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Analog Engineers: Your Formulas and Equations in One Place

The Analog Engineer's Pocket Reference is about 100 pages and covers a wide variety of popular precision signal chain topics – from op amp bandwidth and stability to analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog conversions and more.

Machine Learning and Biometrics Solution for Online Banking

Gemalto has launched a new fraud prevention hub that profiles the behavior of customers in real time.

MEMS Acceleration Sensors for Wearable Devices

Bosch’s new sensors include a step counter integrated directly on the chip.

Bluetooth Low Energy Module Integrates MEMS Motion and Environmental Sensors

The new Telit device can be used in fragile asset tracking or time-and temperature-sensitive applications

New Projection Power LEDs Designed for Projectors and 3D Scanning

Mouser Electronics Inc. is now stocking the OSRAM OSTAR Projection Power LEDs from OSRAM Opto Semiconductors.

mainSENSOR: A New Twist on Sensor Technology

Magneto-inductive displacement sensors combine the best attributes of inductive and magnetic types without their drawbacks.

High-Density Multi-Fiber Push/Pull Solutions Reduce Cables Required in Data Center Networks

Mouser Electronics is now stocking high-density multi-fiber push/pull (MPO) data center solutions from Molex.

Video: LiDAR System Sees the Forest Through the Trees

Foliage-penetrating LiDAR detects 3D images behind an obscuration such as a tree canopy.

Computer Simulation Models Full Sense of Touch

Touching something with a hand triggers more than 12,500 tactile nerve fibers, informing a subject about the physical object in contact (texture, temperature, shape, size, motion across the skin, etc.). For years researchers have known how a single tactile fiber encodes tactile information. However, they do not know how the information retrieved by the populations of fibers is encoded.

Video: New Stainless Steel Charging Cable is Made to Last

Anchor Labs has launched a Kickstarter campaign for their Anchor cable. The cable is made of stainless steel, is long lasting magnetically attaches to the device that it is charging.

Nanophotonics + Thermoelectrics = Advanced Optoelectronics

Engineers at Caltech have developed a high-resolution light detector that could lead to better solar cells and imaging devices.

Super-Strength Materials for the Internet of Things

Researchers at John Hopkins University are developing freestanding alloy films for MEMS fabrication.

These Nanofibers Clean Up Well

An innovative, cost-competitive electrode material designed to clean pollutants and wastewater has been developed at Cornell University.

How One Small Company Has Powered the World Behind-the-Scenes for 60 Years

In the background, an American-made power supply vendor’s impact is felt across multiple industries.

New A.I. Brand Safety Tool Released

DMG DSNR Media Group has launched BrandX, a new artificial intelligence tool that prevents fraudulent traffic and predicts completion rates of video ads during programmatic advertising auctions.

Connecting Commercial White Goods to the IoT Underscores the Need for EMI Filtering

As process automation and communication complexity increase, the risk of a malfunction caused by electromagnetic interference increases, too, along with the need for corresponding EMI filters.

Color Sensor Adjusts Brightness on Smartphones, Tablets

The sensor detects color temperature, brightness and RGB (red-green-blue) components of ambient light.

Video: New Sleek and Stylish AR Glasses

Alpha Glass is the first on-lens display Augmented Reality (AR) glasses with a wide field of view that are actually stylish! Alpha Glass has an internal optical system inside the frame, which keeps them sleek.