Lian Li Industrial of Taipei has produced a computer chassis optimised for water-cooled and other fast processors. Called ‘PC-O11 Air‘, the high air-flow enclosure is aimed at high-performance workstations where good cooling is essential for stability. Up to three 360mm radiators can be mounted and the front vent can house a 240/280/360mm radiator without interference. “This ...
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In a comprehensive smart electrochemical sensor interface IC, Analog Devices has combined potentiostat and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) in a single chip, claiming this to be a first. ADuCM355, as it is known, is aimed at applications such as industrial gas sensing, instrumentation, vital signs monitoring and disease management. Effectively the chip is an Arm ...
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Saildrone is a Californian company which designs and manufactures wind and solar powered autonomous surface vehicles, called Saildrones, designed to monitor the ocean for months on end. The hard wind design emerged from a decade-long pursuit of the land speed record – company founder Richard Jenkins ultimately achieved 126.2mph in 2009, having started his Windjet Project ...
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UK design house 42 Technology has developed a quickly-installed smart current monitor for the UK power grid. Branded FuseOhm, is self-powered data-logger that offers real-time measurement and recording of current (1A – 1,000A), voltage, phase angle and local temperature. Power dissipation is <6W. Sensing is resistive, and based on the firm’s existing ‘Triple Ohm’ intellectual ...
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MintBox Mini 2 (MBM2) is the 4th generation of miniature fan-less PCs from Compulab and the folk behind Linux Mint – of each MBM2 sold, 5% is donated to Linux Mint. Processing comes from a quad-core ‘Apollo Lake’ Celeron J3455, and the machine ships with the Mint 19 ‘Tara’ Cinnamon installed. Other Mint variants, or other ...
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Eta Compute and Rohm Semiconductor are to create sensor nodes compatible with Wireless Smart Ubiquitous Network (Wi-SUN) – combining Rohm’s sensors and Eta’s microcontrollers to make nodes that can be powered by harvested energy. Wi-SUN is based on IEEE 802.15.4g and backed by the Wi-SUN Alliance. “Our partnership with Rohm gives our customers access to ...
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Microchip has created the most capable ‘ATtiny’ AVR microcontroller yet, with 32kword of internal flash and a host of analogue peripherals including two 10bit 115ksample/s ADCs (one of which can be used as a touch controller) and three 8bit DACs. Called ATtiny3217, the 24pin 4 x 4mm QFN chip runs up to 20MHz. There is ...
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Addiction experts are pointing to in-game purchasing schemes as a trigger for potentially ruinous addiction. The University of Adelaide team particularly points at ‘loot boxes’ – mechanisms with which players can repeatedly buy a random selection of virtual items – something that the Belgian Gambling Commission declared an illegal form of gambling in April. “Players ...
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Instead of finger pricking, a miniature radar might one day tell diabetics what their blood-sugar level is, according to the University of Waterloo in Canada. “We want to sense blood inside the body without actually having to sample any fluid,” said engineer Professor George Shaker. “Our hope is this can be realised as a smart ...
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A relatively new company, Avatar, focuses on physical design implantation. It presented the Aprisa full functional block level place and route system, and Apogee, a top-down hierarchical prototyping floor planning and chip assembly tool. The tools are built on ATopTech technologies which were the subject of a lawsuit brought by Synopsys. Following that, the tools ...
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