Abstract: In one aspect, a device may include at least one processor and storage accessible to the at least one processor. The storage may include instructions executable by the at least one processor to determine a device state such as a device error. The instructions may also be executable to, responsive to the determination, load data related to the device state onto a radio-frequency identification (RFID) chip or other RFID element.

Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: detecting, using a sensor of an information handling device, a change in a magnetic field associated with the information handling device; determining, using a processor, whether the change in the magnetic field corresponds to a known command; and performing, responsive to determining that the change in the magnetic field corresponds to the known command, a function dictated by the known command. Other aspects are described and claimed.

Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at an information handling device, an indication to display an element; identifying, using a processor, a universal size designation for the element; and displaying, on a display associated with the information handling device, the element at a size associated with the universal size designation and irrespective of a screen scaling factor associated with the display. Other aspects are described and claimed.

Abstract: A method and device are provided. The device includes a system component that has a circuit board that includes a cable connection portion. The cable connection portion is disposed on and extends along a mounting surface, and includes board pads disposed on the mounting surface within the cable connection portion. The board pads define corresponding board contact surfaces for electrical coupling with connector pads, and include a board adhesive material disposed on the corresponding board contact surfaces.

Abstract: In one aspect, an apparatus may include a processor and storage. The storage may include instructions executable by the processor to identify an intensity of sound at a device and to command the device to output noise according to the intensity to mask the sound. In some examples, the apparatus can be different from the device and the apparatus can control multiple devices to each output noise according to the intensity of the sound at the respective device to mask the sound in an area proximate to the respective device.

Abstract: A system can include a first housing that includes a display and an adjustable camera, where the display includes a normal vector and where the adjustable camera includes an optical axis; a second housing that includes a keyboard, a processor and memory accessible to the processor; and a hinge assembly that rotatably couples the first housing and the second housing, where rotation of the first housing with respect to the second housing actuates adjustment of the adjustable camera to adjust the optical axis with respect to the normal vector.

Abstract: A device can include a housing that defines an interior space and an exterior space and that includes air passages between the interior space and the exterior space; electronic components disposed in the interior space of the housing, where the electronic components include a processor and memory accessible to the processor; and a material that, upon exposure to water, transitions from a first state to a second state that protects at least one of the electronic components from damage.

Abstract: A device can include a housing that includes a bottom shell, a top shell and at least one shell opening; a processor disposed in the housing; memory accessible to the processor and disposed in the housing; audio circuitry disposed in the housing and operatively coupled to the processor; a human interface unit mounted to the housing, operatively coupled to the processor and accessible via the top shell of the housing; a speaker driver mounted to the housing and operatively coupled to the audio circuitry, where the speaker driver is in fluid communication with the at least one shell opening; and an internal acoustic cavity defined by at least one of the bottom shell and the top shell, where the internal acoustic cavity is in fluid communication with the speaker driver.

Abstract: A computer implemented method of naming a smart wireless device includes detecting a first other wireless device, determining that the first other wireless device is likely in a same area of an environment, obtaining a first name of the first other wireless device, and generating a name for the smart wireless device as function of the first name of the first other wireless device in response to the first other wireless device having been determined to be in the same area of the environment.

Abstract: A device can include a processor; memory; a display; a bezel that defines a bezel region and a display region for the display; one or more media capture components where the one or more media capture components include a camera operatively coupled to the processor, where the camera includes an aperture disposed in the bezel region; a switch that includes an operational state for a circuit electrically coupled to the at least one of the one or more media capture components and a nonoperational state for the circuit; and a movable shutter that controls the switch, where the movable shutter includes a closed orientation that obscures a field of view of the camera and that corresponds to the nonoperational state of the switch and an open orientation that does not obscure the field of view and that corresponds to the operational state of the switch.

Abstract: In one aspect, a device may include at least one processor, a touch-enabled display accessible to the at least one processor, and storage accessible to the at least one processor. The storage may include instructions executable by the at least one processor to identify a height of a user. Then, based on the height of the user, the instructions may be executable to one or more of determine a first location of the touch-enabled display at which to present a selector and then present the selector at the first location, and/or determine a second location of the touch-enabled display to use as an area at which touch input that is received will correspond to selection of the selector and then undertake an action associated with selection of the selector responsive to receipt of touch input to the area.

Abstract: In one aspect, a first device includes a processor, a display, a GPU, and storage. The storage includes instructions executable to communicate with a second device to receive frame-based data in a compressed data stream and to receive, via a sideband, video game frame rendering requests. The instructions are also executable to communicate with the second device to receive texture data pertaining to objects to render on the display as part of a video game associated with the video game frame rendering requests, and/or to receive 3D model data pertaining to objects to render on the display as part of the video game. The instructions are also executable to render, using the GPU, video game frames based on the video game frame rendering requests and based on the texture data and/or the 3D model data. The first device may be a TV and the second device may be a personal computer.

Abstract: For omnidirectional structured light projection, a light source illuminates a conical mirror towards an apex along a central axis. A pattern mask corrects a deformation pattern of the conical mirror to form a plurality of points in a point cloud from the light source.

Abstract: In one aspect, a first device may include at least one processor, a touch-enabled display accessible to the at least one processor, and storage accessible to the at least one processor. The storage may include instructions executable by the at least one processor to facilitate, at the first device, a telephone call with a second device. The instructions may also be executable to, during facilitation of the telephone call, present a graphical user interface (GUI) on the touch-enabled display. The GUI may include a selector that is selectable to command the first device to audibly provide, from the first device to the second device, information as part of the telephone call. The instructions may also be executable to receive user input selecting the selector and to, responsive to receipt of the user input selecting the selector, audibly provide the information to the second device as part of the telephone call.

Abstract: A computer implemented method, device, and computer program product for managing extender nodes for a wireless device. The method identifies request attributes of interest (AOI) associated with a request to route a communication stream for a wireless device. The method detects, at a current physical location of the wireless device, candidate extender nodes to extend a network signal. The method analyzes the candidate extender nodes, based on the request AOI, to determine one or more of: i) predictive characteristics of interest (COI) associated with the corresponding candidate extender node; and ii) an announced behavior COI broadcast by one or more of the candidate extender nodes. The method determines a resultant extender node from the candidate extender nodes based, at least in part, on one or more of the predictive COI and the announced behavior COI. The resultant extender node is determined pursuant to managing switching during performance of the request.

Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at an information handling device, an incoming communication; accessing, using a processor, context data associated with a user, wherein the context data corresponds to at least one active application; determining, using the context data, a work status of the user; and providing, responsive to the incoming communication, a status message associated with the determined work status. Other aspects are described and claimed.

Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, in an application on an information handling device, a password reset request from a user; accessing, subsequent to the receiving, a data store comprising a list of answers that are responsive to a list of security questions; constructing, using the data store, a temporary password, wherein the temporary password consists of at least one answer selected from the list of answers; and providing, to the user, a prompt containing an indication of the temporary password, wherein the prompt comprises at least one security question, from the list of security questions, that corresponds to the at least one answer. Other aspects are described and claimed.

Abstract: A method can include executing an application using a virtual reality headset; rendering a scene of the application to a display of the virtual reality headset; and, during rendering of the scene, rendering a graphic to the display where the graphic represents a power unit that is not physically coupled to the virtual reality headset.

Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: detecting, using one or more sensors of an information handling device, at least two biometric inputs provided by a user during an authentication process; authenticating the user responsive to determining that at least one biometric input of the at least two biometric inputs shares a threshold level of similarity with stored biometric information; determining, using a processor, that another biometric input of the at least two biometric inputs does not share the threshold level of similarity with the stored biometric information; and updating the stored biometric information with retained characteristics of the another biometric input. Other aspects are described and claimed.

Abstract: In one aspect, a first device may include at least one processor and storage accessible to the at least one processor. The storage may include instructions executable by the at least one processor to establish a peer to peer network between the first device and a second device. The instructions may also be executable to select the first device to generate noise cancellation signals based on the first device being closer to a source of sound than the second device. The instructions may be further executable to use the first device to generate the noise cancellation signals based on sound from the source of sound, and to transmit the noise cancellation signals over the peer to peer network to the second device.