We've been hearing about the Internet of Things (IoT) for years, but it's struggled to make the expected impact. This is partly because of how it has been presented, with media coverage often blending IoT with smart home and smart office hardware. Cisco System...

By Christian Cawley | 15-01-2019

Wireless security cameras are rapidly becoming more sophisticated with the latest models now equipped with motion detection sensors and the ability to record footage of an intruder. More advanced cameras include facial recognition and two-way audio. But regard...

Security | By Nnamdi Anyadike | 14-01-2019

A material called a Weyl sonic crystal that can reflect sound or light is expected to aid photonic electronics because it can reflect a beam light back to its source as a mirror image of itself. This mirror image reflection is called negative refraction. Re...

By Rob Coppinger | 10-01-2019

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