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Kids technology overload. I blame the parents

Walk round any shopping mall and you’ll see parents pushing their beloved offspring in buggies with the child totally absorbed in the computer tablet or mobile phone they are playing with. The Digital Dilemma: Technology's Impact on Family Time Is this a good...

Insights | By Paul Whytock | 16-02-2017

Is this the design engineer’s new flexible friend?

Flexible solar cells that are more flexible than silicon-based products will create a diversity of design opportunities when it comes to portable and wearable technology. This makes organometal halide perovskite solar cells particularly attractive to design en...

Articles | By Paul Whytock | 14-02-2017

Is this the design engineer’s new flexible friend?

Flexible solar cells that are more flexible than silicon-based products will create a diversity of design opportunities when it comes to portable and wearable technology. This makes organometal halide perovskite solar cells particularly attractive to design en...

Insights | By Paul Whytock | 14-02-2017

Binary hyper-drive. It’s computing but not as we know it captain

Thought your laptop was fast. Well try to imagine a computer that is 100 million times faster. This leap into binary hyper-drive is now considered a possibility with the construction of a huge quantum computer that could be just a few years away. Such a develo...

Articles | By Paul Whytock | 07-02-2017

Binary hyper-drive. It’s computing but not as we know it captain

Thought your laptop was fast. Well try to imagine a computer that is 100 million times faster. This leap into binary hyper-drive is now considered a possibility with the construction of a huge quantum computer that could be just a few years away. Such a develo...

Insights | By Paul Whytock | 07-02-2017

Will this collaborative venture push IIoT forward?

Advances in networking mean that Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technology is fast approaching a situation where it becomes a practical reality. However, the application of IIoT still has a number of practical hoops to jump through. These operational cha...

Articles | By Paul Whytock | 02-02-2017

Will this collaborative venture push IIoT forward?

Advances in networking mean that Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technology is fast approaching a situation where it becomes a practical reality. However, the application of IIoT still has a number of practical hoops to jump through. These operational cha...

Insights | By Paul Whytock | 02-02-2017

Amphenol UPC – providing continuous power to 400 A

Designed for use in the HEV (hybrid electric vehicle) market, UPC (universal power connector) from Amphenol is a plastic connector series available in 2-pole and 3-pole variants offering continuous power with 200 A or 400 A. As well as HEV use, Amphenol’s c...

By RS Components | 31-01-2017

R-Car ADAS Surround View Kit gives you the full picture

An essential extension to the R-Car ADAS Starter Kit, the ADAS Surround View Kit from Renesas Electronics allows developers to work with sample applications for automotive surround view using live data streams from the 4 included automotive cameras. The Sur...

By RS Components | 31-01-2017

JST HCH automotive connectors – mini rugged housings

Perfect for space critical applications, the HCH range of automotive connectors from JST includes this 2.54 mm pitch female housing, capable of accepting short length female terminals. This housing is the 9 circuit option; it is also available in a 4 circui...

By RS Components | 31-01-2017

Crank up the heat with Vishay HOTcaps™

Vishay has introduced a series of radial leaded multilayer ceramic capacitors designed specifically for automotive applications. The K…H Series High Operating Temperature Multilayer Ceramic Capacitors – better known as HOTcaps™ – are AEC-Q200-qualified and sui...

By RS Components | 31-01-2017

Hello neighbour, I’ve stolen your product design

Picture this. You have just set up your exhibition booth at the Electronica 2016 exhibition in Munich only to find the neighbouring booth next to you is exhibiting products with features that are fake copies of your patented product. This is precisely what hap...

Articles | By Paul Whytock | 31-01-2017