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Mary Butler, Product Manager at HellermannTyton, discusses RFID technology and why it is the smart choice for electricians.Radio-Frequency Identification or RFID systems are widely used across a range of industries and have been in use for a number of decades. Used in all kinds of applications, from microchips for pets to goal-line technology, global RFID sales are consistently on the up, with a projected global market value of $17.6bn by 2018.

Jan Genoe, one of its distinguished scientists, has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant, Imec have announced. With the grant of €2.5m for a five-year period, Genoe’s team will develop and integrate the breakthrough technology needed to prove the possibility of high-quality video-rate holographic projection.

Lighting is a huge consumer of global energy, contributing to around 20% of all the electricity consumed globally. Approximately 80% of that lighting is attributed to professional applications such as building, office, industry or street lighting, and about 20% to private residential lighting.

A lot has happened since the Millennium, and feedback over the years from developing products to keep pace with industrial needs has driven the development of ubiquitous items like quarter-turn locks and latches which form a core range with companies such as EMKA (UK).Andy Bilingham, Managing Director at EMKA here explains more about the cabinet and enclosure hardware developments in the 21st century.

The increasingly electronic nature of modern cars means that there are more automatic safety systems than ever before.These systems require accurate input about the car’s movement to determine when the car is moving (or will move) in a potentially unsafe way, in order to trigger the appropriate response, be it deploying the airbags or applying the handbrake.

For centuries, cellulose has formed the basis of the world’s most abundantly printed-on material: paper. Now, thanks to new research at MIT, it may also become an abundant material to print with — potentially providing a renewable, biodegradable alternative to the polymers currently used in3Dprinting materials.“Cellulose is the most abundant organic polymer in the world,” says MIT postdoc Sebastian Pattinson, lead author o...

A new CNC compact plasma cutting table has been launched by Swift-Cut Automation.Named ‘Swifty’, the table has been designed and priced to open up a world of possibilities to artists, educators and small workshops.The bench-top system, which comes complete with table, CNC and easy-to-use operating software, cuts mild steel, stainless steel, aluminium, brass, copper, and any ferrous and non-ferrous materials.

Unveiling anew, disruptive approach to product cyber security testing, Bureau Veritas are working in partnership with CEA-Leti at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.The company will also launch its new suite of Smart Wear testing solutions for products including Trackers, VR Headsets and Smart Clothing in cooperation with 7layers.

A clinical research publication led by Stanford University investigators has demonstrated that a brain-to-computer hookup can enable people with paralysis to type via direct brain control at the highest speeds and accuracy levels reported to date.The report involved three study participants with severe limb weakness—two from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also called Lou Gehrig's disease, and one from a spinal cord injury.

The BS 8888:2017 –Technical product documentation and specification, has been revised by BSI, the British standards company.The latest version is a comprehensive update to the UK’s national framework standard for engineering drawings and geometrical tolerancing.