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technical and social challenges associated with the emerging technology of
smart fabrics and networked clothing.
The article emphasizes carbon nanotube
(CNT)-based fibers and yarns in fabrics.
CNTs are an emerging nanotechnology
that has high promise. In smart fabrics,
the CNT fibers act as transreceivers as
well as actuators for the wireless communication of networked clothes.

I look forward to working
with IEEE, the CE Society,
the CE community, and
CE researchers around
the globe for continuous
upward progress of the
magazine in the years
to come.

SCIENCE FICTION IS FULL OF
BOTS THAT HURT PEOPLE
Ian Steadman presents a detailed discussion of the positive and negative aspects
of bots. The most important aspect of the
article is the first-ever Bot Power List.

REGULAR COLUMNS
IP CORNER
In "Registration of the Three-Dimensional Shape of Consumer Products as
Trademarks in the EU," Valentina Nieß
details discussions of the challenges in
patenting the shapes of 3-D products in
light of the recent case law of the Court
of Justice of the European Union.

THE ART OF STORAGE
Tom Coughlin discusses "The Memory
of Cars" in his "The Art of Storage" column. It is an interesting fact that electronic and electrical systems take up
approximately 40% of the value of a
modern internal combustion vehicle, and
in a hybrid vehicle, this can be as high as
75%. In these modern automobiles, the
electronic systems depend on digital
memory to hold the data that the automobiles need for their operations. Coughlin
explains how these memory devices will
play critical roles in the next generation
of autonomous driving systems.

STANDARDS CORNER
"EXG Standards Pertaining to CE Society Fields of Interest," by Narisa N.Y.

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Chu, is an interesting read for the CE
community. It is a fact that health care
is a key factor for a society, and so is
biometric-signal data when extraction
technology has become readily available for processing, transmission, and
storage in the smart health-care context.
Biometric signals such as electroencephalography (EEG), electrocardiography (EKG/ECG), electromyography
(EMG), and electrooculography (EOG)
are called EXG.

HARDWARE MATTERS
Anirban Sengupta presents "Soft IP
Core Design Resiliency Against Terrestrial Transient Faults for CE Products," which focuses on the resiliency
aspects of an IP core against terrestrial transient faults. These faults are
considered a major contributing factor for hardware malfunction, thus
limiting their applicability in critical
CE applications.

PRODUCT SAFETY PERSPECTIVES
In a continuation of the "Six Hazards of
Product Safety" article that was introduced in the April 2016 issue, Bill Bisenius brings us the second part of the
column in this issue. These six hazards
are discussed in detail: 1) risk of shock,
2) risk of energy, 3) risk of fire, 4) risk
of injury, 5) risk of radiation, and 6) risk
of chemicals.

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CALL FOR SPECIAL SECTION
ARTICLES
CALL FOR SPECIAL SECTION
ARTICLES
Fabrizio Lamberti and Fernando Pescador will guest edit a special section of
IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine,
"Advanced Interaction and Virtual/
Augmented Reality." The special section will emphasize human-machine
interaction approaches tai lored to CE
with a special focus on inter actions
pertaining to VR and AR, aiming to
provide a platform for engineers,
researchers, industrial experts, and
other stakeholders to address several
related challenges. Prospective authors
are invited to submit their manuscripts
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manuscriptcentral.com/cemag.

LOOKING FORWARD
Finally, I would like to thank you all
for the opportunity to contribute to
IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine
and to serve our professional Society. I
look forward to working with IEEE,
the CE Society, the CE community,
and CE researchers around the globe
for continuous upward progress of the
magazine in the years to come. In the
January issue, the complete editorial
board will be introduced to readers. I
am confident that IEEE Consumer
Electronics Magazine will have a wider
visibility in various other IEEE Societies, including the IEEE Computer
Society and the IEEE Circuits and
Systems Society, and it will foster collaboration among IEEE sister Societies. I envision that, in next couple of
years, with support from everybody,
IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine
will increase its publication frequency
from quarterly to bimonthly.

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