collision sensors and adapts to roads and mountains By Victoria Woollaston for Mailonline Published: 10:54 GMT, 24 june 2015 Updated:
With all of its protoypes, Ford took inspiration from technology seen in cars including rear-facing ultrasonic sensors.
These sensors link with the handlebars to discreetly alert the rider when a car is about to overtake using subtle vibrations.
Link app for use on the smartwatch to bring real-time data to the rider's wrist.
plus the smartwatch alerts the rider and beeps. There are no immediate plans to release the bikes
'All manmade displays-LCD, LED, CRT-are rigid, brittle and bulky. But you look at an octopus,
The research has major implications for existing electronics like televisions, computers and mobile devices that have considered displays thin by today's standards but monstrously bulky in comparison.
The sensor-packed harness can sense the animal's movement, and the sounds it makes,
One prototype features three electrocardiography electrodes which can monitor the heart rate and transmit that data to a tablet.
The technology also includes physiological sensors that monitor things like heart rate and body temperature. The sensors not only track a dog's physical well-being,
but can offer information on a dog's emotional state, such as whether it is excited or stressed.
'For example, for search and rescue, we've added environmental sensors that can detect hazards such as gas leaks,
as well as a camera and microphone for collecting additional information,'Bozkurt says.''We're also very interested in addressing stress in working dogs, such as guide dogs for the blind,'sayssean Mealin,
'We're reliant on the physiological and behavioral sensors to give us a picture of the dog's mental and emotional state.'
and improving the physiological sensors for use in animal shelters and hospitals.''This platform is an amazing tool,
said spokesman Luca Gamberini. e also have a sensor panel with live data feed from the lab biosphere so all data is live on the internet and accessible to anyone. c
the drug led to abnormal development of microchambers, including decreased size, problems with muscle contraction and lower beat rates compared with heart tissue that had not been exposed to thalidomide.'
and other UC Berkeley researchers publicly debuted a system of beating human heart cells on a chip that could be used to screen for drug toxicity.
A custom-built Arduino microcontroller takes the electrical pulse from the driver's heart, and uses it to trigger the electroluminescent paint to display the heartbeat in a pulsating pattern on the car's side panels.
The electronic signals are sent wirelessly on to an array of electrodes placed over the damaged cells at the back of the retina.
further vacuum tests and improved EMDRIVE models with higher Q factors and electronics that allow tuning for optimal operation.'
and roll axis are detected by smartphone accelerometers, that send user data into the virtual world, which was created by HYVE companion animation studio, lumacode. the combination movement and visual cues,
convincingly fools the brain into believing the virtual scenarios. initially the caroswas very complex with advanced exo skeleton electronics,
the lock incorporates the most advanced fingerprint sensor from sweden. it utilizes a radio frequency signal to scan the pattern under the surface of the skin to guarantee its authenticity. the body is has no keyholes to deny any idea of lock picking,
or by registering their fingerprints. the ola fingerprint lock currently looking for funding on its kickstarter campaign with a march 2016 shipping date. the companion app for ola the sensor uses radio frequency signal to scan the pattern under the surface of the skin schematics of the ola fingerprint lock n
#Fraunhofer reveals chip-scale solar-powered wireless sensor node German lab Fraunhofer IMS has created a self-contained solar-powered wireless chip-scale IC that can warn
At 10mm across, the chip is small enough to be installed inside double glazing on the frame that separate the two glass panes. hanks to this window space,
On the chip are magnetic and acceleration sensors that measure how far the window is open,
and radio that communicates this information to a basestation. Challenge one was to deposit a solar cell directly on a die,
Secondly, the chip needed to run from a tiny solar cell, in the winter, and through the night. y keeping both processor and chip extremely small, the latter is extremely frugal.
In addition, the researchers constructed switches that consume little energy, and engineered very short radio protocols,
said Fraunhofer. dding to the overall conservation of power is the fact that the sensor always switches to sleep mode.
the sensor can be set so that it wakes up every few minutes, or even seconds,
In the window application, sensors on the chip measure tilt and report if it is open
The chip also detects shock, and Fraunhofer claims can differentiate between a ball hitting the glass
and a crowbar levering open the window. he applications of the radio chip are diverse.
because the application of the solar coating is connected directly to the production process of the chips.
The solar radio sensor chip is on show this week at the BAU trade fair in Munich (Hall C2, Stand 119) a
#Semi market grows 7. 9%nudging $340bn says Gartner Worldwide semiconductor revenues totaled $339. 8 billion in 2014,
The top-25 semiconductor vendorscombined revenues increased 11.7%during the period. The world top-25 semiconductor vendors accounted for 72.1%of total market revenues in 2014, up from 69.7%in 2013,
Gartner said. s a group, DRAM vendors outperformed the rest of the semiconductor industry. This follows the trend seen in 2013 due to a booming DRAM market that saw revenue increase 31.7%during 2014 as the undersupply
and stable pricing continued, said Andrew Norwood, research VP at Gartner. n contrast to 2013,
including ASIC, discretes and microcomponents, all device categories saw positive growth in 2014, but none could match the growth of the memory market,
capturing 15.0%of the 2014 semiconductor market, down slightly from its peak of 16.5%in 2011,
Norwood continued. owever, in terms of the overall share of the semiconductor market DRAM accounted for 13.5%in 2014, half of the 27.9%share it held back in 1995.
SK Hynix and Micron technology benefited the most from the strong memory market, with the strongest growth of the top 10 vendors.
SK Hynix saw a second strong year of revenue growth propelled by the booming DRAM market.
Its acquisition of Elpida Memory in 2013 helped make it one of the fastest-growing semiconductor vendors in the top 25.
Micron DRAM business slightly underperformed the overall DRAM market as the company converted Fab 7 (formerly Tech Semiconductor) from DRAM to NAND in order to rebalance the portfolio following the Elpida acquisition.
propelling the company into the top 25 semiconductor vendors for the first time. MSTAR Semiconductor was merged with Mediatek after a prolonged merger,
and ON Semiconductor acquired Aptina Imaging. Meanwhile, Infineon Technologiesbid for International Rectifier has yet to be completed.
After adjusting for M&a activity, the top 25 vendors grew at 10.0, %meaning the rest of the market saw a more respectable growth of 2. 6%,
%according to Gartner h
#CES: Smart watches will close the curtains We will soon be able to control the heating
heating thermostats or even mechanisms to open and close curtains. CSR believes it is important for this smart home application to be compatible with existing consumer devices,
EAV is a form of acupuncture where a small electric current is passed between pairs of electrodes.
An electrotrode in the pen tip creates an electrical circuit with the body through a second electrode in the pen case.
The electrodes are not in the motor cortex or attached to muscle nerves, but are in a part of the brain associated with planning muscle activity:
Implanting electrodes in the PPC, with appropriate computer processing, has given the patient he ability to perform a fluid handshaking gesture and even play ock,
Two arrays each of 96 micro-electrodes were implanted into his PPC in 2013. Functional magnetic resonance imaging his neurons to be monitored while Sorto imagined various types of limb and eye movements.
#Imec Milab medical game-changer Imec and John Hopkins University of Baltimore have delivered a ame-changer in healthcarewith a chip-based technology called Milab
The first use of the predictive sensing technology is in Qi Android smartwatch launcher, Qilaunch Wear.
regardless of the sensors installed or type of touch or touchless environment, and can be added to any application or operating system.
#Imec demoes full-colour OLEDS Imec and Fujifilm have demonstrated full-colour OLEDS by using their jointly-developed photoresist technology for organic semiconductors,
a technology that enables submicron patterning. This paves the way to producing high-resolution and large organic electroluminescent (EL) displays
There has been active R&d for organic semiconductors to develop a high-resolution patterning method for organic EL materials to be used in these products.
In 2013, Fujifilm and imec jointly developed photoresist technology for organic semiconductors that enables submicron patterning without damaging the organic semiconductor materials,
This is why the technology has attracted wide attention since the development announcement with anticipation of a cost-effective way of manufacturing high-resolution organic semiconductor devices.
In the latest achievement, Fujifilm and imec produced full-colour OLEDS with the photoresist technology for organic semiconductors
to create full-color OLEDS. An OLED array of 40 x 40 dots at the resolution of 640ppi was realized
and illuminated with UV rays to confirm that red, green and blue dots separately emitted light.
An example would be creating an OLED array that adds a fourth color to red
as well as developing previously-unseen devices such as a new sensors that integrate OLED with the organic photodetector o
#University embeds RFID chips in yarn Researchers at Nottingham Trent University have come up with a way of embedding RFID chips in yarns
Professor Tilak Dias of the Advanced Textiles Research Group of the School of art & Design, claims that the embedded chips annot be seen in situ by the naked eye He has patented the technology,
f an RFID chip is embedded into a shirt, for instance, it will provide a much greater level of anti-theft
As people will not be able to easily identify where a chip is located in a garment,
either side of the chips are embedded in yarn fibres and act as an antenna. Measuring one millimetre by 0. 5 millimetre in size
when bought in bulk the chips can cost only a few pence each. Similar to the RFID devices now used in bank cards for contactless payments,
the tiny chips can contain all the information which is communicated usually via barcode. n relation to recycled clothes,
charities would be able to sort garments much quicker perhaps even in an automated way to identify the types of clothing that are suitable for different countries according to their requirements,
In a collaborative international effort, American colleagues have built the first field-effect transistors from the new material.
The array of possible applications ranges from transistors and sensors to mechanically flexible semiconductor devices. Unlike graphene,
black arsenic phosphorus behaves like a semiconductor. A co-operation between the TUM, the University of Regensburg, the University of Southern California (USC) and Yale has produced a field effect transistors (fet) made of black arsenic phosphorus. The compounds were synthesised by Marianne Koepf
at the laboratory of the research group for Synthesis and Characterization of Innovative Materials (SCIM at the TUM.
With an arsenic concentration of 83%the material exhibits an extremely small band gap of only 0. 15 electron volts
making it predestined for sensors which can detect long wavelength infrared radiation. Lidar (light detection and ranging) sensors operate in this wavelength range, for example.
They are used, among other things, as distance sensors in cars. Another application is the measurement of dust particles and trace gases in environmental monitoring.
A further interesting aspect of these new, two-dimensional semiconductors is their anisotropic electronic and optical behavior.
The material exhibits different characteristics along the x-and y-axes in the same plane.
#Graphene film can super cool LEDS Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have developed a method for efficiently cooling electronics using graphene-based film.
and the electronic component (see picture). The researchers have shown that the in-plane thermal conductivity of the graphene-based film,
A likely application says Johan Liu is the integration of graphene-based film into LEDS, lasers and radio frequency components for cooling purposes. s
In a collaborative international effort, American colleagues have built the first field-effect transistors from the new material.
The array of possible applications ranges from transistors and sensors to mechanically flexible semiconductor devices. Unlike graphene,
black arsenic phosphorus behaves like a semiconductor. A co-operation between the TUM, the University of Regensburg, the University of Southern California (USC) and Yale has produced a field effect transistors (fet) made of black arsenic phosphorus. The compounds were synthesised by Marianne Koepf
at the laboratory of the research group for Synthesis and Characterization of Innovative Materials (SCIM at the TUM.
With an arsenic concentration of 83%the material exhibits an extremely small band gap of only 0. 15 electron volts
making it predestined for sensors which can detect long wavelength infrared radiation. Lidar (light detection and ranging) sensors operate in this wavelength range, for example.
They are used, among other things, as distance sensors in cars. Another application is the measurement of dust particles and trace gases in environmental monitoring.
A further interesting aspect of these new, two-dimensional semiconductors is their anisotropic electronic and optical behavior.
The material exhibits different characteristics along the x-and y-axes in the same plane.
#Graphene-based film can super cool LEDS Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have developed a method for efficiently cooling electronics using graphene-based film.
and it has become evident that those methods cannot be used to rid electronic devices off great amounts of heat,
which is made an electronic component of silicon, he continues. The stronger bonds result from so-called functionalisation of the graphene,
and the electronic component (see picture). The researchers have shown that the in-plane thermal conductivity of the graphene-based film,
A likely application says Johan Liu is the integration of graphene-based film into LEDS, lasers and radio frequency components for cooling purposes n
Each base station queries a central database to determine which network the terminal is registered to
multispectral cameras and gas sensors to assess the health of someone looking into it. It does this by examining the person face,
while the gas sensors take samples of the user breath looking for compounds that give an indication of how much they drink or smoke.
According to chip supplier NXP: Existing automotive technologies and business models that have worked for the car industry for a century are not so well suited to a changing car market with autonomous vehicles and Iot-connected cars.
This will combine car makers with electronics firms and software services suppliers. No single sector will be able to capitalise on this market, due to its diversity and the range of technologies required.
Putting electronics management systems in cars was only the beginning. Connecting vehicles to the internet will add a far greater level of complexity to the automotive business model.
Freight Farms transforms shipping containers into self-contained farms that grow fresh produce using LEDS and hydroponics,
#Cardiac microchip provides advance warning of future heart problems A potentially lifesaving microchip has been developed to forewarn patients suffering from heart problems of any deterioration in their condition.
Reg Youngman is one of the first to try the microchip. A tiny micro sensor has been inserted into his pulmonary artery,
which monitors his heart function. Everyday he is scanned and his data is sent to his hospital and medical team,
and hit me really badly. he Cardiomems sensor is implanted next to the heart during a minimally invasive procedure using a cardiac catheter,
so wee really hoping that this little chip will help us add science to that and get a better idea of
followed by FPGA and ASICS. As more and more people bought ASIC miners, operations began to shift further, from private residential complexes to huge cloud networks.
These large-scale mining operations managed to further reduce costs by centralizing operations and paying lower utility rates.
and the opportunity to use multiple antennas for better signal sourcing and multiple carrier support.
Spiral 2 also shifts from FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) to ASICS specialized application-specific integrated circuits with superior performance
Spiral 3 will add the Rockchip reference design, an LTE 4g modem, an Android release, packaging
and other types of smoke detector modules in a smartphone platform. A Project Ara device could conceivably include multiple modules to scan for various types of atmospheric contaminants
along with an LTE modem to report their prevalence at specific locations. Google has stressed the goal of creating an entire ecosystem around this concept rather than simply throwing it to the consumer-wolves,
and hobbyists who want the ability to customize a phone for particularly long battery life or with specialized sensors.
The ability to use multiple antennas could also prove useful for globetrotters if the phone can be equipped with a sufficiently flexible LTE radio to allow for a truly global device.
you have to tell Samsung, LG, and Motorola to provide you with an updated version of our operating system.
and Samsung continued interest in Tizen are both the result of Google push to embed itself into the center of mobile business
The heart of Wattup is a hub that basically a powerful RF transmitter station. Devices that want to receive power from the hub announce their presence via Bluetooth 4. 0. Wattup then uses that connection to direct the wireless power signal to the device.
and converted to DC power in the phone or tablet by a receiver chip. Whenever youe sending an electromagnetic signal through the air,
Some experiments in long-range wireless power have forced simply brute their way through this problem to the point that they actually heat up the air around the transmitter.
The intention is to build a Wattup transmitter that is tied into the state of your devices.
or anything else if they have a receiver. Wattup also takes into account one of the drawbacks of wireless power you don usually think about:
Recent actions, like Comcast decision to arbitrarily charge more for modem rentals, illustrates the alternative scenario this is
#New graphene display creates LEDS at an atomic level Graphene has had a rough go of it of late.
This doesn mean that graphene has no electronics applications, however, and a research team from the University of Manchester has published a report detailing how flexible 2d graphene arrays could be used in the next-generation of LED screens.
the Cambridge Graphene Centre demonstrated a display that incorporated a graphene electrode. The new LEDS built by the University of Manchester in this experiment were engineered apparently at an atomic level from multiple layers of crystal lattice as shown below.
This type of structure implements multiple layers of materials horizontally, but because each lattice is only a few atoms thick,
The near-term applications of this technology could be in optoelectronics. Electron movement is controlled via quantum wells (a quantum well is a layer of material that constricts the movements of electrons to particular dimensions to ensure energy arrives where it meant to go).
the University of Manchester team certified that the graphene-based LEDS have remained robust and continued to emit light for weeks.
The team claims that these graphene-based LEDS can emit light across their entire surface (apparently obviating
and have reached efficiencies that are already comparable to organic LEDS in terms of quantum efficiency (photons emitted per electron injected).
Whether or not that means graphene-based LED TECHNOLOGY can supplant OLED is, of course, an open question.
While OLEDS have become popular in certain Samsung displays, the OLED revolution in mainstream television has yet to occur.
What was predicted once as The next Big Thing after 1080p has been supplanted largely by conventional LCD technology at higher 4k resolutions.
Right now. OLED has just one major vendor LG offering serious support, and that not enough to drive long-term R&d for continuing the technology in large panels.
It not clear if graphene LEDS can drive the rich, vibrant colors that have made OLEDS desirable,
but if they can, it possible that TV manufacturers will finally be able to deliver the promise of OLED in a different technology.
Of course, given the long lead time between research and commercialization, wee still talking about advances that could take five to ten years to hit the market i
#Microsoft tries to thwart Google by investing in Cyanogen Windows phone still hasn set the world on fire,
and converts it to electrical energy reportedly enough to power a small electronic device, like a wearable.
An electrode is needed in order to harvest the current, so the research team installed a 50nm-thick gold film to get the job done.
a finger-tap on the device was able to generate enough current to power 12 commercial LEDS.
this type of generator could remove the need for batteries in certain mobile devices your smartwatch
#New microprocessor claims 10x energy improvement As power consumption has become one of the most important metrics of CPU design,
Now, one small embedded company, Ambiq Micro, is claiming to have made a breakthrough in CPU design by building a chip designed for subthreshold voltage operation with dramatic results.
Subthreshold and near-threshold voltage operation The threshold voltage of a transistor is the voltage point required to create a conducting path between the source and drain terminals.
which the transistor turns n. The voltage threshold is not an absolute, however operation is possible in both the near-threshold and subthreshold regions.
the total amount of energy a chip leaks can result in higher power consumption than would result
Ambiq is claiming that its Apollo microcontroller, which is based on the ARM Cortex-M4 design with FPU,
While there still a vast gulf between even a high-powered embedded chip like the Cortex-M4 and a Cortex-A7 smartphone class CPU, the only way to close that gap is to continue to push embedded performance per watt
and make all-day smartwatch battery life a reality in the long run t
#Lasers create surface so hydrophobic that water bounces off like a ball In the study of hydrophobic surfaces,
The absence of a bandgap in pure graphene means that although its electrical conductivity is the highest of any material bar none,
not only how to build precisely defined bandgaps into composites of graphene and boron nitride, but they have uncovered also the deeper electronic structure of the material
In contrast to the unidirectional current flow of electrons in a regular metal, a material that behaves as a opological insulatorwould be useful in several spintronic applications.
Bending light with a microchip The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has demonstrated solid-state optical phased array technology in a microchip bringing the ability to bend light to the battlefront.
But in the former case, radar antennas are used as the electrically tunable element. So what the big deal here?
DARPA breakthrough 3 uses a microchip to control the light, vastly different to existing methods.
and manufacturable through standard semiconductor processing. DARPA Short-range Wide-field-of-view Extremely agile Electronically steered Photonic Emitter (SWEEPER) program has integrated successfully nonmechanical optical scanning technology onto a microchip.
The SWEEPER technology has demonstrated that it can sweep a laser back and forth more than 100 000 times per second, 10,000 times faster than current state-of-the-art mechanical systems.
the widest field of view ever achieved by a chip-scale optical scanning system. DARPA foresees this technology will open up a new class of miniaturized, extremely low-cost, robust laser-scanning technologies (LIDAR),
which could lead to greatly enhanced capabilities for numerous military and commercial applications ncluding autonomous vehicles, robotics, sensors and high-data-rate communications.
Those researchers built a series of pipes for light (phase shifters) on a microchip, which is able to slows down
The timed light waves are delivered then to tiny array elements within a grid on the chip.
There a touch display panel on the top to input collected data straight into the patient EMR.
by means of a roll-on coating consisting of a honeycomb of electrodes (see bottom right image).
whereby opaque, charged particles (approx. 1 micron in size) are attracted to electrodes that posses an opposite charge.
Thus the electric field created between the two electrodes causes the flow of these particles back and forth.
The interaction of incoming light with each electrophoretic pixel (two electrodes) depends on the position of the particles relative to these electrodes,
In reference to these, the device uses electrophoresis to attract charged color particles to the top transparent electrode to preadtheir color,
which are adjacent to the electrode. The device is filled with dual-colour, dual-particle colloidal dispersion inks.
It is common in e-ink displays to use sub-pixels (i e. multiple electrodes to do some fancy charged transport),
They use three electrodes and by altering the applied voltages between them all, many color states are created during operation,
which is the same technology used to pattern microchips and is very expensive. But the design here can be integrated with HP roll-to-roll micro-patterning technique, a much cheaper and large scale alternative.
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