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3 New Class-D Amplifiers Solve Smart Home Audio Design Challenges
The amplifiers are designed for personal electronics applications with any power level, including smart speakers, sound bars, TVs, notebooks, projectors and internet of things applications.
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VR for Reducing Fertility Treatment Anxiety
A new resource to help reduce anxiety and increase the chances of success is on the horizon for women undergoing fertility treatments: virtual reality.
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Video: A Major Leap Toward True Cyborgs
A new method has been developed to fuse living tissue inside metallic objects.
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GM Cruise Receives Over $3 Billion in Funding for Self-driving Cars
SoftBank and General Motors are strengthening the plan to commercial autonomous driving technology.
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Next Generation Biometrics May Include Face, Iris and Pulse Sensors
Fingerprint sensors are going to eventually be overtaken in the long term.
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Philips Hue Now Available for Gaming, Music or Movies
A new app allows for customization of lighting brightness levels and appearance.
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Short Tutorial: RF Choke vs. Inductor
Inductors and RF chokes are basically the same type of electrical components. The difference in design is related to the function the device will perform in a circuit. Most engineers are more familiar with inductors – some think both devices can be used interchangeably – that are prevalent in frequency selective systems, such as a tuner for radio receivers or filters.
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Video: Underwater Drone Can Capture Tilt-Down or Tilt-Up Photos and Video
The submersible also has a 4K camera, remote control system and waterproof swappable battery system.
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Create Laser Cut Games and Puzzles with Your Epilog!
Epilog systems allow users to design, create and build custom items like these laser cut games and name puzzles.
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Watch: 5 Smart Devices to Upgrade Your Summer BBQ
Just because barbecues are tradition doesn’t mean that they can’t be upgraded with smart devices. Here are five smart devices that can bring your hometown barbecue into 2018.
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Lenovo to Release Bezel-less Smartphone on June 5
Lenovo will join the ranks of manufacturers with bezel-less smartphones with the release of their Z5 Android phone. The new phone will feature a 95 percent screen-to-body ratio. As a comparison, the Galaxy S9 has an 84 percent ratio and the Apple iPhone X clocks in at about 83 percent.
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Alibaba Group’s Cainiao Network and RoboSense Launch World’s First Solid-state LiDAR Unmanned Logistics Vehicle
This is the first time that solid-state LiDAR has been officially used in unmanned vehicle development, heralding a new solid-state LiDAR era in driverless vehicles.
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Speech Quality Assessment of VoIP Devices
The test solution for VoIP manufacturers and developers evaluates IP phones according to international ITU-T standards for measuring end-to-end audio and acoustic performance.
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Sensata’s NOVA22 Solid State Relay Now Features 45mm DIN Rail Model
The relays offer higher power ratings, IP20 protection and output wire capacity up to 3 AWG with quick, ‘no-accessories-necessary’ installation.
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Video: MIT Teaches Artificial Intelligence to Do Household Tasks
The new system may enable robots to perform menial or even complex tasks.
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New Materials Produce Electricity When Heated
A discovery by MIT researchers may make it possible to power your car or your home from heat. By improving the energy efficiency of thermoelectric materials, a group of researchers has discovered that these materials can produce an enormous amount of energy. Thermoelectric materials produce electricity when one end is heated.
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Video: Smart Sensor Gives Vision to Arduino and Raspberry Pi Robots
Pixy2 gives line-following robots the ability to detect intersections and road signs.
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Bluetooth Mesh Allows for New Way to Network the Smart Home
Dialog Semiconductor has added SIG support to its Bluetooth low energy ICs.
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Fishing for Sustainability
A new experimental software tool is designed to decrease the number of denizens of the deep that get discarded in the process of fishing.
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Researchers Study How to Strengthen Human Trust in Self-driven Vehicles
People have a hard time trusting new technological developments and researchers from Tianjin University and Chang’an University have gathered information from a study on why people don’t trust SDVs.
