Industries
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Philips Lights Up the 2018 Winter Olympics
The lighting company has installed LEDs in four South Korean winter sports stadiums.
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Watch: Supercapacitor for Wearable Tech Maintains Power When Stretched Four Times its Size
NTU researchers have created a power source for wearables that is similar to fabric and can be manipulated without losing the power function.
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Modular Power Supplies for Today’s Engineer
Switching power supplies provide high-quality DC power with higher efficiency, a smaller and lighter package as well as lower cost. This reduction in size and cost makes it ideal for power supplies to be embedded into devices.
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Stretchable Batteries, Inspired by Nature
A South American fruit tree known as the jabuticaba, or Brazilian grapetree, is the inspiration for a new materials solution that has promising implications for the field of wearable electronics.
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North Atlantic Industries Announces Release of the 56WS4 AC/DC Rugged Power Supply
The 56WS4 is ideal for rugged, conduction-cooled, military applications and provides full-power output at a baseplate temperature of 85 degrees Celsius.
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Sager Electronics Announces Immediate Availability of 15, 20 and 30 Watt Medical DC/DC Converters from TRACO Power
Sager Electronics is now stocking TRACO Power’s THM 15WI, THM 20WI and THM 30WI medical DC/DC converters.
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TVS Diode Arrays from Littelfuse Protect Sensitive Telecom Ports from ESD, Lightning-induced Surges
SP4208 Series TVS Diode Arrays can safely absorb up to 30 A of surge current and a minimum of ±30kV ESD without performance degradation.
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Cypress Devices Certified for Bluetooth Mesh
The technology allows for multiple devices to communicate with each other without an additional hub.
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Is the Trump Administration Considering Building a National 5G Network?
Conflicting reports indicate the administration is weighing an option to compete with China in next-generation wireless deployment.
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Video: Suite of Multi-Gigabit Networking Devices Introduced for Self-driving Cars
Acquantia has also formed a collaboration with Nvidia to support its autonomous vehicle endeavors.
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Newark Element14 Picks the Top 10 Parts for Makers in 2018
The parts include starter kits, connectors, sensors and more.
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Americans are Spending More Time (and Saving Energy) at Home
A new study has found that a rise in Americans online shopping, streaming videos and working from home is linked to a decrease in energy being used.
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Importance of Play, from Einstein to Today
A 3D-printable replica set of the blocks Albert Einstein played with as a kid is available from a new organization focused on the relationship of childhood play to future success in life.
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Preppers Paradise: New Survival Technology Gear Coming in 2018
From smart backpacks to ultra-portable power chargers and emergency smartwatches here are some cool stuff coming this year.
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Study Shows Creatively Successful Movies are Produced by Production Teams With a Variety of Animation Experience
A new study has proved that using the latest animation technology doesn’t guarantee that a movie is going to be creatively successful.
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Nanowire LED Innovator Aledia Announces €30 ($36M) Million Series-C Financing
The company is developing a new generation of LEDs that are manufactured on large-diameter silicon wafers and targeted at mobile display applications.
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Video: Samsung Expands its Bixby Artificial Intelligence Assistant to the Smart Home and Beyond
Now the assistant can be used with appliances, the cloud, televisions and more.
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Fitness Tracker for Your Ears
The HearingFitness app from Oticon works similarly to an exercise tracker, monitoring the impact of hearing on the wearer’s overall health and providing advice.
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Electronics Vaporize in Response to Radio Waves
A silicon-dioxide microchip self-destructs by vaporizing – an action that can be remotely triggered – without releasing harmful byproducts.
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Behold the Elon Musk Flamethrower
The CEO of The Boring Company mentioned that if they sold enough hats, the device would come out and here is the first image.
