The sports hall of one of the north of England's most prestigious independent schools - Abbey Gate College in Cheshire - has been transformed with the use of LED lighting. Staff at the school believe that the ceiling spotlights have given ...
Tags: LED lighting, School Hall, Lighting
Could a return to an integrated technology 'stack' turn out to be the perfect way to build and grow private clouds for the enterprise? HP thinks so - and has some strong arguments to back up its claims, too. CBR reports. In April last ...
Tags: Savvy Storage, integrated technology, Computer Products
The Government is to fund research into LED-based Gbit/s free-space optical networks. The heavyweight academic team includes the Universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford and St Andrews, and is lead by the University of Strathclyde. ...
Tags: LED, Gbit/s, optical networks, UKplc
Professor Martin Dawson of the University of Strathclyde leads LED research Tiny LEDs are being developed by academics to deliver Wi-Fi-like internet communications As well as lighting buildings and outdoor spaces, LEDs are being used ...
With the target of drawing academic and industrial expertise together to address the solid-state lighting/electronics interface and its implications for custom-controlled lighting systems, Scotland’s University of Strathclyde is ...
Tags: ILC, Li-Fi technology, LED array, LEDs
A 3D spintronics IC built at Cambridge University could increase chip density by 1000 times. The technique uses an electron’s spin to store data. This is the first time a spintronics device has been built in 3D. The chip is built ...
Tags: 3D spintronics IC, electron, data storing
Google Maps is opening a virtual path to the Grand Canyon's wonders by adding panoramic images gathered by hikers with Android-powered camera systems strapped to their backs. "These beautiful, interactive images cover more than 75 ...
Tags: Google, virtual path, Grand Canyon
New lighting is being trialled on Parker's Piece, Cambridge, for a short period after residents claimed that it was unsafe after dark. Bollards with new bulbs have been fitted on the path between the central column known as Reality ...
Tags: lighting, Parker's Piece, Amid Safety Fears, LED lighting
Tiny LED light bulbs, currently in development, could deliver Wi-Fi-like internet communications, whilst also displaying information and providing illumination, all at the same time. Indeed, over the next four years with Engineering and ...
Tags: LED light bulbs, LED Lights, LED
Google's charitable arm, its Google Giving fund, is providing funding for the Raspberry Pi Foundation. The company's Executive Chairman, Eric Schmidt, has been visiting a Cambridge school where he and Raspberry Pi creator Eben Upton have ...
Cambridgeshire County Council workers won't get a penny extra for joining the council's new BYOD scheme because the authority is worried about being "pilloried in the local press" if they did. Staff signing up to the scheme, which began ...
Tags: Cambridgeshire County Council, BYOD scheme, financial reward
Toyota Motor will receive about CAD34m ($34.2m) from the Canadian and Ontario governments to retool its Cambridge plant to manufacture hybrid cars in Canada. Both the federal and provincial governments will contribute about CAD16.9m ...
Tags: Toyota Motor, hybrid cars, Cambridge plant
The Device Developers' Conference runs in May, across three locations: Bristol (May 14th), Cambridge (May 16th) and Manchester (May 22nd). A conference for the developers of' "intelligent systems and intelligent devices", it is aimed at ...
Tags: Device Developers, intelligent systems, intelligent devices
University of East Anglia scientists have undertaken an £800,000 research project to artificially replicate photosynthesis - the process by which plants transform sunlight into energy to help them grow. The energy created will be ...
Tags: photosynthesis, power vehicles, solar energy
LGC and Quotient Bioresearch have reached agreement on the sale by Quotient of its Bioanalytical Sciences division, which now forms part of LGC's Health Sciences division. The acquisition will enable LGC to provide an enhanced range of ...
Tags: LGC, bioanalytical sciences business, Bioanalytical Sciences division