April is Stress Awareness Month and has been ever since 1992 and, no, this is not an April 1st spoof story but a look at a stress-related study using wearable technology. I think most of us are all too well aware of the prolific outpourings of marketing hy...

By Paul Whytock | 28-03-2018

At the end of a gruelling 5,000-metre Olympics race, the athletes push themselves past the finish line, the winners apparently obvious to all. But, moments later an Olympics official examines the athletes’ intelligent sweat patches and alerts his superiors, so...

By Rob Coppinger | 21-03-2018

The global battery industry's reliance on lithium cannot go on unabated. Alternatives must be found or, at the very least, lithium batteries must raise their game environmentally. And the answer may well lie in graphene, the thinnest material known to man....

By Paul Whytock | 19-03-2018

The road to 3nm may well be paved with good, groundbreaking technical intentions but there are some pretty deep financial potholes that need to be negotiated on the way. So when news breaks that the industry’s first 3nm test chip tapeout has been achieved i...

By Paul Whytock | 08-03-2018

Just about every car manufacturer is loudly trumpeting the fact they are going to get heavily into producing electric vehicles (EVs). Not only that, they are making bold commitments on quantity and timing. Volvo for instance is saying it will only make elec...

By Paul Whytock | 01-03-2018

The UK’s broadband service is pathetic and progress to improve it snail-like at best, despite years of government pledges and service provider promises. Lets put it into perspective. I recently took statistics from three different reports and came up with s...

By Paul Whytock | 22-02-2018

The sizeable capital investment involved when it comes to buying top-end oscilloscopes, logic and signal analysers can have even the toughest of bean-counters snapping shut their corporate wallets. But this may no longer be quite the financial threat it ha...

By Paul Whytock | 15-02-2018

Two space travel related stories hit my desktop this week; one that rapidly generated major international headlines and one that slid very quietly onto my email screen. The headline-hitter was the successful launch of Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket with its payload...

By Paul Whytock | 08-02-2018

A laser system that presently catches speeding motorists looks set to become a critical design element in making autonomous cars safe. LiDAR (Light detection and Ranging) refers to systems that use laser light emitted in very fast pulses, some at up to 150,...

By Paul Whytock | 02-02-2018

The Texas Instruments store is making it simple for customers to access the parts required for their designs. With a combination of selected LaunchPad MCU development kits and BoosterPack plug-in modules, customers have the opportunity to make great savings wi...

By Nigel Seymour | 25-01-2018

Global data communications is running into a big problem. As modern living and ever-expanding commercialism puts immense pressures on data communication capacity and speed, so existing technologies are rapidly falling short of what the future needs. The que...

By Paul Whytock | 24-01-2018

As far as consumers and their smart phone go, wireless charging sounds a great idea. And if it was a reality it would be. Let’s face it, relative to much of our technology-driven lives, wireless is the way to go. But getting back to those smart phones I sti...

By Paul Whytock | 18-01-2018