Movement in the hand and fingers of a paralysed man have been temporarily restored using a brain implant linked to electrodes on his forearm. The system has been developed by teams at not-for-profit research firm Battelle and the Wexner Medical Center of Ohio State University, and has been dubbed NeuroLife. Ian Burkhart is the subject. “He participates …
Droidcon London 2016 opens Call for Papers
The organisers of Droidcon London – which is described as the largest Android developer conference in Europe – are calling for papers. The 2016 event runs at the Business Design Centre, in Angel, on October 27th and 28th 2016, which are a Thursday and Friday. The organisers write: We’re putting on two days of expert …
Veolia to provide water reuse solution for Qatar oil & gas project
The Qatar Engineering & Construction Company has awarded a contract to Veolia Water Technologies to engineer, procure and deliver a wastewater treatment plant for Dolphin Energy’s natural gas production and processing facilities in Ras Laffan…
Singapore plans for 55% water recycling with DTSS pre-qualification
National water agency PUB is pre-qualifying consultancy firms and construction companies to build two key components of the Deep Tunnel Sewerage System (DTSS) Phase 2…
SUEZ bags first ZLD contract in China in triple industrial project win
SUEZ has won three new industrial service contracts in China in the Oil & Gas and Petrochemicals sectors worth 19 million euros…
IoT gateway is Microsoft Azure certified
An IoT gateway design kit is the result of a collaboration between Advantech, Intel and Microsoft. The pre-configured system is built around an Intel Celeron J1900 SoC and WES7E running Windows 7 Embedded with 4GB memory and 500GB HDD. The kit’s two two gateways have been verified through the Microsoft Azure Certified for IoT programme. The networking modules are the …
European satellites send free data for farmers to monitor crops
Data from a new constellation of satellites will allow farmers to more precisely monitor land and sea to improve their farming businesses. The launch of the Sentinel satellites is part of the European Union’s Copernicus Earth observation programme. The six families of satellites provide data, free of charge, that could be used by farmers to predict the presence of disease …
European satellites send free data for farmers to monitor crops
Synaptics touch display driver cuts borders to 4mm
Synaptics is sampling a display driver IC which it says allows designers to customise their touchscreens adding borders of less than 4mm. The R63353 driver IC supports a range of resolutions from Full HD for smartphones, to lower resolution 320×320 formats targeting smartwatches. The device has auto contrast optimisation for balancing the light and dark …
Mini-ITX Skylake board runs faster than Intel Ivy Bridge
BVM has announced the LV67-S mini-ITX format industrial grade embedded board which offers a 30% performance improvement over Intel Ivy Bridge processor-based modules. It sports an Intel 6th Generation Skylake i7/i5/i3 series and Xeon E3-1200 v5 processors, running under the Intel C236 chipset and mounted into a new format LGA 1151 socket. Two DDR4 DIMM …
Tsinghua buys stake in Lattice
Acquisitive Chinese investor Tsinghua Unigroup has bought 6% of Lattice. Lattice was rumoured as being a takeover target of Tsinghua earlier this year. Lattice’s shares rose 15.5% on news of the deal. The speculation is that Tsinghua wants Lattice for the same reason as Intel bought Altera, to.provide FPGA acceleration in server SoCs. The effect …