Category: Technology

Samsung Galaxy Fold Teardown from ifixit.com
"Taylor Dixon" did a teardown of Samsung Galaxy Fold and reveals what's inside for the rest of us. Well, we’ve finally got the Samsung Galaxy Fold on our teardown table. This is, without question, an ambitious first-generation device—the idea of having both a smartphone and a tablet...
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Solid state battery is small enough for medical implants
UK battery maker Ilika has officially launched its millimetre scale solid state battery for medical implants, including smart contact lenses. Ilika a few days ago announced the launch of Stereax® M50 mm-scale solid-state batteries designed for medical implants. The Stereax M50 brings...
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A miniature microfluidics heat sink For high-performance chip cooling
At the Embedded World Conference 2019, imec, a world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, presents a silicon-based compact microchannel heat sink that enables high heat flux dissipation. The imec heat sink assembled to a high performance...
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Converting Wi-Fi signals to electricity with new 2-D materials
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...
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Insulin Injection Monitor Dosage and Wirelessly Transmits Data to Smartphone
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...
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Raman-on-a-chip boosts High-Resolution Handheld Spectroscopy
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...
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Toshiba Memory Europe Unveils 1TB Single Package PCIe Gen3 x4L SSDs
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...
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Computer Memory Technology: From Ferrite Rings to FRAM
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...
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