Water Planet has sold its MembranePRO Services business to private investors.

The International Desalination Association (IDA) and Global Solar Council have pledged to promote desalination technologies powered by solar energy.

Mouser Electronics has signed a global distribution agreement with Bridgetek, a rapidly growing semiconductor company that develops innovative silicon solutions to enhance the way in which society interacts with technology. The Bridgetek product line at Mouser comprises multi-award-winning graphic controller ICs, performance-optimized microcontrollers, development hardware, and display modules. Each member of Bridgetek’s FT81x Embedded Video …

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A company called 3devised is working on a high-resolution 3D printer that occupies only 155 x 155 x 290mm but can print 85.4 x 48 x 130mm. Called Pluto, it uses stereolithography, with a liquid print medium which polymerises to a solid under the influence of ultra-violet light. In this case, the light comes from a …

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  AMS has announced a configurable capacitive sensing front end which allows speed and resolution to be traded to optimise designs. Called PCap04, it can capture and digitise 50,000 times per second at its fastest setting, or achieve 8aF resolution at its most sensitive. “Configurability also enables sensor manufacturers to trade measurement speed off against …

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Samsung Is in volume production  of chip-on-board LED lighting packages, labelled the “Samsung D-series Special Colour.” The packages are engineered to bring out the most desirable colour tones of objects whose viewing is particularly colour-sensitive, making them optimal for many commercial lighting applications. Through spectrum engineering, colour spectrums within the D-series have been tuned to …

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A Royal Air Force chief technician turned businessman has opened an RF testing facility in South Yorkshire. Ian White founded Gaddon, an RF engineering and test consultancy, 10 years ago, in that time it has carried out work for the Ministry of Defence (MOD). A new workshop at Hoyle Mill in Penistone near Barnsley will …

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There were a couple of Android Things talks at droidcon London 2017, as well as an exhibition stand devoted to Google’s Android-based take on the IoT.

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A small fanless industrial PC with quad-core Intel Apollo Lake processor has been introduced by Tiny Green PC. It measures just 112mm x 84mm x 34mm with an integrated heatsink. It is designed as a rugged process control unit and with 5W power consumption can be used for data collection, monitoring and processing applications. The PC …

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The driverless car people are good at making bullish statements and particularly good at hedging them with reservations. In 2012 Sergey Brin forecast that driverless cars would be on the roads in 2017. Earlier this week Waymo, Google’s driverless car arm, said it would start offering lifts to the public in driverless vans “in the …

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