Where once prosthetics were crude and simplistic, now they’re carefully engineered works of art. In fact, with breakthroughs such as neuroprosthetic limbs, there’s even the potential for prosthetics to interface with the human brain. Learn all about the future...

By Moe Long | 10-12-2019

After years on the backburner, fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) are about to come of age. Fuel cells, combined with a battery and super-capacitor, rely on oxygen from the air and compressed hydrogen to start-up and power a vehicle. Advantages of this techno...

By Nnamdi Anyadike | 03-12-2019

It is now possible to build displays that can actually be bent. They can actually be folded in half, almost like a piece of paper. They have many uses, but here we will focus on the effect that they will have on the future of smartphones. Wait – let me take th...

By Gary Elinoff | 02-12-2019

Manufacturers can overcome key Industry 4.0 and smart factory communication challenges from data integration to synchronization, edge connectivity, and system interoperability with Analog Devices’ (ADI) ADIN1300 low-power, single port Ethernet transceiver. The...

By Rob Coppinger | 28-11-2019

Smart wiring, a system that enables the combination of many different types of wires into a single platform, is taking off both in the home and office. Modern buildings rely on a plethora of wiring with phone lines, TV and audio cables, computer and internet c...

By Nnamdi Anyadike | 26-11-2019

As we move inexorably towards the new Christmas pantomime, or General Election as it's more usually called, the subject of high-speed Internet has become a political weapon. This comes as no surprise given this country’s appalling lack of progress in implement...

By Paul Whytock | 25-11-2019

Electrolyte performance in supercapacitors could be improved by using ionic liquids, salts that are detergents and which perform better as they get hotter.  A problem in lithium-ion batteries is the electrolyte can be flammable at high temperatures. To avoid u...

By Rob Coppinger | 22-11-2019

Demand for quartz crystal oscillators, which are essentially electromechanical devices used to provide a stable clock signal in a wide range of electronic applications, is growing. Quartz crystals can operate in frequencies that vary from a few tens of kiloher...

By Nnamdi Anyadike | 21-11-2019

Fusion is what powers the Sun – and Hydrogen Bombs.  A fusion reaction generally involves two atoms “fusing” into a new atom. The atoms of interest are two isotopes of hydrogen, deuterium and tritium. While common hydrogen consists of one proton and one electr...

By Gary Elinoff | 19-11-2019

A few years ago the very idea of having a mobile phone switched on while in flight was horrifying. We were told that the signal from mobile devices could interfere with the plane’s navigation system. Which seems like a staggering oversight on behalf of people...

By Philip Spurgeon | 15-11-2019

The awarding of the 2019 Nobel Prize in chemistry by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to Japanese researcher Akira Yoshino and American researchers John B. Goodenough and M. Stanley Whittingham for their development of lithium-ion batteries, underscores t...

By Nnamdi Anyadike | 14-11-2019

Bionics have been the crusade of engineers, scientists and medical doctors for decades.  There has always been an unspoken understanding that there is only so much medical science could do for the human body and - sooner or later - technology was going to have...

By Philip Spurgeon | 13-11-2019