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Project Brillo

“Brillo extends the Android platform to all your connected devices, so they are easy to set up and work seamlessly with each other and your smartphone.”

Robo-teamwork: Robotic cockroach used to launch robotic bird

“Walking and flying robots both have their use cases. A walking robot is efficient and easier to build, while a flying robot is faster and more versatile. There have been efforts to combine them into a single multi-modal unit, but …

Samsung Ramps 10nm in 2016

“Samsung was shy on specs, but said the process node will be in full production by the end of 2016, about the same time as its rival TSMC. The Samsung 10nm process offers “csignificant power, area, and performance advantages” and …

This rigid plastic turns to clay in hot water, is three times stronger than rubber

“Ever tried to melt something plastic at home? It takes a fair amount of work. Not this new plastic product, though it’ll go goopy just from taking a brief bath in hot water. A Japanese plastics company called Polysis …

365-Gigapixel Panorama of Mont Blanc Becomes the World’s Largest Photo

“The astonishing majesty of this impressive white giant is too wide to be represented either in words or images. You have to be there to feel it. But now, you can grab that rarefied atmosphere through the highest resolution panorama …

Compressing graphene-laden ink increases its conductivity by more than 50 times

“Researchers at the University of Manchester have come up with yet another use for graphene that’s far more plausible than some of the other potential uses proposed thus far.”

Huawei is launching our IoT OS, LiteOS

“LiteOS is the world’s most lightweight IoT OS. It is small in size at 10KB and supports zero configuration, auto-discovery, and auto-networking. It can be widely applied to different areas including smart homes, wearable, connected vehicles and other industries …

Imagination boosts IoT apps with Java SE 8 support in MIPS architecture

_”IMAGINATION TECHNOLOGIES has announced that the latest version of Java SE 8 is now available for its MIPS CPU architecture.

MSP430FR6989 LaunchPad Development Kit

“The MSP-EXP430FR6989 LaunchPad Development Kit is an easy-to-use Evaluation Module (EVM) for the MSP40FR6989 microcontroller (MCU). It contains everything needed to start developing on the ultra-low-power MSP430FRx FRAM microcontroller platform, including on-board emulation for programming, debugging and energy measurements …

New evidence that electrical stimulation accelerates wound healing

“The most detailed study to date of skin wound healing, conducted by University of Manchester scientists with 40 volunteers, has provided new evidence that electrical stimulation accelerates wound healing. In the new research, half-centimeter harmless wounds were created on each …