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![Micro-spectrometer Sensor Will Let You Check Air Quality Or Blood Sugar – Using Smartphone Micro-spectrometer Sensor Will Let You Check Air Quality Or Blood Sugar – Using Smartphone](https://www.electronics-lab.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/spec.jpg)
Micro-spectrometer Sensor Will Let You Check Air Quality Or Blood Sugar – Using Smartphone
Now you can use your smartphone to check how clean the air is, measure the freshness of food or even the level of your blood sugar. This has never been so easy. All credit goes to the new spectrometer sensor which is developed at the Eindhoven University of Technology and can be easily...
Continue Reading![Researchers Develop New Technique To Print Flexible Self-healing Circuits For Wearable Devices Researchers Develop New Technique To Print Flexible Self-healing Circuits For Wearable Devices](https://www.electronics-lab.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/flexible-e1513855543167.jpg)
Researchers Develop New Technique To Print Flexible Self-healing Circuits For Wearable Devices
The researchers of North Carolina State University in the US, lead by Jingyan Dong, have developed a new technique for directly printing flexible, stretchable metal circuits. The innovative technique can be used with multiple metals and alloys. It is also compatible with existing...
Continue Reading![Transistors- The 70-year-old invention that changed the world Transistors- The 70-year-old invention that changed the world](https://www.electronics-lab.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/transistor1-1024x1021.jpg)
Transistors- The 70-year-old invention that changed the world
Its been 70 years since the fundamental building block of electronics was created, and it has been getting smaller, and better since then. The invention that won the Nobel prize for John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley in 1956 revolutionized electronics and made it into...
Continue Reading![Brand New BiCMOS Flexible Transistor Brand New BiCMOS Flexible Transistor](https://www.electronics-lab.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Flexible-Electronics-BiCMOS-3-scaled-1024x686.jpg)
Brand New BiCMOS Flexible Transistor
The transistor revolutionized the field of electronics, and paved the way for smaller and cheaper radios, calculators, and computers, among other things since its very first practically implemented device as a point-contact-transistor invented in 1947 and...
Continue Reading![The “Neuropixels” probe records brain signals The “Neuropixels” probe records brain signals](https://www.electronics-lab.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/neuroprobe002__002_-667x500.jpg)
The “Neuropixels” probe records brain signals
After $5.5 millions collaboration and a lot of work during the past four years of engineers at Imec, the next-generation electrodes called Neuropixels probe were designed to record hundreds of neurons in the brain. Imec is an international nano electronics research center...
Continue Reading![Solar supercapacitor creates electricity and hydrogen fuel on the cheap Solar supercapacitor creates electricity and hydrogen fuel on the cheap](https://www.electronics-lab.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/ucla-hydrogen-1.jpg)
Solar supercapacitor creates electricity and hydrogen fuel on the cheap
Researchers in University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) made a device that may help bring hydrogen powered vehicles to the masses. This device uses sunlight to produce both hydrogen and electricity at the same time. The UCLA device is a hybrid unit that combines a supercapacitor...
Continue Reading![ICECool – An Intra-Chip Cooling System That Is More Efficient ICECool – An Intra-Chip Cooling System That Is More Efficient](https://www.electronics-lab.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/cooling_system_1-300x216.jpg)
ICECool – An Intra-Chip Cooling System That Is More Efficient
In the Moore’s Law race to keep improving computer performance, the IT industry has turned upward, stacking chips like nano-sized 3D skyscrapers. But those stacks have their limits, due to overheating. Researchers from IBM have solved this problem by developing an intra-chip...
Continue Reading![WISP – Re-programmable Microcontroller That Runs On Energy Harvested From Radio Waves WISP – Re-programmable Microcontroller That Runs On Energy Harvested From Radio Waves](https://www.electronics-lab.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/WISP4.jpg)
WISP – Re-programmable Microcontroller That Runs On Energy Harvested From Radio Waves
A new research initiative between the University of Washington's Sensor Lab and the Technical University of Delft in the Netherlands has created a microprocessor that can power itself through stray radio waves and receive programmable updates in the same fashion. While the RISC-derived...
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