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Getting a handle on brushed DC motor current
Getting a handle on brushed DC motor current
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Ross Eisenbeis, Systems Engineer, Texas Instruments outlines an innovative way to measure and regulate motor current without a sense resistor…
Ford fathoms out human-machine interaction for autonomous driving
Ford fathoms out human-machine interaction for autonomous driving
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US carmaker Ford Motor Company has started testing autonomous driving in the University of Michigan’s open-air test lab. A Ford…
Finnish startup develops optics for augmented reality
Finnish startup develops optics for augmented reality
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Founded a month ago as a spin-off from the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, startup Dispelix Oy has developed…
Socionext shows sensor-to-cloud, hand-held medical ultrasound
Socionext shows sensor-to-cloud, hand-held medical ultrasound
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Socionext – the Fujitsu/Panasonic joint venture – has built its SoC VLSI silicon into a completely portable, cableless, compact device…

Sub-threshold logic MCU maker claims low-power benchmark lead
Sub-threshold logic MCU maker claims low-power benchmark lead
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Ambiq Micro’s ultra-low power MCU has achieved a score, on EEMBC's ULPBench, of 377, more than twice the previous leader’s submission of 185.
Alzheimer’s Disease: Are blue LED lights a treatment alternative?
Alzheimer’s Disease: Are blue LED lights a treatment alternative?
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A Korean research team has used blue LED lights to investigate how photoactive chemicals offer a promising therapeutic strategy for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's Disease.
Will quantum dots from fool’s gold boost battery performance?
Will quantum dots from fool’s gold boost battery performance?
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A group of researchers at Vanderbilt University have found a way to make quantum dots out of iron pyrite, commonly known as fool’s gold, to produce batteries that charge quickly…
Implantable wireless microLED devices shown to block pain signals
Implantable wireless microLED devices shown to block pain signals
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Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed implantable microLED devices that can activate and block pain signals in…
Finnish startup develops 1mm thin optics for augmented reality
Finnish startup develops 1mm thin optics for augmented reality
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Founded a month ago as a spin-off from the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, startup Dispelix Oy has developed special gratings and optical waveguides that can route any image…
Virtually free crowd-sourced IoT networks on the horizon
Virtually free crowd-sourced IoT networks on the horizon
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Forget about expensive infrastructure deployments, data plans and monthly subscriptions to connect your IoT devices, The Things Network foundation - http://thethingsnetwork.org – is on a mission to provide the entire…
Sony mutes noise for Ford Mondeo drivers
Sony mutes noise for Ford Mondeo drivers
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Ford has implemented Active Noise Cancellation into the passenger compartment of its Mondeo Vignale model. The technology, originally developed for earphones and headsets to lock out the outside world’s noise,…
Implantable wireless microLED devices shown to block pain signals​
Implantable wireless microLED devices shown to block pain signals​
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Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed implantable microLED devices that can activate and block pain signals in…
Multi-channel synchronous buck converters for car applications
Multi-channel synchronous buck converters for car applications
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As automobiles continue to add a higher density of electronic systems to enhance safety, comfort, efficiency and performance, it is not surprising that they require both smaller and higher performance…
Crowd-sourced IoT networks proposed
Crowd-sourced IoT networks proposed
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Forget about expensive infrastructure deployments, data plans and monthly subscriptions to connect your IoT devices, The Things Network foundation - http://thethingsnetwork.org – is on a mission to provide the entire…
AMS schedules multi-project wafer runs for 2016
AMS schedules multi-project wafer runs for 2016
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The foundry service division of analog and mixed-signal chip company AMS AG has scheduled 150 multi-project wafer (MPW) start dates in 2016 for analog customers.
Optimizing power quality: Locating short circuits in power grids
Optimizing power quality: Locating short circuits in power grids
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EPFL researchers have developed a method to determine the exact location of short circuits in a power grid. The method could prove useful to help the operation of complex power…
EM-Sense system enables context-aware smartwatch apps
EM-Sense system enables context-aware smartwatch apps
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Carnegie Mellon University and Disney Research have developed technology that could enable smartwatches to automatically recognize what objects users are touching, for instance, whether the wearer is using a laptop,…
Taking the speed bumps out of Wi-Fi using FM
Taking the speed bumps out of Wi-Fi using FM
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The wireless Internet can be infuriatingly slow loading single Web page even with the fastest Internet speed available but during these all-too-frequent times, it seems like the connection barely works…
Can clay-based electrolyte help batteries perform in harsh environments?
Can clay-based electrolyte help batteries perform in harsh environments?
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Rice University has developed a novel combination of materials including a clay-based electrolyte which could prove a solution for a problem facing rechargeable lithium-ion batteries destined for harsh environments.
Will solar cells power a Li-FI revolution?
Will solar cells power a Li-FI revolution?
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A research team at the University of Edinburgh’s Li-Fi R&D Centre, led by Professor Harald Haas has demonstrated at the TED Global 2015 event in London how Li-Fi can be…
Oculus originator gives away MEMS version
Oculus originator gives away MEMS version
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After making millions from co-founding the Oculus Virtual Reality (VR) Kickstarter campaign (which Facebook bought for USD2.4 billion), Jack McCauley is now giving away the license to a better VR…
Study: Glare-free LED headlight gives drivers more response time
Study: Glare-free LED headlight gives drivers more response time
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„Intelligent“ LED headlight with glare-free high beam increase the safety during nightly car trips. A recent study from Technische Hochschule Giessen substantiates and quantifies this hypothesis.
No-lens camera proposed by Rice University
No-lens camera proposed by Rice University
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Researchers from Rice University (Houston, Texas) have prepared a research paper on Flatcam, a camera system that replaces lenses with a coded mask and computation.
Multi-crystalline silicon solar cell claims 21.25 percent efficiency record
Multi-crystalline silicon solar cell claims 21.25 percent efficiency record
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Photovoltaic (PV) modules producer Trina Solar Limited has revealed that the State Key Laboratory of PV Science and Technology of China has recorded a new world record for a high-efficiency…
Printable lightweight temperature sensor aims to improve healthcare
Printable lightweight temperature sensor aims to improve healthcare
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A University of Tokyo research group has developed a flexible, lightweight sensor that responds rapidly to thermal changes in the range of human body temperature.  The sensor is able to…
Test AOCs during design and production
Test AOCs during design and production
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Rebecca Schaevitz of Corning considers how to test active optical cables during design and production.
Huawei and TELUS create 5G ‘living’ lab in Vancouver
Huawei and TELUS create 5G ‘living’ lab in Vancouver
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Huawei has announced a memorandum of understanding with Canadian operator TELUS to establish a "5G Living Lab". This innovative new project will test approaches to deliver a next-generation converged fibre-wireless…
Keysight selects Fraunhofer EMFT as low-frequency noise reference center
Keysight selects Fraunhofer EMFT as low-frequency noise reference center
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Keysight Technologies, Inc. has selected The Fraunhofer Research Institution for Microsystems and Solid State Technologies EMFT to be the first low-frequency noise measurements reference center able to demonstrate the Keysight…


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