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LEDs for Solid-state Lighting

Solid-state electronics has been transforming our lives for many decades by bringing us increasingly small, cheap and efficient devices and appliances. Our modern life-styles...

Designing Cutting-Edge Wearable Medical Devices

FEBRUARY 2012: As healthcare moves out of hospitals and becomes more integrated with peoples’ lives, medical devices are evolving from portable equipment to wearable...

How SoMs Take The Effort Out of Designing

 “System-on-module is an extension of the concept of system-on-chip which lies between a full-up computer and a microcontroller in nature” ——Texas Instruments  “We wanted to...

RFID Technology for Building Access Control

Numerous radio-frequency identification (RFID) applications are implemented in various sectors for very different purposes. Conventional examples include automatic electronic tracking of goods in supply...

What is Li-Fi in Wireless Communication

Most of us are familiar with Wi-Fi (Wireless Fidelity), which uses 2.4-5GHz RF to deliver wireless Internet access around our homes, schools, offices and...

Electronic Tool Kits for the Pros

Whether you are a professional or a hobbyist, you need specific tools to work on your DIY electronics project. You might have acquired some...

IEEE 802.11ac: Next-generation Standard for Wireless Fidelity

APRIL 2012: 802.11ac, the next step for Wi-Fi 802.11, will breach the barrier of gigabit capacity. Couple this with low latency and an improved...

Robot Mules, Birds and Snakes Helping on the Warfront

MARCH 2012: Arecent newspaper headline blared: “Humans lose, robots win in Pentagon’s new defence budget.” The story was about US president Obama’s decision to...

‘Made For Mobile’ Microprocessors

"Mobile processors are designed with the approach of doing more with less. This is one of the reasons why you do not see x86-based...

All About Transferring Power Wirelessly

One of the biggest challenges before consumer electronics makers today is to increase the battery life of their devices on a single charge. As...