Intel Edison, the latest development board from intel is a tiny, ultra-power efficient platform which serves as a development system for wearable devices. At CES 2014, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich quoted Edison, "a full Pentium-class PC" that's the size and shape of the SD card which can be made to function alonside many of the devices. This game changer from intel functions not only with computers, phones, tablets but with coffemakers, chairs etc. marking the beginning of a new vision.
Similar to the raspberry pi, the tiny device boasts a dual-core 400MHz intel quark processor with two cores, integrated Wi-Fi and bluetooth connectivity, flash storage, RAM, and a micro-controller for real-time input and output with external devices. The edison chip supports linux. Edison powers the system and connects it to other Edison-powered devices in the home.
Intel even has a specific app store designed for Edison, and a special version of Wolfram that will come to the tiny computer.
To demonstrate the potential for Edison, Intel showed a concept :
In the concept, a baby was wearing a Mimo onesie outfitted with sensors tracking things like temperature, and Edison was used to display that information on, a coffee mug much to everybody's surprize. When the baby was comfortable, blinking lights on the mug show a happy green smiling face, but when something is wrong that face turns red.
This development board from intel has a huge potential, and this is just the beginning with endless expectations piling up every second from this new breakthrough.
To watch the full keynote presentation at CES 2014, see the video below:
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