New Zealand leads the pack in smart city race
For the second straight year, New Zealand and Singapore have received the highest tally in IDC's Smart City Asia Pacific…
E-skin shirt allows camera-free motion tracking
The shirt eases AR/VR content creation with its 14 strain sensors and the Hub, which has a 6-axis accelerometer and…
20V MOSFETs offer low on-resistance specs
The SOT-23F MOSFETs are suitable for power supply distribution or for lowering the power consumption in power supply controls for…
TI rolls out scalable power solution for wearables
Reference designs, such as the one introduced by Texas Instruments, enable designers to add their talent and creativity to reach…
Using energy harvesting to keep wearables running
A possible design solution uses an inkjet-printed mmWave rectenna which is a rectifying antenna that will convert electromagnetic energy into…
Power ideas to spur wearable designers’ creativity
The biggest challenge for wearables has been keeping them properly and conveniently powered, as present designs force the user to…
R&S verifies test solution for A-BeiDou LBS
The Rohde & Schwarz test equipment enables mobile manufacturers and network operators to verify that chipsets and mobile devices will…
Tiny colour sensor provides ambient light sensing
The TCS3430 provides digital measurements of illuminance and chromaticity matching the industry standard for quantifying the average human's perception of…
Battery-free cellphone eliminates A-D to save power
The cellphone is the first battery-free phone that can send and receive calls by harvesting either ambient light or radio…
Note 7 recall: Samsung’s expensive, enduring lesson
Going forward, Samsung is instituting an eight-point plan in the hopes of avoiding more multi-billion dollar recall and programme cancellation…