Industries
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LLC Resonant Controller with Integrated Gate Driver Provides Longer System Lifetimes
Texas Instrument’s new chip can be used in energy efficient AC/DC applications.
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New Drive System is Activated by Inserting a Cipher Key
Addonics Technologies announced today the release of Sapphire Cipher II Snap-In, an external removable drive system with high-performance full disk hardware encryption.
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Integro Technologies is Now a SICK Authorized Vision Integration Partner
Integro Technologies has announced that it has become a SICK Authorized Vision Integration partner in the United States.
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First Image Sensor with Nyxel Technology for Surveillance Cameras
OmniVision Technologies, Inc., introduced the OS05A20, the first image sensor to implement OmniVision’s breakthrough Nyxel™ near-infrared (NIR) technology.
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Watch: These Transparent Squares are the Future of Solar Panels
See-through solar materials that can be applied to windows represent a huge source of untapped energy and could harvest as much power as the bigger, bulkier rooftop solar units, according to scientists.
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Optical Communication Brought to Silicon Chips
Researchers have created a light emitter and detector they developed that can be integrated into silicon CMOS chips.
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Elevator Drive Provides Advanced Features and Easy Setup
Available for elevator applications in Europe, Africa and the Middle East, the drive is designed for more than 70,000 hours of maintenance-free operation.
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The New Microsoft: How the Cloud Killed the Software License
Microsoft was on top of the world — they were a leader of the late '90s technology boom. Then came the 2000s and everything fell apart. Microsoft has risen from the ashes by embracing the cloud and the shift from software licenses to subscription services.
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Study Finds Patient Robot Use Increased When Robots Act More Human
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers have begun to discover preferences in human-robot interactions and the need to personalize those encounters to fit the human’s preferences and the designated task.
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Machine Learning Used to Predict Earthquakes in a Lab Being Evolved for Natural Earthquakes
Researchers from the U.K. and the U.S. have used machine learning techniques to successfully predict earthquakes.
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The First Floating Wind Farm is Producing Electricity
On October 20, the first offshore floating wind farm began delivering electric power to the Scottish grid. The 300 MW station is situated 15.5 miles (25 km) from Peterhead in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and will produce enough electricity to power 20,000 homes.
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Power Integrations Enables No-neutral Wireless Wall Switches for Smart-home Lighting
A new reference design for two-wire smart wall switches is compatible with retrofit wiring and LED lights.
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New Wearables Displayed at the ACM User Interface Software and Technology Symposium
A watch that works in multiple dimensions, a smart ring that provides calendar alerts and a new thumb-tip recognition software are some of the top technology that Dartmouth College has to offer.
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SG4 Fieldbus, the Perfect Light Curtain for Industry 4.0 by Datalogic
It is the first light curtain to be fully integrated into a high-performance, real-time and safe communication protocol based on Industrial Ethernet: openSAFETY over POWERLINK.
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Gamma Rays Can Go Past the Limits of Light
Researchers have discovered a way to produce high energy photon beams. This method makes it possible to produce gamma rays in a highly efficient way when compared to today’s technique.
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Watch: 5 Fan-favorite "Harry Potter" Technologies That Exist in Real Life
Harry Potter fans young and old will be excited to find that some of their favorite Harry Potter magic exists.
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Simple Electronics Have Chaotic Tendencies Too
Physicists from the Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences in Cracow have discovered, examined and described dozens of new and unusual circuits of this type.
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New PMIC Extends Wearable Battery Life
Mouser Electronics Inc. is now stocking the MAX77734 power management IC (PMIC) from Maxim Integrated.
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Data Management Mathematics That Stand the Test of Time
A decades-old mathematical method remains the best way to keep big data manageable.
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Valley Polarization for Electronic and Optoelectronic Technologies Clarified
A team of scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has uncovered a direct link between sample quality and the degree of valley polarization in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs).
