Smart fabrics that can change colour, charge a phone and keep you warm in cold weather are not so much the future of smart textiles in fashion but the here and now of sartorial progress. Materials with extremely delicate conductive fibres woven into them are a...

By Paul Whytock | 16-04-2015

Most of us have heard of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at Cern in Switzerland, the machine tasked with smashing particles of matter together to simulate the conditions in the moments after the Big Bang, generally regarded as the creation of the Universe. How...

By Paul Whytock | 10-04-2015

The 34th floor of the London Shard was the location chosen by test and measurement specialists Keysight Technologies and Microlease, the instrumentation equipment management company, to announce a new joint agreement. Now, the events area of the Shangri La Hot...

By Paul Whytock | 08-04-2015

We journalists are spoilt creatures. We get invited to some very nice places to consume some extremely toothsome cuisine while hearing about and subsequently sitting in judgment on all sorts of technological developments. It was no real surprise then that the...

By Paul Whytock | 31-03-2015

I’m an old-school driver. I like to feel that it’s me in charge of the car, not a lot of invisible electronics and software that are switching my lights and wipers on when they think it necessary, nor squawking at me if I get too near a car when parallel parki...

By Paul Whytock | 25-03-2015

A fully encapsulated digital DC/DC PMBus power module that has a heat dissipation design which means power components sit directly on a copper lead frame allowing maximum power usage while maintaining a junction temperature of below 125ºC, had been developed b...

By Paul Whytock | 17-03-2015

Reducing the amount of wasted electrical energy consumed globally is recognised as a key environmental objective. Power devices used in electrical energy conversion and system control applications are frontline products that can either save or waste energy. Th...

By Paul Whytock | 10-03-2015

Too expensive, cold looking and not as durable as some of the sales hype would have you believe. These are still doubts that keep consumers dithering over whether to invest in LED lighting systems. But are they right to be cautious? Not anymore. Recent advance...

By Paul Whytock | 05-03-2015

With nearly 900 exhibiting companies, the Embedded World show in Nuremberg provides technology insights that suit every visitor’s needs. This event has always been perceived as an engineer’s show, and as such, companies are keen to launch new products and syst...

By Paul Whytock | 26-02-2015

With nearly 900 exhibiting companies, the Embedded World show in Nuremberg provides technology insights that will pretty much suit every visitor’s needs. This event has always been perceived as an engineer’s show, and as such, companies are keen to launch new...

By Paul Whytock | 24-02-2015

Engineering distribution giant Mouser Electronics gave their new partner Grant Imahara a sneak peek behind the scenes with a tour of the Mouser warehouse. Celebrity engineer Grant Imahara is famed for taking on urban legends in Mythbusters, but far from being...

By Matthew Walker | 18-02-2015

Any of you who have recently bought a new car will quickly realise how much of it is controlled by computers. You may be the owner behind the wheel, but much of what is happening is under electronic control, not yours. And this raises the question, can someone...

By Paul Whytock | 16-02-2015

All of us humans are used to the idea of our pet cat having a microchip stabbed into them, but what are microchips used for in humans? How about turning the tables and asking owners how they'd feel about being chipped! For a deeper understanding of how we reac...

By Paul Whytock | 05-02-2015

Nobody wants a 'spaghetti Junction' of wires invading their space, so wireless charging has to be a good idea and definitely the way forward. Industry pundits agree with that and believe the demand for such technology will grow substantially. This view is well...

By Paul Whytock | 29-01-2015