Intel Announces "Edison" Ultra-Small Computer of the Same Size as SD Card

Currently being held in Las Vegas, USACES 2014Intel 's keynote lecture by Brian Kruzanich, CEO of Intel, a board for ultra - small PC that fits in SD card size "Intel EdisonWe announced. With Edison, the widespread use of wearable devices seems to accelerate greatly.

Intel® Edison Development Board-The SD * Card-Sized Computer
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/do-it-yourself/edison.html


Edison is a board that fits in SD card size, low power consumption SoC manufactured in 22 nm process "Intel Quark"Adopted. Quark (elementary particle), as its name implies, is smaller than the Intel Atom (atomic) processor, the size of the core is one-fifth of that of Atom, and the power consumption is one tenth, loading on wearable terminals It is a SoC that was developed assuming.


Edison has built-in Wi-Fi chip, Bluetooth LE chip in addition to Intel Quark in this small board, OS such as Linux is available.


You can see how you actually get Edison at the CES 2014 venue in the following movie.

Intel Edison the SD card - sized computer that could turn anything smart - YouTube


This is Edison.


The thickness is also this street. Certainly it is an SD card size.


On the back side, contacts of the circuit are exposed.


How Edison can be used is clarified by Cruzanic CEO CES 2014 keynote lecture. A concrete suggestion movie that uses Edison as a wearable device is here.

CES 2014: Intel's new chip embedded into ... a baby's onesie? - YouTube


Krusannich CEO making presentation with Edison. What we do now is a demonstration of a wearable device that can monitor babies.


This is a sensor device made using Edison.


By attaching it to a baby, you can monitor the baby's health condition, such as whether body temperature is not high or if breathing is not painful.


The measured data can be received with a mug-type device, and the condition of the baby can be easily checked with the display on the surface. There is no problem when such a green smile is displayed.


What the baby doll wore in this presentation is a underwear-type wearable device that monitors the baby "Mimo" and is expected to be released in January 2014 at 199 dollars (about 21,000 yen).

Mimo - The Smart Baby Monitor
http://mimobaby.com/mimo/


In addition, CEO Kurzanic took part in Edison based wearable device contest "Make it Wearable Challenge", Intends to promote the spread of Edison by recruiting various ideas.


The prize money of Make it Wearable Challenge is 1.3 million dollars (about 136 million yen) and prize money of 500 thousand dollars (about 53 million yen) is given to the first prize. It may be good for me to challenge myself.