Those of you who’ve read George Orwell’s book Nineteen Eighty-Four will remember how the citizens of the fictitious totalitarian state of Oceana are constantly under surveillance by order of its dictator, Big Brother. In the story telescreens are placed in peo...

By Paul Whytock | 24-11-2016

News this week that scientists have developed thermal management technology that could help with the design of smaller chips has coincided with a new market study suggesting 40% of electronics engineers do not consider heat dissipation a design priority. The s...

By Paul Whytock | 17-11-2016

What is claimed to be the World’s first wireless car battery management system (BMS) concept car has been unveiled by high performance analog IC specialist Linear Technology. The concept car was developed in conjunction with Linear’s design partner LION Smart,...

By Paul Whytock | 16-11-2016

Photoionisation has been accurately measured for the first time and with zeptosecond accuracy. To fully grasp just how precise this is a zeptosecond is a trillionth of a billionth of a second. Or put another way, 0.000000000000000000001 seconds. Scientists hav...

By Paul Whytock | 16-11-2016

A haptic technology that uses ultrasound and provides users with a touch sensation to virtually “feel” switches, buttons and other controls in mid-air has been developed by haptic specialists, Ultrahaptics. This development kit can be used for the evaluation a...

By Paul Whytock | 03-11-2016

Artificial Intelligence (AI) should not replace or seek to replace human thinking. This is a view held by 7000 people surveyed recently across seven countries. AI has been billed as possibly the greatest innovation that could work harmoniously with humans or d...

By Paul Whytock | 01-11-2016

The recent publicity frenzy focusing on the Samsung 7 phone fires has created more questions over the safety of Lithium batteries than any previous event, including a potentially catastrophic one such as whether or not Lithium battery fires could bring down a...

By Paul Whytock | 28-10-2016

Could it be possible that the architectural and computational performance of future computers lies within the anatomy of a 1mm long roundworm? Quite possibly is the answer to that if the continuing research by the Si elegans project proves successful. But just...

By Paul Whytock | 19-10-2016

A technology breakthrough that removes the need for dynamic random memory (DRAM) refresh and is claimed to provide power, efficiency and compatibility benefits has been unveiled by US non-volatile memory specialists Kilopass. Based on vertical layered thyristo...

By Paul Whytock | 12-10-2016

News that a self-driving car saved its owner’s life this summer delivered a boost to the autonomous motoring revolution that is quietly taking over decision-making tasks from the human behind the wheel. Many new-car owners are already comfortable with self-dri...

By Pedro Calomarde | 11-10-2016

A system that provides 360-degree vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications and is expected to find applications relative to autonomous driving technology has been developed by Japanese electronics company Renesas. Offering real-time proc...

By Paul Whytock | 06-10-2016

A sensor hub that is integrated as a system-on-chip (SoC) for use in wearable health devices has been designed by the nano-electronics and digital technology organisations Imec and the Holst Centre. Creators of the SoC say it combines an unprecedented number o...

By Paul Whytock | 05-10-2016

A nanoscale electronic device has been developed that may be the missing link in the development of body implants that use electrical signals from the brain to treat medical conditions. Research at the University of Southampton have shown that memristors could...

By Paul Whytock | 29-09-2016

A contactless wireless charging system for low power applications that is capable of charging compact lithium-ion (Li-ion) secondary batteries has been developed by Renesas Electronics. The company says the solution will find applications in healthcare and wea...

By Paul Whytock | 27-09-2016