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

All you drivers out there like to think you have a touch of Lewis Hamilton or Sabine Schmitz driving skills, but the sad fact is you really don't. Those drivers have reaction times of around 200 milliseconds, and you'd be extremely fortunate to achieve somethi...

By Paul Whytock | 10-12-2018

The use of mobile fuel cells to bring power to off-grid areas and applications is expanding. This is on the back of a rise in demand for unconventional energy sources and space heating across residential and commercial establishments and a rise in demand for b...

By Nnamdi Anyadike | 06-12-2018

As motor vehicle use increases (10 million more cars were on UK roads in 2015 than 1995) so does the risk of a serious road incident and the inevitable tailback. Slow moving traffic impacts everything from haulage to the daily commute, and with just a satnav a...

By Christian Cawley | 04-12-2018

A printed bonding layer up to 120 microns thick on the back of microchips could enable a heat sink that keeps processors 10 degrees Celsius cooler than comparable systems today. Heat is believed to be behind most of the failures of electronics that lead to the...

By Rob Coppinger | 03-12-2018

In a time where there are increasing concerns all across Europe about filling the growing number of STEM-related jobs and how to go about addressing the widening skills gap, there is more impetus than ever to encourage both young children and teenagers to beco...

By Mark Patrick | 29-11-2018

Part Two of this oil and gas technology industry overview focuses on digital technology and data management in E&P (exploration & production). There are at least 10 ‘disruptive’ digital technology areas with the potential to transform this important upstream s...

By Nnamdi Anyadike | 27-11-2018