Automotive technology supplier Robert Bosch is developing technologies to make cars an acitve part of the internet, in order to improve the comfort, safety, and efficiency. In this project, the company is pursuing three strategic ...
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Fuel Defend is bringing to market a full line of products that will defend against more than just fuel theft. The company, which bills itself as the world's leading fuel anti-siphon device company, has been scouring the world for new ...
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Flawed but colorful diamonds are among the most sensitive detectors of magnetic fields known today, allowing physicists to explore the minuscule magnetic fields in metals, exotic materials and even human tissue. University of California, ...
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Xicato has revealed that it grew its year-on-year revenues by 43 per cent in 2013. The venture-backed company, which develops and sells LED modules to global lighting manufacturers, cited growth in the retail segment as one of the factors ...
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The European Commission is funding a new research project to develop hybrid inorganic and organic lighting modules. The modules are being specifically developed for the professional and architectural lighting sectors, as these have been ...
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Samsung’s Galaxy S5 phone will launch in April and will the first smartphone to feature a dedicated heart rate monitor. Mounted near the device's flash, the monitor requires users to place a finger on the sensor to measure the pulse ...
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Sensirion AG (Switzerland), the leading manufacturer of digital microsensors, is expanding its range of liquid flow sensors for measuring low flow rates. The new LS32-1500 liquid flow sensor is designed for flow rates of 0-40 ml/min, ...
The electronics industry has adopted a wealth of practices to foil or at least identify counterfeit components, from marking to x-raying. Now the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is calling upon engineers to ...
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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 ...
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Cal Sensors announces the launch of a new line of single channel detectors (SCD) that block unwanted radiation below 1.2 microns.? Exploiting the innate transmission bandwidth of Silicon, the new SCD-Si detectors are packaged with ...
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A British scientist whose work helped form the basis for flat-screen TVs, computers and mobile phone displays has won AkzoNobel's UK Science Award for 2014. Professor John Goodby, FRS, Chair of Materials Chemistry at the University of ...
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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 ...
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A tiny personal computer that is worn on the ear and can be controlled with the blink of an eye or the click of a tongue is being tested in Japan. The 17-gram (0.59-ounce) wireless device has bluetooth capability and is equipped with a ...
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Using graphite pencils to draw on regular paper, researchers can make some very inexpensive piezoresistive (PZR) sensors. Due to the piezoresistive effect, a sensor's resistance changes under an applied strain, allowing it to sense ...
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In our daily lives we tend to think of electrical conductivity as largely static: Copper is a good choice for conduction; clay is not. But heat up that copper wire, and electron conduction slows. Give a flake of that ceramic a good squeeze, ...