Long before the dawn of the pacifier, parents of newborns and toddlers found ways to use surrounding resources to help soothe and distract tots into precious moments of peace. In today's smartphone era, a proliferation of applications, ...
Automotive technology supplier Robert Bosch has launched a new generation of inertial sensor platform, SMI7xy, for use in active and passive safety systems and driver assistance systems. The new inertial sensor platform features four ...
Tags: Driver Assistance Systems, Bosch
Ubiquitous but frustrating, lithium-ion batteries fade because the materials lose their structure in response to charging and discharging. This structural change is closely related to the formation of electron-rich regions within the ...
Tags: electrons, The Lithiation Front, Silicon
Audi of America introduces the all-new 2015 A3 Sedan with both the 1.8 TFSI® and 2.0 TFSI powertrains. The premium compact sedan offers the latest in progressive technology at a competitive price, without compromising on luxury, ...
Wearable technology mainly concerns devices and apparel/ textiles. Devices are discrete electronic and electrical hardware sold on its own for bodywear. It may be utilised by being attached to apparel or by constituting worn accessories ...
Tags: Wearable Technology, Electronics
An international team of scientists led by physicists from the University of York has paved the way for a new class of magnetic materials and devices with improved performance and power efficiency. Magnetic materials are currently used to ...
When a piece of gift-wrapping tape sticks to itself, it's frustrating, but when small parts in a microgear or micromotor stick together, an electronic device may not work well, if at all. Researchers now report in the journal ACS Applied ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Wacom is introducing a new language to support digitization of handwriting,notetaking and drawing.Its WILL,Wacom Ink Layer Language,will become a new standard that will allow users to work across OS,hardware platforms and cloud services to ...
XMOS today announces a major expansion into automotive markets, with the announcement of a range of xCORE multicore microcontrollers that are qualified to AEC-Q100 standards. "The xCORE architecture is an ideal fit for many applications ...
We're in the beginning of a world in which everything is connected to the Internet and with one another, while powerful yet relatively cheap computers analyze all that data for ways to improve lives. Toothbrushes tell your mirror to ...
Tags: Service, Consumer Electronics
As well as giving gamers the chance to enter an online world as a double agent and infiltrate a corrupt government, new online alternate-reality game Apocalypse of MoP also uncovers players' perceptions of provenance and how this affects ...
Spreadshirt has announced a 3m Euro investment to roll-out touch-optimisation and other updates across its entire e-commerce platform. Spreadshirt enables people and brands to create, sell and buy ideas on merchandising. It launched ...
(Phys.org) —From steel beams to plastic Lego bricks, building blocks come in many materials and all sizes. Today, science has opened the way to manufacturing at the nanoscale with biological materials. Potential applications range ...
Tags: Crystalline Structure, DNA, NSLS, virus
One of the world's most common and costly chemical reactions, corrosion happens frequently at the boundaries between water and metal surfaces. In the past, the process of corrosion has mostly been studied from the metal side of the ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
Engineers intrigued by the toughness of mollusc shells, which are composed of brittle minerals, have found inspiration in their structure to make glass 200 times stronger than a standard pane. Counter-intuitively, the glass is ...
Tags: AFP, 3D, Nature Communication, brittleness