By combining an accelerometer, gyroscope and magnetometer in a single 3-D chip stack, Invensense Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.) has created the world's first nine-axis inertial navigation unit (INU).
Invensense's single-chip INU is for consumer devices from smartphones to touchscreen-tablets to gaming-controllers to wearable motion-tracking modules. Further Reading
Cognitive computers—cognizers—aim to instill human-like intelligence into our smartphones, tablets and other electronic devices using microchips that emulate the human brain. Dubbed the “Future of Computing” by the NYTimes, one of the “Best Innovation Moments of 2011” by the Washington Post and one of “10 World Changing Ideas” in a Scientific American cover story “A Computer Chip that Thinks” this book reveals how neuroscience and computer science are merging in a new era of intelligent machines light-years beyond Apple's Siri, IBM's Watson.