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Haptic prosthesis gives back missing limb’s natural feel
Haptic prosthesis gives back missing limb’s natural feel
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In close collaboration with the University Clinic for Reconstructive Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery in Innsbruck / Austria, Professor Hubert Egger…
‘Transparent’ truck lets drivers behind it see road ahead
‘Transparent’ truck lets drivers behind it see road ahead
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A prototype "Safety Truck" developed by Samsung allows drivers following behind it to "see through" the truck to the road…
DC/DC converter PCB layout, Part 1
DC/DC converter PCB layout, Part 1
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Timothy Hegarty of Texas Instruments considers how PCB layout design can play a critical role in solving a power converter…
Powering Ethernet, Part 1: Designing for low power consumption in operation
Powering Ethernet, Part 1: Designing for low power consumption in operation
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Mike Jones of Micrel explains how to design for low power consumption in Ethernet operation.

Real-time air quality monitoring: an IoT platform from imec
Real-time air quality monitoring: an IoT platform from imec
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Belgian research centre Imec and the associated Holst Centre have developed a small NO2 sensor featuring a low power consumption in the mW range. The small, low power NO2 sensors…
Reinvented Li-ion cell costs 50% less to produce
Reinvented Li-ion cell costs 50% less to produce
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Start-up battery technology company 24M Technologies (Cambridge, MA) is emerging from stealth mode to introduce the semisolid lithium-ion cell, a new class of lithium-ion battery that the company claims could…
RF power transistors to reach consumers’ dishes
RF power transistors to reach consumers’ dishes
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While RF power transistors have been typically reserved for telecom infrastructures and other demanding industrial applications, Freescale Semiconductor hopes to expand its solid state offering to the comparatively much larger…
Cloud system puts idle processing power of the IoT to use
Cloud system puts idle processing power of the IoT to use
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Computer researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (Birmingham, AL) have developed a system designed to pool the unused computing power of smart Web-connected devices in the Internet of…
JTAG Boundary scan: Four test cases
JTAG Boundary scan: Four test cases
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Maksim Komkov of Promwad Innovation Company examines case studies of how JTAG Boundary scan tests can be actioned.
Cloud system leverages IoT’s idle processing power
Cloud system leverages IoT’s idle processing power
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Computer researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (Birmingham, AL) have developed a system designed to pool the unused computing power of smart Web-connected devices in the Internet of…
Smart milliwatt NO2 sensor used for environmental monitoring
Smart milliwatt NO2 sensor used for environmental monitoring
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Research institutes IMEC and Holst Center have developed an wirelessly-connected NO2 sensor that has a power consumption in the milliwatt range.
MIMO over-the-air testing ready to roll
MIMO over-the-air testing ready to roll
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Mobile device users are increasingly demanding a broadband experience with faster data rates. This is driving manufacturers to develop new technology, such as multiple input/multiple output (MIMO) antenna designs, to…
Metal-organic framework compounds: The future for flexible solar cells?
Metal-organic framework compounds: The future for flexible solar cells?
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Researchers at KIT in Germany are claiming to have developed for the first time a functioning organic solar cell consisting of a single component has been produced from metal-organic framework…
Plant-inspired solar cell design promises improved efficiency
Plant-inspired solar cell design promises improved efficiency
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Scientists at UCLA (Los Angeles, CA) have developed a solar cell technology that is capable of storing solar energy for weeks at a time, compared with current solar cell technology…
X-ray imaging pinpoints improved battery performance at high voltages
X-ray imaging pinpoints improved battery performance at high voltages
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A multi-institution team is led by physicists and nanoengineers at the University of California, San Diego could help battery developers design rechargeable lithium-ion batteries that operate at higher voltages.
Low temperature 2D MoS2 now at wafer-level
Low temperature 2D MoS2 now at wafer-level
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Researchers at the University of Southampton's Zepler Institute have fabricated and characterised large-area 2D films of molybdenum disulphide (MoS2), an N-type semiconductor, at room temperature using a process which is…
France’s largest battery storage to stabilise power grid
France’s largest battery storage to stabilise power grid
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The department Aube in the northeast of France plans to install the nation’s largest battery storage. The experiment is designed to underpin the development of renewable energies, in particular wind…
First optical and synthetic aperture radar commercial satellite constellation
First optical and synthetic aperture radar commercial satellite constellation
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UrtheCast Corporation has announced plans to build, launch and operate the first fully-integrated, multispectral optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) commercial constellation of Earth Observation satellites, to be deployed over…
Making hackers obsolete
Making hackers obsolete
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Cybersecurity is a big and growing problem for smartphones, tablets and the emerging IoT. As more and more data is driven to the cloud, security of data centres is essential.
Graphene paves the way for world’s thinnest light bulb
Graphene paves the way for world’s thinnest light bulb
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Scientists from Columbia Engineering, Seoul National University (SNU), and Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) have demonstrated - for the first time - an on-chip visible light source…
TechInsights: Inside 1X nm Planar NAND
TechInsights: Inside 1X nm Planar NAND
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NAND flash makers have started selling their 1X nm class of planar flash memory. Planar NAND flash may not make it past 10nm node, but here's a look inside 15/16nm,…
Continental puts together holistic car HMI
Continental puts together holistic car HMI
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Hitherto, the design of human machine interfaces (HMI) was driven by technological aspects. Automotive supplier Continental intends change over to a more holistic, integrated approach that takes into account the…
Future urban mobility: Multi-modal and eco-friendly
Future urban mobility: Multi-modal and eco-friendly
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How can tomorrow’s urban mobility look like? Besides alternative vehicle concepts, software solutions and mobility schemes, a thorough analysis of infrastructures and business models will add up to the individual…
GreenTouch improves energy efficiency in wireless networks by more than 10,000 times
GreenTouch improves energy efficiency in wireless networks by more than 10,000 times
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GreenTouch™, the global consortium dedicated to dramatically improving the energy efficiency of data communications networks, has announced its final results and unveiled new tools, technologies and architectures to improve the…
Are You Ready for Five Gbps optical?
Are You Ready for Five Gbps optical?
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Plastic optical fiber (POF) has been the successful solution for "high-speed" data networks in the car for almost two decades. In that time, the data rate has increased from 5.6…
Electrolyte additives prevent fires in next-generation lithium batteries
Electrolyte additives prevent fires in next-generation lithium batteries
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Researchers at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have discovered that adding two chemicals to the electrolyte of a lithium metal battery prevents the formation of dendrites which could…
Jaguar taps into brain waves to ensure driver attention
Jaguar taps into brain waves to ensure driver attention
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In the recent past, Jaguar Land Rover already caught attention with futuristic technology approaches such as using the entire windscreen as head-up display or extensive use of augmented reality. Now…
Power modelling of mobile basestations sees problems after 2020
Power modelling of mobile basestations sees problems after 2020
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As a part of the conclusion of the GreenTouch consortium’s five years of work, Belgian research centre imec has unveiled an advanced power model that provides a realistic prediction of…


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