Environmental research and weather forecasting are about to get a significant technology boost as NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) prepare to launch a new satellite in February. NASA and JAXA selected 1:07 p.m. to ...
Manufacturing industries require various tools to design and fabricate products with precise accuracy. Each industry requires a specific type of mechanical device that will provide the right amount of accuracy and speed to create products ...
Tags: Precision Linear Actuators, Electromechanical Actuators
Apple has been awarded patents that include one for an accurate touch and hover panel, originally filed back in 2010, and another for an embedded heart rate monitor, originally filed in 2009. Details of the patents were reported by ...
Tags: Apple, patents, accurate touch, hover panel, embedded heart rate monitor
Wearable gadgets, curved smartphones and new game consoles defined technology in 2013. That's why it's no surprise they make up the bulk of our top 10 devices of the year. Some of these devices are essentially much better versions of ...
3M has announced a joint venture with Cambrios Technologies, a nanotechnology company, to produce a new line of touch sensitive screens based on silver nanowire ink developed by Cambrios. The announcement marks a move by 3M into nanowire ...
Tags: 3M, Cambrios Technologies, touch sensitive screens, silver nanowire ink
As falling prices for LED lighting systems drive up adoption rates of LED lamps in the coming years, the adoption of intelligent lighting controls is also expected to accelerate. Intelligent lighting controls, including occupancy sensors, ...
Tags: LED Lighting, Smart Controllers
I find giant phones hard to carry and use, but I'm well aware that many people like the bigger images and text they offer. These so-called phablets, with screens measuring about 6 inches (15.24 centimeters) diagonally, are nearly as big ...
Tags: HTC, Nokia, Consumer Electronics, Smartphone
People are taking more photographs than ever before, nearly 400 billion this year, yet sales of cameras are shrinking. Overall, global shipments of digital cameras have fallen 30 percent this year, according to Christopher Chute, research ...
Tags: Smartphones, Camera
Baxter International Inc. (NYSE:BAX) today announced completion of CE marking in Europe for the VIVIA hemodialysis (HD) system, designed to deliver more frequent, extended duration, short daily or nocturnal home HD therapy, known as High ...
International conglomerate The 3M Company and nanotech startup Cambrios Technologies jointly announced this week that 3M would be marketing a suite of products that will be based on conductors made from Cambrios silver nanowire ink. The ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics, Display
Bendable materials are changing how we think of and use substrates. R&D announcements are made nearly daily on new scientific research that will help enable flexible electronics (electronic products that are bendable or those that can be ...
Tags: Bendable materials, Flexible Electronics, Electrical, Electronics
Engineers at Microsoft Research are taking on the world of weight management with a bra designed to measure heart and skin activity to gauge stress levels. When the device detects high stress levels, it offers advice via a smartphone app to ...
Worldwide shipments of smart wearable bands are on the rise. Just over 200,000 smart wearable bands shipped in the first half of 2013, but this figure is set to grow by well over 500% in the second half of the year, according to Canalys. ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Despite significant headwinds, several medtech companies flourished in the past year while several stumbled. Here are five of the most successful: DexCom, a glucose monitoring specialist, has seen the value of its stock nearly triple in ...
Tags: medical device, medtech companies
American vehicle manufacturer General Motors (GM) has renewed its five-year agreement with its research partner Carnegie Mellon University of Pittsburgh (CMU) for the development of new technologies for production of automatic driving ...
Tags: General Motors, luxury sedans