Those of you who’ve read George Orwell’s book Nineteen Eighty-Four will remember how the citizens of the fictitious totalitarian state of Oceana are constantly under surveillance by order of its dictator, Big Brother. In the story telescreens are placed in peo...

Articles | By Paul Whytock | 24-11-2016

Those of you who’ve read George Orwell’s book Nineteen Eighty-Four will remember how the citizens of the fictitious totalitarian state of Oceana are constantly under surveillance by order of its dictator, Big Brother. In the story telescreens are placed in peo...

Insights | By Paul Whytock | 24-11-2016

News this week that scientists have developed thermal management technology that could help with the design of smaller chips has coincided with a new market study suggesting 40% of electronics engineers do not consider heat dissipation a design priority. The s...

Articles | By Paul Whytock | 17-11-2016

News this week that scientists have developed thermal management technology that could help with the design of smaller chips has coincided with a new market study suggesting 40% of electronics engineers do not consider heat dissipation a design priority. The s...

Insights | By Paul Whytock | 17-11-2016

What is claimed to be the World’s first wireless car battery management system (BMS) concept car has been unveiled by high performance analog IC specialist Linear Technology. The concept car was developed in conjunction with Linear’s design partner LION Smart,...

Articles | By Paul Whytock | 16-11-2016

What is claimed to be the World’s first wireless car battery management system (BMS) concept car has been unveiled by high performance analog IC specialist Linear Technology. The concept car was developed in conjunction with Linear’s design partner LION Smart,...

Insights | By Paul Whytock | 16-11-2016

Photoionisation has been accurately measured for the first time and with zeptosecond accuracy. To fully grasp just how precise this is a zeptosecond is a trillionth of a billionth of a second. Or put another way, 0.000000000000000000001 seconds. Scientists hav...

Articles | By Paul Whytock | 16-11-2016

Photoionisation has been accurately measured for the first time and with zeptosecond accuracy. To fully grasp just how precise this is a zeptosecond is a trillionth of a billionth of a second. Or put another way, 0.000000000000000000001 seconds. Scientists hav...

Insights | By Paul Whytock | 16-11-2016

RS Components’ Tim Peberdy explains the increasingly strict efficiency limits on consumer electronics power supplies specified by global legislation. Since the mid-2000s, designers of external power supplies for computers and consumer electronics have come...

By Tim Peberdy | 03-11-2016

A haptic technology that uses ultrasound and provides users with a touch sensation to virtually “feel” switches, buttons and other controls in mid-air has been developed by haptic specialists, Ultrahaptics. This development kit can be used for the evaluation a...

Articles | By Paul Whytock | 03-11-2016

A haptic technology that uses ultrasound and provides users with a touch sensation to virtually “feel” switches, buttons and other controls in mid-air has been developed by haptic specialists, Ultrahaptics. This development kit can be used for the evaluation a...

Insights | By Paul Whytock | 03-11-2016

Artificial Intelligence (AI) should not replace or seek to replace human thinking. This is a view held by 7000 people surveyed recently across seven countries. AI has been billed as possibly the greatest innovation that could work harmoniously with humans or d...

Articles | By Paul Whytock | 01-11-2016