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Atmel Corp discuss Internet of Things

Atmel has over 40,000 customers of its MCUs - companies embedding MCUs to make devices powering the Internet of Things.

ZigBee and Thread move towards mesh network interoperability

The ZigBee Alliance and the Thread Group recently announced they are collaborating to enable the ZigBee Cluster Library to run over Thread networks.

Lighted clothing that flashes to beat of music will hit runway

Fiber science and physics students have teamed to create fashionable "smart" garments with vivid, luminescent panels that pulse to music.

The smallest autonomous computer

These devices are helping usher in the era of the Internet of Things (IoT), where people are connected to things and other people through the cloud and contain solar cells that power the battery with ambient light, including indoor rooms with no natural sunlight, allowing the computers to run perpetually.

3D printable designs using the human body as a canvas

All too often, augmented reality exists as a digital overlay in our physical environment. But what if you could actually touch and manipulate this digital information?

Discovery may be breakthrough for hydrogen-fueled vehicles

Researchers discovered a way to create hydrogen fuel using a biological method that greatly reduces the time and money it takes to produce the zero-emissions fuel. This method uses abundantly available corn stover - the stalks, cobs, and husks - to produce the hydrogen.

Graphene and organic composites in electronics

Chemists from Europe's Graphene Flagship review the potential for graphene-organic composite materials in electronics. The researchers show how organic semiconductors can be used to better process graphene, and to tune its properties for particular applications.

Autonomous Vehicles Part 4 - Technology and Markets

This final article in the autonomous vehicles series discusses existing and future technologies and markets. Tables and figures show market sizes, numbers, values and autonomous potential for 40 electric vehicle categories.

Will Printed Electronics & 3D Printing disrupt PCB rapid prototyping?

The vast majority of electronic circuits are currently made using Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) that are both rigid and flat. The market for traditional Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) currently stands at around $60bn. This established technology is used across a variety of different final applications. Several technologies related to traditional PCBs are now emerging in the form of commercial products that address one or more of the limitations with traditional PCBs. Some of these new technologies aim to improve the current workflow by allowing traditional PCB designs to be prototyped more quickly, cheaply and locally. Other new technologies aim to fill gaps in markets such as wearable technologies where rigid PCBs have significant limitations. Finally, some new technologies promise to completely revolutionise the electronics industry by allowing fully 3D printed electronics with traces and components used anywhere inside an object.

How recharging leaves behind microscopic debris inside batteries

An eruption of lithium at the tip of a battery's electrode, cracks in the electrode's body, and a coat forming on the electrode's surface reveal how recharging a battery many times leads to its demise.

Perpetuus Advanced Materials agreement with Graphene Platform Corp

Japan's Graphene Platform Corporation signs preliminary agreement to purchase DBD Plasma Reactors from Perpetuus Advanced Materials.

New material could boost batteries' power, help power plants

A team of researchers has developed a material that acts as a superhighway for ions. The material could make batteries more powerful, change how gaseous fuel is turned into liquid fuel and help power plants burn coal and natural gas more efficiently.

Federal Minister of Transport Dobrindt tests piloted Audi

Minister of Transport in Germany, Alexander Dobrindt, satisfied himself of the technical capabilities of the Audi A7 piloted driving concept.

Cambridge Nanosystems

Cambridge Nanosystems is a UK-based start-up born out of Cambridge University that specialises in advanced materials. In this profile update, Dr Khasha Ghaffarzadeh covers their latest developments.

Grafoid

Grafoid is an unusual graphene company. It is in fact an investment company that is active in the field of graphene and utilizes the graphene hype.

Heat-converting material patents licensed

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has licensed patents on high-temperature thermoelectric materials to Evident Technologies, which provides these kinds of materials and related power systems.

AGFA and printed electronics - interview with IDTechEx

This interview with AGFA and IDTechEx was conducted at Printed Electronics USA - the largest event in the world on the topic.

Three-dimensional control over functional shapes of microstructures

Researchers have developed a novel photolithographic technology enabling control over the functional shapes of micropatterns using oxygen diffusion.

Apigee launches Apigee Link

An API-first Internet of Things (IoT) product for connecting devices to the Internet.

Scientists create quick-charging hybrid supercapacitors

Researchers have successfully combined two nanomaterials to create a new energy storage medium that combines the best qualities of batteries and supercapacitors.