The sizeable capital investment involved when it comes to buying top-end oscilloscopes, logic and signal analysers can have even the toughest of bean-counters snapping shut their

15-02-2018

Two space travel related stories hit my desktop this week; one that rapidly generated major international headlines and one that slid very quietly onto my email screen. The headlin

08-02-2018

A laser system that presently catches speeding motorists looks set to become a critical design element in making autonomous cars safe. LiDAR (Light detection and Ranging) refers

02-02-2018

Global data communications is running into a big problem. As modern living and ever-expanding commercialism puts immense pressures on data communication capacity and speed, so exis

24-01-2018

As far as consumers and their smart phone go, wireless charging sounds a great idea. And if it was a reality it would be. Let’s face it, relative to much of our technology-driven l

18-01-2018

The other week I wrote about what I consider the nightmarish scenario of your car being able to respond and manoeuvre according to your thoughts and emotions. Thankfully, the “B

10-01-2018

Imagine this. Your car reads a signal from your brain that you are about to turn the steering wheel or hit the brake pedal and it assists you by starting the action more quickly.

03-01-2018

Space. Not so much the final frontier but definitely the next frontier. No surprise then that President Trump has signed off a $20 billion funding package for NASA. The preside

19-12-2017

Developing 5nm chip designs has been on the minds of major semiconductors companies for years. Electronics designers have dreamed and schemed about a technology that will undoubted

07-12-2017