Specialist in mid-air touchless haptic technology, Ultrahaptics, has introduced a development platform that allows companies to evaluate and appreciate the benefits of gesture controls enhanced by tactile feedback sensations. The UHDK5 TOUCH Development Kit provides a complete hardware and software package with an architecture that can be embedded...

A group of researchers from University at Buffalo, California Institute of Technology and City University of New York has demonstrated a way to control light with light using one third – in some cases, even less – of the energy typically required. The advancement, coupled with other developments, could lead to more powerful, energy-effi...

Aquantia, a specialist in high-speed Ethernet connectivity solutions for data centres, mobile, and enterprise infrastructure, has unveiled a new class of high-performance connectivity architecture that has the potential, according to the company, to revolutionise next-generation hyperscale data centres.The technology, QuantumStream, has been de...

In a move intended to build on the on-going success of the micro:bit a new non-profit Foundation has been launched. The Foundation is intended to lower barriers to technology invention for young people, makers and developers and support teachers and educational organisations improve digital skills.So far this year the BBC micro:bit partnership...

Tektronix has introduced a CAN FD protocol trigger, decode and search solution for its MDO3000 and MDO4000C Series of mixed domain oscilloscopes. The move is said to help automotive engineers meet consumer demand for more capable and sophisticated electronic modules and integrated systems.Widely adopted in the automobile industry, the original...

University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have revealed, in a paper published in Nature Protocols, how to create and use transparent graphene neural electrode arrays in applications in electrophysiology, fluorescent microscopy, optical coherence tomography, and optogenetics.Professor Zhenqiang Ma's group claims its see-through, implantable...

Developer of energy-harvesting wireless technology, EnOcean, has announced its first modules for 2.4GHz Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) systems. EnOcean will also now offer its energy harvesting wireless modules and white label products under the brand name ‘Dolphin’.The first product in the EnOcean 2.4GHz BLE portfolio is the battery le...

A French-US team says it has improved the energy density of a rechargeable battery without increasing its size. According to the team, it achieved this by developing a 3D structure made of microtubes.The work started from the premise that intelligent connected microsensors require miniature embedded energy sources with great energy density. For...

In a move which is claimed to bring lower power consumption better area efficiency to memories, Kilopass has announced a Vertical Layered Thyristor (VLT) technology. Aimed at DRAM applications, VLT is said to eliminate the need for refresh and to be compatible with existing manufacturing technologies.“Kilopass built its reputation as the...

A team of scientists is said to have set a record by creating the world's smallest transistor with a 1nm gate using a pair of novel materials: carbon nanotubes and molybdenum disulphide. The combination belongs to a class of materials called transition metal dichalcogenides, or TMDs.Molybdenum disulphide, or MoS2, is an engine lubricant tha...