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Watch: Solar Powered Extractor Can Pull Water from Dry Desert Air
Researchers from MIT and University of California Berkeley have been able to find water in the most unlikely spot: the desert air.
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Bel Power Solutions Announces 18 kW DC-DC Power Shelf Solution
These products are designed for systems and applications where DC-DC conversion from an existing -48 V supply to 12 V is required, such as central offices redesigned as data centers.
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Wind Turbine Sensor Array Monitors Avian and Bat Collisions
The impact detection system uses vibration sensors mounted to turbine blades and an optical camera on the tower base.
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Watch How Patients Move Freely with Wearable Brain Scanner
A new magnetoencephalography can be worn like a helmet, allowing free and natural movement during scanning.
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Video Captures Yeti Clearing Snow from Airport Runway
These Yetis are autonomous snowplows developed by Semcon and Øveraasen for Norwegian airport operator Avinor.
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Ohmite Manufacturing Signs Distribution Agreement with Powell Electronics
The global agreement includes affiliates ARCOL Resistors and Davies Molding.
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Video: Watch a Soft Robot Swim With Real Fish to Study Aquatic Life
MIT CSAIL’s SoFi robot opens new opportunities to study marine life up close.
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Key Components of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
The term “Industry 4.0” was first coined in 2011. It was used to describe the next wave of innovation to penetrate manufacturing technologies. With robotic welding cells, additive manufacturing and automated manufacturing methods being facilitated by cloud computing and the internet of things, these advanced technologies have transformed the industrial sector and impacted the business model.
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Design for Lithium-Air Batteries Allows the Batteries to Be Used in Natural Environments
The University of Illinois at Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory researchers have designed a new lithium-air battery.
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Video: Schurter’s New Reflowable Thermal Switch (RTS) Now Shipping from Sager Electronics
The RTS is designed to protect against thermal runaway, reliably interrupting the circuit precisely at a pre-defined temperature.
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Tiny Robots Launched by Aerosol Spray
Researchers have created aerosolizable, microscopic machines through a combination of ultrathin 2D electronic circuits and colloidal particles that can float in the air like a speck of dust.
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Next-generation Vishay Intertechnology Miniature IR Receivers Provide Improved Sensitivity, Noise Suppression and Pulse-width Accuracy
For remote control applications, new devices offer increased robustness to optical and RF emissions without sacrificing sensitivity.
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Silicon Carbide Discovered to be a Key to Developing Quantum Computers
Many tech giants — from Google and Microsoft to international research centers — have been developing new technologies to create the first quantum computer and the latest development is here.
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How the Canadian Electric (CE) Code has Evolved to Address Clean Energy Technologies
CSA Group offers training and support products to help users understand and apply key changes and updates from the CE Code.
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Increased Performance from Alternate Semiconductor Fabrication Process
Testing materials other than silicon in an alternative semiconductor fabricating process known as I-MacEtch shows promise for increased efficiency, reduced cost and higher performance for a wide variety of electronics devices.
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Reshaping Manufacturing with 4D Printing
An all-in-one 4D printer combines four different printing techniques, including aerosol, inkjet, direct ink write and fused deposition modeling.
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DIY Kit can Transform any Bike into an e-Bike
The system includes a sound system, Bluetooth, brake lights, turn signals and more
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Watch: IBM Reveals the World’s Smallest Blockchain-ready Computer
The development from Think IBM that is creating the most buzz is IBM’s newest Blockchain-ready CPU computer.
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Daimler Signs a Research Agreement with Google to Advance Quantum Computing
The company hopes the agreement will lead to new advances in the future of mobility.
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Low-power Op-Amp Extends the Battery Life of Heart Rate Monitors
It is vital to reduce power consumption when designing biomedical wearables such as heart rate monitors. Maxim Integrated has introduced an op-amp designed to work with the technique used to monitor heart rates, called photoplethysmography (PPG).
