The other week I wrote about what I consider the nightmarish scenario of your car being able to respond and manoeuvre according to your thoughts and emotions. Thankfully, the “BrainMobile” car wont happen for at least another ten years. However, research in...

By Paul Whytock | 10-01-2018

Imagine this. Your car reads a signal from your brain that you are about to turn the steering wheel or hit the brake pedal and it assists you by starting the action more quickly. It’s called Brain-to-Vehicle (B2V) technology and it could become a reality so...

By Paul Whytock | 03-01-2018

This week saw phase one of the Electromaker website go live to the world. The inspiration behind Electromaker is to give hardware enthusiasts a platform to fully document their projects lifecycle and share their creations with other makers from around the glob...

By Nigel Seymour | 21-12-2017

Space. Not so much the final frontier but definitely the next frontier. No surprise then that President Trump has signed off a $20 billion funding package for NASA. The presidential brief is easily spelt out; get the USA back on the moon and from there col...

By Paul Whytock | 19-12-2017

Developing 5nm chip designs has been on the minds of major semiconductors companies for years. Electronics designers have dreamed and schemed about a technology that will undoubtedly offer serious improvements in power efficiency and device performance. In...

By Paul Whytock | 07-12-2017

News this week that car thieves can now stand outside your house and pick up signals from your car keys stored inside your house (all too often near the front door) and then use the signal to get in and drive your car away means many of us have yet another sys...

By Paul Whytock | 29-11-2017

Despite all the known ecological, technical, life span and recyclability shortfalls of lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries there is no doubt their use in cars and innumerous consumer products will continue to escalate. Consequently, any technological development th...

By Paul Whytock | 21-11-2017

While automation has been with us since the 1970s, recent progress made in artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning have helped it pick up the pace. In the coming years, more and more jobs will be automated, from the factory floor, to our roadways, a...

By Mark Patrick | 14-11-2017

In my last column I mentioned that despite the relentlessly gloomy mainstream media Brexit machinations and perorative-prone politicians, electronics technology would always move ahead and that part of that pioneering success are the global collaborations that...

By Paul Whytock | 09-11-2017

The answer is a resounding yes. But it’s not always easy given the mass of mindless misinformation that is unleashed on an almost daily basis by our national mainstream media, much of which harps on relentlessly about how the UK’s separation from the EU will p...

By Paul Whytock | 02-11-2017

Ask any manufacturer in the semiconductor business which market sector is their rock-solid banker, the one that not only ticks over year after year but steadily grows, and most will say automotive. And this has been the case since the upsurge of electronics in...

Semiconductors | By Paul Whytock | 26-10-2017

Electronic gadget mania means that young people in this country reach for their gadgets every eight minutes of every day. This is just one of the results from a survey of 1000 people in the UK. It showed that people who own two gadgets such as phones and ta...

By Paul Whytock | 18-10-2017