UK water company Hydrology is to build and operate an “adjustable” desalination plant in Cubato in Sao Paulo state, Brazil, to supply industrial conglomerate Unigel.

Two US water technology companies have scooped the inaugural China BlueTech Awards for the strength of their innovative solutions and their ability to do business in China.

Swedish submersible pumps specialist Grindex is expanding its range of stainless steel Inox pumps, to include the new Grindex Mega Inox, a 90 kW (50Hz) and 134 Hp (60 Hz) pump made entirely of stainless steel.

According to information provided to congressional offices, blood testing to be provided to lawmakers and staff.

I thought I would try to model a pair of World War I Fullerphones communicating – these were stealth telegraphs for trench warfare. And here is the result, courtesy of Linear Technology’s excellent LTSpice. Left is a Fullerphone in transmit mode, modelled as a 200ms burst of 500Hz 1.5V squarewave pulses in series with 200Ω …

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Worldwide VCs raised $16.3 billion in new funds in Q1 and $16.9 billion in Q2, reports Pitchbook. VCs invested $40 billion in Q2 which was up 20% on Q2 2015 although the number of companies receiving investment went down 47% as investors went for big deals with established companies. In Europe, Q2 VC funding for …

UK Takes Lion’s Share Of European VC Funding

Mouser has signed up Particle, a prototype-to-production platform for IoT products. With Particle’s hardware development kits and connectivity modules, people from all skill levels — from new makers to engineering experts — can build IoT products and connect them to the web via Particle Cloud, says Mouser. After connecting a device, users can write firmware …

Mouser signs Particle

The Centre for Microsystems Technologies (CMST), an Imec-associated lab at Ghent University, has developed smart plastics and smart textiles from which designers created clothing and masks that light up with colour and animation depending on the wearer’s brain activity. The CMST technology can realise randomly shaped electronic circuits with integrated lighting. The technology is based on …

Fashion on Brainwaves

Thanks to Semicast Research for this one – the top five vendors of industrial semiconductors: % share TI 8.1 Infineon 6.8 Intel 4.9 ST 4.4 Renesas 3.8

Top Ten (less 5) Industrial Semi Vendors

The race to win the England and Wales National Final of the BBC micro:bit Model Rocket Car Competition has taken place. Who won?

Slim Jim races away with BBC micro:bit Model Rocket Car