Faster transistors for higher speed electronics are possible with a new two-dimensional semiconductor, Tellurene, made from the element Tellurium. Researchers fabricated Tellurene transistors that exhibited stable performance at ambient room temperatures and o...

By Rob Coppinger | 27-07-2018

Driver error causes around 1.4 million deaths and over 52 million injuries worldwide every year. How much of that is down to driver distraction? The answer is a lot and we know this thanks to a very important study that was performed in America. This monito...

By Paul Whytock | 26-07-2018

The medical electronics market is helping to bring about a revolution in key areas such as diagnostics, treatment, assistance and care. The market encompasses wearable gadgets and wireless connected devices, as well as RADAR technology-based ultrasound machine...

By Nnamdi Anyadike | 24-07-2018

An office in 2018 looks very different to one 50 years ago, but the similarities remain. There's a desk, with a typewriter/workstation, and in the corner a Photostat machine/printer. The tools have changed and evolved over the half century, but the setup is co...

By Christian Cawley | 23-07-2018

There are two key issues, or challenges, currently facing industrial automation. Together, these challenges are driving the development of a new exciting form of robotics - the cobot. Depending on who you are talking to, a cobot may be defined as either a coll...

By Mark Patrick | 20-07-2018

The nano electronics market is strengthening on the back of a raft of new technologies and products such as mobile wireless devices, the internet of things (IoT) and cloud computing. A useful working definition for nano electronics is that branch of electronic...

By Nnamdi Anyadike | 16-07-2018

A water management system dubbed the Internet of Water and being trialed in Flanders could help control water quality and improve supply, something UK water utilities might find useful. This Belgium system uses wireless-connected sensors and intelligent sof...

By Paul Whytock | 13-07-2018

Genetically engineered bacteria that can detect bleeding in the stomach and potentially other gastrointestinal problems have been combined with electronics that convert the bacterial response into a wireless signal that can be read by a smartphone. “At the mom...

By Rob Coppinger | 12-07-2018

With laptop in hand you are about to set off on your train, metro, bus or tram journey home hoping to get some work done using the onboard Ethernet. What you don’t know is the sheer number of settings, any of which can fail, that make this endeavour possible....

By Nnamdi Anyadike | 09-07-2018

Memristors are simpler than transistors, smaller, use less energy, can alter their resistance and remember previous states which could lead to computers that use less power, never forget, have improved distributed memory and processing and can switch on and of...

By Rob Coppinger | 06-07-2018

Being served drinks by a robot in a glittering high-tech bar is one thing but would you want one operating autonomously on one of your major organs? Mercifully, the scalpel-wielding-droid question does not currently arise for patients who are just about to...

By Paul Whytock | 05-07-2018

The fourth industrial revolution is fast becoming a reality in many parts of the developed world. And as this revolution comes into being, manufacturing is being transformed with a move to fully ‘smart’ or intelligent factories and the evolution of smarter pro...

By Nnamdi Anyadike | 02-07-2018