Automation in logistics is rapidly changing the face of the grocery supply chain sector. However, the technology innovations currently in the pipeline place the industry at the cusp of even greater change. This is because in what is already a highly competitiv...

By Nnamdi Anyadike | 04-06-2018

It's largely recognized that copper has had its day as a communications medium. Where once it was vital for telephonic connectivity, since the age of mass internet, its limits have become all too obvious. Fortunately, there is no need to worry. Fibre broadb...

By Christian Cawley | 31-05-2018

The global telecommunication industry is rapidly being transformed by the development and rollout of ‘free space optics (FSO)’. FSO is a line-of-sight technology that uses invisible beams of light to provide optical bandwidth connections. These enhanced connec...

By Nnamdi Anyadike | 29-05-2018

The heat your computer generates could help increase battery life by a fifth with a nanostructured thin film technology that turns that waste warmth into electricity. The thin film converts heat into electricity using what is called pyroelectrics and it cou...

By Rob Coppinger | 24-05-2018

If I suggested to a cycling-mad pal of mine that he should switch to electrically powered bicycles his verbal response would most definitely not be printable here. Why is that? Well in his case, even as a gentleman of mature age, he has sufficient pedal-pow...

By Paul Whytock | 23-05-2018

High-power electronics could work at higher temperatures for longer with water flowing over a heat exchanger’s surface that is designed to repel the liquid, the exact opposite of what is used today. Water is typically boiled off hydrophilic heat exchanger...

By Rob Coppinger | 21-05-2018

Rapidly falling component and installation costs are encouraging the growth of solar power in key locations across the globe. And solar inverters, which play an important role in the operation of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems, are expected to witness a solid...

By Nnamdi Anyadike | 18-05-2018

In the last few decades, electronic measurement and analysis has been increasingly deployed to improve agricultural productivity. This use of precision agriculture enables farmers to determine the amount of water, fertilizer, pesticides and weed killers re...

By Mark Patrick | 16-05-2018

If there is anyone in the developed world for whom the word ‘building’ still conjures up an image of a structure comprising just four walls, a roof, a couple of doors and a few windows then the latest ‘smart building’ developments are likely to come as quite a...

By Nnamdi Anyadike | 11-05-2018

Iceberg monitoring robot marine vessels that work together to overcome extreme weather and damage are one vision of scientists developing biologically inspired swarming machines. The behaviour of ants and bees and other swarming animals and how they adapt t...

By Rob Coppinger | 10-05-2018

This year may well be the year that augmented reality (AR) comes into its own. Unlike virtual reality (VR), which tends to require very specialized gear, even regular smartphones can use AR technology to enhance what is seen through the handset’s camera. And t...

By Mark Patrick | 08-05-2018

The data storage technologies market is growing strongly on the back of the emergence of the new storage services that have emerged to deliver access to increasingly larger and more valuable data sets. This increase in big data is the result of, among other th...

By Nnamdi Anyadike | 04-05-2018