Category: Technology

  • IoT Security

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    IoT Security The Internet of Things, or IoT, is a pivotal component of the future and is driving initiatives from Smart Cities through Ubiquitous Computing and Augmented Reality. Of course the next step up from Smart Cities is a Smarter Planet. But we aren’t at Smart Cities yet.   An enabling technology like IoT can…

  • Light Cameras

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    DSLR or Digital Single Lens Reflex Camera Ignoring the play on words, the light camera is a major breakthrough in the use of multiple optical viewpoint cameras to create synthetic images that can be taken with something the size of a smart phone and rivals DSLR Camera photographs.   And spoiler alert, I’m getting one…

  • Mechanical Gears Breakthrough

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    Mechanisms Mechanisms are important in many aspects of modern life. They adjust the focus on your smart phone camera, put the wheels down when a plane is coming in to land, allows automobiles, trains, trucks and ships to move and even allow probes to roam about on the surface of Mars.   So I was…

  • LED Street Lighting

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    LED Street Lighting With concern for rising global emissions and the majority of the worlds power still generated by burning fuels of one kind of another, the replacement of older street lighting technologies with higher efficiency and longer life LED Street Lighting would appear to make sense. And on the up side, everyone agrees that…

  • Nanowires Enable FinFET Successor

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    FinFETs Rule At the moment, the dominant transistor technology used to make high density silicon devices is the FinFET. This is made using vertical fins allowing the gate to wrap around the Source and Drain. This improves control of the channel.   Some additional details are available at FinFET   FinFETs have dominated dense semiconductor…

  • Memristors

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    Memristor The Memristor is a device that was theoretically predicted in 1971 by Leon Chua but not demonstrated in practice until 2008. It is one of the four Fundamental Circuit Elements. The full collection is:   Resistor Capacitor Inductor Memristor The diagram below shows how they relate to the physical elements of Voltage, Current, Charge,…

  • GPS to 10cm

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    GPS History GPS started with Sputnik. This was covered really well by Steven Johnson in his book on “Where Good Ideas Come From“. Here is a summary.   The basic plot is easy to understand. Smart people work out how to use existing stuff to do extraordinary things with it. While he starts with English…

  • Wearables – A History

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    Wearables started when? The buzz technology of the past 18 months has been Wearables which is short for Wearable Technology. So when exactly did Wearable Technology begin? Like most overnight successes, it started a long time ago. Below is an infographic from http://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-history-of-wearable-technology/ that is an excellent overview of the topic, with some notable exceptions…

  • Data Analytics Drive Modern Business

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    Data and Analytics Today, data is available for nearly everything you can think of. Or if it isn’t, then it isn’t hard to add new data sources, both internal and external to a business. But data alone isn’t the answer. It is what you do with it, learn from it and decide based on it that…

  • Trajan – Innovation In Action

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    Innovation In Australia I had the opportunity to take part in an Innovation session run at Trajan Scientific and Medical. This covered both the Innovation philosophy they operate under and also included a site tour and explanation of the practical aspects of building highly collaborative relationships.   Disruptive trends Autodesk presented a session on trends at…