Archive : 2015 год

Engineers at the University of California, San Diego have demonstrated a wireless communication technique that works by sending magnetic signals through the human body."In the future, people are going to be wearing more electronics, such as smart watches, fitness trackers and health monitors. All of these devices will need to communicate i...

Scientists from Russia, the US and China have predicted the existence of phagraphene, which they describe as a 'patchwork' analogue of graphene."Unlike graphene, a hexagonal honeycomb structure with atoms of carbon at its junctions," said team leader Artyom Oganov from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, "phag...

Electrical and computer engineers at North Carolina State University claim to have developed a technique for creating less-expensive, low-power embedded systems."Using our techniques, we've been able to create prototype systems with power converters that have a combination of energy efficiency and low cost that - as far as we've be...

Researchers from Holst Centre, imec and CMST, imec's associated lab at Ghent University, have demonstrated what they claim to be the world's first stretchable and conformable thin-film transistor (TFT) driven LED display laminated into textiles. This paves the way to wearable displays in clothing providing users with feedback.Wearable d...

Intel has launched what it calls its best processor yet. According to the company, the 6th Generation Intel Core processor family delivers enhanced performance at the lowest power levels yet while supporting designs ranging from compute sticks to mobile workstations."6th Gen Intel Core processors deliver some of the most significant advanc...

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy and Energy System Technology IWES in Kassel claim to have come up with a more cost-effective design for inductive electric car charging systems."We deliberately use standard components that are already available on the mass market," explained Marco Jung, deputy head of the conver...

Researchers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology have developed flat optical lenses said to be capable of manipulating light in ways that have been difficult or impossible to achieve with conventional optical devices.The lenses are made of silicon nanopillars arranged into a honeycomb pattern. It...

Findlay Media has revealed the full conference and workshop programme for EDS 2015. EDS incorporates the Engineering, Electronics and Embedded Design Shows, which are being held on 21 and 22 October at the Jaguar Exhibition Hall, Ricoh Arena, Coventry.Two conference theatres will feature keynote sessions from leading engineering design experts...

The forthcoming Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor will feature a machine learning based approach said to support 'accurate and effective detection' of zero day malware threats. Called Snapdragon Smart Protect, the approach is also said to be the first application to use Qualcomm Zeroth technology, in which conventional anti malware solution...

Basingstoke-based EC Electronics have announced the acquisition of Subassembly Services (SAS). As part of the EC group, SAS will continue to trade independently with its established customer base from its factory in Tewkesbury.Group managing director, Phil Simmonds said: "SAS adds significant capacity to our UK manufacturing capabilities a...