Driven by the OLED market, display equipment manufacturers continue their robust spending in capital equipment, according to the latest report by market research firm DSCC. According to the firm, total display capital expenditures totaled $11.1 billion, up 32 percent from the previous quarter and up 18 percent year-over-year. Capital spending on display equipment totaled $11.1 billion, […]
Bluetooth Sensor Harvests Energy to Control Lighting Systems
Wireless Bluetooth sensors are showing up in many applications, and wireless company EnOcean is now bringing the technology into lighting control applications. The company has unveiled a solar-powered occupancy sensor for Bluetooth lighting control systems. Reportedly the first on the market, the sensor integrates the company’s established energy harvesting technology. According to EnOcean, the sensors […]
Ultra HD Now the Sought After TV, Says Report
High-definition flat-panel TVs have become popular items for many consumers, and during this holiday season those TVs are likely to be of the Ultra-HD variety. That’s the conclusion of a new report by market research firm Strategy Analytics titled “4K and 8K HDTV Global Market Forecast.” According to the report, 222 million homes will own […]
LoRA Technology Comes to Aid of Australian Cotton Farmers
Poor irrigation can mean the difference between robust crop yield or a money-losing crop yield for many farmers. In an innovative application of LoRa technology, semiconductor supplier Semtech Corporation is leveraging its LoRa@ devices and wireless radio frequency technology to help Australian carrier National Narrowband Network Co. (NNNCo) develop innovative irrigation management solutions for Australian […]
Bosch, Veniam Team to Make Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications Seamless
The increasing number of connected devices in today’s vehicles has spawned an all-too-common dilemma: how to get all these devices to communicate with one another. Automotive products supplier Bosch is trying to make V2X communications a reality, by developing a universal connectivity unit that can communicate using many of the transmissions standards implemented in connected […]
Robots and Drones Spending to Total $115.7 Billion in 2019, Says Report
Global spending continues to be on an upward swing in both robotics and drones, according to an updated forecast by the International Data Corporation (IDC). In its Worldwide Semiannual Robotics and Drones Spending Guide, IDC projects worldwide spending on robotics systems and drones will total $115.7 billion in 2019, an increase of 17.6 percent over 2018. […]
Virtual Reality Comes to Continuing Medical Education
Virtual reality has found its way into the medical world in areas such as robotic surgical training. Now, for the first time, a 360-degree virtual reality (VR) Continuing Medical Education (CME) accredited course in GI surgery has become available for streaming to surgeons and medical professionals. The course is a collaboration between medical experts at […]
Designing Our Roads to Battle Snowstorms
Last Thursday, a fast-moving but powerful snowstorm pelted the New York City metropolitan area with half a foot of snow before eventually changing to sleet and rain. The storm caught everyone—commuters, local and state authorities, and even the weather forecasters—by surprise. Because only a few inches of snow were originally predicted, heavy snow-fighting equipment—namely snow […]
Simple, Scalable Wireless System Uses the RFID Tags on Billions of Products to Sense Contamination
RFID tags are used in many industrial and consumer labeling and tracking applications. Now, MIT Media Lab researchers have developed a wireless system that leverages the cheap RFID tags already on hundreds of billions of products to sense potential food contamination. The system developed by MIT Media Lab researchers, called RFIQ, includes a reader that […]
Seagate, IBM Team to Help Reduce Global Hard Drive Counterfeiting with Blockchain Technology
Combating data counterfeiting is an ongoing challenge in many companies. Seagate Technology plc, a global supplier of data storage solutions, and IBM have announced they are working together to reduce product counterfeiting using blockchain and security technologies. The project, which is designed to help manufacturers, integrators, and business partners fight counterfeit hard drives, uses the […]