"...power obtainable at any point of the universe."(Nikola Tesla - *1856 / †1943)The idea of wireless power is not new to the electronic scene. Nikola Tesla, a Serbian inventor, was convinced that there will be a world with "power obtainable at any p...
CadSoft EAGLE PCB Design SoftwareThe award winning EAGLE is a powerful and flexible PCB design software offering high level functionality of expensive commercial circuit board design software at a fraction of the cost for over 20 years. EAGLE offers ...
i have a desktop computer, I want to use an at&t Sierra wireless modem that I picked up at a garage sale to link to my HD tvand access Netflix in this way. I dont find any drivers listed or even the correct version of the modem that I have on lin...
Ashutosh Sabharwal (via Rice University) Full duplex Wireless Communication means getting your cake while you're eating it too. Ashutosh Sabharwal, a brilliant professor from Rice University, has made an amazing breakthrough in wireless data com...
Get ready for blazing fast data transfer from a single chip for all cell communication networks. Marvell Co-Founder Weili Dai proclaimed, "The World Modem is another game-changing breakthrough... As a leader in China's 3G standard TD-SCD...
Some of the dishes in the SETI array Due to funding issues, SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence), shut down almost six months ago. The search had come to an end. The 42-antenna Allen Telescope Array (ATA) in Northern California went d...
Announced as ‘ground-breaking’, a new wirelesssensor system for industrial measurement and control has been announced by the Deeter Group.At the centre of the new system is the simple-to-use basestation, designed to receive data from remote wireless...
With the switch over to digital television, a now-painless transition in hindsight, the 50 - 700 Mhz bands were freed. This band was absorbed into what is known as White Space, all un-used frequencies allocated to broadcasting services, but not local...
Add a little art-deco, some solar panels, and a special battery and starts inductively charging devices. Panasonic is releasing a small charging table, which looks like something that belongs at a coffee shop, sometime this year in Japan. The k...
From Taser International comes the launchable taser grenade. A 40mm Human Electro-Muscular Incapacitation, The HEMI, ordinance capable of reaching a target area 100 meters (197 feet) away. Being a standard 40mm, this grenade can be shot from any unde...
I have to know how you all feel about broadcasting your every move on the internet, do you do it? Foursquare, Facebook, etc let's everyone know where you are and what you are up to. In some cases, giving criminals ample information to rob your house ...
www.youtube.com/watchTwo way, simultaneous, wireless communications over a single channel has been demonstrated by Stanford's researching engineers Jung Il Choi, Mayank Jain, and Kannan Srinivasan."Textbooks say you can't do it," said Philip Le...
Imec saw a need in the market, inexpensive digital interface for radio networks, and filled it. With their development it looks like LTE has won the battle for 4G supremacy. The accelerated deployment of broadband personal communication coupled with ...
At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, German researchers demonstrated a mobile radio standard of LTE-Advanced video coding techique called Multiview Video Coding (MVC). The goal is 3D films on cell phones. Despite recent reports of children and ...
Finally, per item RFID tagging, UHF tags to be exact. Can you go through a checkout without putting all your items on the conveyor belt? ABI Research things it will happen soon. Bill Arnold of ABI says, "RFID systems allow apparel retailers to get a ...
The world of mobile communications moves fast. With new mobile devices, new applications and ever-growing and changing consumer demands the wireless networks in use today have to evolve. Rather than take an incremental approach to meet these ch...
A perimeter-protection system created by a team from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering took Best Paper prize at the IEEE Homeland Security Conference in November 2010, and is now moving to deployment at a Florida airport, while also being c...
www.youtube.com/watch At this year’s Computer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, toy company Mattel Inc. unveiled a unique and creative way to use a video camera. They put a miniature camera into a Hot Wheels car that captures up to 60fps of v...
OpenPicus, the italian open source platform made for wireless smart sensors and actuators, definitely takes off with a thick list of juicy news ready to be downloaded on 20th Jan 2011 (10am italian time) The open source platform is mature and offers ...
A new tag from Numerex and Savi Technology can intelligently determine whether to communicate via an active RFID network or satellite communications, thereby promising more thorough, end-to-end visibility in a global supply chain. By Beth ...
Looking for a small form factor to connect your embedded design to Internet ? The Flyport open source plaform enable riskfree development, royalty free TCP/IP libraries usage.It is based on the FCC certified WiFi module MRF24WB0MA. To get i...
Society’s expectation of technology has changed. Do you remember when a black and white television was the best picture available? Do you remember when a Commodore 64 was the best home computer? Do you remember the...
Hi, In Digital GSM900/1800 receiver having single IF stage (70 MHz), typically what are the antialias and image reject filters have been used? References of any antialias and image filters part number for GSM 900/1800 would be appreciated.&...
From Microwave EngineeringBy Jean-Pierre JoostingMicrowave EngineeringOctorber 21,2009Cambridge, UK — Cambridge Consultants has unveiled VenaHub, a data collection and aggregation system that promises to simplify personal health management in a conne...
