NEC has developed ARmKeypad Air, where smart glasses are used to turn the arm of a wearer into a virtual keyboard, allowing for contact-free operation. ARmKeypad Air enables contact-free operation through the movement of a wearer’s finger using Augmented Reality (AR) to create the image of a virtual keyboard on the forearm of a wearer. …

NEC puts AR on your arm

Insulators could be converted into thermal conductors by an exotic surface effect, and power electronics might one day run cooler as a result. “In the last several years, theoretical papers have predicted the ability of surface phonon polaritons to increase thermal conduction in nano-materials made from polar materials like silicon dioxide,” said Georgia Institute of …

Phonon polaritons turn insulator into heat conductor for power electronics

OLED lighting still holds potential, according to a US Department of Energy report on available products and promised improvements, while a Snapshot Caliper report on LED downlights reports lower levels of performance improvement relative to other SSL luminaire types.

AWS Database Migration Service now supports continuous data replication. Customers have the option of enabling Multi-AZ which provides a replication stream that is fault tolerant through redundant replication servers. Continuous replication, when combined with DMS’ ability to migrate data between database engines, results in an exponential growth of potential use cases. 

We are pleased to announce that AWS Schema Conversion Tool now supports conversions from Oracle Data Warehouse and Teradata to Amazon Redshift. SCT actively analyzes the application and custom database code in the source data warehouse platform in order to provide optimized DDL statements with appropriate sort and distribution keys for Amazon Redshift.

Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) now allows you to specify an IAM role that can be used by the containers in an ECS task.

Eleven years ago, a couple of water guys had a crazy idea: why not turn their passion for motorcycle-riding into an opportunity to raise money for charity? 

In the wake of the Flint, Mich., emergency, water utilities are grappling with the daunting problem of lead service lines to homes.

How utilities are engaging the public and building trust

The efficiency of MBR technology is offering opportunities to transform communities.