Search results for "autumn statement"

Now offering its members the 'Authorised Source' seal of approval, is the Professional Association of Component Distribution (FBDi).Customers can rest assured that association members who have been awarded the seal of approval only place goods on the market from authorised and reliable sources, i.e. from manufacturers and their contracted distributors.

Nine students from ETHZurich andZHdK are preparing to take on developers from renowned manufacturers and universities from around the world with their "Scewo" wheelchair at the Cybathlon.The Balgrist campus is bustling with activity. After ten months and countless technical changes, the revised wheelchair from the Scewo team is ready for its first test drive.

Tattoos which contain your music? On-skin jewellery that can control your smartphone? Pay for your coffee with your elbow? …Sound a touch far fetched? A group of students from MIT Media Lab and Microsoft Research have developed prototypes of on-skin user interfaces, which resemble jewellery.

In the autumn of 2014, Creaform performed its largest colour 3D scanning project to date! Colour is a big differentiator in the world of 3D scanning, since it not usually mandatory or sometimes even important when it comes to inspection or reverse engineering.But it goes without saying that it becomes paramount in applications such as Heritage Preservation. In this specific case, the objects to scan were related to King Tutankhamun himself!

Molex LLCannounced today that one of its subsidiaries has entered into a binding agreement to acquire Phillips-Medisize Corporation. A global leader in outsource design, development and manufacturing services for the medical industry, Phillips-Medisize is a portfolio company of Golden Gate Capital, a private equity investment firm based in San Francisco, CA with approximately $15 billion of capital under management. The agreement is subject to cu...

This autumn, Sierra Wireless and AT&T will pilot next gen LTE-M network technologies. The pilot will spur LTE network connections for IoT devices.The Sierra Wireless LTE-M module will support the AT&T pilot with several technology leaders in the San Francisco Bay Area in November.LTE-M technology works specifically with IoT devices, such as smart meters, mHealth and wearables. AT&T plans to make the technology commercially available i...

A Silicon Valley startup that is a leading developer of fog computing technology, FogHorn Systems, has been invested in by Electrical Corporation, Yokogawa.The company aims to foster development of fog computing technology through its investment in this company, and in so doing, Yokogawa hopes to expand the range of solutions that it provides.

Every 18 months or so, scientists and sensation-seekers gather at set points on Earth’s surface, to await awe-inspiring solar eclipses. The Moon briefly blocks the Sun, revealing its mysterious outer atmosphere, the corona. Though what if researchers could induce such eclipses at will? That’s the scientific vision behind ESA’s double-satellite Proba-3, the world’s first precision formation-flying mission, planned for launc...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has long mandated the use of quality systems to ensure that medical devices are safe and effective for their intended purpose for both the patient and the operator of the device. As Jay Thomas of LDRA Technology highlights, that safety and effectiveness also relies on security in the increasingly connected medical environment.

Avnet has opened a battle royal for Premier Farnell by making a £691 bid for the UK-based distributor. It remains to be seen whether Datwyler which made an agreed offer for Premier Farnell in June will make a counter offer. The board of Premier Farnell has dropped its recommendation for the Datwyler offer and transferred its affections to the Avnet offer.