Archive for the ‘electronics’ category: Page 39
Sep 8, 2020
3,200 megapixels! The camera heart of future Vera Rubin Observatory snaps record-breaking 1st photos
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: electronics, futurism
The imaging sensors for the future Vera C. Rubin Observatory have taken their record-breaking first photos.
Sep 4, 2020
This headset lets you control your TV
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: electronics
Don’t lift a finger — using only your mind!
Don’t lift a finger — this headset lets you control your TV using only your mind!
Sep 3, 2020
Jeff Bezos thought there was a ‘30% chance’ Amazon would succeed: I told my parents ‘it’s very likely they’ll lose their entire investment’
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: business, electronics
Thanks to Amazon’s success, CEO Jeff Bezos is the richest person in the world, worth $207 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
But when he started Amazon as an online bookseller in 1994, Bezos thought it was likely that his business would fail.
Sep 3, 2020
Harvard and MIT researchers are developing a face mask that lights up when it detects the coronavirus
Posted by Heather Blevins in categories: biotech/medical, electronics
The masks could screen for the coronavirus at airports, hospitals, and offices. They could also double as a diagnostic test.
Sensors produce a fluorescent light when an infected person breathes, coughs, or sneezes into the mask.
Aug 30, 2020
A Randomized Trial of Closed-Loop Control in Children with Type 1 Diabetes
Posted by Omuterema Akhahenda in categories: biotech/medical, electronics
BACKGROUND
A closed-loop system of insulin delivery (also called an artificial pancreas) may improve glycemic outcomes in children with type 1 diabetes.
METHODS
Continue reading “A Randomized Trial of Closed-Loop Control in Children with Type 1 Diabetes” »
Aug 29, 2020
Troops To Test AFRL’s THOR Drone Killer This Fall
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: drones, electronics
THOR puts high-powered microwaves to fry drone swarms’ electronics in a rugged and deployable package.
Aug 13, 2020
Xiaomi aims for high art with world’s first mass-produced transparent TV
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: electronics, mobile phones
China’s Xiaomi has launched a new TV as part of the 10th anniversary celebration that also saw the announcement of the Mi 10 Ultra smartphone. The Mi TV Lux Transparent Edition brings sci-fi into the living room with an edge-to-edge self-luminous television that you can see through.
We’ve seen a few transparent televisions and screens from industry big hitters like Samsung, LG and Panasonic over the years, but Xiaomi says its Mi TV Lux Transparent Edition is the first to go into mass production.
The 55-inch OLED panel is just 5.7-mm thin and sits on a rounded base and, when the TV isn’t powered on, the display looks like a window between you and whatever is behind it – though it can be set to show arty display images if desired. But Xiaomi is promising an “unprecedented visual experience” when it’s switched on, with “extra rich blacks and unmatched brightness.”
Aug 13, 2020
Google Is Launching a Global Earthquake-Detection Network
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: electronics, mobile phones
A new feature will allow Android devices to collect readings from smartphone sensors and warn users when a tectonic shake-up is imminent.
Aug 8, 2020
New reconfigurable circuits for a wide range of applications
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in categories: computing, electronics
Electronic components that can process information with high levels of efficiency are crucial for the development of most contemporary devices and computational tools. Reconfigurable electronics, flexible systems that can change configurations to best utilize available hardware resources, are a possible solution for enhancing processing efficiency.
Researchers at Nanjing University and the National Institute for Materials Science in Japan have recently designed new reconfigurable circuits with advanced shape-morphing and information processing capabilities. These logic and neuromorphic circuits, presented in a paper published in Nature Electronics, were fabricated using 2-D tungsten diselenide, an inorganic compound commonly used in the development of electronics.
“Current mainstream reconfigurable circuits (such as the field programmable gate array, FPGA) are based on traditional silicon circuits, using P-type or N-type field effect transistors with ‘fixed’ electrical characteristics,” Feng Miao, the researcher who led the study, told TechXplore. “For example, PN junction is always reverse-biased, and varying the drain polarity does not add new switching functionalities. Thus, these reconfigurable circuits need to use a lot of transistor resources to build complex circuit structures and eventually realize reconfigurable computing capabilities at the circuit level.”
