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In a part of Sweden called Jukkasjärvi, about 124 miles north of the Arctic Circle, the sun stays up in the sky for 100 days. Here visitors can engage in a sub-zero ice experience, called the Ice Hotel, which include a bar, art…

California-based company called Ario that designs and builds hardware and software that uses lighting to help people live healthier lives, has just developed a Wi-Fi connected lamp and lighting system that learns about your habits, syncs…

Enabling embedded developers to jumpstart innovative designs for the IoT era, Texas Instruments has announced three low-cost evaluation kits based on its embedded processors supporting Microsoft Azure Certified for IoT. As one of the…

The AH37xx family of high-voltage Hall effect latch ICs introduced by Diodes Incorporated provides various operating magnetic thresholds to address motor control, rotational position and speed sensing requirements in a wide range of…

Mouser Electronics, Inc. is the first global distributor to stock the ACFL-5211T digital optocouplers from Avago Technologies. The ACFL-5211T digital optocouplers are dual-channel, bidirectional, high-speed 1MBaud devices designed for…

If you have a smartphone, you've probably become pretty comfortable including emoticons in your daily conversations. However, once you get to the laptop or desktop computer, you find yourself without your favorite icons for expressing…

If you're fixing something in orbit, you'll probably want to be pretty accurate. That's what NASA engineers were thinking when developing the Visual Inspection Poseable Invertebrate Robot (VIPIR). NASA has been working on different…

Staying on top of your e-mails can be a daunting task, so Google decided to employ some artificial intelligence to help Gmail users out. Google has already implemented features like  assisting you with the your next step, organizing…

Researchers have developed a "nanotweezer" that can position tiny objects quickly and accurately and then freeze them in place. The device, created at Purdue University's Birck Nanotechnology Center enables improved nanoscale sensing…

If you hate waiting for your computer to load programs, maybe you ought to sing to it. At least that's what researchers from the Universities of Sheffield and Leeds are suggesting. New research published in Applied Physics Letters has…