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Consumer & Gadgets Feb 4, 2016

Amazon teams up with Spotify for wireless speaker

Amazon said Thursday that its Echo wireless system will play songs from Spotify as the retail giant delves further into the booming sector of streaming.

General Physics Jan 26, 2016

Scientists propose high-efficiency wireless power transfer system

(Phys.org)—Currently, commercial wireless power transfer is limited mainly to charging pads for phones: instead of plugging your phone directly into the wall, simply place it on top of a wireless charging pad. In the future, ...

Engineering Jan 25, 2016

Living in the '90s? So are underwater wireless networks

Like Beanie Babies and Steve Urkel, the systems we use to transmit information through water bring to mind the 1990s.

Engineering Jan 13, 2016

Wireless monitoring of newborns

An Italian SME has developed a wearable monitoring system for babies as they go through the sensitive period of the first two to four hours of life. The technology, whose market potential has been assessed with funding under ...

Telecom Dec 29, 2015

Researchers advance software-defined radio technology

The field of 'software-defined radio' (SDR) technology, a wireless communications system implemented by means of software on a computer to replicate the work of traditional hardware, has potential in future cognitive radio ...

Nanomaterials Dec 17, 2015

Graphene proves a perfect fit for wearable devices

Cheap, flexible, wireless graphene communication devices such as mobile phones and healthcare monitors can be directly printed into clothing and even skin, University of Manchester academics have demonstrated.

Energy & Green Tech Dec 15, 2015

Wireless sensors could make diesel engines greener

Advances in wireless technology continue to pave the way for better consumer devices. In the future, however, wireless devices could also benefit the automotive industry, by helping diesel engines use less fuel while curbing ...

Engineering Dec 11, 2015

Wearable energy generator uses urine to power wireless transmitter

A pair of socks embedded with miniaturised microbial fuel cells (MFCs) and fuelled with urine pumped by the wearer's footsteps has powered a wireless transmitter to send a signal to a PC. This is the first self-sufficient ...

Engineering Dec 7, 2015

The world's tiniest temperature sensor is powered by radio waves

Researchers at TU/e have developed a very tiny wireless temperature sensor that is powered in a very special way: from the radio waves that are part of the sensor's wireless network. This means that the sensor needs not even ...

Telecom Nov 24, 2015

Rice wins $2.4 million to study many-antenna wireless

Rice University researchers have won $2.4 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to conduct the most extensive experimental research yet of wireless technology that uses 100 or more antennas per base station to ...

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