Apple may acquire the Israeli chip design company that provided the motion sensing technology used in Microsoft's popular Kinect video game controller, the Israeli business daily Calcalist reported today. In a Tuesday story, Calcalist ...
Tags: Apple
Pressure sensors are employed for measuring the pressure of gases and liquids in general. Pressure is defined as a force per unit area. It means pressure, force and area are deeply interlinked and in case of pressure sensors they are ...
Tags: Pressure Sensors
Luna Innovations, a developer of new-generation products for the healthcare market, has entered into a multi-year distribution and supply agreement with Intuitive Surgical. The supply agreement, which has been amended, provides for ...
Tags: Intuitive Surgical, Medicine
The new fund will complement the existing Intel Capital's $300m Ultrabook Fund. Intel Capital has created a $100m investment fund to accelerate the development of software and applications for human-like devices. The fund, dubbed Intel ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Peratech, the innovators in touch technology, has developed an ultra-sensitive sensor using its award winning QTC™ technology. Quantum Tunnelling Composite material changes its resistance when pressure is applied, enabling it to be ...
Checkpoint Systems, a leading global supplier of shrink management, merchandise visibility and apparel labeling solutions for the retail industry, announced that it is launching MetalPoint HyperGuard, a new digital, software-driven solution ...
ams AG (SIX: AMS), a designer and manufacturer of high-performance analog ICs for consumer and communications, industrial and medical and automotive applications, today introduced a new intelligent LED driver for mobile phone cameras that ...
Tags: integrated circuit, Electrical, Electronics
Looking to turn a plain-Jane television into an Internet TV? The new Roku 3 flagship streamer ($100) has an updated user interface that should make finding movies and TV shows easier, plus a new motion-sensing remote control with a built-in ...
Tags: television, Internet TV, Roku
Automation leader … Q42 Sensor from TURCK TURCK has been selected among the top five in the discrete sensing category in the 2012 Automation World First Team Leaders in Automation annual survey. This is the second year in a ...
Tags: Q42 Sensor, TURCK, Top Honor
Fairchild Semiconductor, will demonstrate LED driver applications, including the highly integrated PFC and PWM controllers, during Strategies in Light 2013, February 12-14, 2013, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, Calif., ...
Tags: LED Lighting, LED lighting solutions, LED
More than 300 technology companies based in the Northeast region of the United States (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont) will unveil their latest cutting-edge ...
Tags: Northeast region, CEA, 2013, CES
Jawbone® today announced UP, a new wristband and app system that helps you discover things about yourself that you never knew. UP tracks how you sleep, move, and eat, and gives you personalized insights to help you make smarter choices ...
Tags: wristband, app system, motion sensing technology, Bracelet
Cambridge-based smart meter firm Sentec has announced a tiny home energy monitor that threads onto the pins of a mains plug. Called MicroMonitor, it is a reference design that transmits the consumption of individual appliances in ...
Tags: smart meter, home energy monitor, individual appliances
Plessey Semiconductors has said that its EPIC sensor will now sell for less than a dollar in high volume consumer applications.The company has cost-reduced it electrometer sensing technology with a new electrode design to replace the ...
Tags: Plessey, semiconductors, EPIC, medical, sensor
Speech by the Chairman of the Autonomous Region Located in the southwest frontier of the People's Republic of China, Tibet serves as an important gateway to South Asia. Tibet is an ethnic minority autonomous region where the Tibetan ...
Tags: TAR, survey, economy, investment