A technology developed at Stanford that hitchhikes on radio signals could provide a way to control IoT devices.“HitchHike is the first self-sufficient WiFi system that enables data transmission using just micro-watts of energy – almost zero,” researcher Pengyu Zhang said. “It can be used as it is with existing WiFi witho...

Scientists at the University at Buffalo have identified a fluorescent dye called BODIPY as a suitable material for stocking energy in rechargeable, liquid-based batteries that could one day power small and large scale devices, including cars and homes.According to the researchers, a BODIPY-based test battery can operate efficiently and with...

Designers can now develop high performance fitness and medical wearable devices with enhanced functionality – according to Maxim Integrated Products – by using the MAX32630 and MAX32631 ARM Cortex-M4F microcontrollers.“The combination of ultra low power, high performance, and small footprint of the MAX32630 and MAX32631 offers...

A research team at Aalto University in Finland, led by Professor Hele Savin, says it has developed a light detector that can capture more than 96% of the photons covering visible, ultraviolet and infrared wavelengths.“Present day light detectors suffer from severe reflection losses as [their] antireflection coatings are limited to specifi...

Xilinx has unveiled a FPGA-powered reconfigurable acceleration stack that includes libraries, framework integrations, developer boards, and OpenStack support.According to the company it will provide the fastest path to realize 40x better compute efficiency with Xilinx FPGAs when compared to x86 server CPUs and up to six times the compute effici...

Researchers from The University of Manchester claim to have taken a significant step towards creating quantum computers. Its work is said to show that large molecules made of nickel and chromium could store and process information in the same way as bytes are used in digital computers.In a paper published in the science journal Chem, the team c...

Looking to provide better service to customers in a range of sectors, FTDI Chip has spun out its MCU, graphic controller and interface interests into Bridgetek. The move means that FTDI will now focus on its USB interconnection business.“By spinning out our MCU and HMI divisions into a new brand, we will be much better positioned,...

Using scrap metal and a common household chemical, a team from Vanderbilt University has developed a high performance battery.“The tons of metal waste discarded every year could be used to provide storage for renewable energy instead of becoming a burden for waste processing plants and the environment,” said assistant professor Cary P...

A research team from UCLA says it has made a major step forward in developing and using topological insulators, which conduct electricity on their surface, but not in their interior.Magnetised topological insulators could improve the energy efficiency and operating speed of computers ‘dramatically’, says the team, which offers two w...

A European health consortium is developing a set of low radiation, low cost, flat panel X-ray detectors that use novel photonics technology to make diagnosis safer for patients and medical staff.While X-ray is a useful diagnostic tool, it can be harmful to the body. Although the level of radiation can be reduced, this has come at the expense of...