Tag Archives: Microtechnology

StretchSense unveils Energy Harvesting Wearable Sensor

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Energy harvesting is an emerging trend for wearables. Several start-ups are working on extending battery life or even harvest enough energy to self-power wearables. Today StretchSense CEO Ben O’Brien...

New Ultrasonic Fingerprint Sensor is Hard to Spoof

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Fingerprint sensor technology currently used in smartphones like the iPhone 6 produces a two-dimensional image of a finger's surface, which can be spoofed fairly easily with a printed image of the...

RF Energy Harvesting Smartphone Cases from Nikola Labs and K3OPS Coming

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It sounds to good to be true. Using the free energy of radio frequency waves that surround us today can be harvested to keep smartphone batteries charged. There are two companies we know off that are...

K3OPS develops RF Energy Harvesting Smartphone Case and Batteries

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Converting Radio waves into electrical power is not a new concept. The so called rectenna was conceived by William C. Brown back in 1964. Rectennas are also widely used today. RFID tags contain a...

Nanogenerator is a Ultra-stretchable Piezoelectric Generator for Wearables

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A research team led by Professor Keon Jae Lee of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has developed a hyper-...

February Semiconductors Hit Record High

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The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) has released the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) for February.  Revenues for the month were $25.9 billion, making it the highest February...

SIA: Semiconductors Finally Break $300 Billion Barrier

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The semiconductor industry finally broke through a barrier that it has been struggling to overcome since the middle 1990s: Annual revenues surpassed $300 billion. That’s the finding released today by...

Replacing Mechanisms with Microchips

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Probably the most important contributor to the semiconductor market’s continued rapid growth has been its ability to cannibalize established markets by replacing mechanical elements with cheaper...

The Five Most Disruptive Innovations at CES 2014

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The launch this week of our Big Bang Disruption book added significant urgency to our annual search for the biggest disruptors at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. After all,...