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Expanded Environmental Operation
April 25, 2013 10:42 am | by WDD Staff | Product Releases | CommentsBEI Sensors announces expanded input/output electrical options and a new IP69K rating on the highly configurable 9960 series. With the new electrical options, the 9960 can communicate with a wider range of controllers and is now capable of accepting a wide range of input voltages.
WAGO's New WLAN Wireless Ethernet Gateways
April 25, 2013 10:32 am | by WDD Staff | Product Releases | CommentsAs substitutes for Ethernet cabling, WAGO Corporation's new IP65 WLAN Wireless Ethernet Gateways economize machine-to-machine networking. WAGO's WEG devices replace Ethernet network cables by pairing with each other or an Access Point of the same radio technology.
Microchip Expands Embedded Wireless Portfolio
April 25, 2013 10:30 am | by WDD Staff | Product Releases | CommentsMicrochip Technology Inc. has announced a major expansion of its embedded-wireless portfolio from the DESIGN West/Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose. The addiitions include: Bluetooth additions of the PIC32 Bluetooth Audio Development Kit, featuring modules, stacks, and CODECs...
Taking the B.S. Out of Bill Shock
April 25, 2013 10:19 am | by Martin Morgan, Marketing Manager, Openet | Blogs | CommentsIt seems that everywhere you look, there’s a story of a wireless subscriber opening up his or her monthly mobile bill and seeing numbers that would make most people’s jaws drop. This is the case of bill shock, the unwanted (but not uncommon) trend that continues to plague the mobile data-driven world...
Battery and Memory Device in One
April 25, 2013 9:31 am | by Prof. Rainer Waser, Jülich Aachen Research Alliance (JARA) | News | CommentsResistive memory cells (ReRAM) are regarded as a promising solution for future generations of computer memories. They will dramatically reduce the energy consumption of modern IT systems while significantly increasing their performance. Unlike the building blocks of conventional hard disk drives and memories...
How a Phony Tweet and Computer Trades Sank Stocks
April 25, 2013 9:22 am | by BERNARD CONDON, AP Business Writers MATTHEW CRAFT, AP Business Writers | News | CommentsFor a few surreal minutes, a mere 12 words on Twitter caused the world's mightiest stock market to tremble. No sooner did hackers send a false Associated Press tweet reporting explosions at the White House on Tuesday than investors started dumping stocks — eventually unloading $134 billion worth.
Brainstorm: RF Signal Interference
April 23, 2013 3:38 pm | by WDD Staff | Articles | CommentsThe cellular basestation industry has dealt rather successfully in mitigating RF signal interference through thoughtful radio system knowledge, cell planning, and appropriately applied standards specifications. Interference -- in-band or out-of-band...
CML Microcircuits Expands its Engineering Department
April 23, 2013 11:45 am | by CML Microcircuits | News | CommentsRF has been a recent focus for CML. This new design team builds on existing foundations and will enable CML to address new opportunities in higher frequency wide band systems. CML also expects to utilise this addition of new design engineers to further its planned and existing research activities.
HotSpot Episode 9: Google Glass Tech Specs Released
April 22, 2013 11:43 am | by Eric Sorensen, Coordinator of Multimedia Development | Videos | CommentsThis week on WDD’s HotSpot, brought to you by Memory Protection Devices, Google has released the tech specs for its upcoming smart specs: Google Glass; Gregor Hanuschak, created the Smack Attack steering-wheel cover; developers have created a new Internet of Things-friendly microcontroller...
Beleaguered Caregivers Getting Help from Apps
April 22, 2013 10:06 am | by JIM FITZGERALD, Associated Press | News | CommentsNow she has an app for that. With a tap or two on her iPhone, D'Auria can access a "pillbox" program that keeps it all organized for her and other relatives who share in the caregiving and subscribe to the app. From GPS devices and computer programs that help relatives track a wandering Alzheimer's patient to iPad apps...
Engineering Newswire 34: Designing a Demonic Child
April 18, 2013 2:06 pm | by Eric Sorensen, Coordinator of Multimedia Development | Videos | CommentsToday on Engineering Newswire, brought to you by Interpower, the premier supplier of power system components for worldwide markets, we’re writing with fire, practicing with the Webb telescope, and writing emails with a guitar. This episode features, David Neevel has built a system...
Security, Speed Driving WSN Needs
April 16, 2013 2:16 pm | by Jeff Reinke, Editorial Director, WDD | Articles | CommentsWhen it comes to new applications and overall potential for a given technology, not much rivals the integration of wireless sensor networks (WSN). Reader feedback regarding new WSN applications, trends, and obstacles essentially provided a snapshot of the wireless design marketplace as a whole...
HotSpot Episode 8: A Sneak Peek of the Xbox 720
April 15, 2013 10:43 am | by Eric Sorensen, Coordinator of Multimedia Development | Videos | CommentsThis week on WDD’s HotSpot, Germany-based Hama, has announced their WiFi data reader; a 56-page document titled “Xbox 720-9-24 Checkpoint Draft 1” has shown up on Scribd; Civil Rights Defenders in Stockholm has launched the Natalia Project: a wireless assault alarm system...
Facebook's Zuckerberg Launches Political Group
April 12, 2013 9:55 am | by BARBARA ORTUTAY, AP Technology Writer | News | CommentsZuckerberg announced the formation of Fwd.us (pronounced "forward us") in an op-ed article in The Washington Post late Wednesday night. In it, he said the U.S. needs a new approach to these issues if it is to get ahead economically. This includes offering a path to citizenship...
Engineering Newswire 33: Boston Dynamics Tests Mustard Gas & Sarin on PETMAN
April 11, 2013 2:03 pm | by Eric Sorensen, Coordinator of Multimedia Development | Videos | CommentsToday on Engineering Newswire, brought to you by PD&D TV, we're building a bionic dragonfly, fishing with the FrankenDrone, and testing mustard gas on PETMAN. To help test the durability of hazmat suits, Boston Dynamics has unveiled its PETMAN...
Engineering Update #8: Glasses-Free 3D & a Near Replacement For Knight Rider
April 11, 2013 1:50 pm | by Eric Sorensen, Coordinator of Multimedia Development | Videos | CommentsThis week on Engineering Update from ECN, brought to you by Mouser Electronics, Mobile 3-D, Without the Glasses; Capturing Energy From Waste Heat; New Lightweight Electric Car; and Longer-Lasting Batteries, and Charging Phones Without Electricity ...
Robot Hot Among Surgeons but FDA Taking a New Look
April 9, 2013 9:16 am | by LINDSEY TANNER, AP Medical Writer | News | CommentsThe biggest thing in operating rooms these days is a million-dollar, multi-armed robot named da Vinci, used in nearly 400,000 surgeries nationwide last year — triple the number just four years earlier. ut now the high-tech helper is under scrutiny over reports of problems...
Engineering Newswire 32: iWorm Straps to Your Back
April 4, 2013 11:31 am | by Eric Sorensen, Coordinator of Multimedia Development | Videos | CommentsThis week on Engineering Newswire, brought to you by Interpower, the premier supplier of power system components for worldwide markets, we’re building an internal suspension system for your brain, designing an endoscope as thin as a hair, and using a worm to go hands-free.
COWIN Helps Sensaris Certify the ZAO Biomedical Sensor
April 1, 2013 11:38 am | by WDD Staff | Product Releases | CommentsSensaris has announced that it has developed a novel, multi-sensor device for monitoring vital signs. Called the ZAO, it is currently going through the certification process and will be available mid-2013. Roughly the same size as a thick paperback book...
HotSpot Episode 6: Phantom Quadcopter
April 1, 2013 11:01 am | by Eric Sorensen, Coordinator of Multimedia Development | Videos | CommentsThis week on Wdd’s HotSpot, DJI’s new GPS equipped Phantom makes one nifty little radio-controlled aircraft; digital music performer, Omni Infinity, creates a guitar-shaped prototype that houses a smartphone for wireless touchscreen control of music and art software on a remote computer...
Engineering Update #7: Self-Healing, Laser-Resistant Chips
March 29, 2013 11:09 am | by Eric Sorensen, Coordinator of Multimedia Development | Videos | CommentsIn this episode of Engineering Update, brought to you by Mouser Electronics, we're talking about self-healing, laser resistant chips, New York City's new interactive, touchscreen subway maps, and BMW and Continental's new project into developing "co-pilot" driving technology.
Engineering Newswire 31: Superdome Fiasco, Relay to Blame
March 28, 2013 10:56 am | by Eric Sorensen, Coordinator of Multimedia Development | Videos | CommentsToday on Engineering Newswire, we’re talking to virtual heads, firing sexists in Silicon Valley, investigating a super-sized power outage, and fishing far flung space garbage from the bottom of the ocean. The University of Cambridge has unveiled Zoe, a virtual talking head that is capable of expressing lifelike facial expressions.
HotSpot Episode 5: Robo Cloud
March 25, 2013 10:55 am | by Eric Sorensen, Coordinator of Multimedia Development | Videos | CommentsThis week on WDD’s HotSpot, brought to you by Memory Protection Devices, Green Peak’s Open Smart Home Framework connects the ZigBee network to the Internet; Rapyuta allows robot’s data-processing functions to be performed in the cloud; Fujitsu and IT/Logistics’ Kidtrack help keep track of kids who take the bus...
Redpine Signals' Wireless M2M Combo Chip for the Internet of Things
March 21, 2013 10:49 am | by WDD Staff | Product Releases | CommentsRedpine Signals, Inc. has announced the release of its RS9113 M2MCombo chip, the first of its kind in the industry. It integrates dual-band 802.11n Wi-Fi, ZigBee, and dual-mode BT 4.0 wireless connectivity, making it the ideal device for universal M2M communications applications.
OptiMedica's Catalys Precision Laser System
March 21, 2013 10:36 am | by WDD Staff | Product Releases | CommentsOptiMedica Corp. has announced the closing of a $35 million growth round of financing. Proceeds will be used to continue the rapid global commercialization of the company’s Catalys Precision Laser System for cataract surgery.
