Cavendish Kinetics, the RF MEMS tuner specialist, says its SmarTune RF MEMS antenna tuners have been adopted in the Samsung Galaxy A8.
Monthly Archives: January 2017
Waterproof micro USB connector
CUI’s Interconnect Group has announced a waterproof micro USB 2.0 connector. UJ2W‑MIBH‑4‑SMT is a micro B type with IPX7 rating for wet and damp environments. Copper alloy contact terminals with 30µinch gold-over-nickel plating and stainless steel shielding mean high durability – 10,000 mating cycles. The series features a surface mount package and horizontal orientation. Plastic mounting ears provide added stability on ...
Succumbing To IoT-itis
In the office and the pub I am assailed by piss-takers as I succumb to IoT-itis. On these dark cold evenings my house needs supplemental heating to the central heating for when I get home at night and it’s also nice to come back to a house with lights on. Having looked around for appliances controlled by a mobile phone ...
IoT Secure Systems Summit expands speaker lineup
The IoT Secure Systems Summit 2017 runs in London on Tuesday 25 April, and the speaker lineup has been expanded.
Google preps latest rollout of Android Nougat
If you're really keen to see the latest Nougat in action... Google is about to roll out a public beta of 7.1.2, the next maintenance release for Android Nougat.
Bristol University cuts sensor power stand-by to ‘zero’
Engineers at the University of Bristol have developed a three terminal pico-power chip that can cut stand-by drain in sensor nodes
Rohde & Schwarz introduce 6GHz scope for testing IoT
Rohde & Schwarz adds a 6GHz oscilloscope to its RTO2000 scope family, Intended for the testing of radio interfaces of 802.11ac WLAN components for IoT modules
How to hack a TS Thumbstick for gaming
In a guest post for Gadget Master, the Design Spark blogger Connector Geek explores how you much can do in a day with APEM’s TS USB Thumbstick, as a custom made joystick. What started as a fix for a personal gaming dilemma developed into a general input device. As a keen PC gamer with a penchant for flight simming, I ...
The ethics of driverless cars – or how to stop the killer robots
The risks for driverless cars will be a battle between the professional hacker and the system developer to protect both the passengers, pedestrians and other road users from malicious attacks
Rohm claims world’s smallest reflector LED
Rohm says it is selling the world's smallest reflector-type high brightness 3-colour LED. It is optimized for consumer devices such as matrix light sources for gaming and wearables.