Industries
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New Individually Addressable 1 W RGBW LEDs
Mouser Electronics is now stocking CLQ6A-TKW red, green, blue and white (RGBW) LEDs from Cree®.
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Watch: Smartwatches Could Sense Hand Movement with Ultrasound Imaging
New research has shown future wearable devices, like smartwatches, could use ultrasound imaging to sense hand gestures.
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Computer Generated Therapists Identify Post-Traumatic Stress in Soldiers Better than Humans
A study has found that soldiers are more likely to open up about post-traumatic stress when they are interviewed by a virtual interviewer, as opposed to taking a survey.
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New Solution for Storing Renewable Energy Comes in a Small Package
Scientists have used these small, flexible, ultra-thin, super-porous crystalline structures to do everything from capturing and converting carbon into fuels to storing hydrogen and other gases.
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Allegro MicroSystems, LLC Announces New Sensorless Sinusoidal Three-Phase Gate Controller
Allegro MicroSystems, LLC, a leader in developing, manufacturing and marketing high-performance semiconductors, has announced the release of a three-phase, sensorless, brushless DC (BLDC) motor controller for use with external N-channel power MOSFETs.
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API Technologies Enters European Design and Manufacturing Alliance with Analog Devices
API will deliver custom electronic modules integrated with Analog Devices’ high-speed digital signal processing technology.
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Vesper Teams with Synaptics to Bring its Piezoelectric MEMS to Amazon Alexa
The MEMS are immune to contaminants such as water, oil and dust.
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Q&A: Avnet Goes All-in With Support for the Makerspace
The global distributor is ramping up its support to get developers to go from design to prototype faster.
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Two Image Sensing Products with Integrated 1.0 Megapixel CMOS Image Released
ON Semiconductor has announced the release of two highly integrated 1.0 Megapixel (Mp) CMOS image sensing products.
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Two New Photocouplers Reduce Threshold Input Current by 20%
The new photocouplers are housed in small, 2.3mm (max) low-height packages and meet various international safety standards, including UL1577 and EN60747-5-5.
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New 17-Qubit Superconducting Chip for Quantum Computing Launched
Intel announced the launch of a 17-qubit superconducting test chip for quantum computing to QuTech, Intel’s quantum research partner in the Netherlands.
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Sulfur is the Key to Safe Rechargeable Lithium Batteries
A team of Penn State engineers has developed a different type of lithium-sulfur battery that could be more efficient, less expensive and safer than today’s lithium batteries.
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Lighting the Way for Kids' Electronics Projects
With individually-addressable LEDs and millions of color combinations, the ZIP Halo is Kitronik's latest micro:bit compatible product.
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Watch: Slash System Power Usage with TI's New Fully Integrated Switch and Sensor Monitors
Two new multi-switch detection interface (MSDI) devices from Texas Instruments consume up to 98 percent less system power than conventional discrete solutions. The TIC12400 and TIC12400-Q1 are the first switch and sensor monitors that directly interface with resistor-coded switches.
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New Wearable Sensor Ring Can Detect External Threats to the Wearer
Joseph Wang and his colleagues at the University of California, San Diego wanted to develop a portable, affordable and wearable sensor that would detect external chemical threats.
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Today in History: NASA's 100th Space Shuttle Flight
On October 11, 2000, NASA launched the space shuttle Discovery and STS-92 launched from the Kennedy Space Center.
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Robotic Lawnmowers: Can They Cut It?
Robotic lawnmowers are being piloted in urban parks, and not merely to relieve humans from lawn labor.
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New Pro Capture Cards Support Video Resolutions up to 4096x2160 at 60 fps
Magewell has announced two dual-channel 4K models in its Pro Capture family of PCI Express capture hardware.
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How Smart Is Your Microwave Oven?
Microwave ovens are getting smarter, somewhat after the advent of other appliances.
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New USB Type-C Battery Pack for Portable Devices Released
Silicon Labs has introduced a comprehensive reference design to simplify the development of USB Type-C™ rechargeable lithium ion battery packs used to power smartphones, tablets, laptops, headphones and other portable devices.
