You might remember Le Pan’s tablets from CES this year, of which only one was truly ready at the time. The company is now ready to hit the US in earnest, but you’ll have to forget the company name along with the earlier designs: it’s now Matsunichi, and it’s planning to kick off its US-ready makeover through the MarquisPad MP977. The tablet shares the 9.7-inch, 1024 x 768 display of the Le Pan II, but it’s now running a slightly speedier dual-core, 1.2GHz TI chip (likely the same OMAP 4430 as in the Droid Xyboard ), ships with Android 4.0 out of the gate and comes in a sleeker — not to mention browner — shell
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Matsunichi’s MarquisPad MP977 tablet tempts us with $249, dual-core Android 4.0
This is the Miselu Neiro, a “portable, net-enabled social music device” which was announced this weekend at SXSW . We were able see and handle the first-ever prototype fresh off the lab bench at the SoundCloud Open House in Austin. The app-based, Android-powered synth features a two octave velocity and pressure-sensitive keyboard, a capacitive multitouch widescreen, WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity and even a webcam
iRobot , the Massachusetts-based maker of consumer and battlefield ‘bots, announced a team up with TI this week. The partnership, sadly, doesn’t mean we’ll be seeing an army of autotuned DJ Roombas — we will, however, likely be getting a slew of “intelligent and practical” robots packing Texas Instruments’ multi-core OMAP technology. Remember those words the next time you hurl one through a window or get it to mop up the tiles around your toilet. 
Texas Instruments is helping to lead the way when it comes to mobile computing — when we want an early look at what’s to come months and even years down the road, TI is always one of our first stops. At this year’s Mobile World Congress , the semiconductor leader wasn’t shy about showing off its latest innovations, including those from its manufacturing and design partners
Well, if our hands-on at CES didn’t sell you on TI’s next-gen OMAP 5 platform, perhaps some more specs revealed recently at MWC 2012 will. We’ve known about its dual Cortex-A15 and Cortex-M4 architecture since this time last year , but we didn’t know that those M4 cores are there to handle real-time processing of multimedia — like video encoding and decoding — which TI claims can provide up to ten percent power savings. 
Notion Ink’s teaming up with TI in order to get at its OMAP4xx silicon for the forthcoming Adam II tablet. It’ll also be jamming in the company’s Wi-Link 7.0 and Phoenix Audio gear onto the Ice Cream Sandwich-running slate. The chip was apparently chosen thanks to its modular setup, HD visuals and powerful low-energy multitasking. 
Either TI has the hots for Arduino in a big way, or its latest wireless charging kit isn’t quite ready for mass production. When it does arrive, however, it promises to do away with those cumbersome specialized sleeves and back covers that are currently needed for inductive charging. Instead, it’ll deliver efficient in a package that’s small enough to be installed as part of a device’s internal circuitry. 
If you heard that Engadget would be scoring some one on one time here on stage with TI, you would be right. 
3D had its way with CES 2011, and despite throngs of consumers who could not possibly care less, it looks as if the third dimension will be doing its best to seem important at this year’s gala, too. MasterImage 3D has just announced that it’ll be showcasing a pair of new panels here in Las Vegas, with both relying on cell-matrix parallax barrier technology to pull off the “glasses-free” effect
