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The eeDesignIt editorial team provides daily news within the world of electronics engineering.

Amazon Echo Alexa on the witness stand?

Editorial Team Jan 5, 2017

Investigating the death of an Arkansas man whose body was found in a hot tub, authorities want to expand the probe to include a new kind of evidence: any comments overheard by the suspect's Amazon Echo smart speaker. Amazon said it…

Featured

Ride-sharing to improve traffic and help the environment

Editorial Team Jan 5, 2017

Traffic is bad news for the economy, as well as being a public health hazard. Transportation studies put the annual cost of congestion at $160bn, which includes 7 billion hours of time lost to sitting in traffic and an extra 3 billion…

Featured

BeautyTech @ CES 2017 showcase highlights

Editorial Team Jan 4, 2017

The BeautyTech @ CES 2017 showcase will convene the industry’s biggest names and the most cutting-edge tech innovations to reveal remarkable advancements in the field of beauty–transforming consumer’s results from basic to extraordinary.…

Smart Home

CES 2017: TrackR unveils two new form factors

Editorial Team Jan 4, 2017

TrackR pixel and TrackR wallet 2.0 make up the new TrackR product portfolio, making personal item management faster and more affordable than ever. TrackR, a leader in personal item management innovations has unveiled two new products…

Trends

Consumer enthusiasm for connectivity to propel tech industry

Editorial Team Jan 4, 2017

According to new research from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), increasing consumer enthusiasm for the Internet of Things (IoT) and adoption of emerging technology will drive the U.S. consumer technology industry to $292bn in…

Automotive

CES 2017: Cooperation to protect pedestrians from accidents

Editorial Team Jan 4, 2017

At CES 2017, taking place from January 5th to January 8th in Las Vegas, Nevada, Autotalks, a leader in automotive-grade V2X communication solutions, and RoyalTek, a leader in global positioning systems (GPS) and satellite navigation…

Featured

CES 2017: Super fast electric car unveiled

Editorial Team Jan 4, 2017

A self-driving electric car has been unveiled by start-up Faraday Future, that it says can accelerate from zero to 60mph (97km/h) in 2.39 seconds. Faraday says the FF91 accelerates faster than Tesla's Model S or any other electric car…

Space

Extremely rare Hoag-type galaxy has been observed

Editorial Team Jan 4, 2017

There is a galaxy with an innocuous name (PGC 1000714), approximately 359 million light-years away from Earth, that doesn't look quite like anything astronomers have observed before. New research provides a first description of a…

Featured

Lenovo late to the home assistant party

Editorial Team Jan 4, 2017

Becoming the latest firm to enter the market for voice-activated devices, Chinese tech giant Lenovo has announced it is launching a smart home assistant powered by Amazon's Alexa. The Smart Assistant, to go on sale for $129, will compete…

Nanotechnology

Plasmonic nanolaser uses dark lattice modes

Editorial Team Jan 4, 2017

A plasmonic nanolaser that operates at visible light frequencies and uses so-called dark lattice modes has been developed by researchers at Aalto University, Finland for the first time. The laser works at length scales 1000 times…

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Printable electronics with nanowire ‘inks’

Editorial Team Jan 4, 2017

Duke University scientists are brewing up conductive ink-jet printer 'inks' to print inexpensive, customizable circuit patterns on just about any surface, by suspending tiny metal nanoparticles in liquids. Printed electronics, which are…

Energy

Converting waste heat into electricity

Editorial Team Jan 4, 2017

In Nature Communications, engineers from The Ohio State University describe how they used magnetism on a composite of nickel and platinum to amplify the voltage output 10 times or more--not in a thin film, as they had done previously, but…

Featured

Global emissions targets need tenfold jump in green tech

Editorial Team Jan 4, 2017

A new Duke University study shows the global spread of green technologies must quicken significantly to avoid future rebounds in greenhouse gas emissions. "Based on our calculations, we won't meet the climate warming goals set by the…

Featured

Grumpy cat could save lives with X-ray recognition

Editorial Team Jan 4, 2017

According to a new report, cat memes may one day turn out to save your life. That is based on work being done by Dr. Alvin Rajkomar, an assistant professor at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center. Rajkomar trained a…

Software/Hardware

Milwaukee chooses Aegis MES for faster product introduction

Editorial Team Jan 3, 2017

Milwaukee Electronics, a long-time Aegis customer, recently chose Aegis’ FactoryLogix manufacturing execution software (MES) to implement in their Canby, Oregon facility. The software was selected for its ability to drive faster new product…

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