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Energy harvesting on paper for flexible wearables
Energy harvesting on paper for flexible wearables
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Korean researchers from the University of Ulsan have demonstrated ultra-flexible and low-frequency polymer-based energy-harvesting on paper substrates.
LED lamp provides alternative renewable energy for Amazonian natives
LED lamp provides alternative renewable energy for Amazonian natives
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Researchers at Peru's Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología (UTEC) have developed an innovative LED-based alternative renewable energy generating system.
InvenSense to add PUF security to sensors
InvenSense to add PUF security to sensors
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MEMS vendor InvenSense Inc. (San Jose, Calif.) has partnered with Intrinsic-ID BV (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) to develop a system of…
Single-chip sensor detects ions in fluids
Single-chip sensor detects ions in fluids
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Research centre Imec (Leuven, Belgium) and the associated Holst Centre have demonstrated a prototype of a single-chip electrochemical sensor for…

Tandem thin film solar cells add perovskite to boost efficiency
Tandem thin film solar cells add perovskite to boost efficiency
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A low cost procedure that makes it possible to produce thin film tandem solar cells which uses a thin perovskite layer has been developed by Swiss researchers at Empa.  …
Starting all over again on plastic: ARM
Starting all over again on plastic: ARM
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Reviewing over 30 years of ARM's history during ARM TechCon, CTO Mike Muller put side by side the ARM1 designed at the 3000nm (3um) node with 25k transistors and the…
Flexible sensor detects multiple ions in fluids
Flexible sensor detects multiple ions in fluids
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Imec and Holst Centre have demonstrated a prototype of a single-chip electrochemical sensor for simultaneous detection of multiple ions in fluids.
Quantum entanglement revealed at room temp in SiC wafers
Quantum entanglement revealed at room temp in SiC wafers
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Researchers at the University of Chicago have shown that quantum entanglement – the phenomenon whereby the states of pairs of particles become linked – can be generated at room temperature…
Using Wi-Fi to power billions of IoT devices
Using Wi-Fi to power billions of IoT devices
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Engineers at the University of Washington have developed a technology that uses a Wi-Fi router — a source of ubiquitous but untapped energy in indoor environments — to power devices…
Breakthrough prototoype technology to shatter capacity limits of optical networks
Breakthrough prototoype technology to shatter capacity limits of optical networks
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Breakthrough prototoype technology from Bell Labs will increase optical network capacities by more than tenfold and overcome the capacity threshold set by ‘the Shannon limit’ on standard fiber.
3D printers spit out small PCBs
3D printers spit out small PCBs
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Two companies showed 3D printers that can spit out small printed circuit boards and others including Qualcomm showed advances putting electronics on plastic substrates at the annual IDTechEx conference.
Wireless sensor measures blast-induced brain trauma shocks
Wireless sensor measures blast-induced brain trauma shocks
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Scientists from Purdue University have developed a wireless sensor implant to record for the first time how brain tissue deforms when subjected to the kind of shock that causes blast-induced…
Why Japan hasn’t led IoT
Why Japan hasn’t led IoT
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During his keynote speech at the Embedded/IoT Technology conference here Wednesday, Ken Sakamura, creator of TRON, Japan’s home-grown open real-time operating system, blasted Japanese embedded systems designers for their inability…
Licensing deal drives lithium-sulfur battery technology to production
Licensing deal drives lithium-sulfur battery technology to production
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The US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has signed an exclusive licensing agreement relating to lithium-sulfur materials for next-generation batteries with Solid Power Inc. of Louisville, Colorado, USA.
Imagination Technologies leverages kickstarter for IoT kit launch
Imagination Technologies leverages kickstarter for IoT kit launch
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Following up on its previous open source hardware initiative with the MIPS Creator CI20 micro-computer in December last year, Imagination is now launching the Creator Ci40 development board, this time…
Graphene light trapping discovery promises faster internet speeds
Graphene light trapping discovery promises faster internet speeds
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Researchers from the University of Exeter in collaboration with the ICFO Institute in Barcelona have used a ground-breaking technique to trap light at the surface of graphene using only pulses…
Startup CircuitSeed wants to be the ARM of analogue
Startup CircuitSeed wants to be the ARM of analogue
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Founded last summer after two years of preliminary research and with several patents pending, Californian startup Circuit Seed embarks father and daughter co-founders Bob and Susan Schober onto a licensing…
Startups challeged to tackle biggest 5G hurdles – latency and resiliance
Startups challeged to tackle biggest 5G hurdles – latency and resiliance
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The job of defining the next generation of cellular networking has lots of pieces and players. All sides agree they will finish the puzzle before the end of 2019, but…
Volkswagen deploys data glasses in series production
Volkswagen deploys data glasses in series production
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Following a three-month pilot project, Volkswagen has introduced the usage of 3D smart glasses as standard equipment for some of its manufacturing staff in the company’s main plant in Wolfsburg,…
Reducing idle losses while meeting IEC 62368-1
Reducing idle losses while meeting IEC 62368-1
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Edward Ong, product marketing manager at Power Integrations explains how to reduce idle losses while meeting IEC 62368-1.
Startups challenged to tackle biggest 5G hurdles – latency and resiliance
Startups challenged to tackle biggest 5G hurdles – latency and resiliance
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The job of defining the next generation of cellular networking has lots of pieces and players. All sides agree they will finish the puzzle before the end of 2019, but…
Toshiba unveils SOI process, targets RF switches in smartphones
Toshiba unveils SOI process, targets RF switches in smartphones
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Toshiba Electronics Europe has developed a next generation SOI process optimised for RF switch applications, designated TarfSOI™ (Toshiba advanced RF SOI).
Startup wants to be the ARM of analog
Startup wants to be the ARM of analog
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Founded last summer after two years of preliminary research and with several patents pending, Californian startup Circuit Seed embarks father and daughter co-founders Bob and Susan Schober onto a licensing…
Plateauing clock speeds impact test and measurement
Plateauing clock speeds impact test and measurement
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Adam Foster of National Instruments and Shahram Mehraban of Intel considers how plateauing clock speeds has an impact on test and measurement performance.
Volvo choses Microsoft Hololens as strategic sales tool
Volvo choses Microsoft Hololens as strategic sales tool
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Augmented reality is rapidly gaining grounds in the automotive industry. But whereas it hitherto was used to support designers and production workers, Volvo Cars plans to introduce it as a…
Leap seconds are with us until 2023 (at least)
Leap seconds are with us until 2023 (at least)
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The ITU World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-15), in session in Geneva, has decided that Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) should retain the “leap second”, and has deferred any future decision on the…
Smart bulb focuses on lowering smart lighting costs
Smart bulb focuses on lowering smart lighting costs
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Qube, a 24/7 connected smart bulb with built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), is gearing up to shake up the smart bulb market with the introduction of a more…
World-first nano-particle luminaires showcase growing benefits
World-first nano-particle luminaires showcase growing benefits
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Two UK companies revealed at the LuxLive event in London that they are working together to deliver world-first nano-particle luminaires.


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