Microchips and organic LEDs that deliver 4K-like high resolution displays a quarter of the size and half the weight of existing virtual reality (VR) headsets have been developed under a European Union project. Lighter weight goggles make virtual and augmented...

By Rob Coppinger | 08-01-2019

The global optical fiber market is growing strongly with one recent study published by Allied Market Research, suggesting a CAGR of 11.6% between 2018 and 2025. This would take the value from $3,477 million to $8,153 million. Chief among the factors underpinni...

By Nnamdi Anyadike | 03-01-2019

It used to be a promise, a guarantee; later it became a challenge. But these days, 50 years on, Moore's Law has become a spectre, a shadow threatening to derail processor research. Of course, Gordon Moore never expected development to increase exponentially, a...

By Christian Cawley | 20-12-2018

In Dec. 2018, Amazon launched its Big Mouth Billy Bass with Alexa compatibility. Sure, it sounds like a goofy premise, especially when juxtaposed with Stanley Kubrick’s sprawling vision in his genre-defining sci-fi film “2001: A Space Odyssey.” Still, the Alex...

By Moe Long | 20-12-2018

The packaging industry has long favoured automation. However, a recent study from Quest TechnoMarketing, the German based specialist in market research and marketing for automation, shows that the intensity of automation technology in the packaging sector is n...

By Nnamdi Anyadike | 19-12-2018

Multiple colours, or frequencies of light, for photonic computing are expected to speed up the devices compared to the single channel, colour technology today. Each light frequency is a channel of data and multiple colours will mean many channels and a capabil...

By Rob Coppinger | 18-12-2018

The Intel Neural Compute Stick 2 boasts Intel Movidius X VPU. You’ll benefit from OpenVINO compatibility, and incredible ease of use. The artificial intelligence (AI) USB stick features improved AI algorithm creation. Featuring plug-and-play operation, simply...

By Moe Long | 13-12-2018

Europe’s e-car boom is only just getting started and with it the potential to completely transform the region’s transport sector. Along with the rise in e-car demand is a concomitant rise in demand for fuel cell batteries, the most important and costly compone...

By Nnamdi Anyadike | 12-12-2018

A flexible mobile phone or a wearable biomedical device could be the outcome of a polymer film that uses pigment to conduct electricity at higher levels than other conducting plastics. The film is transparent, so it could be used for phone displays or a wearab...

By Rob Coppinger | 10-12-2018

All you drivers out there like to think you have a touch of Lewis Hamilton or Sabine Schmitz driving skills, but the sad fact is you really don't. Those drivers have reaction times of around 200 milliseconds, and you'd be extremely fortunate to achieve somethi...

By Paul Whytock | 10-12-2018

The use of mobile fuel cells to bring power to off-grid areas and applications is expanding. This is on the back of a rise in demand for unconventional energy sources and space heating across residential and commercial establishments and a rise in demand for b...

By Nnamdi Anyadike | 06-12-2018

As motor vehicle use increases (10 million more cars were on UK roads in 2015 than 1995) so does the risk of a serious road incident and the inevitable tailback. Slow moving traffic impacts everything from haulage to the daily commute, and with just a satnav a...

By Christian Cawley | 04-12-2018