Adobe, Intel to Extend Flash to TVs

This move is expected to provide consumers with a more seamless Web-based and video viewing experiences through advanced Intel-based cable set-top boxes, Blu-ray Disc players, digital TVs and retail connected AV devices.The high-definition capabilities of the Adobe Flash Platform, together with the Intel Media Processor CE 3100 - the first in a new family of
purpose-built Intel System on Chips (SoCs) for CE devices - creates an entertainment hub capable of delivering rich Web content and Adobe Flash based applications to Internet-connected CE devices.

Intel and Adobe are working together to optimize both the Adobe Flash Player and Adobe Flash Lite for the CE3100.

Intel plans to ship the first CE3100 with support for an optimized implementation of Adobe Flash Lite before mid-2009.

"The Intel Media Processor CE 3100 is a highly integrated solution that provides a powerful, yet flexible technology foundation that will bring to life the high-definition capabilities of Adobe Flash," said William O. Leszinske Jr., general manager of Intel’s Digital Home Group. "Our effort with Adobe is poised to accelerate a rich, yet relevant Internet experience on the TV that will provide consumers with access to a growing number of Flash based applications that will ultimately be enjoyed across a number of screens seamlessly, from the laptop to a MID and now the TV."

Adobe and Intel are also working together to bring an optimized implementation of Adobe AIR technology to Intel’s digital home platform in the future.

The Intel's way ...

Intel Chief Technology Officer Justin Rattner agrees with futurist Ray Kurzweil's assessment that the "singularity," when machine intelligence surpasses human intelligence, is high.
To provide some evidence that technology is moving in that direction, he showed a number of advancements in robotics, communication, and other areas in a keynote speech Thursday at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco.Here, Rattner snatches an apple from the grasp of a robot arm and hand that can sense objects purely by changes in the surrounding electric field.

Alanson Sample, an Intel Research Seattle intern, shows off the apparatus for a Massachusetts Institute of Technology idea called wireless resonant energy link (WREL) that can transmit power with no wires and without so much of the loss of energy that afflicts other wireless power transmission technologies such as induction.

The technology was used to transmit 60 watts of power to illuminate a light bulb; it has 75 percent efficiency.

Siddartha Srinivasan of Intel Research Pittsburgh shows off a mobile robot that is able to create a 3D model of its world, moving through it without bumping into objects and grasping items, such as mugs, on the way.

The Intel robot, called Herb, moves a mug without tipping it. Had it been full of a liquid, that might have kept it from spilling--up until the point when the robot unceremoniously dropped the mug it into its storage bin.