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NXP to Accelerate the NFC Market on a Global Scale

NXP Semiconductors N.V. joined the Mobile World Capital Barcelona Foundation to further deploy NFC services around the world. Working together, NXP, the MWCapital and GSMA will facilitate access to NFC technology to new ecosystem players including public administrations, transport operators, system integrators, reader and card manufacturers, advertising companies and gaming businesses among many others.

6 Feb 2013

Innovative Device Detects and Conveys Sense of Touch

UT Dallas researchers are extending the borders of virtual reality, going beyond virtual spaces in which people can see and hear one another to an environment that adds the sense of touch.

5 Feb 2013

Cascade Metrology Selects SciTech's Wireless Access Control Systems

Cascade Metrology knows a thing or two about quality instrumentation. The company is responsible for testing and calibrating Speed Measuring Devices (Doppler radars and lidars) used by law enforcement agencies and other sensitive instruments used in laboratory settings by fortune 500 companies. When Cascade moved its metrology labs to a new space, engineers took the opportunity to vet a selection of wireless access control systems. After careful testing, the clear winner was SciTech Wireless. SciTech's WILDR (Wireless Interface Low Power Digital Radio) solution represents the gold standard in secure, wireless access control.

5 Feb 2013

CeBIT Trade Fair: Fraunhofer to Present Intelligent Armchair with Integrated Sensors

For years the trends have been clear: not only are we getting older all the time, but we are also increasingly left to take care of ourselves in our old age. This is why researchers are already working on technologies that will assist us in everyday situations later in life. One of these technologies is will be presented by the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS in Erlangen (Germany) at the CeBIT trade fair in Hanover, March 5-9, 2013 (Hall 9, stand E08): an intelligent armchair we can not only comfortably sink into in front of the television but one that also motivates us to keep ourselves healthy and fit.

5 Feb 2013

NASA-Funded Team Launches Balloons to Track Behavior of Particles in Radiation Belts

In the bright, constant sun of the Antarctic summer, a NASA-funded team is launching balloons. There are twenty of these big, white balloons, each of which sets off on a different day for a leisurely float around the South Pole to collect information about something far more speedy: the rain of particles that can precipitate out of two gigantic donuts around Earth known as the radiation belts.

From National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) 5 Feb 2013

WUSTL Students-Designed Spirometer Wins Olin Cup Competition

Three teams, including the first all-undergraduate team to place, earned a total of $140,000 during the annual Olin Cup commercial business plan competition finals Jan. 30 in Simon Hall.

4 Feb 2013

Dual Microphone System Functions as Automatic Road Traffic Sensor

An EPFL doctoral student has designed a microphone-based system that functions as an automatic road traffic sensor. The technology can determine not just how much traffic there is, but also how fast vehicles are going and even their size. It has already sparked an interest in the Swiss towns of Sion and Martigny.

4 Feb 2013

JAXA Hinode’s CCD XRT Sensors Capture Amazing Image of Solar Eclipse

On 14th November 2012, e2v image sensors on board the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) Hinode satellite captured an image of the moon travelling across the front of the Sun.

4 Feb 2013

Toshiba Develops Contact Image-Sensor Module for Recognition of Banknotes

Toshiba Corporation today announced that it will enter the linear image-sensor market for banknote recognition applications, a high growth business. The company has developed a contact image-sensor module (CISM) for banknote recognition as its first product, and mass production is scheduled for June 2013.

4 Feb 2013

Practical Circuitry Affects Performance of Compressed Sensing Technology

The last 10 years have seen a flurry of research on an emerging technology called compressed sensing. Compressed sensing does something that seems miraculous: It extracts more information from a signal than the signal would appear to contain. One of the most celebrated demonstrations of the technology came in 2006, when Rice University researchers produced images with a resolution of tens of thousands of pixels using a camera whose sensor had only one pixel.

4 Feb 2013

Life Tracking Systems Utilize Wearable Computing Sensors and Connected Smart Devices

On the tails of CES, global media communications agency Havas Media released today a video exploring one of the hottest trends for consumers and marketers today: Life Tracking and the Quantified Self. Through today's technologies, life tracking allows people to measure and monitor the activities in their daily lives, from eating and sleeping to exercising and shopping.

2 Feb 2013

Portable Sensor Device to Track Metabolism

Breezing, a new startup based on technology developed by researchers at Arizona State University, is offering the world's first portable device that can track an individual's metabolism and use that information to provide diet and exercise recommendations for maintaining or reaching a healthy weight.

2 Feb 2013

Novel Imaging Method Using Sensitive Thermometer Helps View Temperature inside Living Cells

A research team in Japan exploring the functions of messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) – a molecule that encodes the chemical blueprint for protein synthesis – has discovered a way to take a close look at the temperature distribution inside living cells. This discovery may lead to a better understanding of diseases, such as cancer, which generate extraordinary intracellular heat.

2 Feb 2013

SPACEKIDS Project to Develop Novel Kinetic Inductance Detectors for Spacecrafts

The project brings together some of the leading European institutes with expertise in detectors for far infrared wavelengths – a few hundred times longer than the wavelength of visible light.

2 Feb 2013

Comcast RDK Pre-Integrated with STiH416 SoC Improves Multi-Screen Viewing

Developers of high-end set-top boxes and video gateways can significantly reduce time to market for their new products offering rich multi-screen viewing experiences, by taking advantage of the Reference Design Kit (RDK) from Comcast, now pre-integrated with the Orly STiH416 system-on-chip from STMicroelectronics, a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications and a leading provider of set-top box ICs.

From STMicroelectronics 2 Feb 2013