Researchers from KU Leuven, led by Ivo Stassen and Rob Ameloot, have built a sensitive electronic nose with metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) to detect pesticides and nerve gas in very low concentrations.The best-known electronic nose is the breathalyser. As drivers breathe into the device, a chemical sensor measures the amount of alcohol in thei...

Scientists at Hokkaido University have developed a device that employs both magnetic and electronic signals, which could provide twice the storage capacity of conventional memory devices, such as USB flash drives.The team at Hokkaido University's Research Institute for Electronic Science investigated the possibility of using a magnetic sign...

MIT researchers have developed low-cost chemical sensors, made from chemically altered carbon nanotubes (CNTs), that enable smartphones or other wireless devices to detect trace amounts of toxic gases.Using the sensors, the researchers hope to design lightweight, inexpensive radio-frequency identification (RFID) badges to be used for personal s...

German distributor, Conrad Business Supplies, has become the first “authorised distribution partner” to make available a compact all-in-one IoT prototyping platform.The XDK 110 is a cross-domain hardware and software kit developed by Bosch Connected Devices and Solutions. It includes various MEMS sensors for measuring acceleration,...

The latest RapidIO specification has been released by rapidio.org. The 25xN specification is said to provide an open standard interconnect fabric for those systems requiring heterogeneous coherent scale out and non volatile storage.“With the release of the 25xN 100Gbit/s RapidIO Specification, our focus now shifts toward our Coherent Scal...

A nine axis motion sensor from Bosch Sensortec is said to be suited to applications ranging from smartphones and smart watches to wearable electronics. According to the company, the 2.5 x 3 x 0.95mm package is the smallest of any similar device.The electronic integrates accelerometer, gyroscope and geomagnetic sensor technologies, while meeting...

In theory, a program running on a 64 core machine, should execute 64 times as quickly as it would on a single core machine. But, according to a team from MIT, it rarely works out that way. Most computer programs are sequential, and splitting them up so that chunks can run in parallel can result in complications.Researchers from MIT’s Comp...

A device containing 1000 independent programmable processors has been designed by a team at the University of California, Davis. Called KiloCore, the chip can perform 1.78trillion instructions per second and contains 621million transistors.“To the best of our knowledge,” said Professor Bevan Baas, “it is the first 1000 process...

Researchers at ICFO – the Institute of Photonic Sciences in Barcelona – have developed a hybrid photodetector capable of attaining speed, quantum efficiency and linear dynamic range, not only in the visible spectrum, but also in the near (700 to 1400nm) and short wave infra red (1400 to 3000nm) parts of the spectrum. The device is based...

An out of the box industrial IoT starter kit from Avnet is designed to simplify prototype and development efforts, while providing an easy transition to production.The platform is based on Avnet’s MicroZed system on module (SoM) with a Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC from Xilinx and pluggable sensor solutions from Maxim Integrated and STMi...