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Seven-days. Imagine seven days without needing to plug in your cellphone to charge. Soon you won't have to imaging it, though. Fuel cell technology company, Intelligent Energy, has just announced that it has signed a project agreement with…

Phihong USA has introduced the new PSM10R Series 10W, wall-plug adapters. Available with interchangeable plugs for international compatibility, the new wall-plug adapters deliver high efficiency at a low cost, making them ideally suited for…

Mouser Electronics has announced a global agreement with Red Pitaya, manufacturers of the Red Pitaya system, centered on a powerful open-source software development platform for test and measurement applications. The Red Pitaya product…

Diodes Incorporated has introduced a battery protection device specifically designed for the safe operation of 1-cell lithium-ion (Li+) battery packs. The AP9211 combines a protection chip with a dual N-channel MOSFET to provide a rich set…

Scientists at the University of Southampton have just set out to develop and test a new kind of wearable technology that slips on a stroke victim's arm to assist with recovery. The wireless sleeve will be able to provide information about…

Earlier this month a hobbyist duo, Jay Flatland and Paul Rose, created a robot that broke the world record for fastest time to solve a Rubick's Cube. But just before that, a man created a robot that nobody heard about. One that could…

A team of scientists from the Institute of Plasma Physics, part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has just made a major breakthrough in a device they call the "artificial sun". The energy generation device is now one step closer to…

Silicon Labs has introduced next-generation optical sensors that can be used to protect consumers from the harmful effects of ultraviolet (UV) radiation and to develop innovative touchless user interfaces leveraging high-performance…

As communications expand and data rates soar, researchers from ETH Zurich in Switzerland set out to create more efficient network components. What they came up with was the world’s smallest integrated optical switch which turns on and off…

Yes, you read right. In the time it takes you to slip on a mattress cover, you can make your bed smarter and more high-tech. Entrepreneur Matteo Franceschetti wanted to improve overall sleep when he came up with the idea for an…