Mobile chargers are ten-a-penny on crowdfunding sites, but lately we've seen a couple that do things a little differently. The SmartWallet was also a wallet, and now the iPac-Man doubles as a Bluetooth games controller. On the charger ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, iPac
The Optical Society (OSA) and the IEEE Photonics Society have named Paul Daniel Dapkus, the W. M. Keck Distinguished Professor of Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC), as recipient of the 2015 John Tyndall Award for ...
Tags: metal-organic chemical, Electrical
A revolution in the scheduling of meeting rooms and other essential office resources has been unveiled by Smartway2 Limited, the leading developer of cloud-based resource scheduling solutions. Smartway2 has been designed to respond to the ...
Therapeutic lighting can be a prescription for better health, especially for seniors with dementia in long-term care facilities. Now, more and more-effective products are needed to implement the highly positive research results achieved to ...
Tags: therapeutic lighting, Lights
The firm is on track to hit 36.8 billion yen this year, thanks to the launch of the interactive figurines. Nintendo is experiencing a surprise comeback this year, as its profit triples thanks to its new interactive figures, Amiibo. The ...
Tags: interactive figurines, Toys
FAM Brands said its newest licensee, Sakar International Inc. plans to debut a collection of Bally Total Fitness wearable technology, fitness monitoring and electronic accessory products at the Consumer Electronics Show in early January. ...
Tags: Fitness Trackers, Sporting Goods
Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany says that the principal application of its new IR Oslux SFH 4780S (its first infrared emitter with a wavelength of 810nm) is biometric unlocking of cell phones and tablet computers. With ...
Tags: cell phones, tablet computers, Electrical
Posted in Medical Device Business by Chris Newmarker on December 11, 2014 2014 has turned out to be a pretty decent year for the world’s 40 largest medical device companies: Only six of them have seen their stock prices decline, and ...
Tags: Medical Device, Health
Kinsa, a New York City–based maker of an FDA-cleared smart thermometer has won $9.6 million in Series A financing, which includes funding from Kleiner Perkins and others. The company’s thermometer can plug into a smartphone ...
Tags: horsepower, display, Health
Posted in Regulatory and Compliance by Kristopher Sturgis on December 12, 2014 Bill Maisel, director of science at the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health, holds CRM devices. Earlier this week the science chief of ...
Tags: Medical Device, Drug Administration, Health
The driving recorder market in Taiwan has seen polarized developments, with white-box makers competing for the sub-NT$2,000 (US$64) segment, and first-tier vendors focusing on the NT$5,000 and above segment. Sales of driving recorders ...
Anvil Semiconductors Ltd of Coventry, UK and the Cambridge Centre for GaN (part of University of Cambridge’s Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy) have grown cubic GaN on 3C-SiC on silicon wafers by metal-organic chemical ...
Tags: green LEDs, silicon wafers, Electrical
Northwestern University’s Center for Quantum Devices in USA has developed a monolithic room-temperature terahertz (THz) source based on quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) [Q. Y. Lu et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol105, p201102, 2014]. The ...
FOBA Laser Marking + Engraving completes its M-Series of compact workstations for industrial laser material processing: With the M2000-R and M3000-R stations, FOBA introduces two high-throughput laser marking workstations with 2 position ...
Tags: Rotary Table, Laser Marking
The Galaxy Note 4 has just joined the Galaxy Alpha as devices that have been secretly harbouring Gorilla Glass 4 all along. While that might sound benign, it’s especially interesting because both handsets were released before ...
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