Artist’s rendition of the Tactical Laser Weapon Module deployed on a drone aircraft.Perhaps it was apropos that around the same time trailers for the upcoming Star Wars movie “The Force Awakens” were circulating on the blogosphere General Atomics Aer...
CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator. It consists of a 27-km ring of superconducting magnets with a number of accelerating structures to boost the energy of the particles along the way. It f...
Facebook plans to go aloft to beam Internet access down from a fleet of solar-powered drones. Aquila is the code name for the social media giant’s V-shaped unmanned vehicles, one of which which recently completed its first test flight in the U.K., a ...
A human crew in orbit around Mars controls a suite of robotic surrogates, including a rover, climbing-bot, and miniature sample-return rocket. Before Apollo 11 landed on the moon Apollo missions 8 and 10 tested various components while orbiting ...
Artist illustration of the jet-powered QuicksilverFor some of us, our occupation involves a higher than normal risk to our safety and perhaps even our lives. For others, such as those brave individuals who have tried to break the World Water Speed re...
Iris biometric authentication is going mainstream. This type of authentication validates a person’s identity via recognizing the pattern of that person's iris, the ring around the pupil of the eye, which is unique for each individual, much like a...
There is a wonderful idiom that boxing commentators use to physically compare the pugilists before a bout. It’s called “the tale of the tape.” As the contestants are introduced the ringside announcers provide their body measurements (the “tape”) incl...
Once upon a time—up until the late 1990s, in fact--we were pretty certain we knew one key thing about the expansion of the Universe: that the gravity of celestial objects was certain to slow the expansion as time went on. Then, around 1998, observati...
In developing countermeasures for biological, chemical and radiological warfare you can’t, for obvious reasons, expose humans to nasty germs or high levels of radiation. You don’t want to expose animals to these pathogens either, if you can avo...
Hi Guys. I was watching The Conversation starring Gene Hackman a few nights ago and came across a nice exchange between two of the main characters discussing the design of (then) advanced surveillance equipment: Bernie: That's very nice, Ha...
Apple CarPlay goes well beyond Bluetooth pairing for playing music or making a hands-free callMaybe you’ve heard this one before. A big, well-known technology company with billions of dollars to spend and a palpable fear of missing out on the “Next B...
As a new parent I found a debate in our society about how to approach vaccinations, which is especially hot here in Colorado. There are now even court battles addressing if vaccinations should be a requirement for anyone wanting to attend public scho...
We are a clever lot! This week we have won three supplier awards across product, sales and marketing. Firstly, on Tuesday we were recognised by Elektron Technology as its EMEA Distributor of the Year for 2014/2015. The inaugural award is i...
Written by Paul KleinNewark element14 is making its presence known throughout California with the help of billboards, branded bus shelters, customer appreciation events and a wrapped van. Have you seen any of them? They’re all part of a wider Tech To...
Written by Paul KleinNewark element14 is making its presence known throughout California with the help of billboards, branded bus shelters, customer appreciation events and a wrapped van. Have you seen any of them? They’re all part of a wider Tech To...
Pico Technology have released a beta version of PicoScope for Apple Mac owners who want to use PicoScope oscilloscopes under OS X. To get your copy, go to our "Labs" section: http://labs.picotech.com/#mac and download the archive provided. Once ...
Net Neutrality in 2014: Filtered and Censored Communication Net neutrality is a topic that many users of the Internet know little about. With the recent announc...
SMI RED-oem Remote Eye Tracking platform render. (via SMI)Law enforcement and federal agencies have been using polygraph machines to detect lies since Cesare Lombroso introduced his blood pressure device back in 1895. Before that? Torture was used as...
Menu projection at Eggcellent (via Advanced Technology Labs)Japan is the land of technology and this week that innovation has made its way to the restaurant industry, which, according to the Recruit Advanced Technology Lab, is trying to redefine cust...
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have taken household plants and paired them with nanomaterials to create bionic plants that can do everything from monitoring environmental pollutants to detecting chemical weapons.  ...
Cortana in action (via WPC)One of the biggest features of Apple's mobile OS is its voice recognition tool, Siri. Siri allows users to ask questions such as “are there any taco restaurants around” and will process the question and give the user an app...
Making the World a Smarter PlaceJoin us at our upcoming FTF Americas and experience one of the most comprehensive embedded ecosystems in the industry. FTF features four days of in-depth training, workshops and demonstrations from Freescale and ecosys...
Set Top and Smart TV PR images... Keyboard is quite welcome! (via Hisense)Android fans unite – Hisense recently announced the launch of its new Smart TV powered by Android 4.2.2. The Hisense H6 Smart TV combines Android technology with the innovative...
Russell Rubman’s Gittler Guitar. (via kickstarter & Russell Rubman)Guitars, or stringed instruments, haven’t changed much over the few thousand years since their inception. (A 3,300-year-old stone carving of a Hittite bard playing a stringed inst...
