Called Hue, made by Philips, and only sold through Apple at the moment, the system is based around a colour-tuneable 600lm LED light bulb (25-50W equivalent) that screws into E26 or E27 mains bulb holders - not bayonets.

Designed for electric vehicles, but also used in renewable energy systems, the battery monitor can measure up to 12 cells with better than 0.04% accuracy

ARM has announced the first two parts in its 64bit processor family today – the A-53 and A-57.

Polish IP firm Digital Core Design has put an 8051 CPU into under 3,000 asic gates, claiming it to be the most powerful at this size. "A very low gate count area allows as well to run the core at high performance, up to 300MHz in Hynix 0.18µm library, equivalent to...

I set off on a web hunt for painless ways to kill mice (yes, they are back again) and ended up coming across a mechanism I have never heard of before. Rolamite is an almost frictionless way of supporting linear motion...

Amplicon has announced its annual "Network & Monitoring Solutions for Smarter Transport" technology seminar will be held on November 28th 2012, at the Bluebell Steam Railway, Sheffield Park Station, East Sussex.

TDK-Lambda has made a significant investment in new production equipment at its power supply manufacturing facility in Ilfracombe. Behind the move are the power module manufacturer’s plans for new product developments. “We have an aggressive new products development strategy and are continuing to invest in new equipment to increase our capacity and enhance our processes, which further improves our lead-times ...

Murata has brought out 3" x 5" 250 W and 400 W AC-DC power supplies with medical approvals.

High bandwidth parallel processing requires comparable memory processing speed. TCAMs search an entire memory database in one to two cycles

Cadence Design Systems has announced the tapeout of a 14nm test-chip featuring an ARM Cortex-M0 processor implemented using IBM’s FinFET process technology