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Smart device development accelerated

Editorial Team Sep 20, 2016

The availability of the VxWorks Real Time Operating System (RTOS) client for the IBM Watson IoT platform has been announced by Wind River. This is part of the IBM/Wind River collaboration to advance IoT deployments for industrial customers…

Computers

New approach to home security lets you be everywhere at once

Editorial Team Sep 20, 2016

A New York-based engineering product design company called Canary has released a brand new solution for home security. The Canary Flex is the first indoor and outdoor, weatherproof, HD security camera that can be used both wire-free or…

Computers

SanDisk unveils first-ever one terabyte memory card

Editorial Team Sep 20, 2016

Today, global storage technology company Western Digital Corporation unveiled the SanDisk 1TB terabyte (TB) SDXC card prototype in order to meet the growing storage demands as a result of high resolution content, such as 4K and 8K.…

Medical

Powered workstation aids hospital staff

Editorial Team Sep 19, 2016

Avalue Technology's healthcare alliance partner, Bytec Healthcare based in the UK, worked closely with Medifix Services Limited and Thin Client specialist to provide a powered workstation solution to aid hospital staff with patient care…

Optoelectronics

Smart retail solution uses facial recognition

Editorial Team Sep 19, 2016

The IoT Smart Retail Solution has been being developed by Avalue Technology for some time before collaborating with Microsoft to make its debut in Computex 2016. Later Avalue also announced its official partnership with Microsoft Azure IoT…

Trends

Connected devices outnumbering connected humans

Editorial Team Sep 19, 2016

The addition of human users to the World Wide Web continues to be significantly outpaced by the global growth in the number of 'things' connected to the Internet. New connections to the IoT are now increasing by more than 6x the number of…

Automotive

Toyota kicks up on-road trials of car-motorbike hybrid vehicle

Editorial Team Sep 19, 2016

Three years ago Toyota debuted its three-wheeled electric vehicle urban mobility solution called i-Road that combines the potential of cars and motorbikes. Now, the company will launch its second round of trials, bringing the vehicle one…

Consumer

Using Brain Power To Move Paralyzed Hands

Editorial Team Sep 19, 2016

Stroke is an unfortunate, and more common than we'd like to think, occurrence. Approximately one in six people will suffer a stroke in their lifetime and in Switzerland stroke affects 16,000 people every year. Two thirds of those…

Automotive

Ford claims space in U-M robotics lab for future innovation

Editorial Team Sep 19, 2016

In order to accelerate autonomous vehicle research, Ford has decided to house a new robotics lab at the University of Michigan campus, becoming the first corporation to co-locate in an academic building. The new robotics laboratory doesn't…

Computers

Video gamers are better than scientists at identifying proteins

Editorial Team Sep 19, 2016

While it's been said that video games and too much screen time can rot the brain, a group of gamers was actually able to beat scientists, college students and computer algorithms in a contest to see who could identify a particular protein's…