Smart cities need smart technology to improve the lives of its residents and to streamline the whole operation and maintenance of urban infrastructure. And while you can’t necessarily use the same technology everywhere – geographical features, financial challe...

By Stefan Berggren | 03-09-2018

The ending of the UK government’s main renewable energy support scheme in April 2019 might, in most circumstances, be expected to provide a serious blow to the UK’s renewable energy hopes. Except that it could also be just what is needed to provide battery sto...

By Nnamdi Anyadike | 30-08-2018

Hackers could be stopped intercepting transmitted data with a transmitter that changes its frequency with each individual 1 or 0 bit within a data packet. Hackers can intercept data being transmitted and jam signals or corrupt the packets of data sent wireless...

By Rob Coppinger | 29-08-2018

Over recent decades, astounding engineering advances have brought us exciting new products that are ever more powerful, smaller, slimmer and lighter. The hidden price of this progress has been a tendency for full ownership of the relating technology to move ou...

By Mark Patrick | 28-08-2018

A medical implant the size of a grain of rice which is powered by radio waves from outside the body has been successfully tested opening the way to smaller longer lasting devices for treating a wide variety of ailments. Pacemakers and brain implants for Parkin...

By Rob Coppinger | 23-08-2018

The development of GaN (Gallium Nitride)-based electronic devices is allowing for the construction of more compact, lighter and cheaper power converters. And in the coming years, growth in the GaN semiconductor device market is expected to have a major effect...

By Nnamdi Anyadike | 22-08-2018

Solar power usage is on the rise, but remains a small portion of the renewables vertical. In 2015, 23% of all Chinese power was generated with from renewable sources; in Germany, 12.4%. By contrast, the USA managed just 10%, and of all of these, only a small p...

By Christian Cawley | 21-08-2018

Millions of people in this country wont buy an electric car (EVs) and there are two very big reasons why. But that could be about to change, but only for one of them. So what's the problem with electric cars, especially as there are some really good-looking on...

By Paul Whytock | 17-08-2018

Electrodes that are made from supermolecular sponges have given Lithium-ion batteries faster recharge rates and higher energy capacities thanks to the mixing of salt with carbon. The electrodes need a hierarchical three-dimensional structure to deliver the...

By Rob Coppinger | 16-08-2018

The announcement in late July that University of Cambridge researchers have discovered a way to make super fast charging devices using niobium tungsten oxides could prove to be as commercially groundbreaking as it is scientifically significant. The ‘holy grail...

By Nnamdi Anyadike | 14-08-2018

Corporations facing questions about IT budgets, or simply looking to make efficiencies on hardware, might consider cutting back on licenses once the hardware is pared back. But are office based colleagues really using the cheapest equipment? And does cutting b...

By Christian Cawley | 13-08-2018

A new report into the outdoor wireless LAN (WLAN) market predicts substantial growth in the sector over the next five years. The key drivers are expected to be the emerging markets and the increasingly widespread propagation of Internet of Things (IoT) driven...

Articles | By Nnamdi Anyadike | 09-08-2018