Georgia Tech has developed a way to 3d print highly flexible bio-compatible battery-free wireless stretch sensors. A potential application is pressure sensing inside brain blood vessels damaged by aneurysms – floppy side bulges that can burst. ‘Aerosol jet’ 3D printing is the chose fabrication technique – in which a fine mist of droplets are blown onto a substrate through a ...

I know bicycle gadgets are popular on Gadget Master and this one recently caught my eye: the ANGi Crash Sensor, from a company called Specialized.

Fairchild, in its early days, had the famous purchasing policy of allowing anyone to buy anything so long as no one objected. The chip industry has got a trifle more restrictive in its attitude since. In his book ‘No Excuses Management’ Cypress founder and former chairman and CEO T.J. Rodgers wrote: “There is, however, one special challenge with respect to ...

Brian McEvoy at Hackaday tells this gruesome tale of implanting a Raspberry Pi in a leg – two legs actually. ”Earlier this month,” writes McEvoy, “ a group of biohackers installed two Rasberry Pis in their legs. While that sounds like the bleeding edge, those computers were already v2 of a project called PegLeg. I was fortunate enough to see ...

A new Low Power Design Service that offers its concept-to-tape-out low power mixed-signal design expertise to ASIC developers

Q2 revenues of the top five IC design companies all shrank y-o-y, is says TrendForce. This was due to the US-China trade war, mounting inventory levels along the supply chain and less-than-satisfactory global demand for consumer electronics, including smartphones, tablets, notebooks, LCDs, TVs, servers etc. NVIDIA registered the largest decline among the five: 20.1%. This is also the first time in ...

Toshiba claims to have the fastest-class PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSDs for enterprise applications with a sequential read performance of over 6.4GB/s. The CM6 Series SSDs support dual-port PCIe Gen4 x4 lanes and are NVMe 1.4 compliant. The family of enterprise NVMe SSDs will be available in a 2.5-inch form factor with capacity points from 800GB to 30TB and 1 or 3 drive ...

Whether it’s a good plan or bad, Boris looks like a man with a plan, and a determined man with a plan usually prevails over directionless, planless opposition. After the endless, fruitless Commons debates the claim by the No-to-No-Deal group that more time for debate is needed is derisory. Can removing the ND option be a positive?   If we ...

Intel begins shipments of the first Agilex FPGAs to early access program customers.

Harwin has formally opened its Apprentice Training Hub, along with an R&D Centre. Located at the company’s Portsmouth headquarters, construction and kitting out of the unit that will house both these operations has been completed and they are now ready to be staffed. “We started an academy program with a local college as part of our efforts to address the ...