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Software predicts and prevents drone collisions
When Jeff Bezos unveiled his vision of drones delivering packages to Amazon customers during a60 Minutessegment in late 2013, it caught many people as science fiction. Scarcely two years later, drones are poised to become a technology for not just delivering packages, but monitoring agriculture, gathering news in urban environments and even conducting search and rescue missions.
Flexible antennas suit GNSS & 2.4-2.5GHz positioning
Expanding its range of flexible FPC antennas, Antenova has announced two positioning antennas: Bentoni and Asper. Bentoni is a positioning antenna for GPS, GLONASS, Beidou and GALILEO, while Asper integrates a 1559-1609MHz antenna with a 2.4-2.5GHz antenna for positioning applications with wireless connectivity. Both antennas offer high performance and maintain good isolation in situ within a device.
Self-heating li-ion battery could beat the winter woes
A li-ion battery that self heats if the temperature is below 32ºF has multiple applications, but may have the most impact on relieving winter 'range anxiety' for electric vehicle owners, according to a team of researchers from Penn State and EC Power, State College.
ARM contest stimulates innovation among young engineers
STMicroelectronics and ARM have announced the winners of the ARM - ST University Design Contest 2015 in China. The contest, now in its third year, encourages university students in China to design innovative smart applications using STM32 Nucleo boards as hardware platform and the GCC open-source compiler or the MDK-ARM software development environment.
VertiGo robot uses propellers to climb up walls
Disney Research Zurich and Swiss technology institute ETH have developed a four-wheeled robot with integrated propellers that allow it to scale vertical surfaces. VertiGo is driven by a user like a remote-controlled car, but adjusts its propellers automatically in response to changes in the surrounding surfaces.
The largest collection of insecure devices in the world
The annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas has just wrapped up. With 160,000 attendees, 3,800 exhibitors and almost 2.5m square feet of exhibit space, this is the largest electronics show in the world. The array of new products and technologies has been featured on virtually every media outlet from Good Morning America to the BBC. By Alan Grau, President and Cofounder, Icon Labs.
Add motion intelligence & accelerate time-to-market
Enabling the fast integration of motion intelligence into any system, a series of highly accurate motion tracking modules has been introduced Fairchild. The FMT1000 series is suited for applications including drones, autonomous vehicles, unmanned systems, heavy industry, construction, agriculture, VR headsets and camera and platform stabilisation.
CES 2016 is all about the IoT
CES 2016 last week in Las Vegas was a huge success. Over 3800 exhibitors occupied over 2.47 million square feet. Attendances was over 170,000 including 50,000 from outside the U.S. CES was put on by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA, previously the Consumer Electronics Association). The name changes reflect the broadening of high technology consumer goods to include more than electronics - software, systems, advanced materials, etc.
Qualcomm & TDK form joint venture to provide RF front-end solutions
Qualcomm Incorporated and TDK Corporation have announced an agreement to form a joint venture to enable delivery of RF front-end (RFFE) modules and RF filters into fully integrated systems for mobile devices and fast-growing business segments, such as IoT, drones, robotics, automotive applications and more, under the name RF360 Holdings Singapore PTE (RF360 Holdings).
World Cup slalom almost goes downhill
Over the last few years there has been a marked increase in the uses for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones. Far from being the domain of the high-tech military application, UAVs are now being employed to fulfil a weird and wonderful array of functions, from the planned delivery services for Amazon and Google, to assisting withindustrial scale reforestation in Latin Americaandshark detecting in New South Wales, Australia.