New LTE mission critical standards, established by 3GPP, are providing a major opportunity for the rail industry to benefit from the latest secure broadband voice and data services, says Nicolas Hauswald, Sales & Marketing Director for ETELM. Speaking on the first day of Innotrans, the largest event in the world dedicated to the rail transport…
What Your Cell Phone Camera Tells You About Your Brain
Driving down a dark country road at night, you see a shape ahead on the roadside. Is it a deer or a mailbox? Your brain is structured to make the best possible decision given its limited resources, according to new research that unites cognitive science and information theory – the branch of mathematics that underlies…
Device Uses Graphene Plasmons to Convert Mid-Infrared Light to Electrical Signals
A team of researchers has developed a device that uses the material graphene to detect mid-infrared light and efficiently convert it to electrical signal at room temperature. It’s a breakthrough that could lead to better communications systems, thermal imagers and other technologies. Published in Nature Materials, the study is a collaboration between the laboratories of Fengnian…
Module Offers Low Cost, High Quality, Advanced Bluetooth Technology
Following on from the success of its best-selling ISP 1507-AX module, Insight SiP, the specialist in ultra-miniature RF modules, is launching the ISP1507-AL module to give customers access to low cost, high quality, advanced Bluetooth technology. Based on the class-leading Nordic Semiconductor nRF52 series, this module offers a complete wireless connectivity solution, with an embedded antenna, integrated…
Dialog Semiconductor First to Demonstrate Stereo HiFi Quality Audio Over BLE at Bluetooth World 2018
Dialog Semiconductor plc, a provider of highly integrated and configurable power management, AC/DC power conversion, charging, and connectivity will be the first in the industry to demonstrate Stereo High Fidelity (HiFi) quality audio streaming over Bluetooth low energy at this year’s Bluetooth World event in Santa Clara, California. The technology, which enables true wireless stereo audio…
Machine-Learning System Tackles Speech and Object Recognition, All at Once
MIT computer scientists have developed a system that learns to identify objects within an image, based on a spoken description of the image. Given an image and an audio caption, the model will highlight in real-time the relevant regions of the image being described. Unlike current speech-recognition technologies, the model doesn’t require manual transcriptions and…
When 80 Microns Is Enough
Should you care that scientists can control a baffling current? Their research results could someday affect your daily living. Physicists have managed to send and control a spin current across longer distances than ever before – and in a material that was previously considered unsuitable for the task. We’ll return to what that strange sentence…
Reducing Emergency Response Time with Mobile Cloud Computing
Programs, such as FirstNet, aim to provide safety agencies with quick, reliable information. Companies like Panasonic are bonding together on this front, as they recently announced joining the FirstNet Dealer Program through the AT&T* Alliance Channel℠, as reported by WDD. In this same vain, two researchers are looking into mobile cloud computing to improve the…
Video: Bio-Inspired Quadcopter Takes a Minimalist Approach
Meet the GapFlyt. It’s a bio-inspired quadcopter, built by researchers at the University of Maryland (UMD), that uses only onboard sensing and a monocular camera to maneuver through small gaps. The UMD team saw an issue with the traditional tactic of rendering a 3D environment for quadcopters and aerial robots. Designers today employ traditional computer…
Two New 16-Bit Arbitrary Waveform Generator Series
Saelig Company, Inc. has introduced two new 16-bit Arbitrary Waveform Generator series from Rigol Technologies. Both series are designed with unique SiFi II (Signal Fidelity II) technology to generate accurate 16-bit standard and arbitrary waveforms point by point from large internal memory series. These versatile signal sources produce precise, very low jitter waveforms with high…
Q&A: Panasonic Joins the FirstNet Dealer Program
In June, Panasonic System Solutions Company of North America announced they joined the FirstNet Dealer Program, through the AT&T* Alliance Channel℠. The FirstNet mission will provide a communications platform that “will bring 21st century tools to public safety agencies and first responders, allowing them to get more information quickly and helping them to make faster and better…
High-Speed Quantum Cryptographic Communications with Key Distribution Speeds Exceeding 10 Mbps
Toshiba and the Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization at Tohoku University have successfully applied high-speed quantum cryptographic communications technologies developed at Toshiba and Toshiba Research Europe’s Cambridge Research Laboratory to achieve world-first quantum cryptography communication at one-month-average key distribution speeds exceeding 10 Mbps over installed optical fiber lines. The companies constructed an application for data transmission…
Graphene Enables Clock Rates in the Terahertz Range
Graphene—an ultrathin material consisting of a single layer of interlinked carbon atoms—is considered a promising candidate for the nanoelectronics of the future. In theory, it should allow clock rates up to a thousand times faster than today’s silicon-based electronics. Scientists from the Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) and the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE), in cooperation with…
DHS Awards $119K to Locuslabs, Inc. for Intelligent Wayfinding Technology
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) announced today that LocusLabs, Inc. of Oakland, California has received $119,100 to develop wayfinding technology as part of the Silicon Valley Innovation Program (SVIP). LocusLabs received their award under the Real Time, Intelligent Traveler Wayfinding for the Federal Inspection Stations and Aviation Environment (Wayfinding) solicitation which seeks solutions…
Tuning Terahertz Beams with Nanoparticles
For years, scientists have dismissed terahertz radiation. Why? There were few ways to control this line-of-sight, nonionizing radiation. However, they saw its potential. For example, it could be used for short-range, high-bandwidth communications for tiny medical and environmental sensors. Now, researchers have developed a way to magnetically control terahertz beams using specially designed nanoparticles. By…
Socket Design Uses High-Performance Elastomer Capable of 75 GHz
Video: How Augmented Reality is Revolutionizing the Future of Art
Earlier this summer, artists assembled in San Francisco, Calif., for an event known as the Festival of the Impossible, which was based around how augmented and virtual reality transforms our perspectives and interactions with artwork. Attendees used devices like tablets to browse the beautifully crafted exhibits, which turned them into live projections. These projects offered…
3D-Printed Impeller Allows Unmanned Aircraft to Operate for Thousands of Hours
Southwest Research Institute engineers are developing a cooled, radial gas turbine for a small generator that provides thousands of hours of electricity to an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), a significant improvement to current UAV turbines that only operate a few hundred hours before wearing out. Turbines are rotary mechanical devices that, when combined with a…
What Are the Three Types of Hackers?
The term “hacker” is popularly associated with cybercriminals harboring malicious intentions, when in reality, it’s a lot more. A hacker can be anyone who utilizes their computer software and hardware knowledge to break down and bypass a computer, device, or network’s security measures. It’s popularly believed hacking is illegal on principle, which isn’t the case…
Light Exchange: Logic Gates Are a Step Toward Building Quantum Computers
The quantum computers of the future will be able to perform computations that cannot be done on today’s computers. These may likely include the ability to crack the encryption that is currently used for secure electronic transactions, as well as the means to efficiently solve unwieldy problems in which the number of possible solutions increases…
It’s too Soon to Call 3-D Printing a Green Technology
Over the past decade 3-D printing has captured the imagination of the general public, engineers and environmental visionaries. It has been hailed as both a revolution in manufacturing and an opportunity for dramatic environmental improvement. 3-D printing has two key attributes that lead enthusiasts to call it a “green” technology. First, many 3-D printing systems generate…
Innovative Interface Tech Reduces Design Constraints of True Wireless Earbuds
ams has introduced POW:COM, an innovative interface technology which enables POWER and COMMUNICATION between a true wireless earbud and a charging cradle over a two-wire connection. A true wireless earbud previously required as many as six pins to provide both power transfer and communication between the charging cradle and the earbud, compromising the mechanical design of…
DHS S&T Awards $3.5M to Improve X-Ray Detection Technology
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) has awarded a total of nearly $3.5 million in funding to three new research and development (R&D) projects designed to improve the threat detection capabilities of current X-ray technologies for checked baggage systems. “The emergence of homemade explosives has placed many challenges on aviation…
What Teenagers Need to Know About Cybersecurity
Now that school is back in session, many high schoolers have new phones, new computers and new privileges for using their devices – and new responsibilities too. High schoolers today are more technology-savvy than average adults. While many people think that young people use their devices primarily for video games and social networking, the reality today…
Design Support for the Digital Mobile Radio Global Market
CML Microcircuits is pleased to announce it is now offering increased design support for the rapidly-expanding global market digital mobile radio. With its latest product offerings, designers can now easily develop dual-mode (digital/analog) radios for wearable and personal radio formats operating at up to 2W and 5W, targeting short- and medium-range transmissions respectively. As the…