04/12/2020
As more devices are added to home networks with Wi-Fi support, we’re further choking our Wi-Fi bandwidth until we upgrade to Wi-Fi 6. But we don’t need to incur the cost of a 4x4 access point. 2x2 is plenty for home needs for the next several years.
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11/11/2020
The trend to embed wireless charging capability into consumer devices has been led by the Wireless Power Consortium’s (WPC) Qi charging standard, which is the most widely adopted technology for the wireless charging of smartphones.
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05/11/2020
Is 2021 set to be the year that 5G delivers? With the construction and upgrading of base stations and other infrastructure and the roll out of mobile 5G devices, are we about to see the realisation of the many promises associated with the technology?
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02/11/2020
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Electronics manufacturers and the consumers that buy their devices are both increasingly focused on extending product lifespan.
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22/10/2020
IEC 62368-1 is the new hazard-based product safety standard coming into effect this December. What does this mean for design engineers? Neil Tyler reports
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20/10/2020
Qualcomm’s annual ‘State of Play’ reports assess the views of consumers from across the US, UK, China, Germany, and Japan looking at consumer attitudes and behaviours and how they are changing and driving buying decisions when it comes to audio technology.
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19/10/2020
Natural sound: It’s all around us. The voices of our loved ones; waves crashing and birds singing, symphonies playing, traffic passing by. But many people have a hard time enjoying natural sound — or any sound for that matter.
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09/10/2020
In the last decade billions of connected devices have been created and adopted presenting an endless number of security challenges each day.
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05/10/2020
Businesses need to future-proof their workforce and embrace new approaches when it comes to skills development.
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29/07/2020
Could Covid-19 be a ‘trigger moment’, accelerating the digitalisation of our cities as we look to contain, monitor and suppress the pandemic?
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14/07/2020
While the COVID-19 pandemic has yet to fully play-out, it’s had a profound impact on how we work, play and rest. New Electronics takes a look at the technologies that could drive change going forward.
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17/06/2020
State-of-the-art wireless and computing technologies are demanding greater innovation when it comes to test & measurement, as Sebastian Richter explains to New Electronics.
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11/06/2020
How we interact with technology, through the interfaces we use, has changed radically with people becoming more comfortable using touchscreens whether in their private lives, professionally or when interacting with public services such as banks and public transport.
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09/06/2020
“It’s almost Darwinian out there”, according to one CEO who spoke to New Electronics and, with the impact of Covid-19 yet to be fully played out, it’s likely that only those companies that are able to adapt to the changes brought about by the pandemic and the challenges of recession that will be the ones to survive.
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18/05/2020
A hearable can be defined as ‘a wireless in-ear computational earpiece’ that is able to fit inside the ear canal and then uses wireless technology to supplement and enhance a listener’s experience.
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05/05/2020
Lithium-ion batteries are popular because they have a number of important advantages.They’re lighter when compared to other types of rechargeable battery and lithium, being highly reactive, can store a lot of energy in its atomic bonds.
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04/05/2020
The Internet of Things (IoT), Industry 4.0, digital health and greater prevalence of wearable electronics all rely heavily on the use of sensing devices that it simply won’t be practical to plug into a mains socket.
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30/04/2020
Wearable technology is being used to change the way in which performance analysis is carried out in football, as Laëtitia Omnès explains.
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03/04/2020
Not so long ago, “smart home” meant an assortment of individual connected gadgets, from smart LED lights to HVAC controls to security cameras, that users could control from their smartphones.
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01/04/2020
With the IoT industry calling for common standards and infrastructure it’s fair to say that the industry is very much in its infancy; certainly not mature anyway.
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26/03/2020
"For me science fiction is a way of thinking, a way of logic that bypasses a lot of nonsense. It allows people to look directly at important subjects," so said Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek.
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25/03/2020
Small is the desirable form factor, whether it is consumer devices or industrial equipment. As space becomes more limited on circuit boards or in automotive systems, it pays to be small.
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10/03/2020
Amongst a bombardment of advertising from your favourite Californian conglomerate, every September a debate will break out about the cost of mobile devices.
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18/02/2020
At the end of 2019 Imagination Technologies made one of its biggest announcements in years with the launch of a new GPU architecture. The A-Series is, according to the company, its most important GPU announcement in over 15 years and it claimed that the series has the world’s fastest GPU IP.
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18/02/2020
The very fabric of our business and personal lives is inextricably linked to two important forces: data and energy.
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