An optoelectronic sensor IC from Osram Semiconductors can be used to monitor heart rate and blood oxygen levels.
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Osram lights St. Peter’s Square
St. Peter’s Square in Rome is now consuming ~70% less energy following a conversion to LED lighitng, by Osram. The project was conceived concept by the Direzione dei Servizi Tecnici del Governatorato dello Stato della Città del Vaticano, the same organisation that with Osram converted the Sistine Chapel to leds whose spectrum was deigned to …
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Tech start-ups pick up awards from Deloitte
Three new tech businesses from the UK were named winners of the 7th annual Cambridge Wireless Discovering Start-Ups competition in London this week in an event hosted by Deloitte.
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Better touch screens, from Nottingham
Binstead Designs of Nottingham has developed a way to increase touch-screen resolution without increasing the number of electrical connections.
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The Battle of the Beams
German bombing in WWII exacted a heavy toll which would have been heavier if RV Jones hadn’t figured out a way of diverting it. Jones reckoned the bombers were finding their way by using Lorenz-type radio beams called Knickebein (crooked leg) beams. Called into a Cabinet Meeting at the age of 28 to explains his …
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Allo music player: excitement, then disappointment
Well the proper version Ubuntu including a custom version of max2play is available for the Allo Vana hi-fi music player – a player which works with Allo’s own Sparky single-board computer or Raspberry Pi. So I downloaded it, and it all boots up well. Through a different computer on the network, I logged into the …
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China plans 3D NAND production next year
Yangtze River Storage Technology (YRST) the Tsinghua Unigroup Chinese memory company, will start producing 3D NAND at the end of next year, reports Digitimes. 3D NAND industry leaders Toshiba, Samsung and Intel/ Micron are in production of 48-layer NAND. XMC, which was taken over by YRST earlier this year, developed the flash technology with Spansion …
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What next for car and EV batteries?
Lithium-ion batteries will dominate the automotive scene over the coming ten, and possibly 15, years, but some odd-ball technologies could push their way through, according to market research firm IDTechEx. “During that time we shall see peak Pb-acid battery, the biggest nail in its coffin being when electric vehicles more widely abandon them and even …
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air-to-air drone recharging
Imperial College is proposing air-to-air refuelling amongst electric drones using resonant inductive charging. In a proof-of-concept, a small drone carrying a receiving coil, with its battery removed, was hovered 10cm above a static transmit coil etched into PCB using transferred power. “There are a number of scenarios where wirelessly transferring power could improve drone technology. …
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