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Wednesday, December 23, 2015

#NEWS Co-Robots in Taiwan are Stronger than Humans but Safe to Work Alongside





#NEWS: "Covering the Earth with a Central Nervous System Achievable Goal of Omron"





Friday, December 11, 2015

#NEWS Trillions of Sensors to Cover Globe and Integrated with 7-path Roadmap





Thursday, December 10, 2015

#NEWS Single Transistor SRAM Packs More Punch, Shrinks Oversized Dies





Wednesday, December 09, 2015

#NEWS #IBM Cuts Pollution in Beijing by 20 percent Plus Eliminates Need for Grid-Scale Batteries





Saturday, December 05, 2015

#NEWS Batteries are Key, but Mini-Grids and Behind-the-Meter Buffering Make Green Work





Thursday, December 03, 2015

#NEWS Stanford's New #Green #Solar Powered Campus Exemplary to COP21





Tuesday, December 01, 2015

#NEWS 2016 is the Year of the #Nanotube #Transistor as its Last Outstanding Problem has been Solved





#NEWS Fully-Depleted Silicon on Insulator (FD-SOI) is Going Off the Charts in 2016





Monday, November 30, 2015

#NEWS Can We Save the Planet from #ClimateChange ? What do YOU think we should do?





Tuesday, November 24, 2015

#NEWS #MEMS Market Growing and Expanding Portfolio





Thursday, November 19, 2015

#NEWS Bullet-Proof Cybersecurity from Your Smartphone Camera and Mic for Free!





Monday, November 16, 2015

#NEWS #Menta One-Ups Flex Logix By Licensing its Software Instead of Adding to Your Wafer. Which do you think is better?





#NEWS #Intel Inside Gives Way to "Scalable System Framework" Inside to Include Cray, Hewlett Packard, Lenova, Fujitsu, Ansys, SGI, Dell, SuperMicro, Altair, Colefax, Inspur, Penguin Computing, MSC Software and many others





#NEWS #China Wins #TOP500 Supercomputer Contest by OutSpending Just to Wn





Thursday, November 12, 2015

#NEWS #LifeLogs #Smartwatches and Industrial Apps Galore Get 10X SpeedUp From Write-Once #Memories





Tuesday, November 10, 2015

#NEWS: #Micron Perfect #DIMM by Adding Self-Powered #Flash #Backup!





Monday, November 09, 2015

#NEWS #Oculus Bamboozles #Facebook, Selling for $2.4 Billion Then Obsoletes with #MEMS





Friday, November 06, 2015

#NEWS #China One-Ups #Apple with Gas Sensors in Cheap iPhone Knock-Offs





Wednesday, November 04, 2015

#NEWS PNI Sensor Out Googles #Android &Emerald at MEMS Executive Congress





Tuesday, November 03, 2015

#NEWS "Five Startups to Pitch at MEMS Executive Congress"

Here's a rewritten press releaseyou might have missed at the MEMS Executive Congress:

Microfluidic Foundry LLC (San Pablo, California and Beijing, China), was founded in 2011, and is developing a MEMS chip that acts as Pitot tube to read pressure, flow rate for pipeline flow monitoring as well as for wind and moving speed measurement. www.microfluidicfoundry.com

ResoCator Inc. (Jacksonville, Florida) founded in 2014 is developing a miniature atomic clock on a chip to help create a GPS tag that will report location and environmental conditions using atomic clock-based trilateration between existing terrestrial radio towers. http://www.resocator.com/

Aveni SA (Massy, France) is the new name of Alchimer SA, a startup founded in 2001, that provides metallization technologies. The technologies include Electrografting and Chemicalgrafting and are claimed to offer alternatives to existing deposition techniques for through silicon via (TSV) metallization for aspect ratios greater than 10:1 and at geometries below 14nm. www.aveni.com

Aspinity Inc. (Morgantown, West Virginia) founded in June 2012 by Vinod Kulathumani is developing reconfigurable analog signal processing circuits as ICs and IP. By extracting application-relevant characteristics prior to digitizing the sensor data, Aspinity reduces the overall power and cost required in applications such as voice control, health monitoring, and industrial vibration monitoring. www.aspinity.com

Nxtsens Microsystems Inc. (Montreal, Canada) founded in 2015 is designing temperature-compensated oscillators and other timing circuits. Based on proprietary technology that allows for the fabrication of resonators in a high-vacuum environment, Nxtsens uses wafer-level packaging. www.nxtsens.com

Friday, October 30, 2015

#NEWS #Micron Challenges #HyperFlash from #Cypress/Spansion

Micron is challenging HyperFlash from Cypress/Spansion, and thinks got more going, but I say let the market decide--not just the good specs they quote. They also have a few more tricks up their sleeve that I can't tell you about yet. Stand by.

#ELECTRONICS #NEWS Build Your Own Unique #Audio Processing Modules with Easy GUI





Thursday, October 29, 2015

#NEWS World's Smallest MEMS Downsizes Wearable, Medical Navigation Inside the Body






#NEWS #BMW Factory Tour in Leipzig Shows Green Manufacturing of i3 and new i8 Supercar Electric Vehicle





Thursday, October 22, 2015

#NEWS #IBM #AI #Watson Tackes Sports, from Concussion Prevention to Viewer Experience





Monday, October 19, 2015

#NEWS: #Mentor Extends Virtualization to 25-, 50-, and 100-Gbits





Wednesday, October 14, 2015

#IBM Guarantees 30s Downtime Per Year and 1s Max Query from Petabyte Flash Databases





Wednesday, October 07, 2015

#NEWS #Organic Crystalline Films to Outperform Silicon





Tuesday, October 06, 2015

#NEWS #5G Already Here at #NFL Stadium to Synch Monitors with Action on Field within 1 Millisecond





Friday, October 02, 2015

#NEWS FPGAs Embedded into SoC a Unique New Business Model





Thursday, October 01, 2015

#NEWS #3D Memory + Your ASIC in Same System-in-Package (SiP) by Open-Silicon





#NEWS #3D Chips from Novati Beat #Micron, #Samsung and #Hynix





Tuesday, September 29, 2015

#NEWS Hillcrest Debuts MotioinEngine Specialized for #Wearables





#NEWS Machine #Learning #Intelligence Now Available for the Little Guy





Monday, September 28, 2015

#NEWS #Solar Cells Made Obsolete by Retennas--Half Nanoscale Antenna/Half Rectifier





Friday, September 25, 2015

#VW's Diesel-Gate Can Be Fixed by a Simple Tailpipe Add-On





Thursday, September 24, 2015

#NEWS #Neuromorphic #Chips to Put Genuine Intelligence in All Electronics





Wednesday, September 23, 2015

#NEWS #Invisibility #Cloak with a Twist, You can Look Behind the Looking Glass





Tuesday, September 22, 2015

#NEWS #Quantum #Teleportation Enables Uncrackable Encryption and Quantum- to Quantum-Computer Comm





Monday, September 21, 2015

#NEWS #3D #Printers Enable Damages Nerves to Regrow Curing Paralysis





Friday, September 18, 2015

#NEWS #Google Raids #Amazon, #Apple, Others for Project Aura, Successor to Glass





Thursday, September 17, 2015

#NASA Top 10 #Robots and What The Are Up To





Tuesday, September 15, 2015

#NEWS #Philips Enables Patients to Stay-at-Home While Being Treated





Monday, September 14, 2015

#NEWS #Embedded Systems Get Boost from Software Algorithms that Lower BOM





Friday, September 11, 2015

#NEWS #Smart #Prosthetics Capable of #Learning Even Complex Tasks in Minutes





Friday, September 04, 2015

#IBM Marries #ARM for #IoT in the #Bluemix #Cloud After Abandoning #Intel





Thursday, September 03, 2015

#NEWS Famous #Imec Lab Demos Wearable Fabrics for Apps from #Medical to Fashion





Tuesday, September 01, 2015

#NEWS Silicon Carbide (SiC) and Gallium Nitride (GaN) Taking Overt Power Says Yole





#NEWS #LED Lights Bulbs Get As Cheap as Incandescent Due to Breakthrough





Monday, August 31, 2015

#NEWS #Drones, #Space, Augmented- and Virtual Reality Soar in Free Report on Fastest Growing Tech





Wednesday, August 26, 2015

#NEWS #Intel Becomes One-Stop-Shop for Any Sized Cloud, Datacenter, or Supercomputer






#NEWS #Smartphones Get Thinner Thanks to World's 1st #Fabless RF Filters





Tuesday, August 25, 2015

#NEWS #iPhones and #MacBooks to be Powered for Weeks by Fuel Cells





#NEWS #Superconducting at Room Temperature for Future #Quantum Computers





Tuesday, August 18, 2015

#NEWS #SolarCells to Get Cheap as Dirt Due to #Stanford Breakthrough





Monday, August 17, 2015

#NEWS #Metamaterials May Replace Multiple Microphones and #BeamSteering





Friday, August 14, 2015

#NEWS: #Graphene Nanoribbons with Variable Bandgaps form Superfasts #Transistor Channels"





Thursday, August 13, 2015

#NEWS #RRAM Harnesses Tungsten-Oxide for Superdense Crossbar Memory Arrays"





Wednesday, August 12, 2015

#NEWS #FantasyFootball Gets Boost from #IBM #Watson and #Kickstarter





Tuesday, August 11, 2015

#NEWS #BlackDart Shoots Down Pesky #Drones in #FAA No Fly Zones





Monday, August 10, 2015

#NEWS #3D Control Surfaces Made from "Tablets at #Siggraph





Friday, August 07, 2015

#NEWS #SolarCells with Built-in #Battery to Replace Conventional #Energy





Thursday, August 06, 2015

#NEWS #Intel #Skylake Supercharges #Gaming





Wednesday, August 05, 2015

#NEWS #Semiconductor-less #Transistor Preps for Era Beyond #Silicon





Tuesday, August 04, 2015

#NEWS #Terahertz Optical Transistors in CMOS But 1000s of Times Faster than Silicon"





Monday, August 03, 2015

#NEWS #NASA Readies High-Te IC fr for #Venus Mission





Friday, July 31, 2015

#NEWS: Boost Solar Cell Outputs by Up to 44% By Upconverting Infrared





Thursday, July 30, 2015

#NEWS #Smart #SensorHub Cuts Power for #Wearables and #Smartphones





Wednesday, July 29, 2015

#NEWS: #QuantumComputers Get Q-Diodes and Q-Delaylines that Surmounts Roadblocks





Monday, July 27, 2015

#NEWS Nanopatch Photonic Antennas to Obsolete Lasers Using #Quantum Dots





Friday, July 24, 2015

#NEWS Graphene Nanoparticle Imaging Eases Development of Self Assembling Nano-Electronics





Wednesday, July 22, 2015

#NEWS: #007 Specially Built Aston Martin DB-10 for #JamesBond Spectre Movie Packed with Smart/Connected Gadgets





#NEWS #IBM Pumping Up #Open-Source Clouds with Free Apps, Expert Time and Education





Tuesday, July 21, 2015

#NEWS: "3-D Printable Electronics are Here with the Help of a Syringe"





Friday, July 17, 2015

#NEWS #IBM Cuts Power by Going to 0.3 Volt Supplies with a Boost





Thursday, July 16, 2015

NEWS: TOP10 #Supercomputer Slideshow Looks Cool and Reveals their Secrets





Tuesday, July 14, 2015

#NEWS: Phorphorene's 2-D Films Aim gto Outperform #Silicon





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Monday, July 13, 2015

#NEWS #IBM Opens Centers-of-Excellence at U.S. National Labs





#NEWS #Intel / #HP Showcase #Supercomputer Mania at #ISC 2015





Thursday, July 09, 2015

#NEWS: #IBM Beats #Intel to the 7-Nanometer Node





#NEWS: "American Billionaires Get New Young Bodies in #Self/less"





Tuesday, July 07, 2015

#NEWS #Memristor Learning Can Now Be Added to Any Chip





Monday, July 06, 2015

#NEWS "Can E.U. Thin-Film Solar Cells Outperform Silicon, Outsell Chinese"





Friday, July 03, 2015

#NEWS #3D Fingerprint Scanners to Obsolete #Passwords





Thursday, July 02, 2015

#NEWS #FinFETs plus FD-SOI Could Extend #MooresLaw





#NEWS #Biodegradable #Electronics Just Around the Corner





Tuesday, June 30, 2015

#NEWS #Automotive Predictive Safety Prelude to Full Autonomy





Tuesday, June 23, 2015

#NEWS #Freescale + #NXP #1 in Automotive with New S32K #Microcontroller





#NEWS #Freescale Trumpets World's Smallest #SoC for #IoT





Thursday, June 18, 2015

#NEWS #IBM Solves InGaAs on Silicon Extending #Moore'sLaw for a Decade"





Tuesday, June 16, 2015

#NEWS: #Wearables Get Their Own #MEMS for Long Battery Life





#NEWS: #Smarter #MEMS Debuts from #Fairchild #Semiconductor






Monday, June 15, 2015

#NEWS #IBM Donates SystemML #MachineLearning to Apache at #SparkSummit





Thursday, June 11, 2015

#NEWS: "Kumu Instantly Doubles Bandwidth of Any Wireless Network" #Wireless





Tuesday, June 09, 2015

#NEWS: "Microscopic Spirals to Make Counterfeiting Impossible" #Vanderbilt #R&D





#NEWS: #IBM Solves III-V on #Silicon Extending #Moore'sLaw Yet Again!"





Monday, June 08, 2015

#NEWS: "New Testing and Comparing Service Starts with #MEMS Mics"





Sunday, June 07, 2015

#NEWS: "IBM's Famous EDA Tools Now for Rent from the Clouds" #DAC #EDA





Thursday, June 04, 2015

#NEWS: "Germany Aims to Dominate World in Smart Solutions" #environment #smart





Wednesday, June 03, 2015

#NEWS "Intel Unveils New Xeon and Core Processors at Computex" #CPU #Intel





Monday, June 01, 2015

#MEMS: "Vesper Hawks Industries Smallest HD Microphone at 68dB"





Friday, May 29, 2015

#NEWS "Can Formula E Overtake Formula One?" #F1 #Automotive





Tuesday, May 26, 2015

#AI Will Enable Smart Factories to Hot-Swap Assembly Line Modules"





Thursday, May 21, 2015

#SELF-DRIVING Cars Will Be Parking Themselves In Garages by 2016"





Wednesday, May 20, 2015

#SMART FACTORIES: Will Need Smarter Operators Too"





Monday, May 18, 2015

#MEMS: "SiTime Extends the Battery Lifetime of Wearables"





Friday, May 15, 2015

#QUANTUM: "D-Wave Explains its Application-Specific Quantum Computer" #supercoputers





Thursday, May 14, 2015

#ROBOT: "DARPA Sponsors Final Robot Chalenge Contest" #robotics





#MEMS: "Cavendish Kinetics Tunes Nubia's Z9 to Any Frequency"





Friday, May 08, 2015

#NEWS: "Samsung Building World's Most Expensive Fab for 10-Nanometer FinFETs"





#NEWS: "Valleytronics Versus Honeywell/Georgia Tech for #Quantum Computer"





Thursday, May 07, 2015

#NEWS: "Can Texas Instruments Obsolete the FPGA Industry?" #Semiconductors





#NEWS "Organic Transistors Could Outperform Silicon" #Semiconductor





Tuesday, May 05, 2015

#NEWS: "Intel Xeon E7v3 Fastest for Dollar, Catching Up to IBM Power8" #SUPERCOMPUTER #Microprocessor

Intel's new Xeon E7v3 claims to the fastest in world for business analytic sand analysts say Intel is catching up to IBM at a lower price and consuming much less power: R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog and EE Times




Thursday, April 30, 2015

#NEWS: "Living Computers the Goal of Georgia Tech / SRC"





Wednesday, April 29, 2015

#QUANTUM: "IBM Beats Google to Scalable, Infalible Quantum Computers" #NEWS





#NEWS: "Co-Robots Fetch, Package and Mail Online Orders"





Tuesday, April 28, 2015

#MEMS: "Smart Tires Our Destiny--Saving Billions and Maximizing Safety" #NEWS

Smart tires are our destiny according to Freecale, which says 18-wheeler fleet managers claim they can save $ millions on tire wear and preventive maintenance (as well as keep a tab on how safe their drivers are being). Tire pressure sensors are now standard equipment on most cars worldwide, due to government mandates. However big-rig trucks are exempt, but by adding special high-pressure sensors and accelerometers to thier portfolio Freescale plans to change all that, making "smart tires" the standard on every vehicle.





Thursday, April 23, 2015

#NEWS "1st Russian Semiconductor is Smart IP Camera that Can Spot Thieves and Read License Plates" #IPCameras





Tuesday, April 21, 2015

#NEWS: "Texas Instruments Aims to Obsolete FPGAs"





Friday, April 17, 2015

#NEWS: "Moore's Law: Dead of Alive Including Moore's Own Video Opinion, and Two Slideshows: Busters and Boosters"





Wednesday, April 15, 2015

#SUPERCOMPUTERS: "IBM versus Intel in Bout to One-Up China" #NEWS





Monday, April 13, 2015

#3D: "Testing 3-D Chips Stadardized for IBM, Intel, Freescale, AMD and more" #NEWS





Thursday, April 09, 2015

#NEWS: "IBM Sets Yet Another World Record in Tape Drive Capacity, Attracts Google, NBC, Universal Sudios"





#MEMS: "Ultra-Low Power Sensor Hub Enables New Era of Wearables" #NEWS #WEARABLES





Wednesday, April 08, 2015

#NANOTECH: "Nanotube Circuits Learn Their Functions Eliminating Need for Engineers/EDA" #NEWS





Tuesday, April 07, 2015

#NANOTECH: "Vote Today for the Best National Nanotechnology Project" #NEWS





Thursday, April 02, 2015

#NEWS "CoolCube 3-D Chips Due Soon #3D #ISDN





Wednesday, April 01, 2015

#NEWS "Analog Layout Tools Automated, But Remain Unused" #EDA #ISDN





Tuesday, March 31, 2015

#NEWS "Qualcomm 3-D Chips Poised for Release" #ISDN





Monday, March 30, 2015

#NEWS "On/Off Transceivers Cut Power by 80%"





Friday, March 27, 2015

#NEWS "Graphene Quantum Dot Studded Bacterial Spores Sense Humidity Better than Polymer Sensors"





Thursday, March 26, 2015

#NEWS: "Nanolaser Puts Optical Interconnects On-Chip" #EETimes





Wednesday, March 25, 2015

#NEWS: "Xeon Phi Massively Parallel x86 Adds Micron Stacked Die Memory Cube" "EETimes #Intel #Micron






Tuesday, March 24, 2015

#EETimes "Synthetic Biology Cures All with Open-Source Versus AutoDesk and Microsoft"





Wednesday, March 18, 2015

#NEWS: "Cyborg Insects Harnesed for Surveilance"

Insects swarming around your house? Check them closely, you may be on some agencies "close observation" list, making even outdoor conversations each to overhear. Or even better, if trapped in a building collapse yell help to every insect you see--it may be searching for survivor: R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog and EE Times



READ FULL STORY AT EETIMES

Monday, March 16, 2015

#NEWS "Quantum Well Confined Crystalline Electrons Enable Fastest Transistors in World"





Friday, March 13, 2015

#MEMS "Invensense's FireFly Sensor Hub Sports 3 Cores Including ARM M0" #NEWS





Thursday, March 12, 2015

#NEWS: "Sirius Beats Apple Siri, Microsoft Cortana & Google's Now"





Wednesday, March 11, 2015

#NEWS: "Heart on-a-chip Beat, Made from Stem Cells" #HEALTH





Monday, March 09, 2015

#NEWS: "Intel's 1st Xeon Soc Twists ARM's Microserver Aspirations" #Intel #Android





#MEMS: "Bosch Integrates Hub into Combo MEMS with Akustica HD Mics" #NEWS #ANDROID





Thursday, March 05, 2015

#NEWS: "IBM Beefs Up Watson by Acquiring AlchemyAPI's Deep Learning"





Wednesday, March 04, 2015

#NEWS: "2-D Black Phosphor Puts Optical Comm on Silicon Chips"





Tuesday, March 03, 2015

#NEWS: "LoRa Alliance, Including IBM/Semtech, Promises to Connect Billions of Sensors"





Monday, March 02, 2015

#NEWS: "Lab Equipment and Now Complete Cars are Being 3-D Printed" #3DPrinters





Friday, February 27, 2015

#NEWS: "Graphene Boosts Flexible Plastic Transistors to Best Silicon"





Thursday, February 26, 2015

#NEWS: "High-Speed Plastic Transistors Enabled by Miracle Solder"





Tuesday, February 24, 2015

#NEWS: Ultra-Cheap Solar Cells Harvest Landfills"





Monday, February 23, 2015

#NEWS: "3-D Metrology Enables 3-D flash Cubes, Easy FinFETS"





Thursday, February 19, 2015

#QUANTUM: "Transistors Prelude Quantum Computers" #NEWS





Wednesday, February 18, 2015

#NEWS: "Microsoft, Google Beat Humans at Image Recognition"





Tuesday, February 17, 2015

#NEWS: "IBM Adds All Vendors to its Cloud-of-Clouds" #EETimes





Friday, February 13, 2015

#NEWS: "Nanotubes May Self-Organize into Synthetic Life" #EETimes





Thursday, February 12, 2015

#MOORESLAW: "CMOS Image Sensors Driving Moore's Law #EETimes #News





Wednesday, February 11, 2015

#MEMS: "Nano-Machines and Nano-Robots Must Self-Repair" #News #NanoTech





Tuesday, February 10, 2015

#MEMS: "World's 1st Spectrometer On-a-Chip" #NEWS





Monday, February 09, 2015

#CPU: "Thermoelectric Nanowires in Substrate Pave Way to 5-GHz CPUs and Beyond"





Friday, February 06, 2015

#MICROCHIPS: "1.5 Nanometer Metrology from National Labs Extends Moore's Law" #MOOERSLAW #NEWS





Wednesday, February 04, 2015

#GOOGLE: "Out-Google Google without the Ads"





NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY CLAIMS DISPUTED--SEE COMMENTS ON GOOGLE'S PROWESS

#AIRSAFETY "2nd TransAsia Flight Crashes, All Planes Grounded" #News #Safety





DON'T MISS VIDEO SHOWING WHOLE CRASH INTO RIVER!

Sunday, February 01, 2015

#EETimes "Invisibility Cloaks Can Now Hide People Too" #News #HarryPotter #invisibility

Harry Potter's invisitility cloak is finally here for all visible wavelengths of light. There are still engineering hurdles to surmount before commercialization, but the Department of Defense--for one--is not waiting, but already deploying invisibility cloaks today. On what? That's classified: R. Colin Johnson @NetGenLog and EE Times



FULL STORY AT EE TIMES INCLUDING HOW-TO VIDEO

Tuesday, January 27, 2015

#TECH: "Brief Takes: Tech Stories You Should Know About"





#ROBOTS: "Co-Robots to Bring Jobs Back to U.S.)





Friday, January 23, 2015

#CURE "Intel, Microsoft and Autodesk Creating Life" #cancer #hybrid #semiconductor #medical #GMO





Thursday, January 22, 2015

#SOLAR "Simple Paint-on Coating Doubles the Electrons Per Photon"





#GESTURES "3-D Gesture Control For Just $2 Per Device"





Tuesday, January 20, 2015

#IoT "World's 1st Internet of Things App Store for IoT and Wearables" #DRONE #ROBOT

The world's first Internet-of-Things (IoT) App Store opens today by the makers of the most popular version of Linux, Cananical's Ubuntu. The company is giving away the Ubuntu Core--a stripped down version of Linux with no graphical user interface (GUI)--for anyone making IoT or wearables, will handle auto-updating devices, guarantees bullet-proof security and will allow developers to use their cloud to test apps, list them in their store, or help IoT or wearable maker to put up their own cloud-based store: R.Colin Johnson @NextGenLog Google+ and EE Times


Robotic quadcopter produced using Canonical's Ubuntu Core.


Cheap $35 Odroid robot controller board wors with Ubuntu Core.

FULL STORY AT EE TIMES

#AUTOMOTIVE: "Ford Self-Driving Cars Will Be Cheap" #SELFDRIVING #CARS #GOOGLE

Ford funded researchers have found a way to make self driving cars that use a single camera. Google or Ford or someone with deep pockets will first have to send survey cars around to create 3-D maps, similar to the maps your Garmin already has produced. R.Colin Johnson @NextGenLog, Google+ and EE Times


Three Ford Fusions have been adapted to autonomous self driving by the University of Michigan.

FULL STORY ON
EE TIMES

Monday, January 19, 2015

#MEDICAL: "Electronic Spine Cures Paralysis"

Spinal injuries need not cause paralysis anymore with this electronic spine installed. It already works on rats and is being rushed through human trials to cure paralyzed people soon: R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog and EE Times


Biocompanitble implant has a silicon substrate that is covered with cracked gold electric conducting tracks that can be pulled and stretched without damage.


FULL STORY AT EE TIMES

Thursday, January 15, 2015

#CHIPS: "FeFET Extends Moore's Law Beyond end of Silicon Roadmap"

A transistor that is smaller than today's silicon transistors and yet has a built-in memory material in its gate oxide, called ferroelectric transistors, could change the face of computing by allowing instant-on operation as well as eliminate the need for RAM and flash by running faster than DRAM and denser than flash: R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog and EE Times


The ferroelectric material pictured on a germanium channel above a silicon substrate retains its polarization indefinitely making any computers built from FeFETs instant-on


The measurement set-up using negative-biased conductive scanning probe to sense switching in ferroelectric layer.

FULL STORY AT EE TIMES

Monday, January 12, 2015

#MEMS Sparking Wearables / IoT Beyond Your Dreams

MEMS are enabling wearables that would be impossible without the tiny sensor technology and you won't believe some of the possibilities Intel and others have in the queue: R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog and EE Times


From fashion that reflects your mood to robots making their own replacement parts, MEMS sensors are sparking a whole new generation of wearables and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Source: Intel

FULL STORY AT EE TIMES

#CES "Ultra-High-Definition 4K TV Delivered Cheap Over Telephone Wires"

You used to have to subscribe to an expensive fiber optics or high speed cable service to bring 4K TV into the home, but now Sckipio is enabling twisted copper pairs, already installed in every home, to carry the ultra-high-defininition (UHD) signals for 4K TV: R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog, Google+ and EE Times


Sckipio enables telcos to deliver ultra-high-definition (UHD)4K TV to houses over plain old twisted pair copper wires already installed in every household.

FULL STORY AT EE TIMES

Tuesday, January 06, 2015

#CES: "IoT Modules Quicken Innovation" #EETIMES #IoT

Weaved has leveled the playing field for small companies by allowing them to mix and match remade Internet of Things (IoT) devices that are pre-connected to Weaved's cloud infrastructure, leaving the innovator to build the app that controls it all.


Weaved's smart 360-degree camera module can be used to create Google-like neighborhood maps, watch activity everywhere in a room, parking lot, wherever.

FULL STORY ON EE TIMES

Monday, January 05, 2015

#CES: "Sony Chooses PNI Hub for SmartWatch 3" #MEMS #EETimes

Sony just revealed that it chose the PNI Sensor's SENtral sensor fusion coprocessor for Sony's SmartWatch 3. And now at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES, Las Vegas) PNI is showing its SENtrode design kit for others to quickly prototype a smartwatch that uses MEMS sensors to measure almost everything you can think of accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer, pressure sensor, low-power Bluetootg, a heart rate monitor, humidity sensors and gas sensors for measuring the quality of air: R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog and EE Times


Just add a display and OEMs have a ready made smartwatch to add to their IoT offerings.


FULL STORY AT EE TIMES

#MEMS: "Bosch Adds Air-Quality to its Combo Sensors" #EETimes

Bosch has combo sensors that measure temperature and humidity, temperature, humidity and pressure and now all the three plus the quality-of-the-air, which should be very popular in China where people wear masks when they know the air quality it poor: R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog and EE Times


Bosch's latest environmental sensor combines temperature, pressure, humidity and indoor-air-quality (IAQ) all in the same 3x3x.93 millimeter package for smart-phones, -watches, -homes and -buildings.


FULL STORY ON EE TIMES

Friday, January 02, 2015

#ROBOTS "60 Top Ag Robots in 2014" #EETimes

Here we have a slideshow of the most popular agricultural robots in 2014, see them in action in-the-field: R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog and EE Times



"BoniRob" is a lightweight field robot from Amazone being developed by Amazone-Werke Gmbh, Hasbergen, Germany with Robert Bosch GmbH. BoniRob is lightweight field robot capable of working in swarms with others like it for weeding, applying fertilizer and other ag tasks.CLICK to start slideshow.

FULL STORY ON EETIMES

Thursday, January 01, 2015

#SMARTPHONES: "Russian Smartphone Sports Two Screens, but Is It Spying on Its User Too" #EETimes #Spying #NSA

The Russian smartphone called the YotaPhone will go on sale in the U.S. later in 2015. Its best feature is that it features an E-Ink e-reader on the back that extends its battery life to 100 hours. But will people buy it? We already know that the U.S. National Security Agency is listening to our phone calls for terrorist talk, but what might the Russian's have hidden inside their smartphone? Probably nothing, but it makes you wonder: R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog and EE Times


The backside is always on showing time, weather, emails and messages arrived drawing almost zero power.

The backside also doubles as an e-reader which (if you turn-off the front color screen) extends the battery life to 100 hours.

FULL STORY AT EE TIMES

#MEMS: "Gas Sensors in Smartphones Measure Quality-of-Air" #EETimes

The use of gas sensors have been declining until 2014, but in 2015 will start skyrocketing, according to IHS, mostly because they will enable smartphones to measure the "quality of air" which is an increasing concern in China--the world's biggest market: R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog and EE Times


Gas sensors will skyrocket starting in 2015 due to international concern over the quality of our air, especially in China.

FULL STORY AT EETIMES