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Pericom Adds New Signal Integrity Products to USB Type-C Connector Portfolio

Pericom Semiconductor Corporation, a leading supplier of serial high-speed switching, connectivity, signal-integrity and timing solutions, today announced the addition of new signal integrity products to the industry's broadest portfolio of USB Type-C™ connector solutions, including DisplayPort Linear ReDriver and USB3.1 Gen1 (5Gbps) and Gen2 (10Gbps) lowest power ReDrivers/Repeaters.

4 Nov 2015

Green Bank Telescope Radar Images Reveal New Details of Asteroid 2015 TB145

The highest-resolution radar images of asteroid 2015 TB145's safe flyby of Earth have been processed and yield new information about its surface features.

4 Nov 2015

Smartphone App Helps Navigate Inside Large Buildings

In large buildings, you can lose your orientation. Fraunhofer researchers have developed an Android app that navigates through passages, corridors, rooms and floors to the desired destination. They use WLAN to help with location. The technology can be customized and integrated into other applications.

4 Nov 2015

New Flexible Phototransistor for Application in Electronic Light Sensors

Electrical engineers at University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a unique, flexible phototransistor that is considered to be the most responsive and fastest silicon phototransistor yet.

By Beth Ellison 3 Nov 2015

Researchers Fabricate Supersensitive Graphene-Boron Nitride Magnetic Sensor

An innovative supersensitive magnetic sensor has been developed using graphene and boron nitride. The sensor is smaller, two hundred times more sensitive and shows less temperature-variation than commercially avaiable sensors.

3 Nov 2015

Ultrahaptics Develops Unique Technology that Uses Ultrasound to Create Tactile Sensations in Mid-Air

A leading developer of technology that uses ultrasound to create tactile sensations in mid-air has been awarded £10.1 million to grow its business globally.

3 Nov 2015

IRTF's Telescope Reveals Near-Earth Object as Most Likely to be Dead Comet

The large space rock that will zip past Earth this Halloween is most likely a dead comet that, fittingly, bears an eerie resemblance to a skull.

3 Nov 2015

Sensitive and Low-Cost Biosensor Measures Glucose Level in Saliva

Diabetic patients have to monitor blood glucose regularly and frequently, but conventional method of taking blood sample for measuring glucose level is painful. It is therefore important to develop high performance biological sensors for monitoring the glucose level at a reasonable cost.

3 Nov 2015

Seek Compact Thermal Imager Features in ‘This Old House Top 100’ List

Today, Time Inc.'s This Old House named Seek Thermal's Seek Compact thermal imager to its fifth annual "This Old House Top 100," a list of the 100 best new home products of the year. Each year, the editors spend months scouting, testing, and culling countless new products for the home to identify the most distinctive, useful, and innovative in seven categories: Kitchen, Bath, Tools, Home Tech, Building Products, Outdoor Living, and Finishing Touches.

3 Nov 2015

Ocean Bottom Seismometer Helps Map Future Earthquake in Pacific Northwest

A large team of scientists has nearly completed the first map of the mantle under the tectonic plate that is colliding with the Pacific Northwest and putting Seattle, Portland and Vancouver at risk of the largest earthquakes and tsunamis in the world.

3 Nov 2015

Researchers Use Magnetometers to Gain Insights into Northern Lights, Space Weather

Researchers find that magnetometers have a social network where they talk about the weather

3 Nov 2015

Bosch to Showcase Latest MEMS Products at MEMS Executive Congress US 2015

At the upcoming MEMS Executive Congress, Bosch, the world’s leading supplier of MEMS sensors, will be showing how customers benefit when a group of companies, all under one umbrella, share their deep technical expertise in both tiny MEMS sensors as well as in larger, more complex systems.

3 Nov 2015

CASMED Sells Assets Related to 740 SELECT Vital Signs Monitoring Product Line to Zoe Medical

CAS Medical Systems, Inc. (CASMED), a leader in medical devices for non-invasive patient monitoring, announces the sale of assets related to its 740 SELECT® vital signs monitoring product line to Zoe Medical, Inc. The sale of the 740 SELECT product line coupled with the phase-out of earlier generation monitors completes the Company's exit from the vital signs monitoring market.

2 Nov 2015

Ambiq Micro’s Apollo MCU Incorporated into Misfit Shine 2 Fitness and Sleep Monitor

Ambiq Micro, the leader in ultra-low power solutions, today announced Misfit, Inc. has selected the Apollo microcontroller (MCU) as the 'brain' in the Misfit Shine 2 Fitness and Sleep Monitor.

2 Nov 2015

Researchers to Study Data from Cassini's Gas Analyzer and Dust Detector that Sampled Saturn's Moon Enceladus

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has begun transmitting its latest images of Saturn's icy, geologically active moon Enceladus, acquired during the dramatic Oct. 28 flyby in which the probe passed about 30 miles (49 kilometers) above the moon's south polar region. The spacecraft will continue transmitting its data from the encounter for the next several days.

2 Nov 2015