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RS Components has signed a distribution agreement with XP Power and now stocks around 2500 product lines from the manufacturer. The XP offering available via RS consists of a broad range of AC/DC power supply products from 5W to 3000W including: ITE and medical Level VI efficiency desktop and plug-in type external power supplies; open-frame …

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Four finalists in the of Design Council Spark’s 2016 Awards will share up to £200,000 to help bring their innovative products to market. Last night, as part of the London Design Festival, Design Council announced the 2016 Spark Awards: Nick Webb, Matt Sparrow and Matt Dyson have answered the needs of sleep-deprived parents everywhere with …

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This furry caterpillar-like image could represent an important breakthrough in flexible semiconductors for displays and solar cells. It is a semiconductor with a double helix atomic structure, similar to that which is the basis of DNA. 
A team from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has discovered a double helix structure in an inorganic material. …

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The 503HTA, designed and manufactured by Pi2Media, is an I/O shield for Raspberry Pi designed to provide “valve sound” audio for the single board computer. This HAT allows the Raspberry Pi to drive headphones from 32 – 300ohm. The on-board PCM5102A, 24-Bit at 192kHz DAC drives the single stage 6DJ8 (aka 6922) tube. 
The Class-A …

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Thanks to the OECD for this one – the ten European countries with the worst performance in real wage change since 2007. Greece -10.4 UK -10.4 Portugal -3.7 Italy 0.9 Czech Rep 1.1 Ireland 1.6 Spain. 2.8 Netherlands. 3.4 Denmark 4 Lithuania 4.3

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Stanley has introduced a tiny screw and thread pair (known as a micro-fastener) for waterproof and vibration-proof wearables and portables.

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A great deal of blather was generated earlier this week by the particularly obtuse remarks of the head of O2 UK who said wireless would be a better way to deliver broadband than fibre. Obviously the guy’s talking his book but, even so, most people would be ashamed of expressing such a view. It’s an …

Read full article: God Forbid That We Should Ever Rely On Mobile For Broadband

Cornell Dubilier shows considerable initiative in setting aluminium electrolytics against banks of wet tantalum capacitors in high-reliability long-life applications

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