Nokia and Motorola, have licensed the Palm OS and have plans to build Palm-like features into cell phones and consumer gadgets.
Electronics giant Sony sne, along with two of the top three wireless phone makers, Nokia nok and Motorola mot, have licensed the Palm OS and have plans to build Palm-like features into cell phones and consumer gadgets.
The firm has licensed its technology to consumer-electronics firms including Sony, Samsung and Philips, and will launch a desktop weather station in conjunction with Radio Shack, an American gadget retailer, this summer.
This week, the company unveiled one take on the technology that it hoped to license to makers of the memory that went into gadgets and computers.
Sony announced last week that it plans to license PlayStation II chips to companies that make wireless gadgets, PDAs and Internet appliances, but it hasn't yet named specific vendors.
