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Credit: Romit Roy Choudhury, The Grainger College of Engineering CSL's Systems and Networking Research Group (SyNRG) is defining a new sub-area of mobile technology that they call "earable computing." The team believes that earphones will be the next significant milestone in wearable devices, and that new hardware, software, and apps will all run on this platform. "The leap from today's earphones to 'earables' would mimic the transformation that we had seen from basic phones to smartphones," said Romit Roy Choudhury, professor in electrical and computer engineering (ECE). "Today's smartphones...

Apple has been struggling with falling ipad sales so in an effort to grab back some of that market share, apple rolled out a new version of the ipad this weekend in time for the holiday wish list. >> reporter: apple has hit refresh on its tablets for the first time in a year. the result is a lighter, thinner, ipad air. >> ipad is delivering a new vision for mobile computing unlike anything that has come before. >> reporter: it weighs just one pound down from 1.4. the screen remains the same as 9.7 inches. the processing chip faster. the same as in the iphone 5s. updated ipad mini has the same ...

Become the computer because once you have connectivity and it can process data. >> people never use the phones to actually talk on them any more. they use them for everything else. what we've seen is an explosion in growth rates in mobile computing, mobile surge, mobile applicati applications. if you go to start ups in our industry, the startps are all building applications for iphones and android phones and all releasing on them first and they do interesting things. the phones, remember, know where they are and they tend to be highly personalized and with opt in they can help you out. they ca...

Are they still on the cutting edge? >> well, intel has a lot of prowess and a lot of power in ordinary computing chips. but they're trying to catch up in mobile computing. and the whole future in commuticommute i computing is mobile. tri they're trying to get there and making inroads, but they've got their work cut out for them. >> they're closely tied to microsoft. >> what is surface? i'm hearing a lot about this. what is surface? >> they're trying to take their dominance in the operating system and move it to a full-blown computer rather than a mini-computer on a tablet, something that's bot...