Category Archives: Hardware

Credit: Shutterstock The sense of touch is important for human development, interpersonal communication, and social attachment. For situations where one is separated by distance affective haptic devices (AHDs) can be used as a new form of sense communication. AHDs are communication technologies that address the tactile or haptic modality. For her Ph.D. research, Sima Ipakchian…

A versatile, flexible sensor sheet can be easily fixed to a wide range of surfaces to simultaneously monitor rain volume and wind speed. The sensor measures the electrical resistance generated when raindrops hit its surface at different wind speeds and provides sensor data, which is analyzed through reservoir computing. Credit: Kuniharu Takei, OMU Have you…

Credit: DDS 47, CC BY-SA 4.0 New digital tools developed and tested at Simon Fraser University have the potential to revolutionize wilderness search and rescue efforts. Developed at the SFU School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT), the RescueCASTR system equips rescuers with 360-degree body cameras that send video and photos back live to a…

A novel miniature microelectromechanical device that avoids the need to use sensors has significant potential for use in industrial or medical applications. Credit: KAUST The ability to precisely control the position and movement of miniature devices is being taken into new territory as KAUST scientists develop tinier and simpler devices without a single sensor. Positioning…

Airborne Optical Sectioning (AOS) drone prototype for real-time through-foliage tracking of moving targets. Credit: Journal of Remote Sensing In forests where the foliage is thick, it can be challenging to detect and track moving targets, such as people and animals, using the current technology for collecting aerial images and videos. Researchers have developed a drone-operated…

Frontier has arrived, and ORNL is preparing for science on Day One. Credit: Carlos Jones/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy The Frontier supercomputer at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory earned the top ranking today as the world’s fastest on the 59th TOP500 list, with 1.1 exaflops of performance. The system is the first…

Switches could make 6G devices faster and more efficient. Credit: The University of Texas at Austin Even though consumers won’t see it for years, researchers around the world are already laying the foundation for the next generation of wireless communications, 6G. An international team led by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin has…

The radio signal is as unique as a fingerprint. Credit: Michael Schwettmann As far as data security is concerned, there is an even greater danger than remote cyberattacks: namely tampering with hardware that can be used to read out information—such as credit card data from a card reader. Researchers in Bochum have developed a new…

The research findings demonstrated that reservoir computing can be implemented with ferroelectric gate transistors (FeFETs) in a computing-in-memory fashion. Credit: Shinichi Takagi, The University of Tokyo As applications of artificial intelligence spread, more computation has to occur—and more efficiently with lower energy consumption—on local devices instead of in geographically distant data centers in order to…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain William Shakespeare might have been talking about Apple’s recently released M1 chip via his prose in A Midnight Summer’s Dream: “And though she be but little, she is fierce.” Well, probably not, but it fits: Apple’s software runs on the little masterful squares made of in-house silicon, resulting in amazing performance…