Category: Technology

Device made from flexible, inexpensive materials could power large-area electronics, wearables, medical devices, and more. by Rob Matheson | MIT News Office Imagine a world where smartphones, laptops, wearables, and other electronics are powered without batteries. Researchers from MIT...

DIABNEXT’s ‘CLIPSULIN’ device attaches to insulin pens and employs Nordic’s nRF52832 SoC to wirelessly send recorded insulin injection data via Bluetooth LE or NFC. Nordic Semiconductor today announces that Taiwan-based DIABNEXT, a healthcare services company, has selected...

Next week, at SPIE BIOS and SPIE Photonics West 2019 in San Francisco, imec, a world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, presents an on-chip solution for Raman spectroscopy - based on a newly patented concept - providing high optical...

Toshiba Memory Europe announced the introduction of the fourth generation of its single package ball grid array (BGA) solid state drive (SSD) BG4 series at CES 2019. Toshiba Memory’s new line-up of ultra-compact NVMe™ SSDs places both the flash and an all-new controller into...

by Bill Marshall @ www.rs-online.com Magnetic Ferrite-Ring Core Memory When I was a lad back in 1975, I worked as a student engineer testing military aircraft computer memory modules. Looking back now, they probably represented the ultimate development of Ferromagnetic ring core...

Gyroscopes are present in virtually any modern electronic gadget. They re used in a host of techs, like cell phones, vehicles, drones and wearables. The gyroscopes used presently in our phones will most likely be MEMS-based. Caltech, has gone some extra miles, by successfully developing...

The world's largest neuromorphic supercomputer built to process information in a similar manner to the natural brain function has finally gone live. The supercomputer is made up of 1,000,000 processor cores which the developers are planning on upgrading to 1,000,000,000 cores in the near...

The teardown of the latest Apple iPhone XS is showing the key suppliers and a new battery design. [via & via] The teardown by iFixit shows a single cell battery pack that is L-shaped to fit into the spare space in the handset. The XS has a 10.13 Wh battery (2,659 mAh at...