Smart Contact Lenses
Samsung was recently granted a patent in South Korea for smart contact lense technology. The lenses' camera and sensors are controlled by blinks and can deliver a seamless augmented reality experience.
Compact RFID Read/Write head for restricted mounting
Turck's TB-Q08 RFID read/write head measures just 32 x 20 x 8 mm with integrated antenna, electronics and two LEDs visible from all directions.
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These electronics can monitor the brain, then dissolve and vanish
From pacemakers to insulin pumps, electronic implants are a powerful medical tool, but they present their own suite of risks — scarring, rejection and sepsis among them. Now a team of researchers has createda dissolving electronic implant, sort of like a much more sophisticated version of dissolving sutures. Sutures, however, can’t be injected into a rat’s brain, and don’t come equipped with temporary Wi-Fi.
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Circuit Protection for AC LED Lighting Systems
In recent years, light-emitting diode (LED) technology has made impressive gains in price, performance and manufacturability. Further improvements that optimise LED operation are expected to drive exponential growth in the LED lighting market. One of the most recent commercial developments is a family of high-voltage LEDs (AC LEDs) that can operate directly off line voltage without the need for an AC-DC converter.
We waste 3.5 days of our lives in untangling of headphones
According to a post by Edward Aten, we would spend a total of 3.5 days untangling headphones over the course of our life. No wonder why Apple is looking to kill the headphones in its future phones.Aten decided to do the math to see how much time is wasted when we endlessly try to untangle our headphones. So, what did he do to arrive on that number?
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Dual Motor Control for Robots
Presented here is a simple circuit that can drive two motors for a small robot, allowing the robot to negotiate an obstacle course. Two light-dependent resistors (LDRs) are used to detect the obstacle and the motors are driven correspondingly to avoid the obstacles automatically. Two H-bridge motor circuits are used that can drive each motor forward or backward, or stop it, independently.
UK plans to bring ‘Useful’ Quantum Devices in two years
Arms race and space contests are the things of the past for the first and second world countries. They are now focused on the new prize: The Quantum Technology. Till recently, we saw that the United States was the clear-cut front-runner in the next-gen computing program. NASA, along with Google, was working with the most powerful quantum computer built hitherto.
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