Edge AI & On-Device
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Telefónica T_Space Drone-as-a-Service: a phone company is now flying the drones for you
Telefónica skipped selling drones and is selling drone missions instead. T_Space is the first end-to-end Drone-as-a-Service run entirely by a telco — the carrier owns the fleet, the 5G uplink, the MEC edge nodes, and the AI vision stack. You file a job, they fly it. The hardware This isn’t a SaaS dashboard with a… Continue reading
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Cognitum Seed Device is the Raspberry Pi box powering RuView’s WiFi-as-radar trick
Cognitum Seed Device is a palm-sized edge AI appliance built on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, firmware v0.8.1. It runs ~2.5M-parameter INT8 models at 10+Hz while juggling five sensor streams (reed switch, PIR, vibration, ADS1115 ADC, BME280), an append-only RVF vector store chained by SHA-256 witnesses, an Ed25519 device-bound key, 13 drift detectors, and… Continue reading
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Eric Migicovsky’s Pebble Index 01 is a $75 AI ring that runs 2 years on one hearing aid battery
Pebble is back, and the first product isn’t a watch. Index 01 is a 316 stainless steel smart ring with exactly one button and one mic — no screen, no touchpad, no wristband. Press, talk, release. That’s the whole interaction. Pre-orderers started getting units this month after a December 2025 reveal and a CES 2026… Continue reading
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Arduino VENTUNO Q takes aim at Jetson Orin Nano with 40 TOPS and an STM32 onboard
Arduino turned 21 and shipped its first real edge-AI SBC. The VENTUNO Q pairs a Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ-8275 (40 TOPS NPU, 8-core Kryo, Adreno GPU) with an STM32H5 real-time MCU on one board, bridged over RPC. Under $300, Q2 2026 via Arduino Store, DigiKey, Mouser, Farnell. Hardware, not hype This is a single-board computer built… Continue reading
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Olares One (April shipping batch) ships — RTX 5090 Mobile + 96GB RAM for 70B local LLMs on your desk
Olares crushed its Kickstarter goal. $2.3M from 800+ backers. The April shipping batch is landing on desks right now. This isn’t a NUC, it’s not a hobby Pi — it’s a full AI desktop built to replace your cloud LLM bill. What’s actually in the box NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile GPU. Intel Core Ultra… Continue reading
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Aqara Camera Hub G350 + Doorbell Camera G400 ship as the world’s first Matter-certified cameras
The smart-home press has been waiting on the Matter Camera spec for over a year. Aqara shipped it first on March 17, 2026. The G350 is a 360° pan-tilt with two sensors on one gimbal: 4K wide-angle plus 2.5K telephoto with 9× hybrid zoom. The G400 is a wired doorbell cam with HomeKit Secure Video.… Continue reading
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title: “Ulticam IQ V2 is the first Matter 1.5 camera with Gemini on board — $199, no subscription” Xthings quietly did what Nest and Ring still haven’t. The Ulticam IQ V2 is the first security camera certified for Matter 1.5, and it ships with Google Gemini wired into the backend. $199. Lifetime rolling 7-day cloud… Continue reading
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Memories.ai Project LUCI Pin is an open-source 45g camera pin that indexes your day on-device
Memories.ai showed up at CES 2026 with a reference device, not a product. The LUCI Pin is a sub-45g camera pin: 12MP ultra-wide sensor, 109° field of view, dual mics, 4K recording, 800mAh battery pushing about two hours of continuous capture per charge. It took home a CES 2026 Innovation Award in the AI category,… Continue reading
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Google and Synaptics Put Two NPUs on One Edge AI Board — The Synaptics Coral Dev Board Ships With Gemma 3 Ready to Go
Google Research and Synaptics shipped a dev board with two NPUs on one chip. The Synaptics Coral Dev Board, launched at Embedded World 2026, packs the Astra SL2619 SoC — dual Arm Cortex-A55 cores, Google’s open-source Coral NPU, and Synaptics’ 1-TOPS Torq NPU. First time the Coral NPU has hit production silicon. Pre-loaded with Gemma… Continue reading
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Orange Pi 6 Plus: A $199 Single-Board Computer With 45 TOPS and 64GB RAM
A Raspberry Pi competitor just showed up with laptop-class specs. 12 CPU cores, 45 TOPS of AI compute, up to 64GB LPDDR5, and dual NVMe SSD slots — on a single board for $199. 30 TOPS NPU on a 6nm SBC The Orange Pi 6 Plus runs the CIX P1 (CD8180) SoC — 12-core Armv9.2… Continue reading
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